Transcript
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- Things We Compare Possessions Appearance Performance Circumstances
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- Why Does God Hate When We Compare?
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- Comparison Is The ______ Of Contentment! Death
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- We do not dare to classify or __________ ourselves with some who commend themselves. compare
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- When they measure themselves by themselves and __________ themselves with themselves, they are not wise. 2 Corinthians 10:12 compare
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- Comparison Makes Us Prideful.
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- The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: God, I thank you that I am not like other people robbers, evildoers,
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- or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get. Luke 18: 11-12
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- We say that people are proud of being rich, or clever, or good-looking, but they are not.
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- They are proud of being richer, or cleverer, or better-looking than others.
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- If everyone else became equally rich, or clever, or good-looking, there would be nothing to be proud about. C.S. Lewis
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- Comparison Makes Us __________. Resentful
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- Im Not Trusting God With:
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- Facing The What Ifs Of Fear
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- Acknowledge Your Fear And Choose To _____ God. Trust
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- My slanderers pursue me all day long; many are attacking me in their pride. 3 When I am afraid, _________________. I will trust in you
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- 4 In God, whose word I praise, _____________; ___________________. What can mortal man do to me? Psalm 56:2-4 in God I trust I will not be afraid
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- Seek ____ Until He Takes Away Your Fears. God
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- I _________________, and he answered me; he _____________________ ___________. Psalm 34:4 sought the Lord delivered me from all my fears
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- "I have never known more than fifteen minutes of anxiety or fear. Whenever I feel fearful emotions overtaking me
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- I just close my eyes and thank God that he is still on the throne reigning over everything
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- and I take comfort in His control over all the affairs of my life. John Wesley
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- You will keep in _______________ him whose _____ is __________, because he _____________. Isaiah 26:3 perfect peace mind steadfast trusts in you