Sunday 11:45am | The Father's House

Meaning this, I think it'd be really silly if we looked at our lives and say, yeah, God only cares about the hour that I'm at church or the hour at pursuit or the hour at my small group if I'm really holy. And the rest of the forty plus hours of the week he doesn't care about. What if God was actually wildly concerned about your vocation, about what you gave your life to do, and had a plan for you, and there was dignity and purity and using the gifts and the education that God has given you? [00:51:49] (28 seconds)  #FaithAtWork

Pastor Jayben Chavez at our church conference preached a timely prophetic word, and one of the things that he said that has stuck with me since he said it is this, the great enemy of the church in 2026 is not sin. It's not pride. It's the church's desire to only move in faith when there's perfect clarity. [01:06:39] (22 seconds)  #MoveWithoutClarity

And this is your challenge in faith. When God speaks not just to stand, but to start moving. In lands that look like deserts, till you begin to prophesy and confess to them. It looks like a desert now, but I have kids that are gonna live in it later. And this is the story of people in our church. Man, why are you quitting your job? What are you doing? There's less money. There's less opportunity. I know, but but God spoke, and so I gotta walk. [01:11:47] (36 seconds)  #ProphesyAndWalk

life has a way of making us drift out of radical faith. We think that we're maturing, but you can mature right out of your yes. Like, I get it. When I had nothing, it was ease. Now I've got kids, and I've got a mortgage, and I've got an employees, and I've got a career, and yet God has still called me to radical faith. If anything, God is saying, the more you go deep with me, the more that I want to speak to you and draw that out of you. [00:54:52] (31 seconds)  #RadicalFaithAlways

one of my favorite proverbs that I learned as a young man is Proverbs fourteen and twelve. It says this, there is a way that seems right to man, but in the end, it leads to his destruction. And Lot is living out in action Proverbs fourteen and twelve that it looked right to him, but it would ultimately lead to his destruction. [00:57:14] (21 seconds)  #PathsThatDeceive

It would be hard to put in words how destructive this decision Lot makes. All the possessions that he has will all be gone as we read in this story. His wife will die. And in this horrible story that happens towards the end of Lot's life, after they are dead and they are they are literally living in caves because of the fear of man, an incestuous relationship happens between him and his daughters and the kids that come from it, they are the ones that are the greatest enemies of the nation of Israel for their entire time. [01:04:14] (33 seconds)  #ChoicesHaveConsequences

That, actually, I think that God's grace is more than sufficient for your and my decision making. I like to say and tell people all the time that if you are in prayer, if you are in your word, and if you are in community, it's almost like those bumpers that they put at the bowling alley. Like, you're gonna kinda bump here and bump here, and it might be a lot slower, but you're gonna get to the pins eventually. [00:47:08] (23 seconds)  #GraceGuidesDecisions

Something really fascinating theologically is going on in this story in the gospels. The devil comes to tempt the fully human nature of Jesus. Theologically, there is no example where the enemy would attempt to tempt the God nature. But he seems to be interested and say, hey, how much of humanity is there inside of Jesus? [00:59:15] (23 seconds)  #JesusFullyHuman