The Sermon Who God Created Us to Be by David McGee
Sep 5, 2010
Who God Created Us to Be (29:40)
Referenced Scriptures: Genesis 26:26-31
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Genesis 26:26-31
26) Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his host.
27) Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"
28) They said, "We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,
29) that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.‘ You are now the blessed of Yahweh."
30) He made them a feast, and they ate and drink.
31) They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
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About is if you really motion the first of the month is the first Sunday after Sunday the first of the month was the is the Scripture text. My music for my sermon today so I had this reminded me that you don't have a daily devotional. Please take one from the rally are so. Genesis twenty six beginning in verse twenty six to thirty one. Meanwhile Abimelech had come to him from the wrath with others is personal advisors and five folder commander of his forces. That's a really nice, and it like that. Now like what an earth is he reading it in their ability go on. I asked them. This is getting to the part of them were looking out for a Scripture text, why have you come to me since you are hostile to me and sent me away. They answered we saw clearly that the Lord was yet with you, so please said there ought to be a sworn agreement between us between us and you let us make a trade with you that he will do us no harm. Just as we did not molest your bottle always treated you well and essential way in phase and now you are blessed by the war in area and is and is inversely the challenges that less like a traded with you unless do no harm they cause wincing. How good God is bringing you cannot set up the idea of our text today, we have seen how good God is for you. So let's make a training so whatever we think of being last. Sometimes we think of it in the context of you know what what you think of it in the context of the blast. Sometimes we leave in the context of material blessings. Sometimes we think in the context of physical blessing, sometimes leaving in the context of our spiritual what will. Whatever we think of being last. Sometimes we reviewed the old comparison in a while, but was it yesterday on. We were almost as we brought was telling me that I should eat this and I said while just the kind of people which are not getting visibility than some good United whatever years that he engaged that they were ever told your kids, grandkids, whatever you negate that because his people hungry around the world. Now, it makes no sense because it's not going to change their hunger one bit if you don't eat this instead of my guilty time, the guilt type of thing that we use and how I often think of what our son David said about being in El Salvador that poverty is not a lack of money. Poverty is not a lack of money because of poverty, where the lack of finances and giving countries billions of dollars in aid in all this would change it, but nothing changes and him are son talks about how that its relational experiences that help people change is that relational experience and help people change without you weeks ago we had a three by five card and we spoke about groove you want to be in encourager to let them remember that I if you didn't, I'm reminding you want me to encourage her to an end. Whenever we look at this and and on. I hope you all have cards number one oh. What you remember this every week. Emily keep doing this until we get it right. That's kind of a joke, but like the preacher that went to church one day and was bad bad day in there is only there was only one person came to church and the pastor said to the that the guy said well you want to preach, and finally the farmer. Ernie Xinhua it off. I only had one cathode. I bottlefeed it saris is okay, so preachers are to be increased. This whole assignment and now later he said the guy will want to take in the farmer said, well, if I had one calf that I was feeding. I wouldn't be at the whole barn style thirty one, of a encourager. I really want to be an encouragement to. So we need to take out someone even be encouraged to the reason for that is that when people believe in you that a manual enough to receive what you have to say it makes a big difference in their life so that you can be an encouragement to us on this list of things to do so. People believe that they can change. They believe that they can change based upon relationships, partnerships, the exploration resources and Mrs. this is one of the things that we sometimes doubt that we have. We have a lot of an evil act. We need to be reminded of our own resources we need to be reminded of how how much we have to in our society we are a society that teaches us and tells us what we don't have because were consumer society. It will buy things. The whole market goes down, the terms so holiday that we, how then do they get us to buy things while you have this, you need to feel make you, help you make it better what you are dealt hardly have one asset may have cellular phones, but I may have cellular phones and have iPods. I am by high, whatever that is what is iPad, iPod I is not an iPad so. So we have all these things and we can get along without them now. But think back how many years ago and it wasn't that we didn't have cell phones and Rhonda talked about in class, you know, how long is advantage of seeing a phone booth at the NL will not only were Superman goes to change the NL while they were they were around, you know, try fine fine fine a payphone, but that there is one in a gallery because you don't have a cell phone and somebody help that boy. Though there are so many things that we look at and we look at and down, take into consideration is just like that we don't see what we've got. We don't see the blessings we have while in this scripture talks about