1. Discerning God’s Personal Will
James 4:13-16

2. James 4:13-14
Look here, you who say, Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain city and will stay there a year We will do business there and make a profit. How do you know what will happen tomorrow? For what is your life? It is like the morning fog, it is here a little while, then it’s gone.

3. James 4:15-16
What you should say is, If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that. Otherwise you will be boasting about your own plans, and all such boasting is evil.

4. 1 John 2:17
And the world passes away, and all of its desires. But he that does the will of God lives forever.

5. John 10:27
My sheep (God’s children) hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

6. 1 Chronicles 19:4
So Hanun seized David's servants, shaved them, cut off their robes at the buttocks, and sent them away.

7. …Then Jesus said to him, Now go and do the same.
Luke 10:37
…Then Jesus said to him, Now go and do the same.

8. 1. Discerning God’s Personal Will (Theologically)

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10. a) God’s Sovereign Will

11. The LORD works out everything to its proper end…
Proverbs 16:4
The LORD works out everything to its proper end…

12. b) God’s Spoken Will

13. Ephesians 5:15-17
Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

14. 1 Thessalonians 4:3-4
It is God’s will that you should be sanctified. That you should avoid sexual immorality. That every one of you should know how to possess his body in sanctification and honor.

15. Psalm 139:16
Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.

16. Psalm 139:23-24
Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts. And see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

17. 2. Discerning God’s Personal Will (Practically)

18. Romans 12:2
Do not copy the behavior of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will know what God wants you to do, and you will know how good and pleasing and perfect His will really is.

19. Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers…
2 Corinthians 6:14
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers…

20. Proverbs 11:14
Where there is no guidance the people fall, But in abundance of counselors there is victory.