Calvary Christian Center
G-12 Administration – Life Notes
“Pursue, Overtake, and Recover All”
Pastor: Phillip G. Goudeaux
October 23, 2011
“Exposing and Revealing the Hidden Attack”
“Against our Youth, Family and Christian Culture”
I Timothy 3:1 Proverbs 4:4-7 John 10:10 I Timothy 4:1
• Seducing spirits are like termites in your house
• Your whole house can be almost eaten up and destroyed before you even know that you have a termite problem
• Seducing spirits don’t want to be uncovered
• These spirits don’t want a lot from you at first – They take a little at a time
• When you get the Word – You must fight to retain it
• You will lose the Word if you compromise over some feelings or some situation
• The enemy uses videos and everything that he can to get through to your eye and hear gates
• He knows that once he gets his stuff inside of you – It is hard to get it out of you
• You have a right to protect your eye and hear gates
• If you don’t protect them – You are then put on the road to destruction
• The food commercials are presenting food
• But it is a seducing spirit selling sex to our children or anybody trying to live right
• The enemy is trying to destroy anything that is good
• He uses these commercials to put images into your mind
• He wants to expose you to a world of fantasy
• Get a understanding about the signs of the last days
• What use to be repulsive is now just common
• The enemy has degraded sex to the lowest level
• He is bringing seducing spirits to attack you to cause you to make insane decisions
Statistics you should know:
• In 2006, an estimated 5259 young people ages 13-24 was diagnosed with HIV
• Each year approximately 19 million new STD infections occur – Almost half of them are among the youth between 15-24
• Sacramento is now number one with the STD Chlamydia - Many of the STDs have no cure
• The enemy is driving and causing our children into thinking that sex is nothing and has no accountability - That girls are nothing but play things for boys
• Somewhere, somebody has to be willing to stand up and help call others to take a stand to fight for what is right
• There is a destruction going on
• You are being attacked in your home through the videos, television and other media
• More than 400 thousands teen girls between 15-19 have given birth in 2009
• Many parents are allowing cheap imitators that are operating through seducing spirits to function in their homes without saying or doing anything
• The FBI estimate that over 100 thousands children and young women have been trafficked in American today
• This is happening because we are feeding perverts through the porn industry
• Children are being forced into the sexual industry and their lives are being destroyed
• Sacramento is rated number one in teen prostitution, both male and female
• The music industry is being used to seduce your young children
• You can’t take the music away from them – But there are tools that parents can use to counter act the destructive attacks
• Don’t become so spiritual that you become unaware of what your children are doing
• Take a stand and fight
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Calvary Christian Center
G-12 Administration – Life Notes
“Pursue, Overtake, and Recover All”
Pastor: Phillip G. Goudeaux
October 16, 2011
“The Vision of the House”
“Points of the Vision”
Proverbs 29:18 Habakkuk 2:1 Acts 20:20 Acts 2:41-47
• Every “Man of God” should have a God given vision for the House (Church)
• Vision is the goal or direction given for the “Man of God” to be able to fulfill God’s plan and purpose for building His kingdom
• God gives the vision – It is up to you to get connected to the vision
• You being connected to the vision is going to bring the provisions to meet the needs of your life and the lives of your family members
• Just going to church does not connect you to the vision - That only makes you a church attendee
• The vision will motivate and provoke you - A life without vision is a life that is out of control
• A person running with vision is better off than the person with no vision
• Vision will always be bigger than you - Vision will always bring glory to God
• Because vision stretches you and brings out talents lying dormant in you
• The 8th point of the vision of this house is: A Non-threatening Name - Calvary Christian Center
• The 9th point of the vision of this house is: Radio and Television
• G-12, Pathways, and Life Groups are connected to the 10th point of the vision of this house: A Care Group Ministry
• Life Groups are a part of the vision because: It makes a big church a small church - It brings accountability to you - It gives opportunity to develop leadership skills
• Every Christian’s destiny is leadership – Every one of you is a leader
• You may be leading on a smaller level than someone else
