EASTSIDE LIVE | Sun Aug 17 2025 | Making Good Decisions | Dean Woodward
Aug 17, 2025
Summary
Making Good Decisions: Proverbs
Detail
Sermon Notes:
- Life includes many important decisions.
- The first key guidance word is humility.
- 3:5-6: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight.”
- 16:3: “Commit your works to the Lord and your plans will be established.”
- 16:1: “The plans of the heart belong to man but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.”
- 16:9: “The mind of man plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.”
- 19:21: “Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but the counsel of the Lord, it will stand.”
- 20:24: “Man’s steps are ordained by the Lord, how then can man understand his way?”
- 27:1: “Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.”
- We want God to give us a road map, but instead He offers to be our guide.
- We make big decisions well when we make little decisions well.
- The most important decision for us to make is to follow Jesus.
- Jesus is the most inspirational leader.
- The second key guidance word is righteousness.
- 11:5: “The righteousness of the blameless will smooth his way, but the wicked will fall by his own wickedness.”
- 12:5: “The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.”
- 12:26: “The righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.”
- 14:12: “There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end is the way of death.”
- 15:26: “Evil plans are an abomination to the Lord.”
- Most of the time, good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people.
- John 8:12: “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”