Title: Who Is The Director of Your Life?
Text:
Jeremiah 10:23 (ESV)
23 I know, O LORD, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
Observation:
If it is not within our ability to direct our lives; who then should we turn to for direction? Why not do what Jeremiah did; he looked to the Lord. He is not very far from you if you belong to Him; He lives in your heart. Listen to what He says to you in His Word.
Proverbs 23:26 (ESV)
26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
Romans 12:1 (NLT)
1 And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him.
O, how blessed we would be, and what heavy loads would be lifted from our lives if we would learn how to surrender our will to the will of God. O for a faith that would trust in God, and the will to surrender our will to His will.
What would Jesus do? That's a good question, and God has answered that question in His Word.
Philippians 2:5-8 (ESV)
5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Prayer:
Father, you have taught your people how we ought to pray about these matters; give us the faith to pray according this pattern that Jesus taught His followers to pray.
Matthew 6:9-13 (ESV)
9 Pray then like this: "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
10 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread,
12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Father, give us the faith and the strength to live and pray the Jesus way. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen.
Isaiah 55:11 (KJV)
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
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