CONTENTS

Foreword by Richard C. Halverson

Part 1: First Considerations
1  A Critical Concern
2  Types of Decisions We Face
3  Seeing God's Will Dynamically
4  Step-by-Step Guidance in Scripture
5  The Promise of Guidance

Part 2: My Responsibility for Knowing God's Will
6  The Call to Responsibility
7  Are You Willing?
8  The Unique Role of Prayer
9  Searching the Scriptures
10  Thinking Things Through

Part 3: Exceptions and the Rules
11  Supernatural Guidance
12  The Place of Prophecy
13  Putting Out a Fleece
14  Inward Guidance

Part 4: Beginning to Decide
15  Considering Personal Desires
16  Evaluating Abilities and Gifts
17  Assessing Open and Closed Doors
18  Weighing the Counsel of Others
19  Finally Deciding

Appendix 1
Authority Relationships and the Will of God

Appendix 2
Does God Have a Will for Our Personal Decisions? (including a review of Garry Friesen's
Decision Making and the Will of God)