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What can we do to have Spiritual Strength?

3/2/2022

Psalm 59:16
"But I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love; for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble."

The last few days, we talked about what not to do if we want to be spiritually strong. Today, let's discuss emotions we want to cultivate. What do we want to do?

1) Own your emotions.

Don’t blame your emotions on your circumstances or other people. For example, we often think that a particular person made us angry. It’s true that someone can push your buttons, provoke you and cause a certain emotion like anger begin to rise up in you. But you choose what you do with that.

If it was true that someone could actually “make” you angry, that would mean they control you.

The same is true with gratitude, happiness, and contentment, as examples. No one can make you feel grateful, happy, or content. These are emotions that you choose.

If other people were responsible for your happiness, you could only experience as much happiness as they could or would give you. Ruth did not become bitter like Naomi no, she brought joy back to Naomi…the pleasantness for which she was named.

2) Lead your emotions.

Either you lead your emotions, or they lead you.
It’s not always easy, but vitally important for a leader.
When you are under pressure, stressed, tired, or feeling overwhelmed, that’s when leading your emotions is most important.

To lead your emotions is to be present with your feelings. This enables you to guide them and shape them rather than being owned or controlled by them.

Let’s take positive emotions as an example.
Your work as a spiritual leader is serious work. It involves people, problems and even spiritual warfare. Over time this process will drain you.

Therefore, it’s vital that you purposely cultivate positive emotions such as joy, gratitude, love, compassion, and contentment.

You can choose to laugh, play, serve, and give. You can choose staff, friends, and even service providers that you enjoy being around.

You can take charge and lead your emotions, rather than be governed by them.

3) Mature your emotions.

Maturing your emotions is the goal of owning and leading your emotions.

No one wants to live like a robot, or expects perfectly “contained” emotions. Your emotions are an expression of life and make you an interesting person.
At the same time, people can’t trust a leader whose emotions are unpredictable, or may erupt at any moment.

Remaining poised when the heat is on is an indication of maturity with your emotions.

Emotional maturity is required to be freed up and real, and at the same time self-controlled and even tempered.

Prayer, wise counsel, and intentional effort, combined with selfless living, are key components that help your emotions mature.

ACTION STEP: Cultivate these emotions listed here today. When you catch yourself losing it remember the ant and hold it together. Don't react but rather respond in love from your maturing self. Every time you do you will get stronger.

Tomorrow, we will look at emotions that can take a leader out.

Remember, I believe in you and you need to believe in yourself.

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Five Secrets of Spiritual Strength, 2 of 5 in the series.

3/1/2022

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Ephesians 6:10
"Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might."

Yesterday, we looked at the first two points in our series 1. Deal thoroughly with sin and 2. Own nothing. Today, we are looking at the next three points from A. W. Tozer.

Today, we look at the last three things we are not to do. Tomorrow, we will look at what we can do.

(3) NEVER DEFEND YOURSELF.
If you were abandoned you may have difficulty with this one. You grew up with no one going to bat for you and so you learned some bad habits. Habits we need to break. Just because we did something as a child does not mean that it will serve us as an adult.

Tozer: We´re all born with a desire to defend ourselves. And if
you insist upon defending yourself, God will let you do it. But if
you turn the defense of yourself over to God He will defend you.

(4) NEVER SPEAK BADLY OF OTHERS.
We want to sow more of what we want to reap. People will do what we do. Therefore, we must model for others talking well of those in our life.

Tozer: "Love covers a multitude of sins" (1 Peter 4:8). The tale
bearer has no place in God's favor. If you know something that
would hinder or hurt the reputation of one of God's children, bury it forever. Find a little garden out back-a little spot somewhere-and when somebody comes around with an evil story, take it out and bury it, and say, "Here lies in peace the story about my brother or sister." God will take care of it. "With what judgment ye judge,ye shall be judged" (Matthew 7:2).

