obstacles

Moses wanted to surrender to inadequacy.

Exodus 2 ¹¹ But Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

Nathanael just wanted to be noticed.

John 1 ⁴⁸ “How do you know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, “I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you.” ⁴⁹ Then Nathanael declared, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.”

The leper did not want to be broken anymore.

Matthew 8 ² A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.” ³ Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately he was cured of his leprosy.

Nicodemus knew at the heart of his ministry that he was misguided.

John 3 ³ Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. ² He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him.”

And like all of these situations, we are all facing surrender. Our reality is this:

Sooner Or Later We Are All Going

To Have To Surrender To Something

Inadequate.

Unnoticed.

Broken.

Misguided.

What is your story?

If you are like me, it is a long laundry list of obstacles.

But the reality for all of us is this:

We can surrender to Jesus or lose to the rest.

And our surrender is not a detriment.

It is the greatest option that we could ever have.

So cry out to the King of the Universe … And give everything you have to Him. He is worthy.

In The Name of the Father and the

Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

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One of the greatest verses in the Bible is Genesis 50:20.

After getting sold into slavery, falsely accused, thrown into prison, and then promoted to Governor of Egypt, Joseph’s life comes full circle.

And the grace of God falls onto his brothers in an incredible way as he tells them:

Genesis 50 ²⁰ You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.

In an incredible story of what God does…redemption…Joseph’s life saves an estimated 70 Israelites and a million people. And Joseph’s ability to move past what happened and forgive is incredibly significant.

Slavery. Slander. Prison. When we get in a tough situation, a trial, or we are simply trying to fight through things, we must ask?

Where Is My Focus?

When David walked up on the Goliath situation, he heard from everyone about the giant. Goliath. Goliath. Goliath. But David was not focused on Goliath, nor the weapons that they used to fight. He was focused on God. And God gave David a weapon that was far greater than what Goliath had. The sling that God had him use to fight wolves and lions was far greater than anything Goliath could bring.

Where Is My Focus? It should be on God … not the giant. Because God has the weapons we need to defeat the giant.

What Will You Get There?

Hope … and Faith. Hebrews 11 says that Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what you do not see. Hope is one of the most important things we can have. When our hope is not there, our thoughts go in the wrong direction. But hope gives us the motivation to get up and walk, to move forward, to begin to dream.

What Will You Get There? Hope … And Faith Is Being Sure Of What You Hope For.

God is bigger than the walls in front of us.

He is bigger than our failures and our mistakes.

He is bigger than our mortality.

Jesus Christ became one of us so that we could know that He has walked in our shoes, that He has been tempted, and that He has experienced loss.

And we can hold on to this promise … that what was intended to harm us God can use for good.

WALK in the covering of Jesus … His love never fails.

In The Name of the Father and the

Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

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2 MINUTE WARNING

WITH DOUG JOHNSON

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486 God Intended It For Good