Defining Your Ultimate Ambition

2 Chronicles 29:1-3,6,10-20

AN EXPERIENTIAL EXEGESIS OF YOUR DIVINE DISCONTENT1. Our is-ness often incarcerates us

and is diametrically opposed to our divine ought-ness

AN EXPERIENTIAL EXEGESIS OF YOUR DIVINE DISCONTENT2. There is a huge gap you cannot

account for between who you are in Christ and who you are

AN EXPERIENTIAL EXEGESIS OF YOUR DIVINE DISCONTENT2. There is a huge gap you cannot

account for between who you are in Christ and who you are

3. Too many people settle for the rest stop and as a consequence never reach the top

THE MALADY OF MEDIOCRITY

A. Christians miss God’s calling when they convert a temporary layover into a final destination

THE MALADY OF MEDIOCRITY

A. Christians miss God’s calling when they convert a temporary layover into a final destination

B. Life’s greatest tragedy is to already be where you are going

Counseling Tip #1.o If you keep

focusing on your pain, then the past becomes your destination.

THE MALADY OF MEDIOCRITY

C. When you do not eat along the journey you get drained by the journey and you will not reach your divine destination

THE MALADY OF MEDIOCRITY

C. When you do not eat along the journey you get drained by the journey and you will not reach your divine destination

D. When you fall too much without faith, you come to believe you cannot go on and reach the top

Thesis:

oYour ambition should be focused on the fact that God has given you a goal of godliness and a mission of ministry in the midst of territory controlled by an Adversary.

Etymology of Mediocrity:

oFrom the Latin medius + ocris = to stop in the middle of the mountain.

DEFINING YOUR ULTIMATE AMBITION

1. To cure the malady of mediocrity, you have to be committed to a cause larger than you

Counseling Tip #2.

oSometimes when people come at you it’s not about you, but about the issues they have with themselves.

DEFINING YOUR ULTIMATE AMBITION

2. God’s providence has determined that everything you have been through has been a part of your preparation, 2

DEFINING YOUR ULTIMATE AMBITION

2. God’s providence has determined that everything you have been through has been a part of your preparation, 2

3. When God blesses you, it is for the purpose of what he can get through you, so whenever things don’t work out, check out the cause you are committed to, 3,6, 10-13

DEFINING YOUR ULTIMATE AMBITION

4. Fulfilling your ultimate ambition has to do with what’s in you, but it also has to do with whose hands you’re in, 14-16

DEFINING YOUR ULTIMATE AMBITION

4. Fulfilling your ultimate ambition has to do with what’s in you, but it also has to do with whose hands you’re in, 14-16

5. Keep God’s vision in your imagination, and ask God to establish your heart in that ambition, 18-20