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Happy are the Poor in Spirit | Happiness | 8/13/23

If you have to have all of your problems solved before you become happy, will you ever be happy? No. If you have to have everything perfect in your life before you're happy, will you be happy? No.
My happiness is not determined by what's happening around me, but rather by what's happening in me. 

READY TO SERVE | GUEST SPEAKER HARVIE NEATHERLIN | 8/6/23

"And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.” Isaiah 6:8 
The truth is that we were never meant to blend in! We were never saved to sit! Why? Because sitting does nothing for God! It may make you feel better but it does nothing for God
We were saved to serve!

God’s Plan Always has a Plot Twist | God has a Plan | 7/30/23

God loves providing a good plot twist in our lives.
God loves for people to look at our lives and see the difference between before we knew Him, and after we knew Him.
Some of you are in that position today—you feel like your life is spiraling. I’m here to encourage you today. God wants to swing the pendulum in your direction. God wants to twist the plot in your life.

God’s Plan Unfolds Suddenly | God has a Plan| 7/23/23

So often, we feel like God has forgotten about us. We feel like we are spending all our time taking care of everyone else’s dreams, wondering if God is ever going to bring our own dreams to pass.
Can I tell you that if you’ll be like Joseph, never give up. Keep your attitude right. Trust God. Wait for God. Never stop believing. In fact, instead of getting more discouraged day after day, you decide to be more encouraged. Knowing that with the passing of every day, it just means you are one day closer to God bringing you into your God-given purpose.

Trust God | God has a Plan| 7/16/23

If you believe God brought you to this wilderness to let you die, then you forgot who He is.
If you believe God brought you to this prison to rot and die, then you forgot who He is.
The wilderness was the path to the promised land.
The prison was the path to the palace, God’s purpose.
Today is a day that you begin to believe in who God really is. He is God who 
can be trusted. No matter what you are facing. No matter what you are going through, 
begin to believe He is God your deliverer. God your healer. God your provider. 
God who sees you. God your Savior!

Ignorance is Bliss | God has a Plan| 7/9/23

Knowledge is like a key. Having keys to bad places is the kind of knowledge we want to avoid. 
If you have a key, you are responsible for whatever it opens. The less keys you have, the less you have to worry about. 
Some people want a master key to know what everyone is doing, and what everyone is thinking. And I say to you, IGNORANCE IS BLISS. You don’t need to know all that. 

 

Esau’s Soup | RELATE | 7/2/23

You can sell your entire future blessing for only one meal.
The feeling of getting revenge, is it worth it?
That one moment of pleasure, for your entire future. Is it worth it?
When your pride gets hurt, someone does something this big to you, and you deserve to do something THIS big back.
Using RELATE will protect your future. Doing relationships God’s way will keep you from trading your life for one measly bowl of soup.

WHEN YOU FACE THE GIANTS | RELATE | 6/25/23

What’s most interesting is while David is out watching sheep, God was preparing him for war, and to be the king of Israel. 
David had spent time with God in the fields and God was going to take him to the throne. If God was faithful in helping him save a few sheep from a hungry lion or bear, then certainly God would be faithful in other ways.

Accept My Part | RELATE | 6/18/23

After all that has been said and done in your life, after all the things you have seen people do, after all the pain you have experienced from going the wrong way at times and doing the wrong things, you would think that by now you would have stopped intentionally doing bad things.
Your sin is predictable. What you do to destroy your relationships is predictable if you will start looking at yourself.
Listen to see what you can do.

List My Threats | RELATE | 6/11/23

Listing my threats: Me looking at me, to see how I’m being threatened by the situation or person(s) involved.
In other words, the goal is to begin doing an inventory on me when I’m experiencing negative emotions, finding the area(s) in me that are being threatened.