The document discusses a sermon given last Sunday about choosing one thing needed in 2017. It suggests choosing to sit at the Lord's feet like Mary did, which will give a heart for God, an exciting relationship with God, and make one's home a place of healing and happiness. Sitting at the Lord's feet also leads to attitudes of thankfulness, no worry, and grace. It results in blessings, abundance, and passing blessings on to future generations.

2. A NEW HEART FOR AN EVER-INCREASING
FRUITFULNESS IN 2017
• Ezekiel 36:29 I will save you from everything
that defiles you. I will command the grain to
be plentiful, so that you will not have any
more famines.
• Ezekiel 36:30 I will increase the yield of your
fruit trees and your fields, so that there will
be no more famines to disgrace you among
the nations.
A Review of Last Sunday’s Message

3. CHOOSE THE ONE THING YOU NEED
IN 2017
• Luke 10:38 NIV As Jesus and his disciples were
on their way, he came to a village where a
woman named Martha opened her home to
him.
• Luke 10:39 She had a sister called Mary, who
sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he said.
• Luke 10:40 But Martha was distracted by all the
preparations that had to be made. She came to
him and asked, "Lord, don't you care that my
sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell
her to help me!"

4. CHOOSE THE ONE THING NEEDED
IN 2017
• Luke 10:41 NIV Martha, Martha, the Lord
answered, "you are worried and upset about
many things,
• Luke 10:42 but only one thing is needed.
Mary has chosen what is better, and it will
not be taken away from her."

5. WHAT WILL SITTING AT THE LORD’S
FEET
GIVES YOU?

6. A Heart for God
• Genesis 12:7 The LORD appeared to Abram
and said, "To your offspring I will give this
land." So he built an altar there to the LORD,
who had appeared to him.
• Genesis 12:8 From there he went on toward
the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent,
with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east.
There he built an altar to the LORD and
called on the name of the LORD.
ABRAHAM

7. An Exciting Relationship with God.
• Genesis 18:1 Then the LORD appeared to
him by the terebinth trees of Mamre, as he
was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the
day.
• Gen 18:2 So he lifted his eyes and looked,
and behold, three men were standing by
him; and when he saw them, he ran from
the tent door to meet them, and bowed
himself to the ground,
ABRAHAM

8. An Exciting Relationship with God.
• Gen 18:4 "Please let a little water be brought, and
wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
• Gen 18:5 "And I will bring a morsel of bread, that you
may refresh your hearts
• Gen 18:7 And Abraham ran to the herd, took a
tender and good calf, gave it to a young man, and he
hastened to prepare it.
• Gen 18:8 So he took butter and milk and the calf
which he had prepared, and set it before them; and
he stood by them under the tree as they ate.
ABRAHAM

9. An Exciting Relationship with God.
• Gen 19:1 Now the two angels came to Sodom
in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of
Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet
them, and he bowed himself with his face
toward the ground.
• Gen 19:2 And he said, "Here now, my lords,
please turn in to your servant's house and
spend the night, and wash your feet; then you
may rise early and go on your way." And they
said, "No, but we will spend the night in the
open square."
LOT (Abraham’s Nephew)

10. A Place of Healing and Happiness.
• Gen 18:9 Then they said to him, "Where is
Sarah your wife?" So he said, "Here, in the
tent."
• Gen 18:10 And He said, "I will certainly return
to you according to the time of life, and behold,
Sarah your wife shall have a son." (Sarah was
listening in the tent door which was behind
him.)
• Gen 18:11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old,
well advanced in age; and Sarah had passed the
age of childbearing.
Sarah

11. A Place of Healing and Happiness.
• Gen 18:12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself,
saying, "After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure,
my lord being old also?"
• Gen 18:13 And the LORD said to Abraham, "Why did
Sarah laugh, saying, 'Shall I surely bear a child, since I
am old?'
• Gen 18:14 "Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the
appointed time I will return to you, according to the
time of life, and Sarah shall have a son."
• Gen 18:15 But Sarah denied it, saying, "I did not
laugh," for she was afraid. And He said, "No, but you
did laugh!"
Sarah

12. A Heart Filled With Thanksgiving
• Gen 14:20 And blessed be God Most High,
Who has delivered your enemies into your
hand." And he gave him a tithe of all.
• Gen 14:21 Now the king of Sodom said to
Abram, "Give me the persons, and take the
goods for yourself."

13. A Heart Filled With Thanksgiving
• Gen 14:22 But Abram said to the king of
Sodom, "I have raised my hand to the LORD,
God Most High, the Possessor of heaven and
earth,
• Gen 14:23 "that I will take nothing, from a
thread to a sandal strap, and that I will not
take anything that is yours, lest you should
say, 'I have made Abram rich';

14. A No-Worry and A Gracious Attitude.
• Gen 13:8 So Abram said to Lot, "Please let
there be no strife between you and me, and
between my herdsmen and your herdsmen;
for we are brethren.
• Gen 13:9 "Is not the whole land before you?
Please separate from me. If you take the left,
then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the
right, then I will go to the left."

15. A Never-Ending Blessings and
Abundance.
• Gen 13:14 And the LORD said to Abram, after Lot
had separated from him: "Lift your eyes now and look
from the place where you are; northward, southward,
eastward, and westward;
• Gen 13:15 "for all the land which you see I give to
you and your descendants forever.
• Gen 13:16 "And I will make your descendants as the
dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the
dust of the earth, then your descendants also could
be numbered.
• Gen 13:17 "Arise, walk in the land through its length
and its width, for I give it to you.

16. Children of Blessed Future
• Gen 27:28 Therefore may God give you Of
the dew of heaven, Of the fatness of the
earth, And plenty of grain and wine.
• Gen 27:29 Let peoples serve you, And
nations bow down to you. Be master over
your brethren, And let your mother's sons
bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who
curses you, And blessed be those who bless
you!"
Jacob’s Blessing

17. Children of A Blessed Future
• Gen 27:39 Then Isaac his father answered
and said to him: "Behold, your dwelling shall
be of the fatness of the earth, And of the
dew of heaven from above.
• Gen 27:40 By your sword you shall live…
Esau’s Blessing

18. Children of A Blessed Future
• Galatians 3:29 NLT And now that you belong
to Christ, you are the true children of
Abraham. You are his heirs, and now all the
promises God gave to him belong to you.

19. Children of A Blessed Future
• Gal 3:13 Christ has redeemed us from the
curse of the law, having become a curse for
us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who
hangs on a tree"),
• Gal 3:14 that the blessing of Abraham might
come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that
we might receive the promise of the Spirit
through faith.

20. This 2017 let us:
1. Have A Heart Focus On God
2. Be Excited in our Relationship with God.
3. Make Our Homes A Place of Healing and
Happiness.
4. Have A Heart Filled With Thanksgiving
5. Have A No-Worry and A Gracious Attitude.
6. Receive The Never-Ending Blessings and
Abundance Promised by the Lord.
7. Let Us Pass on Our Blessings to the Next
Generation and Teach the to Do the Same.