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Wise Decision Making (Proverbs 3)

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Each one of us is faced with making decisions on a daily basis. Some decisions are much more important than others. Making wise decisions is an incredibly important skill to develop. God’s Word has a great deal to say about wise decision making.

What is a wise decision? A wise decision is a decision in keeping with God’s unique plan for your life. In other words, a wise decision will be aligned with God’s will. It goes without saying that wise people make wise decisions.

The book of Proverbs divides people up into two categories, the wise and the foolish. The wise are considered righteous and the foolish, wicked. Foolish people make foolish decisions, with unfortunate results.

Proverbs 3:33 (NIV)  The LORD‘s curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous.

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Your Unique Plan (Romans 12)

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If you want to achieve something of significance with your life, you need to be moving in the right direction. God wants to show you the right direction to take in life so that your life has an impact for eternity. That’s what we’re talking about in our message series called “Need Direction?” Although every believer must follow the general principles of God’s Word, God has a special direction of every person.

Today, my message is entitled “Your Unique Plan.” Your unique plan is not a plan that you dream up. Your unique plan is something that was created by God before you were born. The unique plan that God has for your life is God’s will for your life. Your unique plan from God is not something that you could never achieve. Your unique plan is in keeping with the way God created you, with your unique abilities and talents. God’s unique plan for your life fits with the time period in history that you live in, the place where you live and the people who surround you. Some people fear God’s will. However, God’s will for your life, your unique plan is the very best way you could possibly live your life.

Psalm 19:7-8 (NIV)  The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul. The statutes of the LORD are trustworthy, making wise the simple.  The precepts of the LORD are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes.

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Difficult Decisions (Acts 20-21)

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We are in a message series called “Need Direction?” We’re talking about how you can know and follow God’s will for your life. God wants you to know His will, He wants to guide your decisions in life. Every believer acknowledges Jesus as Lord of their lives. That means that Jesus is the one who gives us direction for life. Every decision in life should be only made after consultation with God. When we make decisions on our own, without God’s help, is when we get into trouble.

God wants you to know and follow His guidance.

Isaiah 30:21 (NIV)  Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”

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The Silence of God (Isaiah 58:1-9)

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Today, we begin a new message series called “Need Direction?” I think all of us what answer the question of the title, Do you need God’s direction in your life? With a resounding yes.

The past three weeks, we ran a survey at church asking everyone 3 questions. What do you wonder about, worry about or wish for? When we combined all three questions together, the top topic had to do with knowing God’s will. How can I know what God’s will is for my life?

That question certainly does not have a one word or one sentence answer. So this series “Need Direction?” will be looking at what the Bible has to say about making decisions in a godly way. God’s Word gives us general principles about what God’s will is and how to make decisions in life.

Romans 12:2 (NLT)  Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

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Loving God’s Great Purposes (Ephesians 1:3-14)

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Today we’re going to talk about Loving God’s Great Purposes. God created this world with a purpose in mind and that purpose includes you and me. God purpose is not just a bunch of individual purposes, but it is a great purpose. God’s purpose encompasses the entire creation. The wonderful aspect of God’s great purposes is that you and I have the privilege of being part of them. When we’re part of something much bigger than ourselves, something conceived in the mind of God Himself, it gives us significance. Our lives matter for eternity as we see our individual purposes as part of God’s great purposes.

Our significance in life is not based on the things admired by our culture: wealth, prestige or power. All of those things will have no value in eternity.

Jeremiah 9:23-24 (NIV)  This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches,  but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD …”

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Loving God’s Purpose for Your Life (Jeremiah 29:1-14)

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Today my message is entitled “Loving God’s Purpose for Your Life.” God has put in the heart of every person a desire to do something meaningful with their life. We want our lives to matter, we want to make a difference in our world. In other words, we want our lives to have purpose.

Now, if evolution is true, then each of us evolved from the primordial ooze by a series of random chemical events. Obviously then, our lives would have no purpose or point. But God’s Word teaches that you and I are not the product of random events. We have been created by the creator of the universe, God Himself. Since we have been created, our creator has a purpose for our lives. If your life has purpose, then there is a point in each day that God has given you. When you get up in the morning, God has a purpose for that new day.

Ephesians 2:10 (NIV)  For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

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