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Following the Threads of our Life

Following the Threads of our Life. Embracing Freedom Saturday, Nov.15 & 22. Emotional health and spiritual maturity are inseparable. It is not possible for a Christian to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature. Embracing Freedom.

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Following the Threads of our Life

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  1. Following the Threads of our Life

  2. Embracing FreedomSaturday, Nov.15 & 22 Emotional health and spiritual maturity are inseparable. It is not possible for a Christian to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature.

  3. Embracing Freedom Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12.2

  4. Embracing Freedom Why should I attend? How will I benefit? In what ways will I grow?

  5. Embracing Freedom Grow in your identity in Christ Increase your Christ-awareness Increase your self-awareness Identify on-going unhealthy patterns & habits Develop strategies for wholeness

  6. Embracing FreedomSaturday, Nov. 15 & 22Scripture MissionCost: 2,000KesIncludes: Materials, Lunches, Teas.

  7. Following the Threads of our Life

  8. Nothing is Impossible

  9. Jesus replied, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.” Luke 18.27 For nothing is impossible with God. Luke 1.37

  10. We minister out of who we are and God is concerned about who we are and whom we are becoming. The important work is not what God is doing through you, but what He is doing in you. “Ministry flows out of being.” We are in God’s training program and He adapts the curriculum to fit us.

  11. The Big Picture • Patterns in our lives reveal passion and gifting as well as habits. • Processesof our lives deal with the ways and means used by God to move us along. • Principlesof our lives deal with the identification of foundational truths.

  12. Methods are many, Principles are few. Methods always change, Principles never do.

  13. What are the Principles– the eternal truths? and what are the Methods?

  14. . . . we were in slavery under the elemental spiritual forces of the world.” Galatians 4.3 Slaves live only in the possible. Sons and Daughters live in the impossible.

  15. Receiving a new name These are the names of the men Moses sent to explore the land. (Moses gave Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.) Numbers 13.16

  16. Receiving new assignments • Change in identity is not only in your name, but in what you do. • Joshua is the story of the kingdom of God breaking into the world of nations at a time when national and political entities were viewed as the creation of the gods and living proofs of their power. Thus the Lord’s triumph over the Canaanites testified to the world that the God of Israel is the one true and living God.

  17. From a slave to a warrior Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands.” So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur went to the top of the hill. As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning. So Joshua overcame the Amalekite army with the sword. Exodus 17.9-11

  18. Receiving a prophecy Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven.” Exodus 17.14

  19. Learning about Spiritual Authority • God is the power base for all legitimate spiritual authority. • Human authority finds its origins in spiritual authority • God’s delegated authority doesn’t belong to the person exercising it, we are simply channels. • The channel of delegated authority is responsible to God for how that authority is exercised.

  20. Learning about Spiritual Authority • A leader is one who recognizes God’s authority in real life situations. • Submission to real authority is not to the channel, but God Himself. • Spiritual authority is exercised not for the channel, but for those under the authority.

  21. Knowing what is right. Doing what is right. • We know what is right because we worship. We then do what is right which is expressed through serving.

  22. Learning to serve • Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses’ aide since youth . . . Numbers 11.28 • Then Moses set out with Joshua his aide, and Moses went up on the mountain of God. Exodus 24.13

  23. Becoming a worshipper TheLord would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young aide Joshua son of Nun did not leave the tent. Exodus 33.11

  24. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” Romans 8:15

  25. . . . God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not. Romans 4.17

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