When you live each day with intentionality, there’s almost no limit to what you can do. You can transform yourself, your family, your community, and your nation. When enough people do that, they can change the world. When you intentionally use your everyday life to bring about positive change in the lives of others, you begin to live a life that matters – John Maxwell

God instructs us with intentionality

Matthew 28:19 – Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Revelation 5:9 – And they sang a new song with these words: “You are worthy to take the scroll and break its seals and open it. For you were slaughtered, and your blood has ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.

God pursues us with intentionality

Genesis 3:8-9 – When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man and his wife heard the LORD God walking about in the garden. So they hid from the LORD God among the trees. Then the LORD God called to the man, “Where are you?”

Is rain wet?
Does a bear poop in the woods?
Will the Redskins ever sign Kirk Cousins?
How should I know?

Ezekiel 34:11 – For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I myself will search and find my sheep.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts. – Mahatma Gandhi

Jeremiah 17:10 – But I, the LORD, search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.”

What we practice, not (save at rare intervals) what we preach, is usually our great contribution to the conversion of others.  – C.S. Lewis

There’s a seat at the table for everyone

Meet people in their brokenness

God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever. – Vance Havner

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