What is God’s will for my life? How many struggle to find the answer, or even to find a way to know the
answer to that question. You find God’s
will for your life in His Word. His commandments
are to believe in Jesus, and to love one another. We overcome the ways of the world by abiding
in Him, through the Holy Spirit. Please read
these excerpts from 1John (NKJV).
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15 Do not love the world or the things in
the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in
him.
16 For all that is in the world--the lust
of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--is not of the Father
but is of the world.
17 And the world is passing away, and the
lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
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1 Behold what manner of love the Father
has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the
world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and
it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is
revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
11 For this is the
message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,
16 By this we know
love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our
lives for the brethren.
18 My little children,
let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
23 And this is His commandment: that we
should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He
gave us commandment.
24 Now he who keeps His commandments abides
in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit
whom He has given us.
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7 Beloved, let us love one another, for
love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
8 He who does not love does not know God,
for God is love.
9 In this the love of God was manifested
toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we
might live through Him.
10 In this is love, not that we loved God,
but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our
sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also
ought to love one another.
12 No one has seen God at any time. If we
love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in
us.
13 By this we know that we abide in Him,
and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.
14 And we have seen and testify that the
Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world.
15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son
of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
16 And we have known and believed the love
that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and
God in him.
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1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the
Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who
is begotten of Him.
2 By this we know that we love the
children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments.
3 For this is the love of God, that we
keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.
4 For whatever is born of God overcomes
the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world--our
faith.
5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but
he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
19 We know that we are of God, and the
whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.
20 And we know that the Son of God has come
and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are
in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal
life.*
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