Focused Living
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Intro-
Intro-
Trust:
Trust:
No trust? Never Fear! It’s a process
No trust? Never Fear! It’s a process
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.
Teaching - never forget it.
Learning over lifetime creates confidence i.e. trust
The product of trust: peace
I’ll teach you the beginning of trust:
I’ll teach you the beginning of trust:
Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.
The character of God must be our adornment. It must be what we put on each day as what defines who we are.
“Steadfast love and faithfulness.”
The lesson to apply:
The lesson to apply:
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.
Take the time to seek him out:
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Obedience:
Obedience:
Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him.
How do you respond? Do you do what you want? Is He looking for a, “yes,dad?”
An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
You don’t get to do it your way you gotta do it his way.
It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.
He isn’t going to take half-time obedience, and when he isn’t watching do your own thing.
-Ray and his disobedience.
Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything. Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel,
Balance:
Balance:
And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”
He built a system with balance, fruitfulness and abiding, harvest and rest. Without balance the nature of trusting will be missed because the quiet time to learn is missed. The training in