Sunday Re-cap (18th Dec 2005)

Five Signs of Crises
by Ps. David Lai

2 Cor 3:17 -where the spirit of God is there is liberty. liberty in us is that He can transform our lives & bring us from glory to glory, so that He can change us to be more and more like Christ. In order for God to change us, He allows problems and crises.God wants to work in us first so that we can be greater impact & influence.

1. Depression
1 Sam 30 - Don't blame others when everything goes wrong. vs.6. David found strength in the Lord.
Heb 11:11- By faith Sarah received strength because she judged God faithful in what He had promised.
Rom 4:20-21 - Abraham was strenthened in faith believing that God is able to perform what He had promised.
Joshua 1:9 - Joshua faced a leadership crises and God promised to be with Him.
David began to rise up in strength & began to recover spiritually. He recovered all that he Amalekites had taken.
For the people of God, its not crises to crises,but from Glory to Glory in Christ.

2. Hopelessness
Hopelessness will kill; but God is the God of restoration. 1 Sam 30:6
Inpiration preaching does not change our lives but revalation does. 1 Kings 17:8 The hopeless widow served Elijah. Elijah imparted hope into her life.

3. Inferiority
1 sam 21:10 -David felf inferior
Paul knew that in order to overcome inferiority is to be grounded in the love of God.
'Who shall sperate us from the love of God?' We have been made more than conquerors, not based on our performance but in who we are.

4. Failure
God never plans failure for us.
Jer. 29:11 God's strenght towards us is of peace and not of evil; and of a future and hope.
Man was not cursed, only the ground and the devil, but man can fall subject to the curse and the curse of the law.

5. Give-up ( Get bitter and die on the inside).
Elijah wanted to give up when Jezebel wanted to kill him. He complained to he Lord, but the Lord ministered to him and restored him.

Father of the prodigal son did not give up on him.

So trust in God, for He will not give up on us. For God is the same yesterday, today & forever. And He desires to see us move from glory to glory and be more like His son Jesus Christ.