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When Your Back's Against the Wall

February 12, 2023 • Ps. Rob Spina

James 2:17 says “In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.”

 

A wall Called “Barely Getting by” (Gideon)

 

Judges 6:11 NLT

Then the angel of the LORD came and sat beneath the great tree at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash of the clan of Abiezer. Gideon son of Joash was threshing wheat at the bottom of a winepress to hide the grain from the Midianites.

 

Judges 6:12 NLT

When the ANGEL of the LORD appeared to Gideon the angel said, "The LORD is with you, mighty warrior."  

 

"In the world’s EYES you have to SEE something before you can BE something" - Ps. Rob Spina

 

2 Corinthians 5:7

“for we walk by faith, not by sight.”

 

"You May Be In a Small Place - Just Don't Allow the Small Place to Be In You!" - Ps. Rob Spina

 

A Wall called “Those who Oppose” (Daniel)

 

Daniel 6:10 NLT

But when Daniel learned that the law had been signed, he went home and knelt down as usual in his upstairs room, with its windows open toward Jerusalem. He prayed three times a day, just as he had always done, giving thanks to his God. 

 

Daniel 6:22 ESV

But My God sent his angel and shut the lions' mouths,

 

"The mouths of those who oppose him want the mouths of the Lions to dispose of him" - Ps. Rob Spina

 

1 Peter 5:8 ESV

“Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.”

 

A wall called "Insurmountable" (The Israelites ) 

 

“God's greater” than our "insurmountable" - Ps. Rob Spina

 

Isaiah 43:15 NLT

I am the Lord, your Holy One, Israel’s Creator and King.

 

Isaiah 43:16 NLT

I am the Lord, who opened a way through the water making a dry path through the sea.

 

Isaiah 43:17 NLT

I called forth the mighty army of Egypt with all its chariots and horses. I drew them beneath the waves, and they drowned, their lives snuffed out like a smoldering candlewick.

 

Isaiah 43:18 NLT

“But forget all that— it is nothing compared to what I am going to do.

 

Isaiah 43:19 NLT

For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.