The Centered Life - Filled Up ... To Move On
Colossians 1:9-12

Paul's Opening Prayer
Colossians 1:9 = My desire and our goal:

• To be filled with the knowledge of His will > WHAT
• All spiritual understanding > HOW

Colossians 1:10-12 = Why?

• To walk in a manner worthy of our Lord
• To increase in the knowledge of God
• To be strengthened with all power
• To attain:
• steadfastness
• patience
• joyous gratitude to the Father for our inheritance!

Centered In Jesus

Thomas Kelly writes:

"We feel honestly the pull of many obligations and try to fulfill them all. And we are unhappy, uneasy, strained, oppressed, and fearful we shall be shallow.... We have hints that there is a way of life vastly richer and deeper than all this hurried existence, a life of unhurried serenity and peace and power. If only we could slip over into that Center!... We have seen and known some people who have found this deep Center of living, where the fretful calls of life are integrated, where No as well as Yes can be said with confidence."

Transformation & Transparency

• Transformed = Real change
• Transparent = No hidden life

Consumer Christianity

"One who utilizes the grace of God for forgiveness and the services of the church for special occasions, but does not give his life and innermost thoughts, feelings and intentions over to the Kingdom of the heavens. Such Christians are not inwardly transformed and not committed to it." - Dallas Willard

Three Transformational Factors

1. Holy Spirit
2. Daily Life
3. Discipleship

Inside = Mind | Outside = Behavior

Colossians 3:12-17~10 Disciplines~Love in Seven graces

On This Rock - (The Rock-Man)
Matthew 16:13-20

The Rock of your Faith

"For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ." I Corinthians 3:11

"Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone, A costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed. He who believes in it will not be disturbed."Isaiah 28:16

"So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God's household, having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together is growing into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit." Ephesians 2:19-22

The Chronicles of Narnia

Building Families - The Family is the place to:

1. establish identity and security.
2. teach and transmit values.
3. make and store lifetime memories.
4. develop hidden talents and potentials.
5. learn how to love and forgive.
6. grow in a safe environment.
7. learn honest and transparency.
8. fail without criticism or condemnation.
9. is a hiding place during the storms of life.
10. experience the kingdom of God in action.
11. translate Scripture into living realities.
12. establish a command center for safety to strategy to bring the Kingdom of God to a lost world.

The family is the foundation for Godly seed, the demonstration of Divine agreement, and is sealed by blood covenant!

Paneas was a center of pagan worship from ancient times. The Canaanite god of "good fortune" was worshiped there during the era of the Old Testament, and the Greeks constructed a shrine to one of their false gods.

What Do You See?

• II Corinthians 5:7
• John 11:40
• Psalm 27:13-14
• Psalm 33:18
• Isaiah 40:31
• John 16:20-22