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FIT FOR LIFEBEING AN INTENTIONAL DISCIPLE
PSSST….UP HERE!
HI THERE….
THIS MONTH WE HAVE BEEN DISCOVERING WHAT IT MEANS TO
BE AN INTENTIONAL DISCIPLE
LAST WEEK WE LEARNED THAT SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES HELP US…
DENY THE NATURAL TO EXPERIENCE THE SUPERNATURAL
TODAY WE WILL SPEND TIME IN SILENCE THIS MORNING
SILENCE IS A SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE
TO MANY…
BEING SILENT ISN’T NATURAL
SO I THOUGHT….WHY TALK ABOUT SILENCE?
WHEN WE CAN EXPERIENCE SILENCE NOW!
THE NEXT FEW MINUTES COULD BE AWKWARD
BECAUSESILENCE AND BEING SILENT IS
HARD!
FOR SOME OF YOU…SILENCE IS FOREIGN
FOR SOME OF YOU…SILENCE IS FOREIGN
AS A STAY AT HOME MOM….
FOR SOME OF YOU…SILENCE IS FOREIGN
AS A STAY AT HOME MOM….
AS A DAD OR MOM WHO WORKS OUTSIDE THE HOME….
FOR SOME OF YOU…SILENCE IS FOREIGN
AS A STAY AT HOME MOM….
AS A DAD OR MOM WHO WORKS OUTSIDE THE HOME….
AS A STUDENT IN A DORM OR SHARED RENTAL
SILENCE ISN’T JUST EVADING NOISE BUT IT IS ALSO ABOUT AVOIDING
TALK
SILENCE CAN HELP YOU BE EQUIPPED TO LIVE OUT MICAH 6.8
WHERE GOD SAYS…
“WHAT DOES THE LORD REQUIRE OF YOU? TO ACT JUSTLY, AND TO LOVE
MERCY AND WALK HUMBLY WITH YOUR GOD.”
MICAH 6.8▪Act Justly (outward)▪Love Mercy (inward)▪Walk Humbly with your God (upward)
Walk Humbly
Love Mercy
Act Justly
SILENCE GIVES YOU SPACE AND TIME TO BE INWARDLY AND
UPWARDLY SPIRITUALLY ‘HEALTHY’
STOP…
AND LISTEN….
WHAT DO YOU HEAR?
A CAR?
WHAT DO YOU HEAR?
A CAR?A RESTLESS BABY?
WHAT DO YOU HEAR?
A CAR?A RESTLESS BABY?
THE WIND BLOWING?
WHAT DO YOU HEAR?
A CAR?A RESTLESS BABY?
THE WIND BLOWING?
YOUR STOMACH?
WHAT DO YOU HEAR?
A CAR?A RESTLESS BABY?
THE WIND BLOWING?
YOUR STOMACH?
YOUR NEIGHBORS STOMACH?
NOW STOP…
NOW STOP AND LISTEN TO GOD
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU HEARD FROM GOD?
THIS IS SCARY TO DO…BUT I DOUBLE DOG DARE YOU TO
ASK GOD TO SPEAK TO YOU IN THIS SILENCE
RIGHT NOW WHERE YOU ARE SITTING
ASK GOD TO SPEAK TO YOU IN THE SILENCE
LET GOD WHISPER TO YOU AS HE DID TO ELIJAH IN I KINGS 19.11-13
11 THE LORD SAID, “GO OUT AND STAND ON THE MOUNTAIN IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, FOR THE LORD IS ABOUT TO PASS BY.”THEN A GREAT AND POWERFUL WIND TORE THE MOUNTAINS APART AND SHATTERED THE ROCKS BEFORE THE LORD, BUT THE LORD WAS NOT IN THE WIND. AFTER THE WIND THERE WAS AN EARTHQUAKE, BUT THE LORD WAS NOT IN THE EARTHQUAKE.
