It's Alot!
Pastor Mike McClure, Jr - Forced Series
John 21:3-6 [NLT]
Sometimes it’s a lot is favor. The same God who brought you through a lot, can bless you with a lot!
It’s a lot- the moment you realize God was never trying to meet your expectations; He was getting ready to exceed your expectations.
Ephesians 3:20
God’s ability is bigger than my request. His power requires my participation.
John 21:3- Peter says, “I’m going fishing”
-Fishing was his hobby, he was a fisherman when Jesus found him.
Uncertainty often tempts us to retreat to familiarity. When we don’t know what God is doing next, we often run back to what feels safe. When life gets crazy and we’re unsure, we return to old habits, mindsets, coping mechanisms.
Going backwards doesn’t feel natural. How do I know when I’m outside of the will of God? When what I’m doing doesn’t feel natural.
The danger isn’t always rebellion. Sometimes the danger is regression.
Failure will make you question your future.
Peter is regressing in the text.
Many people don’t quit because God rejected them. They quit because they rejected themselves.
Peter felt as if “he blew it.”
What you do when you’re disappointed, reveals what you trust.
Where do you go when your faith gets frustrated?
Peter is seeking stability in a season of emotional chaos.
Peter going fishing may not be regression, it may be regulation. His mind was searching for peace.
Sometimes when your soul is overwhelmed, you reach for ‘routine.’ Routine gives your mind somewhere to rest.
Sometimes people are not running from God, they are reaching for rhythm because chaos has exhausted their capacity to think clearly.- A Word!
-What if he went back to fishing not bc he forgot Jesus, but bc that’s where he first heard from Him?
The boat was a place of encounter.
Failure is not always failure; sometimes it’s divine interference.
Divine interference is God blocking what is familiar so He can birth what’s next.
When Peter returned to what was familiar-fishing- his net came back empty.
Sometimes emptiness is not the result of incompetence, sometimes it’s the evidence that God is interrupting a cycle.
John 21:4- “At dawn” .. or at the last moment… Jesus was standing on the beach, but the disciples couldn’t see who he was…
Vs.6-“So they did” ; they didn’t know it was Jesus speaking to them, but still they did. They received the word even though it was from “a stranger”
They were failing on the left- overflow was on their right.
Some of us are one instruction away from the overflow we’re praying for.- A Word!
John 21:7- “It’s the Lord!”