Frustrated or Fulfilled: Why Your View of God Changes Everything

You can't believe right if you're believing wrong. That's right. Many people have been taught a version of God that is smaller, harsher, and more reluctant than the God Jesus revealed. That's right. And that's the issue. It's hard to expect much when you're not convinced the father is as good as he really is. That's right. That's right. This is why we gotta understand that God is better, our father is better than you think. [00:38:15] (26 seconds)  #StopSmallGod

and I wanna say what I said to you last week. Your level of expectation will never rise above your level of revelation. If you don't believe that God is always good, you cannot have an expectation that he will always do good things. How you doing? Did you hear what I just said? Yes, sir. If your image of God is uncertain that he's unpredictable, then your expectation will be unpredictable. Okay. Okay. And if you have this idea that God is easily irritated Uh-huh. Then your expectation is you're easily ignored. [00:04:52] (37 seconds)  #ExpectationFollowsRevelation

once you taste it and the tapestry of flavors have danced across the back of your tongue, they'll never undance. You'll know forever and a day no matter what happens, no matter what mountain crumbles, no matter what promise doesn't come to pass, no matter what they did or she said, no matter what goes on in your life, once you have tasted Yes, sir. And you have seen Uh-huh. That God is good Yes, sir. He'll be forever good, and nobody can ever convince you Nobody. That God ain't good. That's right. [00:02:26] (37 seconds)  #TasteGodsGoodness

Not everything that is said about God is accurate. That's right. That's right. Come on, pastor. I have heard preachers preach using Job's friends as their reference points. But God himself said of Job's friends, the resident theologians, the bible school graduates Good gracious. God himself said that what they said about me, that ain't true. [00:05:37] (27 seconds)  #NotAllTeachingsTrue

Believing becomes easier when we know that our father's good. Yes. Fact, faith thrives when we stop imagining God as a distant, irritable, and unpredictable personality. Yes. Amen. Now I wanna close with this, my first closing, so it's really meaningless. Jesus never made anyone afraid to come closer. That's right. That's That's good right there. [00:39:55] (27 seconds)  #FaithThrivesOnGoodFather

We gotta be willing to say it. Even when things don't feel good, what comes out of our mouth ought to be, my God is good. When the body hurts, my God is good. When the wall, it's empty, my God is good. When the mountains crumble, my God is good. When it's raining, my God is good. Thank you. Yeah. Yes, sir. Mhmm. Because it's based on revelation. Right. And revelation morphs into experience. [00:08:29] (29 seconds)  #DeclareMyGodIsGood

Because we've had the image, the portrait has been painted far too often by disappointed preachers Yes, sir. Who believed one thing and then changed their theology to fit their disappointment. Yes. See, in the church, we don't always do this deliberately, but we gotta be very careful that we don't establish a doctrine that justifies disappointment. No, sir. No, sir. Did you hear what I just said? Yes. We establish a doctrine that justifies our disappointment so we can be pacified in our sadness. [00:04:07] (36 seconds)  #BewareDisappointmentDoctrine

The sons' greatest goal was low level slavery. The father had a completely different idea and a different approach. Here's what I wanna say to you again. Your father is better than you think. The father says, everything we got, cook it up. And if we need more, go to the store. And tell the boys in the band, we're getting the group back together. Because we're about to have a block party, and they're gonna hear that there's a party going on around here. And this was not the son's idea. I wanna say it again. It was the fathers. And what father is Jesus seeking to explain? The heavenly father. [00:23:50] (55 seconds)  #FathersBlockParty