The document discusses how to discover God's will through scripture. It provides the acronym R.E.A.P. to remember the steps: read and interpret scripture, extract principles and values, apply the principles to your specific context, and practice it. It then examines two Bible verses about women covering their heads when praying or prophesying, extracting two principles and providing an example of contextualizing the principles for modern culture. Finally, it notes that God wants us to trust and depend on his word more than making the right choices.

1. Saturday & Sunday, April 12 & 13, 2008

2. How do we discover God’s will?

3. Psalm 119:105 “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”

4. “ Lamp”? 

5. An Ancient Egyptian Oil Lamp

8. R.E.A.P. R ead & interpret Scripture E xtract its principles and values A pply the principles to your specific context P ractice it!

9. 1 Corinthians 11:5-6 (NASB) But every woman who has her head uncovered while praying or prophesying disgraces her head, for she is one and the same as the woman whose head is shaved. 6 For if a woman does not cover her head, let her also have her hair cut off; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, let her cover her head.

10. Principalization (1 Corinthians 11:5-6) Principle #1: We should avoid presenting ourselves in a way that provokes lust in others. Principle #2: We must humble ourselves for the good of our brothers & sisters.

11. Contextualization (1 Corinthians 11:5-6) In our culture, women’s hair is usually not a common object of lust for men. But a very revealing outfit could cause our brothers or sisters to lust.

12. God wants us to learn to trust Him even more than He wants us to make the right choices.

13. God sometimes allows us to take false steps because He wants us to learn to depend on the “lamp” of His Word.