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okay I see you’re real hot today so that

was more than enough of me but can we

take one second and celebrate the king

of kings and the Lord of lords

hallelujah please take a seat I am so

excited to be sharing with you this

morning and we have a packed out house

this morning so welcome welcome

everybody that may be for here from out

of town we welcome you today and we want

you to feel like this is home we believe

here a transformation church that God

has called us to represent God to the

lost-and-found

for transformation in Christ and that’s

that’s everybody all of our lives are

being changed because being a part of

what God is doing here and so this

morning I have a special word that I

want to share with you but pastor

Michael said it already

it is conference week y’all man it just

seemed like yesterday was time about

what for today though okay with two days

out now we have people coming from 30

different countries to come to

transformation Church first being one

conference we are so excited about what

God is doing here’s what I’m gonna ask

you to do I’m gonna ask you to pray we

have a lot of staff and volunteers that

are helping to make this conference

happen and I’m gonna ask you to pray for

just spiritual emotional physical

strength as we go into this week we’re

going to be giving out a lot a lot of

you are going to be giving out a lot to

different people that are coming here

and we need your prayers thank you in

advance to every single person that’s

coming and serving this week we

absolutely could not do this conference

without you so let’s give it up for our

volunteers that are going to be there

we people taking off work taking

vacation to come and serve somebody else

you are making a difference and you are

changing the game so we are so happy to

be able to do that and also I’m going to

ask you to pray for our lead pastors

they are out this weekend because

they’re preparing to give forgive

messages during the conference and so we

are just asking you to pray for pastor

Michael and Natalie as they’re out and

just kind of refreshing themselves and

getting ready for what God is going to

do this week now are you ready for the

word today we are going into week five

of crazy faith and I do not know about

you but I absolutely needed this sermon

series this sermon series has sparked my

faith like never before to see what God

has done just over these past four weeks

or something that has been shifting and

changing me in my life and I’m sure he’s

been doing the same thing for you we

started off talking about crazy faith in

what God has done at here at TCC and the

miracle that he’s did in giving us a new

building a new arena what an arena

Pastor Mike shared that and then he went

on to talk about how sometimes crazy

faith starts with what we call baby

faith and that baby faith may grow just

to like 51% of being sure you know we

maybe got a will maybe he won’t but

we’re gonna trust him like he is and we

call that maybe faith and then last week

we had a phenomenal message where pastor

Michael actually brought a boat on the

stage and when they told me that he was

gonna do that I was like what what kind

of boat I didn’t know y’all because he

is likely to do anything but he brought

a boat on the stage I talked about how

sometimes God asked us to come out of

our comfort zones come out of our boats

that we have built the boundaries that

we have built ourselves and to walk on

water and we call that wavy faith so

today I’m going into part five of crazy

faith and I’m just gonna ask you to

stick with me I’m gonna start by I want

to share just a little bit

about myself before I go into this okay

so in freshman year of high school I

decided to join the track team and by

the looks of it I should have been good

I mean I got the legs for it round me I

got good I should have been good but not

necessarily as you up but you may not

know is although it seemed as though it

was God was going to make me at athletic

person he did not and so before I had

joined the track team I had only been on

two other sports teams the first one was

basketball the second one was volleyball

okay

I was so terrible in volleyball that me

and my cousin who was also terrible made

a song called Benchwarmers about us the

song was about ourselves okay I was so

terrible in basketball that I literally

made one shot the entire season and what

my dad described me as when I shot the

shot he said that I threw the ball up in

the air and it happened to go into the

net so needless to say when he saw that

he had a daughter that kind of looked

like a stick bug tall and skinny he

thought he had gotten a Lisa Leslie

blessing but he did not he did not get

that so so so freshman year of high

school my uncle my dad convinced me to

join the track and field team and I did

not want to do it but I joined anyways

and I remember I remember being on some

of the relay races and winning some of

those not necessarily because of my

talent but because everybody else is

salad on the team but I remember the

sensation of winning a race it was I

mean our coach will run up to us

afterwards the whole entire crowd was

screaming and by the whole entire crowd

I mean the 20 or 30 people that came

they were all screaming my parents I

could hear him screaming my name I mean

the sensation of winning the race was

absolutely amazing the terrible part

about being on the track team though was

that it to enjoy and to win those races

to feel that sensation of winning the

races it took

every day practice there was no way that

my body was going to be conditioned to

win a race if I did not run like I was

racing every single day there were no

days off and that was terrible our coach

had us practice every single day because

what he knew is our bodies were able to

win a race but only if we trained it and

disciplined it enough what we actually

win that race when it mattered but see

here’s the thing about practice

no one even if you beat your time every

time no one runs up to you and tells you

how awesome you are my cars didn’t run

up to me at track practice and tell me

how great of a runner I was he waited

until the meet to do that my teammates

didn’t run up to me and say Bri was so

glad we got you on the team

that was only if I actually won a race

but I was never going to get to the

actual winning of a race if I didn’t

practice for myself so week five of

crazy faith my sermon title is called

daily faith because here’s the theme we

live in the age of sensation whatever

feels good do it if it feels good if it

makes you feel good about yourself do it

and if it doesn’t have a feeling

attached to it it may not be authentic

but here’s the truth daily faith means

that I even though I want to see God do

miracles signs and wonders in my life

what I know is that maybe month eight

had to get all the way over there to be

able to see those miracles signs and

wonders daily basis every single day I’m

going to take a step towards my faith

growing in that kind of way so every day

I’m gonna read my word every day I’m

gonna have accountability every day I’m

gonna talk to God in prayer every day

I’m gonna send some time to worship I’m

not gonna wait till I get here to

worship I’m gonna actually crank it up

at my house I’m gonna worship by myself

daily faith it’s a production or the

growth of faith on an everyday basis and

sometimes there is no feeling attached

to it because here’s the thing when you

see God do some miracle signs of wonder

in your life everybody wants to be a

part of it everybody wants to tell you

how great you are everybody wants to get

a piece of that pie but the truth is

daily faith

don’t nobody see this nobody sees that I

wake up in the morning I don’t really

want to spend time with God but I do it

out of discipline nobody sees that even

though I feel like my faith is really

wavy right now I’m gonna just sing some

worship song that I’m gonna try to tap

into what I want to see in my life

nobody’s going to come and act give me

accolades for my daily discipline my

daily faith in an age of sensation we as

believers have to make a choice that

even when we don’t feel like it it’s

worth it

even when we don’t feel like it it’s a

part of not just what we do but who we

are to practice our faith on a daily

basis so I don’t have a real sexy word

for you today okay today this is all

about consistency because the thing that

we want to see when we really mean our

faith when it really matters when the

diagnosis comes when the divorce is

settled when the kids don’t come over

and visit anymore when we really mean

our faith to work oftentimes we crumble

and it’s not because we don’t have the

capacity to have that kind of faith it’s

because we have not conditioned

ourselves

it’s all daily faith means every single

day I’m not just talking to God on days

that I think I need him even on the days

I don’t think I need them I need them

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daily faith is what we’re talking about

