I. Walk with God

Genesis 6:9 (NIV®)
Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God.

Amos 3:3 (NIV®)
Do two walk together unless they have agreed to do so?

A. Requires a Radical Change in our Way of Thinking

Isaiah 55:6-9 (NASB®)
⁶ Seek the LORD while He may be found; Call upon Him while He is near.
⁷ Let the wicked forsake his way And the unrighteous man his thoughts; And let him return to the LORD, And He will have compassion on him, And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon. ⁸ “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. ⁹ “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts.

Matthew 15:10-18 (NIV®)
¹⁰ Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand.
¹¹ What goes into a man’s mouth does not make him ‘unclean,’ but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him ‘unclean.’” ¹² Then the disciples came to him and asked, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?” ¹³ He replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. ¹⁴ Leave them; they are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”
¹⁵ Peter said, “Explain the parable to us.” ¹⁶ “Are you still so dull?” Jesus asked them. ¹⁷ “Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? ¹⁸ But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man ‘unclean.’

B. Jesus Taught Us to Pray (So That We Might be Changed)

Our Father
who art in heaven, hallowed be your name
your kingdom come, your will be done—on earth as it is in heaven
give us this day our daily bread
and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us
lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from evil
for yours is the kingdom, and the power and the glory for ever & ever, amen.

Give us this day our daily bread

Luke 18:18-23 (NIV®)
¹⁸ A certain ruler asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
¹⁹ “Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good–except God alone.
²⁰ You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.’” ²¹ “All these I have kept since I was a boy,” he said. ²² When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” ²³ When he heard this, he became very sad, because he was a man of great wealth.

Your Kingdom come & Your will be done on earth

John 4:34-35 (NIV®)
³⁴ “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. ³⁵ Do you not say, ‘Four months more and then the harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.

Philippians 2:5-8 (NIV®)
⁵ Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: ⁶ Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, ⁷ but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. ⁸ And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death– even death on a cross!

A Proclamation of Faith

God has uniquely blessed us — the best is yet to come.
The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it.
He is the sovereign creator of all things.
Nothing is too difficult for Him, His love sustains us.
Jesus, His only son, is our savior, Lord & King.
We live in a season of shaking. God is shaking the earth.
He is restoring the Jewish people and purifying His Church.
If we look at the things which can be shaken we will be filled with terror.
If we look at the eternal Kingdom of our Lord, we will be filled with anticipation.
Our determination as we gather today is to declare before one another & Almighty God
WE WILL NOT STOP.

II. Specific Areas of Our Thinking Which Needs to Change

A. OBJECTIVES: The Ultimate Purpose: God’s Glory & His Satisfaction

Romans 11:33-36 (NIV®)
³³ Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! ³⁴ “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?” ³⁵ “Who has ever given to God, that God should repay him?” ³⁶ For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.

Psalm 104:31 (NIV®)
May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in his works–

Psalm 145:10-12 (NIV®)
¹⁰ All you have made will praise you, O LORD; your saints will extol you.
¹¹ They will tell of the glory of your kingdom and speak of your might,
¹² so that all men may know of your mighty acts and the glorious splendor of your kingdom.

Ephesians 1:5-6 (NIV®)
⁵ he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will– ⁶ to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.

Revelation 4:11 (NIV®)
“You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.”

A Proclamation of Faith

We are not satisfied.
We are not distracted.
We are not weary in doing good.
We are not discouraged.
We have our eyes on the cross and our hearts set on the prize.
We believe the One who has promised is Faithful.
We believe the Holy Spirit is our Helper.
We believe that what we ask in Jesus’ name our Father provides.
We believe that the King of Kings is returning to the earth in all of His glory —
and we intend to be about His business until that moment in time.
WE WILL NOT STOP.

B. Excellence is One of God’s Objectives!

Genesis 1:3-4 (NIV®)
³ And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
⁴ God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1:10 (NIV®)
God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:31 (NIV®)
God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning–the sixth day.

Psalm 139:14 (NIV®)
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

Romans 3:23 (NIV®)
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

2 Peter 1:5 (NIV®)
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness (excellence); and to goodness, knowledge;

Deuteronomy 6:5 (NASB®)
“You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

A Proclamation of Faith

We have cast our lot with the Prince of Peace,
We have yielded our will to the Lord of Lords,
We are servants of the King,
We reflect the beauty of the Lily of the Valley,
We stand in the strength of the Lion of Judah,
We live in health through the Great Physician,
Our needs are met because He is Our Abundance.
We know our path because we follow the Great Shepherd,
We are participants in the Kingdom of God because we found THE Door,
We are righteous because of His Sacrifice,
We have taken hold of true life because He is risen.
His name is Jesus of Nazareth, He is Christ, our Lord & our King.
WE WILL NOT STOP.

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