Grenades, Bombs & Wiretaps
Week 3: A Deeper Look

(2 Corinthians 5:18–20) All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us.

(Romans 12:18) If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.

#3 Allow God to my pain so that I no longer it.

Four steps to transforming our pain. 

1. Take a deeper .

(Colossians 2:13-15) You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. 14 He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. 15 In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross.

2. it out.

(James 5:16) Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. 

(James 5:16 MSG) Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with.

(Galatians 6:2) Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

3. Make the  choice.

✓  Daily my past and take a toward freedom.

(Philippians 3:13) But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead … 

✓ Daily God’s plan for my life.

(Psalm 51:10) Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

✓ Daily live a life that others

(Ephesians 2:10) For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

4. Depend on the of the Holy Spirit.

(John 14:16-17 NLT)  And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you. 17 He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. 

(Romans 8:11 NLT) The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.