Get In the Zone

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Get In the Zone

• The Waiting Room

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• The waiting room is vitally important- its where
  I spend the majority of my life. What I do in
  the waiting room determines
• How often I enjoy zone times
• My experience in the zone
• How I handle the success of major life events

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Common Mistakes

• 1- Waiting for Life to Begin
• Someday Isle
• Grow up, get married, have kids, get kids in
  school, get kids out of school, get kids in
  college, get kids out of college, get kids back
  out of the house, get kids married-off, have
  grandkids, retire

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• Problem
• - This IS Life
• This is your life and its ticking away one
  minute at a time...- Fight Club
• My experience of life is directly proportional to
  my attitude towards life

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• Its Faithfulness in Small Things that Brings
  Success in the Major Events
• You have been faithful with a few things I will
  put you in charge of many things. Come and share
  your master's happiness! - Matthew 2523
• Whoever can be trusted with very little can also
  be trusted with much... - Luke 1610

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• 2- Rational Disconnect/ Shortsightedness
• David went to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest.
  Ahimelech trembled when he met him, and asked,
  "Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?"

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• David answered Ahimelech the priest, The king
  charged me with a certain matter and said to me,
  'No one is to know anything about your mission
  and your instructions.' As for my men, I have
  told them to meet me at a certain place. Now
  then, what do you have on hand? Give me five
  loaves of bread, or whatever you can find -
  1 Samuel 211-4

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• It is impossible to separate actions from
  character. Character is built upon individual
  actions. Therefore, what I do in the little
  things determines how I will handle the important
  things
• The man of integrity walks securely, but he who
  takes crooked paths will be found out -
  Proverbs 109

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Lessons from the Waiting Room

• 1- Be Faithful in All Things...No Matter How
  Small or Ordinary
• 2- Look Beyond the Surface
• Saul, an impressive young man without equal among
  the Israelites-- a head taller than any of the
  others... - 1 Samuel 92

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• When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab and thought,
  "Surely the LORD's anointed stands here before
  the LORD." But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not
  consider his appearance or his height, for I have
  rejected him. The LORD does not look at the
  things man looks at. Man looks at the outward
  appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart..."
  So he sent and had him (David) brought in. He was
  ruddy, with a fine appearance and handsome
  features. Then the LORD said, "Rise and anoint
  him he is the one." - 1 Samuel 166-7,12

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• David left Gath and escaped to the cave of
  Adullam. When his brothers and his father's
  household heard about it, they went down to him
  there. All those who were in distress or in debt
  or discontented gathered around him, and he
  became their leader. About four hundred men were
  with him - 1 Samuel 221-2

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• Treat people with respect regardless of whether I
  think they deserve it- simply because theyre
  made in the image of God

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• 3- Never Believe Your Own Press
• When the men were returning home after David had
  killed the Philistine, the women came out from
  all the towns of Israel to meet King Saul with
  singing and dancing, with joyful songs and with
  tambourines and lutes. As they danced, they sang
  Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens
  of thousands - 1 Samuel 186-7

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• David continued to serve humbly and faithfully,
  going off to war and putting his life on the line

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• 4- Yell at God
• Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my
  neck. I sink in the miry depths, where there is
  no foothold. I have come into the deep waters
  the floods engulf me. I am worn out calling for
  help my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking
  for my God. Those who hate me without reason
  outnumber the hairs of my head many are my
  enemies without cause, those who seek to destroy
  me. I am forced to restore what I did not steal
  - Psalm 691-4

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• Let God know how you feel. He already knows, but
  you need to tell him. Then the healing can begin