how that they saw how God had blessed Isaac, and they wanted to create a pact with them so that it all in a you know, we don't want to go to war with you. We want to create a pact with you because we see God 's blessing with the so partnership and then you encourage or is more than just although Moreno make it encourage or is that someone who is willing to partner with you to help you along the journey answer being that reminder that you can make it, and sometimes being that reminder is more than just saying the wiring behalf, nor evidencing, but you know me with more than just that type of appointment your own comment that says it's okay ill make it become as a Christian, as we believe that God has promises and God has a purpose far life, and whenever we just flip at least I don't worry. You'll make it moderately trusting in rapturously in the thighs right, trusting in the Lawrenceville where trusting in God and his promises to work in our life. The partnership brings people together to over come to work through difficulties obstacles and problems in the word through our own personal unbelief our own personal unrelieved about ourselves get the baby out here in July, one nine hunting. Please note I have just kidding. Maybe I do. I would waver in his church once that they had like sanctuary of eight thousand people and the pastor forbade any children to be in the service, especially babies is the most the greatest distraction in the church is a good baby, Jill Y good baby is the biggest distraction because everybody's always looking and smiling. Maybe the Bible choose a lazy about you& will debut her mean to tell us about a baby and I felt that I don't have that role I I love babies but they almost always just interject what needs to be done at the right time. I can especially when it's time to quit my wife says listen to the kids when they're gone your. This thought by some so ringing people together to overcome and to work through are all personal unbelievers about ourselves and about life. I may not effectively doubt our abilities and download we can or cannot do and wish to encourage user individuals who are able to look at things for us. Sometimes endeavor that positive perspective. So we been talking about how back home, poor as an end with honoring in the word. The word we've been using his honor and honor means the value. So when you honor something you value it so whenever we see ourselves as an encourager, we are honoring the person you're speaking to, but were also honoring our ability to influence, honoring, and not doubting that my words of encouragement can help. Sometimes we doubt that but honor is carries a great influence in our lives honoring ourselves honoring others. Genesis twenty six twenty eight says we saw clearly that the Lord was with you. So we said there ought to be a sworn agreement between us between us and you and let us make a training with you so they wanted to make this training because they saw how God had blessed their life and they want to be against God 's blessing. Okay, so invest that people may page because of God 's work among Isaac and his family. So as we honor God. As we honor Jesus Christ and honor his word. It creates the awareness that we are grafted into the wine know those of you via last week that was kind of our lesson in how may have thought about grafting of the buying this week. Thank you, thank you for all the rest of you. Dominic Hart for the three by five card is whining being the old farmer that I am informed to get agriculture. I excelled in a undecided in college but in in in in. I graphing the bindweed. We did that show literally whether the trees in our bar with the mine in there and wrap it up and now grafted trees and limbs are pieces of trees and vines into the buying and galvanic growth. Amazingly, as it grew together while it is catharsis and talk to us about how that we are grafted into my and that the life that is in the buying is ongoing and the branch so in our lives as Christians whenever we confess our sins and ask Christ to forgive us of our sins were grafted into the mind were grafted into Jesus Christ and the same life that is in Christ is the same as that is in us and for some of our members that I pick on the same sap within the chassis is insane. Sappington, you so I won't pick on Bob today. But that's what I talked to Bob about his being a little sappy. There the other day so. So we are working in the mine where once part of the mind, once part of the mine. We also know that the branch needs pruning and training as we spoke about is a purging it is a deep emotional exposure, but were still attached, and this was the part that that's been really working on my life that no matter how much that we been thrown were still attached and that attachment that we have with God is. This is the is the life, the staff, the strength that is in the buying and him in the mainline is also in the branch. Both saying the same. Why the same staff that is part of the tree is what gives life to the line and when the same Spirit who raised Christ from the dead dwells in you, he will quicken your mortal body so the saying life is in Christ is the same life that flows into losses. We are attached to him anything. This attachment that we find life and Y have him alive, we still find the strength that is in us is in that attachment so that God has quickened us by his Spirit, and reminds us that the life of the mind is the life in the branch. So the same life that is in his first existed and live in Christ. It was created by God. It is the gift of God is the life of God. It is the breath of God was given to us and creation, the rate of velocity made us a living soul. We became alive in Christ. We are new creatures new creation in Christ Jesus. All things pass away. All behold all things become new. Why, because were grafted in. And as a new life in us, and whenever we come together we sing about the way we wash up and we pray and we ask because of that life that flows