Making room for more - family service

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2. “Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; do not hold back; lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes. For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left, and your offspring will possess the nations...” Isaiah 54:2-3
3. “Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favour, because by him the Lord had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valour, but he was a leper.” 2 Kings 5:1
4. PROBLEM
5. “No man’s greatness, or honour, or interest, or valour, or victory, can set him out of the reach of the sorest calamities of human life.” Matthew Henry
6. PRIDE
8. PROVIDENCE ‘The protective and proactive care of God’
9. “Jesus is the incarnation of God's movement towards sinners.” Tullian Tchividjian
10. “Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and he came and stood before him. And he said, “Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel... from now on your servant will not offer burnt offering or sacrifice to any god but the Lord.” 2 Kings 5:15,17
11. God's providence is behind you
12. God's providence is before you
13. “If God is for us, who can ever be against us? Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else?” Romans 8:31-32
14. God's providence is because of you