The Father's House

#BreakFreeFromThePast

“Do you have any tense in your life right now? Do you think about your day to day? You think about the things you dwell on? You think about the things that keep you from stepping into what God has for... Do do you have any tense? Any areas of regret, shame, failure, unforgiveness you're just camping out in, not realizing that they are costing you what God has for your future.”

#FaithThroughTrials

“What if the opposition you're walking through is the very thing that is helping you look more like Jesus? if the opposition isn't hurting you? What if it's helping you be more refined and more pure and more patient? What if the boss that's causing you issues is helping you be more patient? What if the marriage that is not going well is helping you be more selfless and helping you learn how to pray? What if the illness is helping you have more compassion for people? Helping you be long suffering and empathetic for people? What if the opposition is the very thing chizzling us and preserving us to be more into the image of his son?”

#InnerGrowth

“But let me tell you church today and everyone watching, God is doing something on the inside of you that you cannot see. But I believe and I know that when we submit to the Holy Spirit and we say, God, use this situation, Teach me something. Refine my life. He is making your roots go down deeper. He is making your foundation stronger. He is creating a longevity and a tenacity and a beauty inside of you that you might not see on the outside, but it is happening down deep inside.”

#EternalPurpose

“And now your job makes sense. Your career choice makes sense. Your location makes sense. Because if you're living for all this temporary stuff, you're gonna end up disillusioned. You're gonna end up bitter and like, hey, I got all the things and the toys and the second home and blah blah blah, but I'm still empty and clueless. And if you're in your twenties and thirties, you don't believe what I'm saying right now. But talk to a few folks in their seventies, And you realize you were built for eternity. You were not built for the here and now. You are built to be on mission for a purpose to extend the kingdom of God.”

#HolySpiritPower

“You actually cannot live out your faith in Jesus without the power of the Holy Spirit. Sometimes preaching is like, you're awesome. You can do it. You got this. I'm the opposite. You can't do this. Like, without the Holy Spirit, I'm just telling you, you can't. There may have been a time, there may have been a moment, but in this cultural moment that you live, in the state that you have chosen to live and raise a family with the tide of culture working against you and actively working against God, there has never been a time that you need the power of the Holy Spirit more than what you are living right now.”

#StillSmallVoice

“you can't live your life of miracles. That great high moments, but they don't get you through Monday. They don't get you through Tuesday, but the still small voice. Oh, that'll get you through Monday. That'll get you through Tuesday. That'll get you through Wednesday. That'll get you through your sentence. That'll get you through the season. And when the miracles come and go, you always have the still small voice.”

#RestAndRenewal

“I'm convinced of this, that sometimes we're not bad Christians. We're just tired Christians. noticed this in myself. I don't know if you've noticed it in you. When I'm well rested and I'm fed on good food, a spiritual life bubbles forth from me. I want to pray. I want to read the bible. I want to worship it. It's like an overflow, and I wonder sometimes in our age of exhaustion is if we're just too tired. And so take a nap. Eat something good for you.”

#LivingWater

“And as I'm I'm seeing this vision and I'm praying, I'm like, Lord, do it in our day. God, let us witness a true move of your presence where the presence of God is like living water, and it flows out into our communities and into the broken. And as I'm praying this out, I look down in this vision, and I see my son. I have two sons. They're both teenagers. I saw my oldest son, and I saw him just weeping with his hands lifted under the presence of the Lord. And I just began to break, and the Lord said right there, this is why the next generation has to encounter the living water of Jesus,”

#PartOfTheBody

“You are not meant to live your life alone. You are meant to come as you are to bring everything you have. You are meant to contribute the beautiful gift that only you possess, and you are meant to not stay comfortable because God's power is going to move on the earth, and he wants you to be a part of it. He wants you to experience it, and he wants the body of Christ operating in her full maturity as every part does its work.”

