Passion...Day 6

On Friday, there was pain.  On Sunday, was the fulfillment of the promise.  In the middle, was Saturday day six was the gap.  

 

There is always a gap between the promise and the pain.  Waiting is a part of the spiritual journey.  

 

On Saturday, Jesus was confronting hell in the waiting.  When you think that God is doing nothing, He is working on your behalf while you are waiting. 

 

We must wait patiently.  

 

Hebrews 6:15

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15 And so after waiting patiently, Abraham received what was promised.

 

God is more interested in working in your life that answering your prayers. 

 

James 1:2-3

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2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,] whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 

 

When something is happening to you, God is working something in you. 

 

James 1:4

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4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. 

 

If you want to get the pain over, focus on passing the test.  Ask God.  What are you trying to teach me? 

 

James 1:5

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5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.

 

We must wait hopefully.

  

Hebrews 10:36-39

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36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. 37 For,

“In just a little while,
    he who is coming will come
    and will not delay.”

38 And,

“But my righteous] one will live by faith.
    And I take no pleasure
    in the one who shrinks back.”]

39 But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.

 

Don't give up!

 

Galatians 6:9

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9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

 

We must war consistently.  Prayer is not only communion with God, but confronting the enemy. 

 

2 Corinthians 10:3-5

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3 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. 4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 

 

A stronghold is something that Satan convinced you of that is untrue.  We must war confidently. 

 

Philippians 2:8-10

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8 And being found in appearance as a man,
    he humbled himself
    by becoming obedient to death—
        even death on a cross!

9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
    and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
    in heaven and on earth and under the earth.