God's Will

Pastor Daniel Goulding · Apr 27, 2026

Knowing God's will is less about discovering a hidden specific plan and more about faithfully operating within God's clearly revealed general will. Pastor Daniel teaches from Romans 12:1-2 that walking in God's 'good, pleasing, and perfect will' demands three steps: offering your whole life to Jesus as both Savior and Lord, allowing Scripture to renew and reshape how you think so that culture no longer sets the agenda, and honestly evaluating the fruit your life produces as evidence of whether you are truly living in step with the Holy Spirit.

Pastor Daniel Goulding · Jan 5, 2026

Pastor Daniel opens the year by calling Echoes Church to a 21-day season of prayer and fasting, arguing that these two disciplines form a powerful, inseparable combination. Prayer is not about informing or influencing God but about experiencing genuine intimacy with Him, while fasting is the voluntary act of humbling ourselves so that God — who opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble — can move powerfully in and through us. Together, prayer and fasting align us with God's will, position us for breakthrough, and invite us into our God-given purpose in the middle of what he believes is a coming great spiritual awakening.

Pastor Daniel Goulding · Aug 4, 2025

James 4:13-17 confronts the human tendency to plan, decide, and direct our lives without consulting God. Pastor Daniel calls this 'the arrogance of assumption' — the belief that we can chart our own course, chase more money and status, and simply ask God to bless it on the back end. Because our perspective is limited, our flesh is deceitful, and our time on earth is breathtakingly short, we must learn to seek God's will on the front end of every major decision and adopt the posture: 'If it is the Lord's will, I will.'