In the Way
Sunday Morning, April 28, 2013
scriptures: Proverbs 22, Proverbs 13, Proverbs 16, James 1, Proverbs 8, Proverbs 3, Psalms 139, Psalms 119, Isaiah 55, John 14
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NOTES
Proverbs 22:1-6
Focusing on the way
How is your way in the Lord?
Are you in God’s way? Or is He in your way? Is He hindering you from what you want to do?
When you think about yourself and your way, does it come with an evaluation.
If we examine ourselves, people don’t need to correct you on the same thing.
How are you in your ways before God?
Even though vs. 6 mentions a child, it says that the way will be observed as he grows up.
What ways are you?
What does the word say about people’s ways?
Proverbs 13:15 The way of the transgressor is hard.
Proverbs 28:18
Proverbs16:2 IS your way the good way or not good way
James 1:8 Have you been unstable? Double minded man is unstable.
Proverbs 16:7 Want to make sure that your ways please God.
Proverbs 8:32 Keeping God’s ways
Proverbs 3:6 In everything, all your ways, want to make sure that it lines up with Him
Psalms 139:23 see if there is any wicked way in me to make sure that I get it out before the hardness comes.
Asking God the true judge to see that you are ok.
Do you ever think about your ways? evaluating the things that did not line up, assessing what did work
You want to be able to say, Lord, I did what you asked me to do.
Do you adjust based on what you see when you think on your ways? If you see something that didn’t work, do you just know it or adjust your ways?
Psalms 119:59-60 Do you think and adjust those things that are not cool with the Lord?
If you don’t turn your feet, you won’t go in a different direction.
Do you delay to change what needs to be changed or do you make haste?
We have to die daily to ourselves so that His ways can become our ways. (Luke 9:23)
As you grow in God, you take on the ways of God.
Isaiah 55:8-9 God’s ways are always higher, better than our ways. We need to take on the ways He wants as we serve Him. We cannot just follow whatever ways man thinks is right.
John 14:1-6
We follow Jesus to get to the Father. Jesus is the way to live. Are my ways like His ways?
we want to follow Jesus in truth as well. Not just look like a brown bubbly, but actually be Coca-Cola.
In order to help or tell other people the way, you need to make sure that you know the way and are going that way yourself. If you know the way, you can lead someone in the way.
You have to be in the way to convince others that God is the way for them. Make sue that your walk is true to the talk, what you say.
Folks in the world can often see when a person’s way doesn’t line up with the words of Christ that they speak.
The way you act broadcasts the way you are. People are often observing our ways well before they ever ask how or why you do what you do. Is your reaction speaking of Christ or not?
Make sure that your ways line up with God. So that you can be good in Him and you can be an example for others.
Don’t be self driven such that God is in your way.
Be God’s way.