Last week I jotted down a lot of notes that I couldn't wait to post on facebook or tweet. Well, life happened and that never happened. So here are some of my favorite notes taken from lectures at Faith:
1. We are who we are because we want what we want!
2. If a person is not broken, take them to pride and humility.
3. Be ready to be lied to! You are an instrument for God to use for them to get right with God. Don't be offended by their lies/deceit.
4. Doubt=Unbelief
5. Don't make not getting hurt a goal...that becomes an idol. Perfect love drives out fear 1 John 4:18
6. Divorce causes parents to shoot arrows at each other...right through the child.
7. The Holy Spirit is the Agent of Change. He is the Executive member of the Godhead. Needs to be present in the counselling room.
8. Ask the person, "would you do this with your wife/husband, kids present? Would you do it with your church watching? Why would you do it with God watching? He is EVERYWHERE and ALWAYS watching...Yikes!
9. We are to be the salt and the light. We are to be changing and growing and responding biblical. This speaks to unbelievers. People are watching. Live a Godly life.
10. The Holy Spirit never leads you contrary to God's word.
11. FLEE from sinful behavior or temptations...for example...no one ever committed adultery while RUNNING!
12. Sin doesn't justify our actions but it can explain it.
13. What if God treated you the way you treated your spouse or your kids or your parents...fill in the blank.
14. There is a plan behind what God does EVERY time!
15. Sin is not just an act, it's a process. How did you get there?
16. Your friends reveal your true character.
17. Don't bail your kids out. Make them learn responsibility.
18. A bad habit takes 6 weeks to break if we work on it EVERY day.
19. Children learn what they see practiced.
20. Our desires affect our relationships.
21. Anything you can be trained to do, you can be untrained to do. The hallmark of Christianity is CHANGE. Anyone who is a new creation...off with the old, on with new, put off old, put on new...
22. Make every spending ($) decision a spiritual one.
23. Avoid the seduction of greed. We are encouraged by our culture to be greedy and to worry. Worrying is incredibly unproductive.
24. Even if you have the $ to buy ________, should you really use the $ God entrusted you with to buy it. Look at the heart.
25. We are always on RED ALERT...against the devil, the world and the flesh.
26. You can't grow as a Christian on your own. This is a community project. Spur one another on!
27. Evangelize the lost. Disciple the believers.
28. The ungodly are watching and may be won over by your actions.
29. It's easy to love someone who is lovable but more challenging to love someone who is critical, sarcastic, mean, etc. Godly love never fails.
30. Faith and patience together inherit the promise. Its about God's timing. Growth and change take time.
31. Fruit of the spirit. Walk in it. Be controlled by it.
32. Be continually knocking...praying for God to change this person's heart.
33. Pride comes before destruction.
34. Does God come first only when He blesses you or at all times?
35. God can change anyone...you have to believe that!
36. Lack of accountability breeds mediocrity.
37. Debt is a cruel taskmaster. We become a slave to debt and become bitter about debt.
38. It's not our job to save our children. It's our job to be a faithful parent.
39. Romans 9...we sorrow for loved ones who don't know Christ.
40. Children cannot be the hub of your life. Children are spokes...not hubs.
41. If I am shocked and appalled by the behavior of my kids, then I am self-focused. Their sin is a log, my sin is a speck. Re-examine.
42. God is the perfect parent. He has had children and they have rebelled.
43. There are many faithful parents out there who are being judged by the actions of their kids.
44. We get defensive. We compare. We believe we are flawless. We get disgusted. We are self-focused.
45. There is no perfect family, no perfect kid out there. Don't compare!
46. We do not, by nature, drift toward Christ-likeness.
47. You have to have unhurried time alone with God.
48. Make people want what you have in Christ. More is caught than taught.
49. Don't just shoot up flare prayers (prayers sent up in the middle of a mess).
50. Teach people how to suffer well.
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