New Year Resolutions

New Year Resolutions

“This is God’s will for you: your sanctification”

1 Thess 4:3

The resolution that’s always there:

Set ApartSeparation

Hagios

HAGIOS

Joyfully Releasing what

the world worships

Radically Obeying what

the Lord commands

Tearfully Seeing the NAME OF GOD lifted high in our world

Separation FROM

Separation UNTO

“This is God’s will for you: your sanctification”

1 Thess 4:3

“Lord, by the end of this year, please help me to be more like Christ than when the year started.”

BREAK WITHBREAK WITH

BREAK INBREAK IN

BREAK BREAK OUTOUT

Joyfully Releasing What the World Worships

Radically Obeying What the Lord Commands

Tearfully Seeing the Name of God Lifted High

PDA Christian

What are the things you feel deeply about?

‘Arsenal drew last night’

“Unfortunately there have been days when I felt depressed that Arsenal did badly. And felt nothing for the horrors in the world. Nor did I weep for the sins in my heart.

I have been observing my emotions for sometime now. I have long come to suspect that emotions are important, and how we feel, a thermometer of the health of our soul.”

‘Arsenal drew last night’

“Unfortunately there have been days when I felt depressed that Man Utd did badly. And felt nothing for the horrors in the world. Nor did I weep for the sins in my heart.

I have been observing my emotions for sometime now. I have long come to suspect that emotions are important, and how we feel, a thermometer of the health of our soul.”

‘Man Utd drew last night’

3 Things that last forever:- God, the Word of God, the souls of man

“The LORD was grieved, and his heart was filled with pain.”

Gen 6:6

Break my heart for what breaks yours

Titanic

“The second great tragedy of the Titanic was that many of the lifeboats left for safety half-full or less, while people in the waters were screaming for help.”

PDA

Personal Revival

Divine Appointment

Active Obedience

PDAPersonal Revival

“Come, follow me” – No substitute!

“Immediately, they left their nets…their boats and their father”

“We are at this moment as close to God as we really choose to be. True, there are times when we would like to know a deeper intimacy, but when it comes to the point, we are not prepared to pay the price involved.”

Oswald Saunders

PDADivine Appointment

“…and I will make you fishers of men”

“You know…my whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.”

Henri Nouwen

PDAActive Obedience

PDA

Personal Revival

Divine Appointment

Active Obedience