North Pointe Church

#HeartTransformation

“See, that's why it's important that you don't just change your vocabulary. You have to change your heart as well. Your heart has to change because when God can change your heart, that's when he changes inside you, and he changes what will come out of you. You fill your heart with the word of God when you don't need it, so it'll fill your mouth when you do. Amen? So when you come up against those situations, you speak the word. You speak those declarations in your life. And you speak them in the middle of the storms. You declare God's word in the middle of your storm.”

#TruthOverFacts

“Don't ignore the facts. I I I understand facts. Don't ignore the facts. Don't ignore. But refuse to allow the facts to make me forget the truth of God's word. Don't don't don't allow that fact to speak louder than the truth. The fact does not override truth. The truth is what sets you free. I can sit here and give you so many examples, but I don't need to give you my examples. Just look into your life, and you can see what the world says was fact, but then the light will shine on it. Jesus Christ and the truth that came. That's the truth. That's the truth.”

#BeAGodlyChannel

“So as soon as I do that, now I can allow him to what? Pour his spirit out. See, we have the spirit of God, but do we allow him to continue to pour into our life? It is something that we have to do all the time and allow him. Look at this. A cup that only receives and never pours out becomes a container, not a channel. We are here to be a channel of God.”

#CarryEachOthersBurdens

“I've had burdens in my life just like every single one of you have had burdens in your life. But right here, we see that if you have that selfish person behind you, they're they're gonna say, well, that's your burden to carry. You carry it. you need the person behind you that's gonna help carry that burden with you. Think about Moses. Moses, he got he got tired. His arms got tired, but he had someone to support him. He had guys on the left and the right to hold up his arms. I mean, there's other guys in the Bible and women in the Bible that we see that they supported. They supported the people.”

#WalkByFaith

“Get out of the boat. Peter got out of the boat. He got out of the boat and he started walking on what? word. Some of you are like, The my bible says he walked on water. Are we walking by sight or we walking by faith? See, sight says, yes, he walked on water. That that wasn't nothing. All we have to do is walk on the word. The word was what? Come. As soon as Peter started walking on the word, which was come, he was coming. It didn't matter if it was water, if it was fire, if it was glass. It didn't matter what would it was.”

#GodsWordNeverFails

“Because you know what God's word says about you, but what is it? How long is it gonna take for you to get to what he said about you, what you found out in the word of God till all of a sudden the manifestation comes boom. And you're like walking in it. You're like, yeah. This is what he's talking about. And sometimes it can take years. But the thing is is you gotta recognize that God's word will not return void. It will do what it set out to do. It is his word is truth, and everything else is a lie.”

#InsideOutChoices

“You can't determine who's gonna bump into you. You can't determine what life's gonna do. But you do determine what comes out of you. It's so easy. It is so easy for for us to say those little things. Why did you spill the coffee? Well, because someone bumped into me. whatever is inside the cup is what will spill out.”

#WalkItByFaith

“That's commitment. That's true commitment. That's like, alright. We're doing it, and we walk it. How are we walking it? We're walking it by faith, not by sight. Because my sight sees water. Because it's not wine yet, it didn't be turned wine until the master had it in his hand. That's true obedience. there there true obedience comes through what? Admitting you need Jesus. Submitting to him. Omitting the things you don't need in your life and committing it.”

#ObeyTheNextStep

“Isaiah fifty five eight through nine talks about, I don't have to understand what the author is writing in order to obey the next instruction. You you don't gotta know the next sentence. You just gotta know the next step. And you gotta remember that. Obedience doesn't produce the power. Obedience doesn't produce the power. Obedience positions me to participate in what Jesus is doing. I get to participate in what Jesus is doing. And what Jesus is doing is a great thing.”

#SinPromisesFreedom

“Or I'll live I'll live however I want. I I've heard that before. Well, how that's how's that gonna work out for you? It sounds fun. It sounds free. It sounds liberating. Right? But let's go back to Matthew seven thirteen. Broad is the way that leads to what? Destruction. So those statements that I said, that that's a broad way, and it shows us that it will truly lead to destruction. It starts wide. It starts wide, but it ends in bondage. Sin will always promise freedom before revealing the chains. You'll you'll feel like it's free. You'll feel like then here comes that chain.”

