Knowing God’s Will

10 Steps

6. Seek Christian Counsel

2 Timothy 3:5, 7, & 8

5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.

7 always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth.

8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth—men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected.

(Be careful who you counsel with. Paul wrote at the end of time there would be many who had a Form of Godliness and many false teachers. A good Christian counselor should point you to a "Thus saith the Lord".)

Proverbs 11:14

For lack of guidance a nation falls, but many advisers make victory sure.

(There is safety in a multitude of counselors.)

Psalms 1:1-2

1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.

2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.

(Don't follow the counsel of the ungodly.)

Jeremiah 17:5-10

5 This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD.

6 He will be like a bush in the wastelands; he will not see prosperity when it comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

7 “But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him.

8 He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”

9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

10 “I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve.”

(Cursed is the man that puts his trust in man.)

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