BRINGING CHANGE INTO YOUR LIFE

MAY 2, 2021
Philippians 2:12-13

Continue to work out your Salvation with fear and trembling,
for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to
His good purpose.
* Work out
* Your Salvation
* God works in you
I. God’s part in changing me.

3 TOOLS HE USES

1.) God uses the Bible.
II Timothy 3:16-17 – The whole Bible was given to us by
inspiration from God and is useful to teach us what is true
and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives, it
straightens us out and helps us to do what is right. It is God’s
way of making us well prepared at every point.
2.) God uses the Holy Spirit.
Romans 8:11 – Once the Spirit lives within you, He will bring
to your whole being new strength and vitality.
I Corinthians 3:18 – As the Spirit of the Lord works within us,
we become more and more like Him.
3.) God uses circumstances.
Romans 8:28-29 – To those who love God and are called
according to His plans, everything that happens fits into a
pattern for good. For God chose us to bear the family
likeness of His son.
Proverbs 20:30 – Sometimes it takes a painful situation to
make us change our ways.
II. My part in changing me.
3 CHOICES
1.) I can choose what I think about.
Proverbs 4:23 – Be careful how you think. Your life is shaped
by your thoughts.

Ephesians 4:23-25 – Your mind must be renewed by a
spiritual revolution so that you can put on the new self that
has been created in God’s way.
2.) I can depend on God’s Spirit.
John 15:4-5 – Take care to live in Me and let Me live in you.
For a branch can’t produce fruit when severed from the vine.
Nor can you be fruitful apart from me. I am the Vine; you
are the branches. Whoever lives in me and I in him shall
produce a large crop of fruit.
3.) I can choose to respond correctly to my circumstances.
James 1:2-4 – When all kinds of trials crowd into your lives,
don’t resent them as intruders, but welcome them as friends.
Realize that they come to test your faith and produce in you
the quality of endurance. But let the process go on until that
endurance is fully developed and you become people of
mature character, people of integrity, with no weak spots.
Romans 5:3-4 – We can be full of joy right here and now,
even in our trials and troubles. These very things will give us
patient endurance. This in turn will develop a mature
character.
YOU CAN BRING CHANGE INTO YOUR LIFE