“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 doubleminded 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 WORD
1 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…