FALLOUT

Have you thanked Him?

Have you praised Him?

Have you made it your priority to agree and cooperate with Him today?

Have you taken that deep breath and listened for what He has for you today?

1 Timothy 2:1 (The Message)

^1-3The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know.

First, a quick apology and explanation.

THE DISPATCH went dark a couple of days to a little technology error. The technology was my brain and the error was it forgetting to take a laptop to Atlanta and the Catalyst Conference this week.

So please forgive me. (Truth is some of you may not even have noticed…(hahaha)…

One thing is certain however, there was some wonderful knowledge and learning this week at Catalyst. It is a conference on leadership and some of the thought and Holy Spirit inspired insight was astounding. I hope to share some of that in the days to come.

But today I wanted to offer a little encouragement for those experience some “fallout”.

You know fallout. Mistakes have been made, poor judgment was exercised, or you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time and made the wrong call and now there is fallout. "The stuff" has hit the fan, the "man" is coming down on you; you know fallout.

In other words, consequences.

And maybe you are feeling like GOD has abandoned ship because your friends did. Maybe you feel like GOD is ignoring your pain so you can suffer a little for what you “did or didn’t” do.

In the midst of this hardship and pain, however, there is a way out. There is relief from the fallout.

We don't have to surrender to our emotions. We can cry out to the Father and acknowledge that He is with us, loving us unconditionally. We can remember that God doesn’t abandon ship, cash out, tap out, throw in the towel, or leave us hanging.

Quite the contrary friends.

Romans 8:31-37

(NCV)

God's Love in Christ Jesus

31 So what should we say about this? If God is for us, no one can defeat us. 32 He did not spare his own Son but gave him for us all. So with Jesus, God will surely give us all things.33 Who can accuse the people God has chosen? No one, because God is the One who makes them right. 34 Who can say God's people are guilty? No one, because Christ Jesus died, but he was also raised from the dead, and now he is on God's right side, appealing to God for us. 35 Can anything separate us from the love Christ has for us? Can troubles or problems or sufferings or hunger or nakedness or danger or violent death? 36 As it is written in the Scriptures:

"For you we are in danger of death all the time.

People think we are worth no more than sheep to be killed." — Psalm 44:22

37 But in all these things we are completely victorious through God who showed his love for us. 38 Yes, I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor ruling spirits, nothing now, nothing in the future, no powers,39 nothing above us, nothing below us, nor anything else in the whole world will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

So even while the fallout may seem overwhelming or the consequence oppressing, this passage is THE TRUTH and it will act as an umbrella and a shield as the fallout cascades or dumps down on to you.

Draw underneath its promise and embrace its sheltering effect.

Psalm 3:3

But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.

You will soom emerge from under it and make it!

Have a blessed weekend.

I love you all.

Freedom Church

Pastor GDelaney