How To Take A New Direction

11/09/25

I. Admit Our Need & Do Some Revaluation by taking inventory of our lives

Phil.3:7-9- 7 But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.

8 What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of

knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them

rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my

own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ--the righteousness

that comes from God and is by faith.

1. First, we must see ourselves as we are

2. And we must be brutally honest with ourselves about the direction in which our lives are headed

II. It’s time to get serious about my life

1. I press on

a. Forgetting what is behind

b. Straining toward what is ahead

2. A goal

III. I start right where I am today.

1. Open up to God’s leading

2. Live up to what I’ve already attained