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Wednesday Jul 25, 2018
Wednesday Jul 25, 2018
Series: True Grit
Sermon Title: Gritty For God's Glory
Scripture: Matthew 15:21-28
Date: June 24, 2018
Last week's WEEKLY CHALLENGE: Ask "Why not?" a lot this week; especially to things that you suspect God may want you to do.
Then Jesus went out from there and departed to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a woman of Canaan came from that region and cried out to Him, saying, "Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely demon-possessed." But He answered her not a word. And His disciples came and urged Him, saying, "Send her away, for she cries out after us." But He answered and said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." Then she came and worshipped Him, saying, "Lord, help me!" But He answered and said, "It is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs." And she said, "Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters' table." Then Jesus answered and said to her, "O woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire." And her daughter was healed from that very hour. (Matthew 15:21-28)
GRITTY FOR GOD'S GLORY
Our grit or strength is a byproduct of our relationship with Jesus.
It may be that you need courage to have grit for someone else.
God is not honored when we get our feelings hurt way too easily.
WEEKLY CHALLENGE: Ask God where He wants you to be gritty for His glory.
Let's see an encouragement and some places for Christians to show grit:
- Promises
- But now I come to You and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves. (John 17:13)
- I want to fill you with joy.
- And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them. The love of God will be planted deep in you, and I'll always be with you. (John 17:26)
- Jesus made the Father known to us and has placed His love within us - a love that is not to be kept to ourselves.
- The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destory. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundatly. (John 10:10)
- My purpose in your life is to give you a rich and satisfying life.
- Places
- Family
- Will you give your family the best chance possible to have the best relationship possible with Jesus?
- Love
- Family
Monday Jul 23, 2018
Monday Jul 23, 2018
Series: Me and My Big Mouth
Sermon Title: Sanctifying Our Speech
Scripture: Ephesians 4:17-32
Date: July 15, 2018
Last week's WEEKLY CHALLENGE: Pray this prayer at the beginning of each day: "Heavenly father, I give you my tongue today, to glorify You this day. Remind me to be quick to listen and slow to speak."
Quick to listen and slow to speak.
This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened, begin alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart;... (Ephesians 4:17-18)
- Their gods were all about themselves.
...who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. (Ephesians 4:19)
- NIV: Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed.
That, however, is not the way of life you learned when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. (Ephesians 4:20-21)
- "Jesus, Paul, and the early church were advocating for what most of us assume." -Andy Stanley
- All men, women, and children are made in the image of God and have equal value.
You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;... (Ephesians 4:22)
...to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. (Ephesians 4:23-24)
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths,... (Ephesians 4:29a)
- Avoid fish mouth.
- Avoid sandal mouth.
...but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. (Ephesians 4:29b)
- The point is to be helpful.
- Are people better off for having talked to us?
- Are people better off for having read our social media?
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. (Ephesians 4:30)
- Don't say something to someone God loves that makes God go "Oh no! Why would you say that?"
- "My mom said that there has to be a line somewhere where there is something that God does not like." -Sherri Lynn
Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words, and slander, as well as all types of evil behavior. (Ephesians 4:31, NLT)
- "Bitterness not only affects what we say but how we say it." -Andy Stanley
- You can't be a builder if you are bitter.
- Forgiveness is giving someone from the past what they don't deserve so you can give to those around you what they do deserve or need.
- Get rid of all words that:
- demean
- communicates that you don't really matter.
- degrade
- means you don't measure up.
- disrespect
- communicates you are not worthy of my respect.
- demean
- Don't forget that this is about me and my big mouth!
And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you. (Ephesians 4:32)
- WEEKLY CHALLENGE: Meditate on these two questions:
- Where do I have work to do?
- Who hopes I get to work soon?
- This will make your life better and make you better at life.
Monday Jul 23, 2018
Monday Jul 23, 2018
Series: Freedom in Jesus
Sermon Title: Jesus: The Door to Freedom
Scripture: John 10:9
Date: July 8, 2018
I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. (John 10:9)
JESUS: THE DOOR TO FREEDOM
The good news tonight is that Jesus is the door out of our mental and spiritual prisons. He is the one who sets us free.
Some doors are opportunities and some are traps.
How does God get you out of prison? How does God set upa a jail break?
- Shakes things up
- Suddenly, there was a great earthquake, and the prison was shaken to its foundations. All the prison doors flew open, and the chains of every prisoner fell off and they were set free! (Acts 16:26, NLT)
- Plugs you into the power of the resurrection
- I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God's power for us who believe him. this is the same mighty power that raised Christ from the dead and seated him in the place of honor at God's right hand in the heavenly realms. (Ephesians 1:19-20, NLT)
- "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has annointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind." (Luke 4:18)
- "If you live as I tell you to, you are truly my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.... And if the Son sets you free, you will be truly free!" (John 8:31-32, 36)
- Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom! (2 Corinthians 3:17, NIV)
- "The more of God you have in your life the more free you will be." -Rick Warren
Here are three prisons God wants to set you free from - we've all been in all three.
