When you're trying to make a difficult decision that will alter the course of your life,

how do you determine the will of God in your plan?

It's challenging to figure out what God wants when he's both invisible and silent. It's like trying to solve a riddle.

Well, today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall concludes a message that started on Tuesday's program.

Using Jeremiah's personal story as a guide, Chuck drew five guidelines that should steer our decision-making.

Get ready to jot down some notes.

Chuck titled his message,

Reading God's Mysterious Lips.

I think these five guidelines,

and I go through them myself, and I will again, when I

determine, try to determine his will.

A, let's begin with an acceptable frame of mind.

I call it a can-do spirit.

An accepting or an acceptable frame of mind.

You know what's involved in this?

Good physical and emotional health.

Your mind, your emotions are pretty healthy, pretty whole.

Second principle, I would leave.

Our guideline would be obviously biblical investigation.

By now, you know that God's will is never contrary to God's word.

Letter C is our third area.

I will call the, I will give it two words.

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