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God of Me


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Daniel 4:1-3

What motivates you?


For Nebuchadnezzar his motivation was to impress others.

What is your standard for success?


For Nebuchadnezzar it was personal gain.

What’s your source of power?


For Nebuchadnezzar it was self-empowerment.

What’s the purpose of your life?


For King Nebuchadnezzar it was personal happiness.

“’Therefore, I bring charges against you again,’ declares the Lord…’My people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols. Be appalled at this, you heavens, and shudder with great horror,’ declares the Lord. ‘My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.’”


Jeremiah 2:9, 11-13

What motivates you?


Instead of “impressing others” that answer becomes “pleasing God.”

What is your standard for success?


Instead of “personal gain” the answer becomes “faithfulness to God.”

What’s your source of power?


Instead of “self-empowerment” your answer becomes “dependence on God.”

What is the purpose of your life?


Instead of answering “personal happiness” your answer becomes “God’s Glory.”

Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”


John 4:13-14

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