UNSTUCK - PART 4 remaining stuck is: THE BLAME GAME PASTOR ROGER PETTAY o An unwillingness to take control for one’s ​ action… ​

o Definition: Response-Ability –“ the ability to “It is [only] eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of ​ ​ mount Seir to -Barnea [on ’s border; yet Israel choose one’s response” took forty years to get beyond it]…the Lord our God said to us in Horeb ( – my notes), You have dwelt long enough on this mountain.” (Deut. 1:2,6 –AMP) INSTEAD OF TAKING RESPONSIBILITY ​ WE BLAME…

“Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. 1. WE BLAME THE DEVIL. ​ ​ ​ Then you will know what God wants you to do, and you will know how good and pleasing and perfect his will really is.” 2. WE BLAME GOD . ​ ​ ​ (Romans 12:2 -NLT) 3. WE BLAME BOTH, GOD & OTHERS ​ ​ ​ ATTITUDES THAT KEEP US STUCK “They spoke against God and against Moses, and said, ‘Why ​ have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the desert? There 1. Living in the past. (Week 1) ​ ​ is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!’" Numbers 21:5 (NIV) 2. The “Wishbone Attitude” VS. a “Backbone Attitude.” (Week ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 1)

4. WE BLAME OTHERS. ​ ​ 3. A Complaining & Critical Attitude (Week 2) ​ ​ ​ ​ “Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. But she 4. Lack of Patience. (Week 3) had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar; (2) so she said to ​ ​ Abram, ‘The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep 5. THE BLAME GAME with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her. ​ ​ ● One of the Major contributors to getting and ‘ Abram agreed to what Sarai said. (3) So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian 8 Let me hear the sounds of joy and gladness; and though you maidservant Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife. have crushed me and broken me, I will be happy once again. (4) He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. When she knew 9 Close your eyes to my sins and wipe out all my evil. 10 Create a pure heart in me, O God, and put a new and loyal she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress. (5) Then spirit in me 11 Do not banish me from your presence; do not Sarai said to Abram, ‘You are responsible for the wrong I am ​ ​ take your holy spirit away from me. 12 Give me again the joy suffering. I put my servant in your arms, and now that she that comes from your salvation, and make me willing to obey knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the LORD judge you. 13 Then I will teach sinners your commands, between you and me.’" Genesis 16:1-6 (NIV) and they will turn back to you. 14 Spare my life, O God, and save ​ me, and I will gladly proclaim your righteousness. 15 Help me to speak, Lord, and I will praise you.” Pslam 51 1-15 (GNT) ​ 5. WE BLAME CIRCUMSTANCES ​ ​

“The Lord now said to Moses, (2) “Send out men to explore the land of Canaan, the land I am giving to the . Send one leader from each of the twelve ancestral tribes… (25) After exploring the land for forty days, the men returned (26) …They reported to the whole community what they had seen and showed them the fruit they had taken from the land. (27) This was their report to Moses: ‘We entered the land you sent us to explore, and it is indeed a bountiful country—a land flowing with milk and honey. Here is the kind of fruit it produces. (28)

But the people living there are powerful, and their towns are ​ Listen to messages online @ ExaltChurchVA.com large and fortified. We even saw giants there…”’ Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter @ExaltChurchVA Numbers 13: 1-2; 25-28 (NLT)

“Be merciful to me, O God, because of your constant love.

Because of your great mercy wipe away my sins! 2 Wash away all my evil and make me clean from my sin! 3 I recognize my faults; I am always conscious of my sins. 4 I have sinned against you—only against you— and done what you consider evil. So you are right in judging me; you are justified in condemning me. 5 I have been evil from the day I was born; from the time I was conceived, I have been sinful. 6 Sincerity and truth are what you require; fill my mind with your wisdom 7 Remove my sin, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.