27 "God’s Will God’s Way" Numbers 27:1-11 | Thursday, April 16, 2026

Numbers 27 as we continue here in our

series God's way in life's wilderness.

Uh last time we covered the uh second

census in the book of Numbers that marks

the uh death of the entire previous

generation that was faithless in the

wilderness and a new beginning so to

speak. starting where they left off

where in this final section uh God gives

them a census. God gives them some

instructions. There's some narratives

sprinkled through as we've seen

throughout the book of Exodus and or

Numbers. And as you go through uh

Numbers, that's what you notice is it's

like Israel is in God's classroom and

he's teaching them and then they have

some exercises and they fail some tests

and he corrects them and begins teaching

them again. And and that's what you see

patterned throughout the book of Numbers

from location to location. And now we're

at the plains of Moab near Jordan by

Jericho. That's where they're at here

for the remaining part of Numbers as

well as the entirety of the book of

Deuteronomy. They're ready to go into

the promised land. And uh I want to just

remind us from the census in Numbers 26.

If you'll look back at Numbers 26:52,

Numbers 26:52

it says this, "And the Lord spake unto

Moses, saying, "Unto these the land

shall be divided for an inheritance

according to the number of names." And

so I want to start off with this just to

to pry this into our minds here as we

come to Numbers 27.

God had promised to give that generation

that came out of Exodus an inheritance

in the land of their fathers

because of their faithlessness and their

rebellion. However, they did not get to

receive or experience that inheritance.

But you know what God did? He promised

then that their little ones would

that all of that their so in other words

the fathers didn't actually lose their

inheritance

their inheritance was just transferred

to their children

and what we come to in numbers 27 is a

unique case that God needs to settle

with the children of Israel as to how

this land will be divided in this

special circumstance. stance. So let's

look at numbers 27 beginning verse one.

Then came the daughters of Zilofahad,

the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead,

the son of Manasseh, the son of Meir,

the son of Manasseh, of the families of

Manasseh, the son of Joseph. And these

are the names of his daughters, Mala,

Noah, Hogla, and Mila, and Tza. Now this

should be familiar to us because they

were mentioned back in numbers 26 verse

uh 33. It mentions that he had no sons

but he had these five daughters. So now

once the census is completed it's

bringing us back to these women. So look

at verse two.

And they, the daughters of Zilofahad,

they stood before Moses and before

Eleazar the priest, and before the

princes and all the congregation by the

door of the tabernacle of the

congregation, saying, "Our Father died

in the wilderness, and he was not in the

company of them that gathered themselves

together against the Lord, in the

company of Kora, but died in his own

sin, and had no sons.

Why should the name of our father be

done away from among his family because

he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a

possession among the brethren of our

father. And Moses brought their cause

before the Lord. And the Lord spake unto

Moses, saying, The daughters of

Zilofahad,

speak right. Thou shalt surely give them

a possession of an inheritance among

their father's brethren, and thou shalt

cause the inheritance of their father to

pass unto them. And thou shalt speak

unto the children of Israel, saying, If

a man die and have no son, then ye shall

cause his inheritance to pass unto his

daughter. And if he have no daughter,

then ye shall give his inheritance unto

his brethren. And if he have no

brethren, then ye shall give his

inheritance unto his father's brethren.

And if his father have no brethren, then

ye shall give his inheritance unto his

kinsmen that is next to him of his

family, and he shall possess it, and it

shall be unto the children of Israel a

statute of judgment, as the Lord

commanded Moses. And so what what's

going on here is that God promised the

inheritance would be passed to the

children. And the question now is you've

got these five daughters that are very

zealous about this. They don't want

their father's name to be cut off. They

don't want him to lose his inheritance.

Not because he was not a sinner, but

because he simply had no son. It doesn't

seem right that his name would be erased

just because he doesn't have a son.

