Seeking God’s Direction for Life: 

Direction for the Future

January 9, 2022

Deuteronomy 30:15–19 NLT

“Now listen! Today I am giving you a choice between life and death, between prosperity and disaster. For I command you this day to love the Lordyour God and to keep his commands, decrees, and regulations by walking in his ways. If you do this, you will live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you and the land you are about to enter and occupy. “But if your heart turns away and you refuse to listen, and if you are drawn away to serve and worship other gods, then I warn you now that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live a long, good life in the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy. 

“Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live!

1.REFUSE TO BE                                                    

Hebrews 11:24 NIV

By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.

Romans 12:2 NLT

Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

1 Thessalonians 2:4 NLT

For we speak as messengers approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News. Our purpose is to please God, not people. He alone examines the motives of our hearts.

Jeremiah 29:11 NIV

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

2.CHOOSE                                                 FOR LONG-TERM GAIN!

Hebrews 11:25 NLT

He chose to share the oppression of God’s people instead of enjoying the fleeting pleasures of sin.

· GOD WILL USE IT TO HELP ME GROW

Romans 5:3–4 NLT

We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation.

·      GOD WILL REWARD ME IN HEAVEN

2 Corinthians 4:17 NLT

For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever!

3.                                                                  , NOT WHAT CULTURE VALUES.

Hebrews 11:26 NLT

He thought it was better to suffer for the sake of Christ than to own the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to his great reward.

1 John 2:17 ESV

And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

WHAT GOD Values

1.GOD’S                         IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN POPULARITY V. 24

2.                   ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PLEASURE V. 25

3.                                          IS MORE VALUABLE THAN POSSESSIONS V. 26

4.CHOOSE TO LIVE BY                , NOT BY FEAR!

Hebrews 11:27 NIV

By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw him who is invisible.

Galatians 2:16 NLT

Yet we know that a person is made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ, not by obeying the law. And we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be made right with God because of our faith in Christ, not because we have obeyed the law. For no one will ever be made right with God by obeying the law.”