City of Refuge West

God is a God of order.  Do you give your firsts on the triple "Ts"?   Matthew 6:33 KJV Matthew 5:23-24 KJV Matthew 7:5 KJV Matthew 22:36-39 KJV Matthew 23:26 KJV Deuteronomy 26:2 KJV Proverbs 3:9-10 KJV Malachi 3:10 NIV Matthew 11:28-30 MSG

Life moves in the direction of your strongest thoughts.  What are you thinking about?  Romans 12:1-2 MSG Isaiah 26:3 KJV Philippians 4:8 KJV Ezekiel 18:2 KJV & MSG Colossians 3:2 KJV 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 MSG & KJV & TPT

Don't create internal contradictions, you will stop trusting yourself.  Proverbs 18:21 KJV John 16:33 KJV James 2:14-20 MSG 2 Samuel 24:20-25 KJV John 19:39 KJV John 14:1-2 KJV

When is the last time you declared war on your comfort zone?  Don't box God in, don't let yourself off the hook and stop growing.  You are small because you made yourself small.   John 6:5-6 MSG 2 Corinthians 6:11-13 MSG Mark 3:1-3 KJV

What are you building?  Where do you run when your tired?  There are steps and a cost to walk out your purpose. Luke 14:28-30 MSG & KJV Jeremiah 2:4-6 MSG Philippians 1:20-26 NIV Psalms 37:4-5

My feelings can follow me, I will NOT follow my feelings. Matthew 6:33 KJV Micah 6:8 MSG & KJV Isaiah 1:17 NIV Colossians 1:15-18 MSG Ephesians 1:11-12 MSG Acts 10:35-36 NIV

Place your ordinary life in from of God as a sacrifice.  Plunge into the promise He gave and come up strong! 1 Samuel 16 John 14:15-17 KJV Isaiah 43:18-19 KJV John 14:22-23, 26-27 KJV 1 Peter 2:11-12 MSG Romans 12:1 KJV Romans 4:17 KJV Romans 4:19-20 MSG

There are moments that are obviously full of greatness, but what about all the other moments?  Your dream is in the details. Genesis 50:24 KJV Mark 9:33-35 KJV

Be the proof of God's presence in this moment in history. Matthew 1:18-23 KJV Proverbs 10:12 KJV & MSG Hebrews 4:15 KJV 2 Corinthians 5:21 KJV Matthew 2:1-12 KJV Colossians 3:12-17 MSG

Neither forgiveness or unforgiveness can change your past, but both change your future.  One in a negative way, the other in a positive way.  They are both painful processes, but the outcome of one can end that pain. John 8:31-36 KJV Galatians 5:22-25 KJV 1 John 4:7-10 KJV&MSG Psalms 103:10-12 KJV Hebrews 8:12 KJV Genesis 45:51-52 KJV

You're full of what you're speaking, so what are you full of?  Destruction vs. creativity, broken vs. built. James 3:1 KJV Proverbs 18:20-21 KJV Proverbs 16:8 KJV John 6:63 KJV Proverbs 18:7 MSG Proverbs 18:8 MSG Numbers 20:1-12 KJV 1 Peter 2:5 KJV Romans 7:14-25 MSG

Did you know 70%+ of our thoughts are negative and redundant, and positive/negative thoughts shape your biology?  Thoughts bring death or life.  What are you thinking? Genesis 1:3-6 KJV Romans 10:8-9 KJV Luke 6:43-49 KJV John 1:1-3 KJV John 1:14 KJV & MSG

Do you know how to set an environment to hear God's voice?  Our flesh craves comfort, but the spirit in us craves adventure.  Are you adventuring for God? Revelation 2:29 KJV Romans 10:17 KJV Isaiah 30:21 KJV 1 Samuel 3:1-10 KJV Psalm 119:147 KJV Acts 2:10

You teach what you know, you reproduce who you are.  What are you teaching and who are you reproducing?     Mark 3:21 KJV John 7:5 KJV Proverbs 22:6 KJV Psalm 127:3-5 KJV

When we act it is from conscious choices.  Reacting comes from unconscious choices.  Do you more often react or act?   Matthew 8:18 KJV Matthew 22:36 KJV Revelation 2:4-5 KJV Deuteronomy 6:13-14 KJV Matthew 18:3 KJV 1 Chronicles 11:6 KJV

What is the condition of your heart?  Who/what are you fighting?  It is better to fight for something, instead of against something.   Proverbs 4:23 KJV Hebrews 12:1-3 KJV & MSG

Is it a boulder, a rock or a stepping stone? Jacob's location didn't change.  He changed the problem, his perspective, and the name of the place. Genesis 28:10-22 KJV

Are you asking the wrong questions?  The wrong questions lead to worry, not answers.  How do you know what the wrong questions are?  They are what's out of your control.   Ephesians 1:18, 3:20 MSG Proverbs 29:18 KJV&MSG Mark 6:34, 8:2 KJV Hebrews 3:1 MSG

Do you create safe spaces and a home in your mind for fear, anger, lust, doubt, etc.? We should be be creating spaces for faith, hope and optimism. Hope is the eternal optimist.  Fear is the eternal pessimist.  Hope believes God will come through.  Do you have hope? Mark 5:21-35  Luke 4:24 Psalm 31

What do people who connect on a deep level have in common?  TRUST. When you eliminate trust, you eliminate love (agape love).  When you eliminate trust, you eliminate grace.   1 Corinthians 13:1-7 MSG 2 Corinthians 4:7-8  Exodus 18:13, 19:9

What do you need?  What do you have?   Even a drowning rat needs hope.  2 Kings 4:1-7 KJV Jeremiah 29:4 KJV Jeremiah 31:17 KJV Zechariah 9:11-12 KJV

Is your giant so huge it's unslayable or is your giant so huge the target is unmissable?  How's your perspective?   1 Samuel 17:32-33 KJV 2 Corinthians 5:7 KJV Ecclesiastes 11:1-4 MSG

Have you positioned yourself to hear?  Or are you positioned to notice the distractions all around? 1 Kings 18:41-46 KJV Ephesians 5:15-21 KJV Ephesians 6:17 KJV

Romans 12:18 KJV Proverbs 29:18 KJV & MSG Ecclesiastes 10:2 MSG

Where's your focus?  Are you on a launching pad or stuck in reverse?  You choose if the best is yet to come. Philippians 3:12-14 KJV Joshua 3:14-16 MSG & KJV