GYC SE Conference 2021: If Not Now, When? If Not I, Who?

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GYC Southeast

Plenary Sessions

David Wright

How to Know God’s Will for Your Life

Who Invented Sex?

The Thing the Devil Hates

A Father’s Love

Are You an Evolutionist?

Never Enough

Well, tonight I'm going to try to talk about something that I'm hoping will be practical for you, and that is how to determine God's will for your life.

Because the reality is, for many of you, grade school, your parents pretty much tell you what to do, and you start to get a little bit more independence, and then high school, a little bit more, but now you've left the parents pretty much absolutely completely behind.

I mean, they're still around, hopefully to pay some of that school bill, but the decisions are yours, largely, if not entirely.

What was the 1 about relationships in the end times?

I need to know what about my relationships in the end of time.

Before the world ends, we should get married tomorrow.

I don't know what he'll present, but maybe it'll be that.

So when I was here, I was on, they called it Second West.

I don't know if it's in the 100s because it's right on the corner of Towals, right by the promenade.

And my roommate and I had that room and we liked it because as an RA, I got to pick that room.

I had 2 windows on this side and then another 1 on this side.

And we had just the view of everything and as we are settling into our dorm room You know you kind of improve it over the year, and I happen to be in a pet shop I think it was pet smart or 1 of those and I was going past anybody going to the fish department there, And you just look at all these fish, and they're teeming with, and I go past the goldfish, and it says something like 3 cents for a goldfish.

Now, I don't know what I'm going to put it in, but goldfish, they don't need all the extra stuff, you know, the filter and the bubble maker and all that kind of, they probably would like it, but they can just have a bowl.

And so, I said, I got to go price out the bowl.

Sure enough, the bowl was like $10 and then a little bit of food and and I thought well if I'm gonna go to all this trouble and if the goldfish is only 3 cents I'm gonna get more than just 1 and so I said I'll take 4 goldfish oh okay and so you know I have to wait forever And they come with their little net, and they're totally, like, not enthusiastic at all.

Finally, I get all of them, all 4, and I have, I don't know, my goldfish bowl thing and my stuff in there and as I'm leaving I'm holding up my 4 bags of 4 goldfish, and somebody else comes by, and she kind of gives me this look that works there, and I'm wondering what the look's about, and I'm thinking, well, how many goldfish will survive in this 1 bowl?

I said, oh, Okay, and I just proceeded to check out So I get back to my dorm room there at Tiles, and I say, hey Michael, check this out, I'm gonna add something to the room, we got a goldfish, okay, where should we put it?

We put it there, you know, we dumped them all out, and guess what the lady at the store said?

Only 1 can survive in this bowl, There's not enough air in the bowl.

Let's name each of the goldfish after a different girl on campus.

And the 1 that survives, she's the 1 for you.

We have to make it even more interesting than that.

Well, you get to choose 2 girls that you're sort of interested in, and I get to choose the other 2 girls.

And his face was like that you're totally not interested in.

Yeah, they all have these markings, and so we actually wrote out on a little post-it note, okay, the 1 that had, because I don't want to end up marrying this girl that's the wrong 1 because we didn't take it, right?

So we're taking good notes here on our piece of paper, and then we just wait.

And already there's 2 goldfish I'm watching more closely and 2 other goldfish I'm hoping just maybe don't make it.

Not trying to be mean, you know, everybody's a child of God.

That just doesn't mean I want to marry them.

So the first day goes by, nothing seems to happen.

But then I think it's like the second day or into the second day, I come back from class and Michael says, guess what?

I have another story about goldfish that actually was years later.

We wanted to put them in a pond where we live back in North Carolina and it was a very shallow pond and we thought this would be a great idea with the kids and they all gathered.

And we let them out and they're all like And then they just all disappeared in this black hole and we discovered that bass love I'm telling you that not so you'll hate me as the fish killer, but as the fish saver.

And sure enough, and I don't even remember which 1 it was, but crossed off the list.

And then a few more days, another 1 crossed off the list, until now it's just down to 2.

A girl I'm kind of interested in, and a girl I'm not interested in at all.

You know, you have all these tests and quiz and no I'm thinking goldfish.

So sure enough it comes down to the last goldfish dies Guess which goldfish won Now this you're not going to believe this.

This is a true story The goldfish that 1 was named Elizabeth and she's right there.

So now man you know how to choose your wife.

Is that how you want to determine God's will for your life?

You know, there's 4 majors I'm considering, 4 goldfish or 4 reptiles.

So let's see if we can't figure out something from the Bible that makes a little more sense in how to determine God's will.

And if it wasn't convenient to carry your Bible around, maybe you have 1 in your phone, and if you do, I trust you'll be looking at the text and not texting.

But we're in Matthew chapter 14, and I'm going to begin this story in verse 22.

Jesus has just fed the 5, 000, And just prior to that we have the death of John the Baptist.

But as it relates to Jesus here, He's just fed the 5, 000 and this is a big success, if you will.

I mean this is incredible and the crowd is really excited about what's just happened The disciples are really excited about what just happened because they're thinking in advance.

Series

Plenary Sessions

How to Know God’s Will for Your Life

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Our Mistakes and God’s Purpose

38m

The Big Three

How to Know God’s Leading in Your Life

42m

From Years to Weeks to Days

37m

How to Know God's Will for My Life

How to Know God’s Will for My Life

41m

Seminar: Live the Light: Personal Testimonies

The Tipping Point

29m

True Success

58m

A Man After Gods Own Heart: King David

08 Is This God’s Will or Mine?

39m

Unlock Revelation

16. US in Bible Prophecy

1h 14m

The Basis of Everything

46m

Plenary Sessions

Who Invented Sex?

41m

Journeys in Agriculture

02 Trusting God in Everything

56m

Revelation Today Crusade

1. The Ancient Calendar that Reveals Your Future

1h

Sound Doctrine