Preparation for God’s Glory

Quotes A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success Joyce Brothers

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. Quotes Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. Alexander Graham Bell

Quotes Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time. Wentworth Miller

Main Text: Numbers 10:9 "When you go to war in your land against the enemy who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the LORD your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.”

Main Text: Numbers 10:9 Sound the alarm You will be remembered You will be saved from your enemies

Main Text: Numbers 10:9 1. Gather and Evaluate: Individually and Corporately a. Gather = to bring together; to collect a number of separate things into one aggregate body.

Main Text: Numbers 10:9 b. Evaluate: to determine or set the value; the judge or determine the significance, worth, or quality.

Main Text: Numbers 10:9 c. Leviticus 9:1-6; 22-24 1. The leaders are gathered, the sacrifices are made; the people are gathered. 2. Until the entire assembly is gathered, there will be limits to the impact and fervor

2. Prayer and Fasting a. Isaiah 58:6-7 1. Loose the bonds of wickedness: Loose = to open, to plow or to begin; Bonds = anything that binds, as a cord, a chain or rope;

2. Under the heavy burdens: Undo = to jump, be violently agitated, to shake off, untie.

3. Let the oppress go free and break every yoke. Oppress: to crack in pieces, break, bruise, crush, discourage, struggle. Break: to tear off or to burst. Yoke: something that is heavy. Ox Bow: is used to bring the Ox into subjection to the one controlling the bow.

Proverbs 27:17 “As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.” Prayer sharpens the senses of Man and builds endurance in the inner man

Prayer allows an outflow of what is bottled up on the inside of man Prayer allows an outflow of what is bottled up on the inside of man. Prayer is the means of engaging heaven and God in the spiritual realm to fight the war in the natural realm.

Fasting causes the physical realm of man to be more spiritually minded Fasting causes the physical realm of man to be more spiritually minded. When we fast we bring the body into subjection to rely and trust on God.

3. Continually go the extra mile. a. Matthew 5:41 : And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. b. Requires a servants heart - unselfish and not always about “ME”

Contending for God’s glory and in preparation for God’s glory causes one to go past the limits of humanity. Our bodies and our spirits can endure much more than what we thing or can imagine.