3 | Get Your Weight Up

Aug 20, 2023    Ritchie Johnson

1 Samuel 2:11-36 | Get Your Weight Up

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Theme: “Those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me will be lightly esteemed.”

 

Get Your Weight Up:

Don’t let your age stop you from ministering to the Lord.

 

1 Timothy 4:12

Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but [rather] in speech, conduct, love, faith [and] purity, show yourself an example of those who believe.

 

Get Your Weight Up:

Generosity honors God.

 

2 Corinthians 9:6-7

Now this [I say,] he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 7 Each one [must do] just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

 

Get Your Weight Up:

To harden your heart against God is DANGEROUS!

 

Joshua 11:20

For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, to meet Israel in battle in order that he might utterly destroy them, that they might receive no mercy, but that he might destroy them, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

 

1 John 5:16

If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not [leading] to death, he shall ask and [God] will for him give life to those who commit sin not [leading] to death. There is a sin [leading] to death; I do not say that he should make request for this.

 

Get Your Weight Up: The practice of discipline honors God above our children and teaches them to honor Him.

 

Proverbs 13:24-25

He who withholds his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him diligently. 25 The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite, But the stomach of the wicked is in need.

 

Get Your Weight Up:

We regard the sacrifice with honor and thanksgiving.

 

Psalm 50:23

"He who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving honors Me; And to him who orders [his] way [aright] I shall show the salvation of God."