HOW TO BUILD A BETTER LIFE
February 1 & 2, 2025 // Pastor Mike Berry
1. JESUS IS
“I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”
John 10:10, NKJ
“Do not conform 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, NIV
2. YOU
“Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord.”
Lamentations 3:40, NIV
3. WE NEED TO LEARN TO
“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.”
Philippians 4:8–9, NIV
4. WE NEED TO LEARN TO LET OUR THOUGHTS MAKES US
“…Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.”
2 Corinthians 12:7–9, NIV
THREE THINGS TO THINK ABOUT EVERY DAY THIS WEEK:
* How much better your life is
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* Your new
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
2 Corinthians 5:17–21, NIV
“You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.”
John 15:16, NIV
“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”
Ephesians 2:10, NIV
“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.”
Ephesians 3:20–21, NIV
Action Steps: Have you prayed to God about where you would like to have life more abundantly? Where do you wrestle with negative thoughts and stinking thinking? How can you practice changing your thoughts this week? How have you let your thoughts negatively affect you and how can you let your thoughts make you more powerful?