There's Glory In Your Story Part2

There’s Glory In Your Story Part2

Posted by Paula White - Thu, July 16, 2009 at 09:00 PM

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John 12:1-11 Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was who had been dead, whom He had raised from the dead. There they made Him a supper; and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with Him. Then Mary took a pound of very costly oil of spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil. But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, who would betray Him, said, “Why was this fragrant oil not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money box; and he used to take what was put in it. But Jesus said, “Let her alone; she has kept this for the day of My burial. For the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always.” Now a great many of the Jews knew that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead. But the chief priests plotted to put Lazarus to death also, because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.

John 11:3-4 Therefore the sisters sent to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.”
When Jesus heard that, He said, “This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

3 Areas of Focus
1. His Expression = The Expression for God
2. Your Experience = The Experience for God
3. Others Evidence = The Evidence of God

John 11:4 When Jesus heard that, He said, “This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

I. The Expression of God
a. This sickness is not unto death, But for the glory of God, that the son of God might be glorified thereby.
i. sickness in Greek means Strength less, impotent, weak, feebleness of the mind and body.

Your problem is a set up for his provision…

There is a transition in the New Testament from the Old Testament
• When we experience the expression of God’s glory its not so much in clouds or a smoking furnace…We see Glory in the work of His hands, in the expression of our lives.

II Corinthians 3:2-3 You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.

This is indication you are a work in “public” not “private” He is showing us that over and over again the intimate details of our dilemmas, discrepancies are going to be on display.

Why Would God Allow That?
• To show His divinity is your humanity
• You are a Spirit struggling with human experiences
• Your process is to produce His glory

Glory is an expression of the beauty, power, greatness, majesty of God revealed to us and seen in out lives.

God who is spirit and eternal has chosen mankind to manifest His Will from heaven to earth.
b. Time
1. God = eternity He manifests the moves in time
2. God is a GOD OF TIMING

God is not a line because He has NO beginning and end…He is a circle→ eternal, everlasting. He is endless from everlasting to everlasting. An eternal God.

c. God operates in seasons or cycle
1. A cycle is a recurrent or a circle
2. Season is your “set time”

Man lives on a “time-line” while God can step in and out of time according to His purposes or plans.
d. Time is cyclical, its generational
1. God intended the blessings of one generation to be passed and connected to the next generation to the next and so on…until the fullness of His purpose is manifested in a family, city, or nation.
2. God controls the season or our circumstances.

It might not be God sent but will always be God used.

e. His Purpose
1. He makes all of our circumstances work together for His purpose
2. When you are coming into your season, or cycle everything is spinning
i. Therefore producing has to do with a fixed appt. or a set time in your cycle.

II. Your Experience
Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him. Isaiah 43:7

a. His expression is created by your experience
1. An experience is the fact or state of having been affected by or gained knowledge though direct observation or participation.
2. How does He create glory?

And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defense. Isaiah 4:5

i. Create in Hebrew means through a formative process, He re-fashions, remakes and alters.
ii. What has been stretching you, that has been forming you.
iii. Its not for you to die, But for God to be glorified

b. the story of Lazarus
1. Lazarus is the one who God helps
i. from Bethany
ii. He does not mind the affliction if he can get a response

If what you have gone through will cause many people to believe or respond to God…then may your motto be:
For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all II Corinthians 4:17

iii. He is described as the one whom thou loves
iv. He has good social position
aa. We know this from the feast
bb. the costly ointment
cc. the family funeral cave

ALL of this is important for our focus because you can understand your destiny by understanding your history.

Real ministry comes from places where you have bled in and lived.

c. Stones are significant in the Bible
1. The children of Israel crossing the Jordan, 12 stones, they are the memorials to tell them how they got there.
2. However not all stones are memorial are to be laid down…some are to be removed

Isaiah 62:10-12 Pass through, pass through the gates! Prepare the way for the people Build up, build up the highway! Remove the stones. Raise a banner for the nations. The LORD has made proclamation to the ends of the earth: “Say to the Daughter of Zion, ‘See, your Savior comes! See, his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him.’’” They will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of the LORD; and you will be called Sought After, the City No Longer Deserted.

3. Sometimes we never get raised up or come forth to the point where motion and action proceed.
4. Until you remove or take away the stones, they will represent things that weigh us down
i. weight is a mass, burden, a hindrance
ii. burdens is something that carried or something oppressive or worrisome
iii. hindrances are to make slow or to make progress difficult to hold back or to delay impede or prevent action.

TAKE AWAY THE STONE
Take away in greek means to life up, to take away, to put away, to remove, to make doubt. You have to come against every bad memory, landmark, stone that weighs you down.

Isaiah 5:1-2 I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hillside. He dug it up and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a watchtower in it and cut out a winepress as well. Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it yielded only bad fruit.

d. Remember in life, your reactions are based on your interpretations of an event that leads you to a thought that evokes an emotion.
1. To change a bad memory or distorted thinking and irrational thoughts I suggest PRP
i. Permission- accept the painful emotion, accept the reality of an event that reacted the emotions THEN
ii. Reconstruction- once you accept the reality of the situation and emotions you can move to Cognitive Reconstruction.
aa. Change your interpretation of an event from a negative, unhelpful interpretation to a positive and helpful one.
iii. Perspective- gain a wider perspective.
aa. How? By appreciating ALL the great things in our life.
bb. It’s not avoiding, but its reconstructing

III. Others’ Evidence
a. as evidence for others to see.
b. Evidence is an outward sign and indication that which furnishes any mode of proof

Revelation 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

c. testimony = evidence given
d. YOUR proof of who God really is

There’s Glory In Your Story Part2

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