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Stiff Arming God

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Stiff Arming God. This is what happens when we allow our pride, discouragement, and lack of trust take over. We put our hand up to God and demand He just stay out of it. God used this analogy with me to speak into a place I couldn't see before and I pray it meets you where you are. Despite the hard parts that can come with sanctification when we allow God to gently or abruptly take the ick out of our hands the hard becomes worth it.

Stiff Arming God

  • Throwing my hand up to God's face when I'd rather work things out my way.
  • I begin protecting the very things causing pain in my life. Pride, fear, discouragement.
  • I'm doing this all while God is simultaneously trying to free me!

    • Isaiah 55:8-9 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."

    Lord Help This Girl, I Am This Girl

    • When I'm clenching tightly to the hard things and not handing them over to God I'm choosing to not believe in what He says.
    • There will always be things going on that make us think, "really God.?" But its what we do after this thought that is most important. GO. TO. GOD.
    • Stiff arming God is me simply not wanting to be teachable.

      • 2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.

      Being Teachable

      • If we're not teachable we can't receive the blessing of all God's word can do in us and through us.
      • This verse = changing words. Change, challenge, teaching, and training will all happen to our flesh when we continue to become closer to Christ.
      • We need to put the stiff arm down and run straight to the arms of our Savior.

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