DON’T LIMIT GOD IN YOUR LIFE
DON’T LIMIT GOD IN YOUR LIFE
Can a person really limit God? Not from being God. But you can limit his role in your life.
Psalm 78:40-42 (KJV)
40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
So how is it that we do limit God in our lives?
1. Not Going forward but Turning back
Hebrews 10:38 (ESV)
38 but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
· God loves faith; he wants you to go forward not backwards. The good news is he is merciful so ask him to help you again to go forward and then move forward in his grace
2. Not Remembering what he has done for you
· In the Old Testament they made memorials-they built altars
· We should build altars in our minds.
· We tend to forget God’s goodness and when a test comes a while later it’s like we are at square one.
· I build altars in my mind: If God did that he can do this
3. By not Getting out of the rut we limit God
· If you let things go in your life and don’t go after God with all your heart:
· You will wake up some day and ask where did my life go?
· Someday it will be very difficult for you to get out of the rut if you let it go to long someday when you want to.
· Don’t let sickness progress. (Ignoring the problem These things are like arthritis: first it hits one joint then another then another (it’s progressive) Fight it with the Word and your actions (Resist the devil and rebuke the symptoms)
Hebrews 10:35-36(ESV)
35 Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.
***Don’t throw away your opportunity but make the most out of it
4. So, what can I do? (here’s one thing)
(the Bible says Faith without works(corresponding actions) is Dead
· So, ask God to use you in some small way
· Obey that and he will give you more grace and bigger assignments
· Words for people: I got to know him and his voice first and then when he gave me a word of encouragement I would share it and then he would give me more
· Don’t Quit no matter how it looks
· Keep Believing and Trusting him and you will take the limits off God in your life and then truly “All things will be possible for you”
Matthew 25:23 (ESV)
‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much.
