22 Jun HAPPY NEW YEAR! (ARE YOU ADDING ANOTHER YEAR TO YOUR LIFE, OR LIFE TO ANOTHER YEAR?): PART 13

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Over the last three months we began our series with the following

“Three Plan Principles”:

  1. Acknowledge that God has a plan for your life (Jer. 29:11).

   “Three Acknowledge Axioms”:

  • God has a wonderful plan for your life…not a wonderful life for YOUR plan!
  • Destiny is not to be decided.  Destiny is to be discovered.
  • What you were created for is connected to who you were created by.

      2. Accept God’s plan for your life (Mark 8:35).

“Eight Accept Axioms”:

  1. If we always do what we want to do, we may end up where we don’t want to be!
  2. If you get whatever you want now…you may not get what you really want later.
  3. Never trade in the ultimate for the immediate.
  4. Never trade in the valuable for the natural.  
  5. When you get older, you will want the respect of your adult children.
  6. Will your children choose to be with you when they don’t have to be with you?
  7. No thing or fling is worth losing everything!
  8. God only wants something from you because He wants something for you!

      3. Ascertain God’s plan for your life (Col. 4:17).

Not only do you need to acknowledge God’s plan for your life and accept God’s plan for your life, you need to ascertain God’s plan for your life.  

I began sharing our “Four Fascinating Facets to Find the Will of God”:

  1. Biblical Principles (Col. 3:16)

Last week I began to sneak in 5 biblical barometers…

  1. God will not reveal the unknown will of God until you begin to do the known will of God.

This week we continue with…

       2. When you don’t know what to do…do what you know to do.

Remember that preparation time is never wasted time!

       3. God’s unknown will, will never contradict His known will.

In other words, if you are single and desire to get married, it is clear that we are forbidden by Scripture to marry an unbeliever (see II Cor. 6:14-18).  Therefore God never leads you in a way that contradicts His Word.

       4. God’s direction will never contradict His instruction.

The Holy Spirit will guide us into all truth (see John 16:13).  The truth is a synonym for God’s Word (see John 17:17).  Therefore the Holy Spirit will always guide us into the Word, not away from the Word.

Join us next week as we continue our series…