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A thought by Kyle Idleman (2014-03-01) from his book, AHA: The God Moment That Changes Everything (p. 41). David C. Cook. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Here is the completed thought by Kyle.   He says, “Another alarm for us is sometimes a sampling of future consequences. Sometimes God will give us a taste of the coming consequences of current actions— like a parking-lot fender bender that may save us from a five-car interstate pileup later, or a bounced check that will keep us from uncontrollable debt down the road. God will allow us to experience a sampling of what we can expect if we don’t wake up.” Oh if we would cultivate our relationship with God and we would listen, really listen to the alarms he gives to us to protect us, to wake us up.   If we really understood how much he loves us. Kyle continues, “A lot of us can mistake this alarm as a coincidental inconvenience. If the sampling of consequence isn’t big enough or pa

A thought by Kyle Idleman (2014-03-01) from his book, AHA: The God Moment ThatChanges Everything (p. 34). David C. Cook. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Kyle says, “In Scripture there are a number of examples of how God sounds the alarm. Oftentimes the alarm sounds early on to wake us up before things have fallen apart. Sometimes people think they have to hit rock bottom before they come to their senses, but what if God is trying to wake you up right now to save you from heartbreak in the Distant Country later?”   To Kyle the Distant Country is when you are far away from God and you can't hear Him. He goes on, “Second Chronicles 36: 15 speaks of how God sounds the alarm to warn His people: ‘And the LORD God of their fathers sent warnings to them by His messengers, rising up early and sending them …’ (NKJV). The expression rising up early doesn’t mean God got out of bed early. Rather, it is best understood as ‘taking action early

A thought by Kyle Idleman (2014-03-01) from his book, AHA: The God Moment ThatChanges Everything (p. 14). David C. Cook. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Today is the day after our 2016 Presidential Election.   Many people voted for change.   They wanted change in the leadership of our country and they made it happen through their vote.   Of course it wasn’t their vote by its self.   There were a few million other people who helped it to happen. Now you may have something in your life that you need to change but you are finding that you can’t do it alone.   Kyle Idleman, one of the teaching pastors at Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, Kentucky has written this book to show where to go for help in our getting change.   Now many of us go for self-help but Kyle says, “Instead of self-help, we are asking for God’s help, because AHA is a spiritual experience that brings about supernatural change. More specifically, let’s define