Following the Cloud :: YouVersion Event

Why is this so hard for us?

* We'd rather lead than follow

. . . wherever the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle, they would set out; but if the cloud did not lift, they did not set out - until the day it lifted.

(Exodus 40:36b,37)

Brian Dodd "What we need are yielded followers who are conduits of the Spirit’s power to bring people into the presence and kingdom of God . . . In short what we need is followership, not leadership. The leaders we need must model how to follow after Christ, to live under Christ’s rule, to become more like Jesus in trusting dependency upon God.

As we make the shift to a posture of following, we give up on good ideas and hunger for God’s ideas. When we have fully understood the bankruptcy of life in the flesh, when we have died to confidence in ourselves apart from God, when we have become disgusted with what our self-willed initiatives produce, we find ourselves hungry for God’s guidance and direction."

Why is this so hard for us?

* We'd rather lead than follow

* We'd rather take control than humble ourselves

Exodus 40:35 NIV

Acts 3:19 NIV

Frank Bartleman "The depth of revival will be determined exactly by the depth of the spirit of repentance.In that old building [Azusa Street], with its low rafters and bare floors, God took strong men and women to pieces, and put them together again, for His glory. It was a tremendous overhauling process: Pride and self-assertion, self-importance and self-esteem, could not survive there."

But what if . . .

* We were free from carrying the pressure ourselves?

Matthew 11:28 NIV