How to Pray and Receive Direct Guidance From God

To receive direct guidance from God regarding the course you should pursue, you must come to Him in faith, deciding ahead of time to do nothing that would displease HimLYL 39.1+1. When you present your case before the Lord with a heart fully surrendered and an eye single to His glory, He promises to speak His mysteries to you personally and impart both the wisdom and the strength necessary for obedienceDA 668.4+1.

Here are the key principles for obtaining answers and knowing the way forward:

• Individual Responsibility: You are not to place the responsibility of your duty upon others or wait for human counsel, but rather go directly to God, who is just as willing to teach you as He is anyone elseLYL 39.1+1.

• The Condition of Faith: It is essential to ask in faith without wavering, for those who doubt or move by impulse based on feeling will not receive the clear direction they seek James 1:5-81888 836.2+1.

• Wrestling in Prayer: Real success comes to those who take time to think, pray, and wait upon God for a renewal of spiritual power before actingEd 260.4+1.

• Total Submission: Those who have decided to do nothing in any line that will displease God will receive an answer regarding the correct course to pursue, even if it does not accord with their natural inclinationsEv 688.2+1.

• Daily Connection: We are to follow Christ day by day, seeking wisdom for the present emergency rather than being anxious for the morrow Matthew 6:34DA 313.4.

• Practical Obedience: Whatever you ask of Him, you will receive because you keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight 1 John 3:22DA 668.4.

...l teach somebody else. If we come to Him in faith, He will speak His mysteries to us personally.... Those who decide to do nothing in any line that will displease God, will know, after presenting their case before Him, just what course to pursue. And they will receive not only wisdom, but strength.—The Desire of Ages, 668 (1898)— Ev 688.2 (1946)

...el upon humanity. The Lord will teach us our duty just as willingly as He will teach somebody else. If we come to him in faith, He will speak His mysteries to us personally. Our hearts will often burn within us as One draws nigh to commune with us as He did with Enoch. Th...— LYL 39.1 (1983)

...y upon others, and wait for them to tell us what to do. We cannot depend for counsel upon humanity. The Lord will teach us our duty just as willingly as He will teach somebody else. If we come to Him in faith, He will speak His mysteries to us personally. Our hearts will often bu...— DA 668.4 (1898)

...ill receive the repenting sinner to his favor and his heart, to partake of the riches of his grace. He may ask what he will, and it will be done unto him. Those who have decided to do nothing in any line that will displease God, will know, after they pr...— RH October 27, 1896, par. 10 (1851)