Partners
In Hope

Knowing God’s Will

Tuesday November 2, 2021
 

 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 very clear that we needed to know both God’s will for us, and 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 allow God to show 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 and 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 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. 

 

We will be encouraged and strengthened to overcome our helplessness as we hear testimony of how others obeyed God’s ways and it made a positive difference in their lives. Each time we stretch ourselves to follow God’s will, as laid out in the Bible, we increase our deposit of peace and trust and we will soon discover that God is true to all His promises. 

 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

 

 

©2021 Partners in Hope 

More information on this and other related topics @ http://www.partnersinhope.ca/life-with-god-in-recovery-resources/

Audio for Knowing God’s Will

Recent Meditations

WHO WILL STAND UP FOR ME?
April 6, 2025
STOPPING GOSSIP
April 5, 2025
JEALOUSY
April 4, 2025
A BRIGHT NEW WAY OF LIFE
April 3, 2025
JOURNEYING WITH GOD
April 2, 2025
See all

Giving Hope

Partners in Hope is supported wholly by our friends and community. We are thankful to everyone who partners with us to help bring hope to the discouraged, hurting, and hopeless.