Connecting With God: The Lord’s Prayer – Message 3
SOURCES OF STRESS
- Uncontrollable circumstances
- Uncooperative people
- Unexplainable pain (pain doesn't make sense)
This all we can't control,but the only solution is SURRENDER.
His kingdom is not in this world. His kingdom is not matter of thought, but the power. Is not the words matter, is the works matter.
“Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.”
Matthew 6:10 (KJV)
Thy kingdom come and thy will be done is the same. =prayer of surrender.
GOD’S KINGDOM is wherever God's will is done
SURRENDERING TO JESUS MEANS...
1. LETTING GO OF CONTROL
Letting God be God.
“Let go, and know that I am God. I rule the nations. I rule the earth.”
Psalm 46:10 (GW)
Be still and know I am God. (Be still = let go)
Let go the control, and know God is in control.
We try do thing that only God can do. ---STRESS.
THE SERENITY PRAYER
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time, accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
taking as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; trusting that You will make all things right if I surrender to your will, so that I may be reasonably happy in this life, and supremely happy with You forever in the next. Amen.
“If a person’s thinking is controlled by his sinful self, then there is death. But if his thinking is controlled by the Spirit, then there is life and peace.”
Rom. 8:6 (ICB)
2. LEARNING TO BE CONTENT
“...I have learned to be satisfied with the things I have and with everything that happens. I know how to live when I am poor, and I know how to live when I have plenty. I have learned the secret of being happy (content) at any time in everything that happens ... I can do all things through Christ, because he gives me strength.”
Phil. 4:11-13 (NCV)
Paul write this when in Prison.
Contentment is a learn experience. Is something I need to learn. Is a choice.
It is only possible to Christ strength. Christ give me the strength to be contented.
One of the problem we have with contentment is because we always looking for explanation in our life that why things happened.
- God didn't owe us an explanation.
- When God tell us why, maybe we might not able to understand too.
Teacher is silent, when the test is given. (God is silent, when you are being tested)
You no need explanation, you need God's presence.
“Surrender yourself to the Lord, and wait patiently for him.”
Ps. 37:7a (GW)
3. LAYING DOWN MY PLAN
IAS= is always something
Why do I have many problem?
- I make bad choices. ( we don't use money, time wise... bad decision...)
- Satan want to defeat you.
- We live in imperfect world.
Get connected - community. Not be Lone Ranger.
God want us to learn to be unselfish. God want to watch us to love each other.
Use your worldly resources to benefit other and make friends.
No. 1 used of money is in RELATIONSHIP.
Your generosity store up a reward for you in heaven.
God want us to be a giver, not a taker in life.
I lay down my plan and lose my life by using my life (time, money and energy...) for the benefit of other people.
“This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.”
1 John 3:16 (NIV)
“...Give yourselves to God... surrender your whole being to him to be used for righteous purposes.”
Rom. 6:13 (TEV)
“God will give you all you need from day to day if you live for him and make the Kingdom of God your primary concern.”
Matt. 6:33 (NLT)
Care those thing that God care about. God care about PEOPLE.
4. LEAVING THE FUTURE TO GOD
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.”
Prov. 3:5-6 (ESV)
“The Lord takes care of those who obey him, and gives them eternal rewards that last forever. They will survive through hard times and will have more than enough even in a time of famine.”
Psalm 37:18-19 (TEV)
What area of your life is not surrender to God?
(Bedroom... sex life... finances... relationship) that's why you under stress.
Surrender is ultimate expression of FAITH.
Jesus: “...You must give up everything you have to be my follower.”
Luke 14:33 (NCV)
“But let me assure you that no one has ever given up anything...for love of me and to tell others the Good News, who won’t be given back, a hundred times over... and in the world to come he shall have eternal life.”
Mark 10:29-30 (LB)
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