Dear Lord, I m grateful for the people and things You ve placed in my life. I m asking for Your help in teaching me what s most important please help me see which things need my best effort and most of my time. If anything needs to be removed, or if there s something I really need to pay more attention to, please show me. Help me to prioritize my life well, so I can better fulfill Your purpose for me. In Jesus name, amen.
Nov 4, 2018 Elevation Sermon notes Elevation Ballantyne Pastor Steven Furtick Sermon Title: Game Changer Series part 1 - The Secret Score Board - Am I playing the right game? Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2hxeq62ggm Closing prayer: Lord we have given the wrong perspective to those that are keeping a scoreboard on us. We have come to realize that the pursuit of success is not necessarily fulfilling. We are left with 10 million cookies to click and yet we are still hungry. The secret is to stop clicking just for a moment and allow God s voice to determine our values. In a world that is completely upside-down Jesus says blessed are those that are poor in spirit for theirs is in the kingdom of heaven. Because God values humility. Blessed are those that are mourning for they will be comforted. However, this does not sound like victory but God s values are different than ours. Father I ask right now that what is truly important to you would take precedence in our hearts and minds. Our hearts are alive today because we know this principle is so life-changing - but it is also challenging. As soon as we leave this church we are confronted with the world that contradicts these important principles. God, give us the ability to turn to you at each moment in a season and in each situation in our life and ask you this question: am I winning? Sometimes we feel like winning when we are losing and sometimes when we feel we are losing when we are actually winning - which can t be taken away - so God today help us know the difference. Only you can show us this Holy Spirit. Lord today we surrender our scorecards in many different ways we see life - and Lord instill in us values that come from heaven. We thank you for your grace that came along and changed us all. And now we pray for this grace to work powerfully in us and through us and take us to a place where actions reflect our values and our values come from you. In Jesus name we pray Amen.
Nov 4, 2018 Elevation Sermon notes Elevation Ballantyne Pastor Steven Furtick Sermon Title: Game Changer Series part 1 - The Secret Score Board - Am I playing the right game? Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2hxeq62ggm Question: Quote: It s interesting that most of us learn how to go through life learning how to play the game - and we master the game whether it s popularity, position, or certain skills - and we learn how to play the game but never stop and ask this question: Are we playing the right game? How do we manage this tension between the secular game that we play every day vs. the right game? What does the right game look like to you?
Nov 4, 2018 Elevation Sermon notes Elevation Ballantyne Pastor Steven Furtick Sermon Title: Game Changer Series part 1 - The Secret Score Board - Am I playing the right game? Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2hxeq62ggm Question: Quote from Pastor Steven: God is both my reason and my reward. And we all have a tendency to separate the two. Hu? What to you think this means?
Psalm 139 23: Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24: See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Death to Selfie series https://elevationchurch.org/curriculum/overcoming-anxiety-week-3-imbalance/
Bars & Battles: https://elevationchurch.org/curriculum/overcoming-anxiety-week-3-imbalance/
Luke 10:38-42 At the Home of Martha and Mary 38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord s feet listening to what he said. 40 But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, Lord, don t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me! 41 Martha, Martha, the Lord answered, you are worried and upset about many things, 42 but few things are needed or indeed only one.[a] Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.
Stars Part 2 Guest Speaker Lloyd Byers
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Army Capt. Joshua T. Byers Died July 23, 2003 Serving During Operation Iraqi Freedom 29, of Sparks, Nev.; assigned to Headquarters, Headquarters Troop, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Armored Calvary Regiment, in Fort Carson, Co.; killed July 23 when his convoy hit an explosive device. Carson remembers fallen colleague Associated Press FORT CARSON, Colo. A captain killed in Iraq was remembered July 30 as an impeccable soldier and leader who loved his command and put his troops welfare above all else. Capt. Josh Byers was killed July 23 when a homemade bomb was placed under his Humvee outside Ramadi, Iraq. We lost one of our best and brightest last week and the world is now a darker place, Lt. Dan Lawrence, who served with Byers, said at a memorial service at Fort Carson. Byers, 29, is the 13th Fort Carson soldier to die in Iraq. The funeral and burial tentatively were planned for Aug.2, at Lisbon Presbyterian Church in Mountville, S.C. About 600 soldiers some back because of combat injuries wives of troops still in Iraq and others crammed Soldier s Memorial Chapel. Others recalled heroic acts, including his tiptoeing into a minefield to rescue children who had ventured there in search of firewood and pushing a fellow captain behind a wall as shrapnel poured down on them. Afterward, he said he didn t remember doing it, said Capt. Jesse Sellars, Byers best friend. He was the finest among all of us. Byers, a 1996 West Point graduate, commanded Fox Troop, 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. He was married to Kim Byers and was the son of Baptist missionaries Lloyd and Mary Byers and himself was a Southern Baptist lay leader. His parents are director of missions for the Guam Baptist Association. Lloyd Byers earlier served as a pastor in Sparks, Nev., Mountville, S.C., and Mt. Airy, Ga. Byers attended high school in Sparks, Nev. - Associated Press
Josh Byers Way, Fort Carson, Co