how to know what god wants you to do if
you have a decision in your life right
now where you're like god
how do i
where do i go what's the direction that
you're leading me in
what do i choose i'm gonna help you with
that because i was reading today and the
holy spirit helped me
we were at the beach reading the living
bible translation this is a thought for
thought translation it's more like a
paraphrase and it was saying this in
james chapter one verse five if you want
to know what god wants you to do ask him
and he will gladly tell you for he is
always ready to give a bountiful supply
of wisdom to all who ask him and he will
not resent it
for six but when you ask him be sure
that you really expect him to tell you
for a doubtful mind will be as unsettled
as a wave of the sea that is driven and
tossed by the wind and every decision
you then make will be uncertain
as you turn first this way and then that
if you don't ask with faith don't expect
the lord to give you a solid answer how
basically just powerful
is that word in it's just like i feel
like he was talking straight to me
and that's what the word of god does
right it pierces
you know your heart cuts more than the
bone it cuts straight to the spirit
and um the part ex when he said
yo every decision you make will be
uncertain
that is me
i'm talking every decision i make is
uncertain every
even if it feels certain
i change my mind afterwards whether a
couple hours later or days whatever i do
this about every little thing it's
so embarrassing to admit on the internet
but um my wife's right here and she
knows that about me as well i just
everything you guys have seen my profile
picture change a hundred times my name
on my channel everything changes why i'm
just i'm like a wave tossed by
the wind there's
there's the cool thing about surfing is
there's like regular swell and there's
wind well regular swell is like the
energy or surging throughout the water
in the ocean and that's some good waves
there's some good waves and winds well
too but it's different windswell is like
howling waves off the coast
picking up and flipping these waves and
making them do weird things for example
last week i was paddling for this wave
paddling paddling paddling and i was
waiting for the wave to pick me up
and move speed me up get me on my way
but it didn't do that i look to my right
and the waves over there now that's what
happens they shift last moment why the
energy is not coming from beneath it's
coming from an outside source
when you
choose to ask god anything especially
for wisdom without faith you're like
that wind
you're getting your energy
from somewhere else you're not getting
that energy focused from the holy spirit
within deep within you deeper than the
deepest oceans it's not coming up this
way it's coming in from an outside
your your education your experiences
what you think is best and he says don't
expect to get any solid answer from god
if you come like that you're coming at
him wrong
you got to come at him right but how do
we come at him right
it's hard not to be like that wave
there's a verse that my grandma loved
it's
proverbs 3 5-6
trust in the lord with all your heart
and lean not to your own understanding
and in all your ways acknowledge him
and he will direct your path how do we
come to god and ask him for the wisdom
that he's that james says he wants to
give us he's willing to give us he won't
resent us if we ask how do we get that
we got to come to him
and not lean on our own understanding we
got to lean on his understanding as long
as we're leaning on our understanding
we're being picked up and moved around
like a wave tossed by the wind
because our understanding is faulty you
know kids are great at this my kid today
he was like you know
arguing with his brother and i was like
stop arguing with your brother just you
guys are squabbling over nothing stop
and he looked at me and he goes why
should i
and i was like
thinking of every 90s kids movie i
watched and when the parents said stop
that and the kid was like why should i
and when in the movie it's disrespectful
the way my son said it was like
no literally like
why why should i why what's the big deal
why can't i squabble why can't i talk to
him this way why can i argue with him he
really wanted to know what was wrong why
because he's four
at first i was like is this a
disciplined moment and then i thought
about how he said it and i was like he
really just wants to know
and
kids do that they don't lean on their
understanding the way adults do
i
do not like being told what to do i
don't like having to ask
for help
why i'm insecure
as heck and so i'd just rather figure it
out on my own and then mess it up which
i do a lot
and so i want to be more like my son
because to lean on god means to say
father
why
should i do
the things that you're asking me to do
why did you do things the way you did
things
what am i missing here asking like that
any kid you meet their favorite thing to
say is why
we need to be like that
i was walking you know along these
million dollar homes and there's these
big slippery rocks uh there's a shortcut
to this beach that we were going to and
i was slipping and when i slipped i
grabbed the wall of this million-dollar
home and i started to lean on that wall
as i took a couple steps i'd move my
hand and lean again
and
i could not lean on my own weight and
lean on that wall at the same time all
my weight was leaning on the wall with
god you can't lean
on him and yourself at the same time
you're going to choose either lean on
his understanding of things or your
understanding of things if you lean on
your understanding of things you're
going to slip your weight is going to be
shifted like that wind pushing that wave
and you're going to slip and you're
going to fall and it's going to be messy
it's going to be pain and hurt
along god's way there's still going to
be some pain there's going to be some
suffering there's going to be you know
some hurt there but the thing is you're
going in the right direction
the thing is you are leaning fully on
him you don't have to worry about your
understanding his understanding is
guiding you in the right way he says if
you acknowledge me i will direct your
past
how do we acknowledge him
this is how you acknowledge him you're
about to make a decision you step
towards what you think is the right way
you need to step and you're thinking
okay yeah i've been here before i know
this experience i my education tells me
this the culture tells me this the world
tells me this the mental health
awareness movement tells me this i'll go
this way
wrong that's not acknowledging him
that's acknowledging the world not the
word
to go the right direction you got to
acknowledge the word
why
i like how it says the living bible on
here you know who that is jesus he is
the living bible the word of god made
flesh john chapter 100 man 100 god the
one who is always here has no beginning
has no end before you were known before
the earth was known before the universe
he was there his name is jesus he made
everything that you can see he made the
things that are helping you see called
your eyes he made everything and he
became flesh
he was born two thousand years ago and
this bible
is him these words are him he's the word
of god and so to acknowledge him means
