Today's Coach is Mike MacIntosh. Last time we dealt with the Enemy Complacency. Today's enemy is the Twin Brother of Complacency; Forgetfulness. Judges 8:32-35
Complacency will sneak up on us and Blindside us and Forgetfulness will finish the job and try to bury us.
How can we forget so easy the Work Ethic and Dedication it took to get us the Championship? The place we were at before we knew our Creator: Empty, Lonely, Guilty, Fearful and Afraid of Death.
Before we knew God we walked around in Fear. Then we got a Taste of Victory and experienced the Joy of the Lord.
No more Emptiness, no more Loneliness, Totally Forgiven and now Assured of Eternal Life.
Then one day we woke up and Forgot to read the Playbook and We forgot to spend time with the Coach.
"I will get to it later." We say.
Forgetfulness Intercepts a pass called our Thoughts and Desires and before we know it a Week goes by then a Year then a Decade.
We Forget our Playbook, our Plays and our God.
Things begin to Crumble around us and Then we have the next Enemy:
Excuses!
Lucky for us it is only Half Time!
Revelation Quarterback John and Offensive Coordinator JC give us a great way to come back in the book of Revelation. Rev 2
JC says, "We are going to run the R3"
Remember,Repent and Repeat.
Remember the Joy we had when we realized that God had a Great Plan For us. Jer 29:11
"The Joy of the Lord is Our Strength."
Remember when we felt Strong, Successful and we had a Purpose. The Future was so Bright and Clear.
Repent: Turn 180: Change Direction. We are going to Turn this Game around!
Repeat is doing the First Works as when we began: Reading the Playbook, Prayer, writing Emails to God ect..
The Second Half is ours to Win! R3
Let's get back to the basic Fundamentals. Use the Plays we know how to Run, Move the ball 5 yards at a time, Execute, Control the Clock and Play Great Defense (Eph 6)!
We can Win this game!
Who is going to Step up and Lead us to Victory?
Then I heard the voice of the Lord (Coach) saying,
"Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said,
"Here am I Send Me!"
Isaiah6:8
Now - Just Go! Win the Day!
Rick
Phil 4:13
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So it was, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel again played the harlot with the Baals, and made Baal-Berith their god.
Thus the children of Israel did not remember the Lord their God, who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side; nor did they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal (Gideon) in accordance with the good he had done for Israel.
Judges 8:32-35
As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel forgot the Lord their God and fell right back into sin, idolatry, and corruption.
And at times this is what our lives are like. As soon as the worship stops -- as soon as God becomes silent or "dead" in our lives -- we find ourselves in danger.
We're not strong enough in ourselves to overcome the enemy; we need God. As soon as we stop reading our Bible on a regular basis, having our devotions, and being in communication with Him through prayer, boy, the flesh wins.
As soon as we kill the move of the Holy Spirit, you better believe the old flesh will resurrect itself and say, "Here I am; back to the good old days."
Spiritual forgetfulness is definitely not one of the fruits of the Spirit! The Israelites didn't remember who "had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side."
I believe that forgetting not only shows a lack of respect, but is also a sign of a decaying heart. As a Christian, God is not dead in your heart.
You have been made alive through the wonderful gift and sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Never forget who you are or where you came from.
"For he who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more.
Death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God" (Romans 6:7-13).
Read Through the Bible in 1 Year
Today:
Numbers 5:1-6:27
Mark 8:22-38
Psalm 30:8-12
Proverbs 11:1-3
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