You Can't Always Get What You Want

Good Shepherd Barrhaven Sermon Stream

Unanswered prayers and unrealized hopes are some of the most difficult challenges to our faith. Sometimes, they can leave us feeling that God has lost interest in us, or perhaps doesn't love us very much. In today's sermon, Fr. Stephen challenges us to ask whether our disappointments come from God's inaction, or whether they come from us not looking where God is acting. He is at work, but we need the eyes to see it.

Scripture Passages: Matthew 11:2-19; Isaiah 35

Preached on the 3rd Sunday of Advent, December 15, 2009 by Rev.Stephen Silverthorne

Sermon Highlights

• We often fail to distinguish between needs and wants
• John the Baptist was a faithful prophet
• John the Baptist was disappointed that Jesus didn't act in the way he expected
• John was challenged to see God worked in different way than expected
• We are challenged in the same way
• When the world or our lives go wrong, we expect certain action from God
• We need humility to ask God to show where He is at work, not just where we want Him to be

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