Scott Williams - Things Are Looking Up

[Applause] what up what up church by the glades what's happening come on let's give it up for jesus one time let's just give our hand clap for jesus and this is the rowdy service i'm telling you man i can't wait to hear myself preach you guys are awesome i want to start by welcoming everybody join us all around the world at church online so glad that you guys are here with us see we got people literally joining from everywhere we got dubai in the house let's see if we got tulsa oklahoma we got south africa we got new mexico l.a let's give a handclap for everybody join us all around the world online now we got our lake worth campus we got day ci we got homestead like everybody is here man i'm excited to be here for those of you guys that are new my name is scott williams i'm like that adopted family member i tell you guys all the time i'm like that brother from another mother for some of you guys like i'm that that black brother-in-law that you always wanted some of you guys i'm that black cousin that you always wanted and some of you guys i'm that black son-in-law that she never wanted y'all laughing way too hard on that i'm just saying it's good it's good to be with you guys here i'm so excited for that again i don't even like to do the whole like i'm a guest and all that i'm family i've adopted myself into the family so you guys are stuck with me so many times a year no matter what and it's getting you guys are just going to be clapping it's going to be fun it's awesome my wife and my friends are here with me my wife and i we just celebrated uh 20 years of marriage went to mexico a few weeks ago hung outs awesome my friends that are with us they celebrated 22 and so again we're just man we're i'm excited to be here i'm excited to share god's word but here's the thing i'm coming after you guys just came out this crazy series right like jungle cruising i mean here's what i want you guys to understand like the artwork and the ship and all that stuff that you guys had up here like that stuff ain't normal just so you guys know like like unless you're going to disney right like disney's the only place i know that has crazy sets like that i mean your creative team and your pastors are literally next level just give a hand clap and appreciation for all that they do [Music] that series was crazy good got a chance to watch it and the series you're going into next week is the mystery series right it's gonna be the best series of the year which i'm like how do you top what you just came out of so it's like the series that you're gonna want to invite people to it's it's got all this mystery and these little hidden nuggets behind what it's gonna be about as a matter of fact like your graphic is literally just 9 12 21 right like that's not like it's just saying so 9 12 is coming you need to make sure that you're inviting people to 912 and i thought that i would try to give you a little hidden jewel in the series that you might not know here's my best chance is nine plus 12 is 21. i mean that's all i got i'm not pastor david i'm just saying like that's my best attempt at giving you a creative nugget for the series but but it's good man so you want to invite people to this series one thing about great series like this is like you got really great invite cards they're real simple so just grab some of these invite cards i've had them in my pocket if i go to starbucks or something make sure that i hand them out in our church we do like really big series or whatever like at the movies is a big series that we do at our church and so i'll grab invite cards and hand them out and and what i like to do and i encourage you guys to do this for the series next week like go to starbucks and and or until you're at a restaurant and you leave a tip leave a card and invite them make sure you leave a good tip you know what i'm saying like i don't mean inviting them with that one dollar chip right give them a good tip and then if you go to starbucks what i like to do i go to starbucks and i'll give the card to the the cashier and say hey i want to pay for the person's drink behind me and i'll be real honest i wish i could say i was a lot more spiritual than this but i don't know about you guys if you've ever done it but i like to size up the car behind me first right i look behind me make sure it's not a minivan full of 10 people right you know what i'm saying so i remember like at the moment i was a viper i go up to the starbucks and it's like one lady behind me in a mercedes it's early in the morning the best she could be ordering is like a tall something grande lottie blonde whatever it is right and so like i wanna pay for hers behind me said okay it'll be 77 and 43 cents i'm like what in the world oh she always comes and gets coffee for the whole office so so be careful what you're doing when you're trying to like size up the car behind you because like you know there's a limit to my generosity right i mean god will god will get you if you try to do that so again i'm thinking amazing series you came out of you're going into an even more amazing series next week and then you got me sandwiched in the middle it's like an oreo cookie with chocolate in the middle so again so that so that's why i'm here today so i'm i'm trying to ask like what can i teach that would like that could work for this i started to look and i realized that no matter what i teach from this book it's going to be all good right and so i'm like like god what would you have me share what's a really important message and so as i started doing some research there's only there's only when you look at the gospels there's