Episode 33: Building the Good Life

The start of a new season and school year allows us to reboot. Even if we no longer have kids in school, it’s a chance to turn a page in the calendar and start fresh. But let’s be honest…it can also be incredibly overwhelming. This is why Ordering Your Priorities is the perfect study for this time of year. Join Lisa and Laura as they walk us through Ordering Your Priorities, an eight-week Walking with Purpose Bible study. Here’s the truth: not all things are urgent, and some good things can remain undone. If the thought of not getting it all done makes your heart race, this series is for you!<br />
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In today’s episode, Lisa and Laura discuss Lesson 1, Talk 1: Building the Good Life (walkingwithpurpose.com/ordering-your-priorities-videos/), setting the stage for the weeks ahead. Tune in now, and let’s start building the good life together!<br />
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Open your Heart to our key Scripture. <br />
Matthew 7:24–27: Every one then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house upon the rock; and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house upon the sand; and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell; and great was the fall of it.<br />
Open your Bible to other Scriptures referenced in this episode. <br />
Psalm 33:11: The plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of His heart through all generations. (NIV)<br />
Psalm 32:8: I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.<br />
Luke 11:28: Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it. <br />
Luke 14:28–30: For which of you, deciding to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, “This man began to build, and was not able to finish.”<br />
Jeremiah 6:16: Thus says the Lord, “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.”<br />
2 Corinthians 4:18: Because we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.<br />
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Invite Him in with this episode’s questions for reflection.<br />
In which relationship are you feeling the scrape of the chisel? Are you feeling tempted to pull back and isolate? Invite God to reveal to you if this is actually an opportunity to grow more like Him.<br />
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Show mentions.<br />
St. John Paull II. Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it. This, as has already been said, is why Christ the Redeemer “fully reveals man to himself.”<br />
Flourish: The Art of Being Human. Register here: walkingwithpurpose.com/flourish-2024/.<br />
Benjamin Windle, Digital Church in a Lonely World. We all carry brokenness, personality quirks and the ability to make choices that hurt others. However, the potential pain of being in community is not simply an unwanted by-product; it is a key part of the purpose of community. It is the very fact that community costs us something that makes it valuable.<br />
Beth Moore: If we only choose to be around those who require virtually nothing hard from us, what will prompt us to change? God often uses others as the chisel to carve true integrity into our rough personalities. A chisel that never scrapes the stone is useless.<br />
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