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Monday Jan 08, 2018
Navigating Change: Adjust Your Sails: Various Text
Monday Jan 08, 2018
Monday Jan 08, 2018
Navigating Change: Adjust Your Sails
Various texts
The Function of Sails
- Sails do NOT cause a ship to move
- Wind makes it move
- The sails harness the wind
- If there is no wind, the sails won’t work
- And it is impossible to sail directly against the wind
- So, a good sailor has to adjust his sails to catch the wind
What is the Wind??
- The Wind = The Holy Spirit (John 3:5-8)
- The term ‘spirit’ means breath or wind in both Hebrew (ruah’) & Greek (pneuma)
- He is Giver of life (Job 33:4; John 6:63)
- He is the empower & equipper (1 Cor. 12:11; see also Eph. 4:11ff; Heb. 13:20-21)
- He is God at work in us and in the world (John 14:16-18)
Adjusting our Sails
- As change happens, we need to adjust ourselves to what God is doing in our lives and in the world around us
- “Watch to see where God is working and join Him” -Henry & Richard Blackaby and Claude King, Experiencing God (see John 5:17, 19-20)
- This requires being attuned to the Holy Spirit
- Being silent and listening
- Setting aside our agendas and goals
- Relying on God’s timing
- It allows us to be conformed to His will (Rom. 8:28-29; 12:2)
- This leads to peace beyond understanding (Phil. 4:5a-7)
So What?
- As we learn to navigate change in God-honoring ways
- Let’s adjust our Sails to the wind of the Spirit
Meditation Verse: John 3:8
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