If you are experiencing transition right now, there’s a few things you need to know so you don’t get trapped.
some of the things that you think have
left your life did not leave your life
they just changed forms and the ability
to transition I’m getting wound up and
I’m just in my introduction is the most
important skill that you will learn as a
Christian because God is never going to
leave you or forsake you but he will
change forms that means the way he
provides for you in one season will not
necessarily be the way he provides for
you in the next season the relationships
that he gives you to support you in one
season will not necessarily be the
relationships that are there in the
other season but just because people
leave doesn’t mean that God has
withdrawn his assistance and when you
are in a transitional season the most
important thing you can do in your whole
life is redirect your focus in Acts
chapter 3 the entire context of this
miracle is transitional and I want to
back all the way up to verse 1 because
Peter and John are are headed to the
temple one day to pray and one of the
things you really got to do to
understand the Bible at more than just
a surface level is you got to slow down
and pay attention to the transitions pay
attention to the transitions when you’re
reading the Bible and you want to skip
over that one little part realize that
many of the miracles happen in
transition did you ever hear about when
Jesus fed 5000 men and women and
children did you know that he wasn’t
going to feed people that day he was
trying to escape the crowd and they were
waiting for him on the other side it’s
one of the most famous miracles in the
Bible and it happened in transition some
of the greatest things that God will do
in your life he will do in transition
not when you get there not when you have
that but while you are in transition
it’s almost like God likes to show up
and cut you off at the crossroads to
where you thought you were going and
bless you on his schedule not yours
which is why Jesus said don’t leave
Jerusalem but stay here and wait for the
Holy Spirit that the father is gonna
give to you don’t do it according to
your own plans because if you do your
own plan you got to do it in your own
power but if you will wait for God to
give you the plan then you can receive
the power that accompanies that plan the
difficulty is to be still in transition
long enough to see what God is doing now
in this particular instance not only is
the Spirit of God now present in the
form of the inhabitation
of the Holy Spirit that came on the day
of Pentecost but Peter and John are
about to experience for the first time a
miracle in transition I believe somebody
today is going to experience a
transitional miracle what I mean is this
God is not gonna wait for you to get it
all together to bless you God is not
gonna wait for you to get the promotion
to provide for you God is not gonna wait
for people to change their mind about
you to start using you
God is not gonna do it when the children
get out the house no he’s gonna show up
with dirty clothes dirty dishes and a
messed up life he’s going to do it in
transition now Peter and John were going
up to the temple at the hour of prayer
the ninth hour what’s that it’s a
transitional time it’s the moment in
their day where they shifted their
attention from their practical concerns
to their spiritual concern the
difficulty in life have you noticed this my
dad taught me how to drive stick shift
so my first car was a Chrysler laser and
it didn’t have air conditioning and it
didn’t have a stereo
and it needed a paint job and it wasn’t
automatic because my dad was trying to
teach me a life lesson he was like son life isn’t automatic and neither should
your first car be like all this deep dr.
Phil crap and I’m just trying to get to
Sonic right and he’s like you might not
always have a car
with a fancy automatic transmission
you need to be able to drive any car at
any time so he wanted me to learn how to
shift gears I wish he would have taught
me how to do that not only in driving
but in life because nobody teaches you
how to shift y’all already know this
sermon I can go watch the Panthers all
right nobody teaches you think of how
many times in your life in the
transitions even in any given day how
many times if you are going to live in
peace how many times you have to
transition from one environment to the
next environment and see this is what I
learned because because Holly loves a
gift shop they always set up the gift
shop right by the exit it’s a trap
it’s a trap it’s a trap because they
know if they get you after you have
toured Alcatraz y’all my wife has spent
an entire retirement account on mugs
scarves my wife bought in Alcatraz
Christmas ornament because nothing says
Merry Christmas like a souvenir from a
maximum-security federal prison that
used to house Machine Gun Kelly and Al
Capone happy birthday Jesus let’s see
they always set up watch this the gift
shop at the point of transition because
they know if they can catch you in
transition you know where the devil sets
up discouragement to try to steal your
peace steal your joy steal your
stability and steal your focus and steal
your presence of mind he always sets it
up at the points of transition so watch
this if you have been under attack by
distraction lately it might mean I’m
just suggesting you’re about to come out
of this thing with a gift in your hand
just a suggestion
they set it up at the point of
transition at the point of transition is
where you’re most vulnerable to attack
and it is also where there is the
greatest opportunity for growth there’s
a man who is sitting outside of a temple
he can see it but he can’t go in he can
see where prayers are being answered but
he himself can’t walk to the place he
can see San Francisco but the Bible says
that he’s stuck at a gate in fact it
says that Peter and John are in
transition to the gate the man is in
transition being carried to the spot
where they would put him every day to
beg while the man is being transitioned
to his spot and while Peter and John are
transitioning to the temple God arranges
a meeting and a miracle in transition
could it be doing the same for you right
now can God bless you in transition some
of you are transitioning right now
professionally some of you are
transitioning parentally by the time we
learn how to burp them they’re driving
and nobody teaches you how to shift do
they no nobody teaches you that nobody
teaches you you can’t kiss them on the
cheek anymore when they’re 17 I still
want to kiss you on the cheek baby boy
but it’s a transition now the way that
you manage the transition has everything
to do with whether or not you experience
the fullness of the change a lot of us
get a miracle but we trip in transition
then we cannot carry out the change that
God makes in our life because we get
trapped in transition hey thank you for
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