{"id":333,"date":"2018-12-05T09:38:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T17:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrate.bettersermons.org\/?p=333"},"modified":"2020-06-01T11:39:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T18:39:41","slug":"believing-in-advance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bettersermons.org\/believing-in-advance-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Believing in Advance"},"content":{"rendered":"
Believing in Advance<\/span><\/div>\n

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\u00a0“If I spend enough time with God, I will inevitably begin to look at the world with a point of view that more resembles God’s own. What is faith, after all, but believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.”<\/p>\n

–Philip Yancey, Prayer: Does It Make\u00a0Any Difference?<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I\u00a0need to come into God’s presence daily. Doing so will ensure that\u00a0I gain a perspective of\u00a0myself and the world from\u00a0his vantage\u00a0point. When\u00a0I fail to do this,\u00a0I quickly assume that\u00a0I am\u00a0at liberty to live as\u00a0I please.\u00a0Apart from God\u00a0I buy into the ideology of the west that\u00a0promotes\u00a0self fulfillment over sacrifice and service.<\/p>\n

Apart from God\u00a0I self implode and ignore the needs of those around me. The same was true in Paul’s day, which prompted him to say, “do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”1
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\nPaul\u00a0follows this with\u00a0an appeal for Christ’s followers to exercise their spiritual gifts for the sake of the Christian community, as well as the individual serving.<\/p>\n

“Lord, give me courage to\u00a0practice what I intuitively believe, even if it doesn’t make sense at the moment.”<\/p>\n

1<\/sup>\u00a0Romans 12:2 (NKJV)
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