SERMON NOTES:
“You Can’t Have My Joy”
Assertive and intentional about experiencing God’s best emotionally.
Your God is a promise keeper!
God’s conditions are God’s path to His promises.
Direction (not intention) determines destination.
There are some things you bump into on a road called obedience.
I don’t have to eradicate my feelings, but joy exists simultaneously with my feelings! So that even when I have bad feelings, when I have joy, the bad feelings don’t have me.
“Deep people drown.”
Some people confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual growth, that’s why they can quote scripture they never use.
If you want it to stay the same, don’t call me.
I didn’t use that creativity you gave me--
I’m ashamed to say I was ashamed. I just hid my gift.
The path to joy is a street called stewardship!
I’ve never seen anyone have good joy, who is a bad steward. (dominion)
Victim Mentality = learned helplessness
Sometimes it takes a crisis to expose capability that you didn’t even know you had.
There’s more in you than you know!
Management/stewardship. Good management gives you a good life.
Managing the thing that encompasses your life: TIME.
The seed that you must sow to reap the harvest that you want to reap.
Irreplaceable asset.
“Paying” attention = spending time.
You got some people on your payroll that is making you miserable, and you’re paying them with TIME.
Dreams have a price! Improvement in any area, has a cost. The cost is time. If you want to improve a relationship, spend TIME.
“I’m a good person!!” But are you a good steward??
Our prayer needs to be “teach me to use those 168 hours” of the week.
Not just doing time, thinking time. Everything is created twice.
You’re not non-judgmentally clear. You’re judging yourself, and you’re not honest with yourself about where you’re at emotionally.
I’ve never seen anyone who’s not managing their time according to their priorities live with joy. They always live with frustration.
Make time to dream.
One of the greatest joy-robbers is regret.
Knowledge comes from studying; wisdom comes from God.
You’re gonna need wisdom (a discerning heart), but you’re also gonna need courage.
When you hold a boundary, you’re teaching people to love you.
We won’t meet again until Jan 8th!
So you have 3 weeks complete the following:
Read the Christmas story from the Word.
If you have kids, read it with them!
When going to family holiday functions, go with one goal in mind: Make it better! Serve your family to the best of your ability (keeping boundaries in mind, of course), and be a good example for them, of how Christ came to serve.
Take time to dream & pray a little. Write down some dreams that you have for the next year, next 5 years, next 10 years. Talk them over with God!