thoughts

I was thinking ab0ut msg from Marshill regarding temptation, thinking that life is all up to God or thinking that it is all up to me... Christ gave us a will, it is ours to choose, say, Lord Your will be done! As I read the scriptures, help me learn Your will and how I can conform to that. Worship is a choice, it is service due God as to His goodness and service empowered and birthed by God to others. Worship is the thing that gives meaning to life? Think on that.

God's Awesome Creation

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Significance and Love

While we may accomplish things that are significant, they may not be where we find our significance. Our experiences may shape us and help us in the process, but they are not the ultimate source of our significance. The ultimate souce for our significance is based on who we are and whose we are, it cannot be based on what we do...we are loved by God!

Answer these questions: When have you known most fully that you are significant? When have you known that you are loved? That you are important?

Thoughts from Listen: Finding God in the Story of Your Life, by Keri Wyatt Kent

The Heart

Proverbs 4:23 Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life.

all the issues of life come out of the heart

get the heart right and all else will follow

Bitterness, not forgiving

Temporal Values, always wanting a little bit more

Moral Impurity, desire to control

These need to be dealt with at the heart level

Wisdom, Understanding and Knowledge

Wisdom is the ability to discern and apply knowledge

Understanding is the gaining of knowledge and how to use it

Knowledge is information about something or someone

A Balanced Spiritual Life:

Having a "balanced" life sounds good. What does it mean? The people at Renovare share these thoughts; they challenge me.

Be strong in each of these areas:
Contemplative: the prayer-filled life
Social Justice: the compassionate life
Holiness: the virtuous life
Evangelical: the word-centered life
Charismatic: the spirit-empowered life
Incarnational: the sacramental life

To be a person is to have a story to tell.

So what is your story? Have you thought about it? The Story Factor: Inspiration, Influence, and Persuasion Through the Art of Storytelling Annette Simmons, Doug Lipman (Foreword by)
		Format: Textbook Paperback Revised Pub. Date: April 2006

There are six types of stories that will serve you well in your efforts to influence others.

I. Who I Am Stories

II. Why I Am Here Stories

III. My Vision Story

IV. Teaching Stories

V. Values in Action Stories

VI. "I Know what you are Thinking" Stories