WHERE ARE WE GOING?

3 Ways To Determine Your Direction.

1. Don’t Let  Disappointments Make Your Decisions.

13 Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.

Luke 24:13 [NIV]

21 We had hoped that He was the one who was going to redeem Israel.

Luke 24:21 [NKJV]

15 My eyes are ever toward the Lord, For He shall pluck my feet out of the net.

Psalm 25:15 [NKJV]

14 “They were talking with each other about everything that had happened.”

Luke 24:14 [NIV]

25 Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.

Proverbs 29:25 [NIV]

6 I am worn out from sobbing. All night I flood my bed with weeping, drenching it with my tears. 7  My vision is blurred by grief….

Psalm 6:5-7 [NLT]

6 This poor man cried out, and the Lord heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles. 7 The angel of the Lord encamps all around those who fear Him, And delivers them.

Psalm 34:6-7 [NKJV]

2. Seek Clarity Before You Seek Direction.

31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Him, and He disappeared from their sight.

Luke 24:31 [NIV]

5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.

Proverbs 3:5-6 [NKJV]

27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning Himself.

Luke 24:27 [NIV]

105 Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.

Psalm 119:105 [NKJV]

22 They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. 23 He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When He had spit on the man’s eyes and put His hands on him, Jesus asked, “Do you see anything?” 24 He looked up and said, “I see people; they look like trees walking around.” 25 Once more Jesus put His hands on the man’s eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly.

Mark 8:22-25 [NIV]

1 I will stand my watch And set myself on the rampart, And watch to see what He will say to me, And what I will answer when I am corrected. 2 The Lord answered me and said: “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it. 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry.

Habakkuk 2:2-3 [NKJV]

18 Where there is no vision, the people perish.

Proverbs 29:18 [KJV]

23 He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray.

Proverbs 5:23 [ESV]

45 He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures.

Luke 24:45 [NKJV]

19 And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”

Luke 22:19-20 [NKJV]

7 Inasmuch as both in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers with me of grace.  

Philippians 1:7 [NKJV]

36 There was a certain disciple named Tabitha. 37 But it happened in those days that she became sick and died… 39 When [Peter] had come, they brought him to the upper room. And all the widows stood by him weeping, showing the tunics and garments which Tabitha had made while she was with them.

Acts 9:36-37, 39 [NKJV]

3. Let Jesus Heal Your Heart Before You Decide Your Future. 

32 And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?” 33 So they rose up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem…

Luke 24:32-33 [NKJV]

23 Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.

Proverbs 4:23 [NLT]

15 Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.

Genesis 2:15 [NKJV]

32 And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?”

Luke 24:32 [NJKV]

12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life.

Proverbs 13:12 [NLT]