2020.7.26 Part 2 "What does my wife's tattoo have to do with the New Norm?

Intro

Summer 2009 wondering around texas. ran across a tattoo parlor.

it was to commemorate her call into her new season in ministry.

She gets a tattoo.

Isaiah is on the timeline looking at the end of Babylonian captivity 597-586 Captivity

He’s seeing the anticipated coming of the Anointed One

Extend it out - 2020

Isaiah 43:19 NKJV

19 Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert.

“Behold” - 1033 uses

other translations “be alert”, “look”, “see”

Genesis 6:13 NKJV

13 And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Genesis 6:17 NKJV

17 And behold, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die.

Genesis 8:11 NKJV

11 Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

Genesis 9:9 NKJV

9 “And as for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your descendants after you,

Isaiah 43:19 NKJV

19 Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert.

“I will do it” - NOBODY ELSE CAN DO THIS!

1S - me; 2S - you; 3S - he, she, it;

1P - us, we; 2P - you; 3P them, they

“I’m doing this!”

Isaiah 43:19 NKJV

19 Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert.

“new thing”

It’ll be something you’ve never seen before.

Isaiah 43:19 NKJV

19 Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert.

“shall you not know?”

The responsibility is up to us to know what to do w what we see.

Isaiah 43:19 NKJV

19 Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert.

“spring forth”

the idea of vegetation

Transition: “That’s good but...” preachers pastors aren’t supposed to have What does it say? Where is it? Why did she get it?

The New Normal is a New..

Paradigm

taking Hebrew, it was harder than Greek, becuase the only thing that looked the same was the color of the ink…it was black

i passed because I went to tutoring sessions. i studied harder. i created new neuropaths in my brain

It’s a New Path

“I’m making a way in the wilderness.”

we’ve never gone this way before

Get the right Perspective

pic 3 distant

pic 1 upclose

Pursuit Matters

pic 2 she and Jordan

Patience Is a Must

-Ill: walking in the mall. It had to become an experience. Wasn’t any such thing as “running in.” If she put on her sandals and vasalin-ed her feet...get ready! We’d look at some things twice. From “we’re not going to spend anything.” To “Can we just spend.”

If your heart can’t see. If your faith can’t believe it. If your ears can’t hear. If you can’t feel.

Close

Finish the story: I got mine 1st “did it hurt?” the tattoo guy “her’s going to hurt because it’s on the bone”

app: In order for her to come in agreement and for it to be “permanent” she had to go through the pain.

he started on the thicker part. she couldn’t stop w 1/2 a tattoo

STOP LOOKING FOR WHAT USED TO BE!!!