From The Inside Out, Planning Your Life From Christian Principles
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The unplanned life is a disaster, you only get driven here and there. Christians should lead lives planned by the Spirit , who you are should dictate what you do, and you are a child of God, made to live in love with an anointing and an appointing!
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- 2. 1. We can live randomly and ignorantly, driven here and there by our lusts, desires, impulses and resentments. 2. We can live materialistic and meaningless lives chasing money and fashions and driven by the need to meet the social expectations of friends and relatives. 3. We can live legalistically by religious or philosophical rules and be driven by guilt instead of by God. 4. We fall into these spiritual traps because we do not CONSCIOUSLY PLAN to live a fully Christian life!
- 3. 1. We need to be “grown-ups” and mature, in charge of our lives, planning them by Christian principles, not blown here and there by this-and-that! 2. We need to change and to live ‘from the inside out’ expressing who we were made to be in Christ ,and making our plans and lifestyle choices accordingly. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2:10) 1.
- 4. 1. Cats acts like cats, dogs act like dogs, and Christians should act like Christ because they are sons of the Living God! 2. Plan, think and act like a son or daughter of God not like one whose life is entirely in this world John 1:12 Galatians 3:26, 4:6, Philippians 2:15
- 5. 1. You were born-again to give and receive God’s love and to live in love. 2. All our plans are to be loving plans 1 John 4:7-12 1 John 3:16-18 3. We need to actively plan loving actions otherwise busyness, laziness and selfishness will naturally squeeze them out. 4. Promises that are not planned, end up being perjury! 5. The plans don’t have to be “huge” ! 6. The plans need to be practical and to meet some real need.
- 6. 1. Believers live from faith and to faith! 2. Christians live by faith not by sight Romans 1:17 Galatians 2:20 2 Corinthians 5:7 3. Christians plan first by faith, and then we apply reason and due diligence - look to God, look in the Bible, look at the details of the situation, and then make a strong decision. 4. Our plans should always keep God in mind 5. Our plans should keep God’s promises in mind and be formulated so as to fulfill them.
- 7. 1. Living strictly by rules is impossible. Colossians 2:21-23 Hebrews 4:9,10 2. Living by external rules is joyless and harsh and produces a dark overwhelming sense of general condemnation. 3. Faith in God’s love and grace enables us to feel clean and loved and whole as persons. We should plan from a place of peace and rest inside us that comes from faith in Jesus. 4. We should plan our lives without feeling guilty and without using words like “should, must, ought to, got to, have to, but I’ll be a bad person if I don’t do X”. We should, of course seek to live good and righteous lives.
- 8. Galatians 5:16-26 1. We are to be “led by the Spirit” which means that we are to make our plans by the generosity and love of the Spirit (and not out of the carnal, selfish meanness of the flesh). 2. Greedy plans are not godly plans. 3. Start with the fruit of the Spirit - love, joy, peace etc. Are your plans loving, joyful, peaceful, good, kind, faithful and so on.
- 9. Philippians 3:7-11 1. Christians dwell in a different dimension, we are Citizens of Heaven who live by the power of His (Jesus’) resurrection. This is hard to understand. 2. Sometimes we have to lose some things in order to gain Christ, and we have to die to our old self in order to find our true selves. We might have to come to an end of one thing in order to come into an even better thing. 3. We humans can only “connect the dots” concerning the past, we have to trust God to “connect the dots” into the future.
- 10. 1 John 2:20,27 1 Corinthians 12:27,28 1. Every true born-again Christian has a Holy Spirit anointing and a Holy Spirit gifting. 2. We are to make plans according to where God has positioned us in His body the church e.g. teaching, hospitality, healing , as an anointed worship leader or anointed prayer warrior and so on. 3. Seeking “position” and “permission” can be a huge distraction!
- 11. Heavenly Father, please give us the wisdom, and the strength of purpose, to make loving and godly plans this year. Plans that are full of the Holy Spirit. And plans which are true to who you have made us to be in Christ Jesus. In Jesus’ precious Name, Amen.