3. Finding Your Way Back

4. I = Ideal A = Actual R = Reality The I.A.R. Process

5. Actual to Ideal

6. Real

7. 2 Kings 6:1-7 (NIV) The company of the prophets said to Elisha, “Look, the place where we meet with you is too small for us. Let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a pole; and let us build a place there for us to meet.” And he said, “Go.” The company of the prophets said to Elisha, “Look, the place where we meet with you is too small for us. Let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a pole; and let us build a place there for us to meet.” And he said, “Go.”

8. 2 Kings 6:1-7 (NIV) Then one of them said, “Won’t you please come with your servants?” “I will,” Elisha replied. And he went with them. They went to the Jordan and began to cut down trees. As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron ax head fell into the water.

9. 2 Kings 6:1-7 (NIV) “Oh no, my lord!” he cried out. “It was borrowed!” The man of God asked, “Where did it fall?” When he showed him the place, Elisha cut a stick and threw it there, and made the iron float. “Lift it out,” he said. Then the man reached out his hand and took it.

10. God Knows How to Help You Find What You Didn’t Mean To Lose

11. Actual to Ideal Real

12. Actual to Ideal

13. How Do You Get Your Edge Back?

14. Be Honest About Where You Lost It

15. 2 Kings 6:6 (NLT) The man of God asked, “Where did it fall?”

16. Actual to Ideal Real

17. How Do You Get Your Edge Back? God Cares about What You Lost

18. Luke 12:6 (NIV) Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

19. Nahum 1:7 (NIV) The Lord is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him.

20. How Do You Get Your Edge Back? With God’s Help, Take Back What You Lost

21. 2 Kings 6:6-7 (NIV) When he showed him the place, Elisha cut a stick and threw it there, and made the iron float. “Lift it out,” he said. Then the man reached out his hand and took it.

22. How Do You Get Your Edge Back? God Can Help You Recover What You Lost

23. Jonathan Edwards “Not one concern of ours is small if we belong to Him. To teach us this, the Lord of all once made an ax head swim.”

24. Actual to Ideal Real

25. Actual to Ideal Real

26. Deuteronomy 30:3-5 (MSG) God, your God, will restore everything you lost; he'll have compassion on you; he'll come back and pick up the pieces from all the places where you were scattered.

27. Deuteronomy 30:3-5 (MSG) No matter how far away you end up, God, your God, will get you out of there and bring you back to the land your ancestors once possessed. It will be yours again. He will give you a good life...

28. Finding Your Way Back