in us from the mind every one who wanted Jesus received from God in the proportion. The honor was written, rendered everyone who honored Jesus received from God, and the proportion. The honor was rented, rendered so when people honored Jesus. They were able to recede back into their life. Whenever they honored Jesus. They were more in tune to his work and his spirit and what he wanted to do in their life and that was about three weeks ago we spoke about Nazareth, that Jesus could do nothing in Nazareth because the people said we know you are you are Joseph and Mary's son, your lack harder so what can you possibly do as they look at Jesus and they dishonored him they didn't have time for his word. They didn't have time for what Jesus wanted to do anything print format, so whenever we honor God, and we honor his word, we open ourselves up for God to do the work in our life just that same Spirit who raised Christ from the dead mom, and not the same life is in the tree is now in the buying is now in us, so the jury in first Samuel says, though still under me. I wanted, but those who despise me will be displayed in the word just say had the feeling of someone as unworthy of consideration, respect, so now were moving on in our life. So now we are going about our daily living, and we interact with people. There's anybody that you don't have to raise your hand on the Lord, I want your names is very wanted to disdain that you disrespect this regard, and you have no consideration for, and of course I have a few people on that list and they haven't may have. I feel that they have earned the right for my being upset with them. I question their leadership. I question their ability to make choices or decisions. I even withdrew and withdraw withdraw myself from and the challenge that we find in Wednesday's devotional here and and and and God 's word for today. It says that we saw clearly that the Lord was with you, and we decided we wanted to make an agreement with you, because we saw God was with you and hear. I know some of you may not realize this, but I'm not perfect in I didn't want to be in shock by that declaration, but the if you think I'm perfect. Just ask my wife. She will tell you and put the challenge. I live this Wednesday's devotional was that we saw clearly that the Lord was with you. And when I have disdain individuals and I have withdrawn because I feel that they should not have been worthy of my getting with my presence, but my respect. I think that's the better way I chose to write that I live so that they could see clearly that God was with me and that really was challenging to me that that I live so that they would want to make an agreement with me because they could see God 's blessing in my life now that hard on honoring God honoring individual relationship experiences, usually because some people that were going to want to encourage sometimes there is some individuals. We don't want to encourage. They deserve what they get there, but staying part enough that the human nature. Part of him who who we are and God. I think challenges are no challenges don't think I know he challenges that an that to challenge that part of us that that would want to disdain or put people off because for whatever reason, we can't reach an agreement with them, but it doesn't mean that we have to stop living so close to God not to see God work in our life and that's the part that we want to challenge. Not that we're going to fix someone because that doesn't happen. We can fix anyone. We can change people. You can make people be what you get all you want them to be an out. I known and sometimes in marriage counseling at people and companies, and while you know, I don't know what's wrong with him or her that you can straighten out when I want them to be at old boy. We are problems. Now I pity you and you try to straighten out your husband or wife are in the night I did get out the rolling pin of the frying in a will straighten out some some people don't know what a rolling pin or frighten his adult life. I felt like a phone booth that that those like him. the rolling pin and frying pan into the again to a flag and is something of so we saw clearly that the Lord was with you. They saw that God 's work was among those so Abimelech here saw how God had blessed Isaac with prosperity, knew that that same blessing would also protect the same blessing that was on Isaac would also protect him an event like this to the people here in the stories we read in Genesis that of the lack said you know what if God blesses him that much. God must protect him. Also, and one about from my perspective, am I really in my disdain am I allowing God to bless we through the experience am I allowing God to bless me through the experience that would also care the impression and get the understanding that God is also protecting me and that God is also working in my life. And today we honor God in communion, which is peace between us and the Bible says if you have ought against any man, any person don't let it ride before you come to the community. The site will live on here so I can do that. So while other later, but the idea of peace between us. There is peace between God and I got to make that right. And then I have to live my life in such a way that God 's blessing God 's blessing can be a part of who I am and that in God 's blessing. I'm recognizing how he has provided for me and how that he has worked in my life, not by what is not here, but will vote what is here. What is going on in my life and I'm asking God not only to bless me, but also protect. Provide and that there is peace between us because if I'm going to be the courage or I have to believe that this part of me. There is meeting the hazmat and it has enough value not to straighten your life, but the encouragement you where you are at and Jesus Christ come chat us green from the things it would destroy us our sins are failures and the things that come between me and me between God 's purpose and who