#RepentanceIsWelcome

“``Repentance isn't God standing there saying, look what you did. He's not saying that. Repentance is God saying, come back to me. Remember the prodigal son? Went off. The father just stood there, opens arm, ready to receive him. Got a ring, got the shoes, throwing him, I have a calf already ready there for him. Why? Again, Romans eight one, therefore there is no combination through Christ Jesus. He's not here to condemn you. He's here to love you. Condemnation says, run from God. Hide from God. Turn your back on God. Conviction says, come back to God. Conviction is a good thing. Condemnation says, you're finished. Remember? You're finished. You're finished. This this relationship's finished. This this body is finished. This whatever is finished. Oh, oh, oh. This world is finished. Our government is whatever is finished. Well, if it's finished, at the same time, Satan has come to what? John ten ten. Satan comes to steal, kill, and destroy. He's here to finish it. No. But Jesus said, I've come so you can have life and life more abundantly. Condemnation says you're finished. Conviction says, this isn't who you are. This isn't who you are. Turn around.”

#PeaceInTheStorm

“``Why do you think he was in the bottom of the boat resting? It's because peace isn't determined by what is happening around you. Peace is determined by who is in you, who is with you. See, Jesus was in the boat with them. The disciples had no reason to fear and be terrified because Jesus was in the boat with them. The same with us. If you're a believer Jesus is inside of you, so you have no reason to fear and worry about the situations that are going on. You should remain in that peace that Jesus is with you. Because if Jesus can sleep in the middle of the storm, I believe he was trying to teach them that they should be resting too.”

#NarrowWayRelationship

“``See, many people hear the word narrow. You know, you're you're I'm sitting there with Jesus, and he's sitting there. Hey, man. You you hear the word narrow, and you might be immediately thinking God is trying to take something away from you. Well, the only thing I'm here to take away from you, Jesus says, is sickness, destruction. I'm here to take addiction. I'm here to take sorrow. I'm here to take the pain. I'm here to take the burden. I'm I'm here I'm I'm here to take that. He's not trying to take something away from me, he's saying the narrow way isn't about a restriction. Oh, you can't do this. You can't it's not about restriction. It's about relationship.”

#WalkOnTheWord

“``All he had to do remember, I am the way, the truth, and the life. So here's the key. Yes. Peter did not walk on water. Peter walked on the word. He walked on the word. Why can I say he walked on the word? Why am I saying he didn't walk on water? Why? Because the water could not hold him. Water cannot hold him. His faith in himself, it couldn't even hold him either because we keep reading, we see him go down. The boat couldn't even save him because they thought they were all going down, but the word of Jesus held him.”

#NarrowIsRelationship

“I want you all to remember this. The narrow way is not a road. It's a relationship. It's a relationship. See, it's easy to get on a road by yourself. It's easy to take a stroll all by yourself, but the narrow way is a relationship. The narrow way is not a map. I just do this, that, and the other. I just stay on this. No. The narrow way is not a map. It's a man. It's a man. The narrow way is not a destination. It's a daily walk. It's a daily walk because Jesus never said, find the path. Remember? He didn't say find the path. He simply said, follow me. Follow me.”

#GraceOverGravity

“``And what I love about this is, you know, scientists will try to say, well, gravity pulls things downwards. Right? But in this instance, grace pulls upward. Gravity will say sink, but grace says rise. And aren't we saved by grace through faith? Amen? We were once dead and now we rise again. Gravity says it's impossible, but grace says all things are possible. Amen? So whatever situation you brought here today in this service, God is still the God of impossibility, of taking something that is impossible and making it possible. Nothing is too great for him.”

#ExchangeFearForFaith

“Jesus isn't asking us to carry more. He's asking us to exchange it. Exchange that fear for faith. Exchange the boundary the the the bondage for liberty. Exchange that your yoke, that yoke you put on yourself for his yoke. This is his yoke. Exchange that wrong thinking for the right thinking, for the mind of Christ. let's learn from Jesus. Learn from Jesus. The Holy Spirit persuades you that God's promises are true. It's one of those you know that you know. As you become fully persuaded, fully persuaded, the anointing, nothing more but the anointing, I said, destroys the yokes of fear, of shame, of sin, regret, striving, try to satisfy. The anointing does that.”