That's really the problem that's being

brought here. And so what you what we

can gather from this is that Israel,

these ladies in particular, they want to

know God's will for their family. They

want to know what happens to their

father's inheritance in light of the

fact that he has no son. But this

transcends only this family because

there going to be others who have no

sons. So, does the man's name get cut

off? Does he lose his inheritance? This

is what it's dealing with. God wants the

inheritance to continue to go within the

family line. That is God's will. But

they must make sure they get God's will,

God's way. And so, the title of our

message tonight is God's will, God's

way. Let's pray one more time and ask

God to help us. Father, I pray that

you'd please speak through your word

tonight and give us clarity and

understanding that we may know that this

is not just a message for Israel, but

it's a timeless truth for us today. So,

we ask for your help in Jesus name.

Amen.

How devastating is it to come so close

only to fall short?

to come so close but fall short. To get

to the conference championship

only to break your ankle on one of the

final plays and miss out on the chance

to lead your team to a Super Bowl. So

close.

or to get to overtime of game seven of

the Stanley Cup finals only to give up

the cup clenching goal in overtime.

You're just a split second away from

glory and you'll never be remembered

after it. It's just a split second. Or

what about getting to the marriage altar

only to be left standing alone?

so close.

I think of men in ministry who are

faithful their entire lives and within

months of retirement

commit a moral failure lose their

marriage and lose their ministry.

You're like, they're they're in their

70s.

They're this close. They've been

faithful for a lifetime. But somewhere

along the line in these last months, in

these last years, they fell short. It's

tragic. It's devastating to come so

close to winning, so close to finishing,

and so close to achieving your dreams

only to fall just short. It's got to be

an immensely devastating feeling.

I can't help but imagine that that's

what it felt like for a teenager when

Israel first came to Kadesh Barnea when

they were there on the borders of

Canaan. They've made their way from

Egypt through all the plagues. They've

they crossed the Red Sea as like a 15 or

16year-old and saw God do all these

amazing things and they've heard about

the promises and they've seen the hand

of God and now they're right there on

the cusp at 18 years old. But their

father's faithlessness

caused them to be turned away from the

promised land and to wander for 38 years

as their grandparents and their parents

and their uncles and their aunts

perished in the wilderness.

You were so close only to be turned

away.

One thing, if you are part of that

group, one thing that's been solidified

in your mind is probably this. I'm not

living like my parents did.

I don't want to make the same mistakes

that they did. I I don't want my

children to be turned away and to suffer

as I have and to watch me and my

brothers die in this wilderness. I'm not

going that way. We're going to trust

God. We're going to do what he tells us

to do. He's going to lead us in. He's

going to fight our battles. And he's

going to divide the land to us. This

next generation we're going to see is a

generation of great faith. Though they

themselves are not perfect, while their

father's generation has been

characterized by sin, evil, and

rebellion, their generation will more or

less be characterized by righteousness

and faithfulness to do what God tells

them to do. And they are the ones who

inherit the land. They have faith. They

have passion. They earnestly desire to

lay hold of the promises of God to their

fathers. That's really what we see here

in Numbers 27.

These five daughters, they are coming

before Moses and the leadership with

full confidence that the land is coming.

And they said, "Give to us a possession

among our father's brethren to carry on

his name."

And so what we find here is that they

are diligently pursuing the promise that

God had given them. They they are

passionately seeking after God's will.

They want to lay hold of God's will for

their life. But what God makes clear is

that the promised land is not theirs to

take. It is God's to give.

He determines who gets what. He

determines where they inherit and how

much they inherit. He is the one who

divides the inheritance. And so God's

will is for them to enjoy the land, but

they must get God's will God's way. And

I want to say to you that the same thing

is true in our lives. That just as God

had great things in store for Israel, he

has great things in store for your life.

That doesn't mean that life's always

going to be easy. Just like we've seen

with Israel, there are going to be

battles to face. There going to be

struggles they go through. There going

to be times of doubt. There going to be

tests of their faith. And and there will

be in yours as well. But I hope you

understand that God wants you to have a

great relationship with him. One that is

not clouded by fear, doubt, and guilt,

but one that is immensely filled with

joy, gratitude, and love.

