John 2:7-11. Water into wine. One right step at a time.
A crisis can involve God to seek decisions and answer solutions. A leader is some one that takes it to Jesus only for help to find a solution. Mary listened to Jesus knowing he will do something.
Godly parents need to teach their children how to listen to God and trust Him!! Our example matters. We can use our influence to help others. God speaks to those who want to serve.
How do we tap into the supernatural power of God?
John 2:1-5,6-11 We need to turn to Jesus. If struggling or empty, watching our hearts.
All we need to know is how to cry out to God!!!! Parents need to teach and encourage their children and others that they can cry out to God.
Fill your life with God!!!!
A first impression is important.
John 2:1-5.
Jesus knew what he was doing, turning water into wine.
Jesus can transform us in a minute!!!! The Joy of the Lord is our strength..
We need to go to Jesus our whole life.
1. A Godly mother prays and is aware of what’s going on!!!
Matt. 11:2-6. Jesus made decisions based on what would glorify God!! Can we win someone with our actions, as well as words? Making Gods plan’s first before our own honors faithfulness to God.
We need the right kind of people in our lives when we are struggling with God. Someone who speaks the truth and lives for God. We need someone that we can be honest with that is a good example in glorifying
God!!!
John 11:3-6, 20-29. It is God’s desire to come to us and teach us during the trials of life.
Difficulty, we all face!! God is God , no mater what. Jesus continued to help others.
Learn to rejoice in what God is doing in others lives. Mary and Martha’s faith needed to grow and so does ours!!!
John 11:32 We often ask how? and why? We want to make sense of what’s happening. God enters our pain. Death is not natural. He is angry at sin and death. His virtue is to overlook an offense. God is alway about redemption.
John 11:1-35. We may have a b roken heart and dreams. We need a word from God!!
God will purposely delay what we are hoping for. The worse place to be - is being self sufficient.
Sometimes we need truth and sometimes we need tears. Jesus is the man of sorrows, he understood!!!
He cares, but moves in perfect timing. It’s life’s resurrected power right now as in heaven.
In John 11 Jesus brings truth to Martha and tears to Mary in life’s heartache with Lazarus. Jesus symbolizes with us perfect council. God knows what he is going to do. He chooses to enter the weeping.
He feels what you feel. He cares. That’s who He is!! God will let trouble and pain come into our lives.
Some things we learn through pain. He enters humanity and the pain of people. Everything works for good!!
2Kings 4:27-30 and John 11:1-3. They choose community- a connection with others. We need to learn how to navigate through life’s disappointments. We need each other!!! Our values can not be world values. We should not forget the labor of love to help us. We need to check our expectations and adjust them to reality. Humanity is hurting inside. We only see the outside, not the inside. Focus on bigger picture. Life is about others as well as ourselves!! You need to expect disappointments in life, knowing God is over our life.
2Kings 4:22-30. We need to be praising God. If not praising, we may be having a broken Hallelujah.
It may look like a Hallelujah, but can turn into a broken Hallelujah. Blessed one minute to broken the next. There is a war for our soul. What ever takes your heart is demonic. (Ex. Covid, sickness etc…)
We should look at this as going to be the best year ever. Be submitted to God and in love with Jesus Christ! We forget how much God loves us. He’s not surprised by what goes on in our life. We need to allow God to direct us and be submitted.
2Kings 4:10-22. This woman stood strong with a heart of faith!! She did not complain, just trusted God. We need to not give up. Promises need to be shelved, for God’s timing.
Let God bring it to pass. Our life needs to be well adapted to God, not convenience. We want to be ready.
Having a contented heart, we can see great things. Sometimes God puts things in our life we can not conquer. Inner confidence from God is found in weakness.
2Kings4:9-15 This woman had a want she was waiting on. But stayed content, looking beyond it to help others. It’s unnatural to be content. It’s the grace of God. She saw a need and did something!! Her needs had been filled and her desires had been fulfilled.
She kept a Godly attitude through it all. Putting others before herself.
Phil. 4:4-8 Rejoice in the Lord always!!!
2Kings 4:2-7. God responds in our emptiness, not when we are full. Pride causes God not to step in.
We need to throw ourselves on the mercy of God. Humility opens doors. If we are empty and have no answers, that’s the best place to be in relying on God. If you are empty or feel failure, you can begin again. Events change quickly. We don’t want God working against us.
Matt. 13:3-4, 18-19. Jesus says the kingdom comes by hearing and can revolutionize our life. It’s a soul transformation!!! If you are broken, you can not fix you, you need to allow God to fix you. We need to grab what is being said. The seed comes quietly and gently.
Be the best hearer!! Listen, hear, and pay attention to God’s word. We need soft and open hearts. We need to be guarded against taking sermons for granted.. Really, what is the state of our heart, when the seeds are sown in us? Don’t become desensitized and trample on the Word of God!!!!
2Kings 4:5 She received the word of God, because she had room in her heart to receive it. She was open to miracles!!!
Unbelief needs to leave. When the word comes we have no room to receive it. Because we don’t believe.
The church people are not running to the church and to God. They are filled with their own ways.
Sin will harden our hearts. The word challenges us to do right. And as we believe in our heart, God can do miracles!!!!
2Kings 4:1-7 This woman was at the end of herself and had no answers. She needed God. Being obedient to Him to go to others, empty. Then God could fill her.
Often in life, we need answers from God!! But we can miss God because his answers make no sense.
1. A lot of people today want spirituality on their terms. We need to die to our selves to be filled by God. Which is the key to abundant life. Being a part of a body with accountability. We need each other.
2. By our willingness to adapt our wills to the will of God, whether we understand. We grow step by step.
Be not full of yourself. If you have enough emptiness, God can move and fill.
Psalm 51:10 A clean spirit is loyal, right, steadfast, established, securely determined
and a directed spirit. We need to give room to God in our lives. We gain much more than we give.
An act of kindness with the right spirit changes the world!! God is the creative one!!!
Allow God to tap into you to make more room for him!!!!!
11 Kings 4:1-4 The woman brought her burden to God!!!
Job 1:20-21 Job humbly brought his needs to God!
Maternal pain, Financial pain, Spiritual pain, and Physical pain. They trouble our spirits!
Receiving Rhema, The living word of God to our souls. God is personal and it fits the occasion, gives wisdom.
God’s spirit touches us and inspires us. Divine inspiration!!!! We need to pour our lives into others and serve God.
11Kings 4:8-10. She had persuaded Elisha to have a meal with her. She believed him to be a Holy and Godly man. He came to Shunem on a regular basis. She wanted to make a room for him. Then he would always have a place to rest.
1. Willing to take the initiative, no strings attached out of love.
2. We can’t make God move in our lives, but we can make room for him to move.
Do right and hope God will show up. Give God room and he can do so much more!!!!!
11Kings 4:1-7 She was not left to her own resources.
1. A Mother’s strength. A crisis will always reveal us. Need to watch our spirit, when the pain breaks us.
She protected her heart. Did not become bitter.
2. How do mothers make it through it all? They run to God!!!! Need to go to the place where God can speak to you.
3. God has a plan and a way out. You need to hear from the spirit of God. God can step in and multiply the rest of our life!!
