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TRAVEL #145 (includes #4107) 1

NEVER TOO LATE TO BE GREAT

MATTHEW 20:26 AMP26 YET IT SHALL NOT BE SO AMONG YOU; BUT WHOEVER DESIRES TO BECOME GREAT AMONG YOU, LET HIM BE YOUR SERVANT.

MATTHEW 20:26-27 NKJV26 YET IT SHALL NOT BE SO AMONG YOU; BUT WHOEVER DESIRES TO BECOME GREAT AMONG YOU, LET HIM BE YOUR SERVANT. 27 AND WHOEVER DESIRES TO BE FIRST AMONG YOU, LET HIM BE YOUR SLAVE—

2 TIMOTHY 2:20-21 NKJV20 BUT IN A GREAT HOUSE THERE ARE NOT ONLY VESSELS OF GOLD AND SILVER, BUT ALSO OF WOOD AND CLAY, SOME FOR HONOR AND SOME FOR DISHONOR.


21 THEREFORE IF ANYONE CLEANSES HIMSELF FROM THE LATTER, HE WILL BE A VESSEL FOR HONOR, SANCTIFIED AND USEFUL FOR THE MASTER, PREPARED FOR EVERY GOOD WORK.

IN A GREAT HOUSE THERE ARE VESSELS OF HONOR AND OF DISHONOR

BEING IN A GREAT HOUSE DOES NOT MAKE YOU GREAT

PARENTS

NATION

COMPANY

CHURCH

FAMILY

CULTURE

ADD TO GREATNESS OR DIMINISHING

NOT GOLD, SILVER, CLAY

JESUS - JOHN BAPTIST


MATTHEW 18:1- 4 NLTABOUT THAT TIME THE DISCIPLES CAME TO JESUS AND ASKED, “WHO IS GREATEST IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN?”2 JESUS CALLED A LITTLE CHILD TO HIM AND PUT THE CHILD AMONG THEM.3 THEN HE SAID, “I TELL YOU THE TRUTH, UNLESS YOU TURN FROM YOUR SINS AND BECOME LIKE LITTLE CHILDREN, YOU WILL NEVER GET INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. 4 SO ANYONE WHO BECOMES AS HUMBLE AS THIS LITTLE CHILD IS THE GREATEST IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.

CONVERTED – RENEW MIND; BECOMING WHO YOU’RE CALLED TO BE


QUOTE: RECOGNIZING GENERATION IY IN YOUR CHURCH BY TIM ELMOREhttp://visionroom.com/recognizing-generation-iy-in-your-church-leadership-that-works/

SOME YEARS AGO, I WATCHED AN UNFORGETTABLE DOCUMENTARY ON TV. MICHAEL WEISSER AND LARRY TRAPP LIVED IN THE SAME TOWN, OUTSIDE OF LINCOLN, NEBRASKA IN THE EARLY 1990S. MICHAEL NOTICED DIVERSE ETHNICITIES MOVING INTO TOWN WHO WEREN’T GETTING CONNECTED SOCIALLY. SO HE BEGAN TO CREATE WELCOME BASKETS FOR THEM. HE KNEW THEY WERE FEELING LIKE OUTSIDERS, SINCE MOST OF THE LOCALS WERE NOT AFRICAN AMERICAN, ASIAN, OR HISPANIC.LARRY TRAPP WAS THE GRAND DRAGON OF THE LOCAL KU KLUX KLAN. HE STOOD FOR EVERYTHING OPPOSITE WHAT MICHAEL WEISSER WAS DOING. HE WAS ANONYMOUSLY CALLING THOSE NEW PEOPLE IN TOWN AND DEMANDING THAT THEY LEAVE, OR THERE WOULD BE HELL TO PAY. HE’D THREATEN THEM IF THEY DIDN’T MOVE OUT. WHEN LARRY TRAPP HEARD WHAT MICHAEL WEISSER WAS DOING WITH THE WELCOME BASKETS, HE DECIDED TO CALL HIM…AND THREATEN HIS LIFE.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/nyregion/05rabbi.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/nyregion/05rabbi.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://visionroom.com/recognizing-generation-iy-in-your-church-leadership-that-works/


MICHAEL RETURNED HOME ONE NIGHT TO HEAR THIS THREAT ON HIS TELEPHONE ANSWERING MACHINE. HMMM. DO YOU KNOW HOW HE RESPONDED? INSTEAD OF FUELING THE CONFLICT, HE NEVER EVEN CALLED THE POLICE. HE DECIDED EVERY TELEPHONE CALL DESERVED A CALLBACK. SO, HE DID SOME HOMEWORK ON WHO MIGHT HAVE MADE SUCH A CALL (IT DIDN’T TAKE HIM LONG TO FIGURE IT OUT; LARRY TRAPP HAD A REPUTATION IN TOWN). MICHAEL CALLED LARRY BACK. THIS IS WHAT HE SAID: “LARRY, IT’S MICHAEL WEISSER. I GOT YOUR PHONE CALL.” THEN, WITHOUT MAKING ANY MENTION OF THE THREAT, HE WENT ON. “I WANTED YOU TO KNOW THAT I DID SOME HOMEWORK ON YOU AND HEARD THAT YOU WERE A DIABETIC. AND, I HEARD THAT YOU WERE CONFINED TO A WHEELCHAIR. (BOTH OF THESE STATEMENTS WERE TRUE). I JUST GOT TO THINKING THAT MAYBE SOMEONE LIKE YOU COULD USE THE HELP OF SOMEONE LIKE ME. YOU SEE, I HAVE A BIG VAN, AND I WOULD BE GLAD TO DRIVE OVER, PICK YOU UP AND RUN SOME ERRANDS FOR YOU IF YOU EVER NEED THAT. WHAT DO YOU SAY?