I hope you understand that God wants you

to have a great marriage. That's his

will for your life. He does not want

your marriage to be miserable. He does

not want every day to just be a

miserable fight. He wants that marriage

to be filled with joy. He wants it to be

lifegiving.

He wants you to have a great

relationship with your kids. He doesn't

want you to be alienated from them. He

doesn't want you to struggle through

that relationship. He wants you to have

a good relationship with them.

Can I say to you if you're in ministry

that he wants you to have a fulfilling

ministry.

He doesn't want ministry, whether you're

a pastor, missionary, or if you serve

here in this church, he doesn't want

your service to be a drag. He doesn't

want it to be that every Sunday when you

come to teach the kids, you're like,

"Ah, here we go again. I don't want to

do this." You know, that's that's not

what he wants. No, he wants you to enjoy

serving him. There are great things that

God wants for you. Can I say to you that

he has just the right job for you in

just the right place at just the right

time? He does. God wants us to enjoy his

will. But just as Israel had to get

God's will God's way, so must we. His

will is not something we take for

ourselves.

It's something he gives to us.

How do we get God's will God's way?

That's the big question.

As this new generation of Israelites are

preparing for the conquest of Canaan, it

begins with the new census. And God

makes it clear that the land is going to

be divided up to individual families

based on the names of their fathers and

the size of their family. That's what we

read in Numbers 26. That's God was not

not just uh counting the men for war,

but he was counting the size of their

families to know how to divide the land

amongst their fathers. And so that's

what is going on. But then of course

this problem comes up with this man

named Zofahad who had died in the

wilderness with no sons. And yet God

promised that their that that faithless

generation, their little ones would

inherit the land. But now because he has

no sons, how can that promise be

fulfilled? That's the big question. If

God promised Zoofahad

that his little ones would inherit the

land, but he has no sons, will God's

promise fail? That's really the question

being brought to mind here. And so it

presents this problem that will no doubt

come up again with other men who do not

have sons. What happens to their land?

Is it a free-for-all?

Is it first come, first serve? Who gets

to claim that man's land? And the Lord

resolves this problem by giving them a

new law. A new law. And what it shows

them is how they can have God's will as

they inherit the promised land. And how

they can do so God's way. I want you to

see first of all that to have God's

will, you got to want God's will. That's

the first thing that we notice here

about these five daughters. They wanted

it. They they they come to Moses and

Eleazar and bring their case uh before

them and and they they want to uh they

want to understand what's to happen with

their father's inheritance. If you

notice there in verse number three, they

said this before Moses and all the

congregation. our father died in the

wilderness and he was not in the company

of them that gathered themselves

together against the Lord in the company

of Kora but died in his own sin. And so

what they recognize here that what this

does it echoes back remember the

rebellion of Kora and in the census it

calls that back to mind again that you

had those sons of Reuben um uh Dayan and

Abram who gathered with him and remember

how God judged them because of the

rebellion. The earth opened up and it

swallowed not only them but their wives

and their children and all they had.

That was God's judgment saying, "Because

of this brash, high-handed rebellion

against my leader Moses and my priest

Aaron, you will not have an

inheritance." He cut off Dayan and

Abram's names from the inheritance of

Israel.

And so that's what happened with them.

And these these ladies come before

Moses. They say, "Our dad wasn't

involved in that. He did not sin in such

a way that that God judicially cut his

name out. Rather, he died in his own

sin. It was his own faithlessness just

like the rest of the generation." But

here's the problem. He had no sons. And

so the risk now is that his name will be

erased from the people of Israel.

And yet God had made this promise that

his little ones would inherit the land.