only one miracle that's found in in all four of the gospels there's two miracles found in all four of the gods i'm sorry the one i'm preaching on one of them today there's two miracles so you have the resurrection but i'll save that for pastor david and easter he can preach that and then the other one is one that we know as feeding the five thousand and you guys may know it it's feeding the five thousand but the story is actually about jesus and a miracle and feeding five thousand five thousand men plus women and children scholars say it's probably anywhere from 15 to 25 000. so it's the largest miracle they did in front of the largest group of people so that's what we're going to teach on today i feel like if it's the only thing other than the resurrection found in all four gospels it's important for us to hear so the time that we're looking at in scripture is when jesus had been his ministry was popping like he's on like people are hearing about it he's healing people he's casting out demons like things are going really really well right and so people start hearing about oh man here about this jesus guy he's doing these crazy things and so like they want to see what he's doing and so he sends his disciples out to go and start doing the work and they're going out and they're teaching and they're doing their thing right and so they're going and amazing things are happening for them too and so they come back to jesus they show up in their life and jesus asked them so like okay like how are things going and like the universal symbol for things are up things are going up things are going up things are good is this what two fingers right so two thumbs up so hey give him the two thumbs up and so he come back and that's what we're gonna pick up in the text and so again i encourage you to read all four gospels account of this but what i'm gonna do today is we're gonna read mark's account and then we'll unpack it a few verses at a time but i just want to read this entire text i think it's going to be helpful verse 30 mark 6. the apostles gathered around jesus and reported to him all that they had done and taught then because so many people were coming and going they didn't even have a chance to eat he said to them come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest so they went away by themselves in a boat to a solitary place but many who saw them leaving recognized them ran on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them when jesus landed and saw a large crowd he had compassion on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd so he began teaching them many things by this time it was late in the day so his disciples came to him this is the remote place they said and it's already very late send the people away so that they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat but he answered them you give them something to eat they said to him that would take more than a half years wages are we to go and spend that much on bread and give it to them to eat how many loaves do you have he asked go and see when they found out they said five and two fish then jesus directed them to have all the people sit out in groups on the green grass so they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven they gave thanks and broke the loaves then he gave it to his disciples to distribute to the people he also divided the two fish among them all they all ate and were satisfied and the disciples picked up the 12 basketfuls of broken pieces of bread and fish the number of men who had eaten was 5 000. we could close our bibles we could put down our smartphones we could log off from online that's really everything that we need to hear but i really feel like that god has something special that he wants to reveal to you through this message because this is the time you think about it like jesus's ministry it's officially certified like jesus ministry it gets on in poverty like in other words like things are looking up i want you matter of fact turn around to your neighbor right now and say things are looking up turn around to your other neighbor i know you might not know them so you'll be like i don't know man and say things are looking up now i normally don't give you any homework but today i'm going to give you some homework i encourage you we're going to look at mark's account but i want you to go read the other three gospel i want you to go it's uh matthew 14 luke 9 and john 6 or just google it you'll find it and so again the title of today's message is things are looking up and so we're going to look at the three keys to make sure that things are looking up like when you're preparing a message and you're trying to get points i can give you three ways or three things but the reason why i want to give you three keys because what do keys do yeah keys unlocks some things keys opened some doors i'm here to tell you today if you allow jesus to speak today he's going to unlock some things in your life he's going to open some doors that's been closed he's going to open a new mindset and a new perspective i'm telling you like he's going to release some things you're going to be able to walk through some doors that you never could have walked through before because you know why you have the keys and so the first key if you're taking notes you can write this one down the first key is this is you got to stay close everybody say stay close we'll talk about staying close to jesus verse 37 this is what the scripture says but he answered what'd he say you give them something to eat they said to him that would take more than a half years of wage are we to go spend that much on bread and give it to them