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Threats Thwart Love | RE-ROUTE MY THINKING | 11/13/2022

Here’s the reality: Everyone has threats, there are real fears in life that we all face. It’s up to us to decide how much those fears and threats will keep us from loving.
Threats Thwart love because everyone believes their threat is more important. 
How do you function in your own home? Is your home about managing threats? Or is it built on love?
Do you clean your home because you are afraid of disease and illness? Or do you do it because you love?

Unnecessary Pain | RE-ROUTE MY THINKING | 11/6/2022

Here’s what I want to encourage you with today: Most of what others are
saying and doing to you isn’t intended to hurt you. Most of what people are
doing is about them just trying to survive and take care of their own threats in life.
It’s time for you to rewrite the stories of your life. Change the narrative. Like
King David, instead of only hearing the voice of the accuser and abuser, it’s time to hear
the other side of the story. LET GO OF THE UNNECESSARY PAIN.

Dealing With Fear | RE-ROUTE MY THINKING | 10/30/2022

The fear of not getting what we want will drive us insane. Especially when it seems we have crossed every T and dotted every I in the list of doing what it takes to get it.
The key to getting to the best you is to align your wants with what your Creator made you to want and do.
Your looks, were so the right people would be attracted to you.
Your gifts and talents, were so you could do what He made you to do.
Your experiences in life, are for His purposes.

My Brain Issues | RE-ROUTE MY THINKING | 10/16/2022

Today I’m going to give you some insight into your brain and how it works. You need to know that your brain wasn’t meant to be a junk yard, or a sanitation yard, and by no means a waste station. 
Your brain was given to you to manage, protect, and closely watch over so that you can be greatly connect to God and His purpose for your life.

Changing the Abundance of My Heart | RE-ROUTE MY THINKING | 10/9/2022

You can actually have a relationship with God in spite of your current condition. God’s grace is sufficient for you. 
He accepts you today, just as you are, if you humbly come to Him and want to grow and want to be better, and want a genuine relationship with Him.

Long-Term Relationships | RE-ROUTE MY THINKING | 10/2/2022

I want to begin today by taking you to what God says is the most important, absolute highest priority of our lives: RELATIONSHIPS.
Not just relationships, but long-term relationships. 
Your thinking, the way you process life, what you believe, what you interpret, what you think about others, and what you think others think about you—all of it affects whether or not you will have long-term relationships in your life.

Are You Fostered or Adopted? | 9/25/2022

Spiritually, are you in a foster care program? Or have you been adopted? 
It seems many people who attend church and call themselves a Christian, have only gotten into the Foster Care program, and have not allowed themselves to actually be adopted as God’s child.
Church can be like a foster GROUP HOME for many, instead of it being a home where you BELONG.
GOD WANTS TO ADOPT YOU.

Sermon on the Mount | 9/18/2022

Pastor John reads from Matthew chapters 5-7: Jesus' Sermon on the Mount.

Faith is Beyond Believing | 9/11/2022

Here’s a principle that I hope each of us can embrace: True faith is based on the REALITY of who God is, what He likes, and what He does.
If your perception of God is skewed, your acts of faith are going to be skewed. Why? Because we do based on what we believe.
We have to remember that we aren’t running after what we like. We have to lay that aside to get to what God likes. 
When Jesus came to earth, He came to show us who He is, what He likes and what He does.

God Wants to Restore You | 9/4/2022

Have you ever been to a junk yard? The owner of a salvage yard buys cars that have been damaged so much that they aren’t worth the money to fix restore the vehicle. So they buy it to tear it apart and sell the parts individually and make a ton of money. 
They don’t buy the cars to restore them, they buy them to tear them apart so that others can be fixed.
God isn’t running a salvage yard. God is in the restoration business. He didn’t buy you with the blood of Jesus to part you out. He bought you to restore you.