August 19 - What Are You Filling your Pack with?
Good morning, when we are going back and forth an email. This has not been as a backpack this week as a response to our turn to actually have something to do as a part of the sternum is 7 of the penal service anything that was said for a sermon, you know, John Wesley would always have something with you as a response to a sermon the weather that would be for my membership of being baptized or any of those things going out into the community and it's feeding people as a response to you maybe a sermon of being a feeding the 5000 there was always some sort of activity or action that was associated with the sermon. A great idea to pair those things together today if you have time to definitely is it is response to what I want to say this morning and how long to pair with you. So I think this morning what are some tools skills are habits or baggage that you take with you through life. I know for one thing for me. Is it talk about the multi tool that I had on my back. I tried to keep on trying to school with me just in case something happens. Like I don't know maybe they might go out of my car and maybe I had to put it together. I don't know how to do that on YouTube video.
I never want to be in stranded in a place where I have nothing. And so, you know, it's important for me to keep my cell phone on me and you know that I have some kind of communication to with me. I can always call the tow truck thing that I have in my bag to do the things that I need to do and I'll take my bag with me now because you know when I have it on my phone, I have the Bible app and all that stuff, but it's still an easier for me to just to open up a particular place in the
Are there different kinds of tools in their user to use for different things? I can do a quick search in my in my Bible if I don't know the reference right now, so I use my phone to look at these things with me in and the skills that I have is you don't like fixing a car but I have still to like repairing computers or you know, how can somebody get through an application and then ordered to do something and I don't know what you did will get a piece of electronics and figure out how to you know, things like that download in my head.
How do I have talents right now? I've had with you over knead with experience a lot. So I hope I can keep buying pants. So, you know, I'm stopping at Walmart for my energy and in my experience and and so I needed to leave that behind. Domestic life is heavy enough without adding more perler beads. I mean, I I know I don't have plenty of experience with my life. Not only 36. LOL. I'm looking at least another in my life. Delete this part of my family goes my family think of that we will get there around 7 something so I can expect at least as far as work experience Bella's first 30 commentary that I have no idea what's going to happen in the next thirty some years. So as to not take long sandwich bags with me. I need to leave something behind my workers have expectations that we know whether they're reasonable or not. You know, I'm stopping at that you have to determine that wisdom. What is it? Is it reasonable to take it with you this something that you want to add to your ear pierced in the back?
2100 things I had to determine Diana and we actually with the council because I could not determine in myself one bag and a need to speak with me and what baggage I needed to leave behind. I needed someone outside of our medical marriage relationship. To be able to sit down and tell me at work through the steps. You know, he is as best they didn't think about this. Maybe you need to think about this over here. I needed somebody else to walk me through those files.
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Sometimes you need somebody outside of your family to be able to tell you what reason will was not.
Temporary the place that I want to I bring me and conversation was not with the Divine so that I can know. Who I am.
So that I can experience peace with God.
CNN's God I need to talk to God. I need to know something from God. and sometimes when I when I read this. He doesn't give us a scriptures on there's a lot of things in here and there's a lot of things that has been interpreted in such a way that it seems contradictory. I think singing time predictor if it is a beer or where does the name can be used the same but don't do this. Are their stories and passages about people's eyes and hear. A name that was particularly circumstances that have that was a good thing. He had convinced you to do something different and now was a good thing for them. And that was the best thing for them to do at the time. And so what am I seem like There are some contradictory things in the Bible. But I need to be home so I can discern whether that was for them or whether that was for me. Because I had a lot of promises for us an industrial piercing.
most of the Old Testament with promises that he made the Hebrew chicken recipe Is that extend to the Gentiles and not all the promises that I ever heard? 10 Peter 5:12 Christmas know if their plan for us to interpret the word of God correctly and to Offline that scripture in with on that comes from the Holy Spirit to determine what's a reasonable expectation that as soon as the God promises to us.
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If you read through the scriptures, you will receive that when we allow ourselves when we position ourselves to receive from God. We've become possessions. God created us as a new create and if you go Fitness, he will bring us into all hornet.
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Sometimes when we re when we're praying and we can I get an hour away and I want to show you this doesn't experience for me and I spoke with where God and Anna finding some Solitude and breast in the presence of God wasn't an easy thing for me to do. It was never going to be an easy thing for me to do with his crazy hectic and I'm just driving all over the place at hurting failure belongings. All these things come into your head into your heart when you try to position yourself before. Tell when I first time I try to do this. Is it being probably about 90 minutes?
