Jul 6 The Beautiful Fight Getting Unstuck

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• Jul 6 The Beautiful Fight (Getting Unstuck)
• Jul 13 Be Who You Really Are! (Baptism lived
  out)
• Jul 20 Do Not Harden Your Heart!
  (Gods plea to His people)
• Jul 27 Running on Empty
  (Keeping our spiritual tanks
  full)
• Aug 3 Getting Over Ourselves
  (The peril of
  self-absorption)
• Aug 10 When You Dont Care About Being Apathetic
  (Spiritual Depression)
• Aug 17 The Agony of Defeat
  (A Case Study on
  Elijah)
• Aug 24 Youth Service
  
  (Stories of God at work)
• Aug 31 Vision the Missing Ingredient

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VISION

• def.
  A picture of the
  future
  that inspires passion in us

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Then Moses answered, "But behold, they will not
believe me or listen to my voice, for they will
say, 'The LORD did not appear to you.'" The LORD
said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He
said, "A staff." Exodus 41-2
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Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said,
"I have compassion on the crowd because they
have been with me now three days and have nothing
to eat. And I am unwilling to send them away
hungry, lest they faint on the way." And the
disciples said to him, "Where are we to get
enough bread in such a desolate place to feed so
great a crowd?" And Jesus said to them,
"How many loaves do you have?"
Matthew 1532ff.
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Vision questions

• Are Jesus and I passionate about the same things?
• Has God given me a Holy Discontent?
• What is in my hand?
• Have I settled for being a victim over having a
  vision?

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Prayers for staying Paul said, I have fought
the good fight, I have finished the race, I have
kept the faith. (2 Tim 4) STRENGTHEN US TO FIGHT
THE BEAUTIFUL FIGHT TO STAY ON THE ROAD
TO FINISH STRONG FOR YOUR
GLORY!
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For as many of you as were baptized into
Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew
nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there
is no male and female, for you are all one in
Christ Jesus.
(Galatians 3) LORD, EMBOLDEN US TO BE WHO WE
REALLY ARE IN CHRIST, DYING TO OUR OLD SELVES AND
LIVING AS A RESURRECTION COMMUNITY BRINGING
CHRISTS HOPE TO THE WORLD!
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Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of
you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to
fall away from the living God. But exhort one
another every day, as long as it is called
"today," that none of you may be hardened by the
deceitfulness of sin. (Hebrews
3) LORD, HOW EASILY WE FALL AWAY. KEEP US
SEEKING YOUR PRESENCE, BELIEVING YOUR PROMISES,
ENCOURAGING ONE ANOTHER TODAY!
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(Jesus) rising very early in the morning, while
it was still dark, departed and went out to a
desolate place, and there he prayed.
(Mark 1) LORD, HOW MUCH WE NEED YOUR
JOYFUL DISCIPLINE OF MAKING SPACE FOR QUIET, AND
PRAYER, AND TIME WITH THE FATHER. FILL US TO
OVERFLOWING!
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But whoever would be great among you must be
your servant, and whoever would be first among
you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man
came not to be served but to serve, and to give
his life as a ransom for many." (Matthew
20) LORD, RESCUE US FROM TAKING OURSELVES SO
SERIOUSLY SERVING OURSELVES. MAKE ME A SERVANT
LIKE YOU!
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preparing your minds for action, and being
sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace
that will be brought to you at the revelation of
Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be
conformed to the passions of your former
ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you
also be holy in all your conduct. (1 Peter
1) LORD, OUR HOPE IS IN YOU! WE WANT TO BE SOBER
ATTENTIVE IN THE RACE YOUR HOLY PEOPLE!
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Paul said, We are God's work of art, created in
Christ Jesus for the good works which God has
already designated to make up our way of life.
(Ephesians 2) LORD, YOU HAVE GREAT PLANS
FOR US. GIVE US YOUR VISION AS INDIVIDUALS AND
AS A COMMUNITY EMPOWER US TO WALK INTO THE
FUTURE WITH YOU! Amen.
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