Page 84 APPENDIX THE WILL OF GOD IN SCRIPTURE The following list shows the four ways in which the phrase will of God is used throughout the Bible. Scriptures are taken from the NIV and the KJV. God’s Eternal Will: His Divine Purpose – His Ultimate Intention Ac 20:27 For I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will of God. Ro 8:27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will. Eph 1:9 And he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ. Eph 1:11 In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in
If we dwell on high with 'that great Shepherd of the sheep' we shall care little for all the confused bleatings around us, but if we become 'carnal, and walk as men,' we shall have little rest if we listen to this, that, and the other which every poor sheep may bleat about us.
C.H. Spurgeon