The Best You

Key Concept #1

• Choose a team
• Satan or Jesus
• Satan: Steal, Kill, Destroy
• Jesus: Fill us, protect us, favor and love us

John 10:10
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life and have it to the full (abundantly, until it overflows).

John 15:15
I am the vine and my father the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, so that it will be even more fruitful. NIV

Key Concept #2

• Believe the word is true and powerful
• Fundamental truth- Head knowledge to heart knowledge
• Life Support

Word is our Sustinence

• Deut 8:3 "He humbled you causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither your father had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God."

Satan Tempts

• Matt 4:4 "It is written, man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God."

Word is Alive

• "For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword. It penetrates even to the dividing of soul and spirit, joints and marrow-it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart."
• Word is ALIVE- breathing, living, active

Key Concept #3

• Trust- God's character
• Fear- Opposite of trust (debilitating)

Psalm 25:8-10
"Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in his ways. He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way. All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful, for those
who keep the demands of his covenant."

Character Attributes

• Good/Upright
• Instructs/Guides
• Teaches
• Loves
• Faithful

Covenant

• Psalm 25:14 "The Lord Confides in those who fear him, he makes his covenant known to them."
• Covenant: A binding legal agreement (ubdavid.org)
• New Covenant at its core-the gospel of Jesus Christ- message of salvation through faith

No fear

• Romans 8:15 "For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear but you received the spirit of sonship (covenant); and by Him we cry Abba, father. The spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children."
• Before we came into covenant relationship we were slaves.

Key Concept #4

• Receive, Receive,Receive
• #1- His Love
• #2- His Peace
• #3- His Perfect Plan

His Love

• Eph:2:4-6 "But because of his great LOVE for us, God who is rich in mercy, made us Alive with Christ....
• Vs 6: "And God raised us up with Christ and SEATED US WITH HIM in heavenly rhelms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in kindness to us in Christ Jesus."