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Possessing God's Promises Series
Contributed by Jason Pettibone on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: Promise! Even the word is full of hope. Don’t you love a promise, especially when you know that the promise maker is also a promise keeper?
Powerful peace is found in the Presence of God. His Spirit produces a serenity that allows us to rise above situations that cause others to panic and thus, to be filled with fear or to fall apart.
I am aware of so many moments in my life when I have let life’s circumstances steal God’s peaceful Presence, and thus His power, from me. When I attempt to exert control over situations, when I try to impose a ’peace’ of my own design, things usually get worse!
Have you shared that experience? In the middle of a stressful day, have you ever exploded, only adding to your own stress and that of others? In the middle of a crisis, have you tried to force a solution and created more chaos with your efforts? I am guilty!
But when I take time to re-center myself in the Spirit asking that He come into my mind and heart - peace follows. Often the situation remains exactly the same, but I am changed. Don’t misunderstand what God desires of you.
God was not inviting Joshua to a nice retirement community on the Mediterranean Sea. He wasn’t offering Joshua a rocking chair. He was handing him a commission in His army, a challenge to possess the Promised Land and build a new nation!
His will is not that you detach yourself from reality, that you run away from life, or escape into denial. He wants us to be fully engaged with life, bringing order to chaos, healing to the broken, resisting evil wherever it makes its ugliness apparent. But, in the spiritual warfare of this Christian life, He also wants us to be people who live in His Peaceful Presence!
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Want to possess God’s Promises?
It’s not in our text, but we must embrace Christ as your Lord and Savior, by faith! That’s the entry point to grace!
Then, there is our part which includes:
Looking to the future!
Defining the Promise and the Purpose of God! and finally,
Staying obediently where He can lead us by His powerful and peaceful Presence.
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Next week - Jericho, Impossibility or Opportunity?
2005© Jerry D. Scott
Washington Assembly of God -- 33 Brass Castle Road -- Washington, NJ 07882
www.WashingtonAG.net