- The prison of pretending
- What causes you to fall into the trap of pretending? 2 things: people pleasing and perfectionism
- Two causes of falling into the trap of pretending:
- People pleasing
- The fear of human opinion disables; but trusting in God protects you from that. (Proverbs 29:25, MSG)
- Even God can't please everybody.
- You don't have to have other people's approval to be happy.
- Perfectionism
- Feeling you have to be perfect in order to be loved.
- You are always making yourselves look good, but God sees what is in your heart. The things that most people think are important are worthless as far as God is concerned. (Luke 16:15, CEV)
- "How do I walk through the door of freedom from pretending? Switch your focus to what God thinks." -Rick Warren
- I will live in freedom, because I only pay attention to what you say (Lord). (Psalm 119:45)
- People pleasing
- The prison of unforgiveness
- We all need forgiveness. We need to ask for it, give it, and accept it.
- We all hurt people and get hurt. Unforgiveness will become a prison if you don't receive, accept, and give forgiveness.
- 3 reasons to let it go:
- because God has forgiven me
- There is now no condemnation awaiting those who belong to Christ Jesus. For the power of God's life-giving Spirit - and this power is mine through Christ Jesus - has freed me from the vicious circle of sin and death. (Romans 8:1-2, LB)
- because resentment makes me miserable
- because I'm going to need more forgiveness in the future
- If you refuse to forgive others, your Father in heaven will not forgive your sins. (Matthew 6:15, NLT)
- because God has forgiven me
- The prison of fear
- That evening, the disciples met behind locked doors out of fear of the religious leaders. Suddenly, Jesus stood among them! "Peace be with you," he said. (John 20:19, NLT)
- Helps for being delivered fromt he prison of fear:
- Remember how much God loves me
- God is love. whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him...There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear. (John 4:16, 18)
- The more you invite God's love into your life, believe it, accept it, and receive it, the less fear you will have.
- Remember God has a good plan for your life
- God's plans are too good to miss. -Charles Stanley
- And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, and have been called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28, NIV)
- God used the greatest bad thing to be the greatest good thing.
- It makes no difference who you are or where you're from - if you want God and are ready to do as he says, the DOOR IS OPEN! (Acts 10:35, MSG)
- Remember how much God loves me
God, I bring these things that have imprisoned me, and I give them to you. You are the door of freedom, and I come to you through Jesus. I am walking through the door to freedom; as best as I can, I give my life to you, Lord Jesus, and I want to live with, for, and through You. I want to walk through the doors of opportunity You have for me. Take my life.
Sunday Jul 22, 2018
Sunday Jul 22, 2018
Series: Me and My Big Mouth
Sermon Title: The Untamable Tongue
Scripture: James 3:2-12
Date: July 8, 2018
Last week's WEEKLY CHALLENGE: Say this a lot to yourself: "Quick to listen, slow to speak."
For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body. Indeed, we put bits in horses' mouths that they may obey us, and we turn their whole body. Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires. Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh. (James 3:2-12)
THE UNTAMABLE TONGUE
Quick to listen; slow to speak.
Our lives are shaped by the words spoken to us and about us.
All words are not equally weighted.
The source of words is not equally weighted.
Words hurt immediately but it takes a while to recover from them.
"Our words are the most powerful thing we have." -Andy Stanley
For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body. Indeed, we put bits in horses' mouths that they may obey us, and we turn their whole body. (James 3:2-3)
Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires. (James 3:4)
Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles! (James 3:5)
Jan 1, 2018 - Jun 6, 2018: 24,760 wildfires
Jan 1, 2017 - Jun 6, 2017: 25,699 wildfires
About 1.8 million acres were burned in the 2018 period, compared with 2.3 million in 2017.
2017: 71,499 wildfires according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
About 10 million acres were burned in the 2017 period.
Your tongue didn't just get your mouth in trouble but your whole body.
As your words go, so goes your life.
If you start a fire accidentally, you are still responsible for the first one you started.
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body,and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. (James 3:6)
For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. But no man can tame the tongue. (James 3:7-8a)
We cannot tame the tongeue.
It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. (James 3:8b)
"You'll regret opening your mouth. You'll rarely regret keeping it shut." -Max Lucado
With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening? Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh. (James 3:9-12)
3 helps for us to guard our tongues:
- Remember
- Surrender
- WEEKLY CHALLENGE: Pray this prayer at the beginning of each day: "Heavenly Father, I give you my tongue today, to glorify you this day. Remind me to be quick to listen and slow to speak."
