Listen Up
(Revelation 2:4-5 NLT) “But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first! 5 Look how far you have fallen! Turn back to me and do the works you did at first. If you don’t repent, I will come and remove your lampstand from its place among the churches…
(Revelation 2:7 NLT) “Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the Spirit and understand what he is saying to the churches…”
Listen up: Remember your
(Proverbs 29:18 KJV) Where there is no vision, the people perish.
(Proverbs 29:18 NIV) Where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint.
(Proverbs 29:18 MSG) If people can’t see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves; but when they attend to what he reveals, they are most blessed.
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My Purpose
(John 17:18 MSG) In the same way that you gave me a mission in the world, I give them a mission in the world.
(Acts 20:24 NCV) I don’t care about my own life. The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus gave me—to tell people the Good News about God’s grace.
(Ephesians 2:10) For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
(Acts 1:8) “You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
1.Make a difference in
(Mark 5:19 NCV) Go home to your family and friends. Tell them how much the Lord has done for you and how he has had mercy on you.
(Proverbs 3:27-28 MSG) Never walk away from someone who deserves help; your hand is God’s hand for that person. Never tell your neighbors to wait until tomorrow if you can help them now.
2.Make a difference
(1 Corinthians 9:22 TLB) Whatever a person is like, I try to find common ground with him so that he will let me tell him about Christ and let Christ save him.
(Galatians 6:2 MSG) Stoop down and reach out to those who are oppressed. Share their burdens, and so complete Christ’s law.
3.Make a difference in
(Mark 16:15 NCV) Jesus said to His followers, “Go everywhere in the world, and tell the Good News to everyone.”
(Mark 10:29 LB) Jesus replied, “Let me assure you that no one has ever given up anything… for love of Me and to tell others the Good News, who won’t be given back, a hundred times over…”
I will never be satisfied making
When my purpose is to make