And so they asked in verse number four,

why should the name of our father be

done away from among his family because

he hath no sons? Give unto us therefore

a possession among the brethren of our

father. And so what's going on here is

culturally the sons would carry on the

name of the father. that the inheritance

it would be known as Zafahad's

Zealafahad's land and then the sons

would carry that on. But when it comes

to the daughters, they would marry into

another family's inheritance. And so the

the father would give a dowy an an

abundant gift to his daughter and then

his financial responsibility over her

would cease. She would come under the

care of her husband and her husband's

father and their inheritance. And so

that's normally how this would work. So

if these five ladies are to marry

someone else, you know what it means?

They get to have inheritance still

through their husband, but their fathers

dies off. And that's what they're

worried about. The word when you see why

should the name of our father be done

away? It literally means to trim. The

idea is that that you've got the list of

names here and his name gets snipped off

the bottom. And so they're saying

there's a real problem here of and but

notice this that they're not on a power

trip here. They're not saying, "Well, we

we want something for ourselves."

They're concern about the name of their

father. It's about the fulfillment of

God's promise to their father. What you

see in these women is a heart of faith,

believing the inheritance is coming, but

also a passion for God's will to be

done. It's for God's will to be done.

It's for their father. And because then

what would happen is if they receive the

inheritance of their fathers and then

they have multiple sons, then they could

give that their father's inheritance to

one of their sons and then he could

carry on his name. And you know what

ends up happening? Zilofahad's name is

mentioned again in the Chronicles. That

means that his name was not cut off

throughout all of Israel's Old Testament

history. It was preserved by what God

does here. But what I want to point out

to you is that these ladies want what

God had for their father and for his

family. That unlike their father and his

unbelieving generation, they are

speaking of the land as if it's already

conquered. That's that's faith. It shows

this generation is is built different.

It foreshadows a generation that wants

God's will. Unlike the previous

generation who wanted to go back to

Egypt, they want to go forward. And so I

just want to say to you first of all

that you ought to want God's will for

your life. You ought to want God's will

for your family to strive for and long

after the kind of fulfilling marriage

that God wants you to have. You ought to

long for that. One that is loving, one

that is selfless and lifegiving. Now,

because we are fallen, we know that it's

not going to be perfect. But God wants

you to have a marriage where joy is the

norm and conflict is rare. See, many

times we've got that backwards. I want

you to understand clearly today, that's

not what God wants for you. He wants you

to have a a marriage that is joyful. If

you're single, let me just say that you

don't want to settle for a a guy that's

anything less than what God wants for

you. Because if you settle for less than

what God wants for you, uh you are going

to have a hard time in that

relationship. That man will not treat

you right. He will he will try to

control you rather than try to lead you

according to God's word. But the kind of

man that you want is one who will

reflect Jesus to you. And if you're a

single man, the kind of lady that you

want is one who will respect you like

Christ, like the church does to Jesus

Christ. That's what the Bible speaks of

that makes marriage work, a selfless,

lifegiving relationship. And so you want

to make sure that you want God's will

for your life and not just yours. You

want a job that not only meets your

needs, but one that fully enables you to

serve the Lord, to faithfully give to

his work and to meet the needs of the

gospel. I would also say that you want

to serve in the ministry that God has

for you. The place where you can find

great joy in serving the Lord and

edifying your church and reaching the

lost. that there's no greater

fulfillment than being in the Lord's

will. That doesn't mean that that it's

always that, you know, I grew up, you

always hear that the safest place to be

is in God's will. Well, sometimes God's

will will lead you to the guillotine if

you ask people like the Apostle Paul.

And so, I'm not just going to say that

if you're in God's will, everything's

going to be perfect. Everything's going

to be dandy. Everything's going to be

rosy. But what you do have is the

promises of God that you can cling to.