- Confess
Dads: our words are the hottest and heaviest.
Children: our words to our parents are the heaviest and hottest they hear.
Ladies: men's egos are so fragile. Purpose to build the men up and not tear them down with your words.
Men: honor women with your words.
Sunday Jul 22, 2018
Sunday Jul 22, 2018
Series: Me and My Big Mouth
Sermon Title: Quick to Listen, Slow to Speak
Scripture: James 1:19-21
Date: July 1, 2018
QUICK TO LISTEN, SLOW TO SPEAK
WEEKLY CHALLENGE: Say this a lot to yourself this week: "Quick to listen, slow to speak."
So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak... (James 1:19a)
- How many of you know that some of your worst relationship moments are when you are quick to speak and slow to listen?
- "You can 'right' them right out of the relationship." -Andy Stanley
...slow to wrath,... (James 1:19b)
- This is easier if you will be slow to speak and quick to listen
- Anger, here in verse 19, could be said to be hasty, misinformed, relationally destructive conclusions.
- Everything everyone does, says and believes makes perfect sense to them.
- Habit 5: seek first to understand, then to be understood. (From Stephen Covey's "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People")
...for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God. (James 1:20)
- NIV: because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires
There are 3 agendas in conflict:
- Your agenda
- Their agenda
- God's agenda
"You want to be right at each other and God wants you to be right with each other." -Andy Stanley
As I have loved you, love each other. (John 13:24)
Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and reeive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. (James 1:21)
- Lay aside: take off the coat; take off the "I'm right" jacket
Humility says we are more important than me.
"People who were nothing like Jesus liked Jesus." -Andy Stanley
Sunday Jul 22, 2018
Sunday Jul 22, 2018
Series: Big Bible Stories
Sermon Title: A Picture of Savlation
Scripture: Exodus 14:19-31
Date: June 24, 2018
And the Angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud went from before them and stood behind them. So it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. Thus it was a cloud and darkness to the one, and it gave light by night to the other, so that the one did not come near the other all that night. Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided. So the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. And the Egyptians pursued and went after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. Now it came to pass, in the morning watch, that the Lord looked down upon the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud, and He troubled the army of the Egyptians. And He took off their chariot weels, so that they drove them with difficulty; and the Egyptians said, "Let us flee from the face of Israel, for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians." Then the Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come back upon the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen." And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and when the morning appeared, the sea returned to its full depth, while the Egyptians were fleeing into it. So the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. Then the waters returned and covered the chariots, the horsemen, and all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them. Not so much as one of them remained. But the children of Israel had walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. So the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. Thus Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done in Egypt; so the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord and His servant Moses. (Exodus 14:19-31)
A PICTURE OF SALVATION
I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make its boast in the Lord; the humble shall hear of it and be glad. Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together. (Psalm 34:1-3)
Let's see a little of what God does in salvation:
- God provides a pardon
- Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight. And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it. (Exodus 12:5-7)
- Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. (Exodus 12:13)
- For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23)
- God provides protection
- God has freed us from the power of darkness, and he brought us into the kingdom of his dear Son. The Son paid for our sins, and in him we have forgiveness. (Colossians 1:13-14, NCV)
- And the Angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud went from before them and stood behind them. So it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. Thus it was a cloud and darkness to the one, and it gave light by night to the other, so that the one did not come near the other all that night. (Exodus 14:19-20)
- My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand. I and My Father are one." (John 10:27-30)
- For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor power, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:38-39)
- God provides a path
- Then the Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come back upon the Egyptians, on their chairiots, and on their horsemen." And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and when the morning appeared, the sea returned to its full depth, while the Egyptians were fleeing into it. So the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. Then the waters returned and covered the chariots, the horsemen, and all the army of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them. Not so much as one of them remained. But the children of Israel had walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. (Exodus 14:26-29)
- God is the path.
- God provieds the Provider. God provides Himself.
- so the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. Thus Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done in Egypt; so the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord and His servant Moses. (Exodus 14:30-31)
Sunday Jul 22, 2018
Sunday Jul 22, 2018
Series: Big Bible Stories
Sermon Title: An Epic Battle
Scripture: Exodus 7:1-7
Date: June 17, 2018
So the Lord said to Moses: "See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet. You shall speak all that I command you. And Aaron your brother shall tell Pharaoh to send the children of Israel out of his land. And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt. But Pharaoh will not heed you, so that I may lay My hand on Egypt and bring My armies and My people, the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judments. And the Egytpians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out My hand on Egypt and bring out the children of Israel from among them." Then Moses and Aaron did so; just as the Lord commanded them, so they did. And Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three years old when they spoke to Paraoh. (Exodus 7:1-7)
AN EPIC BATTLE
God is greater than anything or anyone that oppresses us.
