Message from Pastor Kirk... In Joshua 3-4 we read the story of God miraculously bringing his people across the Jordan River so they can experience victory in the Promised Land. The Lord commanded the priests to step into the raging and swollen river with the Ark of the Covenant. He commanded them to step into the barrier before they would see his blessings. Often we stand at the rivers of life. The raging waters of our own wretchedness or the floods of our failures or the passing waters of our pain, and we lose a battle because we never step in. We are so entrapped by our failure, our pain, and our sin that we never see God in the midst of it. God will never ask you to step where he is not standing. He will never ask you to fight a battle he has not already won. The river of your wretchedness was swallowed up whole in the cross of Christ. Your eternity is secure if it is found in the grace and sovereign reign of Christ. The battle I am talking about is the one that you face here and now. It can be a battle to face the sicknesses and diseases of this world. It can be a battle to face the consequences of your own choices. It might even be the battle of facing the destruction caused by the choices of others. Know God goes first into this raging river and this ensuing battle. The mindset defeat is to believe that God either delivers or abandons. We stand at the bank of the raging problems of life and lose because God does not remove the river. The mindset of victory realizes that God empowers to deliver. God will see me through this by his power and by his might, but I must step into this. I have got to get my feet wet and muddy. In your marriage, in your career, in your life, what is it that you are begging God to deliver you from. Are you willing to say, empower me instead of deliver me? In that prayer, you might just find the deliverance you so desperately desire.
Posted on: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 17:08:23 +0000
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