Excuses and Limitations

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1. 2 Cor: God chooses the "I can't" people.
2. Hudson Taylor: God choose the weak, found me to be weak enough.
3. Gen 22:1-14. Letting Go. Abraham & Isaac.
4. Vandyke: self is the prison that binds the soul.
   ex. Alexander the Great, Tyson, Bill Clinton
5. Greatest challenge: master our pride, fear, self-centeredness
6. Not just about knowing right and wrong, but our will is powerless, fail to let go.
7. God shatters all illusions in life, make us confused, disappointed
8. we have preconceptions of how life should be, if we were God.
9. But we are not. This leaves us disappointed & bittered
10. God wants us to confront them, respect them, let go.
11. We come to conference like these, but never unbundle (e.g. bundled laundry), never let go
12. where does anxiety come from? Picture of how the world should be vs how the world is
13. Disappointment: what should happen vs what happens. (Only God knows).
14. Letting go = letting God be God; acknowledge who God is; letting go of disappoinments,
15. not to run away, suppress, but to confess, confront, in faith to lead them
16. Heb. 11: 17-19, 11-12 Learning to let go and trust God for His promises.
17. Rich young ruler - he needed to let his dependency go. to be free
18. case of internet porn: God wants us to be free.
19. God is a jealous God, for our sake, so that we can be free.
20. Eugene Peterson: birds forced to fly. They are made to fly. If we want to share the gospel, we need to let go, and fly.
21. Speaker's personal experience, of God talking to him in the middle of the night: a voice in Chinese: 这是生命之道，不死是传不出去的。 This is the Way of Life. Without Death it cannot be passed on.
22. You are God. Anything you say goes. I am not smart. I won;t do things my way.
23. A young man what was at lost of romance, submitted to God for missions. That man - Billy Graham.
24. Marian Byrd: I wish you were all mine.
25. "Surrender" - I surrender all, but not do it alone. Need God.
26. Surrender all, pride, prestige, empower to let go, go all out for God, to preach, to share Gospel, ...

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