I am. So God is that encourage her to my heart is that encourager that will come to say we can't even but he also gives me that responsibility to be that encourage her to someone else. That's why thickets of sources, such great value that we honor God and that we don't hold people into staying. Because that is staying only hurts me and allows me to think thoughts that are not pure and holy and righteous. It that the staying causes me to douse the God has a purpose for what has happened in my life and God doesn't want me to the house. My relationship with him, and also his sovereignty his sovereignty over my life and the people that I that I encounter God has a way of doing working in us that we need to be aware of is not about fixing this. Not about guilt. It is not about manipulation. It's about leaving my sheep hear my voice, and we follow. It's about recognizing that God wants to touch our lives in a way will change us, not only today but for eternity for the same communion. We check reminds Tom, what Jesus has done for us in the past, but it also says that I'm not going to take him live through the line until that day when I drink it new with you in my father 's kingdom. So, what God is a file is about changing us in this moment, changing our character and changing our lives and and changing us with his work with me with this spirit in that same life that is in the mind of the same life. It is an honest and the same life. The quick Jesus and rousing from the Negroes in the dad is the same life that is inside of us that quickens these words to our heart. The questions honestly changes us from the inside out, who gives us a new perspective and a new vision of what I what we came being what God can do in our life. And so it's a life filled with all the life filled with anticipation of what God wants to do with how God wants to change us and make us in his image and God changes us. God ages us for the person he created us to be from the beginning he want to go home and always before my time at the right time. I felt to have anyone say no round body so as the rest of the FSF I tell you that things may get right than the boy is why you always have given the service right in writing that was Leslie Leslie the smartest one. Readers find all the I got supper. I am frying pan and home. I got good been a man might I want to know. I saw it. That's the only think about this whole process. What is God up to God is not too good is good and I live in the change is that God wants to make it isn't that he wants to take us on a character. He wants to renew that life that was that he gave us from the very beginning that likely gave us that person. The goblins is to be not what he wants to be in our life, and he wants us to be that NRS 's last rediscovering who God created us to be and we do that with his word, his spirit is love, is leading his league. God doesn't drive us. God leads us in the path of righteousness for his things is a purpose for life, so, God help us help me for those individuals that I have this phase I have allowed wrong perspectives of me to influence the way I've respond. Help me to love, to forgive down who you are what you have said to my life and hold you, Lord, in a place of honor, so that you can change me to be the person you created me to be in a Allied home at less than sevenAbout is if you really motion the first of the month is the first Sunday after Sunday the first of the month was the is the Scripture text. My music for my sermon today so I had this reminded me that you don't have a daily devotional. Please take one from the rally are so. Genesis twenty six beginning in verse twenty six to thirty one. Meanwhile Abimelech had come to him from the wrath with others is personal advisors and five folder commander of his forces. That's a really nice, and it like that. Now like what an earth is he reading it in their ability go on. I asked them. This is getting to the part of them were looking out for a Scripture text, why have you come to me since you are hostile to me and sent me away. They answered we saw clearly that the Lord was yet with you, so please said there ought to be a sworn agreement between us between us and you let us make a trade with you that he will do us no harm. Just as we did not molest your bottle always treated you well and essential way in phase and now you are blessed by the war in area and is and is inversely the challenges that less like a traded with you unless do no harm they cause wincing. How good God is bringing you cannot set up the idea of our text today, we have seen how good God is for you. So let's make a training so whatever we think of being last. Sometimes we think of it in the context of you know what what you think of it in the context of the blast. Sometimes we leave in the context of material blessings. Sometimes we think in the context of physical blessing, sometimes leaving in the context of our spiritual what will. Whatever we think of being last. Sometimes we reviewed the old comparison in a while, but was it yesterday on. We were almost as we brought was telling me that I should eat this and I said while just the kind of people which are not getting visibility than some good United whatever years that he engaged that they were ever told your kids, grandkids, whatever you negate that because his people hungry around the world. Now, it makes no sense because it's not going to change their hunger one bit if you don't eat this instead of my guilty time, the guilt type of thing that we use and how I often think of what our son David said about being in El Salvador that poverty is not a lack of money. Poverty is not a lack of money because of poverty, where the lack of finances and giving countries billions of dollars in aid in all this would change it, but nothing changes and him are son talks about how that its relational experiences that help people change is that relational experience and help people change without you weeks ago we had a three by five card and