A Check Up From The Neck Up: Learn Exactly What Is Necessary for Your Future
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On these pages you will be given a self-examination that involves your thinking, your speech, your vision, your decision making, and much more.
A CHECK UP FROM THE NECK UP!
You will be asked:
• What are the strongholds of your life?
• Can you define your core beliefs?
• What thoughts dominate your mind?
• What is the impact of your words?
• How does your will line up with Gods?
• What is the key to successful decision making?
• How is your vision?
• Are the weapons you use carnal or spiritual?
“One thing I appreciate about Bishop Bronner on a personal level is his spirit of encouragement, he always has a kind word, always something uplifting, always wants to speak life and potential
into people, and I know you are going to experience that same spirit today.”
-Steven Furtick, Author of The New York Times Bestseller Grater, Founder and Lead Pastor of Elevation Church
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A Check Up From The Neck Up - Dale Carnegie Bronner
VISIT
ARE YOU
READY FOR YOUR
CHECKUP ?
What do you think the doctor would say if, during your annual medical exam, you refused to cooperate?
Stick out your tongue and say, Aah!
says the physician.
No,
you reply, I don’t feel like doing that!
Well, let me check your blood pressure,
he continues.
Don’t bother,
you insist. I had that done last year and it was fine.
It wouldn’t take long before the doctor would escort you out of his office and quietly remove your name from his patient roster.
If you plan to live a healthy, productive life, the decision to have periodic thorough checkups must be yours!
A FULL INSPECTION
On the pages that follow you will be given a self-examination that involves your thinking, your speech, your vision, your decision making, and much more. I call it A Checkup from the Neck Up!
However, these seeds will not take root unless you make a personal choice to receive them. Like the psalmist, you must say Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my mind and my heart
(Psalm 26:2 NKJV).
If you want to know what God has in store for your life, ask Him for an in-depth examination and look forward to hearing the results. To make sure you are on the right track in life, a good question to ask yourself is, How do I want to be remembered?
• Nehemiah was just a doorkeeper in the house of the king, yet the Lord saw his potential and asked him to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.
• Joseph was exiled from Israel, but he had a mind and heart for God and was elevated to reign with the governor of Egypt.
• David was only a shepherd boy when the Lord examined his life and declared, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will
(Acts 13:22)
HARD LESSONS
Never forget that King David trained before he reigned.
He was anointed with oil that ran down his head, however, for the next fifteen years he had to run for his life. There were twenty-one attempts made to kill him.
It is more than one step from a sheep pasture to the king’s palace. There were many tests along the way.
In the early church, Saul was a tormentor of Christians before his Damascus Road experience. At that moment the Lord transformed his life and gave him a new name – Paul.
Some people think he immediately set off for his great missionary journeys. No. For three years, Paul studied in the city of Petra. God put him in a rigorous school in the City of the Rock.
That’s where he learned the lessons needed to evangelize the known world and write two-thirds of the New Testament. Because of what Paul experienced, he could tell the believers at Corinth, Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves
(2 Corinthians 13:5).
ARE YOU PREPARED?
We may wonder, Why did God send me to this city?
Or, Why did the Lord permit this person to come into my life?
I believe the Father allows what we see and hear to prepare us for service – for the equipping of the saints (Ephesians 4:12). The Lord will call you, prepare you, then He will commission you.
Don’t confuse your call with your commission. There is a strenuous training and examination period in between.
Heaven’s X-ray machine sees everything! God
knows exactly what is necessary for your future.
Have you ever opened a gift box at Christmas and noticed the words Assembly Required
? That’s exactly how it is when we first come to Christ. There are pieces of our heart, spirit and mind that must be properly joined together. We cannot be used to our peak potential until we are fully assembled.
A NEW VIEW
In addition to the Lord watching our lives, He asks us to take an introspective look at ourselves. Before partaking of communion, we are given this warning: But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup
(1 Corinthians 11:28).
The price of ignorance is steep. For he who eats and drinks is an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep
(vv.29-30 NKJV).
• I believe you are ready for that examination.
• In these chapters you will be asked:
• What are the strongholds of your life?
• Can you define your core beliefs?
• What thoughts dominate your mind?
• What is the impact of your words?
• How does your will line up with God’s?
• What is the key to successful decision making?
• How is your vision?
• Are the weapons you use carnal or spiritual?
It is my prayer that the Lord will allow you to see yourself in a new light – that He will stretch your vision and take you to a higher level of excellence.
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CHECK YOUR STRONGHOLDS
Agentleman approached me after a service and confessed, Pastor, I’ve been prayed for, anointed with oil, and had the devil cast out of me. Still, there are certain things that won’t leave my life.
It was obvious to me the man had a stronghold – something that had a strong hold on his life. Sir,
I told him, Perhaps it is time to deal with the problem yourself!
God wants you to personally take charge of the situation!"
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