Proverbs 3:1-8 Intimacy with God is the goal, obedience is the overflow. Psalms is vertical wisdom (relating wisely to God) Proverbs is horizontal wisdom (wisdom dealing with people) Grow in your confidence in the character of God.Proverbs 3:5; trust God with all that you have because you know His proven track record. Grow in your… Continue Reading Bulls Eye Living: How to Trust God
Psalm 63:1-11 What characterizes the person who seeks after God?a) Inner satisfaction (Psalm 63:5)b) Inner joy (Psalm 63:3-4, 7, 11)c) Inner stability (Psalm 63:7-8) How does a person seek after God?a) You navigate the wilderness wisely • Seek the Lord, v. 1 • Bless the Lord, v. 4 • Meditate on the Word, v 6… Continue Reading Bulls Eye Living: The Heart That Seeks After God, Part 2
Psalm 63:1-11 Three Questions About Seeking After God What does it mean to seek after God? What characterizes the person who seeks after God? How does a person seek after God? What Does it Mean to Seek After God To seek after God means to desire more of Him.Psalm 63:1 To seek after God means… Continue Reading Bulls Eye Living: The Heart That Seeks After God
John 15:1-8 Questions to Ponder What is intimacy with God?John 15:4-7 What does intimacy with God look like?Practical Ingredients:• Give them time• Transparency or authenticity• Deferment or submission Why is intimacy with God vital?John 15:4-5 What is intimacy’s greatest enemy? Warning Signs You lack joy.John 15:11, Psalm 16:11
View message on Facebook at https://fb.watch/fvqwOABucd/ Job Chapters 1 & 2 Lessons from Job Bad things are going to happen to good people.Job 1:6-12 Nothing will touch you that God does not allow.1 Corinthians 10:13So why does God permit us to go through suffering?• To mature us, Romans 5:3-5• To comfort others, 2 Corinthians 1:4•… Continue Reading Old School: When Life Falls Apart
View message on Facebook at https://fb.watch/ff3DbYBPph/. Numbers 13 & 14 Three Principles of Comparison Comparison makes people big and God small.Numbers 13:30-33 Comparison is for losers.Numbers 14:1-3• Blame shifting and bitterness• Victim mentality• Hopelessness• Ends in self pride or insecurity We’ll do whatever it takes to get what we don’t haveNumbers 14:4, John 21:18-22, 2… Continue Reading Old School: The 12 Spies – God Loves Grasshoppers, Too
1 Kings 18 & 19 We lose the battle when we… Focus on the obstacle and forget who fights for us. Live without margins. Operate from feelings instead of facts. What do we do? Get some rest. Go serve someone else. Get a game plan for margin. Get in the presence of God.
2 Samuel 11:1-17 David – How to Ruin Your Life Allow complacency to creep in. Begin to justify self-indulgence. Ignore sin’s progression.a) A sinful thought becomes an attractive thought.b) An attractive thought becomes an obsessive thought.c) An obsessive thought grows into an imagined outcome.d) An imagined outcome promises a manageable outcome.e) A manageable outcome becomes… Continue Reading Old School: David – How to Ruin Your Life
Daniel 1:1-21 Standing Up, Not Giving In Convictions determine your course.The worst time to make a decision is in the middle of it. Expect your convictions to be challenged.Challenges They Faced:• New Babylonian identity• New position in the Babylonian government• Eating food from the king’s table Direction, not intention, leads to your destination.The Path Principle“We… Continue Reading Old School: Daniel – Standing Up, Not Giving In
Book of Jonah Disobedience brings discipline.• Nineveh represents the will of God.• Tarshish represents the will of man. Discipline brings deliverance. Deliverance brings devotion. • God is a God of second chances.• Failure is not fatal, nor does it have to be final. Devotion brings delight.• NOT just a physical miracle of a great fish.• It… Continue Reading Old School: Jonah – World’s Worst Missionary