Make 2012 Make 2012 Great! Great!

Make 2012 Great!

1. Grow 1. Grow through trialsthrough trials

James 1:2-4“Count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.”

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What are some trials you are currently facing?

Make 2012 Great! What are some trials you are currently facing?

Make 2012 Great!

2. Guard your 2. Guard your mouthmouth

James 3:6“And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.”

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What have I been saying a lot the last year or two?

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Write down your 2012 word theme…

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3. Give what’s not for sale

James 2:2-4 (NKJV)2 For if there should come into your assembly a

man with gold rings, in fine apparel, and there should also come in a poor man in filthy clothes, 3 and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him, “You sit here in a good place,” and say to the poor man, “You stand there,” or, “Sit here at my footstool,” 4 have you not shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

Make 2012 Great! What am I willing to give this year, that money can’t buy?

Make 2012 Great!

Who will be enriched by it?

Make 2012 Great! 1.Grow through trials2.Guard your mouth3.Give what’s not for

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