1. Our Character, Our Commitment, and Our Confidence!
“Restore to me the joy of your salvation, And uphold me with a willing spirit.”
Psalm 51:12

2. Restoration

3. Restoring our Character
Daniel 1

4. “Nebuchadnezzar the king to all the peoples, nations, and men of every language that live in all the earth: “May your peace abound! 2 It has seemed good to me to declare the signs and wonders which the Most High God has done for me. 3 How great are His signs, And how mighty are His wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, And His dominion is from generation to generation. I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and flourishing in my palace.”
Daniel 4:1-4

5. Restoring our Character
Daniel 4:10-18

6. “28, All this happened to Nebuchadnezzar the king
“28, All this happened to Nebuchadnezzar the king. 29 Twelve months later he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon. Have you ever noticed that kings seemed to get in lots of trouble on their roof tops! Not a good place for them to hang out I guess!
30 The king reflected and said, ‘Is this not Babylon the great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?’ 31 While the word was in the king’s mouth,
Daniel 4:28-24

8. “Go into all the world and preach the gospel…”
Mark 16:15

9. “Everywhere there is apathy
“Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is, the better.”

10. Are you filled with JOY to serve the Lord?
Where is the JOY of being in Worship?
Where is the JOY of serving God?
Are you filled with JOY to serve the Lord?
Are you HAPPY to be here today?
Are you HAPPY to be a Child of God?

15. “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me
“Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. 11 Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold or Renew, a right spirit within me.”
Psalm 51:10 -12

16. 2 Chronicles 28-29
King Hezekiah

17. “…for God gave us a spirit not of fear, but of power, and love and self-control.”
2 Timothy 1:7

18. “Are we beginning to commend ourselves again
“Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you? 2 You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all. 3 And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. 4 Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. 5 Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, 6 who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit.”
2 Corinthians 3: 1-4

19. Character, Commitment, and Confidence!

22. “What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.”
Romans 6:1-4