How Does God Lead Us in Daily Decisions?

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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How do I follow God’s lead in my daily decisions? I know he’s my shepherd, and that he’s leading me, but how do I know if I am following him?

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0:00.0	Well, how do I follow God's leading in my daily decisions?
0:08.3	I know he's my shepherd, he's leading me, I think so.
0:11.6	But how do I know if I'm following him?
0:14.2	That's such an important question we almost answer for ourselves, and it was a question
0:17.9	taken up by a very young Pastor John Piper in his first summer as a pastor.
0:23.0	In fact, just a few weeks into his pastor, Pastor John preached through some of his favorite
0:27.6	Psalms.
0:29.0	One of them being, of course, Psalm 23.
0:32.5	The Lord is my shepherd.
0:33.6	I shall not want.
0:34.6	He makes me lie down in green pastures.
0:37.3	He leads me besides still waters.
0:39.3	He restores my soul.
0:41.6	He leads me in paths of righteousness for his names sake.
0:49.5	Here's Pastor John.
0:51.1	I was 22 years old before I first saw one of the lugs in this song.
0:57.2	Now I'd seen it, but there is seeing and then there is seeing, right?
1:03.4	Verse 3.
1:04.4	He leads me in paths of righteousness for his names sake.
1:12.9	I'd never seen for his names sake till I went to seminary.
1:18.2	Well, yes, I'd seen it.
1:19.7	I'd read the words, but you can read over phrases in the Bible a hundred times, and they
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