AVERAGE OR ExTRAORDINARY

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East Leesville Baptist Church * May 18, 2014 Key Passage: 1 Chronicles 4:9-10 NKJV Key Take Away God wants to work in you, with you, through you and for you to manifest His ______________ in your life.

Jabez is remembered, not for what he did, but for what he __________. Jabez’s name means “he who gives ____________.” Three ways to live an extraordinary life:

1. Be __________ in your ____________ for life. 1 Chronicles 4:10a

Success is “the _____________ of God.” Proverbs 10:22 GWT; Jeremiah 45:5 NLT

2. Be __________ in your _____________ to life. 1 Chronicles 4:10b

God has called us to be ________; flying alone if we have to, but always soaring above the level of _________________.

3. Be __________ in your ____________ in life. 1 Chronicles 4;10c

The __________ is more important than the blessing! 1 Chronicles 4:10d; Matthew 6:13

I Chronicles 4:9-10 “Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name, Jabez, saying, ‘because I bore him in pain.’” 10) And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, ‘Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that Your would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!’ So God granted him what he requested.” John 10:10 NLT “My purpose is to give life in all its fullness.” Proverbs 10:22 GWT “It is the Lord’s blessing that makes a person rich, and hard work adds nothing to it.” Jeremiah 45:5 NLT “Are you seeking great things for yourself? Don’t do it!” Matthew 6:13 “And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.”

Notes

__________ cannot take you from average to extraordinary! You cannot afford to come in second when you fight ______________. Word bank: aim, ambition, approach, blesser, blessing, eagles, glory, mediocrity, pain, passionate, pointed, prayed, purposeful , sin, temptation

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