On Earth As In Heaven: Wk1

Devotional

Day 1: Faith is the avenue that brings heaven to earth.

The Lord's Prayer invites us to pray for God's will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. This is not a distant, abstract hope but a present reality we access through faith. Everything we need—salvation, healing, provision—is brought into our lives through this God-given channel. Faith is the means by which the reality of heaven intersects with our daily existence. It is the foundation upon which we build our entire spiritual life. [45:41]

“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” (Matthew 6:9-10, ESV)

Reflection: What is one specific area of your life where you need to see God's heavenly reality break through? How can you begin to actively exercise faith, rather than just wishful thinking, in that situation this week?

Day 2: You already possess the faith you need.

If you are a believer in Christ, you have already been given a measure of faith. It is not a question of whether you have it, but of learning to utilize what God has already deposited within you. Declaring a lack of faith is a contradiction for a follower of Jesus. This God-given faith is a foundational, elementary principle for the Christian life, meant to be used and built upon every single day. [01:00:26]

“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.” (Ephesians 2:8, ESV)

Reflection: Where have you been saying "I don't have enough faith" when God's Word says you do? What would it look like to change your language and your perspective to align with the truth that you have been given a measure of faith?

Day 3: Anchor your faith in God's Word, not your circumstances.

The disciples in the storm focused on the waves and were filled with fear, but Jesus was anchored in what He had said: "Let us go to the other side." His Word is the immovable truth that must hold more weight than the temporary circumstances we see. The storm around you does not have to become a storm inside of you. A life of peace is found by being serious about and steadfastly holding onto God's promises. [01:07:05]

“And he said to them, ‘Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?’” (Mark 4:40, ESV)

Reflection: When a challenging "wave" rises in your life this week, what is one specific promise from God's Word you can choose to anchor your heart to instead of giving in to fear?

Day 4: Your active faith can bring change to others.

The faith of the four friends literally brought healing and forgiveness to the paralytic man. Your faith is not just a personal, private matter; it has the power to impact the lives of those around you. When you step out in belief and obedience, you become a conduit of God's grace for your family, friends, and coworkers. Your courageous faith can help usher in life change for someone else. [01:10:59]

“And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, ‘Son, your sins are forgiven.’” (Mark 2:5, ESV)

Reflection: Who is one person in your life that God might be inviting you to believe for in faith, and what is one practical step you could take this week to "carry them to Jesus" in prayer or action?

Day 5: Put legs on your faith through prayer and invitation.

True faith moves beyond internal belief into tangible action. It involves both praying fervently and stepping out of our comfort zones to extend personal invitations. This is the kind of faith that sees breakthroughs, not just for ourselves but for those who are far from God. It is a commitment to partner with the Holy Spirit in seeing lives transformed by the power of the gospel. [01:17:20]

“So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.” (James 2:17, ESV)

Reflection: As you consider the Easter season, who are three people you are being prompted to not only pray for daily, but also to personally invite to experience the hope of the gospel?

Sermon Summary

Prayer opens the gathering with a call to seek mercy, peace, and joy in God's presence rather than in circumstances. The Lord’s Prayer appears as a practical model: begin with worship, submit to God’s will, ask for daily provision, seek forgiveness, and request protection. That model leads into a focused study of faith, prompted by Matthew 6’s petition “your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven,” and the question of how heaven’s supply is accessed on Earth.

A close reading of Mark 9 reframes a familiar miracle: the disciples’ failure to cast out a mute spirit reflects faithlessness, not an unavoidable limitation. The phrase “If you can believe…” receives careful attention, showing punctuation and translation shape understanding; faith stands less as a rare gift and more as the avenue through which needs and miracles enter life. Faith receives theological weight as elemental and foundational—salvation comes through faith (Ephesians), and every believer already possesses a measure of faith to be used.

Three core principles anchor the series. First, faith brings heaven to Earth: prayer for God’s will invites heaven’s reality into daily life. Second, faith anchors in God’s Word rather than in surrounding chaos: Mark 4’s storm scene contrasts fearful focus on waves with trust in Jesus’ prior word. Third, faith changes people: the friends who lowered a paralytic demonstrate that one person’s faith can release healing and transformation for another.

Practical steps follow: feed faith with Scripture, memorize and meditate so God’s word outweighs fear; exercise faith through heart confession—align inner belief with spoken confession as Romans teaches; and act on faith through tangible outreach. A specific evangelistic challenge ties the theology to mission: name three unsaved people, pray for them daily, extend personal invitations to Easter, and bring those names forward as a communal altar commitment. Revival, miracles, and citywide renewal receive emphasis, but every advance begins in prayer, Scripture-fed faith, and obedient action.

