1. Being careful to use the PUNCTUATION that God uses
God’s Punctuation
Being careful to use the PUNCTUATION that God uses

3. Rules of God’s Punctuation
Never put a PERIOD where God puts a COMMA
Never put a COMMA where God puts a PERIOD
Beware of the ELLIPSIS

4. It is not over until God says it is over !

5. When God says “It is finished”, don’t carry it over

6. Christ + Nothing

7. The omission of one or more words…
Ellipsis
The omission of one or more words…

8. God in His wisdom, spares us the details
The Ellipsis …
God in His wisdom, spares us the details

9. “Suffering for the Gospel”
Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
Colossians 1:24

10. Tom and Cheri

12. Mother and Daughter Pray
“I remembered the prayer Bethany and I had focused on for the last two weeks asking for God to use her surfing for His glory and bring her life into the center of His will!”

15. Film – “Soul Surfer”

16. Hamilton Family

17. The Apostrophe

18. Apostrophe – 2 Common Uses
Used with a noun or pronoun indicates possession
Contraction – Omission of one or more letters from a word

19. Don’t shorten what God has determined
Contraction
Don’t shorten what God has determined

20. We are not Our Own Romans 1:6
You also are among them, called to belong to Jesus Christ.

21. Even if we are not our own, Christ understands
You belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.
1 Corinthians 3:23

22. Not “Our Will” …
Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Galatians 5:24

23. The Apostrophe
For the one who was a slave when called to faith in the Lord is the Lord’s freed person; similarly, the one who was free when called is Christ’s slave.
1 Corinthians 7:22

24. We Belong to and Represent Him
We are therefore
Christ’s ambassadors
as though God were making his appeal through us.
2 Corinthinans 5:20

25. My situation is not important…
For Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12:9-11