Topic
Discern Gods Will
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Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered. — read the full passage →
If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.
A man’s goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.
He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →
and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good. — read the full passage →
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. — read the full passage →
In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. — read the full passage →
Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters; — read the full passage →
So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. — read the full passage →
If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What, couldn’t you watch with me for one hour? — read the full passage →
I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Behold, I was born in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me. — read the full passage →
Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments. — read the full passage →
You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?
I came from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”
Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come. — read the full passage →
But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”
Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”
you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’
This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment; — read the full passage →
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →
Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
“I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain container descending, like it was a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners. It came as far as me. — read the full passage →
Yes, you didn’t hear; yes, you didn’t know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb.
Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.
The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
“Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this. — read the full passage →
Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,
for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints,
even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction, — read the full passage →
He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country. — read the full passage →
You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.
Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this your great people?”
Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don’t know.
Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.
My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you; — read the full passage →
The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:
Yahweh God made coats of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them. — read the full passage →
I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground. — read the full passage →
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.
A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.
Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.
I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.
Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Then your handmaid said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’”
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →
The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus, — read the full passage →
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →
For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →
For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”
It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.
A man’s goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way. — read the full passage →
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