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THE UNUSUAL FAMILY PT.1

QUIT BEING NORMAL

EXPERIENCING GOD'S NEW NORMAL FOR YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDSHIPS

 

Matthew 5:43-47

1 Introduction:

A. The unusual family we want to talk about includes both the natural and spiritual families who refuse to ____________ to the standards of the culture around them and choose instead to be radically transformed into a new normal under the rule of God.

 

The new normal is the kind of family that only Jesus can create when He is allowed to be President not just a ______________ in your life.

 

“Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will know what God wants, His acceptable, good and perfect will.” (Rom. 12:2 NLT)

 

B. In this series we want to address the fact that whether you are single or married, whether your main role is as a husband/wife, brother/sister, grandparent, son/daughter or friend God has a new plan for how He wants you to experience ______________.

 

God is saying stop accepting the standards and start setting them, stop settling and start soaring, stop compromising and start conquering, stop resigning and start reigning, stop acting out defeat, start attempting relationships that are only possible by the Spirit of God miraculously working in you. We are commanded to expect and _______ God for the unusual in our lives.

 

C. Reasons Jesus gives as to why normal isn't good enough: 

 

    A normal person finds reasons to justify how things are; the unusual person is committed to seeing and pursuing how things could be.

    1. To accept normal is to stay __________ in unhealthy patterns.

 

If we do family the way most people are doing it we are going to have thesame kind of families that most people are experiencing.

 

2. Normal families will crumble amidst the attacks and __________ that will come.

 

3. To accept normal is to fail to be a witness to the _________ for families that t here is in Christ. “By this shall all men know that you are my disciples if you have love one for another.” (Jn. 13:35) 

 

4. To accept normal is to _________ the incredible promises God wants to fulfill on behalf of your family. 

    “Blessed are the meek (those who are unusual) they shall inherit the earth.”

 

Thesis: When we choose the unusual God will do the _________ in our midst.

 

 

A. Recognize the difference between normal and unusual from God's perspective.

 

1. Normal is __________ the familiar, unusual is growing to claim a new destiny for your family.

 

 

“I do not leave unpunished the sins of those who hate me, but I punish the children for he sins of their parents to the third and fourth generations. But I lavish my love on those who love me and obey my commands, even for a thousand generations.” (Exodus 20:5-6)

 

In Jesus, God's promise is that for every loss there is a gain, for every hurt there is a healing, for failure and defeat there is a new beginning!

 

“God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose.” (Rom. 8:28) 

2.  Normal is the _____________way, unusual is doing the hard thing.

 

“Narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.” *Mat. 7:14) It's easy to find the narrow road; it is the one that is uphill all the way!

 

“No discipline seems to be joyful for the present, but painful, nevertheless afterwords it produces the peaceable fruit of righteousness.” *Hebrews 10:11)

 

Normal is reacting, unusual is initiating! One comes out of emotion the other comes out of character.

 

“Do for others what you would like them to do for you.” (Mat. 7:12) 

3.  Normal is doing the expected, unusual is doing the ___________. What is expected is quickly forgotten; what is unexpected leaves its mark. Unusual always begins with ______________. (Mat. 5:1-12)

4.  Normal is what you can do by effort. Unusual is what only _________ can do through you as you filled with the Holy Spirit.

 

“And do not be drunk with wine which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, speaking in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs and making melody in your heart to the Lord.” (Eph. 5:18-19)

 

B. Ask God to love your friends and family ____________ you with His unusual love.

 

“I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I but Christ lives in my. The life I now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.” (Gal.2:20)

 

C.  Begin where you are at ______________. You can't do the unusual until you are faithfully doing what God requires. The unusual begins with setting your life in order as the platform doing the unusual.

 

 

Conclude:

  1. Will you take God's challenge to go from the ordinary to the extraordinary?

  2. What is the incredible thing you believe God wants you to expect for your family?

    (Unusual restoration, communication, provision, joy, unity, wisdom, breakthroughs..)

  3. What is the unusual response that God wants you to give to Him so He can do incredible in your life?

    *Unusual forgiveness, patience, humility, obedience, commitment, prayer, surrender...)

 

Answers: 1: conform, resident, family, believe, stuck, storms, hope, miss, incredible, unusual. 2: repeating, easy, unexpected, attitude, Jesus, through, today)