• But you have the potential to develop the greater leadership that is within you to be a person of influence for the kingdom of God
• Many people are interested in getting a position to show their authority
• God is not interested in you just getting a position of authority
• God wants you to get into a place of influence so you can start helping people to help themselves
• Once you come into this ministry, there is a Pathway for you to travel on
• The Pathways will develop you into leadership, a person of influence, and a person who makes a difference in the lives of other people
• Jesus had the same thing for His twelve - Everyone that came into connection with Him
• He had a place where they can grow - A place where they can develop their character
• You also need to develop your character to become a better person and make a difference in the life of someone else
• By having a life group and sharing your experiences, the Word, and mentoring – You will help change lives and potentially an entire generation
• Start running with the vision – Because vision is going to: Empower you – Stretch you – And cause you to move beyond your mundane lifestyle
• Every vision must have a goal – It will never become a reality for you to be a leader unless you go through the process
• In every church there should be a vision – Vision gives goals – And goals gives process
• Some people are fighting process – It takes process for you to get prepared to move into leadership and start helping people
• God wants you to get connected to vision – Get the goals of the ministry in your heart
• Set out to achieve those goals by being willing to go through the process – Process is there to turn every believer into a leader
• It is called the Pathways: The Path to Belonging – The Path to Involvement – The Path to Understanding Your Purpose
• The Pathways are there to help develop you into the leaders that God wants you to be
• Get involved today –Get connected with the vision of this ministry and with the “Man of God” of this house (Church)
• God gave His son’s life for you so that you can give your life to help somebody else – That is when life begins
• God has you here by divine purpose – He has given direction for you to be used by Him in a greater way
G-12 Administration – Life Notes
“Pursue, Overtake, and Recover All”
Pastor: Phillip G. Goudeaux
October 16, 2011
“The Vision of the House”
“Points of the Vision”
Proverbs 29:18 Habakkuk 2:1 Acts 20:20 Acts 2:41-47
• Every “Man of God” should have a God given vision for the House (Church)
• Vision is the goal or direction given for the “Man of God” to be able to fulfill God’s plan and purpose for building His kingdom
• God gives the vision – It is up to you to get connected to the vision
• You being connected to the vision is going to bring the provisions to meet the needs of your life and the lives of your family members
• Just going to church does not connect you to the vision - That only makes you a church attendee
• The vision will motivate and provoke you - A life without vision is a life that is out of control
• A person running with vision is better off than the person with no vision
• Vision will always be bigger than you - Vision will always bring glory to God
• Because vision stretches you and brings out talents lying dormant in you
• The 8th point of the vision of this house is: A Non-threatening Name - Calvary Christian Center
• The 9th point of the vision of this house is: Radio and Television
• G-12, Pathways, and Life Groups are connected to the 10th point of the vision of this house: A Care Group Ministry
• Life Groups are a part of the vision because: It makes a big church a small church - It brings accountability to you - It gives opportunity to develop leadership skills
• Every Christian’s destiny is leadership – Every one of you is a leader
• You may be leading on a smaller level than someone else
• But you have the potential to develop the greater leadership that is within you to be a person of influence for the kingdom of God
• Many people are interested in getting a position to show their authority
• God is not interested in you just getting a position of authority
• God wants you to get into a place of influence so you can start helping people to help themselves
• Once you come into this ministry, there is a Pathway for you to travel on
• The Pathways will develop you into leadership, a person of influence, and a person who makes a difference in the lives of other people
• Jesus had the same thing for His twelve - Everyone that came into connection with Him
• He had a place where they can grow - A place where they can develop their character
• You also need to develop your character to become a better person and make a difference in the life of someone else
