You are the Captain of Your Future
Here is one of the greatest misconceptions of all time: You are where you are because of God’s sovereignty and the circumstances around you are what God willed for you. Not necessarily! Many people are in places and doing things that God never intended for them to do. Many people today are making decisions completely apart from God. When you realize that this earth is filled with many things that God never intended, you will start to understand why the world is the way it is. Just because God knew something was going to happen doesn’t mean that it was His highest and best intentions. God only has “good will towards all men.” (Luke 2:14) If that is the intention of God, why do bad things happen?
God has a great plan for every human life. But that plan completely depends on our own participation with the Gospel. In short, you must understand that you have a voice. Your voice either agrees with God or disagrees with Him. Your voice either resembles God’s tone of redemption or it resonates defeat. Your voice is either a bugle that signals the charge or the cry that rallies retreat. Your voice is the instrument God gave you to make your life beautiful. It has nothing to do with your ability to sing. It has everything to do with the note of victory you speak. Didn’t Christ die to make us kings? (Rev 1:6) Then why would we talk like slaves? Didn’t Christ die to make us children of God? (John 1:12) Then why do we talk like servants? Stop waiting for God to do something. He has done something and now it’s your turn.
James 3:4-5 says, “Likewise, look at the ships: though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, they are steered by a very small rudder WHEREVER THE HELMSMAN DETERMINES…EVEN SO THE TONGUE is a small body part that can speak great things…” Your tongue has incredible power. It is the rudder of your life. God doesn’t take you somewhere automatically: You must be the helmsman! The winds might be rough but they can’t steer you! The waves might pound on you but you still have the helm. You don’t like the direction things are heading? Then change course! Decree the change. Speak the difference. We are not floating aimlessly with God upon a confused sea. This is why the world is the way it is: People have given voice to the wrong plan. They have decreed something other than God’s plan. They have loaned their voice to wickedness and destruction has followed. But here is the good news: You aren’t subject to how someone else steers their life! You don’t have to follow the same course of failure. Just because their ship sank in the storm doesn’t mean yours will too.
Job 22:28 says, “You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto you and the light shall shine upon your ways.” Your decree becomes your future. Make it a bright one!
Pastor Tim
Family Church Jamestown is a non-denominational church located in Chautauqua County in Jamestown between Lakewood and Busti, NY. The senior pastor of Family Church is Pastor Tim Stahlman a native to the Jamestown, NY area.
