I Thessalonians 4:1-8
God's Will.
His universal will, for all of His followers,
and His personal will for
YOU and
YOUR LIFE.
How to find His will, you ask?
1. Saturate yourself in His WORD
2. Pray & fast
3. Seek wise counsel from a Christian more mature in the faith
4. Circumstance, only after you have sought each of the first three sources, take a look at the circumstances He has put in your life
1Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you
(A) received from us
(B) how you ought to walk and
(C) to please God, just as you are doing, that you
(D) do so more and more.
2For
(E) you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
3For this is the will of God,
(F) your sanctification:
(G) that you abstain from sexual immorality;
4that each one of you know how to control his own
(H) body in holiness and
(I) honor,
5not in
(J) the passion of lust
(K) like the Gentiles
(L) who do not know God;
6that no one transgress and
(M) wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is
(N) an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.
7For
(O) God has not called us for
(P) impurity, but in holiness.
8Therefore
(Q) whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God,
(R) who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
