First Love

First Love – The Hope Gift

FIRST LOVE 4 THE HOPE GIFT SUMMARY WHEN LOSING YOUR FIRST LOVE BECAUSE YOU ARE LOSING HOPE: STEP 1 – WONDER, DON’T WANDER STEP 2 – WAIT, DON’T QUIT STEP 3: REWIRE, REFOCUS AND RESET ______________________________________________ Shiginoth is a musical term. Intense emotion—Impassioned exuberance. Wild passionate singing with rapid changes of rhythm. High-spirited praise. Vigorous enthusiasm. Most passionate praise is the praise before the provision.  ______________________________________________ The praise for the WHO, not the WHAT  ______________________________________________ Our hope is in a…

First Love – The Things Hoped For

FIRST LOVE 3 THE THINGS HOPED FOR ______________________________________________ Distractions and a Confusing World 1 Corinthians 13:12 (TPT) ‘For now, we see but a faint reflection of riddles and mysteries as though reflected in a mirror, but one day we will see face-to-face. My understanding is incomplete now, but one day I will understand everything, just as everything about me has been fully understood. ______________________________________________ Our Vision of Hope 1 Corinthians 13:13 (TPT) Until then, there are three things that remain:…

First Love – Simple Obedience

FIRST LOVE 2 SIMPLE OBEDIENCE ______________________________________________ FIRST LOVE Revelation 2:14 But I have this against you: you have abandoned the passionate love you had for me at the beginning. If we let Him, the Holy Spirit can take us from distracted to revelation in moments! ______________________________________________ Three Reasons We Get Stopped Short: 1. Our faith perspective gets blinded by our circumstance 2. Our progress is not always obvious 3. The outcome becomes more important than the process ______________________________________________ Three Ways…

First Love – Stopped Short

We are by nature easily distracted. Keeping our minds and hearts focussed on Jesus is tough. In this series, we will explore how to navigate distracting circumstances and love Jesus as passionately as we did when we first fell in love with Him. THE FIRST LOVE SERIES FIRST LOVE 1 Stopped Short The Fickle Human Mind Psychologists Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert found that the human mind has become wired for a state of continuous distraction. In a study conducted with 2,250…