#SurrenderToHisLordship

“Because there's a lot of people that know him as savior, but they've yet to follow him as lord. And when he is lord, he makes the calls, not you. He moves you forward in life, not you. And the hardest thing for us to yield is control of our baby little ship out here. I'm the captain of my boat, and I'll go wherever I wanna go, and I'm gonna ask God to bless my journey. It does not work like that. When he saved you from sin, when he lifted you up out of the pit of your messed up life, he deserves full ownership. I don't have the right to determine my future. Why? Because I have a captain, I have a king who's leading me forward, and my life is fully surrendered, and it belongs to him.”

#HolySpiritHelper

“Holy Spirit will never convict you in order to shame you. It's always to lift you out of your sin and to lead you into life and the will of God for your life. It's always to help you. That's the special title that Jesus gave the Holy Spirit. He called him the helper. That word that he used in the Greek language, man, is full of this beautiful imagery. It doesn't only mean helper, it means comforter, it means advocate, intercessor, strengthener, encourager, counselor. It means all these things. In short, it means the Holy Spirit does not dwell within you in order to make you feel worse about the life you already feel bad about. On the contrary, you will never find anyone more personally invested in helping you than the Holy Spirit.”

#JesusServantOfAll

“And that's why it's astonishing, and it's upside down. It's mind boggling. It's, like, perspective shifting. It is paradigm, moving that this same Jesus that we have, especially last week, talked about the soon coming king would show us an aspect of his character that is completely opposite, completely contrary to the ways of our world, the aspirations of people in our world. And that is where we're gonna land the series today, which is this. If you're taking notes, the title is Jesus is the servant of all.”

#FromLambToKing

“``Let your imagination just just be a gift right now. Because when Jesus was here the first time, he came humbly. He came as a servant. He came as a helpless infant that had to be raised and he was beaten before he went to the cross and he didn't fight back. He was spit on with no retaliation. He was accused yet he refused to defend himself. Isaiah said he was like a lamb that was led to the slaughtering block, but he opened not his mouth. And so, Jesus died a death of shame and reproach because he took our shame and he took our reproach and he was humble. But that's not the way he's coming back. It's a different version. He's returning as the king of kings and the lord of lords triumphant over every tribe and nation.”

#SeekTheBreadOfLife

“``Let us not be fooled, church. We are living with the daily bread. We are living with the bread of life. Let's let's not be complacent. Let's lean in. And if you feel like like I'm ready for more, just cry out to him and say, Jesus, I wanna know you more. Why? Because there's infinitely more in him, infinitely more to discover, infinitely more revelation, infinitely more love, infinitely more hope. This is the hope that we have as an anchor for our souls, but let's not forget that 90% or more of our communities in all of our cities where our church has a has a location, people do not know the bread of life. They are out there making they're gathering manna. They're baking their own bread, but they desperately need the bread of life. It is better than anything on this earth. Manna came down from heaven and provided for a day, but the bread of life comes down from heaven and provides for eternity.”

#ThirstOnlySatisfiedByJesus

“``But there is a danger. Before I get to that danger, I want you to hear this. Every human soul has a God given thirst that nothing in this world can satisfy. Jesus doesn't simply offer living water. He is the living water. Our deepest thirst is satisfied only in him. Now to the danger. There is a danger when we stop recognizing our thirst in Jesus because we will try to go to other sources to try to satisfy the God given thirst that he's placed within us, the spiritual thirst and longing that only he can satisfy.”

#BuildOnJesus

“```Now ask yourself the question, what is what's God trying to do here? What is Jesus trying to do here? Like, on on one hand, is Jesus just being mean? Is he just saying, like, yeah, your life is gonna crumble. Your life is gonna fall apart. It's not what Jesus is doing here. He's saying a simple truth that I would wanna tell you today as a warning. Faith that is built on anything but Jesus will eventually crumble. Faith that is built on religious tradition, faith that is built upon looking good, not being, and faith that's built on your authority, faith that has been started so you can advance in the world, faith that has started because your parents told you to, faith that has started because your spouse told you to, faith that has started for any of those things, any of them besides Jesus, what he says is, okay. If I am not the cornerstone, when you fall, it's gonna be a crash. And it crumbles, and it hurts.”

