Stuck In A Rut? Lord Reveal The Ruts!

STUCK IN A RUT? LORD REVEAL THE RUTS!

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com

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Psalm 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: 24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Psalm 139:23 (MSG) Investigate my life, O God, find out everything about me; Cross-examine and test me, get a clear picture of what I'm about; 24 See for yourself whether I've done anything wrong— then guide me on the road to eternal life.

RUT: a monotonous routine, A TRACK WORN BY HABITUAL PASSAGE,

STUCK IN A RUT… TO BE FIXED IN A PARTICULAR ACTIVITY AND TRAPPED roove in which something runs,

I CALL A RUT AN OPEN ENDED GRAVE… IN A METHOD OF DOING THINGS AND NEED A REAL CHANGE.

You as an individual, your family and your church need to learn:

1 EVERY NEXT LEVEL OF YOUR LIFE WILL DEMAND A DIFFERENT YOU…

2. Truth teaches by traveling little by little we can achieve great distances.

3. Frustration becomes a daily attitude area.

Answer this problem: DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE YOU CAN CHANGE? Can your family change? WE MUST DEEEVELOP A PLAN. HOW CAN I GET FROM WHERE I AM TO WHERE I DESIRE?

ARE WE READY FOR PERIOLOUS TIMES? WE HAVE THE GREAT ABILITY TO BE LIKE AN OSTRICH AND BURY OUR HEAD SO WE REFUSE TO ADMIT WE ARE IN DANGER? CAN WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THERE ARE HARD TIMES AHEAD? WE MUST AVOID THE RUTS OF LIFE…

DO WE BURY OUR HEAD IN THE SAND AND IGNORE THE THINGS THAT CAN TRAP US AND DESTROY OUR FAMILY? WE WALK IN PERILOUS TIMES--- danger, risky times…

2 Timothy 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

There are difficult times ahead. ARE WE PREPARED FOR THE DANGEROUS, RISKY TIMES?

One of the goals of the family and the church must be: BE READY! READY FOR WHAT? Ready for anything. Are we honestly getting our families and church ready? I sadly proclaim I DOUBT OUR NATION IS REALLY READY FOR THE DARK DAYS AHEAD?

WE MUST AVOID THE TRAPS THAT WILL BECOME RUTS! WILL WE BE READY? WHAT WILL WE DO IN THE SWELLING OF JORDAN?

Jeremiah 12:5 If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?

I WISH WE WOULD ALL BE READY? BUT WE SEEM TO GET STUCK IN A RUT. THIS IS A REAL MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL DISORDER. DEPRESSION OFTEN FOLLOWS BEING IN A RUT… WHY ARE WE NOT READY FOR THE RUTS? NOT READY?

Anxiety, stress, worry, fear, suffering and lose of joy is easy to deny and go into a protective mode of staying the same. The next thing you know is you quit looking forward and you refuse to acknowledge you are staying the same, fly in a circular motion. Never advancing, never changing. You must allow the HOLY SPIRIT TO EXPOSE THIS TRAP OF STAYING WITH A TRAPPED FEELING.

Is your behavior a predictable, habitual pattern(rut)? Do you keep doing everything the same old way and expect a different outcome? Can we define INSANITY? Maybe insanity is to keep doing the same old same old and thing you will see a different experience?

LET US SEARCH SOME BIBLICAL PEOPLE THAT HAD THEIR HEADS IN THE SAND AND REFUSED TO CHANGE. TRAP IS SET?

The enemy caught EVE AWAY FROM THE SAFETY of her man and being away from GOD! EVE WAS IN A RUT AND SHE REFUSED TO SEE THE DANGER SHE FACED. Eve should have never talked to the slick tongued enemy! What rut did EVE FIND HERSELF… SHE SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN NEAR THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT. While in a perilous time, EVE WAS LOOKING AT THE BEAUTIFUL TREE. I believe she visited that tree on more than one occasion. EVE LOVED TO LOOK AT, I CALL IT FLIRT WITH THE RUT.

Genesis 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

PART OF BEING IN THE RUT IS HIDING FROM GOD? WHY? ADAM AND EVE WAS IN THE RUT AND LOST THEIR FEAR OF GOD AND GOD’S RULES…

Genesis 3:9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? 10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.