Higher Aim With Dr. Curt Dodd

If there was ever a time you needed to be praying, it is now. Praying to God and spending time communicating with Him should be a regular part of your daily routine. However, many people are intimidated by prayer. They don’t know where to start and what to say. They don’t want to “bother God” with their requests and issues. Thankfully, we have someone to look to when learning how to pray. Jesus gave us a great example of how we should approach prayer when He prayed The Lord’s Prayer, found in the Gospel of Matthew. So with this prayer as our model, let’s look at four things you can include in your daily prayer time.

Drinking the cup that God often provides for us is difficult. Even though God's plan is for you to do His will, maybe what He has offered you to drink right now is too difficult in this season of your life. But you must decide whether you will make the difficult decision to do what God has called you to do or choose to navigate out of it. God has given each of us a cup from which to drink, so in this message, I want to help you and encourage you as you accept the cup you’ve been given and move forward in obedience to God’s will for your life.

As we continue our conversation on learning to love, we’re going to take a look at a few other ways we can love others the way Jesus did during His time on earth. It’s not enough to just show up for people, like we talked about last week. In addition to that, we have to exercise several other characteristics of Christlike love if we want to love well. We’ll break down each of those characteristics in this message.

There is not one of us on the face of this earth who has it all together in this aspect of loving. Do you know why? Because we have a tendency to be very self-focused, self-centered, and self- absorbed. Most of the time, we are concerned about how other people are receiving us. We are wondering what other people think of us. That is not love. That’s a self-focused, self-centered life. If we want to learn to love, we need to look at the example Jesus set for us. So in this week’s message, we are going to take a look at the first thing we need to do if we want to learn how to love more like Christ.