#SurrenderYourAll

“``But the greatest surrender isn't your possessions. The greatest surrender, it's your heart. It's your tongue. It's your temper. It's your attitude. It's your time. Wrap it all up. It's your life. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind. Love your neighbor as yourself. When those things are surrendered, God can take an ordinary rod, a piece of stick, a person that had a stuttering problem that couldn't get his words right and make it the mouthpiece of God or make it the rod of God.”

#LoveIsHealingPain

“I'm gonna preach today about something that's probably the best best thing, the most healing thing there is in the world, but also it's the most expensive and the most pain causing thing. It causes more pain than anything else, but it causes more healing than anything else, and that's love. If you don't love, you'll probably never be in pain, But if you love, you're gonna know pain. There is no way that you can love God's way and not know pain. will know it.”

#LifeBeyondBetter

“Jesus is saying, I didn't come to make your life better. Who? You're like, woah. You just contradict everything you said. No. No. No. No. No. I didn't come to make your life better. I came to give you a life beyond what you can produce on your own. That's why Jesus came. He came to give you a life so you can produce something better and more than you can ever produce on your own. Because if you're producing it on your own, it's not by his strength. It's by your might. It's by your faith, not according to his faith, not his love, his will, his ways.”

#StayInTheWall

“See, a stone by itself, it can be moved. You can kick it around. You can throw it. You can do whatever you want with it. But when it's in the wall, it can't move. You're not getting kicked. You're not getting thrown. And in fact, you're not being you're not getting stumbled over or being a stumbling block. The Bible says, hey, you can do these things, and you can add to your faith these eight things, and when you do that, you will never stumble. It says it very clear. You will never stumble. The only way I know how not to stumble is stay in the wall.”

#ObeyYourConscience

“How many of us will look back and it's like, man, I shouldn't have said that. I knew I shouldn't have said that. That's God. So when you hear him, how do you hear him? In your conscience, in your heart. Obey him. Like Mary's told those workers in the first miracle, whatever he says. I believe if you do that, it could change your life. Hey, it changed mine. And it to this day, it's still changing mine. Changing mine. I have not arrived because daily, I am like, Lord, make me tender. Help me. Help me where I fell short.”

#StrongRootsThroughResistance

“We have to do what the word says. And I'm gonna show you this. A life with no resistance will produce weak roots. It will produce, as James one twenty two through four talked about, We need the testing of your faith. It produces patience. It produces endurance. It produces steadfastness. That's why it's important. Jesus went through life that way. Jesus didn't walk around in a bubble. His disciples didn't walk around in a bubble. But, yes, we have to create the environment and saturate them in what they need to be saturated in, but we just don't protect them.”

#SpiritInsideEveryBeliever

“The same spirit that strengthened Peter and comforted Paul and raised Jesus from the dead now lives inside each and every believer, each inside of each and every one of us. Right? Same spirit is there. So don't settle just for those occasional encounters when there might have a a guest speaker or just on Sunday mornings or or Wednesdays. Stay connected to him. Stay in his word. Stay in his presence. Stay filled with the holy spirit.”

#LoveNeverStopsBelieving

“``God never stops believing his purpose for you. Remember, love believes all. It always believes. It never stops believing. A mother never stops believing in their children. It doesn't matter if they're making bonehead decisions. If they take a job that they knew they shouldn't took or they, let's let's let's just let's go and hit the elephant in the room sometimes. They they start dating someone they shouldn't date. Right? You're like, oh, they shouldn't be with that person. But you know what? That mother believes, believes all things, believes all things, endures all things.”

#WorkYourField

“If you're not working your field, if you're not doing what the word says right here, you got the treasure. I will see you in heaven. But what's your field look like? Is it barren? Is it unfruitful? If you're not diligently adding to your faith virtues, as it says right here, that's what'll happen. In the knowledge of your Lord Jesus Christ, my people are destroyed for lack of what? Knowledge. Not knowledge of the world. Not knowledge of how you work. It's the knowledge of God.”

