Your desire for revelation and guidance and for more understanding is a good and needful prayer, and we have joined you in bringing it before the Lord in the name of Jesus Christ.
The Scriptures teach us that true wisdom must come to us by revelation from God, for we cannot find it by our own efforts. It is not discovered as men discover treasure in the earth, but is given from above. As it is written, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding. And again, wisdom is the compass by which a man is to steer across the trackless waste of life. Without it we run here and there, wasting strength which might be profitably employed.
If you would be guided, remember what has been taught concerning the way of Divine guidance. First, there are great principles infused in every man who takes God for his guide, and chief among them is this, avoid everything that is evil. Bowing with submission to the will of God, by that very fact we are furnished with unerring guidance. Holiness is as near akin to perfect wisdom as sin is to insanity. Therefore seek not merely a sign or a sudden impression, but seek to be conformed to His will in holiness, and the path will become plain.
Take heed also against haste, for haste is the author of a great deal of mischief in human life. Divine Wisdom, dressed in robes of love and tenderness, invites us to run into her arms, but she does not hurry us into rash decisions. Wait upon the Lord, continue in prayer, and continue in the attentive hearing of His Word. There is no sanctifying power in the Word except as far as it is received into the understanding. Pray for an understanding heart and an attentive ear, for if we have received an understanding to know Him and the height and depth of His precious love, truly we have received it as a free grace gift from the hand of our Lord.
We have prayed thus for you, that the Lord would in His infinite wisdom give you light from His Word, that He would enlighten your understanding by His grace, influence your will, and change your affections, that you may know His way and walk in it. May He keep you from leaning upon your own judgment and lead you by His counsel, and afterward receive you to glory, according to His promise that He will guide us with His counsel.
We encourage you to abide in the Scriptures, to pray for the teaching of the Holy Spirit, and to walk in obedience to what you already know to be His will. In that path, further light is most surely given.