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Winning adjustments.
Late last year, the Department of Transportation decided to change a four way stop sign to a roundabout at Jodeco Road and Blackhaul Road.
Over the years, more people had moved into the surrounding communities.
More people.
More cars were traveling the roads.
More school buses and trucks.
More frustrated drivers.
Traffic jams were crazy at the four way stop signs.
DOT conducted a traffic study for years prior that revealed that traffic would flow better if they changed the four way stop signs to a roundabout.
In the past, four way stop signs were perfect.
They worked for back then.
Catch this.
What worked in the past no longer worked.
What was good back then is not good right now.
In order to reduce traffic congestion, improve traffic flow, and alleviate frustrated drivers, DOT decided to make some adjustments.
They changed the four way stop signs to a roundabout.
This adjustment defeated congestion.
It restored traffic flowing.
Adjustments had to be made for things to get better.
You can’t wish things get better.
You can’t wait for things to get better.
You can’t expect others to make things better.
You have to make adjustments for things to get better.
An adjustment is a movement, an alteration, a change that’s made to achieve a desired outcome.
One more time.
An adjustment is a movement, an alteration, a change that’s made to achieve a desired outcome.
Life is a lot like traffic patterns.
In the past, you might have flowed freely, loved freely, laughed freely, served freely, worked freely or lived freely.
Then life put stop signs along the way to control the flow of traffic.
Stop signs.
People hurt you.
Stop signs.
People disappointed you.
Stop signs.
Fear and doubt detoured you.
Stop signs.
Sin corrupted you.
Stop signs.
Bad grades.
Failed tests.
Broken deals.
Demonic relationships.
Stop signs.
Before you can pick up speed, you had to stop.
Before you could gain momentum, you had to stop.
You learned to drive with both feet.
One foot on the gas and one foot on the brake.
Your life feels congested; stopped up; blocked; paused; delayed.
God has been conducting a spiritual traffic study on your life.
He’s noticed that there are more stop signs in your life than He designed.
Wait a minute.
He’s saying He never put, nor ordered anyone to put those stop signs in your life.
You put those stop signs in your life.
You stopped trying because you failed.
You stopped loving because you got hurt.
You stop going because they didn’t call your name.
You stopped giving because you didn’t manage your money.
You stopped.
I believe God is about to change your stop signs into roundabouts.
God has a desired outcome for your life and He’s about to make some adjustments.
He’s going to change your character.
He’s going to heal your body.
He’s going to adjust your abilities.
He’s going to improve your habits.
He’s going to harmonize your home.
He’s going to reconcile your relationships.
He’s going to fix up your faith.
He’s going to refocus your heart on Him.
He’s going to fill your spirit with His spirit.
He’s going to restore your flow!
Paul had some blockage in his life.
This wasn’t physical blockage that could be relieved with Elax.
This wasn’t energy blockage that could be relieved with meditation.
This wasn’t a clogged artery or blocked drain.
This was spiritual blockage.
God saved him on the Damascas Road.
He was on his way to persecute the church.
A light shone from heaven, knocked him off his horse and blinded him.
God knocked him off his horse to adjust him.
God had a different plan for Paul’s life.
In order to get him on the right path, God had to adjust his feet.
His feet were going in the wrong direction.
God turned his feet from persecuting the church to promoting the church.
God adjusted his eyes and his heart so he could see the potential in the church.
Fast forward to verse 26 before us.
God sent Paul to Jerusalem.
When he got there, he attempted to join the disciples.
They weren’t having it.
The last they heard about Paul, he was tearing up the church; locking people up.
They were afraid of him.
They didn’t believe he was a disciple.
Verse 27.
But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles.
He told the disciples that Paul had seen the Lord.
He had spoken to the Lord.
Since that time, he had been preaching boldly in the name of Jesus.
The disciples didn’t accept him.
They rejected him.
Barnabas accepted him.
Did you see the blockage?
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