Pastor David McGee's teaching references for 08/27/2006

John 21:7-15

Life Lesson (verse John 21:8)

The best things in life aren’t things.

Life Lesson (verse John 21:8)

Don’t be satisfied with ‘the good life’ but with ‘the God life’.

Life Lesson (verse John 21:11)

God wants to meet your needs.

Life Lesson (verse John 21:12)

Jesus brings us great joy.

Matt 9:37-38 NLT

37 He said to his disciples, "The harvest is so great, but the workers are so few. 38 So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send out more workers for his fields."

Luke 10:2 NLT

These were his instructions to them: "The harvest is so great, but the workers are so few. Pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest, and ask him to send out more workers for his fields.

John 4:35-36 NLT

35 Do you think the work of harvesting will not begin until the summer ends four months from now? Look around you! Vast fields are ripening all around us and are ready now for the harvest. 36 The harvesters are paid good wages, and the fruit they harvest is people brought to eternal life. What joy awaits both the planter and the harvester alike!

Matt 10:38-39 NLT

38 If you refuse to take up your cross and follow me, you are not worthy of being mine. 39 If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give it up for me, you will find it.

Matt 16:25-26 NLT

25 If you try to keep your life for yourself, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for me, you will find true life. 26 And how do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul in the process? Is anything worth more than your soul?

Luke 17:33 NLT

Whoever clings to this life will lose it, and whoever loses this life will save it.

Eph 3:20 NKJV

Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Eph 3:20 NLT

Now glory be to God! By his mighty power at work within us, he is able to accomplish infinitely more than we would ever dare to ask or hope.

Acts 2:17-18 TEV

17 'This is what I will do in the last days, God says: I will pour out my Spirit on everyone.Your sons and daughters will proclaim my message; your young men will see visions, and your old men will have dreams. 18 Yes, even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will proclaim my message.

Phil 2:12-13 NKJV

12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

Matt 6:32-33 NLT

32 Why be like the pagans who are so deeply concerned about these things? Your heavenly Father already knows all your needs, 33 and he will give you all you need from day to day if you live for him and make the Kingdom of God your primary concern.

Matt 6:33 NKJV

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Mal 3:8-10 NKJV

8 "Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me! But you say, 'In what way have we robbed You?' In tithes and offerings. 9 You are cursed with a curse, for you have robbed Me, even this whole nation. 10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and try Me now in this," Says the LORD of hosts, "If I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it.

Prov 18:24 NKJV

A man who has friends must himself be friendly, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Ps 119:103 NKJV

2 as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

1 Peter 2:2-3 NKJV

2 as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

1 Peter 2:2-3 NLT

2 You must crave pure spiritual milk so that you can grow into the fullness of your salvation. Cry out for this nourishment as a baby cries for milk, 3 now that you have had a taste of the Lord's kindness.

Heb 5:12-14 NLT

12 You have been Christians a long time now, and you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things a beginner must learn about the Scriptures. You are like babies who drink only milk and cannot eat solid food. 13 And a person who is living on milk isn't very far along in the Christian life and doesn't know much about doing what is right. 14 Solid food is for those who are mature, who have trained themselves to recognize the difference between right and wrong and then do what is right.

Mark 10:28 NKJV

Then Peter began to say to Him, "See, we have left all and followed You."

Col 3:2 NLT

Let heaven fill your thoughts. Do not think only about things down here on earth.

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