“If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
What if …
What if we allowed God to set the agenda and determine our priorities? What if we didn’t push and shove for our ideas? What if we sincerely sought the will of the Lord with all of our decisions on the church board, as a congregation … Get the point? If we sincerely desire the agenda of God (aka the will of the Lord), then we will not fight for our agendas. So easy.
No more church fights now, right?
I was in a church several years ago where I would beg the guys on our board to seek the Lord first in our decisions. I don’t know that this ever happened. We always had in mind how certain individuals in the church–three women especially–would react to our decisions. Make the wrong decision, which it seems we did often per our three women, and there would be “hell to pay.” And I don’t mean that as slang or rhetoric but as the spiritual dynamic that occurs when we speak against each other in our pride and hand the keys of the church to the devil.
Back to James …
What if we genuinely brought everything before God? Will we do this perfectly? No. Do we have the ability to do this well? Yes. Do it faithfully? Yes. Will God bless? Yes.
Message Title: “If the Lord Wills!”
Message Text: James 4:13-17
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