Christian Decision-Making | (Ep. 285)
Femina
Canon Press
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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In this episode, Nancy Wilson talks about how to know what God wants you to do next and how Christians should approach the decisions in front of them with trust in the Lord rather than leaning on their own understanding. She reflects on guidance, calling, and the choices that come at different stages of life, while urging listeners to move forward faithfully as God directs their paths.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Feminid Podcast. This is Nancy Wilson. Thanks for joining me today. The topic today is how to know what God wants you to do next. How does a Christian make decisions? For instance, in our community here, we have many college students and |
| 0:22.5 | high school students, and come May, or actually much sooner than May, they will be making decisions |
| 0:28.3 | about what to do next. Are they going to go to college? If so, where? What should they study? |
| 0:34.2 | Where will they live? How will they pay? And if they're finishing college, what is the next |
| 0:39.3 | step? What is their calling? Which job should they apply for and where? Obviously, this is not |
| 0:45.3 | limited to students. Everyone has similar kinds of decisions to make regarding what job, living |
| 0:51.1 | situations, how to spend their time in a way that pleases and glorifies God. |
| 0:55.9 | There are always so many decisions to make, but some seem much more significant than others. |
| 1:02.3 | So make whatever application that is relevant to your stage of life, whether you're a student or not. |
| 1:08.1 | The Bible tells us in Proverbs 3, verses 5 and 6, to trust in the Lord with all your |
| 1:13.2 | heart and lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct |
| 1:20.1 | your paths. This is the foundation for all our decision-making, the primary and most important |
| 1:26.7 | prerequisite to all decision-making is that we |
| 1:30.0 | trust the Lord with all our heart. We should not want to make any decision that does not please God. |
| 1:36.0 | We can't just look to our own intellect to decide. Our leaning and trusting must be in the Lord, |
| 1:42.5 | 100%. If you're a high school age and living at home, |
| 1:46.5 | your parents obviously have some authority over your decisions, |
| 1:49.9 | especially if they will be the ones footing the bill. |
| 1:52.7 | So you should seek their counsel and treat them with honor and respect. |
| 1:56.9 | Parents are given to us for a reason. |
| 1:59.0 | Ask God to use them to guide you with wisdom. |
| 2:02.3 | Even if you have the ability to pay for school yourself, you should still honor and respect your parents and seek their input. |
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