5. 7 Questions:
Taking a Look at How You Are
Doing with Life!
1. Am I more concerned with
achieving happiness or holiness?
6. The Preamble of the
Declaration of Independence
―We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights . . . that
among these are life, liberty and
the pursuit of HAPPINESS.”
7. Does the Bible ever
command us to pursue
happiness?
Does the Bible ever tell us
that the purpose of our
salvation is our personal
happiness?
8. Happiness is a
warm and good
feeling that is
based on external
happenings.
Happiness is
a warm
puppy!
9. Ephesians 1:4
For he chose us in him before the
creation of the world to be . . . HOLY
and blameless before Him.
10. Ephesians 5:25-26a
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ
loved the church and gave himself up
for her . . . that he might SANCTIFY
(make HOLY) her.
11. 7 Questions:
Taking a Look at How You Are
Doing with Life!
1. Am I more concerned with
achieving happiness or
holiness?
2. Do I suffer from myopia (nearsightedness), living only for the
present with no regard for
eternity?
12. We live in a
culture that is
very NOW
oriented!
Whenever we
want something,
we want it NOW!
13. However – we
must look
beyond today to
a bigger and
better
TOMORROW
(eternity)!
14. James 4:14
Why, you do not even know what will
happen tomorrow. What is your life?
You are a mist that appears for a
little while and then vanishes.
15. Psalm 90:5-6
You sweep men away in the sleep of
death; they are like the new grass
of the morning—though in the
morning it springs up new, by
evening it is dry and withered.
16. However – we
must look
beyond today to
a bigger and
better
TOMORROW
(eternity)!
18. Matthew 6:19-20
Do not store up for yourselves
treasures on earth, where moth and
rust destroy, and where thieves break
in and steal. But store up for
yourselves treasures in heaven,
where moth and rust do not destroy,
and where thieves do not break in
and steal.
20. 7 Questions:
Taking a Look at How You Are
Doing with Life!
1. Am I more concerned with
achieving happiness or
holiness?
2. Do I suffer from myopia (nearsightedness), living only for the
present with no regard for
eternity?
21. 7 Questions:
Taking a Look at How You Are
Doing with Life!
3. Do I complain more than I give
thanks?
22. Psalm 100:4
Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise; give
thanks to him and praise his name.
1 Thessalonians 5:18
Give thanks in all circumstances, for
this is God’s will for you in Christ
Jesus.
24. 7 Questions:
Taking a Look at How You Are
Doing with Life!
3. Do I complain more than I give
thanks?
4. Do I talk more than I listen?
25. James 1:19
My dear brothers, take note of this:
Everyone should be quick to listen,
slow to speak and slow to become
angry.
26. Proverbs 10:19
When words are many, sin is not
absent, but he who holds his tongue
is wise.
Proverbs 18:2
A fool finds no pleasure in
understanding but delights in airing
his own opinions.
27. Ephesians 4:29
Do not let any unwholesome talk
come out of your mouths, but only
what is helpful for building others up
according to their needs, that it may
benefit those who listen.
28. Lord God,
I ask for the wisdom to restrain my
speech and the patience to listen more
carefully to others before responding with
my own opinions. May I be a gracious and
others-centered listener rather than a
controlling and self-centered talker.
I desire to serve others by listening,
caring and encouraging. Amen.
(Ken Boa, Passionate Living)
29. 7 Questions:
Taking a Look at How You Are
Doing with Life!
3. Do I complain more than I give
thanks?
4. Do I talk more than I listen?
5. Am I standing firm in the Truth?
31. Can you say that you
know God’s Word better
today than you did at the
end of last year?
DO you have a plan for regular
Bible intake?
32. We live in a culture in
which truth is often
determined by the
vote of the majority!
But God’s Word is not up for
a vote! We must not only
know it, we must build our
very lives upon it!
33. Matthew 7:24-25
Therefore everyone who hears these
words of mine and puts them into
practice is like a wise man who built
his house on the rock. The rain came
down, the streams rose, and the
winds blew and beat against that
house; yet it did not fall, because it
had its foundation on the rock.
34. Matthew 7:26-27
But everyone who hears these words
of mine and does not put them into
practice is like a foolish man who
built his house on sand. The rain
came down, the streams rose, and
the winds blew and beat against that
house, and it fell with a great crash.
37. Carpe Diem
(Seize the Day!)
A Spiritual Growth
Initiative for 2014
The Bible cannot be our authority ...
Our “polaris” ... Our reference point
for life IF we do not KNOW it!
38. 7 Questions:
Taking a Look at How You Are
Doing with Life!
3. Do I complain more than I give
thanks?
4. Do I talk more than I listen?
5. Am I standing firm in the Truth?
6. Do I have a heart for the
harvest?
39. John 4:35
Do you not say, ‘Four months more
and then the harvest’? I tell you, open
your eyes and look at the fields! They
are ripe for harvest.
40. Lord God,
Please give me eyes for the harvest and a
heart for evangelism so that I will long to see
the people I love come into a saving
relationship with You through the merits and
grace of Your Son, Jesus Christ. May I be
involved in the harvest as a worker who
prepares the soil, plants the seed of Your
word, cultivates the soil, and waits for Your
harvest. Amen.
(Ken Boa, Passionate Living)
41. 7 Questions:
Taking a Look at How You Are
Doing with Life!
3. Do I complain more than I give
thanks?
4. Do I talk more than I listen?
5. Am I standing firm in the Truth?
6. Do I have a heart for the
harvest?
7. Do I treasure Christ above all?
43. Philippians 3:7-8
But whatever was to my profit I now
consider loss for the sake of Christ.
What is more, I consider everything a
loss compared to the surpassing
greatness of knowing Christ Jesus
my Lord, for whose sake I have lost
all things. I consider them rubbish,
that I may gain Christ.
45. 7 Questions:
Taking a Look at How You Are
Doing with Life!
1. Am I more concerned with
achieving happiness or
holiness?
2. Do I suffer from myopia (nearsightedness), living only for the
present with no regard for
eternity?
46. 7 Questions:
Taking a Look at How You Are
Doing with Life!
3. Do I complain more than I give
thanks?
4. Do I talk more than I listen?
5. Am I standing firm in the Truth?
6. Do I have a heart for the
harvest?
7. Do I treasure Christ above all?
