Excuses, Excuses | First, See It Week 3 | Pastor Andrew Cromwell

Excuses, Excuses | First, See It Week 3 | Pastor Andrew Cromwell

 

How to Respond to a Word from the Lord

 

1. Deal with the excuse.

Principle of : The Lord is speaking!

John 10:27 NIV: My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.

Psalm 32:8 NIV: I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.

Logos vs. Rhema

 

2. Deal with the excuse.

 

Principle of and : Is that you Lord?

1 Thessalonians 5:21 NIV: Test everything. Hold on to what is good.

Romans 12:2 NIV: Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

 

3. Deal with the excuse.

Principle of : I have a part to play!

2 Timothy 2:13 NLT: If we are unfaithful, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny who he is.

Deuteronomy 28:1-2, 15 NIV: If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God.

However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you…

• • • • Personal Responsibility
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4. Deal with the excuse.

Principle of : Expect You’ll get it Wrong

Kairos vs. Kronos

Acts 3:19 NIV: Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord,

John 4:23 NIV: Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.

 

5. Deal with the it’s excuse.

Principle of : There’s a Battle to Fight

1 Timothy 1:18 NIV: Timothy, my son, I am giving you this command in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by recalling them you may fight the battle well…

2 Corinthians 10:4 NIV: The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.