Aligning Desires with God's Will for Unity

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"We do what we do because we want what we want. That's such an important concept for us to understand because when you get into a struggle, you got to ask yourself, why am I mad about this?" [01:49] (Download)

"When I'm willing to sin in order to get it, then it's wrong. If I want something so bad that I'm willing to sin in order to get it, then that's wrong." [04:23] (Download)

"We want to be in the driver's seat, so we turn to idols often just to remove the uneasy feeling of waiting and depending on God." [27:10] (Download)

"God jealously chases after us even when we're worshiping that idol; He wants to be with us, He attacks our idols so that they would be removed from our lives." [28:02] (Download)

"We have to make the decision to be focused on Him and allow Him to work in our lives; we have to be willing to humbly change and do the things that God is leading us to do." [28:38] (Download)

"Once we realize why we're doing what we're doing, once we've realized what we really want, then we can ask ourselves this question: what should I be wanting? What I should be wanting is to please God, to be pleasing to the Creator." [30:43] (Download)

"Examine whether you have any sinful relational tensions with another church member and, however it depends on you, make it right. Maybe that means you need to go to that person and you need to repent and say 'I'm sorry'." [32:09] (Download)

"God right now this morning give us the courage give us the strength to set our desires aside and solely focus on your desires." [37:49] (Download)

"God right now this morning, right now, I want to ask that you impress on all of our hearts, every single one of us in this room right now, that if there is anything in our hearts that has caused us to sin against a brother or a sister, that God, we will fix that." [35:42] (Download)

"God's timing is not our timing, so we turn to something we can control even though it serves us poorly. Our idols serve us so poorly then hurt us, they cost us, but we think they're more predictable than God is." [25:28] (Download)
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