RECALIBRATE
Phase 1: Reassessment: A consideration of something again, inlight of new factors, to reappraise
Pastor Donald
Luke 10:38-42 NIV – “38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. 40 But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!” 41 “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, 42 but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”
I. HOW DOES ONE APPROACH REASSESSMENT?
A. Search Yourself
B. Ask Someone You Trust
C. Seek God
Galatians 5:16-17 NIV – “16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.”
II. THREE COMMON DEFEATIST MINDSETS
1. The Delusional
The Reactive
The Hypertensive
III. THE IMPORTANCE OF REASSESSMENT
IV. HOW SHOULD I ASSESS MY LIFE?
A. Re-Examine Your Why
Luke 22:27 NIV – “For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.”
Colossians 3:23 NIV – “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters,”
Philippians 3:13-14 NIV – “13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
B. Re-Establish Your Priorities
Luke 12:29-31 NIV – “29 And do not set your heart on what you will eat or drink; do not worry about it. 30 For the pagan world runs after all such things, and your Father knows that you need them. 31 But seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.”
C. Re-Assess Your Commitments
Colossians 1:10 NIV – “so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,”
V. THREE SIGNS IT’S TIME TO CHANGE DIRECTION
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Isaiah 48:17 NIV – “This is what the Lord says— your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go.”
Isaiah 58:11 NIV – “The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.”
James 1:5-6 NIV – “5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. 6 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.”
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VI. Conclusion
1. John
Revelation 11:1 NIV – “I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, with its worshipers.”
Lamentations 3:40 NKJV – “Let us search out and examine our ways,
and turn back to the Lord;”