A NEW HEART FOR AN EVER-INCREASING FRUITFULNESS IN 2017

• Ezekiel 36:29 I will save you from everything that defiles you. I will command the grain to be plentiful, so that you will not have any more famines.

• Ezekiel 36:30 I will increase the yield of your fruit trees and your fields, so that there will be no more famines to disgrace you among the nations.

A Review of Last Sunday’s Message

CHOOSE THE ONE THING YOU NEEDIN 2017

• Luke 10:38 NIV As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him.

• Luke 10:39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he said.

• Luke 10:40 But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!"

CHOOSE THE ONE THING NEEDEDIN 2017

• Luke 10:41 NIV Martha, Martha, the Lord answered, "you are worried and upset about many things,

• Luke 10:42 but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her."

WHAT WILL SITTING AT THE LORD’S FEET

GIVES YOU?

A Heart for God

• Genesis 12:7 The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

• Genesis 12:8 From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.

ABRAHAM

An Exciting Relationship with God.

• Genesis 18:1 Then the LORD appeared to him by the terebinth trees of Mamre, as he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day.

• Gen 18:2 So he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing by him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the ground,

ABRAHAM

An Exciting Relationship with God.

• Gen 18:4 "Please let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

• Gen 18:5 "And I will bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh your hearts

• Gen 18:7 And Abraham ran to the herd, took a tender and good calf, gave it to a young man, and he hastened to prepare it.

• Gen 18:8 So he took butter and milk and the calfwhich he had prepared, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree as they ate.

ABRAHAM

An Exciting Relationship with God.

• Gen 19:1 Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground.

• Gen 19:2 And he said, "Here now, my lords, please turn in to your servant's house and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way." And they said, "No, but we will spend the night in the open square."

LOT (Abraham’s Nephew)

A Place of Healing and Happiness.

• Gen 18:9 Then they said to him, "Where is Sarah your wife?" So he said, "Here, in the tent."

• Gen 18:10 And He said, "I will certainly return to you according to the time of life, and behold, Sarah your wife shall have a son." (Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him.)

• Gen 18:11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age; and Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

Sarah

A Place of Healing and Happiness.

• Gen 18:12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"

• Gen 18:13 And the LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Shall I surely bear a child, since I am old?'

• Gen 18:14 "Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son."

• Gen 18:15 But Sarah denied it, saying, "I did not laugh," for she was afraid. And He said, "No, but you did laugh!"

Sarah

A Heart Filled With Thanksgiving

• Gen 14:20 And blessed be God Most High, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand." And he gave him a tithe of all.

• Gen 14:21 Now the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the persons, and take the goods for yourself."

A Heart Filled With Thanksgiving

• Gen 14:22 But Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have raised my hand to the LORD, God Most High, the Possessor of heaven and earth,

• Gen 14:23 "that I will take nothing, from a thread to a sandal strap, and that I will not take anything that is yours, lest you should say, 'I have made Abram rich';

A No-Worry and A Gracious Attitude.

• Gen 13:8 So Abram said to Lot, "Please let there be no strife between you and me, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are brethren.

• Gen 13:9 "Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me. If you take the left, then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I will go to the left."

A Never-Ending Blessings and Abundance.

• Gen 13:14 And the LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: "Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are; northward, southward, eastward, and westward;

• Gen 13:15 "for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever.

• Gen 13:16 "And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered.

• Gen 13:17 "Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you.

Children of Blessed Future

• Gen 27:28 Therefore may God give you Of the dew of heaven, Of the fatness of the earth, And plenty of grain and wine.

• Gen 27:29 Let peoples serve you, And nations bow down to you. Be master over your brethren, And let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, And blessed be those who bless you!"

Jacob’s Blessing

Children of A Blessed Future

• Gen 27:39 Then Isaac his father answered and said to him: "Behold, your dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth, And of the dew of heaven from above.

• Gen 27:40 By your sword you shall live…

Esau’s Blessing

Children of A Blessed Future

• Galatians 3:29 NLT And now that you belong to Christ, you are the true children of Abraham. You are his heirs, and now all the promises God gave to him belong to you.

Children of A Blessed Future

• Gal 3:13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree"),

• Gal 3:14 that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

This 2017 let us:1. Have A Heart Focus On God2. Be Excited in our Relationship with God.3. Make Our Homes A Place of Healing and

Happiness.4. Have A Heart Filled With Thanksgiving5. Have A No-Worry and A Gracious Attitude.6. Receive The Never-Ending Blessings and

Abundance Promised by the Lord.7. Let Us Pass on Our Blessings to the Next

Generation and Teach the to Do the Same.