Churches in Dyersburg

“``The other obstacle I I hear a lot is I'm waiting for the right moment. I'm waiting. And we wait and we wait. And once things settle down, I get a maybe I get a little further along or I get a little more of my stuff together. We might use a different word than stuff, but I get my stuff together, then I'll really be able to do more of what God wants. Luke 10 Luke 16 verse 10, though, back to that same verse, it says, if we're faithful in the little things where he's got you right now, he's not waiting on you to get cleaned up or get your act together. He's saying, I'm allowing you to be used right now. Be faithful in the little things. Steward the small things is what qualifies us for large things. It's not a delay. It's actual preparation. So God isn't waiting on someday. He's waiting on you just to say yes today.”

“You can't skip the little things. It's it's those little things that that lead you to the large things in life. So wherever you're at, just realize god has planted you there. He's put you there for a purpose. And even though you think, like, lord, you've called me to these things, I see them in my heart. I see them in my mind. I felt it in my spirit what you've called me to, but be faithful in those little things. He asked you to be a good steward. The key, though, is proximity, realizing no matter where you're at, there's not a better place. There's not a better time. There's not a better position. Realizing that god has you exactly where he wants you to be.”

“The ground you're on is really what we gotta pay attention to. So the mission field is not some obscure place, some place that God will take you to someday. It's actually right where you are, and God is waiting for you just to be a good steward of what he's putting in front of you, what he's given you. So understanding this key of proximity, Luke 16 verse 10. Again, it I just read this. If you're faithful in little things, you'll be you'll be faithful in large ones.”

“The mission field, well, that's some far away place maybe some people go, but I'm not going. And that we think of our job as just a paycheck or a means to meet our physical needs. So we walk through this thing of life, and we're just we're believing that someday we'll be somehow transported to a holy place because what my life is is just ordinary. But but the Lord wants you to know that he shows up in the ordinary. He's there in the everyday life. He's gone before you, and he's made a way for whatever trial that you're in, whatever thing that you're going through. He's already made a way, but but the first key that you have to realize is this key of proximity and realizing that he's already there. You're already close to him.”

“there's an opportunity to turn and you say, well, I don't have any wicked ways. Pride. Has anybody ever had a struggle with pride? Any Bob was talking about self sufficiency. I don't need anybody in my business. Waiting, stalling. I'll connect. I'll do more once once I get my life together, once things settle down. Passivity. I'll let somebody else invest in others. I'll let someone invite them. I'll let someone else connect. I don't have time. Unforgiveness, that's a big one. You don't you don't know what they did to me, Michael. They don't deserve they don't deserve it. Envy, why does my life not look like theirs? I mean, these are all things that we would we would not call them wicked ways. But when you look at scripture, the lord's saying, like, don't want your hearts to be turned to those things. I want your heart to be turned back to me. And that's what repentance looks like, and it's just a simple moment of bowing your head and saying, Lord, forgive me. Lord, I don't wanna live that way anymore. I wanna turn back to you. So it's an opportunity just to turn your heart back towards him.”

“So, again, the lie was I'll connect once I've got my life figured out, once it got it all together. But the truth is the opposite of that. We don't connect once we get it figured out. We actually come as we are and let the lord work it out in us as we're working out our salvation daily with him. So another truth in that is you don't earn a seat at TC. There's no earning. You're already family. You already belong. These are the truths we're finding here in scripture. There's no thing that you have to achieve in order to belong. It's just showing up and believing that you you have that space, that you have gifts that matter. So there's two questions. Will you believe that Jesus wants you to belong and respond for yourself and family? Or and will you invite someone else?”

“And and and a bit of my story was how we were out of church for a season where isolation felt safe. It felt like we were okay. But the reality is when the when the enemy can pull you away from the body, when he can pull you away from that place that you belong where it says he makes the whole body fit together perfectly, when he can deceive you into into falling away from that, and you start to think, well, I can just do this on my own. And the thing that I found in that season was it just got harder and harder to do it on my own. And so the truth is, God says, you're you're uniquely designed. You belong. Your specific gifting mix is needed, and he is challenging you to open up your heart, your life, and allow room to connect, learn, and grow with others in kingdom relationships. That's what kingdom living is all about.”

“If you've been waiting for an invitation, an invitation is part of the family. This is your invitation. This is your place. This is your space. This is your table. All you have to do is sit down and enjoy. The father has been waiting for you to come. The second thing is is you know, somebody you know is already waiting as well, waiting for a response from the father, and you may be the only one who can deliver that message to them.”

“One of the things that we would fall into as a trap is believing as we believe that we don't have anything to offer, sometimes we we we fail fail to realize that his grace has already provided it. It's not something we can do in our own strength. Because if we do it if we're doing it in our own strength, we'll get worn out. Right? Yeah. But if we're doing it in his grace, then he gives us the this thing that's the Greek word Paul uses charisma for gift. It means favor you receive without any merit of your own. Gifts that flow directly from God. It's not something you've accomplished.”

“``Notice that Paul isn't just naming gifts. He's actually saying, like, if you have this gift, then use it this way. So there's this recognizing that you have and then the implementation. But the cool thing about it is you don't have to figure it out alone. First of all, God reveals the path as you follow Jesus, but then each one of the people around you that you he's drawing you into relationship with can also help identify those gifts that are inside of you. So you don't have to do it alone. So the truth, you're valued in the kingdom, and TC is a safe space to share the gifts you have. The key is to start with with what you know or ask somebody for help. Jesus doesn't say just figure it out first. He doesn't send you a way to figure it out first. He says, God let God transform you. In Romans twelve two, transform you, renew your mind. Saying yes is the start. From there, God reveals the next steps.”