Day 41 23/01/2016: What's on earth am I here for?

LOVE DOES NOT ENVY

Rick Warren 

“Love does not envy.” 1 Cor. 13:4b (NIV)

 Resenting God's goodness to others & ignoring God's goodness to me

      “Wherever there is envy... you’ll find every kind of evil.”  James 3:16 

 ENVY like a bone cancer, can eat you....

THE ANTIDOTE FOR ENVY

Jesus’ Story of the Vineyard Workers (Matt. 20)

1.  STOP COMPARING YOURSELF TO OTHERS.

Comparing is the root of all envy.

Dumb and unwise start comparing.

Not to compare as

1. You are unique

2. Out of Pride

 

   “Those hired last came up and were each given a dollar. When those who were hired first saw that, they assumed they would get far more.”  Matt. 20:9-10a (Msg) 

Learning to love.

Every people have hidden pain and hurt.

Nobody is as cool as they appear to be.
Get to know them with close relationship.

Criticism is always base on envy.   

2.   START ENJOYING God’s Grace to OtherS.
 Be Happy when God Bless the others.

      “The workers who had been hired first thought they would be given more than the others. But when they were given the same, they began complaining to the owner of the vineyard... He said, ‘Are you envious because I am generous to them?’”     Matt. 20:10-11, 15b (CEV/NIV)

                            

      “Rejoice with those who rejoice!”     Rom. 12:15 (NIV)

     

3.  BE GRATEFUL WITH WHAT YOU HAVE.

      “Isn't everything you have and everything you are sheer gifts from God? So what's the point of all this comparing and competing?  You already have all you need!” 1 Cor. 4:7b-8a (Msg)

“It is better to be satisfied with what you have than to be always wanting something else.”  Eccl. 6:9 (GN)

I already have more than I deserved.

4.   TRUST GOD WHEN LIFE SEEN UNFAIR.

      “These last workers put in only one easy hour, and yet you have made them equal to us – we who slaved all day under a scorching sun!”  Matt. 20:12 (Msg)

      The Owner:  "Friends, I didn't cheat you. I paid you exactly what we agreed on... What business is it of yours if I want to pay them the same that I paid you? Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money?” Matt. 20:13-15a (CEV)

5.   KEEP FOCUSED ON GOD'S PLAN FOR YOU.

      The Owner: “Take your money now and go!”  Matt. 20:14a (GW)

      “Let us run with patience the particular race that God has set before us.” Heb. 12:1 (LB).

      “You saw me before I was born and scheduled every day of my life before I began to breathe.”  Ps. 139:15 (LB)

 Practically focus on God's plan. 

1. Get a spiritual partner.

2. Memories bible verse                   

           

      Jesus concluded:

      "And so it is, that many who are first now will be last then and those who are last now will be first then... If you want to be great, you must become the servant of all the others.”   Matt. 20:16 & 26 (NLT/CEV)

Life is about serving but not acquiring.

Day 40 23/01/2015: What's on earth am I here for?

 LIVING A PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE

Rick Warren 

 

       BECAUSE I WAS....                               MY PURPOSE IS TO:

       1.  Planned for God’s pleasure                 WORSHIP!

       2.  Formed for God’s family                      BELONG!

       3.  Created to become like Christ             GROW!

       4.  Shaped to serve God                          SERVE!

       5.  Made for a mission                              BRING & GO!

 

      LEVELS OF MATURITY                      ORIENTATION CLASS

         The Crowd Worships                              

         Our Congregation Fellowships              Membership 101

         Our Committed Discipleship                  My Maturity 201

         Our Core Ministers                                 My Ministry 301

         Our Commission go on Mission             My Mission 401

 

 

5 QUESTIONS FOR A LIFE OF PURPOSE

      

1.  WORSHIP: WHAT WILL BE THE CENTER OF MY LIFE?

Who and what I'm live for? 

Whatever you center your life on is what you worship.

Whatever you think about most. 

Husband, wife, kids... Career... Hobbies... Traveling...

But they don't belong of your center of your life. 

Whatever your center of your life, which you can't lose. 

If you don't have a solid thing as your center of your life, you gonna fall apart.

You must have a core in your life that does not change.

If you put a man made thing as a center of your life, you don't have a center to hold you when you stress out. 

Only thing in life that doesn't change is the relationship with Christ. 

