1. God-sized dreams Week 2 The healthy disciple Chris Besser

2. Mission statement
Building relationships that connect all people to God-sized life and love.

3. Mission measures
The attributes or characteristics of an individual’s life that reflect the achievement of our mission.

4. Growth is a measurement of health
How are you growing?

5. The growth measurements
How are you growing in your desire?
How are you growing in your study?
How are you growing in your prayer?

6. How are you growing…
In your desire?

7. 1 Peter 2:2
Like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation

8. ἐπιποθέω (epipotheō):
Desire
Like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation – 1Peter 2:2
ἐπιποθέω (epipotheō):
deeply desire,
long for,
crave;
have great affection for

9. James 4:5
Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: “He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”?

10. a command to desire
“Now, isn't that amazing! A command to desire! A command to feel longings we do not feel. A command to feel desires we do not have. Is anything more contrary to spiritual fatalism than that? Fatalism says, I can't just create desires. If they're not there, they're not there.”
John Piper
Piper, John. “Long for the Pure Milk of the Word” desiringgod.org. desiringGod, 30 Jan Web.

11. Be less satisfied with milk
2 Measures of Growth
Like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation – 1Peter 2:2
Crave the Word
Be less satisfied with milk

12. Hebrews 5:12-14
12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. 14 But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.

13. How are you growing…
In your Study?

14. Acts 17:11
Now these were more noble- minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

15. Growth comes from being connected to the word
What’s your bible intake grade?

19. Bible intake Hearing Reading Studying
Luke 11:28 - …blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it
Matt. 19:4 - Have you not read…?
Ezra 7:10 - Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the Lord and to practice it…

20. How are you growing…
In your Prayer?

21. “As it is the business of tailors to make clothes and of cobblers to mend shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.”
Martin Luther

22. Colossians 4:2
Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving

23. Devote – Be STRONG. Earnest adherence to a person or thing.
Devoted & alert
Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving
– Col 4:2
Devote – Be STRONG. Earnest adherence to a person or thing.
Alert – Constant spiritual alertness; watchful and active.

24. Reasons for Prayer
God wants us to pray so our dependence on Him can increase
God desires that our love for Him and our relationship with Him will deepen and grow.
Prayer allows us to be a part of a story that is greater than our own.
Fall Doctrine

25. Lipka, Michael. “5 facts about prayer. ” pewresearch. org
Lipka, Michael. “5 facts about prayer.” pewresearch.org. Pew Research Center, 4 May Web.

27. Mission statement
Building relationships that connect all people to God-sized life and love.

28. Have a plan Trust in His power Meditation Realize who you are Fast
DESIRE
PRAY
Trust in His power
Realize who you are
Meditation
Fast
Journal
“Pray the Bible”
STUDY
Prioritize Church
Podcasts
Reading plans
Accountability
he gives what he commands

29. PRAYER
STUDY
DESIRE