Preparing For New Beginnings

PREPARING FOR NEW BEGINNINGS

April 2013

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

JOSEPH DOMINICK MARTINEZ


• BIBLICAL NARRATIVES


• Genesis 22:1-2 (NKJV)

• Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!”

• And he said, “Here I am.”

• Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”


• Hosea 1:1a, 2 (NKJV)

The word of the Lord that came to Hosea the son of Beeri...

When the Lord began to speak by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea:

“Go, take yourself a wife of harlotryAnd children of harlotry,For the land has committed great harlotryBy departing from the Lord.”


• Judges 7:2, 7 (NKJV)

And the Lord said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel claim glory for itself against Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’

Then the Lord said to Gideon, “By the three hundred men who lapped I will save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, every man to his place.”


• 2 Kings 5:9-10, 13-14 (NKJV)

Then Naaman went with his horses and chariot, and he stood at the door of Elisha’s house. 10 And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean.”

And his servants came near and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do something great, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?” 14 So he went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.


• John 9:5-7 (NKJV)

“As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

When He had said these things, He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. And He said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So he went and washed, and came back seeing.


• TRUST

Abraham - Family

Hosea - Heart

Gideon - Vocation/Call

Naaman - Health

Blind Man - Vision


• I HAVE THE RIGHT NOT TO REMAIN SILENT.


• I HAVE THE RIGHT NOT TO REMAIN INVISIBLE.


• I AM SEEN. PEOPLE NOTICE ME.


• EXERCISES


• Matthew 15:18a (NKJV) - But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart

• Proverbs 4:23 (NKJV) - Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.


• Questions to Ponder:

• I wonder what is the overriding sentence that controls my life

• I wonder who said getting married was a priority in life/church

• I wonder how do I know if I found my identity in Christ Jesus


PREPARING FOR NEW BEGINNINGS

April 2013


Preparing For New Beginnings

Spiritual

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