#21a Hear ahead, and not year ahead(27dec2004)

Hear ahead and not year ahead??

A) God will lead, and man’s strategies matters not

‘A man’s heart deviseth his way, but the Lord directeth his steps’
Proverbs 16:9

B) God’s call to us and not our materialistic goals

To be numbered in God’s Kingdom rather than men’s

‘How much better is it to get wisdom than gold.
And to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver’
Proverbs 16:16

C) Our obedience and not our whimsical and lustful desires

‘the highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He that keepeth his way preserveth his soul’
Proverbs 16:17

‘Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man’s all’
Ecclesiastes 12:13

D) Our rewards are from Heaven, and not from men

‘He that handeth a matter wisely shall find good and whose trusteth in the Lord, happy is he’
Proverbs 16:20

E) Our servant leader attitude, and not our selfish desires

‘And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men’
Colossians 3:23

‘And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.’
Ecclesisastes 3:13

F) Dare we be different?? And not can we be different!!

‘There is a way that seemeth right with a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death’
Proverbs 16:25

‘He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul, but he that heareth reproof, getteh understanding’
Proverbs 15:32

G) Rest on God, and not on our laurels

‘The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord’
Proverbs 16:33
‘commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass’
Psalm 37:5

H) Our real work

For we are blessed, must share the love of God

‘….then if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee’
1 Samuel 11:3