Family of God: Re: [Awake4HisReturn] Fw: AWWY - "When It's Just Not Working" (#6287)

Sometimes we are the problem. And we cant always change it.

On Tue Feb 15th, 2011 2:11 PM CST drena brown wrote:

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>When It's Just Not Working - #6287
>Tuesday, February 15, 2011
>I don't think it's that I'm incompetent when it comes to technical things. I
>think I was just born a hundred years too late. I probably would have fared
>better when they hadn't invented so many machines and appliances, and computers.
>I would have done fine in those simpler days. I mean sometimes it is just so
>embarrassing. I can't you know, get a lamp to work, or I can't get some
>appliance to work, and no matter what I do it doesn't go on. The ending is too
>often the same. My youngest son for example would come in and say, "Dad, is it
>plugged in?" "No." Oh, I didn't check that! I hate that! So many times we tinker
>with everything and miss the one simple factor that needs to change.
>I'm Ron Hutchcraft, and I want to have A Word With You today about "When It's
>Just Not Working."
>Our word for today from the Word of God offers a possible diagnosis for why some
>important things in your life just aren't working right now. Maybe you're like
>me trying to get things working at the house. You've tinkered with all the
>different parts of the problem. Well, have you considered the possibility that
>it isn't working because God is withholding His blessing? And it won't work
>until God gives His blessing to that part of your life. You say, "Well, why?"
>Well, because something He really values may be missing.
>Our word for today from the Word of God, Psalm 133, verses 1 and 3, "How good
>and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity. For there, the Lord
>bestows His blessing." Did you catch what the Lord is saying here? "I put my
>blessing where My people are together and unified." The implication might be
>this. Where they are not unified, I do not put My blessing.
>Well, let's look at your personal frustration right now - that door that is not
>opening, the money that just doesn't come, maybe the child who won't respond,
>the results that just aren't coming no matter how hard you work. Could it be
>that you're not plugged in to God's blessing because there are fractured
>relationships, strained relationships right now?
>First Peter chapter 3, verse 7 tells husbands to "treat their wives properly so
>that their prayers will not be hindered." In other words, when that relationship
>with your wife isn't right, God will not answer your prayers. Maybe your
>children will not come around until mom and dad deal with the walls that are
>between them. Your church won't grow until those factions come together in a
>common cause. Like rescuing the dying people all around you. The money or the
>answer won't come until you fix that broken relationship.
>See, that broken relationship, and you know which one it is, is breaking God's
>heart. Do everything in your power to take down the walls that might be costing
>you the blessing of almighty God. Keep checking until you understand what is
>there that's broken that God says needs fixing. Quit tinkering with the problems
>that really aren't the problem.
>You have to go check and make sure you're plugged in at the right place. Check
>the power source. And the power source is a current called the blessing of God.
>And He's told us where He puts that. He's told us where He gives that blessing.
>It's when He sees His people hand in hand.
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