How am I going to find out in the Bible whether or not God wants me to live in Oklahoma or in Cincinnati?

How am I going to know whether he wants me to marry Sally or Mary?

Sometimes this pursuit of what God wants me to do minute by minute is simply a

spiritual cop-out. How do I know the will of God for my life?

When people ask me that question, the first thing I tell them is if you want to know what the

will of God is for your life, read the Bible. Why? How am I going to find out in the Bible

whether or not God wants me to live in Oklahoma or in Cincinnati? How am I going to know

whether he wants me to marry Sally or Mary?

Surely God has some woman picked out from all eternity that I'm meant to marry, in terms of

his sovereign will. And I don't want to mess that up. Well I say to people, you'd no way you're want to mess that up.

Well I say to people you know way you're going to mess that up if that's God's sovereign will.

And if it's his hidden will, it's none of your business.

Why do you think it's hidden?

Let me tell you what I think is at the heart of God's will, both in terms of disposition and in terms of prescription.

It is God's prescriptive will,

and it is God's disposition towards you

that you master his prescriptive will. and that the focal point of our concern about the will of

God should be to master his commandments because there I know with certainty what the will of God is. I talked to a woman in California not too long ago.

A little old lady like Helen Hayes, did I tell you about her?

She came to me in great distress, weeping, lovely, sweet woman, gentle little woman,

and she started crying, she says, oh, I'm a sprawl, she says, please pray for me.

I've got to find out what the will of God is for my life and I said what's the matter?

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