12 AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE CAME A FIRE, BUT THE LORD WAS NOT IN THE FIRE. AND AFTER THE FIRE CAME A GENTLE WHISPER. 13 WHEN ELIJAH HEARD IT, HE PULLED HIS CLOAK OVER HIS FACE AND WENT OUT AND STOOD AT THE MOUTH OF THE CAVE.THEN A VOICE SAID TO HIM, “WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE, ELIJAH?”
GOD ASKED ELIJAH A QUESTION
WHAT IS GOD ASKING YOU RIGHT NOW?
GOD SPEAKS IN SILENCE BUT HE DOES MORE
SILENCE CAN ALSO BLESS YOUAS WE READ IN ISAIAH 30.15
THIS IS WHAT THE SOVEREIGN LORD, THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, SAYS:
“IN REPENTANCE AND REST IS YOUR SALVATION,
IN QUIETNESS AND TRUST IS YOUR STRENGTH,
BUT YOU WOULD HAVE NONE OF IT.
REPENTANCE AND REST…QUIETNESS AND TRUST…
GOD SAYS…
REST AND QUIETNESS IS VITAL FOR THERE TO BE
REPENTANCE AND TRUST
BEING STILL AND SILENTDEMONSTRATES TRUST IN GOD
BEING STILL AND SILENT GIVES OPPORTUNITY TO WAIT ON GOD
PSALM 37 TELLS US OTHER BENEFITS OF BEING STILL AND
SILENT BEFORE GOD
WHEN WE TRUST GOD WE TAKE DELIGHT IN GOD
WHEN YOU DELIGHT IN GOD
HE GIVES YOU THE DESIRES OF YOUR HEART
MEANING…
HE DOESN’T GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANT
MEANING…
HE DOESN’T GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANT
HE GIVES YOU A NEW WANT
BE STILL BEFORE THE LORD AND WAIT PATIENTLY FOR HIM; DO NOT FRET WHEN PEOPLE SUCCEED IN THEIR WAYS, WHEN THEY CARRY OUT THEIR WICKED SCHEMES.
PSALM 37.7
WHEN YOU ARE STILL BEFORE GOD YOU ARE TRUSTING IN GOD
WE SEE ANOTHER BENEFIT IN PSALM 46.10 OF BEING STILL &
SILENT
GOD SAYS, “BE STILL, AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD; I WILL BE EXALTED AMONG THE NATIONS, I WILL BE EXALTED IN THE EARTH.”
WHEN YOU ARE STILL
YOU WILL KNOW GOD AND…
WHEN YOU ARE STILL
YOU WILL KNOW GOD AND…
GOD WILL BE EXALTED (GLORIFIED) TO THOSE AROUND YOU
SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES: TO DENY THE NATURAL TO
EXPERIENCE THE SUPERNATURAL
TAKE A MINUTE TO LISTEN TO GOD IN THE SILENCE….
QUIET DISCIPLINES:
SILENCEMEDITATION
STUDY
MEDITATION IS THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE:
GENESIS 24.63PSALM 1.2
PSALM 63.6PSALM 119.48, 78
MEDITATION…HOLY LEISURE
STUDY
“STUDY TO SHEW THYSELF APPROVED UNTO GOD, A WORKMAN
THAT NEEDETH NOT TO BE ASHAMED, RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE
WORD OF TRUTH.”
II TIMOTHY 2.15 (KING JAMES)
SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES:
HELP US ACT JUSTLY
SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES:
HELP US ACT JUSTLYLOVE MERCY
SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES:
HELP US ACT JUSTLYLOVE MERCY
WALK HUMBLY …
SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES:
HELP US ACT JUSTLYLOVE MERCY
WALK HUMBLY …WITH OUR GOD
SO WHAT???
1. DON’T TURN ON YOUR RADIO, SMARTPHONE, TV OR COMPUTER FIRST THING IN THE MORNING
2. MEDITATE (VISUALIZE) A GOSPEL STORY. CONTEMPLATE, INTERNALIZE, AND PERSONALIZE