Growing Pains

Pastor Zack Strong

Growing Pains

 

Text: Philippians 1.1-11, 2.6-9

This is the eighth month; 8 is the number of new beginnings. New: never been seen or done before, always existed but you’re just getting to it. We ought to be expecting something fresh from God every day.

Confident: inward assurance, come to a place of rest. Leave a place of striving and enter into rest. Strife makes you
feel like you aren’t enough. If we all act and look alike, then only one is needed.

What is our assignment today? He’s not asking us to operate alone; we are partners with God.

When God says something is good, He’s only comparing it to Himself. This move of God is good. You are a good work of God. God is looking at us from the end and He’s already defined who we are.

We’ve gotten more excited about the move of God than the God who moves. Quit thinking of it as labor but a kingdom assignment instead.

We need to keep ourselves pure, out of and away from sin. You will feel disqualified because of your sin. Sin tells you you’re unworthy. Sin will block the flow of your anointing.

Jesus had to learn how to be a man in the same way we have to learn how to be a son.

It’s not wrong to be like your father; it’s acceptable. Religion tells you you’re not good enough. You are a son whether you’re in sin or not. Redemption is redeeming us back to our original form.

It takes humility to go from spirit to man and from man to spirit. Humility is not weakness but acknowledgment that there are others and greater than me.

When you walk in, the angels stand at attention.

 

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