Sunday Morning Podcast | The Moody Church

What do you do when God sets you aside for a season? When you can’t do normal, but have to learn to wait on Him? There’s lots of circumstances God can use to set us aside: career interruptions; health challenges; romantic breakups; job searches; and family crises.   In today’s passage, Zechariah’s season of being set aside finally ends. God enables him to speak again, and we realize, now that he’s back in the game, that he made good use of his time on the bench.   We’ll see three ways from Zechariah’s story how we can respond when God sets us aside for a season.   1) Check Your Heart   God sets us aside to get our attention.   During Zechariah’s many months unable to speak, we see that he spent that time doing some serious heart work. He reflected on his failures and lack of faith. So, when we see Zechariah emphatically pronouncing the name of his son, John, we see this moment full of faith and obedience. God had got his attention.   When God sets you aside, check your heart.   2) Engage the Wo