• By having a life group and sharing your experiences, the Word, and mentoring – You will help change lives and potentially an entire generation
• Start running with the vision – Because vision is going to: Empower you – Stretch you – And cause you to move beyond your mundane lifestyle
• Every vision must have a goal – It will never become a reality for you to be a leader unless you go through the process
• In every church there should be a vision – Vision gives goals – And goals gives process
• Some people are fighting process – It takes process for you to get prepared to move into leadership and start helping people
• God wants you to get connected to vision – Get the goals of the ministry in your heart
• Set out to achieve those goals by being willing to go through the process – Process is there to turn every believer into a leader
• It is called the Pathways: The Path to Belonging – The Path to Involvement – The Path to Understanding Your Purpose
• The Pathways are there to help develop you into the leaders that God wants you to be
• Get involved today –Get connected with the vision of this ministry and with the “Man of God” of this house (Church)
• God gave His son’s life for you so that you can give your life to help somebody else – That is when life begins
• God has you here by divine purpose – He has given direction for you to be used by Him in a greater way
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Calvary Christian Center
G-12 Administration – Life Notes
“Pursue, Overtake, and Recover All”
Dr. Earl Johnson
October 09, 2011
“In Covenant with God”
“Being a Covenant Member”
Hebrews 49:1-12 Genesis 12:1-3 Jeremiah 33:20
• The number one reason that things don’t happen in your life - You are not mixing the things you hear with faith
• The challenge you have as a Believer is to believe – It is the job description of a Believer
• Where your responsibility lies - Is where the challenge is
• Peace is rest – When you have peace, you have rest
• Rest is freedom from outside disturbances
• Sleeping does not bring rest until you have solved all of the things that would challenge your peace
• God does not get tired – So if He rested on the seventh day - He was making a point
• God is saying “I’m doing something you need to do and I will set the example by doing it”
• Because of unbelief - You will not enter into rest
• You enter into rest when you cease from your own labor
• What is the rest that God has given to the Believer today?
• It is the walk of faith
• There is nothing that God has left for Human Beings that can be obtained without covenant
• The bible you read is called the Old Covenant and the New Covenant Testament
• The Old Covenant as a restrictive way to conduct life has been done away with
• But the provision, the information, and the history of the New Covenant is contained in the Old Covenant
• We don’t throw it away because it is our reference - It is what we use going forward
• In appreciation to the Man and Woman of God – We have to appreciate that they have a handle on the thing that is to cause us to
1. Believe
2. Enter into rest
3. Obtain the promises of God through covenant
• We are celebrating people that know the covenant
• There must always be a separation before entrance
• The assignment comes before the promises
• God wants to make you a blessing to someone – Before blessings come to you
• God enters into covenant as a way of establishing a semblance of order in the earth
• The covenant from God is heaven on earth
• God wants life for you on the earth to be like it is with Him in heaven
• Everything that God decrees to be important is sealed with a covenant
• You progress by understanding the covenant you have with God
• Covenant has provision
• It’s not all about what God is going to do
• It’s what you need to do
G-12 Administration – Life Notes
“Pursue, Overtake, and Recover All”
Dr. Earl Johnson
October 09, 2011
“In Covenant with God”
“Being a Covenant Member”
Hebrews 49:1-12 Genesis 12:1-3 Jeremiah 33:20
• The number one reason that things don’t happen in your life - You are not mixing the things you hear with faith
• The challenge you have as a Believer is to believe – It is the job description of a Believer
• Where your responsibility lies - Is where the challenge is
• Peace is rest – When you have peace, you have rest
• Rest is freedom from outside disturbances
• Sleeping does not bring rest until you have solved all of the things that would challenge your peace
• God does not get tired – So if He rested on the seventh day - He was making a point
• God is saying “I’m doing something you need to do and I will set the example by doing it”
• Because of unbelief - You will not enter into rest
• You enter into rest when you cease from your own labor
• What is the rest that God has given to the Believer today?
