How to Live Through a Bad Day {Part 5}

Be Human Enough to Acknowledge Your Need

Hebrews 12:2 (MSG) – Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed–that exhilarating finish in and with God— he could put up with anything along the way: cross, shame, whatever. And now he’s there, in the place of honor, right alongside God.

John 19:28-29 – Later, knowing that all was now completed, and so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.”

• Jesus chose not to  the pain, but to it.

Lesson 5- Be human enough to your need.

3 Roadblocks to Being Real

1. The fear of being .

Psalm 32:3-5 (MSG) – When I kept it all inside, my bones turned to powder, my words became daylong groans. The pressure never let up; all the juices of my life dried up. Then I let it all out; I said, “I’ll make a clean breast of my failures to God. Suddenly the pressure was gone.

2. The fear of being .

Psalms 139:14 (NLT) – Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!

Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.”

3. The fear of being .

2 Corinthians 4:2 (MSG) – We refuse to wear masks and play games…Rather, we keep everything we do and say out in the open, the whole truth on display, so that those who want to can see.

Keys to Transparency

1. Find my .

Proverbs 27:17 (NLT) – As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

• Community is the Community.

Proverbs 18:24 – One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

2. my need.

Proverbs 17:17 – A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.

Galatians 6:2 (NLT) – Share each other’s burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ.

3.  my victories.

4. Allow God to my mind.

Romans 12:2 (NLT) – Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

• What do I today?

Hebrews: 10:24-25 (MSG) – Let’s see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on, especially as we see the big Day approaching.