It'll be 90 minutes. It's just bring myself to a place in the choir enough so that I can hear from them. And it wasn't all bad things. I was thinking about God and I was thinking about you know, what worship songs and I was thinking about what was going on and what I needed to do for the next week and I was thinking about the classes I will take all this stuff and it just runs through your mind and it's like a constant dizziness and in North American culture in the United States. So we like to Busyness to respect your productivity and over correct. That's the extent that we think that is a good sacrifice. If you over burning yourself. Fairbanks weather Bahrain in doing so we don't allow time to position ourselves before God so that we can hear something from the divine right now because we're listening to everything else and letting everything else tell us. Call Cynthia Aaron.
Daughter had to do is ask to reschedule time into my calendar first. Beaverton and then everything else they're paying me and it which is going to come in. Anyway, it's going to be there is going to come in any of the others class. But I was I scared of time alone with God and then have that filter into my calendar. I was never going to get that kind of guy. Everything else was going to feel love you and I never had that time. If I'm late, but I was getting a little bit closer and I have figured out okay, don't be so much. I've been thinking about activities that I could be doing for the good names of productive things are fine, but I needed to find some rest. I need you to find some peace in my mind and in my heart. And I can only start a journey through starting counseling.
See what I can figure out. What is a reasonable expectation and wants an unreasonable expectation and if we should have everything that was unreasonable first and then take all my expectations.
Here's what I need to do. God comes first. Then the reason why.
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Figuring out a reasonable expectations, but what can I say? No to
so that other people can do some things. Better get it for now. That I don't have to do. What can I delegate? To someone else when can I give to someone else to do how can I reasonably expect someone else to do it? As long as there as long as it fits in calendar as long as they're taking time with work. To do this thing? eventually It's much easier to get into a time and presence.
Why because I know.
Even if it's a reasonable expectation, even if it is good or not good to activity that will help. None of those reasonable expectations and other things for health.
More than sitting in the presence of God hearing from him about what I need to change about what needs to be transformed within my heart still a member for him. Why what is the reason that were here your purpose in life? your purpose in life
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Your purpose in life should be to share with others how to be in peace with God. Because at the end of all things nothing else will matter. Nothing else will matter and whether you were in the presence and have a piece.
Matthew 6 1921 set do not disturb yourselves treasures and on Earth where moth and in front of destroyed and where thieves break in and steal at the store up for yourselves Treasures in Heaven or Mossman, Do not destroy and where thieves do not break in Steel. Greater treasure is there your heart will be off.
Set alarm for 2 this evening ourselves to receive God and prayer. There's some there's some things that we need to do first. In order to help us do that. So first we need to bring our cell into focus on God. He still won't slow down and tell him I'm just relieved the wind because like how in Eleanor wrapped up with all those things in our schedule workout.
Will find that we don't have a moment's breath.
Can we talk about the holy spirit with talking about the same word? That's used for the holy spirit in the Bible is new mop with his breath.
So when we take the time to focus on God when we slow down when we breathe before thinking spiritual thoughts. When were receiving from God we have time to allow the Holy Spirit to greenteeth hotel.
And as the voice. Breathe deep within us. Wings and Anna Riva PDF those things of God in them three down poster.
Do we need some rest? We need to find a place of of surrendering to God's good and perfect things.
I'm home. I'm at the Falcon Crest. Next we need to think about how it how we're being worshipped ball. And if you think about the Lord's Prayer and what does the word / start with our father or how long will beer in its worship at work and got it is singing to God lonely as it's knowing that God will always be there has been there with us and we love him.
That's what it does for us, but he is. Is a very active presence of wildlife in our lives.
I wonder if Humanity will ever understand that and get that back without John. There is no love.
So what do you mean do we work at?
To praise God, you know, if you don't have that you don't and you don't have it still way of singing before God you don't sing on top and that's okay another word. Got to get out of here the monasteries and you here like this, Gregorian chants of you guys in the monasteries and they're just going through the songs and Their beautiful voices but their voices would just need to hear the words to say they've been out.
If you can if you can talk about. That I've got a good and loving and peaceful. I'm kind and giving us comfort and strength and guidance through all the things all places around live at least in the hundreds. A different ways a guys talk about it some way to go get it for me or go to library and look up bad and it'll last White Pages out of different attribute their names of God of the Bishops of souls. What's the weather?
I'm just thinking about the different ways that God has no reply to his breath and drink right now. There are things that we can thank God for. Airways and we can be thankful for being present here being thankful for God and you have a family Insightful forgotten you have friends or it's gone or you know how to be in Ministry with other people to view the sheriff.
You're thinking God of War 4 creation kit all the beautiful trees that are outside and look at all the colors just in this Sanctuary right here.
God made all these colors all the colors that are in this glass window Pier.
