Wednesday Night Bible Study Instinct in Action

Your Instinct has rhythm

A. One of the most asked questions among believers and non- believers is: What am I Born to Do? I’m not sure where I fit? What else is there, I feel stagnant, why can’t I connect?

i. The answer is found in our ability to make the crucial distinctions between what we are “good at” and what we are “good for”.

B. Instinct DEFINED:

noun: instinct; plural noun: instincts

/ˈinstiNG(k)t/

1. an innate, typically fixed pattern of behavior in animals in response to certain stimuli.

"birds have an instinct to build nests"

o a natural or intuitive way of acting or thinking.

"they retain their old authoritarian instincts"

synonyms:

natural tendency, inborn tendency, inherent tendency, inclination, inner prompting, urge, drive, compulsion, need; More

o a natural propensity or skill of a specified kind.

"his instinct for making the most of his chances"

synonyms:

talent, gift, ability, capacity, facility, faculty, aptitude, skill, flair,

feel, genius, knack, bent

"he already has a good instinct for acting"

o the fact or quality of possessing innate behavior patterns.

"instinct told her not to ask the question"

adjective

FORMAL

adjective: instinct

/inˈstiNGkt/

1. imbued or filled with (a quality, especially a desirable one).

"these canvases are instinct with passion"

C. When we are truly engage in our life’s callings, we rely on something that cannot be taught. Rather our instincts provide the key to unlocking our most productive, most satisfying, and most joyful lives.

1. What we are good at __________________ (skills or vocation)

2. What we are good for _________________ (purposeful potential)

D. When you’re living by instinct, then you will naturally enhance everything and everyone around you.

Now is the time to get in sync with your instinctive rhythm.

E. Matthew 9:14-17 (NIV/MSG)

14 Then John’s disciples came and asked him, “How is it that we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?”0% difference

14 A little later John’s followers approached, asking, “Why is it that we and the Pharisees rigorously discipline body and spirit by fasting, but your followers don’t?”52% difference

15 Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.0% difference

15 Jesus told them, “When you’re celebrating a wedding, you don’t skimp on the cake and wine. You feast. Later you may need to pull in your belt, but not now. No one throws cold water on a friendly bonfire. This is Kingdom Come!”89% difference

16 “No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse.0% difference

16 He went on, “No one cuts up a fine silk scarf to patch old work clothes; you want fabrics that match.74% difference

17 Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”0% difference

17 And you don’t put your wine in cracked bottles.”93% difference

i. What truth do you see in these verses?

ii. What does the author desire to communicate?

F. Decoding your own instinct

i. John the Baptist (Luke 1 and Luke 3)

1. Feeling the Rhythm

a. Cells connected with Purpose

i. 1:5-17

b. The inherent imprint of your cells activate other cells to become what they were predestined to become

c. When were in sync with our inner wisdom, we see that we have a unique contribution to the whole world.

d. Our God given instincts are found in the whisper

i. Proverbs 4:23b

1. “out of ….”

2. There is a flow in the heart of man.

3. connect =”…flow…” John 7:38b

4. We are called to get in the flow with God

G. Living From the Inside Out

your instinct in action

Instinct Evolves over Time

· Your success depends on your willingness to act instinctively.

· Instinct are our guiding compass from “what we have and what we want to have”

· Our instincts include an acute sense of timing along with an awareness of self and others that transcends

o Selfish lust

o Additive behaviors

o Additive desires

· Our instincts are not motivated by:

o Immediate gratification

o Personal gain at the expense of exploiting someone else

o Pursuit of satisfaction freed from truthfulness

· Trailblazing people move by instinct, because there is nothing outward that suggest that what they see is inwardly possible

o Our instincts bear the imprint of the DIVINE

i. John the Baptist (Luke 1:5-13; 39-45)

1. Became forerunners of the promise

a. 1:66,76-80

2. Fulfilled purpose

i. Enhance their life’s work by not limiting themselves to the scripts and structure of other people’s minds

1. Luke 3:2-6;15-18 ,21-22

2. Gospel of John 3:23-*27, (gift given from above)

3. Gospel of John 3:30

3. Completed assignment

a. Faced different levels of enjoyment as well as persecutions.

i. 3:19-20 wanted him locked up

ii. Gospel of John 1:19-28

iii. Gospel of John 3:29 (joy fulfilled, to hear the bridegrooms voice)

H. Combined instinct with intellect to discover new ways of seeing what’s missing in plain sight

i. Matthew 9:14-17

1. There is one thing that is needed to find fulfillment in life: to find that place in life, that station of being, where all that is within you resonated with the challenge before you.

2. Great instincts lead to great promotion

a. It may be worth your time to spend a little time enhancing those instincts and acting o them when given the freedom to do so.

i. Requires courage to move into the premier.

1. Meeting the demands

2. Keen sense of our inner instinct

a. Often only seen through the chaos and clutter of our life

b. We must be courageous enough to follow

3. Remember you are the:

a. Right person

b. In the Right place

c. Time into the right timing

4. Easier SAID than done

a. Keys to success and moving by instinct

i. The ability to see the invisible stimulates you inherent abilities

ii. The ability to transform what they are given into more than what it was when presented to them.

b. Recognizing the gap

i. between where you are and where you want to be, then you must allow your instincts to become your bridge.

c. Break Barriers by resisting Complacency

i. Understanding the why is just as important as the what

ii. John Maxwell “It’s not enough to know how to do a thing will always have a job. But those who understand why they did it will always be their bosses!”

iii. Instinct =peeking, to prick, ones own heart and soul. The only thing that will inspire you, will be that which lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you’ve been given.

I. Instinct in ACTION

i. Transformed by your instinct

a. Willing to look within

b. Willing to exercise them

i. Go Beyond Facts ii. Go Beyond Failures iii. Explore your feeling and impulses to increase what has been given you iv. Nourish your Aspirations