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  COME OUT OF CONFINEMENT
  by Warren Wiersbe
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Summary: Warren Wiersbe's sermon encourages believers to embrace their
trials as opportunities for growth and to recognize God's delight in
delivering them from confinement.

Topics: "Faith And Growth", "Gods Deliverance"
Scripture References: Psalm 4:1, Psalm 18:19, Psalm 18:36, Psalm 37:4, Matthew 3:17

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Warren Wiersbe emphasizes how God's delight in us leads to our
deliverance and growth. Using David's experiences, he illustrates how
God brings us out of confinement into a broad place because He delights
in us. Just as God delighted in David and Jesus, He desires to delight
in us as well, using life's trials to make us bigger and enable us to
take giant steps of faith for His glory.

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Read Psalm 18:16-19

For several years David had been forced to live in confined places while
he fled from Saul. More than once he fled to a cave to save his life.
Then God brought him out of the caves and out of confinement and into a
large place. "He also brought me out into a broad place; He delivered me
because He delighted in me" (v. 19). David was a man after God's own
heart, and God delighted in him, just as He delighted in our Lord Jesus.
God said of Him, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased"
(Matt. 3:17).

We often talk about our delighting in the Lord. "Delight yourself also
in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart" (Ps.
37:4). That's important to do. But what about God's delighting in us? As
parents and grandparents, we enjoy delighting in our children and
grandchildren. In a similar way God wants to delight in us.

Because God delights in us, He delivers us. And He uses the difficult
experiences of life to make us bigger. "He also brought me out into a
broad place" (v. 19). Verse 36 of this chapter says, "You enlarged my
path under me." When God puts us into a large place, He has to give us
larger feet. But don't stop there. In Psalm 4:1 David said, "You have
relieved me." God delivers us so that He can put us into a larger place,
so that He can enable us to take giant steps of faith for His glory.
David had gone through several years of confinement, difficulty,
persecution and sorrow. But when it was over, he was a bigger man.

Let the trials of life make you a giant, not a midget. Let God put you
into a large place, where you can take giant steps of faith for His
glory.

Life's trials are not easy. But in God's will, each has a purpose. Often
He uses them to enlarge you. Are you feeling confined? Be encouraged
that God delights in delivering you from confinement. Difficult times
build your faith, if you let Him use them for His glory.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/warren-wiersbe/come-out-of-confinement/
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