Paths and Intentions Your direction not your intentions determines your destination… The Path trumps your intentions every time. Every choice we make is.

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Paths and Intentions Your direction not your intentions determines your destination… The Path trumps your intentions every time. Every choice we make is a path. Every path leads to a destination. Andy Stanley

I must decide Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust God Control it myself

King Asa (2 Chronicles 16:7-9) At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him… Were not the Cushites and Libyans a mighty army with great numbers of chariots and horsemen ? Yet when you relied on the LORD, he delivered them into your hand. {9} For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. You have done a foolish thing, and from now on you will be at war."

Water from my heart Proverbs 4:23-27 My Heart is the Source (4:23) 1.My Mouth reveals my heart (4:24; Matthew 12:34-35) (Matthew 12:34-35) For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. {35} The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.

Water from my heart Proverbs 4:23-27 My Heart is the Source (4:23) 1.My Mouth reveals my heart (4:24; Matthew 12:34-35) 2.My Eyes reveal my heart (4:25; Matthew 5:28) (Matthew 5:28) But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Water from my heart Proverbs 4:23-27 My Heart is the Source (4:23) 1.My Mouth reveals my heart (4:24; Matthew 12:34-35) 2.My Eyes reveal my heart (4:25; Matthew 5:28) 3.My Feet reveal my heart (4:26-27; Matthew 15:19) (Matthew 15:19) For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.