Seeing Beyond Suffering: Embracing Faith and Healing

1. "And yet, at the same time, we know it's an important time for our country. One of the things we're praying for is that God's will would be done. Obviously, there's no way that his will would be able to be thwarted. But we're praying for God's best for our country. And we want to be the very best citizens of the United States of America while recognizing that our citizenship ultimately is where? Heaven." [00:36:44] (23 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "So, within that, we're just coming together to pray Monday night, 6 o'clock, Tuesday at noon. I'm going to be fasting that time between those two prayer times. And I encourage you to pray and fast. Just for God's favor to be upon our country. And for revival to break out. Because that's what's the greatest need of our time. We're seeing parts of that happen right now. Even in our church. We're seeing so many people trust Jesus. We baptized 91 people already this year. Is that not crazy? Wow. I heard that number. I was just amazed." [00:37:08] (37 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "What Jesus is saying here is he's saying that this man didn't sin at all to bring about this condition. He was a sinner. He was a sinner just like everybody else. But the reason he's blind is not because of his personal sin and it's not because of his parents' sin. It's so that God would reveal his glory and his works would be displayed in his life. So what Jesus is saying here is he's saying that Jesus allows suffering to show his glory." [00:45:04] (31 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "A lot of us follow God because we think that he's going to just only give us good things and blessing. But sometimes God brings hard things into our life because he wants to reveal himself to us. And he wants to reveal himself to us. And he wants to reveal himself to the world through our suffering. You know, often when we think about suffering, we think that we have to see the point in it." [00:47:24] (23 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "And Jesus calls him then to go. Isn't it interesting? Jesus doesn't then go poof you're healed. He says go wash in the pool of Siloam. Which we have this little like handy name, a little translation of what the word Siloam means. Which means sent. So there's like this like double wordplay here of going and being sent. He says go wash yourself in the pool of Siloam. The pool of being sent. And so he left, washed, and came. Back seeing." [00:59:57] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6. "Jesus invites people to follow him. He doesn't tell them what the journey is going to look like on the front end. He simply says, follow me. Follow me. This man had to leave the temple. This is helpful for us because most of us don't know what Jerusalem looks like. He had to leave the temple mount where the miracle begins, walk through city streets, downstairs to the pool of Siloam down here, where he would then be washed and cleansed." [01:01:09] (34 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7. "Sometimes God's sign that he is with us happens after our obedience. And many of us say, God, I need all the answers first because I'm not sure I want to sign up for the ride. Unless I know what it's going to look like and how long it's going to take. I've got young kids. Road trips are always a blessing. They just are, right? You're just like, man, I got to vacuum this thing afterwards. It just takes forever." [01:02:24] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8. "Many of us wish that the Christian life and our life would look like this. But Jesus says, I'm inviting you into giving up control and letting me take you where I want you to go. Because you can't always see where you're going until you're there. I don't know what journey you're on today. Maybe you've walked into this room and you've never followed Jesus. And you're saying, I want to follow Jesus, but I need to have certainty that if I do, it's all going to work out great for me." [01:03:11] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9. "Jesus says, you've got to come and say, I'm on for the ride. I'll do what you want me to do. And on the way, I'll see you. It was like that for every single one of us who trusted Jesus, right? We've seen Jesus along the way. We've seen him in moments where we're like, wow. Okay, God, that was only you. We've seen in moments where we like see beyond the veil. We see the power of God at work." [01:03:44] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


10. "You may feel that way with an election. You may feel that way with the moment in your life when you hear a prognosis of cancer. Or you're looking at your children and you're like, man, I'm hoping they'll get it figured out. Right? You may be asking a lot of questions. And you may be going through a season where you feel like, God, there doesn't seem to be a reason why you're asking me to do this. But you see the sign after your step of obedience." [01:04:41] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)