Rejoice

Prayer for Holiday fire victims

REJOICE

Murphy’s Law: If anything can go wrong, it will.

• At Edwards Air Force Base in 1949 Capt. Edward A. Murphy, an engineer, was working on an Air Force Project designed to see how much sudden deceleration a person can stand in a crash.
• One day, after finding that a transducer was wired wrong, he cursed the technician responsible and said, “If there is any way to do it wrong, he’ll find it.”
• The contractor’s project manager kept a list of “laws” and added this one, which he called Murphy’s Law.
• Shortly afterwards, the Air Force doctor (Dr. John Paul Stapp) who rode a sled on the deceleration track to a stop, pulling 40 Gs, gave a press conference. He said that their good safety record on the project was due to a firm belief in Murphy’s Law and in the necessity to try and circumvent it.
• Aerospace manufacturers picked it up and used it widely in their ads during the next few months, and soon it was being quoted in many news and magazine articles. Murphy’s Law was born.
  • Tapping into a much older law- Sin. Our world is broken since sin has entered in.
• 2nd Missionary Journey

Mission’s Law: When anything goes wrong, rejoice, God is in control. 

• Turn our attention to God’s word. 
• READ vs. 6-10
  • Context- Tried to go to Asia. Not sure how they were “forbidden”
    • Paul gets a dream  
    • Jackson Hole, Wyoming (no place to stay) 
      • It’s not always blueberry pancakes!
    • Sleeping in our car in Idaho Falls
      • Sprinklers
• God is leading you!
  • WHere you’re at is where God has you. 
  • He’s not surprised
• Murphy’s law assumes the universe is against you
• Missions Law knows God is for you! 
• Sometimes it’s like Jackson Hole

Mission’s Law-When anything goes wrong, rejoice, God is in control.

• READ vs. 11-15, When all is well. 
  • CONTEXT, Church in Philippi gets planted in joy! 
  • Murphy’s law kicks in
• READ 16-24
  • CONTEXT
  • When anything goes wrong, rejoice, God is in control.
• READ 25-40
  • Mission’s Law > Murphy’s law
  • When anything goes wrong, rejoice, God is in control.
• God has a plan. you are a part of it. REJOICE!

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you. Philippians 4:4–9