Embracing God's Love: Faith, Healing, and Identity
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"God, we thank you for the beauty of this new morning, for the rising of spring, for all the ways in which your light penetrates deep into our hearts, bearing good fruit. We thank you for the seeds that you've sown there, sown so that we might be kind and good and gentle and loving, patient. We thank you for your life that's sown in us, a life that will never end." [00:09:54] (25 seconds)
"Thank you for all the ways in which your kingdom has advanced in and through and around us. And so we pray this morning that you would break through into our hearts with a fresh sense of love and power that we might know you and encounter you and be forever changed by you. Come Holy Spirit, come and minister to us who are gathered here and online. Change us, we pray, from glory to glory." [00:10:40] (32 seconds)
"I love praying the prayer of confession with you because it makes us honest before each other that we miss the mark. We say things that we shouldn't say and we do things that we shouldn't do and boy we're so human and yet in our humanity god loves us god forgives us there's a reset button and the holy spirit fills us up again and gives us the courage to keep on trying to live faithfully in his way." [00:12:03] (28 seconds)
"And faith is that thing that makes us want to find Jesus wherever we are and reach out in faith and say, can you help me? And then we touch him. And often, and we're told that in that moment, there's healing that comes our way. Sometimes the healing is like, whatever we're doing, whatever we're doing, whatever we're doing, we're like our brokenness is healed but sometimes the healing is more inside us." [00:17:44] (30 seconds)
"The power of Jesus healing often amazes me and it's taken me a long time to have the faith that in impossible situations even today Jesus can heal people. I remember a moment when I was a chaplain at sick kids hospital I got a page on my beeper and I went and I met this woman and she was in absolute panic her little baby had fallen off a table and uh skull was crushed and they said he was not going to live." [00:22:54] (33 seconds)
"But somehow, she thought about that, and thought about it, and it was a verse that just jumped off the pages of scripture, and entered into her heart, and was watered, and watered. And so one day, when she hears about this Jesus of Nazareth walking by, and people saying that he might be the Messiah, well, she does everything to get to him, and she gets through the crowd, and she reaches out, and she places her faith in him to heal her." [00:25:15] (29 seconds)
"That in the very beginning, we had it. We recognized that God, we were the apple of God's eye. And then when he made us, he made us very good, perfect. And he made a world that was safe for us. There was no evil, no darkness. There was intimate fellowship with God. We only knew the very best. But there was a part of us that got tempted when Satan came near and whispered on our, that God's holding out, that you could get more love from God if only you ate from the tree of good and evil." [00:27:43] (29 seconds)
"I said, that's what John 3 .16 is. For God so loved the world that he sent his one and only Son. Whoever believes in him will not perish, but have eternal life. He said, the heart of God is to restore the relationship, to help us to believe that we are beloved. I said, why don't you, even our emotions, the designer has designed our emotions with this in mind." [00:29:06] (22 seconds)
"i said god's put in the core of our being that we are beloved and then he's he's setting a plan that shows us concrete terms his love and how great that love is that when christ the heartbeat of god is walking through uh in his ministry he's trying to let people know that when you reach out to me in your troubles in those places where you don't feel you're beloved where you feel the brokenness of sin and death when you reach out to me in faith when you call on my name i want to reach out and i want to make you whole again." [00:30:05] (39 seconds)
"And so, you see, when you recognize that your identity, I am beloved, or the identity of someone you love, is being challenged, that's the moment you can go to him and begin to wrestle with him the healing you need so that you can continue to have faith for him to intervene and bring life where others have said there's only death." [00:35:07] (28 seconds)
"Help us to find rest in you from all the things that weary our souls, trouble our minds, that you are sovereign and in control, that somehow, even in a dark time, that you work all things together for good for those who love you and are called according to your purpose. Jesus, whether the chapter in our life seems to be stained with darkness, help us to trust that the next chapter will be one of resurrection." [00:49:05] (31 seconds)
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"Thank you for all the ways in which your kingdom has advanced in and through and around us. And so we pray this morning that you would break through into our hearts with a fresh sense of love and power that we might know you and encounter you and be forever changed by you. Come Holy Spirit, come and minister to us who are gathered here and online. Change us, we pray, from glory to glory." [00:10:40] (32 seconds)
"I love praying the prayer of confession with you because it makes us honest before each other that we miss the mark. We say things that we shouldn't say and we do things that we shouldn't do and boy we're so human and yet in our humanity god loves us god forgives us there's a reset button and the holy spirit fills us up again and gives us the courage to keep on trying to live faithfully in his way." [00:12:03] (28 seconds)
"And faith is that thing that makes us want to find Jesus wherever we are and reach out in faith and say, can you help me? And then we touch him. And often, and we're told that in that moment, there's healing that comes our way. Sometimes the healing is like, whatever we're doing, whatever we're doing, whatever we're doing, we're like our brokenness is healed but sometimes the healing is more inside us." [00:17:44] (30 seconds)
"The power of Jesus healing often amazes me and it's taken me a long time to have the faith that in impossible situations even today Jesus can heal people. I remember a moment when I was a chaplain at sick kids hospital I got a page on my beeper and I went and I met this woman and she was in absolute panic her little baby had fallen off a table and uh skull was crushed and they said he was not going to live." [00:22:54] (33 seconds)
"But somehow, she thought about that, and thought about it, and it was a verse that just jumped off the pages of scripture, and entered into her heart, and was watered, and watered. And so one day, when she hears about this Jesus of Nazareth walking by, and people saying that he might be the Messiah, well, she does everything to get to him, and she gets through the crowd, and she reaches out, and she places her faith in him to heal her." [00:25:15] (29 seconds)
"That in the very beginning, we had it. We recognized that God, we were the apple of God's eye. And then when he made us, he made us very good, perfect. And he made a world that was safe for us. There was no evil, no darkness. There was intimate fellowship with God. We only knew the very best. But there was a part of us that got tempted when Satan came near and whispered on our, that God's holding out, that you could get more love from God if only you ate from the tree of good and evil." [00:27:43] (29 seconds)
"I said, that's what John 3 .16 is. For God so loved the world that he sent his one and only Son. Whoever believes in him will not perish, but have eternal life. He said, the heart of God is to restore the relationship, to help us to believe that we are beloved. I said, why don't you, even our emotions, the designer has designed our emotions with this in mind." [00:29:06] (22 seconds)
"i said god's put in the core of our being that we are beloved and then he's he's setting a plan that shows us concrete terms his love and how great that love is that when christ the heartbeat of god is walking through uh in his ministry he's trying to let people know that when you reach out to me in your troubles in those places where you don't feel you're beloved where you feel the brokenness of sin and death when you reach out to me in faith when you call on my name i want to reach out and i want to make you whole again." [00:30:05] (39 seconds)
"And so, you see, when you recognize that your identity, I am beloved, or the identity of someone you love, is being challenged, that's the moment you can go to him and begin to wrestle with him the healing you need so that you can continue to have faith for him to intervene and bring life where others have said there's only death." [00:35:07] (28 seconds)
"Help us to find rest in you from all the things that weary our souls, trouble our minds, that you are sovereign and in control, that somehow, even in a dark time, that you work all things together for good for those who love you and are called according to your purpose. Jesus, whether the chapter in our life seems to be stained with darkness, help us to trust that the next chapter will be one of resurrection." [00:49:05] (31 seconds)
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