Reach For The Top

- With all the disappoints, regrets, fears and pleasures how do we look to the future?

1. Change the way you think

- The Bible is clear on how we should think.

- We are think of others before ourselves.

- We are to think of those less fortunate. The widows, poor the ones who are hurting.

- We should be servants and wanting to serve one another, pray for others and love one another.

- When the world gets out of our thinking and Christ gets into our thinking is when we will see Him more clearly. We will see the future as Paul saw the future with great hope and clarity.

2. Change the way you see yourself

- Don’t see yourself as a nobody, but rather as a work in progress.

- God will finish what He started in your life, and it’s not over until He says it’s over.

- Don’t be ashamed of your past, but confess your past and be forgiven.

- You can let go of your past guilt and look forward to what God will help you to become.

- Don’t establish yourself esteem but what others have done to you.

- This world will fail you, parents fail there kids and vice versa.

- But God will never fail us, and His view of us to Him was worth coming to this earth and dying for.

- You are valuable to Him, created with destiny in mind and purpose.

- The enemy wants to steal that in you by using other people who have failed in your life, don’t let him.

- Don’t let the devil steal your hope in Christ. Don’t get discouraged but press forward.

(In the movie The Patriot staring Mel Gibson, there is a scene where the Americans are losing hope in the battle. But when Mel Gibson raises the American flag that represented freedom it changed there thinking and the outcome of the war. The message is very clear, they needed to push forward and advance for the sake of freedom.)

- We need to push forward in our walk with God and become all He wants us to become, no matter what’s happened to us.

3. Change the way you think God sees you.

- God sees the finish product. He sees the end from the beginning.

- God is building a mansion for you.

- Because we are in Christ the old is gone and the new has come.

- God has forgotten the past, we need to also.

- God has a purpose and destiny for you.

- God had a plan for Job, and he lost everything.

- God will restore your life and give you more then you ever dreamed.

- Continue you trust in God, His Word and destiny for you.

- Don’t curse God and die, don’t believe the lies of the enemy, believe in God and His promises for you.

- If God said it then we need to believe it.

- Paul had every right to look at his past and say:

a. I am an educated man, these people should be serving me, and I will tell them what to do.

b. He could have said, I am a murderer and blasphemer. I don’t deserve God’s grace of mercy.

c. Or he could of said God does not love me, how could he accept me for who I am.

- But God had a plan for Paul, as He does for us, it’s not to sit here and do nothing, but it’s far more then that.

- It’s time to stop thinking of ourselves and see what God has in store for us as a church and for you as an individual.