to eat how many loaves do you have let's say that again how many loaves do you have he asked and what did he say go and see when they found out they said five and two fish and so we're talking about staying close to jesus because that's important if we think about if we look at everything that transpired from the rest of this miracle it's about the people that were close to jesus and i think about times in my life when i'm the closest to jesus that's when the most doors are open and that's when those keys begin to look a little bit different and i take myself back to about 10 years ago when my wife and i was wrestling about whether or not i was i was in full-time ministry i was resting on what i was going to leave and and start this company and kind of wrestle what i want to do i was close to jesus i was very clear understanding the ministry was going well the church was growing things were popping but what i'm trying to say it was a good thing to be in ministry but what god was saying it was a god thing for me to step out and do what he had to do for my family and and now that i look back like my oldest son has just graduated from college getting ready to go into dental school my youngest son he's graduated from high school and he's now playing college football but the great theologian steve jobs said it this way he said you can never connect the dots looking forward only looking backwards and so as i look back now to the decision that we made 10 years ago and all that god has done in our family for the last 10 years i'm telling you it was amazing but i was able to make that difficult decision because why because i was close to jesus and so my question for you today is is are you close to jesus you think about it like this literally this story like it's really important like what's going on here they're sitting here he's talking to the disciples and if you look at the other accounts in the gospel you'll see like what they said is like okay we're going to get something to eat how are we going to get something where do we need to go to get something to eat and so the text if you look in john's account he says the bible says he asked philip like hey where are we supposed to go to get this bread and what scholars tell us the reason why you asked philip is because philip was from that area in other words it was phillips hood right and so like like philip knew the good spots to get the bread he knew the spots to get the the discounts as a matter of fact as i'm thinking about bread from this area i'm just gonna give you guys some this ain't gonna cost you anything this is just a blessing i try not to eat much bread but when i come down here there's always one spot that i go to get some bread and it's anne-marie's pizza company i'm just gonna tell you guys just be honest you might not know anything about it but i'm here to say they attend this church and it is amazing they got these little this little bread is these little garlic knots and they got like some parmesan on them and and like i promise they're from jesus but like they're just really really good i think somebody's grandma makes them like i'm thinking again they don't cost you anything but i promise it's gonna bless you right and so but the scripture tells us is that you know jazz philip hey what's going on where's the spots but then it says that andrew see andrew was known as the person who would bring people to jesus right like he brought peter to jesus and andrew's the one that saw this little boy that was out there little boy trying to bring his his fish you know he had a basket of five loaves and two fish he's trying to bring it and so andrew's like hey man come on but the reason a little boy was able to hear that jesus was asking about bringing something he is because why because he was close to jesus and the reason the other people heard you know why is because guess what it said they ran out and got there before they even got there they got to church early i mean some of you guys may have seen how late you can get to church you got to get there early with some anticipation of what god is going to do and that's what they did right and so andrew like pastor david even challenged you during the last series to invite people to church and if you look at andrew like he's really about inviting people as a matter of fact the name andrew if you look at it in the greek it literally means andy drew so andy drew people that's literally what that ain't what it means in the greek i'm just some of y'all like wow andy drew you know but here's the like a lot of times a lot of times pastors do this i'm just going to be honest like they'll like share something in the greek like sometimes it's important to know the greek and the meaning and the depth there but a lot of times that's just us pastors just bloviating just to act like we're really really smart right the greek said this anyway andy drew that's good anyway um [Music] and so the little boy like here's what my guess is this i wasn't there i don't know for sure but my guess is this is that this little boy that brought his fish and loaves wasn't the only one that had some food i bet there's some other people that packed some food and and the other people were like many of you like you got this thing that you can give over to jesus but i got to hold it for myself i can't tell them what's going on about this blessing there's not enough blessings to go around so i'm trying to keep it to myself pastor david said this he said god can't bless what you don't surrender and this little boy was like you know what hey this is what i got and an important piece of this is that if you looked at the bread and