We are continuing with Session 8 of the Inheritance by Beth Moore…..
Wow, Monday night was so good. I am sad that so many of our table missed on Monday night. I hope that each of you will be able to attend the next three sessions and finish this semester strong. I highly recommend that if you weren’t there Monday night that you download the session. Our story focused on Lost things being found, and the Prodigal. Beth nailed some heavy truths about sin, mostly sexual sin but she came from such an honest and powerful place. This session really made me think about my past and how God is in constant Pursuit of me, how blessed are we that God cares enough to pursue us when we turn on Him.
• Sometimes something is more valuable to us when it’s lost than when it’s found
• At the end of our lives, we’re going to turn our inheritance back into Christ and then we’ll be given responsibility in Heaven
• We squander so much of the Father’s Property
• Various ways we squander (waste or scatter) our inheritance:
o By being too distracted to prioritize
o Bitterness
o Unforgiveness
o Feeling sorry for ourselves
o Not giving Jesus full authority- who’s in charge -> God ->Me -> God -> Me
o Carnality
• God promised that if you will be obedient to Him, no enemy will be able to stand against you, NO one can defeat you.
• If you are living in the will of God, we are never meant to experience defeat (you will have difficulties but not defeat) If you are being defeated you need to ask why and evaluate why:
o Innocently- you don’t know the scriptures well enough
o Disbelief in God and His promises and faithfulness
o Disobedience to God
o Sin ruling over you
o Enemy is on your land
• Your enemy does not have the right to defeat you. You are made more than an overcomer on each square inch of your land
• We can be victorious even if we are not perfect (FYI NO one is PERFECT)
• To be blameless means we don’t have sin ruling over us. We sin, but sin doesn’t have to rule over us
• Everyone misuses their God-given property at some point to some extent
• God, our Father is never without reaction to the misuse of His property
• You are an heiress of God!! Respect and value yourself!! Find out who you are.
• You can have a harvest on your land, all is not lost
• The chief goal of all godly chastisement is so that we can be healed. If we come between someone and their consequences and rescue them, we are rescuing them from their healing.
o God creates consequences for actions. He does so in order to woo a child back home. God appoints consequences and even enemy forces if necessary to woo a child home. The consequences are so that child came be healed. When you step in and try and rescue them before they meet that consequence, when you enable, or when you prevent the rock bottom moments, you are keeping them from their Healing!!
• God knows you can’t force someone’s heart back home- he doesn’t look or force- he just waits!!
• Very seldom do people make a huge or pivotal life change because they have hurt someone else. We are not wired to change to protect, save, and heal, out of love for someone else. It isn’t until we are scorched by our own sin that we will change
• True repentance is always earmarked with humility
• There will always be those who disapprove of or despise our restoration, whether among the family of God or enemy forces
• There is always going to be somebody who takes away our right to be forgiven.
• Repentance has to be authentic, has to radiate from the core of us, to our bones, knowing that no one can take it from you
• No weapon forged again you will prevail
• Part of our heritage is that we get to refute the tongue of the accuser
• I am forgiven. Back the heck off!!!!!
• In Jesus’ name, we are forgiven!! That is our heritage
• The prodigal is never more lost than when he/she thinks they are responsible for being found
• NEVER TWIST the parable into suggesting that it is better to be the prodigal than the faithful.
Sexual Sin Comment’s and Notes:
We all know, saved or not that sex outside of marriage is a SIN. Whether you truly believe it, it is not just some outdated ideology. Sex changes things, changes you, changes what you will or will not tolerate or accept in a relationship. Most relationships (non-marriage) that have abuse in them, they have had sexual relationship. We all (those who have sexually sinned) have felt the sting, the pain, the shame, etc from sex. How many times have you wished you have never slept with that person, or wish you never went there, or have wished you didn’t take sexual baggage into your marriage.
• Sexual sin- makes you bound to someone you aren’t supposed to be with. Sometimes you stay because you have had sex with them, knowing that they are the “HELLBOY” you aren’t supposed to be with.
• Sexual sin doesn’t work well
• If you are doing it, stop it, it will destroy so much of the fabric of your soul
• You will start feeling devalued- do not give away yourself so cheaply
• Have some dignity and act like the Heiress God created you to be
• People don’t treasure you because you don’t treasure yourself
• We have to repent, and accept this is who you were not who you are
Beth hit hard on this subject but she came from such a beautiful place. There wasn’t condemnation in her comments; there was love and compassion as someone who has felt the sting and the torture in the purest form of this sin. She encouraged woman to see their worth in Christ, and recognize no matter how much we try to make sex outside of marriage a NON-SIN it is. And it is a sin that has the power to destroy, tear down, devalue, disrespect, damage, numb, scar, you. It is so personal and so emotional and it truly was designed by God for good and for pleasure within marriage. If you struggle in this area pray that God will guide you with this sin, that he will soften your heart to recognize what it is and what it does. That he will reveal to you his purpose and plan for you in this area and lead you to repentance and forgiveness. Pour this at the feet of Jesus and know that you have sisters who have been in your shoes, who have sought the Lord and found freedom, forgiveness and cleansing of the wounds. This is a hard topic, it is one we all try to avoid but ladies it is the one sin that can cause so much pain in your life and so much distance between you and God. I personally am here to talk and to share my walk and journey with being a prodigal and the moments when God ran to me and pursued me.
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