Everything We Need

Or maybe he knows, but he he doesn't know the account number. He doesn't have a relationship with the banker. Everything is in his name, but he doesn't know how to use what is at his disposal or find it to be able to benefit from the good planning or kind gesture of someone who left him all this money. He just isn't aware of it. And I I fear that like this man who lives as a pauper, even though he's could live like a prince, Many of us live our Christian lives like that. [00:01:26] (44 seconds)  #HiddenInheritance

I don't have enough hope to make that make it through that. We beg God with prayers like, God, would you just give me a little bit of strength? Would you just give me a little bit of peace? We beg God as though he's stingy. God, just just get me through the next few hours. These are real prayers. I pray those kinds of prayers. I I understand what I'm talking to you about. [00:03:09] (34 seconds)  #StopBeggingGod

If Peter were here today though, he would look at us. I wonder if he might scratch his head or you know that way that sometimes dogs just kind of, you know, they kind of go like, what? A little confusion like, why are you begging God for a little bit of hope, a little bit of strength, a little bit of wisdom when when he's given you the world of it all in his word. [00:03:50] (25 seconds)  #GivenItAll

``You're struggling with lust? Well, the power to kill your lust is included in the all things. Struggling with despair? Well, it's included in the all things. He's telling us, friends, you don't have a supply problem. You don't have a supply problem. He doesn't command you to be godly. God does not command you to be godly and then leave you to your own devices to figure it out on your own. He never issues a command without first providing the necessary resources or the supply of it. [00:11:13] (41 seconds)  #NoSupplyProblem

struggling with lust? Well, the power to kill your lust is included in the all things. Struggling with despair? Well, it's included in the all things. He's telling us, friends, you don't have a supply problem. You don't have a supply problem. He doesn't command you to be godly. God does not command you to be godly and then leave you to your own devices to figure it out on your own. He never issues a command without first providing the necessary resources or the supply of it. [00:11:13] (40 seconds)

struggling with lust? Well, the power to kill your lust is included in the all things. Struggling with despair? Well, it's included in the all things. He's telling us, friends, you don't have a supply problem. You don't have a supply problem. He doesn't command you to be godly. God does not command you to be godly and then leave you to your own devices to figure it out on your own. He never issues a command without first providing the necessary resources or the supply of it. [00:11:13] (40 seconds)

It's not through religious ritual. It's not through a feeling. Friends, I need to tell you, church, we need to learn to depend less on feeling, positive or negative. Some people are just living on positive feelings and positive emotions that aren't grounded or anchored in the truth of God's word. Negative emotions struggle with despair, discouragement, frustration. We're always down on ourselves, and if we're down on ourselves, we're down on others. Or you're proud and you're just down on others. Those negative feelings. [00:13:24] (43 seconds)  #NotByFeelings

I don't mean that life is always steady and consistent, but what I do mean is when how we feel, which is really like a dashboard light on your car, It's an indicator of what's going on in your soul. And so when those indicator lights are constantly going off, but we don't go to the manual to say, why am I wrestling with this? Why am I feeling this way? [00:14:07] (27 seconds)  #FeelingsAreIndicators

We're gonna continue to struggle. Peter says that the answer is that it comes through the knowledge of him, of Christ. And that word knowledge is not just knowing facts. Listen. People have known facts about God. People have known facts about the Bible since the beginning of time. I guess the bible then comes from the beginning of time, but what I mean is God's word. God and who he is and how he reveals himself to us. [00:14:33] (30 seconds)  #KnowChristDeeply

And this is a staggering phrase. You and I are able to be partakers of God's divine nature. It doesn't mean we become God. It doesn't mean we become the creator. It means we become like branches that are attached to the vine as we saw last winter in John chapter 15. Right? The same sap, the same work of the Holy Spirit that flowed into and through Jesus as he lived his righteous life is the same sap of the holy spirit that flows through you and me as we are connected and learning and growing and understanding God's word. We start to love like he loves. We start to forgive like he forgives. We start to have peace. When the world around us is panicking, we get to apply the promise, to rest in the promise that God is sovereign and good, and not one trial comes to your life without God's sovereign approval. [00:30:41] (69 seconds)  #PartakersOfDivineNature