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Has Success Buried You?. Ecclesiastes 4:4 “Then I saw that all hard work and skillful effort come from rivalry. Even this is pointless. It’s like trying to catch the wind.”. Has Success Buried You?. Ecclesiastes 4:6
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Has Success Buried You? Ecclesiastes 4:4 “Then I saw that all hard work and skillful effort come from rivalry. Even this is pointless. It’s like trying to catch the wind.”
Has Success Buried You? Ecclesiastes 4:6 “One handful of peace and quite is better than two handfuls of hard work and of trying to catch the wind.”
Has Success Buried You? Buried by Financial Provision
Has Success Buried You? Buried by Long Hours
Has Success Buried You? Buried by Workplace identity
Has Success Buried You? Buried by The money you have
Has Success Buried You? Buried by Past accomplishments
Has Success Buried You? Buried by Success of your children
Has Success Buried You? Buried by All the attempts at Success And if that image is taken away, You lose your identity.
Have Success Buried You? Philippians 3:7-9
God does want us to be successful God put in us a certain passion to excel A Healthy Ambition.
Success The positive resolution or completion of a task or purpose
Success At what? Godly purpose is at odds with the world
Worldly Success Expects Perfection Nothing less God has no expectation of our perfection
Fail “A failing; deficience; cessation of supply, or total defect. As the failure of springs or streams;” “Omission; non-performance”
Fail “A failing; deficience; cessation of supply, or total defect. As the failure of springs or streams;” Cessation of Supply Would be our effort
World defines success as a destination God defines success as a process
I am Successful I will be Loved I am unsuccessful I am Unloved
God already Radically Loves You Regardless Of what level of success you have had in your life.
Created to do good works Matthew 5:16 “let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.”
Created to do good works 2 Timothy 2:21 “…he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work.”
I don’t have to be THE best I just have to give MY best- to the glory of God
Accept how much God Radically Loves you And you are worthy of it. Then you will not be performance driven
Doing good and living right should be a RESPONSE to a Radically Loving God, NOT a performance plan to earn love from Him.
Discovering who God Created You to be You are Made in God’s image Discover who He is
Discovering who God Created You to be As I learn about Him, I learn about myself.
Discovering who God Created You to be Define yourself as God Radically Loves You You are WORTHYof His Radical Love He wants to do awesome eternal things with your life.
Discovering who God Created You to be His Radical Love for you will be an intimate part of the foundation of His plan for you