Inspire ABQ

#HumbleBeforeGod

“Coming to the Lord, we must humble ourselves and admit we don't know how to live this way. In the face of trials, I don't know how I'm... How to deal with this. And it's okay to say, Lord, I'm I'm a mess. I really don't know how to deal with this at this point. One of the reason I believe that God sends trials is to humble us from our pride so we can look to him. Stop looking at yourself any longer. Look to me.”

#GodCenteredMarriage

“So, what a beautiful love story. This really was a match made in heaven. Commitment came first, and then love followed it. Isaac and Rebecca would love one another for the rest of their lives, for better, for worse, for... In good times and in bad times, for richer, for poorer. And till death do them part. You know, unlike the other patriarchs, it was Isaac that would only be married to one wife. And that's the way God intended marriage to be.”

#TrustGod

“You know why we can kind it all joy this morning? Because God's in control of it all. Let go of the control. Don't be a control freak like I am. Let God have control. But, again, with that, we need to pray that God allows us strength, that he gives us the strength to relinquish that. There's a lot of things I don't want to let go. There's a lot of things that you don't want to let go. I got this. Well, you're going to struggle with it longer unless you give it over to him.”

#ServeTheLord

“Becoming a busybody is often a natural result of being lazy. You can look at a scripture. Scripture talks a lot about being a busybody. An idle person has little to do except get involved in other people's business. Here's a lesson, though, in that. An idle mind is a devil's playground. You don't have nothing to occupy your mind? Somebody will. Like I've meant... I mentioned earlier, if you're sitting at home with nothing to do, it's very easy to follow into temptation. Thoughts, different things. One way to avoid temptation is to keep our... Ourselves busy by serving the Lord.”

#SalvationByGrace

“my first question for you this morning is, have you obtained, have you seized violently onto the gift of salvation through Jesus Christ? Because that's where it starts. If you have not made Christ your own, have not received him, you're gonna struggle. You're gonna continue to struggle until you get to that point where you lay hold of that truth that God has taken you to this place. He then goes on to use this word of perfect. Perfect means to consecrate, to accomplish, to fulfill. And so you have to understand in those words in conjunction, what does it mean? He's bringing this thing into fulfillment of what he has done. So news flash, right, some good news for you, it's not about you. It's not about you. It's about him.”

#TrustGod

“Things you thought you'd never face, you're facing, or you have faced, such as the death of a child, a divorce, a loss of a job. But what are you and I as we look at the pages of scripture supposed to do is to trust him in what he's doing. It doesn't matter what's falling apart. It doesn't matter what's going on that we would keep our eyes focused on him. Things are gonna happen in this life, and we may never know why, but we're simply called to trust in him. I don't know why this is happening, but I'm gonna trust you through it.”

#ChooseHoliness

“What a fool would give up his position as a chief son to steal half eaten apples. And yet, this is exactly the choice we're making when we disregard God's law and return to the same sinful habits we engaged before we came to Christ. We're eating half eaten apples when he's given us a full steak. It blows my mind how people can go back to living a double lifestyle.”

#JesusSaves

“You know, if God himself, the creator of heavens and earth, would look at us for who we are and look at our rap sheet and, know, that he says that he's got these books, that he wrote he wrote down everything that we've thought, every thought, everything that we've done. Can you imagine us being judged on that? That'd be horrifying for me. But instead, Jesus said, hey. Let me have that flash drive. I'm destroying it. All of that stuff will be is completely erased now. That's what we are in Jesus. When God looks upon us, he sees Jesus. That's what I want. I don't want him to see for the trash that I used to have and the trash that I used to do.”

#WordIsSoapApplyIt

“The truths of god are like soap. They're meant to be applied. If I don't never pick up the soap barn, I could come in greasy and dirty and filthy. And if I don't pick up the soap, I'm not gonna get clean. Same thing it is with the word of God. If I don't take this book and what he reveals to me and apply it to my life, how am I gonna be changed? How am I gonna live a life that's honoring and pleasing to him? Right? And so that's what he's been doing to me. He's been wrecking me wrecking me with this. He's saying, do I still shock and awe you?”

#KnowTruthProtect

“I believe we can protect ourselves from being misled and prevent it. How do we do that? How is it our best protection from that? Knowing the truth as our best protection against deception. Coming to the word of God, if we're if we're never in the book, guys, we'll never know when someone's lying to us. We're getting to see God's word for what it is right in front of us. If you know the truth, then you'll realize when someone's telling you a lie. How do you know that I'm telling you the truth unless you're looking it up yourself?”

#JesusTookTheSentence

“Those of you standing before the judge, you don't know what the judge was gonna hand down to you till he came. But your attorney came and said, you know, I'm gonna take his sentence. Wouldn't you have loved that? I'm gonna take his sentence. Let me do the time. That's what Jesus stepped in and said, no. I'm gonna do this for you. And he took it upon himself. That's what I that's why I wanna serve him with all that I have, because I couldn't pay that price. And he did because of his love for me. I look at myself, and I'm like, I ain't nothing to be dying over. But yet he loved me that much to say, I love you enough to die for you.”