LARRY TRAPP WAS STUNNED. HE WAS QUIET FOR A FEW MOMENTS. THEN, HE MUSTERED THE WORDS, “NO THANK YOU…BUT, THANK YOU FOR THE OFFER. I HAVE NEVER BEEN OFFERED ANYTHING LIKE THAT BEFORE.” AS FATE WOULD HAVE IT, THE NEXT DAY, LARRY CALLED MICHAEL BACK AND TOOK HIM UP ON HIS OFFER. THESE TWO MEN BEGAN SPENDING TIME TOGETHER OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL WEEKS. THESE TWO BECAME FRIENDS, WHICH LED TO LARRY TRAPP’S RESIGNATION FROM THE KLAN AND HIS PUBLIC DENOUNCEMENT OF ALL HE HAD DONE WITH THEM. LARRY TRAPP ENDED UP MOVING IN WITH MICHAEL, WHERE HE STAYED UNTIL HE EVENTUALLY DIED FROM HIS DIABETIC COMPLICATIONS. BUT IT WASN’T UNTIL THAT TOWN HAD BEEN TRANSFORMED BY ONE LEADER WHO ACTED INSTEAD OF REACTING. MICHAEL WEISSER WAS A LIGHTNING ROD. HE TOOK THE HEAT AND GROUNDED IT.

SERVICE, LIFTING, HELPING, ENCOURAGING, BELIEVING IN, PRAYING FOR, STANDING WITH, ADDING VALUE


GREATNESS IS NOT:

1.INHERITED

SOME BORN HIGH AND LIVE LOW

OR BORN LOW BUT RISE HIGH AND LIVE HIGH

NOT DETERMINED BY PARENTS

2.GREATNESS IS NOT INCOME

MAFIA

MAY THINK WEALTH MAKES YOU GREAT

MANY WEALTHY PEOPLE ARE NOT GREAT

POVERTY DOES NOT MAKE YOU GREAT

GREATNESS HAS NO CONNECTION TO WEALTH


3.GREATNESS IS NOT TALENT

SOME ARE GOOD AT DOING BUT NOT GOOD AT BEING

ATHLETES:

GREAT AT DOING SOMETHING

NOT GREAT AT BEING SOMEONE:

HUSBAND

WIFE

FATHER

INTEGROUS

PRIDEFUL

BOASTS

ARROGANT

TALENT IS NOT GREAT – YOU CAN DO / BE

SOMETHING GREAT AND NOT BE GREAT

HUSBAND

FATHER

PASTOR


IN FEBRUARY 2010, NEWS CAME OUT THAT SHOCKED SPORTS FANS EVERYWHERE. GOLF LEGEND TIGER WOODS WASN’T SO SQUEAKY CLEAN AFTER ALL. THE REPUTATION OF THIS ATHLETE, HUSBAND AND FATHER WENT SOUTH.

HE HAD A CAR ACCIDENT BACKING OUT OF HIS DRIVEWAY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. LATER HE WAS FORCED TO CONFESS TO HAVING MULTIPLE AFFAIRS WITH SEVERAL WOMEN. TURNS OUT THIS ROLE MODEL FOR DIS WAS A PLAYBOY. I WAS DISAPPOINTED AS I WATCHED THE REPORT ON TV. THEN I SAW TIGER HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE, WHERE HE EXPLAINED EVERYTHING. HE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT WHAT HE HAD DONE WAS WRONG. NEXT -= HE SHARED HOW HE’S LEFT THE

VALUES HE’D BEEN TAUGHT; HE HAD FELT HE WAS ABOVE THEM. HE THEN ADMITTED HE WAS WRONG. HIS FAME AND TALENT HAD TAKEN HIM TO PLACES HE’D NEVER BEEN BEFORE – AND HE HAD NO GPS FOR HIS LIFESTYLE. AND THE COMPASS HIS FATHER HAD GIVEN HIM…WELL, HE LOST IT. THIS LEFT HIM TO DO WHATEVER FELT RIGHT, NOT WHAT ACTUALLY WAS RIGHT.


IMPLOSION

4.GREATNESS IS NOT POPULARITY

HOW MANY : FRIENDS

“LIKES”

TWITTER FOLLOWERS

CELEBRITIES CAN HAVE MILLIONS

ADDICTED

TERRIBLE SPOUSE, PARENT

DO NOT SACRIFICE GREATNESS FOR POPULARITY

GREATNESS DOES WHAT IT DOES AND PEOPLE SEE THE GREATNESS IN YOU


5.GREATNESS IS NOT CHEAP – WILL COST YOU

YOU NOT:

TIME

ENERGY

SACRIFICE

FRIENDS

RESOURCES

PAY PRICE

EXTRA MILE

DOING WHAT OTHERS ARE NOT

WILLING TO DO

BREAKING AWAY FROM

NORMS/EXPECTATION

GREATNESS COST MORE


6.GREATNESS IS NOT IMMEDIATE

GENESIS 24:1 NKJVNOW ABRAHAM WAS OLD, WELL ADVANCED IN AGE; AND THE LORD HAD BLESSED ABRAHAM IN ALL THINGS.

2 SAMUEL 3:1 NKJVNOW THERE WAS A LONG WAR BETWEEN THE HOUSE OF SAUL AND THE HOUSE OF DAVID. BUT DAVID GREW STRONGER AND STRONGER, AND THE HOUSE OF SAUL GREW WEAKER AND WEAKER.

LUKE 2:52 NKJV52 AND JESUS INCREASED IN WISDOM AND STATURE, AND IN FAVOR WITH GOD AND MEN.