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Be thankful for having side view be thankful for her feeling being able to thankful for feeling the wind. Being thankful that we got up in the morning.
Be thankful for everything that God has given you and be thankful for all the bad bad and broken.
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Cuz Jesus didn't have to come for people who don't stand. There is no such a thing, by the way, they're always be mine because her phone. Yes, we have a choice and we want to do something different. And so we we choose to do something. I'm far from God or we don't know exactly what God wants us to do so and so in response to the wife has happened to us. We also have a hotline.
EXO we happy so we can order these places that show the light of God into our lives. Wake me up at thank God for the dark places of our souls of that guys like him shine brightly in that dark place.
Eventful, and then we bring ourselves into the line of God and this is where it comes in and we start to confess our sins. We start to you know words are words that we use between each other that hurt each other that
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And so he's gotta Shine the Light on those thoughts those hat has those attitudes and those words and I like them in the Xbox.
If I'm going to be in the Divine forever.
And actions obviously a response to everything our actions. Tell us more about us than our words.
So then when you start to close yourself and think about forgiveness for your mom what happened now with mixed up God's grace and forgiveness for us.
God's grace dust on 1st We need to accept the guys Grace comes first. And now that light shines on arson and then we can have her kittens. As far as the way that works.
Tell me when you can be assured. We can be sure that we are saved from ourselves. We can be sure that the holy spirit is in our lives and will continue to practice continue to guide us continue to burn us before that place with God.
We can now that we are Sons and Daughters of God. We can know that we have an inheritance you inherit everything.
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that's who you are. When you standing against the same.
And anytime evil actions evil words if he will cause and occurrences happen in your life and attitudes that are present and you stand against them things being together, as you have to style somebody down because what does the word of God say about that?
You are not fighting against flesh and blood you're fighting against the spiritual forces of Darkness. And so you don't use my sugar glider's things in order to attack the darkness in order to bring light into the darkness. You need to be that hope. You need to be that piece. You need to be. Love. You need to be that occurred when they bring blanket. Otherwise, you're just bringing you more Darkness.
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So why you're here before God men and and his talking about family friends co-workers, and yes our enemies. Start playing the book. Where guy do, you know the Bible says bless your enemies.
And I'll talk about this and you know that we do ask anyway, anyway attacking the desert underneath Stone other Lord. lord of the position, but Lord of our lives with his when we're not in the NFL this year to make Jesus the only Lord of our lives than those rollers movies in ways that our lives are down that so as we are to be taken on more debt.
And it's easy to be drawn into living your life of paying off those desk.
All right reasons. Our habits are hurts. Our Hang-Ups is preventing us from being in. The presence of God is preventing us from having relationships with each other.
I need to find a place where someone can speak rationality and allies or they just aren't getting it.
Fear is a mirror anxieties.
I recently heard his fears are a lot of our lives are stopped and we have no idea.
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I mean praying in advance as protection for those things that are coming. So I asked God how he can move in what ways he wants to move for that particular thing. Sounds outrageous gold Bubble Blaster softener to go swimming today.
No, Cravings Burgers make it personal go through them to go through this often and just you know, pray for the father's house are many ways that God blesses us a map to keep you in our prayers to keep the list in your pocket. Elmiron you put in your wallet and it's helping keep it down somewhere. I mean is easy to say I'm going to pray for you and then five minutes later, we completely forgot that we were supposed to pray for a person to know. I have a cell phone right out there right now.
United skip a list with you. We should also be able to pray with someone else is what we do here on Sunday mornings PS4 at the same time in corporate prayer when we pulled a sprayer on a particular activity or think of anything, you know where we meeting a man and two people come together where I am going to multiplies one of the good things that God is doing about that thing. You crank 4in X. So are you no further for the next person that can be 10 times the amount of those good things that can happen when we pray together. So when we also get home how much more how much greater? Milwaukee sprayer In Arizona are five things that you can do wrong. And this is what your issues are to tell me just tell me something. I don't do it.
Crying out loud to make yourself look better than the front of vehicle. It is to get into like some kind of a crazy thing. I'm literally.
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In a prayer is not an incantation. You can just meet Joanne NFL. This is not the way we cry now leaving it will happen what the point of glass.
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So whenever you go to a prayer with you.
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If you're leaving prayer behind your leaving God.
So we must do all we can do.
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I want to make me go and make disciples grade ahead of it. Credit for you. I'll pray for the person pray for yourself credit for whatever God wants to give you two tone person. Just curious are there so many things he will tell you what to say in the moment. Because there are things in the heart of a person that will only be revealed by the spirit.
I promised you would have let that person 10-point but they will have to question whether is there is a God and there were melded. There's something different.