NorthBridge | March 1, 2026 | Immeasurably More

You would be established in love, and that you would have power together with all the Lord's people, the church to grasp how wide, how long, how high, how deep is the love of Christ. And to know this love that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all fullness of God, that you would grow, that you would get to know him, that you would be continually transformed and become even more alive in Christ. How much more? More than we could even imagine, and that's what Paul says next to close out this prayer. He says, now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we would ask or imagine according to his power [00:52:20] (43 seconds)  #MoreThanWeImagine

But we can live in the tension, but I don't want to ignore the tension. I I I wanna be a people of prayer because I believe in the power of prayer. So right now, just in your own way, in your own words, I I wanna do that. I wanna go to God in prayer about all of that, trusting that he is more than able, but at the same time knowing that there will be a day that the problem is solved. And I cry out, come Lord Jesus, because I long for that day. But until that day, may you help us live in the tension. [00:30:10] (35 seconds)  #PrayAndPersevere

And sometimes that pressure and stress isn't pleasant, but it's not a problem to be solved. It's a pressure and stress of improving yourself. Right? We've gone through that. Hopefully, we'll continue to grow through that as as we're bettering our lives, as God continues to transform our lives. And so these are tensions to be managed. And so what I'm trying to get at is this right here. This isn't really a problem to be solved. This is something that we've gotta look at in life when things come up and we've gotta say, this isn't really a problem to be solved. It's rather attention to be managed. [00:24:41] (37 seconds)  #ManageThePressure

Grew up. Gulf War one was right when I graduated high school, all the subsequent battles, everything going on. And in my reaction yesterday, as I imagine many of your reaction was this is a problem that's got to be solved. But then I was reminded of the truth. This is my bible. If you're familiar with the bible, you know that the very first book of the bible's Genesis. Alright? You can't get much more to the beginning than Genesis. In Genesis chapter four, that's really close to the beginning. We have the story of Cain and Abel and the first murder, and really the first war. [00:27:35] (41 seconds)  #ConflictSinceGenesis

Two people that had an issue about something someone else had, and it resulted in bloodshed. And the story has gone on and on. Jesus in the gospel of Matthew is talking about the end of the age, and his disciples are like, well, give us some signs. Tell us what it's gonna be like. And he's, you know what? There's gonna be wars, and there's gonna be rumors of wars, and nation's gonna rise against nation, and king against king, and there's gonna be famines, and there's gonna be bloodshed. And like, that's nothing new, is it? [00:28:15] (40 seconds)  #RumorsOfWar