The River

• How to have faith in the ability of God

• God is able to make grace abound to you

• Commit your word to Him and leave it with Him. Don’t take it back into your own hands.

• Two words are required of us: Yes, Lord.

• Believe in His promises.

-Be faithful with people

-Be faithful with your talent

-Be faithful with your oppurtunities

-After your yes, the Holy Spirit will help--Luke12:11

-I have to be a watchman on the wall of my mind

-Pay attention to what you are listening to

-Pay attention to your thoughts and imaginations

-Keep your mind renewed every single day

-God can do more with me in 6 days than I could do in 7 by myself

-God modeled the Sabbath in creation

-3 actions to become rested: daily bread, weekly rest, annual time away

- 1st Corinthians 12:7 lists the nine gifts of the spirit

- Wisdom, Knowledge, Revelation, Healing, Miracles, Prophecy, Discernment, Speaking in Tongues, and Interpretation of Tongues.

- Three are that God has a message for you. Three are God wants you to know something. The last three are God wants to do something for you.

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-Jesus said "It is best for you that I go away, because If I don't, the advocate won't come." (John 16:7)

-The Holy Spirit is our advocate, counselor, comforter, helper

-We are to forget the past and look forward.

Forgetting and reaching forward

-It's not about the grand, larger than life moments-progress is in the consistency

-The little by little

-Everybody loves home runs but base hits win the game

-If I want to see change then I need to change

-Healthy things grow

-NOTHING is too dead for Jesus!