How to Thrive...Not Just Survive
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· 781 viewsWas last year a good year? Bad? Mediocre? Would you like 2018 to be a better year? Today’s message provides 5 daily disciplines to help you thrive in 2018, not just survive.
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How to Thrive…Not Just Survive
How to Thrive…Not Just Survive
A. Was Last Year Poor, or at Best Mediocre?
1. Did you have dreams that were dashed?
Roger Campbell. Preach for a Year: 104 Sermon Outlines (Preach for a Year Series): 7 (Kindle Locations 100-101). Kindle Edition.
2. Are you having trouble expecting a great year?
B. Let's Thrive; Not Just Survive
1. Jesus came to give us an abundant life ()
jn 10.10
10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
a. He gives abundant forgiveness for our sins and failures
b. He gives abundant power for a great future
Roger Campbell. Preach for a Year: 104 Sermon Outlines (Preach for a Year Series): 7 (Kindle Locations 101-102). Kindle Edition.
C. Here Are Five Daily Disciplines to Make This Your Greatest Year
Rise Thankfully ()
Rise Thankfully ()
6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;
Start each day, giving thanks. ()
1 It is good to give thanks to the Lord, And to sing praises to Your name, O Most High;
2. Give thanks for things you used to take for granted
a. You are alive and have a roof over your head
b. You have food to eat and clothes to wear ()
Roger Campbell. Preach for a Year: 104 Sermon Outlines (Preach for a Year Series): 7 (Kindle Locations 102-103). Kindle Edition.
6 Now godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. 8 And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content.
Give thanks for salvation. ()
1 Bless the Lord, O my soul;
And all that is within me, bless His holy name!
2 Bless the Lord, O my soul,
And forget not all His benefits:
3 Who forgives all your iniquities,
Who heals all your diseases,
4 Who redeems your life from destruction,
Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies,
5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things,
So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
6 The Lord executes righteousness
And justice for all who are oppressed.
Give thanks for the privilege of prayer. ()
6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;
Prayer overcomes anger and enables us to forgive. Second daily discipline...
Pray Expectantly (v. 6)
Pray Expectantly (v. 6)
6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;
1. Worry about nothing
2. Pray about everything, expecting answers
a. We can pray and believe and receive ()
Roger Campbell. Preach for a Year: 104 Sermon Outlines (Preach for a Year Series): 7 (Kindle Locations 104-105). Kindle Edition.
6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.
b. We can pray or doubt and go without ()
6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
3. God is able to answer our prayers ()
3 ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’
The third daily discipline...
Speak Kindly (v.8)
Speak Kindly (v.8)
8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.
1. What we say reveals what we have on our minds
2. Paul gives us a cure for cross and critical tongues
a. Think positively about people
Roger Campbell. Preach for a Year: 104 Sermon Outlines (Preach for a Year Series): 7 (Kindle Locations 106-107). Kindle Edition.
b. Focus on virtue and praise
3. Refuse to focus on the faults of others
Fourth discipline...
Forgive Quickly ()
Forgive Quickly ()
12 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.
1. Forgiveness is a call to Christian love: mercy, kindness, humility, longsuffering
2. "Forbearing [putting up with] one another”
3. Forgive as Christ forgave us: the key to true forgiveness. And lastly...
Roger Campbell. Preach for a Year: 104 Sermon Outlines (Preach for a Year Series): 7 (Kindle Locations 107-110). Kindle Edition.
Work Worshipfully ()
Work Worshipfully ()
17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
Roger Campbell. Preach for a Year: 104 Sermon Outlines (Preach for a Year Series): 7 (Kindle Location 110). Kindle Edition.
1. Bring every area of life into the arena of worship
2. Make no separation between the sacred and the secular
Roger Campbell. Preach for a Year: 104 Sermon Outlines (Preach for a Year Series): 7 (Kindle Location 111). Kindle Edition.
3. Do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus
As we close… So when someone says, “Give me five...”
Share the Five Requirements to Thrive...
Rise Thankfully
Pray Expectantly
Speak Kindly
Forgive Quickly
Work Worshipfully