Coming Back

Awesome job by Seth Barber last night at Vineyard Recovery Church.
Seth spoke about "Come back's. Giving examples of tremendous come back's in sports, Seth pointed out that this years winner of the World Series, The Boston Red Sox, were the worst team in baseball last year. Boston finished dead last in their division and were written off by most of the experts in this years season. Yet Boston had a come back of epic proportions.

Seth went on to share that being a NASCAR fan, he attended a lot of the races held at Talledega Super Speedway. He was privy to see another come back at a race which Dale Earnhardt was driving in. Earnhardt was in the 17th position with five laps left in the race. Everyone had written him off and projected Jeff Gordon to be the winner. Not so quick there........Earnhardt charged through the pack and passed Gordon to take the checkered flag, and the victory, finishing one of the greatest come backs in NASCAR history.

God is all about the come backs in people's lives. But Seth shared a very interesting point.
Before you can have a come back...........you've got to have a set back. You've got to find yourself in a position of being desperate to leave your situation and circumstance behind and move forward.

Using Joshua 7 and 8 as the scripture for the message, Seth told the story of the defeat of Israel's army by a little no name town called AI. This was shortly after Israel had just knocked off the big city of Jericho. Feeling their oats, Israel didn't even dispatch all their army to deal with this piddling little town of AI. Thinking they would knock this one off by lunch, they set off to take care of business. But there was sin in the camp. And this sin was done by a man who didn't think God was serious about doing the right thing. I won't go into the whole story, but the battle that day did not turn out good for Israel. They were routed and sent fleeing for their lives.  This was the set back. 

The come back came when the sin was discovered and dealt with. We pick up the story of the come back in Joshua 8:1 - Now the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid, nor be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to AI. See I have given into your hands, the kind of AI, his people, his city and his land. Life is filled with set backs of all types. Financial set backs. Physical set backs. Emotional set backs. And yes, addictive set backs. But God is never overcome and stopped by such things. In fact His heart is to empower you, aid you and direct you through the minefield that your set back has created in your life. Lead you through it and keep you on the path of relationship with Him and your recovery. 

I'll be posting the audio part of Seth's message a little later in the coming week.
Be sure to look for it.
Let God turn your set back into a come back.
God on you....
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