Key Takeaways

1. Faith brings heaven to earth [55:11] Belief functions as the avenue through which heaven’s resources and kingdom realities enter everyday life. Asking “your kingdom come” is not a pious wish but a summons to pursue ways heaven’s order manifests here. When faith operates, providence, healing, and spiritual fruit move from potential to present reality. Cultivate a faith posture that expects heaven’s supply, not merely tolerates disappointment. [55:11]
2. Faith anchored in the Word [01:02:46] Confidence must rest on Scripture rather than on fluctuating circumstances. The boat filled and the wind howled, but the prior word—“let us cross over”—defined destiny more than immediate danger. Internal calm follows deep familiarity with God’s promises; memorized truth becomes the ballast that steadies response. Make the Word the default lens for interpreting events. [62:46]
3. Faith changes other people [01:09:37] Faith exercised on behalf of others can unlock forgiveness, healing, and spiritual breakthrough for those unable to act themselves. The friends who lowered a paralytic brought an outcome the paralytic alone could not produce; communal faith bears fruit beyond the individual. Invest belief and action into relationships; committed intercession and bold outreach alter trajectories. Allow faith-filled intervention to translate compassion into tangible transformation. [69:37]
4. Confess faith with heart and mouth [01:13:04] Spiritual reality advances when inner conviction and spoken confession cooperate. Romans connects heart belief to righteousness and mouth confession to salvation; faith matures through both internal assent and vocal declaration. Speaking God’s promises cultivates the inner landscape to match divine truth, shifting perception and opening doors for action. Practice vocalizing faith until heart and speech form a unified witness. [73:04]

Youtube Chapters

[00:00] - Welcome
[10:19] - Opening prayer and mercy
[34:59] - Personal testimony: tornado near miss
[37:24] - Introducing a faith series toward Easter
[42:58] - The Lord’s Prayer as a model
[46:05] - Mark 9: the mute spirit incident
[55:11] - Faith as the avenue for heaven’s supply
[62:46] - Mark 4: faith anchored in the Word
[69:37] - Mark 2: faith that changes others
[75:05] - Easter invitations and naming three people
[88:19] - Altar response and closing prayer

Bible Study Guide

Bible reading
Mark 9:14-29 (ESV)
*And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and scribes arguing with them. And immediately all the crowd, when they saw him, were greatly amazed and ran up to him and greeted him. And he asked them, “What are you arguing about with them?” And one of the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a spirit that makes him mute. And whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid. So I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they were not able.” And he answered them, “O faithless generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me.” And they brought the boy to him. And when the spirit saw him, immediately it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth. And Jesus asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood. And it has often cast him into fire and into water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.” And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.” Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!” And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.” And after crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came out, and the boy was like a corpse, so that most of them said, “He is dead.” But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose. And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?” And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.”*

Observation questions

In Mark 9:23, Jesus says, “All things are possible for one who believes.” How does the father’s response in verse 24 show both faith and struggle?
What was Jesus’ reaction to the disciples’ inability to cast out the spirit, and what does His statement “O faithless generation” reveal about His expectation? [48:45]
The sermon emphasized that faith is not a rare gift but something every believer already possesses. How does Ephesians 2:8 support this idea? [59:07]
In the story from Mark 2, whose faith did Jesus respond to when He healed the paralytic, and what does this suggest about how faith can operate? [01:10:15]

Interpretation questions

Why do you think Jesus connected the disciples’ failure to cast out the demon directly to a lack of faith, even though they had previously seen miracles and heard His teaching? [53:38]
The father cried, “I believe; help my unbelief!” What might be the difference between head-thinking and heart-thinking when it comes to genuine faith? [01:13:36]
How does the account of Jesus calming the storm in Mark 4 illustrate the difference between anchoring faith in God’s Word versus anchoring it in circumstances? [01:04:30]
If faith can change other people, as seen with the friends of the paralytic, what does that imply about our responsibility toward those who may not yet believe or are struggling?

