Just the same as you follow a recipe for your cake to turn out, you have to follow the directions God gives for your life to turn out.
So many think faith is walking in the dark, that God is a mystery and we can only hope and pray for things to go well in our lives. But actually that thinking is farthest from the truth.
Faith is walking in the Light. Having faith in God is knowing Him. Knowing who He is and what He is about and how to live in His Kingdom. He is the knowledge we need—He is our Source.
God is more than willing to reveal the knowledge we need to live in His Kingdom where our lives will turn out.
The place to go for that knowledge is His Word. He is His Word (John 1:1), and in His Word are those instructions we need for our lives to turn out for good. In His Word is not only His character revealed, so we can know Him, but where He shares His knowledge. God, in His Word shares with us who He is, what He thinks, and how to live in His Kingdom. In His Kingdom, living His way of doing life—is how your life can turn out for good. You will not only know Him, how He thinks—but, you will gain His knowledge, the knowledge needed to live that good life He promised.
Deuteronomy 28 tells us how blessed we would be if we obeyed God. If we would live His way we wouldn't even have a problem! He said if we would take heed, pay attention to the Word He gives us, we would live blessed in every area of our lives.
Note —if we were not to know and understand or hear God (if He were to remain a mystery) then how could we take heed? Thus we do have a part in that good life and it is simple —just obey Him. Just humble yourself before Him and submit to His rule (love) in your life.
If we take heed, seek to hear and understand, look for instruction, and do —we will live blessed at every avenue.
If we are not living blessed we are living cursed and that curse comes from disobedience. That curse is from not taking heed to His Word (VOICE). Deuteronomy 28:1
If you will listen diligently to the voice of the Lord your God, being watchful to do all His commandments which I command you this day, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you if you heed the voice of the Lord your God. AMPCRead all of Deuteronomy 28 and see that the Lord is good!