#StepOfFaith

“So stop waiting for evidence to move. Stop waiting for everything to be laid out in front of you before you take that step and step out of the boat because your movement is the evidence of your faith. That first step you take, that is your evidence of faith. That's putting your faith into action. Amen? That's why we walk by faith and not by sight.”

#TransformTheField

“What I like about is we don't just survive the field. You need to start changing some of our mind and and think like Jesus. We don't survive the field. Did Jesus survive this world? No. He did not survive this world. He transformed this world. You're here today because he transformed it. You're not here to just survive in this field. You're here to transform this field. How do you transform the field? You transform it by the gospel of Jesus Christ.”

#ResurrectedPossibilities

“Every single one of you came out of that grave with him. So something in your life that you thought was buried, something that you thought was a dead that wasn't gonna come back, uh-uh. God said, it is planted. Those children, those desires, those dreams you thought that were dead, those those talents that you thought were were never gonna be used again. Well, they're dead. That that season, my life is over. No. No. No. No. God said, it's planted.”

#ChooseGodFirst

“And then for everyone else, you you say, I choose you. God, I choose you. Thank you for giving me your best. Today, I give you my best from here on out. You deserve all of me, all of my my time, my intention, my ties. I'm not gonna give you my second best. I'm not gonna spend time with you at the end of the day if I have time left over in my day. I'm not gonna give you my tithes once I've paid my bills. Let me see how much money I have left over. No. I'm done giving god my second best. You get my best, my best. I want time with you first thing when I wake up. I want time with you all throughout my day and before I go to bed. We choose you.”

#KeepSowing

“Do not stop sowing. Just because you don't see the outcome, the harvest right away, it could be generations down the road, that doesn't mean we stop sowing. You continue to sow your time, your talent, your treasure, testimony, love, generosity, kindness. Sow it. Continue to sow. See the kingdom of God often begins with a small you know prayer whispered in faith. A word spoken in obedience or a step taken when God says move. But once God touches it, it then becomes the exponential growth happens and that exponential process begins.”

#PlantForResurrection

“What looked like death on a Friday, I think y'all would say it this way, was actually a seed being planted. It's a seed being planted. And when God plants a seed, resurrection is in not inedible, inevitable. There it is. I know I like to eat some, but that's okay. The kingdom of God grows when seeds are planted. When you release obedience, when you release generosity, when you release your faith, God activates and increases it. It's activated. You cannot reap what you refuse to release. You cannot reap what you refuse to release. You want love? Release it. If you want forgiveness? Release it. You want peace? Release it. You want joy? Release it. Well, I'll get joy when you're joy no. You release it.”

#BreakingIsTransformation

“See, a seed must break open before this there is a stem or before there are leaves or any kind of fruit that is is shown. It must break open. It goes through this process. Right? And that breaking isn't destruction. See, the world tries to tries to put that breaking time as like a destruction, a bad word, a bad thing, but it's not destruction. That breaking of the seed is actually transformation. Transforming it into what it's called to be, called to do. It's development. And the pressure isn't punishment, but it's a process.”

#KingdomWithin

“The kingdom starts small. It's in you. And the works are unseen, and sometimes you don't see it, but then it just happens. It spreads eternally in you. It's internal, and it changes everything. Out of the heart, the mouth speaks. It's a heart issue. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. That's all speaking to the heart.”

#KingdomReignArrived

“The kingdom is a rule. The kingdom is a reign. The kingdom is an authority. It's a dominion. It's the active government of a king, and especially refers to the rule of Christ and believer's heart. It's the rule. It's the reign. So when the king Jesus said the kingdom is here, he's not meaning the reign well, it's not meaning well, kingdom, boom, it just dropped down like the house on Wizard of Oz. It's not like that. He's meaning the rain of God has arrived. The rain of God has arrived.”

