Pre-Decide: Take Back Your Life

But the Bible doesn't say follow your heart. The Bible says, the heart can be extremely wicked and deceitful sometimes. And convince you, try to convince you of things that just aren't true or good or right for your life but you feel at the moment like it would be. Christians aren't called to follow our hearts. We're called to follow god's lead as supreme ruler over us because we trust him. [00:36:09] (32 seconds)  #FollowGodNotFeeling

And here's where you need to start, that I have to start, is we have to pre decide what we value the most. Do we value our relationship with god as the most important relationship? If we're married, do we value our marriage enough to pre decide how we're gonna act as a married person? If we're single, am I gonna pre decide? Right? We have to decide. What do I value most? Because decisions determine the direction of our lives and the direction of our lives determine our destination. [00:45:02] (41 seconds)  #DecideYourValues

See, here's what you have to know about the New Year. It doesn't change anything unless you change. Turning the calendar over didn't change anything. January 1, fun time celebrating but January 1 is just a continuation of your decisions that you're making in your life. That's all it is. That's a great way to market on the calendar. Maybe look back and look forward. There's nothing wrong with any of that but it doesn't change anything unless we decide, pre decide that this is the person we're going to be moving forward. These are decisions I'm gonna make and here's how I'm going to make decisions from now on. [00:46:28] (48 seconds)  #NewYearStartWithYou

With this message today, I gave it this title, take back your life. You could start today taking back your life. How do you do that? By pre deciding what your life is going to be. See, by the grace of god, he allows us to be forgiven and to be made new through Jesus so that moving forward, we can determine a different life [00:47:52] (30 seconds)  #TakeBackYourLife

Moving forward, if this is going to work well for any of us, okay? If you want to be someone who honors god with your life and I think most of you do or you wouldn't be here, right? That's that's what you want. You wanna honor god with your life and you want god's blessings on your life, then here's the thing. Here here's what we have to do. We have to align our pre decisions with god's word for it to work that way. We have to align our pre decisions with god's word. [00:49:28] (31 seconds)  #AlignDecisionsWithScripture

Sometimes, we make worship about all the things that are only just a small part of worship. Worship is about your whole life. Who you just who you decide to be? The person you decide to be. Worship is deciding to be a god honoring person. That's what worship is. Because when you're a god honoring person, will you show up for services at your church? Sure. When you're a god honoring person, will you serve others? Sure. All those things are parts of deciding who you're gonna be as a child of god. [00:56:00] (37 seconds)  #WorshipIsWholeLife

That word conform means to be pressed into. How many of you as teenagers maybe maybe you've done this with your own teenagers talked about peer pressure, right? Don't give in to peer pressure. We tell our kids that. Just because everybody else jumps on off a bridge doesn't mean you should. Right? We we talk about peer pressure. Friends, adult peer pressure is very real. You're facing it every day, so am I. You can't escape it. He's saying, don't let that pressure you push you into something that you predetermined you don't wanna be. To cause you to change how you do things so you're not the person you said you wanted to be anymore. [00:56:55] (48 seconds)  #ResistPeerPressure

When we pre decide to obey god's word, listen to me. It will always, always be in god's will. If you pre decide to be obedient to god's word, it will always be god's will for you to do what god's word teaches you to do. Always. There are no exceptions to it. There are no but but what if I've got this going on? What if that? It doesn't matter. This is god's will revealed in god's word. It will apply to every circumstance of your life. [01:00:11] (35 seconds)  #PreDecideObedience