Your Life Matters to God: Living Abundantly in Christ

run to your weaknesses. Here's some more. Here's the rest of it. To cover you Here's some more. To stand in the gap So so god says, I don't run away from your weaknesses. I run to your weaknesses, Aubrey. I run to your weaknesses to cover you, to stand in the gap, and make up the hedge. Amen. [00:48:04] (35 seconds)  #GodRunsToYou

But Jesus spent his time hanging out with the tax collectors. The the Bible says that that they called him the friend of sinners. Because he wanted everybody to know that everybody, your life matters to god. It it doesn't matter whether you're the the most religious or the least religious. Jesus said, your life, he said, I've come that you might have life. Yeah. Do you understand? [00:36:32] (30 seconds)  #EveryoneMattersToGod

listen, it's not enough to just because this is what I I used to think resisting the thought, man. No. No. No. No. No. I'm not gonna think it. I'm not gonna think it. I'm not gonna think it. And the devil say, what are you not gonna think? And then I say, that god's against me. So it's not just saying, I'm not gonna think it. It's replacing the negative words of the devil with god's promises, god's word, saying what god says instead of what the devil says. [00:45:27] (35 seconds)  #SpeakGodsPromises

God is thinking about us. You know, he says, I know the thoughts that I have towards you. Yes, sir. Not thoughts of evil to give you an expected end. God has an he has some things he's expecting to be able to give to our lives. Yes. But we've gotta align our thinking up with his thinking. The devil wants to produce lack, fear, hopelessness, regret, powerlessness, sickness, scarcity, and poverty. your life matters. [00:31:31] (53 seconds)  #AlignWithGodsThoughts

I thank you that you made them more than conquerors. Even with all they've been through, even with everything that's happened to them, even with everything that the enemy has has attacked them with, You still call them more than conquerors. Yeah. Because it's you with us Now, whenever you hit us about, if you're here this morning and you're not sure that you're saved, maybe maybe you've been running away from god. But today, you made up your mind. I'm I'm coming back to god. I I believe my life matters to god. I I'm coming back. I'm not gonna let the devil chase me away anymore. [00:49:53] (48 seconds)  #MoreThanConquerors

if we're gonna keep fighting, if we're gonna keep fighting, we've gotta change the way that we think. We've gotta align our thinking up with what Jesus came to show us. I've come that you might have life, that you might have it more abundantly. Your life matters, matters, matters to god. What you are going through is important to god. Now, go with me to Luke chapter seven. [00:39:15] (34 seconds)  #ThinkLikeChrist

God saying, I do not run away from your weaknesses. is a word for somebody because the devil's made you feel like like god when he sees your weaknesses, when he sees you say the wrong thing, you do the wrong thing, eat the wrong thing. Whenever you make a mistake, that's when that voice is there and here's what god says. God says, do not run away from your weaknesses. That's good news to me. Here we go. I got you ready for the rest of it? God says, to your weaknesses. [00:47:12] (51 seconds)  #GodLovesYourWeakness

See, during Jesus' time while he was ministering on the Earth, there were different groups of people. There are all kind, you know, there's always different groups and clicks and and classes of people and and there were the the religious for the Pharisees and the sadducees and and the scribes and and everybody thought that their lives mattered to god because they worked in the temple and they they worked in the synagogue and and they wore the long robes and they they they said big prayers and and everybody thought, oh certainly, their lives [00:35:26] (33 seconds)  #WorthBeyondLabels