#BeTheKingdom

“We don't have to do that. God does that. The kingdom of God. So many times, we're trying to change people. We don't change people. All we do is just be the kingdom. We just cast the net. And and what you see on this one is the net. This drag net. It says drag net. It's a drag net. It's not a single net. A drag net. A drag net cannot be used by one person. It is not designed, and it will not work. A drag net is won't work unless it's in a boat. So so therefore, you gotta get in the boat, and the only way that drag net works is when it's pulled behind the boat, and that boat is not a one man rowboat.”

#VesselOfHonor

“Second Timothy says it the the best or one of one of the best ways. If a man cleanses himself, he will be a vessel unto honor prepared for every good work. If a man cleanses himself, he will be a vessel unto honor, prepared for every good work. A vessel only works if you empty it all out. Give it all to him. Clean it of being available. Here's the thing is you can't clean it. He's the one that cleans it. You just gotta surrender it.”

#RenewMindRenovation

“``And see, renewing means a renovation, a complete overhaul, not just a rearrangement. Right? Rearranging is just moving things around. You think about your houses. Right? You can rearrange every room in your house, move furniture around and everything else, but nothing is changing. It's still the same structural house that it was. But a true renewing of the mind is a renovation. When you start knocking down walls, putting walls up, adding additions to the house, now you're changing the structure of it. That's what renewal is.”

#FullAccessInChrist

“``Back in Exodus and with the tabernacle, only the high priest had full access to the presence of God. They're the ones who had the full access. But then when Jesus died on the cross, it says the veil was what? Writ. And now we have full access to God, to the presence of God, to the love of God. We have true intimacy, access with God.”

#ObeyAndReceive

“``I know what he told me to do. I know he told me to marry that woman. I know he told me to live in this community. I know he told me to make this decision. I know he told me to go this way. Oh, I know he told me to forgive. I know he told me to love my neighbor as I love myself. I know he told me to love him with all my heart, soul, and mind. I know that when I know those things. You are putting yourself in a position to receive what God has for you because all you're doing is being obedient.”

#SacrificialGoodness

“I can tell you all the other good stuff, but that's what makes him good. He sacrificed his life for you. That's what good is. If you wanna put good on anything, that's the definition of good. So if you say you're a good dad, you're a good dad only if you sacrifice your life for your children. You wanna be a good worker? God's definition right here of a good shepherd is someone who sacrifices himself. That's what good is.”

#FastBeforeDecisions

“``When you go racing, you should be fasting. When you go to your work, you should be fasting. You want to see that breakthrough? You want to see that direction? Do I need to hire this person? Fast. Do I need to marry this woman? Or do I need to even propose? Do I need to go out with this woman? Do you fast before you ask someone out? You should. That is a big decision.”

#LetYourLightShine

“``You have to let your joy glow. You got to let your hope shine. Let your faith stand tall. Let your voice be heard. Let your love be visible. All because the light of God lives inside of you. And he's ready to be seen. He's ready to be felt. And he's ready to change lives. All in his name, which is Jesus.”

#SavedByFaith

“``if we're going to preach the word we need to make sure we preach what faith you got to preach a word of what faith a word of faith a word of faith the world likes the the word of factsthey're all about facts i'm all about faith without faith it's what impossible to please god i'm saved by grace through what faith i'm not saved by grace through facts i'm saved by grace through faith”

#MoveMountainsByFaith

“``Here's the key, here's the part I want you to understand: the same Jesus who spoke to the wind, who spoke to the seas, the same Jesus who told Peter to come, his voice, that same word, the same Jesus who spoke to dead, his word is in our mouth. We carry that same power, that same authority when we speak by faith. So when you speak to a mountain and say, "Be moved and cast into the sea," that mountain will be cast into the sea. All creation has to bow to the command when you speak in faith.”

#GoodnessOfGod

“Let me show you the goodness of God. Let me show you the goodness of my father because he's a good, good father. You know, all you come with him, you enter his gates with what? Thanksgiving and his courts with praise. And so it is a doorway for God to be able to do what he just wants to do as our father.”

