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I've fallen and I CAN get up!

visioncgbc | July 09, 2008 06:13

There's a new show on television called "Wipeout." It’s like an impossible to achieve obstacle course. Last night one of the obstacles involved people standing on their own little platform and then jumping over this huge bar with little distractionary (Yes. Made that word up) dangly pieces of foam. It was so funny. These people would think they had it, and then just bust. ****This is a side note of unimportance to you, but I love it when Mark watches things like this that make him laugh out loud. You can be upstairs, and hear him start chuckling, and then cackling then I start laughing, and I don’t even know what he’s laughing about.***** Well, it was down to 2 players standing. The dangly foamy bar thingy comes around and the guy falls. But wait!! He catches himself. He gets back up just as the bar is approaching. He still has a shot. He jumps and makes it! But then………he falls. He just wasn’t standing firm enough to make it.

I watched Beth Moore this morning, and tried to purpose in my heart I was going to listen to what she said, and asked God to help me do it. Didn’t take long for her to get my attention when she said “Is there anybody listening and you don’t know what to do?” 2 Chronicles 20:12 O our God, will you not judge them? For we have no power to face this vast army that is attacking us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon you." OK. Now I’m listening. I’ve read this story over and over, but today to hear it again, it was a needed reminder.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles%2020%20;&version=31;

One thing Beth said that really struck a loud chord of conviction was this: “Many of you won’t experience victory because all you talk about is your defeat.” Preach it sista’. If you read the entire story, you’ll notice that the focus, the intentional focus of the people was on God, and not on the enemy. If the people would’ve went around and talked about how the enemy had wrongly come against them, and they couldn’t possibly win, and they were sure they were all going to die, they would have.

2 Chronicles 20: 15 He said: "Listen, King Jehoshaphat and all who live in Judah and Jerusalem! This is what the LORD says to you: 'Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God's. 16 Tomorrow march down against them. They will be climbing up by the Pass of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the gorge in the Desert of Jeruel. 17 You will not have to fight this battle. Take up your positions; stand firm and see the deliverance the LORD will give you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Go out to face them tomorrow, and the LORD will be with you.' "

That man fell off his platform when he took a position, but didn’t stand firm. Are you there today? You think you know what you might believe could happen. Ya, I’m there too. If we don’t believe God for the impossible, then the impossible won’t happen. If we expect the worst, we get the worst.

Read this story again. Stand firm. Expect the unexpected.

http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=173d0b2dc088166981cf

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