Seeking The Kingdom Minded Life

- I want to know exactly what He expects from me. And then I want the faith and strength to carry it through in my life.

- James 1:5 says, “If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without criticizing.”

- Meaning God will not look at you when you ask a question and say, “Is this the right direction for my life.” God in return will not say, that’s a stupid question.

- God will give us wisdom for our lives, if we will but seek Him.

Point 3: Seek The Supervision Of The King

- Meaning, let God have control of what you do.

- Open your daily planner for the day and let Him have control of it.

- Let Him take charge of your day, give Him everything.

- Spare nothing.

- Ask God to guide your conversation at the dinner table, what does God want you to do after dinner as a family.

- When you are driving to work in your car, what does He want you to do with that free time.

- If you work with clients pause before you see the next one and say a quick prayer before talking.

- This is opening you life to a loving God, and becoming a part of His plans for your life not the other way around.

- Sometimes we want God to be apart of our lives and what we are doing.

- But God wants us to become apart of Him and what He has planned for us.

- His plans are great and wonderful, but we will never experience them by asking Him to do what we want Him to do.

- It is my desire to shake off the sin that so easily entangles us and walk in freedom.

- I want to experience the liberty of life in His Kingdom.

- We will find that His way is far more liberating then our way of doing things.

Conclusion:

- In conclusion I want to close with this story to sum up the message this morning.

“We’ll be out until 10:30,” said Chad’s parents as their friends, the Petersons, came by to pick them up for banquet. “While we’re gone, stay home and finish your history paper.”

“Can’t I use the car for just a little while?” asked Chad. He had gotten his driver’s license just last month. “Um, I need to borrow a book from Todd. I’ll only be gone a while.”

“Absolutely not,” warned Chad’s father. “You have all the books you need for tonight. You stay home and work on that paper.”

Darn. Chad really wanted to get together with his friends while his parents were gone. After all, his parents weren’t using the car, so why shouldn’t he be able to? It didn’t seem fair. He only wanted to be out for an hour or so. There would still be time to work on his history paper, he reasoned.

The phone rang. It was Todd. “Hey, come on over,” he said. “All the guys are here.”

Chad decided that he could go to Todd’s and get back early enough so that his parents would never know. He just had to be sure to put some gas in the car so nothing would look suspicious. He could work fast on his history paper when he returned.

He got in the car and took off. No one would ever be the wiser, he thought. On the way to Todd’s, however, disaster struck. He had a flat tire. Oh great, he thought. He had never changed a tire before. Now he was going to have to not only change a tire, but also get it repaired quickly so that his parents would never find out. He needed to hurry.