Where is your focus? | Week One | Patterns Series

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Where’s your focus? Humanity or Divinity? – A God-Centered Lifestyle

 

14 As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; 15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, 

Ephesians 4:14-15 NASB1995

 

Where’s your focus? Humanity or Divinity?

 

12 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 

Romans 12:1 NASB1995

 

Where’s your focus? Humanity or Divinity?

 

19 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?

Romans 7:19-20, 24 NASB1995

 

30 Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Ephesians 4:30 NASB1995

 

The Bible is clear regarding sin… what we need not to partake in! Read Ephesians 4:17-32

 

Where’s your focus? Humanity or Divinity?

 

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12:2 NASB1995

 

Church sometimes we just need to be reminded whose we are!

 

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

1 John 3:1 NASB1995

 

3 relationships we must have in order to embrace and understand this manner of love /sonship..
1.FATHER
2. SON
3.HOLY SPIRIT
It’s not a one on one relationship like we might think but… it’s an “ALL” in one relationship with God!

 

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12:2 NASB1995

 

When we surrender our past and our identity not based on our past but because of the CROSS then we can maintain those healthy patterns.

 

Words of Knowledge:

We believe the Lord wants to heal people with stomach ulcers.

We believe the Lord wants to heal people with knee pain.

We believe the Lord wants to heal people suffering from chronic migraines.

We believe the Lord wants to heal people suffering with back pain.

We believe the Lord wants to heal someone with diphtheria (a serious infection of the nose and throat).

We believe the Lord wants to heal someone with an enlarged prostate.