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Tuesday May 28, 2024
Lost | God Always Makes A Way
Tuesday May 28, 2024
Tuesday May 28, 2024
Choose Your Hard
- In your health
- In your relationships
- With your kids
- With your career
Same with Following God
- Without God = HARD
- With God = HARD
- Choose your heard
Just because all things are difficult doesn’t mean all OUTCOMES are the same value
- Some things, while difficult, are worth more than others
- We’re talking about this because of the new series…
>>LOST: A WAY IN THE WILDERNESS
Being in a wilderness season is when things are abnormally…
- Difficult
- Confusing
- Disorienting
- Uphill
- Just plane HARD
But wilderness seasons have purpose…
A WILDERNESS SEASON IS WHERE WE LEARN WHO GOD IS, HOW HE LOVES US, AND HOW WE SHOULD INTERACT WITH HIM
We are looking at the story of the EXODUS
- The escape of the Israelite people from Egypt to the PROMISED LAND
Last week was about the 10 plagues in Egypt
God’s purpose for many wilderness seasons is to teach us about Himself
Today, we continue that story…
Egypt finally has enough of God and his people
- They let Israel Go
- They send them with riches
Pharaoh has a change of heart…
Exodus 14
5 When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about the people and said, “What have we done? We have released Israel from serving us.”
So he gathers part of his army and pursues the people of Israel
- Israel is gathered on the banks of the Red Sea
Exodus 14
10 As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up and there were the Egyptians coming after them! The Israelites were terrified and cried out to the Lord for help. 11 They said to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? 12 Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt: Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”
Moses responds…
13 But Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. Stand firm and see the Lord’s salvation that he will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians you see today, you will never see again. 14 The Lord will fight for you, and you must be quiet.”
Moses prays…
- Stretches out his arms
- God parts the waters
- Israel walks through unharmed
- Pharaoh follows them in
- God releases the waters and drowns the Egyptian army
Through this, Israel and the world learn that…
God always makes a way for His People
- God parted the waters
- God gave water from a rock
- God fed them in the desert
- God ALWAYS makes a way
What does this mean for us?
God is the one who makes a way in your circumstances
- In your pain
- In your struggle
First, God introduced Himself to the people
Next, God was teaching the people to TRUST HIM
- That is what wilderness seasons do
- They point you back to God and teach you to trust
There are two important things to know about GOD MAKING A WAY
1: Following God doesn’t always mean it will be easy or make sense.
That is what following God can be like
- You won’t always understand why
Israel didn’t know why God had brought them to the sea
“Have you brought us here to die!”
But God had a bigger purpose in bringing them there
- We’re still talking about it today
When you don’t know the WHY, Focus on the WHAT
What should I be doing now?
- Praying
- Serving
- Grow where you are planted
In most wilderness seasons of your life, you will not know the WHY until you are out of it
- But you can know the WHAT
- Back to the story…
- Israel has crossed the Red Sea
- Phorah’s army is gone
- For the first time, they experience real freedom
In celebration, they sing one of the first recorded songs in the Bible.
Exodus 15
2 The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
3 The Lord is a warrior; the Lord is his name.
11 Lord, who is like you among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?
12 You stretched out your right hand, and the earth swallowed them.
13 With your faithful love, you will lead the people you have redeemed; you will guide them to your holy dwelling with your strength.
2: Worship While You Wait
If you haven’t ever been desperate for God, then worship doesn’t make sense
People in the desert
God had not told them what was next
- they were only just beginning their wilderness season
- But they worshiped
Worship does a few things…
Worship reminds us of God’s Goodness
- His faithfulness
- His love and purpose for us
- Our salvation
When we sing songs of God’s goodness, it helps our spirit rest assured that
If He was faithful then, He will be faithful now
Next
Worship Tell us is not all about us
- This is God’s story
- This is His plan
Worship realigns our hearts to Worship GOD and not OURSELVES.
God ALWAYS makes a way
- When the way seems blocked, WORSHIP
- When you don’t know why, focus on WHAT
Isaiah 43
1 Now this is what the Lord says— the one who created you, Jacob, and the one who formed you, Israel— “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are mine.
2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and the rivers will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched, and the flame will not burn you.
3 For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, and your Savior.
You are not Forgotten in your wilderness
- God will make a way!
- TRUST HIM!

