I Choose Joy - Understanding the Power of Focus, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 22 August 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
What’s the toughest situation you’re facing today? A relationship? A negative boss? Financial pressure? Join Chip as he shares truth from God’s Word that will begin to neutralize that issue in your life and allow you to experience joy in the midst of your most perplexing problems.
Main PointsThe Divine Equation: C+P=E (Circumstance + Perspective = Experience)
KEY #1: Focus - Where is my focus? -Philippians 1:1-11
How to develop an upward focus -Philippians 1:3-6
- A choice = Gratitude
- An action = Prayer
- An Attitude - Confidence
Three observations about an outward focus -Philippians 1:7-8
- Difficult circumstances reveal our true affections.
- Living above our circumstances occurs when our hearts are so full of people, that there is no room for self pity.
- Sometimes God allows adverse circumstances to realign our affections!
How to develop an outward focus -Philippians 1:9-11
- Think about those who have loved you the most.
- Pray for those you think about the most.
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the EdgeLiving on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you or someone you know going through a really, really hard time right now? |
| 0:07.0 | Do you feel down? Are you discouraged? |
| 0:10.0 | Do you simply want to know, oh God, how do I get out of this? |
| 0:14.0 | How do I get perspective? |
| 0:15.7 | Well, stay with me. |
| 0:16.8 | That's today. |
| 0:18.7 | Thanks for joining us for this |
| 0:23.3 | this edition of Living on the Edge with Chipping Grove. |
| 0:26.3 | Chip is our Bible teacher for this international teaching |
| 0:29.4 | and discipleship ministry focused on helping Christians live like Christians. |
| 0:34.0 | Well in just a minute Chip picks up where he left off last time in a series I Choose Joy by asking |
| 0:39.4 | amidst all that's happening in our world right now, |
| 0:42.6 | how do you persevere and experience genuine lasting joy? |
| 0:46.7 | Or you'll find out that answer today. |
| 0:48.7 | But first, to help you get the absolute most out of this message, |
| 0:52.3 | let me encourage you to download CHIP's message notes. They contain |
| 0:56.0 | his outline, scripture references, and much more. You can get them under the broadcasts |
| 1:01.0 | tab at Living on the Edge.org app listeners tap fill in notes. |
| 1:06.6 | Okay here's Chip with part two of his message understanding the power of focus from |
| 1:11.2 | Philippians chapter one. |
| 1:14.0 | How do you develop an upward focus? |
| 1:17.0 | And I'm going to suggest right from this passage, |
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