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Luke 15:11-31 CSB

The Three Parts to a Reconciled Heart:

1 - Forgiving God for the things He has and hasn't done to restore our view of Him and soften our hearts to receive His worth and love.

2 - Forgiving ourselves for setting a higher bar for worth, identity, and love than God has set for us.

3 - Forgiving others (even if they never apologize) for all the things they've said, done, or haven't done to allow the Spirit to heal you inwardly before bringing restoration outwardly.

Genesis 22:1-14

Exodus 32:1-4

Three Lessons From the First Place of Worship:

1- Abraham did not hesitate to give what was most precious to him. We must learn the art of sacrificing idols promptly, especially when it costs us everything.

2 - Abraham did not argue with God. We must learn to recognize our hesitancies for what they are: idols of understanding

3 - Abraham did not expect someone else to do the sacrificing for him. We must learn how to rhythmically live on the altar and fight our flesh to stay there.

Matthew 18:21-35

3 Conditions Your Soul Will Find Itself In If You Do Not Forgive

1- If you do not forgive you will constantly find yourself choking the life out of others, not realizing you're losing the life of your own faith in the process. If we pursued healing with the same amount of zeal we pursued retribution we would be a much happier people. We must lay down our reasons, to pick up His reasoning. Have mercy, as He had mercy on us.

2- We have been freed from the torture and prison of our sin. Yet we place ourselves back into prison when we choose to harbor unforgiveness and bitterness. The enemy wants you stuck in the past, so you cannot go forward into your future. We must pray for the compassion of God, to release people from their wrongs, and truly walk in forgiveness. Compassion + Releasing = Forgiveness.

3- Only you know if your forgiveness is skin deep or heart deep. To forgive from the heart is a life that has lost count of the wrongs done to us, because we have such joy in the righteousness God has purchased for us. It's hard to be a carrier of the Good News when all you're focused on is bad circumstances of what you have walked through. The power of grace and a clear picture of grace comes into focus when we give grace to tohers when we have every right not to.

Matthew 3:1-2

Mark 1:14-15..

Luke 3:7-9

2 Kings 23:25

4 Quick Thoughts on the Good Fruit of Keeping Repentance:

1- Rhythmic Repentance is a discipline of self awareness and sensitivity to the Spirit of God... oftentimes we won’t allow ourselves to repent and ever experience true forgiveness or surrender our own opinions and ideas enough for true change.

2- Repentance is turning around; and changing your mind. If you're not willing to turn from the direction you're going and change the mindsets you have, it's not repentance, it's just a coping mechanism.

3- The hidden fruits of repentance are humility, sincerity, and authenticity of your personhood.. The greatest place you can find yourself in christ is open handed and open hearted.

4- We will never graduate from a lifestyle of repentance, we will only grow in a heightened awareness of our need for it in day to day life and relationships… The fuel of accelerated growth and renewal, is a life of repentance.

Matthew 25:14-29

1- Your ability starts with how well you carry the commands and character directives of God right now. Stop asking God for more if you cannot carry and steward what's already in your hands. Developing the faith muscles of today is what ensures you have the strength of character to handle the blessings of tomorrow. Do not bury what He has given you, because what you start with is never supposed to be what you finish with.

2- Faithful sacrifice and faithful stewardship is how value is multiplied; there is no other biblical play book for increase. Whatever talent that has been entrusted must be invested in the right source, for it to produce increase. Be careful, God is in the business of confronting your idea of increase with what your character needs to develop. The test of rhythmic stewardship and sacrifice will directly determine the talents your life produces.

3- What the master gives, the master can take away. What the master entrusts the master can retrust to others. How we prepare for the day we see the master again is by producing a life of faith that that the master blesses in order to see others reproduce the life we have lived in Him. You don't get from God to become the God of your life. You get God in order to bring God into others lives.

John 20:19-22

John 13:1-5, 21-30

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Psalms 89:14

Psalms 97:2

Psalms 103:6

Psalms 33:5

Jeremiah 22:3

Jeremiah 23:5

Isaiah 9:7

Jeremiah 9:24

Isaiah 33:5

Isaiah 16:5

Leviticus 19:9-10

Deuteronomy 24:17-22

Formula of Advocacy:

Attention to issues around us + commitment to self awareness of blind spots/false thinking + creating proximity to marginalized or alienated within day to day life + repeat previous steps over and over until... we have changed behavior and thinking to reflect the thought and intent of God towards all creation = Advocacy

Luke 10:25-37

The Progression of Surrendered Sacrifice

1- We must see, how Jesus sees.

2- We must have compassion, as Jesus would have compassion.

3- We must seek to bring healing, as Jesus brought healing.

4- We must pay a cost, as Jesus paid a cost.

5- We show mercy, as Jesus redefined mercy.

JOHN 13:1-17

1- If you break the bread, and drink the cup... do you also wash feet? To partake in communion and not live out the sacrifice of a life of servanthood for your brothers, sisters, and neighbors is to miss the message of our Messiah. The sacrament is a reminder of sacrifice, invitation to sacrifice, and a promise of blessing that can only be found through sacrifice. We wash, as He washed.

2- Jesus knew what Judas was to do, and washed his feet anyway. The people you think have no right to be washed, actually have every right to be washed... and if that doesn't fit inside your theology, your theology is incorrect. Sacrifice plays no favorites.

1 SAMUEL 1:9-20

HOW TO ASK THAT HAS HIGHER CHANCES OF A RESPONSE.

1- God knows where your heart is, not just where your words are. Pouring your soul out to God is an accelerator of promises from God. We don't think he sees and knows and often times it is what he sees and what he knows that is inside of us that is the blockage from what he can release to us. Pouring out takes place before filling up.

2- Most "asking" from God is for less dependence on Him, less faith in Him. This is not what He wants, therefore the response is not what we want. Do we think he responds to requests that lead AWAY from deeper relationships and intimacy with him? Hannah’s ask was to give me a son, then I will give him to YOU ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE... Don't pray for blessings that you don't want god involved in once they arrive… those turn into curses.

3- The process of getting a response; know and take in the words of God, repeat them back to God, change my countenance to reflect faith, and wait on His ability. During this process there will be a confronting and releasing my need to control and removing my selfish nature from the asks of Him. It's not about Him not responding as much as it is our character refining to know what an ask of His will is, not ours.