Do you have hurry sickness?

1. Slow your AMBITION.

When does a calling become a craving?

2. Slow your MIND.

3. Slow your SOUL.

Slowing is a learning to live every moment with the settled confidence that God is enough.

The future belongs to God, the gift is the present; maturity is knowing that God, who holds both, is worthy of your trust.

So BE STILL and know that he is God.

I. God's gifts are for flourishing.

II. We turn God's gifts into burdens.

III. Sabbath restores what busyness destroys.

I. SILENCE makes room to HEAR God.

II. To RECEIVE power from God, we must first SPEND TIME with God.

III. Every great act of OBEDIENCE begins with SURRENDER.

The ANTIDOTE to HURRY is TRUST in the Lord

Psalm 46:1-3 NET

Also see 2 Kings 18-19 and Isaiah 36-37

1. Hurry REVEALS  a DISORDERED soul.

Psalm 46:4-7

2. Hurry is  LYING about who REIGNS.

Psalm 46:8-11

3. Hurry REFUSES rest in God’s REIGN. 

“Isaiah 43:16-17 NET”

Exodus 34:6-7 NET

1. God’s FAITHFULNESS isn’t rooted in our TRADITIONS but in his CHARACTER.

“Isaiah 43:18 NET”

1. Sometimes the greatest OBSTACLE to God’s next work is our ATTACHMENT to God’s PREVIOUS work.

“Isaiah 43:19 NET”

Isaiah 42:1-7

1. Receive God’s NEW WORK with humble FAITH.

I. Adapting is not ASSIMILATING.

II. Adapting is not COMPROMISING.

III. Adapting is not FAILURE.

Main Idea:

We should never stop learning how best to be servants of God.

When in unfamiliar territory:

1. RESIDE rather than DISPAIR.

2. REMEMBER rather than RETURN

3. REDEEM rather than RESENT

"How is God calling us to live faithfully in this new reality?"

1. The way of Jesus SEES PEOPLE others WALK PAST.
2. The way of Jesus MOVES TOWARD pain when others MOVE AWAY.
3. The way of Jesus turns HEALED PEOPLE into WITNESSES.