HOSTAGE -- Week 4

HOSTAGE – WEEK 4

Broken Relationships/Disappointment

We had a great night at FUSED diving into how it looks to be held hostage by the pain of broken relationships -- girlfriend/boyfriend that has burned us, a parent who has yelled at us or even left our homes, a bestfriend that has betrayed us, a relationship that we thought would never end, suddenly ended.   We had a chance to look at our lives as fragile clay pots where broken relationships chip parts of our pots away and that when we try to do this ourselves we end up in a fragile mess of broken clay pots and we were never intended to live that way.  Jesus really wants to make us whole and to not be held back by past hurts by freed to be everything we were intended to be.

THREE TRUTHS TO ESCAPE BEING HOSTAGE BY BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS
2 Corinthians 4:7-9

         1. Be Honest about broken relationships in your life – you are a clay pot – identity is found what is   inside you – What are you putting inside yourself
                  a. PRIDE – I can do it myself, it doesn’t apply to me, I am
                      better than you
                  b. I will not give HIM THE SATISFACTION OF KNOWING THAT I AM HURTING – that lie will keep you hostage

        2. Letting people off the hook/Forgiveness – Ephesians 4:32 – Not a list of wrongs but heart that is free – sometimes when bad things happen to you the only thing you control is whether you forgive the person (let the person off the hook) – Are you letting people off the hook

        3. Do not be defined by the broken relationships in your life, but pick to be made whole through Jesus – (Nothing can separate us from the love of God – Romans 8:35-39)
                a. We all have been vicitims – are you living as a victim or as a conqueror
                b. Some of us have never felt at peace, safe in any relationship, some of you have never felt the light shining in your life.
                c. The clay pot of your life is fragile and empty without the light of Jesus shining within it.

STRAT MATS:

• BAPTISM -- Feb. 24 -- if you haven't been baptized since giving your life to Christ consider signing up for baptism this February
• IGNITION -- If you come to FUSED for the first time you can go to OLD GLOBAL area for free pizza and drinks and a chance to get to know some of the FUSED team.
• RETREAT -- March 19-21  -- Get those invites out, this is going to be an amazing weekend, more info soon