Dangerous Prayers (Week 3) Make Me Bold - Audio
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- Yeah, we're on Pastor Tomaly, a pastor here at Coase, super glad you're with us. And like gratitude, that's something, I mean, honestly, it's something I struggle with personally, like being grateful, which is ludicrous, totally ludicrous, I've been given so much. And one of the things that I've been practicing in the mornings is, I'm writing in a journal and I'm just listing things that months ago, six months ago, a year ago, I was praying for that God has done something, that God has moved and changed. Because what I do, and maybe you're different, but for me at least, what I tend to think about is what are the problems now? What's going on, what's rough, what God, where are you, you're not doing X, Y, and Z. And that's where my attention normally is. And so what I've been doing is to look at the places where God has moved in my life and it's crazy. I mean, I can wake up in like a very sour mood, but over the course of the next 30 to 40 minutes, like my entire space changes, because I see, I'm like looking and seeing what God has been doing, stuff that I didn't have control over, that I wasn't me, and then, and that's when gratitude, like just comes, it just fills my heart. And so if that's of value to you, I hope that maybe you can do something similar. We're in a series called dangerous prayers. And these are prayers that are dangerous because our God is not a safe God. We are not called to have a safe, easy, comfortable experience of life, of faith, of all that stuff. Our lives are actually supposed to be very adventurous. They're not supposed, and adventure by its very nature involves risk. You can't have a great adventure and not be in danger. Like otherwise, it's fake. It's not real. And one of the kind of the animating quote we've been seeing each week, it's C.S. Lewis from the line that works on the word rub, talking about God. In the book, Aslan the lion represents God, an allegory for God. And we get this little snippet, Aslan is a lion. The lion, the great lion. Ooh, said Susan. I thought he was a man. Is he quite safe?
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Coast Bible Church, PastorTom Bennett, San Juan Capistrano, CA, www.coastbible.org