BLISS Part 6: How To See God Move In Your Life

Blessed: [MARKARIOS]
Extreme happiness
Blessing
BLISS

God’s way to happiness isn’t about circumstances,
it’s about our attitude toward circumstances.

Matthew 5:8 NIV
8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

Integrity
wholeness, authenticity, or unmixed motivation

Do you call in sick for work when you’re not ill? 63%
Do you take office supplies from your company for personal use? 63%
Do you mistate facts on your resume or job application? 18%
Do you cheat on your tax returns? 17%
Have you ever lied to your spouse about the cost of recent purchase? 32%

Proverbs 20:7 NKJV
7 The righteous man walks in his integrity;His children are blessed after him.

You can teach your children what you know, but you will reproduce who you are.

How do we develop Integrity?

Romans 7:15-19 NIV
15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.

Romans 7:24 NIV
24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?

Having a Pure Heart
is not Perfection
its Pursuing!

How do we bring integrity into our life?

Matthew 7:24 NIV
24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

You can see God in your life, if the Word of God is the foundation for your moral code

Matthew 12:33-35 NIV
33 “Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit. 34 You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. 35 A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.

Having a Pure Heart
is not Perfection
its Pursuing

1 Peter 1:6-7 KJV
6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 7 that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

Psalms 25:21 NIV
21 May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope, Lord, is in you.

Proverbs 10:9 NIV
9 Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but whoever takes crooked paths will be found out.

Integrity is the glue that holds our way of life together.
~Billy Graham

Proverbs 11:3 NIV
3 The integrity of the upright guides them, but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity.

James 1:25 NIV
25 But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.

Having a Pure Heart
is not Perfection
its Pursuing!