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12/16/12 1 Shattered Dreams Matthew 2 (Page 2) To Make Sense of Sha-ered Dreams: 1. Expect “detours” in life To Make Sense of Sha-ered Dreams: 1. Expect “detours” in life 2. View “delays” as normal To Make Sense of Sha-ered Dreams: 1. Expect “detours” in life 2. View “delays” as normal 2 Peter 3:8 “A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day.” To Make Sense of Sha-ered Dreams: 1. Expect “detours” in life 2. View “delays” as normal FAULTY ASSUMPTIONS : 1) If God’s plan isn’t fulfilled immediately, it never will be. 2) A Jme of waiJng means that God is against you. 3) Your way is beMer than waiJng on God. 4) You should fix your problem yourself rather than waiJng on God. To Make Sense of Sha-ered Dreams: 1. Expect “detours” in life 2. View “delays” as normal Proverbs 19:21 “You can make many plans, but the LORD’s purpose will prevail.”
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Shattered Dreams!
Matthew 2 (Page 2)!
To Make Sense of Sha-ered Dreams:
1. Expect “detours” in life
To Make Sense of Sha-ered Dreams:
1. Expect “detours” in life 2. View “delays” as normal
To Make Sense of Sha-ered Dreams:
1. Expect “detours” in life 2. View “delays” as normal
2 Peter 3:8
“A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day.”
To Make Sense of Sha-ered Dreams:
1. Expect “detours” in life 2. View “delays” as normal
FAULTY ASSUMPTIONS: 1) If God’s plan isn’t fulfilled immediately, it never will be.
2) A Jme of waiJng means that God is against you. 3) Your way is beMer than waiJng on God. 4) You should fix your problem yourself rather than waiJng
on God.
To Make Sense of Sha-ered Dreams:
1. Expect “detours” in life 2. View “delays” as normal
Proverbs 19:21
“You can make many plans,
but the LORD’s purpose will prevail.”
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To Make Sense of Sha-ered Dreams:
1. Expect “detours” in life 2. View “delays” as normal
God is never early, never late,
but always right on Qme.
To Make Sense of Sha-ered Dreams:
1. Expect “detours” in life 2. View “delays” as normal
3. Live with “unanswerable” quesQons
To Make Sense of Sha-ered Dreams:
1. Expect “detours” in life 2. View “delays” as normal
3. Live with “unanswerable” quesQons Acts 1:6-‐7
“So when the apostles were with Jesus, they kept asking him, ‘Lord, has the Jme come for you to free Israel and restore our kingdom?’ He replied, ‘The Father alone has the authority to set those dates and Jmes, and they are not for you to know.’”
To Make Sense of Sha-ered Dreams:
1. Expect “detours” in life 2. View “delays” as normal
3. Live with “unanswerable” quesQons Deuteronomy 29:29
“The Lord our God has secrets known to no one.”
To Make Sense of Sha-ered Dreams:
1. Expect “detours” in life 2. View “delays” as normal
3. Live with “unanswerable” quesJons 4. Trust God in the “dark.”
Isaiah 55:8-‐9
