Fighting for a Generation

Fighting for a Generation

Genesis 3:14-15 – 14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. 15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

Genesis 4:7 – “…..sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”

Nehemiah 4:14 – “Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your families, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes.”

1. Find the .

Proverbs 27:19 (TLB) – A mirror reflects a man’s face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.

1 Corinthians 15:33 – Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

2. Establish .

Psalm 92:12-13 (NKJV) – The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. 13 Those who are planted in the house of the Lord Shall flourish in the courts of our God.

3. Embrace .

Psalm 19:12 (NLT) – How can I know all the sins lurking in my heart? Cleanse me from these hidden faults. 13 Keep your servant from deliberate sins! Don’t let them control me. Then I will be free of guilt and innocent of great sin. 14 May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

4. Make

Matthew 7:13-15 (VOICE) – 13 There are two paths before you; you may take only one path. One doorway is narrow. And one door is wide. Go through the narrow door. For the wide door leads to a wide path, and the wide path is broad; the wide, broad path is easy, and the wide, broad, easy path has many, many people on it; but the wide, broad, easy, crowded path leads to death. 14 Now then that narrow door leads to a narrow road that in turn leads to life.

5. Discover God-given .

Ephesians 2:10 – 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

6. Put first.

Phillippians 2:3-4 – Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

7. Live with .

Matthew 15:8 – “These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.”

Matthew 7:21-23 – “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

**All scripture is from the New International Version unless otherwise noted.