S2:044 Genesis 49
Join The Journey
Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX
5 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
What motivates our planning, fear or wisdom? How do we reconcile God's sovereignty and our personal responsibility? Our Host, Emma Dotter, helps us better understand, through Genesis 49, how we simultaneously trust God's sovereignty over all while not neglecting the call and responsibility on our life as believers to live on mission.
Reflection: Do you believe the Lord is constantly wanting to partner with you in mission even in the mundane, on that family vacation and in every day life?
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter. |
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| 0:26.4 | You can literally enter every single day for a chance to win the opportunity to come |
| 0:30.9 | hang with us in the studio, sit in on a recording session, and grab lunch with the team. |
| 0:35.3 | Because we want to know who's on the journey and get to |
| 0:38.8 | know y'all. We want to see what you're doing and grab a few of you to come in and hang with us. |
| 0:43.8 | We'll put more info in the episode description. But today, we are in Genesis 49. And the question is, |
| 0:53.0 | what does it look like for us to believe God is at work and has a plan |
| 0:56.6 | when it's hard for us to tell that he is? Or how do we reconcile God's sovereignty and our |
| 1:03.3 | responsibility, our responsibility to plan and make good intentional God-honoring choices? |
| 1:10.6 | I think about when high school students apply for college. |
| 1:13.9 | They're encouraged to apply an additional, quote-unquote, safety schools. |
| 1:17.9 | They've got their plan A or their dream school, which is where they prefer to go to school, |
| 1:23.5 | but they're also encouraged to apply to other universities, safe options, colleges they can more |
| 1:28.8 | easily be accepted into just in case they aren't accepted into their first choice university. |
| 1:34.4 | Now, the safety school thing, it isn't a bad practice. In fact, it's probably pretty wise if |
| 1:40.0 | you're a student looking to continue your education, but if our whole lives, if we apply the |
| 1:45.7 | safety school principle in other areas of our lives, we could be acting out of wisdom, |
| 1:51.6 | or we could be failing to trust God. There's attention here. Proverbs 169 says the heart of man |
| 1:58.3 | plans his ways, but the Lord establishes his steps. And Proverbs 1522 says, |
| 2:04.9 | Without counsel, plans fail, but with many advisors, they succeed. Without counsel, plans fail, |
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