Welcome to DEEPER LIFE BIBLE CHURCH, AMSTERDAM REGION Year of A Bountiful Harvest Sunday Worship Service 24 February 2019

THE PATHWAY OF POWER, PROMOTION AND PROGRESS – 1 Samuel 17:31-37 The Lord is leading us onwards to lift us upwards!

KEY THOUGHT Power, promotion and progress have a lot to do with your personality, your principles and your pursuit. You need a steady foundation, a supporting environment and a positive personal drive. You too can make significant progress if you apply the principles that govern it!

BEGINNING WITH PRACTICAL RIGHTEOUSNESS Righteousness is THE foundation: Its essence: Deu 6:24,25 Its mark: Psa 4:3-5; 37:37 Its profit: Psa 112:1-10 Its differentiation: Pro 11:4-6 Its exaltation: Pro 14:34 Its possibilities: Pro 15:8 There is no better ground to support progress than a life that attracts God’s favour. Righteousness pays!

BUILDING THROUGH PROFITABLE RELATIONSHIPS Promotion, power and progress require profitable connections: Indispensable communion with God gives direction: Psa 1:1-3 Necessary connection with great people gives ideas: Pro 13:20 Purposeful contact with fellowmen gives service channels: Psa 112:5,9 Your relationships provide you with feeding, favour and fruitfulness. To climb, you must connect!

BREAKTHROUGH BY PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY There are two things you must note: Your mentality  your mobility: Faith, not laziness: Acts 27:25 Possibility, not fear: Isa 50:7 Plenty, not scarcity: Gen 13:8-11 Your attitude  your altitude: Sow wisely: Jer 4:3; 2 Cor 9:6-10 Go all the way: Ecc 11:1-6; Luk 5:4,5 Demand/expect : Ge 29:21; Jam 4:7 The power for promotion and progress is for those who see and seize it!

TIME TO PRAY!