You've probably faced some tough decisions in your life--should you take a certain job, date a certain person, attend a certain school...well, you get the picture. Let me share with you three ways you can make a decision. Only one of them has any merit but I'll let you decide which one.
Method 1: Take a basketball to the gym or to your yard if you have a goal. It does not have to be regulation. Spend about five minutes stretching and warming up. Then, take about 25-30 free throws. Now, step to the line for a final time and declare: "If I make this free throw I'm going to do "A" but if I miss it I'm going to do "B." Method 2: This is the Gomer Pyle Strategy he used for obtaining entry into Officer Candidacy. You'll recall, Gomer was taking a "True/False" test. After reading the question he would take his index finger and his middle finger and slam them on the desk. If his index finger stung more than the middle finger then he answered "True." But if his middle finger stung longer he answered "False. (You can watch it at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLIvoC1b4Mc It is Season 1, episode 22--go to the 10:25 mark) As you can imagine the advantage to this strategy is that it has the capacity to handle up to ten options. Method 3: When Tracie and I were in the process of trying to determine where God was leading us to plant a church we spent a couple of months driving around and praying. After touring an area for a day we would drive back down I-75 and say, "I just don't have a sense of "Yes!" But after a visit and a meeting with the remnant left of a church in Cartersville we looked at each other and said, "Yes." So, you decide which method has a better chance of following the leading of the Spirit. You can shoot free throws, smack your fingers, or listen to the Spirt.
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