VALLEY OF VISION: PURITAN PRAYERS
Give me grace to be holy, kind, gentle, pure, peaceable, to live for thee and not for self, to copy thy words, acts, spirit, to be transformed into thy likeness, to be consecrated wholly to thee, to live entirely to thy glory. Deliver me from attachment to things unclean, from wrong associations, from the predominance of evil passions, from The sugar of sin as well as its gall, that with self-loathing, deep contrition, earnest heart searching I may come to thee, cast myself on thee, trust in thee, cry to thee, be delivered by thee.
5 MEASURES OF MANHOOD
SACRIFICE
DENY SELF
RESIST TEMPTATION
STAND IN THE GAP
DO WHAT’S REQUIRED, NOT ALWAYS WHAT’S PREFERRED
“For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,”1 Peter 3:18
RESILIENCE
VOLUNTARY HARDSHIP
SET EXPECTATIONS
LEAN INTO DIFFICULTY
FACE CONFLICT
“So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the een things
DOMINION
BECOME DANGEROUS
ALERTNESS & AWARENESS
INTENTIONAL RESPONSE (OFFENSIVE) VS FORCED REACTION
EMBODY MEEKNESS
“Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.””
Genesis 1:26
LEADERSHIP
DISCIPLESHIP AT HOME
SERVANTHOOD (ALSO TIP OF SPEAR)
EXEMPLIFY
ENCOURAGE & EMPOWER (RENDER OBSOLETE
“IF SERVING IS BENEATH YOU, LEADERSHIP IS BEYOND YOU”
“even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”Matthew 20:28
STEWARDSHIP
RESOURCES
RELATIONSHIPS
EMBRACE GENEROSITY
AVOID LAZINESS & CARELESSNESS
“For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.”1 John 2:16
