Faith Full // It's Personal

This is why for personal ministry, pushing through our inadequacy in order to say yes to God for the benefit of other people grows our faith. When we feel inadequate, when we don't feel smart enough, when we don't feel educated enough, when we don't feel like we have the time, when we feel like we're too old, when we feel like we're too young, when we feel like those middle schoolers are too scary, or just, you know, stepping up and and doing this is it's I I just have a fear of that, you know, whatever the case. When you push through that, you experience God's faithfulness and your faith grows. [00:15:31] (36 seconds)  #PushThroughInadequacy

And some of you in this room, you have more loaves than other people, and some of you in this room, have more fish than other people, and each one of us are all unique and we all bring different things, we all have different abilities, we all have different resources that we can bring to the table, we all have different things that we're passionate about and we're capable, the different needs that we're capable of meeting, but we all, every single one of us in this room have a little bit. Every single one of us in this room have something, and every single one of us in this room are invited to bring them here to Jesus. [00:24:49] (33 seconds)  #EveryoneBringsSomething

Here's what it means when it comes to how you parent. Here's how you take that scripture and you apply it to your relationships. Here's how you can reply it apply it to maybe something that's going on in your your personal life that you're struggling with or you're trying to work through. Here's how you live it out. And when you live out the the the teaching of Jesus, even though even if you're unsure of like how it's gonna end up, when you step out and you live that teaching out, you you do it anyway no matter what it's gonna cost you, you'll experience God's faithfulness on the other side of that and we talked about this last week, your faith muscle will begin to grow. [00:09:02] (34 seconds)  #ApplyScriptureToParenting

There might be somebody's faith that's depending on you, somebody's life that can be changed, but only if you bring what you have. Only if you do what only you can do, allow god to do what only he can do, and you might be amazed what you can do together. [00:39:48] (21 seconds)  #BringWhatYouHave

And do you know what's happened as I've seen as I've seen some of those people grow in their faith and take steps, and you know what's happened to me? My faith has grown. My relationship with my heavenly father in the last year and a half has grown. Do you know why? Because this is literally how god works. It's how he works. It's literally one of the five things that he uses to grow your faith. [00:34:02] (30 seconds)  #FaithGrowsThroughWitness

Like, why didn't you step in? We've seen you do all kinds of miracles. We've seen you heal people. We've seen you turn water into wine. You know, we've seen all kinds of things here, and and we know that you could have stepped in. Why didn't you step in and do something? Why didn't you save your cousin? I mean, to the disciples in this moment, that didn't make any sense. It made no sense to them. And that's the case for a lot of us today and and perhaps in your life, in your situation or maybe the situation that you've seen other people, you're like, god, your responses don't make a whole lot of sense to me in this moment. [00:20:47] (31 seconds)  #WhyWouldGodNotStepIn

But over time, we've talked about this last couple of weeks. Over time, the church has simplified that message down. We've simplified it down to just simply believe in me. All you gotta do is believe in Jesus and I'll I'll tell you the reality is this, Jesus, yes, Jesus invited people to believe in him but that was the starting point of faith. That was the starting point of living. Believing was the beginning of following. That was the first step of following Jesus. In fact, interestingly, if you follow Jesus through the gospels, you will discover that Jesus invited people to follow him first. [00:04:59] (33 seconds)  #BeliefIsTheStartingPoint

The disciples had to do their part. They trusted Jesus to do his part, but they had to do their part. They had to take a step of faith. They took a step out into the crowds. They stepped out into this this group of people to do something that they knew they couldn't do, but they did it anyway. They stepped out into that crowd hoping that they would not look stupid and were told that everybody there, they all ate and were satisfied. And the disciples get this, picked up 12 basketball basketballs of broken pieces that were left over. [00:27:15] (37 seconds)  #DoYourPartTrustGods

This is why for personal ministry, pushing through our inadequacy in order to say yes to God for the benefit of other people grows our faith. When we feel inadequate, when we don't feel smart enough, when we don't feel educated enough, when we don't feel like we have the time, when we feel like we're too old, when we feel like we're too young, when we feel like those middle schoolers are too scary, or just, you know, stepping up and and doing this is it's I I just have a fear of that, you know, whatever the case. When you push through that, you experience God's faithfulness and your faith grows. [00:15:31] (36 seconds)