Application questions

Faith brings heaven to earth [55:11]—What is one situation in your life right now where you need to actively believe for God’s kingdom reality to break through, rather than just accepting things as they are?
Faith is anchored in the Word, not the waves [01:02:46]—When facing fear or uncertainty, what specific Scripture can you meditate on to shift your focus from what you see to what God has said?
Faith changes people [01:10:59]—Who are three people in your life who don’t know Jesus, and how can you intentionally exercise faith through prayer and action on their behalf?
Confess faith with heart and mouth [01:13:04]—What is one area where your words have not aligned with what you say you believe? How can you begin speaking God’s promises over that situation this week?
The disciples were rebuked for their lack of faith even after being with Jesus. In what areas of your life have you become passive in faith even though you know God’s power and promises?
The father in Mark 9 was honest about his struggle between belief and unbelief. How can you create space in your prayer life to be real with God while still choosing to trust Him?
Jesus said some things only come out through prayer and faith. What persistent challenge in your life or relationships might require a new level of faith-filled prayer and action?

Sermon Clips

Can I just be real with you? If this isn't important to you, you're to live a life full of fear. Amen. But when you take this word here as life then all of a sudden, things will begin to shift inside you. And here's the thing, it don't have to shift around you as long as it shifts inside you. Yeah. [01:06:12] (42 seconds) #ShiftInside

But as Jesus was teaching his disciples how to pray, he got to that one line where it says, you know, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven and for years, I've heard people pray that prayer but nobody explained that prayer. Nobody explained. He's asking us to pray for heaven on earth. How do we access it? If he's asking us to pray it, there has to be the ability to access that. I wanna know how do I access heaven's supply in on on earth. Amen. [00:44:52] (49 seconds) #PrayHeavenOnEarth

I'm I'm not I'm not I'm not calling people to the front and pushing them down. I'm praying that god move when they're at their home, in their bed, by themselves, and nobody can take credit for it. The doctor can't take credit for it. A nurse can't take credit for it. A preacher can't take credit for it. It was only god. Amen. [00:41:14] (20 seconds) #GodAloneGetsTheGlory

And I believe, I believe, listen, as as the pastors in this town, we gather once a month and pray with one another and I'm I'm man, I'm just believing that our getting together and praying for god to move in our city. I believe that it's gonna pay off. Because nothing, the no move of god ever is birthed outside of prayer anyway. So, if you're just kinda hoping for a move of god, that ain't gonna happen. Every move of the Holy Spirit in history was birthed out of prayer starting in the book of Acts. Alright? [00:39:54] (35 seconds) #PrayerPrecedesMove

I'm just going be real honest with you. Is this thing on? Can everybody hear me? Okay? I just want, I just want to be honest with you. I'm I'm sick of cancer. I've watched cancer take way too many people way too soon. I'm sick of cancer. I'm believing for miracles to happen. Listen, and I'm not I'm not trying to get off on some crazy like wild tangent. I'm believing for, I'm I'm believing for sovereign move of the holy spirit where he does it and you don't have to question. Listen, [00:40:39] (35 seconds) #BelieveForHealing

I take a moment before I start asking for anything and I just talk about how wonderful you are, how faithful you've been, how holy you are. God, I declare that you are greater than everything, right? And then, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. God, I just pray for your will in my life. I pray for your will in the lives of my children and my spouse. I pray for your will to happen in our church and in our city. God, I you see what I'm saying? You use it as a model. [00:44:19] (33 seconds) #PrayForHisWill

Now, I'm just gonna be real honest with you. You you would do well to just pray that prayer every morning, right? Like before you even get going, it's one of the one of the things in my routine that I do every day is is you know, I have I have certain things that in my mind that I go through and I do every morning and one of the things that I do every day is I just I recite the lord's prayer and I don't do that because it's a religious wrote activity but it gives us a model for us to pray. [00:43:33] (31 seconds) #MorningPrayerRoutine

I hear people, they'll go, well pastor, I just I I just don't have faith. No, no, no. Are you saved? Are you a believer? Come on. Let let let's just exercise this morning. If you're in the room and listen, if you're not, it's okay that we're not judging but if you're in the room and you're a believer, would you just lift your hand? Okay. Hands all over the room, okay? You're a believer? You have faith. It is not a question of whether you have faith or not. [00:59:09] (34 seconds) #YouAlreadyHaveFaith

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On Earth As In Heaven: Wk1

Devotional

Day 1: Faith is the avenue that brings heaven to earth.

Day 2: You already possess the faith you need.

Day 3: Anchor your faith in God's Word, not your circumstances.

Day 4: Your active faith can bring change to others.

Day 5: Put legs on your faith through prayer and invitation.

Sermon Summary

Key Takeaways

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Bible Study Guide

Sermon Clips

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On Earth As In Heaven: Wk1

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