7 What Do You Believe About Your Duties And

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• Talent Church of the Redeemer — Pastor Dale A. O’Shields — October 21 & 22, 2017

#7 What Do You Believe About Your Duties and Responsibilities? - Part 1 1. My greatest fulfillment in life comes from fulfilling God’s purpose for my life.

1 Corinthians 4:2 (NKJV) Moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful. • Matthew 25:20-23

• Matthew 25:24-30

3. Attending to daily duties is one of the ways I fulfill God’s will.

• Jonah 1:1-12

• 1 Samuel 2:12-17

Psalm 40:8 (NLT) I take joy in doing your will, my God …

2 Corinthians 6:3-6 (NLT) We live in such a way that no one will stumble because of us, and no one will find fault with our ministry. In everything we do, we show that we are true ministers of God. We patiently endure troubles and hardships and calamities of every kind. We have been beaten, been put in prison, faced angry mobs, worked to exhaustion, endured sleepless nights, and gone without food. We prove ourselves by our purity, our understanding, our patience, our kindness, by the Holy Spirit within us, and by our sincere love.

John 6:38 (NIV) For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. John 4:34 (NIV) “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.” John 5:19 (NIV) Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.” Luke 22:42 (NIV) Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done. • Philippians 2:5-12

2. It’s my responsibility to manage the gifts God gives me. Managing my life includes being a steward over my: • Temperament

• Time

• Treasure

• Training

Colossians 1:28, 29 (NIV) He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ. To this end I strenuously contend with all the energy Christ so powerfully works in me.