Psalm 37:23-24

The importance of our steps

You need to take the next step

The next step is…

Obey the authority

Make your bed

Take out the trash

Don’t miss the next step

You won’t do anything great if you don’t just take the next step

Delight in his ways

joy in what God has called him to do

Though he fall

It’s assumed that he’s going to fall

If we don’t try we won’t fall but it means we aren't taking a step

Yes, I’m stumbling but I’m not going to stay there

I’m not going to stay down

Because God with uphold us with his hand

God sustains us

If any of my stuff/text pollute or hurts my walk, take it away or break it

Challenge with a promise to God

Social media

Ephesians 4:29; col. 3:7-8; Philemon 6

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of any social media

Worthless, pointless communication

If you have nothing good to post, don’t post it at all

Filthy communication col. 3:8

it’s out of relational context

At 2am- go to bed

Do we need help with our carnality with Snapchat?

It does matter how we view it, if it’s wrong it’s wrong

Our communication ought to honor God Philemon 6

Is there anything that reveals I am a child of God?

What we need to do….

get rid of it

Need some serious work

We all need accountability

Hosea 5:3-4

Framing our doings

We composite for everything except for our carnal nature

Israel will not change the way they roll even though they know they should

authority trumps everything

Conscience trumps

We know some things that are wrong

We know some things that are right

Pre-decide

Good-better-best

If we mess up in best we land in better

We meet up in good we can land in sin

Do your best for the glory of God

Bad news and good news

Death is what we all fear

Death- separation

1 thess. 5:23

Body- what we see, who we are

Spirit- part that worships God, god conscience

Soul- what makes you, you

We are all going to die-separation

Revelation 20:12-14

1. Cor 15

Jesus beat death

He did what we could never do for myself

Now I don’t have to be separated from my creator

Believe what Christ did on the cross was enough

Genesis 4

Anger- what to do with the emotion of anger

We all struggle with it it because we all love something

God given energy to solve problems

fuel in a vehicle to get to the right destination

Anger rules

anger is not allowed to…

Motivated by pride

Say destructive words

Allowed to linger

Distort gods purpose

Attack the wrong doer

God rejected coins sacrifice

Cain gets angry and it affects his face

Anger is a getting us to a destination. Either the wrong direction- sin, or the direction to change to something profitable

We get angry because…

injury- damage to a tangible part of our life

fix the tangible

Injustice- the violation of what is right or just for someone

assist to change it

Identity- insults at a person

no solution except for a new identity

Example- Leah

She could only find her identity in God

Sibling relationships

We cannot be numb to the fact that the Holy Spirit is living inside of us.

Put off…

Bitterness- bitter spirit, resentfulness, harness

Wrath- quiet harness, swelling

Clamour- yelling

Iron illustration- swelling and pain, wrath to clamour

We don’t need to say everything that is true but everything we say should be true

Evil speaking- weaponizing truth

Put on…

Kind- be gracious for the well being of the other person

kindness is not right when you want or get something from it

Kindness is when you show it with wanting nothing in return

Tender Hearted- takes strength to be tender

We have to work through some junk to get to forgiveness

Forgiveness- giving to others what God has giving to you

we to often take the place of God and want to give out punishment and not forgiveness

Work through my mess for forgiveness

Daniel 6

Bullying- identifying and seeing the consequences of being a bully

Brut, brutish- stupid

Bullying is going after someone that is vernable

there are more bullies than you think… including you

bullies are hurting just like who they bully

bullying is not to be observed or ignored

What is/are a bully

Daniel’s bullies were envious

Envy always follows with strife and division

There is fear there

Daniel’s bullies were critical

The consequences of Daniel’s bullies grew v.5

Started for his job then ended with wanting to take his life

Daniel v. 10

Prayed for his bullies everyday

Bullies will pay for what they say/do Matthew 12:36

Ruth 1:11-18

We are not making good decisions or bad decisions we are making no decisions

Ruth didn’t have anything going for her. She just made a decision

Have I ever made a decision that people can see it?

Make 1 decision this week

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James 1:12-16; 1 Cor. 10:13