#PriceForPeace

“The crown of thorns pierced down in his brow. In fact, his head would have swollen up, and it says in the prophecy that his visage was marred. In other words, when Jesus took the beating in the crown of thorns, it changed the way he looked. You could not even recognize him because of the beating. That's the price Jesus paid for your peace, the chastisement of our peace. So today there is a prince of peace, and he wants to stand up in the middle of your storm, if you're in his boat and you're a disciple, and he wants to look out and say, peace be still.”

#JustWaitKeepWatching

“``That's what Paul's telling them in Thessalonians, and that's what Jesus is telling Martha. Just wait. Keep watching. This isn't how it ends. If you're in pain, just wait. Keep watching. This isn't how it ends. If you're in suffering, just wait. Keep watching. This isn't how it ends. Jesus has bought and purchased a greater reality for us because he has carried it all on the cross. You don't have to carry it yourself. You can bring him your questions. You can bring him your pain because he bore it all with the stripes on his back and the crown of thorns on his head. He said, I carried it for you. Now bring it to me and walk into a future reality. Don't stay here. When the teacher is calling, get up and run to him. That's what it means that he is the man of sorrows. We don't have to do this alone.”

#JesusInTheMiddle

“You see, I don't think it's fruitful to ask the question, why does God allow pain? Why is there suffering? We have been going around that mountain for centuries, and it doesn't take away the fact that even if we answered it, which I don't think we'll fully answer it until we get to heaven, even if we answered it, there's still going to be pain and suffering. There's still going to be cavities and canker sores and bad neighbors and empty gas tanks and broken hearts, and there's gonna be sickness and disease and death. If we found out why, it wouldn't change the fact that we still have to walk through it. So I think the better question to ask ourselves today is who is Jesus to me in the middle of it? Who is Jesus to me in the middle of my pain, in the middle of my sorrow?”

#TakeOurRightfulPlace

“It's not about are we right or are they right? It's this. God says if my people everybody say my people. My people. That's us. Who are called by his name. We'll do what? Humble themself. Well, I wish they would no. If we would humble ourselves our wicked ways. Well, God, they're wicked, and they need to turn he's told us very clearly, well, if you're my people called by my name, I would like you to turn from your wicked ways. Pray. Seek my face. Then what does it say? He says, then he will turn and hear from heaven. And what? He will answer a prayer, and he will heal our land. Come on. Isn't it amazing? It's not about policies. It's not about anything else. It is about the people of God taking our right ful place. We will see revival come to our nation.”

#EmbraceHolySpiritGifts

“So it just seems ridiculous to me that the body of Christ would teach one another that God doesn't operate in the gifts that he gave the church, but it's out there and maybe God has rescued you from that. But I would say that the body of Christ at large not embrace the power the Holy Spirit at the same level with the same simple childlike faith as the early church. We just don't in America. But I would like to call us back today if we could to a simple childlike faith that if Jesus said he wanna heal us, we say, Lord, I do believe. Help my unbelief. And”

#HearHisVoiceNotNoise

“Following too many small shepherds, social media is loud. News media, loud. Culture, loud. Everyone's opinion, loud. But what's more important? Knowing what everyone else is saying and thinking and the podcast and the this and the the the even the good things. That's all good. But is it more important to hear what everyone else has to say or more important to know what the good shepherd is saying?”

#AbideNotProduce

“When you're abiding in him, the pressure is off of you to produce anything. The pressure's off of you to produce anything. God is the one who determines the timing and the quality and the quantity of the fruit that comes through your life. It's not called the fruit of the believer. It's called the fruit of the spirit. That's God's job. Our job is to abide in him in a genuine, loving relationship based on love and trust and faith and obedience. We abide in him. He grows the fruit in our lives. So take the pressure off of yourself to grow the fruit. It's not your job, it's his.”

