I just wanted to say that this last series, The Wild Goose Chase, was awesome. We got a lot of great feedback, and over 80 people identified one of six cages they wanted to brake out of.
The Journey Staff spent the morning praying for these people and we can’t wait to see what God is going to do. It is always a good thing to be challenged to let the Holy Spirit work in your life.
If you were not able to be with us, I want you to know the six cages we talked about that hold you back from pursuing a God ordained life:
*Responsibility
Our God-ordained passions can get buried beneath day-to-day responsibilities. Without even knowing it, we start practicing irresponsible responsibility. The Wild Goose Chase begins when we come to terms with our greatest responsibility: pursuing the passions God has put in our heart.
*Routine
At some point in our journey, most of us trade adventure for routine. While some routines can be good, we have to be careful. Sacred routines become empty rituals that keep us caged.
*Assumption
Our assumptions keep many of us from chasing the Wild Goose. As we age, many of us stop believing and start assuming. We stop living out of right-brain imagination and start living out of left-brain memory. And we put eight-foot ceilings on what God can do.
*Guilt
The Enemy’s tactics haven’t changed since the Garden of Eden. He tries to neutralize us spiritually by getting us to focus on what we’ve done wrong in the past. Satan uses guilt to turn us into reactionaries. Jesus came to recondition our spiritual reflexes and turn us into revolutionaries for His cause. As long as you are focused on what you’ve done wrong in the past, you won’t have the energy left to dream kingdom dreams.
*Failure
Sometimes our plans have to fail in order for God’s plans to succeed. Divine detours and delays are the ways God gets us where He wants us to go.
*Fear
We need to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. Instead, we need to start playing offense with our lives. The world needs more people with more daring plans.
You can listen to these messages on our website-- Journey365.org
I want to encourage all of you with
Ephesians 3:14-20:
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us...
I look forward to hearing all the great stories to come as we bust out of our cages.
I want to remind you I am doing a stand-alone sermon on Father’s day,
June 21st, and want to encourage you to join us at the BBQ & Classic Car show that follows the Journey service.
I want to remind you I am doing a stand-alone sermon on Father’s day,
June 21st, and want to encourage you to join us at the BBQ & Classic Car show that follows the Journey service. Ephesians 6:4 Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
On June 28th, we start our Summer Block Busters 2009 sermon series with Angels and Demons. Have a great week and pray that I don’t break any bones on the lake!
On June 28th, we start our Summer Block Busters 2009 sermon series with Angels and Demons. Have a great week and pray that I don’t break any bones on the lake!
