Sermon
What Are You Running From ?
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Transcript
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There is something about the nature of faith that is
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illustrated by the rain in First Kings chapter eighteen, and
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so we see it when Elijah says to Ahab, there
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is the sound of the heavy rain. There's the sound
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of the heavy rain that often when it comes to
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the realm of faith, we hear things that we cannot
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see yet. There are a few stages that you're going
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to have to go through if you are going to
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come out of the drought.
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Now.
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When I say the drought, I mean the dry season
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that you have been experiencing inside of yourself. So I
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want to speak to you today about coming out of
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the drought, but I want to do it a little differently.
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What I want to do is I want to talk
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about the enemies that will keep you in a dry place.
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I believe our faith must survive. The invisibility stage.
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Is kind of tough because you.
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Know what you heard, and you know what you sense.
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Sometimes but what you see is a direct contradiction of
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what you sense.
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This is the second stage that your faith must survive.
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It's insignificance. Celebrate the small start. I want you to
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look at everything that seems stupid that you're doing right now,
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and I want you to say this is significant.
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The devil won't like it when you say that, because
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the way he gets you to leave your assignment is
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to convince you that it doesn't matter what you're working on.
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It's so small.
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That the enemy can't kill you in the invisibility stage
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or the insignificant stage. The only thing left for him
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to do to keep you from receiving what God is
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pouring out in your life is intimidation.
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Don't you know the devil found out a long time ago.
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Then he can't curse what God is blessed since he couldn't.
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Kill you, and he tries to contain you, so he
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intimidates you. Some of us are better at surviving in
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famine than we are at living in blessing.
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So the message God gave me for somebody today you
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know who you are, is that you are running from
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the rain.
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You are running from the blessing of God.
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You are running.
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From something that is already defeated. You are running from
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shame that the Cross of Jesus Christ has already taken away.
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You are running from situations that God has already worked out.
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Head back in the right direction and run toward the rain.
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It's raining now. The trail is over come out of
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the trap is raining now.
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Why would you run from the rain, Why would you
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run from the blessing of God. See, when you run
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from the resistance, you run from the rain. When you
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run from the problem, you run from the promise. When
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you run from the problem, you run from the harvest.