Favorite Book Friday December 4,2020
How are all you sweet friends on this #favoritebookfriday? I hope you’re well and enjoying this Christmas season. We’re gonna finish this section of the prayer of “break me” in this book “Dangerous Prayers” by Craig Groeschel.
So we’ve been praying the prayer of “Lord, break me” but what happens when the breaking happens? It hurts. It hurts more than you can imagine. No matter what we do, we can’t ever be enough. We need that feeling of truly being loved and grace. What we really need is an encounter with Jesus like never before. We can share in weakness together. It builds connection and can be a blessing. We’re all a family of believers. What if we welcomed, prayed and embraced brokenness? “Lord, Break Me.”
Sometimes the pain and brokenness doesn’t go away right away or ever. What if we lean into God like never before and serve? The pain won’t go away but your joy will increase. Maybe you’ll find joy in the brokenness. You’ll find indescribable peace and blessings. This is a bold and dangerous prayer. You’ll miss out on the blessing of you settle for comfort. Paul can relate in 2 Corinthians 12:5-8. He asks God to take the thorn in his side away but God didn’t. He relies on God’s strength instead of his weakness. What is true is God’s grace is enough.
Look at the people God used. An example is Peter. He said he’d never deny Jesus. But look at Luke 22:60-61. He did what he said he wouldn’t ever but he did and looked directly at his beaten Savior and wept. That’s not the end of Peter’s story. He was martyred on an upside down cross for his faith. He was broken and poured out. This prayer is a daily decision (1 Corinthians 15:31). Every day we have to decide to die to our own desires to live fully for God’s. Instead of a life of ease it’s a life of faith.? We have to be fully dependent on God.
This prayer is dangerous. Pray it when you’re truly ready for it. Don’t run from God when he answers it. Run towards him. Your weakness his his strength. Brokenness is the first step of Christianity. You want more than comfort, you want Jesus. There’s a blessing on the other side. Jesus took out brokenness through his death to pay for sin in full. Live broken and poured out. It’s not safe but takes faith. Blessings are on the other side of brokenness. Lord break me.
Chapter Highlights (2.7-2.9)
It’s easy to impress people with our strengths but real connections are forged through our shared weaknesses.
What if rather than avoiding brokenness, we embraced it? Welcomed it? And even prayed for it? “God break me.”
The only way you can endure it is get closer to God than you’ve ever been and pour your life out serving other people.
But on the other side of fully trusting God, there is a blessing that cannot be found in comfort and ease.
God’s grace is enough
True brokenness before God is a daily decision
When things get difficult, many run from God. Don’t do that. Run to him.
The gospel is an invitation to come and die. Die to your sin, die to your past, die to your flesh, and die to your fears.
When Jesus looked at those he loved and though of those who were to come, he made a chose. He chose brokenness. His body was broken for you and his blood poured out for your sins.
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