• It is the walk of faith
• There is nothing that God has left for Human Beings that can be obtained without covenant
• The bible you read is called the Old Covenant and the New Covenant Testament
• The Old Covenant as a restrictive way to conduct life has been done away with
• But the provision, the information, and the history of the New Covenant is contained in the Old Covenant
• We don’t throw it away because it is our reference - It is what we use going forward
• In appreciation to the Man and Woman of God – We have to appreciate that they have a handle on the thing that is to cause us to
1. Believe
2. Enter into rest
3. Obtain the promises of God through covenant
• We are celebrating people that know the covenant
• There must always be a separation before entrance
• The assignment comes before the promises
• God wants to make you a blessing to someone – Before blessings come to you
• God enters into covenant as a way of establishing a semblance of order in the earth
• The covenant from God is heaven on earth
• God wants life for you on the earth to be like it is with Him in heaven
• Everything that God decrees to be important is sealed with a covenant
• You progress by understanding the covenant you have with God
• Covenant has provision
• It’s not all about what God is going to do
• It’s what you need to do
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Calvary Christian Center
G-12 Administration – Life Notes
Pastor: Phillip G. Goudeaux
September 25, 2011
“Pursue, Overtake, and Recover All”
“Being Connected With the Vision”
Proverbs 29:18 Habakkuk 2:1-4 Luke 4:14-19 Acts 10:30
• In some churches - The Pastor has no vision
• Often in the church - The Pastor has a vision but the people do not get the vision
• When the people are not connected with the vision – They do not get the provisions of the vision
• When you get connected with the vision of the house – You are running with the vision
• Your greatest blessings comes through being connected with and running with the vision of the house
• God has an order – He tells us what He wants us to do - You can not do what you want to do
• You are part of the house – But are you helping to build the kingdom
• What are you doing to help build and take care of the house that you are attending?
• Every church that you go to, you should ask the “Man of God” what is the vision of the house - So you can get connected with the vision of the house
• What is Vision?
1. Vision is a mental picture of the future
(If you can see something, you will start going after it) God wants you to be so connected
with the vision of the house so you will start running with it
2. Vision is a plan or a goal, your hope, and your desire of what you see ahead
3. Vision will cause you to develop whatever skills you need to make the vision happen
• Three things that happen to you when you lack vision
1. It will rob you of your blessing and leave you in a perpetual state of need
2. It will keep you out of God’s plan and purpose, therefore causing you to miss a move
of God in your life
3. It will prevent you from seeing victory in your life and cause you to see only problems and
limitations
• Vision helps you to see the way God see things
• Remember - It is not Pastor’s vision – It is God’s vision
• The God given vision to Pastor Goudeaux thirty-one years ago
1. This will be a teaching ministry
2. A ministry of love
3. Multi-Racial congregation
4. A training Center
5. Ministry of schools
6. Outreach ministry
7. Deliverance ministry
G-12 Administration – Life Notes
Pastor: Phillip G. Goudeaux
September 25, 2011
“Pursue, Overtake, and Recover All”
“Being Connected With the Vision”
Proverbs 29:18 Habakkuk 2:1-4 Luke 4:14-19 Acts 10:30
• In some churches - The Pastor has no vision
• Often in the church - The Pastor has a vision but the people do not get the vision
• When the people are not connected with the vision – They do not get the provisions of the vision
• When you get connected with the vision of the house – You are running with the vision
• Your greatest blessings comes through being connected with and running with the vision of the house
• God has an order – He tells us what He wants us to do - You can not do what you want to do
• You are part of the house – But are you helping to build the kingdom
• What are you doing to help build and take care of the house that you are attending?
• Every church that you go to, you should ask the “Man of God” what is the vision of the house - So you can get connected with the vision of the house
• What is Vision?
