Job 14:5, Ephesians 5:16-17
– The point of life is not to every week; it’s to make every week .
– 4 Truths about Time:
1. investments make a big difference over time.
2. makes a big difference over time.
3. Random things make difference over time.
4. In the places that matter most, you can’t make up for time.
– 2 Questions:
1. What things do I need to invest of my time in?
2. What things to I need to waste of my time on?
– will happily fill every minute of our lives we fail to assign intentionally.
Bible Reading: Job 14
Psalm 27:11-14
When you can’t stay where you are, who what you go next?
– 2 Assumptions David Makes:
1. God has a , but I have to in it.
2. God’s way is than my way.
– The voices we to become the we live through.
– Every we believe eventually becomes a .
– comes from knowing God’s .
Bible Reading: Psalm 27
Psalm 27:7-10
– When is missing, imagination fills in the gaps.
– Rhythms don’t prevent , but they do us in it.
– Your story is going to have of silence.
4 Reasons for Seasons of Silence
– 1. We think we’re waiting on God, but he’s actually on us.
– 2. God is doing while he’s saying nothing.
– 3. God cares more about your than your coordinates.
– 4. God is , but you’re not listening.
– Sometimes God is not , he just says what we don’t want to hear.
– God’s are not always denials.
– God’s will is usually a we live within, not a line we have to walk.
– God’s silence is not God’s .
Psalm 27
Psalm 27:4-6
– What our souls are longing for is not something, it’s .
– All beauty and brilliance short of God himself can fully satisfy.
– God is not a to an end. He is the end itself.
– God loves you because you are to him, not because you are to him.
– You become like what you spend your life .
– Little become big transformations over time.
-Bible Reading: Psalm 27
Psalm 27:1-3, Psalm 119:1-5, 1 Peter 5:7
– Our tendency is not to rise to the but rather to fall back to our level of .
– We need to start with our not our situation.
– We need to view our through the lens of God rather than viewing God through the lens of our circumstances.
– The you listen to become the you live through.
– should be our first practice, not our final plea.
– doesn’t make our problems smaller, but it reminds us that they’re smaller than our God.
Acts 20:35, John 13:3-17, 1 John 3:18
– You have to connect your and your .
– We think of blessing as more, but God repeatedly describes it as more.
– 3 Things Jesus did to bless others:
1. Jesus .
2. Jesus .
3. Jesus .
Bible Reading: Acts 20
John 19:38-42, Romans 7:15
– Jesus completely shifted the equation when he used the power he had not to himself but to others.
– The good life is not found in self-centeredness; it’s found in .
– Discipleship is about not .
Bible Reading: John 19
Acts 12:1-17
– God’s trumps people’s plans.
– is the pathway to God’s purpose.
– God will handle what you , while handing you what you .
– What we need most is not clarity.
Bible Reading: Acts 12
John 15:1-14
– The good life is found in the One who gives us life.
– Information + = Transformation
– If we want to grow the character of Jesus, we have to stay to Jesus.
– It’s impossible to live a life connected to a source.
– Discipleship is .
– The only sin Jesus ever experienced was , and the only righteousness I’ll ever experience is his.
– Discipleship is .
Bible Reading: John 15
– expected no body.
– When you believe failure defines you, you to what’s familiar.
– 4 Things Jesus Does for You
1. Jesus you.
2. Jesus you.
3. Jesus you.
4. Jesus you.
– Jesus doesn’t run people who are messed up, he runs them!
– The love of God is than our failures.
– Your is buried, but your Savior is not!