Soul Care - Self Care #1 | David Marvin

[Music] let's go 2019 oh man yeah 2019 looks good on y'all okay hey we're start a new series for that called self-care we could not be more excited about this series as we dive into a very popular term in culture right now of self-care my most recent experience with the new form of self-care is related to something called the chiropractor I don't know anybody chiropractors people out there anyone over the age of 30 something I had some like back pain recently and a friend was like oh dude you got to go check out the chiropractor so when to the chiropractor with fear and trepidation about what sort of Witch of Endor or witch doctor am I about to walk into right now because the spine feels like a pretty valuable component of the body if you're gonna lose a finger that's one thing if you're gonna be you know forfeiting something with the spine that feels like a bigger deal so I kind of go in there and basically was like hey can we not touch the neck I've heard you know that can kill ya and and so they went through it and I went a couple times and do didn't work I was like I stand before you a healed man I tell you that and and so that was kind of the most recent self-care but dude I love self-care I'm a fan and I'm not just a fan like I'm like a I'm a fad self-care person like I kind of go from one fad to the next along with it of like oh man yeah this is gonna work this time worth whether it's like you guys remember p90x anybody new peanut guy was so creepy to insanity and Sean T or CrossFit any CrossFit people you guys are all eating kale and doing deadlifts together or just you know intermittent fasting is like a new thing I feel like I'm always down to try something new that kind of comes along AdvoCare anybody remember or do AdvoCare yeah I tried I can never remember to take the vitamins I just like would buy them and then throws basically like putting money down the toilet but here's the truth I'm not the only person who loves that self-care like our world is filled we love shelf care and and there's no time of the year that we as a society are more into self-care than really the beginning of the year where New Year's resolutions are rolling out and people are going back to the gym and he got all these kinds of different goals for 2019 so I don't know what self-care looks like for you but our society is really all about it even that term of hey self-care whether its staycations or hey it's it's an excuse to go to the spa or join a yoga class or fast paths or the Fast Pass people in here or borrow classes our class paths not fast fast that's Disney world class path or getting your nails done or just taking a vacation or retail therapy any any retail therapists in here under the banner of treat yourself here's my favorite thing about self-care though if you've heard the expression which is just something a culture it's like it's a virtuous way to do all the things you want to do anyways you thought about this it's like yeah I'm sorry I have to break my commitment and stay home and put cucumbers on my eyes because if I don't care me take care of me I can't take care of you so this you're welcome really is what this is all about I got I feel like I I need this massage right now because if I don't get it I'm cranky if I don't sleep at least this amount then I'm just not me and so it's like a new virtuous way to kind of do the things that we want to do anyways but biblically speaking that would be a little bit more like selfish care if you will but there are things that the Bible says we as followers of Jesus should have in our life to experience self-care said another way there is biblical self-care that the Bible lays out and so for the next handful of weeks we're going to look at some of the teachings as it relates to scripture about how you can be healthier you and experience a better self-care as relates to your mind body soul spirit kind of rest in general so we're gonna kick this off and hopefully I think it's gonna be really really helpful and we're excited but tonight we are gonna dive into the starting point of self-care that if you don't get this thing that we're gonna discuss tonight right then any amount of yoga that you add to your regimen is just gonna be useless or ultimately not gonna be meeting the greatest needs that you have so tonight we're gonna dive into this starting point in self-care if you take notes you can write out starting point at self-care we're gonna be in John chapter four and we're gonna look at an interaction that Jesus has with a lady and in it he lays out three things that are crucial to your understanding my understanding of self-care if you're gonna experience it at any point in your life and in 2019 this year so in John chapter four if you go Bobby you can flip open there Matthew Mark Luke John John was written by the Apostle John one of Jesus's best friends and and he lays out and writes this account of an interaction Jesus has with this woman and we're gonna pick it up in verse four you may have heard the story before but some of the more profound truths that are contained really in the entire New Testament are recorded in this interaction that Jesus has we learned something about him something about you and something about self-care so we're gonna three takeaways we'll start in verse four and go from there now he that speaking of Jesus had to go through Samaria now