It’s difficult to grow spiritually while remaining emotionally immature. Instead of paying attention to the deep places of our life needing transformation, believers often focus on external matters- attending church, small groups, and busy work for the Lord. Everything looks okay on the surface, but what lies beneath?
Through the Wall
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Josh Blount
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1 Peter 1:18
Your life is a journey you must travel
STAGE 1: “Life-Changing Awareness of God”
STAGE 2: Discipleship
STAGE 3: The Active Life
Divorce - Job loss - Death of Loved One - a Cancer diagnosis
Bad Church Experience • Betrayal
Shattered Dream - Challenging Child - Infertility
Singlehood - Spiritual Dryness - Loss of Joy
Genesis 22:1
Some time later God tested Abraham.
A test is an opportunity with a goal of success
A temptation is an opportunity with a goal of failure
He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. 2 Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac— and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”
Genesis 22:3
Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about.
Genesis 22:6
Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together,
Genesis 15:17
When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces. 18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land,
Genesis 22:5
He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.”
Genesis 22:7
Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?” “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied. “The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
Genesis 22:8
Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together. 9 When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
Genesis 22:11
But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. 12 “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.” 13 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”
Jehovah Jireh “the lord will provide”
STAGE 4: The Journey Inward
STAGE 5: Journey Outward
STAGE 6: Transformed by Love.
Luke 22:42
Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but [always] Yours be done.
1 John 3:2
We are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
How do you know when you’ve made it through a wall?
- Greater level of brokenness
- Greater appreciation for Holy Unknowing
- Deeper ability to wait for God
- Greater detachment