Tuesday May 21, 2024
Lost | The Great Rescue
Tuesday May 21, 2024
Tuesday May 21, 2024
Key Question:
What Is A Wilderness Season?
A season of life where things are:
- Difficult
- Confusing
- Disorienting
- Uphill
- Out of the ordinary
Wilderness Seasons are a MAJOR PART of the Christian Walk
- We anticipate them
A WILDERNESS SEASON IS WHERE WE LEARN WHO GOD IS, HOW HE LOVES US, AND HOW WE SHOULD INTERACT WITH HIM
1 Peter 1:6-7
6 You rejoice in this, even though now for a short time, if necessary, you suffer grief in various trials 7 so that the proven character of your faith—more valuable than gold which, though perishable, is refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
This series is about MAKING THE MOST out of these seasons
- Don’t waste pain
- Learn what God is teaching
We will be looking at the TRUE story of the EXODUS
The freeing of the people of God (Israel) from captivity in Egypt
One of the most powerful stories in human history
The story up to this point:
- Joseph
- 400 years in Egypt
Exodus 1:13-14
13 They worked the Israelites ruthlessly 14 and made their lives bitter with difficult labor in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.
The Exodus story is also Moses’ story
- Placed into a basket on the Nile
- Rescued by Pharaoh’s daughter
- Raised in Pharaoh’s Household
- Kills an Egyptian taskmaster
- Flees to the “WILDERNESS” for 40 years
- Burning Bush
- God sends him BACK to Egypt
The Great Rescue
We have a people who are:
- Oppressed
- Broken
- Tired
- Under Pressure
- Stuck
- LOST
Step 1 of God’s Rescue is:
1: God Promises Freedom
Exodus 6
2 Then God spoke to Moses, telling him, “I am the Lord. 3 I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty, but I was not known to them by my name ‘the Lord.’ 4 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land they lived in as aliens. 5 Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are forcing to work as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant.
6 “Therefore tell the Israelites: I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from the forced labor of the Egyptians and rescue you from slavery to them. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and great acts of judgment. 7 I will take you as my people, and I will be your God. You will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from the forced labor of the Egyptians. 8 I will bring you to the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you as a possession. I am the Lord.” 9 Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their broken spirit and hard labor.
Israel’s freedom is found in God (Yahweh) ALONE
God is REINTRODUCING himself to his people
- He reminds them of His promise to their ancestors
But the people DO NOT believe
- They are so broken
- So LOST
How will God free them from the most powerful kingdom in the known world?
Step 2 of God’s Rescue is:
2: God Confronts Egypt
Exodus 7
1 The Lord answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet. 2 You must say whatever I command you; then Aaron your brother must declare it to Pharaoh so that he will let the Israelites go from his land. 3 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart and multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt. 4 Pharaoh will not listen to you, but I will put my hand into Egypt and bring the military divisions of my people the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment. 5 The Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the Israelites from among them.”
Egypt was the SUPERPOWER of its day
Superpowers think they are untouchable
They can do WHATEVER THEY WANT to WHOMEVER THEY WANT
God confronts the “gods” of Egypt through the plagues
Examples:
- Turn Nile River to blood – Hapi, the bull god, god of the Nile; Isis, goddess of the Nile; Khnum, ram god, guardian of the Nile
- Death of livestock – Hathor, goddess with a cow head; Apis, the bull god, symbol of fertility
- Darkness – Ra, the sun god; Horus, a sun god; Nut, a sky goddess; Hathor, a sky goddess
The “gods” of the Egyptians were POWERLESS against the God of Israel
At first, they tried to COPY God’s power, but they could not and were powerless to stop it
Step 3 of God’s Rescue is:
3: Israel Chooses to walk out free
Exodus 12
33 Now the Egyptians pressured the people in order to send them quickly out of the country, for they said, “We’re all going to die!” 34 So the people took their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls wrapped up in their clothes on their shoulders.
35 The Israelites acted on Moses’s word and asked the Egyptians for silver and gold items and for clothing. 36 And the Lord gave the people such favor with the Egyptians that they gave them what they requested. In this way they plundered the Egyptians.
God had MADE A WAY
Israel still had to choose to LEAVE
- All they had known
- All the gods they had known
Application:
WHAT DOES THIS STORY MEAN FOR US?
1: God Promises Freedom – We Need Freedom
Like how Egypt made slaves out of Israel – Sin makes slaves out of us.