today so so here’s the thing the enemy

is not afraid of our yearly faith

monthly faith our weekly faith our every

Sunday thing the enemy is not afraid of

that the enemy is afraid that we will

mature to a place that our faith becomes

a part of who we are on an everyday

basis he’s afraid that we won’t just

know of God we will know God that our

time with God is the most important part

of our day not our workouts not our time

at work not our meetings but what sets

us up for all of that it’s a space that

we give God in our everyday lives he is

not afraid of us being aware of God when

we come to church he’s afraid of us

being aware of God all throughout our

day he is not afraid of us feeling the

Holy Spirit are talking to the Holy

Spirit when we get here he is afraid

that while I’m washing my dishes I’m

speaking in tone

we all have the capacity for faith to be

a part of who we are every single day

that when we get out of bed the enemy

already knows its own he already aware

of it because I don’t go into my day to

be the wise to be a leader to be the

husband to be the father without

acknowledging my dependency on a God who

does the impossible all right no I’m

going too fast so today we’re going to

look at a story in the Bible in mark 4

and we’re going to look at this story

that Jesus is talking to a group of

people including his disciples and what

Jesus is talking about in this story it

is things that stop our faith from

growing and maturing into a daily faith

and so we’re gonna talk about three

different things that may be blocking us

from making faith a part of who we are

every single day – these are mentioned

in this story the first one is a seed

and the second one is ground okay the

first thing is seed and what Jesus talks

about seed he’s talking about faith the

first scripture actually says that a

farmer goes around throwing out seed in

other words every single week of this

sermon series there has been seed thrown

out into our lives that’s faith faith

has been thrown out into our lives but

think about the seed though it has an

ability to produce the harvest that

other people can actually feed off of

fruits that other people can actually

live off of but it is not on the seed to

grow itself

see the seed has to be planted into the

ground and it is determined on the

condition of the ground whether or not

that sea will actually grow to his

fullest extent the ground that we’re

talking about is our hearts sea has been

thrown out but it only grows based on

the condition of your heart so today we

are going to examine our hearts what are

the things that are stopping us are

stopping our faith from growing to its

fullest extent those are things that may

be making our ground not the place where

the seed can actually grow so let’s go

to mark 4 and we’re going to kind of

parallel this story to John 15:2 but

mark 4 is where we’re going to first

we’re gonna stay so in this story Jesus

is talking to a group of people and he

says a farmer goes out he’s throwing

seed and when he throws see basically

the first seed grow throws is thrown on

a type of ground

excuse me on a type of ground that that

can’t grow the seed because it’s a

footpath and a bird comes and steals the

seed as soon as the throws that throw

the seed out bird comes till the seed

okay second type of ground Jesus said

the ground was thought the seed was

thrown out but it was on shallow ground

so there was only a little bit of soil

that was fertile and good for use and

for the seed to grow in but then there

was a rock right underneath it so when

the Sun came out the seeds sprouted

quickly but it died because it didn’t

have deep roots okay the third type of

seed fell one thorny ground and the

thorn scripture says the thorns

literally choked the seed out from

growing and then there was a fourth type

of ground and Jesus said it was fertile

ground and when that sea went in it grew

30 60 100 times as much as what was

playing it okay

and so the disciples said alright Jesus

we heard the story that you were saying

but can you explain that to us that if I

was a disciple I would have been that

same person

I heard what said but what you say

already get it what’s talking about

Jesus basically what the disciple says

they said we heard you tell this story

but we really need to know what does

this story mean and this is where we’re

going to pick up in mark 414 it says the

farmer plants see by taking God’s words

to others the seed that fell on the

footpath represents those who hear the

message only to have say income at once

and take it away the seed on the rocky

soil represents those who hear the

message and immediately receive it with