TAKES TIME TO DEVELOP

I.E. PHONE BOOTH


CAN’T PRAY AT ALTAR ONCE

NOW GREAT CHRISTIAN

REPENT IMMEDIATE

CONVERSION - TAKES TIME

I.E. JOSEPH

17-30 BEFORE PROMOTION

SLAVE

LIED ABOUT

CONVICTED

PRISON

FORGOTTEN

BECAME GREAT

GREATNESS TAKES TIME

I.E. LEARN VIOLIN

I.E. MARRIAGE NOT GREAT YETDON’T GIVE UP


QUOTE: LOVE WORKS – PHILIP AND HOLLY WAGNER PG 187I RECENTLY LEARNED OF A TERM CALLED “COLLABORATIVE DIVORCE.” IT IS A PROCESS THAT ENGAGES A TEAM OF EXPERTS TO GUIDE COUPLES THROUGH THE PROCESS OF DIVORCING. A COLLABORATIVE – DIVORCE TEAM MIGHT INCLUDE ATTORNEYS, THERAPISTS AND FINANCIAL EXPERTS. INTERESTING. I UNDERSTAND AND VALUE THE TEAM CONCEPT, BUT I WONDER HOW THINGS MIGHT CHANGE IF COUPLES WHO OPT FOR THE COST AND EFFORT OF A COLLABORATIVE-DIVORCE TEAM PUT THAT SAME ENERGY AND CARE INTO RESTORING THEIR MARRIAGE, PERHAPS WITH THE HELP OF A COLLABORATIVE-MARRIAGE TEAM (ALSO CALLED FRIENDS). I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT AN UNHAPPY MARRIAGE IS DOOMED TO DIVORCE. ALL MARRIAGES, AT SOME POINT, ARE UNHAPPY. ALL MARRIAGES GO THROUGH DIFFICULT TIMES, BUT THINGS CAN AND OFTEN DO CHANGE. THERE IS PLENTY OF RESEARCH TO SHOW THAT, EXCEPT IN CASES IN WHICH ONE OF THE SPOUSES OR THE CHILDREN ARE BEING PHYSICALLY ABUSED, AND UNHAPPY MARRIAGE IS BETTER THAN A DIVORCE


FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED. IN ONE STUDY IT WAS REPORTED THAT 86% OF UNHAPPILY MARRIEDPEOPLE WHO STUCK IT OUT FOUND THAT FIVE YEARS LATER THEIR MARRIAGES WERE HAPPIER. IN FACT, NEARLY THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE WHO RATED THEIR MARRIAGE “UNHAPPY” IN THE LATE 1980’S AND WHO STAYED MARRIED RATED THEIR MARRIAGE AS EITHER “VERY HAPPY” OR “QUITE HAPPY” WHEN THEY WERE RE-INTERVIEWED IN THE EARLY 1990’S. ACCORDING TO THE STUDY, THE WORST MARRIAGES SHOWED THE MOST DRAMATIC TURNAROUNDS. IF THESE COUPLES ACHIEVED THOSE RESULTS BY SIMPLY NOT LEAVING, IMAGINE WHAT COULD HAPPEN IF THEY MADE A DELIBERATE EFFORT TO LEARN HOW TO RESOLVE THEIR CONFLICTS, TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER AND TO IMPROVE THEIR COMMUNICATION! YOUR FRIENDS SHOULD BE PART OF YOUR COLLABORATIVE-MARRIAGE TEAM. ALLOW THEM TO DO THEIR PART TO SEE YOUR MARRIAGE SUCCEED.


7.GREATNESS IS NOT COMMON

NOT SEEN EVERYWHERE

DISTINGUISHES FROM CROWD

MAKES YOU STAND OUT

8.GREATNESS DOES NOT NEED EVERYONE’S APPROVAL

PROVERBS 29:25 NKJV25 THE FEAR OF MAN BRINGS A SNARE,BUT WHOEVER TRUSTS IN THE LORD SHALL BE SAFE.

CAN’T BE GREAT AND SEEK MAN’S APPROVAL

MAKES THEM UNCOMFORTABLE

TAKES GREAT FOCUS

MAKE HARD DECISION

CAN‘T HAVE EVERYONE’S APPROVAL AND BE

GREAT


MOST LIVE LIFE A LOWEST COMMON

DENOMINATOR

OF YOUR FRIENDS

PLEASE AUDIENCE OF ONE

9.NO ONE CAN BE GREAT BY LIVING BELOW THEIR POTENTIAL

GIVE IT ALL YOU HAVE

MAY BE GREAT FOR SOMEONE ELSE

10. YOU CAN’T BELIEVE ONE WAY AND LIVE ANOTHER AND BE GREAT

INTEGRITY – WHOLE, ALL PARTS IN UNITY, MAKING A SYMPHONY

LIVING WHAT YOU BELIEVE


11. HIDDEN GREATNESS REVEALED IN HARDSHIP

I.E. JOSEPH

I.E. DAVID – GOLIATH, SAUL

DISCOVERED WHEN HARDSHIP BRINGS IT OUT RISES TO THE OCCASION

PROVERBS 24:16 NKJV16 FOR A RIGHTEOUS MAN MAY FALL SEVEN TIMESAND RISE AGAIN, BUT THE WICKED SHALL FALL BY CALAMITY.

NO PITY PARTY – RISE UP


TO BE GREAT:

A. TEACHABLE

PROVERBS 1:7 NKJV7 THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE, BUT FOOLS DESPISE WISDOM AND INSTRUCTION.

CAN’T BE GREAT AND KNOW IT ALL

LEARN

MENTORS – PARENTS, PASTORS, TEACHERSMISTAKESWORD OF GOD

PROVERBS 6:23 NKJV23 FOR THE COMMANDMENT IS A LAMP,AND THE LAW A LIGHT; REPROOFS OF INSTRUCTION ARE THE WAY OF LIFE,

GREAT PEOPLE NEVER STOP LEARNING

GREATNESS ALWAYS WANTS TO LEARN

GOD GIVES EAR TO LEARN


PSALMS 50:4 NKJV4 HE SHALL CALL TO THE HEAVENS FROM ABOVE,AND TO THE EARTH, THAT HE MAY JUDGE HIS PEOPLE:

PRAY AND ASK GOD – TEACHABLE SPIRIT

TO BE GREAT YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO RECEIVE CORRECTION

ABLE TO RECEIVE, CORRECT, HAVE GOOD ATTITUDE

EVERYONE NEEDS SOME CORRECTION

MANY STRUGGLE BECAUSE NO ONE CORRECTED

MINISTRY SMALL BECAUSE NO CORRECTION

GREATNESS IS A TOOL NOT A WEAPON

2 CORINTHIANS 10:8 NKJV8 FOR EVEN IF I SHOULD BOAST SOMEWHAT MORE ABOUT OUR AUTHORITY, WHICH THE LORD GAVE US FOR EDIFICATION AND NOT FOR YOUR DESTRUCTION, I SHALL NOT BE ASHAMED—


