Vision 2025

Vision 2025

• Gods has a strategic plan for your life.
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Jer 1: 5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew h you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

From cover to cover in the Bible Gods plan for us is clear. It is clear for you

• To KNOW GOD, to GROW HEALTHY, TO DISCOVER OUR PURPOSE, to MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
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We are flourishing as a church.

• God wants you to flourish.
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Ps 16:11 You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand

• When we focus on the next step of the path we will always grow
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Lost are being saved, saved are being pastored, pastored are being discipled, discipled are being mobilized.

My goal today is to give you a vision for your future and make sure it is connected to God and his plans for your life….

Prov 29:18 MES If people can’t see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves; But when they attend to what he reveals, they are most blessed.

Eph 1:17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. 18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people

ph 1:17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.

• Know God
• God made you to be in relationship with you.

Ginosko Greek word: to know, understand, or perceive, often with a sense of personal experience or intimate knowledge, rather than just intellectual information:

There might be more of God to experience.

18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people

• Grow healthy
• God wants to heal your wounds from the past.
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All of us a looking through they eyes of our history…you past, people, our problems all impact our perspective of what we see.  You might be saved, but your life is not what it could be because your heart filter is not enlightened…it is still unhealthy.

 

Message translation says a heart that is focused and clear

Gal 5:1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery

True freedom is not just about being free from something. It is more about being free to become what you were meant to be.

 

Small groups are the next step to growth.

18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people

• Discover your purpose
• God expands our life when we use our gifts.
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God has a calling, a role, a purpose for you life.  When we allow ourselves to know God, grow healthy, we can begin to see how God has designed us and realize that our life matters and what we do matters and using our gifts matters and that brings hope.

 

Hope and calling go together

Next steps for calling is to get involved.  You have to serve somewhere.

 

18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people

• Make a difference.
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• YOUR LIFE IS DESIGNED BY GOD TO HAVE ETERNAL IMPACT
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Eph 2:10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Matt 5:16. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

• You were made to shine.
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Knowing God is the key to Life

It is not only the first step but a recurring step in our spiritual journey. It’s like marriage..when you have the ceremony it is not the end but an ongoing discovery and development of that relationship. He will resurrect your mind, your marriage, your future.  God will bring the dead things back to life.  It is not about religion it is about a relationship with the one who made you and has your future in mind.

 

Matt 7: 21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven… Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you…

Knowing God is  founded on the simple principle that He loves you.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Because he loves you, he has a plan for your life

John 10:10 … I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

Because we have a problem. We are separated from God by our inherent sin nature:

Rom 3:10 There is no one righteous, not even one;

We have a tendency to do what we want, and don’t like anyone telling us what to do. Left to our own devices and desires we separate ourselves from God. Our sinfulness leads to death….but God wants us to have eternal life with Him…our problem is we cannot fix ourselves.

We need to be saved from our sin which is why Jesus came to destroy the power of sin.

Rom 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God

God did this even when we showed no interest in Him and even cursed him or denied his existence.

Rom 5:8 NKJV But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us

Jesus became the path to God.  He was the only one who could redeem us from our sin problem.

John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

He died in our place and became the way. He took our debt of sin and paid it in full.

Acts 4:12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”

The gift of salvation requires a response

John 1:12 NLT But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.

How do we believe and accept Jesus in our hearts

Rom 10:9-10 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.