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Scripture
Turn to your neighbor and ask them, “Have you positioned yourself for a breakthrough?”
Turn to your neighbor and ask them, “Have you positioned yourself for a breakthrough?”
Definition: The relative who restores or preserves the full community rights of disadvantaged family members.
The concept arises from God’s covenant relationship with Israel and points to the redemption of humanity in Jesus Christ.
The kinsman-redeemer was the closest male relative who had responsibility to marry a widow within the family and thereby protect the interests of needy members of the extended family.
Introduction
Introduction
In the game
Today I want to talk to those of you have been praying and asking God for a breakthrough or a blessing and you haven’t received it yet.
And I want you to ask yourself have you positioned yourself to receive what you have been praying for?
In the game of football, one of the player’s on the field is called a quarterback.
And the main goal of the quarterback is to advance his team forward towards a touchdown by throwing the football to one of his teammates.
In order for the team to advance forward both the quarter back has to throw the ball and one of his teammates has to catch it.
So the quarterback doesn’t throw the football haphazardly, but he throws it to the teammate that is in position.
Likewise, if our quarterback was Jesus, the football was a blessing, and we were all wide receivers, if we indeed desire a blessing or a breakthrough, we have to ask ourselves if we have positioned ourselves to catch what we have been praying for.
And if you have watched any bit of football, you will recognize that it is rare that the quarterback will throw the ball to a wide reciever standing still.
But anytime the quarterback throws the ball he/she is not throwing it to the place where his or her teammate currently is, but rather they are throwing it to the position their teammate will get to if they keep running.
And there are a lot of people that sit and pray, expecting deliverance and breakthroughs and blessings to fall into their lap while they are sitting still, and even though I believe God has the power to bless however he so chooses, the more I experience life and the more I read the Word of God, the more I am convinced that most blessings and breakthroughs do not come by you standing still, but by you positioning yourself in order for you to catch it.
Before Abram could become the father of many nations, he had to first position himself in the land of Canaan.
Before Esther could save the Jews from being killed, she had to first position herself in the king’s palace.
Before short Zacchaeus could see Jesus over the crowd, he had to position himself by climbing up the tree.
Before Peter and the other disciples could catch a heavy load of fish, they had first position their net on the right side of the boat.
Before Peter could walk on water, he had to first position himself on the water.
Before the woman who struggled with the issue of blood for twelve years could get healed, she had to position herself at the feet of Jesus.
Before Jesus could reconcile us back to God and defeat the power of sin and death, he had to position himself on the cross.
All I’m trying to tell you today is that most blessings and breakthroughs are not caught standing still, but when you are in position.
You can’t expect to get out of debt until you have positioned your spending habits to pay off debt.
We have to learn how to position ourselves for blessings.
It’t not that you have to work for blessings, it’s just that you have to be in position for it when God blesses.
Certain blessings you will never have to work for, but you will just experience.
The rain will pour whether you do something or not.
The Sun will shine whether you do something or not.
But when it comes to saving money for that trip you always wanted to go on or those shoes you always wanted to buy you have to position, wen it comes to getting out of debt you have to position yourself by not eating out so much, saving your money, learning more about finances.
You can’t expect to get a better job until you have positioned yourself by going back to school or getting some vocational training.
When it comes to getting a better job or some good resume experience you have position yourself by filling out a job application, going on interviews, going back to school or taking job readiness classes.
You can’t expect to lose weight until you have positioned yourself in a gym and changed your eating habits.
You can’t expect to get over your health issues some health issues, you got to position yourself by getting in the gym, working out regular;y and eating right.
You can’t expect to get over a long-term addiction, until you have positioned yourself around some people that can encourage you and help keep you accountable.
You can’t expect to grow as a church, until you have positioned yourself for growth.
You can’t expect to grow in your relationship with God, until you have positioned yourself in prayer, and reading the Word, and Bible Study, Sunday School and small groups.
You can’t expect to catch a blessing or a breakthrough until you have positioned yourself.
Most blessings and breakthroughs are not caught standing still, but when you are in position.
All I’m trying to tell you today is that most blessings and breakthroughs are not caught standing still, but when you are in position.
Think of it like football.
If Jesus is the quarterback, and the football is the blessing, you will be difficult for you to catch the blessing until you have positioned yourself.
How do I get into position?
And so I guess this brings us to the large question of “How do I get into position?”
It’s a great question and I think our sister Ruth is going to help us out with that today.
In case you were not here with us when we went through , let me give you a little background of our text.
In Chapter 1 we meet two women by the name of Naomi and Ruth.
By the end of Chapter 1, both of them had been through some things.
Naomi had to:
Uproot her family because of famine and move to a foreign country.
She lost her her husband.
She lost her two sons.
And she was flat out broke because she didn’t have any male relatives around her because remember the only way for a woman to get economic stability during that time was through her husband or through another male relative.
Ruth is Naomi’s daughter-in-law, and she has both similar and different problems.
Ruth is:
Broke
Single
Hungry
No father or mother around
No children
She has buried her husband, her brother-in-law and her father-in-law
She is the one that is now in a foreign country
And no matter how committed and loving Ruth is, she has to deal with her bitter mother-in-law who is so bitter that she literally changed her name to bitter.
Both Naomi and Ruth had been through some things, but by the beginning of Chapter 2, the writer of Ruth wants us to know that everything was getting ready to turn around because there was a blessing and breakthrough waiting for them.
For in verse 1, the writer says that Naomi had a male relative that was kin to her deceased husband Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.
Naomi had a male relative that could bring them out of economic instability, but before that could happen they had to first position themselves.
And so again, how is one to position themselves for a breakthrough or a blessing.
Do Something (vs.
2-3).
The first point is a very simple one, but I think someone still needs to here this—and that is if you want to position yourself for a breakthrough or a blessing then you have to Do SOMETHING.
It’s barley season…barley is what they used to make bread out of…and so in verse 2, Ruth asks Naomi to let her go to barley fields to glean (or to gather or to pick up the leftovers) among the ears of grain.
And you would think Naomi would be like “You know what girl, that’s a good idea.
I’m going with you.
You broke.
I’m broke.
You hungry.
I’m hungry.
We both need to eat.
Two is better than one right?
Let’s go, I’m going with you.”
But that’s not what happen.
You know what Naomi said “Go, my daughter” (in a depressed way).
And I believe she did it just like that.
“Go, my daughter” (said in a depressed way).
And I believe Naomi responds that way and doesn’t want to do anything because she is still bitter about everything she had been through in chapter 1.
But regardless of what she had been through, both her and Ruth are in the same situation.
Both of them are broke and both of them are hungry, but only one of them decides to do something.
And somebody needs to hear me today because you have been playing Naomi far too long.
You’re still stuck on chapter 1.
You still stuck on what happened last year or 5 years ago.
And because your’re still stuck:
You haven’t been wanting to do anything.
You’ve been depressed.
You’ve been throwing pity parties.
You have been playing the victim role
And you have been emotionally and mentally paralyzed.
But may I encourage you to have the same spirit that Ruth had, that says.
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