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What is motivating you or another? 1. What do you love? Hate (Matt. 22:37-39; 2 Tim. 3:2-4)? 2. What do you want, desire, crave, lust, and wish for? What desires do you serve and obey (Psm. 17:14-15; Pro. 10:3; 11:6-7; 1 Pet. 1:14; 2:11; 4:2; 2 Pet. 1:4; 2:10; Jas. 1:14-15; 4:1-3)? 3. What do you seek, aim for, and pursue? What are your goals and expectations (Mt. 6:32-33; 2 Tim. 2:22)? 4. Where do you bank your hopes (1 Pet. 1:13; 1 Tim. 6:17)? 5. What do you fear? What do you want? What do you tend to worry about (Mt. 6:25-32; 13:22)? 6. What do you feel like doing (Psm. 17:14-15; 73:23-28; Pro. 10:3; 10:28; 11:6-7)? 7. What do you think you need? What are your “felt needs” (Mt. 6:8-15; 6:25-31; 1 Ki. 3:5-14)? 8. What are you plans, agendas, strategies, and intentions designed to accomplish (Matt. 6:32-33; 2 Tim. 2:22)? 9. What makes you tick (Isa. 1:29-30; 50:10-11; Jer. 2:13; 17:13; Matt. 4:4; 5:6; Jn. 4:32-34; 6:25-69)? 10. Where do you find refuge, safety, comfort, escape, pleasure, security (Psm. 23; 27; 31; 46)? 11. What or whom do you trust (Psm. 23; 103; 131; Pr. 3:5; 11:28; 12:15)? 12. Whose performance matters? On whose shoulders does the well-being of your world rest (Psm. 49:13; Jer. 17:1-14; Phil. 1:6; 2:13; 3:3-11; 4:13)? 13. Whom must you please? Whose opinion of you counts (Pr. 1:7; 9:10; 29:25; Jn. 12:43; 2 Cor. 10:18)? 14. Who are your role models (Rom. 8:29; Eph. 4:24; Col. 3:10)? 15. On your deathbed, what would sum up your life as worthwhile (see all of Ecclesiastes)? 16. How do you define and weigh success or failure, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable, in any particular situation (Jud. 21:25; Pro. 3:5; 1 Cor. 10:24-27? 17. What would make you feel rich, secure, prosperous (Pr. 3:13-18; 8:10, 17-21; Matt. 6:19-21; 13:45-46; 1 Pet. 1:2-7)? 18. What would bring you the greatest pleasure, happiness, and delight? The greatest pain and misery (Matt. 5:3-11; Psm. 1; 35; Jer. 17:7-8; Lk. 6:27-42)? 19. Whose coming into political power would make everything better (Matt. 6:10)? 20. Whose victory or success would make your life happy? How do you define victory or success (Rom. 8:37-39; Rev. 2:7; Psm. 96-99)? 21. What do you see as your rights? What do you feel entitled to (1 Cor. 9; Rom. 5:6-10; Psm. 103:10)? 22. In what situations do you feel pressured or tense? Confident and relaxed (see the Psalms or refuge)? 23. What do you want to get out of life (Prov. 3:13-18; Matt. 6:1-5, 16-18)? 24. What do you pray for (Jas. 4:3; Matt. 6:5-1; Lk. 18:9-14)? 25. What do you think about most often? What preoccupies or obsesses you (Col. 3:1-5; Phil. 3:19; Rom. 8:5-16)? 26. What do you talk about? What is important to you? What attitudes do you communicate (Lk. 6:45; Pro. 10:10; Eph. 4:29)? 27. How do you spend your time? What are your priorities (Pro. 1:16; 10:4; 23:19-21; 24:33)? 28. What are you characteristic fantasies, either pleasurable or fearful? Daydreams? What do your night dreams revolve around (Psm. 17:14-15; 73:23-28; Ecc. 5:3-7; Gal. 5:16-25; Eph. 2:3; 4:22; 2 Tim. 2:22; Tit. 3:3). 29. What are your functional beliefs that control how you interpret your life and determine how you act (Heb. 4:12)? 30. What are your idols or false gods? In what do you place your trust? Or set your hopes (Jer. 17:5; Eze. 14:1-8; Ac. 26:18; Col. 3:5; 1 Jn. 5:21). 31. How do you live for yourself (Lk. 9:23-25; 2 Cor. 5:14-15)? 32. How do you life as a slave of the devil (Jn. 8:44; Ac. 26:18; Eph. 2:2-3:2; 1 Tim. 2:26; Jas. 3:14-16)? 33. How do you implicitly say, “If only…” (to get what you want, avoid what you don’t want, keep what you have) (1 Ki. 21:1-7; Heb. 11:25; Phil. 3:4-11)? 34. What instinctively seems and feels right to you? What are you opinions, the things you feel are true (Jud. 21:25; Pro. 3:5, 7; 12:15; 14:12; 18:2; Isa. 53:6; Phil. 3:19; Rom. 16:18)? 35. Where do you find your identity? How do you define who you are?

David Powlison

We Love God!

God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Triple-Chocolate Pudding Cake

January 25, 2023

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy		Cakes, Desserts	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Biscuit baking mix
1/2	c	Sugar
1/3	c	Cocoa
3/4	c	Milk; divided
1/3	c	Butter; melted
3/4	c	Chocolate topping; divided
1	ts	Vanilla
1	c	Semi-sweet chocolate chips divided
3/4	c	Water; hot
		Whipped topping OR
		Ice Cream (opt)

INSTRUCTIONS

Heat oven to 350&deg;.  Grease 8" square baking pan.  In medium bowl, combine
baking mix, sugar and cocoa; stir in 1/2 c. milk, butter, 1/4 c. topping
and vanilla until blended. Stir in 1/2 c. chocolate chips; spread evenly in
prepared pan.  In small bowl, combine remaining 1/4 c. milk, remaining 1/2
c. topping and hot water. Pour liquid mixture carefully over top of mixture
in pan; do not stir.  Sprinkle remaining 1/2 c. chips over surface. Bake
40-45 minutes or until center is set and cake begins to pull away from
sides of pan. Let stand 15 minutes; spoon into dessert dishes, spooning
pudding from bottom of pan over top. Serve warm; garnish with whipped
topping, if desired. Refrigerate leftovers.
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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