we spoke about groove you want to be in encourager to let them remember that I if you didn't, I'm reminding you want me to encourage her to an end. Whenever we look at this and and on. I hope you all have cards number one oh. What you remember this every week. Emily keep doing this until we get it right. That's kind of a joke, but like the preacher that went to church one day and was bad bad day in there is only there was only one person came to church and the pastor said to the that the guy said well you want to preach, and finally the farmer. Ernie Xinhua it off. I only had one cathode. I bottlefeed it saris is okay, so preachers are to be increased. This whole assignment and now later he said the guy will want to take in the farmer said, well, if I had one calf that I was feeding. I wouldn't be at the whole barn style thirty one, of a encourager. I really want to be an encouragement to. So we need to take out someone even be encouraged to the reason for that is that when people believe in you that a manual enough to receive what you have to say it makes a big difference in their life so that you can be an encouragement to us on this list of things to do so. People believe that they can change. They believe that they can change based upon relationships, partnerships, the exploration resources and Mrs. this is one of the things that we sometimes doubt that we have. We have a lot of an evil act. We need to be reminded of our own resources we need to be reminded of how how much we have to in our society we are a society that teaches us and tells us what we don't have because were consumer society. It will buy things. The whole market goes down, the terms so holiday that we, how then do they get us to buy things while you have this, you need to feel make you, help you make it better what you are dealt hardly have one asset may have cellular phones, but I may have cellular phones and have iPods. I am by high, whatever that is what is iPad, iPod I is not an iPad so. So we have all these things and we can get along without them now. But think back how many years ago and it wasn't that we didn't have cell phones and Rhonda talked about in class, you know, how long is advantage of seeing a phone booth at the NL will not only were Superman goes to change the NL while they were they were around, you know, try fine fine fine a payphone, but that there is one in a gallery because you don't have a cell phone and somebody help that boy. Though there are so many things that we look at and we look at and down, take into consideration is just like that we don't see what we've got. We don't see the blessings we have while in this scripture talks about how that they saw how God had blessed Isaac, and they wanted to create a pact with them so that it all in a you know, we don't want to go to war with you. We want to create a pact with you because we see God 's blessing with the so partnership and then you encourage or is more than just although Moreno make it encourage or is that someone who is willing to partner with you to help you along the journey answer being that reminder that you can make it, and sometimes being that reminder is more than just saying the wiring behalf, nor evidencing, but you know me with more than just that type of appointment your own comment that says it's okay ill make it become as a Christian, as we believe that God has promises and God has a purpose far life, and whenever we just flip at least I don't worry. You'll make it moderately trusting in rapturously in the thighs right, trusting in the Lawrenceville where trusting in God and his promises to work in our life. The partnership brings people together to over come to work through difficulties obstacles and problems in the word through our own personal unbelief our own personal unrelieved about ourselves get the baby out here in July, one nine hunting. Please note I have just kidding. Maybe I do. I would waver in his church once that they had like sanctuary of eight thousand people and the pastor forbade any children to be in the service, especially babies is the most the greatest distraction in the church is a good baby, Jill Y good baby is the biggest distraction because everybody's always looking and smiling. Maybe the Bible choose a lazy about you& will debut her mean to tell us about a baby and I felt that I don't have that role I I love babies but they almost always just interject what needs to be done at the right time. I can especially when it's time to quit my wife says listen to the kids when they're gone your. This thought by some so ringing people together to overcome and to work through are all personal unbelievers about ourselves and about life. I may not effectively doubt our abilities and download we can or cannot do and wish to encourage user individuals who are able to look at things for us. Sometimes endeavor that positive perspective. So we been talking about how back home, poor as an end with honoring in the word. The word we've been using his honor and honor means the value. So when you honor something you value it so whenever we see ourselves as an encourager, we are honoring the person you're speaking to, but were also honoring our ability to influence, honoring, and not doubting that my words of encouragement can help. Sometimes we doubt that but honor is carries a great influence in our lives honoring ourselves honoring others. Genesis twenty six twenty eight says we saw clearly that the Lord was with you. So we said there ought to be a sworn agreement between us between us and you and let us make a training with you so they wanted to make this training because they saw how God had blessed their life and they want to be against God 's blessing. Okay, so invest that people may page because of God 's work among Isaac and his family. So as we honor God. As we honor Jesus Christ and honor his word. It creates the awareness that we are grafted into the wine know those of you via last week that was kind of our lesson in how may have