Pastor David McGee's teaching references for 05/08/2016

Ephesians 3:14-19 - Love God. Love People. Repeat.

Life Lesson (verse Ephesians 3:14)

This is not heaven.

Life Lesson (verse Ephesians 3:14)

When we look for a perfect day, we will complain about a really good day.
When we look for a perfect friend, we will miss some really good friends.
When we look for a perfect spouse, we will miss some really good spouses.
When we look for a perfect church, we will miss some really good churches.
When we look for a perfect pastors, we will miss some really good pastors.

Life Lesson (verse Ephesians 3:16)

What happens to our spirit or soul effects our body, what happens to our bodies effect our soul and spirit.

Life Lesson (verse Ephesians 3:16)

If we have unconfessed or unforgiven wrongs, or unforgiveness for others, it is a spiritual problem. It can and does effect the body, leading to sickness, diseases (high blood pressure, stress, heart problems, etc.) and other physical problems.

Life Lesson (verse Ephesians 3:16)

The Mind of Christ can sleep during a storm and can forgive those who crucify them.

Gen 12:3 NKJV

I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."

Ps 122:6 NKJV

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
"May they prosper who love you.

1 Thess 5:23-24 NKJV

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.

1 Thess 5:23-24 NLT

Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ comes again. 24 God will make this happen, for he who calls you is faithful.

Ps 32:3-5 NLT

3 When I refused to confess my sin,
my body wasted away,
and I groaned all day long.
4 Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me.
My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat.
Interlude
5 Finally, I confessed all my sins to you
and stopped trying to hide my guilt.
I said to myself, "I will confess my rebellion to the Lord."
And you forgave me! All my guilt is gone.

1 John 3:20 NKJV

For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

Rom 8:37-39 NKJV

37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Josh 1:6-9 NKJV

6 Be strong and of good courage, for to this people you shall divide as an inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. 7 Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go. 8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. 9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go."

1 Cor 2:16 NKJV

For "who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

Phil 2:5 NKJV

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

Phil 2:5 NLT

You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.

2 Tim 1:7 NKJV

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Mark 9:24 NKJV

Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, "Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!"

Rom 12:1-2 NKJV

1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Rom 12:1-2 NLT

2 And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice--the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. 2 Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

Rom 8:5-7 NKJV

5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

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