Life's Greatest Aim

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• Where you focus your eyes determines where the
  rest of you will go.

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2 Chronicles 14
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• Asa sought after God and did what was good and
  right in His eyes.
• Asa commanded Judah to seek the Lord, the
  God of their fathers, and to obey His laws and
  commands. 2 Chronicles 144

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• Life Lesson
• Focus your eyes on God seeking Him and putting
• Him first.

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• Seeking God and putting Him first creates an
  awareness of and the desire to remove things
  that are offensive to God.

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• Three things we cannot do without
• Significance (meaning/purpose)

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• Three things we cannot do without
• Significance (meaning/purpose)
• Security (knowing we are loved)

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• Three things we cannot do without
• Significance (meaning/purpose)
• Security (knowing we are loved)
• and Satisfaction (happiness)

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• Peace with God, peace with ourselves and peace
  with others is a by-product of seeking God
  and putting Him first.

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• Prepare in advance so your defenses are ready
  when the attack comes.

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• Asa relied on God in impossible circumstances. 2
  Chronicles 148-13

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• Life Lesson
• Focus your eyes on God knowing He is in control.

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• You can count on this God is in control
• Everything in the heavens and earth is
  Yours, Oh LORD. We adore You as being in
  control of everything. 1 Chronicles 2911

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• 1. Asa sought God and recognized God alone had
  the power to prevail.

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• How many are your works, O LORD! In wisdom You
  made them all the earth is full of Your
  creatures. There is the sea, vast and spacious,
  teeming with creatures beyond numberliving
  things both large and small. There the ships go
  to and fro, and the leviathan, which You formed
  to frolic there. These all look to Yyou to give
  them their food at the proper time.
• Psalm 10424-27

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• 2. Asa recognized his powerlessness against such
  a vast army.

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• Complete this sentence
• Because God is in control, I can rely on God for

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• Asa left God out and relied on a human solution
  to his problem.

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• Life Lesson
• Focus your eyes on Godto get the best
  solutionsto your problems.

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• When we try to solve our problems without God, we
  miss out on a greater opportunity that God has
  for us.

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• Because you relied on the king of Aram and not
  on the LORD your God, the army of the King of
  Aram has escaped from your hand.
• 2 Chronicles 167

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• For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the
  earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully
  committed to Him.
• 2 Chronicles 169

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• There is no problem that can arise for you of
  which the Lord is not aware and from which He
  cannot deliver you.