#OnlyTrueVine

“But he also says very clearly, you can't do that apart from him. He says, I am the true vine, not one of the true vines. And this is part of the teachings of Jesus that tends to make people the most uncomfortable. We like his grace. We like his love and his forgiveness. We like his nice teachings and his miracles so long as he can stay one good option out of many options.”

#RadicalRepentance

“Because our understanding of repentance sometimes is a little bit flawed. Repentance is not a song. It's not even coming to an altar. The biblical understanding of repentance, the closest example that we get of the word is I am headed in one direction. I have some type of encounter, and I don't slightly deviate towards, you know, I'll attend church a little bit more, and I'll be a kinder person. It is a 180 degree I was headed this way, and now I am headed in a completely different way. I am turned around. I have been arrested. I have been moved in a different direction.”

#ReachTheBroken

“He's here to come to the most broken of the broken. And whether that's you or you're you're in this room today or while I'm preaching, immediate you can think of somebody. Somebody comes to your mind and says, God, can you reach him? Can you reach her as as long as she's been away? As broken as she is, can you still? And I would say based on John four and the revelation of the anointed one, absolutely There's no one too far gone. There's no one who's been gone too long. Jesus comes and he says, I'm gonna take the time it takes in this obscure village until many come to salvation, and all who have a willing heart receive me as savior. This is the Christ.”

#SpiritNotAtmosphere

“I'm here to tell you today on behalf of all the pastors of this church, not on our watch. The father's house, we will not be a house while we work on atmospheres because atmospheres are important. We will never let a good atmosphere substitute the move and the power and the presence of the holy spirit. I refuse to have to maintain a move of God on lights and sound and good atmospheres. We love all that stuff. But if this is built around a move of God, it has been sustained through a move of the Holy Spirit, and it will be sustained in the move of the Holy Spirit from now into the future until he calls us home.”

#RunToTheFamily

“But listen this morning, if you're struggling with sin or you're feeling out of alignment, don't run from the family of God. Run to the people of God. We don't have to be doctors to know that if a bone is not set properly, the whole human body will operate improperly for the rest of its duration. And we are the body of Christ. So if we are not resetting and realigning lives when they fall into sin, the body of Christ will never operate properly again.”

#WalkInStepWithGod

“My friend, do you know today that when God looks at your life, he sees in full view who you could become through the spirit of the living God. That of me as as a broken father, I look at my daughter and already see what she's done, that when I'm in church and I'm worshiping and my arms are up to my father, he looks at me. And even when I'm faithless, he sees a faithful man. And if I'm an angry person, he sees a gentle man. And when I see a person that's out of control, he sees a self controlled person. So be encouraged today. That is his goal for your life. And if you would ask him to, he'll show you how you gotta speed up. He'll show you how you need to slow down. But he'll say you've gotta walk in step with me.”

#AbbaFatherIntimacy

“And so he says, we have been made these children of God. And when that happens, he puts a cry in our heart that's unique to New Testament believers. We cry, Abba, father. You know, that was only seen in the New Testament. The first time it was used is when Jesus is in the garden, and he's saying, father, if it's possible, let this cup of suffering pass from me. And he cries out, Abba, father. Abba, father is a a term of endearment. It means that you have relationship with the one you're crying out to.”

#RethinkBlessed

“``Because a lot of the way that we use it in church, and in fact, the way that much of the world uses it, when we say I'm blessed, it's like we're saying, oh, I'm I'm happy and grateful. And those are great things to be. I I wish you all of the happiness and gratefulness in the world, but I have to ask myself, is that really all that it means to be blessed? Is there is there more to it than that in the word of God? We're we're gonna look at the Bible today, and by the end of our time, we're gonna attempt to define this word a little bit more clearly.”

