Well, I don't know about you, but I've never met anyone that planned to be overweight.

Have you?

I don't know about you, but I don't know anybody that has a five-year goal to be bankrupt.

I don't know anybody who has ever really thought I want to be hooked on pornography.

I know some people that like pornography, but I don't know anybody that wants to correct their marriage

and end up taking them to a place that they really shouldn't go.

I don't know anybody that plans to do something stupid, something sinful, and then hide it, and lie about it,

and lose the trust of the people that they love the most.

I don't know anybody that plans to wreck their life.

And chances are really, really good when it comes to you.

You're not planning to make stupid decisions.

The problem is most people also don't plan not to do stupid things.

And that's why we're going to talk about something that I believe has the potential to impact your life in a very, very powerful way.

I want to review what we covered last week.

We talked about the power of our decisions.

Because for the most part, we need to understand that the quality of your decisions determines the quality of your life.

In other words, we make our decisions, and then our decisions make us.

The problem is, although we have good intentions, many of us are simply not very good decision-makers.

And that's why we introduce the big idea that I call the power of pre-deciding.

The power of choosing ahead of time, what we're going to do in the future.

And if you were with us last week, we introduce the big idea, and we find this all over scripture, of choosing ahead of time, what we'll do in the moment.

And we introduce this concept, when faced with what?

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