Course Corrections For Life

Part 2
Pastor Mike Hendon
• In life one of the first things we learn is
NAVIGATION.
• Webster defines this as the method of
determining position, course, and distance
traveled.
• It comes from the Latin word: navigare, from
navis ship + -igare (from agere to drive)
• Think about it in its’ most elementary form and
how it changes into a very complex form
• The point is you spend a great deal of your life
navigating—like a ship– through various
experiences, obstacles, and courses to get to a
certain destination.
• So those three words are very important to
you in the journey:
• POSITION
• COURSE
• DISTANCE TRAVELLED
• Relative to those three words are three key
questions:
• 1. Where are you?
• 2. How did you get here?
• 3. Where do you go from here?
• You have to know WHERE you are in order to
get to WHERE you want to be.
• In this “place” it is imperative that you know
that there is a difference between STATE and
FATE.
• Life is cyclical, and involves changes, surprises,
reversals, etc.
• Psalm 1:3
He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of
water, That brings forth its fruit in its season…
• Eccl.3:1TO EVERYTHING there is a season, and a
time for every matter or purpose under
heaven:… 6A time to get and a time to lose, a
time to keep and a time to cast away…
• I can do all things through Christ[b] who
strengthens me. Phil.4:13
• What do I need Christ’s strength for? Phi;.
2:11-12 I have learned in whatever state I am,
to be content: I know how to be abased, and I
know how to abound. Everywhere and in all
things I have learned both to be full and to be
hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
• Understand your present “state” is not your
“fate”. i.e. Joseph and his journey
• God uses the cycles of life to bring your “gift”
to the surface. What gift of Joseph did God
use to NAVIGATE his life from prisoner to
prince, convict to commissioner?
• God uses ‘mentors’ to bring us back around
into ‘position’
• 1 And the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See
now, the place where we dwell with you is too small for
us… let us make there a place where we may dwell.”
So he answered, “Go.” … So he went with them. And
when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees. 5
But as one was cutting down a tree, the iron ax head
fell into the water; and he cried out and said, “Alas,
master! For it was borrowed.”
6 So the man of God said, “Where did it fall?” And he
showed him the place. So he cut off a stick, and threw
it in there; and he made the iron float. 7 Therefore he
said, “Pick it up for yourself.” So he reached out his
hand and took it. 2 Kings 6
• It is possible to be very gifted and very much
“lost” along the way.
• Elijah is a prime example of this in 1 Kings 19
• “How did you get here?” His state was not his
fate.
• He wrapped himself in his gifting and went
out and was used by God mightily until his
“change”