May I tell you what His agenda is for you this year?  Stop having so much confidence in yourself.  We want to start talking about the need for more humility as we continue in this age of self-confidence, of God-defiance. We need a heart that is pursing after these things.  How much of our lives, from the most minute detail, is dictated by going to the Word, meditating upon the Word, and making our decisions exclusively based on eternal truth?  How many of us go to the Word, seek the mind of God, and then find ways to do the will of God while allowing our own preference to be involved in it?  “It’s really not that bad.  This won’t change the ultimate plan or course.  I’m sure this acceptable to God.”  We talk doctrinally about adding nothing to and diminishing nothing from the Word of God, but it’s interesting how many times we hear the Word of God and then add to or diminish from it in our obedience and application of it.  We change it just a little bit though; not a lot.  “Now, I’m going to do what God wants me to do, but there is going to be some evidence of me in it.  I’m going to do it in the time I want, in the way I want, and to whomever I choose, but I will love my brothers.”

As we go into this hour, this jealously for full revelation of the truth will come to us if we will simply learn to trust in God and to lean not on our own understanding.  In all of our ways, if we acknowledge Him, He will direct our path; amen?  Hallelujah!  This great truth in Proverbs 3 is one of the foundational verses on which I have based my life.  It is not easy to let our trust continue to be in Him alone:  we have to war for that.  There is a continual battle in our minds against our hearts to cause us to deviate to the flesh and to our own understanding.  How tragic it is when we quit.  Proverbs 26:12 says, “Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him”; amen?  Don’t live thinking, “I’ve got this,” but, “I need You.  I don’t know how to go out or to come in”; amen?