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Preparing for the Test: Steadfast, Prayerful, Loving, and Serving

Are you ready for the ultimate test? Discover how to resist temptation, strengthen your prayer life, love others sacrificially, and use your gifts for service. Get prepared for the challenges ahead in this inspirational message.

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Preparing for the Test: Steadfast, Prayerful, Loving, and Serving

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  1. 1 Peter 4:1-11 Are you ready for the test?

  2. 2 Corinthians 5:9–10 Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. Are you ready for the test?

  3. Are you ready for the test? • Steadfastly resist temptation (v1-6) • Resolve to follow Christ (v1-2) • Pay the price for obedience (v3-4) • Believe that obedience is worth it (v5-6) 1 Corinthians 15:19,32 If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied… If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

  4. Ephesians 6:18 With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints… Are you ready for the test? • Steadfastly resist temptation (v1-6) • Wear out your knees in prayer (v7)

  5. Are you ready for the test? • Steadfastly resist temptation (v1-6) • Wear out your knees in prayer (v7) • Love others unconditionally and sacrificially (v8-9) Galatians 5:14 For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

  6. John 13:35 “By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” Are you ready for the test? • Steadfastly resist temptation (v1-6) • Wear out your knees in prayer (v7) • Love others unconditionally and sacrificially (v8-9)

  7. Are you ready for the test? • Steadfastly resist temptation (v1-6) • Wear out your knees in prayer (v7) • Love others unconditionally and sacrificially (v8-9) • Make the most of your gifts in service to others (v10-11)

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