· There is a connection between separation from the world as Jesus followers, and the spread of faith in Jesus.

· As God’s people separate themselves from sin, sinners separate themselves from unbelief.

· Separation is the exclusive love for God that makes all competing loves unacceptable.

· “Love God, and do as you please.” (Augustine).

· Love observes boundaries.

· “Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity…”

· Doctrine is not the enemy of devotion.

It’s the backbone, the skeleton of truth, meant to be clothed with a holy life.

· All sins are attempts to fill voids.

· We must make clean breaks with sin, not gradual ones.

Growth in grace is gradual, but rejection of sin must be surgical.

· Those who have most helped the world, have been those who have most contradicted it.

· Our emotions are often influenced more by our expectations, than by actual events.

· Positive expectations are born out of listening to Gods Word, not looking at our current circumstances.

· Confidence doesn’t await you in some new circumstance. Confidence is within you through the Holy Spirit.

· Your confidence for the future will grow in proportion to the manner in which you celebrate God’s faithfulness to you.

· The discipline of memory, fuels our confidence.

Because if we don’t commit ourselves to remember, we effectively consign ourselves to forget.

· Walking in faith-based confidence doesn’t make ministry easy.

It does however make it possible.

· We must continually make a deliberate effort to separate fact from fiction.

Through the Word of God and through remembering His grace to us.

· Confident faith walks up stairs erected by God’s Word.

Look out through the window of memory and looking forward in the knowledge of God’s truth.

· People who follow the Holy Spirit still go through difficult times.

· The tool of discouragement proved effective in Paul’s heart.

· A sequence or series of events may accomplish what no one event could do.

· When the Devil sows discouragement God sows encouragement.

He restored Paul by means of 2 things:

Friends and Renewed Focus.

· Our disappointments may be God’s appointments.

· God didn’t design or call us to minister alone.

All ministry should be team ministry.

· God is able to accomplish great things in dark places.