Turning Our Eyes to Jesus in Fear
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "Our lives would be much better off if we stopped looking at the circumstance around us and started looking at the rescuer, the redeemer, who is able to meet our needs according to his riches and glory. I'm convinced this morning, as I travel around the world, all across the country, every church that I have the opportunity and privilege to preach in is filled with people who know the struggle is real." [51:08]
2. "There are people here this morning, and I'm a perfect stranger to so many of you. If you don't like what I've got to say, Brother Scott taught me everything I know. I'm a perfect stranger to many of you, and yet I recognize that the human condition, the Christian life, is filled with peaks and valleys. And someone this morning may be experiencing that very thing." [52:20]
3. "Maybe you're in the room with a doctor, maybe a paramedic, a police officer. Maybe your life is really nothing less than chaotic or tragic, and you don't know what to do. But you look for that person who may be that expert who can potentially help you. But a parent in that moment can't help, a physician can't help, a public official can't help. What do you do? Where do you turn? Your back's against the wall this morning, and you're looking at the circumstance, and you're thinking there's more opportunity for defeat than there is victory. Where do you turn to? Where do I turn?" [55:01]
4. "You'll never get help trying to live out tomorrow today. There are so many this morning, you're facing something, and I am not belittling what you're facing today, but you are trying to choreograph what may happen. And so you're trying to live in tomorrow, and next week, and next month, and next year, and all that causes is anxiety." [01:07:28]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Sometimes we're just thinking we go through things so we become helpless so that we will pray a prayer like this that's worth praying again. Sometimes God will hem us up. That's a good southern term, isn't it? He'll hem us up so that the only person we can look to is Him. And so this morning, I simply want to ask you, when you look to Him, what are you focused on?" [01:23:44]
2. "Jehoshaphat feared and set himself to seek the Lord and proclaimed a fast throughout all of Judah. And Judah gathered themselves together to ask help of God. For the Lord, even out of all of the cities of Judah, they came to seek the Lord. I hope you hear that." [01:02:30]
3. "We strategize, we plan, and there's nothing wrong with those things. But there's something to be said about showing up and trusting in what He has told us to do. But preacher, you don't understand. I can't tell you how many times I hear that. Like on a weekly basis, pastor, they'll say, 'You just don't understand.' And I must admit to you, in 15 years of pastoral ministry before being a full-time evangelist, there were a lot of experiences I had, but I've not experienced everything. There's some things I don't understand. There's nothing He doesn't understand." [01:21:54]
4. "Verse 15 says that He's going to fight the battle, but verse 17 says I've got to go to the battlefield. Oh, and by the way, if you consider their armaments, they have physical weapons, but the Lord is calling them and you and I to take on this battle not in a physical means but with spiritual weapons. Because we wrestle not against flesh and blood. The battle that is raging is a spiritual one." [01:18:28]
5. "When it comes to God's faithfulness, hindsight is always 20-20, which causes him in verse number 9 to express his confidence in God. I love this phrase: 'Then thou wilt hear.' Do you see the chronological order that occurs in this prayer? It's important that we see how this unfolds because this often works the same way in our lives as well. If we praise God, that will cause us to see where he has brought us from, thus bringing us to a place of confidence. Because if he helped us before, he can help us now." [01:08:34]
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1. "Our lives would be much better off if we stopped looking at the circumstance around us and started looking at the rescuer, the redeemer, who is able to meet our needs according to his riches and glory. I'm convinced this morning, as I travel around the world, all across the country, every church that I have the opportunity and privilege to preach in is filled with people who know the struggle is real." [51:08]
2. "There are people here this morning, and I'm a perfect stranger to so many of you. If you don't like what I've got to say, Brother Scott taught me everything I know. I'm a perfect stranger to many of you, and yet I recognize that the human condition, the Christian life, is filled with peaks and valleys. And someone this morning may be experiencing that very thing." [52:20]
3. "Maybe you're in the room with a doctor, maybe a paramedic, a police officer. Maybe your life is really nothing less than chaotic or tragic, and you don't know what to do. But you look for that person who may be that expert who can potentially help you. But a parent in that moment can't help, a physician can't help, a public official can't help. What do you do? Where do you turn? Your back's against the wall this morning, and you're looking at the circumstance, and you're thinking there's more opportunity for defeat than there is victory. Where do you turn to? Where do I turn?" [55:01]
4. "You'll never get help trying to live out tomorrow today. There are so many this morning, you're facing something, and I am not belittling what you're facing today, but you are trying to choreograph what may happen. And so you're trying to live in tomorrow, and next week, and next month, and next year, and all that causes is anxiety." [01:07:28]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Sometimes we're just thinking we go through things so we become helpless so that we will pray a prayer like this that's worth praying again. Sometimes God will hem us up. That's a good southern term, isn't it? He'll hem us up so that the only person we can look to is Him. And so this morning, I simply want to ask you, when you look to Him, what are you focused on?" [01:23:44]
2. "Jehoshaphat feared and set himself to seek the Lord and proclaimed a fast throughout all of Judah. And Judah gathered themselves together to ask help of God. For the Lord, even out of all of the cities of Judah, they came to seek the Lord. I hope you hear that." [01:02:30]
3. "We strategize, we plan, and there's nothing wrong with those things. But there's something to be said about showing up and trusting in what He has told us to do. But preacher, you don't understand. I can't tell you how many times I hear that. Like on a weekly basis, pastor, they'll say, 'You just don't understand.' And I must admit to you, in 15 years of pastoral ministry before being a full-time evangelist, there were a lot of experiences I had, but I've not experienced everything. There's some things I don't understand. There's nothing He doesn't understand." [01:21:54]
4. "Verse 15 says that He's going to fight the battle, but verse 17 says I've got to go to the battlefield. Oh, and by the way, if you consider their armaments, they have physical weapons, but the Lord is calling them and you and I to take on this battle not in a physical means but with spiritual weapons. Because we wrestle not against flesh and blood. The battle that is raging is a spiritual one." [01:18:28]
5. "When it comes to God's faithfulness, hindsight is always 20-20, which causes him in verse number 9 to express his confidence in God. I love this phrase: 'Then thou wilt hear.' Do you see the chronological order that occurs in this prayer? It's important that we see how this unfolds because this often works the same way in our lives as well. If we praise God, that will cause us to see where he has brought us from, thus bringing us to a place of confidence. Because if he helped us before, he can help us now." [01:08:34]
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