Decompress
Sunday, December 26, 2021
After a hectic and busy holiday season, we took some time to just breathe and decompress with devotionals from Alison Myers, Dave Brown, Adam Barnett, and Leanne Benton.
MESSAGE NOTES
Decompress
December 26, 2021 • Decompress
Teachers: Adam Barnett, Alison Myers, Dave Brown, and Leanne Benton
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/// Adam
Matthew 6:25-27, 34 NIV
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Michel de Montaigne
"My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened."
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/// Alison
Charlie Chaplin
"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
Proverbs 17:22 NLT
"A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a persons strength."
Ecclesiastes 3:1;4 NIV
"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens... a time to weep and a time to laugh"
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/// DAVE
The most important thing in life is to develop a strong relationship with God. All other good things flow out of the fountain of a deep relationship with our Creator.
John 14:15-21 NIV
"If you love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever – the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them."
I am in my Father... You are in me... I am in you
If we are not experiencing God's presence in our life, it's because we are not seeking him, not because he can't be found.