This is What We Do - We Turn Burdens Into Blessings

``But I think as as we kind of think about all this, we think about how is God gonna work and how is God gonna work in our hearts and our lives. There's something that we need to pay very careful attention to. And that's this, the greatest potential for God to work in your life is where you carry the greatest burden. The greatest potential for God to work in your life is where you carry the greatest burden. And what I mean by burden here is something that God puts in your heart. It's something that that maybe it starts in your prayer life. And every time you begin to pray, this one thing comes back up into your mind and it enters into your mind over and over again. [00:36:49] (49 seconds)  #BurdenToPurpose

And here's what we know to be true. A God given burden is one of the clearest ways that God is inviting you to join him in his work because God always always always works through people. Always. You you reflect and you think about your spiritual life and where you have been and what you have gone through and all along that way, you will see people who are there. There are faces who sat across from you, faces who discipled you, who walked through difficult times with you, who were a friend when you didn't know where to turn. [00:38:13] (40 seconds)  #GodUsesPeople

God wants to use every single person who's here this morning, every single one to be able to do God's work and it starts with a burden. And when we sense that burden, it is God calling us and asking us to step into something deeper and that is where we often see God's greatest potential to work in our hearts, in our lives. [00:38:53] (23 seconds)  #AnswerTheCall

It would have been very easy for Nehemiah to say, well, you know what? I've never been there. Not my problem. I gotta serve the king here. But that was not his response. When he heard this news, his heart broke inside and the scripture said that he fasted and he mourned and he prayed. [00:41:53] (22 seconds)  #HeartBreakToPrayer

I wonder what is something that breaks your heart when you hear it? Maybe it doesn't happen for everybody else but when when you hear about that particular thing, man, heart just breaks on the inside. Is it for teen moms who have nowhere to go, don't know where to turn and are are contemplating, do I keep the baby? Do I give the baby away? Is it for teenagers who maybe have grown up in the faith and then they go off to college and then they walk away from the faith? [00:42:15] (30 seconds)  #WhatBreaksYourHeart

What breaks your heart? Is it is it your friends and your neighbors, maybe even your family who you know they don't know the Lord and your heart breaks because what would happen if they were to die and to meet in our father in eternity? What would that look like? Maybe your heart breaks for those who don't have homes, foster children. [00:42:45] (23 seconds)  #HeartForTheLost

And when you feel something like this deeply, the easy thing for us to do and I think we do this a lot is we just dismiss it. We say, well, they gotta figure it out. It's their problem. I can't really do anything. But it could be. It could be a burden that God has placed on your heart. [00:43:49] (21 seconds)  #ListenToYourBurden

But what about when you have that holy anger? The kind of anger that says this thing is just not right. This is a sin that has to be dealt with. This is an injustice that needs to be corrected. Think about Jesus when he went into the temple, he saw it had become a marketplace and what does he do? He flipped over all the tables, drove the people out so the court of the gentiles could be returned to the gentiles so they could worship the Lord. So what is it? It just makes you angry in a holy way. It says, this should not be like it is. There's a brokenness in a world that needs to be corrected and I've gotta do something about it. What makes you angry? [00:45:57] (47 seconds)  #HolyAngerForJustice