“If your wealth increases, don’t make it the center of your life.”  Ps. 62:10 (NLT)

Jesus is the filling of the pie, not just the piece of the pie.

Everything you let Jesus to fill, he will bless.

When You worry... Is the warning light which you replace it as the center of your life. 

“Christ’s love has the first and last word in everything we do.  Our firm decision is to work from this focusedcenter…” 2 Cor. 5:14 (Mes)

“Instead of worrying, pray… It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.”  Phil. 4:6-7 (Mes)

Pray or panic? Worry or worship?

Don't worry, PRAY.

Worry is doing something you can't control. 

Anger should be motivated by love not hate. 

Jesus also will get angry, but is out of love, not hate.

SELF-CENTERED or GOD-CENTERED?

 

2.  FELLOWSHIP: WHAT WILL BE MY COMMUNITY OF LIFE?

“Every time we get the chance, let us work for the benefit of all, starting with the people closest to us in the community of faith.”  Gal. 6:10 (Mes) 

“Since we are all one body in Christ, we belong to each other, and each of us needs all the others.”  Rom. 12:5 (NLT) 

We not believer, we also belonger

1. We belong to each other.

2. We need each other. 

Start with a small group.

 “You can develop a healthy, robust community that lives right with God and enjoy it if you do the hard work of getting along with each other, treating each other with dignity and honor.”     James 3:18 (Mes) 

 

SPECTATOR or PARTICIPATOR?

 

3.  GROWTH: WHAT WILL BE THE CHARACTER OF MY LIFE?

God is concern about our character.

“For from the very beginning God decided that those who came to Him...  should become like His Son.” Rom. 8:29 (LB)

God decided we like Christ.

“In your lives you must think and act like Christ Jesus.”  Phil. 2:5 (NCV)

If you want look like Christ you need to know how Christ act and think.

Then you need to know the words of God. 

Reading the bible is reading God's mind.

Growing spiritually take times... 

Fruits depend on the tree. 

Love joy peace kind sell control.... Fruits of spirit.

Grow of the tree, need food and drinks... 

Word of God is the food. 

Fertilizing by unloving people, trials, problems....

Start with choice... 

Choose to do th right thing or wrong thing. 

“Don’t lose a minute in building on what you’ve been given.  Complement your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, warm friendliness, and generous love.”   2 Peter 1:5-7 (Mes)

Practical tips...

Be Men and Women of the word. 

 

COMFORT or CHARACTER?

 

4.  MINISTRY: WHAT WILL BE THE CONTRIBUTION OF MY LIFE?

My Ministry: Using my S.H.A.P.E.  to help others.

 

“God has given each of you some special abilities; be sure to use them to help each other, passing on to others God’s many kinds of blessings.”  1 Peter 4:10 (LB)

 

“It is God Himself who has made us what we are and given us new lives from Christ Jesus; and long ago He planned that we should spend these lives in helping others.”  Eph. 2:10 (LB)

 

GETTING or GIVING?

Giver or a taker?

What do you do with my son?

What do you do with the gift that I give you? 

5.  MISSION: WHAT WILL BE THE COMMINICATION OF YOUR LIFE ?

Bringing, Going, & Sharing my Life Message

 

“Your lives are echoing the Master’s Word… The news of your faith in God is out.  We don’t even have to say anything anymore—you’re the message!”       1 Th. 1:8 (Mes)

 

“Live in such a way that you are a credit to the message of Christ...”  Phil. 1:27 (Mes)

       

“Life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus – the work of telling others the Good News about God’s mighty kindness and love.”  Acts 20:24 (LB)

       

PROMOTING MYSELF or SHARING CHRIST?

Day 39 19/01/2016: What's on earth am I here for?

REIGNITING YOUR PASSION FOR GOD

Rick Warren

July 19-20, 2003

      

 

Jesus said, “Love the Lord God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence and energy.”  Mark 12:30 (Msg)

 

With all your heart…

SEEK God passionately!  Deut.  4:29

LOVE God passionately!  Deut.  6:5

SERVE God passionately!  Deut.  10:12

OBEY God passionately!  Deut.  30:2

TRUST God passionately!  Pr. 3:5

Do everything passionately!  Col. 3:23

 

“Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor.”

