The Sovereignty of God
3 John 2 – 'Beloved, I pray that you will prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers.' Prosperity has to be understood from God's point of view: sound emotional responses to life, a sound mind, discipline so that life will be continually filled with joy and blessings. The fundamental principle of any Christian life is the
CHANGED INTO HIS LIKENESS
God calls us to something beyond ourselves; when we are saved, the Spirit of God urges us into different kinds of actions that would renew our minds, so we no longer think as we did when we were in the world. Ego is self-centred behaviour that propels us towards a materialistic view of happiness. This leads to inadequacy and misery