06.21.20 Notes
Our Mission: Leading people into a growing relationship with Jesus
ROSE COLORED GOD GLASSES
30 But Caleb tried to quiet the people as they stood before Moses.
“Let’s go at once to take the land,” he said. “We can certainly
conquer it!” 31 But the other men who had explored the land with
him disagreed. “We can’t go up against them! They are stronger
than we are!” 32 So they spread this bad report about the land
among the Israelites: “The land we traveled through and explored
will devour anyone who goes to live there. All the people we saw
were huge. 33 We even saw giants there, the descendants of
Anak. Next to them we felt like grasshoppers, and that’s what
they thought, too!” Numbers 13:30-33 (NLT)
Now tell them this: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord, I will do
to you the very things I heard you say.’ Numbers 14:28 (NLT)
Words kill, words give life; they’re either poison or fruit – you
choose. Proverbs 18:21 (MSG)
These are all warning markers – danger! – in our history books,
written down so that we don’t repeat their mistakes. Our positions
in the story are parallel – they at the beginning, we at the end – and
we are just as capable of messing it up as they were. Don’t be so
naive and self-confident. You’re not exempt. You could fall flat on
your face as easily as anyone else. Forget about self-confidence;
it’s useless. Cultivate God-confidence. 1 Corinthians 10:11-12 (MSG)
1. SEE _________ IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ________
23 If you listen to the Word and don’t live out the message you
hear, you become like the person who looks in the mirror of
the Word to discover the reflection of his face in the beginning.
24 You perceive how God sees you in the mirror of the Word,but
then you go out and forget your divine origin. 25 But those who set
their gaze deeply into the perfecting law of liberty are fascinated
by and respond to the truth they hear and are strengthened
by it – they experience God’s blessing in all that they do!
James 1:23-25 (TPT)
Positivity is staying positive even when you find really good
reasons to be negative.
• Think about what you ________________
• ______________ your faith and starve the negativity
• _______________ your mouth
Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of
your life. Proverbs 4:23 (NLT)