#WideWelcomeNarrowWay

“This is the gospel. This is the message. It's the greatest news ever. The door is more wide than you can possibly understand that while we were yet Christ's enemies, he died for us. But here's the catch. Once you get in the doorway, the hallway is unbelievably narrow. Everyone is welcome. The only path once you're in here though is death. Alright. You're all welcome. Like, the worst of the sinners, the anyone would call upon the there is now no one who is too far from the grace, the love, and the mercy of Jesus. We're all welcome. We're all in the lobby, but my friend, there's like one hallway from there.”

#SavedByGrace

“This is the essence of the gospel of grace. You could not save yourself, so Jesus came and shed his blood for your sin. Jesus did something for you that you could never do for yourself, and that is make yourself right with God and give you eternal life. Works can't do it. Being good morally cannot achieve it. Going to church every day of the week and learning to quote scripture will not produce it. The gospel of grace says this, I was broken and lost, and Jesus came in his mercy, died for me, reached out to me by grace.”

#Acts2Generosity

“But that is not the church that God intended. In the very first church in acts two, after Peter preached the gospel, the people responded to the gospel of Christ. Jesus had already ascended to heaven and then the holy spirit fell on them. And what is the very first byproduct we see of the holy spirit's power in their lives? We see speaking in tongues, and we see extravagant generosity. The first church, when they experienced the power of the holy spirit and learned what God had done for them, they had no choice but to act out in generosity. They started opening up their homes. They were like, Miriam, Ephraim, invite little Joseph over. We have falafels, and there's more than enough for everybody.”

#PeaceOverPossessions

“God's got a better plan. The designer of your mind and your emotions has a better plan for you to have mental health and strength in your soul. And so today, man, I'm preaching already. You know you know, peace of mind cannot be overrated. Right? Because, I mean, even if you have all the money and the looks and the options and the land and a yacht and the whatnot, if you do not have peace of mind, you are losing at life even when it looks like you're winning.”

#DontGiveUpFaith

“But it's a real journey. And Paul wrote to the Philippian church, and he's like, don't give up. I know it's going to be easy to give up on this Christian faith. And that's obviously a small example, but they're suffering and persecution. There's a lot going on. There he's Paul's talking about how the the there's gonna be people around him that are gonna be against Christ and the cross of Christ. And so he's like, I know it's going to be easy to give up,”

#KnowJesusByFaith

“Such a relationship needs leads to obedience on our part. In fact, Jesus defines eternal life in this way as knowing God and knowing Jesus Christ, which involves both faith in him and love for him. I don't know if you caught that, but I love the order of this. It's knowing him, a deep faith and love in Jesus that then leads us to follow him. See, religion says, follow the ways, and maybe you can get to him. Do all the things, and maybe you can experience God. But Jesus says, no. No. No. No. Come to me. Receive me. Receive grace”

#BeLikeJesus

“But from the cross, he looks at humanity and says, father, forgive them. Forgive her. Forgive him. They don't know what they're creating. And when I see him, it's really hard for me to hold a grudge. When I see that kind of love, it's hard for me to strike out at people I don't like. When I'm beholding him, it's hard for me to reflect selfishness and greed and anger and angst. If I behold him long enough, something happens. Oh, wanna be like him. Lord, to be like Jesus. To be like Jesus. That's all I ask, is to be like him. All through life's journey from earth to glory, all I ask is to be like him. This is the message of Philippians. You can behold him, you can reflect him, you can live like Epaphroditus. Amen?”

#LoveLovesTruth

“But sometimes, especially in our culture, we think love means I am going to celebrate and condone every action that you do. Love only looks like celebration. Love only looks like me putting my stamp of approval on your life. But that's not Jesus' definition of love. True love loves truth. True love loves truth and the highest truth is the word of God.”

#JesusBuiltOneChurch

“And I think it's important for us to realize that Jesus did not die upon the cross to create a bunch of scattered eclectic individuals who have submitted their lives to him. Jesus died to create a unified body, a bride, his church. You know, Matthew chapter 16, he's he's speaking to his disciples and he says, I will build my church on the revelation that he is the son of God, he is the Messiah, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.”

