Discovering Your

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Discovering Your
Destiny
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God wants to reveal his will to you more
than you want to know it. Garry Friesen
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We must substitute the idea of finding Gods
will with that of following Gods program for
guidance. Dr. Bruce Walthe
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It is easier for me to know Gods will for my
wife than it is for me to know Gods will for my
life. Charles R. Swindoll
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Everything that has happened in your life to
this moment has been part of Gods determined
will for your life. It has happened because He
has determined it to be so. Grant Howard
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Scripture presents man as being a free moral
agent who is responsible for his decisions. God
is not a Cosmic Puppeteer, and we are not
marionettes that jump when He jerks our
strings. Garry Friesen
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Nothing happens unless the Omnipotent wills
it to happen. Augustine
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Scripture does not support the view that
there must be a specific divine reason behind all
events. Gregory A. Boyd
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All events are governed by Gods secret
plan. John Calvin
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Everything that happens is part of Gods
will. Pastor Bill Thompson
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Nothing happens to the Christian by
chance. Dr. Bruce Walthe
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This is a challenging world where chance has a
role and in which things do not always go as God
would desire. But for this same reason it is a
world that is, by Gods grace, capable of love.
Hence God chose to create this world rather than
the safer but uninteresting world of predestined
puppets. Gregory A. Boyd
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If chance existed, it would destroy Gods
sovereignty. R. C. Sproul
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The race is not to the swift or the battle
to the strong, nor does food come to the wise
or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the
learned but time and chance happen to them
all. King Solomon (Ecclesiastes 911)
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God desires creatures who are capable of
choosing love, so he risks the possibility that
their free decisions will interact in unfortunate
and unplanned ways. Gregory A. Boyd
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Control is an illusion, you infantile
egomaniac! Nobody controls anything. Nicole
Kidman to Tom Cruise in Days Of Thunder (Not a
very good movie so dont bother renting it.)
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Why would a God who wants us to do His will hide
it from us? Why do Christians go through such
convoluted, painful efforts to know it? His will
neednt be hidden or elusive a mystery, a
puzzle, an enigma. Dr. Bruce Walthe
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The idea of an individual will of God for every
detail of a persons life is not found in
Scripture. The most startling ramification is
that many believers are investing a great deal of
time and energy searching for something that is
nonexistent. Garry Friesen
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Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my
business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of
the future, I will strain my spiritual eyes so
that I will not see clearly what is required of
me now. Elisabeth Elliott
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Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this
world, but be transformed by the renewing of your
mind. Then you will be able to test and approve
what God's will is his good, pleasing and
perfect will. Romans 122, NIV
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You cannot continue life as usual or stay
where you are, and go forward with God at the
same time. Henry Blackaby
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Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in
view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as
living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God this
is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform
any longer to the pattern of this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then
you will be able to test and approve what God's
will is his good, pleasing and perfect
will. Romans 121-2, NIVi
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Whatever you eat or drink or whatever you do,
you must do all for the glory of God. 1
Corinthians 1031, NLT
God's Moral Will.
God's Individual Will for your life most of the
time.
God's Ultimate Sovereign Will.
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• How To Hear Our Coach
• Scripture 4) Inner Witness
• 2) Wise Counsel 5) Delighting Desires
• 3) Circumstance 6) Divine Intervention
• 7) MAXIMUM IMPACT
• The Way of Wisdom

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Precept
Practice
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Principle
Precept
Practice
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Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with
many advisers they succeed. Proverbs 1522,
NIV
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Weve All Got Blind Spots
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WHO TO ASK AROUND HERE 1. Mature brother or
sister. 2. Home Church leader. 3. Home Church
elder/pastor. 4. Overseer or Staff pastor.
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God's Will
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God's Will
Free Will
Scripture
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God's Will
Chance
Free Will
Providnce
Scripture
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God's Will
Chance
Free Will
CIRCUMSTANCE
CHOICE
Providnce
Scripture
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PROBLEMS WITH FLEECING
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PROBLEMS WITH FLEECING 1.) He did not use the
fleece to receive guidance but to confirm
guidance that had already been given.
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PROBLEMS WITH FLEECING 1.) He did not use the
fleece to receive guidance but to confirm
guidance that had already been given. 2.)
Gideons request was for a supernatural
miraculous sign, not an a supernatural
arrangement of natural circumstances.
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PROBLEMS WITH FLEECING 1.) He did not use the
fleece to receive guidance but to confirm
guidance that had already been given. 2.)
Gideons request was for a supernatural
miraculous sign, not a supernatural arrangement
of natural circumstances. 3.) Gideons request
was not born out of faith, but out of fear and
doubt!
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PROBLEMS WITH FLEECING 1.) He did not use the
fleece to receive guidance but to confirm
guidance that had already been given. 2.)
Gideons request was for a supernatural
miraculous sign, not an a supernatural
arrangement of natural circumstances. 3.)
Gideons request was not born out of faith, but
out of fear and doubt! 4.) There is no NT
example of this kind of decision making.
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An evil and adulterous generation asks for a
sign Matthew 1239, NRSV
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So she departed and went and gleaned in the
field after the reapers and she happened to come
to Lit. her chance chanced upon the portion
of the field belonging to Boaz. Ruth 23,
NASB
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Now a certain man drew his bow at random and
struck the king of Israel in a joint of the
armor. 1 Kings 2234, NASB
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Now by chance a priest was going down that
road and when he saw him, he passed by on the
other side. Luke 1031, NRSV
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Perhaps this is the reason he was separated
from you for a while, so that you might have him
back forever, 16 no longer as a slave but more
than a slave, a beloved brother especially to
me but how much more to you, both in the flesh
and in the Lord. Philemon 15-16, NRSV
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Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant,
is not acquainted with the teaching about
righteousness. 14 But solid food is for the
mature, who by constant use have trained
themselves to distinguish good from evil.
Hebrews 513-14, NRSV
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For it is God's will that by doing right you
should silence the ignorance of the foolish.
1 Peter 215, NRSV
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Whatever you eat or drink or whatever you do,
you must do all for the glory of God. 1
Corinthians 1031, NLT
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Whatever you eat or drink or whatever you do,
you must do all for the glory of God. 1
Corinthians 1031, NLT
God's individual will for your life most of the
time.
God's ultimate sovereign will.
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In everything give thanks for this is God's
will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians
518, NASB
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Discovering Your
Destiny
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