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Over the last few weeks, we have looked at God’s promises… We looked at his promises about giving.
Then we looked at God's promises of heaven, and then we looked at God's promises of His Spirit, the Holy Spirit last week.
Today, I want us to look at God's promises about your future.
Now, you ought to be interested in this for three reasons.
First, the rest of your life is in your future.
None of your life is left in the past or even today.
All your life is in the future.
The two things I could say about that are number one, you don't know what it's going to be, and two, you can't control it.
So, I should definitely be interested in what God has to say about my future because I don't know, none of us know what's going to happen tomorrow, much less next year.
We certainly can't control it.
One of the ways we try to control the future is worry, but worry is worthless.
It doesn't work.
Before we look at the six promises about your future, I want to give you four facts about your future.
I know this is review.
You already know this, but it gives us a foundation for what we're going to look at today.
Facts about my future...
1. God know everything that will happen.
God is never surprised.
God never goes, "Wow!
I didn't see that coming.
Ooh wee! You're going to blow me over with a feather on that one.
Wow! Really?
Are you kidding me?" God never says those kind of things.
God knows everything you're ever going to say in life.
God knows every thought you're ever going to think in life.
God knows everything you're going to do in life already now.
There is nothing that you do that He doesn't already know.
He already knows the end of your life.
Why?
Well, it's a little hard to get, but follow me on it.
God is not limited by time.
God is timeless.
You see, your concept and my concept of time happens to be because we're on a planet that turns around every 24 hours and goes around the sun every 365 days.
God is timeless.
God can be in the past, and in the present, and in the future all at once because God isn't linear.
It's all the same to Him.
He's in the past, and the present, and the future at the same time.
Thanksgiving Day Parade: Being able to see the whole thing.
On the other hand, if I were to take you up in a plane or a helicopter or a blimp and we got up real high with a different perspective, you would be able to see the beginning and the end of the parade all at the same time.
You wouldn't have a problem.
You could see the beginning of the parade and the end at the same time.
It's a matter of perspective.
2. God’s plan for my future is good.
God has thought far more about your life than you ever have.
He's thought about every detail, every thought, every part of it, and He has a plan for your life and His plan is good for you, His plan to prosper you, plan to give you hope, a future.
You say, "Well, can I miss God's plan?"
Well, of course, you can.
In fact, most people do.
They miss God's plan because they choose their own plan.
You have to choose God's plan for your life.
It's not automatic.
You see, one of the greatest gifts, but it's also a hindrance to us, is the freedom to choose.
God didn't want to create a bunch of puppets.
He could have made us where we don't have any choice.
3. I must choose to trust and obey God.
To fulfill my created purpose, here's the third thing, I must choose to trust and obey God.
God knows everything that's going to happen to my life, and He has a good plan for my life, but I have to choose that plan.
I have to choose to trust God.
I have to choose to obey God.
Every single day of my life, God's giving me a free choice.
Every day, every moment, I'm going, "I'm going to go with God's plan or I'm going to go with my plan.
I'm going to choose what God tells me to do or I'm going to do what I want to do.
I'm going to do what the Bible says or I'm going to do what I think is the right thing to do or is the most convenient thing."
Every day, we're making this choice.
4. God will be with me every step of the way.
If you knew what God is really like, and you knew what He's really promised, you wouldn't be afraid.
You wouldn't be anxious about the future.
You wouldn't be worried or nervous about what's going to happen tomorrow because if you really knew who God is, and what He's promised to do in your life, you wouldn't be afraid.
Guarantees from God for my future...
1. God promise to guide me when I’m confused.
One thing that you can predict about your future is that you're going to have a lot of decisions to make.
You're going to have a lot of choices, and some of those choices are difficult, some of them are even confusing.
"Do I take this job?
Do I move to this city?
Should I buy this house?
Should I marry this girl?"
There are some big life-changing decisions, and a lot of times, we can be confused about them.
We get confused because they're scary decisions, and they're scary decisions because we're afraid, "Well, what if I make the wrong choice?"
We just get stuck in our confusion.
We think, "Well, who can I talk to?
Is there anybody that can help me think this through?"
I guess on one end you could think, "Well, I can talk to my friends," but, well, the problem there is they probably think just like you do.
That's why they're your friends.
They're probably as confused as you are.
You can look at the media, talk to them, but good luck there.
Their opinions change with the wind.
There's only one authority, one authority who is always right and completely reliable, and that is your creator.
If you want to know the purpose of something, you have to ask the inventor.
God knows the purpose that he created you for.
2. God promises to help me when I’m tempted.
Attraction is not a sin, action is.
Write this down.
Attraction is not a sin, action is.
You are not responsible for your attractions.
You are responsible for your actions.
If we're walking down a buffet, I might see a certain kind of potato salad that's very attractive to me.
I'm salivating and everything.
Where did that come from?
It's just inside me.
You're wobbling, "I hate potato salad," and you just walk to the next one.
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