Adjusting Our Lives To Join God

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Adjusting Our Lives To Join God In His Work
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1. God desires that we learn to recognize that He
is AT WORK around us. Enlarge the place of your
tent Stretch out the curtains of your dwellings,
spare not Lengthen your cords and strengthen
your pegs. For you will spread abroad to the
right and to the left and your descendants will
possess nations and will resettle the desolate
cities. Isaiah 542,3
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2. God desires that we ADJUST OUR LIVES to
join Him in His work. John 4 - The Samaritan
woman at the well
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9 Therefore the Samaritan woman said to Him,
"How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a
drink since I am a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews
have no dealings with Samaritans.) 15 The
woman said to Him, "Sir, give me this water, so I
will not be thirsty nor come all the way here to
draw." 17 Jesus said to her, "You have
correctly said, 'I have no husband' for you have
had five husbands, and the one whom you now have
is not your husband this you have said truly."
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34 Jesus said to them, My food is to do the
will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His
work. 35 Do you not say, 'There are yet four
months, and then comes the harvest'? Behold, I
say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the
fields, that they are white for harvest. 38
I sent you to reap that for which you have not
labored others have labored and you have entered
into their labor.
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God has not told us to go away and do some work
for Him. He has told us that He is already at
work to bring a lost world to Himself. If we will
adjust our lives to Him in a love relationship,
He will show us where He is at work.
Henry Blackaby Experiencing God
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For the love of Christ controls us, having
concluded this, that one died for all, therefore
all died and He died for all, so that they who
live might no longer live for themselves, but for
Him who died and rose again on their behalf.
2 Corinthians 514,15
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3. To join God in HIS WORK we need to adjust
from a SELF-CENTERED life to a GOD-CENTERED
life.
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GOD-centered living SELF-centered
living Yielded to God Focused on
self Dependent on God Dependent on own
abilities Humility before God Prideful
living Lives to please God Seeks acceptance
from the world Looks for where God is
working Sees circumstances as chance Lives with
power Lives in own strength Loves
others Loves self and things Trusts Gods
Word Trusts in self, possessions
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Two Keys to a GOD - centered life A. Develop
an INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP with Jesus. Mark
135 B. Get involved with the BODY OF CHRIST.
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ACTION STEPS TO JOIN GOD IN HIS WORK 1) Pray
TONIGHT! 700-830pm - Childcare 2) Join a
small group 3. Include others in your life. 4)
Become a small group leader Thurs, September
27 700-830pm 5) Pledge September
30 (ONE SERVICE ONLY IN A TENT)