Prayer needs to be our first response. Not our
last resort.
What do we need to give to God in prayer?
Philippians
4:6-7
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Living Translation
6 Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about
everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.
7 Then
you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His
peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.
1
Peter 5:7
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Living Translation
7 Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about
you.
Listen to God's voice of the Holy Spirit within you.
The Holy Spirit's voice is only as loud as you are willing to hear Him.
What has the Holy Spirit been trying to tell you?
John 16:8
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8 And when he comes, he (the Holy Spirit) will convict the
world of its sin, and of God’s righteousness, and of the coming judgment.
John 16:13
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13 When
the Spirit of truth comes, he (the Holy Spirit) will guide you into all truth.
He will not speak on his own but will tell you what he has heard. He will tell
you about the future.
We
can do more together than when we are apart. When we all do a little, we
can all do a lot.
What is your part?
What is your piece to God's
puzzle?
John
17:21
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21 I (Jesus) pray that they will all be one, just
as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be
in us so that the world will believe you sent me.
John
16:1
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16 “I (Jesus) have told you these things so that you won’t
abandon (create a scandal) your faith.
Are
you so earthly minded that you're no heavenly good?
When earth gets hard,
focus on heaven.
If we don't know God, earth is the only heaven that we
will experience. If we do know God, earth is the only hell that we will
experience.
Who do you need to encourage today?
John
14:1-3
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Living Translation
14 “Don’t let your
hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me (Jesus). 2 There
is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I
have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? 3 When
everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with
me where I am.
What are you going to do this week to
intentionally serve others?
John 13:12-17
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12 After washing their feet, he (Jesus) put on his
robe again and sat down and asked, “Do you understand what I was
doing? 13 You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and you are right,
because that’s what I am. 14 And since I, your Lord and
Teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash each other’s feet. 15 I
have given you an example to follow. Do as I have done to you. 16 I
tell you the truth, slaves are not greater than their master. Nor is the
messenger more important than the one who sends the message. 17 Now
that you know these things, God will bless you for doing them.
God
doesn't mind other loves. He minds us loving something more than
Him.
What we worship becomes an obsession. Whatever I obsessed with
is what I become.
Here is the greatest commandment in the Bible.
Mark
12:28-30
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28 One of the teachers of the law came and
heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked
him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”
29 “The most important one,” answered
Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.30 Love
the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your
mind and with all your strength.’
God
wants us to worship Him with all our affections. Love is expressed. God expressed His love for us on the cross.
God has a love language. We must love Him like we are loved by
Him.
Let us express our love for Him with all that is within us.
Praise
God in his sanctuary;
praise him in his mighty heavens. 2 Praise him for his acts of power;
praise him for his surpassing greatness. 3 Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet,
praise him with the harp and lyre, 4 praise him with timbrel and dancing,
praise him with the strings and pipe, 5 praise him with the clash of cymbals,
praise him with resounding cymbals.
6 Let
everything that has breath praise the Lord.
Praise
the Lord.
Pardon
our noise. It's the sound of freedom.
God has forgiven us for sin's control over us and paid the penalty for our sin.
God wants us to worship him
with all of our attention.
God wants to be on our schedule. Let us have a preplanned time to be with God each day.
Romans
12:2
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2 Do not conform to
the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your
mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his
good, pleasing and perfect will.
God
wants us to worship Him with all our abilities. Let us show our love for God by loving and doing good to others.
Mark
12:28-30
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31 The
second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’] There
is no commandment greater than these.”
Hebrews
13:15-16
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15 Through Jesus,
therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit
of lips that openly profess his name. 16 And do not
forget to do good and to share with others, for with such
sacrifices God is pleased.