That he'll be everything you need. that

his grace will be more than sufficient

for you. That he'll provide for your

needs and he'll make sure that you don't

go hungry and he'll make sure that you

don't go thirsty. He cares for and

provides for his own. You want to have a

place that God has for you. You want

God's will. I want to say that God is

leading you into what's best and his

will is worth pursuing just like it was

for the daughters of Zilofahad. It was

worth pursuing but also for the rest of

the Israelites. Now understand that

while what we have here is a ruling for

the sake of these five daughters. Who is

reading this all together? The children

of Israel. And so God is even confirming

here. The land is coming. And when it

does, here's how you need to handle it.

He wants them to pursue his will. But

God's will is not something you can get

your own way. It's something that we

must get God's way. And so that brings

us to number two, that to have God's

will, you also need God's revelation.

You need God's revelation.

And the daughters of Zofha had it says

in verse 5 that that Moses brought their

cause before the Lord and the Lord spake

unto Moses. You speak right. How nice

would that be? If you're these ladies

and you come before the Lord and this is

beyond cultural norms. This was would

have been very abnormal for women to

come and demand an inheritance from

their father. And so they come and then

to hear God's approval. They're right.

My will is not for this man's name to be

cut off. My will is for it to be

continued on. My will is for his little

ones to inherit his possession. And so,

yes, I want you, he says, give them an

inheritance among their father's

brethren, and thou shalt cause the

inheritance of their father to pass unto

them. And so, he he gives direction here

that they are to receive the

inheritance. They are to carry on their

father's name. But then what we notice

is that this doesn't just go for this

single case. God gives a new revelation

of how he wants them to handle the land.

It says in verse number eight, "And thou

shalt speak unto the children of Israel,

saying, if a man die and have no son,

then ye shall cause his inheritance to

pass on his daughter. And if he have no

daughter, then ye shall give his

inheritance unto his brethren. And if he

have no brethren, then ye shall give his

inheritance unto his father's brethren.

And if his father have no brethren, then

ye shall give his inheritance unto his

kinsmen that is next to him of his

family, and he shall possess it. And it

shall be unto the children of Israel a

statute of judgment as the Lord

commanded Moses.

And so the re

the reason that they need this law is

because the land is coming. And because

the land is worth pursuing,

but it's a land that they want, but it's

not a land that is theirs to take, it's

God's to give. Therefore, to have God's

will, here's what Israel must do. Follow

God's word. That what God is saying here

is that when a man dies without sons,

his land is not up for grabs. His land

is not to be sold to the highest bidder.

You don't steal it. You don't cast lots

for it. You don't auction it off. The

only way to have God's will is to follow

God's word. Anything outside of what God

commands here will be considered theft.

It'll be considered rebellion. It'll be

considered sin.

And so, the truth of the matter is this.

To get God's will, God's way, you must

follow God's word. That's what he's

given us.

Can I say that it starts with salvation?

God is not willing that any should

perish, but that all should come to

repentance. The Bible says that God will

have all men to come to the knowledge of

the truth. And so that means that God's

will for everyone is to be forgiven. And

God's will for everyone is to be saved

and to have eternal life. That is God's

will. Listen, that is God's will for

every single person in the city of

Boulder and every person in the state of

Colorado and in the United States of

America and in Germany and in every

country around the world. God's will is

for every man, woman, and child to be

saved.

But that salvation and that forgiveness

and that eternal life is no man's to

take. It is only God's to give. And you

can only have God's will if you follow

God's word. He sent his son Jesus to die

on the cross to atone for our sins. He

raised him from the dead and he ascended

into heaven and he seated Christ on a

throne to rule and reign forever. And he

commissioned his disciples to go into

all the world and preach this gospel to

every creature. That if you repent of

your sin and believe in your heart that

Jesus died for your sin and rose again,

if you will call upon the name of the

Lord, you can and will be saved. That is

God's word. That is how you get God's

will. God's way is through faith in

Jesus Christ.

He is the way, the truth, and the life.

