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Promises for a New Year\nGuidance. Pastor Michael Dascoli\nFebruary 7, 2021\n\n\u201cI will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.\u201d Isaiah 42:16\n\n\u201cI will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; \nI will counsel you with my loving eye on you.\u201d Psalm 32:8\n\n\u201cHe has made everything beautiful in its time.\u201d \nEcclesiastes 3:11a\n\n"Without faith it is impossible to please God."\nHebrews 11:6\n\n\u201cThe LORD had said to Abram, \u2018Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father\u2019s family, and go to the land that I will show you. 2 I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you and make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others.\u2019\u201d\nGenesis 12:1-2 NLT\n\n\u201cSo Abram departed as the LORD had instructed\u2026\u201d\nGenesis 12:4a\n\n\u201cBy faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.\u201d Hebrews 11:8\n\n\u201cYour road led through the sea, your pathway through the mighty waters\u2014 \na pathway no one knew was there!\u201d Psalm 77:19 NLT\n\nKEYS TO KNOWING GOD\u2019S WILL\n\n1: Have I Surrendered my will to God\u2019s\n\n\u201cTherefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God\u2019s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God\u2014this is your true and proper worship.\u201d\nRomans 12:1\n\n\u201cTherefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God\u2019s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God\u2014this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God\u2019s will is\u2014His good, pleasing and perfect will.\u201d Romans 12:1-2\n\n2: Am I allowing God to change my mind\n\n\u201cThen you will be able to test and approve what God\u2019s will is\u2014His good, pleasing and perfect will.\u201d Romans 12:2b\n \nHow is my mind transformed? \n\nFirst: I am transformed by God\u2019s Spirit \n\n\u201c\u2026who knows a person\u2019s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 1Corinthians 2:11-12\n\n\u201cBut we have the mind of Christ.\u201d 1Corinthians 2:16b\n\nSecond: I\u2019m transformed by His Word\n\n\u201cThey are not of the world, even as I am not of it. 17 Sanctify \nthem by the Truth; your Word is Truth.\u201d John 17:16b\n\nThird: I\u2019m transformed by fellowship\n\n\u201cAs iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.\u201d Proverbs 27:17 NLT\n\n\u201cAnd let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.\u201d Hebrews 10:24 \n\nFourth: I\u2019m transformed through circumstances\n\nWhere I end up in life is not nearly as important as how I got there \n\nLet\u2019s Pray:\n\t-What is God\u2019s Spirit saying to you today?\n\t-How must you respond?