Illustrate here: need a nice chair of some sort to represent who is sitting on the throne of our life.
1. Purity-Before God and Men
- Purity is not a statement that you make it's a lifestyle you live out.
Psalm 86:8-13 (NLT) "No pagan god is like you, O Lord. None can do what you do! [9] All the nations you made will come and bow before you, Lord; they will praise your holy name. [10] For you are great and perform wonderful deeds. You alone are God. [11] Teach me your ways, O Lord, that I may live according to your truth! Grant me purity of heart, so that I may honor you. [12] With all my heart I will praise you, O Lord my God. I will give glory to your name forever, [13] for your love for me is very great. You have rescued me from the depths of death."
- Christ is the way and the truth.
- A Christ follower will be more desirous to be taught the way and the truth.
- We will be more desirous to be taught the way and the truth of God, in order to walk therein, than to be delivered out of earthly distress.
- You don't fall in and out of purity, you make a decision to embrace it, own it, and come peer pressure, temptation, ridicule or worse you choose to stay in its never disappointing principle.
2. Passion-Worship/service
- This year many of us will either choose to be passionate in our service to God and our worship of Him or we will choose to be cold, lethargic, and lazy.
- We should choose to have a strong, barely controllable emotion of passion for God.
- Choosing to be passionate after God despite circumstances, despite what others do, despite what others think, feel, or criticize me into thinking.
- Living out a lifestyle of serving especially when no one is looking, that's God's way.
- When you live an iserve lifestyle God keeps record, He will reward and promote you.
- It's in His word, it's in His DNA.
- Worship is not a moment in time, worship can be every moment in time.
3. Perseverance-Living Christianity Out
- Living out our belief in Jesus Christ, living out our trust in His eternal love and promise for mankind.
- Being thankful of our salvation, His sacrifice, and His grace, daily.
- Stay determined this year not to back down, not to quit, not to get cold, indifferent, ashamed, or fearful of being a Christian.
- Keep dreaming that God dream for your life and rolling it over it in your mind until it becomes a reality.
- Give your all until you achieve that God dream, then give the rest of your being living that God dream out.
4. Prayer-Demonstration
Daniel 6:3-4,10-11,26-27 (NLT)
"Daniel soon proved himself more capable than all the other administrators and high officers. Because of Daniel's great ability, the king made plans to place him over the entire empire. [4] Then the other administrators and high officers began searching for some fault in the way Daniel was handling government affairs, but they couldn't find anything to criticize or condemn. He was faithful, always responsible, and completely trustworthy. [10] But when Daniel learned that the law had been signed, he went home and knelt down as usual in his upstairs room, with its windows open toward Jerusalem. He prayed three times a day, just as he had always done, giving thanks to his God. [11] Then the officials went together to Daniel's house and found him praying and asking for God's help. [26] "I decree that everyone throughout my kingdom should tremble with fear before the God of Daniel. For he is the living God, and he will endure forever. His kingdom will never be destroyed, and his rule will never end. [27] He rescues and saves his people; he performs miraculous signs and wonders in the heavens and on earth. He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions."
- Daniel stood alone.
- Although he knew about the law against praying to anyone except the king, he continued to pray three times a day as he always had.
- Daniel had a disciplined prayer life.
- When you have a disciplined prayer life there is nothing that can keep you away from Him.
- Our prayers are usually interrupted not by threats, but simply by the pressure of our schedules.
- Don't let threats or pressures cut into your prayer time.
- Pray regularly, no matter what, for prayer is your lifeline to God.
- Your prayer life is to show God, yourself, and the world about your strong, undeniable, unbreakable belief in and love for Him.
- It shows who's on the throne of your life.
- Allowing God to be the who, what, why, where, and the how on that throne.
5. Presence-Discipleship
Philippians 4:8-9 (NLT)
"And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. [9] Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me-everything you heard from me and saw me doing. Then the God of peace will be with you."
- The world needs to hear about hope, peace, life.
- If we will fix our thoughts on these things then we will ultimately influence the world.
- Speaking truth, being honorable, being right, being pure, lovely, and admirable.
- Speaking about excellent things and praise worthy things.
- That's the kind of presence we need to be in the life of others, everywhere we go, and in everything we do.
- Keep these things in practice and then the God of peace will be with us.
6. Pursuit-God’s Word/Fasting/Giving
- We will all encounter change this year some good, some bad.
- Some of you will step into another year of life some very exciting, altering years.
- Getting a drivers license, stepping into your teen years, stepping into manhood, graduating high school.
- The bible declares that the steps of a righteous man or woman are ordered of God too bad we never hear what He's trying to say to us through prayer, worship, fasting, and bible reading.
- It's imperative that we hear what God is speaking to us, the world lives without it, the church, Christianity can not.
- Remember fasting without prayer is just starving yourself. Use fasting to jump start your encounters, your awareness, your love for God.
7. People-Evangelism/Opportunity
Acts 10:42-43 (NLT) "And He ordered us to preach everywhere and to testify that Jesus is the one appointed by God to be the judge of all-the living and the dead. [43] He is the one all the prophets testified about, saying that everyone who believes in Him will have their sins forgiven through His name.
- Preach and testify.
- Testify-Serve as evidence or proof of something's existence.
- I am to testify that Jesus is the Son of God, that Jesus was virgin born, that Jesus came to save people from their sins, and that Jesus is coming back for the church in the rapture.
- I am to testify to people, I am to the world what God has done in me to declare to the world that God still exists, God still forgives, and that God still embodies hope and love.
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