No man cometh unto the father but by

him. He is the only way. We must then

proclaim that one way that neither is

there salvation in any other. For there

is none other name under heaven given

among men whereby we must be saved. as

the apostle Peter said. And so we need

to be sure that the message that we

preach is not deviating from God's word

because there's a lot of uh Christian

circles that have perverted the gospel

just as they had in Paul's day and why

he had to write to correct it that they

have said there are other ways to God.

There are some who say that in the end

God's love wins. And so it doesn't

matter in this life if you place your

faith in Jesus Christ when you die and

when we all are gathered before him then

everybody's going to see Jesus and

they'll believe at that time and God's

love will win out over his justice. I'm

telling you that is not what the Bible

teaches.

Some are saying that you can get to God

through all kinds of paths through Islam

and through Buddhism and through

Hindism. We're all just trying to find

the same God in different ways. That is

not what the Bible says. Jesus is the

only way. And so, church, if we want to

help people get God's will, we must

bring them God's way. And that's through

Jesus Christ.

And so, to have the Lord's will, you

must follow the Lord's word. And the

same thing is true in your life as well.

That if you want to truly have what God

has in store for your life, you must

follow his word.

Let me just give a few examples that

we've been talking about tonight. If you

want to arrive at the marriage altar

with your purity intact, then you need

to set up some guardrails in your life.

Guard rails that are patterned after

God's word. You need to guard your eyes

from wicked things. You need to keep

yourself pure and flee fornication, as

the Bible says. You need to set up some

good boundaries for your relationships.

If you want to be married, then like

these five ladies, you need to bring

your case before the Lord and you need

to seek him and you need to follow his

revelation, which by the way says, "Be

not unequally yolked together with

unbelievers." If that's true in

business, don't you think that's

certainly true in marriage?

And so, if you're going to seek God's

will, you must seek it God's way. And he

has given us plain revelation for the

kind of man, the kind of woman that you

ought to look for in your life. And so

if you want to have God's will, seek his

face and follow his revelation.

Can I say that if you want to have a

fulfilling marriage, you might start by

looking to God's word. It might do us

well to seek what the creator of

marriage says about marriage. Right? It

sounds so simple and yet so often we

want what we want no matter what God

says.

See, here's the truth. If your marriage

is struggling, almost every single time

it boils down to at least one, but more

than likely both are failing to follow

God's word. That's what it boils down

to. She might be hyperritical of him and

he might blow up at her. Neither of

which, by the way, is a godly response.

It might be that that he's selfish, full

of pride. It might be that she

constantly resists his leadership and

treats him like a child.

I don't think there's any man that likes

being treated like a child. I don't

think my son at seven years old likes

being treated like a child. You know, no

man likes that. And yet, sometimes after

a wife has kids, she starts treating her

husband like her child.

Sometimes he probably acts like a child.

But regardless, listen, regardless

of how your spouse acts,

God calls you to follow his word.

And when both a husband and a wife are

following God's word, you can have God's

will. God's will is for you to have a

wonderful, joyful, life-giving, faithful

marriage. And you can know that God

wants you to have it. And or you can

know that you can have it because of the

fact that God wants you to have it. God

doesn't give us things that he wants for

us without making a way for it to be

attained. But he makes it clear to us

that if we want to lay hold of his word,

we can't just get it however we want to

do it. We've got to follow his word and

trust his word to guide us into his

perfect will. And that's just as true in

marriage as it is in anything else.

It starts with following the Lord's

word.

If you want to have the kind of ministry

that God wants you to have, it sure

helps to follow his word.

That as preachers of the gospel,

it's helpful to base our preaching on

the Bible.

Because if we preach the word, we're not

going to come up with twisted truth.

We're not going to preach heresy. Why?

Because we're going to be following what

the word of God says.

And by the way, if you follow the

Bible's guidelines and qualifications

for a pastor and a deacon, it's going to

set up some things in your life that

keeps you from stepping outside of those

lines.

