“Dancing in the Storm” Tunde Odediran

• Striving in the storm
• 1 Sam 1.6-15
• Hannah saw her life as a failure. 
• Her expectations of life were not met. 
• She faced unjust criticism and taunting. 
• Her personal pain was intense. 
• Her response was to pray. 
• Struggle is part of life. 
• Never feels good when we’re in the middle of it. 

 

• Keeping our faith in God
• We need to learn to dance with God. Dance in the storm, not waiting for the storm to pass. 
• “To dance with God is our willingness to keep our faith in God.”
• “Dance is self-expression of powerful impulses and physical release
• James 1.2-5
• “When we dance with God we can find a way to transcend our current struggles and the storms in our lives by creating different perception of our current realities by:

 

1. Finding our hope in God

• "Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.” (James 1:12 NIV11)
• "It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in humans. It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes." (Psa. 118:8–9 NIV11)

2. Maintaining our confidence to take action through God

• “The wisdom of the prudent is to give thought to their ways, but the folly of fools is deception. Fools mock at making amends for sin, but goodwill is found among the upright.” (Prov. 14:8–9 NIV11)
•  “What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?A As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” ¶No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.” (Rom. 8:31–37 NIV11)

 

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