Mine enemy

 The enemy of the future is the present.

Success

 Crisis is unwanted change.  

Your always bad the first time at anything. 

Don't be unwilling to understand that failure will happen.  

Everything you want, but don't have is outside your comfort zone.  

The #1 motivator of people is avoiding discomfort.  

No one drifts into greatness.  Failure and success work together. They are twins.  You win some.  You learn some.  

Don't put on your shoulders the weight of always winning.  

A crisis reveals who the real winners are.  A crisis is only a detour.  

Reflection turns experience into insight.  It's not what happens to you, but what happens in you.       

Success

 The greatest obstacle  to tomorrow's success is today's success.  

Wisdom

 Our best lessons are learned in the worst of times.  

Wisdom

 Wisdom is learning how to steward God's blessings.  God want us to grow His blessings. 

Prayer

 God will give you everything that your heart desires as long as it doesn't pull your heart from Him.  

Purpose

 How would you live differently if you had only 30 days to live?  

Purpose

 The two most important days in your life.  The day that you were born, and the day that you discover why.  

Perspective

 Aim at heaven, and you'll get earth thrown in.  Aim at earth, and you'll get neither.  

Feelings

 Feelings are indicators, but not dictators.  

Leadership

 Leadership is the ability to hide panic.

I can't hear God?

God doesn't have a speaking problem, but we have a listening problem.   Whenever you have a major decision, fast that day.  You'll have more clarity.   

How Faith Works out!

Prayer makes faith work.  God's word is what makes faith work.  

Church without God!

What a shame it would be to come to Church seeking God, but finding only us!   

Raise your expectations

Matthew 9:27-30 (NLT)

27 After Jesus left the girl’s home, two blind men followed along behind him, shouting, “Son of David, have mercy on us!”

28 They went right into the house where he was staying, and Jesus asked them, “Do you believe I can make you see?”

“Yes, Lord,” they told him, “we do.”

29 Then he touched their eyes and said, “Because of your faith, it will happen.” 30 Then their eyes were opened, and they could see! Jesus sternly warned them, “Don’t tell anyone about this.”

The blind men brought their expectations to Jesus.  According to your expectations, Jesus heals us.  We must raise our expectations.  When we do, we raise the ability of God to bless us.

Peace in the storm

Peace is not the absence of the storm.  It is the understanding that I'm not alone in the storm.  

WHAT TO REMEMBER WHEN THINGS DON’T GO YOUR WAY

Ch. 1Jonah Rebelling & Running From God

Ch. 2Jonah Repenting & Running Back To God

Ch. 3Jonah Restarting & Running With God

Ch. 4Jonah Regretting & Resenting God

5 MISTAKES THAT MADE JONAH MISERABLE

These make us miserable too

1. Jonah thought he could ignore his Mission. He ran from God.

2. Jonah was prejudiced against people God created & loved.

3. Jonah cared more about his politics than people’s salvation.

4. Jonah was only interested in his nation, not God’s world.

5. Jonah reluctantly fulfilled his Mission, but with a bad attitude.

2 MORE MISTAKES: JONAH 4:1-11

1.  

Resenting God's plan when it doesn't fit my plans.  

“When God saw that the people of Nineveh had put a stop to their evil ways, he had mercy on them and he cancelled the destruction he had threatened. This CHANGE OF PLANS upset Jonah, and he became furious. So Jonah complained to the Lord about it . . .”Jonah 3:10-4:2 

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Frustration

“This change of plans upset Jonah”

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Anger

“He became furious”

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Self pity

“He complained to the Lord”

“Now I ask you, Lord, please kill me. For it is better for me to die than to live.” Jonah 4:3 (NCV)   

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despair

“It is better for me to die than live”

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Suicidal thoughts

“Lord, please kill me!”

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Resenting God's goodness and mercy to others.  

“Then Jonah complained, ‘Didn't I say before I left home that you would do this, Lord? That is why I ran away to Tarshish! I KNEW that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. I knew how easily you could cancel your plans for punishing these people.’”Jonah 4:2 (NLT)   

WHAT TO REMEMBER WHEN THINGS DON’T GO MY WAY

1. REMEMBER  

God can see things that I can't.  

“Then God asked Jonah: ‘ What right do you have to be angry over what I’ve done?” Jonah 4:4   

“The Lord said to Job, ‘Who are you to question my wisdom?. . . Where were you when I made the world?”’ Job 38:2-3 (TEV)   

“Then Jonah left the city and found a place east of the city to sit down, There he tried to make a temporary shelter to sit under as he waited to see what would happen to the city.”Jonah 4:5   

2. REMEMBER  

God is good to me even when I am cranky.  

“Then God arranged for broad leafed plant to spring up quickly and provide shade for Jonah from the hot sun and to relieve his discomfort. This made Jonah very happy and comfortable!’Jonah 4:6   

3. REMEMBER  

God is in control of ever detail of my life.  

“But at dawn the next day God arranged for a small worm to chew through the stem of that large shade plant so that it withered and died! Then, when the sun rose, God arranged a scorching east wind, and the sun blazed so hot on Jonah's head so that he grew faint. He wanted to die, and said again, ‘It would be better for me to die than to live!’”Jonah 4:7-8  

God uses big things in my life and small things to direct me.  

“Then God asked Jonah again, ‘What right do you have to be angry that the shade plant withered and died?’ Jonah said. ‘I have every right to be angry and I’m angry enough to die!’”Jonah 4:9  

4. REMEMBER  

To focus on what's going to last.  

“Then the Lord said, ‘Jonah, You’re more concerned about a plant that died even though you didn’t plant it, water it ,it or make it grow. (I did that) And plants are short-lived. They spring up quickly then die. But Nineveh has more than 120,000 people who don’t know their right hand from their left, not to mention all the animals. Should I not be concerned about that great city?’”Jonah 4:10-11 

“We fix our eyes not on what we see but on what we cannot see. What we see will last only a short time, but what we cannot see will last forever.”2 Corinthians 4:18 (NCV)  

Who's missing

If we are not moved by the unaccounted for, why would God bring us more?  (Luke 15)  


How about the ones who were here? 


Shepherd's would count their sheep before thy got any rest.  That's how counting sheep to get rest came from.  They would worry that one of their sheep just might be missing. 


Let's ask... 
1. Who needs to have an encounter with Jesus? 
2. Who was here?  Why have they gone missing?  How can we find them? 
3.  What next steps do the people who are here need to take?  

Steps to Revival

1. Humble yourself. 
2. Fast.
3. Pray urgently. 
4. Turn from evil. 
5. Stop violence.

Who am we?

We buy things that we don't need to create an identity for ourselves because we don't know who we are. Our cars are not only for transformation, but for identity formation.