Faithful in Every Room: Family, Living Room, Front Porch

``Here's what I heard. I heard her say that her position, her identity, and her purpose wasn't room dependent. Wherever she went, she was the same princess, and wherever she went the kingdom went with her. What about you? Does the kingdom travel with you? I wonder if our faith is room dependent. Where we've set up rooms where we actually practice our faith, live out our faith, where we put on kingdom clothes, have kingdom talk, and kingdom atmospheres, but change clothes and become someone else in other situations. [01:08:16] (54 seconds)  #KingdomEverywhere

But something strange happened one day y'all. I invited my daughter downstairs to have dinner and she came downstairs in her princess dress and I said Shiloh why are you coming to the kitchen table to eat in your princess dress? I thought your kingdom was upstairs in your room. And then she looked at me and she politely said to me in her little extroverted voice she said, Oh daddy you're tripping because wherever I go I'm a princess. And here's what got me she said, and the kingdom travels with me. [01:07:19] (57 seconds)  #KingdomTravelsWithMe

But but here's what I want you to learn today and why keeping the promises of the covenant are so important. Kingdom people fight against the urge for our faith to be room dependent, and we strive together to be faithful in every room that we go in. I'm saying this this simple. God called each and every one of us to be the same person in every space that we occupy because kingdom people should be a consistent people. [01:09:34] (36 seconds)  #ConsistentKingdomLife

Today God is calling us to something different. He's saying I need you to show and tell. Listen I want you to tell of his goodness. I want you to tell of his mercy. I want you to tell of his righteousness. I want you to tell of his grace but I want you to show it too. You can't tell of his mercy and then not extend mercy to someone else. [01:36:33] (24 seconds)  #ShowAndTellFaith

You can't tell of his righteousness and not pursue justice and righteousness yourself. You can't tell of his grace and refuse to give the person that you hate the most the grace that God has given to you. Can I tell you though why we should show faithfulness in the living room, in the family room, and on the front porch? We can show and tell our faithfulness because God's already shown and told his. [01:36:57] (39 seconds)  #LiveWhatYouProclaim

I personally believe that this is one of the toughest verses in scripture because Paul says whatever you do, whatever job God has for you in this season of your life, I want you to do it from the heart. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait, God. Don't you know that this ain't my dream job? As a matter of fact, it's a whole nightmare. And God says, I want you to do it like you're doing it for me. [01:23:35] (33 seconds)  #WorkForTheLord

Redeeming the time. I like what one theologian says about redeeming time. He says that we have to know that when we redeem time we're buying up moments that other people throw away. That when you decide you're gonna redeem time, you buy up moments that other people throw away. That's the core of the gospel. Jesus bought you when other people were willing to throw you away. [01:21:59] (33 seconds)  #RedeemTheTime

Has anybody noticed that houses these days have smaller front porches? When I was growing up I used to ride through the neighborhood and the elders would sit out on their big old front porches with a big old rocking chair, with a big old glass of lemonade and just hang out on the front porch. Houses these days have small front porches. As a matter of fact we've traded big front porches for big garages. [01:31:36] (40 seconds)  #BringBackFrontPorches