“My Values and My Cosmic Mission!

The Life Guided by a Cosmic Mission Part 2

CLARIFY YOUR VALUES!

• Your values affect your Stress–James 1:8 (NIV) “…a double-

minded man is unstable in all he does.

CLARIFY YOUR VALUES!

• Your values affect your Stress

• Your values control your Success–Proverbs 4:23 (NIV) Above all

else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.

CLARIFY YOUR VALUES!

• Your values affect your Stress, control your Success and

• Also affect your Salvation–Mark 8:36 “What does it profit a

man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul?”

1. CHOOSE YOUR SOURCE

THE WORLD OR THE WORD1 John 2:15-16 (Living Bible) “Don’t love the world’s ways – the lust for physical pleasure, the ambition to buy everything that appeals to you and the pride that comes from wealth and importance – these are not from God but from the world.”

1. Pleasure

2. Possessions

3. Prestige

Romans 12:2 “Don’t become so well adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking.”

2. CLARIFY WHAT’S IMPORTANT

–Job 34:3-4 (Living Bible) “We should choose to follow what is right but first we must define what is good.”

Definition of success: Success is the feeling I get when I live out my values.

Pleasure isn’t going to last: Hebrews 11:25 (Living Bible) “The pleasures of sin lasts for a short time.”

Possessions aren’t going to last.

1 Timothy 6:7 (Living Bible) “We brought nothing into the world and we can take nothing out.”

Possessions aren’t going to last.

1 Timothy 6:7 (Living Bible) “We brought nothing into the world and we can take nothing out.”

Mark 10:31 (Living Bible) “Many people who seem to be important now will be the least important then in eternity, and many who seem least important today will be most important in heaven.”

1 John 2:17 “The world and its desires [the values of the world] will pass away but those who do the will of God will live forever.”

3. CHANGE MY LIFESTYLE–MY SCHEDULE

–MY BUDGET

–MY RELATIONSHIPS

3. CHANGE MY LIFESTYLE

Psalm 119:37 “Turn my eyes away from worthless things.”

3. CHANGE MY LIFESTYLE

Ephesians 4:17-24 (The Message) “Stop going along with the mindless crowd. That’s no life for you. Get rid of it. Then take on an entirely new way of life, a God fashioned life, renewed from the inside [it starts on the inside] and working out into your conduct, [it comes out in your behavior] as God reproduces His character in you.”

3. CHANGE MY LIFESTYLE

– Philippians 4:13 “I can do everything God asks me to do with the help of Christ who gives me the strength and power.”

4. CHECK MY VALUES REGULARLY–Proverbs 4:23 (Living

Bible)“Guard your affections. They influence everything else in your life.”

4. CHECK MY VALUES REGULARLY–1 Timothy 4:16 (Living Bible)

"Keep a close watch on all you do and think. Stay true to what is right and God will bless you and use you to help others.”

4. CHECK MY VALUES REGULARLY–1 Timothy 6:21 (Living Bible)

“Some have missed the most important thing in life. They don’t know God.”

Let’s Pray…