let me tell you pause here's why this is significant why John is including it so John is basis in have Jesus starting out he had to go through Samaria what was Samaria Samaria was this area I think we have a map that's up here that no one if you were a Jewish person you never went through Samaria there was a phrase in that time that hey you would dust the sand off of your sandals if you got any of Samaria on you because it was an area that was filled with kind of former Jewish people that basically married a bunch of pagans and kind of blended all these different religions together so if you're in the Jewish areas put it back up there Billy in the green and um top in the bottom in order to get to any of these areas you would go all the way you wouldn't travel directly through you'd go all the way around by the Jordan River because you wanted to avoid Samaria it was kind of a rough neighborhood if you will child sacrifice was a part of kind of cult worship there and so this was not a people that got along well with Jewish people Samaritans and Jewish people and yet Jesus does what no one did in that day and he says I have to go through this area and we're gonna discover why here in a second so when he came to a town in Samaria called sicker near the plot of the ground that Jacob had given his son Joseph Jacob's Well was there and Jesus tired as he was from his journey he sat down by the well and it was noon so Jesus walking along stops at this town there's a well he sits down by the well and it's noon when it's Samaritan woman came to draw water jesus said to her will you give me a drink because his disciples had gone into food by town the Samaritan woman said to him you are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman how can you ask me for a drink for Jews John writes in parenthesis do not associate with Samaritans and jesus answered and he says what only Jesus could get away with saying if you knew the gift of God and who it is that's asking you for a drink you would have asked him and he would have given you living water I say this because ladies if a guy ever interacts with you as a relational question and says if you knew the gift of God standing in front like only Jesus could say this everything because he's Jesus he is the gift of God and for God so loved the world he gave and so Jesus says if you knew who was talking to you you would have asked me for water but she said sir you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep where can you get this living water are you greater than our Father Jacob who gave us this well and drank from it himself as did his sons and livestock and jesus answered and said everyone who drinks from the well from this water from this well will be thirsty again I'm gonna hit pause really quick because it'll give us a really a launching point into the first idea as it relates to self-care Jesus points out something that all of us it's not that crazy profound that he just says hey if you drink this water you're gonna thirst again that this will not be something that will finally satisfy you or satisfy you for more than even a day it'll be something that you'll have to continue to come back to over and over again but he's trying to launch you into a conversation with this lady and he's gonna use the physical idea of water to begin to say hey there's thirst that you have that you are unable to meet by yourself the first idea I want to pull out from this text is that self-care without Christ or alone self-care is not enough it will not last it won't last self-care without Christ will not last like Jesus points to herself hey if you keep drinking this water it's really simple you're gonna have to come back here tomorrow and the next day and the next day and he's doing so because he wants to begin to talk about thirsts and something lacking in this lady's life because jesus knew who he was talking to this wasn't just any woman this is a woman who didn't just have physical thirst she had voids in her life that she was trying to meet and was coming up empty over and over and over again what do I mean by that a few verses later we're told as they continue the conversation this was a woman who had been married five times and she was sleeping with a woman or with a man who was not her husband today just with a few verses later Jesus in the conversation says hey go call your husband she says I don't have a husband and Jesus says you're right when you say you have no husband the fact is you have had five husbands and the man you're sleeping with now you have now is not your husband what you've said is true five husbands today is pretty rare if you meet someone that southern fifth husband and earth on their sixth suitor there's six man I it's like that's pretty unusual in this day it was unheard of this was a woman that had gone from one relationship to the next to the next and come up empty over and over and over again and Jesus is trying to launch into a conversation saying hey if you try to self care or care for yourself or cope with the emptiness in yourself alone you will always come up empty over and over and over again now this was a girl I mean this is the most clear expression of a girl who is thirsty in all the New Testament you know what I mean about that for anyone who's not used that term which I feel like it's my favorite recent term not long ago I was a little while ago I was hanging with a friend