GOD SPEAKS THROUGH CIRCUMSTANCES AND CHURCH

Pastor Daniel sharing...

Proverbs 3:5-6
- Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

- In all circumstances, God wants to speak to us, is whether we want to listen or not.

1. Understanding your circumstances from God's perspective.
- Circumstances cannot translate into bible.
- Always go back to the Bible for the truth.
- Our theology guide your choices. Not the other way round.
theology: our understanding of God

How to respond when circumstances are difficult or confusing:

1. Settle in your own mind that God has forever demonstrated His absolute love for you on the cross.

- With every problem, it is a spiritual promotion.

2. Do not try to understand what God is like from the middle of your circumstances.

3. Go to God and ask Him to help you see His perspective on your situation. (Revelation 4:1)

Revelation 4:1

- After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this."

4. Wait on the Holy Spirit. He may take the Word of God and help you understand your circumstances.

5. Adjust your life to God and what you see Him doing in your circumstances.

6. Do all He tells you to do.

7. Experiencing God working in and through you to accomplish His purposes.

[Exodus 5,6] read yourself, coz the chapters are very very long.. thz!! =)

- God is patient with Moses.

- When we face circumstances, do not blame God! Learn from Moses.

- Whenever bad things happen, it is an opportunity for us to grow!

John 6:1-15

- Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias), and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the miraculous signs he had performed on the sick. Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with his disciples. 4The Jewish Passover Feast was near. When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?" He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do. Philip answered him, "Eight months' wages would not buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!" Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, spoke up, "Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?" Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." There was plenty of grass in that place, and the men sat down, about five thousand of them. Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish. When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, "Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted." So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten. After the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus did, they began to say, "Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world." Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.

- Don't evaluate your situation until you have heard from God.

2. Understanding your circumstances from God's past dealings.

Joshua 4:1-7

- When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua, "Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe, and tell them to take up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan from right where the priests stood and to carry them over with you and put them down at the place where you stay tonight." So Joshua called together the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe, and said to them, "Go over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, 'What do these stones mean?' tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever."

- A spiritual marker identifies a time of transition, decision or direction when I clearly know that God has guided me.

[*Spiritual marker is for u to review]

- When we review our spiritual markers, we can see more clearly the directions in which God has been moving my life and ministry.

Ephesians 4:15-16

- Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.

- God speaks through the Church.

- A good Church is one that everyone works.

1. The Church help you to prevent you from backsliding.

- People who say they don't need the Church is either they are ignorant/arrogant.

- Fragile snowflakes is powerful if many comes together.

2. The Church helps you develop spiritual Muscles!

3. The Church helps you move out of self centered isolation.

- When 1 part of the body suffer, the rest suffers.

4. God has a UNIQUE role in the Church for you!

- When we get to share, we will grow stronger.

- The Church is the one that helps you know God's will.

Truth hurts!!!

Trust God to provide u cousel through other believers. Turn for counsel on major decisions.

~Yvonne~