Willow Leadership Summit: Session 8 – Jeff Manion
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- “You are not where you once were. You are not where you’re going to be. You are in a confusing zone. Welcome to The Land Between.”
- Biblical illustration: Israel after they left Egypt before they entered the Promised Land.
- Numbers 11:4
- The land between is fertile ground for complaint
- It’s healthier to place ourselves among the characters of the story rather than ‘above’ them
- Guard your heart in the land between, because there’s something that would tempt you to say that “I’m sick of this.. I was better off without you, God!”
- Numbers 11:11-15
- The land between is fertile ground for emotional meltdown
- Breaking point: “I cannot carry this anymore.”
- Numbers 11:16-17
- The land between is fertile ground for God’s provision!
- Secondary illustration: Elijah after Mt. Carmel
- Numbers 11:18-20
- How? Numbers 11:23a Is God too weak to intervene for you/me?
- The land between is fertile ground for God’s discipline.
- Discipline is inflicted pain for redemptive purposes.
- We are naive to think that we are immune from his correction, especially when we embrace a spirit of complaint
- The land between is also fertile ground for transformational growth. . .
- God’s message is a continual message challenging His people to trust them
- It was a transformational time from people of slavery/idolatry to the people of God.
- It is in that space that we learn to pray, depend, cry out.
- But it is here that your heart is in danger. Choices made here will determine what you will be like in the future. The land between is also a place where faith goes to die.
- Complaint resists eviction in your life. But trust can do the eviction.
- You deter complaint’s return when you invite another guest into the home: trust.
- This is the place where God does some of his richest and deepest work.
