Speaker: Grant Agler

I am Generous

 

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son

John 3:16

 

Luke 16:1

Jesus told his disciples: “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions. So he called him in and asked him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you cannot be manager any longer.’

Luke 16:1-2

 

“The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do now? My master is taking away my job. I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m ashamed to beg—

Luke 16:3

 

I know what I’ll do so that, when I lose my job here, people will welcome me into their houses.’

Luke 16:4

 

“So he called in each one of his master’s debtors. He asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’  “‘Nine hundred gallons of olive oil,’ he replied. “The manager told him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it four hundred and fifty.’

Luke 16:5-6

 

“Then he asked the second, ‘And how much do you owe?’

“‘A thousand bushels of wheat,’ he replied.

“He told him, ‘Take your bill and make it eight hundred.’

Luke 16:7

 

“The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly.

Luke 16:8

 

For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light.

Luke 16:8

 

I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.

Luke 16:9

 

“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.

Luke 16:10

 

So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?

Luke 16:11

 

And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own?

Luke 16:12

 

“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”

Luke 16:13

 

Do you have money, or does money have you?

 

The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and were sneering at Jesus.

Luke 16:14

 

He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight.

Luke 16:15

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Speaker: Grant Agler

When we arrived in Macedonia, there was no rest for us. We faced conflict from every direction, with battles on the outside and fear on the inside.

2 Corinthians 7:4-6 (NLT)

 

But God, who encourages those who are discouraged, encouraged us by the arrival of Titus.

2 Corinthians 7:4-6 (NLT)

 

Question #1 (this and the question at the same time)

Are you making people better or worse?

 

Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.

Ephesians 4:29

 

Question #2 (this and the question at the same time)

Is God honored when you speak?

 

With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness.

James 3:9

 

Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be.

James 3:10

 

Question #3 (this and the question at the same time)

Are you just blowing smoke?  

 

See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

Hebrews 3:12

 

But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

Hebrews 3:13

Speaker: Grant Agler

I am Grateful

 

It’s not happy people that are grateful, it’s greatful people that are happy

 

Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee.

Luke 17:11

 

As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him.

Luke 17:12

 

They stood at a distance and called out in a loud voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!”

Luke 17:13

 

When he saw them, he said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were cleansed.

Luke 17:14

 

One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice.

Luke 17:15

 

He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him—and he was a Samaritan.

Luke 17:16

 

Jesus asked, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?”

Luke 17:17-18

 

Then he said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well.”

Luke 17:19

 

What I want can rob me of what I have

 

Gratitude turns what we have into enough

 

Rejoice always,

1 Thessalonians 5:15-18

 

Rejoice: Be happy

 

Are you in charge of your emotions or are your emotions in charge of you?

 

Rejoice (be happy) always, pray continually,

1 Thessalonians 5:15-18

 

Rejoice (be happy) always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances;

1 Thessalonians 5:15-18

 

Rejoice m(be happy) always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 5:15-18

 

How to be grateful (progression)

1. Be happy
2. Trust God
3. Give thanks
4. Rinse and repeat

Speaker: Grant Agler

• Grateful
• Enthusiastic
• Generous
• Confident
• Encouraging

 

I’m Optimistic

 

Self Talk

 

Psalm 42:5
Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God

 

I am optimistic, not because of what I feel, not because of what I see, but because of what God says

 

Faith in Christ produces hope

 

1. My sins are forgiven and my eternity is secure

 

Romans 8:1
So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.

 

2. My future victory is greater than my present pain

 

Romans 8:18
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.

 

3. God is for me

 

Romans 8:31
What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

 

Romans 8:32
He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

 

Romans 8:33-34
Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one.

 

4. God is working everything for my good

 

Romans 8:28
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

 

5. Nothing can separate me from the love of God

 

Romans 8:38-39
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.