1. Vision is a mental picture of the future
(If you can see something, you will start going after it) God wants you to be so connected
with the vision of the house so you will start running with it
2. Vision is a plan or a goal, your hope, and your desire of what you see ahead
3. Vision will cause you to develop whatever skills you need to make the vision happen
• Three things that happen to you when you lack vision
1. It will rob you of your blessing and leave you in a perpetual state of need
2. It will keep you out of God’s plan and purpose, therefore causing you to miss a move
of God in your life
3. It will prevent you from seeing victory in your life and cause you to see only problems and
limitations
• Vision helps you to see the way God see things
• Remember - It is not Pastor’s vision – It is God’s vision
• The God given vision to Pastor Goudeaux thirty-one years ago
1. This will be a teaching ministry
2. A ministry of love
3. Multi-Racial congregation
4. A training Center
5. Ministry of schools
6. Outreach ministry
7. Deliverance ministry
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Calvary Christian Center
G-12 Administration – Life Notes
Pastor: Phillip G. Goudeaux
July 31, 2011
“Pursue, Overtake, and Recover All”
“How You Look at Life”
Proverbs 22:9 Matthew 6 II Kings 4 Acts 27
• How you look at life will determine how life looks at you
• When things don’t go the way you want them to go - Or when you fail – Just keep pushing
• It’s about being persistent – Doing what you have to do - Hanging in there
• It’s about pursuing, overtaking and recovering all
• Where is your focus? – What you focus on will determine your attitude
• Focus on the positive and not the negative
• Whatever attitude you except is what you become
• A person with a poor attitude is always unhappy, always frustrated, and always a human magnet for bad things
• If you don’t adjust your attitude – You will never get to where God wants you to be
• Your attitude is always under attack
• If you get a negative attitude towards any area of your life – Things will not go good for you
• Change your attitude – Change your life
• If you can maintain a good attitude – You can come out of anything
• When ever you lose something – You should be crying out saying: ”Restore”
• You are only responsible for your own attitude
• Don’t allow your neighbor and all the doubt- helpers to effect your attitude
• Whatever you are going through – Just know that it is going to be well
• Do not become distracted or give up on your dreams and visions
• The angels of the Lord are in charge
• When facing the worse times of your life – There is only one thing God need you to do
• Keep a good attitude while going through it
• Six root causes of a bad attitude:1
1. Low self-esteem
2. How you handle stress
G-12 Administration – Life Notes
Pastor: Phillip G. Goudeaux
July 31, 2011
“Pursue, Overtake, and Recover All”
“How You Look at Life”
Proverbs 22:9 Matthew 6 II Kings 4 Acts 27
• How you look at life will determine how life looks at you
• When things don’t go the way you want them to go - Or when you fail – Just keep pushing
• It’s about being persistent – Doing what you have to do - Hanging in there
• It’s about pursuing, overtaking and recovering all
• Where is your focus? – What you focus on will determine your attitude
• Focus on the positive and not the negative
• Whatever attitude you except is what you become
• A person with a poor attitude is always unhappy, always frustrated, and always a human magnet for bad things
• If you don’t adjust your attitude – You will never get to where God wants you to be
• Your attitude is always under attack
• If you get a negative attitude towards any area of your life – Things will not go good for you
• Change your attitude – Change your life
• If you can maintain a good attitude – You can come out of anything
• When ever you lose something – You should be crying out saying: ”Restore”
• You are only responsible for your own attitude
• Don’t allow your neighbor and all the doubt- helpers to effect your attitude
• Whatever you are going through – Just know that it is going to be well
• Do not become distracted or give up on your dreams and visions
• The angels of the Lord are in charge
• When facing the worse times of your life – There is only one thing God need you to do
• Keep a good attitude while going through it
• Six root causes of a bad attitude:1
1. Low self-esteem
2. How you handle stress
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Calvary Christian Center
G-12 Administration – Life Notes
Pastor: Phillip G. Goudeaux
July 24, 2011
“Pursue, Overtake, and Recover All”
“Guarding and Protecting Your Attitude”
I Samuel 30 Proverbs 22:9 Proverbs 23:7
• You need to have the appropriate mindset because you are dealing with spiritual warfare
• The enemy is working hard to defeat your purpose or your destiny that God has for you
• Satan wants to frustrate your purpose - You need to have an attitude of pursuit
• Stay in the battle until you win – The game is not over until you win
• Pursuit means: to chase, to hunt, to track down, go after or to overtake, to pass, go beyond, and to out do
• David was a man after God’s own heart – He was know as a man of war
• Don’t lose your warring spirit
• You can not have a bountiful eye listening to all the negativity that exist
• The enemy is trying to break your focus causing you to stop looking at how big your God is
• What do you see? – How are you looking?