and my friend Jake and he was like we were talking about some relationship you dating and he brought he was like dude that girl's just thirsty I'm like the third like she needs a beverage what do you mean thirsty like no like she's like looking for a relationship but even today we we use this kind of term and this is a woman who if anyone in the New Testament is relationally thirsty it would be her and she had gone from one to the next to the next trying to fill this void and come up empty if you try to self-care on your own whether it's through a new workout regiment whether it's through new goals that you have for this year whether it's through health whether it's through a number of spa days you will always come up empty if you try to just self cope and self kind of medicate with the world and an experience like hey man I just I need a drink tonight or I need this new purse or I need this fill in the blank or I need a relationship you will always come up empty and Jesus is saying that if you self care without Christ you will always find something that does not laugh last because the truth is just like she was thirsty there was a void on the inside there is a void on inside of all of us the you are thirsty and I am thirsty and if we are not aware of the ways that that we will out of that just void or out of unmet desires trying to meet those things you are putting yourself in incredible danger like candidly I have thirst I I can have thirsts inside of me or desires inside of me that are just destructive for me for people around me for my family like a desire for hey just need the approval of people and I just want to be liked but if I let rule my life will lead me to a place where I no longer I'm concerned about the things that God cares about I'm concerned about what you care about the desires inside of my life that could lead me to commit adultery because I want to have sex with women who are not my wife desires inside of me for just money and materialism and man I just need to go make a bunch of money and if I'm not careful out of that I will let that thirst lead me to take actions that will impact not just me all those around me where are you thirsty maybe it's just an insatiable like you you're constantly consumed with what people think about you or your social media or maybe it's a need for control and you have an eating disorder right now are just a loneliness that's inside of you that constantly comes up and if leading you to make decisions like cut I mean pornography you know what pornography then I'm one reason people who study it would say people get addicted to porn or people watch pornography they want to feel desired thirsty and the problem is not necessarily that you're thirsty that's gonna be a reality it is what you do with that thirst and you need to have a death grip on the fact that there are desires and things in you that want to run your life into the ground that want to lead you to make decisions that will lead you into every place from a rehab to broken relationship after the next do you know what those are I have a dog named Judah who is a Rhodesian Ridgeback he's like yeah he's like a little baby elephant he's a hundred and thirty pounds he's enormous and yeah yeah sweet and he he did the weirdest thing this dog will eat out of the trash can while we're gone and and that may be like oh you know that's kind of sweet maybe have an open trash can we have a trash can in a drawer he can pull the door open because he's like six four and he can get his face in there and eat out of the trash can what happens when a dog eats out of the trash he's like I'm hungry that looks good and he begins deep water bottles what happens you might think whenever your dog eats water bottles well it causes some complications and so he it's constantly making decisions and out of hunger eating from the trash which leads to all kinds of exciting opportunities to be a good neighbor and pick up your dog's liquid that's rushing out of him at times and you may be like oh man that's kind of weird why are you telling me this thing here's what will happen because of this decision my dog is what you would call a walking pooper and of course at the appropriate term so because he'll eat trash then we'll take him to the park we'll go outside and there's people all around us any dog owners here you will have sympathy for what I'm talking about so you go around you got your dog you're hanging out the parks as all these kids hey have it's great day sun's outside and then the dog would be like oh man the water bottle is needing to come out but it can't come out so he will just begin squatting and walking around and circling people how do you stop a dog from doing that when you're around people and you're like he's got a water bottle in there and it's uh there's nothing coming out I would get it if it was it's not and literally he was like going around a two-year-old the other day I'm like Judah stop Judas stop it right now oh yeah and you can't stop he's like dude when you gotta go you gotta go and it is causing complications not just in his life for there all those around him in the same way there is something as crazy as it sounds in me that wants to eat from the trash and it's not the trash of you know a trash can it is a trash of pornography it is the trash of finding my worth and other people it is a trash of vanity and body image or trash of hey if I only