Let's see three great reasons to let God be the greatest in our lives:
- Only God is truly great and worthy of our trust
- the plagues should make us to "WOW" as we see something of the power of God.
- This is not just a conflict between Moses and Pharaoh; this is a religious conflict between the true God, the God of the Israelites and the false gods of the Egyptians.
- Plagues: 1) blood; 2) frogs; 3) lice or gnats; 4) flies; 5) livestock; 6) boils; 7) hail; 8) locust; 9) darkness; 10) death of firstborn
- "My theme and my theology is, 'God is God. I am not. Hooray!'"
- This shows the futility of trusting in anyone or anything but God.
- Our life choices have consequences
- How we respond to God determines if we receive mercy or punishment.
- Our life choices do have serious consequences.
- The biggest life choice is whether you follow Jesus or not.
- The next biggest life choice is your family choice.
- Why God did it
- The primary motive is God's passionate commitment to magnify His glory in the world.
- But indeed for this purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth. (Exodus 9:16)
- God's commitment to his promises.
- God's invitation to be a part of His family.
Friday Jul 20, 2018
Friday Jul 20, 2018
Series: True Grit
Sermon Title: Why Not?
Scripture: 2 Kings 7:3-9
Date: June 17, 2018
Now there were four men with leprosy sitting at the entrance of the city gates. "Why should we sit here waiting to die?" they asked each other. "We will starve if we stay here, but with the famine in the city, we will starve if we go back there. So we might as well go out and surrender to the Aramean army. If they let us live, so much the better. But if they kill us, we would have died anyway." So at twilight they set out for the camp of the Arameans. But when they came to the edge of the camp, no one was there! For the Lord had caused the Aramean army to hear the clatter of speeeding charios and the galloping of horses and the sounds of a great army approaching. "The king of Israel has hired the Hittites and Egyptians to attach us!" they cried to oen another. So they panicked and ran into the night, abandoning their tents, horses, donkeys, and everything else, as they fled for their lives. When the men with leprosy arrived at the edge of the camp, they went into one tent after another, eating and drinking wine; and they carried off silver and gold and clothing and hid it. Finally, they said to each other, "This is not right. this is a day of good news, and we aren't sharing it with anyone! If we wait until morning, some calamity will certainly fall upon us. com on, let's go back and tell the people at the palace." (2 Kings 7:3-9)
Questions can be a great tool for spiritual growht and growth in spiritual grit.
- What's one thing you could do this summer to increase your enjoyment of God?
- What's the single most important thing you could do to improve the quality of your family life this summer?
- In which spiritual discipline do you most want to make progress this summer, and what will you do about it?
- What is the most helpful new way you could strengthen your church?
- For whose salvation will you pray most fervently this summer?
- What one thing could you do to imporrve your prayer life this summer?
- What single thing that you plan to do this summer will matter most in 10 years? In eternity?
- What habit would you most like to establish this summer?
- Who is the person you most want to encourage this summer?
- What book, in addition to the Bible, do you most want to read this summer?
- In what area of your life do you most need change, and what will you do about it this summer?
- Is what I'm doing helping get what I want the most?
- If someone else was objectively examinging your life, where would they see the most growth over the last year or two? Where woudl they say you needed the most growth?
WHY NOT?
Our grit or strength is a byproduct of our relationship with Jesus.
Learn how to live with a determination to ask, "Why not?" in every situation.
Some time later, however, King Ben-haded of Aram mustered his entire army and besieged Samaria. As a result, there was a great famine in the city. The siege lasted so long that a donkey's head sold for eighty pieces of silver, and a cup of dove's dung sold for five pieces of silver. (2 Kings 6:24-25)
'Why not?' is a helpful question in developing our spiritual grit because it is an:
- Investigative question
- Why not tends to surface the real issue if we will be honest.
- Do we really want to follow Jesus or simply pretend?
- Are you a spectator or a player?
- WEEKLY CHALLENGE: Ask 'Why not?' a lot this week; espeically to things that you suspect God may want you to do.
- "The definition of courage is not a diminishment of fear but our decision to move through fear." -Rick Lawrence
- Intentional question
- If you are thinking about being saved, two of the biggest issues for you is do you know you need to be and do you want to be.
- He want syou to help other people come to Him.
- He wants you to love other people.
- We want to be players in the game not just spectators.
- Asking why not helps us to identify and face our fears instead of skirting them.
- Improvement question
- Finally, they said to each other, "This is not right. This is a day of good news, and we aren't sharing it with anyone! If we wait until morning, some calamity will certainly fall upon us. Come on, let's go back and tell the people at the palace. (2 Kings 7:9)
- Why not reavelas what's stopping you and brings you to a place of trust.