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Designing Your LifeThe Daffodil Principle

Answers to Questions I know you’re asking

Designing Your LifeThe Daffodil Principle

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Designing your lifeDiscipleship II

Recap - Be DisciplesThe Condition

“If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me”. Luke 9:23

In His Steps

Be DisciplesThe Challenge

Who is our greatest enemy?

SummaryMake Disciples

The Great Commission:“All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen. Matt 28:18-20

In His Steps

Designing your Life25 Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and sons, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple. 27 And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.28 “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it? 29 For if you lay the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule you, 30 saying, ‘This person began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’ Luke 14:25-30

Set Your FocusRedirect your affectionsRealign your prioritiesRelease your life

State Your Mission

Designing your life

Designing your lifeSharpen Your Focus

"Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness ...........“ Isaiah 20

Sharpen your Focus

Sharpen your FocusRedirect your affections

26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and sons, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple.  Luke 14:26

Sharpen your focus Redirect your affections

others

God

Me

Loved

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Fixing your eyes on JesusSharpen your focus: Redirect your affections

Sharpen your FocusRealign your priorities

26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate …. even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple. 27 And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.

Sharpen your FocusRealign your priorities

Money/Time/

talents for God

Money, Time/

talents for

others

Sharpen your FocusRelease your life

26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate …. even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple. 27 And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.

Sharpen Your FocusRelease your life

Then she went her way and ate something, and her face was no longer downcast. 1 Sam 1:18

Designing your LifeState Your Mission

State your MissionPlan from Finish to Start

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?Luke 14:28

State your MissionPlan from Finish to StartWhat do you want your epitaph to be?Reflect on what you have done over the past year?

Write down your personal mission statement

State your mission

Designing your Life25 Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and sons, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple. 27 And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.28 “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it? 29 For if you lay the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule you, 30 saying, ‘This person began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’ Luke 14:25-30

We have become too soft to scale spiritual heights ..... our hymns and sermons create for us a religion of consolation and pleasantness. We overlook the place of the thorns, the blood and the cross. - Tozer

Designing your Life

Write and share your mission statement Based on your mission statements and the discussion in part 1, prepare a mission for your group

Make an action plan for the mission statement

Share with larger group

Discussion