LivinLife On Purpose - Two Camps

LivinLife On Purpose
The Two Camps

Intentional Christianity

• Be Intentional – The choices we make determine the substance of our life.
  
• Living intentionally is to:
  
  • take action deliberately or intended.
    
  • live life with a plan in mind, a life of meaning.
    
  • to stretch toward a thing in order to fulfill a larger function

We are not today what we were yesterday. We will not be tomorrow what we are today. We are in the process of being changed. This change for believers is not the change of mere difference, but a transformation. We are becoming like Christ.
Living the Life You Were Meant to Live by Tom Paterson

We have a problem:
we remember the things we are supposed to forget and forget the things we are supposed to remember!

Test yourselves to make sure you are solid in the faith. Don’t drift along taking everything for granted. Give yourselves regular checkups. You need firsthand evidence, not mere hearsay, that Jesus Christ is in you. Test it out. If you fail the test, do something about it.
II Corinthians 13:5 MSG

Instead, let us test and examine our ways. Let us turn again in repentance to the LORD.
Lamentations 3:40 NLT

Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.
Galatians 6:4-5 MSG

Life Review Choices ...

• Choice #1 — DISCOVER Who You Are
  • “Make a careful exploration of who you are ...”
• Choice #2 — DISCERN What God Has for You
  • “... the work you have been given ...”
• Choice #3 — DECIDE to Sink Yourself into It
  • “... sink yourself into that.”
• Choice #4 — DENY Yourself
  • “Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others.”
• Choice #5 — DEVELOP a Plan of Action
  • “... take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.”

The Two Camps

• When God breaks in, we have a revelation of His presence.
  
• Genesis 32:1-2 So Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. When Jacob saw them, he said, This is God’s camp.” And he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
• Genesis 32:24-31
  • Peniel – The face of God
    
  • “Then Jacob was left alone; and a Man wrestled with him until the breaking of day.”
    
  • “I will not let You go unless You bless me!”
    
  • Our 3 week fast – holding on or holding out?
    
  • Break up the fallow ground of our hearts!

Removing the Roadblocks

• What hinders us with God & His ways?
  
• Four words:
  
  • Worries
    
  • Wrongs
    
  • Wounds
    
  • Wishes

Your Life Review

• New LifeBuilder Group
  
  • The next three Wednesday evenings we will look at, review, and redefine:
    
    • The Center of My Life.
      
    • The Commitments of My Life
      
    • The Core Values of My Life.
      
    • The Community of My Life.
      
    • The Contribution of My Life.
      
    • The Communication of My Life.