The Weak are Strong

Trust in God, and take a step.  Our whole lives are not to bring us joy, but God glory.

Jeremiah 29:11  (ESV)

11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

This was written while God's people were in captivity.  Even in captivity God can bless. 

Everything that God gives us in addition to salvation is a bonus. Don't give God demands.  God acts upon His reasons not ours.

Ephesians 2:10  (ESV)

10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

We still have to walk in them.  

John 10:10 (ESV)

10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

We have a choice to live abundantly or to have our lives stolen from us.

John 3:16 (ESV)

 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

We still have to believe to not perish.  There is action for us to do.  We still have a choice. 

We want to do big things, but most of us don't do anything.  We don't have the desire to put the work in. 

If we fall down, we don't have to stay down.  We can get up and keep on going.

1. First, we need to eliminate the wrong voices in our lives.

So many people try to talk us out of our purpose that God is trying to walk us into.  Wrong voices are really comfortable to listen too. 

2. Turn the right voices up.  

Focus on the right things.  When we don't think that we have anything, we can be thankful for God providing eternity for us.

  

Let's quit making excuses for our negative personalities.

1 Thessalonians 5:17-18 (ESV)

pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Let's replace our whining with worship. 

God is old school.  He's not like a GPS, but like a map.  

We've got to stop. 

Let's look at our map, the Bible.  

Then, the Holy Spirit will talk to us.

We can't do this by ourselves. 

3. Start now.  

Big dreams without small starts are just daydreams.  Let's stop just talking about faith, and start walking in faith.

Faith without works is dead (James 2:20).  We fake faith, and play with faith, but have no faith. 

Faith is not easy.  If God don't do it, it won't happen. 

Matthew 19:26  (ESV)

26 But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

God plus a person who believes in Him makes all things possible.

Joel 3:10 (NKJV)

10 Beat your plowshares into swords
And your pruning hooks into spears;

Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’ ”

Recognize who you are without Him, and recognize who you are with Him.  

1 John 4:4  (NKJV)

4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

Lord, I am weak without you, but with you I am strong.  God, I can't, but with you I can.   Lord Jesus, be the center of my life.  

Romans 10:13  (NKJV)

13 For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” 

Jeremy Foster, Hope City Church

Video

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