message - my best year ever - 01-01-17
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My Best Year Ever!
My Best Year Ever!
To have our best year ever, there are three things
we must remember . . .
My Best Year Ever!
Look here, you people who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to such and such a town, stay there a
year, and open up a profitable business.”
My Best Year Ever!
How do you know what is going to happen tomorrow?
For the length of your lives is as uncertain as the morning fog—now you see it; soon it is
gone.
My Best Year Ever!
What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we shall live and do this or that.”
Otherwise you will be bragging about your own plans,
and such self-confidence never pleases God. (James 4:13-16 – Living Bible)
My Best Year Ever!
Lord, help me to realize how brief my time on earth will be. Help me to know that I am here for but a moment more. My life is no longer than my hand!
My whole lifetime is but a moment to you.
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Proud man! Frail as breath! A shadow! And all his busy rushing ends in nothing. He heaps up riches for someone else to spend. And so, Lord, my only
hope is in you. (Psalm 39:4-7 – Living Bible)
My Best Year Ever!
We may journey through life for 70 years; some may live and breathe 80 years—if we are
strong. Yet our time here is only toil and trouble;
soon our days are gone, and we fly away . . .
My Best Year Ever!
Teach us to number our days so that we may truly live and achieve wisdom.
(Psalm 90:10, 12 – The Voice)
My Best Year Ever!
We must remember the brevity of life
My Best Year Ever!
We must remember the sacredness of time
My Best Year Ever!
We must remember the importance of commitment
My Best Year Ever!
To have our best year ever, there are three things
we must do . . .
My Best Year Ever!
I do not say that I have received this or have already become perfect. But I keep going on to
make that life my own as Christ Jesus made me His own.
My Best Year Ever!
No, Christian brothers, I do not have that life yet. But I do one thing. I forget everything that is behind me and look forward to that which is ahead of me.
My Best Year Ever!
My eyes are on the crown. I want to win the race and get the crown of God’s call from heaven
through Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:12-14 – New Life Version)
My Best Year Ever!
We must learn from the past, but don’t live in it!
My Best Year Ever!
We must face the future, but don’t fear it!
My Best Year Ever!
We must welcome the present, and not waste it!
My Best Year Ever!
To have our best year ever, there are three things
we must have . . .
My Best Year Ever!
Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. (Matthew 6:33 – New Living Translation)
My Best Year Ever!
What you should want most is God’s kingdom and doing what he wants you to do.
Then he will give you all these other things you need. (Matthew 6:33 – Easy To Read Version)
My Best Year Ever!
He will give them to you if you give him first place in your life and live as he wants you to.
(Matthew 6:33 – Living Bible)
My Best Year Ever!
We must have the right focus
My Best Year Ever!
We must have the right priorities
My Best Year Ever!
We must have the right lifestyle
My Best Year Ever!
Teach us to number our days so that we may truly live and achieve wisdom.
(Psalm 90:12 – The Voice)
My Best Year Ever!
Let’s Pray