Embracing Unity and Prayer in Our Faith Journey

1) "And so God, right now we just pray, Lord, that as we take this cracker that not only represents your body broken for us, but actually as we take it, we spiritually bring life into our bodies. We spiritually take part in the brokenness of your body in your death. And God, as we do that, Lord, we think of these orphans who have in so many ways been broken. And Lord, we pray that your life, God, that your body that was broken but then resurrected would bring life to these children, would bring healing. God, that you, we know, you've already prepared this land. You've made it so clear." [34:37] (43 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2) "What it really is, is that God has given us these incredible tools as gifts to us, and we have the choice to use them or not, because when we use them, they're basically the way that we are able to take all of the junk, and chaos, and distraction, and we're able to instead reorient, re-center our lives, and our hearts on Jesus, right? And so it's not as much about like, you know, so many of us can, and especially the world, can see God as this really demanding dictator, or like maybe even a kind dictator, but he still has a lot of power, a lot of expectations, right? He still has a lot of rules, a lot of stuff he wants us to do, but the reality is, it's not that at all. He's going, I get it. I get life. I get all the things that the enemy's trying to throw at you." [01:05:38] (49 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3) "The Lord's prayer is a comprehensive, not like a simplified, a comprehensive study or summary of our Christian doctrine, meaning like God's fit all the important things in there. Augustine says that the Lord's prayer is a means to cultivate humility and dependence on God. And then Ambrose of Milan said that it's a perfect guide for Christian conduct. So just in those four, and there were dozens and dozens, but just in those four, it's the model for all prayers. It's the perfect doctrine or set of beliefs. It's our connection with God and it's our action towards us. It's pretty profound." [01:08:13] (45 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4) "There's so many people out there, and you're not them because you're here, but there's so many people out there who are like, I love Jesus, but I can't stand the church. You know, that's actually the reason that Gandhi chose not to follow Jesus. Gandhi was looking, and he went to churches, and he was so enthralled by Jesus, the man and the teachings, but he chose to actually walk away from the Christian faith because he said, I love Jesus, but I don't like the church. And what a sad misunderstanding that is. Because yeah, we're not perfect as the church, but that's kind of the point, right? It's kind of the point. We're not perfect, and so we need him." [01:14:40] (46 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5) "What happened in your life is not your fault. And even the things, the choices that you made, the reason you made them, it's because probably there is pain, there is lies, there is things you were believing about yourself or others that led you to make these decisions. What happened in your life to break you was not your fault, but what you do to try to fix it is everything. What you do with Jesus to actually allow you into this process is everything." [01:18:49] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6) "I believe that the person that we become that stands before God has so much to do with the church that we're surrounded by. Does that make sense? Like we will stand there ourselves, but how strong we are, what we know, what we actually have done with this faith that we've been given, this gift that we've been given has so much to do with the church, because it's the church that brings us through the sanctification process as we rub each other, and encourage each other, and build each other up." [01:17:19] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7) "I want to say the main thing that stopped them was a lack of unity. And you might go, I thought it was complaining. Yeah, it was complaining because they were so focused on themselves that they weren't able to come together under the leadership and the way that God had showed himself. And God was leading them literally by pillar of fire and a pillar of cloud, but they weren't able to come together and follow that because they were so focused on themselves. And I believe it's that lack of unity that caused them to then complain and get stuck out in the wilderness for 40 years. Our is really important." [01:23:41] (40 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8) "I want to just read to you guys some of the things that I prayed about and looked up and to see what are some of the symptoms of an orphan spirit. If you have a feeling that you need to prove yourself to God or work for his love. If you strive for acceptance, not only with God, but also with other people. If you live with a deep sense of inadequacy or insecurity. If you're plagued by fear or you make decisions that are not out of fear instead of out of love. If you have a sense of rejection or abandonment. If you're extremely self-reliant. If you find that you're naturally jealous or envious of others. If you have a difficult time receiving love. Or if you have a difficult time receiving correction. If you tend to isolate. If you lack identity or belonging. If you struggle sometimes with unforgiveness or bitterness." [01:26:55] (72 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9) "How are you looking at your life lately? How are you looking at your bank account lately? How are you looking at your relationship or your connection with your kids? How are you looking at whatever it is that you're struggling with? Are you looking from within the challenge where you're just overwhelmed by it? Or are you stepping into the reality of heaven and going, how does God see this? Because the hardest of situations here are like nothing for him. And I think that's part of the process that he's taking us in is helping us to go, okay, I'm going to stop. I'm going to stop. I'm going to stop. I'm going to see who art in heaven." [01:34:37] (40 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


10) "We need to honor, we need to revere, consecrate, make holy his name, not only in the way we speak it, but in the way we live. That we would be a people who are worthy to be called Christians, Christ's people. We would be a people who are worthy to be called the family of Adonai God. Our disciples. Jesus. You are holy. You are holy. God no matter what we're going through in this life, will you help us to see that you are holy? Will you help us to see everything in our lives from your perspective, from heaven's perspective, not just with our earthly eyes, not just with our, our minds, not just with our viewpoints, not with what society says, not even with what the church says, because nobody has anything that can do良 says, but the way we would see you and our lives and everything about all that you have given us from heaven's perspective." [01:46:09] (79 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)