2. Significant Events Going to college Marriage Buying a house
Going to seminary
First Full time position after seminary
Topeka
Mount Prospect
Going to college- shamed into it; You make me so mad
Marriage Ps 34:3 O magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt His name together
Brand new house; 11 ½ 5% up to 13 %; you are going to get this house
Left new house in suburbs to go to dreary Chicago, building leaned, held together by Big Metal strap they had put around outside, Walls painted chartreuse
Associate Pastor in Topeka; Perfect location; 90 miles from family
flew down, first flight, weekend,
to call on Sunday night; decided to drop the position
cried and cried
Mt Prospect; called next day; still available; I would like to continue candidating

3. Go to a land…
Gen 12:1  The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
2 “I will make you into a great nation,     and I will bless you; I will make your name great,     and you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you,     and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth     will be blessed through you.”

4. 4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him
4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. 5 He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.
6 Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. 7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring[c] I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

5. 8 From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.
9 Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.

6. Listen in

7. Following God is about faith, not knowledge alone
Belief is about “knowing God”
Faith is “obedience to God”
Leaving your “comfort zone”
What is familiar
What you love
What you have grown accustomed to
Astounded by people who refuse to think differently
Cannot leave what they have

8. Following God is about faith, not knowledge alone
Be willing to answer God’s call
Not just for Pastors/Missionaries
Nothing may be wrong with where you are now
You have a desire to do something significant for God
Be willing to step into a land “God will show you.” – the unknown
How will a wide range of people be blessed through me?

9. So What? Ask yourself “Am I fulfilled?”
See your present circumstances with different eyes
What do you really LIKE about your circumstances?
If you could dream, how would you want the world to be different because you lived?

10. So what? Explore different opportunities Commit it to prayer
Acknowledge that you might fail and be willing to do so
Decide
Take a step