made more money the trash of man I want to be seen as impressive to people and it is a trash that if you feed yourself that it's gonna have side effects I don't know what trash you are tempted to eat but you need to have have a death grip and awareness on that because it's not just that self-care without Christ won't last it is it self-care without Christ can cost you and this woman had followed that inner urge for relational just connection with one man after the next step the next that to the point where she's all alone or she's living this life where she's not even married to this guy I mean that's why she came in the middle today you don't come in the middle you don't come to a well in the middle of the day at this time the reason she came is because she was an outcast she was an outcast of the outcasts Samaritans were outcasts but even among men you came in the morning to the well to get water and at night when it was cool you didn't go in the middle of day unless you didn't want to see anybody and this was a woman who had made a decision after decision out of her desire and she found herself empty and alone and Jesus says you've got to seek outside of yourself and there is a solution he continues in verse 16 14 I'm sorry but whoever drinks the water Jesus speaking that I give them will never thirst indeed the water that I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life what are you saying Jesus Jesus is using this metaphor of water water is that thing that like the body it has to have your body's like 50% water if you don't have water you will die and unlike food you can kind of last little water without water you will die it's necessary for life and Jesus says in the same way that you know physical water it's necessary to life I offer a spiritual water that if you are gonna experience self-care if you're gonna experience soul care you're gonna have to have something from me the second idea from this text is that self-care with Christ involves soul care Jesus is trying to say I to whoever is interested whoever is willing whoever will receive it I will offer them something that won't just quench their thirst and go into their stomach I offer them something that will penetrate into their soul where nothing else can or like nothing else can it would be such a tragedy if this year you met all of your goals as it relates to health and self-care and boundaries I hope you meet all of them but you forfeited the thing that is your deepest need which is care at the soul it would be such a tragedy if you came here tonight and you had a guitar me laugh and the music was cool but you didn't walk away experiencing relief at your greatest deepest need which is at your soul and Jesus says I alone and the one who can meet that need and self-care without me is foolish it will not last but self-care with me will involve a soul care that is what my desire for you to experience is a relief almost I want to meet you at a place that nothing else in life can touch which is the soul it's not hard to see like so many of the things that we think in life actually would satisfy they never do I mean like just if you think about it I think clear ways that even all of us could probably see this is is a one of them are what's called the like I can't wait until mentality I can't wait until mentality people have this idea I mean I remember having it we're not man I just can't wait till I'm dating I'm dating someone can't wait till we're engaged or engaged can't wait till I'm married oh man it's gonna be amazing we get married and I can't wait till we have kids you have kids I can't wait till we have kids that can dress themselves and sleep I can't wait until they're in school I can't wait time it just goes from one to the next and I don't know where inside of the room I know most of us are either dating maybe seriously dating and if any of that mentality of like I can't wait you are chasing a moving target that just moves along with you same thing happens with money I remember in college when like I just can't wait to have a job unbelievable 30 grand I'm just like throwing money everywhere and then you're like I can't wait till I have 40 grand 50 grand and it never goes away because there's something inside of you that no amount of money no relationship nothing can touch but him but Jesus and he says self-care with me involves a soul care that I want to come in and allow them to experience at the deepest level satisfaction the second place we see it is in just like celebrities I mean you look at these people I mean they're there so you're like you are the most attractive wealthy successful person ever and you work like you make a movie where someone just tells you to read a line for like a month a year you have everything anybody could ever want and the number of them that are on antidepressants is unbelievable just look into it the number of them who have come out from Cameron Diaz to Tom Brady to Brad Pitt to Jim Carrey to Lady gaga Demi Lovato on and on and said like hey if you anything he will satisfy you are deceived I mean just think even about the the idea they've got everything you ever want they've got more access to self care than we'll ever have they get a massage a day they get have their own masseuse they could go shopping whenever they want and not really get worried about it like they're able to go on vacation whenever they want to they own a little