The truth is, we live in a self-centered culture. I researched the idea of selfishness just so I would understand it more so for this message, and I came across an article entitled, “Science Shows Us We Are Selfish.”
What if I told you that right now, in this moment, God is trying to elevate your ability to discern His direction? See, we’ve got this problem – we’re always trying to follow the crowd when God’s calling us to follow the cloud.
What if I told you there are lakes INSIDE the ocean? Not just pools of water, but actual lakes with shores and waves, sitting at the bottom of the sea! Water… inside of water! Sounds impossible, right? But it’s TRUE!
Here’s what hit me in my spirit – you can be surrounded by all these blessings, all these relationships, all this provision, all this goodness, all these opportunities. But if you don’t know how to turn the blessing into gratitude, your life will never be filled…
If you stopped a hundred people on the street today and asked them to define love, you’d get a hundred different answers! There’s a rather famous book edited by John Bartlett and it has around 1300 different definitions of love from all these smart people; And…
There’s something powerful about a person with passion … but there’s a difference between passion that’s just burning hot and passion that’s been elevated by divine purpose. Think about young Moses for a second. His passion? It was raw, it was real, and it was reckless.
So, everyone’s full of something, and it’s not always pretty, but I want you to know that… GOD HAS A BETTER PLAN: HE WANTS TO FILL YOU WITH GOOD STUFF!
There’s a moment when your circumstance and your calling collide. We see this collision in the life of Paul, a man who found himself in chains but refused to let his chains define his position.