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“Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes”

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“Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes”. Introduction. Look back Review Implement Teach Learn. God has a plan and purpose for us. We’re not here by accident Our previous life was not by chance - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Introduction

“Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes”

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Introduction

• Look back• Review• Implement• Teach• Learn

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God has a plan and purpose for us We’re not here by accident Our previous life was not by chance He redeems the past – sets us free

from guilt and shame He loves us with an everlasting love –

nothing can separate us from His love Our lives are in Jesus’ hands and His

Holy Spirit lives within us We have an eternal future with Him Every spiritual blessing is ours

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Isaiah 54:2 (NIVUK)

Enlarge the place of your tent Stretch your tent curtains wide Do not hold backLengthen your cordsStrengthen your stakes

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multiplyincrease

stretchgrow

expand

unfold

lengthenenlarg

e

strengthencultivatedevelop

don’t hold back

liberatereinforce

nurturesupport

inspire

elongate

spreadrelease

extend

toughen

unrestrained

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Some questions Are we willing to be enlarged? What deliberate and intentional steps

are we prepared to take? What limitations are we placing on

ourselves? How are we going to lengthen our

cords – reach | influence | impact? How have we gone deeper in our faith?

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Hearing | Listening | Growing Hearing is passive Listening is active Discipleship is active

Believers believe Followers follow Disciples believe, follow, become like

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Senses Sight | Hearing | Smell | Taste | Touch

Taste buds can distinguish 6 flavours Temperature | Pressure | Pain

Motion Balance Proprioception Danger Meaning | Understanding Hunger and thirst

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Enlarge Creativity

big picture thinking imagining the possibilities not limiting God

Breakout & Breakthrough mentality not being afraid to take a risk or to launch

out confronting and overcoming our fears

Accountability weighing up the costs being responsible for the outcomes

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A sense of Faith Focuses not on what has been but on what

could Activates our desire to see what the

potential could be Invests in the future rather than the present Trusts that one who is greater than us is

leading us Handles difficulties along the way confidently

Faith means living in the present in the conscious knowledge that we don’t have all the answers

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Dave Brailsford – Team GB “The aggregation of marginal gains”• Know what you want to achieve• Understand where you are now• Map out the difference• Put a plan into place• Get the right people around you• Start and revise as you go

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• Put God first in our lives – deepen our relationship with Him

• Love and serve each other deeply – strengthen and protect unity

• Share our faith in Jesus whenever and wherever we can

• Develop the fruit of the Spirit in our lives and live in His power demonstrating His gifts

• Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly – integrity• Give generously and sacrificially• Pray more regularly – “without ceasing”• Be obedient to God’s word

Enlarge

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