Business Devotional Meeting

21 AUGUST 2013The Riverwalk

HIVBusiness Devotional Meeting

POSITIVE

HEROISVERYPOSITIVE

Top 10 HEROS in the Bible

①Jesus

②Paul

③Abraham

④David

⑤Moses

⑥John the Baptist

⑦Joseph

⑧Luke

⑨Peter

⑩Joshua

The destruction of

Jericho CityLed by Joshua

Joshua 6:1-21

4Ps of aHERO

HEROto arrange or do in order ofimportance and/or urgency

PRIORITISE

HERO [PRIORITISE]

• Joshua was…

– Commissioned by God– Commanded to posses the land of Canaan– Given a plan

HERO [PRIORITISE]

How did Joshua PRIORITISE?

1. Reduce2. Choose3. Focus

What is Jesus priority and how did He prioritise?

PHEROThinking organizing the activities required to achieve a desired goal

LAN

HERO [PLAN]

Luke 14:28-33

28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?

29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,

30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’

HERO [PLAN]

Luke 14:28-33

31 Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

32 And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.

33 So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

HERO [PLAN]

• Joshua 6:1-5– God instruct Joshua

• Joshua 6:6-7– Joshua shared the plan

HERO [PLAN]

• Characteristics of Joshua’s PLAN?1. Know where they are going2. Very specific3. Create measurable milestones4. Well organized5. Put time-lines

HEROAn effort to secure or attain

PURSUIT

HERO [PURSUIT]• Pursuit means “do, action”

• James 2:14, 26v14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?

v26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.

HERO [PURSUIT]• Joshua 6: 12-13

• Pursuit requires…1. Consciousness2. Commitment3. Conciseness

HEROContinue in a course of action even in the face of difficulty or with little or no indication of success.

PERSEVERED

HERO [PERSEVERED]• Galatians 6:9

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

• 2 Thessalonians 3:13As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good.

HERO [PERSEVERED]• Joshua 6: 13-16

• They can persevere because they …1. Believe2. Know3. Want

HEROPrioritisedPlanPursuitPersevered

What time is it?

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40IN THE BIBLESPEAKS OF

Mark 4:20But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and

a hundredfold.”

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