How To Know God's Plan for Your Life

Mike Hosey, An Elder

The absence of incompatibility is one of the best ways to define agreement. When things are in agreement, they jive with one another. They are compatible. They flow and move together. Agreement is marked by harmony and compatibility. 
 
To understand this point, consider the action of walking with a friend. When two people walk together, they must be in agreement on direction, pace, gait, and in many cases even conversational material. If any of those first three items are out of whack, especially the first one, then you will not be walking with your friend, because there will be no compatibility. One of you might be walking north, while the other walks south. One of you might walk fast, and the other slow. The lack of agreement on those items eliminates your ability to move together. If in the final item, you can't agree on what to talk about, then one of you might even quit the trek and end the togetherness that way. 
 
If God has a plan for your life (and he does) then the best action for your life would be to find out what that plan is and follow it. The best way to find out that plan is to align your heart with God's, because it is out of the heart that the course of your life flows (Proverbs 4:23 NIV), and if your heart is aligned with God's, well, then what flows out of his will flow out of yours. The best way to make that alignment is to walk with God. In order to walk with God, you must be in agreement with his pace, his gait, his conversational material, and especially his direction (Amos 3:3 KJV). 
 
In fact, walking with God is what made some of the greatest heroes of the bible. Noah walked with God (Genesis 6:9), and Enoch walked with God (Genesis 5:21-24). Of course the apostles quite literally walked with God. Walking with God generates power in your life. In fact, Paul tells us that walking with God generates so much power, that by walking in the Spirit of God, we will be freed from giving into our sinful natures (Galatians 5:16). If you can remember the last time you actually battled your sinful nature, you know how powerful that statement really is. The opposite is also true. If you choose not to walk with God, then who you walk with is death, destruction, and sin (Ephesians 2:1-2, Colossians 3:5-7). Obviously, you are not walking in the direction that God is going if you choose not to walk with him. If you are out of agreement with God, then you are outside of the plan that he has for your life, which means that the very best place that your life can be in is somewhere other than where you are!