Eight Steps to
Becoming An Intentional Man
1. Be generous with your time and talent
and treasure
o
Give
and it will be given to you – Luke: 6:38 38 give and it will begiven to
you. A good measure, pressed down,
shaken together and running over, will be poured into you lap. For with the measure you use, it will be
measured to you
o God is not mocked – Galatians 6:7 7
Be not deceived; God cannot be mocked. A
man reaps what he sows
2. Never miss an opportunity to improve
yourself –
o 1 Corinthians 11:28 11 Everyone
ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup
3. Pursue relationships that will make you better,
iron sharpens iron
o Proverbs 27:17 17 As iron sharpens iron, so
one person sharpens another
4. Study the word like our life depended on
it. Study to show thyself approved
o
2 Timothy 2:15 15
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not
need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth
5. Encourage other men and tell your story
o Act 15:12 12 The whole assembly became silent
as they listened to Barnabas and Paul telling about the signs and wonders God
had done among the Gentiles through them
o John 1:45 45 Philip found Nathaniel and told
him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the
prophets also wrote – Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
6. Be willing to serve at any level to be great at
all levels
o John 13:6-9 6 He came to Simon Peter, who
said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?” 7Jesus replied, “Your do
not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” 8 “No,” said
Peter, “you shall not wash my feet.” Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you
have no part of me.” 9 “Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not just my feet but
my hands and my head as well.”
7. Lead follow or get out of the way.
o
Genesis 2:22 22
Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he
brought her to the man.
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Genesis 3:9 9
But the Lord called to the man, “Where are you?”
o
Ephesians 5:33
33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and
the wife must respect her husband
8. Know who you are and whose you are
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Fearfully and
wonderfully made
§ Psalms 139:14 14 I praise you because I am
fearfully a nd wonderfully made; your works are wonderful well.
§ Genesis 2:7, 20 7 Then the Lord God formed a
man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of
life, and the man became a living being. 20 So the man gave names to all the
livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam, no
suitable helper was found.
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Live, move and
have your being
§ Acts 17:28 28 ‘For in him we live and move
and have our being.’ As some of your won poets have said, ‘We are his
offspring.’
