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

Bad Branches-no fruit

• Insecurity
• Need to be validated
• Neediness
• Worry/anxiety
• Relationship for relationship sake

Good Fruit-Need Pruning

• Leadership
• Friendship
• Peacemaker

Key Concept #2

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

Word is our Sustenance

• 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."

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

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."

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)
• Noah- flood/ Abraham- bless him and his descendants and give them promise land/ David-one of his descendants would reign over the house of Israel- Jesus
• New Covenant at its core-the gospel of Jesus Christ- message of salvation through faith
• HE keeps his promises- trustworthy!! Amen

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.

Psalm 91:4-6 &11-12

• He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge, his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. You will not FEAR the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness.
• For he will command his angels concerning you- to guard you in all your ways!

Key Concept #4

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

Mark 16:19

• New Living Translation: When the Lord Jesus had finished talking with them, he was taken up into heaven and sat down in the place of honor at God's right hand.

Right Hand

• Place of honor/authority
• Divine power/omnipotence
• According to Webster's Dictionary.com- omnipotence means:having complete and unlimited power

Leave Sin Behind

• Like Gal 2:20 said- Crucified with Christ
• Sins were crucified
• He went and sat at the right hand and said it is finished
• Let it be finished- grasp the Love he has for you- the fullness of life he has for you.
• You have power over satan and his lies

His Love

• Eph 3:14-21 "I pray out of his glorious riches he may Strengthen you with power through his spirit in your inner being- so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you being Rooted and Established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the LOVE of Christ and to know this love surpasses knowledge-that you may be FILLED to the measure of all the Fullness of God

Psalm 139:5-6/9

• You hem me in- behind and before;you have laid your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty to attain.
• If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me- YOUR RIGHT HAND will hod me fast.

Receive:Has good plans

• Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you says the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.
• "Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me and I will listen to you."