God’s plan

[Kensem]

Need a good understanding, clarity, truth, guidance, revelation Holy Spirit, Touch my heart with the truth in Jesus name Your will be done Father! In Jesus name

 

[Articles]

We join you in seeking the Father's will and asking the Holy Spirit to bring clarity, truth and revelation to your heart, and we thank you for asking in the precious name of Jesus, for it is only through Him we have access to the Father.

We hear your longing for understanding and guidance and we know God delights to give wisdom to those who ask Him. His word reminds us, Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6. And also, But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. James 1:5. We can rest in His promise, For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11.

Jesus promised that the Holy Spirit would be our guide into truth when He said, However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth. John 16:13. The Lord also says, I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you. Psalm 32:8. His word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. Psalm 119:105, so as we stay in Scripture, in prayer, and in quiet waiting before Him, He makes His will clear.

We pray together with you now.

Father, in the name of Jesus we come before Your throne and lift up this heart that is hungry for Your truth and Your plan. Touch this heart by Your Holy Spirit, remove confusion and fill it with Your peace and clarity. Reveal Your will and give understanding that comes from above. Help us not to be conformed to this world, but to be transformed by the renewing of our minds, that we may prove what is Your good, well-pleasing, and perfect will. Romans 12:2. Lead us step by step, and let Your will be done in this life as it is in heaven. Give patience to wait on Your timing and faith to trust Your guidance even when the way is not yet fully seen. We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.

We encourage you to continue to seek Him daily in His word and in prayer, to be still before Him and listen, and to seek godly counsel from mature believers. God is faithful to direct those who truly desire to follow Him, and as you abide in Christ, He will make your way clear in His perfect time.

 

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We hear how much you want to know God's heart and walk in His will, and we are grateful you brought that desire to Him so honestly. Wanting truth and clarity is itself a sign He is at work in you.

One thing we have found helpful is to remember that guidance is less like getting a sudden blueprint and more like learning to walk closely with someone who loves you. As you stay near Him in prayer and in His Word, and as you talk honestly about what is on your heart, clarity often comes step by step.

It may help to get very specific before the Lord this week. Write down the one or two questions where you most need His direction, bring them to Him daily in quiet prayer, and share them with one or two mature believers who know you well and can listen and pray with you. Seeing what you hear in prayer alongside wise counsel can bring peace about the next step, even when the whole path is not yet clear.

Father, we lift our friend to You and thank You that You hear this prayer for truth and revelation. Touch his heart with Your presence, quiet any confusion, and lead him gently into Your will. Give him wisdom for each decision in front of him and confidence that You are with him as he follows You. In Jesus' name, amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

The longing you express for understanding and clarity concerning the will of God is itself a token of grace at work within you, for it is the Holy Spirit who makes a man to seek what he once neglected. You do well to cry, Thy will be done, Father, for as surely as God's will is the axle of the universe and the great heart of providence sending its pulsings through even the most distant limbs of human action, so in grace we may rest assured that He is King, willing to do as He pleases, having mercy on whom He will have mercy.

There are two lights by which you must walk. First, there is the revealed will of God which we must not violate, and that will is plainly set before you in the Inspired Word from the first word of Genesis to the last line of Revelation. Believe in this Book, it will never mislead you. There you learn that salvation is of the Lord and that whosoever will may take the water of life freely, and that the preservation and perseverance and eternal glory of His people rests upon His will. Search the Scriptures daily, for there the truth you crave is most clearly shown, and the Spirit loves to touch the heart through the truth already revealed.

Second, there is the providential will of God which we should always consult, and which comes to us through the circumstances that surround us. It is foolish for a man to say, We will go and we will do this and we will get gain, as if he could both propose and dispose without asking God's consent. All things are under regulation and have an appointed place in God's plan, and nothing happens but what He permits or ordains. Therefore learn to feel in your heart what the apostle teaches us to say with our lips, If the Lord will, we shall live and do this or that. You will go or you will stay as His providence guides, and you will not wish for any gain except as you can promote His will by getting it.

Remember also that though the will of man is not ignored, the work of the Spirit, which is the effect of the will of God, is to change the human will and so make men willing in the day of God's power, working in them to will and to do of His good pleasure. Pray then not only for light to see the way, but for a willing heart to walk in it when it is shown. He who taught you to pray, Thy will be done, will also give you grace to do it.

Take your burden to Christ who still says, Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Tell Him plainly what you desire, for He hears you and will answer not according to the meanness of your estate but according to the riches of His glory. Whatever your desire may be, spread it before Him, and ask that your will may be conformed to His.

My prayer for you is that the Lord will give you a clear sight of His revealed will in His Word, a quiet submission to His providential will in your daily lot, and a deep work of the Holy Spirit upon your heart to make you both to know and to love the truth, and that the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ may be with you in all your seeking and finding, till faith shall end in sight.