A Happier New Year: Getting There — From Here | Part 2: Started Isn’t Finished

Ecclesiastes 7:8 (NLT)

Finishing is better than starting.

Where is God inviting me to stay faithful —

even when the results aren’t immediate?

Formational Move #1

Prioritize — Over Performing

Colossians 2:6 (NIV)

So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in Him.

John 15:4 (MSG)
“Live in me. Make your home in me just as I do in you. In the same way that a branch can’t bear grapes by itself but only by being joined to the vine, you can’t bear fruit unless you are joined with me.”

Christianity isn’t performance-based —

it’s connection-based.

2 Corinthians 12:10 (TLB)

…For when I am weak, then I am strong — the less I have, the more I depend on Him.

Formational Move #2

Embrace the — Where Faithfulness Develops

What once felt like something we were doing —
is becoming who we are.

Formational Move #3

Trust the — God’s Not Done with Me Yet

Philippians 1:6 (MSG)

There has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work in you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish …

• God starts the work.
• God sustains the work.
• God finishes the work.

Galatians 4:19 (NIV)

… until Christ is formed in you.

Where is God inviting me to –

• Stay connected instead of trying to perform?
• Embrace the ordinary instead of chasing a feeling?
• Trust that He’s not finished with me yet?