So What Are You Going To Do NEXT?

(Follow-up to the 40 Days of Purpose)

Part ONE: The Delusion of Staying Where We Are

Some of the stuff we looked at:

• 2 Kings 7:3-11 - Story of the lepers who encountered an amazing opportunity

• This is not the finish line... this is the starting line.

• Crawling is good... but what if you were meant to run?

• The risk of heading out into the harbour: you might run into a storm. The question is, are you fulfilling your purpose when the storm comes?

• Isaiah 43:16-19 - Forget the former things. Don't dwell on the past. I'm doing a new thing.

• We have human tendencies that keep us in the harbour and prevent us from launching out into where God wants to lead us:

  1. To think that God and His purposes are meant to revolve around us and our lives.

  2. To seek to relive the same moments we once had, based on good memories.

  3. To stay where we are and make theologies and philosophies out of experiences.

• Israel constantly wanted to go back to Egypt: familiarity, predictability, certainty, safety, security - but it was slavery!

• Jesus' transfiguration (Luke 9): Peter wanted to just stay there. But it wasn't part of the mission. It was what happened after they came down from the mountain that was the mission! (Read it and see what it was.)

• The Delusion: We think that safety is the priority. We think that familiarity is security. We think that predictability is stability. We think that certainty is a reality. We think that faith is discovered visually.

• It's not just about what God is doing IN you, but what He wants to do WITH you and THROUGH you!