Inviting God: Navigating Life's Challenges with Faith

1. "You have to invite the Lord into what's going on in your life. Every single time. Because He has the best way. He has the best answer. He has the best direction. Amen? I want you to think about this like students in this room. Anybody that's a student in this room. How are you dealing with the pressures of school without God involved in your life? We need God in our life. Students, every student's got to hear this. We need God in our life. We need God in our life. We need God in our life. I know there's students out here. You guys are getting really quiet. Don't make me make you stand up and bring you up here on stage, man. I will do it. Right? Do you think that you need God in your life to communicate to you and tell you what you need to do and the pressures of school? Yes? Of course. We've got to invite God into that." [34:21] (45 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "How about our identity? We need God in our identity and who we are in Jesus Christ. Amen? Telling us who we are. Revealing to us. Am I male? Am I female? Am I a child of God? Am I not a child of God? God, what do you have to say? What is your word? Say, and I'm going to follow what your word says because I trust you and believe in you as my God. And we need that in our lives, in our world. The world's lying to us and telling us we can do whatever we want. That's not what the word says. Amen? And all I'm saying is we need the identity of Jesus in our life and God telling us what we should do. Amen? Praise the Lord." [37:20] (40 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "If your desires are focused on worldly, bad, evil things, the temptation will then come and drag you off into the darkness. But what if your desires were focused on the good of God, the will of God, and the enemy tries to bring temptation, you would be able to stand in Jesus. Just as Jesus showed us when the enemy came, what did he do? He used the word to overcome. And so here's the point of this. Your desires and where they are laying currently right now is the difference between how much the enemy tempts you and drags you off versus you stand against him." [42:44] (52 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "Sometimes you got to declare things that you believe will happen in the future every single day pray for it pray for it amen and so saul's donkey mission he's off looking for these donkeys he's going through these regions he's experiencing these things and he's going through and it's a tough tough um search he's going through mountains he's going over rocks over hills all these different things theologians say that he had to go 32 miles to find these donkeys and back then there weren't really a whole lot of trails or anything so he's really going it could have been weeks before he got there found these donkeys he ends up finding samuel instead and then he comes back but it was a long difficult challenging mission and when i thought about that i was like hmm that kind of sounds like some missions that are going on in this room right you climbing some mountains and over some boulders and strafing some knees a little bit amen as you're trying to figure out what is taking you through amen and you just got to keep continuing going amen keep walking out what he has for you" [52:20] (75 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "Ephraim, the region of Ephraim that Saul passes through, is known as double fruitfulness. Double fruit. Double the blessing of God. And it talks about it in Genesis 48. What happened was is Jacob had his two grandsons come so he can bless them, pass the blessing on to them. It was Manasseh and Ephraim. Manasseh was the firstborn. And traditionally it goes to the firstborn. And Ephraim was the second. And Jacob put his blessing on Ephraim. The secondborn instead of the firstborn. And they tried to correct him because they thought he was old and didn't know what he was doing. But he said, no, I'm blessing Ephraim. And because of that, Ephraim and his tribe in that region was doubly blessed by Jacob through that blessing that he poured out over them. And that's where this region comes from, the double blessed territory because of the blessing that came from Jacob to Ephraim." [01:04:03] (62 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6. "When you started cutting that junk out of your life, God's telling you to surrender. He's giving you signs and witnesses and people in your life that are trying to help you. And you're like, you guys don't know what you're talking about. And it takes a DUI to get you to understand that you're drinking too much. And God's trying to chop that stuff off. And there ain't nobody in here that regrets getting rid of that stuff out of their life. Because so much upside and blessing that comes when we start walking the path of righteousness. Amen? But you, when you're pruned, you gotta be pruned by having the attitude to thank God for what he's doing in your life. He's saving you. You did ask Jesus to save you, did you not? What did you expect was gonna take place? That he was gonna reveal to you the things that you should not be doing and start cutting that stuff off out of your life?" [01:08:34] (68 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7. "And so God is planting future for you right now. You've got to believe that to be true. Because some of you are in a bad situation right now. And you can't figure out what's happening. But I want you to know that if you invite God into it, God is going to plant seed for your future. He will provide. The second region, so that's planting future provision. The second region is Ephraim. And Ephraim is about your attitude. And so I hope that you receive what I'm sharing with you right here. Because this is super important. Ephraim, the region of Ephraim that Saul passes through, is known as double fruitfulness. Double fruit. Double the blessing of God." [01:03:12] (53 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8. "You're on a donkey mission right now. Right now, you're going through something. God's trying to show you something. He's trying to stretch you. He's trying to reveal to you ministries that need to take place. Things that need to happen. There's family and friends in your life that need to know Jesus. And he's trying to stretch you and get you in a place where you'll start witnessing. You'll start talking about Jesus everywhere you go. You'll start communicating to people what he's done in your life. Every single one of you have a testimony. If you accepted Jesus, you have a testimony. And in that testimony is the gospel. And you can tell everyone what you were and what you have become. And no one can take that from you. No one can tell you you're a liar because it's what's happened to you. But that very testimony has the power to set another person free." [01:14:11] (56 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)