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Introdution Jesus reahes for a grape branh shoing signs of ne spring groth, its oody Stem lies aross His hand into the golden light. No its begins, I am the True Vine, and my Father is the Vinedresser John 15:1. In the next fe minutes, Jesus talk quietly about Branhes and grapes and ho the Vinedresser ares for His prize Vineyard.
Are Pitures oming to your mind? Jesus loved to onvey the deepest truths ith simple, earthly examples. In His last day before His death, He anted you and me to omprehend ith our Whole being that He has left us on this Planet for ONE ompelling reason(unity) ith prodution (FRUITS). Here is the Unity of Three: 1- Father is the Vinedresser 2-Jesus is the Vine 3- You and I are the branhes.
Are Pitures oming to your mind? Besides us as the branhes, God present Himself to us in form of Unity. Here are the Three: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Fruits represent: good orks, Thought, attitude, or ation of ours that God values beause it glorifies Him. Fruits are: Unity, Love, Peae, Kindness, gentleness, self-ontrol et.
Three Duties of Every Christian 1-Giving 2-Fasting 3-Praying These three demonstrate the Poer of Unity: If they are pratied together in the life of a believer, it reates a type of threefold ord that is not easily broken. Jesus took it further by saying, Nothing ill be impossible Matthe 1:20
The Three Duties of Every Christian Jesus sp0ke of the Thirtyfold, Sixtyfold, and Hundredfold returns. For Prayer alone_ Thirty fold returns For Prayer and Giving_ Sixtyfold returns For Prayer, Giving, and Fasting_ Hundredfold returns These Three folds returns are Truly shoing us the Seret Soure of POWER OF UNITY. When you ease to make a ontribution, you begin to die. Eleanor Roosevelt
Bo, Bough, and Arro The strength in a bo omes from the strength of the bough that forms it and the bo apaity to bend from suh a eapons (ARROWS) dual strengths ome greatness. To keep a lamp burning, e have to keep putting oil in it. Mother Teresa
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Youth destiny or destiny for All. Remember Your Creator While Young. Elesiastes 11:-10, 12:1- Vs.&8. Solomon enourages us to rejoie in everyday but to remember that eternity is far longer than a person s lifespan. Teah us to number our days aright, that e may gain a heart to isdom. Psalm 9:12 The ise person does not just think about the moment and its impat; he/she takes the long-range vie toard eternity. Approah Your deision from God perspetive.
Youth Destiny or Destiny for All. E. 11: 9&10 We often hear people says, It doesn t matter, but many of your Choie ill be irreversible. They ill stay ith you for a lifetime. What you do hen you are young does matter. Enjoy life no, but don t do anything Physially, Mentally, or Spiritually that ill prevent you from enjoying life hen you are old. A life ithout God an produe a bitter, lonely, and hopeless old age. A life entered around God is fulfilling.
Youth Destiny or Destiny for ALL Cont A life entered around God is fulfilling. Isaiah 40:30-31, Even youths gro tired and eary, and young men stumble and fall; but those ho h0pe in the Lord ill rene their Strength. They ill soar on ings like eagles; they ill run and not gro eary, they ill alk and not be faint. Hoping in the Lord is expeting that his promise of Strength ill help us to rise above life s distrations and diffiulties. Supernatural Strength is given to those ho ait on GOD.
Youth Destiny or Destiny for ALL Cont. When disabilities, sikness, and handiaps ause barriers to enjoying life, e must satisfy beause of the hope of eternal life. Being Young is exiting. But the exitement of Youth an beome barriers to loseness ith God and ommunity if it makes young people fous on Passing pleasures instead of eternal value. Make your Strength available to God and ommunity hen it still yours- during Your Youth Years (Y3) Don t aste it on evil or meaningless ativities that beome bad habits and make you allous.
Youth Destiny or Destiny for All Cont Seek God No. E. 11:4, Waiting for perfet onditions ill mean inativity. This pratial insight is espely appliable to our Spiritual life. If e ait for the perfet time and plae for personal Bible reading, it ill never begin. If e ait for perfet hurh, e ill never join. If e ait for perfet ministry, e ill never serve. Take steps no to gro spiritually. Don t for onditions that may never exist.
PEACE Peae is a term that most ommonly refers to an absene of hostility or intend onfrontation beteen or among individuals, beteen or among groups, and beteen nations on the basis of ompeting interests, different identities, and/or differing attitudes. Ho an e artiulate a Vision of Peae in this tiny ommunity?
Peae Cont. Peae is the freedom from disturban It is an ourrene of harmony. - In Philippians 4:, e have a onderful promise, The Peae of GOD - Likeise, human reasoning is inapable of fully omprehend pea
Reoniliation -Conflit is one of the hardest things that blok the progress in both our Seular and Spiritual organizations. It is emotionally draining, and an result in hurt feeling and people existing. Eah of us posses the God-given apaity to at positive for the ell-being of our soiety. Our onflits are in Miro-level, and e should handle them as the family in the early stages.
Reoniliation Cont. Let prepare ourselves to deal isely ith differenes. For every leadership, the basi need for individuals ho ould be very ise in philosophial matters ould keep in the interests of the total soiety in mind. They ould not do this ell if they are being motivated by private interests. He ho has never learn to obey annot be a good ommander Aristotle Whether e are leading ourselves or others, obey and ourage ill be alled for.
Reoniliation Cont. We don t manage people, e manage things, e lead people. Great leaders don t presume their on importane but assume instead that everyone they are leading is important. V-shape flying birds A leader is not some one ho rules over but is someone ho lifts up. A leader is a dealer in hope Napoleon
Reoniliation Cont. Plato vie for human is omposed of Three main elements: 1- The sense or appetite 2- The spirit or ill 3- Intelligene or reason -Although all of these are important. For Plato, the ultimate reality, for us as individuals or as members of this soiety is not in our sense or our physial attributes as humans. -The ultimate reality is a produt of human minds. This mean that reason and searh for truth must be entral part of all ho ould seek to guide his/her soiety to realize its highest potent. -Unknon Author said, What does not bend break
In onlusion We are Family. We must resolve disagreements among ourselves Peaefully and Respetively as Robert E. Valletta put it. Respet the right to disagree Express your real onerns Share ommon goals and interests Open yourself to different points of vie Listen arefully to all proposals Understand the major issues involved Think about probable onsequenes Imagine several possible alternatives Offer some reasonable ompromises Negotiate mutually fair ooperative agreement
In Conlusion Through Unity, Peae, and Reoniliation, e must ork ooperatively to turn this good soiety into great and better one. Let us all be the instruments of PEACE in our ommunity. Even in time of disagreement, e ould at in a Spirit of Truth and Love. In every level of leadership, let us play the ingredients of leadership suh as Commitment, Flexibility, Patiene, and Enduran Benjamin Franklin said, Well done is better than ell said.