Rom. 12:11 (NIV)

      

 

A CHECKLIST OF PASSION-KILLERS

 

1.  AN UNBALANCED SCHEDULE.

Too much work will lose you passion.

“It is senseless for you to work so hard from early morning until late at night, fearing you will starve to death; for God wants His loved ones to get their proper rest.”  Ps. 127:2 (LB)

Need take time to rest. 

Always taking or input, also will lose your passion. 

No mission, not serving...

Either too much input but no output, or too much output no input. It is not healthy. 

“Take the time and the trouble to keep yourself spiritually fit.”  1 Tim. 4:7b (Ph)

 BALANCE UP.

 

2.  AN UNUSED TALENT.

Use what God's give you.

Use your talent in a ministry because there are no job can used all your talent. 

If your job kill your passion, get out of it.

“Each of you has been blessed with one of God’s many wonderful gifts to be used in the service of others.  So use your gift well.”  1 Peter 4:10 (CEV) 

 

“Each one should live his life with the gifts that the Lord has given him...”       

1 Cor. 7:17 (Ph)

 

 

3.  AN UNCONFESSED SIN.

“My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear...  I am bowed down and brought low.”  Ps. 38:4+6 (NIV)

 

   

4.  AN UNRESOLVED CONFLICT. 

“Resentment destroys the fool, and jealousy kills the simple.”     Job 5:2 (NLT)

 

“You are only hurting yourself with your anger.”  Job 18:4 (GN)

 

 

5.  AN UNSUPPORTED LIFESTYLES.

=No fellowship

We need each other. 

We need a small group.

“Two are better than one, because… if one falls down, his friend can help him up.  But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up!”  Eccl. 4:9-10 (NIV) 

 We need relationship to grow.

“Let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.  Let us not give up meeting together… but let us encourage one another.”  Heb. 10:24-25 (NIV) 

 

 

6.  AN UNCLEAR PURPOSE.

“I have labored to no purpose; I have spent my strength in vain and for nothing.”  

Isa.  49:4 (NIV)

 

 

 

7.  AN UNDERNOURISHED SPIRIT.

“Just as you trusted Christ to save you, trust Him, too, for each day’s problems; live in vital union with Him.  Let your roots grow down into Him and draw up nourishment from Him.  See that you go on growing in the Lord, and become strong and vigorous…” 

Col. 2:6-7 (LB)

         

“You must worship only the Lord, for He is a God who is passionate about His relationship with you.”  Ex. 34:14 (NLT)

 

 

 

THE PASSION OF JESUS

 

“Jesus showed Himself alive to them after His Passion by many demonstrations: for forty days He had continued to appear to them and tell them about the kingdom of God.”  

Acts 1:3 (NJB)

 

“Whoever is wise will remember these things and will think about the deep love of the Lord.”  Ps.  107:43 (NCV) 

 

“God showed how much He loved us by sending His only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through Him.  This is real love.  It is not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.”  1 John 4:9-10 (NLT)

Day 38 10/01/2016: What's on earth am I here for?

WE ARE AMBASSADORS

Rick Warren

“We are Christ's ambassadors” 2 Cor. 5:20 (NLT)

Ambassadors - Representative sent out on a mission in order to build relationship.

 

MY ROLE AS AN AMBASSADOR

1.  REPRESENTATIVE OF JESUS

Different career and calling. 
Calling have to do with your voice.

      “Be sure that you live in a way that brings honor to the Good News of Christ.”

      Phil. 1:27 (NCV)

Remember who you represent...

      “Live a life worthy of the calling you have received.”   Eph. 4:1 (NIV)

2. I HAVE BEEN GIVEN A MISSION

Call as a permanent mission. Be his Ambassadors.
Important mission - get people to know God.


   “I don't care about my own life. The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus gave me—to tell people the Good News about God's grace.”

      Acts 20:24 (NCV)

3. I HAVE BEEN GIVEN AUTHORITY TO SPEAK. 

      Jesus said, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore go to all peoples everywhere and make them my disciples: baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and teach them to obey everything I have commanded you. And I will be with you always…”  Matt. 28:18-20 (TEV)

Every christian (believer) is a authorize minister.

