A low view of God is the cause of a 100 lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to 10,000 t

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• A low view of God is the cause of a 100 lesser
  evils. A high view of God is the solution to
  10,000 temporal problems.
• -A.W. Tozer

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1 Sam. 178-9

• Choose a man and have him come down to me. If
  he is able to fight and kill me, we will become
  your subjects but if I overcome him and kill
  him, you will become our subjects and serve us.
  This day I defy the ranks of Israel! Give me a
  man and let us fight each other.

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Lion Chasers

• Get their sense of identity from God

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1 Samuel 1737

• The Lord who delivered me from the paw of the
  lion and the paw of the bear will deliver me from
  the hand of this uncircumcised Philistine.

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Lion Chasers...

• Trust that God has been prepared them for the
  next big challenge

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Lion Chasers...

• Know that God is bigger than every problem.

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1 Samuel 1747

• All those gathered here will know that it is not
  by sword or spear that the Lord saves for the
  battle is the Lords and he will give all of you
  into our hands.

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Lion Chasers...

• Know that anything can happen when God is in the
  picture.

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Isaiah 558-9

• My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are
  your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As the
  heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways
  higher than your ways and my thoughts than your
  thoughts.

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• There are two ways to live you can live as if
  nothing is a miracle you can live as if
  everything is a miracle. - Einstein

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Action Points

• Trust God with your life.
• Chase your lion.
• Magnify the Lord.
• Study Scripture
• Prayer

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Action Points

• Worship
• Connexion Group
• Using Your Spiritual Gifts
• Missions Trip

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• How much happier you would be, how much more of
  you there would be, if the hammer of the higher
  God could smash your small cosmos. - G.K.
  Chesterton