Decisions, Choices, Outcomes Seg 3

The speaker discusses the importance of making wise decisions and choices based on God's word rather than emotions or outer appearance. They emphasize the need to take time to consider all information and seek God's wisdom before making decisions. The speaker shares personal experiences and encourages listeners to make the best decisions possible, as these decisions will determine their outcomes. They also use the analogy of driving a ship to illustrate the importance of not rushing decisions. The speaker concludes by mentioning that they will continue discussing this topic in the next segment. Well, we're back at it right here today on my story and we are talking about decisions, choices, and outcomes. And this is so good because I was thinking most people make decisions based on what is going on right now. Way too often, in fact. I'm convinced that sometimes in our relationship we choose things based on simply the outer appearance of a thing. It looks like it ought to be good. It looks like the thing is what you're looking for and we don't take the time to clarify. Don't take the time to make sure that we actually consider all of the information before we make that choice. And then once we made that choice, we're kind of stuck. Have you ever made a choice because you didn't follow what the word of God said? You followed what your friend said? You followed what your emotions said? You followed something other than the surety of God's word? God is clear when he says that let every thought be established by God and he makes your plan successful. You got to understand that God is the one who now changes everything for your benefit because based on the choices that we make, if we, you know, I have my own set of regrets and we often say hindsight is 20-20 because if I could go back to my 20s, the decisions that I would have made based on what I know now would have been considerably different. But you don't get to go back and do that. And now you have to live with the decisions that you made and God is gracious enough that he allowed us the benefit that even if we made a misstep, that's what we talked about last week, mishandled mistakes. So God gives us this opportunity to circle back around and get it right. So I'm excited about what God is getting ready to do in your life. I just want to speak to you for a moment because I know there is somebody here who has to make a decision about some things this week. There are some things that you have been putting off. There are some things that you've been hesitant about and I just want to encourage you to seek God about it. Make sure you're not doing it out of the emotion of the moment. If you need to take a break, pull back from the moment, take a ride, take a short trip to somewhere where you can relax and center your thoughts. If it was me, I would go out to the lake and I would sit and contemplate on decisions, maybe skip some rocks and just let the waves calm my spirit down so I can clearly hear what God would say and not just read the scripture that I want to align with my circumstance, but really pray and ask God to give me wisdom and insight so that I can make the best decision possible. I'm so excited about what God is willing to do for us if we just allow ourselves to be yielded to His voice. Listen, I'm thinking that oftentimes many of us, we miss out on these things because we don't really think of what is the practical way to do what needs to be done. I'm back in school and I'm in pursuit of graduate level terminal degree. And I'm having to decide between a couple of different opportunities before me. Based on my age and state, I'm trying to decide what works best for where I am today. Had I been in this position 25 years ago, then I could take an extended version. But I have now over 25 plus years of ministry under my belt, and I don't necessarily need to go the slowest route. But I do need to go a route that gets me to exactly what I want in the most efficient manner possible. Sometimes I tell people, when I'm dealing with people, I want to be effective. But when I'm dealing with a process, I want to be efficient. See, you got to learn how to navigate these waters so you make sure you're not running ahead of yourself. I was listening to a wise person say that when you're driving a huge boat, when you're driving a huge ship like a cruise liner, you can't turn it as quick as you would, say, a sea dude, a little highly mobile, highly agile sea dude, which you can have fun with on the beach, cutting across the waves and all of those things because it can make sharp turns because there is no way that it can harm it. But if you're in a cruise liner, if you're in a huge ship, if you're in an ocean liner, you got to turn and plan to turn slow so you don't capsize. And oftentimes, sometimes we are in situations where we have to make sure that we take our time before we make these decisions to capsize, you know, in your relationship, in your business, in whatever it is you're living through this moment, you got to make sure that you make wise decisions along the way so you don't destroy the whole thing because yeah, you may need to go another direction, but don't pull it too fast. Don't change lanes without putting your turn signal on because even if you miss your turn, it's wiser to keep going to the next exit and circle back around than to jump over three lanes to try to get off and create not maybe an accident for yourself, but you could cause someone else to have an accident. So listen, we talked about it today. Hey, look, you're going to get this work today because I promise you, you're going to have to make good decisions because you have no time to waste. You got to make good choices because based on the decisions you are faced with and the choices that are before you, it's going to determine your outcome. I don't care what you think about it. I am telling you as your big brother, as your boy, as your little brother, depending on what our circumstance is and how we relate to one another, listen, I'm just here as a brother to tell you, take your time. Let's get it right because where you want to be is going to be determined on the choices you make today. Where you want to be tomorrow is going to be determined by the choices you make today. Hey, right here on Salt Radio, we're here in my story, and let me tell you, I'm taking my time with this. I'm probably getting, you know, tell your people tune in next week because I'm going to wrap this thing up because I really want to talk about a little more stuff that I can't get to this week. But listen, stay tuned right here. I'll be back for the last segment. Listen, this is some good gospel radio right here on Salt Radio on your, I almost want to say on your dial. You know, it just feels like it ought to be like on your dial, but we know we live in a computer age where now you're listening on your laptop, on your iPhone, preferably your iPhone or your Galaxy. You know, I'll accept it, you know, if you want to be out of space, but we apostolic around here. Okay. I love y'all. I'll see y'all another side of this break. All right. Peace.