Finding True Satisfaction in El Shaddai
Devotional
Sermon Summary
Bible Study Guide
Sermon Clips
### Quotes for Outreach
1. "You're a fool if you think that your soul can be quenched by the temporary things of this life. Tonight, your life will be asked of you. Or you think about what Jesus said at Caesarea Philippi to his disciples. He says, if anyone desire to follow me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. Look what he says next. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it. Next phrase. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?" [38:49]
2. "See, sometimes when we find ourselves in the wilderness, we fight the wilderness because we think that we've done something wrong when actually God has put us there to get us ready for what's next. Let's use Moses as an example. Moses, when he was very young, boys were being slaughtered under the age of two. And so his mom says, his mom and sister come up with this plan to put him and float him down the Nile. And it just so happens that Pharaoh's daughter finds him. And it just so happens, she says, you know what? I can't raise this child. I need some help. How about you? And picks his mom. That's called Godronic. Or you can call it the sovereign will of God, whatever you want to call it." [57:33]
3. "What's it going to take for you to be satisfied? Do you need more money in your 401k? Do you need a bigger house, bigger car? Is that what's going to bring you satisfaction? you need someone who's going to actually answer the phone when you call them and call yourself, say that they're your friend? What do you need to satisfy you? Because I promise each and every one of us, we spend our days trying to find something or someone to satisfy us, to give us a sense of purpose and meaning and fulfillment. The sad part is that too many times we go looking for love in all the wrong places." [36:16]
4. "He meets us at the point of our need and he takes care of us when we trust that he is the one who can satisfy. A.W. Tozer said it this way, anything God has done, he can do in you. Anything God has ever done anywhere, he can do here. Anything God has ever done for anyone, he can do for you too. Don't miss the significance of El Shaddai. God is telling us that the only way that our soul can ever truly be satisfied is through him. It's not by anything this world has to offer. It's only through him." [01:04:01]
### Quotes for Members
1. "God often has to do the same for us. He has to pull to the side to prepare us for his purposes, for our future and for his glory. He set David to the side. He set Elijah to the side. He set Paul to the side, Daniel to the side. God always sets aside his servants to prepare them for what's next. He has to work in us and on us before he can work through us. Now, here's a kind of a secondary principle here. If you feel like you're in the wilderness right now, don't fight it. Learn in the wilderness. The wilderness is practice for the game. And the more you fight God in the wilderness, the longer you're going to be in the wilderness, because you're not learning what he needs you to learn." [57:33]
2. "God is all you need when you need him. He's never too early. He's never too late. He's perfectly on time according to his will. When we look at this, he shows up when Abraham is 99. He's no longer humanly able to satisfy his ambition of having a son so that he can finally find where true satisfaction comes from. It comes from God. Now, what's required in order to be satisfied by El Shaddai? There's two things. First, it requires humble reverence. God requires that we bring our lives to him and that we humbly fall, face down before him and say, God, you're big. God, you know it all. You're sovereign. You're omnipotent. I recognize who you are. And I realize how small I am and how much I need you and how little you, you don't need me at all." [59:24]
3. "God helps those who are helpless to help themselves. Let me explain this. God had to wait 24 years after making the promise. Do you know why? He had to wait for Abraham to be impotent and Sarah to be barren so that they did not try to satisfy themselves with a child. And the reason is because God was doing something so much bigger. In fact, if you don't hear anything today, you need to hear this principle. God always, always, always has a greater plan that's bigger than us, but it can include us if we're willing to participate." [52:30]
4. "God purposed in Abraham that from the beginning to work his sovereign plan of redemption through him. But to get there, God had to take Abraham through a process where he was willing to become a vessel of grace. And God does the same for us. He's always working on the bigger plan in us, on us, through us, and beyond us for his glory. What's essential in order to experience this, we have to come to the end of ourselves discover the beginning of God. Second thing here is that we have to learn that God has to work in us and on us before he can work through us." [56:03]
5. "And the question is, how long is it going to take for you and for me to learn that only God can truly satisfy our soul? Well, let me quickly give you three principles from this name to help us to understand what it means that he's El Shaddai. Abraham's life, like us, Abraham felt the inclination to help God accomplish God's will. He never grasped it until 24 years after the promise. But here's what he finally learned. God helps those who are helpless to help themselves." [50:42]
