How to Find, Follow, Fulfill God's Will

by Andrew Wommack

Patience is the ability to fix your attention on Jesus, not looking to the right hand or to the left. It’s the ability to remain unmoved by your circumstances. The only way I know how to get this kind of patience is by maintaining a close relationship with God through the Word. This sort of watchful vigilance is what it means to “wait upon the Lord.”

Just do what God told you to do until He tells you differently.

One person may wrong you and you start complaining that nobody loves you and everything is going wrong.

Our hearts speak to us 24 hours a day. Every minute of every day, God reveals Himself to us, but the noise of this world drowns out the still, small voice of God. We can deaden ourselves or get calloused to the voice of God, but God will never stop reaching out to us. We don’t need someone to tell us that God exists. Every person on the planet, at one time or another, has known that God is real. After a while, we can become so accustomed to living out of our natural understanding that our heart becomes hardened and we don’t remember ever knowing God. But really, everyone has known God is real from the time they were little.

The Bible says the things of God are clearly seen. Anyone who says they don’t believe God exists is either lying, or they have hardened their heart to the truth. It’s possible to push God far enough away or harden your heart to the extreme that you become a “reprobate,” which means that God takes all conviction away from you (Romans 1:28). Nobody can come to the Father unless the Holy Spirit draws them (John 6:44), so you are damned if the Holy Spirit quits drawing you. Even at that point though, it doesn’t mean you don’t know that God exists—it just means that you are past feeling remorse for rebelling against Him.

I told him, “Because I don’t value his opinion the way you do.” The only people who will ever let us down are the people we lean on. God will never let us down so we need to lean on Him. It’s not that we don’t care about other people; it’s just that we shouldn’t need them to pat us on the back in order to feel good about ourselves.

In hindsight, Vietnam was the best thing that ever happened to me. I was religious when I went to Vietnam. For the 13 months I was there, I studied the Word all day long. When I came back, I wasn’t religious anymore. My theology had changed. I got hold of the grace of God and wasn’t trying to fulfill religious duties to make myself worthy of God’s love anymore. Vietnam was my Bible school; it was a good deal for me.

A woman once told me how she had been praying 20 years for her husband to be saved. She told me that God didn’t answer her prayer but she believed He would answer mine. So she asked me to pray for God to save her husband. The way she phrased it made it sound like she thought it was up to God whether or not her husband received salvation. I told her, “God has already done everything about saving your husband He can do. He already sent His Son. He died. The Holy Spirit is working in you to help him get saved. You think that somehow or another God isn’t motivated to save your husband, but He is more motivated for your husband to be saved than you are. You don’t need to beg God to save your husband. Your husband needs to hear the Gospel and believe.”

Sometimes when people receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit at one of my Gospel Truth Seminars, they have an ecstatic experience, get overwhelmed, and start speaking in tongues loudly, as if they can’t control it. The baptism of the Holy Spirit is a good thing to get excited about, but I always stop them for a moment to show them that you don’t have to feel ecstatic in order to pray in tongues. You won’t always get goose bumps and have chills. It’s great to feel those things, but you don’t need to be emotionally overwhelmed to speak in tongues. You can pray in tongues whether you feel anything or not.

God has placed His love, joy, and peace on the inside of us. Whenever we aren’t feeling the love of God, it’s because we have begun to value something else, diminishing what God has spoken to us. We can even lose our joy by esteeming our own efforts to please God instead of esteeming God’s grace and the finished work of Jesus. So don’t pray for God to give you joy again, just go back to valuing God and believing His Word.

Our mind is like a set of binoculars: whatever we focus our attention on gets larger. It grows bigger and bigger, and the more we think about it, the bigger it gets. The stuff that most people get upset about is insignificant relative to eternity. Most of the things people worry about won’t make any difference a million years from now. In eternity we will all look back and think, “What was I so worried about?” ’

The reason this scripture tells us not to forget is because the natural human tendency is to focus on what’s wrong and to forget what God has done for us. When 99 out of 100 things are going great in our lives, human nature will still focus on the one wrong thing. Our flesh tends to think that everything is falling apart even when all the evidence says that we are blessed. Carnal human nature will always focus on the negative. This is something I fight against and hate to see in myself, so I tend to be a little too hard on others when they come to me with small problems that they have blown out of proportion.

The more you get, the more you want. You can’t satisfy self; self has to be denied. You need to get beyond thinking only of yourself. When you are all wrapped up in yourself, you make a very small package.

In the last days, people will be boasters. I’ve seen this change come about in my own lifetime. At the core, people are the same as they have always been but they haven’t always been so bold in their boasting. Back when I was young, people didn’t go around announcing how awesome they were. It would have been considered pride and that kind of behavior was frowned upon. Nowadays, society seems to admire pride and boasting. People generally think it’s a good thing to act like you’re awesome and the world revolves around you. Sadly, even a lot of Christians act like that; they are boasters. They’re proud. These negative traits are very descriptive of our world today.

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If you can’t see yourself healed or imagine yourself healthy, you won’t see healing manifest in your body.

A lot of people miss what God has for them because even though they ask for healing, they see themselves sick. They have been sick for so long that the sickness is not just in their body— the sickness has spread to their mind and emotions. When they pray, they are hoping something will happen but they don’t really believe it on the inside. They don’t see themselves well on the inside. Their imagination has become vain and is working against them: they see themselves sick and they don’t really believe anything is going to change.

Imagination is the power, or process, of seeing something that you can’t see with your physical eyes, whereas fantasy is delusion.

Fantasy is imagining something that isn’t real; it’s fiction. I’m not talking about daydreaming. I’m talking about knowing the Word of God and seeing the spiritual truths it reveals. A sanctified, godly imagination is the part of you that conceives the things of God; it’s the creative part of you that has a vision for the future.

A godly imagination is directly tied to glorifying God and being thankful. The Bible says that if you don’t glorify God and if you aren’t thankful, your imagination becomes vain (Romans 1:21). It’s automatic. Instead of being creative and conceiving good things, a vain imagination conceives evil.

I had a chance to visit with Oral Roberts in 2009 and it made my imagination come alive. I don’t agree with everything Oral Roberts did, but he had a heart for God and I can learn from him. You can’t be so biased that you won’t listen to anyone who doesn’t agree with you 100%. Here’s a news flash: you don’t have it all together either. Nobody does. But we can still learn from one another. It’s the same as if you are driving down the interstate and someone is five hours down the road in front of you. It doesn’t matter if they are the greatest person or have made all of the right decisions, they can still tell you what the road is like, where you can eat, or where to buy gas.

Very few people meditate on the Word. Most simply read it in order to check off another good work on their list of religious duties, hoping it will obligate God to move in their lives.

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Our Healing Journeys II DVD tells the story of a woman named Merci Santos, who was healed of multiple sclerosis. One of the things she said was when she was in a wheelchair and everyone told her that she would never walk again, she just knew it wasn’t true. She saw herself healed and knew that one day she would be. She needed someone to teach her some things and activate her faith, but she saw herself well despite the fact that her symptoms were getting worse and worse. That is what hope is. Hope won’t get you healed, but it will provide the motivation for your faith to get you healed.