To ascertain the Lord's will, we ought to use scriptural means. Prayer, the word of God, and His Spirit should be united together. We should go to the Lord repeatedly in prayer, and ask Him to teach us by His Spirit through His word.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of prayer, scripture, and the Holy Spirit in understanding God's will.
George Muller highlights a profound method for discerning the will of God. He suggests that believers should engage in prayer, study the scriptures, and seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit in a harmonious manner. This triad approach fosters a deeper spiritual understanding and ensures that one's inquiries and actions are aligned with divine intention. By consistently turning to God in prayer and relying on His word and Spirit, an individual can gain clarity and insight into their life's purpose.
In practice
Using this quote in a sermon to emphasize the importance of prayer and scripture in discerning God's will.
A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.
The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on Earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping.
The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.
The Lord never lays more on us, in the way of chastisement, than our state of heart makes needful; so that whilst He smites with the one hand, He supports with the other.
I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him.
The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.
Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude.
I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men who are very clever - much cleverer than the discoverers - never originate anything.
I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good days I look up and it's dark outside and the whole day has gone by and I don't know where it's gone. But there's bad days, too. Where I struggle and sweat and a half hour creeps by and I've written three words. And half a day creeps by and I've written a sentence and a half and then I quit for the day and play computer games. You know, sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you. [Laughs]
It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.
The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.
I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.
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