(5) NEVER ACCEPT ANY GLORY.

This was the first sin in Heaven. Satan merchandised the praise due to God and took it for himself. When we take what belongs to God the breaks of receiving from Heaven get put on. God will shut the windows of Heaven because we don't open windows when there is a thief around.

Tozer: God is jealous of His glory and He will not give His glory
to another. He will not even share His glory with another. It is
quite natural, I should say, for people to hope that maybe their
Christian service will give them a chance to display their talents.
True, they want to serve the Lord. But they also want other people to now see they are serving the Lord. They want to have a reputation among the saints. That is very dangerous ground-seeking a reputation among the saints. It's bad enough to seek a reputation in the world, but it's worse to seek a reputation among the people of God. Our Lord gave up His reputation, and so must we.

As leaders, we experience the full array of human emotions on a regular basis.

How we handle our emotions can make or break our leadership.

Jesus himself experienced the full range of emotions such as; love, anger, compassion, loneliness, frustration, and joy.

The powerful thing about Jesus and the expression of His emotion is that it always seemed to be perfectly appropriate and perfectly timed.

But let’s be honest, we’re not Jesus. We are to live like Him, but we’ll never be Him.

So, what can we do? That will be my topic for tomorrow.

ACTION STEP: Go over these five steps and start changing your life today. Meet me here tomorrow and share this blog with others.

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Five Secrets of Spiritual Strength, 1 of 5 in the series.

2/28/2022

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1 Samuel 16:7
"But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

I want to share FIVE SECRETS of SPIRITUAL STRENGTH found in a book by A.W. Tozer. We will look at a few each day and then, move on to emotions we want to cultivate and how to deal with emotions we want to control better. So, stay with me and ask a friend to join you as we walk through this together.

(1) DEAL THOROUGHLY WITH SIN...

Below you can read what Tozer wrote. As a minister of the Gospel I consider myself much like a water hose. The world needs a bath and a drink of water. In order for God to use me I have to keep myself clean. If the hose (me) is clogged with hate, jealousy, rage, anger, lust or any other number of things then what's in the hose is going to get on or in everyone else. God loves others and me too much to do that to either of us. Clean up yourself first. Fast, pray, do the hard work of self-introspection and reach out to a good counselor or pastor to work through issues of the past, that serve as triggers in your present. God can and does heal, cleanse and set free.

Tozer: This is not to preach sinless perfection. This is to say that
every known sin is to be named, identified and repudiated, and that we must trust God for deliverance from it, so that there is no more sin anywhere in our lives. It is absolutely necessary that we deal thus, because God is a holy God and sin is on the throne of the world. (The Calvary Road)

(2) NEVER OWN ANYTHING.

I have lived long enough to learn, none of us take anything with us when we die. We are born with nothing and we will leave this earth with nothing. In my early Christian walk I shaved my head, (well at #3 razor all over except for bangs, and gave away all my jewelry.) God was cleansing me from things owning me and having power over me.

Tozer: I do not mean by this that you cannot have things. I mean
that you ought to get delivered from this sense of possessing
them. (Even her own son)… This sense of possessing is what hinders us. All babies are born with their fists clenched, and it seems to me it means: "This is mine!" One of the first things is "mine" in an angry voice. That sense of "This is mine" is a very injurious thing to the spirit. If you can get rid of it so that you have no feeling of possessing anything, there will come a great sense of freedom and liberty into your life.

Tomorrow we will look at secret # 3 and 4.

ACTION STEP: For today, ask yourself and ask God; "Is there any sin in me?" Then, ask Holy Spirit to help you deal with it. Spend some time praying in tongues. If your not sure what, why or how to do this get the book, "Praying in Tongues is Normal," by Teresa Verdecchio by clicking this link: https://www.amazon.com/Praying-Tongues-Normal-Spirit-Filled-Unapologetic/dp/1735277738

Then, ask yourself as you walk around your home and look at yourself, "Is there anything that I love more than God? Is there anything I don't think I could live without? Does what I own, how I look, or what's been given to me, mean more than my relationship with Christ?" God doesn't care how much we own, He just doesn't want anything owning us.

