Hope strengthens you to endure. In this lesson, I explain how God shakes us to wake us and how nightmares can become opportunities to wake up to a dream. Watch my full Strong Course on MessengerX: https://go.MessengerX.com/Strong
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I believe that God is in the process of
shaking us to wake us
okay so today I’m going to be talking to
you about strong in Hope strong in hope
I love this verse from Zephaniah
Zephaniah 3 17 says the Lord your God is
with you do you hear that he’s with you
he’s with you he’s not just with you
when you’re at a church building the
Lord your God is with you then it talks
about what does that look like the
mighty warrior who saves he will take
great Delight in you so he’s with you he
is able and he Delights in you in his
love he will no longer rebuke you but
will rejoice over you with singing
another version of it says that he will
quiet you with his love many of us feel
like right now we have woke up in a
nightmare maybe some of us think this is
a health nightmare maybe some of us are
thinking gosh I’m in in certain areas of
bondage I’m in a sexual nightmare or
maybe it’s been a financial nightmare or
maybe it just feels like a nightmare
because you’re home with your kids so
much and so much one-on-one with your
husband I don’t know what that feels
like but I believe that God is in the
process of shaking us to wake us so what
does that look like well I think it’s
described best in Hebrews chapter 12
verses 25 through 27. he has just gone
through this long narrative comparing
those that went to Mount Zion with those
that go to Mount Sinai he’s talking
about Old Testament he’s talking about
New Testament he’s talking about how
they parallel but they’re different and
this is where he lands on Hebrews 12 25
it says see that you do not refuse him
who is speaking so that’s really
exciting see God is speaking he is
speaking to us to our circumstances he
is speaking to us through a word he is
speaking to us through our friendships
he’s speaking to us through worship
music he is speaking it says for if they
did not Escape when they refused him who
warned them on Earth much less we escape
if we reject him who warns from heaven
at that time his voice shook the Earth
he’s talking about Mount Sinai but now
he has promised yet once more I will
shake not only the Earth but also the
heavens this phrase yet once more
indicates the removal of things that are
shaken that is things that have been
made in order that the things that
cannot be shaken May remain see I
believe that God is shaking to awaken I
believe this shaking is a preparation
for a harvest I believe the shaking is a
remaking of God’s people that he is
removing those things that would be
fallible that he is removing those
things that we have made as Idols or
that we have placed our trust in that he
is shaking to wake now my husband
sometimes he sleeps really deep and if I
want to wake him I’m going to have to
shake him I’m going to have to make
physical contact with him until he says
I’m awake but shaking also does some
other things she shaking removes what is
dead I live here in Colorado we have a
blizzard right now I can’t even believe
it because it’s supposed to be
Springtime but when the winds blow
through the wind shakes the trees and it
removes the dead branches it removes the
Dead Leaves so shaking will remove the
dead things in our lives those things
that are no longer going to serve us
those things that no longer are a source
of life for us it also harvests what is
ripe and that’s a good thing we want to
see Harvest we used to live in Florida
and there would be these massive orange
groves and the trees would just be
covered with oranges and I wondered
sometimes how do they get all of these
picked because they’re all ripe at the
same time and they told me that what
they would do is they had these machines
where they would grab the trunk of the
tree and they would shake the whole tree
and everything that was ripe would fall
to the ground so it wakes us it removes
what is dead and it harvests what is
ripe in our lives you know sometimes we
say God I want I want to see more fruit
in my life and he said okay we’re going
to do a shaking here so that those
things that are ripe they’re going to be
seen I’m going to prune so that you can
have more fruit but it also does
something really interesting it unifies
what is disjointed if I see a container
of red sand and a container of Blue Sand
and I put them together and shake them
they’re going to become purple sand and
it’s going to be something that can
never be separated again I do believe
that God is wanting to shake his church
so that the church will no longer be
destroyed pointed but that the church
WIll begin to be unified strong in hope
so God is actually wanting to put Hope
on the other side you think I don’t like
this shaking I don’t like the shaking I
don’t like what’s going on well there’s
something on the other side of it so if
we’re going to be strong in hope we need
to get that hope set before us Hebrews
12 28 says
therefore and it’s it’s a progression
therefore let us be grateful for
