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SECRECY

SECRECY. Finding Our Way Out of the Approval Game. COREY’S SCRAPBOOK. COREY’S SCRAPBOOK. COREY’S SCRAPBOOK. COREY’S SCRAPBOOK. COREY’S SCRAPBOOK. The Approval Game. Do I habitually compare myself with others?. . The Approval Game.

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SECRECY

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  1. SECRECY Finding Our Way Out of the Approval Game

  2. COREY’S SCRAPBOOK

  3. COREY’S SCRAPBOOK

  4. COREY’S SCRAPBOOK

  5. COREY’S SCRAPBOOK

  6. COREY’S SCRAPBOOK

  7. The Approval Game Do I habitually compare myself with others? 

  8. The Approval Game Do I feel disappointed when no one seems to notice my efforts? 

  9. The Approval Game Do I ever get upset when someone else gets the credit for my idea or something I did? 

  10. The Approval Game Is my mood shifted or entire day ruined when someone is critical or rejects me? 

  11. The Approval Game Do I get offended when no one says “Thank you” (especially publicly) after a job well done? 

  12. The Approval Game Have I been envious of another person’s success? 

  13. The Approval Game Do I ever find myself doing or saying something in an attempt to impress someone else? 

  14. John 12:42 Many people did believe in Jesus, including some of the Jewish leaders. But they wouldn’t admit it for fear that the Pharisees would expel them from the synagogue.

  15. John 12:43 For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

  16. John OrtbergThe Life You’ve Always Wanted “When Jesus spoke, he was free from the need to create an impression. He was free to speak the truth in love. He was free with the freedom of the Beloved of God.”

  17. SECRECY

  18. -1- Abstaining from causing our good deeds and qualities to be known

  19. Matthew 6:1 “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.”

  20. Matthew 6:2 “But when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others…they have received their reward in full.”

  21. Matthew 6:3-4 “When you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”

  22. Matthew 6:5a “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others.”

  23. Matthew 6:6 “But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”

  24. Matthew 6:16a “And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others.

  25. Matthew 6:17-18 “But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”

  26. -1- Abstaining from causing our good deeds and qualities to be known

  27. -2- Finding ways to serve others anonymously, with no intention of revealing what you have done or why you have done it Truly have an audience of One

  28. Colossians 3:23-24 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

  29. -2- Finding ways to serve others anonymously, with no intention of revealing what you have done or why you have done it Truly have an audience of One

  30. -3- Holding confidences as secrets not to be shared Refraining from the compulsion to tell all that you know

  31. -4- Consecrating intimate moments of your walk with God to Him alone, speaking of them with no one else

  32. -5- Celebrating the achievements of others without needing to bring up your own

  33. Philippians 2:3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

  34. -5- Celebrating the achievements of others without needing to bring up your own

  35. SECRECY

  36. Matthew 5:16 “Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.”

  37. Matthew 6:24a “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other...”

  38. Spectrum of Motivation To be seen by others and bring glory to ourselves To be seen by God and bring glory to God

  39. SECRECY Finding Our Way Out of the Approval Game

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