On Earth As In Heaven: Wk2

I just, I, you know, in my own mind, you know, I'm I'm thinking about the disciples going in to wake Jesus up and and you you're talking about Jesus, right? This is Jesus. Now, Jesus taking a nap. I don't wanna wake G. I don't wanna wake god up. You know what I'm saying? They go, do you care not that we perish? And he gets up and he rebukes them for their lack of faith and he speaks to the winds and waves and they calm down. Because he knew what he had said. We talked about this last week. They were so focused on the circumstances around them but he knew what he had said and he knew that his word was going to come to pass. Faith is knowing and trusting that if god said it in his word, then it's yours. Amen. Even when circumstances seem to be contrary. [01:04:23] (66 seconds)  #TrustGodsWord

He's god. Amen. He already knew you needed help. He was just waiting on you to call. Yeah. You ain't gotta tell him what you need help with. He already knows. Right. God help. Listen, now as you grow in your faith and you want to, you want to, you want to become more specific, absolutely go for it. Grow in your faith, grow in your prayer life. I'm pro all of that but listen, when you start out, start out simple. God help. I'm in the middle of this temptation. I just need help. [01:25:53] (33 seconds)  #PraySimple

So, let let let's think about it like this, right? I got I got three kids and and when my three kids were were real small, Christmas was super exciting because they would walk out on Christmas morning and they'd see all these gifts and my kids would get super excited even though they had no clue. Well, we could have wrapped empty boxes. Alright. And just place them under the tree. My kids did not know. But they had enough faith to believe that we love them enough that those boxes were not empty. Amen. But that the things they were hoping for, the things they had put on their list to Santa Claus. Right. We're gonna be inside those boxes. [00:58:35] (60 seconds)  #ChildlikeFaith

That's the kind of things you don't just need to keep to yourself. You need to share because the fact is is when we look at god's faithfulness in our lives and in the lives of others. It builds faith in us. Are y'all with me? So, here's what I want you to do. I want you to reflect on past victories. Where is it that god has been faithful in your life? Maybe you need to take a journal and write it down just to remember and then I want you to share the stories of god's faithfulness. Find somebody that you can tell it to, right? If you go to lunch with somebody today, tell them about god's faithfulness. [01:32:37] (57 seconds)  #ShareFaithStories

Dear father, come and sit with me now and as we sit together, will you talk to me about anything and everything? And as you speak to me, will you do two things? Will you convict me of my sin and convince me of my purpose? And then I spend the next thirty minutes or so reading scripture because I don't believe it has to be long and drawn out. It doesn't have to be prayed in King James English. Just going god help Pray one sentence prayers throughout the day and then secondly, if you want to grow a little more, pray through scripture. Start with the Psalm. Just open a Psalm and pray through it. [01:26:48] (58 seconds)  #PrayConversationally

I heard a pastor one time. He said this and he said, if you wanna know what you should be believing for, look at what you're already hoping for. What is it that you long for in your heart? Now, I understand that we can get off on that because we can get into our flesh desires and all that kind of stuff but if you're truly seeking after god and and you find yourself longing for something, maybe that's a clue into what you should be believing god for. Amen. So, now, it said, it's the realization. [01:05:37] (42 seconds)  #BelieveYourLonging

And as I was studying this some years ago, the lord spoke to me and he said, Chuck, everything that you could ever need or want is brought into your life through the avenue of faith. And so that sent me on a journey because the scripture says that faith is an elementary principle. Meaning, it's something that you should learn at the very beginning. And so, if it's an elementary principle, I just think it's it's necessary, right? I told you last week, I said, remember, you know, when you're in in elementary school and they they were teaching you one plus one equals two, right? [00:51:45] (45 seconds)  #FaithIsElementary

one plus one equals two. Now, we get into high school and they start talking to me about geometry and calculus and all that stuff, right? I don't I don't use that stuff. Anyway, but one plus one equals two, I still use that stuff, right? I use the foundational stuff. The stuff that I learned that I can build on and that's what the Bible calls faith and so, I wanted to take last week, this week, and the next couple weeks. I wanted to take us on a faith journey to to study and to learn faith because if it's an elementary principle, it's a foundational principle. I want us to be able to walk that out. [00:52:34] (40 seconds)  #FaithBasics