WAYNE MEYER – CAN’T GIVE, BADGE OR UNIFORM

I.E. I AM OVER PENCILS – RULES

WOULD PEOPLE NEAR YOU BE GLAD, BUILD YOU UP, USE A WEAPON, OR TO BLESS, LIFT, ADD VALUE

I.E. JOSEPH – POTTER’S WIFE, CUP BEARERS, BROTHERS

I.E. DAVID – JONATHON’S SON

B. GREATNESS HELPS OTHERS BECOME GREAT

2 CORINTHIANS 10:8 NKJV8 FOR EVEN IF I SHOULD BOAST SOMEWHAT MORE ABOUT OUR AUTHORITY, WHICH THE LORD GAVE US FOR EDIFICATION AND NOT FOR YOUR DESTRUCTION, I SHALL NOT BE ASHAMED—

GROW OTHERS

OPPORTUNITIES

ENCOURAGE


BUILD UP

POUR INTO OTHERS

HONOR THOSE AROUND

HONOR THOSE WHO HELP YOU

GOD WANTS GREATNESS TO COME OUT OF US

TAKE HUMILITY OR DESTROY YOU

I.E. SAUL – BITTERFEARNEGLECTOTHER’S AGAINST

UNLIMITED WHAT GOD CAN DO THROUGH YOU

THOSE WHO GOD CAN TRUST – WANT TO BE GREAT FOR GOD

2 TIMOTHY 2:20-22 NKJV20 BUT IN A GREAT HOUSE THERE ARE NOT ONLY VESSELS OF GOLD AND SILVER, BUT ALSO OF WOOD AND CLAY, SOME FOR HONOR AND SOME FOR DISHONOR.


21 THEREFORE IF ANYONE CLEANSES HIMSELF FROM THE LATTER, HE WILL BE A VESSEL FOR HONOR, SANCTIFIED AND USEFUL FOR THE MASTER, PREPARED FOR EVERY GOOD WORK. 22 FLEE ALSO YOUTHFUL LUSTS; BUT PURSUE RIGHTEOUSNESS, FAITH, LOVE, PEACE WITH THOSE WHO CALL ON THE LORD OUT OF A PURE HEART.

PURIFY YOURSELF

JAMES 1:27 NKJV27 PURE AND UNDEFILED RELIGION BEFORE GOD AND THE FATHER IS THIS: TO VISIT ORPHANS AND WIDOWS IN THEIR TROUBLE, AND TO KEEP ONESELF UNSPOTTED FROM THE WORLD.

GOD AT WORK


2 CORINTHIANS 5:17 NKJV17 THEREFORE, IF ANYONE IS IN CHRIST, HE IS A NEW CREATION; OLD THINGS HAVE PASSED AWAY; BEHOLD, ALL THINGS HAVE BECOME NEW.

SOMETHING INSIDE OF EACH REACHES FOR GREATNESS

SOMETHING INSIDE OF EACH DOES NOT WANT AVERAGE, GET BY

NOTHING WRONG WITH WANTING TO BE GREAT

YOU CAN WITHOUT GOD

GOD IS THE SOURCE OF GREATNESS

GOD CALLING TO GREATNESS, NOT CALLING TO LOW, AVERAGE, NORMAL, EVERYDAY

GOD LIFTS

PSALMS 18:29 NKJV29 FOR BY YOU I CAN RUN AGAINST A TROOP,BY MY GOD I CAN LEAP OVER A WALL.


CAN GOD TRUST YOU WITH GREATNESS

STAY HUMBLE

LIFT

ENCOURAGE

BUILD UP

ADD VALUE

GO THE WAY AND SHOW THE WAY

SACRIFICE FOR OTHERS

BLESS OTHERS

POUR INTO OTHERS

GOD TO ABRAM I WILL MAKE YOU GREAT

MAKE YOUR NAME GREAT

GOD MAKES GREAT

DO NOT RUN FROM A CALL TO GREATNESSPURIFY YOURSELF

GREAT NO MATTER THE ENVIRONMENT

TRAVEL #145 (includes #4107) 26**************************************************************#4107 REVERSING THE DEVIL’S DECISIONS

-SATAN’S DECISION ABOUT YOU

-FINANCIAL PROBLEMS

-NERVOUS, FEARFUL

-SICKNESS

-DEPRESSED

-MARRIAGE TROUBLES

-FAMILY DESTROYED

-CHILDREN GO TO HELL

-NEVER OUT OF DEBT

-NEVER PURCHASE A HOME

-NO MERCY – KICK YOU WHEN YOU’RE DOWN

-CAN’T STOP DEVIL FROM TRYING

-HIS NATURE

-STOP HIS SUCCESS


-I.E.: DEVIL IS LIKE A SCHOOL YARD BULLY, WITH A LIST OF WHO HE COULD WHIP

YOU FIGHT HE WILL BACK DOWN -GO IN REVERSE AND FLEE

JOHN 10:10 NKJV10 "THE THIEF DOES NOT COME EXCEPT TO STEAL, AND TO KILL, AND TO DESTROY. I HAVE COME THAT THEY MAY HAVE LIFE, AND THAT THEY MAY HAVE IT MORE ABUNDANTLY.

