Will of God

The will of God is that we encounter him and not just each other. He wants to be in our prayer meetings, bible studies, and church services. He wants to love us where we are-in debt, in trouble, in sin-

He wants to answer our cries, our calls, our prayers, our pleas.

H wants to heal our broken hearts, our broken spirits, our broken lives.

H wants to be our first thought every morning and our last thought every night.

He wants to be our first love.

He wants to help us to be more like Jesus: to walk in His power, His grace, His glory, His will.

He wants us to never lack any good thing. He is good. He wants to be our God.

John 7:16-18New International Version (NIV)

¹⁶Jesus answered, “My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me. ¹⁷Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. ¹⁸Whoever speaks on their own does so to gain personal glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him.

Acts 20:26-28New International Version (NIV)

²⁶Therefore, I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of any of you. ²⁷For I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will of God. ²⁸Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God,^[a] which he bought with his own blood.^[b]

Romans 8:26-28New International Version (NIV)

²⁶In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. ²⁷And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

²⁸And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who^[a] have been called according to his purpose.

1 Corinthians 1:1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

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2 Corinthians 1:1

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God in Corinth, together with all his holy people throughout Achaia:

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2 Corinthians 8:5

And they exceeded our expectations: They gave themselves first of all to the Lord, and then by the will of God also to us.

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Ephesians 1:1

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To God’s holy people in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus:

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Ephesians 6:6

Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart.

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Colossians 1:1

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

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Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, that you may stand firm in all the will of God, mature and fully assured.

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2 Timothy 1:1

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, in keeping with the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus,

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Hebrews 10:36

You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.

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1 Peter 4:2

As a result, they do not live the rest of their earthly lives for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God.

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1 John 2:17

The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.