Knowing God\u2019s will.<\/i> John writes: \u2018This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us\u2014whatever we ask\u2014we know that we have what we asked of Him.\u2019<\/i> (1\u00a0John\u00a05:14\u201315\u00a0NIV) <\/p>\n
One of the surest ways to know you\u2019re praying according to God\u2019s will is to pray according to His Word. Use the Scriptures to back up what you\u2019re praying for. Say, \u2018Lord, You promised it in Your Word, and I\u2019m believing You for it.\u2019 <\/p>\n
Sometimes there are things we want to pray for, but we aren\u2019t sure whether those things are God\u2019s will for us according to Scripture. In that case, you need to ask God to give it to you if it\u2019s His will\u2014and to help you be satisfied with His decision. Augustine of Hippo prayed, \u2018Grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.\u2019 <\/p>\n
DL Moody put it this way: \u2018Spread out your petition before God, and then say, \u201cThy will, not mine, be done.\u201d The sweetest lesson I have learned in God\u2019s school is to let the Lord choose for me.\u2019 <\/p>\n
Now you may have to wait, because God\u2019s timing<\/i> is part of His will. Be patient; it will happen. You may not see it yet, but God has promised and it\u2019s on the way. And remember, if He doesn\u2019t give you what you asked for, He will give you something better when you walk in faith and keep a good attitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Knowing God\u2019s will. John writes: \u2018This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us\u2014whatever we ask\u2014we know that we have what we asked of Him.\u2019 (1\u00a0John\u00a05:14\u201315\u00a0NIV) One of the surest ways to know you\u2019re praying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}