A SIMPLE CHANGE OF QUESTION CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

A SIMPLE CHANGE OF QUESTION CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

What are the best questions you can ask in your life right now? Are you asking some questions lately and the answers are slow in coming? God has a word for you. Making progress in your relationship with God usually looks like having fewer answers and better questions. You will know if you are growing in your relationship with God and your maturity in this world if you have fewer answers and better questions.

So what are the best questions that you can ask in your life right now? Let's have Moses for example when he asked God in Exodus chapter 4 verse 1. Moses is called by God, the first thing Moses said was, “what if they do not believe in me?” he's talking about the Israelites. Those three words “what if they…” Now that’s a bad question. Anytime your questions revolve around other people it is outside the realm of your sovereign control. So what God does he answer a question with a question. Exodus 4: 2, Then the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand? “ “A staff,” he replied. Moses said “What if they…” God said, ‘What is that…” Moses is asking what he can’t control but God said, “What is that in your hand.” Now God is asking him a better question.

When you focus on what God has given you. He is saying “I already given you that no matter what they do.” That’s an example of what I am talking about with the power of a better question.

Do you feel like this question right now?, “How can he be so sovereign and I feel so stuck?” “How can he be so sovereign and some struggle so long?” Remember God is always in control, but he doesn’t take control.

It is like gaining 50 pounds in the first 18 months of being married. God never took any macaroni on your plate. He let you eat as much as macaroni as you wanted to eat. So it’s about portioned control. God’s not going to control the portion of food you eat or the portion of news you consume. He will not control the portion of the Bible you read. God will let you watch as many episodes of movies on Netflix. He will let you watch every episode and not read your Bible one time.

These are the three best questions you can ask in your life right now:

• What does it matter?

• What does it mean?

• What shall I choose?

God does not control everything, he gives you choice. These are the questions that are running in the backroom of your life. Let’s focus on this question, What does it matter?

Now let’s talk about the worst question you can ask in your life right now. “What’s wrong with me?” That is probably the most frequently asked question. So what happens when you asked that question? That question will attract a million answers because the Devil has a list ready. It’s the wrong question. When Paul asked in Philippians 1:18, “What does it matter?” he is setting a direction of his thoughts by controlling the focus of his priorities. The moment you asked, “what does it matter?” that’s the time you decide your distractions. To realize at this moment the only thing that matters to you is that you connect with God and get the word he has for you.

Paul decided what's mattered. Did you or did you outsource your priorities to a broken world that doesn’t know what’s right from its left or it’s up from its down? Come to realize that it’s not really what they think about you that matters. People can think what they want, say what they want.

Remember Abraham and Sarah in the Bible. In Genesis 18, Sarah was laughing because God said she was going to have a baby. This is Genesis 18:12, It says, “So Sarah laughed to herself…” Why did Sarah laughed and say, “Will I really have a child now that I’m old?” Now here’s a better question “Is anything too hard for the Lord?” Do you see how it clarified it? You don’t need an answer.

That’s what Paul is saying. It really doesn’t matter what their motive is, it matters what God’s purpose is. So Paul asked a better question, “What I am here for?” I wonder what would happen if you asked that about your life. You need to decide what’s matters to you.

What is going to matter with you this season? We are facing a pandemic this year and this is the best question that we can ask.