Memory Verse for the Week: 1 Peter 3:10-11 (ESV)

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INTRO: What typically happens to your joy when your circumstances turn?

FEAR WITHIN, FIGHTING WITHOUT
Because of unbelief in a fallen world, how is ridicule inevitable?

CHRIST THE LORD IS HOLY
What can secure us or motivate us to live this way?

THE PROVERBIAL TUBE OF TOOTHPASTE
When squeezed, what is inside comes out …

YOU CAN PRAY WITH US …

1. Worship and praise the Triune God as the One true God, who is almighty, holy, and abundant in goodness in all the ways he governs and rules the world under his care.

2. Confess to the LORD the areas and relationships in your life where you do not enjoy His design of submission. Acknowledge where your selfishness and entitlement have prevented you from helping those above you flourish.

3. Praise King Jesus, the second person of the Trinity, who put on flesh, who submitted to the will of His Father, and was submissive to that mission for the sake of your redemption.

4. Who in your life is currently only following themselves and won’t heed the wisdom of others? Who in your life is on an island and you are praying that they find richness in community?

5. Ask the Holy Spirit to provoke you to love and good works for those authorities in your life. What leaders, spouses, bosses, parents, coaches, friends, etc., are you being called to joyfully follow and ask for the Holy Spirit to help you in that mission?