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• Proverbs 29: 18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

• Proverbs 29: 18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the perish law, happy is he. • James 1: 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers word only, deceiving your own only selves.

Availing Much? “Vision Prayer” v. Two Key PROBLEMS That Affect How We See: ØAn “I” Problem ØAn “Eye” Problem

• Proverbs 29: 18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the perish law, happy is he. • James 1: 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers word only, deceiving your own only selves.

• Proverbs 29: 18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that perish keepeth the law, happy is he. • James 1: 22 But be ye doers of the word, word and not hearers only, only deceiving your own selves.

• 2 Corinthians 3: 2 -3 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: Forasmuch as men ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

• 2 Corinthians 1: 12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with sincerity fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, wisdom we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward. 1 Corinthians 1: 10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, thing and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment

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PRIORITIZE ü LOVE Him

• Mark 12: 30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with heart all thy soul, and with all soul thy mind, and with all thy mind strength: this is the first strength commandment.

PRIORITIZE ü KNOW Him

• Philippians 3: 10 That I may know him, and the him power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death

PRIORITIZE ü WORSHIP Him

• John 4: 23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father truth seeketh such to worship him.

PRIORITIZE ü DISCIPLE Them

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Availing Much? “Vision Prayer” v. Two Key PROBLEMS That Affect How We See: ØAn “Eye” Problem ØAn “I” Problem

• Revelation 3: 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and sayest increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and nothing knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked blind

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Baby… VIRTUE Little Child… KNOWLEDGE Children… TEMPERANCE Young Man…PATIENCE Father…GODLINESS Elder…BROTHERLY KINDNESS

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• 1 Corinthians 6: 19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? own • Romans 11: 36 For of him, and through him, him and to him, are all things: to whom be glory him for ever. Amen • Romans 12: 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, sacrifice acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

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• John 14: 6 – “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, way truth and the life: no life man cometh unto

• Acts 1: 9 -11 –“And when He had spoken these things, while they beheld, He was taken up; and up a cloud received Him out of their sight. And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into

ØJohn 14: 6 – “Jesus saith unto him, I am … the life: …” • John 6: 63 – “It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the quickeneth flesh profiteth nothing: the words

ØJohn 14: 6 – “Jesus saith unto him, I am … the truth: …” • Acts 2: 42 – “And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. ” • John 17: 17 – “Sanctify them through thy truth:

ØJohn 14: 6 – “Jesus saith unto him, I am … the way: …” • THE CHURCH OF GOD!

ØJohn 14: 6 – “Jesus saith unto him, I am … the way: …” • Philippians 3: 4 -6 – “Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; Concerning zeal, persecuting the church;

ØJohn 14: 6 – “Jesus saith unto him, I am … the way: …” • Galatians 1: 13 – “For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and God

ØJohn 14: 6 – “Jesus saith unto him, I am … the way: …” • Acts 8: 2 -3 – “And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him. As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and

ØJohn 14: 6 – “Jesus saith unto him, I am … the way: …” • Acts 9: 4 – “And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him,

ØJohn 14: 6 – “Jesus saith unto him, I am … the way: …” • Acts 22: 1 -4 – “Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you. (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith, ) I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as

ØJohn 14: 6 – “Jesus saith unto him, I am … the way: …” • Acts 9: 1 -2 – “And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring

ØJohn 14: 6 – “Jesus saith unto him, I am … the way: …” • Acts 18: 24 -26 – “And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus. This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John. And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of

ØJohn 14: 6 – “Jesus saith unto him, I am … the way: …” • Acts 19: 9 – “But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. ”

ØJohn 14: 6 – “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the way truth, and the life: …. ” truth life • The church is our vehicle to get us where God wants us to go. (It’s the WAY to get there) • The Bible is our road map; the TRUTH to show us where God wants us to go. • The Spirit is our Guide to keep us moving in the right

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• Hebrews 13: 17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for yourselves souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you. • 1 Peter 5: 1 -3 The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by thereof constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a constraint ready mind; Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. heritage flock

• 1 Corinthians 16: 1 -2 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered store him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

• 1 Peter 2: 5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

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• Romans 8: 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

• Romans 8: 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. • Galatians 5: 16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

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