Developing a Disciple’s Heart

Part 12

Romans 12:1 (MSG)

1 So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday,

ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life

—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for

you is the best thing you can do for him.

Romans 12:2A (MSG)

2 Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without

even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed

from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you,

Romans 12:2B (MSG)

and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity,

God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

Philippians 4:8 (NIV)

8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is

excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things.

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1. Do you want to get well?

John 5:6 (NIV)

6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this

condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

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2. Longing for heaven.

2 Corinthians 5:1-2 (NIV)

1 Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a

building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.

2 Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling,

2 Corinthians 5:3-4 (NIV)3 because when we are clothed, we

will not be found naked. 4 For while we are in this tent, we

groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed

up by life.

2 Corinthians 5:5 (NIV)

5 Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what

is to come.

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3. Mourning the brokenness.

2 Corinthians 5:1-2 (MSG)1 For instance, we know that when

these bodies of ours are taken down like tents and folded away, they will be

replaced by resurrection bodies in heaven—God-made, not handmade 2 —and we'll never have to relocate our "tents" again. Sometimes we can

hardly wait to move—

2 Corinthians 5:3-4 (MSG)and so we cry out in frustration.

Compared to what's coming, living conditions around here seem like a

stopover in an unfurnished shack, and we're tired of it! We've been given a

glimpse of the real thing, our true home, our resurrection bodies!

2 Corinthians 5:5 (MSG)5 The Spirit of God whets our appetite by giving us a taste of what's ahead.

He puts a little of heaven in our hearts so that we'll never settle for less.

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4. We have to stop thinking the way the

world does.

Romans 12:2 (NIV)

2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be

transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good,

pleasing and perfect will.

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5. We need to start thinking God’s way.

Philippians 4:8 (MSG)

8 Summing it all up, friends, I'd say you'll do best by filling your minds and

meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling,

gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise,

not things to curse.

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33043

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Part 13