Romans 12:11
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
1. We should always maintain intensity.
2. We should always maintain enthusiasm.
3. We should always maintain our focus.
Beautiful Furnishings In Your Home
Proverbs 1:7-9
7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. 8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
1. Your home should be filled with God's plan and God's way.
2. Your home should be a school.
3. Your home should be filled with shared responsibility.
4. Your home should be filled with the fear of the Lord.
5. Your home should be filled with submissive children.
6. Your home should be filled with the reminder of God's reward.
Spiritual Identity Chrisis
1 Peter 2:9
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
1. You are acceptable. ("You are a chosen generation")
2. You are valuable. ("His own special people")
3. You are capable. ("A royal priesthood")
4. You are forgivable. ("Who called you out of darkness into Hos marvelous light")
5. You are holy. ("a holy nation")
6. You ate blessed. ("that you may proclaim the praises of him")
How Do I Enjoy The Good Things Of God?
James 1:16-18
1. Avoid killjoy thinking and people.
a. Do not err, my beloved brethren. James 1:16
2. Make sure your perspective about God is accurate.
a. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights James 1:17
3. Count your blessings and give thanks.
a. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above James 1:17
4. Don't worry, God hasn't and will not change.
a. with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
James 1:17
5. Shout His goodness from the rooftop.
a. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
James 1:18
6. Remind yourself of how quickly time flies.
What Happened To The Cause?
1 Samuel 17
29 And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause? 30 And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.
"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment if all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious."
1. Their fear was bigger than the cause.
a. When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
1 Sam 17:11
b. And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.
1 Sam 17:24
c. Faith activates God, fear activates the enemy.
2. Jealousy was bigger than the cause.
a. And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.
1 Sam 17:28
3. Criticism was bigger than the cause.
a. ..Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.
1 Sam 17:28
4. Misplaced values were bigger than the cause.
a. And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.
1 Sam 17:25
b. And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
1 Sam 17:26