Learn from Godly Examples

Learn from Godly Examples

The things that you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things; and the God of peace shall be with you. Philippians 4:9

I’ve been a people watcher for years. I love to watch people and learn from them. Over the years I have been blessed to be in the company of some very humble servants of God and have learned from them.

Many of you have listened to one of my media mentors, Dr. Charles Stanley. I recently read this off his website and thought it would be good for us. This is a list of 30 lessons he has learned. Here are the first 15:

1. Our intimacy with God – His highest priority for our lives – determines the impact of our lives. 

2. Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him. 
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3. God’s Word is an immovable anchor in times of storm. 

4. The awareness of God’s presence energizes us for our work. 

5. God does not require us to understand His will, just obey it, even if it seems unreasonable. 

6. You reap what you sow, more than you sow, and later than you sow. 

7. The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us. 

8. Fight all your battles on your knees and you win every time. 

9. Trusting God means looking beyond what we can see to what God sees. 

10. If necessary, God will move heaven and earth to show us His will. 

11. God assumes full responsibility for our needs when we obey Him. 

12. Peace with God is the fruit of oneness with God. 

13. Listening to God is essential to walking with God. 

14. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him. 

15. Brokenness is God’s requirement for maximum usefulness.  Adapted from In Touch website – Dr. Charles Stanley

Team YOU: 1 Samuel 30-31; Proverbs 16; Luke 13:23-35

Motivations:  There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Inflamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.  (E. M.) Bounds

Practice to Remember: Level 1:Ephesians 6:2-3; Level 2: Ephesians 5:15-21

Powered Up:  If you do not get all you ask, it is because the Savior intends to give you something better.