MESSAGE - 9/28-29/2019
MAKE GOOD CHOICES  “Discerning God’s Will"
Revelation 3:7-8
 
THEME: To make good choices follow God’s Word.
 
INTRODUCTION: 

1. Revelation 3:7-8  The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens. 8 I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.
   
2. 2 Timothy 3:16-17    All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

 
I.   DECISIONS ARE OPPORTUNITIES.
Deuteronomy 30:15  See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil.
 
II.  MY DECISIONS CAN LEAD TO  BLESSINGS OR TRAPS.
Matthew 16:23   But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”
 
III. MY DECISIONS MUST AGREE WITH GOD’S  WORD.
Matthew 24:35  Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
 
IV.  SOMETIMES GOD SAYS  NO.
1 John 5:14   And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
 
V.   GOD WILL DIRECT.
Habakkuk 3:2   For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie.  If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.
 
CONCLUSION:  Philippians 1:9-10   And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ.
 
WORDS:  blessings, decisions, direct, no, traps, word.