#InstrumentRatedFaith

“But there's some different distinctions in that. There's instrument rated pilots, and there's good weather pilots. Good day pilots can go out. Everything's nice and shiny. Everything you can see for many a long distance. But then when you have an instrument rated pilot, you can fly in the storms and know and look at your gauges and instruments and know where you're going. Some of us here are just good darer, good day Christians. And we can't weather the storm. We can't look at the instruments, the instruments, the word of God, who were going through trials. We need to be that instrument rated Christian. We need to fly high above those clouds because we know who's in control.”

#TrustLikeNoah

“Noah built the ark just trusting God. Hey. I'm gonna build go build this ark. And he told him to build this big boat. This many rooms, this high, this tall. Hey. I want you to use this specific wood, this specific pitch. He told him everything on how to build it, and he even though he was being mocked, he was being laughed at, all this stuff, he listened to god and did it. But did you ever notice as he built that ark, he never had him install a rudder or a stealing steering wheel? He never did. He was simply to trust God in what he was doing and where he was taking them. Are we doing the same? Or do you want a steering wheel to steer your own life?”

#DebtPaidByJesus

“``Church, we all had a debt we could not pay, and it was a debt that was gonna send us to hell. If we can't be real in church, where can be we'd be real at? There's only two places, heaven or hell. There's only two people, redeemed or unredeemed. Paul was trying to make this example to Philemon and notice what he says, to say nothing of you owing me even your own self. Paul was reminding Philemon that he was the one who shared the gospel with him. That Philemon came to Christ the same way Onesimus did through God's grace. So Philemon didn't really owe Paul the debt, he owed it to Jesus.”

#RejoiceInTheLord

“``True true joy isn't isn't dependent on circumstances. It's dependent on god. Where does my help come from? My help comes from the lord. That's where it should be. But I wanna get to where Habakkuk is. When all of these things are falling apart, there's nothing everything's falling apart. I still, in verse 18, I, yet I will rejoice in the lord. That's where I wanna be. Those things don't take advantage of me and rob my joy. Some of you, as of me, you've allowed things to rob your joy for years. Right? There's markers in your life that have destroyed you. And now he says, take your eyes off of those and put them on me. I'm your strength. I'm your shield. I'm your fortress.”

#StandFirmInFaith

“``In verse eight, he says, now we live if you're if you are standing fast in the lord. These these guys had had enduring they had been enduring persecutions because of their faith. They were changed. But because of that, in the persecutions, they weren't moved. And that's a lesson for us. We can continue to follow despite our afflictions. Despite what things are gonna happen, we can endure. We get stronger and stronger the more we realize that we're supposed to lean on Christ. That's when faith becomes concrete. So in your afflictions this morning, how much control do you have over them? You have control over them? So we should be trusting the one that does have control over them.”

#PrepareYourHeart

“``The return of Christ has always been presented in scriptures a great motivation to action. Right? Knowing that he's coming. If we know somebody, you know, if they we know somebody's coming to our house, what do you do? What's the first thing you do? Hey. We got company coming over. You grab out the vacuum. You clean the thruster. The you know, you wash all the dishes. You that's what you do. You're prepared for that person to come. Christ is coming. What are we preparing? He ain't worried about your dirty dishes. He's worried about the dirty heart.”

#ConsistentFaith

“``I don't want him to say, well said, good and faithful servant. I want him to say, well done, good and faithful servant. So we get to see that Paul, Timothy, and Silas, they live a consistent lice life. All the places that they went, they were not just somebody else. The roadies on the road, but they were actually living a life of consistency in their lives. That's what people see in our lives. Those of you that are, or those of us that are believers, we live a life that is consistent. Consistent is what shows the pattern in our life. We show consistency in that.”

#readyForHisReturn

“``We need to hear it. But the big question is, are you ready for it? Are you ready for his return? If not, what must you do? You know, there there's a lot of different things that we look to to start to show up shore up our faith. It's it's a it's a stupid analogy, I think, that I I've come up with. This is that if he's coming next week at 5PM, what are you gonna change? Start to change it now. Live like it's the last day, every day. We don't know when it's gonna come. I just wanna be ready. I just wanna be able to hear what's gonna happen.”

#RadicalHeartChange

“Think about that for a moment. What happens if you gouge out your eye? No anesthetic. No nothing. Think it's gonna hurt. There's gonna be hurt involved. And think about it. It's gonna be permanent. Sometimes it's gonna be hurting because we have to get rid of old friends. We have to get rid of old things, and it's gonna hurt, and it should be permanent. It's a transformation here he's trying to get across, a transformation of one's heart through faith in Christ, and it results in letting go of that old way of living.”