7. We Could Look At Several Things From This Passage: Jesus Able And Willing To Teach…. Work Ethic …. Always Be Available…. Use What Gifts God Has Given You…. Learning To Fish For Men….
8. We Want To Look At … Obedience Choices Listening To God
9. Obedience We Don’t Find Out What GOD Wants First Then We Decide Whether Or Not To Obey James 1:22-25 He Is GOD And He Calls The Shots Makes the rules…. Gives the Orders…. Delayed Obedience Is Disobedience
10. Choices We make them every day and they effect our lives greatly…. Big or small they matter…. Need to make WISE choices….
11. Listening Listen to other people Prov.12:15 Learn to Listen to God 1 Sam 3:9-11
12. Ron I’m Listening but… How Do I Know When GOD Is Speaking To Me? Of Course I Will Obey If GOD Says… He’s not Live speaking To Me Like He Did To Peter And Samuel
13. What are ways God speaks to us today?? The WORD Luke 4:4 21:33 Spouse/Parents Prov.31:26-28 Ex 20:12 Godly Counsel Prov. 1:2-4 History/Past Experiences
14. GOD “speaks” To All People…. GOD Is Willing That None Should Perish… Those Who Respond And Become HIS, GOD Then “speaks” To Us Often… Are We Listening ..Are We Obeying GOD?
15. We want you to think of some things/decisions that you or someone you know is going through ….. If we have time we will take that through this process and try to “find” Gods answer
16. Prayer the other element… After Checking Gods Word, Counseling with parents /spouse and other Godly people Continuously learning lessons from our history/experiences …… We then take all the TIME possible and Pray seriously! Not just say we will but Do it!
26. But we NEVER go through it alone… Daniel 3:14-ff Psalms 23:4-6
27. We want you to think of some things/decisions that you or someone you know is going through ….. If we have time we will take that through this process and try to “find” Gods answer