How God Interrupts our life to get our attention and love us into His kingdom
Isaiah 43:19 – “Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.”
Matt 4:19 – Peter interrupted: “follow me and I will make you a Fisher of Men”
1 Kings 19:19 – Elisha, devoted worker, son, interrupted: Elijah throws mantle onto Elisha
1 Kings 19:16 – Change comes from Above
Genesis 37:5-7 – Rearrangement of familiarity: you might be the one that leads your family to Jesus
Acts 2:4-No longer just in word, but in signs, wonders, miracles: “And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.”
Luke 12:49- Servant’s lives interrupted: “I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?
Acts 17:30-Lazy lives interrupted: “Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all men everywhere should repent”
Matt 8:29 – Demons interrupted: And they cried out, saying, “What business do we have with each other, Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time?”
1 Cor 15:8 – The dedicated religious are interrupted: “And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time”
GOD wants us to AMP it UP
John 10:10 Not to sit around, living boring repetitive lives. “The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).” AMP
Jer 14:18 He brings something new:
He who has “an ear to hear” – hear what? Revelation – 7 times, Gospels – 8 times
LK 14:23 – We should compel men to come into the Kingdom of God
Rev 3:17 – the Lazy journeyer – NOT rewarded
Luke 24:13-32 – Jesus INTERRUPTS the believers journey, shows us Himself, then POINTS US TO THE WORD: See here, this where it is written of me, I did this, I am this promise, I am this
Acts 18:24-28 – Apollos, although educated, needed more training, and because his heart was right, he received and grew