small island and they're all depressed or many of them are I think about that you're going to Tahiti in your own little vacation and you're packing pills to help you cope with the depression of your life that's crazy and I'm not saying anything about even antidepressant meds thats not my point my point is the people who have the life that everyone would go oh that's amazing are trying to cope with just the sadness of the reality of their life because there's something empty in them that no success no fame no money can ever satisfy and Jesus would say you're thirsty and there is only one well that can meet that need there was a interview just with Tom Brady who does it again I mean the dudes like 85 and he is just crushing it it's unbelievable Tom give everybody else a shot okay sorry Patriots people and it's true and he interviewed on 60 minutes and basically he said just this exact things the guy who's won multiple Super Bowls he's married to this supermodel and here's what he said why do I have three Super Bowl rings and I think there's still something greater out there for me I mean a lot of people would say hey man this is it I reached my goal my dream my life me I think God there's got to be more than this I mean this can't be all that it's cracked up to be what's the answer they asked him he said I wish that I knew I wish I knew I think there's a lot of parts about me that I'm still trying to find translation what did you just say Tom Brady the guy who's literally got you feel like that's got to be nice he says I climbed the mountain of success and I got to the top and there was nothing there I've been on the wrong mountain it was empty and Jesus would say there is no amount of success no amount of money no amount of relationship there's no man out there there's no woman out there there's no ability to have children or whatever you find yourself being like I wish there's no job that can ultimately satisfy and there's no person who's in any circumstance out there that cannot currently experience satisfaction if it was turn to him Jim Carrey said that I wish everyone could be rich and famous so they could see how empty and meaningless it all is empty so Jesus interacts with this woman and he basically presses in and says you you're coming out you've been married five times one man to the next you're thirsty and I offer you a water that can quench your thirst and he begins to kind of press in on an area that had to be a sensitive subject with this woman and what does she do she does what many of us do when God is kind of pressing in on us and we try to move away from it or change the subject here's what happens the woman said sir give me this water so I won't be thirsty you have to come draw here and he told her go and call your husband we read this earlier I have no husband she said jesus said to her you were right when you say you have no husband the fact is you've had five and the man you are now the man you have now is not your husband what you've said is quite true how long was the pause after that sentence I mean this is I don't even know a modern equivalent now that random stranger shows up and actually tells you something there's like no way that he could know this and she begins to say it sir I perceive that you were prophet I can see that you're a prophet and then she does but so many of us do our ancestors worshiped on this mountain but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem Jesus brings up kind of this very tender topic with her and she's like oh wow okay relational you wanna talk about my relationships while we're on the subject do you you guys say we should worship on this mountain let's talk about mountains and just tries to distract from the conversation in Jesus you gotta love Jesus because he goes with her and he says woman believe me a time is coming when you will worship the father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem you Samaritans worship what you do not know we worship what we do know for salvation is from the Jews basically like God gave the Old Testament the Bible then to the Jewish people yet a time is coming and has now come when true worshipers will worship the father in spirit and in truth for they are the kind of worshipers the father seeks Jesus says you're defining worship as you do worship at this mountain or that mountain or in this church or in this church building or at this time of the week on Sunday worship is not something you do at a building it's not about where you worship or even when you worship worship is something you do in spirit as in constantly worship is more about how you live your life you're constantly living and constantly worshiping if you're worshiping or living in spirit and truth Jesus's forgot a spirit and his worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth the woman said I know that the Messiah called the Christ is coming and when he comes he'll explain everything to us then Jesus declared I the one speaking to you and he we're gonna come back to the second but Jesus essentially today's out hey worship the most important thing about worship is not where you worship but who you worship and how you worship worship is something that's constantly going on and God is not seeking people to worship Him in a building in a moment or not some religious exercise but a relationship self care if you're gonna experience it this year and Gus I want if you're