Greater Friendship Church FFF
Rev. Dr. Derrick L. Miles, Pastor
“Finding Strength For Life Mysteries, Impossibilities and Uncertainties”
Mark 5:21-24, 35-42, 9:1-29, 14:32-42
- All of us are sometimes locked out of _____________________ situations.
2. All of us come face to face with i _____________________. Matt 19:26
3. Life will put us in some _____________________ situations.
4. Even when we turn our _____________________ in another direction, difficulties and and impossibilities of one kind or another are always staring us in the face.
5. Always _____________________ that God specializes in the impossible.
6. Mark gives us three accounts on facing the impossible; the other side of a locked door, at the bottom of the mountain and in the corner of the garden.
The Other Side Of The Locked Door (Mark 5)
7. Jarius was a _____________________ of the Sanhedrin and he didn't believe in a bodily resurrection but when he was faced with an impossible situation, he went looking for Jesus.
8. It is in the _____________________ moments we search for light. Psalm 139:12
9. As Jarius pleaded with Jesus to come help, he found himself in an
_____________________ situation.
10. When impossibilities come, do you _____________________ you can get through it?
11. When impossibilities come, you must _____________________ at the people around you.
12. There are _____________________ when the impossible become even darker.
13. Jesus _____________________ the door.
14. Jesus locks out _____________________ and deniers.
15. When Jesus, Jarius and disciples came out, impossible had become
_____________________.
16. When Jesus is on the other side of the _____________________ door, don’t let what you can’t see detour you just know He can!
17. This narrative reminds us that _____________________ is receiving! Rom 10:17
At The Bottom Of A Mountain (Mark 9)
18. There are times when it seems we are at the _____________________ of mountain and it seems as if we are facing an impossible situation by ourselves.
19. _____________________ left nine disciples on the ground and took three on the mountain and showed them something that will allow us to know that Jesus is Jesus.
20. Jesus gives us these _____________________ experiences that we may be refueled, refreshed and replenished.
21. The disciples that were left, found themselves _____________________ an impossibility.
22. They were praying to God but were not _____________________ to God. Mark 11:24
23. These disciples had been with Jesus and saw _____________________ but did nothing.
24. Jesus asked the man the same _____________________ as He did Jarius, do you believe?
25. Its possible to listen to the wrong _____________________ at the bottom of the mountain. Exodus 32:1-6
26. The man responds with his _____________________ and a request. Phil 4:6
27. Remember Jesus can take _____________________ things and do great things.
28. A lack of _____________________ is what the disciples had. (Saved people are not always people of faith.)
29. _____________________ says, “Apart from Me, you can do nothing?”John 15:5
30. We need the _____________________ of God to help us in His service.
31. When we are at the foot of the _____________________ in the base of impossibility, we must wait until the power from above comes down.
32. Always remember we have a God who transform on the mountain and
_____________________ us up in the lowly places.
Alone In A Corner of The Garden (Mark 14)
33. There are times we have to _____________________ “Gethsemane” with the task in view.
34. Gethsemane means a place of _____________________.
35. Jesus goes to the garden and _____________________ He is placed in a corner all by himself.
36. When facing the impossible, we must _____________________ alert.
37. Jesus encouraged His disciples to fight off the _____________________ of going to sleep.
38. Jesus was _____________________ that which seemed impossible and He wanted His disciples to get involved through prayer.
39. It is possible to be wide awake and have our _____________________ and spirits fully sleep. Luke 21:34-36
40. It’s time to wake up and _____________________ because we need some things that we never thought was possible to possible again. (Who would have ever thought that Easter and Christmas would be impossible for the believer.)
41. There are times when we find ourselves in _____________________ ends but when we talk with God, He gives us strength to get through it.
42. Prayer is God’s _____________________ or anyone who finds themselves in the face of impossibilities. I Thess 5:17
43. We sing a song that says God _____________________ in things that seem impossible.
44. It was in this place of pressure that Jesus _____________________ surrenders to the Will of God.
45. There are times God will put us in impossible situations to
_____________________ our faith.
46. God wants us to listen to His _____________________ in the midst of our situations and at the edge of our challenges.
47. From Gethsemane, to Golgotha to _____________________! Phil 2:8