For so long, we have been doing our own thing. We have had to make all the decisions in our lives and have run off into many different directions just for ourselves.
God is the only one who can lead you along and show you how to live with Him as your number one priority and guide.
Bible Verses about Letting God Lead Your Life
What do you do with your life? Are you living it, or are you just twiddling your thumbs? Do you follow your plans and desires, or let God guide your decisions? How can you know what to do in this world?
The Bible has several advice for choosing a path and leading a life.
Here are 17 Bible verses about letting God lead your life.
Psalm 37:23-24 – The righteous will never see shame.
“The Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives. Though they stumble, they will never fall, for the Lord holds them by the hand.”
Psalm 37:23-24 (NIV)
God is in control of the life of a righteous man; he takes charge of his life and guides him on where and where not to go. Whatever they touch or do in their life will yield interest, and God will not let them fail from any angle.
This scripture is really for those who fear God; when a man fears God, He will do what pleases God and will not what to go against the laws or commandments of God. Here God delights in such a man and will never let him see shame.
Proverbs 16:9 – He is ready to direct the steps of the righteous.
“We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps.”
Proverbs 16:9 (NIV)
According to this scripture, it is true that God determines our steps even though we make our plans.
The question is will God direct and guide the action of a sinful man? It should be noted that it’s the step of the godly that God requires and determine.
If we want God to direct our step, we must first acknowledge Him as the only one; in other to do this; we must stop doing things that contradict His law and commandment; we are to walk in the path he wants us to walk according to His word. Then He will determine our course.
Proverbs 20:24 – God wants the best for us.
“The Lord directs our steps, so why try to understand everything along the way?”
Proverbs 20:24 (NIV)
Some believers sometimes ask questions about why certain things happen and why they didn’t happen the way they wanted, forgetting that God wants the best for them and that He alone is the all-knowing God.
This passage tells us, believers, that God is the all-knowing God; he knows the ending from the beginning, all we have to do is leave everything in his hands, and he will handle and lead us to the expected place he assigned us.
Psalm 119:105 – The word of God should be a daily breakfast for believers.
“Your word is a lamp to guide My feet and a light for my path.”
Psalm 119:105 (NIV)
God’s word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. Which word particularly?? It’s the scripture. We are to study the word of God day in and out to observe all that is written for us to do and walk with.
The word of God should be a daily breakfast to the believers; it should always be the word they speak at all times.
This will guide them to living in today’s world and encourage them when facing challenges or tribulations.
Proverbs 19:21 – Include God in all your plans.
“Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.”
Proverbs 19:21 (NIV)
People have many plans to execute, especially their weekly programs. But we should know that we are bound to fail when we plan without putting God in our projects.
So as a believer, we must always include God in our daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly activities for them to come to fulfilment.
As believers, when we put God in our plans, failure has no place in it because God will work and perfect it for us without encountering any setbacks.
Proverbs 3:5-6 – Faith is essential.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Proverbs 3:5-6 (ESV)
When it comes to the things of God, faith is fundamental. God wants those who call on Him to hail because the scripture says so, but they should contact with the belief that only He has the power to destroy and make them alive.
Believers are to have complete trust and confidence in God and never to doubt Him in any way or form; they are to trust God even amid storms or trail.
We are never permitted to rely on or lean on our understanding, but we should always depend on God for everything; then, he will lead us.
Jeremiah 29:11 – God has a good and lovely plan for us.
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11 (ESV)
God always has a better plan for us when we understand who God is and believe in Him. He created us in His image out of love.
If not, He wouldn’t have made us look like something else He did to animals, yet He created us to be like Him. So with this, we should understand that the plan of Him creating us was for a good one.
God has a good and lovely plan for us, and it is not just a plan that will end anytime soon; it’s a plan that will lead us to an expected end he assigned and arranged for us when we were formed from our mother’s womb.
Isaiah 58:11 – God will continually satisfy our desire.
And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
Isaiah 58:11 (ESV)
This promise is a continuous promise which will never end. According to the scripture, God will continually satisfy our desire, which means God will not stop to help us with whatever we desire from Him.
What a father we have in God that has made such promises to His children and will even make our bones strong; this is to make us stand in the days of the adversary. In other, for us to get all this, we need to trust and believe in Him for everything.
