Opportunities God Gives

You’ve got to do the same thing that Jesus did in the garden; when you know what God wants you to do, you have to hang on and pray, “God, help me not to come into temptation. I want to finish what I’ve started.” Jesus said, “shall I not go to the cross? Is this not the purpose for which I came? I’m not going to quit now just because it’s hard. I’m going to press through and finish the job.” Make your mind up that you’re going to finish what you start. Amen? Amen.: Let’s go to Genesis 11. We’re talking about excellence and integrity, and that people who have it finish what they start. They don’t just sit around and pray for promotion without adding their motion.

Now, you all know about Abraham. Almost anybody who knows anything about the bible, if you mention Abraham, they recognize that name. But there’s another name that maybe you don’t recognize so much and that’s Terah. Terah was Abraham’s father. I find it interesting in the bible that Terah was given an opportunity to go to the same place that God told Abraham to go to, but he got part of the way there and he settled. So God had to now find somebody else. I wonder how many opportunities God gives us and we get started, and we settle somewhere along the way because it’s hard, and then God has to use somebody else. Genesis 11:31: and Terah took Abram his son, lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and they went forth together to go from ur of the Chaldees into the land of Canaan; but when they came to Haran, they settled there. Everybody say: I’m not going to settle.

I’m not going to settle.: vs. 32: and Terah lived 205 years; and Terah died in Haran. He died where he settled. I don’t want to settle somewhere that’s partway between where I was and where I’m supposed to be. You see, mediocrity is average or below average but God has not called us to be mediocre or lukewarm; he’s called us to be excellent people.