Romans 6:16
16 Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey—either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness?
Sin…
- Oppresses us
- Harms us
- Kills us
The “WILDERNESS OF HUMANITY” is because of sin
Some of you are LOST IN THE WILDERNESS because of your sin
- Your choices
- Way of thinking
- Lifestyles
- Beliefs
There are HOLDING YOU CAPTIVE
<<NOTE>>
Every wilderness season is NOT because of some hidden sin, but many times it is…
<Your Prayer>
Father, please reveal to me any hidden sin, thought pattern or way of living that is not in alignment with your ways
2: God Confronted Egypt – God Confronts lies and breaks strongholds
John 14:6
Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
- Jesus came to show us the way through the TRUTH of His life
Sin is based on lies… It says…
- I know what’s best for me…
- This isn’t hurting anyone…
- No one will ever know…
- Did God really say?
In order to free us, God must directly challenge the idols, false assumptions, and lies—whether they originate from within ourselves or from our adversary
What does this look like for us?
- Reading and understanding the Bible (Learning Truth)
- Sermons and Bible study with others (Hearing Truth)
- Relationships that can speak TRUTH into your life (Hard Truths)
- Holy Spirit Conviction
3: Israel Chose to walk out Free – We must choose to walk in God’s Freedom
Galatians 5:1
For freedom, Christ set us free. Stand firm, then, and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.
Staying in Egypt meant staying a slave — Staying in our sin means staying its slave
- When God frees us, we must CHOOSE to walk in that freedom
- Don’t return
- Don’t stay put
- MOVE!
The reason you may be in the wilderness is for God to DEMONSTRATE his POWER and TRUTH to you
- Can’t see it when things are good
Our God is a God RESCUES HIS PEOPLE
- Then and NOW
- Don’t be a slave to LESSER THINGS
The START of making it through the wilderness is BREAKING THE HOLD of SIN, LIES, and STRONGHOLDS
It is only the POWER, TRUTH, and FREEDOM of God that can give us hope and purpose for our lives and our world

Thursday May 16, 2024
Stop The Anxiety Cycle
Thursday May 16, 2024
Thursday May 16, 2024
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Anxiety
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Avoidance/Obsession
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Short-Term Relief
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Long-term Anxiety Growth
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Over and Over….
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But we should think of anxiety differently than the rest of the world
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We have patience and sympathy for those who do struggle
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Make sure you see a professional if your anxiety goes to far
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It’s something we do
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But the answer isn’t “JUST STOP WORRYING ALL THE TIME”
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We stockpile things to worry about
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They are YOUR anxieties
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They are YOUR worries
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For how much we hate our anxieties, we love to hold on to them…
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We love to HOARD them
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Want to keep it
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Want to hold onto it
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Want to fix it
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Want to manipulate it
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Want to control it
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It’s been around for a LONG time
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From David…
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Who are the righteous?
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Those who live under God’s right rule
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Healthy, Active Prayer life
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Cast your care immediately to Him
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Did it out of obligations (was supposed to)
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Not I do it because I see its true value
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It shifts your…
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Outlook
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Your faith
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Your determination
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View of God
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Why do you think atheists and others keep gratitude journals?
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Because God made us to be grateful, not worrisome
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You get better the more you do it
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The seasons
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The lessons
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The people
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The small miracles
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Keep a list of things you are really thankful for and return to them when worry creeps in
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Practice Thankfulness everyday
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To a past event
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In a future possibility
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We are trapped but hold the key
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The key is our own mind and what we allow in there
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Only HE knows the Future
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Only HE can bring out what he desires
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Only God has ownership over us, not our fears, sin, or ourselves
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We make our minds SUBMIT to GOD’S TRUTH
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Not Anxieties VERSION of the truth
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Don’t play around with Anxiety
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Take it out!
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And We DO!
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The Holy Spirit
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We never believe the lie that we are captive to our thoughts
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This changes the cycle of worry and anxiety
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Memorize scripture that can bring you hope and clarity
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Faith
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Hope
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Wonder
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Excitement

Tuesday May 07, 2024

Monday Apr 22, 2024
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Monday Apr 15, 2024
Heaven, Hell, and the End of the World | Hell? No!
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Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
Heaven, Hell, and the End of the World | Rules For The Road
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Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
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Monday Mar 25, 2024
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Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
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