John 16:13 – We should always ask His Spirit to lead and control us in everything we do.
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
John 16:13 (ESV)
As believers, we are to create the spirit of truth, which will lead us to the fact. Many believers have lost it because they are led by their flesh and also walk in the flesh.
As believers, we ask His Spirit to direct and control us in everything we do with God’s spirit.
Walking in the flesh has mush disadvantages that will never let us as believers attend to the point God wants us to be; instead, we’ll be left behind in the dark, and the fear of God, which Kindles God’s control over us, will be down.
Isaiah 48:17 – The gracious character of God.
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.
Isaiah 48:17 (ESV)
We, believers, should know that God guides us into all truth by speaking to us through the inspired Holy Scriptures.
He is the One that unveils the gracious character of God, teaching us to live a life that’s pleasing to Him by directing us along the most beneficial way through His wise and gentle child training.
It is the word that we hear and read that guides us in our everyday duty in life. According to Psalm 119:105, “Your word is a lamp to guide My feet and a light for my path.” so we need to study His word and make it part of our life.
Bible Verses about Letting God into Your Heart
Letting God into your heart is a lofty ideal. It’s like trying to find the right key for opening the door to our heart, for him to enter and set up camp.
No matter how hard we try or how often we read Bible verses about letting God into our hearts, it can be challenging.
The truth is that each person is different and what works for someone else may not work for you . . . but with time, patience and effort, God will move in and live with us as his children.
Romans 12:2
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 12:2 (ESV)
If we want God to dwell in our hearts, we should never look at what the world has to offer, what people are doing to make wealth, or how much others have that we don’t have.
All this will Change your mind; that’s why it’s essential to be mindful of the kind of friends we associate ourselves with, so we won’t be double-minded in serving God.
Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Psalm 51:10 (ESV)
God doesn’t dwell in a dirty place; whenever our heart harbours someone, our heart is cloudy. It’s not clear for God to live.
It is for you to let go of any grudges you hold against anyone so that God can dwell in there.
Even David being a man after God’s own heart, didn’t have a right spirit because he sinned against both God and man, and he saw that the nature of God was gradually leaving him; he now called on God to impact him with the right spirit which will help him live a righteous life.
Proverb 27:17
As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.
Proverb 27:17 (NIV)
According to this passage, iron sharpens iron. There’s no possibility that wood can sharpen an iron, likewise God.
God cannot dwell in a sensual body; He can’t dwell in a body full of lies, sexual immorality, and a body with so many grudges and hate towards others.
To let God live in your life and have a safe place, you must first be of the spirit, which won’t be found in you all the sensual acts.
Ephesians 1:18
Having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
Ephesians 1:18 (ESV)
As believers, we must always set our eyes on our hearts; it will tell us the truth about ourselves if we are working on the part we are supposed to work on or if we have left tracks.
This will also help us set our minds on things above without being distracted and working in God’s path with all diligence.
1 Peter 2:1
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.
1 Peter 2:1 (ESV)
Believers are to understand that malice and deceitful act won’t take them anywhere; instead, it reduces the spirit in a Believer’s life, and God won’t dwell in such a place.
Even being envious of others’ success will take God’s presence away from us.
As believers who want God to use us in a greater dimension should put away a life of deceit, malice, and hypocritical lifestyle so that God can have a place in us.
Philippians 1:6
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
Philippians 1:16 (ESV)
It is possible that when God Begins something in your life, He is ready to accomplish it. All we need to do is never allow anything carnal to come near us which may try to bring down God’s glory upon us.
God will never stop a project in our lives when he starts it; our attitude toward our lives will determine how long his presence will be.
So we need to be very careful of how we go about our spiritual life so we don’t go astray of His glory.
Proverbs 4:23
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life
Proverbs 4:23 (ESV)
Believers should understand that it’s how they keep their life; that’s how they’ll have it. This scripture tells us Christians and believers of Christ to keep our hearts with all vigilance.
How can we keep our hearts with all attention? There are things as believers you are not permitted to say, there are words you aren’t allowed to hear, there are movies you are not allowed to watch, and there are friends you are not permitted to keep.
All this will help guide you against derailing from your fate.
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