Sermon Tone Analysis

God Will Make a Way

Read Scripture- NASB “Behold, I will do something new,

Now it will spring forth;

Will you not be aware of it?

I will even make a roadway in the wilderness,

Rivers in the desert.

New American Standard Bible: 1995 update.

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La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

We all have been in situations where we just don’t know how we are going to make it sometimes.

We were encouraged last week about God calling us to his office and being blessed in the desert wilderness.

God likes to use dry places to talk to us because there are no distractions there.

Today, we continue our series on the wilderness and how God blesses us there.

Our wilderness experience can be painful, it can be difficult and it can it can be challenging.

It’s no fun there so we try to help God out by doing all we can to hurry the process.

What happens when you bake a cake and the directions say leave in oven for 30 minutes but you want to eat it so bad, you take it out in 20 minutes.

No good!

You are going to have to throw that cake away.

What if the directions call for you to bake the cake for 30 minutes at 350 deg but you’re in a hurry so you bump up the temp to 450 deg.

No good!

That cake won’t be able to pass for cajun.

We can’t shortcut the process.

We get excited talking about the destiny that some will name their children Destiny but not too many people will name their children Journey.

The journey is what we don’t get excited about.

The journey is what leaves a mark.

The journey is what is absolutely necessary for us to grow.

We are all on a journey!

Don’t Help the Chick

How many of you know that you should never help a chick out of its shell?

It takes about 21 days for a chick to be ready to start the process of exiting its shell.

It does what is called pipping where it starts to use its beak to start cracking the shell.

This is a struggle for the chick.

It will start and stop to rest over and over again.

Now, if you are watching this process you may want to help the chick because you know its struggling.

This process alone can take upwards to 24 hours.

This chick is battling to get out of the shell for almost 2 days.

You can’t interfere because it’s struggle is what is going to help the chick to live.

If you help during this process, you can cause it to bleed to death because it is still finalizing its development, you can interfere with the oxygen and humidity levels it needs to come out, all the yolk has to fully absorbed in to the chick because this is the nutrients it needs to survive while in the shell.

If you interfere with the process, you can produce chicks with special needs.

The chick will be dependent on your care for the rest of their life.

You may have some kids, family members, or friends who are dependent on you now because you interfered with their process.

Watch this, the chick can become disabled because you tried to help it while its in the process.

How many people did you help become disabled??? Oh, you don’t want to talk back to me.

A New Thing

I’m just going to say it.