17 Aug HAPPY NEW YEAR! (ARE YOU ADDING ANOTHER YEAR TO YOUR LIFE, OR LIFE TO ANOTHER YEAR?): PART 19

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Over the last few months we began our teaching series with the following “Three Plan Principles”:

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

“Three Acknowledge Axioms”:

    1.) God has a wonderful plan for your life…not a wonderful life for YOUR plan!

    2.) Destiny is not to be decided. 

    3.) 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).

  “Four Fascinating Facets to Find the Will of God”:

1.) Biblical Principles (Col. 3:16)

5 biblical barometers:

  1. God will not reveal the unknown will of God until you begin to do the known will of God.
  2. When you don’t know what to do…do what you know to do.
  3. God’s unknown will, will never contradict His known will.
  4. God’s direction will never contradict His instruction.
  5. Ask yourself, “Does God’s Word prohibit or permit what I’m about to do?”

2.) Wise People

“Six Counsel Concepts”:

    1. When we are messing up, we tend to run to permission instead of correction (John 3:19-21).  
    2. You can always get the counsel you desire by who you run to for counsel.
    3. You can always get the counsel you desire by what you choose to share with them.
    4. Wise people seek the counsel that they need…not the counsel that they want.
    5. Counsel provides angles and prevents blind spots (Ps. 119:24).
    6. Solomon, the man who needed counsel the least…received it the most!

This month let’s continue…

3.) Spiritual prompting (Rom. 8:14-16)

The Scripture is the primary way God leads us but thank God for the Holy Spirit!  Here the Scripture tells us, “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.  For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba, Father.  The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.”

The Scripture protects you from making a purely emotional decision.  The Spirit protects you from making a purely rational decision.  The Scripture tells you…you need a job (see II Thes. 3:10).  The Spirit tells you which one.  The Scripture tells you to marry only a believer (see II Cor. 6:14-18).  The Spirit tells you which one.  

Remember:  The Spirit’s leadings will never contradict the Scripture’s lessons!

4.) Inner Peace (Col. 3:15)

Here the Bible tells us, “And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.”  

The Greek word translated “rule” denotes an “umpire.”  Well what does a baseball umpire tell us?  As a baseball player slides into home, the umpire tells us he is either “safe” or “out”!  God-given biblical peace acts very much this way!

Join us next week as we continue in our series…