Ecclesiastes 4:9 Two are better than one ; because they have a good reward for their labour. 10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. 11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? 12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. KJV
The reason you are running around in circles could be because of the circles you are running around with!!!
I. Why Are They In My Circle?
a. Those around you are either a wall or a way, they either prevent or push, they either hold back or give you a hand up.
b. Something In Common
i. Sometimes life drives people together – birds of a feather flock together
1. Sometimes the people you hang around with, are the people that you hang around with because you’re bound to them and the trauma, the garbage, the desperation, the whining, the complaining. They are in your circle because they listen to you whine.
a. If you are ever going to move into fullness and destiny you need to find new friends
i. Armchair warriors will never
1. win the game
2. never come out of darkness
3. break free from addiction
4. take you to a new level in Christ
5. have enough fruit for you to live on
b. If all they talk about is “the past” they will never walk with you into “the future”
i. Philippians 3:13-14 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. KJV
2. 1 Samuel 22:1-2 David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him. 2 And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men. KJV
a. Character and circumstance are two entirely different things – circumstance should never be allowed to change your character – but in some instances your character may be able to alter your circumstances.
c. God Sent Them
i. Rarely do people get free from bondage alone
d. Satan Sent Them
e. I Invited/Allow Them
i. Jezebel does not exist without Ahab
1. Do not allow what is not right in the eyes of The Lord.
f. I Am Bound To Them
II. Alignment
a. Make sure those you align with are in the right line
i. Jesus would not commit Himself to them because He knew their heart
1. John 2:23-25 23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did. 24 But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men, 25 And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man. KJV
III. Come Out From Among Them
a. What starts your relationship does not necessarily have to the thing that drives or sustains your relationship
b. 2 Corinthians 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, 18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. KJV
c. It takes some time to get from Shawnee to Tecumseh, moreso if there is construction
i. It make take some time to get a proper distance
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