HOPE IN THE NEUTRAL ZONE Genesis 7 8

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HOPE IN THE NEUTRAL ZONEGenesis 7- 8
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• Then the LORD
• shut him in.
• Genesis 7.16

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• When one door of
• happiness closes,
• another opens but
• often we look so long
• at the closed door
• that we do not see
• the one which has
• been opened for us.
• Helen Keller

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• HOPE IN THE
• NEUTRAL ZONE
• REMEMBRANCE

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• But God
• Remembered
• (zakar) Noah
• Genesis 8.1

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• After isolation
• comes
• intervention

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• HOPE IN THE
• NEUTRAL ZONE
• 2. RENEWAL

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• God sent a wind
• (ruach) over the
• earth and the
• waters receded.
• Genesis 8.1

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• After refining
• comes renewal

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• HOPE IN THE
• NEUTRAL ZONE
• 3. REFRESHMENT

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• On the seventeenth
• day of the seventh
• month the ark came
• to rest on the
• mountains of Ararat.
• Genesis 8.4

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• After struggle
• comes stability

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• HOPE IN THE
• NEUTRAL ZONE
• 4. REASSURANCE

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• When the dove
• returned to him in the
• evening, there in its
• beak was a freshly
• plucked olive leaf!
• Then Noah knew that
• the water had
• receded from the
• earth.
• Genesis 8.11

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• After confusion
• comes certainty

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• HOPE IN THE
• NEUTRAL ZONE
• 5. REVELATION

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• Then God said to
• Noah, "Come out
• of the ark, you and
• your wife and your
• sons and their
• wives
• Genesis 8.15

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• After hoping
• comes hearing

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• HOPE IN THE
• NEUTRAL ZONE
• 6. REWARD

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• Bring out every kind
• of living creature that
• is with you - the birds
• the animals, and all
• the creatures that
• move along the
• ground - so they can
• multiply on the earth
• and be fruitful and
• increase in number
• upon it
• Genesis 8.17

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• After
• barrenness
• comes blessing

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• HOPE IN THE
• NEUTRAL ZONE
• 7. RELEASE (YATSA!)

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• So Noah came out,
• together with his sons
• and his wife and his sons
• wives. All the animals and
• all the creatures that
• move along the ground
• and all the birds
• everything that moves on
• the earth - came out of the
• ark, one kind after
• another.
• Genesis 8.18-19

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• After restriction
• comes release

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• He brought me out
• into a spacious
• place he rescued
• me because he
• delighted in me.
• Ps 1819

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• We need leaders
• Who not only
• create change
• but manage
• transition
• William Bridges

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• 2008,
• A YEAR OF
• NEW
• BEGINNINGS

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• And I said to the one who
• stood at the gate of the
• year, 'Give me a light that
• I may tread safely into the
• Unknown.' And he
• replied, 'Go out into the
• darkness and put your
• hand into the hand of
• God. That shall be to you
• better than light and safer
• than a known way
• Minnie Haskins