Recovering Your Spiritual Edge

Have you lost your spiritual edge?

2 Kings 6:1-7 (NLT)

One day the group of prophets came to Elisha and told him, “As you can see, this place where we meet with you is too small.

Let’s go down to the Jordan River, where there are plenty of logs. There we can build a new place for us to meet.”
“All right,” he told them, “go ahead.”

“Please come with us,” someone suggested.  “I will,” he said.

So he went with them.  When they arrived at the Jordan, they began cutting down trees.

But as one of them was cutting a tree, his ax head fell into the river. “Oh, sir!” he cried. “It was a borrowed ax!”

“Where did it fall?” the man of God asked. When he showed him the place, Elisha cut a stick and threw it into the water at that spot. Then the ax head floated to the surface.

“Grab it,” Elisha said. And the man reached out and grabbed it.

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• We must be focused on building up the next generation.
• God has given us a bigger space – we must use it!
• In what ways are you trying to accomplish the work in your own strength?
• The young man wasn’t rebuked because he lost the axe head.  But he had to own losing his edge.
• If you’ve lost the edge you once had or recognize that you’ve been working in your own strength – confess it!
• Recognize what’s happened and return to the place of strength and effectiveness.

Revelation 2:1-5 (NLT)

“To the angel of the church of Ephesus write, ‘These things says He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands:

“I know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars;

and you have persevered and have patience, and have labored for My name’s sake and have not become weary.

Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.”

 

When you own your part, confess what’s happened, and welcome God into the situation it makes room for the supernatural to invade your circumstances!

Luke 10:6-10

“Zacchaeus quickly climbed down and took Jesus to his house in great excitement and joy.

But the people were displeased. ‘He has gone to be the guest of a notorious sinner,’ they grumbled.”
“Meanwhile, Zacchaeus stood before the Lord and said, ‘I will give half my wealth to the poor, Lord, and if I have cheated people on their taxes, I will give them back four times as much!’”
“Jesus responded, ‘Salvation has come to this home today, for this man has shown himself to be a true son of Abraham.

For the Son of Man came to seek and save those who are lost.’”