Letting Go And Letting God

LETTING GO & LETTING GOD

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Matthew 5:5“God blesses those who are meek.”

It takes Meekness to be healthy.

The Bible lists many benefits of meekness.

“The meek shall be satisfied.”

“The meek He will guide and teach.”

“The meek will become wise.”

“The meek will be filled with fresh joy.”

The Greek word for meekness literally means “strength under control.” Meekness describes a wild stallion who was tamed and taught to be ridden. That stallion still has all the strength it had when it was wild but now it is strength under control. It is strength bottled up for the master’s use.

Definition “meek” - let go and let God.

How do you let go and let God?

The Bible tells us you do it four ways. (MEEK)

I. M – Make Jesus the manager of my life.

a. The problem is we want to be the manager of our own lives.

b. We argue and disagree with God

i. The reason why you’re under a lot of stress is that in your mind you’re fighting God.

ii. You think you know better than God so you argue with Him: “I know God says to do this but I want to do this!”

c. Job 22:21 “Stop quarreling with God. If you agree with Him you will have peace at last and things will go well for you.”

d. Romans, 9:21: “What right do you have as a human being to cross examine God? The pot has no right to say to the potter ‘Why did you make me this shape?’ A potter can do whatever he likes to with the clay.”

e. We say, “God, I don’t like the way You made me. You made me too tall or too short, too fat, too skinny. Why didn’t You give me different parents? Why didn’t You give me different talents? I don’t like the way You made me!” And God says, “I made you because I have a unique plan for your life and I made you that way so you can fulfill the plan I have for you.”

f. God says, “I made you and if you’ll let Me, I’ll manage you in a way that makes the most of what I made you to be.”

g. Matthew 16:24, the Message paraphrase, Jesus says, “Anyone that intends to come to Me has to let Me lead. You’re not in the driver’s seat. I am.”

h. When we become believers in Christ we say, “Ok, Jesus Christ, You take over the driver’s seat.”

A couple named Curt and Jerrie went on an African safari. They learned a lesson about following the instructions of the guide. One day the guide took them out to find an elephant herd. But he made them promise in advance to obey his rules before they even went out. He gave them some very specific rules. He said, “First, if I say ‘Run!’ you run! Don’t pause. Don’t stop. Don’t take a picture. Don’t think you can hide. Don’t drop to your knees. You run! That’s law number one. Number two, when you run, when I say run, you follow me, the guide, exactly. Put your feet in my footprints. Follow me step by step. Don’t try to forge your own trial. Because in a panic, you’ll, one, get lost in the jungle, or, two, you’ll step on things you wish you hadn’t stepped on. You run when I say run and you follow my steps exactly.” Sure enough they came upon an elephant herd and it stampeded. The guide said, “Run!” and some of the people froze in their tracks from fear, panic. The guide said again, “Run!” Jerrie said at that moment in spite of my fear I had to move forward, I had to go forward. If I hadn’t obeyed I would have been trampled. If I hadn’t followed exactly in the footsteps of the guide I might have stepped on something or I might have gotten lost. The point was, she said, I had to make the decision to obey before I was in the circumstance.”

i. If you wait until you come to the moment of temptation and say, “Am I going to do what God says or not?” you’re already a goner. Spiritual maturity is deciding in advance to obey God

j. “Trust and obey, for there’s no other way. To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.”

k. “Give yourself to the Lord. Trust in Him and He will help you.”

l. In many ways life is like riding a roller coaster. A roller coaster has got a beginning and an end and between the two are a lot of hills and valleys. There’s some times when it speeds up and there are times when it slows down. And you don’t have control over either of those. Your life is a lot like a roller coaster. What you need to do is you need to let God strap you in to the roller coaster and just go along for the ride.