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1 SAMUEL 1:9-20
HOW TO ASK THAT HAS HIGHER CHANCES OF A RESPONSE.
1- God knows where your heart is, not just where your words are. Pouring your soul out to God is an accelerator of promises from God. We don't think he sees and knows and often times it is what he sees and what he knows that is inside of us that is the blockage from what he can release to us. Pouring out takes place before filling up.
2- Most "asking" from God is for less dependence on Him, less faith in Him. This is not what He wants, therefore the response is not what we want. Do we think he responds to requests that lead AWAY from deeper relationships and intimacy with him? Hannah’s ask was to give me a son, then I will give him to YOU ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE... Don't pray for blessings that you don't want god involved in once they arrive… those turn into curses.
3- The process of getting a response; know and take in the words of God, repeat them back to God, change my countenance to reflect faith, and wait on His ability. During this process there will be a confronting and releasing my need to control and removing my selfish nature from the asks of Him. It's not about Him not responding as much as it is our character refining to know what an ask of His will is, not ours.

2 PETER 1:1-11
THE RECIPE OF A RIGHTEOUS LIFE.
1- START WITH DILIGENCE IN FAITH AND DO IT SO MUCH IT PRODUCES MORAL EXCELLENCE… (VERSE 5)
2- AS YOU PURSUE MORAL EXCELLENCE RHYTHMICALLY WATCH AS IT TURNS TO KNOWLEDGE… (VERSE 5)
3- YOUR KNOWLEDGE SHOULD BE PRODUCING GREATER SELF CONTROL.. (VERSE 6)
4- SELF CONTROL LEADS TO DEEPER UNDERSTANDING AND ACTION OF PERSEVERANCE.. (VERSE 6)
5- PERSEVERANCE PRODUCES GODLINESS AS THE TESTS ARE EMBRACED AND NOT RAN FROM.. (VERSE 6)
6- GODLINESS PRODUCES BROTHERLY KINDNESS (VERSE 7)
7- BROTHERLY KINDNESS PRODUCES LOVE…. Love is last!!!! WHAT!!!! (VERSE 7)
8- THE FROSTING— NOTICE THIS PROMISE AT THE END…. IF YOU PRACTICE THESE THINGS YOU WILL NEVER STUMBLE… GAIN ENTRANCE INTO THE ETERNAL KINGDOM… AND JESUS WILL BE ABUNDANTLY SUPPLIED TO YOU.. THATS A MONSTER PROMISE.. (VERSE 10 AND 11)

BONUS CONTENT- “How do we live it?”
At the conclusion of our practicing the way season of studying the disciplines of an apprentice of Jesus, pastors Micah and Grace gave an overview of how they rhythmically live out a wholistic practice of allowing Jesus into everything they do. Recorded on a Wednesday night formation gathering, this resource is designed as a challenge to the lifestyle of how we live day to day and designed to give people a lifestyle blueprint of what an activated life in the spirit looks like in a hyper practical sense.

Matthew 7:24-29
Psalms 118:22
Isaiah 28:16
Luke 6:46-48
3 WAYS TO KNOW IF YOUR BUILDING ON THE ROCK OR THE SAND
1- “Hearing" gives the illusion of a cornerstone building, but acting on what you're hearing is the true heavy rock work. You cannot act until you hear, however if you do not act upon what you hear, don't be surprised if you feel the rain, the wind, and slams of the storms of life as it destroys the foundation you tried to build that wasn't based on, and placed on, the cornerstone of Jesus.
2- The enemy will allow you to build on a bad foundation without knowing in order to make the fall "great".... His core aspiration is to discredit, distort, or sow dissension and confusion around great falls of once mighty people of faith in a way that tarnishes the name of Jesus to the world he's trying to save. Building on sand is not just something that will affect you, it will most certainly affect those around you, and how they view god.
3- Authority in Christ is when you have heard, acted, and built a life on Jesus in such a way that your voice now carries an authority that gets the world to notice. Authority is hearing, doing, and building. What got people's attention to the ways of Jesus is how he heard, how he spoke, and what he did (the way in which he built the kingdom).. And it transcended any man made title, accomplishment, and authority.

Matthew 7:13-23
Three Thoughts on a Life in the Will of the Father:
1- The right gate is tied to my sight for the small, the ability to discern the straight and narrow, and a spirit that never gives up searching for more of God in my day to day life. The gate we enter to the Kingdom of God is through the life and example of Jesus... and there is a reason it says few will find it. What God has concealed, there is a kings reward for those who will search out and find.
2- Fruit remains is the goal of a rooted life in God. Good fruit is the product of right nutrients, sunlight, and pruning. A tree that does not embrace pruning will end up dead. There is a difference between a cutting back to produce, and a cutting down that results from death. Embrace the sun, get the right nutrients so the roots will grow, and embrace the pruning… this is the playbook of a good tree, with godo fruit … and a fruit that remains.
3- We can know His name, but not know Him. We can do miracles by His name, yet not know Him... we can prophesy by His name... and not know Him. Knowing Him is the rhythmic lifestyle of surrender, and being actively formed by the things He did; which merge us into the identity of Him. There is a difference in knowing the name of Jesus, and living the example of Jesus, and living the example of Jesus. He is the gate we enter that leads to life.

Matthew 7:1-12
3 WAYS TO EVALUATE HOW I TREAT AND VIEW OTHERS
1- If you only notice specks in others and can’t remember the last time you recognized a log in yourself… there will be a “vision for your life” problem. We overestimate how much we can change others and under estimate how much we can change ourselves. Until you have learned to fix yourself with the lord, you won’t be entrusted to fix others for the lord.
2-Stop asking for good things if the only thing that comes out of your mouth about God's creation is bad. Your treatment and view of God's creation has a direct connection to God’s treatment of you. Karma was in the scriptural story before it was ever on an instagram reel, or in an easter religion. How you treat others is how you will be treated.
3- The fulfillment of the old is the foundation of the new. We receive grace to give grace, we receive forgiveness to give forgiveness, we receive love to give love… ‘we love for he first loved us..’. You wont get new revelation if you can’t follow old instructions. We serve a God who wants to deal with the logs of our hearts before we deal with the specks of those around us and the society we live in. The fulfillment of a mature follower is as follows; how well do I give love? How well do I walk in love?