thought about grafting of the buying this week. Thank you, thank you for all the rest of you. Dominic Hart for the three by five card is whining being the old farmer that I am informed to get agriculture. I excelled in a undecided in college but in in in in. I graphing the bindweed. We did that show literally whether the trees in our bar with the mine in there and wrap it up and now grafted trees and limbs are pieces of trees and vines into the buying and galvanic growth. Amazingly, as it grew together while it is catharsis and talk to us about how that we are grafted into my and that the life that is in the buying is ongoing and the branch so in our lives as Christians whenever we confess our sins and ask Christ to forgive us of our sins were grafted into the mind were grafted into Jesus Christ and the same life that is in Christ is the same as that is in us and for some of our members that I pick on the same sap within the chassis is insane. Sappington, you so I won't pick on Bob today. But that's what I talked to Bob about his being a little sappy. There the other day so. So we are working in the mine where once part of the mind, once part of the mine. We also know that the branch needs pruning and training as we spoke about is a purging it is a deep emotional exposure, but were still attached, and this was the part that that's been really working on my life that no matter how much that we been thrown were still attached and that attachment that we have with God is. This is the is the life, the staff, the strength that is in the buying and him in the mainline is also in the branch. Both saying the same. Why the same staff that is part of the tree is what gives life to the line and when the same Spirit who raised Christ from the dead dwells in you, he will quicken your mortal body so the saying life is in Christ is the same life that flows into losses. We are attached to him anything. This attachment that we find life and Y have him alive, we still find the strength that is in us is in that attachment so that God has quickened us by his Spirit, and reminds us that the life of the mind is the life in the branch. So the same life that is in his first existed and live in Christ. It was created by God. It is the gift of God is the life of God. It is the breath of God was given to us and creation, the rate of velocity made us a living soul. We became alive in Christ. We are new creatures new creation in Christ Jesus. All things pass away. All behold all things become new. Why, because were grafted in. And as a new life in us, and whenever we come together we sing about the way we wash up and we pray and we ask because of that life that flows in us from the mind every one who wanted Jesus received from God in the proportion. The honor was written, rendered everyone who honored Jesus received from God, and the proportion. The honor was rented, rendered so when people honored Jesus. They were able to recede back into their life. Whenever they honored Jesus. They were more in tune to his work and his spirit and what he wanted to do in their life and that was about three weeks ago we spoke about Nazareth, that Jesus could do nothing in Nazareth because the people said we know you are you are Joseph and Mary's son, your lack harder so what can you possibly do as they look at Jesus and they dishonored him they didn't have time for his word. They didn't have time for what Jesus wanted to do anything print format, so whenever we honor God, and we honor his word, we open ourselves up for God to do the work in our life just that same Spirit who raised Christ from the dead mom, and not the same life is in the tree is now in the buying is now in us, so the jury in first Samuel says, though still under me. I wanted, but those who despise me will be displayed in the word just say had the feeling of someone as unworthy of consideration, respect, so now were moving on in our life. So now we are going about our daily living, and we interact with people. There's anybody that you don't have to raise your hand on the Lord, I want your names is very wanted to disdain that you disrespect this regard, and you have no consideration for, and of course I have a few people on that list and they haven't may have. I feel that they have earned the right for my being upset with them. I question their leadership. I question their ability to make choices or decisions. I even withdrew and withdraw withdraw myself from and the challenge that we find in Wednesday's devotional here and and and and God 's word for today. It says that we saw clearly that the Lord was with you, and we decided we wanted to make an agreement with you, because we saw God was with you and hear. I know some of you may not realize this, but I'm not perfect in I didn't want to be in shock by that declaration, but the if you think I'm perfect. Just ask my wife. She will tell you and put the challenge. I live this Wednesday's devotional was that we saw clearly that the Lord was with you. And when I have disdain individuals and I have withdrawn because I feel that they should not have been worthy of my getting with my presence, but my respect. I think that's the better way I chose to write that I live so that they could see clearly that God was with me and that really was challenging to me that that I live so that they would want to make an agreement with me because they could see God 's blessing in my life now that hard on honoring God honoring individual relationship experiences, usually because some people that were going to want to encourage sometimes there is some individuals. We don't want to encourage. They deserve what they get there, but staying part enough that the human nature. Part of him who who we are and God. I think challenges are no challenges don't think I know he challenges that an that to challenge that part of us that that would want to disdain or put people off because for whatever reason, we can't reach an agreement with them, but it doesn't mean that we have to stop