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and so if you’re tempted to disengage
because you do know my friend that it’s
possible to be there but not really be
there you know what I mean you’re going
through the details you’re doing the
thing I mean you’re cooking dinner
you’re putting it on the table but you
have left the building in your attitude
your emotions your heart you are totally
disengaged from what it is that God has
asked you to do I mean you’re serving in
the children’s ministry but you’re not
really serving in the children’s
ministry it’s just your hands it’s not
your heart when you’re tempted to skip
this part of the journey I wish the
singleness thing would hurry up man I
wish this difficulty in our finances
would hurry up man I just wish this this
job thing if I could just get out of
this and on to the next thing if you’re
attempted really tempted right now to
close your eyes and just sleepwalk
through this portion it’s probably
because you’re in a sacred place and the
enemy wants nothing more than to keep
the people of God from actually
experience God experiencing God outside
of church if he can keep our experiences
with God limited to the time we’re just
corporately gathered together he’s got
us right where he wants us what he does
not want what is dangerous to the
kingdom of God is someone who leaves the
room like this and actually encounters
God in the regular rhythms of their
everyday living so my friend would you
be aware of this secret for sleepwalkers
this is the secret my friend stay awake
because that certain place is probably a
sacred place did you know that in the
pages of Scripture when we first read
about Jacob and his lineage he was
reared in the family that feared Yahweh
because it began with his great
granddaddy Abraham so we’ve got a
lineage of people that are fearing
Yahweh and yet this passage in Genesis
chapter 28 this passage is the first
time that we ever see Jacob hearing
God’s voice with his own ears this is
the first time he catches the glimpse of
God with his own eyes so he’s heard
about Yahweh but it’s not until he gets
to the certain place in his journey that
he gets to see Yahweh and I just wonder
if the reason why you are I am in this
season where we’re tempted to just throw
in the towel and go to sleep is because
it’s in this place that God has set
us up to have our eyes tuned to see him
in a way we might not see him before to
hear his voice in a way that we have not
heard his voice before