• Can you see some good things happening; can you see a turn-around, some favor, a blessing, a breakthrough? – Can you see God doing more in your life?
• You must live and walk by faith – If it is not working, you are out of position
• Most people who are out of position are there behind a bad attitude
• The most important asset is your attitude – More important than facts
• There are many facts around – But it is a good attitude that will change facts
• Your attitude is more important than what people say or think about you
• When things don’t go the way you want them to go – Make up your mind that you will not let it hold you back
• You know God has better things in store for you - you must live with high expectations
• Your attitude can either be an asset or a liability
• Your attitude determines you altitude
• Your attitude is important in all walks of your life
• Your attitude has nothing to do with your position
• It has everything to do with your disposition
• You must stay in faith – Staying in faith is keeping a good attitude
• Your attitude determines your success or failure
• Your attitude determines how you handle your feelings and emotions – Check your emotions
• Everyday - All day - For the rest of your life - You must work on your attitude
• Attitude determines your defeat or success - Your thoughts determines your attitude – And the man that wins is the man who thinks he can win
• The enemy is always trying to get you to think wrong things
• God can heal a bad attitude
G-12 Administration – Life Notes
Pastor: Phillip G. Goudeaux
July 24, 2011
“Pursue, Overtake, and Recover All”
“Guarding and Protecting Your Attitude”
I Samuel 30 Proverbs 22:9 Proverbs 23:7
• You need to have the appropriate mindset because you are dealing with spiritual warfare
• The enemy is working hard to defeat your purpose or your destiny that God has for you
• Satan wants to frustrate your purpose - You need to have an attitude of pursuit
• Stay in the battle until you win – The game is not over until you win
• Pursuit means: to chase, to hunt, to track down, go after or to overtake, to pass, go beyond, and to out do
• David was a man after God’s own heart – He was know as a man of war
• Don’t lose your warring spirit
• You can not have a bountiful eye listening to all the negativity that exist
• The enemy is trying to break your focus causing you to stop looking at how big your God is
• What do you see? – How are you looking?
• Can you see some good things happening; can you see a turn-around, some favor, a blessing, a breakthrough? – Can you see God doing more in your life?
• You must live and walk by faith – If it is not working, you are out of position
• Most people who are out of position are there behind a bad attitude
• The most important asset is your attitude – More important than facts
• There are many facts around – But it is a good attitude that will change facts
• Your attitude is more important than what people say or think about you
• When things don’t go the way you want them to go – Make up your mind that you will not let it hold you back
• You know God has better things in store for you - you must live with high expectations
• Your attitude can either be an asset or a liability
• Your attitude determines you altitude
• Your attitude is important in all walks of your life
• Your attitude has nothing to do with your position
• It has everything to do with your disposition
• You must stay in faith – Staying in faith is keeping a good attitude
• Your attitude determines your success or failure
• Your attitude determines how you handle your feelings and emotions – Check your emotions
• Everyday - All day - For the rest of your life - You must work on your attitude
• Attitude determines your defeat or success - Your thoughts determines your attitude – And the man that wins is the man who thinks he can win
• The enemy is always trying to get you to think wrong things
• God can heal a bad attitude
Calvary Christian Center
G-12 Administration – Life Notes
Dr. Brenda K. Goudeaux
July 17, 2011
“Pursue, Overtake, and Recover All”
“Grow Stronger Through Change”
James 1:3,-4 6 Romans 2:4 Proverbs 24:10 II Corinthians 4:9 Philippians 4:13
• Change is not change until it’s change - You are growing stronger through change
• Three things that will never leave your life: Change, Transition, and Transformation
• Some people ask for change yet they fight change = Because it take them out of their norm or what they are use to
• You don’t know what you want when you pray – You want what God wants for you
• When you pray, you must know that if you’re being changed and things are being flipped around – You must trust God in the change
• Change brings pressure – Under pressure, your faith life is forced into the open and shows its true color
• Some changes you make yourself – Then there are changes that are forced on you
• What are you going to do? – Are you going to use your faith at this time?