living so close to God not to see God work in our life and that's the part that we want to challenge. Not that we're going to fix someone because that doesn't happen. We can fix anyone. We can change people. You can make people be what you get all you want them to be an out. I known and sometimes in marriage counseling at people and companies, and while you know, I don't know what's wrong with him or her that you can straighten out when I want them to be at old boy. We are problems. Now I pity you and you try to straighten out your husband or wife are in the night I did get out the rolling pin of the frying in a will straighten out some some people don't know what a rolling pin or frighten his adult life. I felt like a phone booth that that those like him. the rolling pin and frying pan into the again to a flag and is something of so we saw clearly that the Lord was with you. They saw that God 's work was among those so Abimelech here saw how God had blessed Isaac with prosperity, knew that that same blessing would also protect the same blessing that was on Isaac would also protect him an event like this to the people here in the stories we read in Genesis that of the lack said you know what if God blesses him that much. God must protect him. Also, and one about from my perspective, am I really in my disdain am I allowing God to bless we through the experience am I allowing God to bless me through the experience that would also care the impression and get the understanding that God is also protecting me and that God is also working in my life. And today we honor God in communion, which is peace between us and the Bible says if you have ought against any man, any person don't let it ride before you come to the community. The site will live on here so I can do that. So while other later, but the idea of peace between us. There is peace between God and I got to make that right. And then I have to live my life in such a way that God 's blessing God 's blessing can be a part of who I am and that in God 's blessing. I'm recognizing how he has provided for me and how that he has worked in my life, not by what is not here, but will vote what is here. What is going on in my life and I'm asking God not only to bless me, but also protect. Provide and that there is peace between us because if I'm going to be the courage or I have to believe that this part of me. There is meeting the hazmat and it has enough value not to straighten your life, but the encouragement you where you are at and Jesus Christ come chat us green from the things it would destroy us our sins are failures and the things that come between me and me between God 's purpose and who I am. So God is that encourage her to my heart is that encourager that will come to say we can't even but he also gives me that responsibility to be that encourage her to someone else. That's why thickets of sources, such great value that we honor God and that we don't hold people into staying. Because that is staying only hurts me and allows me to think thoughts that are not pure and holy and righteous. It that the staying causes me to douse the God has a purpose for what has happened in my life and God doesn't want me to the house. My relationship with him, and also his sovereignty his sovereignty over my life and the people that I that I encounter God has a way of doing working in us that we need to be aware of is not about fixing this. Not about guilt. It is not about manipulation. It's about leaving my sheep hear my voice, and we follow. It's about recognizing that God wants to touch our lives in a way will change us, not only today but for eternity for the same communion. We check reminds Tom, what Jesus has done for us in the past, but it also says that I'm not going to take him live through the line until that day when I drink it new with you in my father 's kingdom. So, what God is a file is about changing us in this moment, changing our character and changing our lives and and changing us with his work with me with this spirit in that same life that is in the mind of the same life. It is an honest and the same life. The quick Jesus and rousing from the Negroes in the dad is the same life that is inside of us that quickens these words to our heart. The questions honestly changes us from the inside out, who gives us a new perspective and a new vision of what I what we came being what God can do in our life. And so it's a life filled with all the life filled with anticipation of what God wants to do with how God wants to change us and make us in his image and God changes us. God ages us for the person he created us to be from the beginning he want to go home and always before my time at the right time. I felt to have anyone say no round body so as the rest of the FSF I tell you that things may get right than the boy is why you always have given the service right in writing that was Leslie Leslie the smartest one. Readers find all the I got supper. I am frying pan and home. I got good been a man might I want to know. I saw it. That's the only think about this whole process. What is God up to God is not too good is good and I live in the change is that God wants to make it isn't that he wants to take us on a character. He wants to renew that life that was that he gave us from the very beginning that likely gave us that person. The goblins is to be not what he wants to be in our life, and he wants us to be that NRS 's last rediscovering who God created us to be and we do that with his word, his spirit is love, is leading his league. God doesn't drive us. God leads us in the path of righteousness for his things is a purpose for life, so, God help us help me for those individuals that I have this phase I have allowed wrong perspectives of me to influence the way I've respond. Help me to love, to forgive down who you are what you have said to my life and hold you, Lord, in a place of honor, so that you can change me to be the person you created me to be in a Allied home at less than seven