Four Roadblocks that Keep You from Growing as a Christian

Four Roadblocks That Keep You from Growing as a Christian

Introduction
A traffic detour
Pride
The “I’m Okay” Attitude
“A man’s pride will bring him low, but he who is of a humble spirit will obtain honor.”
Prov. 29:23
One of the seven things that God hates: “A proud look, the spirit that makes one overestimate himself and underestimate others.” Proverbs 6:17a
Refusing Wise Counsel
The “I Don’t Want to Change” Attitude
“Hear my sons, the instruction of a father, and give ttention to gain and to know intelligent discernment, comprehension and interpretation of spiritual matters. For I give good doctrine----what is to be received; do not forsake my teaching.” Proverbs 4:1-2 to v. 13

Do you want to be healed?
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There’s No Hope
John 5:1-9 The pool of Bethesda:
(Joh 5:1) Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days.

(Joh 5:2) Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda, with five covered porches.

(Joh 5:3) Crowds of sick people—blind, lame, or paralyzed—lay on the porches [waiting for a certain movement of the water,]

(Joh 5:4) [for an angel of the Lord came from time to time and stirred up the water. And the first person to step in after the water was stirred was healed of whatever disease he had.]

(Joh 5:5) One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years.

(Joh 5:6) When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, He asked him, "Would you like to get well?"

(Joh 5:7) "I can't, sir," the sick man said, "for I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up. Someone else always gets there ahead of me."

(Joh 5:8) Jesus told him, "Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!"

(Joh 5:9) Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up his sleeping mat and began walking! But this miracle happened on the Sabbath,


Where God is, there is always hope. It is we who lose hope in God and His power. God knows what He can do when we have faith to believe it. Isaiah 55:8-9 says: “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts
Something in the way?
Let the Holy Spirit show you if something in your life is keeping you from God’s best for you, whether it is healing or something else. Don’t have a condemning attitude toward yourself but humbly and prayerfully ask God to show you if something in your life is blocking your growth in Him. You may have a dream to do something for God. God knows those dreams of your heart and He will bring them to pass in His time. Psalm 37:4 states: “Delight yourself also in the Lord and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart.”
Rebellion
A Dangerous Place to Be
(1Sa 15:23a) Rebellion is as sinful as witchcraft and stubbornness as bad as worshiping idol.”


How is rebellion shown?:


Posture

Attitude

How we act

What we say

The thoughts of our heart

The way we dress


God knows how to reward us when we are obedient and have the right attitude toward Him and our fellow human beings.

Think about the attitudes of your heart and ponder them before God. Have you seen any of the attitudes we have talked about in your life? God doesn’t want roadblocks between you and Hm.

Only you can make what is wrong right in your life by opening your heart to God and what He has for you. You have a choice to keep the attitudes you have or let God do a makeover in your life. God has wisdom and healing and so much more for your life and gives it freely. He loves you. Will you respond to that love and allow God to take down the roadblocks in your life?