said he brought he said that he had barley loaves and if you understand about scriptures that barley was the cheaper bread so that was for the poorer people if you had the real bread the paper bread the real like the money money then you had wheat bread and so this was a little boy that brought he didn't have much but what he had he was willing to give to jesus and i'm here to tell you if you will just bring what you have and give it to jesus what he can do is he can take that and he can multiply it you got to be careful talking about being close to jesus it's really easy to fall off and and not be serious about following jesus and not being close to jesus and we all have those moments we all have those seasons i wish i could just tell you guys that that my life has always been i i get up in the morning i go on five hour prayer walks and and i go on prayer walks and then i open my bible it just opens for me and hovers and reads to me and then every once in a while my halo gets a little bit crooked i gotta shift my locks just so i can get my halo right but that's not the case right but i've had these moments especially lately i try to be real serious about my time with jesus i wake up every morning four something in the morning don't even need an alarm clock i get up and the one thing i've decided to do now is that before my feet hit the ground i'm making sure that i'm looking up and so i look up before i step down and and then the other thing too is that i make sure that because i make sure that i open my bible app before i open any other app because i'll be honest with the first app i used to open up was instagram right matter of fact you can follow me there scott okc i'm just saying but um but like so but now like i'm okay with opening instagram because i've already opened my bible and spent some time with you i'm staying close and connected with jesus because here's what will happen if you don't connect with jesus if you don't connect to his word you'll get distracted by the things of the day and if i'm not careful what happens is is i start my morning watching a bunch of idiots fall off of milk crates than i do diving into the word of god first of all where do they get all those milk crates from anyway acquiring minds want to know my brother's got 20 milk crazes falling off so anyway y'all y'all may try that but again i go to the gym i go in the steam room the steamer i know i got 15 20 minutes i'm praying for people matter of fact i try to one day i'm gonna pray for 45 minutes i know it sounds crazy i don't do that i mean first time i go i'm like 20 minutes in i'm really like i got a lot to pray for right praying for people and i was about 20 minutes in next day i know i woke up an hour and a half later i'm just being honest like but i'm trying and so i'm working toward it so find those spiritual disciplines and see what you can do because i'm telling you when you stay close to jesus that's when things begin to shift you get a bad doctor's report when you're close to jesus things begin to shift when your kids got some issues things begin to shift when you've got some things going on up here your mind's playing tricks on you when you're close to jesus things begin to shift and some of you like well well pastor scott i come to church i serve i tithe and you know what jesus just seems real distant to me i know the bible says he's close to the brokenhearted but my heart's broken and he seems distant and here's what i know is that the closer i am to jesus the closer he is to me like i have to do my part if i'm close to him if i stay close to him he won't feel far away [Applause] he reminds me this story of this this couple that lived in a farm town and for 20 years they would always as they would go to town they would ride in their old farm truck and the husband would drive and his wife would sit right next to him they would cuddle all the way to town and then later in their marriage the wife was she leaned over to her husband one day as they were on their way back and she said babe like i'm concerned like we used to be so close every single time we would go to town we would just cuddle and we'd hold hands and we were close together and and now i'm over here on the other side of the door and just kind of leaning and looking what's happened to us and he looked at me said babe he say i always drive i haven't moved jesus is telling those of you that may feel like he's distant he's saying look i've never moved and so he's reminding you that you got to do your part and make sure that you stay close and connected to jesus because when you do i'm telling you that's when the things will begin to shift so the first key is you got to stay close second thing if you're taking notes you can write this one down is this is you got to stay connected everybody say stay connected everybody say stay connected again again a little boy he was close to jesus the only reason the only way he was able to be a part of that miracle is because what because he was close enough to hear it see some of you guys like you can't even hear what jesus is speaking to you you're not here when jesus speaks you're not close enough you wonder why everybody else has got this thing going on but you're not closer you're not close enough to you can't even air hustle to see what's going on because you're not close enough you think i think you know what he's saying but when you're i mean when you're close it's like he's yelling in your ear and he's telling you the things to do and it's very clear so you're connected with him the holy spirit so i'm telling you you got to make sure that you stay close to your second thing is stay connected verse 39 here's the bible says then jesus directed them to have all the people sit down in what groups on the green grass so they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifty taking the five loaves and two fish and doing what in other words things are what looking up exactly he looked up to the heaven and he gave thanks and broke the loaves then he gave them to his disciples and distributed them through the people he also divided the two fish among them all i love this it says that he did what he says that he the bible says he broke him up into groups and then he broke him up into groups and then he he divided him and as he broke it and as i think about it as i'm looking at this is that some of the greatest miracles of jesus happens in groups i mean think about it like like he could jesus could have just blessed the whole crowd but what he understood he was trying to teach this basic principle that's why like you guys are doing a life group push right now and jesus in this situation is showing us the importance of life you're like he could have said hey everybody's blessed but he's saying no it's important that we get some order here it's important that i get you in biblical community because if i get you surrounded by other people who are like-minded who are staying close to jesus i want to connect you with some other people and that's what's important and if you're being honest there's so many people that are in this room that are watching online you're not in a group you're not in a life group we've been a life cruiser about 15 20 years there's one couple we've been in a life group together for literally 15 years there's other couples that are with us i'm telling you like there's amazing things that happens when you're in the group and some of you like well pastor scott like i'm not ready to be in a group i don't know anything i don't know the bible there's a place for every single one of you in a group you just got to bring what you have and say i'm willing to be there and i'm willing to to be used and i want to be a part of a group there's all sorts of groups and if you think about like if you look in this time like imagine this situation there's there they're all hungry and jesus says break up into groups you think it was chaos but what naturally happens in that situation the group starts to develop there's a leader it's like hey man let's get it together let's get together and every group you got like the the hostess with the most like no y'all sit up here the grass over here is really smooth and green sit over here get off the dirt and then there's somebody that's like the comedian that's like you know cracking jokes and then and then you always got negative nancy right negative nancy's there like just complaining right they ain't vaccinated we can't have them in the group they vaccinate any vaccinating yeah and then you got like then you got somebody then there's always like that awkward like weird person in the group right and like ladies i'm just saying there's always that awkward person right some of you guys you are that awkward person i'm just saying but but so like but here's the deal but that's amazing like it needs it takes everybody to make that group happen right and so you got to just do your part and make sure that you're connected and that you get in the group because some of the greatest miracles some of the greatest blessings happen in groups i mean jesus is reminding us that that he can do some multiplication by division jesus can increase and that's what he wants to do here you can leave out these doors today and go get signed up in a group matter of fact by show of hands and those online just tap the screen or put it in the chat room and don't lie because if you lie in church you know what's going to happen to you how many of you guys either from the last series how many guys are actually in a group don't lie okay pretty good number of you but there's a really good number of you that are not god wants to use you in a part of a biblical community i'm telling you there's a piece that's missing like this church is such a great example if i look on this front row right now for those of you guys that are not here we have ryan snowden we got heather palacios and so one of the things about them is they're a great example of how god can use your story to help a group right because i mean they they started a group last session and it was like sane and sober ryan celebrated 20 years of sobriety heather is leading a ministry that's helping people literally that that have issues that that are going through mental health issues and she shares so open matter of fact in our life group we had a couple that a family member was having some mental health challenges and let me tell you who i called i called heather because i know she's walking through it i know she's living it out and and and also don't i want you guys to miss that let me go back to the scripture because this is like i'm telling you that like as i was reading all four of these gospels like it's amazing what what god was speaking to me but i want to go back to it because i think i don't want you guys to miss this this this is key this is key it says back to verse 41 taking the five loaves and two fish and then looking up like he looked up to heaven like that's important like sometimes you got to just man just give thumbs up just look up like man you know just look up it's just a reminder like man you feeling down look up negative thoughts look up and just let it be reminded that motion right there it says that he gave thanks and then he broke the loaves he broke the here's what there's two things i'm gonna get