First Baptist Church on the Square
Last week, we discovered that God is working. Do you see evidence of His work in your life? Marty Carnes highlights how to experience His work in our lives.
How is God working?
-Through my relationships
Ruth 2:4-6
Later, when Boaz arrived from Bethlehem, he said to the harvesters, “The Lord be with you.” “The Lord bless you,” they replied. 5 Boaz asked his servant who was in charge of the harvesters, “Whose young woman is this?” 6 The servant answered, “She is the young Moabite woman who returned with Naomi from the territory of Moab.
Phillippians 1:3-5
I give thanks to my God for every remembrance of you, 4 always praying with joy for all of you in my every prayer, 5 because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.
How is God working?
-Through my relationships
-Through my faithfulness
Ruth 2:7
She asked, ‘Will you let me gather fallen grain among the bundles behind the harvesters?’ She came and has been on her feet since early morning, except that she rested a little in the shelter.”
How is God Working?
-Through my relationships
-Through my faithfulness
-Beyond what I can imagine
Ruth 2: 8-9
Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Don’t go and gather grain in another field, and don’t leave this one, but stay here close to my female servants. 9 See which field they are harvesting, and follow them. Haven’t I ordered the young men not to touch you? When you are thirsty, go and drink from the jars the young men have filled.”
Romans 8:32
He did not even spare his own Son but gave him up for us all. How will he not also with him grant us everything?
Ephesians 3:20
Now to him who is able to do above and beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us…
How is God Working?
-Through my relationships
-Through my faithfulness
-Beyond what I can imagine
-Through my praise and thanksgiving
Ruth 2: 18-23
She picked up the grain and went into the town, where her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. She brought out what she had left over from her meal and gave it to her. 19 Her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you gather barley today, and where did you work? May the Lord bless the man who noticed you.” Ruth told her mother-in-law whom she had worked with and said, “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz.” 20 Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May the Lord bless him because he has not abandoned his kindness to the living or the dead.” Naomi continued, “The man is a close relative. He is one of our family redeemers.” 21 Ruth the Moabitess said, “He also told me, ‘Stay with my young men until they have finished all of my harvest.’” 22 So Naomi said to her daughter-in-law Ruth, “My daughter, it is good for you to work with his female servants, so that nothing will happen to you in another field.” 23 Ruth stayed close to Boaz’s female servants and gathered grain until the barley and the wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.