The Life You Were Meant To Live

“Evicting Envy From Your Heart”

For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will Ephesians 1:4-5

For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do Ephesians 2:10

How Envy Causes Me To Miss The Purpose Of My Life 1. Envy denies my ______________. UNIQUENES S

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, 16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. Psalm 139:13-16

But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’” Romans 9:20

How Envy Causes Me To Miss The Purpose Of My Life 2. Envy divides my ____________. ATTENTION

No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money Matthew 6:24

Jesus replied, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.” Luke 9:62

How Envy Causes Me To Miss The Purpose Of My Life 3. Envy wastes my ___________________. TIME AND ENERGY

And I saw that all labor and all achievement spring from man's envy of his neighbor. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.; There was a man all alone; he had neither son nor brother. There was no end to his toil, yet his eyes were not content with his wealth. “For whom am I toiling,” he asked, “and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?” This too is meaningless—a miserable business! Ecclesiastes 4:4; 8

How Envy Causes Me To Miss The Purpose Of My Life 4. Envy leads to ___________________. EVERY OTHER SIN

For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice. James 3:16

How To Evict Envy 1. Never compare myself to ______________. OTHERS

The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius. 10 So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius Matthew 20:9-10

How To Evict Envy 2. Celebrate God’s goodness ____________. TO OTHERS

Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. Romans 12:15

So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. 11 When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. Matthew 20:10-11

... are you envious because I am generous? Matthew 20:15

How To Evict Envy 3. Be grateful for ______________________________. WHO I AM AND WHAT I HAVE

For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not? 8 Already you have all you want! 1 Corinthians 4:7-8

I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. Philippians 4:11b

How To Evict Envy 4. Trust God when ____________________. LIFE SEEMS UNFAIR

“But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius? 14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’” Matthew 20:13-15

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. we each have own race Hebrews 12:1

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