Pastor Joel @ Lakewood Church
Pull up your stakes and pack up your belongings because mediocrity is not your home. You shouldn't settle for less than what God promises.
Don't move the goal post to fit your circumstances. Know that God wouldn't have promised it if it Werent possible.
In Genesis 15 God promised Abraham and Sarah a baby even though they were passed the biological clock. Sarah watered down the promise by convincing Abraham to have a baby with her servant. That's what we do sometimes...instead of rising to God's thinking we adjust the plan to fit our limited belief.
You don't have to take up for God or try to help God not look bad...He doesn't need that type of help.
Don't let what you don't have talk you out of what God does have.
Shadrach, Meshach, abd Abednego. You may feel like your hands are tied but God's hands aren't tied. God isn't limited by what's limiting us. He's the 4th man in the fire.
So Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, securely tied, fell into the roaring flames. But suddenly, Nebuchadnezzar jumped up in amazement and exclaimed to his advisers, "Didn't we tie up three men and throw them into the furnace?" "Yes, Your Majesty, we certainly did," they replied. "Look!" Nebuchadnezzar shouted. "I see four men, unbound, walking around in the fire unharmed! And the fourth looks like a god !"
Daniel 3:23-25 NLT
Ishmael represents a spirit of Good enough. God isn't going to give you a substitute blessing, the real thing is coming.
And I will bless her and give you a son from her! Yes, I will bless her richly, and she will become the mother of many nations. Kings of nations will be among her descendants." Then Abraham bowed down to the ground, but he laughed to himself in disbelief. "How could I become a father at the age of 100?" he thought. "And how can Sarah have a baby when she is ninety years old?" So Abraham said to God, "May Ishmael live under your special blessing!"
Genesis 17:16-18 NLT
Just because you've settled doesn't mean God has.
And Sarah declared, "God has brought me laughter. All who hear about this will laugh with me. Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse a baby? Yet I have given Abraham a son in his old age!"
Genesis 21:6-7 NLT
"Who would have ever thought?!" blessings are headed your way.
And may the Lord , the God of your ancestors, multiply you a thousand times more and bless you as he promised!
Deuteronomy 1:11 NLT
But Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, the land of his birth, while his father, Terah, was still living.
Genesis 11:28 NLT
You have to say "yes I'm hurt but I'm not settling here"
One day Terah took his son Abram, his daughter-in-law Sarai (his son Abram's wife), and his grandson Lot (his son Haran's child) and moved away from Ur of the Chaldeans. He was headed for the land of Canaan, but they stopped at Haran and settled there. Terah lived for 205 years and died while still in Haran.
Genesis 11:31-32 NLT
Terah was the first one called to go to the promised land but he settled.
The enemy would love for us to settle.
Many of us are next door to our promised land.
"Send out men to explore the land of Canaan, the land I am giving to the Israelites. Send one leader from each of the twelve ancestral tribes." But Caleb tried to quiet the people as they stood before Moses. "Let's go at once to take the land," he said. "We can certainly conquer it!" But the other men who had explored the land with him disagreed. "We can't go up against them! They are stronger than we are!" So they spread this bad report about the land among the Israelites: "The land we traveled through and explored will devour anyone who goes to live there. All the people we saw were huge. We even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak. Next to them we felt like grasshoppers, and that's what they thought, too!"
Numbers 13:2, 30-33 NLT
"Good enough" is not good enough!
Until we rock again,
🤘 P E A C E, L 💚 V E, & R⚡P S T⚡X 🤘
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🤘 P E A C E, L 💚 V E, & R⚡P S T⚡X 🤘
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