512 c spiritual emptiness

Leadership Principles from God’s Word: Spiritual EmptinessLeadership Principles from God’s Word: Spiritual Emptiness

Leadership Principles from God’s Word:

Spiritual Emptiness: I Hope this catches U the way it caught me!

Mario DentonModule 512 C

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Passage to memorizeI Timothy 4:15-16

Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress.

Watch your life and doctrine closely. Preserve in them, because if you do, you will save both

yourself and your hearers.



Anne Graham said " For years we've been " For years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our out of our government and to get out of our

lives. And being the gentleman He is, I lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us His protection if we demand He leave us

alone?"alone?"



Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered) complained she didn't want

prayer in USA schools, and they said OK. Then someone said you better not read the

Bible in school...the Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt

not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself.

And we said OK.



Dr. Benjamin Spock said: You shouldn't spank your children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be

warped and they mightdamage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son

committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about.

And we said OK.



Teachers and principals better not discipline the children when they misbehave. School

administrators said no facultymember should touch a student when they

misbehave because they don't want any bad publicity, and they surely don't want to be sued (there's a big difference between disciplining,

touching, beating, smacking, humiliating, kicking, etc.)

And we said OK.



Then someone said, let's let our daughters have abortions if they want, and they won't even have to tell their

parents. And we said OK.



Then some wise men said, since boys will be boys and they're going to do it

anyway, let's give our sons the condoms they

want so they can have all the fun they desire.

And we said OK.



Then some top elected officials said it doesn't matter what we do in private as long as we do our jobs. Agreeing with

them, we said it doesn'tmatter to me what anyone does in private

as long as they have a job and the economy is good.



Then someone said let's print magazines with pictures of nude

women and call it wholesome, down-to-earth appreciation for the beauty of

the female body. And we said OK.



And then someone else took that appreciation a step further and published pictures of nude children and then further

again by making them available on the Internet.

And we said OK, they're entitled to free speech.



Then the entertainment industry said, let's make TV shows and movies that promote profanity,

violence, and illicit sex. Let's record music thatencourages rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and

satanic themes. And we said it's just entertainment, it has no adverse effect, nobody

takes it seriously anyway, so go right ahead.



Now we're asking ourselves why is it so that people so easily start losing their

conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't really bother

them to killothers.



Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it

out!



I think it has a great deal to do with

"WE REAP WHAT WE SOW."



Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's

going towards spiritual emptiness. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say,

butquestion what the Holy Books of our

religions say.



Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding God and religion,

peoplethink twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude,

vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is

suppressed in the school and workplace.



Funny how when you forward this message of spiritual emptiness, you will not send it

to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what

they will think of you for sending it. Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what

God thinks of us.



Now let’s pass this message of spiritual emptiness on to your

colleagues and friends.



A Time to Pause and ThinkTHE PAST

1. List the greatest blessings from God this past year: in your family, your work, and your personal life.

2. What was your greatest trial? What have you learned from it?

3. List in order the best of your answered prayers.

4. What events or circumstances do you not understand?

5. List a specific lesson the Lord taught you this year.



A Time to Pause and ThinkPRESENT

1. What is the Lord seeking to teach you now?

2. What are you now praying for? A. Your mate B. Your marriage C. Your children D. Your grandchildren E. Your co-workers F. Your business associates?



A Time to Pause and ThinkFUTURE

1. What is a priority this new year regarding your: A. Personal life and walk with God B. Your family C. Your work D. Your ministry as you are in the workplace?

2. What prayer goals will you begin? What is God saying to you these days about the New Year? Is He calling you to a deeper relationship with Him?

3. Can you set any goals regarding: A. Your daily sharing Christ in your actions and words B. Your giving back to Him some of His resources that He has provided you C. Your mentoring of others D. Your deepening time with your family?



Learning, application and commitment: James 1: 22-25

• “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves.

• Do what it says. • Anyone who listens to the word but does not do

what it says is like a man who looks at his face in the mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

• But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does.” (NIV)



Learning, application and commitment

• One of the Biblical truths (principles) that I have learned from this lesson was …

• I intend to apply this truth (principle) in my business/Ministry by: …..

• With the help of the Holy Spirit, I will begin applying this truth immediately. I ask and expect my group to hold me accountable for this and to check with me periodically to determine if I am doing so. Please ask me …..



SHINE JESUS SHINESHINE JESUS SHINEFILL THIS LAND WITH THE FATHER'S

GLORYBLAZE SPIRIT BLAZESET OUR HEARTS ON FIREFLOW RIVER FLOWFLOOD THE NATIONS WITH GRACE AND

MERCYSEND FORTH YOUR WORDLORD AND LET THERE BE LIGHT



Prayer Focus• Father, I ask you to give me a

complete understanding of what you want to do in my life, and I ask you to make me wise with spiritual wisdom.

• I roll my works upon You, and You make my thoughts agreeable to your will and so my plans are established and succeed.

• I have the mind of Christ and hold the thoughts, feelings and purposes of His heart. Amen



Take what I have given you and change the world!



Blessings from Mario Denton

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