3-2-1 Sunday: Find Strength in Prayer
3-2-1 Sunday: Find Strength in Prayer
Embrace God's Plan and Prepare for Your Purpose
written by Lena Jennings | read on 321sunday.com
Happy 3-2-1 Sunday,
Here are 3 sermon notes, 2 quotes, & 1 question to consider this week.
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3 Sermon Notes
I.
I think it's possible that although you don't feel ready for this season of your life, you feel alone in this season of your life, you feel you don't have the skills that it takes for this step of faith that God has given you, you feel like you're the wrong one for the job, I think it's possible that God has been preparing you for the exact assignment that you are designed to accomplish.
I have to declare to myself that I will fulfill it because if it's for me, it will be.
Source: A Shift in Location
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II.
Anytime life gives you a situation where you can't figure it out, that's an opportunity for you to learn to pray your way through what you can't figure out. We pray our way through pressure, or the pressure pushes us over the edge and pushes us into places of hiding that are dangerous.
But if you will pray your way through this pressure, it doesn't have to be a long prayer; it doesn't even have to be a focused prayer, but as long as you set your heart in the direction of God, he wants to speak to you more than you want to hear him. He wants to show you more than you want to see; he wants to give you wisdom; he wants to give you opportunity; he wants to show you open doors; he wants to tell you who to call; he wants to tell you who to talk to; he wants to bring people into your path; he just wants to know if you will be prepared.
So you will have to learn how to prepare yourself for what God has prepared for you. So you have to say, "I don't know what's next, but I got to get ready for it, so I got to pray my way through this thing."
Source: Off Menu
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III.
When God brings you out of something, He does not let you choose your escape route.
Freedom is going to come by force, focus and frequency. Deliverance isn't going to be a magic trick in your life, there will be a discipline of sustainable deliverance in each of our lives because God will give us the way of escape but he will not let us the way of escape down the road of ease that we might select in our most comfortable moments.
Source: Come Through Drippin
2 Quotes
I.
"I told my friend, I just can't believe that after all God has done for me, I can't find my motivation, and I'm grateful, and I'm thankful, and I praise him for what he's done, but I guess I'm just getting lazy. My friend laughed and said, anyone who's known you for five minutes knows there's not a lazy bone in your body. It's not that you're lazy—you're afraid. You have accumulated a few failures and disappointments, and so now you're not showing up because you don't want to fall short." - Gia Peppers
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II.
"I don’t have an ordinary God, so I don’t have an extraordinary expectation." - Megan Ashley
1 Question
I’m praising Him because _____.
What are you praising God for? The remedy is to remember: to remember what he’s done, to remember his goodness, to start to think about the way he saved you, the way he healed you. The remedy is to remember his goodness.
Until next week,
A Prayer to Take For Yourself
“Holy Spirit show me something.”
Show me something; that's been my biggest prayer of the last year — you can rip it off and use it. I just pray, "God, show me something." What did I not see about that conversation that I should have seen? God, what did I miss while I went through my day that you want me to incorporate into my tomorrow? God, what was the thing that I missed today that, if I don't pick it up and adjust it, I will multiply the mistakes of today into tomorrow? God, what is the thing that I have thought I was right about all my life that I'm really wrong about right now? What are the answers that I knew yesterday that have become irrelevant in this season of my life that I am still clinging to that are keeping me from being who I need to be? Show me something.