BREAKTHROUGH TO THE NEW YOU

Nate Strickland | nstrickland@tvcc.us
February 24, 2019

Before you can have a breakthrough to the

you have to take a good look at the

“Consider it a great joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you experience various trials, because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing” James 1:2-4 (CSB)

Everyone loves the idea of

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and endurance, but no one loves the

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Most people like the idea of GREAT

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but they don’t like the idea of

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“We are too quick to get discouraged and quit because we have not learned to rejoice in suffering. Show me a believer who rejoices in suffering, and I will show you a believer who will be in ministry for a long time. When a Christian who rejoices in suffering makes disciples, you end up with an unstoppable church” - Frances Chan

“Blessed is the one who endures trials, because when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him” James 1:12-25 (CSB)

We must keep the

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GOAL IN

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“My dear brothers and sisters understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger, for human anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness. Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent, humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like someone looking at his own face in a mirror. For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of person he was. But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who works-this person will be blessed in what he does. James 1:19-25 (CSB)

Every Christian wants a

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but no one likes to be

and

If we’re never

we can NEVER

“Surely you desire integrity in the inner self, and you teach me wisdom deep within. Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.” Psalm 51:6-7 (CSB)

“Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns. See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the everlasting way.” Psalm 139:23-24 (CSB)

If you are never exposed to God’s

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for your life you will never find your Real

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You can make excuses or you can make progress, but you can’t make both.

What’s the thing that you need to break through to get to the new you?