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(1 Corinthians 14:1 LB)\\xa0 \\u201cMake love your greatest aim\\u2026\\u201d

Title: A Heart for What Matters

1.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 A Heart for God.

(Matthew 6:32-33 CEV)\\xa0 \\u201c\\u201cOnly people who don\\u2019t know God are always worrying about such things.\\xa0 Your Father in heaven knows that you need all of these.\\xa0 But more than anything else, put God\\u2019s work first and do what He wants.\\xa0 Then the other things will be yours as well.\\u201d

How to Know and Show That God Matters?

\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Time.

If someone were to look at your and my calendar would they see God as a priority in my life?\\xa0\\xa0

\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Possessions.

When it comes to my possessions, does God matter?\\xa0\\xa0

\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Obedience.

(John 14:21)\\xa0 \\u201cIf you love me, you will do what I said.\\u201d

Is my life a reflection of my obedience to God or my desires?\\xa0

2.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 A Heart for People.

3 Reasons Why You Matter to God

\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Because of who you are.

(Genesis 1:27)\\xa0 \\u201cSo God created man in his own image\\u2026\\u201d

\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Because of what you cost.

(1 John 4:8-10)\\xa0 \\u201cGod is love.\\xa0 In this was the love of God displayed where we are concerned: in that He sent His only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.\\xa0 In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.\\u201d

\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Because of what you can become.

(Ephesians 2:10) "For we are God\'s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."
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(Jeremiah 29:11) "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

3.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 A Heart for the Church.

(1 Kings 8:17-18)\\xa0 \\u201cMy father David had it in his heart to build a temple for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.\\xa0 But the LORD said to my father David, \\u2018Because it was in your heart to build a temple for my Name, you did well to have this in your heart.\\u201d

(1 Kings 9:3)\\xa0 The LORD said to him:\\xa0 \\u201cI have heard the prayer and plea you have made before me; I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting my Name there forever.\\xa0 My eyes and my heart will always be there.\\u201d

(1 Kings 9:3 Message)\\xa0 And God said to him, \\u201cI\\u2019ve listened to and received all your prayers, your ever-so-passionate prayers.\\xa0 I\\u2019ve sanctified this Temple that you have built: My Name is stamped on it forever; my eyes are on it and my heart in it always.\\u201d

4.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 A Heart for the World.

(John 3:16)\\xa0 \\u201cFor God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.\\u201d

(2 Corinthians 9:6-7) \\u201cRemember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.\\u201d

For more information on the vision of Freedom Church, please visit our website at\\xa0www.freedom-church.org