to run to him
when you're about to slip when you're
about to fall when you're about to be
flipped upside down by the winds of life
it's because you are acknowledging the
wrong things
you're running to those things
you're not running to him run to him run
here even if it's just in your mind if
you don't have a bible
this is a bible that i keep in my car
except when i'm making youtube videos
and i'm holding it in my hand right now
it's usually in my car because i want to
be able to run to it when i'm at the
beach when i'm at the coffee shop when
my wife is going into the store to buy a
t-shirt for our kid because we forgot to
bring a t-shirt and he can't go in the
store without a t-shirt and i'm sitting
in the car waiting for her to come out
with the other kid in the back of the
car i want to be able to run here
not somewhere else
run here
don't run
where you're comfortable don't run to
the place that says i think i know
better than god because although you
would never say that although i would
never say that outside
of my mind i'm about to say it outside
of my mind right now i think i know
better than god at times
that's why i don't lean on him that's
why i don't ask him like james is saying
with full faith and that's why i'm not
he's not giving me a solid answer
because i'm trusting in myself i i'm
thinking god i kind of know better than
you than this i realize i do this
because i do it to my wife
we have a meeting every thursday and in
that meeting we talk about the podcast
the next episode of eamon podcast and a
lot of times i'll make decisions in my
head and then ask her what do you think
we should do about this and she'll look
at me and she'll know the mood i'm in
and she'll say you know what just do
whatever you want to do because you
already have a decision that you've made
and i know it's just
you're not going to want to hear what i
have to say you're just going to do what
you want to do anyway and i can't tell
you how many decisions i've made that
have been so bad
because i didn't involve her why god has
put her in my life to point out the fact
that alex you don't know everything and
you're horrible at listening
that's about one of the greatest things
about my wife and i'm so glad i learned
that you know my life changed when
lokolani became a part of the podcast
because i saw through the lens of
everything i do and how i i'm trying to
act like i have it all altogether and i
don't
that's a great way to get hurt
especially in surfing
you know the
one of the surfing podcasts i listen to
he says go out and look at the waves
for minutes upon minutes look at the
waves study it the water is doing
something different every single day go
out there and talk to people say hey
what's that out what's going on what's
going on out here
how is it today
what are the conditions talk to people
why you don't know it all and if you do
you can get hurt i've gotten hurt so
many times surfing like this
life is the same way it's the same exact
way acknowledge the word of god
run to it in your mind what does the
word of god say about this what does
jesus say about this a great place to
run always if you don't know a lot of
bible verses always run to the cross
the cross will give you the wisdom to
learn and to live in every situation
hebrews the last chapter talks about
this think about how he suffered
and you'll know how to go through
whatever you're going through for
example talking about leaning on him
jesus had no one to lean on
when he was on the cross so you could
have the power and the ability to lean
on him
if if jesus leaned on anyone
he wouldn't have been the total atoning
perfect sacrifice for our sins the whole
thing about the cross was that he was
alone going through what he was going
through and he was perfect and he was
innocent he didn't lean on anyone he
leaned completely we had no one to lean
on
my god my god why are you forsaking me
he went to lean on god and god wasn't
there why god had turned his face away
the hymn says
so that he can look at us with love his
the total wrath of god was completely
appeased in jesus
he leaned on no one so we could lean on
him now we have the ability we're
forgiven we're seen as perfect and
righteous in god's eyes because jesus
rose from the dead he didn't just die he
rose if he just died he wouldn't be a
good savior he not only died and was
dead fully dead d-e-d dead but he rose
again from the grave
justifying us now he stands as the
perfect sacrifice and justification for
us when god sees you he sees jesus and
so we have him to lean on
and our weakness and our mistakes and
our
poor decisions we can lean on him
also this
he cares about you
on the cross no one cared about jesus
look at his murderers look at his people
spitting at him cheering on him saying
if you saved elders save yourself no one
cared about him
and it looked like the father didn't
care about him here's someone that was a
preacher doing miracles great man of god
awesome god you know if he was so close
to god where's god now that's what they
were thinking
it seemed like god didn't care did god
care about jesus of course but god chose
to turn his face away no one cared about
him on the cross so that he could care
for us
so he can look at us with care in his
heart he cares about you and he cares
that you move in the right direction and
he wants you to know exactly
what he wants you to do because the way
that he's gonna lead you is gonna always
be towards life
not knowing what god wants you to do is
is a horrible place to be because that
means you're headed towards death
god will lead you towards life john 10.
the the thief comes to steal kill and
destroy i've come to give you life and
life more abundantly that's jesus's
promise to us
to give you life an abundant life at
that he cares about you so whatever
decision
you know you made i mean think about the
fact that jesus made the decision
to go to the cross
so that you could be able to have the
power to make the right decisions in
life
he made that decision in the in the
garden mark 14 36 not my will
your will
abba father
if there's any other way take this cup
of suffering from me
yet not my will your will be done made
the decision
as he's sweating
drops of blood from his forehead under
the extreme amount of anguish that he's
sweating blood not sweat
extreme stress the cup of suffering
being poured out on him and he decides
i'm going through with it
that right there will give you the power
to make whatever decision that you're
making and just take a little time
i think that's a big thing run to the
word of god spend time in here before
you go to bed before you know you start
your day whatever it is run to the word
of god but also take some time you know
the bible tells us not to
be slow to speak quick to listen
that's talking about decisions as well
be slow
to say what decisions you're going to
make be slow
to just make to just choose
and be slow to listen to how the lord's
leading you
to you know be slow to see okay am i
being moved around by a wave right now
is this energy of the holy spirit moving
me
or is this just some outside source just
flipping me around what's going on
um
be slow to that you know take a day
sleep on it
anyway love you i hope this helps and
i'll see you in the next one
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