Unity the Spark to Power |Pastor TIm Notz | 5/17/2026

Unity creates a spark that ignites power. Unity came first. Unity before the power of God fell, there was unity. It's not hard. You look around the world today and you can see that satan is not about unity. In fact, the words that I would say for satan, if he had some kind of vision statement against the church, it would probably be divide and conquer. Actually, go the other way, conquer and divide. Conquer and divide. Because if he can conquer your mind, he can cause us to divide. [00:04:56] (41 seconds)  #UnityIgnitesPower

How many times have you personally offended God? How many times have you, in one day, offended him? How many times in your own life have you sinned against him with the same sin over and over and over? And yet, he would die for you, he would forgive you, and he wants reconciliation with you. See, this world, what it says right now, you hurt me, I'm gonna get you back. If you hurt me, I don't deserve you don't deserve any kind of reconciliation. I'm canceling you, I'm cutting you off, you're out of my life. [00:24:15] (45 seconds)  #ForgivenNotCancelled

But I choose to walk in peace and I choose to keep my relationship with God and I choose to keep the vision in front of me. We will heal, we will grow, and we will rise. And this church, I believe this, Jesus said, he is building the church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. You gotta live your life that way because the enemy is going to come against you and sometimes he's gonna get a punch in, but the gates of hell will not prevail against you either since you're part of the church if you're a believer in Jesus. [00:16:33] (40 seconds)  #GatesWontPrevail

I wrote this down too, pride must die for forgiveness, restoration and reconciliation to happen. I'm going deep today because I'm not only talking about humility which we talk about a lot in pride, but I'm talking about forgiveness and and that's hard enough. But when you start to talk about reconciliation, that's really hard and I and I'm not making light of that, that is hard. But guess what? The bible says that we are called to reconcile with one another. And you know what's really cool? Is that is exactly why Jesus came to earth to reconcile us in relationship with the father. Think about [00:23:21] (49 seconds)  #PrideMustDie

Unity requires a couple of things though. It's gonna require humility, forgiveness, patience, honor for the other person and maturity in the believer or whoever you are. Some people know the word of god really, really well, like better than I do. A lot of people do, quite honestly, better than I do. But they're not very mature in the lord because of how they live their life. Maturity is actually living out what the word of god says. It's being humble in our heart and it's being surrendered to the holy spirit. And when this holy spirit says, no, don't say that. You say, yes, sir. [00:21:02] (46 seconds)  #UnityNeedsHumility

Peter, when he got out of the boat, as long as his eyes were locked on Jesus, he was walking on water. And when he started looking at everything else, he started going down, started sinking on down. Keep your eyes on Jesus, not not who hurt you, not why they hurt you, not what they said, what they did. All those things may be real. I'm not making light of anything that might have harmed you. I'm not making light of that today. But I'm telling you, don't be controlled by it because now you stepped into the the territory of the enemy because that's where he wants you. He wants you controlled by it. [00:30:39] (36 seconds)  #KeepEyesOnJesus

Stop speaking criticism and gossip. Stop speaking criticism and gossip. And guess what else? Stop listening to it. You don't need to listen to it. It's gonna get on your on the inside of you and not only that, but when you listen to somebody else, like you need to return it back to them and say, hey, you know what? I don't wanna talk about them. Not even sure what's all going on, but that's I just don't wanna talk about that. When you do that, you shut them down as well and you you you kinda convict their heart that they're doing something wrong and there's nothing wrong with that. Godly conviction, not harming them, [00:50:24] (34 seconds)  #StopGossipAndCriticism

You are destroy if you're doing it here, you are destroying God's church because I I look, this this isn't my church. I got I got my name on a bunch of stuff, I understand that legally, but in the end, it's his church. And I would caution all of us including myself, watch our mouths, watch what you're saying about one another. You're talking about God's kid. I don't want you talking about my kid. We better be careful about talking about God's kids. He loves them. He loves you. And he wants us to respect one another and to walk in forgiveness and health and healing. [00:20:17] (39 seconds)  #ProtectGodsFamily