Making Room for Jesus Summary and Applications

Mark 4:35-41 and Selected Scriptures

Amount of Change over Time 0 to 2000 AD

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1. Stick with Jesus (Be with Him)

He appointed twelve… that they might be with Him and that he might send them out... 3:14

2. Stick with Jesus (Embrace the Cross)

“Everyone will be salted with fire.” Mk. 9:49

Where is God? …Go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence. You may as well turn away. The longer you wait, the more emphatic the silence will become. . . . What can this mean? Why is God so present to us in our time of prosperity and so very absent a help in times of trouble?

- C.S. Lewis

Real faith is sticking with God even when we don’t feel Him.

The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this and it is marvelous in our eyes.

Mk. 12:10

3. Stick with Jesus (Receive courage)

“Take courage. It is I. Don’t be afraid.” Mk. 6:50

4. Stick with Jesus (Be a servant)

Not so with you. Instead whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all.

Mk. 10: 44

Daily Office – Pausing to be with God

Elements:1. Stillness, Centering and Silence2. Scripture3. Devotional Reading4. Question to Consider 5. Prayer6. Silence and Centering

You have loved us first, O God! We speak of it in terms of history as if You loved us first but a single time, but You have loved us first many times and everyday and our whole life through. When we wake up in the morning and turn our soul toward You--You are there first--You have loved us first; if I rise at dawn and at that same second turn my soul toward You in prayer, You are there ahead of me, You have loved me first. When I withdraw from the distractions of the day and turn my soul toward You, You are there first and thus forever. And we speak ungratefully as if You have loved us first only once.

Soren Kierkegaard’s prayer