Turning Baggage In To Luggage | Week 4 | Summer Baggage Series
God will use your problems to propel you to your purpose.
God uses baggage to:
Grow us (Romans 5:3-5)
Reveal Himself
Form us in His image (2 Corinthians 3:18)
35 By the word of the Lord one of the company of the prophets said to his companion, “Strike me with your weapon,” but he refused. 36 So the prophet said, “Because you have not obeyed the Lord, as soon as you leave me a lion will kill you.” And after the man went away, a lion found him and killed him. 37 The prophet found another man and said, “Strike me, please.” So the man struck him and wounded him. 38 Then the prophet went and stood by the road waiting for the king. He disguised himself with his headband down over his eyes. 39 As the king passed by, the prophet called out to him, “Your servant went into the thick of the battle, and someone came to me with a captive and said, ‘Guard this man. If he is missing, it will be your life for his life, or you must pay a talent of silver.’ 40 While your servant was busy here and there, the man disappeared.” “That is your sentence,” the king of Israel said. “You have pronounced it yourself.” 41 Then the prophet quickly removed the headband from his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets. 42 He said to the king, “This is what the Lord says: ‘You have set free a man I had determined should die. Therefore it is your life for his life, your people for his people.’” 43 Sullen and angry, the king of Israel went to his palace in Samaria.
1 Kings 20:35-43 NIV
1. (v35) Some wounds are God inspired.
Hosea 6:1
Proverbs 27:6
2. (v36) Some wounds enter your life from disobedience.
3. (v38) God will use the mess you walk through to shape the message you carry.
4. (v39-40) A fake story with a real warning. We must do our God appointed purpose.
5. You don’t often get to choose the wounds you receive or the weight you carry… but you get to choose:
your response
your attitude
how long you will hold onto the weight before you give it to God.
THE SONGS OF ASCENT (Psalms 120 – 135)
Bring your pain up to God. Don’t run down to the world.
Fill your journey with God’s Word and His people.
Worship with every step along the way.
Trust that He can turn your mourning into dancing.
9 When Jesus had called the Twelve together, he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases, 2 and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. 3 He told them: “Take nothing for the journey—no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, no extra shirt. 4 Whatever house you enter, stay there until you leave that town. 5 If people do not welcome you, leave their town and shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.” 6 So they set out and went from village to village, proclaiming the good news and healing people everywhere.
Luke 9:1-6 NIV
35 Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?” “Nothing,” they answered. 36 He said to them, “But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. 37 It is written: ‘And he was numbered with the transgressors’; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment.” 38 The disciples said, “See, Lord, here are two swords.” “That’s enough!” he replied.
Luke 22:35-38 NIV
8 And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.
2 Corinthians 9:8 NIV