-STEAL - TO TAKE AWAY UNLAWFULLY

-KILL - TO TAKE AWAY CREDIBILITY AND INTEGRITY

-DESTROY - TO TOTALLY ANNIHILATE AND RENDER POWERLESS

REMEMBER

1) YOU ARE ON THE RIGHT TRACK TO SOMETHING GREAT SO SATAN TRIES TO STOP YOU

MATTHEW 8:23 – 34 – GADERENE DEMONIAC


2) YOU ARE A THREAT AND HE FEARS YOUR FUTURE VICTORIES

3) GOD HAS BLESSING ON THE WAY

4) DEMONIC INTERFERENCE

-GUARANTEES ANGELIC OR SUPERNATURAL INTERVENTION

FINAL OUTCOME IS WHAT COUNTS

A. JOB - SATAN STOLE

-GOD GAVE 2 - DOUBLE

*DANIEL

B. ENEMIES THROWN IN LIONS DEN - GOD CLOSED THEIR MOUTHS

C. JOSEPH - PIT, PERSECUTION

PRISON - THEN PROSPERITY

POSITION AND POWER, PROMOTION


PRINCIPLES THAT WILL WORK FOR YOU:

PS 139:16 NIV16 YOUR EYES SAW MY UNFORMED BODY.ALL THE DAYS ORDAINED FOR MEWERE WRITTEN IN YOUR BOOKBEFORE ONE OF THEM CAME TO BE.

1. GET ON TRACK AND NEVER LOOK BACK

I.E. DAVID AND BATHSHEBA

I.E. PETER DENIED THE LORD

I.E. JUDAS BETRAYED

I.E. JOHN MARK – ABANDONED

-CAN’T CHANGE PAST

-CAN’T TAKE HOLD OF THE FUTURE WITH A HANDFUL OF PAST

-THIS ONE THING I DO

TRAVEL #145 (includes #4107) 30PHILIPPIANS 3:13 NKJV13 BRETHREN, I DO NOT COUNT MYSELF TO HAVE APPREHENDED; BUT ONE THING I DO, FORGETTING THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE BEHIND AND REACHING FORWARD TO THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE AHEAD,

-LIVING IN PAST IS A POWERLESS PRESENT

WOMAN WHO HATES MEN

I.E. JOHN MARK

2. WHEN YOU GET HIT, DON’T QUIT

-WINNER JUST GETS BACK UP

-KING DAVID

TRAVEL #145 (includes #4107) 31ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S LIFE –

-ABUSED BY FATHER, MOTHER DIED AT 9 YRS OLD, SISTER 16YRS OLD.

-WHEN YOU THINK YOU HAVE FAILED AND WANT TO GIVE UP, JUST REMEMBER THE STORY OF A MAN WHO NEVER GAVE UP:

-AGE 22, FAILED IN BUSINESS

-AGE 23, RAN FOR LEGISLATURE AND WAS DEFEATED

-AGE 24, FAILED AGAIN IN BUSINESS

-AGE 25, ELECTED TO THE LEGISLATURE

-AGE 26, SWEETHEART DIED

-AGE 27, HAD A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN – SUICIDE WATCH 24 YRS.

-AGE 29, DEFEATED FOR SPEAKER

-AGE 31, DEFEATED FOR ELECTOR FOR THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE

-AGE 34, DEFEATED FOR CONGRESS

TRAVEL #145 (includes #4107) 32-AGE 37, ELECTED TO CONGRESS

-AGE 39, DEFEATED FOR CONGRESS

-AGE 46, DEFEATED FOR SENATE

-AGE 47, DEFEATED FOR VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

-AGE 49, DEFEATED FOR SENATE

-AGE 51, ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED SATES

-AS WE STUDY THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, WE READ ABOUT HIS GREAT VICTORIES, EVEN THOUGH HE EXPERIENCED FAR MORE DEFEATS. EVEN IN HIS DARKEST HOUR, HE NEVER GAVE UP. AS A RESULT THE LED THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THROUGH ITS DARKEST HOUR.

PROVERBS 24:16 NKJV16 FOR A RIGHTEOUS MAN MAY FALL SEVEN TIMES AND RISE AGAIN, BUT THE WICKED SHALL FALL BY CALAMITY.

I.E.: DAVID AND PETER

TRAVEL #145 (includes #4107) 33-THE PAST SHOULD BE A SPRING BOARD NOT A HAMMOCK

I.E. DAVID AND BATHSHEBA

PROVERBS 6:20 NKJV20 MY SON, KEEP YOUR FATHER'S COMMAND, AND DO NOT FORSAKE THE LAW OF YOUR MOTHER.

PROVERBS 6:24-29 NKJV24 TO KEEP YOU FROM THE EVIL WOMAN, FROM THE FLATTERING TONGUE OF A SEDUCTRESS. 25 DO NOT LUST AFTER HER BEAUTY IN YOUR HEART, NOR LET HER ALLURE YOU WITH HER EYELIDS. 26 FOR BY MEANS OF A HARLOT A MAN IS REDUCED TO A CRUST OF BREAD; AND AN ADULTERESS WILL PREY UPON HIS PRECIOUS LIFE. 27 CAN A MAN TAKE FIRE TO HIS BOSOM, AND HIS CLOTHES NOT BE BURNED? 28 CAN ONE WALK ON HOT COALS, AND HIS FEET NOT BE SEARED? 29 SO IS HE WHO GOES IN TO HIS NEIGHBOR'S WIFE; WHOEVER TOUCHES HER SHALL NOT BE INNOCENT.

TRAVEL #145 (includes #4107) 34(TO KEEP YOU FROM THE EVIL WOMAN)

MESS – MESSAGE

MISERY – MINISTRY

TEST – TESTIMONY

3. REFUSE TO RUN WHEN UNDER THE GUN

-ADVERSITY BRINGS OUT YOUR GREATEST STRENGTHS

-NO GREAT VICTORIES WITHOUT GREAT BATTLES

-GOD KNOWS YOU CAN WIN

1 CORINTHIANS 10:13 NKJV13 NO TEMPTATION HAS OVERTAKEN YOU EXCEPT SUCH AS IS COMMON TO MAN; BUT GOD IS FAITHFUL, WHO WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO BE TEMPTED BEYOND WHAT YOU ARE ABLE, BUT WITH THE TEMPTATION WILL ALSO MAKE THE WAY OF ESCAPE, THAT YOU MAY BE ABLE TO BEAR IT.

