2. WRONG FOCUS WRONG MOTIVES WRONG SOURCE

3. WHAT ARE YOU ABOUT?

4. 11 THOU ART WORTHY, O LORD, TO RECEIVE GLORY AND HONOUR AND POWER: FOR THOU HAST CREATED ALL THINGS, AND FOR THY PLEASURE THEY ARE AND WERE CREATED. REV 4:11

5. NOW AFTER SIX DAYS JESUS TOOK PETER, JAMES, AND JOHN HIS BROTHER, LED THEM UP ON A HIGH MOUNTAIN BY THEMSELVES; 2 AND HE WAS TRANSFIGURED BEFORE THEM. HIS FACE SHONE LIKE THE SUN, AND HIS CLOTHES BECAME AS WHITE AS THE LIGHT. 3 AND BEHOLD, MOSES AND ELIJAH APPEARED TO THEM, TALKING WITH HIM. MATT 17:1-3

6. ELIJAH – THE GREATEST PROPHET BUT… ELIJAH WAS BURNT OUT & DEPRESSED

7. BUT HE HIMSELF WENT A DAY’S JOURNEY INTO THE WILDERNESS, AND CAME AND SAT DOWN UNDER A BROOM TREE. AND HE PRAYED THAT HE MIGHT DIE, AND SAID, “IT IS ENOUGH! NOW, LORD, TAKE MY LIFE, FOR I AM NO BETTER THAN MY FATHERS!” 1 KINGS 19:4

8. WHAT HAPPENED TO ELIJAH?

9. ELIJAH HAD THE WRONG FOCUS 10 SO HE SAID, “I HAVE BEEN VERY ZEALOUS FOR THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS; FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAVE FORSAKEN YOUR COVENANT, TORN DOWN YOUR ALTARS, AND KILLED YOUR PROPHETS WITH THE SWORD. I ALONE AM LEFT; AND THEY SEEK TO TAKE MY LIFE.” 1 KING 19:10

10. WHEN WE FOCUS ON OURSELVES… MISPLACE OUR IDENTITY EXAGGERATE OUR PROBLEM DOMINATED BY OUR FEELINGS FORFEIT OUR DESTINY

11. ELIJAH HAD WRONG FOCUS

12. MOSES HAD WRONG FOCUS "LISTEN, YOU REBELS, MUST WE BRING YOU WATER OUT OF THIS ROCK?” NUM 20:10

13. 11 THOU ART WORTHY, O LORD, TO RECEIVE GLORY AND HONOUR AND POWER: FOR THOU HAST CREATED ALL THINGS, AND FOR THY PLEASURE THEY ARE AND WERE CREATED. REV 4:11

14. ELIJAH WAS ABOUT HIS MINISTRY MOSES WAS ABOUT HIS LEADERSHIP LIFE IS NOT ALL ABOUT YOU

15. 15 HE IS THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD, THE FIRSTBORN OVER ALL CREATION. 16 FOR BY HIM ALL THINGS WERE CREATED THAT ARE IN HEAVEN AND THAT ARE ON EARTH, VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE, WHETHER THRONES OR DOMINIONS OR PRINCIPALITIES OR POWERS. ALL THINGS WERE CREATED THROUGH HIM AND FOR HIM. 17 AND HE IS BEFORE ALL THINGS, AND IN HIM ALL THINGS CONSIST. 18 AND HE IS THE HEAD OF THE BODY, THE CHURCH, WHO IS THE BEGINNING, THE FIRSTBORN FROM THE DEAD, THAT IN ALL THINGS HE MAY HAVE THE PREEMINENCE. COL 1:15-18

16. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT GOD ALONE WHAT ARE YOU ABOUT?