Part 6 of the "Finding Hope in God" Sermon Series
My first challenge for you this week is to find your mountaintop. If you have not or will not share it with someone else today, give it some more thought when you get home. If you do not do this step, you are like a car without wheels. It may look pretty. The engine probably even works. But you are going nowhere. God cannot use you to the fullest extent that God wants to use you. You can keep someone warm inside the car. You can play the radio. But you cannot travel into other places of God’s coming kingdom.
If you have met this challenge, I have a follow-up challenge. Set yourself a defined time each day or each week where you will visit your mountaintop. This is crucial to staying connected to God and keeping gas in the car. If you do not believe in your destination, why drive there? If you do not feed your car, you can only get partway there. Having a regular check-in schedule with God is crucial to accomplishing what God wants for you in this life.
And if you are feeling really up to challenges this week, the final one is this: Pray about one person in the valley – that is, one who is not connected to God – who you can speak to this week. Do not try to evangelize and convert them to God straight away, but tell them you prayed for them. Tell them you believe in them. Tell them you were thinking of them. That could be exactly what they need to hear. Trust your training. God believes in you. God knows you. You DO have work to do in the valley. May all glory be to God and may all delight be in God’s purposes.
