5-12-13 The Blueprint of Life 6 – Final Draft (1 Samuel 16:6-13)

I want to first say happy Mothers’ Day to all the mothers! Thank you for doing an incredible job raising
us, teaching us, and nurturing us! Please remember to always thank your mother for her sacrifice for
you, not just on Mothers’ Day!

We are in our final chapter of our series The Blueprint of Life and I hope you have started to pray this
prayer with us, “God, help me to discover your will for my life.” I believe that when you pray seriously
and seek seriously God’s will for your life, you will be pleasantly surprised on what God will do through
you. I know the tendency for many of us when we think about God’s will for our lives is that we think
we are never good enough. We say things like, God, you have no idea about my background. You have
no idea what I’m currently involved in. I can’t ask you for a purpose in my life when everything up to this
point has been so purpose-less. I’m way too old to start over. God, isn’t it too late to discover your will
for my life?

You know, you may have those thoughts, but did you know that God does not think about you the way
you think about you? You look at where your life has been and what you have done. But God is more
concerned with where your heart currently is and where you could be heading. So today at the end of
the message I hope you don’t miss another season doing your own thing. I hope you don’t waste any
more years. Instead, I hope you offer him all the stuff you think is an obstacle and then pray, “Lord,
show me your will for my life.”

Changing Your Mind

But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The
LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD
looks at the heart.”
1 Samuel 16:7

Discussion Questions

1. What is your biggest obstacle to believing that God is capable of doing something incredible with your
life?

2. Why do we assume God thinks about us the way we think about ourselves? What do you think God
thinks about you?

3. You might believe that God is put off by your sin, failure, or unbelief. According to the Bible, how does
God respond to those things?

4. Read 1 Samuel 16:1–13. How does God measure our potential? What does it mean that “the Lord
looks at the heart”?

5. How has God leveraged your past failures for positive purposes?

6. What can you do today to put your heart in a place to honestly pray, “Show me your will for my life”?