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Following God
The Life of Abraham
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How to make all your
relationships better.
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So far. . .• Following God means
embracing uncertainty.• Even though you don’t
know the whole route, you usually know what the next step is.
• Don’t stop half-way.• God wants to bless your
socks off!
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I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you;
I will make your name great, and
you will be a blessing.
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I will bless those who bless you, and
whoever curses you I will curse;
and you can keep this blessing to yourself. Genesis 12:2-3 (NIV)
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I will bless those who bless you, and
whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth will be blessed
through you. Genesis 12:2-3 (NIV)
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I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you;
I will make your name great, and
you will be a blessing.
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Purpose:You are
blessed to be a blessing.
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How to:You find
blessing by blessing others.
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If your first concern is to look after yourself,
you’ll never find yourself. But if you
forget about yourself and look to me, you’ll find both yourself and
me. Matthew 10:39 (MSG)
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Give away your life; you’ll find life given back,
but not merely given back—given back with
bonus and blessing. Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets
generosity.Luke 6:38 (MSG)
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Think of yourselves the
way Christ Jesus thought
of himself.
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He had equal status with God but didn't
think so much of himself that he had
to cling to the advantages of that status no matter
what.
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Not at all. When the time came, he
set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human!
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Having become human, he stayed human. It was an
incredibly humbling process. He didn't
claim special privileges.
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Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life
and then died a selfless, obedient
death—and the worst kind of death at that:
a crucifixion. Philippians 2:5-8
(MSG)
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Those who had expressed materialistic aspirations as freshmen—that is, making money was their primary goal—were less satisfied with their lives two
decades later.
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Yet most people still report that “more money”
would definitely enhance the
quality of their lives.
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Since 1967 an annual study called the
American Freshman Survey has probed the attitudes and
plans of freshmen all around the United
States.
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In its last year—2005—263,710 students at 385 colleges and universities responded. A record high number of freshmen,
71 percent, said it’s important to be “very well off financially,” compared with 42 percent in 1967.
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Said it’s important to be “very well off financially.”
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Psychologists interviewed some
lucky individuals who had won between fifty thousand and
one million dollars (in 1970s dollars) in the Illinois State Lottery.
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Strikingly, less than a year after receiving the potentially life-changing
news of winning the lottery, they reported being no more happy than regular folks who had not experienced the sudden windfall.
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Over the next few years we found that the happiest people
take pleasure in other people’s successes
and show concern in the face of others’
failures.
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What scientific research has recently
contributed to this agelong principle is
evidence that practicing acts of kindness is not
only good for the recipient but also good
for the doer.
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It may be ironic, but being kind and good,
even when it’s unpleasant or when
one expects or receives nothing in return, may
also be in the doer’s self-interest.
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“If you want to be happy,
practice compassion.”
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“True happiness consists in
making others happy.”
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For example, we know that happier people
are more likely to describe themselves as
doing frequent altruistic acts (e.g., shopping for sick
friends or stopping to help strangers),
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to spend a greater percentage of their time
helping others, and to perform behaviors at
the office that go beyond the call of duty (e.g., helping colleagues
with work problems despite their own heavy
workloads).
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Kindness can jump-start a cascade of positive social consequences. Helping others leads people to like you, to
appreciate you, to offer gratitude. It also may
lead people to reciprocate in your
times of need.
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Surveys of volunteers, for example, show that
volunteering is associated with diminished
depressive symptoms and enhanced feelings of
happiness, self-worth, mastery, and personal
control—a “helper’s high.”
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Toward the end of his life, Aldous Huxley said, in a lecture,
“People often ask me what is the most effective technique for
transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after
years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say
that the best answer is—
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Toward the end of his life, Aldous Huxley said, in a lecture,
“People often ask me what is the most effective technique for
transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after
years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say
that the best answer is—just be a little kinder.”
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You can safely say—and scientific research confirms it—that kind people are healthier and live longer, are more popular and productive, have greater success in business, and are
happier than others.
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You are blessed to be a blessing.
If you want to be blessed, give yourself to
blessing others.
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