SLIDE ONLY (Picture of Gas Tank Gage on Empty)
CONSIDER the SOURCE.
SEEK the SOURCE that SATISFIES our SOULS.
Where do you RUN for RELIEF?
CONSIDER the SOURCE.
1 Peter 5:8 (NLT)
Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.
CONSIDER the SOURCE.
Numbers 14:4 (NIV)
And they said to each other, “We should choose a leader and go back to Egypt.”
BONDAGE to FREEDOM
DEATH to LIFE
SIN to SALVATION
James 1:14-15 (NLT)
Temptation comes from our own desires, which entice us and drag us away. 15 These desires give birth to sinful actions. And when sin is allowed to grow, it gives birth to death.
Don’t hit SNOOZE on SIN.
Sin will never SATISFY a thirsty SOUL.
Jeremiah 2:13 (NIV)
“My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
Disappointment -> Disillusionment -> Depression
We must SEEK the only SOURCE that SATISFIES our SOUL.
Ezekiel 47
God is the RIVER of LIFE.
John 7:37-38 (NLT)
On the last day, the climax of the festival, Jesus stood and shouted to the crowds, “Anyone who is thirsty may come to me! 38 Anyone who believes in me may come and drink! For the Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from his heart.’”
Psalm 36:9 (NLT)
For you are the fountain of life…
CHOOSE the right SOURCE.
REPENT from SIN
Isaiah 59:1-2 (NIV)
Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
RETURN to RELATIONSHIP
Revelation 2:4-5 (NLT)
“But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first! 5 Look how far you have fallen! Turn back to me and do the works you did at first.”
REMAIN in CHRIST.
John 15:5 (NLT)
“Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.”
Acts 17:25, 27 (NLT)
“God himself gives life and breath to everything, and he satisfies every need. 27 “His purpose was for the nations to seek after God and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him—though he is not far from any one of us.”