Discerning God's Will: Clarity Through Faith and Community

### Quotes for Outreach

1. "God has a plan. God has a purpose for your life. And it's not that mysterious. I know what some people think. Oh, you know what? God's plan. Here's what God's doing. God is in heaven, and it's like a giant Easter egg hunt. And so he's hidden his plan for your life behind a bush. And so it's the hot-cold game. So if you get hotter, you get closer to God. What? Cold. And all the angels are going, hot, hot, cold. Cold, cold, cold. God, hot, hot, hot. Can I hear? God is not playing a cosmic hot-cold game with you." [03:10] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "God has a plan. God has a cosmic macro sovereign plan. We can understand it. We can't adjust it. We can understand his plan. Number two, we can obey his revealed word. That's his plan. Listen, listen, we can obey it or we can disagree. We don't pray if it be thy will, if it's already revealed in his word. But number three, we can discover God's personal. How? Through desire, design. Design, definition, and Holy Spirit direction." [37:09] (31 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "God leads us through, watch this, our desires. I would like to add sanctified desires. Whoa, pastor, that's different. My question to you is what's the deepest desire of your heart? If you could do anything in the world and not fail, if money had nothing to do, in other words, what would you do? In other words, God is, is actually can lead you through sanctified desire. Psalms 37, four says, delight yourself also in the Lord. Delight yourself. And he shall give you the desires of your heart." [22:27] (39 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "God speaks to us. By the way, world religions attempt to tell human beings that the way to happiness is to eliminate desire. You look up, read about the eightfold path of enlightenment. What? Here's what some religions would say. Buddhism, Hinduism. What would they say? They would say that evil in the world is the evidence of desire, the outworking of human desire. The way to eliminate evil is to eliminate human desire. No, we don't eliminate desire. We focus our desire on God." [23:40] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "God will speak to you. And the Bible says you have a witness. There's a witness. It's almost like a divine, yes, yes. God is speaking. That's what Jennifer and I did when we were praying about whether or not we should take this invitation to start Church of the King. We were praying at night. We're like, God, speak to us. Here's the Christian life. It's not this. That's why some of you guys are frustrated. Christian life's not, it's this. Open. Pause if the Lord wills. Pause. Everybody say pause. Okay, it's pause, it's this. Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, what are you saying?" [36:03] (40 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


### Quotes for Members

1. "The reality is we need to align our will with God's will. We're not asking God to align his will with ours. We need to align our will with God's. And we all face these what I call conundrums where we get into these moments of decision dilemmas. Right? Starts young. Right? What are we going to do with our life? What sport are we? I mean, real basic. What sport are we going to play? You know? And should we do this? Should we join this club?" [06:08] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "God's word. Everyone say God's word. Say is. God's will. So many times we pray, thy will, we shouldn't pray if it be thy will, if it's already revealed in the word of God. So here's the thing. God's sovereign will, we understand. God's revealed will, we obey. We obey it and we can disobey it. What God's revealed will. Let me give you an example. First Thessalonians chapter four, verse three, for this is the will of God. By the way, all scripture, it is the revealed will of God." [15:54] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "We understand God's sovereign cosmic plan. We understand it, but we cannot adjust it. Jesus is coming again. It doesn't matter if you like it or if you don't like it, if you believe it or if you don't believe it. It is God's sovereign plan. Okay. Number two. Not only do we need to understand God's sovereign plan for the ages, but we also have to understand God's revealed will. His sovereign will, but his revealed will. Pastor Steve, what is God's revealed will? Some theologians call it his will of command. Here it is. It's his word." [15:21] (39 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "We understand God's sovereign will. I could talk for days about that. We obey God's revealed will, God's word. Now under the canopy of those umbrellas, we then enter a discovery process through a template of desire, design. Three, definition, definition. What do you mean by that, pastor? What do other people see in your life? What does your mom and dad, godly people, what does your small group leader, people around you, men that you're walking with, ladies that you're walking with, what do they see in your life?" [29:52] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "God's sovereign will, we understand. God's revealed will, we obey. We obey it and we can disobey it. What God's revealed will. Let me give you an example. First Thessalonians chapter four, verse three, for this is the will of God. By the way, all scripture, it is the revealed will of God. Whether the scripture says this is the will of God, it's all the will of God. It's revealed through God's word. This is the will of God. Paul writes to the church at Thessalonica. Here's what he says. What is the will of God? Your sanctification." [16:32] (34 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)