#1-You've Been Given Your Life!
#2-We live- we die…and don't ask why!
#3-God knows we NEED to MAKE A DIFFERNCE in this world
#4-We are God's masterpiece. He created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things He planned for us long ago. Ephesians 2:10 NLT
#5-We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10 NIV
#6-God works in us by Christ Jesus and asks us to join Him in the work He does- the good work He has gotten ready for us to do- work we had better be doing. Ephesians 2:10 The Message.
#7-We Are All Part of The Story
#8-Let God UnShell You
#9-Don't Forget The Bread

#1-It's A Jungle Out There
#2-23rd Psalm The Lord is my Shepherd…I shall not be in want…He makes me to lie down in green pastures…He leads me beside the still waters… HE RESTORES MY SOUL
#3-God is in the HOPE RESTORING Business
#4-Don't FOCUS on the Jungle
#5-Don't shuffle along, eyes to the ground, ABSORBED with the things right in front of you. LOOK UP, and be alert to what is going on around Christ- SEE THINGS FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE.
Colossians 3:2 The Message
#6-I lift up my eyes to the hills, where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord- the maker of heaven and earth. He will not let your foot slip- He who watches over you will not slumber…the Lord watches over you…the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord will watch over your life.
Psalm 121:1-7
#7-God Doesn't Change The Jungle
#8-God Restores HOPE by giving us His Presence
#9-God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles- the glorious riches of this mystery… WHICH IS CHRIST IN YOU- the HOPE OF GLORY… To this end I labor, struggling with all his energy which so powerfully works in me.
Colossians 1:27
#10-I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live… BUT CHRIST LIVES IN ME! The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God- who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 2:20
#11-The JUNGLE Can Make Us Stronger
#12-We have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice IN THE HOPE OF THE GLORY of God.

Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings (jungles) because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, HOPE.

And HOPE DOES NOT DISAPPOINT us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us…you see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:1-6
#13-HOPE= to anticipate with pleasure and expectation
#14-Glory=GOD Seen
#15-Now faith is being sure of what we HOPE for and certain of what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for. All were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted they were aliens and strangers on earth…therefore since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that so easily entangles us.
Hebrews 11:1-2,13; 12:1-3
#16-Our LIFE PATH Is hard to navigate if littered by baggage.
#17-[We have all these promises of God fulfilled in Christ in us] we have THIS HOPE as an anchor of the soul.
Hebrews 6:19
#18-The JUNGLE Can RID US OF BAGGAGE
#19-Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and thieves break in and steal, for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also…But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be added unto you.
Matthew 6:19, 33
#20-The JUNGLE PRUNES PRIORITIES
#21-HOPELESSNESS… Only one CONSTRUCTIVE WAY TO TURN that's long lasting
#22-We all need to LET HIM LEAD

#1-EXCESS Baggage is EXHAUSTING
#2-COME to me. All you who are WEARY and carry HEAVY BURDENS, and I will give you REST. Matthew 11:26
#3-The question is not DO YOU HAVE STRESS… HOW ARE YOU MANAGING STRESS?
#4-Long periods of overexertion and stress can cause constant fatigue, headaches, sleeplessness, gastrointestinal problems, tenseness, a feeling of being tied in knots and an inability to relax… some signals of burnout are crying, being easily angered, negativity, irritability , depression, cynicism and bitterness towards others…" (USA Today/Psychiatry Monthly)
#5God Created us to REST.
#6-WE CAN'T SPEND WHAT WE DON'T HAVE
#7-AVOID COMPLICATION AND AGITATION
#8-BEND BEFORE YOU BREAK
#9-REDUCE THE NOISE