Sermon Tone Analysis

*Defeat Stress—As You Discover How to Live In God’s Peace*

*5-17-09*

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*Where do you Unplug?*

·                    Frenetic Pace

·                    Driven Society—always moving

·                    Peace

o       Charge Batteries

o       Renew

o       Strength that is unshakeable\

 

Confession

* *Perfect Peace only comes from the perfect ONE

·                    From FIXING our mind on HIM

·                    Am I okay

·                    When answered by job—unstable

·                    By the girl or the guy—flighty

·                    By your performance—when you win—you’re great—when you fail you are a loser

·                    Self-loathing when I gauge my peace by others acceptance of me

·                    Good days—great—bad days—rejected

·                    Fragile peace

 

Perfect peace only comes from watching GOD

 

Autism Illustration

·                    Chase

·                    Lucy

·                    If you want to live in DOUBLE Portion peace

o       God wants to TRAIN your mind

*Mind*

*Whose mind Is STEADFAST*

Steadfast Defined

סָמַך (/sāmak/) */lean upon, lay, put, uphold, support/*.

(ASV, RSV similarly.)

The primary meaning of the root is “to lean upon,” in distinction to its synonyms /tāmak/ (q.v.), which basically means “*grasp,*” “*lay hold of*” and /sā˓ad/ “*sustain*.”

The best known use of this root is in the laying on of hands.

In the Levitical regulations regarding the sacrificial offerings, the offerer brought his proper sacrificial animal in person and laid his hand upon its head, thus expressing *identification with the offering*, its surrender to God and in the case of guilt, its transfer to the animal (cf.

specifically Lev 16:21).

·                    Identification

·                    All that I AM

o       All my sin

o       All my need

o       ID’ed with THIS sacrifice -- Develop

·                    Perfect peace only comes from watching GOD

o       Leaning all that we HAVE on Him

o       Placing our burden ON Him

o       We no longer carry—HE carries

 

 

*Trust*

·                    DEFINE—trust

·                    *Matured: confidence—unshakeable*

·                    Trust:  *EARLY STAGES*—LEAN on me

o       Quote Song

o       Proverbs—Trust in Lord with all heart . . .

lean not

 

 

Circumstantial peace

·                    Deadly

 

God gives peace that passes understanding

·                    Develop

 

What do you say about this, Lord?

·                    In boat—Jesus—what do YOU say about this?

 

*STRENGTH*

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  Trust in the Lord forever,

     eFor in Yah, the Lord, /is/ 2*everlasting strength.*

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Brings a STRENGTH to our lives

·                    Unshakeable

·                    Earthquake—foundation

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·                    *Rock*

·                    Fortress—protection—stronghold

·                    The EVERLASTING STRENGTH of God

·                    Let’s you DWELL secure

·                    When you live in a walled city—no one—NOTHING can access you

·                    You are SAFE on the ROCK

·                    The Stronghold is secure

 

*How many want Treasures of this verse in your life?*

·                    Speaking to myself right now

·                    Key—develop

·                    TRUST

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*So How do I CULTIVATE  a Steadfast Mind?*

·                    Trusting heart?

o       Leaning on—Leaning IN

·                    *Discover the Secret Place*—and Cultivate it!

o       Ps 91

1     He awho dwells in the secret place of the Most High

     Shall abide bunder the shadow of the Almighty.

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o       Problem:  I forget to go there!!

o       I forget about it?

o       Don’t see it as a resource—

o       Go to meet with God to ‘check the box off’ instead of going to BE with Him

o       False religions—meditation time—go out of their way

o       What are they doing—dangerous stuff—opening spirit door in heart to darkness

o       But they FAITHFULLY go there

o       Why aren’t believers—we’ve got the BEST place

o       We can MEDITATE—in His presence in His word

o       But many Christians don’t know how to CULTIVATE the Secret place!!

 

Secret place

·                    Some times PHYSICAL place

o       Devotions

o       Touch points within the day

o       Are you CREATING  a Secret Place?

o       How do you do It?

 

·                    Time of day

o       God is all about APPOINTMENTS

o       REGULAR—Rhythm

o       Healthy—weekly—daily—yearly

§        Feasts—appointed times