January 20, 2025 Saluki downTime

Saluki downtime January 20, 2025


What do you want? Write it down. Pass out Note cards. 


If you don’t know what you want, you’ll never get it. Your mind has to be in control of what you want.


Finding joy in all you do.


What is the difference between JOY and HAPPY?


Deuteronomy 31:6

6 Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave or forsake you.”


#1. Knowing that God is there for you is the first step.


Live for love


It was his love that caused our creation. It was in love that he offered mankind grace, even in our continual rebellion. His love sent Jesus to rescue us, and it’s his love that will win at our final redemption—the gathering of all of God’s people for the great wedding feast.


You were created to be loved by God and to love him and others in return. And you will never find satisfaction until you rest in the unconditional love of your heavenly Father. You will never find true purpose until you live to love God and others.


To live for love is to step outside this world's ways and cares and live for the kingdom of God. It’s to choose to root yourself in the unconditional affection of your heavenly Father rather than seeking fulfillment from the fickle love of mankind. It’s to choose to serve and give rather than looking to receive from a world that has so little to offer. To live for love is to seek first God and his ways and thereby receive the fullness of life only he can give.


What can be the benefit of starting you day off in prayer or reading your bible? 


When you begin your days in the presence of God, you lay for yourself a foundation of God’s unconditional love. Allowing God to invade the first moments of your day with the truth of his love for you will strengthen you to stop looking for fulfillment in the things of the world. It is impossible to live for love as Jesus commands unless we receive the perfect, powerful love of our heavenly Father daily.


#2 - Knowing that God loves you.






1 John 4:16-19

16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.

17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world, we are like Jesus.

18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

19 We love because he first loved us.


Because of this, you can have joy in all circumstances.



James 1:2-3

2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds,

3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.



John 16:24 ~ Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive that your joy may be complete.


#3 - God is our Joy.


What do we do with this joy? 


Invite someone you haven’t invited before


Everyone is great, and everyone has something to offer.


If I can’t do great things, I can do little things, great things.


Peace is not the absence of trouble - truth marsh.

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