Worship Call 0680 when God breaks you

Worship Call 0680

Friday June 30, 2022

When God breaks you

Psalm 51:17 (NASB95) — 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

Evangelicals are a presumptuous breed spawned from a Theology that is full of instant satisfactions.

“How dare God want me broken, I’m humble enough!”

None the less Sometimes the Lord will indeed break us in order to mend even a stronger relationship between the Creator and his creature whom he desires.

There is truly a blessing to being Poor in Spirit.

AND THIS IS ANOTHER FINE DAY IN THE LORD!

Matthew 11:28–30 (NASB95) — 28 “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. 29 “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 “For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

“No thank you Lord. I’m good to go. Got it all taken care of. If I need you, I’ll call you.”

Jeremiah 31:25 (NASB95) — 25 “For I satisfy the weary ones and refresh everyone who languishes.”

“Who me? Weary? Languishing? No not me, Lord, that guy lives down the street, now that’s a guy that really needs your attention.”

Psalm 55:22 (NASB95) — 22 Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.

“I can handle everything that life has to throw at me. Ain’t nothing keeps me down and out. When life gives me lemons, I make lemonade! No burdens here.

1 Peter 5:6–7 (NASB95) — 6 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time, 7 casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.

“I’m a pretty humble guy. I don’t have any anxieties to cast. I can deal with my problems without God’s help. Oh, I believe and trust in God, I just don’t need God at the moment. But when I do, I will certainly call upon the Lord.”

Revelation 3:20 (NASB95) — 20 ‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.

“No Lord, I don’t need anything right now. Thanks for dropping by. “

One of our greatest stumbling blocks is self, or our own ego’s. We become in our own minds self-sustaining and self-sufficient independent agencies that are void of having to call upon anyone including God for help.

The fact is that the Christian way of life is not a independent life but a life that is sole dependent upon God.

But in arrogance we actually draws us away from God when we lift up our own selves as our won comfort and strength.

“Thank you, Lord, for getting me out of the hell, now go away.”

The best thing that can happen to such a believer even to you and me is that God breaks us that God gives us a Contrite spirit.

What we do not realize is that with every trouble, trial and tribulation there is an invitation and an open door that is an opportunity to draw near to God. and it is God that is waiting to receive and comfort. He is truly a God of the broken, contrite, and the poor in Spirt.

Let’s look at the Church of Laodicea

Revelation 3:14–22 (NASB95) — 14 “To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God, says this: 15 ‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. 16 ‘So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth. 17 ‘Because you say, “I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, 18 I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see. 19 ‘Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent. 20 ‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. 21 ‘He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. 22 ‘He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’ ”

Laodicea sat upon its own perch. The people claimed that with all of their riches and resources that It had no needs at all to be fulfill.

“Because you say I have become rich and become wealthy and have need of nothing.”

Therefore, there was no need of God and the love for God grew Cold. That is why it was called by God to be a lukewarm church. They believed in God; they were a church who supposedly worshipped God. They were just a church that had no need of God.

And God stood at the door and knocked and kept knocking.

In the fellowship that The Lord offered even in the face of adversity is

Comfort

Wisdom

Conviction

Healing

Encouragement

Sharing of his love

A sustaining love

That He will never leave nor forsake you.

And yet the door remained closed as we yell from the other side, “NO I DON’T NEED ANY!”

I tell my closest loved ones, My Mom, my wife, my kids, that I love them.

But what is the message when I say to them

“I don’t need you?”

Does those words seem to null out the words “I love you!”

WE tell God that we love Him in one breath and in another breath, we say that we do not need Him.

Yes, what a great day for the independent one who never had to be comforted, that God breaks to create the need for the spirit which brings the greater blessing.

God is the God of the poor and the contrite.

Matthew 5:3 (NASB95) — 3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

88.57 πτωχὸς τῷ πνεύματι: (an idiom, literally ‘poor in spirit’) pertaining to one who is humble with regard to his own capacities (in the one NT occurrence, namely, Mt 5:3, this humility is in relationship to God)—‘to be humble.’ μακάριοι οἱ πτωχοὶ τῷ πνεύματι ‘happy are those who are humble before God’ Mt 5:3. A literal translation of πτωχὸς τῷ πνεύματι may lead to serious misunderstanding, since ‘poor in spirit’ is likely to mean either ‘lacking in the Holy Spirit’ or ‘lacking in ambition or drive.’ In order to indicate clearly that this poverty or need is related in some way to spiritual realities, one may translate ‘happy are those who recognize their need of God.’[1]

And it is at that place that God graciously creates a need to draw us near to Him to call upon him for help and for comfort and strength.

This is why Paul declares

2 Corinthians 12:7–10 (NASB95) — 7 Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself! 8 Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me. 9 And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. 10 Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

God is not the God the proud of the ambitious the high achievers. While we are cheering and dreaming of climbing the highest ladder to success, swimming the deepest oceans climbing the highest mountains, it is the weak, the heavy laden the least among us sitting in stands but the Lord is not down on the field with the ambitious he is sitting with the lowly.

Isaiah 57:15 (NASB95) — 15 For thus says the high and exalted One Who lives forever, whose name is Holy, “I dwell on a high and holy place, And also with the contrite and lowly of spirit In order to revive the spirit of the lowly And to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 66:2 (NASB95) — 2 “For My hand made all these things, Thus all these things came into being,” declares the Lord. “But to this one I will look, To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.

So many Roads to chose when we speaking of how God breaks one and creates the impoverished spirit.

Why does the Lord break us and bring us low?

That we might call him to fulfill the deficiency that is found in an empty heart

Be with us Sunday as we continue to teach about The Holy Spirit.

Worship call will be on Monday morning.

happy 4th

[1]Louw, J. P., & Nida, E. A. (1996). In Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament: based on semantic domains (electronic ed. of the 2nd edition., Vol. 1, p. 748). United Bible Societies.