City of Refuge West

Is what you carry pushing you to purpose or slowing you down?   Your baggage determines where you go and what you do.  Hebrews 12:1-2 KJV Mark 10:46-52 KJV 2 Corinthians 12:7-9 KJV Matthew 11:28-30 MSG Colossians 3:9-17 MSG

1- Perspective 2- Priority  3- Purpose 4- Expectation Ecclesiastes 4:6 NIV Mark 4:35-41 KJV Philippians 4:6-9 MSG Philippians 1:12-26 NIV

What kind of peace do you have, a sharply detached peace or a uninterrupted peace?  Is it isolated/ separated or extended in time and measure?  John 14:27 NIV John 16:31-33 TPT Matthew 10:13 KJV Ephesians 6:15 KJV Philippians 4:6-9 KJV

Stay Active!  Stay Connected!  Stay Focused!   1 Samuel 11:1-15 MSG John 8:34 KJV Acts 2:44-47 KJV Proverbs 29:18 KJV Ephesians 1:3-4 MSG

Repeat what God says, not what you see.  What are you speaking?   Ezekiel 37:1-14 MSG Psalm 126:5-6 KJV

Where's your trust today?  Trust God, trust people, trust yourself.   Trust plants seeds in the soul.  How many seeds do you plant? Proverbs 3:5-6 KJV 1 Corinthians 13:13 KJV 1 Corinthians 13:1-7 MSG Exodus 18:13-24 KJV Exodus 19:9 KJV Luke 16:10 KJV

What are you meditating on?  What are you celebrating?  What do you value?  Can you release your worry?  Do you have faith and trust?  Matthew 7:24-29 KJV&MSG Ecclesiastes 10:2 MSG Philippians 4:4-9 MSG

What is gratitude?  Do you live a life of gratitude and praise?  Enter into His presence with the password, "Thank You!" Psalm 100:4 KJV Psalm 100:1-5 MSG Jonah 2:8-10 NIV Luke 17:11-19 KJV Romans 8:28 KJV 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 KJV

Do you believe you can  change?  Do you believe others can change?  It takes discipline, focus and trust.  Romans 12:2 Proverbs 3:5-6 KJV Luke 18:26-27 MSG Romans 8:5-6 NIV Isaiah 26:3 KJV 1 Peter 1:13 

Will you change that 1/4 of an inch?  Will you break that cycle?  1/4 of an inch turn walked out for a mile ends up being a 3,080 foot change in direction.  Romans 12:1-2 MSG Genesis 3:1-1 KJV Exodus 34:27-29 KJV Deuteronomy 10:1-2 KJV Matthew 6:19-24 MSG Exodus 3:5-12 MSG

Who is carrying you?  Are they carrying you to Jesus? Who are you carrying?  Are you carrying them to Jesus? James 2:17-18 NIV Matthew 9:2 KJV Mark 2:4 KJV 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 KJV John 10:9 KJV

Hunger drives pursuit.  What you focus on, you get more of.  Don't make "offense" your main course. Matthew 24:10 KJV Luke 17:1-4 KJV Acts 16:25-31 MSG Numbers 11:7-8 KJV

When you are hungry, what are you hungry for?  Hunger can bring you home.   John 6:1-15 KJV John 6:35-37 KJV Matthew 5:6 KJV Isaiah 32:17 NIV Proverbs 27:7 GNB

We are to give Him our pain, guilt and shame.  The only things He didn't first give us.  Then we replace it with Jesus.  Galatians 6:9-10 NIV Micah 6:8 KJV James 4:17 NIV Romans 12:20-21 MSG 1 Corinthians 15:58 MSG Galatians 6:17 NIV 2 Corinthians 11:24-30 NIV 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 MSG

We like to count by 10s, 100s, 1,000s...God counts by ones! Galatians 5:1 KJV&MSG 2 Corinthians 3:13, 18 KJV John 8:32 KJV 2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV Romans 12:1-2 MSG James 1:22-25 KJV John 20:15-16 KJV

Ready for things to change and doors to open?  One word that's a game changer, and that word is... 1 Samuel 14 2 Corinthians 1:20 Matthew 19:21, 22:35 Romans 8:6

Who are you?  Do the people in your life love you or the mask you wear?  We wear masks to protect and to project.  Are you ready to take yours off?     Luke 12:1-5 MSG 2 Corinthians 4:1-2 KJV & MSG James 5:16 KJV & MSG

Fear and faith walk side by side, which one will you let lead?  Everytime fear is present there is an opportunity for faith.  Without fear, is there even faith? Matthew 25:14-30 KJV 2 Chronicles 7:4-5, 12-16 KJV  Hebrews 10:24-25 KJV Acts 2:41 MSG

What you do while in your cave (dark broken place) matters.  Don't let that be your final destination.  Your final destination is up to you, it's where you stop.  Don't numb your hero's heart!  A broken David and a broken people became a captian and mighty army.   1 Samuel 22:1-5 KJV Psalm 142, 57 MSG Matthew 14:12-14 KJV

Are you doing something new in any area of your life?  What are you searching for?  You are building your future TODAY. Isaiah 43:16 KJV Romans 12:1-2 MSG Epahesians 5:15-20 MSG Colossians 4:5 MSG Psalm 90:12 MSG

Have you ever felt like you were slipping?  Spiritually, emotionally, mentally, physically?   Take God back to where you lost it. 2 Kings 6:1-7 MSG Deuteronomy 19:5 NIV Ecclesiastes 10:10 NIV Philippians 4:6-8 KJV James 1:2-4 KJV& MSG Hebrews 10:19-25 MSG

Are you a good steward of your pain?  Pain will change you.  Will you let it define you or refine you?  Pain can become power in your battle.   James 1:2-4 KJV & MSG Judges 20:14-16 KJV John 16:33 KJV Hebrews 12:2 KJV 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 MSG Isaiah 43:16-23 MSG Psalm 31:24 MSG

Are you saved and going to heaven?  Or are you saved, going to heaven and running your race? John 1:1 KJV John 1:14 KJV & MSG 1 John 4:7-11 KJV & MSG John 20:2-8 KJV Luke 15:11-21 MSG

Before you trust, you have to listen.  How well do you trust?  How well do you listen? James 1:19 NIV Proverbs 18:2 NIV Proverbs 20:12 NIV  Galatians 6:2 NIV Proverbs 15:23 NIV Hebrews 10:24-25 NIV Ephesians 4:29 NIV Romans 10:16 MSG

When you're not focused distractions start to look like opportunities.  What piece of Judas is in you? John 6:68-71 NIV John 12:4-8 NIV John 13:27 NIV Hebrews 12:1-3 MSG Matthew 26:14-16 NIV