IE – STORY OF HOW ESKIMOS CAUGHT WOLVES

TRAVEL #145 (includes #4107) 35 FAILURE IS GOING DOWN THE PATH OF LEAST

RESISTANCE

I.E.: PAUL, JAIL, STORM, SHIPWRECKED, SNAKE BITES

IT IS NEVER AS BAD AS YOU THINK IT IS

4. IT IS NEVER TO LATE TO BE GREAT

-PAST FAILURES DON’T DISQUALIFY ME FOR FUTURE SUCCESS

HEBREWS 4:1 NKJVNOW AS LONG AS GODS PROMISE THAT WE SHOULD GO IN AND REST WITH HIM STILL STANDS, THE ONE THING WE SHOULD FEAR IS THAT ANY ONE OF YOU SHOULD THINK HE HAS MISSED HIS CHANCE.

-CALEB 80

-MOSSES 80

-PAUL – PERSECUTOR OF THE CHURCH

-JOHN MARK – BAILED OUT

TRAVEL #145 (includes #4107) 36COLONEL SANDERS – 1ST KFC UTAH, 1952, SOLD FRANCHISE IN 1964 FOR $2 MILLION, WORTH $15.4 MILLION TODAY. DIED IN 1980 AT 90YRS OLD.

-FINISH STRONG

QUOTE: FOR NEW PROFESSIONALS BY TIM ELMORE PG 11-12HE WAS 5 WHEN HIS DADDY DIED, AND AT 14, HE DROPPED OUT OF GREENWOOD SCHOOL TO START MAKING MONEY. HE TRIED ODD JOBS FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS:

HE TRIED VARIOUS TASKS AS A FARM HAND IN INDIANA – AND HATED IT.

HE TRIED BEING A STREETCAR CONDUCTOR, BUT IT JUST DIDN’T SUIT HIM.

AT 16, HE LIED ABOUT HIS AGE TO JOIN THE ARMY, BUT QUIT AFTER ONE YEAR.

AFTERWARD, HE HEADED FOR ALABAMA AND TRIED TO BE A BLACKSMITH. HE FAILED.

HE GOT HIRED AS A FIREMAN WITH SOUTHERN RAILROAD, BUT IT DIDN’T PAN OUT.

TRAVEL #145 (includes #4107) 37 HE LATER TRIED SELLING INSURANCE, BUT THAT

DIDN’T WORK OUT EITHER. THEN, HE TRIED SELLING TIRES. NOPE. IT WASN’T

FOR HIM. THE, HE TRIED RUNNING A FERRY BOAT. NOT A

FIT. THE, HE TRIED MANAGING A FEW GAS STATIONS.

NOT STINT LASTED LONG.

HARLAN’S EXPLORATION BEGAN TO NARROW, HAVING SCRATCHED OFF JOBS THAT DIDN’T FIT HIM. FINALLY, AFTER YEARS OF WORKING AND WAITING – HE FOUND WORK THAT COULD BE HIS CAREER. HE BECAME THE CHIEF COOK AT A RESTAURANT IN CORBIN. HE LIKED IT, AND THE CUSTOMERS SEEMED TO LIKE HIM. HE FLOURISHED UNTIL THE FREEWAY BYPASS WAS MOVED AND BUSINESS DROPPED. THE CAFÉ CLOSED. IT WAS THEN…HIS EXPECTED LIFE SPAN RAN OUT. IT WAS TIME TO RETIRE. HIS FIRST SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK WAS IN HIS MAILBOX.ALTHOUGH HARLAN FELT HE WAS JUST GETTING STARTED, THE GOVERNMENT HAD SENT HIM A CHECK

TRAVEL #145 (includes #4107) 38THAT BASICALLY SAID IT’S TIME TO STOP. IT TURNED OUT TO BE A WAKE UP CALL. HE DECIDED TO DO SOMETHING CRAZY BY INVESTING THE $105 CHECK TO START A BUSINESS DOING THE ONE THING HE REALLY LIKED – PREPARING FOOD. HE PICKED UP A RECIPE AND STARTED COOKING CHICKEN. IT WORKED. HARLAN SANDERS IS THE ONE YOU KNOW AS COLONEL SANDERS, AND HIS RECIPE WAS FOR KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN. HIS CAREER TOOK OFF. HE FLOURISHED FOR YEARS. HE LATER SOLD THE RESTAURANT CHAIN TO INVESTORS FOR 2 MILLION DOLLARS WHEN HE WAS 74. HE DIED A WEALTHY MAN IN 1980, AT 90 YEARS OLD. WOW. BETTER LATE THAN NEVER, RIGHT?

I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT THIS STORY GIVES ME HOPE. I THINK IF HARLAN COULD RETURN TO TEACH US ABOUT OUR CAREERS, HE’D SHARE TWO LESSONS. FIRST, IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO RETHINK YOUR JOURNEY, AND SECOND…YOU’VE GOT TO STICK TO IT. SUCCESS WILL LIKELY TAKE LONGER THAN YOU THINK IT WILL.

TRAVEL #145 (includes #4107) 395. THE DEVIL CAN’T STOP YOU

DEFEAT

COLOSSIANS 1:13 NKJV13 HE HAS DELIVERED US FROM THE POWER OF DARKNESS AND TRANSLATED US INTO THE KINGDOM OF THE SON OF HIS LOVE,

COLOSSIANS 2:15 NKJV15 HAVING DISARMED PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS, HE MADE A PUBLIC SPECTACLE OF THEM, TRIUMPHING OVER THEM IN IT.

6. PEOPLE CAN’T STOP YOU

TALK, LET THEM

HATE, PRAY FOR THEM

DO YOU WRONG, BLESS THEM

KEEP BELIEVING GOD’S WORD

DIVIDED FOCUS CAN

TRAVEL #145 (includes #4107) 40 KEEP FOCUS ON PURPOSE

PHIL 3:13 NKJV13 BRETHREN, I DO NOT COUNT MYSELF TO HAVE APPREHENDED; BUT ONE THING I DO, FORGETTING THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE BEHIND AND REACHING FORWARD TO THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE AHEAD,

YOU’VE LIKELY HEARD OF VICTOR HUGO. HE WROTE SOME OF THE MOST FAMOUS STORIES IN HISTORY, LIKE LES MISERABLES AND THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. HE WAS BRILLIANT. BUT HE WAS ALSO VERY DISTRACTED. IT TOOK HIM SEVENTEEN YEARS TO FINISH THE STORY OF LES MISERABLES. INSTEAD OF WRITING, HE’S WANDER THROUGH THE STREETS, TALK TO PEOPLE, MESS AROUND IN HIS GARDEN – YOU NAME IT. ANYTHING BUT FINISH THE STORY. HIS FRIENDS KEPT INSISTING THAT HE COMPLETE IT, BUT HE JUST COULDN’T DISCIPLINE HIMSELF TO DO IT. UNTIL HE PUT A GUARDRAIL IN PLACE: ON DAY, HE ASKED HIS SERVANT TO DO SOMETHING STRANGE.

