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Keeping pace with God 1 Kings 17.1-5, 18.41-46

Keeping pace with God 1 Kings 17.1-5, 18.41-46. Definition: Pace Pace is the measure of one’s stride. To walk at a steady and consistent speed. God’s provision matches God’s pace. God’s pace caused Elijah -. to run for his life to go hungry to live in obscure places

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Keeping pace with God 1 Kings 17.1-5, 18.41-46

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  1. Keeping pace with God1 Kings 17.1-5, 18.41-46

  2. Definition: Pace Paceis the measure of one’s stride. To walk at a steady and consistent speed.

  3. God’s provision matches God’s pace

  4. God’s pace caused Elijah - • to run for his life • to go hungry • to live in obscure places • to suffer trials alongside those he was with

  5. Keeping pace with God is a custom fit experience

  6. Keeping pace with God requires adjustments

  7. We moderns and post-moderns are untrained in watching and waiting. Our understanding of waiting is that nothing happens will we are waiting.

  8. Waiting is not about producing. Waiting is about getting closer to God.

  9. God’s pace almost always seems slower than ours. God always has enough time. He never runs out of time. His pace is always perfect.

  10. “God is in this place and I did not know it.” Genesis 28.16

  11. Keeping pace with God’s presence means being present

  12. Presentness is connected to Presence. When we are fully present in the moment, the Holy Spirit’s presence is available to us.

  13. State of our souls influences our internal clock. When our souls are unhealed or out of touch with God’s pace we fall out of sync with His heart.

  14. God sees time in terms of qualitative events, moral decisions and spiritual content. God’s time is filled with substance.

  15. How can we break the droughts in our lives?

  16. Keeping pace with God Are you singing the same song God is singing?

  17. "I am the LORD your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go. Isaiah 48.17 • Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Galatians 5.25

  18. What in your temperament or personality does God’s pacing confront? • What adjustments do you need to make to keep pace with God? • How can you be present and available to God today?

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