We Gonna Have A Baby Part 7

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We Gonna Have A Baby Part 7

How To Grow Your Baby

Air … Central focus… Thoughts… Listen to God
Water... Fresh Ideas… Out of the Box--New revelation
Food... What don’t feed will die...
Exercise...Put Your Car In do
Rest... Put all your hope in God
TENSION… A Baby Won’t Grow By It’s Self!
It’s a baby and completely dependent
When God gives you a baby, you are the care-taker

1. Air Relationship with God/Focus on what he told you to do

1. Constant communion with God

If listening to God got you there, listening to God will take you the rest of the way
Listen to God
I wish above all things that you would prosper
3 John 2 NIV - Anglicised
Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.
Holy Spirit… Lead and guide you into all truth
John 16:13 NIV - Anglicised
But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.
Those who are led by the spirit
Romans 8:14 NIV - Anglicised
because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
My sheep hear my voice
John 10:27 NIV - Anglicised
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.

2. Your Baby Needs To Be Your Central focus

Thoughts…

Talk about it when you rise, along the way
Deuteronomy 11:18–21 NIV - Anglicised
Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Write them on the door-frames of your houses and on your gates, so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land that the Lord swore to give your forefathers, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.
Know the state of your flocks
Proverbs 27:23–24 NIV - Anglicised
Be sure you know the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds; for riches do not endure for ever, and a crown is not secure for all generations.
Think on these things
Philippians 4:8 NIV - Anglicised
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

2. Water Be open to Fresh ideas

This is the uncomfortable zoneRespect the wisdom of the past, but be open to the technology of the future.A Rut is a grave with both ends kicked out.Can’t do the same old thing and expect a different result
New things I declare
Isaiah 42:9 NIV - Anglicised
See, the former things have taken place, and new things I declare; before they spring into being I announce them to you.”
See, I am doing a new thing
Isaiah 43:19 NIV - Anglicised
See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.
Transformed (Brand New) by the renewing of mind
Romans 12:2 NIV - Anglicised
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

3. Food … What you don’t feed will die

Every great idea if not nurtured will eventually die.2 Dogs inside… The one I feed the most winsThe me I see is the me I’ll be
Meditate on the word day and night.
Psalm 1:3 NIV - Anglicised
He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.
Psalm 1:2–3 NIV - Anglicised
But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.
What God has told you to do is of utmost importance...You must be constantly sowing into it.

4. Exercise… Put your car in DO

When you have a baby, it’s all hands on deck
Obedience… Doing what God has told you to do
Whatever you do, work at it with all of your heart.
Colossians 3:23 NIV - Anglicised
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men,
The plans of the diligent (doer) lead to profit
Proverbs 21:5 NIV - Anglicised
The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty.
Sluggard does not plow in season
Proverbs 20:4 NIV - Anglicised
A sluggard does not plough in season; so at harvest time he looks but finds nothing.
Take another step

5. Rest ...Put all your hope and trust in God

Trust in the Lord with all your heart
Proverbs 3:5–6 NIV - Anglicised
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
Come to me all who are weary and I will give you rest
Matthew 11:28 NIV - Anglicised
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Rest brings the power to dream

Take Home Truths

1. Air… Constant communion with God
If listening to God got you there, listening to God will take you the rest of the way
2. Water... Be open to fresh ideas
Cannot do the same thing over and over and get a different result.
3. Food What you don’t feed will die
Every great idea if not nurtured will eventually die.
4. Exercise Put your car in DO
When you have a baby, it’s all hands on deck
Obedience… Doing what God has told you to do
5. Rest Put all your hope and trust in God
Trust in the Lord with all your heart
Come to me all who are weary and I will give you rest

Your Response To Truth

1. Air… Are you willing to live in consistent, constant communion with God
GodAre you willing to be uncomfortable enough to be open to fresh ideas, and new ways to get things done?Will you make recommit today to consistently feed and nurture the dream God has given you?Will you make a choice TODAY to put your car in DO.. Obedience… Doing what God has called you to do?Rest… Are you willing to trust God to bring it all to pass?
2. Water... Are you willing to be uncomfortable enough to be open to fresh ideas, and new ways to get things done?
3. Food… Will you make recommit today to consistently feed and nurture the dream God has given you?
4. Exercise… Will you make a choice TODAY to put your car in DO.. Obedience… Doing what God has called you to do?
5. Rest… Are you willing to trust God to bring it all to pass?
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