Believers Church Of Sylvania
Sunday, October 24, 2021
(Job 9:25 NLT) "My life passes more swiftly than a runner. It flees away without a glimpse of happiness.
(Luke 21:34 NIV) "Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap.
√ SURVIVAL mode.
(Proverbs 28:4 NLT) To reject the law is to praise the wicked; to obey the law is to fight them.
(James 4:7 NLT) So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
√ SURF mode.
(Job 9:29 NLT) Whatever happens, I will be found guilty. So what's the use of trying?
(Matthew 6:21 NIV) For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
√ DO MORE mode.
(Ecclesiastes 10:10 NLT) Using a dull ax requires great strength, so sharpen the blade. That's the value of wisdom; it helps you succeed.
(Proverbs 27:17 NLT) As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
√ ISOLATION mode.
(Psalm 22:11 NIV) Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help. (it is not God that has moved)
(Psalm 139:7-8 NLT) ...I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence! If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there.
√ What really MATTERS?
(Proverbs 17:24 GNB) An intelligent person aims at wise action, but a fool starts off in many directions.
√ Make the TOUGH CALLS.
(John 12:44 NLT) Jesus shouted to the crowds, "If you trust me, you are trusting not only me, but also God who sent me.
(John 12:49 NLT) I don't speak on my own authority. The Father who sent me has commanded me what to say and how to say it.
(John 12:50 NLT) And I know his commands lead to eternal life; so I say whatever the Father tells me to say."
√ Pursue what MATTERS MOST.
(Luke 12:15 NLT) Then he said, "Beware! Guard against every kind of greed. Life is not measured by how much you own."
* GOD matters.
(Matthew 6:33 NLT) Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need
* PEOPLE matter.
(Galatians 5:13-14 NIV) . . .serve one another humbly in love. For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: "Love your neighbor as yourself."
* ETERNITY matters.
(Matthew 13:44 NLT) "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure that a man discovered hidden in a field. In his excitement, he hid it again and sold everything he owned to get enough money to buy the field.