Sermon Cloud

Title:  The Blessing of Momentum
Pastor:  Fred May
Date:  21 January 2007
Time:  18h00
 
Mark 16:17 NKJV
And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues...
 
A. Miracle Magnet
Deuteronomy 28:6 NIV
You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
 
Matthew 11:28 NIV
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
 
Mark 16:15 NIV
He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.”
 
Amos 9:13
Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "When the plowman shall overtake the reaper, And the treader of grapes him
who sows seed; The mountains shall drip with sweet wine, And all the hills shall flow with it.
 
B. KINETIC ENVIRONMENT
1. Earth – spins & circles, powerfully, relentlessly
2. Time marches inexorably
3. Breakdown, marginalization & vicious cycle = CURSE OF FRUSTRATION – spectator of life.
 4. God endows PURPOSEFUL, FORWARD MOTION / MOMENTUM with great blessedness – it   EMPOWERS LIFE ON EARTH
 
C. THE FIVE ENEMIES OF MOMENTUM
 
1. INERTIA (TRAAGHEID)
a)  MOTIVATION – find your driver – external / internal
b)  SELF-KNOWLEDGE & ACCEPTANCE = critical
c)  Inspiration – locate & secure
 
2. PHOBIA (FOBIES/VRESE)
i.e. fear of e.g. CHANGE / FAILURE / UNKNOWN
a)  COMMUNICATION – always shed light on your “darkness”
b)  SPEAK LIFE!   
Proverbs 18:21
21
 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.
c)  INHABIT CIRCLE OF THE STRONG  
  Psalm 1:1
 1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of       
the scornful;
 
3. NOSTALGIA (HEIMWEE)
a)  Say thanks, the GOODBYE to yesterday
b)  CARPE DIEM – COUNT & SEIZE the day
 - PLAN / CONSIDER – then embark / launch
  - use DIARY (plan on paper)  
  - REFLECT / EVALUATE – Own your GROWTH & POCKET your new wisdom: Journal
 - Bridge the DISCONNECT between INNER & OUTER WORLDS
 
4. STAMINA(UITHOUVERMOË)
a)  Develop routine-driven discipline
II Timothy 1:7 NIV
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 For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.
b)  Define your substance ie.: be value & principle driven – establish your IRREDUCABLE MINIMUM & NON-NEGOTIABLES
c)  LEARN to draw from your SPIRIT
d)  Pray EVERY prayer – learn to pray!
 
5. MYOPIA (KORTSIGTIGHEID)
a)  Nurture a dream – then PLAN ; measurable, achievable – EMBRACE a VISION
b)  THINK BACKWARDS – discover the power and blessing of hindsight
c)  Seek WISDOM i.e. the POWER TO ASSESS CORRECTLY (While we’re free to choose / decide, once we’ve done so we
become slaves to our choices / decisions.