#GodsKindnessInSuffering

“So not only has God given us the opportunity to suffer for his name's sake, but his doing so is actually an act of kindness towards us. What? What? Like like, it's one thing to say, you can experience joy in the midst of suffering, and that's true, and you can. It's another thing altogether to say that when God allows us to suffer, he does it as a kindness to us. How can that possibly be true when we serve a good and loving God?”

#FindJesusToday

“If you're here today and you don't have a relationship with God, you maybe have never thought about making a decision that is influenced or motivated by what God would want, this is your first one. There's a God that loves you, that sent his son, that died upon a cross for you. And today, if you would just call upon his name, he would both fix your eternity and fix your today and tomorrow. If you're in here today and you don't have a relationship with Jesus, this is your moment.”

#CallOnJesus

“If you're here today and you don't have a relationship with God, you maybe have never thought about making a decision that is influenced or motivated by what God would want. This is your first one. There's a God that loves you, that sent his son, that died upon a cross for you. And today, if you would just call upon his name, he would both fix your eternity and fix your today and tomorrow.”

#FaithAtWork

“Meaning this, I think it'd be really silly if we looked at our lives and say, yeah, God only cares about the hour that I'm at church or the hour at pursuit or the hour at my small group if I'm really holy. And the rest of the forty plus hours of the week he doesn't care about. What if God was actually wildly concerned about your vocation, about what you gave your life to do, and had a plan for you, and there was dignity and purity and using the gifts and the education that God has given you?”

#NotOnMyWatch

“``is your attitude and your posture like Joshua where you say, oh, no. No. Not an inch will be allowed to go to the enemy. No. No. Not on my watch. I'm signing up for the group. I'm getting into the recovery program. I'm going up to the front to worship. I'm signing up for counseling. I'm removing the pornography from the house. I'm making the phone call. I'm asking for forgiveness because I heard there's an attack on my inheritance, and I will not let it stand. We're going after it.”

#StandForMyInheritance

“``These weren't technically his people, but their land represented his inheritance. So the Gibeonites weren't the Israelites, but they were represented land that was rightfully theirs as God's promise for them. So when Joshua hears that there is a devised attack from the enemy on the land that God has promised him, he doesn't sit back like, it's not my people. It's not my land. Let someone else take care of it. He says, oh, no. What did you say? What was that now? I've spent nine chapters taking boldly, courageously, obediently the land God has for me, And now you say there's an attack devised against me and my inheritance and my people and my family? Oh, no. No. No. Hold my falafel. I'm going up. We're gonna go help Gibeon.”

#DriveOutTheThorns

“If you fail to drive out the people who live in the land, those who remain will be like splinters in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will harass you in the land where you live. Get a visual. Splinters in your eyes and thorns in your sides. And we know this that enemies at the beginning, they don't seem like that much of a threat. Goliath was probably cute as a toddler. He's five foot tall as a toddler, but he was cute.”

#PersevereWithCourage

“``The Lord tells him, he says, be strong and courageous. By the way, this word courageous in the Hebrew, it means determination plus perseverance. Determination plus perseverance. You'd be amazed what God will do in your life if you just keep showing up. Keep showing up to the prayer meeting. Keep giving. Keep showing up in the word. Perseverance and determination equals courage, and the idea is you outlast your enemies.”

#HeavenlyArmiesHidden

“In fact, when Elisha, when they were surrounded by an army, he wasn't tripping. He was calm even though there were hundreds of thousands of soldiers ready to wipe them out completely, and his his servant was freaking out. And he said, God, would you open his eyes? What happened? He got to see for a moment into the spirit and saw a myriad of angels and that the armies of heaven were greater than the armies in the natural that were standing before him. I wanna tell you today, if you are only fighting in the natural, you are fighting a losing battle as a believer.”

