Four Areas We All Experience Tension
and How to Manage the Tension
Justin Thomas
April 11, 2021

God’s

, Our Tension
• Jesus’ Vision and Mandate: Every person, situation, and nation can reflect his nature and kingdom. End Game!
• We don’t see all the nations worshipping God. We haven’t seen the nations seeking the glory of the Father, surrendering all systems and structures into the conformity of Christ’s reign.

God’s

, Our Tension
• Tension of what God sees/says about our future compared to the right now.
• God is always revealing His purposes and best future through the Scriptures, prophetic voices, and our own spirit/heart, in the midst of obstacles and natural logjams.
• We are always aligning ourselves to believe and take hold of God’s plans and purposes.

Tension
• Pauls says be DILLIGENT to PRESERVE the unity of the spirit, in the bond of peace. Eph 4:1-6, 13-18.
• How do we deeply love and prefer, and speak truth, and yet disagree too?

Tension
• We are choosing to live from a place of peace, hope, and thankfulness, in the midst of delays, set-backs, disappointments, and suffering and general IDK’s.

9 Tips To Help Us Steward the Tension.
1.

it. Just knowing there is tension, can help us receive comfort from Holy Spirit.
2. Only Do Part. You can’t fix the world, but you can take one step.
3. God Me. Do it for Jesus, His rewards are better.
4. More Like . Come out of this thing, more like Jesus. Don’t have to be RIGHT, don’t have to do GREAT, just be more like JESUS.
5. Guard Your . Guard Against contemplating about the future when your down.
6. Guard your . Don’t torpedo yourself, by speaking negative about self or others.
7. Believe the Best about .
8. Believe the Best about the .
9. Treasure the Words from God.