{"id":532,"date":"2011-07-15T05:18:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T09:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/?p=532"},"modified":"2011-07-15T08:17:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T12:17:00","slug":"4-things-to-remember-when-fishing-seems-useless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"4 Things to Remember When Fishing Seems Useless"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"right\">&#8220;When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, &#8220;Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.&#8221; \u00a0But Simon answered and said to Him, &#8220;Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at your word I will let down the net.&#8221; \u00a0And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking.&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Luke 5:4-6 \u00a0NKJV<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"right\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"right\">(The term &#8220;fishing&#8221; is to be understood in this outline as a metaphor for &#8220;intentional evangelism&#8221; as indicated in Luke 5:10)<\/p>\n<h4>I. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Jesus Still Intends for Us to Fish!<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\">His plan has never changed.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\">His purpose has never changed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\">His passion has never change.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>II. \u00a0 Lack of Results is No Reason to Quit!<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The fish are not all dead. (Its not too late)<\/li>\n<li>The fish still have the same nature.\u00a0 (Sin is still the problem)<\/li>\n<li>The fish are still catchable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>III. \u00a0Fish Because He Said So!<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Your attitude toward fishing largely determines whether you will fish, not the size of the catch.<\/li>\n<li>His word is more important than our ability.<\/li>\n<li>Our obedience is the key.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>IV. \u00a0 You Cannot Predict What May Happen!<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Where yesterday there was nothing, today may be a net full.<\/li>\n<li>Where yesterday a friend was hardened, today he may be broken.<\/li>\n<li>Today you may be the only Believer in your circle of influence. \u00a0Tomorrow God may use you to take an unimaginable catch!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, &#8220;Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.&#8221; \u00a0But Simon answered and said to Him, &#8220;Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at your word I will let down the net.&#8221; \u00a0And when they had done this, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[35,15],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","tag-luke","tag-outline","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}