THE INTERRUPTED LIFE SESSION 2 - 4/11/12

I AM SO EXCITED TO BE BLOGGING ABOUT THE SECOND VIDEO SESSION!!!
IT WAS ONE TO REMEMBER!!!
So buckle up, because here we GO!!!
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So the first session we learned that the INTERRUPTED LIFE is the priviledged life and also the cure for the search for significance.

In this second session we learn the the INTERRUPTED LIFE is the challenging life, it not only looks different but also looks more difficult, and also that it is the accountable life.

The session began with the readin of Jonah 1:2, "Arise, go to Ninevah the great sity and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before me."

We are going to focus on the first two words of this verse. People often times want to sit and wait for God to tell them to do the things that they want to do instead of what HE wants them to do.
We have to be willing to ARISE & GO whenever God asks us to, even when it is out of out "comfort zone".
In today's world, people have become so comfortable with only doing as much as is necessary as long as they know they will be safe doing it and not have to go far from where they are sitting. When are we, as God's people, going to ARISE & GO and finally give in to what God has in store for us to do for HIS will???
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(think about it...)
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1) 1) The INTERRUPTED LIFE is the challenging life.

Some people think that the are too weak to do the tings GOD has called them to do, which brings us to our next point, we need to remember that GOD will give us the strength to handle the challenge.
HE will never leave us to fend for ourselves!

Our next point is one that should be held dear to your heart, If you are a believer in JESUS CHRIST, all the the greatness, power, gandeur, authority and fullness of GOD HIMSELF is in you because the HOLY SPIRIT is on the inside of you.

We always hear of the HOLY SPIRIT as the Third Person in scripture, but that isn't because is less important than GOD the FATHER or GOD the SON, all three are equally the same and are with us always!
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Oftentimes the greatest hindrance of a new move of GOD in our life is the last move of GOD.
Some of us put off following GOD's plan for our life because we indeed think of it as a LIFE INTERRUPTED, but that isn't always a bad thing.

I've known since I was a senior in high school that I would be involved with student ministry and it was a deep passion of fire in my life whenever I got the opportunity to become a leader in a youth group.
At the time, I thought it was the right time but it was not GOD's timing. I had been in a relationship with my husband for about two years and we were both serving in the ministry and one day my husband, who was my fiance at the time, came to me and said that he felt GOD was telling him that we needed to take a break until after our wedding the following year and you can imagine how mad I was at him for telling me that GOD was telling him that it was not my time to be doing what I knew I was supposed to be doing.
We fought a lot and I had conversation after conversation with my mom and i'll never forget what she told, she had told me that my husband was supposed to be the spiritual leader in the household and that I needed to trust him that in fact what he was saying GOD told him was true and pull back and let GOD work.
It finally clicked in my head and now we are on the path to taking over a youth group at a completely different church.
I had to learn to be patient and wait on HIS timing.

Our next point, GOD loves to put us in the challenge because that's where HE gets to be who HE is.

"GOD is not just a 'big' us, HE is mysterious."
There are many things about GOD that we will never know until we see HIM face to face in Heaven and that is an awesome thing because that means HE is different than we are.
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The next verse we looked at was Psalms 37:4, "Delight yourself in the LORD; and HE will give you the desires of your heart."

We need to not get this confused with thinking that GOD will give us what we want if we submit ourself to HIM and choose to follow HIS plan, it means that HE will change our hearts to want what HE wants in our life.

Psalms 119:36-37, "Incline my heart to YOUR testimonies and not to dishonest gain. Turn away my eyes from looking at vanity, and revive me in YOUR ways.
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2) The INTERRUPTED LIFE no only looks different but also looks more difficult.

We must remember that our call we are given by GOD will most likely not be the call of someone else and that we need to make the decision to obey GOD fully and go where HE tells us to go.
HE will always equip us to handle the challenge no matter how hard we feel it may be.

Some of us may hear GOD's calling but are relunctant to follow because we look at people around us and see that they have better clothes, better cars, bigger houses, etc and we begin to question why GOD would give them all of those things and not us because we are doind what HE told us to do, but we need to remember that GOD GIVES US EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED TO MAKE IT THROUGH WHAT HE HAS CALLED US TO DO.
We don't know what GOD has called them to do with those things and how HIS will will be done through them.

When GOD places an abnormal calling on your life, it is because HE has abnormal results HE wants to produce through you.

We have to decide if we are going to be like Jonah and flee or if we are going to pick-up our belongings and take the journey into the unknown that GOD only knows where it leads.
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3) The INTERRUPTED LIFE is the accountable life.

Jonah 1:3, "But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. So he went down to Joppa, found a ship which was going to Tarshish, paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD."

Jonah fled from GOD 2,000 miles away from where GOD told him to go because he thought he could escape the voice and calling of the LORD, but the LORD in always present wherever you are.
We sometimes think that if we can just get away that GOD will change HIS mind and give us a different path but the truth is, is that we will have such conviction with in HIS presence and we will also lose so much more by running from GOD.

GOD does not convict us to condemn us. HE wants to restore a relationship with us.

Sin is a never-ending downward spiral, a never-ending downward cycle and all GOD wants to do is rescue us!

Sometimes we don't realize what we've done until we are half through it or until it's too late.
Let's be the ones to stand up, arise, and go to the places GOD would have us go.
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I pray for a safe week that is full of grace and mercy from GOD.
I pray that you will lean on GOD for HIS strength to get you through the things you think you are too weak to do.

IT IS THROUGH OUR WEAKNESS THAT WE SEE JUST HOW STRONG GOD REALLY IS!!!!!