Notes from last Sunday's Sermon

Life doesn’t require our help to get complicated. It can get complicated all on it’s own. 

It does require work to simplify.

•He is controlled by his mother.

•He deceived his father

•He has stolen from his brother.

•His brother wants to kill him!

•He is forbidden to marry anyone from his country.

For My thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not My ways.” This is the Lord’s declaration. “For as heaven is higher than earth, so My ways are higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”

—Isaiah 55:8–9

The Ladder is about access.

Ephesians 2:18-19

John 1:51

•Are you living in a hard place this morning?

•God’s blessing is found in the hard places.

•Are you willing to embrace the hard places of your life?

• God’s greatest manifestation occurs when we realize our desperation.

• Celebrate the good days.

• Embrace the difficult days. (Job 1:21, Psalm 30:5, Daniel 1:8, Psalm 73:25-26)

• We never realize the greatness of God until we realize how desperately we need Him.

How great is your hunger for God?

How desperate are you for His staff and His rod?

Are you desperate to know his plan for your life?

Are you sick of your scheming, your fear and your strife?

Is your soul disturbed right down to the core?

Are you hungry to feel his embrace once more?

Is life a daily spiritual war?

And your spiritual sickness hard to ignore?

Is you head resting on a pillow of stone?

Are you weeping, rejected, outcast and alone?

Have you been cast out into a foreign land?

And despite what you pray you can’t see His hand?

Have you tried to manipulate life to your gain?

Are you stuck no matter how hard that you strain?

Have your relationships crushed every hope and dream?

Are you cast as a victim of your own foolish scheme?

Are you famished to find some life giving bread

To breathe life into things are presently dead?

Perhaps you are right where God needs you to be

Your desperation is the ladder to eternity.