Fear provides an opportunity for faith and for us to experience God come through in new ways.

This sermon will look at how we can experience hope - even when things are not what we want or anticipate. When things seem impossible for us - God can do the impossible. This may not be a miracle or the super natural - but it could be we find greater hope in knowing we stayed the course - even when it doesn't make sense. Outcome is God's responsibility. Obedience is yours.

We are to be thankful always and this expresses the mature mindset that... Everything belongs to God. People depend on God for everything. He continually takes care of his followers.

Mature and Complete helps us to focus on what is truly important.

Keep walking forward in faith. Look to God and His people for perspective.

Faith gives us the ability to consider it joy when facing trials because God has a purpose for the painful circumstance.

The next essentials in decision making are learning how to listen to God's voice. It is easy for us to pick up this block and run with it to decide what we are going to do. However, that could lead to some foolish decisions. This block - Prayer and Prompting - Listening to God's voice - comes last because we want to make sure that it is built on the foundation of God's general will and searching out his specific will in our current decision.

Searching for God's specific will is the next step after learning to do His general will. This involves asking for wise counsel on specific decisions and seeking to get a neutral heart before God.

God's general will is lined out for us in scripture and we get to know God's will and ways through experience. This experience requires faith, integrity, and obedience. God's will and ways become clear to us as we choose to live God's way over and over again.

Good decisions flow out of a heart of wisdom. A heart of wisdom will do what is righteous towards God, just towards people, and prudent towards a goal. A heart set on wisdom will then consider the building blocks of God's guidance as they make decisions.