I. EXORDIUM:
Have you always ask GOD before you do anything?
II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:
Believers
III. OBJECTIVES:
To remind that we should always ask GOD first about everything in our lives.
IV. TEXT:
Isaiah 22:11 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)
Between the city walls, you build a reservoir for water from the old pool. But you never ask for help from the One who did all this. You never considered the One who planned this long ago.
V. THESIS:
Always ask GOD for His help since He's the One who planned all things long ago or else all our plans will fail.
VI. TITLE:
Ask GOD For Help Always
VII. EXPLICATION:
A. Author: Isaiah - son of Amos, prophesied during reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah.
B. Isaiah is regarded as greatest Old Testament prophet: (1) preeminently the prophet of redemption, (2) passages in this book are among the finest in literature.
VIII. MAIN BODY:
Always Ask GOD For His Help
1. All our feverish plans are to no avail. (Proverbs 21:30,Jeremiah 7:24,Micah 4:12)
Proverbs 21:30 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)
No human wisdom or understanding or plan can stand against the Lord.
Jeremiah 7:24 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)
“But my people would not listen to me. They kept doing whatever they wanted, following the stubborn desires of their evil hearts. They went backward instead of forward.
Micah 4:12 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)
But they do not know the Lord’s thoughts or understand his plan. These nations don’t know that he is gathering them together to be beaten and trampled like sheaves of grain on a threshing floor.
Understand GOD's plans for our lives by reading and meditating His Words day and night, so we can make plans that are not contrary to His plans but instead plans that He will support.
2. Because we never ask GOD for help.
a. The LORD's plans will stand firm forever. (Psalms 33:11)
Psalms 33:11 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)
But the Lord’s plans stand firm forever; his intentions can never be shaken.
b. GOD's plans are forever, either you plan against Him or align your plans with His Plans and you'll never fail. (Psalms 119:26,Psalms 119:91, Psalms 138:8 )
Psalms 119:26 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)
I told you my plans, and you answered. Now teach me your decrees.
Psalms 119:91 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)
Your regulations remain true to this day, for everything serves your plans.
Psalms 138:8 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)
The Lord will work out his plans for my life— for your faithful love, O Lord, endures forever. Don’t abandon me, for you made me.
3. GOD is the One who planned this long ago. (Isaiah 43:13,Ecclesiastes 3:11)
Isaiah 43:13 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)
“From eternity to eternity I am God. No one can snatch anyone out of my hand. No one can undo what I have done.”
If this happens or that, nothing's an accident for GOD because He has already planned this long ago and nothing surprises GOD.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)
Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.
IX. CONCLUSION:
Remember GOD knows what you will ask Him before you ask, but it's our relationship with GOD is built on many factors and one of them is communication.
Matthew 6:8 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)
Don’t be like them, for your Father knows exactly what you need even before you ask him!
Matthew 7:7 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)
“Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.
