Who or what influences your decisions? What voices do you listen to? In this message, Pastor Jamie Nunnally shares ways to set you up to make better decisions.
Unexpected decisions are made differently than expected decisions. Every decision you will make in the future has already been affected by how you answer this question:
What voices have I allowed a place of influence in my life?
1 Corinthians 15:33 Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”
We have to install filters.
Not everyone should have a say in your life. Not everyone should have access to your decision-making process.
Three filters to install:
- The Word of God.
Psalm 119:105 “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”
Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, even penetrating as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” - The Spirit of God.
John 16:13 “When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own but will tell you what he has heard. He will tell you about the future.”
1 Corinthians 2:11-16
Pause – Ask – Listen – Obey. - The People of God.
Prov. 13:20 “Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.”
Moran Cerf, a neuroscientist and professor at Northwestern University, has found that when two people are in each other’s company, their brain waves will begin to look nearly identical.
1 Corinthians 4:15 “For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers.”
Are you installing good filters so you will make good choices?