1. Pastor Mark Schwarzbauer PhD Family Worship Center
Our Journey Together Part 3
Pastor Mark Schwarzbauer PhD Family Worship Center

4. Pay attention to the gap or space between where you are standing on the platform and the train.
Pay attention to the gap between where you are and the journey with God.

5. Proverbs 3:5-6
5Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding; 6think about Him in all your ways, and He will guide you on the right paths.

6. Part One: Our Recent Past
Review
Part One:
Our Recent Past

7. If you missed last two weeks’ messages please watch them online at

8. Review Part Two:
Our Theme for 2017

9. Proverbs 3:5-6
5Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding; 6think about Him in all your ways, and He will guide you on the right paths. (our memory verse)

10. Think” about Him in all ways. MIND THE GAP in your thinking
Proverbs 3:5-6
5Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding; 6think about Him in all your ways, and He will guide you on the right paths. (our memory verse)
Think” about Him in all ways.
MIND THE GAP in your thinking

11. Proverbs 3:5-6
5Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding; 6think about Him in all your ways, and He will guide you on the right paths. (our memory verse)
Think” about Him in all ways. “Think is from the Hebrew wordיָדַע (yaw-dah'), a verb – action word “to know”. .

12. Proverbs 3:5-6
5Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding; 6think about Him in all your ways, and He will guide you on the right paths. (our memory verse)
Think” about Him in all ways. “Think” is from the Hebrew wordיָדַע (yaw-dah'), a verb – action word “to know”… Acknowledge, involve God, relationship with Him, run it past, hang with.

13. where can you bring God more into your daily life?
Proverbs 3:5-6
5Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding; 6think about Him in all your ways, and He will guide you on the right paths. (our memory verse)
MIND THE GAP –
where can you bring God more into your daily life?

14. Our Theme in 2017 Emerging from the Past Engaged in the Present
Driven by the Eternal

15. Packing for Your Journey
Review Part Three:
Packing for Your Journey

16. Packing for Your Journey
MIND THE GAP in Your Packing…
Packing the Word into your life
Packing Devotions
Packing Church into your schedule
Packing faithfulness into your lifestyle
Packing for Wednesday evenings Ride through the Holy Land.

17. Review Part Four:
What NOT to Pack

18. MIND THE GAP in What NOT to Pack.
Ball and chains and garbage from past.

20. What Not to Pack
B.A.L.L.
Bitterness
Anger and outbursts of wrath
Lifestyles of Sin
Leftover Pain

22. Part Five
MIND THE GAP

23. The enemy will try to put the ball and chain back on you with B.A.L.L.
MIND THE GAP
The enemy will try to put the ball and chain back on you with B.A.L.L.
GET TOUGH!

24. I Peter 5:8-9
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. 9 Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world.

25. I Peter 5:8-9
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. 9 Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world.

26. I Peter 5:8-9
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. 9 Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world.

27. I Peter 5:8-9
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. 9 Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world.

28. Matthew 10:16
“I'm sending you out like sheep among wolves. So be as cunning as snakes but as innocent as doves.”

29. From 100 Days Through Matthew Mark and Luke
“Jesus begins by using two illustrations of nature. The disciples are like sheep in the midst of wolves. They will be watched for the purpose of harm. Therefore, the disciples need to be wise as serpents, monitoring everything around them. Yet, they must also be harmless as doves meaning “unmixed” and retaining purity.”
From 100 Days Through Matthew Mark and Luke

30. MIND THE GAP
Be cunning, shrewd, and wise as to how the enemy will try to pull you back.

31. MIND THE GAP
1. The enemy will try to discourage you with who you were. Resist him Steadfast with II Cor. 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”

32. MIND THE GAP
The enemy will try to pull you back to your old lifestyle.
Resist him Steadfast with Eph. 5:11 “Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.”

33. MIND THE GAP
3. The enemy will try to pull you back through people of the past. Resist him Steadfast with I Cor. 15:33 “Don't let anyone deceive you. Associating with bad people will ruin decent people.”

34. MIND THE GAP
4. The enemy will try to trick you into false freedom. Resist him Steadfast with 2 Peter 2:19 “They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity--for people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.”

35. MIND THE GAP
The enemy knows your weaknesses so be wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove.
Next week – I will deal with psychological warfare and how to overcome the negative thoughts and discouragement in your mind.

36. Stand Fast in Faith and