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The Living Waters Podcast

Ep. 115 - How to Know God's Will for Your Life

The Living Waters Podcast

Living Waters

Evangelism, Apologetics, Jesus, Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Gospel, Creation, Religion & Spirituality, Salvation, Prolife, Faith, Witnessing, Theology

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, the guys discuss how to know God’s will for your life. Of all the things Christian struggle with, this topic is likely at the top of the list. We all want to know God’s will and understand what He has in store for our lives. There is one extreme in which we feel that we need to seek out God’s will in everything, but when we are too hypersensitive we can become un-Biblical with our ways of pursuing knowing His will. On the other extreme, we might think that God doesn't pay ...

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Well, I think the first thing that we need to recognize is, actually, I'm going to make

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that the second thing we need to recognize.

0:06.1

The first thing we need to recognize is that there's kind of two extremes out there.

0:10.7

There's one extreme in which we need to seek out God's will in every little thing, what

0:16.3

coffee shop should I go do, what should I eat for lunch.

0:19.6

And often when we're hypersensitive to what we think, all of these little things that God

0:24.2

wants us to do, we become unbiblical with our ways of pursuing knowing God's will.

0:29.2

We think that we can find signs.

0:31.6

We think we can flip God's will coin or open God's word and point randomly to a verse.

0:37.6

And that's going to tell us, or look up at the clouds and the clouds are going to shape

0:40.4

and form.

0:41.4

And that's going to point us in the direction that He wants us to go for lunch.

0:46.1

That's unbelievable.

0:47.8

The opposite, though, of course, is thinking that God doesn't busy Himself with those small

0:52.8

things.

0:53.8

He doesn't pay attention to you going to coffee with your neighbor.

0:56.7

He doesn't pay attention to the route you take to work.

0:59.9

And so, you know, there's these two extremes.

1:02.4

And I think for us to be able to really hone in, the first thing we need to recognize is

1:07.9

that theologians point out that there are ultimately two different kind of God's will.

1:14.4

It's one God, one will, but in two ways.

1:18.5

And the two ways that we need to identify is His secret or hidden will and His revealed

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