Insights on Navigating Your Future with Biblical Wisdom

Explore valuable insights on facing the future based on James 4:13-17. Learn about the importance of aligning your plans with God's will, the folly of presuming about tomorrow, and the necessity of acting on the good you know you should do. Discover how to overcome common mistakes in planning and living your life purposefully with faith.

• Wisdom
• Future Planning
• Biblical Guidance
• Spiritual Growth
• Life Lessons

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1. HOW TO FACE YOUR FUTURE James 4:13-17

2. V 13 : Now 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." Master Business Plan When ? Today or tomorrow Where? This or that city. How long? We'll spend a year there. What? We'll carry on business. Why? Make money.

3. JAMES SAYS THE FIRST COMMON MISTAKE WE MAKE IS PLANNING OUR LIVES WITHOUT GOD . Luke 14:28 verse. 15 "Instead, you ought to say, `If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that.'" Proverbs 16:1 Proverbs 16:9 Planning without God is the first mistake. You overcome it by including God in your goal setting.

4. THE SECOND MISTAKE IS PRESUMING ABOUT TOMORROW Verse. 14 & 16 "Why you don't even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 16 As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil." i. Life is unpredictable ii. Life is brief Isaiah 56:12 Proverbs 27:1 "Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth." Matthew 6:34 (LB) "So don't be anxious about tomorrow -- God will take care of your tomorrow too. Live one day at a time." Psalm 35:15

5. A THIRD COMMON MISTAKE IS PUTTING OFF DOING GOOD . verse. 17 "Anyone then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it sins." Proverbs 3:27-28 Luke 12 : 16-20