receiving a kingdom that cannot be
shaken and thus let us offer to God
acceptable worship with reverence and
awe for our God is a consuming fire he’s
going to consume the things that once
consumed us so that he alone is what we
are an awe and in Wonder of we are
approaching a kingdom that cannot be
shaken and that’s actually a good thing
because our governments can be shaken
our financial systems can be shaken our
families can be shaken our health
systems can be shaken and God is saying
all right I’m going to change the
narrative here so he’s moving us
back into his dream when my kids were
little
and uh they had a nightmare
I didn’t respond by giving them a list
of rules when my kids woke up during the
night frightened which I think is kind
of this situation where a lot of us are
saying hey what’s going on or waking up
going hey what what just happened
and God is saying okay I’m going to tell
you how I respond
when you’re afraid
God doesn’t turn away he actually moves
in closer when my children were afraid
during the night I didn’t say things
like this is stupid why are you being
afraid I would either climb in bed with
them and sing them songs or I would
bring them into my bed with me why
because I wanted them to know that I was
near and that I was present and that I
wanted to comfort them it’s what we
opened up with in Zephaniah when we find
ourselves shaken we find ourselves
frightened we need to draw near to God
so God isn’t in a season of withdraw God
is in a season of draw near to me
because I long to draw near to you and
you think well I don’t I don’t know
what’s going on right now
I don’t know what’s going on
but I do know this
God does see God has a plan
I remember one of the very first times
that I heard God alt audibly give me a
scripture reference was Jeremiah 29
verses 11 and 12. and this is what it
says God is saying for I know the plans
I have for you this is this is God
talking to me this is God talking to you
for I know the plans I have for you
declares the Lord plans for welfare and
not evil did you hear that this is a
plan for welfare this is a plan for
wellness and not evil to give you a
future and a hope then you will call
upon me and come and pray to me and I
will hear you see God has a plan I don’t
know the plan you don’t know the plan
and God is saying you don’t need to you
don’t need to know the plan you just
need to know that the plan is good that
the plan is for a hope that the plan is
for future when my boys were little and
we would go to the store I would try to
surprise attack them I would never say
hey we’re going to go to the store in an
hour because then I knew they were going
to like try to get out of that so I’d be
like hey everybody just get in the car
and they would go into Panic wait where
are we going how many errands are we
going to run will we be back can I stay
home you know am I going to get a shot
there was all of these questions how
many stores are we going to how long is
this going to take and I would just say
guys I I don’t know but get in the car
because there is a plan I don’t know how
long that’s going to take but it is for
good it is not for harm it’s possibly
for groceries maybe I’ll give you a
treat and you just need to get in and
enjoy the ride God is a good God God is
a good god you can draw near
understanding that he has plant and that
plan is for good and not for harm I also
believe when it says it’s for a hope and
a future that the plan he has has so
much to do with the future with the
Legacy it’s not just about your life
that’s in the plan but it’s a plan for
the lives that are passing through you
the lives you have contact with but
plans usually require a process and I
think God is in season right now where
he is taking us through a process so I
want to paint a different imagery I
don’t want you just to think of tree
shaking I don’t want you to think of the
god of fire I want you to go back to the
Zephaniah imagery because I love this
imagery of a father
rocking his children rocking his
daughter’s back to sleep he said you’re
going to come out of the Nightmare and
this is how I’m going to cause you to
re-enter a dream first of all he’s
saying I want you to rest in the
goodness of me I want to heal any broken
places in your life the first thing we
do is we draw near the second thing is
if we have guilt and shame if there’s
something going on we let him just wash
it he just washes it we lay aside our
fears by addressing them in the light of
his truth God I don’t know what’s going
on but I know you’re good and I know
that you have a hope and a future for me
that’s the truth
then let him rock you until this storm
passes by he wants to return you to rest
and restore the dream in your heart this
is not the end of the story this is just
a new chapter so I want to ask you to
Dare To Dream dare to Hope press in to
worship and know that God has a plan and
he has a purpose in this shaking and
that shaking is to solidify what’s
already strong in your life and build
something Kingdom oriented that will not
be shaken in your future
way to be strong
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