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and your wife fixed Indian food for dinner. If you are trying to find God’s will by the circumstances
around you, you will end up in utter confusion.

Another way people seek God’s will is by using a scale. They list all the positive reasons for making a
certain decision, and then on the opposite side, list all the negative reasons. If the positive side has
more listings than the negative, then the will of God must be to do it. But if the negative outweigh the
positive, then perhaps it is the will of God not to go in that direction. It’s like putting weights on a scale
and the heavier side wins. This is NOT how to find God’s will for your life.

Some people base God’s will on their circumstances. They call them “doors”. God will open certain
doors and close others. Obviously the open door is His will, right? Did you know that Satan can open
doors and make them enticing to enter? Is this how God leads us, through open doors? Can we be
misled by walking through open doors?

Then there are those who don’t really want to know God’s will, because He might send them to some
place they don’t want to go, or do something they don’t want to do. “If I dedicate my life to be a
missionary, God might send me to a remote tribe in Africa where it is hot and they eat bugs.” They
don’t want to find God’s will, because they are afraid they will be stuck in something that will make their
lives miserable.

God has a special plan for each of our lives. He has a work He wants us to accomplish. And He wants to
direct us to accomplish His will for our lives. So let’s see how the Bible tells us God will guide us.

There are a number of verses in the Bible that clearly tell us about His perfect will for our lives. Let’s
look at some of them:

1. It is God’s will that all men be saved. The will of God is that no one
perishes.

2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men
count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should
perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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I Timothy 2:3-4 This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to
be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Finding the will of God begins with a relationship with Jesus Christ. Without Christ, a person cannot
know the will of God. The will of God begins by salvation. To find the will of God, a person must first
have eternal life.

I John 2:17 And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God
abides forever.

Eternal life and the will of God are equated. Any endeavor in which you desire to share the plan of
salvation with others is certainly within His will. He wants everyone to know His name and what He has
done for them. Evangelism is His will.

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