#VisionBringsProvision

“``When God gives you a vision, he'll always bring what? Provision. When God gives you a vision, he always brings provision. I think about everything in my life that God has given. It's been a God in vision. He always brings provision. I don't think about how's this going to happen, how's it going to come through, how's this going to work, I've got to figure this out. No, God's already got it. He gave me the vision. He brings the provision. The blessing comes so the gospel can go forth.”

#PrayerTransformsUs

“Prayer isn't just about what God does. It's about what we are becoming in Him. Prayer is not about what it does. If you think that's what it is, that's. You're missing the whole point. The point is what I am becoming in Him. Not my will be done, but your will be done.”

#TrustTransformsFlavor

“If you marinate on questioning everything instead of trusting, that is what you're going to be, that is the flavor that you will be. This week I'm about to cook like 20 briskets and they will be insulated, penetrated, and flavored by hickory smoke and pepper and a lot of other seasonings that I'm not going to tell you, but you're going to have to trust me. And you're going to be able to know that this sucker has been penetrated, it's been penetrated, and when it's going to go in one way, it's going to come out a different way. It's going to look different. It's the same brisket, it's the same chunk of beef, but it's a little bit of transformation happening. If we can accept that in the natural, can we accept that in the spiritual? Can we accept that in something that will never die?”

#RememberHisBenefits

“He has benefits He wants to give you—that by Jesus's stripes we are healed, that God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power, love, and a sound mind, that you and your whole house shall be saved. These are His benefits, and He says forget not His benefits.”

#LiftOthersWithLove

“``Jesus didn't wait for us just to climb up to Him. He came down to us and to our brokenness and to our sin because of our need, because of His love for us. One thing I can learn from this is this. True followers don't wait for people to come to them. They reach down and lift others up.”

#UnmeritedFavor

“In other words, the favor of God is granted out of his goodwill towards us. It's not something that can be bought. It's not something that can be earned. It's the most profound demonstration that I can find of favor is Jesus willing, went to the cross on our behalf. Not because we deserved it. Not because we deserve to be saved. But because God chose to show us mercy. Because he loved us.”

#LovedIndividually

“``If you were the only one on earth if you were the only you were the only one just you he would still send his son Jesus to save you that's how much you're the object of his affection.”

#CustomBuiltForImpact

“When you have a custom-built cabinet or something for your home, it is built specifically for this location to go right in this place, right? So each and every one of us are custom-built, a custom work of art, a masterpiece by God put on this earth to fulfill a destiny, to fulfill a calling. Custom-made, custom-built for impact, right? When something is custom-built, it has that special meaning. You have that impact to impact generations to come, not just the current generation you're in, but generations to come.”

#EyesOnTheRoad

“You got to keep your eyes focused. Keep it in the perspective on the road. Don't go looking to the left, looking to the right. Stay in the road. It's okay to zoom out. It's okay to zoom in. But you got to keep that reference point just like this right here. If they zoom out and zoom in, it's okay. But the reference point that they're going to keep in the frame is what? Me. What do you keep in the reference point? Zoom in and zoom out. It don't matter what perspective, up, down, which angle, I'm still going to have Jesus as my focus.”

#UniquelyFramedPurpose

“When we learn to frame our lives within the reality that God has uniquely designed each single one of you and every single one of us for a distinct divine purpose, look around. I don't see any identical me's here. I see a lot more better looking people because we're not all the same. We're all different sizes, different hair colors, different colors, different, just different people. Here's what's neat. There's a distinct divine purpose for every single one of us. And when we frame that and know that, we only then will be able to have a free to view ourself as God does. That you have a purpose in your life. As a people that you have worth, you have a destiny, you are loved, you are cherished, you are fearfully and wonderfully made.”

#RebuildWithGrace

“Have any of you ever felt like your foundation might be rotted? You have to get in there and you have to dig that foundation out that was there. And you have to reframe it, start that structure all over again. Thank God. He empowers us with that grace to start all over again.”

#LiveWithFocusedVision

“So many times people look for other people like, I just need your encouragement. No, you don't. It helps. It's good. And as the other person, you should be and encourage them as a body of Christ, yes. But you know what? David didn't have that. So all we got to do is strengthen himself. That's what he's in the Lord. Strengthen himself in the Lord.”