gonna experience self care health growth you to become everything that you want to be in life it is gonna involve the third idea which self care with Christ involves an ongoing relationship with him it involves an ongoing relationship with Jesus a growing relationship with not some religious action that's what he's saying hey in spirit constantly in connection with the Father if you're gonna experience self-care it involves an ongoing relationship which means in order for you to have a growing relationship what do you have to do what do you have to do to grow any relationship takes time communication listening to one another prioritizing if you're gonna experience growing and being increasingly healthy self-care it will involve a growing relationship you will prioritize spending time in God's Word that's what I mean by listening you will prioritize prayer one of the things that is at the top of my list dude I just want to pray more this year I want to continue to just develop the habit of God when my life is going crazy will help me turn to you God will help me pray more I'm about to walk into this meeting I'm concerned about what they're gonna think about me or maybe I'm just anxious or god I can't fall asleep right now will you help me if you're gonna experience a growing relationship it's gonna involve spinning Tom and God's Word spending time in prayer growing that relationship priority it's gonna involve work there's no relationship if you get married or if you are married there's no marriage out there that doesn't take work relationships take prioritization and work and if you're gonna grow your relationship with Jesus it's going to involve this happening I think one of the craziest or maybe the saddest thing so when you read this you're like Jesus says he drink the water I give him you'll never thirst again and there's a lot of Christians because they don't practice what Jesus said of worshiping in spirit and in truth worship constantly having a relationship with God because they don't practice that they're thirsty like you may be a Christian in the room and you're like dude I believe in that yeah the whole Jesus thing yeah Jesus satisfy thirst yeah that's great I mean on that but I'm still empty it's so part of me that just feels like empty it's because you are not taking advantage of what you have access to a relationship with God you're not prioritizing your relationship spending time in his word spending time with him walking with God's people you have access to something that you've started but you're not consistently applying it to your life it's not dissimilar that's member I talked about the chiropractor so I went and while I was there I went three times like in a few days and it was like dude this is awesome amazing and and they were like yeah if you sign up for 70 bucks a month you can have an unlimited pass and like unlimited pass I can come in here anytime unlimited pass done sign on the dotted line I haven't been back since I need to go cancel it but you can't do it over the phone and and if in a year I like kept the membership and you came up to me and you're like hey you know mentioned the chiropractor thing how's that going still a believer I'm thinking about doing it myself and I was like you know it worked initially but it really hasn't worked since I mean I haven't been back since but uh but I don't know that I would really encourage anyone to do that you would say the problem is not with chiropractors it's that you're not going you're not taking advantage of what you have access to the problem is not that Jesus doesn't bring satisfaction the problem is that you are not taking advantage of what you have access to and if you're gonna experience softer it's gonna involve an ongoing relationship that's what God it says in the text the father is seeking you not for you to do some deed once a week and religious act to have a relationship with you that's what God is seeking and if you're gonna experience that like here's the problem a lot of people were like yeah I'm kind of you know I'm gonna follow Jesus I believe in him living water great and I'm kind of experiencing my purpose it's cuz you're kind of following Jesus hey I'm kind of experiencing peace it's cuz you're kind of following Jesus which I may not even really be following Jesus and he's inviting him in I want you to experience the life you were made for but it's gonna involve prioritizing spending time with me in summary of just this idea that self-care without Christ won't laugh self-care self-care with christ bring soul care and self-care with christ is an on-going relationship when i was in college my senior year we had the final spring break which was so sad just because you don't get those anymore and my roommates we were deciding what to do and and there was this girl that i was all interested in and I knew where she and her friends were going for spring break so I was like guys hey look Beach it's gonna be great her and her friends were going to Destin Florida we weren't dating and I was like we should go to Destin Florida how great would that be and they're like with like all the families and I'm like it's gonna be great good family experience together and and convince them we were gonna go to like Alabama and convince them to go way out of a way just because there was a relationship with this girl who's now my wife that uh yeah I know that's me close in