Divine Guidance: Discover God's Best for Your Life

By Benny Tan and Sharon Tan

Understand the 7 powerful signposts that will help you discover Gods Best for your life. In this book you will learn some powerful life-changing principles:

-How to Make Gain and Avoid Pain
-Understand the difference between Gods Perfect Will vs Permissive Will
-The Joy and Power of Surrender
-Effective Prayer
-Are our desires wrong?
-Inner Impressions and Promptings
-Supernatural Signs
-Hearing from God
-The Place of Peace
-Visions and Provisions
-Godly advice and wise counsel

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Aug 9, 2017
• ISBN: 9781512761658

Benny Tan

Benny is a visionary leader and pastor who has a gift of inspiring people to dream big dreams. He’s also a great communicator with a cheeky sense of humor, a brilliant way with words, and a great passion for the things of God. Sharon is also a visionary leader, pastor and life coach who empowers people to find and fulfill their life purpose. She is an inspiring preacher with a prophetic edge and has helped countless people turn their lives around for good and for God. Benny and his wife Sharon are a dynamic team. They travel and minister regularly throughout Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. Wherever they go, they build faith, impart vision, inspire leaders, strengthen churches, and mobilize believers to live for the cause of Christ. They have a clear apostolic calling on their lives, and have seen countless people saved and be set free. This all-embracing couple have big hearts for people and are much loved and well received by all ages and cultures. In 1995, in recognition of their life changing community work in the Far North of New Zealand, they were awarded a scholarship by the Australian government to visit and study the churches of Australia. In 1996, a documentary on their ministry (Extreme Close-Up) was produced by award-winning journalist Rob Harley and screened on New Zealand national television. Benny and Sharon were married in 1975. They have six children, seven grandchildren and counting.

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WestBow Press rev. date: 07/27/2017

Contents

About the Authors

Acknowledgments

At Your Service

Introduction

PART ONE

Chapter 1: Making Gain, Avoiding Pain

Chapter 2: GOD is interested in YOU!

Chapter 3: God Has a Plan for Your Life

Chapter 4: God Wants to Reveal His Plans to You

Chapter 5: Permissive Will versus God’s Perfect Will

PART TWO

Chapter 6: 7 Step-by-Step Signposts for Divine Guidance

Chapter 7: Signpost No. 1: Growing Desire

Chapter 8: Signpost No. 2: Practical Provision

Chapter 9: Signpost No. 3: Unshakable Peace

Chapter 10: Signpost No. 4: Word Confirmation

Chapter 11: Signpost No. 5: Inner Witness of the Holy Spirit

Chapter 12: Signpost No. 6: Supernatural Signs

Chapter 13: Signpost No. 7: Wise Counsel

PART THREE

Chapter 14: Confirmation Checklist

Chapter 15: Last Word

About the Authors

Benny is a visionary leader and pastor who has a gift of inspiring people to dream big dreams. He’s also a great communicator with a cheeky sense of humor, a brilliant way with words, and a great passion for the things of God.

Sharon is also a visionary leader, pastor and life coach who empowers people to find and fulfill their life purpose. She is an inspiring preacher with a prophetic edge and has helped countless people turn their lives around for good and for God.

Benny and his wife Sharon are a dynamic team. They travel and minister regularly throughout Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. Wherever they go, they build faith, impart vision, inspire leaders, strengthen churches, and mobilize believers to live for the cause of Christ.

They have a clear apostolic calling on their lives, and have seen countless people saved and be set free. This all-embracing couple have big hearts for people and are much loved and well received by all ages and cultures.

In 1995, in recognition of their life changing community work in the Far North of New Zealand, they were awarded a scholarship by the Australian government to visit and study the churches of Australia.

In 1996, a documentary on their ministry (Extreme Close-Up) was produced by award-winning journalist Rob Harley and screened on New Zealand national television.

Benny and Sharon were married in 1975. They have six children, seven grandchildren and counting.

Acknowledgments

Personally:

Divine Guidance has been 40 years in the making.

The Godly principles we’ve shared together have been time tried and tested in our life and family. As we’ve tuned into the Holy Spirit’s promptings and walked step-by-step into God’s will our lives are consistently being changed for God’s glory and we are overwhelming blessed!

We are confident you will find the seven signposts invaluable as you apply them in your own life.

Praising God:

We dedicate this book to our Lord Jesus Christ. Through Gods’ Spirit we are being taught everything we know, love and believe.

People that matter-Tan Family:

You are a gift from God and each of you have bought us so much joy. We love and respect you forever.

Mark and Ivy, Mihiora and Karere. Joshuel and Pania, Summer, Elijah, Jireh and Shailer. Anna-Marie and Anaru. Benjamin and Kirra, Alexander and Karlie, and youngest son Ezra.

Thank you, family! Your unwavering faith and unconditional love for us, inspires us to consistently follow the will of God.

Church Family:

We are honored and praise God, for the wonderful privilege of pioneering and pastoring Abundant Life Centre, (New Zealand) and HistoryMaker Church (Australia). To the people in our church families, and longtime friends-we are eternally grateful for all your love, prayers and support. It’s been an absolute honor to serve God and together discover divine guidance.

Publishers and Printers;

Benny and Sharon Tan

At Your Service

Would you or your church, business or organization value clearer, practical godly inspiration?

Benny and Sharon have over 40 years’ experience in mobilizing and managing people. Their time-proven skills, wisdom and expertise can help take you and your church, business, organization from where you are to where you could be or want to be.

Many churches, businesses and organizations have benefitted greatly from the input, inspiration and impartation from Benny and Sharon.

Their training is vast and covers many aspects of life, ministry and business including … leadership, team building, goal setting, discovering purpose, conflict resolution, spiritual breakthroughs, power of prayer, friendship evangelism, financial freedom – and much more.

Introduction

You are greatly loved and highly favored!

You are not alone!

Right now, you may be about to make a major decision personally or in your career professionally, or spiritually in your ministry —you can get it right.

You know you need divine