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• When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

  F.B. Meyer

  God, Three, Inward

  F. B. Meyer (1972). “Fellowship with God”

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• It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

  Joel Osteen

  Debt, Pay, Bills

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• And what are we doing if we are not doing God's Will?

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Ifs, God's Will

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• Your call will become clear as as your mind is transformed by the reading of Scripture and the internal work of God's Spirit. The Lord never hides His will from us. In time, as you obey the call first to follow, your destiny will unfold before you. The difficulty will lie in keeping other concerns from diverting your attention.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Lying, Reading, Destiny

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• You say you do not know what God's will is, but I'll tell you what it is. Above all it is that you know Christ and then that your neighbors hear about Christ. That is His will. So often we sit around twiddling our thumbs, dreaming about God's will in some distant future when we are not even willing to stand up on our own two feet, walk down the street, and do God's will right now.

  John F. MacArthur

  Dream, Two, Feet

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• You can't do God's will and satisfy everyone.

  Mark Hart

  God's Will

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• A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Wisdom, Atheist

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.

  Oswald Chambers

  Earthquakes, Stubbornness, Come Up

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• Holiness consists in doing God’s will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the human giving themselves to each other. The only thing Jesus asks of us is to give ourselves to him, in total poverty and total self-forgetfulness.

  Mother Teresa

  Spiritual, Jesus, Self

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• I just want to do God’s will.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Want, God's Will

  Address to sanitation workers, Memphis, Tenn., 3 Apr. 1968.

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• Prayer is the deliberate and persevering action of the soul. It is true and enduring, and full of grace. Prayer fastens the soul to God and makes it one with God's will.

  Julian of Norwich

  Prayer, Grace, Soul

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• Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Long, Want, Difficult Days

  Speech in Memphis, 3 Apr. 1968 (the day before King was assassinated), in New York Times 4 Apr. 1968, p. 24

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• In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.

  C. S. Lewis

  Three, Might, Cups

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.

  Jeremy Collier

  Patience, Waiting, Way

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• Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Prayer, Wish, Praying

  Frederick William Robertson (1871). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”

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• God's will is your deepest desires.

  Dan Brown

  Desire, God's Will

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• The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.

  John Stott

  Prayer, Purpose, God's Will

  John Stott (2016). “Reading Romans with John Stott”, p.113, InterVarsity Press

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• Emotional peace and calm come after doing God's will and not before.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Emotional, Calm, God's Will

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• I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, God, Responsibility

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.94, Modern Library

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• If you have the desire and passion to do something, and it's within God's will, you will achieve it.

  Nick Vujicic

  Passion, Desire, Achieve

  Nick Vujicic (2010). “Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life”, p.9, WaterBrook

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• No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Jesus, Mean

  Oswald Chambers, Harry Verploegh (1990). “The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes”, Oliver-Nelson Books

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• When you are doing God's will everything seems to happen without much effort or many obstacles.

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Religious

  Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.12, WaterBrook

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• Research actually indicates that if you write down what you're grateful for, it increases your happiness by 25 percent. And who doesn't want that? And God's word says (1 Thessalonians 5), "Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." Who doesn't want to know exactly what God's will is for them?

  Ann Voskamp

  Jesus, Grateful, Writing

  "Finding Joy in the Nitty-Gritty: An Interview with Ann Voskamp". "Homeschool Heartbeat" podcast with Mike Farris (Volume 127, Week 14), hslda.org. August 8-12, 2016.

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• Religions become corrupted when leaders are assigned to explain God's will to people instead of showing them how to find this direction within themselves.

  James Redfield

  People, Leader, Religion

  James Redfield (1993). “The celestine prophecy: an adventure”, Atticus Press & Company (AL)

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• Your abilities are the map to God's will for your life. It points the direction. When you know what you're good at, then you can know what God wants you to do with your life.

  Rick Warren

  Life, Maps, Want

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