Slide Show Message Presentation for a new year. intimate message for a

1. Check Your Direction

2. Check Your Direction

3. A letter from prison

4. Philippians 3:12- 16 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect , but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead. I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus .

5. 1)I don't do stuck , I press on * *Press on: to move rapidly & decisively toward an object, to chase.

6. Made Perfect : complete, bring to its goal Obtained : to enter into a close relationship

7. 2) I make decisions with the big picture in mind. Verse 14: …heavenward in Jesus Christ.

8. 3) I evaluate my situation Verse 13: I…consider…

9. 4) What is the power of one thing?

10. 5) What does it mean? “… Forgetting what lies behind …”

11. 6) Be sports minded

12. 1 Corinthians 9:24-25 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.

13. Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly: I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize. 1 Corinthians 9:26-27

14. Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.

15. … but I am mature 7) I haven't arrived…

16. 8) I live up to what I have already attained.