L<\/b>ife is filled with distractions. Your marriage will be pulled in scores of different directions. It\u2019s so easy to chase after good ideas instead of God ideas.<\/p>\n
Remember Abraham and Sarah? They had a good idea. God had promised them a baby boy in their old age. But waiting on God\u2019s purpose took too long, and they were impatient. So they took things into their own hands.<\/p>\n
Sarah gave Abraham her maidservant, Hagar; with Hagar they birthed Ishmael. Ishmael seemed like such a good idea, but he wasn\u2019t God\u2019s idea.<\/p>\n
God\u2019s idea was Isaac. But Isaac required Abraham and Sarah to stay on-purpose with God. Isaac was born in God\u2019s timing and God\u2019s way. Is your marriage on-purpose in birthing Isaacs or off-purpose and birthing Ishmaels?<\/p>\n
Staying on-purpose requires faith. Faith trusts God. Faith hears the incredible, sees the invisible and does the impossible. Without faith we merely hear the credible, see the visible and do the possible.<\/p>\n
Keep your marriage on-purpose by trusting God with your actions, decisions and directions.<\/p>\n
Try this: Look at every decision you make in light of God\u2019s presence and purposes for your marriage. Ask yourselves, \u201cIs that on-purpose?\u201d Refuse to do anything that isn\u2019t on-purpose for your lives.<\/p>\n
To everything there is a season,
A time for every purpose under heaven.<\/i><\/p>\n
Eccl. 3:1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Life is filled with distractions. Your marriage will be pulled in scores of different directions. It\u2019s so easy to chase after good ideas instead of God ideas. Remember Abraham and Sarah? They had a good idea. God had promised them a baby boy in their old age. But waiting on God\u2019s purpose took too long, … Continue reading “38 STAY ON-PURPOSE”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}