Sermon Refresher

The sermon Sunday was about Choices. Life is full of choices and decisions. We make our own decisions, or our decisions make us.

Three things were presented: Problem, Prescription and Promise:

Problem: Indecision or double minded.
Indecision causes divided loyalties or priorities. It divides the soul between God and the world.
Indecision causes an unstable lifestyle.
a. Makes us unstable emotionally.
We should not worry about anything, but pray about everything.
b. Indecision causes unstable relationships. Causes lack of commitment.
c. Indecision causes an unstable spiritual life. It blocks prayers and keeps God from giving to us and keeps us from receiving from God.

Prescription: Get Wisdom
3 steps to get wisdom:
1. Admit the need for wisdom. Wisdom is seeing life from God's point of view. Wisdom is different from knowledge, it is the ability to apply knowledge.
The key to wisdom is asking in humility, admitting that we don't know everything.
2. Ask for wisdom.
Where do we go to get wisdom? Proverbs 2:6 tells us it is from the Lord. He is the source of wisdom. We don't get wisdom because we don't ask for it.
3. Anticipate it.
Expect an answer in faith - without doubting.
Put your eyes on Jesus, not the problems of life. Prayer should be our first option. Seeking what God wants for us - His will - not our desire.
Faith is thanking God in advance for what he is going to give to us.

Promise:
God will give us wisdom. He desires to give us wisdom and He is pleased when we come to Him. Ask Him who gives continually, liberally and generously. God's wisdom is found in God's Word. His Word gives us direction for our lives.

Our lives will be made by chance or by choice. Choose wisdom!

James 1:1-8 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.