Breakthrough - Week 3 | Coastal Church

``say, even if we know God has the power. Right? This is what we always say when we pray for healing. God, I know you have the power. I believe we it's okay to pray and say, God, I need you to heal me. Not like we know you could if you wanted to. He wants to. But will he? We're waiting. And we don't understand all the workings of God. So when he doesn't, we get upset. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego say, even if God decides not to save me from this flame, even if I die today for my faith, I'll continue to worship him and no one else. [01:03:00] (46 seconds)  #WorshipEvenIf

And you might think, the end. That's kind of a stupid story to include in the bible. They did everything right and they still got thrown into the fire. You might feel like that this morning. I I know that we have this, like, idea that if we do what God wants us to do, we'll never struggle. I wanna correct that just slightly. If you if you live completely surrendered to God, you will never struggle alone. You will never go through the fire alone. [01:06:53] (51 seconds)  #NeverStruggleAlone

Here's the thing. A lot of times we go through life and something causes us to flinch in fear, But eventually, you've still got to face what made you flinch. That's why we have to have courageous faith. We must have courageous faith. You've got to get up out of whatever entangles you, hammock, bug net, whatever. Your schedule, your priorities, you've gotta jump out and be ready for battle. [00:49:54] (33 seconds)  #FaceYourFearFaith

What I love the other thing that I love about this is that they don't flinch. I'm not that holy. I'm gonna be stuttering and shaking, and I'm I'm gonna need a glass of water, and I'm just gonna be nervous under these circumstances before the man who wants to throw me into the fire. Now I've gotta give an answer for myself. And these guys, they don't they don't waver. I want it to be perfectly clear, he says. I want it to be clear that we're not going to compromise and worship your gods or this golden statue. [01:01:35] (39 seconds)  #UnshakableStand

I'm grateful that the God that we that we serve, he doesn't just love us out of hell. He loves the hell out of us. And that is a process, a lifelong journey. When you come up and you say, I'm gonna put my faith in Jesus, there isn't an angel that comes down from heaven and now you're perfect. You still got issues. [00:38:03] (24 seconds)  #SavedNotPerfect

So courageous faith stands out when everyone else bows. Here's the problem. If your faith never stands out, you might your faith might not actually stand firm. When you need your faith to fall back on, when you are struggling, if your faith isn't actually moving forward in a way that's visible, that's tangible, that gets out of Sunday morning, then I wonder if you have faith that can actually sustain you in a crisis. [00:57:22] (40 seconds)  #FaithThatStandsOut

And, by the way, fasting isn't you buttering God up to give you what you want. He's like, oh, now I see. Serious. No. It's it's actually putting yourself in a position ready to hear from him. And so that's what fasting that's the power of fasting. And as as I'm entering into this third week, that holy desperation that happens when you modify your diet significantly, God has your ear. [00:45:02] (31 seconds)  #FastingOpensEars

A lot of us might have been tempted to just go through the motions there. There's no need for anybody to die. I'm not gonna worship. I'm just gonna go through the motions. Courageous faith does what is right even when everyone else does something else. Sometimes it's easier to allow what everyone else calls acceptable to overwrite what God calls wrong because everyone else is doing it. [00:54:31] (44 seconds)  #DoRightDontConform