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A six-point program as to the various ways God guides us:
1. Read your Bible : One does not divine God’s will. One lives God’s will as one comes to know Him through His word.
2. Develop a heart for God: Last week we talked about the heart. “A heart that loves God completely can be
trusted to have godly desires.” Faith, prayer and obedience.
3. Seek wise Counsel: This is what we will look at today. Notice, that God’s word and our relationship with Him
still takes priority and it also defines the kind of people we will go to for counsel in times of need.
4. Look for God’s providence: God is at work in our lives and His love is over us.
5. Does it make sense? God does want us to use our thinking. Not irrational.
6. Divine Intervention: God is sovereign and He works miracles and can step at any moment into our lives. We cannot limit God.
14 Where there is no guidance, a nation falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.
18 Plans are established by taking advice; wage war by following wise guidance.
5 Wise warriors are mightier than strong ones, and those who have knowledge than those who have strength; 6 for by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.
The proverb, which assumes that there is no alternative to war, admonishes the wise son that before employing force to bend the will of his evil enemies, he should be certain that his goal and methods are consistent with the teachings of this book. Only when the king was in unison with the will of the LORD was God on his side. The fate of the nation or the community depends upon his seeking the previous counsel of his pious and ethical friends before engaging in battle, not his genius alone. A mistake could lead to the defeat of the righteous.