Cadence - Marching In Sync With God's Rhythm
Cadence - Marching in Sync With God's Rhythm Part 6, Joël Malm
Tired? Feeling behind? Running on empty? In our new series, Cadence, we’ll rediscover how to walk in sync with God through rest, intentional rhythms, and focused effort. From embracing Sabbath, to finding alignment in our values, relationships, and priorities, we’ll explore how steady practice shapes us, and how wisdom teaches us when to push forward and when to pull back. Whether your pace has been frantic or stalled, Cadence is an invitation to find your stride again—faithfully, purposefully, and in step with the Spirit.
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Joël Malm
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Cadence: The Power of ReflectionWe don’t see the world as it is, we see it as we are. Proverbs 27:19 As water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart.
Reflection: turning inward to evaluate what is happening within and around you. Ask: “What is this moment trying to teach me about God and myself?” James 1:22-24 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
Faith: spiritual awareness that leads to alignment with reality 2 Peter 1:5-8 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Key Point: There is no formula for life, There is only revelation from the Holy Spirit. Psalm 139 You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts,[a] God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you.
If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty! They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name. Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you? I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies. Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
