Message Notes

Stepping into your Best Life
September 7th, 2025

I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.
Romans 7:15,19

Oh, what a miserable person I am!
Romans 7:24

I want to do what is right, but I can’t. I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.
Romans 7:18-19

Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord
Romans 7:25

If it is to be, it’s up to me!

God through me.

For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 1 Corinthians 15:9

But by the grace of God
1 Corinthians 15:10

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—
1 Corinthians 15:10

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
1 Corinthians 15:10

Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.
Colossians 3:23

Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the best part of everything you produce. Proverbs 3:9

If you add a spiritual why to what you want to do, and you honor that, it changes your heart.

I want to do what is right, but I can’t. I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.
Romans 7:18-19

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
1 Corinthians 15:10

Christ in me is stronger than the desires within me.

Psalm 37:8 Refrain from anger and turn from rage;

Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the best part of everything you produce. Proverbs 3:9

Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.
Colossians 3:23

Pay careful attention, then, to how you live, not as unwise but as wise, redeeming the time…. Therefore do not be foolish…
Ephesians 5:15-17 (parts)

But whatever I am now, it is all because God poured out his special favor on me—and not without results. … yet it was not I but God who was working through me by his grace. 1 Corinthians 15:10