Posts Tagged ‘ Will ’
Commit your activities to the Lord, and your plans will be achieved.
Proverbs 16:3, HCSB
God is faithful to keep His promises, and He has promised to guide us and help us through life. As our life aligns more with His will, we find we want to do the things He wants.
For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ.
Galatians 1:10, HCSB
We love God through obedience to His Word and sharing the gospel. People may get offended, but we seek the pleasure of God over others. Yet, as people come to love God they will seek His joy and will, as well.
How narrow is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life, and few find it.
Matthew 7:14, HCSB
Joy and peace are found in Christ alone, and living in love and obedience to Christ rather than our own desires and will makes it difficult for many to find His joy and peace.
And God is able to make every grace overflow to you, so that in every way, always having everything you need, you may excel in every good work.
2 Corinthians 9:8, HCSB
God’s Word changes our hearts, minds, and spirits, helping us to see where and how He is moving and empowering us to follow in His will.
A person’s heart plans his way, but the Lord determines his steps.
Proverbs 16:9, CSB
We need God. When we humbly submit ourselves to His will, there will be more peace and guidance in our lives.
A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.
John 10:10, CSB
God wants to give us all good things according to His will, while those who oppose God restrict, mar, and damage what should be good. God offers life and the ability to truly desire what is truly good and to promote goodness.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9, CSB
God wants to give us all good things according to His will, most of all the forgiveness, grace, and righteousness of Christ when we give Him our sins.
“This is my command: Love one another as I have loved you.”
John 15:12, CSB
God wants to give us all good things according to His will, and His will is found in loving Him by loving others and especially loving the Church.
Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Galatians 5:24, CSB
God wants to give us all good things according to His will, and that begins by giving up our own desires for God’s will and desires, giving us a family in Christ and eternal peace and life to be shared with others.
And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, then he who raised Christ from the dead will also bring your mortal bodies to life through his Spirit who lives in you.
Romans 8:11, CSB
God wants to give us all good things according to His will, and that includes the hope of eternity and power to live for today.