The Awakening
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Four stories
Four stories
Then Job answered the Lord and said:
“I know that You can do everything, And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You.
Truly God is good to Israel, To such as are pure in heart.
But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled; My steps had nearly slipped.
For I was envious of the boastful, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
When I thought how to understand this, It was too painful for me—
1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple.
Then He said: “A certain man had two sons.
And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood.
And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living.
The Awakening
The Awakening
In every life there will be a defining moment.
In every life there will be a defining moment.
Natural moments in life
++1st Birthday
++Graduation from school
++First Job/Car
++Falling in love
These natural moments significantly impact our life.
These natural moments significantly impact our life.
These moments connect us to
++Our world
++Our position
These moments rarely define who we are.
These moments rarely define who we are.
We need an awakening
We need an awakening
Each story started with a relationship
++They were in communion with God
++They were chosen by God
++They were in the family of God
++There was something missing
And he answered and said to Him, “Teacher, all these things I have kept from my youth.”
Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me.”
An awakening provides _new vision_
An awakening provides _new vision_
But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
“I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees You.
An awakening provides new vision
An awakening provides _new understanding_
An awakening provides _new understanding_
Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night.
Until I went into the sanctuary of God; Then I understood their end.
An awakening provides new vision
An awakening provides new understanding
An awakening provides _new knowledge_
So I said: “Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, The Lord of hosts.”
An awakening provides new vision
An awakening provides new understanding
An awakening provides new knowledge
An awakening provides _new insight_
An awakening provides _new insight_
“But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
He was in the Father’s House
++Could not see His Goodness
++Could not see His Kindness
++Could not see His Provision
What about us today?
What about us today?
Can you see his goodness, kindness, faithfulness, provision power?
Open our eyes that we may see
Open our ears that we may hear
A Reason to Rejoice
A Reason to Rejoice
Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!
Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;
and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.
The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.
Rejoice in the Lord
++The Presence of the Lord is here
++The Peace of God will guard your heart
++We have Good on our minds
++The God of peace will be with you