And then sometimes our mind just goes to

immoral issues. But the Bible says,

"Don't be a striker either and not a

brawler." Brawler doesn't just mean

duking it out. Sometimes there are

pastors that are harsh and mean and

angry toward their congregation. But if

we look at the qualifications of what a

pastor is supposed to be, it'll keep us

from lashing out at our members. It'll

keep us having a loving relationship

with them. It'll no doubt keep us from

running off with other women than our

spouse. It'll keep us within what God

wants us to have in that ministry if we

follow his word. It's true.

I think every pastor and every

missionary wants to have a successful

ministry.

We want to reach as many people as we

possibly can for Jesus Christ. But if we

have to depart from God's word to get it

done, then we have really inherited

something

that we have taken for ourselves

rather than inheriting it from God.

Sometimes you might get a little

impatient and take a job for yourself

because it's the one that you wanted

because it pays more because it's the

one that's available and because you

gave up on waiting for God to give you

the right one at the right time.

It's hard when you're struggling

financially. I mean, we've got several

people in our church right now that are

looking for work, and sometimes you can

just get to the point where it's like,

man, I I got to have something. I got to

have something. And so then you can just

take the first one that's there. But I'm

just calling our people that are seeking

jobs right now to diligently pray and

seek God's face and bring it before the

Lord and trust his revelation in the

process that he can bring you to the

right place the right time that'll meet

your needs that'll enable you to

faithfully serve God and be able to

continue to give to missions and things

like that.

See God to have God's will, you must

follow God's word. His will will never

lead you in a way that contradicts his

word. And so that tells us that his word

is always the place to start.

If you're ever seeking God's will and it

goes against his word, you can know it's

not right.

Here's the problem for these daughters

of Zilafad. There was no ruling on this.

If if God had made it clear that if a

man doesn't have any sons, then you give

the inheritance to his daughters, that

they could have just trusted that right

then, right there. But because they

didn't, they brought it to the

leadership of the congregation and he

brought it before the Lord. There's a

principle to be said there that

sometimes it's good when you're in a

bind and you're not sure exactly what to

do and when God's word is not very clear

to seek pastoral help, to seek pastoral

counsel. The pastor is not the Holy

Spirit of God in your life. God gave you

the Holy Spirit to discern things. And

yet, God gives pastors a certain unique

gift to be able to lead God's people.

And so, sometimes it's helpful to get

pastoral counsel on that and to have

them bring it before the Lord as well.

They had Moses bring it before the Lord.

And you know what the Lord? Did he gave

them revelation. And you know what he

called them to do? To follow it. To

follow it. And God does the same thing

in our lives. I genuinely believe that

all of us truly want God's will.

But sometimes we don't always have the

faith to wait or the faith to seek it or

to pursue it like Zofahad's daughters

had. But what we notice is from the very

start, this generation displays great

faith in what God will do. They trust

that God is going to allow them to

inherit the land by his own power. And

God is careful careful to show them

through this example that to have God's

will, they've got to follow God's word.

And so must you. And that's true whether

it comes to your salvation or if it

comes to marriage, work, or ministry.

God knows what is best for each of us.

And if you'll bring your case before the

Lord and seek his face and follow his

word, you can have God's will, God's

way. Follow his word. Father, we thank

you for your word and I am thankful that

you have given us sufficient revelation

and your word is always the place to

start. But we also recognize that

sometimes there may be things in our

life that your word does not give clear

instruction for.

But you have given us your Holy Spirit

who causes us to walk in your ways and

to obey your statutes, your judgments,

and your commands.

And I pray that as your people, we would

diligently bring every case before you,

starting with what is plainly revealed

in your word, and for the things we may

not be so clear on, to seek your wisdom

through the help and leadership of the

Holy Spirit, to know and to seek godly

counsel as well.

I truly believe every person in this

room wants your will.

And I pray that your word would just

help us a little bit tonight to show us

how we can have it by your leadership.

Help us to follow your word. I pray in

Jesus name. Amen.