TRAVEL #145 (includes #4107) 41HE TOLD HIM THAT ONCE HE’D FALLEN ASLEEP, HE WANTED THE SERVANT TO COME INTO HIS ROOM AND TAKE HIS CLOTHES. THAT WOULD FORCE HIM TO STAY IN HIS ROOM…AND WRITE. ONLY AFTER A FULL DAY OF WRITING COULD HIS SERVANT RETURN HIS CLOTHES SO THAT HE COULD GO OUTSIDE AND TALK TO HIS FRIENDS. IT WAS THIS GUARDRAIL THAT ENABLED HIM TO FINISH LES MISERABLES – AND THE WORLD HAS BENEFITED GREATLY.

2 CORINTHIANS 1:18-20 NKJV18 BUT AS GOD IS FAITHFUL, OUR WORD TO YOU WAS NOT YES AND NO. 19 FOR THE SON OF GOD, JESUS CHRIST, WHO WAS PREACHED AMONG YOU BY US — BY ME, SILVANUS, AND TIMOTHY — WAS NOT YES AND NO, BUT IN HIM WAS YES. 20 FOR ALL THE PROMISES OF GOD IN HIM ARE YES, AND IN HIM AMEN, TO THE GLORY OF GOD THROUGH US.

TRAVEL #145 (includes #4107) 427. REGARDLESS OF THE NEEDS KEEP PLANTING SEED

EPHESIANS 6:8 NKJV8 KNOWING THAT WHATEVER GOOD ANYONE DOES, HE WILL RECEIVE THE SAME FROM THE LORD, WHETHER HE IS A SLAVE OR FREE.

2 CORINTHIANS 9:7 AMP7 LET EACH ONE [GIVE] AS HE HAS MADE UP HIS WON MIND AND PURPOSED IN HIS HEAR, NOT RELUCTANTLY OR SORROWFULLY OR UNDER COMPULSION, FOR GOD LOVES (HE TAKES PLEASURE IN, PRIZES ABOVE OTHER THINGS, AND IS UNWILLING TO ABANDON OR TO DO WITHOUT) A CHEERFUL (JOYOUS, PROMPT TO DO IT) GIVER [WHOSE HEART IS IN HIS GIVING].

-SEED ANYTHING THAT CAN BENEFIT ANOTHER

I.E. JACOB - DECEIVED AND STOLE

GENESIS 34:2 NKJV

TRAVEL #145 (includes #4107) 432 AND WHEN SHECHEM THE SON OF HAMOR THE HIVITE, PRINCE OF THE COUNTRY, SAW HER, HE TOOK HER AND LAY WITH HER, AND VIOLATED HER.

JOSHUA 9:3-7 NKJV3 BUT WHEN THE INHABITANTS OF GIBEON HEARD WHAT JOSHUA HAD DONE TO JERICHO AND AI, 4 THEY WORKED CRAFTILY, AND WENT AND PRETENDED TO BE AMBASSADORS. AND THEY TOOK OLD SACKS ON THEIR DONKEYS, OLD WINESKINS TORN AND MENDED, 5 OLD AND PATCHED SANDALS ON THEIR FEET, AND OLD GARMENTS ON THEMSELVES; AND ALL THE BREAD OF THEIR PROVISION WAS DRY AND MOLDY. 6 AND THEY WENT TO JOSHUA, TO THE CAMP AT GILGAL, AND SAID TO HIM AND TO THE MEN OF ISRAEL, "WE HAVE COME FROM A FAR COUNTRY; NOW THEREFORE, MAKE A COVENANT WITH US." 7 THEN THE MEN OF ISRAEL SAID TO THE HIVITES, "PERHAPS YOU DWELL AMONG US; SO HOW CAN WE MAKE A COVENANT WITH YOU?"

-LOVE

TRAVEL #145 (includes #4107) 44-COMPASSION

-IDEA

-SUPPORT

-MONEY

-BE A TITHER

-GIVE OFFERINGS

-GIVE HELP AND SUPPORT

-GIVE WHAT YOU WILL NEED AND YOU WILL RECEIVE IT FROM THE LORD

8. RESIST THE DEVIL, TEMPTATION AND WORKS

EPH 6:12 NKJV12 FOR WE DO NOT WRESTLE AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT AGAINST PRINCIPALITIES, AGAINST POWERS, AGAINST THE RULERS OF THE DARKNESS

OF THIS AGE,* AGAINST SPIRITUAL HOSTS OF WICKEDNESS IN THE HEAVENLY PLACES.

MARRIAGEFAMILY

TRAVEL #145 (includes #4107) 45HEALTHKIDSBUSINESSPEACEJOY

1 PETER 5:8-9 NKJV8 BE SOBER, BE VIGILANT; BECAUSE YOUR ADVERSARY THE DEVIL WALKS ABOUT LIKE A ROARING LION, SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR. 9 RESIST HIM, STEADFAST IN THE FAITH, KNOWING THAT THE SAME SUFFERINGS ARE EXPERIENCED BY YOUR BROTHERHOOD IN THE WORLD

JAMES 4:7 NKJV7 THEREFORE SUBMIT TO GOD. RESIST THE DEVIL AND HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU.

