(Philippians 1:6 NIV) being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

(Lamentations 3:40 NIV) Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord.

(Psalm 139:23-24 NIV) Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

1.   How was my first half of this year?

2.   How am I doing with God? 

3.   How am I doing with myself?

4.   How am I doing with others? 

(Philippians 3:13-14 NIV) Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

1)  God Encounters.

(James 4:8 NIV) Come near to God and he will come near to you.

(Psalm 92:13 NIV) planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God.

2)  Growth Mindset.

(Philippians 3:13-14 NIV) Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it…

3)  Good company. 

(Genesis 2:18 NIV) The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone.