Faith

Continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. - Colossians 2:6-7

Choose to trust God in the middle of what you don’t understand

These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. - Deuteronomy 6:6

1: God doesn’t backtrack. 2: He doesn’t contradict Himself. 3: What He said, He meant. 4: What He promised, He will do. 5: You can build your life on that kind of truth.

There is power in the name of Jesus

Holiness isn’t a Sunday thing. It’s an everyday thing.

1. Signs you might be in a wilderness season… 2. You're doing everything right and nothing is moving. Praying. Reading. Showing up. And it feels like your prayers are hitting the ceiling and sliding down the wall. 3. You're not angry at God exactly. Just...confused. The silence isn't hostile. It's just very, very quiet. 4. The things that used to fill you up aren't filling you up the same way right now. Worship feels flat. Scripture feels familiar but distant. You're going through the motions and you know it. 5. You keep waiting for the thing that's supposed to happen next. And it keeps not happening. And you're running out of ways to be okay with that. 6. You're tired in a way that sleep doesn't fix. Not physically exhausted. Soul tired. 7. Here’s the thing: The wilderness is where God does some of his most important work. Israel. Moses. David. Jesus. All of them spent time there. None of them stayed forever. 8. The wilderness has an exit. You are not lost. You are in process. And the God who led you in is the same God who leads you out.

The Fight: We wrestle not against flesh and blood...

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” - John 14:6

Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. - Psalm 62:8

Be brave.

1. Job worshiped after losing everything. 2. Paul and Silas sang in prison. 3. Abraham trusted God and left his home for a land he’d never seen. 4. Mary said yes before she knew what pregnancy would mean. 5. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego worshiped even under threat of death. 6. We don’t have to understand everything or feel happy with our circumstances to worship.

Christian faith isn't blind. It's believing God will do for you what He did for others.

He’s got the whole world in His hands

He inhabits the praises of His people

Stop overthinking. Start by going to God.

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known. - Jeremiah 33:3

"A jealous God will not be content with a divided heart; he must be loved first and best." - Charles Spurgeon

Even your doubts can be worship. The Psalms are full of this type of worship. 1. Worship doesn’t always look like singing songs with hands raised. 2. Worship can just look like laying yourself bare before the Lord. Being honest with Him. 3. When you bring your doubts to God, it’s actually an act of faith. It’s trusting Him to prove Himself to you. 4. You don’t have to resolve your doubt before you come to God. 5. Worship Him in the middle of uncertainty.

God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. - Numbers 23:19

1: No matter your story. 2: No matter your background. 3: No matter where you are in your faith journey. 4: There’s a place for you in this community.

1. Reading the same verse five times and because you can’t focus. 2. Accidentally opening to Leviticus and closing your Bible for the rest of the week. 3. Buying a new Bible because a fresh start seemed easier than finishing the old one. 4. Opening to a random page, reading one verse, and calling it a quiet time. 5. When your unsaved friend accidentally quotes the Bible but you play it cool. 6. Texting someone a verse because you couldn't keep it to yourself. 7. The first time you read the Bible not because you had to but because you actually wanted to.