When you get in His presence, He can begin to show you His divine purpose. He penned His perfect will for your life in this book for your benefit; so that you can access it through prayer and know step by step how to walk out His plan, His best, for your life. That's exciting!
How do you know you're on the right path to fulfilling God's plan for your life? His plan will never go against the written Word of God; it will always line up with Scripture.
God has not preordained for you to die early, get sick, or live in depression; such things are of the enemy.
As a believer, those things are done away with through the blood of Jesus. God promises us long life, healing, and victory (Ps. 91:16; 1 Peter 2:24; Rom. 8:37).
If you are frustrated with life and not walking victoriously, you are probably on the wrong path. When you are out of the will of God, you will be unhappy and unsatisfied with what you are doing in life.
But God's mercies are new every morning. If you are a person who is on the wrong path, just ask God to forgive you for not following His plan, ask Him to show you His will for your life, and get on His path!
He will lead you step by step when you ask in faith and follow Him by trusting His leading.
A Prayer from Paul
Notice a prayer Paul prays in Colossians 1 regarding God's book:
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.This scripture is talking about praying what is in the book for your life, or for someone else's life. The word "filled" means to cram, or fill up with something in your heart.
(Col. 1:9 NIV)
The word "knowledge" means an exact and clear knowledge and understanding. You can be crammed with the exact and clear knowledge of God's will; you can know what He wants you to do!
God will always be faithful to show you more of His plan as you continue to seek Him, and He will continue to reveal more of His plan to you if you are willing to change, and obey Him. You must also understand the importance of doing what God has asked you to do, when He asks you to do it.
There is a time of preparation each person must go through. Make sure you are in God's timing.
Spend time in prayer with God and ask Him to show you what is written in the book about you.
When God shows you what is in the book for your life, you can have confidence that His plans will succeed, and nothing can shake you from fulfilling His plan for your life. Follow what is in His book.
His plans are the plans that will prosper!
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Pastors Mike and Barb Cameneti are the founding and lead pastors of Faith Family Church. What began as a small basement Bible study in 1988, has flourished into a multi-faceted ministry reaching the world and helping people establish and grow in their relationship with God.
