Part 1: Gratitude
How to develop gratitude in your life.
1. Find something you are grateful for first thing.
2. Ask for a heart of gratitude.
3. Capture your gratitude item for Sunday AM worship.
1. Find something you are grateful for first thing.
2. Ask for a heart of gratitude.
3. Capture your gratitude item for Sunday AM worship.
Part 2: Obedience: James 1:22-25
- Obedience is to be a doer of the word, not just a hearer.
- Cultivating a lifestyle of obedience includes:
- Orienting our lives toward the things of God by building spiritual habits of prayer, scripture reading, listening to sermons, reading spiritual books and interacting with others
- Ordering our lives by creating boundaries of what we will do and not do.
- Being intentional about doing the above, not just drifting through life and hoping a spiritual heart is developed.
- The greatest hindrance to obedience is self-deception. This is equating being around spiritual things rather than intentionally crafting our lives to do spiritual things.
- How do we cultivate a heart of obedience? Farming - just as a farmer sets the conditions for a seed to grow but cannot make the seed itself grow, so to must we with our lives. The conditions included asking for a heart that desires obedience, creating habits in our lives (Atomic Habits by James Clear is a great book to help), and being involved in church to include serving, fellowship and being in a group.
Part 3: Dependence: Psalm 127:1-2
- Dependance is learning to looking to God to establish and direct the categories of our lives
- Categories of life are: spiritual, intellectual, physical, financial, marital, parental, social, vocational, online
- Cultivating a lifestyle of dependence on God includes:
2. Seek God in building our houses
3. Protect our houses through periodical evaluation
- How do we cultivate a lifestyle?
2. Ask for a heart of dependence from God (depend on God to give you a heart of dependence)
3. Begin each work day with reminding yourself of this truth.