JOHN 10:10 NKJV

TRAVEL #145 (includes #4107) 4610 “THE THIEF DOES NOT COME EXCEPT TO STEAL, AND TO KILL, AND TO DESTROY. I HAVE COME THAT THEY MAY HAVE LIFE, AND THAT THEY MAY HAVE IT MORE ABUNDANTLY.

ACTS 10:38 NKJV38 “HOW GOD ANOINTED JESUS OF NAZARETH WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND WITH POWER, WHO WENT ABOUT DOING GOOD AND HEALING ALL WHO WERE OPPRESSED BY THE DEVIL, FOR GOD WAS WITH HIM.

LUKE 13:10-16 NKJV10 NOW HE WAS TEACHING IN ONE OF THE SYNAGOGUES ON THE SABBATH. 11 AND BEHOLD, THERE WAS A WOMAN WHO HAD A SPIRIT OF INFIRMITY EIGHTEEN YEARS, AND WAS BENT OVER AND COULD IN NO WAY RAISE HERSELF UP. 12 BUT WHEN JESUS SAW HER, HE CALLED HER TO HIM AND SAID TO HER, "WOMAN, YOU ARE LOOSED FROM YOUR INFIRMITY." 13 AND HE LAID HIS HANDS ON HER, AND IMMEDIATELY SHE WAS MADE STRAIGHT, AND GLORIFIED GOD.

TRAVEL #145 (includes #4107) 4714 BUT THE RULER OF THE SYNAGOGUE ANSWERED WITH INDIGNATION, BECAUSE JESUS HAD HEALED ON THE SABBATH; AND HE SAID TO THE CROWD, "THERE ARE SIX DAYS ON WHICH MEN OUGHT TO WORK; THEREFORE COME AND BE HEALED ON THEM, AND NOT ON THE SABBATH DAY." 15 THE LORD THEN ANSWERED HIM AND SAID, "HYPOCRITE! DOES NOT EACH ONE OF YOU ON THE SABBATH LOOSE HIS OX OR DONKEY FROM THE STALL, AND LEAD IT AWAY TO WATER IT? 16 SO OUGHT NOT THIS WOMAN, BEING A DAUGHTER OF ABRAHAM, WHOM SATAN HAS BOUND — THINK OF IT — FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS, BE LOOSED FROM THIS BOND ON THE SABBATH?" 17 AND WHEN HE SAID THESE THINGS, ALL HIS ADVERSARIES WERE PUT TO SHAME; AND ALL THE MULTITUDE REJOICED FOR ALL THE GLORIOUS THINGS THAT WERE DONE BY HIM.

JAMES 1:16-17 NKJV16 DO NOT BE DECEIVED, MY BELOVED BRETHREN. 17 EVERY GOOD GIFT AND EVERY PERFECT GIFT IS FROM ABOVE, AND COMES DOWN FROM THE FATHER OF LIGHTS, WITH WHOM THERE IS NO VARIATION OR SHADOW OF TURNING.


9. PROPHECY YOUR FUTURE FROM GOD’S WORD

LUKE 1:38 NKJV38 THEN MARY SAID, "BEHOLD THE MAIDSERVANT OF THE LORD! LET IT BE TO ME ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD." AND THE ANGEL DEPARTED FROM HER.

MARK 11:23 NKJV23 FOR ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, WHOEVER SAYS TO THIS MOUNTAIN, 'BE REMOVED AND BE CAST INTO THE SEA,' AND DOES NOT DOUBT IN HIS HEART, BUT BELIEVES THAT THOSE THINGS HE SAYS WILL BE DONE, HE WILL HAVE WHATEVER HE SAYS.

-NUMBERS

TRAVEL #145 (includes #4107) 49HEBREWS 13:5-7 NKJV5 LET YOUR CONDUCT BE WITHOUT COVETOUSNESS, AND BE CONTENT WITH SUCH THINGS AS YOU HAVE.6 FOR HE HIMSELF HAS SAID, "I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU NOR FORSAKE YOU." 7 SO WE MAY BOLDLY SAY: "THE LORD IS MY HELPER; I WILL NOT FEAR. WHAT CAN MAN DO TO ME?" REMEMBER THOSE WHO RULE OVER YOU, WHO HAVE SPOKEN THE WORD OF GOD TO YOU, WHOSE FAITH FOLLOW, CONSIDERING THE OUTCOME OF THEIR CONDUCT.

1 PETER 2:24 NKJV24 WHO HIMSELF BORE OUR SINS IN HIS OWN BODY ON THE TREE, THAT WE, HAVING DIED TO SINS, MIGHT LIVE FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS - BY WHOSE STRIPES YOU WERE HEALED.

GOD WILL CARE FOR ME AND SEE ME THROUGH


1 PETER 5:7 NKJV7 CASTING ALL YOUR CARE UPON HIM, FOR HE CARES FOR YOU.

DEVIL CAN’T HAVE MY CHILDREN

PROVERBS 22:6 NKJV6 TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO, AND WHEN HE IS OLD HE WILL NOT DEPART FROM IT.

PROVERBS 18:20 NKJV20 A MAN'S STOMACH SHALL BE SATISFIED FROM THE FRUIT OF HIS MOUTH, AND FROM THE PRODUCE OF HIS LIPS HE SHALL BE FILLED. DEATH AND LIFE ARE IN THE POWER OF THE TONGUE, AND THOSE WHO LOVE IT WILL EAT ITS FRUIT.

TRAVEL #145 (includes #4107) 51MARK 11:22-23 NKJV22 SO JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID TO THEM, "HAVE FAITH IN GOD" 23 FOR ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, WHOEVER SAYS TO THIS MOUNTAIN, 'BE REMOVED AND BE CAST INTO THE SEA,' AND DOES NOT DOUBT IN HIS HEART, BUT BELIEVES THAT THOSE THINGS HE SAYS WILL COME TO PASS, HE WILL HAVE WHATEVER HE SAYS

NUMBERS 13 & 14:28

JOB 22:28 NKJV28 YOU WILL ALSO DECLARE A THING, AND IT WILL BE ESTABLISHED FOR YOU; SO LIGHT WILL SHINE ON YOUR WAYS.

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