2. The decisions that we make today determine the stories that we tell tomorrow.

4. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith…
Hebrew 12:2 - NIV
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith…

5. Hebrew 12:2 - MSG
Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever.

7. Exodus 18: NIV
The next day Moses took his seat to serve as judge for the people, and they stood around him from morning till evening. When his father-in-law saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he said, “What is this you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit as judge, while all these people stand around you from morning till evening?”
Moses answered him, “Because the people come to me to seek God’s will. Whenever they have a dispute, it is brought to me, and I decide between the parties and inform them of God’s decrees and instructions.”

9. Exodus 18:17 - NIV
Moses’ father-in-law replied, “What you are doing is not good.

11. Exodus 18: NIV
Moses’ father-in-law replied, “What you are doing is not good. You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone.
Listen now to me and I will give you some advice, and may God be with you.

12. Exodus 18: NIV
That will make your load lighter, because they will share it with you. If you do this and God so commands, you will be able to stand the strain, and all these people will go home satisfied.

14. Hebrews 12:1-2 - NIV
…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, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith.

15. …let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles.

16. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith.

18. The decisions that we make today determine the stories that we tell tomorrow.