KNOW GOD

FIND FREEDOM

DISCOVER PURPOSE

MAKE A DIFFERENCE

1 Corinthians 9:24

24 Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win!

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WE ARE GOING TO STOP TRYING & START TRAINING!

1 Corinthians 9:24-25-27

24 Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win! 25 All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize.

26 So I run with purpose in every step. I am not just shadow boxing. 27 I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified.

1 TIMOTHY 4:7-8

7 Do not waste time arguing over godless ideas and old wives’ tales. Instead, train yourself to be godly.8 “Physical training is good, but training for godliness is much better, promising benefits in this life and in the life to come.”

DALLAS WILLARD – “WE ARE NOT TRYING TO BE DIFFERENT PEOPLE, BUT WE ARE TRAINING TO BE DIFFERENT PEOPLE.”

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRYING AND TRAINING?

TRYING IS AN ATTEMPT TO CHANGE WITH MINIMAL COMMITMENT.

TRAINING IS WHOLEHEARTED COMMITMENT TO ACHIEVE A SPECIFIC RESULT

1. YOU GET THE GEAR

2. YOU CREATE A GAME PLAN

WE ARE A BIBLE BELIEVING, GOD FEARING, PEOPLE LOVING, PURPOSE DRIVEN, LIFE CHANGING KIND OF CHURCH

PROVERBS 29:18

18 Where there is no vision, the people perish:

MSG

If people can’t see what God is doing,

they stumble all over themselves;

But when they attend to what he reveals,

they are most blessed.

IF WE DON’T HAVE VISION IF WE DON’T HAVE A PLAN….THEN WE SETTLE FOR EARTHLY COUNTERFEIT.

KNOW ME

FIND FAME

DISCOVER A PLATFORM

MAKE A DOLLAR

EPHESIANS 1:16-18

16 I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. 17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit[a] of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. 18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,

WE ARE TRAINING TO

1. KNOW GOD

MATTHEW 7:21-23

21 “Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter. 22 On judgment day many will say to me, ‘Lord! Lord! We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name.’23 But I will reply, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you who break God’s laws.’

MSG

21-23 “Knowing the correct password—saying ‘Master, Master,’ for instance—isn’t going to get you anywhere with me. What is required is serious obedience—doingwhat my Father wills. I can see it now—at the Final Judgment thousands strutting up to me and saying, ‘Master, we preached the Message, we bashed the demons, our super-spiritual projects had everyone talking.’ And do you know what I am going to say? ‘You missed the boat. All you did was use me to make yourselves important. You don’t impress me one bit. You’re out of here.’

TPT – Go away from me – you were never joined to me

GOD WANTS US TO FLOURISH

PSALM 92:13

planted in the house of the Lord,

they will flourish in the courts of our God.

THE ENVIRONMENT YOU ARE IN DETERMINES HOW MUCH YOU FLOURISH

(DEATH VALLEY PICTURE)

(THE SUPERBLOOM IN DEATH VALLEY PICTURE)