4. I SERVE IN A FOREIGN CULTURE.

  
Don't too comfortable in this world, it just a temporary.
   “If you call God your Father, live your time as temporary residents on earth…”

      1 Peter 1:17 (GW)

      “… all that other people think about is life here on earth. But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives.”  Phil. 3:19-20 (NLT) 

MY RESPONSIBILITIES

1.   I MUST BE AN EXAMPLE.

Help people to know what God is like by being an example of this characteristics. Love, Joy, Peace, Patience...
      “People who do not believe are living all around you and might say you are doing wrong.  So live such good lives that they will see the good things you do and will give glory to God…” 1 Peter 2:12 (NCV) 
Live such good life and the unbeliever will see good thing in you do and give glory to God. 
Every ambassador never off duty.
 

2.   I MUST SHARE THE MESSAGE.

     “Anyone who is joined to Christ becomes a new person; the old is gone… All this is done by God, who through Christ changed us from enemies into his friends and gave us the task of making others his friends also. Our message is that God was making all human beings his friends through Christ. God did not keep an account of their sins, and he has given us the message which tells how he makes them his friends.”  2 Cor. 5:17-19 (TEV)

1. Jesus offer everyone a new life.
2. Jesus in a war with God until you make peace with him. - Because everyone wanna be God and run my life. 
3. Jesus bring salvation
 

      “God was in Christ, making peace between the world and himself. In Christ, God did not hold the world guilty of its sins. And he gave us this message of peace. So we have been sent to speak for Christ. It is as if God is calling to you through us. We speak for Christ when we beg you to be at peace with God. Christ had no sin, but God made him become sin so that in Christ we could become right with God. We are workers together with God.”

       2 Cor. 5:19-6:1 (NCV)

3.   I MUST SHOW LOVE TO EVERYBODY.

GOD IS LOVE.

• Using my life to meet others need. 

Practical help. 

      “We loved you so much that we gave you not only God's Good News but our own lives, too.”      1 Thess. 2:8 (NLT)

• By giving respect to everyone.

God valued every people. 
 
      “Be ready at all times to answer anyone who asks you to explain the hope you have in you, but do it with gentleness and respect.”     1 Peter 3:15-16 (TEV)

Be ready at all time to answer anyone who ask you to explain the hope you have in you, but do it with gentleness and respect.
Forbidden to fight back as we are the ambassador of Christ 

• I must show love by building bridges.

      “Whatever a person is like, I try to find common ground with him so that he will let me tell him about Christ and let Christ save him. I do this to get the Good News to them and also for the blessing I myself receive when I see them come to Christ.”  1 Cor. 9:22b-23 (LB) 
 

MY REWARD

      “Whatever you do, always work at it with all your heart, as though you were working for the Lord and not for people. Remember that the Lord will give you as a reward the inheritance he has kept for his people. For Christ is the real Master you serve!”  Col. 3:23-24 (TEV)

Day 37 24/12/2015: What's on earth am I here for?

FULFILLING MY LIFE MISSION

Essentials For 21st Century Living

Rick Warren

“The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus gave me--to tell people the Good News about God’s grace.”  Acts 20:24 (NCV)

1.   MY MISSION: INVITE PEOPLE TO GOD'S FAMILY

      Jesus: “As the Father has sent Me, I am sending you.”  John 20:21

“...You will be My witnesses – in Jerusalem, in Judea, in Samaria, and in every part of the world.”    Acts 1:8 (NCV)

            Witness: Sharing what God has done in my life.

2. MY MESSAGE: GOOD NEWS

“...proclaim the Good News to everyone, everywhere.”  Mark 16:15 (LB)

“The Good News shows how God makes people right with Himself -- that it begins and ends with faith..  As the Scripture says, ‘Those who are right with God will live by trusting in Him.’“  Rom 1:17 (NCV)

BENEFITS

·         FORGIVENESS FOR MY PAST

“For God was in Christ, restoring the world to Himself, no longer counting men’s sins against them but blotting them out.  This is the wonderful message He has given us to tell

            others.”  2 Cor 5:19 (LB)

·         PURPOSE OF LIVING RIGHT NOW.

“I came so that you might have life and have it to the fullest!”  John 10:10 (NIV)

·         A HOPE FOR MY FUTURE.

