You need some soap, Dude 2.0

Intro

I hope you remembered our message last week

Maybe when you were taking a shower, you thought about how you need to use the SOAP acronym to read your Bible in order to not stink as a Christian

Maybe when you were reading your Bible, you thought about how you really need to take a shower and use soap for everyone’s sake

Does anyone want to share their experience this week with SOAP?

I wanted to take an opportunity to practice this once again because practice makes perfect and habits become lifestyle

Body

Let’s review really quick:

S = Scripture

Read it!

maybe just 1 verse, or a paragraph or a chapter

O = Observation

What did you observe?

talk about, write it down, think about it.

A = Application

How does this apply to my life personally?

P = Prayer

Pray about it!

Pray for God to work in you and thru you with what you just read

We are going to look at one of the scriptures that I gave you for the last 2 weeks

1. S = Scripture - Read it

2 Timothy 1:7 NIV

7 For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.

2. O = Observation

What do you observe?

Paul was writing to a young pastor: Timothy

It seems that Timothy had a problem with being too timid or lacking confidence in his past (1 Timothy 4:12 don’t let anyone look down on you cuz you are young, and other references tell us this)

So don’t be a Tiny Tim. Don’t be fearful or timid. The Spirit that God gives us equips us for so much more.

Trifecta of Gifts

Power

Love

Self-Discipline/Self-Control

When you talk about being any superhero you wish for which powers? Power - yes. Love? Self-discipline? not so much

What could the gifts be used for?

3. A = Application

How do we apply this to our life?

Do you have the Spirit of God in you?

Then you have the gifts of Power, Love, and yes, Self-control

What do you want to do with it?

4. P = Prayer

Let’s pray about it.