Some Assembly Required! Some Assembly Required! Happy New Year James 1:21-25
We Totally Underestimate the Power of a Single Small Change!
WARNING! Do Not Attempt More Than One In Each Category
So here are the directions for a more powerful, fulfilling, effective and dynamic New Year! James 1:21-25
21 So put out of your life every evil thing and every kind of wrong. Then in gentleness accept God’s teaching that is planted in your hearts, which can…
…save you. 22 Do what God’s teaching says; when you only listen and do nothing, you are fooling yourselves. 23 Those who hear God’s teaching and do nothing are like people who look at themselves…
…in a mirror. 24 They see their faces and then go away and quickly forget what they looked like. 25 But the truly happy people are those who carefully study God’s perfect law that makes people free...
…and they continue to study it. They do not forget what they heard, but they obey what God’s teaching says. Those who do this will be made happy.”
STOP! “So put out of your life…” James 1:21a
“A thief comes to steal and kill and destroy, but I came to give life—life in all its fullness.” John 10:10 NCV
STOP! Negative Emotions
STOP! Joy-Suckers
STOP! Spirit-Killers
STOP! Mind Numbing Behaviors
STOP! Destructive Habits
GO! “…in gentleness accept God’s teaching…” James 1:21b
“Good people bring good things out of the good they stored in their hearts. But evil people bring evil things out of the evil they stored in their hearts. People speak the things that are in their hearts” Luke 6:45 NCV
GO! Engage in a Redemptive Act
GO! Seek Spiritual Transformation
GO! Demonstrate a Greater Gratitude
PROCEED WITH CAUTION! “Do what God’s teaching says…” James 1:22a
“I do not mean that I am already as God wants me to be. I have not yet reached that goal, but I continue trying to reach it and to make it mine. Christ wants me to do that, which is the reason he made me his.” Philippians 3:12 NCV
PROCEED WITH CAUTION! Establish Spiritual Habits
PROCEED WITH CAUTION! Walk with God
PROCEED WITH CAUTION! Seek the Mind of Christ
PROCEED WITH CAUTION! Share Your Faith
If God Gives You the Grace to See 2014, Make the Most of His Gift!
Some Assembly Required! Some Assembly Required! Happy New Year James 1:21-25