Until tomorrow remember, I believe in you and you need to believe in yourself.

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What stops us from doing the purposes of God 4 of 4 Strongholds.

2/25/2022

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2 Corinthians 4:4
“The god of this age [a reference to Satan and his demons] has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”

Once you recognize the stronghold, the next step to bringing it down is repentance.

Be honest before God, and humbly let the Spirit expose the stronghold in the darkness.

     Pray, "Test me, O LORD, and try me, examine my heart and my mind."

     When the Holy Spirit shows you an area of darkness, repent.

     You may need to overcome the instinct of defend yourself.

     You may need to silence the little lawyer who steps out of a dark corner of your mind, pleading, "My client is not so bad."

     If you let him, that whiny defense attorney will defend you just fine—but you’ll never see what’s wrong in you, nor face what needs to change.

     Who is the best defense attorney of all time? Jesus!

     How does He defend you, how does He justify you?

     So you don’t need to justify yourself. Let him do it.

     A broken and contrite heart he will not despise.

The defining mark of a stronghold is IT IS A RECURRING PATTERN. It literally has a “strong hold” on you so that you find it extremely difficult to break free from it, so you keep coming back to it (that’s your first indication that it’s a stronghold).

So, here are some legit question to ask yourself to help you get to the root of your strongholds.

What is a constant battleground in my life?
What unhealthy habit or unhealthy thought pattern has a stronghold on you?
What do I constantly struggle with?

The troublesome aspect of a stronghold is that it may not even be a bad thing that you’re caught up in. Your stronghold can be good things, like food, religion, a fierce-protectiveness (but because it is rooted in demon-inspired-lie that stemmed from a wound), it is toxic in your life.

So this week, your assignment is to prayerfully connect the pieces.
For now, here is something important you need to keep in mind. At the root of many of the listed vices above is a desire to want to prove our worth and our value ,or in many cases, not feeling like we’re worthy of love, affirmation, or success.

So, hear me closely on this because this was one of the key Biblical insights that broke some significant strongholds in MY life. The issue of your value is not determined by whether people like you or don’t, nor is it determined by your performance.

THE ISSUE OF YOUR VALUE AND YOUR WORTH HAS ALREADY BEEN SETTLED AT THE CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST.

On the cross of Calvary, God saw every failure, every shortcoming, and every sin you would ever commit, and He still chose to lay His life down for you.Colossians 2:14 says, “He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness (your record of charges), which stood against us and condemned us; He has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.

You don’t need to perform to win God’s approval, through faith in Christ, you already have it IN CHRIST!!

The ability to forgive those who have wounded you, to reject the lies the enemy has planted in your heart, to renounce the vows you have made to shield your heart from God, and to demolish the strongholds in your life IS ROOTED IN YOUR UNDERSTANDING AND EMBRACING OF THAT TRUTH IN COLOSSIANS 2:14, that on the cross, you are already dearly love, highly valued by the Father and worth dying for!

For whom the Son has set free, is truly free indeed! May God bless you and empower you to live freely!

I believe in you and you need to believe in yourself.

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What stops us from doing the purposes of God 3 of 4 Strongholds.

2/24/2022

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2 Corinthians 10:5 NIV
"We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ."

If you are just joining us please go back to the beginning of the week (Monday) and begin this series and then come back to today. I am building all week and we will end on Friday.

So how do you take a stronghold?

First, you have to see it, so you know what you’re dealing with. It’s kind of hard to take a stronghold you can’t even see. But strongholds of the mind can be hidden—evil things hang out in darkness.

     Satan is the prince of darkness, but Messiah is the prince of light.

You have been called out of darkness into his wonderful light!

     Nevertheless, if there is an old, sinful pattern of thought in you, that is a place of darkness, a stronghold.

     Ephesians 5:11 urges us to "have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them."

     If you want to let the light of God expose the darkness, you need an attitude of humility, be willing to let the light of God reveal the darkness in you.

     In Ps 26:2, David prayed, "Test me, O LORD, and try me, examine my heart and my mind."

If you are not willing to let God reveal any strongholds in your life, then the first stronghold you may have to start tearing down is pride!

     Who was the first to be guilty of pride? Satan! Massively so!

     Pride is the armor of Satan — he uses it to keep demonic strongholds hidden.

     Pride keeps people from ever seeing that they are trapped in demonic darkness.

     The Spirit of God is determined to bring down the stronghold of pride.

     Isaiah 25:11 says, God will bring down their pride despite the cleverness of their hands. He will bring down your high fortified walls and lay them low; he will bring them down to the ground, to the very dust.

     If pride is bad news, how much more is humility good news!

     James 4:6, "God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

     This is a promise: humility releases grace, the power of God to save you.

     James 4:7 continues with another promise:
         "Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."

     Satan can’t stand humility! It breaks his power over you!

     But God loves it! "Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up."

ACTION STEP: Get into the WORD OF GOD and find a scripture that counters every lie the enemy has been telling you. The Devil is a liar! Know the truth and the truth will set you free. Apply the word to what you are dealing with right now!

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I believe in you and you need to believe in yourself.

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What stops us from doing the purposes of God part 2 of 4 Strongholds.

2/23/2022

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Psalms 9:9
"The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble."

A spiritual stronghold is a habitual pattern of thought, built into one’s thought life.

Satan and his minions want to capture the minds of people: the mind is the citadel (stronghold) of the soul.

  ****He who controls the mind controls a very strategic place!****

     Romans 8:5-6: Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace.

     If you want the abundant life and peace that Christ promised, you must let his Spirit capture the stronghold of your mind.

     Proverbs 23:7 says, "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he."

     In Matt 12:34-35, Jesus said, For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.

Strongholds are also storage places, holding food, water and weapons.

     A stronghold gets stronger as more stuff--more thoughts—gets stored in there.

     In the life of the mind, the stuff that you were aware of gets stored up in unconscious memory, but it can make a stronghold a tough nut to crack!

     A stronghold is a way of thinking and feeling that has developed a life of its own in a person.

     It might be a rut of depression or recurring unbelief or habitually bad temper.

     It might be a repeating pattern of failure.

     Sometimes a stronghold will cause you to provoke others to reject you, (without necessarily knowing you’re doing it.)

     It might be a stronghold of resentment or worthlessness.

     If a child is sexually molested and/or badly verbally abused, a stronghold of worthlessness may build up a stockpile of negative thoughts.

     "I’m guilty. Nobody could really love me. I’m good for nothing. I’m ugly."

     She might actually be beautiful — and certainly is beautiful in the eyes of God.

     But a stronghold gets filled with arguments like these:

"Nobody would like me if they really got to know me."
"Nobody really knows me."
"Nobody really cares for me."
"Nobody really wants me for me."

     Such a person may hear a message about God’s love, whether from a pulpit or a friend, but it goes in one ear and out the other, bouncing off the walls of a stronghold of rejection or worthlessness.

You almost hear the truth come to set you free, and then comes another thought,
         "Yeah, but what about...?" Or "You just don’t understand...."

     And out comes another string of lies, excuses, smokescreens, shot down by blocking spirits.

     Thus a stronghold creates inner captivity to deception and misery.

     A stronghold keeps a person from thinking clearly, and accepting the truth, repenting of sin, and receiving deliverance.

     A stronghold can keep an unbeliever from hearing the good news.

     A stronghold can keep a believer from hearing the fullness of the good news.

Tomorrow we will discuss how to rear down an evil stronghold.

ACTION STEP:  Think about any evil stronghold that may have power over your life and the way you think and act. Write it down. Then, look up what God say's about that stronghold. Come back tomorrow and I will share with you how to tear it down.

I believe in you and you need to believe in yourself.

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What stops us from doing the purposes of God #2 of 4 Strongholds.

2/22/2022

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Isaiah 41:10 ESV
"Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

Wow, 2-22-22 that's a lot of two's! Praying you have a great day.

I am recovering from being Avalanched! It was another great year at Sandy Cove with Pastor Teresa Verdecchio. This week I am sharing bits and pieces from the message I shared at the conference. Today, I am sharing about strongholds. Strongholds can be evil or godly. They are supplied by Godly thoughts, the Word of God, the anointing or God-(Oil, water, bread) or by the opposite; (evil words, evil thoughts, evil actions.)

Symptoms of a demon inside:
·      They drive (you feel driven)
·      The harass (you feel angry and irritated, agitated)
·      They produce Compulsive Behavior and Attitudes.
·      You have a tendency to stop, slow down or reverse your spiritual growth and progress.
·      They produce sicknesses and deformities.
·      They can bind the soul or body and these spirits can be passed on through inheritance.
·      Desire you to fatalistically resign to the inevitable.

·      You’ve always been like this
·      You just can’t help it
·      It runs in your family

What is a stronghold? Why are strongholds important in literal warfare?
     A stronghold is a defensive structure:

     Psalms 9:9 The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

misgav; properly, a cliff (or other lofty or inaccessible place); figuratively, a refuge:--defense, high fort (tower), refuge. So, a cliff could be a stronghold, because it’s high and inaccessible to one’s enemies.

     1 Samuel 23:14. David stayed in the desert strongholds and in the hills of the Desert of Ziph.
Or it could be a man-made fortress or tower

     Ps 144:2 [The LORD is..] my goodness, and my fortress; my high tower [misgab, stronghold],
     and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdues my people under me.

     Why would a "high thing" like to hang out in a high cliff or a high tower, exalting itself?

     Because it’s safe up there!

     If an enemy comes, it’s much easier to drive him away from a stronghold in a high place.
You can learn about the strategic importance of strongholds in the history of the wars of Israel.

ACTION STEP: If you seem to be caught up in a cycle ask yourself, "Could I have an evil stronghold?" If you think you do, then go before the Lord and asks Him to reveal the stronghold. Then, repent and tear it down by going around it with praise, just like those walls of Jericho, and watch them fall. Replace ungodly thoughts and beliefs with the Words of Jesus found in scripture that are the opposite of what you've been confessing. If you confess, "I am ugly." Then, start confessing, "I am fearfully and wonderfully made...Ps.139:13-14" Keep going and find other scriptures such as Song of Solomon 4:7 and then make a list of 25-50 Affirmations to say out loud daily.

Come join me again tomorrow for more on how to win in the Combat Zone of life.

Remember you can get the teachings from this conference: Call 484-816-3291 to order copies of this past weekends Avalanche Women's Conference.

I believe in you and you need to believe in yourself.

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What stops us from doing what God purposes us to do? #1 Fear.

2/21/2022

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In shaky moments God raises up stable people.

Matthew 25:14-30 “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’ But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

The servant only given one talent, had everything he needed to do the will of God. He was called for the kingdom to do the will of God. He was fully equipped for what he had to do. He had been given the same ability, power, and relationship with God as the servants who were given two and five talents. But, on that final day, he had nothing with which to meet the Master but a feeble excuse for not making his life count for God. FEAR renders a person useless, helpless, bond.

Conquer your fears today. Repent, Obey, Give, Engage, Recover--"Roger that."

Call 484-816-3291 to order copies of this past weekends Avalanche Women's Conference.

