2. Living with Uncertainty
Romans 8:26
 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

3. Living with Uncertainty
Romans 8:26
 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

4. Uncertainty defined and How It Affects Us

5. When Things Are Uncertain….
Defined: Not able to be relied on; not known or definite
Events are unpredictable
Plagued with doubts about what to do
We tend to approach the situation with skepticism, mistrust and/or suspicion

6. SYNONYMS of UNCERTAINTY
Unpredictability, Indecision
Unreliability, Hesitancy
Changeability, Tentativeness
Misgivings, Wavering, Doubtful

7. UNCERTAINTY …..
Creates its own STRESS & PRESSURE
It is a mental condition, not physical
It’s a state of mind

8. James 4:14
14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

9. How Uncertainty Works

10. The problem with life is we’re all going down a road that we have never been down before… Everything is a first!

11. Everything is a first!
Just look at your life and look at the things you are facing for the first time….
Your Age
Your Stage in Life (Teen, Young Adult, Senior)
Your Children (None, Got Them, Gone Again)

12. Life does not allow “Do Overs”

13. Uncertainty seems to be at its greatest “In the middle”
Romans 8:22-28
22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

14. Experience and life will teach you some things…
Experience and life will teach you some things…..the more you do & experience the more you learn to respect what you are up against

15. Has God made provisions for my confusion? Answer: Absolutely YES!
26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

16. BUT…you have a part to play too!
Confessing: “For We Know Not”
Connecting with God through my FAITH – Hebrews 11:6
Allowing His Word to “replace the stress & pressure of uncertainty”

17. His WORD offers the Replacement
1 Timothy 1:17 Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Romans 8: And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose