Set Your Heart

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Set Your Heart
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David Hands Off to His Son

• 1 Chronicles 227-19 NASU
• David said to Solomon, "My son, I had intended to
  build a house to the name of the Lord my God.
  "But the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
  You have shed much blood and have waged great
  wars you shall not build a house to My name,
  because you have shed so much blood on the earth
  before Me.

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• 'Behold, a son will be born to you, who shall be
  a man of rest and I will give him rest from all
  his enemies on every side for his name shall be
  Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet to
  Israel in his days. 'He shall build a house for
  My name, and he shall be My son and I will be his
  father and I will establish the throne of his
  kingdom over Israel forever.'

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• "Now, my son, the Lord be with you that you may
  be successful, and build the house of the Lord
  your God just as He has spoken concerning you. "
  Only the Lord give you discretion and
  understanding, and give you charge over Israel,
  so that you may keep the law of the Lord your
  God. "
• Then you will prosper, if you are careful to
  observe the statutes and the ordinances which the
  Lord commanded Moses concerning Israel. Be
  strong and courageous, do not fear nor be
  dismayed.

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• "Now behold, with great pains I have prepared
  for the house of the Lord 100,000 talents of gold
  and 1,000,000 talents of silver, and bronze and
  iron beyond weight, for they are in great
  quantity also timber and stone I have prepared,
  and you may add to them.
• "Moreover, there are many workmen with you,
  stonecutters and masons of stone and carpenters,
  and all men who are skillful in every kind of
  work. "Of the gold, the silver and the bronze
  and the iron there is no limit. Arise and work,
  and may the Lord be with you."

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• David also commanded all the leaders of Israel to
  help his son Solomon, saying, "Is not the Lord
  your God with you? And has He not given you rest
  on every side?
• For He has given the inhabitants of the land into
  my hand, and the land is subdued before the Lord
  and before His people.

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• "Now set your heart and your soul to seek the
  Lord your God arise, therefore, and build the
  sanctuary of the Lord God, so that you may bring
  the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the holy
  vessels of God into the house that is to be built
  for the name of the Lord."

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There is always hope if

• Then Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned in
  safety to his house in Jerusalem. Jehu the son
  of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said
  to King Jehoshaphat, Should you help the wicked
  and love those who hate the Lord and so bring
  wrath on yourself from the Lord?
• "But there is some good in you, for you have
  removed the Asheroth from the land and you have
  set your heart to seek God."
• 2 Chronicles 191-3 NASU

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Set Your Mind

• Rom 81-8 NASU
• Therefore there is now no condemnation for those
  who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the
  Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you
  free from the law of sin and of death.
• For what the Law could not do, weak as it was
  through the flesh, God did sending His own Son
  in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an
  offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,
  so that the requirement of the Law might be
  fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the
  flesh but according to the Spirit.

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• For those who are according to the flesh set
  their minds on the things of the flesh, but those
  who are according to the Spirit, the things of
  the Spirit.
• For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the
  mind set on the Spirit is life and peace,
  because the mind set on the flesh is hostile
  toward God for it does not subject itself to the
  law of God, for it is not even able to do so,
  and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
  

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Dont Give Up

• Dan 102-14
• In those days, I, Daniel, had been mourning for
  three entire weeks. I did not eat any tasty food,
  nor did meat or wine enter my mouth, nor did I
  use any ointment at all until the entire three
  weeks were completed.

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• On the twenty-fourth day of the first month,
  while I was by the bank of the great river, that
  is, the Tigris, I lifted my eyes and looked, and
  behold, there was a certain man A dressed in
  linen, whose waist was girded with a belt of pure
  gold of Uphaz.
• His body also was like beryl, his face had the
  appearance of lightning, his eyes were like
  flaming torches, his arms and feet like the gleam
  of polished bronze, and the sound of his words
  like the sound of a tumult.

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• Now I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, while the
  men who were with me did not see the vision
  nevertheless, a great dread fell on them, and
  they ran away to hide themselves.
• So I was left alone and saw this great vision
  yet no strength was left in me, for my natural
  color turned to a deathly pallor, and I retained
  no strength. But I heard the sound of his words
  and as soon as I heard the sound of his words, I
  fell into a deep sleep on my face, with my face
  to the ground.

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• Then behold, a hand touched me and set me
  trembling on my hands and knees. He said to me,
  "O Daniel, man of high esteem, understand the
  words that I am about to tell you and stand
  upright, for I have now been sent to you." And
  when he had spoken this word to me, I stood up
  trembling.

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• Then he said to me, "Do not be afraid, Daniel,
  for from the first day that you set your heart on
  understanding this and on humbling yourself
  before your God, your words were heard, and I
  have come in response to your words.

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• "But the prince of the kingdom of Persia was
  withstanding me for twenty-one days then behold,
  Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help
  me, for I had been left there with the kings of
  Persia.
• "Now I have come to give you an understanding of
  what will happen to your people in the latter
  days, for the vision pertains to the days yet
  future."

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Jesus Teaches on Prayer

• ALSO Jesus told them a parable to the effect
  that they ought always to pray and not to turn
  coward (faint, lose heart, and give up).
• Luke 181-8 Amplified

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Elijah was a man

• The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a
  righteous man makes tremendous power available
  dynamic in its working.
• Elijah was a human being with a nature such as we
  have with feelings, affections, and a
  constitution like ours and he prayed earnestly
  for it not to rain, and no rain fell on the earth
  for three years and six months.
• And then he prayed again and the heavens
  supplied rain and the land produced its crops as
  usual.
• James 516-18 AMP

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Where Do You Want To Go This Year?

• What do you want to do?
• What do you want to be?

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Make the Most of Your Time

• Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise
  men but as wise, making the most of your time,
  because the days are evil. So then do not be
  foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord
  is. Eph 515-17 NASU

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Heres what you got

• 1 Year
• 12 Months
• 52 Weeks
• 365 Days
• 8760 Hours
• 525,600 Minutes

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How will you use what U got?

• 5 pound bar of iron can be used for
• 20 worth of horseshoes
• 1000 worth of pocket knives
• 2000 worth of needles
• 250,000 worth of watch springs

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What Does God Want U to do?

• I can do all things through him who strengthens
  me.
• Phil 413 NASU

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Where do you want to go?
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What do you want to look like?
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What kind of marriage do U want?
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You Can Do It!

• You can learn to play guitar in a year
• You can read the whole bible a couple of times
• You can lose 50-100 pounds in a year
• You can write a book in a year

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Look at what Jesus did

• I brought glory to you here on earth by doing
  everything you told me to. John 174 TLB

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• The next morning he was up long before daybreak
  and went out alone into the wilderness to pray.
• Mark 135 TLB

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He Will Do It!

• Delight yourself in the LORD And He will give
  you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to
  the LORD, Trust also in Him, and He will do it.
  Ps 374-5 NASU