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
Our minds are mental greenhouses where unlawful thoughts, once planted, are nurtured and watered before being transplanted into the real world of unlawful actions… These actions are savored in the mind long before they are enjoyed in reality. The thought life, then, is our first line of defense in the battle of self-control.
Jerry Bridges