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In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.

Proverbs 3:6

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• There are many who will be more than happy to give you advice on how to succeed in life. Many of these remedies involve the amassing of huge sums of money. Others are directed at doing whatever brings you pleasure and enjoyment.

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• There is another way that might be a good way to try succeeding in life. That way is God.

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•Acknowledge Him–Vision – “to know or

ascertain by seeing”•Learn to see God. He is the great “I AM”

•Know that He is interested in you

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•Acknowledge Him–Awe & reverence for Him –

Heb 12:28

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Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.

Hebrews 12:28

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•Acknowledge Him–Awe & reverence for Him –

Heb 12:28•It is disastrous when lacking - Isa. 33:10-13

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"Now I will rise," says the LORD; "Now I will be exalted, Now I will lift Myself up. 11You shall conceive chaff, You shall bring forth stubble; Your breath, as fire, shall devour you. 12And the people shall be like the burnings of lime; Like thorns cut up they shall be burned in the fire. 13Hear, you who are afar off, what I have done; And you who are near, acknowledge My might."

Isaiah 33:10-13

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•Acknowledge Him–Awe & reverence for Him –

Heb 12:28•It is disastrous when lacking - Isa. 33:10-13

•Deliver us from the flippancy & irreverence of this age

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•Acknowledge Him–Build dependence on Him

•His way sought out – •Strengthens belief in His interest in me– Issues in prayer - Phil. 4:6

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Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;

Philippians 4:6

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•Acknowledge Him–Build dependence on Him

•His way sought out – •Strengthens belief in His interest in me– Issues in prayer - Phil. 4:6– Reliance upon Him for all things -

Jas 1:17

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Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

James 1:17

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• In All Your Ways–Touches both physical &

spiritual lives•Physically

– He created all we see– He provides for all creation - Matt

6:26-30

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Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? 28So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin;

29and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

Matthew 6:26-30

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• In All Your Ways–Touches both physical &

spiritual lives•Physically

– He created all we see– He provides for all creation - Matt

6:26-30– Use all your abilities for His cause

- Col 3:23-24

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And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, 24knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

Colossians 3:23-24

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• In All Your Ways– Touches both physical &

spiritual lives•Physically

– He created all we see– He provides for all creation - Matt

6:26-30– Use all your abilities for His cause -

Col 3:23-24

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The most important yoke is the one Jesus made - Matt 11:28-29

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“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”

Matthew 11:28-29

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• In All Your Ways–Touches both physical &

spiritual lives•Spiritually

– We are His offspring - Gen. 1:27

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So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Genesis 1:27

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• In All Your Ways–Touches both physical &

spiritual lives•Spiritually

– We are His offspring - Gen. 1:27– Acknowledge His sovereignty -

Psa. 24:1

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The earth is the LORD'S, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell therein.

Psalms 24:1

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• In All Your Ways–Touches both physical &

spiritual lives•Spiritually

– We are His offspring - Gen. 1:27– Acknowledge His sovereignty -

Psa. 24:1– Must seek to be clean & pure -

Psa. 24:3-6

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Who may ascend into the hill of the LORD? Or who may stand in His holy place? 4He who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, Nor sworn deceitfully. 5He shall receive blessing from the LORD, And righteousness from the God of his salvation. 6This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him, Who seek Your face.

Psalms 24:3-6

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• In All Your Ways–Places affected

•Regarding the home– An arrangement of God - Gen.

2:24– End foolish, frivolous attitude

toward– Purity & sanctity a must - Heb.

13:4

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Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Genesis 2:24

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Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Hebrews 13:4

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• In All Your Ways–Places affected

•Regarding the home– An arrangement of God - Gen. 2:24– End foolish, frivolous attitude

toward– Purity & sanctity a must - Heb. 13:4– Your recreation must not dull your

perception of God

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• In All Your Ways–Places affected

•Toward our brethren - Heb. 13:1– Showing the world - John 13:34-35

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Let brotherly love continue.Hebrews 13:1

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A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."

John 13:34-35

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• In All Your Ways–Places affected

•Toward our brethren - Heb. 13:1– Showing the world - John 13:34-35– Willing to sacrifice - 1 Jn. 3:16

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By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

1 John 3:16

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• In All Your Ways–Places affected

•Toward our neighbor - Rom. 13:8, 9b-10

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Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Romans 13:8

…You shall love your neighbor as yourself." 10Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

Rom 13:9b-10

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• In All Your Ways–Places affected

•Toward our neighbor - Rom. 13:8, 9b-10– We seek to help him - Lk 10:37;

Prov 12:26

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And he said, "He who showed mercy on him." Then Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise."

Luke 10:37

The righteous should choose his friends carefully, For the way of the wicked leads them astray.

Proverbs 12:26

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• In All Your Ways–Places affected

•Toward our neighbor - Rom. 13:8, 9b-10– We seek to help him - Lk 10:37;

Prov 12:26– Seek the profit of others - 1 Cor.

10:32-33

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Give no offense, either to the Jews or to the Greeks or to the church of God, 33just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

1 Corinthians 10:32-33

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• In All Your Ways–At ALL times - Sunday –

Saturday– In Public and privately - 2

Cor. 10:5; Titus 2:6-8

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casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

2 Corinthians 10:5

Likewise exhort the young men to be sober-minded, 7in all things showing yourself to be a pattern of good works; in doctrine showing integrity, reverence, incorruptibility, 8sound speech that cannot be condemned, that one who is an opponent may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of you.

Titus 2:6-8

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•The Promise Given–He will direct your paths

•Calls for exercise of faith•By obstacles, delay, encouragement, disappointment, reward

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•The Promise Given–He does it! The God of The

Bible!•No enemy can prevent Him - Rom 8:31-39

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What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and

furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the

slaughter." 37Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:31-39

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•The Promise Given–He does it! The God of The

Bible!•No enemy can prevent Him - Rom 8:31-39

•His way may not be as I would choose, but always is right - Jer 10:32; Prov 14:12; Hos 14:9; Acts 13:10

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O LORD, I know the way of man is not in himself; It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.

Jeremiah 10:23

There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.

Proverbs 14:12

Who is wise? Let him understand these things. Who is prudent? Let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right; The righteous walk in them, But transgressors stumble in them.

Hosea 14:9

and said, "O full of all deceit and all fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord?

Acts 13:10

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•A successful life is guaranteed.

•But it begins with a clear vision of God and who we are.

•Keep that picture & let it govern life!

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