Don’t Settle For Less Than God’s Best!

Pastor Doug Heisel – September 14, 2025

2 Timothy 1:7 — For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Genesis 12:1-4 — The LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.  “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.  I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”  So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.

Genesis 11:31-32 — Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there.

God’s best for me involves …

1. Moving beyond LIMITED BELIEFS that are not from God.
   
   The LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.  Genesis 12:1
   
   

2. GROWING beyond my personal best.
   
   “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you;  Genesis 12:2a
   
   

3. Saying YES to all God wants to do THROUGH me.
   
   …and you will be a blessing.  Genesis 12:2b

Hebrews 11:8 - By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.