Visit to the potters house Jer 1814 181 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD 2 Go down to the potters house and there I will give you my messageReveal to me at my level ID: 537733
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Treasure in earthly claySlide2Slide3
Visit to the potter’s house
Jer 18:1-4
18:1 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD: 2 "Go down to the potter's house, and there
I
will give you my message(Reveal to me at my level)
." 3 So I went down to the potter's house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 4 But the pot he was shaping from
the clay was marred in his hands
;
so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.Slide4
Lessons
W
heels
are symbolic of the circumstances and situations that life brings our way. Life often times seems like a large circle. It seems that we just get past one trial when here it comes around again. These things are hard to take and leave us confused and burdened, but we must remember that
the Potter controls the speed of the wheels and they only rotate according to His will. Never forget that God is still in control, regardless of what you are facing in life, and that all things are eventually going to work out to your good
-
Rom. 8:28; 2 Cor. 4:17Slide5
lessons
His Hands
- While the clay spins around on the wheels,
it is never out of contact with the Potter’s hands
. He is in constant contact, molding, shaping and bringing the clay along through His loving guidance. If he were to ever remove His hand, the clay would spin right off the wheel and would be lost. Therefore, he remains there with the clay and brings along until it become what He desires it to
be.Slide6
The potter is in control
The clay, as it is taken from the ground, is worthless
.
It must be transformed into a useable state and this is a process that takes time and energy on the part of the
Potter.
My
life is spinning in control of God's hand.
Everyone
who came in and out of my life was in God's control.
My circumstances control my
wheel and my
spinning.
The
potter always has something in his mind as He puts the clay on the spinning wheel. Slide7
The potter is in control
His
thoughts are good towards me.
Time
is the usher that helps us measure our effectiveness.
How
much have
I
changed with all the spinning
in my
life? ->
people coming and going, pains, failures,
disappointments, successes
etc.
I
need to be contented in whatever situation am
in
Isaiah
64:8
(NIV)
8
Yet you,
Lord
, are our Father.
We are the clay, you are the potter;
we are all the work of your handSlide8
The
vessels was marred in the hand of the potter.
Adam
was perfect in the hand of the potter
.
From the fall of Adam to coming of Jesus, man was marred in the hands of the potter.
What
do you do when what you see in your mind is not what you find in reality?
The
potter made the same vessel again another vessel
.
Only the master can make it another.
The potter is in controlSlide9
I am the same but another. He made me another.
The potter does not put clay on the wheel without something in His mind.
2
Cor
5:17 Therefore
, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation ; the old has gone, the new has come!
There
is a great change in the way
I
walk, talk, think.
When all is said and done, it will be for my benefit.
The potter is in controlSlide10
Until
the potter has tried my vessel with fire, you will never come forth like
gold.
Sometimes through the storm,
I
see like the whole world has changed and the fire keeps
getting
hotter as the potter is shaping the clay but Jesus knows what He is doing
.
Isaiah
29:16
(NIV)
16 You turn things upside down,
as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!
Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,
“You did not make me
”? Can the pot say to the potter, “You know nothing”?
The potter is in controlSlide11
The potter has secured my future
Whatever
I
was born to
do
, God finished it first
.
My future existed before my present.
All
the days were written before i was born.
Psalm
139:14-15
(NIV)
14
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15
My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.Slide12
The potter has secured my future
Isaiah 46:10
(NIV)
10
I make known the end from the beginning,
from ancient times, what is still to come.
I say, ‘My purpose will stand,
and I will do all that I please.’
My
future is trapped in me and God has committed to it.
God
will finance the investment He has put in me.
God is my source. My
resource is waiting for me! Too much wealth is waiting for me in 2016.
Some
of the best things will happen
to me
in 2016
.
My future is more valuable than my past because it is not lived
.Slide13
The treasure of Potter’s light in our bodies
2
Cor
4:6-7
For
God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,”
[
a
]
made his light shine in our hearts
to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ
.
7
But we have
this treasure in jars of clay
to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.
8 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed
, but not in
despair; persecuted
, but not
abandoned
;
struck
down, but not destroyed. Slide14
Awaiting the New Body
2 Corinthians
5(NIV
)
5
For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed,
we have a building from God, an
eternal house in heaven not built by human hands
.
2
Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling,
3
because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked.
4 For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
5
Now the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to
come.Slide15
Let us say
My life is spinning in control of God's hand
.
The potter does not put clay on the wheel without something in His mind
.
I have the treasure of God’s light in my earthly vessel.
I have an
eternal house in heaven, not built by
human hands.
God has committed
to my future that is secured in me.
Whatever I was born to do, God finished it first.