We cannot make God louder we must turn down the noise to hear him at his volume.
Thermometer or Thermostat : A thermometer will become just like the room it's in but a thermostat is connected to the power and it has the ability to change the room.
The enemy will try to get us to live in the past. If that doesn't work he will try to get us too obsess about the future. He will always try to not let us live in the now.
The present is the only place where time touches eternity.
We choose whether or not to live in the present moment. Because we can encounter God only in the present moment, whenever we live in the past or in the future, we place ourselves beyond His reach.
We talked about Daniel and the moment in which the law was signed that no one could pray except to the king. I imagine there was some noise in Daniel's thoughts when he left work to head home to pray that afternoon. But his connection to God was not overpowered by the noise of what was going on in his life. Because by the time he got home he didn't go into a prayer closet. He went to the window and he prayed just as he had done before. He knew what the outcome was going to be but because the voice of God was not drowned out by the noise of the opposition he prayed anyway and he went through the lion's den.
Peter got his feet wet. There were 11 of their disciples with " dry feet" they did not have the experience that Jesus did or the experience that Peter did.
Still in the moment after taking steps on the water The noise overpowered the faith that Peter was walking in he took his eyes off the one that had told him to step out and he began to sink. I think this moment is encouraging to us because in the moment of faith the noise will come to distract us and take our eyes off our source to stop us from doing what God has instructed us to do.
So if it happened to Peter it happens to us and we can overcome that when we are not ignorant to the enemy's devices we live in the present we connect with God and we don't allow the noise to separate us from God.
How do you see yourself now, a thermometer or a thermostat? What's a way you can apply this new way of thinking into your life?
How does getting your feet wet sound to you now?
What was your moment where the word came alive to you in this message?
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How do you see yourself now, a thermometer or a thermostat? What's a way you can apply this new way of thinking into your life?
I believe that I was a thermometer for a long time but my goal is to continue to develop into a thermostat. I use to consider myself a "social chameleon" when I was younger. I felt like I had an ability to adapt to my environment meaning depending on the group of people that I was with, I was able to blend in and act like them to get along with them. So, this concept of thermometer vs thermostat has really resonated with me. No longer do I want to go into a room and…
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