Maintaining our Peace under Pressure | Foundations | Week 5
1. Know whom you are trying to please:
John 5: 30:
“By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.”
Criticism
Competition
Conflict
2. Know what you are trying to achieve:
Clue from Christ - “Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid, for I know where I came from and where I am going” (John 8: 14). The principle is this: Know what you want to accomplish. Christ said, “I know where I came from, and I know where I’m going.”
Paul and Silas - Acts 16:16 (NKJV)
”Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of “divination” met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling.”
The word “Divination”- come from the Greek word Putho – The English translation is Python – They encountered a girl with the Spirit of Python
Python wants to seize your Prayer Life
Python wants to seize your Provision
Python wants to seize your Passion
Isaiah 61:1-3 (NKJV) 1
"The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, Because the LORD has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound; 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn, 3 To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified."