BEING MY OWN GPS
Gordon Dabbs, PhD
Proverbs 3.5-8
Proverbs 3.5-8 (NLT) Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.
Don’t be impressed with your own wisdom. Instead, fear the Lord and turn away from evil. Then you will have healing for your body and strength for your bones.
WE OFTEN WANT GOD'S WILL ON OUR TERMS.
We want God to show us the map while leaving us in control of the steering wheel.
The goal is not merely knowing God's will.
The goal is knowing God.
The Christian life is not primarily about getting information from God.
It is about becoming the kind of person who walks with God.
TRUST IS MORE THAN BELIEF.
John 4.24 (ESV) God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
Proverbs 14.12 (ESV) There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
GOD DIRECTS THOSE WILLING TO BE DIRECTED.
Proverbs 3.6 (ESV) In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Proverbs 16.1-3 (NLT) We can make our own plans, but the Lord gives the right answer.
People may be pure in their own eyes, but the Lord examines their motives.
Commit your actions to the Lord, and your plans will succeed.
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.
James 4.13-15 (ESV) Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
HOW DO WISE PEOPLE MAKE DECISIONS?
1. Have I prayed about it?
2. What does Scripture say?
3. Have I sought wise counsel?
4. What are my motives?
5. Am I willing to obey whatever God reveals?
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