Trusting God's Faithfulness Through Life's Challenges

1. "God is faithful. I don't like all the things that we go through. I don't like all the things my family goes through. But I'm grateful for God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. That God is not bound by time. sees well beyond what I can see. And He said that, you know what? I give good gifts to my children. He said, well, how can this be good? Well, if you let God do what God wants to do." [41:30] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "The breaking precedes the blessing. So trust Him. Hold tight. He was faithful then. He'll be faithful now. Stand strong on the promises of God. Amen. Lord, we're grateful. We're thankful that we can stand today and sing these amazing songs of faith that are rooted not only in Your Word, but in your everyday." [42:25] (30 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "We know that we need grace. And we also know that You've told us that Your grace is sufficient. But God, sometimes our spirit is willing, but our flesh is weak. So we pray, Holy Spirit, that You would just give us eyes to see and ears to hear, even in the midst of a fire. Even when we're facing down giants, God, to know that You, Lord, are the giant slayer. And what seems impossible for us is not impossible for You." [43:30] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "When God called me into the ministry many, many years ago, I said, first of all, are you sure? That's the first thing I said to God. Like, you know. And he said, yep. And I said, God, if I'm going to do this, man, we're going to have some fun because I couldn't stand church when I was growing up. I grew up in an organized religion. The older I got, the more I realized how irrelevant it was. I wasn't learning the Bible, nothing about the God of the Bible. When I could run away from organized religion, I did. And I'm grateful to Jesus. Jesus doesn't call us into religion. He calls us into a relationship." [49:05] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "We need to make sure we do everything short of sin to get people into the presence of Jesus Christ. Because in his presence, the power of God is experienced. And we know in Jesus' presence, hope is restored, joy is found, perspective changes, people change. I mean, Jesus Christ is the game changer. If you believe that, give me a spiritual amen. Amen." [52:17] (24 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6. "I believe people are thirsty. I believe, honestly, I know the Bible says nobody seeks God, but people are seeking answers. And especially in the day and age we live in when everything seems to have gone off the rails. We live in a day and age that could be described as cuckoo for cocoa puffs. Can I get an amen? We know that hope has a name and its name is? We know that Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life." [53:55] (25 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7. "We are committed here at Granite United Church to doing anything short of sin to make sure people find themselves at the feet of Jesus because at his feet in his presence they can experience his power. That's the thing as a church now all of a sudden we got to step back we say what price are we willing to pay for this we got to step back and say what price are we willing to pay for this how inconvenient are we willing to be how uncomfortable that had to be uncomfortable because somebody had to say in the back of the room there's always one in church you're paying for that they knew yeah i know we already talked about it we're willing to pay the price because you can't put a price on love you can't you can't put a price on that so we're willing to do something drastic they were willing to expect the unexpected they were they were willing to create a space where there was no space for god to work some of us got to create space in our lives in our calendar in our schedules some of us need to create a space so there's just no time there's no space you got to create a space some things have to be non-negotiables they were willing to turn these obstacles into opportunities they were willing to live not for a dream but they had a vision." [01:04:34] (93 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8. "Seeing their faith jesus says to the paralyzed man my child you're what because four guys love the brother enough to get him to the power into the presence of jesus christ where they could experience where he could experience his power because of their faith because of their willingness to do what others were not willing to do because their willingness to turn obstacles into opportunities and they become innovators because they were willing to count the costs and where they were willing on the back end to pay the price because they were willing to be comfortable with being uncomfortable they didn't care what anybody else was thinking in the church they were only worried about the person they loved and cared about getting to defeat a jesus experience the power of god in his life jesus like my prayer is as a church that god would look down granted you are so faith-filled you believe so much in the power and the presence of god i see what you're doing i see how you're worshiping i see how you're inviting i see how you're committed i see how innovative you want to be i see how willing you're the price the price you're willing to pay i see the non-negotiables i see that you're not willing just like me that any should perish i see that you you keep championing you're a champion of hope i see it i want god to see our faith that god we believe you are who you said you are and we believe you can do what you said you can do and so god we're going to do anything short of sin to take it a child shall lead them that's what i'm saying amen these guys are like don't you dare tell me what god can't do granted that's the thing man the non-negotiable is this getting people into the presence of christ but here's how it's going to happen when jesus saw their faith what was their faith their faith was not simply believing but living out what they believed they paid a price because they believed number one and then they believed number two and there was a man who was a paralyzed man and guess what's happening ain't nobody clapping like in in in the story oh your sins are forgiven and everybody's like you can't see that okay cool story bro but let's check this out verse 10 so i will prove to you the son of man has the authority on earth to do what jesus said to the paralyzed man stand up." [01:06:08] (60 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9. "If you're saved and you know it say amen you have a response a privilege of salvation but you have the responsibility as walking as a saved person remember what we said a few weeks ago we are not better then but we do live born again so they were all amazed and they praised god exclaiming we've never seen anything like this before some non-negotiables life is short eternity is long and it takes your way to how to play games with our family our friends and our loved ones we're gonna have to fight for and fight through some obstacles because by who are people who are faith-filled we know that the presence and power of god changes people and so we're willing to do what nobody else is willing to do we're willing to push through we're willing to tear up roofs and do things that might make other churches and other christians scratched their head and say what are you guys doing whatever we have to because your kids my kids your grandkids my grandkids your family your friends our people in our community don't need to live in a paralyzed state outside of the power of god our god is an author of new life amen come on somebody amen." [01:09:38] (82 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


10. "If you're here today and you don't know jesus christ is your savior you need to understand something god loves you and he wants to save you today you are now in his presence you have now been shared the word of god and you have seen what jesus christ is capable of doing the bible says for whosoever shall call upon the name of the lord shall be saved i'm glad you're in church today my question is are you in christ today i'm thankful that you came here but god just doesn't want you to attend church he wants you to be in a relationship with him and the bible says for whosoever shall call upon the name of the lord shall be saved that's you that's me jesus is the only one is the author of new life the eternal life that first john talks about and i hope that you can see in those of us who have placed our faith in christ that you can see the evidence of that by the way we're walking and living because it's real jesus is alive amen and if you don't have peace in your heart that you know him i'm going to give the opportunity to do that right here right now." [01:13:19] (88 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)