Doing the will of God from the heart, as Paul expresses it in Ephesians 6-6, is basic then

to the Christian's life.

In fact, I would dare say that unless there is a desire in you to do the will of God,

it is at least questionable whether you're a Christian at all. Welcome to Grace to You, the Bible teaching ministry of John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

When it comes to making decisions, perhaps you've been told to follow your heart or to believe in yourself or trust your gut. But is that

decision-making process biblical? Is that how God wants you to find his will for your life? Consider those

questions as we begin John MacArthur's series titled If God's Will is so important, why can't I

find it? This is one of John's most popular studies from 56 years

of his pulpit ministry, and no doubt a reason for that is that figuring out God's will

for your life is a topic that pretty much every Christian has to struggle with. So now, here's

John to help you answer the question, if God's will is so important, why can't I find it?

In Psalm 143 in verse 10, David prayed a prayer that must be the desire of every Christian.

David prayed this, Lord, teach me to do thy will. That's very basic, I think, to the life of a believer, because being a Christian

is the affirmation of the Lordship of Christ. Being a Christian is an act of initial submission

to the control and the leadership of Christ. And so doing his will certainly follows that kind of a submission.

Our blessed Lord himself set the example.

No other but Christ has the perfect servant's heart.

No greater pattern or model for obedience to the will of God could ever be pointed to than Christ himself.

For from the very beginning in his incarnation, he made it clear that he was come to do the

will of him that sent him.

And even when that took him to the agony of the anticipation of the cross, as he in the

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