Signs

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Signs Interstate Exit Signs Food/Gas/Lodging
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What good are they for?

• helps you know whats coming up
• helps meet a need for your journey
• helps you be effective and productive with your
  time

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How do you know if you need them?

• Gas gauge
• Stomach gauge
• Eye lid gauge

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How are they spiritual?

• God would often warn his people of things that
  were coming
• famines
• wars
• judgment against their sin
• the Messiah (Jesus)

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How are they spiritual?

• Jesus would often teach about things that were
  coming
• future state of Israel the temple
• His death and resurrection
• the arrival of the Holy Spirit

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How are they spiritual?

• Today, the Holy Spirit is actively helping us by
• convicting us of our sin
• calling us to greater faith holy living
• helping us meet the needs others by love and
  personal sacrifice

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• Meanwhile his disciples urged him, rabbi, eat
  something. But he said to them, I have food to
  eat that you know nothing about. Then his
  disciples said to each, could someone have
  brought him food? My food, said Jesus, is to
  do the will of him who sent me and to finish his
  work.
• John 431-34

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• SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT
• The Bible
• - daily reading
• - devotions
• - memorization
• - examination

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• SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT
• Worship
• - personal
• - corporate
• - giving
• - receiving

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• SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT
• Love
• - God
• - others
• - self

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• SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT PRODUCES
• positive people
• confident people
• children of God

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• SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT PRACTICALLY
• 5X5X5 Bible plan
• Christian books
• Care Groups

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• Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives,
  and his disciples followed him. On reaching the
  place, he said to them, Pray that you will not
  fall into temptation. He withdrew about a
  stones throw beyond them, knelt down and prayed,
  Father, if you are willing, take this cup from
  me yet not my
• will, but yours be done.
• Luke 2239-42

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• SPIRITUAL ENERGY
• Prayer
• - daily bread
• - examination
• - intercession
• - listening

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• SPIRITUAL ENERGY
• Serving
• - seeing the need
• - humble spirit
• - people of action
• - gifts talents

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• SPIRITUAL ENERGY
• Encouragement
• - Give it often
• - Receive it well

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• SPIRITUAL ENERGY
• PRODUCES
• Vision/forward thinking people
• Actively doing good for others
• Disciples of Christ

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• SPIRITUAL ENERGY
• PRACTICALLY
• - Join or start a prayer group
• Pick up a BCM Thanksgiving bag
• Join the new note writing team

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• Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
  Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
  but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your
  God. Exodus 208-10
• Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim
  liberty throughout the land to all its
  inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you.
  Leviticus 2510

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• SPIRITUAL RENEWAL
• Exercise
• - Body is made to be fit exercised
• - God moments will occur

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• SPIRITUAL RENEWAL
• Rest / Balance
• - Obedient
• - Happier
• - Healthier

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• SPIRITUAL RENEWAL
• Confession
• - Path to freedom
• - Path to healing
• - Guilt-free living
• - Wholeness

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SPIRITUAL RENEWAL PRODUCES - Healthy people
- Changed people - Authentic people -
Evangelists
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SPIRITUAL RENEWAL PRACTICALLY - Come to
reFuel - Stop over- committing - Be
honest with God all the time
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