God's Playbook: Scripture Trains Us for Every Good Work

But it's not just having God's word, it's also engaging in God's word, daily hearing from him. And that's what we've been doing in this in this series, That we have this idea to to believe that God actually wants to speak to us. And he's given us a playbook, not written by coaches or analysts, but written by himself, that he wants to deliver his word to us so that we can know what God thinks about us. Now, of course, when we think about scriptures, it's God's playbook. And it's not a it's not about earning a spot on the team. No. No. No. That spot on the team is given to us by grace through faith. We just sang about it. I'm a child of God. Yes. You are. [00:42:14] (37 seconds)  #EngageGodsWordDaily

It's about being shaped by the grace you've already received. Or in other words, I can say it this way, you're not trained to be God's child. You're trained because you already are. That identity given into you in the water and the words of your baptism assured at his table this day, you are a beloved son and daughter of God, and you are not trained to in order to become his child. You're already his child. But you are trained because of that being his child to live in the places he's perfectly positioned us. [00:45:07] (33 seconds)  #ShapedByGrace

Developing that habit by reading the one chapter as we were talking about in bible study this morning, just kind of the 30 best chapters or the top ten thirty chapters of scripture and letting that word do what it always does. It accomplishes the purpose for which for which God would intend it. We don't need to come up with anything new. We can simply go back to what God has already given us, showing us how to live as forgiven sinners in this world where he's perfectly positioned us, where we live and work and learn and play. You're not there by chance. You are there on purpose as a disciple of Jesus, sent there for the sake of the people that he has surrounded you with. [00:52:26] (39 seconds)  #ScriptureHabit

You are his light in this world. And instead of bemoaning and groaning about the darkness around us, let's shine brightly into it. The hope we have in Christ Jesus who has called us by name and made us beloved daughters and chosen sons. And who has left us, not abandoned us, but left us and empowered us to carry out his continued work in this world for the sake of our neighbors, in the places and the people. He's perfectly positioned in your life and in mine. [00:59:51] (35 seconds)  #ShineYourLight

So what are you waiting for? God did not save you to sit on the sidelines. That he saved you rather to get in the game, to live boldly and perfectly. Yes. Under his grace. And just like like Baker Mayfield had a turning point, I pray we have turning points in our own lives. Not by trying harder, but by returning to the word where Christ meets us. [00:59:04] (28 seconds)  #GetInTheGameFaith

We pray, Lord, that you would throw off everything that would hinder us from engaging daily in your word, Not just for our benefit, but for the benefit of those especially who do not yet know you. So that when they see us, when they see us carrying that light into the world, they too, by the power of your spirit, would have that word touch their hearts and lives and you accomplish your purpose in and through it. Thank you, Jesus, for entrusting us with such a great responsibility and privilege. [01:00:59] (27 seconds)  #RemoveHindrancesPray

God's word transforms us. In a day when so many people are looking for significance, chasing after meaning, wanting their lives to matter, God gives us a playbook to show us how those lives do matter. What he would have us do, how he would have us live, and and not simply to read it and to be in it, but to carry it out. To do do what it says as Jesus says it. [00:58:10] (29 seconds)  #WordTransformsLives

That we want our lives renewed. We wanna be wise. We wanna make our hearts glad. We wanna make our eyes light up. And and God in his word says, there's a way to do that. There's a way to thrive in the midst of the hardships, in the midst of the struggles, in the midst of the pains and the aches, and it's it's not you on yourself. It's you in God's word, in community with one another. This word prepares us and then allows us. It allows us actually to flourish. [00:55:55] (30 seconds)  #ThriveThroughScripture