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Today we continue in our sermon series about becoming intentional authors of our lives.
How we need to start thinking about the story want our lives to tell and start living with that end in mind.
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Let me explain for those who might be new today….because
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The reality is all of us are going to one day look back over our life.
The reality is one day all of us will look BACK over our life and ponder the story we wrote with our life.
Like I have said every week….being
a pastor means I get to be there at the ends of many lives and that is such an honor….And I believe God has shown me somethings through those experiences.
Life goes by much faster than we think it will.
And if we are not INTENTIONAL with the life we live…..one day you might look back and regret a lot of the life you lived.
You will look back and regret the time you missed with your kids.,
You will look back and regret the choices you made in your marriage.
You will look back and regret the choices you made in work.
You will look back and regret the relationship choices you made.
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So, this next month we are talking about what does it look like to be an Intentional Author of our own lives.
We are talking about how our lives might look IF we lived with the END in mind.
What if we DIDN’T just let life happen to us….
But instead, we CHOOSE to be intentional about the life we lived….
So many stories fill the pages of life.
Some chapters you can be proud to tell.
Others, you would rather skip.
The day life really turns a page is when you let God be the author of your story.
Let God write your story and you'll live a story worth telling.
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We started this series talking about times in our lives were God calls us to START something.
Sometimes if we START new things, it can change the direction of our entire life!!!
And we talked about that.
Last week we will talk about the opposite…..When God calls us to STOP something.
Sometimes we have things in our life that are leading us in the WRONG direction and we need to STOP it before it ruins our life.
This week we will talk about when God calls us to STAY somewhere.
To plug in where we are.
To NOT give up and go to the next job or relationship.
And so forth.
Then next week we will wrap up this series talking about when God calls us to GO somewhere.
When God says….not it is time to get a new job.
Or to get out of this relationship.
And so forth….
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No matter what is going on in your life today please here me…..Your story isn't finished yet.
There's still time for edits!
For some of us we need to get out of our past and start looking to the future!
The good news is NO MATTER your past, your future story is yet to be written!!!
In this series we're talking about how the decisions we make determine the stories we write with our lives.
We established this truth and it will carry through this whole series:
The decisions that I make today determine the stories that I will tell tomorrow.
Let's just say that aloud together.
The decisions that I make today determine the stories that I will tell tomorrow.
The reality is at some point in the future you will look back and you'll tell a story about this season of your life.
At some point in our lives we will run up against some obstacle, some problem…
Maybe it's a job or class that you don't think you can endure another day,
Maybe it's a relationship and you think, it's not even worth staying in any longer.
When you are at that point…… you have to make a decision, do I stay the course, or do I walk away?
There is no question at times we HAVE to walk away…
BUT are times in our lives…..very important times….. and if you are taking notes, write this down:
At times the best decision you can make is to stay when it would be easier to go.
Sometimes, the best decision you can make is to stay the course when it would be easier to walk away.
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Let me give you an example from my life … I had to learn this the hard way once in my life….
When we lived in Missouri I was working full time and going to seminary full time.
I was SO busy I didn’t have time to relax ever.
I had to be super disciplined to be able to keep up with a full master’s level load, a demanding corporate Job, a wife and 3 kids!
Long story short….one
day I got downsized….and
that is whole long story.
But see I was NOT mad!
I was excited because I wanted to GO into ministry….I didn’t want to STAY in corporate America any more….
I wanted to be in Ministry!
So, because I wanted to GO and NOT STAY……
I started applying for Executive Pastor ministry jobs; thinking who wouldn’t want me right!
Because I am I am pretty awesome!
I mean the company I was with then was about a 14 Billion dollar company.
So running a church would be simple!
YES… I use to have major pride issues…..
But see God wanted me to STAY in business….
It was NOT my time to go into ministry….and
I had to learn that the hard way by getting ZERO call backs on all these jobs!
Talk about learning how NOT awesome I was!
God still had to humble me and teach me who was in control.
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It took me a month or two to finally understand God had a different plan for my life and to live it out I had to STAY in corporate America and not go into ministry!
And it was HARD for me!
Sometimes it is HARD to listen to God and wait on his timing in our lives!
But like we said a minute ago Sometimes, the best decision you can make is to stay when it would be easier to go.
See I had to learn how to be patient!
It is so hard to WAIT when we want to GO!
But God had bigger plans for me…..God had a different timeline than I did!
I can promise you that at some point in your life, you're going to have to make a similar decision to make.
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Remember the big question we're trying to answer in this series of messages,
How do we live a story worth telling?
How do we live our lives today so that we can tell the story tomorrow that God wants us to tell?
Let’s go back to where we started this series Hebrews 12:2
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Hebrews 12:2 "Let us fix our eyes on Jesus the author and perfector of our faith,"
It doesn’t say fix our eyes on the situation.
It doesn’t say fix your eyes on the best solution to the problem.
It says….fix
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