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Fresh Faith Review
God wants us to serve him, love him and trust him
Satan wants to destroy those abilities in our lives.
He wants to destroy our walk with the Lord.
He does that by stealing from us
He does that by killing things within us
So that we come to a place where we cannot walk with God, because we cannot trust him.
But God doesn’t give up on us.
He is a God of restoration.
And because of his love for each and everyone of us, he will perform that restoration in each of our lives.
Not just a partial renewal, but a full restoration of everything that the enemy has tried to rob from us, kill in us and destroy us with.
He sees such worth and potential in our lives.
And he wants to destroy’s the enemy’s attack on our lives, but he needs us to trust him, or have faith in him to do so.
The enemy will lie to us and use the old double whammy to keep us down and out.
God redeems from the double whammy.
Not just from the original work of the enemy in our lives, but every repercussion from it.
He wants to give us hope
He wants our lives to know the full potential which the enemy has tried to limit us from
He wants to fix us from our brokenness
Is this the God whom you believe in?
We said he is the God of Ephraim and Manasseh
The God who can make us forget all of our trouble - Do you have faith in that God today?
HE is the God who can make us fruitful in the land or the middle of our sufferings and failures.
- Can you see a God who is doing that in your life today?
Now if these things aren’t happening, it’s because our faith hasn’t become strong enough yet to stand upon.
Last week we looked at faith being like shoes or feet - big enough to support the things that we are facing and believing God for.
Big enough for us to be able to trust God with every area of our lives.
Every decision - trusting God in them, asking God what he wants.
Having and experiencing the presence and power of God in every bit of the blessings or the land of milk and honey that he has given to us.
For that to happen, we said that we need to
Ask God to teach us.
Ask God to tear us
and ask God to make us part of the team or the body of Christ - giving us a kingdom mentallity
As believers, we should be able to come to a place where we do trust God with everything, trivial and paramount.
But as we said last week, that takes us coming to a place in our walk with the Lord that we have total faith in who He is and what He can do.
And as we read in chapter 6 this week in Fresh Faith, it’s going to go against many things in our lives.
And that’s why there is such a battle in trusting God to this extent.
The Key is to Seek God First
This was one of the main points of Jesus’ teaching about our spiritual lives.
Putting God first
Making God central to all that we do
Living for God and for the Kingdom of heaven above living on this earth
Or allowing our spiritual life to affect and dictate to our physical life.
This strategy of living goes against everything in human thinking.
Why?
Just look at the situation of the heart being discussed here where Jesus is speaking.
Worry!
Jesus says, don’t worry about a thing - trust God with it all
As we looked at last week, that is faith.
The problem is that to put God First is to put ourselves second.
That’s not human nature
To seek God’s will for our lives is to put our dreams and ambitions of life on the back burner
Seek God First goes against Self Preservation
We all have a built in instinct to preserve our own lives.
It shows up in the fight or flight instinct - to run from or battle that which is coming to hurt us or kill us.
It is the preservation of oneself from destruction or harm.
I don’t believe that this is a God given instinct, but a result of sin.
Adam and Eve had no fear
Now here is the thing, God put that in
They had total dominion over the earth and the wild life in it
They were at perfect peace with God
They had everything that they needed provided by his hand
There was no sickness and disease
There was no death.
But when they sinned, we see fight or fight happen right away.
What’s the first thing they do when they hear God’s voice?
- Run and hide
Why?
Because they new they had done wrong and now they have fear of the consequences.
So self preservation is a direct result of sin.
and it goes against the way that Adam and Eve originally lived - Totally provisioned by God.
So now we have this battle that rages every time we try to exercise faith.
When I want to put God first, I have to put myself second
The natural sinful instinct in me is to safe guard and secure my life
So the two are at odds.
And so rather than having faith in God, the natural inclination of life with God is to find out how God fits into our plan to survive.
But Jesus says to gain your life you need to give your life away.
Can you see the problem with that?
When God leads us to do something that we sense could bring harm to us, many times we will seek self preservation.
We see this throughout the Bible:
Abraham lying about Sarah being his wife
The children of Israel not wanting to enter the promised land because of the giants that were there.
The soldiers of Israel shaking in their armor every time that Goliath challenges them in the valley
Peter’s denial of Christ.
All of the disciples hiding out in their homes after Jesus was arrested.
So don’t feel bad - because we are all in good company.
But what kind of life is it if we are worried and fearful about everything?
We also have some great accounts of Faith in God over the preservation of self
Daniel facing the lions
Shadrach, meshach and abednego facing the fire
We have each of the disciples becoming martyrs for their faith - dying horrible deaths because they proclaim Jesus as Lord
We have our own Lord and Savior - Nevertheless, not my will (self preservation) but your will be done - I trust you father over what I want in this life.
Paul - what a great example
Just listen to this excerpt from Paul’s life
2 Corinthians 11:22-
The Apostle Paul went through everything that he experienced for the gospel of Jesus Christ and the churches whom he loved.
So what do we see?
That it is very possible to overcome this self preservation and have faith in Jesus Christ.
It requires changing ownership of our lives
It requires sacrifice
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