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Chapter 9 - God’s Perfect Will For Your Life

Summary

The question of what does God want me to do will inevitably come up in your walk with Him. If you are misguided in this area it can lead to much confusion and frustration. The perfect will of God has nothing to do with what you end up doing or not doing. The perfect will of God is simply that the quality of life that He has would manifest in your life. Don’t try to do everything right, we can’t do everything right and that’s not what God has called us to do. God’s plan is that we would be born of Him and that His life would be in us.

Ch. 9 Outline - God’s Perfect Will For Your Life

• The question of what does God want me to do will inevitably come up in your walk with Him.
  
• Romans 12:2 - Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
  
• The perfect will of God has nothing to do with what you end up doing or not doing. The perfect will of God is simply that the quality of life that He has would manifest in your life.
  
• God does not want us condemned to a life of trying to do right and not doing wrong through our will power. God’s plan is that we would be born of Him and that His life would be in us.
  
• God’s good pleasure to give you a good hand to do with what you please, not feel enormous pressure to play it exactly right
  
• Stop defining yourself by what you have and what you do. You’ll find yourself in the perfect of will of God effortlessly by doing this.

Scriptures

• Romans 12:2
  
• John 10:10
  

Questions

1. What is God’s perfect will for your life?
   
2. What hinders us from being free? How can we combat this?
   
3. What is the only thing God has called us to do?
   
4. Can you think of a time when you tried to do everything right? What drove you to do that? How did you get set free from it?
   
5. How does the wisdom of the world define you?
   
6. How does God define you?
   
7. Think about a time when you felt pressure to perform. How did it affect your life?
   
8. How does your belief about God’s perfect will for your life affect your relationship with Him and others?
   
9. What does the renewing of the mind look like to you?
   
10. How can we make this mind renewal practical in our lives?