Living Above Myself

Living our life on God’s behalf.

Psalm 112:6 NKJV
Surely he will never be shaken;The righteous will be in everlasting remembrance. 

Ephesians 4:1 NKJV
I, therefore, the prisoner [a]of the Lord, [b]beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

  1. Physical needs
  2. Safety needs
  3. Love needs
  4. Esteem needs
  5. Cognitive needs
  6. Aesthetic needs
  7. Self-actualization needs
  8. Transcendence needs
    1:  exceeding usual limits: surpassing
    2:  beyond comprehension

Living Transcendence

Proverbs 9:6 MSG
Leave your impoverished confusion and live! Walk up the street to a life with meaning.”

Love God passionately

Acts 17:26-28 NKJV
And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, 27 so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’

Colossians 1:16 MSG
For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible…—everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him

Ephesians 2:10 NKJV
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Serve others selflessly

1 Timothy 6:18-19 NKJV
Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share, 19 storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life. 

Psalm 112:9 NLT
They share freely and give generously to those in need. Their good deeds will be remembered forever. They will have influence and honor.

John 6:27 NKJV
Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.”

Live life intentionally

Acts 13:36 NKJV
“For David, after he had served [a]his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and [b]saw corruption;

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