“...God’s free gift is eternal life through Jesus...” Rom. 6:23 (GN)

3.   MY MOTIVE: LOVE FOR JESUS AND OTHER PEOPLE

“For the love of Christ compels us...” 2 Cor. 5:14 (NIV)

“The Holy Spirit doesn’t want you to be afraid of people, but to be wise and strong, and to love them and enjoy being with them, If you will stir up this inner power, you will never be afraid to tell others about our Lord.” 2 Tim.  1:7-8 (LB)

4. MY METHOD: SHOW IT AND SHARE IT

“Whatever you do or say, let it be as a representative of the Lord Jesus....”      Col. 3:17 (LB)

“Make the most of your chances to tell others the Good News.”  Col. 4:5 (LB)

A TOOL: “ESTABLISHING A SPIRITUAL BASE”

“Send us around the world with the news of Your saving power and Your eternal plan for all mankind.”  Psalm 67:2 (LB)

Day 36 21/12/2015: What's on earth am I here for?

YOU WERE MADE FOR A MISSION

Rick Warren

Part of mission:

1. Do it together
2. Only you can do.

Jesus: “In the same way that you gave me a mission in the world, I give them a mission in the world.”  John 17:18 (Mes)

Ministry is in the church (believer)
Mission is in the world (non-believer)

“The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus gave me- to tell people the Good News about God's grace.” Acts 20:24 (NCV)

     

      MY 5th PURPOSE IS TO SHARE THE GOOD NEWS

       HOW?  BY BRINGING AND GOING.

God put you in this planet is to use you.

     “Each of us will give an account of himself to God.”  Rom. 14:12 (NIV)

Parts of life

1. bringing
2. going

1.   GOD EXPECTS ME TO BRING OTHERS TO JESUS.

      “Work at bringing others to Christ.”  2 Tim. 4:5 (NLT)

       TO WHOM?  EVERYONE WE KNOW

      “Go at once into the streets and alleys of the town, and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame...  and go out to the roads and lanes, and urge all the people to come so My house will be full.”        Luke 14:21-23 (NCV)

       WHEN?  NOW

      “The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, "We have found the Messiah".  And he brought him to Jesus.”  John 1:40-42 (NIV)

       HOW?  BY FINDING AND BEGIN SOMETHING IN COMMON 

“Whatever a person is like, I try to find common ground with him so that he will let me tell him about Christ and let Christ save him.”  1 Cor.  9:22b (LB)

Do what you love to do, with the non believer.

GOD’S PROMISE: “Only those who give away their lives for My sake and for the sake of the Good News will ever know what it means to really live.”  Mark 8:35 (LB)

2.  GOD EXPECTS ME TO GO WHEREVER I CAN

Jesus said to His followers, "Go everywhere in the world, and tell the Good News to everyone.”  Mark 16:15 (NCV)

Jesus want to reach out the people who was been rejected.

       WHAT DO I DO?  WHAT JESUS DID AND SAID, JESUS IS AN EXAMPLE AND A MODEL.

      “I have given you an example to follow.  Do as I have done to you.”   John 13:15 (NLT)

               5 GLOBAL GIANTS                  JESUS’ STRATEGY

               Spiritual emptiness                     Promote reconciliation

               Self-centered leaders                 Equip servant leaders

               Extreme poverty                        Assist the poor     

               Pandemic diseases                     Care for the sick  

               Illiteracy & education         Educate the next generation

WHERE: “You will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”  Acts 1:8 (NIV)

       Jerusalem = Personal PEACE - those closest to me

       Judea & Samaria = Local PEACE - those near but unlike me

       Ends of the earth = Global PEACE - everybody else!

 “...God does not want anyone to be lost, but He wants all people to change their hearts and lives!”  2 Peter 3:9 (NCV)

BE A WITNESS- tell your story

       WHERE DO I START? WITH THOSE CLOSEST TO ME

“‘Go back home and tell people how much God has done for you.’  So the man went all over town telling how much Jesus had done for him.”  Luke 8:39 (NCV)

       

     

GOD’S PROMISE: Jesus: "Let Me assure you that no one has ever given up anything...  for love of Me and to tell others the Good News, who won't be given back, a hundred times over...”  Mark 10:29 (LB)

POINT TO PONDER:
I was made for a mission.

VERSE TO REMEMBER:

“Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
MATTHEW 28:19 - 20 (NIV)

QUESTION TO CONSIDER:

What fears have kept me from fulfilling the mission God made me to accomplish? What keeps me from telling others the Good News?