The Way God Works

The Way God Works

Sunday Feb 15, 2004 || 9:45 AM

Speaker: James MacDonald

2 Kings 4

Hosea 14:9

Is 55:8,9

Five things people think God way is:

1. No suffering or hardship of any kind for me.
2. God should work big, loud and bam all of a sudden.
3. God should work on demand
4. God should work fast. (I ask you about that yesterday, no waiting and no wondering)
5. God should work always (always in my life)
• God's love is not a pampering love, but a perfecting love.
• We all face times of desperate need.

[Don't be careless in your speech. Wait and listen to whether the Holy Spirit is speaking or not. The Holy Spirit is able to speak through any person, christian or not, through circumstances, and events. Even with the non-christian. Will your word or voice change the course of time or events? “no” Keep your tongue. Like being careless with keeping your car doors locked when left unattended, the same with your mouth. When sarcasm sets in and you are to mock, you didn't listen. You espouse your justice, your way, your righteousness, your thoughts, your bitterness, your hate, your anything.]

• God only needs only what we have.
• What do we have. ( we might only have a Bible, a guy can do a lot with the truth. We may have christian friends, listen to them. We got the power of the Holy Spirit. We have the grace and strength to wait upon God for his timing and his provision. Bring those things to God
• God only does what we can't, but sometimes it is hard to know what to do and when to wait on God!
  • When have I done enough? When have I done too much? When am I messing up the whole thing?
• Do what you can and leave the rest with God.

I know I am trying too hard when:

1. I feel tried and spent rather than peace and contentment.
2. I am pressing in a way to make other believers scratch their heads.
3. I am praying how and when prayers instead of what prayers

Like children, let your request be known to God.

• God fills only what we offer to him

Some of you have been waiting on God for something, and you have prayed for a while, and you sought God for a while, but it is just too hard to keep holding up that empty place (that empty circumstance). And we stop trusting, and we stop waiting, and we stop looking to God - And He stops working. This is the way God works.

(God) Needing only what we have, doing only what we can't, filling only what we offer.

Howard Hendricks says: “When you got the light of the world, you are going to draw some bugs”