I will be recovering today and up full force tomorrow. Take care and get some rest if you were with me this past week. God did some amazing things in your lives. It was an honor to serve you the Word and fun to be with you all. Pastor Teresa Verdecchio and her staff did an amazing job. You could tell a lot of prayer and hard work went into making this 12th conference a huge success. There was definitely victories won in the Combat Zone. Anyone "ROGER that?"

I believe in you and you need to believe in yourself.

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Happy Valentines Day

2/14/2022

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“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
— Audrey Hepburn

Today, enjoy those you love. We only get one Valentines Day a year. Go enjoy it. Even if you are alone, celebrate yourself. Celebrate God's love for you. He'd leave the 99 just to find you. He sent His son to die for you, so you could live forever with Him. You are fearfully and wonderfully created just for Him. No one will ever love you more...

These are just a few things the Bible says about us. The love God has for us, can never fail. Today, may be all you desire or far from it; but know this--God is never far away and He loves us all.

This week I will be out of town at a conference speaking. So, enjoy your week. See you February 21st, 2022.

What would you like me to share with you when I return? I will be sharing at this conference, "Living in the Combat Zone--Dismantling Devils." Perhaps, I will come back and share with you the message I prepared to deliver at Sandy Cove Avalanche 2022?

I believe in you and you need to believe in yourself.

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Goal setting series #5 of 5. Markers to know your goals are Godly not just good.

2/11/2022

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Romans 5:3-5 ESV
"More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us."

Good morning, you made it through the week with me. My series on goal setting has been very popular and is helping so many. Please take time to share with others and encourage them to visit my website. While they are there they can leave their name and email so, they can keep receiving helpful information and prayer. Here is the link you can send them: www.renaperozich.com

Let's get started.

Not every goal that you set is a good goal.

Not every goal that you are going to set God is going to bless.

So, you want to set the kind of goals that God is going to bless and God is going to give you the power to do.

Here are the secrets to setting our goals for life:

When you get ready to set your goals, it is good to ask these three questions.

1. Will This Goal Honor God?

What kind of goal will honor God? What kind of goal will bring glory to God?
Any goal that causes you to trust Him more, to depend on God more, to love God more, to love others more, to serve God, to serve others without selfish reasons. Those are "God" goals.

1 Corinthians 6:20 …you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

Are you using your body to honor God?

Everything can be done to honor God.

1 Corinthians 10:31 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

When you do your daily chores with the right motive, right attitude you honor God.

2 Corinthians 5:9 So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it.

2. Is This Goal Motivated By Love?

God is not going to bless a goal motivated by selfish reasons.

God is not going to bless a goal motivated by greed, competition, envy, grief or guilt or grudges, worry or fear or anxiety, materialism or by ego or by pride.

James 4:3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

But, when you set a goal out of love where you say, “Lord this goal is because I love you and I want to love other people,” God is going to honor that because it is all about love.

1 Corinthians 16:14 Do everything in love.

1 Corinthians 14:1 Follow the way of love.

Love should be our highest priority.

We must have a desire to love the unloved and the lost.

I want to love the people who are hard to love.

If you set loveless goals, you are going to treat people as projects.

You are going to run all over them to get to your goals. You are going to run over your marriage, friends, relatives and others because of your loveless goals.

Our goal should not be primarily about accomplishments but about relationships.

It is about learning how to love.

3. Will This Goal Require Depending on God.

Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please God.

If you do not have a goal that does not require faith, then it is not pleasing to God.

Romans 14:23 Anything that does not come from faith is sin.

Proverbs 16:9 In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.

God is very integral in your goal setting.

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ACTION STEP: I hope you have been enjoying this series on Goal setting. Have a great weekend. Next week I will be speaking at Avalanche 2022 at Sandy Cove in Maryland. I appreciate your prayers and look forward to seeing many of you there.

Now, go make some "God Goals" and tell somebody, do you put it out there and are held accountable. God has BIG PLANS for you!

I believe in you and you need to believe in yourself.