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A Turning Point
What are some major turning points in following God’s will for your life?
Do you believe God calls all Christians to some type work / assignment?
Acts 13:36 (ESV)
36 For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption,
2 Samuel 7:5(ESV)
5 “Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord: Would you build me a house to dwell in?
Exodus 3:10 (ESV)
10 Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”
We are called to work - for God - to accomplish His will.
Crisis of belief - crisis is derived from a Greek word meaning decision or judgment.
We all have crisis in our life.
We have to make decisions or judgment calls.
Describe what the following scriptures have as a crisis of belief.
Follow God to obtain the city.
Set aside those called to do God’s work.
Overcome obstacles and obtain God’s favor.
Do we follow man’s laws along with God’s?
Book summarizes as such:
When God calls us to do His work, He has a God-sized assignment for us.
The way I live my life is a testimony of what I believe about God.
When God tells me what He wants to do through me, I will face a crisis of belief.
Encounters with God Require Faith
God requires we follow Him by faith.
Our response to His calling requires faith.
What is faith?
How are we called to follow?
How important is it for your faith to be in God and do what He says rather that what we or others think we should do?
What is the potential of faith?
How much faith is required for God to do through us what is humanly impossible?
What should we / should we not base our faith on?
Why is faith important?
There are things that we know cannot be accomplished any other way than by God.
Previous examples: Moses, Joshua, the disciples.
Book makes statement: “When God lets you know what HE wants to do through you, it will be something only He can do.”
When God speaks, He always reveals what He is going to do:
AND it will never be impossible, if we place our faith in Him and follow.
Obedience - compliance with an order or law or submission to another’s authority.
Concise Oxford English dictionary
Encounters with God are God-Sized
God intends for the world to come know Him.
Great Commission:
God WILL ask us to do the impossible, so we KNOW it is only by/through Him that we succeed.
Book makes comment “What our world often witnesses today is a committed Christian or church serving God.
But they are not seeing God.
They don’t see anything happening that can be explained only in terms of God’s activity.
Why?
Because we are not attempting anything that only God can do.”
Name something that has happened in our lives or church that fits into this description:
God is far more concerned with your walk with Him that He is interested in us getting a job done for Him.
What You Do Reveals What You Believe
God reveals His plans and purpose when He speaks to us, and it always causes a crisis of belief.
Will we follow, or not?
David - when Samuel anointed him as king - did he want to be king?
Did he know God appointed him to that position?
What decision did David have to make?
Goliath - do you think you would have been as eager and fearless to battle him?
David believed God would deliver him.
Period.
Now, contrast that with Sarai (Sarah) when God said she would have a child.
How did Sarai respond?
She did not have the faith to believe God could do the (seemingly) impossible!
Under which of these two categories do we fit?
Be honest and real about where God has called, and how we have responded.
True Faith Requires Action
Do we truly have faith?
Do we follow through with action?
What do we see as a future / direction for our church?
This is not just the pastor’s vision, but the vision of each individual believer, and the vision of the church (corporate body).
Where should we be heading?
Faith without action is dead.
Therefore, we can wish all day long, but without action will the wish come true?
Faithful servants, leaders needed.
We are even given a list of things done by God through faith in scripture:
To close tonight, here is my question to ponder on: Are we trying to please God by earnestly seeking Him and then following His lead?
Next chapter will be on the cost of following God’s will.
Nothing good comes without a price.
Look again at the four statements under Crisis of Belief on page 147.
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