Break Out 5 – When You are Carrying the Weight of the World – How to Exercise Power

Welcome

 

Break Out

Jesus broke out of a tomb… So can you.

There is a plan for freedom and a better life.

Week 1 – You need hope.
Week 2 – You need to believe.
Week 3 – You need a turn around called repentance.
Week 4 – You need more than a new start – you need a new life. (Baptism)

 

Today – When You are Carrying the Weight of the World

 

Me – burdens & responsibility – feels too much.

-Multiple children almost died in my arms.
-Kid in hospital 1 year.
-Debt awakening.
-At the table, people I love, bad decisions.
     -over 50% negative outcome
     -100% wrecks my heart

We know about carrying the weight of the world.

-$$$
-Time and energy
-Start business or career

-Relationship – “it’s over.”
-Addiction fish-hooks.

God

Wouldn’t it be great if you could find a power source?

 

When You are Carrying the Weight of the World – How to exercise Power

Hands? – I need power.

 

We want an “Easy Fix” pill.

What we really need is to grow STRONGER.

 

Not an easier life – a stronger you.

-Your spouse.

-Drugs don’t become less enticing – You become disciplined, have mastery.

-Your job doesn’t easier (demotion) – You get BETTER.

 

Most of our prayers are about the external.
Most of our actual needs are the internal.

 

Do not waste your breath praying that the external gets weaker.
Pray and make the effort to grow stronger.

 

Isaiah 10:27 (KJV) …burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

Seems like an external power…

Isaiah 10:27 (NIV) burden will be lifted from your shoulders, their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be broken because you have grown so fat.

 

It is an internal power! Inward growth!

Outgrow the difficulty.

 

You have power.

-Time, Talent, Treasure

-Choice

 

Power in the natural…

God offers Supernatural Power

The movies… Journey to get power…
External power:
   -The one ring to rule them all (LOTR)
   -The elder wand (HP)
   -6 Infinity stones (MCU)

Because the power is external:
You can gain it… you can lose it.

 

God’s supernatural power does not work like this.

 

Ephesians 3:20 (NIV) Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us

 

A power beyond you, yet at work within you.

-Can’t buy this power.
-No time, talent, treasure CAN GAIN IT.
-No good deeds… scripture memory…

You can only RECEIVE this power from God.

How do you receive God’s power?

In Acts 2 – people realized they killed their only hope – Jesus.

They ask – WHAT CAN WE DO?

Acts 2:38 (NIV) Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.”

 

Receive the Holy Spirit!
Promise – Repent, baptized, receive

 

Acts 1:8 (NIV) 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

 

Power to BE

Be my witness…
Be a better dad…
Be a stronger person…

Not an easy fix pill… A power to stand.

A power that works internally – and changes externally.

 

Make a Move

1. I need power.
   1. Choice – Time, Talent, Treasure
   2. Pray – Decide
2. I need God’s power.
   1. Repent, Baptism, Receive
   2. Pray
   3. Ask – Text 469-467-8111
3. I need someone to understand my feeling of powerlessness.
   1. We do! Come pray.