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What does the Bible say about what is gods will for my life?

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God’s will for your life is that you trust and follow Christ, grow in holiness, love God and neighbor, and faithfully serve Him in the ordinary responsibilities He gives you. God’s saving purpose rests on His grace, not your ability to discover a hidden blueprint, and He prepares good works for His people to walk in (Ephesians 2:8-10). Romans 12:1-2 calls believers to renewed minds and whole-life worship, while 1 Thessalonians 4:3 plainly says God’s will is your sanctification. As you pray for His instruction (Psalms 143:10), rejoice, give thanks, resist the world’s passing desires, and obey His Word, God is at work in you to will and to do His good pleasure (Philippians 2:12-13).

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  • Jeremiah 29:11 7 votes

    For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.

  • Psalms 143:10 6 votes

    Teach me to do your will, For you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

  • 1 Peter 2:15-16 5 votes

    [15] For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: [16] as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

  • Romans 12:2 5 votes

    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.

  • 1 John 2:15-17 5 votes

    [15] Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him. [16] For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's. [17] The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.

  • Philippians 2:12-13 4 votes

    [12] So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. [13] For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

  • 1 Thessalonians 4:3 3 votes

    For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

  • Ephesians 2:8-10 3 votes

    [8] for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, [9] not of works, that no one would boast. [10] For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

  • 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 3 votes

    [16] Rejoice always. [17] Pray without ceasing. [18] In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

  • Romans 12:1-2 3 votes

    [1] 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. [2] 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.

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