1Peter 2:2
Joy’s Notes:
1 Peter 2:2
“Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for this nourishment,
Such a profound thought— the way a newborn CRIES & CRAVES milk; I must cry & crave the same for spiritual milk!
• scientists have never been able to duplicate breastmilk
• 3rd world countries dilute milk— it fills childrens bellies but end up malnourished because they lack nutrients to survive :(
Our culture is bombarded with diluted milk!!!
“Got milk?”
Diluted milk that’ll satisfy your craving but does NOT provide nourishment for your heart.
Is your milk
Diluted ??
• Milk to a newborn is matter of life a death.
• ‘Pure spiritual Milk’ to christian is matter of life or death!
• What are you drinking that’s promising to be pure spiritual “milk” — buts causing malnourishment?
Israelites were DESIRING this “milk & honey.”
God used this desire to keep them moving towards their destination!
But instead of a 11 day journey, it became a 40 YEAR journey
Why???
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(Fake milk) idolatry—> led to
complaining/ grumbling
(God tells us to stay away from diluted milk, not because he’s a harsh and mean God, but because he knows it will destroy us! It’s an act of love)
Instead of :
PRAISING (believing) we COMPLAIN (unbelief)
(John 2:1-11)
Jesus’ first miracle HE chose to do is:
TURN GRUMBLING INTO PRAISING:
— little to do with the wine & everything to do with the REMEDY to our grumbling!
• Mary heard grumbling & turned Jesus— who could transform it into PRAISING!!
• Complaining wine had run out. Jesus turns it into wine & GRUMBLING TURNS TO PRAISING when Jesus is invited in!!!
REMEMBRANCE:
(satan desires for us to have spiritual amnesia!
👉Priests held Ark of the Covenant while they walked through Red Sea
👉Luke 22:19 (communion) do this in REMEMBRANCE of me!
(RBC had this engraved on communion table)
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The Jewish people— observed PASSOVER meal EVERY year in order to remember God’s fulfillment of his promise.
👉 Rocks set up as memorial
• Forgetting = complaining
• Remembering =Praising
Praising is a NATURAL BYPRODUCT
(Not behavior modification)
SABBATH— is a day to remember the goodness of God! (A celebration of His restoration!)
🤍Turn your eyes upon Jesus HYMN
“Turn your eyes upon Jesus
Look full in His wonderful face.
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim
In the light of his glory and grace”
We still follow EVERY 10 commandments— EXCEPT sabbbath??
Why is that??
Satan knows sabbath rest will give us fruit of praise, joy & rest.
He wants you straining, striving & stuffing
👉 ’remembering’ precedes praise
• Heb 13:15 “Therefore, let us offer through Jesus a continual SACRIFICE OF PRAISE to God, proclaiming our allegiance to his name.”
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Praise IS a sacrifice—
in order to have praise (natural byproduct) we must sacrifice striving, straining, trying, ceasing our work to REMEMBER His work!!! (Surrender)
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5 superpowers of praise
“crosswalk”
1. Praise decreases self-absorption
• Habakkuk -“even though”
• 3:17-19 “Even though the fig trees have no blossoms, and there are no grapes on the vines. Even though the olive crap fails, and the fields like empty in Barron. Even though the flocks die in the fields, and the cattle barns are empty— YET I will rejoice in the Lord! I will be joyful in my God! The sovereign Lord is my strength! He makes me a sure footed as a deer able to tread upon the Heights.”
2. Praise brings me to posture of humility
• Humility is about proximity.
• Only in humility can I find rest — Gods got this (not me!!)
“The arrogant are NEVER at rest.”Habakkuk 2:5
3. Praise defeats the enemy!!! (Jehoshaphat 2 chronicles 20:21) “PRAISE the lord for his mercy endures forever.”
4. Praise gives me eyes to SEE God’s blessings over my life. (Satan wants to blind me from knowing that: “Christ has blessed me with EVERY spiritual resource/blessings in heavenly places in Christ:" Eph. 1:3
5. Praise invites in miracles (Acts 16:25-26)
• Paul & Silas flogged
• Stripped naked & Beaten w/ rods
• Inner cell.
• Shackles on feet.
• Midnight singing PRAISE
• Earthquake opened up ALL the prison doors 🙌
Praising God in the midnight hour!
• READ psalm 150– the VERY last psalm & last words of the book of psalm…
“let everything that breathes sing praises to the Lord.”
“She praises God like she already got what she prayed for!”🙌
(Posted by: Jen mckindles)