If you want to know God's will, you can't be constantly consuming the world's priorities.

Because if you do that, all you will know is the world's will, the culture's will, and that is opposed to God.

Hi friends and welcome back to Verity Podcast. I'm Felicia Masonheimer, the founder of

every woman a theologian and the host of this podcast. We are in the middle of our

beginner believer series where we're talking about some basic concepts of Christian living,

how to start out your faith or to renew your understanding of the Christian faith if you're coming

back to it after a while. Today we're talking about God's will. What does it mean to follow God's will

and how do we determine God's will? And does the Bible say anything about God's will? We're in luck

because the Bible actually says a whole lot about God's will. We're in luck because the Bible actually says a whole lot about

God's will, following it and finding it. And so that's where we're going to start today. We're going to

actually look first at Romans 12. 2. This is one of my favorite verses. I recently used it in a session

that I taught in Minnesota. And so it's been on my mind.

And Romans 12 gives us a, basically like an instruction book for how to determine the will of God.

I know that many of you who are listening to this are thinking, I want to know the will of God

for who to marry and what job to take. And maybe this massive decision about whether to move across the country or to buy a new home.

Whatever it may be, you want to know what does God want for my life?

And I want to commend you for that.

It means that your heart is after the heart of God.

You want to walk with him.

And sometimes we act as if finding or seeking the heart of God. You want to walk with him. And sometimes we act as if finding or

seeking the will of God is like a game of hide and seek, that God is hiding and we have to find him.

But I just want to assure you as we go into these passages and we read them that God is not hiding

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