Decisions
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· 8 viewsThe end result of a process of reflection upon possible courses of action, informed and sustained by a concern to please God.
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Factors that should affect believers’ decision-making
Factors that should affect believers’ decision-making
Desire to know God’s will
Desire to know God’s will
4 Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths.
5 Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.
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Confidence in God’s readiness to reveal his will
Confidence in God’s readiness to reveal his will
8 Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in the way.
9 He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.
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Belief in God’s overall plan for his people
Belief in God’s overall plan for his people
28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
30 And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
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God’s promise to guide believers in their decisions
God’s promise to guide believers in their decisions
11 And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
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Knowledge of scriptural principles
Knowledge of scriptural principles
29 Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
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A willingness to trust God
A willingness to trust God
17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son,
18 of whom it was said, “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.”
19 He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.
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