Navigating Change: Adjust Your Sails: Various Text

Navigating Change: Adjust Your Sails

Various texts

The Function of Sails

• Sails do NOT cause a ship to move
• Wind makes it move
  • The sails harness the wind
  • If there is no wind, the sails won’t work
  • And it is impossible to sail directly against the wind
• So, a good sailor has to adjust his sails to catch the wind

 

What is the Wind??

• The Wind = The Holy Spirit (John 3:5-8)
• The term ‘spirit’ means breath or wind in both Hebrew (ruah’) & Greek (pneuma)
• He is Giver of life (Job 33:4; John 6:63)
• He is the empower & equipper (1 Cor. 12:11; see also Eph. 4:11ff; Heb. 13:20-21)
• He is God at work in us and in the world (John 14:16-18)

 

Adjusting our Sails

• As change happens, we need to adjust ourselves to what God is doing in our lives and in the world around us
• “Watch to see where God is working and join Him” -Henry & Richard Blackaby and Claude King, Experiencing God (see John 5:17, 19-20)
• This requires being attuned to the Holy Spirit
  • Being silent and listening
  • Setting aside our agendas and goals
  • Relying on God’s timing
• It allows us to be conformed to His will (Rom. 8:28-29; 12:2)
• This leads to peace beyond understanding (Phil. 4:5a-7)

 

So What?

• As we learn to navigate change in God-honoring ways
  • Let’s adjust our Sails to the wind of the Spirit

 

Meditation Verse: John 3:8