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

 

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We join you in this beautiful cry for understanding and clarity and we stand with you asking the Father for truth and guidance and revelation by the Holy Spirit, that He would touch your heart and make His will known to you.

We love that you desire truth and that you have asked in the name of Jesus, for it is only through Him that we have access to the Father and it is the Holy Spirit who leads us into all truth. Your desire for God's will to be done is exactly the heart God honors.

The Word reminds us that God does have a good plan for those who seek Him. 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. He promises to guide us when we trust Him fully, Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight Proverbs 3:5-6. And when we lack wisdom or clarity, we are invited to ask, 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.

Jesus taught us how the Holy Spirit works in us, However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth John 16:13. He does this most clearly through the Word of God, which is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path Psalm 119:105, and through quiet prayerful trust as He instructs us, 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. As we are transformed by the renewing of our minds through Scripture and prayer, we are able to prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God Romans 12:2.

We pray together with you now.

Father, in the name of Jesus we come before You on behalf of this dear one who hungers for Your truth and Your plan. We ask You to pour out Your Holy Spirit upon this heart, to touch and soften and open it to receive Your truth without confusion or fear. Grant clarity where there is uncertainty and revelation where there is darkness. Speak through Your Word and make Your will unmistakable, and give the faith to trust You and to obey when You show the way. Quiet every other voice and let Your peace guard this heart and mind. We ask that You would lead step by step, that You would be glorified in every decision, and that Your perfect will be done in this life as it is in heaven. We ask all of this in the mighty and saving name of Jesus Christ, our Lord, Amen.

We encourage you to continue to seek Him daily in the Word and in prayer, waiting patiently for His timing. Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you do not know Jeremiah 33:3. Keep asking, keep seeking, keep knocking, and trust that the Father who loves you delights to give wisdom and to guide His children into truth.

 

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We hear the hunger in your prayer for clarity and for the Holy Spirit to make truth real in your heart. Wanting to understand God's plan and still be able to say Your will be done takes humility, and we are grateful you brought that honest desire to the Father.

We have found that guidance is often less like getting a full map at once and more like walking closely with someone who knows the way. God delights to communicate with His children, and He usually leads us step by step as we stay near Him, listen, and use the wisdom He has already given us through His Word and through wise, trusted people around us.

It can help to keep your asking simple and steady for a season. You might set aside a short, unhurried time each day this week to tell the Lord plainly what is on your heart, sit quietly to listen, and read slowly, then share what you are sensing with a mature believer who knows you and can pray with you and help you weigh what you are hearing. That kind of daily nearness and one trusted voice often brings more light than trying to figure everything out alone.

Father, we lift this heart to You that longs for Your truth and Your will. Draw near and touch this life with Your peace, quiet what is confusing, and make the next step clear in Your timing. Help us to trust You day by day and to follow as You lead by Your Holy Spirit. In Jesus name, amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

Your longing for understanding, clarity, truth and guidance, and your prayer that the Father's will be done, is itself an evidence that grace is at work in you. 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 we may rest assured that He is King, willing to do as He pleases and having mercy on whom He will have mercy. His will shall stand, and to desire that His will be done is the truest wisdom a heart can learn.

Remember that you must be quickened by the Holy Spirit, for by nature we are dead in trespasses and sins and life does not lie latent in us to stir up of ourselves. The Holy Spirit does not give you a new will as though you had none before, but He turns the old will which was in bondage and makes you willing in the day of His power, working in you to will and to do of His good pleasure. What you ask, that He would touch your heart with the truth, is exactly what He delights to do, for He is the Author of all spiritual life.

Seek that touch where He has promised to give it. The Holy Spirit glorifies Christ, for He takes of what is Christ's and declares it to you. He deals with the things of Christ and with feeble men, not disdaining to teach simple hearts. And He goes never beyond the written Word. When a man claims the Spirit has revealed to him something that is not in the Bible, he errs, for the Spirit will confirm the testimony of Jesus Christ and seal what is already revealed in Scripture. If you would know God's plan and have revelation and guidance, give yourself to the Word of God with entire dependence upon the Spirit, praying that He would open your eyes to behold Christ there. Live in the Holy Spirit, give yourself up fully to His anointing and bedewing, and you will not have to say you hardly know whether there is any Holy Spirit, for He dwells with you and shall be in you.

Take care also that you grieve not the Holy Spirit, for He is grieved by unholiness of life and by unbelief. To walk not according to the Gospel, to indulge sin or to tempt others by evil example, to doubt His promises, these things vex His loving heart. If you have the Holy Spirit, that is God's seal set upon you that you are His child, and to grieve Him is to lose the comfort of that seal. Purge what is contrary to His Word and to sound doctrine, and cry mightily unto God for His return in power.

Learn also what it is to pray in the Holy Spirit. There is no rubric except this, that prayer be in the Spirit. He is willing to help you to pray and to tell you how to pray. Your will, when the Holy Spirit influences it, becomes the indicator of God's will, and your prayers become the shadow of the coming blessing. Put your prayers into that crucible and lay them upon that threshing floor, asking Him to teach you to feel them in your heart and not merely to speak them with the lips.

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts. Today is the set time for hearing. Do not put off obedience till tomorrow. Hear Christ now as He is offered in the gospel, trust Him alone for salvation, and follow Him in holiness.

We join our prayer to yours. O Father, in the name of Jesus Christ Thy Son, who alone is the way of salvation, grant to this seeking heart the anointing of Thy Holy Spirit. Illuminate the Scriptures, show the things of Christ, give clarity where there is confusion, truth where there is uncertainty, and make the will gladly submissive to Thine own perfect will. Keep from grieving Thy Spirit, grant faith to receive Christ and strength to walk worthy of Him, and let Thy will be done in this life as it is in heaven. Amen.