• Don’t view change as a challenge – See it as an opportunity to become stronger
• In order to grow stronger through change do the following:
1. You must give-up fighting change
• Stop being an escape artist trying to avoid the stress that comes along with change
• Only when you ride the horse in the direction it’s going will you get to where you need to be
2. You must wise up - Use wisdom
• When you are suddenly hit with change, your “fight or flight” instincts arises
• You must go to God when this happens and allow Him to take you by the hand and lead you into change
3. You need to toughen up
• Take inventory of yourself – You can not do this by yourself – You need God
• Are you making it harder on yourself than it needs to be?
• Keep your mouth closed and trust God -Are you speaking faith or fear?
• Are you convincing yourself that you cannot handle the change?
• Make up your mind and know that you can handle it with God’s help
• God is concerned about everything in your life
• The Word says: “ask” and it shall be given “seek “ and you will find “knock” and the doors will be open
• God has increase on His mind for you
• Don’t try to get out of anything prematurely – Let it do its work so you become mature, well-balanced and not deficient in any area
• Resistance to change just creates ulcers, sleeplessness, and stress
• Change is here – Just get through it
• Some attitudes you must adjust:
• Thinking like a victim
G-12 Administration – Life Notes
Dr. Brenda K. Goudeaux
July 17, 2011
“Pursue, Overtake, and Recover All”
“Grow Stronger Through Change”
James 1:3,-4 6 Romans 2:4 Proverbs 24:10 II Corinthians 4:9 Philippians 4:13
• Change is not change until it’s change - You are growing stronger through change
• Three things that will never leave your life: Change, Transition, and Transformation
• Some people ask for change yet they fight change = Because it take them out of their norm or what they are use to
• You don’t know what you want when you pray – You want what God wants for you
• When you pray, you must know that if you’re being changed and things are being flipped around – You must trust God in the change
• Change brings pressure – Under pressure, your faith life is forced into the open and shows its true color
• Some changes you make yourself – Then there are changes that are forced on you
• What are you going to do? – Are you going to use your faith at this time?
• Don’t view change as a challenge – See it as an opportunity to become stronger
• In order to grow stronger through change do the following:
1. You must give-up fighting change
• Stop being an escape artist trying to avoid the stress that comes along with change
• Only when you ride the horse in the direction it’s going will you get to where you need to be
2. You must wise up - Use wisdom
• When you are suddenly hit with change, your “fight or flight” instincts arises
• You must go to God when this happens and allow Him to take you by the hand and lead you into change
3. You need to toughen up
• Take inventory of yourself – You can not do this by yourself – You need God
• Are you making it harder on yourself than it needs to be?
• Keep your mouth closed and trust God -Are you speaking faith or fear?
• Are you convincing yourself that you cannot handle the change?
• Make up your mind and know that you can handle it with God’s help
• God is concerned about everything in your life
• The Word says: “ask” and it shall be given “seek “ and you will find “knock” and the doors will be open
• God has increase on His mind for you
• Don’t try to get out of anything prematurely – Let it do its work so you become mature, well-balanced and not deficient in any area
• Resistance to change just creates ulcers, sleeplessness, and stress
• Change is here – Just get through it
• Some attitudes you must adjust:
• Thinking like a victim
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