to the second one he broke the loaves and what we got to understand is that when jesus is the one that's doing the breaking jesus will do the blessing here's the he broke it and then he blessed it he broke it and then he blessed it and some of you guys like there's some stupid silly stuff that you're doing on your own jesus ain't gonna bless that i'm not trying to give proper english but he's not going to bless that but there's some things where jesus is the one doing the breaking and those are the things that he's blessing here's he's breaking you of that relationship that he knows is not for you he's breaking you from that job because he knows that's not where he's supposed to be he's breaking you from that situation because he knows it's not good for you he's breaking you from that yes because he knows that this no is better i'm telling you but you got to make sure that you're close enough to jesus that you're connected with others that can feed you and say you know what there's wisdom and count and wise counsel around you say nah man that ain't right i mean some of you ladies think about when you look back on that relationship that you could have been in that crazy dude that you could have been married to right fellas think about that job that you could have had i mean i think about all these things where almost a great opportunity i was the best candidate and i look back at my stories like if i would have got that job that would have moved me to kansas or l.a how different my family would be i start to ask those questions but if i'm staying close to jesus i'm trusting what he's doing so he's if he's doing the breaking he will do the blessing so he broke it and then he blessed it he broke it and then he blessed it i can honestly preach probably 50 weeks on on this i'm telling you like um this is this is key right here the next thing he says are still in verse verse 41. so he gave thanks he broke the loaves right says then he gave them to his disciples to distribute to the people so jesus he broke it that he blessed like he could have just taken it and he could have given it to all the people right that's not what he did he broke it and he gave it to the disciples to give to the people i'm here to tell you that some of the greatest blessings and some of the greatest miracles are not to go to you but they're to go through you and they're to bless somebody else i'm a living testimony of it as i look back at all the things that my mom did for me to prepare me first one in my family to go to college and i look at what she did and the blessings and things that she did to go to me but she gave them to go to me and as i'm sitting back and my wife and i were just talking about this week how proud we are of our boys we realized the blessing from our families went to us it went through us in order to go to my sons and if we keep them staying close to jesus if we keep them connected with some godly people the same thing is going to go true for them i'm telling you ryan heather that's why you got to keep doing your story like what you went through what you experienced it's now being used to bless others because they can look and say oh guess look at what they've been there done that and many of you have that story what have you gone through what is that blessing that god has given you it's not even to go to you it's not supposed to stay there you can sit in that group and you've got amazing things to share you've got amazing experience amazing stories every single one of y'all don't care some of you guys man it's a wealth of experience you're older and you've you've seen a lot some of you guys are new and you haven't seen enough but i'm telling you that begins to work together and god will do amazing things through it i'm telling you life groups is where it's at when you got financial issues the help is going to be in your life group you've been going through a divorce who's going to walk you through it it's your life group who's probably going to point you to a godly man and you ain't gotta worry about swiping right it's gonna happen in your life group i'm just telling you like like you can sit here and here's the other thing so last thing on that cause this is so good like here's what i know i wasn't there but i know this they broke everybody up in groups we know there was some folks there that was like oh man i ain't sitting here man i mean all day it's hot i'm going to the house man i'm going to the career y'all catch me later man i'm out and so there's all these people like i'm out too like man is he coming is he preaching are you even talking i'm hungry dude man i've been looking on instagram all this stuff look good all this food i want some anne marie's you know what i'm saying like i'm tripping like like so all these things but here's what i know the ones who were blessed were the ones who stayed there in a group so some of you guys you're not in a group i'm just saying there's a very good chance that you're not going to get the blessings that god wants you to have because you're outside of the community that he's called you to be in so how many guys are saying you know what when i leave out here today i'm getting signed up in a group but raise your hand raise your hand okay so all you other ones y'all just don't want no blessings okay now this ain't me saying it's on y'all everybody else gonna be getting bread loads fish y'all gonna be sitting on the house i don't know man just you get off facebook and get in his book you're saying [Applause] i didn't say that at the last service um [Music] last thing for taking notes is this is you need to stay satisfied this is when the band will come out