I have been attending a class that my pastor has been speaking at every Tuesday for the last 4 weeks. She has titled the class, "If there is one thing I know." It being based on things that her mother taught her and countless testimonies from her walk with God. Every week I am in awe of the opportunities that God has given her and how she was obedient. Here are some things that really stand out to me...

Philippians 3:13&14¹³ No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it,^[d] but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, ¹⁴ I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.

John 10:27 ²⁷ My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.

Luke 17:1 ¹ One day Jesus said to his disciples, “There will always be temptations to sin, but what sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting!

 James 4:1&2¹ What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you? ² You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it.

Philippians 4:7&8 ⁷ Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. ⁸ And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.

2nd Corinthians 10:3-5 ³ We are human, but we don’t wage war as humans do. ^{4 [a]}We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments. ⁵ We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God. We capture their rebellious thoughts and teach them to obey Christ.

Isaiah 26:3 3 You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you!

• You become what you think.
• You have to have boundries.
• Those that you are offended by or about are the ones that you are closest to you.
• You have to disipline your thoughts.
• Offence builds walls around your heart, which turns into strongholds.
• Hurting people hurt people.
• Don't loose heart, wait on the Lord.
• Be of good courage, He will strengthen your heart.
• Find something in the Word to stand on when you are going through something.
• Don't permit certain things and thoughts.
• Bind is what you prohibit, Lose is what you permit.

(All scripture was added from Bible Gateway in the New Living Translation)

This last Saturday was spent with some of the most enfluencial women in my life. I'm sure when you hear the word "brunch" you think of a country club setting with your mothers and grandmothers friends having a salad together. Well I will start out by saying that this was not your "grandma's brunch". This year we had the privilage of having Christine Caine as our guest speaker. It is the 4th or 5th time that I have heard her speak. She has such an anointing on her life! God had big plans for her before she was even born, and listening to some of the things that the enemy has tried to trip her with are astounding. She is probably one of the strongest people that I have had the privilage to meet. I'm putting my notes at the bottom. Enjoy!!

Christine Caine

08.13.11

Guts Church

God can't do anything until we start moving. > 2nd Kings 7:3&4

³ Now there were four men with leprosy sitting at the entrance of the city gates. “Why should we sit here waiting to die?” they asked each other. ⁴ “We will starve if we stay here, but with the famine in the city, we will starve if we go back there. So we might as well go out and surrender to the Aramean army. If they let us live, so much the better. But if they kill us, we would have died anyway.”

Change your perspective. > Genesis 50:20

²⁰ You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people.

Don't get stuck in moments.

True freedom is setting others free.

You start where you are and end up where you want to be, you can't start where you want to be.

We have a world to reach.

I have an authentic relationship with God.

You can't seperate loving God & loving people.

Galatians 5:1

¹ So Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don’t get tied up again in slavery to the law.

You can't avoid risk.

John 17

¹ After saying all these things, Jesus looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son so he can give glory back to you. ² For you have given him authority over everyone. He gives eternal life to each one you have given him. ³ And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth. ⁴ I brought glory to you here on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. ⁵ Now, Father, bring me into the glory we shared before the world began.

6 “I have revealed you[a] to the ones you gave me from this world. They were always yours. You gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything I have is a gift from you, 8 for I have passed on to them the message you gave me. They accepted it and know that I came from you, and they believe you sent me.

9 “My prayer is not for the world, but for those you have given me, because they belong to you. 10 All who are mine belong to you, and you have given them to me, so they bring me glory. 11 Now I am departing from the world; they are staying in this world, but I am coming to you. Holy Father, you have given me your name now protect them by the power of your name so that they will be united just as we are. 12 During my time here, I protected them by the power of the name you gave me. I guarded them so that not one was lost, except the one headed for destruction, as the Scriptures foretold.

13 “Now I am coming to you. I told them many things while I was with them in this world so they would be filled with my joy. 14 I have given them your word. And the world hates them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. 15 I’m not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them safe from the evil one. 16 They do not belong to this world any more than I do. 17 Make them holy by your truth; teach them your word, which is truth. 18 Just as you sent me into the world, I am sending them into the world. 19 And I give myself as a holy sacrifice for them so they can be made holy by your truth.

20 “I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message. 21 I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me.

22 “I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one. 23 I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me. 24 Father, I want these whom you have given me to be with me where I am. Then they can see all the glory you gave me because you loved me even before the world began!

25 “O righteous Father, the world doesn’t know you, but I do; and these disciples know you sent me. 26 I have revealed you to them, and I will continue to do so. Then your love for me will be in them, and I will be in them.”

Ephesians 5:14

14 for the light makes everything visible. This is why it is said, “Awake, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will give you light.”

Micha 6:8

8 No, O people, the Lord has told you what is good, and this is what he requires of you: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.

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