Treasure Your Treasure, Beltway College Park 2011 Fall Retreat.

E3
Encounter Jesus
Embrace the church
Engage His mission

Treasures of the kingdom.
The treasures that people find, what do they do with it?
Do they keep it?
Do they try to save it for themselves?
Do they try to find a way to get it?

To treasure our treasures from God. To protect it, to sell all we have for it.

1.The hard ground.
Hearing the Word, and not receive it.

2.The rocks.
Trials, droughts. There will be these in our lives.
We need a root system. Good roots in Jesus will allow us to tap in to Jesus even when in dry times. Build a good relationship with Jesus. In conflict you pull together, not apart. To press in when pushed out.
We need to know our relationship with Jesus.
In hard times we build our relationship with Him.

3. Thorns
Distractions from growing; to stop our maturity.
We are bad at distiguishing structure and values.
Different phases of our lives : each with a new way of spiritual living. With new seasons in our lives we need to press in to know how to fit everything in properly, so that we do not fall out. To go through life with God.
Get pumped up about God.
To reenergize.
To recharge.
Start anew.

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