and make me play behind me make me sound spiritual y'all take your time i only got three minutes and four seconds left just take your time take your time oh there we go yeah already okay [Music] so we got to do what we gotta stay close stay connect it's only three points guys come on now this is uh where we at here right let's try this again we got three points the first point is stay close the second one stay connected and the last one is say satisfied verse 42. they all ate and were what satisfied they were satisfied because they stayed close to jesus they connected with jesus and and the disciples picked up 12 basketballs of broken pieces of bread and fish the number of men who had eaten was 5 000. i i love this you think about it you sit there like they were satisfied because they were focusing on the things of jesus and many of you guys here's the thing you're not satisfied here's what i want you to know your food is getting cold because you're sitting there looking and worried about what's on everybody else's plate the reason you can't eat is because you look at what everybody else got going on and jesus tried to say i gave you what you need you need to be satisfied that i've already given you what you need quit looking at what they're doing quit looking at what they got quit worried about what they have and stay close stay connected and stay satisfied but here's the it didn't end there it says the number this is where it ends the number of men who had eaten was five thousand again we know that it was 5 000 not including women and children and so we know it was 15 to 25 000. is it ironic that the little boy that they used for the miracle to happen was the one who wasn't even counted i think some of you guys missed that what god is trying to say is this he's like i'm going to use somebody that others have counted out that others are not going to count that's who i'm going to use for the blessing and breakthrough so i'm here to tell you you may feel like you've been counted out today you maybe feel like that you're insufficient you may feel like that your bank account and your bank account of life has insufficient funds but i'm here to tell you that god is the greatest overdraft projection that you could ever have they've counted you out your marriage ended in the force god says i got a new relationship for you your family member died of 19 and you're devastated you've got all kind of questions he says i got all kind of answers here's the deal i'm telling you god counts you you matters it doesn't matter what they say it matters what he says they counted you out god counted you in you don't think you got enough he says that you're more than enough you plus god equals more than enough if he's doing the breaking he's doing the blessing if he's doing the breaking he's doing the blessing my friends many of you guys like man wipe those tears away god has something amazing for you but many of you guys are holding the little that you do have and you don't want to give it up and he said i can't bless what you don't surrender i can bless you if you don't come close to me i can't bless you if you're outside of community i can't bless you if you're not satisfied and you're spending all your time worrying about what they think worried about what's on their plate many of you your life is going to be different today because you're going to walk out you're going to get in community your life is going to be different today because you're going to put god first your life is going to be different today because you know what you're going to look and say you know what things are looking up because i know that god is looking in let's pray father i thank you so much for every single person that's under the sound of my voice today god and for those of you who sit here and be honest enough to say you know what i haven't been as close to jesus as i need to be you know what i'm not connected in a life group and i can be more connected and i'm guilty of not being satisfied and so if you be honest enough to say man that's you but you want to change that you want things to be different i want you to lift your hands across this room so i can pray for you right now god i pray for every single hand that's raised right now god god i see couples that are raising their hands together god i pray that you would strengthen their marriage god i pray that every single person this week before they grab instagram before they grab facebook before they grab twitter that they would dive into the bible app god and i pray that they would draw closer than you god i pray that as they walk out these doors god they can't get to their car without making a decision to come back and sign up for a life group god i pray that you would direct them to the exact right life group that they need i pray that you would raise up leaders that would that would be able to lead lifeguards i pray that you'd raise up people that know that they have a story to tell and they just go sit in the lifeguard that you'll create the right opportunity god god i pray that as they make these decisions that you would open the doors of blessing of breakthrough of relationship of restoration of health of increase and you will remind them that you plus them equals more than enough we love you we thank you and it's in jesus name we pray and everybody said amen come on let's give it up for jesus come on now let's give it up for jesus today come on now you can do better than that don't give me something to love golf we serve an amazing god

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Length: 37min 38sec (2258 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 05 2021