KBF Teachings

James 4:13-17
¹³Now 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," ¹⁴Why, 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. ¹⁵Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this and that." ¹⁶As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. ¹⁷Anyone, then who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it sins.

Jeremiah 29:11
¹¹'For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.¹²then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. ¹³You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

These words spoken 2600yrs ago to God's children are still true for God's children today! God is unchanging. God has a Good plan for your Life!!

3 Attitudes Towards the will of God for your life:

1. Ignoring God's Will (4:13-14,16)
   1. Life is Complex vs.13
   2. Life is uncertain vs.14a
   3. Life is short vs.14b
   4. We are frail vs.15
2. Knowing but not Following God's Will (4:17)
   Why would a person do this?:
   1. Pride-"I can do it all by myself
   2. Fighting against God's will is foolish & painful
   3. The Lost Son illustration. Luke 15:11
3. Following God's will for Your Life (4:15)
   To Love God and love people with Agape.
   Ephesians 2:4-10
   ⁴But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, ⁵made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. ⁶And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, ⁷in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. ⁸For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— ⁹not by works, so that no one can boast. ¹⁰For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
   1. Get healed up by God's love. God, Give & receive love from God, Mentor, friend, child.
   2. Surrender your life & God will guide you through your surrendered thought life and desires.
   3. Learn the Character of God- so you can have discernment.
   4. With a heart that desires God's will, do next thing God shows you to do.

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