Unleashing God-Given Potential Through Surrender and Faith

1. "This week as I was reading through my one-year Bible reading plan, I came to the end of Matthew's Gospel. Read about Jesus going to the cross. Jesus paying the ultimate price, the ultimate sacrifice. That at the moment he gave his life, said it is finished. That the veil in the temple was torn in two. And what God wanted you to understand today resonates in church all the way 2,000 years later in 2024 is that the veil between you and God, he wants to separate that veil today. Whatever that veil is in your mind, whether that's the veil of what you've been through, whether that's the veil of what your week looked like, whether that's the veil of all the rain you had to drive through to get to church today, whether that's the veil of some of you were getting your apartments unflooded yesterday, whether that was the veil of disappointment in a relationship, come on, just begin to ask the Lord. Lord, say, God, I actually, by faith, I remind myself that the veil is torn, and today I come running to your presence." [31:22] (60 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "But more than that, that you will have your eyes open to something about God that you had not seen, believed, or experienced yet. And we're excited for these next three weeks together. If I've not met you, my name is Shane, along with my wife, Rachel. We have the great honor of serving as lead pastors here at Resonate Church. We got to start Resonate Church just over seven years ago, and look at what the Lord has done and got us doing miracles in this place. We have so much that we are excited to share with you, but we're holding on for a couple of weeks. We've got some big stuff coming that we're excited to share with you." [33:05] (30 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "When Jesus looks to your future, he does not consult your past. He called you. He sees and speaks to your potential. He looked at Moses, who stuttered and said, I want you to lead a nation. David was just a shepherd, and God said, I see a king. Peter was going to deny Jesus three times. Jesus still looked at him and said, You're a rock. And on you, I'm going to build. Oh, come on, somebody. You're not responding like I'm preaching today. We serve a God who sees your blind spots and still speaks to your potential. Because he put a seed inside of you, and it's not who you were yesterday." [44:56] (35 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "There's always going to be people who try to stand in between you and the thing that God has called you to do, want you to stay small. The voice in our culture is much this way. There's a voice that wants to keep you from the surrender of your life wholeheartedly to God. There's a voice in our culture. It echoes. It reverberates. We hear it in our advertisements. We hear it. We hear it in our schools. We hear it in our universities. We hear it every single place you turn. And the voice of culture that's standing between you and your God-given potential is this. You know what's best for you." [50:43] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "God is saying, I know that your past is busted up and your life is in exile. But if you'll stop going back to this well and you'll come over here and say, God, I surrender the seed of the potential of my life to you. God says, I got some plans for you. And I don't care if you're a young person or an old person. There's still something inside of you that I've yet to bring out of you. If there's still breath in your lungs, I've got something to bring out of you. Come on, God is looking at you today and say, come on, resonate church. I put so much in you." [01:08:23] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)