How to Keep On Keeping On
August 4, 2024 • Pastor Danny Bennett • Philippians 3:12–14, Hebrews 12:1
"How to Spiritually Move in the Right Direction"
12 I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. 13 No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.
https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/phil%203.12-14
How To Spiritually Move in the Right Direction
1. Keep pressing on.
Things That Stop Our Spiritual Growth:
Change of Schedule
Struggle with a Sin
https://biblia.com/bible/niv/heb%2012.1 (GNT) As for us, we have this large crowd of witnesses around us. So then, let us rid ourselves of everything that gets in the way, and of the sin which holds on to us so tightly, and let us run with determination the race that lies before us.
Season of Dryness
2. Focus on the future not the past.
https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/phil%203.13 13 No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead,