Our Goals and Our Future

If We are Followers of Christ, the Word of God Says:
- We are Not Our Own
- We Give Up Our Way
- We are Being Made New
- What We Have is Not Ours
- We are Stewards

Why?
- We are Followers of Christ.

What is guiding you or motivating you?

Let Go
Submit, Resist, Come Near, Purify, Repeat

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. —James 4:7-8 (NIV)

Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. —James 4:13-16 (NIV)

Our Desire should = God’s Will

If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them. —James 4:17 (NIV)

“So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’ These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. —Matthew 6:31-33 (NLT)

Let Go
Our Hearts Desire…
Seek God’s Will Above All Else
Live Righteously

God’s

= Give You All You Need

Let Go
I will

to God in the Area of My Goals and My Future

Prayer:
Dear God. I submit to you my goals and my future. Please forgive me for following my own desires and not trusting more fully in you. I pray that You would transform my heart and purify my motives. May I seek Your will for my life above all else. My desire, empowered by You, is to accomplish Your goals and Your plan for my life. Please guide me and lead me in all I do.