This document provides three steps to proactively seize the life God has offered: 1) Ditch extra weight like hindrances and sin that entangle. 2) Make the mission more important than personal interests or tribes. 3) Cut off all retreat options by being strong, courageous, and not looking back as God leads the way.

2. And Joshua commanded the officers of the people, “Pass
through the midst of the camp and command the people,
‘Prepare your provisions, for within three days you are to
pass over this Jordan to go in to take possession of the
land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.’ ”
- Joshua 1:10-11

3. How Do I Proactively and Kinetically Seize the Life
God Has Offered Me?

4. How Do I Proactively and Kinetically Seize the Life
God Has Offered Me?
1) Ditch the Extra Weight

5. Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud
of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and
the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with
perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes
on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith.
- Hebrews 12:1-2 (NIV)

6. How Do I Proactively and Kinetically Seize the Life
God Has Offered Me?
1) Ditch the Extra Weight
2) Make The Mission More Important Than My Tribe

13. And to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of
Manasseh Joshua said,“Remember the word that Moses
the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, ‘The Lord
your God is providing you a place of rest and will give you
this land.’ 14 Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock
shall remain in the land that Moses gave you beyond the
Jordan, but all the men of valor among you shall pass over
armed before your brothers and shall help them, until the
Lord gives rest to your brothers as he has to you, and they

14. also take possession of the land that the Lord your God is
giving them. Then you shall return to the land of your
possession and shall possess it, the land that Moses the
servant of the Lord gave you beyond the Jordan toward
the sunrise.”
- vv. 12-15

15. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one
and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of
hostility…”
- Ephesians 2:14

16. How Do I Proactively and Kinetically Seize the Life
God Has Offered Me?
1) Ditch the Extra Weight
2) Make The Mission More Important Than My Tribe
3) Cut Off All Retreat Options (Don’t Look Back!)

17. And they answered Joshua, “All that you have commanded
us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go. Just as
we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you. Only
may the Lord your God be with you, as he was with Moses!
Whoever rebels against your commandment and disobeys
your words, whatever you command him, shall be put to
death. Only be strong and courageous.”
- vv. 16-18

18. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you
will have good success. Have I not commanded you? Be
strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not
be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever
you go.”
- vv. 6-9