THE DECISIONS WE MAKE TODAY DETERMINE THE

STORIES WE WILL TELL TOMORROW.

SOMETIMES, THE BEST DECISION YOU

CAN MAKE IS TO STAY WHEN IT

WOULD BE EASIER TO GO.

RUTH 1:8-188 Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you, to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you kindness, as you have shown kindness to your dead husbands and to me.

RUTH 1:8-189 May the LORD grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband.” Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept aloud 10 and said to her, “We will go back with you to your people.”

RUTH 1:8-1811 But Naomi said, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Am I going to have any more sons, who could become your husbands?

RUTH 1:8-1812 Return home, my daughters; I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me—even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons— 

RUTH 1:8-1813 would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you, because the LORD’s hand has turned against me!” 

RUTH 1:8-1814 At this they wept aloud again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.

RUTH 1:8-1815 “Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her.”

RUTH 1:8-1816 But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. 

RUTH 1:8-1817 Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.” 

RUTH 1:8-1818 When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.

HEBREWS 12:22 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

I DECIDED TO STAY

RUTH 1:15-16

15 "Look," said Naomi, "your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her.”

RUTH 1:15-1616 But Ruth replied, "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. 

RUTH 2:11-1211 Boaz replied, "I've been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband--how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before. 

RUTH 2:11-12

12 May the LORD repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge."

WHAT DOES GOD WANT YOU TO

WANT?

WHERE DOES GOD WANT YOU TO STAY?

GALATIANS 6:9

9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. 

1 Corinthians 15:5858 Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

2 Thessalonians 3:13

13 And as for you, brothers, never tire of doing what is right.

HEBREWS 12:2-32 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

HEBREWS 12:2-3

3 Consider Him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

Small disciplines that lead to big life changes.

 Jonathan—stand by David

2 chronicles 15:2-7

2 The Lord is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

2 chronicles 15:2-73 For a long time Israel was without the true God, without a priest to teach and without the law. 4 But in their distress they turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and sought Him, and He was found by them.

2 chronicles 15:2-7

5 In those days it was not safe to travel about, for all the inhabitants of the lands were in great turmoil.

2 chronicles 15:2-7

6 One nation was being crushed by another and one city by another, because God was troubling them with every kind of distress.

2 chronicles 15:2-7

7 But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded.  

SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE DON’T MAKE

A FEW BIG DECISIONS … HUNDREDS SMALL …