Ask a question about this sermon
1. "You're a fool if you think that your soul can be quenched by the temporary things of this life. Tonight, your life will be asked of you. Or you think about what Jesus said at Caesarea Philippi to his disciples. He says, if anyone desire to follow me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. Look what he says next. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it. Next phrase. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?" [38:49]
2. "See, sometimes when we find ourselves in the wilderness, we fight the wilderness because we think that we've done something wrong when actually God has put us there to get us ready for what's next. Let's use Moses as an example. Moses, when he was very young, boys were being slaughtered under the age of two. And so his mom says, his mom and sister come up with this plan to put him and float him down the Nile. And it just so happens that Pharaoh's daughter finds him. And it just so happens, she says, you know what? I can't raise this child. I need some help. How about you? And picks his mom. That's called Godronic. Or you can call it the sovereign will of God, whatever you want to call it." [57:33]
3. "What's it going to take for you to be satisfied? Do you need more money in your 401k? Do you need a bigger house, bigger car? Is that what's going to bring you satisfaction? you need someone who's going to actually answer the phone when you call them and call yourself, say that they're your friend? What do you need to satisfy you? Because I promise each and every one of us, we spend our days trying to find something or someone to satisfy us, to give us a sense of purpose and meaning and fulfillment. The sad part is that too many times we go looking for love in all the wrong places." [36:16]
4. "He meets us at the point of our need and he takes care of us when we trust that he is the one who can satisfy. A.W. Tozer said it this way, anything God has done, he can do in you. Anything God has ever done anywhere, he can do here. Anything God has ever done for anyone, he can do for you too. Don't miss the significance of El Shaddai. God is telling us that the only way that our soul can ever truly be satisfied is through him. It's not by anything this world has to offer. It's only through him." [01:04:01]
### Quotes for Members
1. "God often has to do the same for us. He has to pull to the side to prepare us for his purposes, for our future and for his glory. He set David to the side. He set Elijah to the side. He set Paul to the side, Daniel to the side. God always sets aside his servants to prepare them for what's next. He has to work in us and on us before he can work through us. Now, here's a kind of a secondary principle here. If you feel like you're in the wilderness right now, don't fight it. Learn in the wilderness. The wilderness is practice for the game. And the more you fight God in the wilderness, the longer you're going to be in the wilderness, because you're not learning what he needs you to learn." [57:33]
2. "God is all you need when you need him. He's never too early. He's never too late. He's perfectly on time according to his will. When we look at this, he shows up when Abraham is 99. He's no longer humanly able to satisfy his ambition of having a son so that he can finally find where true satisfaction comes from. It comes from God. Now, what's required in order to be satisfied by El Shaddai? There's two things. First, it requires humble reverence. God requires that we bring our lives to him and that we humbly fall, face down before him and say, God, you're big. God, you know it all. You're sovereign. You're omnipotent. I recognize who you are. And I realize how small I am and how much I need you and how little you, you don't need me at all." [59:24]
3. "God helps those who are helpless to help themselves. Let me explain this. God had to wait 24 years after making the promise. Do you know why? He had to wait for Abraham to be impotent and Sarah to be barren so that they did not try to satisfy themselves with a child. And the reason is because God was doing something so much bigger. In fact, if you don't hear anything today, you need to hear this principle. God always, always, always has a greater plan that's bigger than us, but it can include us if we're willing to participate." [52:30]
4. "God purposed in Abraham that from the beginning to work his sovereign plan of redemption through him. But to get there, God had to take Abraham through a process where he was willing to become a vessel of grace. And God does the same for us. He's always working on the bigger plan in us, on us, through us, and beyond us for his glory. What's essential in order to experience this, we have to come to the end of ourselves discover the beginning of God. Second thing here is that we have to learn that God has to work in us and on us before he can work through us." [56:03]
5. "And the question is, how long is it going to take for you and for me to learn that only God can truly satisfy our soul? Well, let me quickly give you three principles from this name to help us to understand what it means that he's El Shaddai. Abraham's life, like us, Abraham felt the inclination to help God accomplish God's will. He never grasped it until 24 years after the promise. But here's what he finally learned. God helps those who are helpless to help themselves." [50:42]
Chatbot
-
I'm an AI bot trained specifically on the sermon from May 27, 2024. Do you have any questions about it?