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What’s in your hand? Willingness and Submission …and prayer. James 4:1-10. The Elevation of Desire. The Elevation of Desire** James 4:1-10. The Elevation of Desire James 4:1-10. (love, respect, family, sex, security, peace, acceptance, etc.). The Elevation of Desire James 4:1-10. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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What’s in your hand?Willingness and Submission
…and prayer
James 4:1-10
The Elevation of Desire
The Elevation of Desire**James 4:1-10
**Adapted from Paul David Tripp's War of Words
The Elevation of DesireJames 4:1-10
(love, respect, family, sex, security, peace, acceptance, etc.)
The Elevation of DesireJames 4:1-10
“Need” (I need this from you to be content!)
(love, respect, sex, etc.)
The Elevation of DesireJames 4:1-10
“Need” (I need this from you to be content!)
Lust/coveting idolatry
(love, respect, sex, etc.)
The Elevation of DesireJames 4:1-10
“Need” (I need this from you to be content!)
idolatry
Entitlement
(love, respect, sex, etc.)
The Elevation of DesireJames 4:1-10
“Need” (I need this from you to be content!)
idolatry
Entitlement
(a resentment waiting to happen)Expectation
(love, respect, sex, etc.)
The Elevation of DesireJames 4:1-10
“Need” (I need this from you to be content!)
idolatry
Entitlement
Demand
(a resentment waiting to happen)Expectation
(love, respect, sex, etc.)
The Elevation of DesireJames 4:1-10
“Need” (I need this from you to be content!)
idolatry
Entitlement
Demand
(a resentment waiting to happen)
Disappointment
Expectation
(love, respect, sex, etc.)
The Elevation of DesireJames 4:1-10
“Need” (I need this from you to be content!)
idolatry
Entitlement
Demand
(a resentment waiting to happen)
Disappointment
Expectation
Punishment(Deed of the Flesh)
(love, respect, sex, etc.)
The Elevation of DesireJames 4:1-10 Closed-handed
“Need” (I need this from you to be content!)
idolatry
Entitlement
Demand
(a resentment waiting to happen)
Disappointment
Expectation
Punishment(Deed of the Flesh)
(love, respect, sex, etc.)
The Elevation of DesireJames 4:1-10Open-handed Closed-handed
“Need” (I need this from you to be content!)
idolatry
Entitlement
Demand
(a resentment waiting to happen)
Disappointment
Expectation
Punishment
We are to hold our desires loosely
(Deed of the Flesh)
(love, respect, sex, etc.)
The Elevation of DesireJames 4:1-10Open-handed Closed-handed
“Need” (I need this from you to be content!)
idolatry
Entitlement
Demand
(a resentment waiting to happen)
Disappointment
Expectation
Punishment
We are to hold our desires loosely
Humility
(Deed of the Flesh)
(love, respect, sex, etc.)
The Elevation of DesireJames 4:1-10Open-handed Closed-handed
“Need” (I need this from you to be content!)
idolatry
Entitlement
Demand
(a resentment waiting to happen)
Disappointment
Expectation
Punishment
We are to hold our desires loosely
Humility
Submission
(Deed of the Flesh)
(love, respect, sex, etc.)
The Elevation of DesireJames 4:1-10Open-handed Closed-handed
“Need” (I need this from you to be content!)
idolatry
Entitlement
Demand
(a resentment waiting to happen)
Disappointment
Expectation
Punishment
We are to hold our desires loosely
Humility
Submission
Foot-washing
(Deed of the Flesh)
(love, respect, sex, etc.)
The Elevation of DesireJames 4:1-10Open-handed Closed-handed
“Need” (I need this from you to be content!)
idolatry
Entitlement
Demand
(a resentment waiting to happen)
Disappointment
Expectation
Punishment
We are to hold our desires loosely
Humility
Submission
Foot-washing
Kindness(Fruit of the Spirit)
(Deed of the Flesh)
(love, respect, sex, etc.)
Resentments Inventory
Who Why - The Cause The Affect What part of "Self" was hurt or threatened?
My Role (done with sponsor after praying through each one)
List the persons, institutions or principles with whom we are/were angry or who may have hurt us.
Ask yourself why you are/were angry? List the specific action I did or that was done to me.
The affect that action had on my life.
Social SecuritySex Relations
Ambitions Exact nature of My wrongs
Self-
Esteem
Personal
Relationship
s
Material
Emotional
Social
Security
Sexual
Selfish / Self -center
ed
Self-seeking
Frightene
d
Dishonest
Inconsiderate
Mr. Brown • He is kind to my wife X X X X
• Told my wife about my mistress X X X X X
• Took my job at the office X X X X X X
Wife •Likes being around Brown X X
• Wants a divorce X X X X X X X X •Tells me I’m a looser X
Employer •Fired me X X X X X X
Mrs. Jones •Gossips about me/ruined reputation X X X X
Who Why - The Cause The Affect What part of "Self" was hurt or threatened?
My Role (done with sponsor after praying through each one)
List the persons, institutions or principles with whom we are/were angry or who may have hurt us.
Ask yourself why you are/were angry? List the specific action I did or that was done to me.
The affect that action had on my life.
Social SecuritySex Relations
Ambitions Exact nature of My wrongs
Self-
Esteem
Personal
Relationship
s
Material
Emotional
Social
Security
Sexual
Selfish / Self -center
ed
Self-seeking
Frightene
d
Dishonest
Inconsiderate
Mr. Brown • He is kind to my wife X X X X
• Told my wife about my mistress X X X X X
• Took my job at the office X X X X X X
Wife •Likes being around Brown X X
• Wants a divorce X X X X X X X X •Tells me I’m a looser X
Employer •Fired me X X X X X X
Mrs. Jones •Gossips about me/ruined reputation X X X X
A Mistaken Enemy: Desire
Step Six: Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
The Development of Character Defects
Jeremiah 17:9
"The heart is more deceitful than all elseAnd is desperately sick;Who can understand it?
Deceitful Heart
Jeremiah 17:9
Engaged a Sinful World full of Lies
John 16:11 says that Satan is the “ruler of this world.”
John 8:44 says that the devil is the “father of lies.”
Deceitful heart + Sinful world influenced by Satan= ?
Faulty Belief System (what we believe about God, self, others and our
circumstances)
(based in lies)
Faulty Belief System leads to Faulty Coping Strategies/Defects of Character/Shortcomings (sin)
Need God’s Revelation
Character defects are self generated means of trying to live in a sinful world independent of
God.
What’s in your Hand?
Luke 18:18-25
Step Seven: Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Matt. 7:9-11
Redeeming Truth in Steps 6 & 7 –
After careful examination, we have begun to see how we, as sinners, attempt to live in a sinful world among sinful people. Independent of God, we have developed dysfunctional (sinful) patterns of “coping” that are ultimately based in lies and lead to greater chaos. What a mess. We have begun to see the deceit in each, but realize we will not overcome them without God’s help, so we ask Him. We have come to a place where we have become open-handed and willing to allow God to change us in His timing and according to His ways.
Father, we see how we have followed after the voice of our adversary, and now offer ourselves to You completely, renouncing his ways. In the name of Christ and by His authority we ask that you would deliver __________ from any demonic influence that is tempting him/her to _________ and free him/her to serve you freely.
Redeemed 7th Step Prayer
Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Mark 11:23-24