SEEKERS: THE SHEPHERDS
Here’s how you can apply this message:
1. Stop delaying and act on something God has spoken.
Follow through in an area where God has spoken to you, yet you have not responded.
2. Share a PRAISE with someone this week.
3. Build “seeking moments” into your schedule.
This week take time to shut off your phone. Read the Bible, worship or pray. Seek God not for what He can do for
you. Seek God simply for himself.
SEEKERS: THE FAVOR OF GOD
Here’s how you can apply this message:
1. Improve an area of your relationship with Jesus.
Worship? Bible Study? Prayer? Service?
2. Hone your gift of humility.
Practice this simple formula:
J - Jesus, how can I serve you first?
O - How can I serve others before serving myself?
Y - How can I put myself last?
SEEKERS: THE KIND GOD SEEKS
Here’s how you can apply this message:
1. Get hungry for God.
What if you really began searching Jesus at a deeper level this next year?
2. Get into the Word of God.
Search out a daily devotion to come directly to you.
Start reading the Gospels or the book of Acts.
Attend a bible study or small group.
VESSELS: Two Sides of Sanctification
Here’s how you can apply this message:
1. Constantly evaluate your relationship with God.
“Psalm 139 yourself.” —Check for sources of spiritual contamination.
2. Make a list of GOOD HABITS and BAD HABITS.
How can you improve the good? How can you eliminate the bad?
3. Volunteer to serve.
You should be serving at home / work / church / community.
THE PROCESS: Transformation
APPLICATION: Listen to this message and use these practical ways to grow in the Lord.
When you’re in a hard place, ask: “Is this a TRAP, a TRIAL or TROUBLE of my own?”
If it’s a Trap of the Enemy – Resist it. (James 4:7)
If it’s a Trial from God – Receive it. (James 1:2–4)
If it’s Trouble from My Own Decisions – Repent of it. (Romans 8:28)
THE PROCESS: Personal Growth
APPLICATION: Listen to this message and use these practical ways to grow in the Lord.
Get into your “Secret Place.”
Set a daily appointment with God for the same time each day for 15 minutes of uninterrupted time in prayer, worship or a Bible study to tune your heart to His presenceMAKE A GROWTH LIST.
Ask yourself: “What areas is God giving me opportunities to grow in? Write them down, then prayerfully explore practical ways to improve in those areas.”
THE PROCESS: The Secret to Success
APPLICATION: Listen to this message and use these practical ways to grow in the Lord.
Get into your “Secret Place.”
Set a daily appointment with God for the same time each day for 15 minutes of uninterrupted time in prayer, worship or a Bible study to tune your heart to His presenceEXCEL in your ENVIRONMENT(s).
This week, determine 1 specific way you can bring God’s excellence and blessing into your environment(s)–(home, church, workplace, school).
THE PROCESS: Refining
APPLICATION: Listen to this message and use these practical ways to grow in the Lord.
1. Refine your most important relationships* by removing 1 thing that weakens your relationship, and replacing it with something that strengthens it.
Refine your relationship with: • Jesus • Others (family and friends) • Yourself
THE PROCESS: Messy Starts
APPLICATION: Listen to this message and use these practical ways to grow in the Lord.
1. Find your Reuben(s) and thank them for their support.
In your journey, God will provide allies you. Do you know who yours are. And have you told them how much their support means to you?
2. Memorize Philippians 1:6 and Romans 8:28.
These scriptures will be foundational in you encouraging yourself and others during your process.
3. Thank God for protecting you during the process.
This is not a simple, “thank you.” Seriously, get alone with God and give thanks for where you are in your process whether you like it or not, agree with God or not, don’t like the season or even if you doubt it your promise will ever materialize. Thank him in the middle of all those emotions. Working through the anxiety, fear, etc. is part of “the process.”
I QUIT: Get Back Up!
APPLICATION: Listen to this message and use these practical ways to grow in the Lord.
1. Identify an area where you have experienced repeated failure.
Explore patterns that keep leading you back there.
2: Find someone you trust and confess this to them.
Share the specific steps you’re taking to overcome it and prevent it from happening again.