Knowing the Desirous will of God in Our Lives

Living out who we are in Christ

Knowing the desirous will of God is essential for the Christian life.

Present our bodies a living sacrifice.

Romans 12:1 - Therefore, I encourage you brethren through the compassions of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable religious service.

Be transformed by your renewed mind.

Romans 12:2 - And stop being outwardly conformed to this age, but to be transformed by your renewed mind, for the purpose to test for approval what is the desirous will of God, the good and well pleasing and mature.

Use our Spiritual gift.

1 Corinthians 12:18 - But now the God set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desirously willed.

Give ourselves to The Lord and to other believers.

2 Corinthians 8:5 - And not just as we hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord and us through the desirous will of God.

Serve the Lord, even using our emotions.

Ephesians 6:5-7 - The servants, you all be subject to the lords according to the flesh with respect and trembling in sincerity of your heart as to the Christ, not according to eye service as people-pleasers but as servants of the Christ doing the desirous will of the God out from [the] soul with a good mind, serving as to the Lord and not to men.

Be set apart (sanctified) and abstain from fornication.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 - For this is the desirous will of the God, your sanctification, to abstain from the fornication, to intuitively know, each one of you, to possess your own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passion of desire, just as also the Gentiles, the ones not intuitively knowing God.

Be thankful for and in everything.

1 Thessalonians 5:18 - in everything give thanks for this is the desirous will of God in Christ Jesus unto you.

Experientially know the riches of the glory of the indwelling Christ.

Colossians 1:27 - to whom the God desirous willed to make know what is the wealth of the glory (proper opinion) of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you the hope of the glory (proper opinion).

Ask for yourself according to His will.

1 John 5:14-15 - And this is the confidence we have facing Him, that if we should happen to ask according to His will, He hears us. And if we intuitively know that He hears us, what we should happen to ask, we intuitively know that we have the things that we asked from Him.

Do good in every part of your manner of living.

1 Peter 2:15-16 - because this is the desirous will of the God, while doing good to silence the ignorance of foolish men. as free and not having the freedom as a cover of the wrong, but as servants belonging to God.

Suffer in some circumstances for your consistent testimony.

1 Peter 3:17 For it is better while doing good if he desirously wills the desirous will of the God to suffer, than while doing wrong.

1 Peter 4:19 Wherefore also the suffering according to the desirous will of God, as to a faithful Creator, while entrusting our souls in doing good.

Live the remaining time in the will of God, not from the will of men.

1 Peter 4:2 resulting in no longer living the time remaining in the flesh (biological life) from the strong desires of men but to the desirous will of God.

We are to act in a mature manner as sons.

Ephesians 1:5 - Having marked off our bounds to the placement of sons through Jesus Christ unto Himself, according to the good pleasure of His desirous will.