Knowing God's Will
Monday October 21, 2019
Just for today I will try to live in conscious contact with God praying only for knowledge of His will and the power to carry it out.
So don’t be foolish with your lives, but learn what the Lord wants you to do. (Ephesians 5:17 ERV)
The founders of AA were clear that we needed to both get to know God’s will and receive the power to carry it out. The first principle we should acknowledge is that we need help in order to do God’s will. We need to ask for the gift of understanding and for God to do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. God is more than willing to give us gifts, but we need to be humble and admit that we need to open our hearts and minds to receive what God has to offer.
We keep asking God to fill you with the knowledge of what he wants. We pray he will give you the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives. (Colossians 1:9b NIRV)
We need to lay down our own perspective on what is needed in any given situation in our day and be willing to see things from God’s perspective. Our old ways of understanding are flawed. They may be familiar, but they took us to dark and destructive places. We need what is new, even though that often means embracing something different and unknown.
Walk in obedience to all that the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days. (Deuteronomy 5:33 NIV)
Prayer: Heavenly Father, Help me to humble myself and let go of my own perspective of life. I desire to know Your will for my life and put it into practice in all my affairs. Please give me the gift of understanding how to do this. Amen
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