“priorities determine outcomes. wrong priorities ultimately lead to frustration, ineffectiveness,...

“Priorities determine outcomes. Wrong priorities ultimately lead to frustration, ineffectiveness, and destruction.”

~ Steve Mills

“Priorities determine outcomes. Wrong priorities ultimately lead to frustration, ineffectiveness, and destruction.”

~ Steve Mills

11THREE OBSERVATIONS ABOUT PRIORITIES:THREE OBSERVATIONS ABOUT PRIORITIES:

You Choose Your Own Priorities

You Choose Your Own Priorities

“Serve the LORD alone. But if you are unwilling to serve the LORD, then choose today whom you will serve. Would you prefer the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates? Or will it be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live? But as for me and my family, we will serve the LORD.”

“Serve the LORD alone. But if you are unwilling to serve the LORD, then choose today whom you will serve. Would you prefer the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates? Or will it be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live? But as for me and my family, we will serve the LORD.”

Joshua 24:14-15 (NLT)Joshua 24:14-15 (NLT)

“Serve the LORD alone. But if you are unwilling to serve the LORD, then choose today whom you will serve. Would you prefer the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates? Or will it be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live? But as for me and my family, we will serve the LORD.”

“Serve the LORD alone. But if you are unwilling to serve the LORD, then choose today whom you will serve. Would you prefer the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates? Or will it be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live? But as for me and my family, we will serve the LORD.”

Joshua 24:14-15 (NLT)Joshua 24:14-15 (NLT)

22THREE OBSERVATIONS ABOUT PRIORITIES:THREE OBSERVATIONS ABOUT PRIORITIES:

Your Actions Prove Your Priorities

Your Actions Prove Your Priorities

What would others say your priorities are? What would others say your priorities are?

What do you think about? What do you think about?

What do you talk about? What do you talk about?

“For whatever is in your heart determines what you say.”

“For whatever is in your heart determines what you say.”

Matthew 12:34 (NLT)Matthew 12:34 (NLT)

What would others say your priorities are? What would others say your priorities are?

What do you think about? What do you think about?

What do you talk about? What do you talk about?

How do you spend your money? How do you spend your money?

How do you spend your time?How do you spend your time?

“Wherever your treasure is, there your heart and thoughts will also be.”

“Wherever your treasure is, there your heart and thoughts will also be.”

Matthew 6:21 (NLT)Matthew 6:21 (NLT)

What would others say your priorities are? What would others say your priorities are?

What do you think about? What do you think about?

What do you talk about? What do you talk about?

How do you spend your money? How do you spend your money?

How do you spend your time?How do you spend your time?

What “gives” when you face a conflict? What “gives” when you face a conflict?

“Yes, the way to identify a …person is by the kind of fruit that is produced.”

“Yes, the way to identify a …person is by the kind of fruit that is produced.”

Matthew 7:20 (NLT)Matthew 7:20 (NLT)

33THREE OBSERVATIONS ABOUT PRIORITIES:THREE OBSERVATIONS ABOUT PRIORITIES:

Your Priorities Should Be God-Centered

Your Priorities Should Be God-Centered

You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you. (And remember that those who do not have the Spirit of Christ living in them are not Christians at all.)

You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you. (And remember that those who do not have the Spirit of Christ living in them are not Christians at all.)

Romans 8:9 (NLT)Romans 8:9 (NLT)

Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until that day when our Lord Jesus Christ comes again.

Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until that day when our Lord Jesus Christ comes again.

1 Thessalonians 5:23 (NLT)1 Thessalonians 5:23 (NLT)

You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. So you must honour God with your body.

You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. So you must honour God with your body.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NLT)1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NLT)

I myself no longer live, but Christ lives in me.I myself no longer live, but Christ lives in me.

Galatians 2:20 (NLT)Galatians 2:20 (NLT)

Jesus does not want to be FIRST in your life.

Jesus wants to BEyour life.

Jesus does not want to be FIRST in your life.

Jesus wants to BEyour life.

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“I told the Lord that he could have all there is of William Booth.”

~ William Booth

“I told the Lord that he could have all there is of William Booth.”

~ William Booth