Message Notes:
Our Focus Determines Our Reality
Acts 16:17 (NLT) "These men are servants of the Most High God, and they have come to tell you how to be saved."
Acts 16: 18 (NLT) "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her." And instantly it left her.”
Acts 16:19,22-24 (NLT) Her masters' hopes of wealth were now shattered, so they grabbed Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities at the marketplace..." A mob quickly formed against Paul and Silas, and the city officials ordered them stripped and beaten with wooden rods. They were severely beaten, and then they were thrown into prison. The jailer was ordered to make sure they didn't escape. So the jailer put them into the inner dungeon and clamped their feet in the stocks.
Acts 16:25 (NLT) Around midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening.
Building a House of Worship
1. Worship Shifts Our Focus
2. Worship Adjusts Our Attitude
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.”
Ps 102:12-13 9 (NLT) But you, O Lord, will sit on your throne forever. Your fame will endure to every generation. You will arise and have mercy on Jerusalem—and now is the time to pity her, now is the time you promised to help.
3. Worship Shapes Our Future
Acts 16:26 (NLT) Suddenly, there was a massive earthquake, and the prison was shaken to its foundations. All the doors immediately flew open, and the chains of every prisoner fell off!
Acts 16:30-33 (NLT) "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, along with everyone in your household." And they shared the word of the Lord with him and with all who lived in his household.
Phil 4:8 (NLT) Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.
Response:
1. In what area of your life do you need to refocus?
2. Complainer or Worshipper?
I will tell God what I’m grateful for in my 10-10-10 time