#SimpleObedienceWorks

“``And so the theme that we see in this story of Joshua chapter six, the main point I wanna give you today, if you got something to write down, notes, please do it. I want you to write this down. It has changed my life. It is the key from going to a cultural Christianity experience to a supernatural Christianity experience of following the God of the Bible, and it is this. Simple obedience leads to God's supernatural results. Simple obedience leads to God's supernatural results.”

#UntamableSinDestroys

“``The thing you quickly find out about something like a tiger is there is no way to tame an adult tiger. In fact, if you were at the zoo, next time I would encourage you, look at the way they enclose lions versus the way they enclose tigers. Lions can be enclosed with a simple fence, with a simple enclosure, but the tiger enclosure has a pit around it and high walls. Because every story you read about a tiger getting out of its cage in the zoo, someone got hurt or someone died. And you need to understand something in your life. The enemy, he only has one purpose. In sin when it is fully grown, that is the destruction that it brings.”

#OccupyThePromise

“``every time we gather, it is an opportunity for us to once again return to the Lord. Every time we come to an altar, every time we come to a worship service. My main idea for us today is this, repentance and holiness will allow me to live in the power and the promise of Jesus. I don't want you to visit the promise of Jesus. I don't want you to see the promise of Jesus. I don't want you to hear about the promise of Jesus. I want you to occupy the promise of Jesus in 2026.”

#LiveInThePromise

“``I wanna give you my main idea before we go anywhere today, and it's a simple one. Repentance and holiness will allow me to live in the power and the promise of Jesus. And I believe this today with all of my heart that a church without repentance and a church without holiness is a church without power. And my heart for us today as a community is that we would be a people of power, that we'd be able to walk into God's promises.”

#SayYesToGod

“This is here. Those locations are there and all that God has done, not because of my holiness or my charisma or my education or my gifting, but a simple yes. That's all he's asking for. Will you give him an unqualified, unrestricted yes to say, God, whatever you're asking, I will step over that line. I'll cross the Jordan. I'll consecrate my life to you from this day forward. And when you do, listen, there is legacy and vision and future and potential on the other side of consecration.”

#FaithOverCertainty

“Number three, consecration is an act of faith that does not need to know the outcomes of the sacrifice and commitment. Let me read that one again. It's an act of faith. It doesn't need to know the outcomes of the sacrifice. In other words, I don't have to read the brochure. Right? Page four paragraph b point seven fine print to find out what God's gonna do in my life five years from now before I sign off on it.”

#AlwaysMoreToRestore

“It might seem like at first glance, the author is confused. Like you just spent the first three verses being like, we can dream again. God, you restored our hopes. You restored our dreams. But in verse four, the tone changes completely. Why? Because we acknowledge that the work is not done yet. Second thing we can take away from Psalm 126 is, there's always more for God to restore. There's always more for God to restore.”

#JesusMakesYouClean

“come as you are i know when i was a kid my parents always told me hey go get cleaned up for dinner which by the way i wholeheartedly stand behind that you should wash your hands before you come to the table for sure uh to actually eat food not the not the figurative one we're talkingabout today religion says go get cleaned up before you try to come to jesus jesus says come to me and i'll make you clean because here's the reality”

#JoyInAllCircumstances

“philippians stands as a stark reminder for us today that regardless of circumstances joy is accessible and that flies in the face of culture it flies in the face of a cultural narrative that would say of course you have joy you have a good job you have a great family but me i don't have those things so i can't be a joyful person paul stands as our example and all of time saying hey even from a prison cell you can have joy”

#MoreToRestore

“God has this frustrating habit for me that as soon as I think I've arrived, there's someone new for me to forgive. I'm like, God, I've totally figured this out. And he's like, well, no, actually, you didn't forgive this person yet. And you reacted this way to your kids this year. And you're still kind of holding on to this idol in your life. And God's all, I'm always like, yes, God, I arrived. And he's like, no, there's more I've got to restore in you. There's more that I want to do in you.”