2. What a thing to be able to say! God desires this for each of us!

3. For you to be inspired….  To go deeper in your understanding!  To grow stronger in your faith in our Great God!  To live higher in your spirits as a disciple!  To feel closer to God through understanding, grasping reality!  To become more/be even more well- rounded in your perspective, understanding and discipleship!!

4.  John 4:12-13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

5.  John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

6.  Proverbs 29:6 Evildoers are snared by their own sin, but the righteous shout for joy and are glad.

7.  Ecclesiastes 8:1 A person’s wisdom brightens their face and changes its hard appearance.  Ecclesiastes 1:18  For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief.

8.  Ecclesiastes 7:16-18 Do not be over-righteous, neither be overwise—why destroy yourself? 17 Do not be overwicked, and do not be a fool—why die before your time? 18 It is good to grasp the one and not let go of the other. Whoever fears God will avoid all extremes.

9. FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH  John 1:14;17 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

10. IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH  John 4:23-24 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”.

11. WATCHING LIFE AND DOCTRINE  I Timothy 4:16  Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.

12. PREACH AND BE PATIENT AND BE ACCURATE!  2 Timothy 4:1-4 In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: 2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction.  3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

13. BE PREPARED TO ANSWER AND GENTLE AND RESPECTFUL  1 Peter 3:15 But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,

14. OLD AND NEW  Matthew 13:52 He said to them, “Therefore every teacher of the law who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.”

15.  2 Thessalonians 1:3 We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.

16.  Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

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18.  Whirlpool Galaxy, at 23 mly!

19.  200 Billion Stars in M.W.!  200 Billion Galaxies!

20.  Mystery of baby’s first breath!  Scientists can’t explain what causes it to happen!

21. God desires this for each of us! 1. 1. See God more and more clearly! 2. 2. See God, life, self, discipleship more and more accurately! 3. 3. Experience the joy! 4.

22. For you to be inspired….  To go deeper in your understanding!  To grow stronger in your faith in our Great God!  To live higher in your spirits as a disciple!  To feel closer to God through understanding, grasping reality!  To become more/be even more well- rounded in your perspective, understanding and discipleship!!

23.  Ephesians 3:16-19 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.