RadicalPart 3

Joshua chapter 6

Weird?

What do you not see in this passage?

“This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for His power, and then He shows his provision in ways that display His greatness.”

Good church?1. Good performance

2. Good buildings/environment

3. Good programs

4. ?

5. ?

6. ?

God’s PowerActs 1 - only 120 believers...

Acts 2 - Pentecost: God saves 3,000 people...

Acts 3 - Forty year old crippled guy walks...

*Religious establishment becomes angry

Acts 4 - House shakes after believers pray for boldness

Acts 5 - “miraculous signs & wonders among the people”

God’s PowerActs 6-7 - Stephen martyred...

Acts 8 - Believers are scattered; they witness/black guy gets saved

Acts 9 - Saul/Paul gets saved

Acts 10 - Racial/ethnic barriers collapse *Cornelius

Acts 11 - Antioch: Mission-sending church is started

God’s Power

Acts 12 - Peter on death row. Believer pray. Chains fall off.

Acts 13 - Paul starts going on mission trips

Acts 2:41, 47

Who added them?

Specifically, where do we need to see God’s power in our current culture?

George Muller, Orphanage“The first and primary object of the work was (and still is:) that God might be magnified by the fact, that the orphans under my care are provided with all they need, only by prayer and faith without anyone being asked by me or my fellow-laborers whereby it may be seen, that god is faithful still, and hears prayers still.”

Matthew 7:9-11; Luke 11:11-13

What does God give?

Big Questions...

Q#1 Is your life, right now, marked by desperation for the Spirit of God/Power of God?

Q#2 If so, how can it be maintained?

Q#3 If not, how can it begin?

P.60 DESPERATION FOR THE SPIRIT OF GOD IN YOUR LIFE