The first thing you want to take care of every day
Lord Bless me. Why? So you can be a blessing
Keep me from the evil of the day
Keep me from the evil of the day. Every day you wake up you don't know what evil had been designed
to try and take you down and trouble you. So go
ahead of it and say keep me from the evil of the day
Choose fellowship with God
daily
Choose fellowship with God daily
Try to learn what pleases the Lord and have nothing to do
with the things done in darkness
Which are not worth anything
Walk with him
Walk with him for life
Let me ask you this. Is there anything in your life
that you willing to be fully committed to for the rest
of your life
There might be things that your committed to right now that's taking your time
and your energy and you shouldn't be committed to those
Because God wants first priority in your life
And a whole heart commitment
God says whats most important
Is that you be with me above everything else
that you get to know me
It means that when I wake up in the morning I need to say
God no matter what happens today
I need to get to know you a little bit more I need to learn how to love you a little bit more
And it could be the best day I ever had
But I need to make sure I learn how to love you
And know you a little bit more
And God says if you do that, that day was a success
And the opposite is true to. Let's say you get up
And you don't even think about God and you got this great day
You go you make the sale you finally get the job
you finally get a date with a live girl
Whatever it is okay. Your a success that day
It's your best day ever that you got
And you forget about God. God says that day was a waste
It was a failure because you forgot me
What's most important is that you get to know the Lord
Get to know him
And it's a mistake that you and I make all the time in our lives
Where we don't think about inviting God into our daily experiences
We think God I've got this
I got my dating don't worry about my dating I've got it God
I know what I'm doing. God don't worry about my work
I'm good I'm good God don't worry about my work
Don't worry about my dreams God. Don't touch my dreams. Don't worry about them I got them
And we totally rule out God
Am I going to put my faith in my own wisdom in my own power
my own resources or am I going to trust God am I going to let
God do the battle for me and trust his power and
his provision in my life
And the fact is that when we make that choice
We need to know that God wants to do battle for us
God wants to go before us in battle
He wants to go with you in battle. He wants to help you in your troubles
and the problems that you have
So whatever trouble your in whatever battle your in right now
seek the Lord seek his power he wants to give it to you
Prayer is a weapon of our faith
It is one of the greatest weapons of our faith it should be
our first response and not our last resort when
we go through times of trouble
Call out to God and rely on him
God wants you to know that he wants you to experience the fullness
of his presence in your life not just every day of your life
But every moment of your life
You can experience his presence
if you want it
You can tap into it and that's the promise he gives us
He promises his presence in our lives when we seek after him
You may go through deep waters. You will go through deep waters in your life
But you will not drown
You will go through storms in life and God will get you through those storms
And when you go to battle you need to know that God
wants to be there with you and protect you and you will not be destroyed
One of the greatest truths of the bible is if God is for us
who can be against us
Here's Jesus invitation to you
Here's what he said in Matthew 11. Jesus said come to me
That's the seeking part. Come to me
All you who are weary and carry heavy burdens
All the things that are weighing you down
Here's his promise and I will give you rest
Let me teach you because I am humble and gentle at heart
And you will find the rest for your souls
And so what I can tell you with great honesty and sincerity
Is that if your in the desert your in the battle
And you've been there for a long time and your going to be in it
God's presence will be with you and he will protect you
And he will give you the rest and I've found that if i have that that is all I need
I don't have to have the answers
I don't have to understand
But if I got God and I feel him and know him
he is there
Then I am good
How do we need to make sure that we don't miss out on God's blessing
when were seeking him. Well there's a familiar verse
that gives us great direction. It's Proverbs 3,5, and 6
It says this: trust in the Lord with all your heart
And lean not on your own understanding
And in all your ways acknowledge him
And he will direct your paths
This word trust means to not just trust him in the convenient ways
not just in the easy ways
Not even in just the spiritual ways but trust him in all of the ways
that we have in our lives. In the big and the small
Trust him on the roads of life that you've been on before
And trust him on the roads you've never been on
And those paths you've never taken and those safari crazy roads were there is no path
That's your out there in the middle of the wilderness on your own trust him
This word acknowledge in here
This word acknowledge means a deep intimate penetrating
relationship where you know a person in the deepest and fullest sense
That's the kind of relationship that God wants to have with you and with me
So our life goal needs to be this
That we need to seek God in every area of our life
When we don't know what to do
And we need to seek God when we do know what to do
We need to seek him in the big things in the small things
We need to invite him into the conversations we need to invite him into
the daily life because yesterday's victories
don't determine today's successes and even when
you think you know how to answer the problem that your in
you still need to go to God. You still need to trust him
Because the greatest faith of yesterday will not give
us the confidence of today unless we stay connected to God
because he wants to bless our lives
God wants to have his best for your life he wants to have
his hand on your life he wants to give you the protection
and his presence and rest and hope and all the things that he wants to do for you
He wants that
Second Chronicles 16:9
Says the eyes of the Lord search the whole earth
They search the whole earth in order to strengthen those
who's hearts are fully committed to him
This verse that God is searching he is looking
He is seeking the entire earth for somebody
for a people for a person for a church
that's willing to be fully committed to him so that he can bless them
and have his hand on them and give you
and give me his best
He is seeking after you
God wants us to seek him but he is seeking us
He is seeking us because he loves us
And he wants to give you his best
We need to do our responsibility
and then cast our care
you do what you can do
about the things in your life that you can do something about
and then when you cannot do anything about it
you cast it on God
and you trust him and it's perfectly okay
for you to enjoy you life while you have a problem
I said it is perfectly okay
for you to go ahead and enjoy your life while
while God is working on your problem. It's not that nothing happening
it's just that your not the one that's making
something happen so whatever you got going on in your life tonight
don't waste one more day in excessive sadness
and grief and depression and discouragement
because you can't do anything about it
and Jesus paid for you to be able to enjoy your life
to have it in abundance to the full until it
overflows so we are
totally
Wasting what God gives us
if we waste our days in sadness and morning
Learn how to focus on good things
Everybody here has got something they could be upset about if they choose to
focus on it but you don't have to focus on that
and what we focus on is what we magnify in our lives
what we talk about is what we become more consciously aware of in our lives
if there's a problem that needs to be dealt with deal with it
but don't focus on it
think about the possibilities in your life
not the problems in your life. Hebrews 12:2
very simple says looking away from all that will distract
Unto Jesus
who is the author and the finisher
of our faith
Learn how to celebrate the good
instead of grieving excessively over the bad things in life
No matter where you started in life you can have a good finish
it doesn't really matter where you began
you have got a good finish coming
Let's have a shift
in our thinking
Let's have a shift in what were focusing on
Surly you can find something in your life to focus on
that's worth celebrating
And were going to be excited about the things that are yet to be done
That we know that God is working on and that God is doing