prayer okay and just wanted everyone to know that I was going out of my way to seek to be in relationship with her this text over and over talks about seeking there's a woman and she's seeking to fill a void that her relationships can't meet and she's trying one after the next up the next and she's still empty she's thirsty inside she's seeking it says that Jesus was seeking her I mean think about how it started Jesus had to go to Samaria think about that sentence for a second you had to your Jesus you don't have to do anything and he woke up that morning and said I've got to go there's a woman I'm gonna go meet she's the outcast of outcasts she's the woman that no one wants to have anything to do with but the Son of God and he woke up with her on his mind he was seeking a relationship with her the very first person in all of the Bible that Jesus says I'm the Messiah is the most relationally dysfunctional person in all of the Bible and he says I haven't given up on you and she believed that day and story goes honor all of her life was changed because it was a man who was seeking and she responded that none of they did to say that says the father is seeking a relationship with you here's what I know if you're inside of the room right now there's a God who wants something so much more for you than just a message on Tuesday night or a worship song on Tuesday night he wants a relationship with you and from the very first breath you took in our planet he's been seeking you until the last day that you live on our planet he will be seeking you how do I know that because the very same word that it says Jesus had to go to Samaria is used in Matthew chapter 16 where Jesus looked at Jerusalem and he said I have to go to Jerusalem to die on behalf of the human race on behalf of every person that's ever sat in any one of these seats who's ever lived on this planet if you're listening to me right now there's a God who was there who was seeking you you woke up this morning and he is crazy about you he's seeking you you think that there is a God out there that if he's there I don't think he wants anything to do with me I'm a porn addict I'm an abortion I've done it had an abortion I was a part of telling someone to have an abortion on my addict and you think the God who's there didn't want anything to do with you you don't want anything to do with you and he's crazy about you and he's doing everything he can to seek out not so that you would just trust in him though that is enough so that you would walk with him and have a relationship with him this year my prayer for you my prayer for this message would be God would you awaken us to have our ongoing constant growing relationship with you but we experienced a spirit and in truth relationship with the father who's there who's been seeking you even right now there are some of you that are here and a friend invited you and you thought you were going to the porch restaurant you're like what are we doing here the father is seeking you he has not forgotten you he is crazy about you he has given his life for you because just like he had to go to Samaria he says I have to go to the cross because for the joy set before and Hebrews chapter 12 says he died for you and so I don't know where you are I don't know what you believe but there is one man who can satisfy the desires of your soul you were made for it and there is no other well that can and tonight he's seeking you and reaching in your direction all of our direction and inviting us to walk and accept him and walk with him in relationship let me pray father thank you that you are a God who goes out of your way for sinful broken people like me like this woman who had no idea what she was gonna encounter that day but she just went to get water and avoid people there was a guy who couldn't avoid meeting her and I pray for friends in the room who have never accepted that who have never come to just acknowledge or understand that you are not there demanding some sort of sacraments from us but you gave a sacrifice for us by giving your life and dying in our place to pay for all the sins in our past and our present no matter our story you're not done with us and you have been pursuing us in ways that we can't even fully see now but we for sure can see the pursuit of you on the cross and so Lord for anyone who's never put their faith in Christ tonight I pray that tonight would be their night they would not leave their seat they would not leave this building without come into a confident place in their faith and you I pray that you would allow those of us with one foot in the world and one foot out of it that are kind of following Jesus and kind of experiencing peace to take a step in your direction an experienced self-care the self-care they're looking for that the truth is there is a self care that's been looking for us despite the fact that we didn't even realize it a self-care by the name of Christ thank you that you're a God who seeks we worship You Now and song

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Keywords: the, porch, dallas, watermark, church, young, adults, christian, christianity, ministry, movement, jp, todd, wagner, david, marvin, jonathan, fort, worth, ft, el, paso, self, care, soul, thirsty, woman, at, well, jesus, God, faith, relaxing, worldly

Id: INkaZxe2QDY

Length: 39min 33sec (2373 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 25 2019