Kingdom Insights P7

Divine Direction

By Lead Pastor Phreddie Minnifield, August 11, 2024

CORE 4
Encounter God (Sunday morning)
Experience Family (Family Sundays, Life Groups)
Equip Disciples (Go Team Training)
Embrace The hurting and the lost (Going out with the Go Team)

Look for it Matthew 6:33(NKJV)

  1. The Kingdom of God is the Government of God, what/who am I being governed by?
    1. Is God the sovereign King of my life? Am I a tenant in the Kingdom of God?
    2. God is looking to flood your life with His way of doing things
    3. God is looking for yielded vessels who will trust Him with everything

Know your worth Genesis 1:27-28 (NKJV)

  1. You’re the only part of God’s creation made in God’s image
  1. God has invested a great deal in you
  1. God has equipped you to:
    1. Be fruitful, producing good or helpful results; profitable
    2. to multiply- increase or cause to increase greatly in number or quantity.
    3. to fill the earth- Spread the Kingdom
    4. to Subdue– to overcome, to bring under control

Let Hope Rise Romans 15:13 (NKJV)

  1. The God of Hope will cause you to lead boldly in every area of your life
    1. The God of hope fills you with all joy and peace “in believing”
    2. Believe and be filled with joy and peace
  2. Believing and trusting in the power of the Holy Spirit brings hope
    1. Your hope level is an indicator of what you’re believing
    2. Believing truth will fill you with hope
    3. Believing a lie will fill you will despair Romans 4:18 (TPT)
  3. When it looks hopeless that’s the time to believe the promise
    1. That’s the time to expect, that’s the time to take God at His word

Divine Direction is a choice.

  1. Divine Direction comes from God's Word, when those directions come, you still must choose to follow them

  2. Your free will is intact; you are a freewill agent; the choice is yours to make Hebrews 11:6 (NKJV)

  3. To be diligent requires energy and effort

    1. The proof of desire is pursuit
    2. Comfort is the enemy of your destiny

  4. Choose Divine Direction Deuteronomy 30:19 (NKJV)

    1. Use your freewill to choose life John 10:10 (NKJV)
    2. Our choices can cause us to be taken from, or to be added to
    3. Choose life, choose to be led, choose sonship Romans 8:14 (NKJV) Divine Direction brings good success Joshua 1:8 (NKJV)

  5. Your successful path comes from doing what is written

    1. There are so many things competing for our attention
    2. What you give your attention to, is the direction you’re heading
    3. What you mean to do is your potential, what you’re doing, is the path that you’re on

  6. God’s Divine Direction is trustworthy

    1. The successful plan you need for your family, career, business, or ministry is available in the word Proverbs 3:5-6 (NKJV)

    2. Let the Lord direct your path, He’s a great guide

    3. It’s going to require overriding some emotions

Jeremiah 10:23(NKJV) Loss of Identity robs the divine nature

  1. The same three deceptions that Adam and Eve faced is what we’re up against today: Lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and the pride of life

1 John 2:16 (NKJV), Genesis 3:1-6 (NKJV), Psalm 17:4-5 (NKJV), Psalm 119:133 (NKJV)

Application

  1. Make the Word your priority
  2. Choose a Kingdom Lifestyle
  3. Close the door on compromise
  4. Recommit if you need to
  5. Trust God with your time