joy but since they don’t have deep roots

they don’t last long they fall away as

soon as they have problems or persecuted

for believing God’s word the seed that

fell among the thorns represents others

who hear God’s Word but all too quickly

the message is crowded out by the

worries of this life the lure of wealth

and the desire for other things so no

fruit is produced and the seed that fell

on good soil represents those who hear

and accept God’s Word and produce a

harvest of 30 60 or even a hundred times

as much have been planted so today we’re

going to talk about what stops our faith

from growing because what we want to do

is we want faith that has grown and

matured so much is a part of our every

single day not just sometimes faith

every day faith but there are things

that will stop our faith from growing

the first ground that Jesus talked about

was the seed that fell on the footpath

point number one things that stops our

faith from growing is damage here’s the

thing in this scripture Jesus called it

a footpath a footpath is nothing more

than what was once fertile ground that

has now been walked on for so long

we have redefined it into a footpath

this is not like oh we want this area to

be a sidewalk less

lay some concrete here and everybody can

walk this way it’s no one person walked

on it then another person walked on it

that another person walked through it

then another person walked with it and

it’s been walk doing so many times now

that is damaged ground

now it’s hard and overtime and because

it’s hardened over time we just

redefined it it’s a footpath now what

are the footpaths in your life the areas

that maybe have become a part of who you

are so much that your faith don’t even

go there I’m not even gonna worry about

that

at this point I’ve redefined this as an

area that God is not gonna touch I’ve

redefined this as an area that faith

cannot grow in so maybe you believe that

God can make you the business man that

you want to be but your footpath is your

belief in how you could be a good

husband I don’t know if I can believe I

mean I I haven’t really seen it done

well so I don’t think that’s my thing

maybe maybe you believe God that he can

make you the mother that you want to be

to your children but forgiving somebody

else that’s your footpath I’m not gonna

let faith touch that fake can’t grow

there what are the footpaths in your

life the areas that now you have go

ahead and redefined as areas where God

will not do a miracle cuz it’s a part of

who you are now I thought about this and

I’m gonna tell you a real today’s story

as I randomly do when I’m up here for me

one of my footpaths is anxiety it’s so

part of who I been for so long that

sometimes it’s just I just I know that

that’s just my stomach usually gets

nauseous when I feel anxious about

something and and my husband knows that

if I say oh my stomach hurts like what

are you worried about now

I don’t never have to go take a

pregnancy test with my stomach hurts I

know it’s just stress okay so I always I

always know when I’m feeling anxious

about something with my son he just

randomly hurts if I have a thought about

it and then my body reacts to it I know

okay this is anxiety well typically

before I preach I always feel that the

whole week before like randomly if I

thought I’d be work busy working and

then I go on preaching this Sunday and

it’s like Simeon Lee my stomach starts

hurting immediately and then I started

reading this scripture and coming up

with what I felt like God was wanting me

to say

and I was like that’s a footpath I’ve

never prayed against it I’ve never said

this is not how I’m supposed to live

I’ve never said anxiety is not of God or

I just like oh I know I’m stressed about

something instead of saying you know

what this is an area that God can

actually change this is an area that I

don’t have to remain like this this is

an area that has been scorecard of Who I

am I have woven into the fabric of me

but it’s not really me it’s not who God

called me to be and so literally I

started praying against it this past

week I said I will not be anxious before

I go minister I will not be strength I

will I’m not kidding when I say this I

promise you I have not had one upset

stomach this festival

not one but here’s what I’m saying

we all have footpaths in our lives

things that have been so a part of who

we’ve been for so long we think it’s us

and God is saying it is not it is not

who I have called you to be and it is

not abundant living and your faith

cannot grow there as long as you have

segregated this off as a place where God

will not move the relationship that’s

been broken for so long you’ve gone

ahead it just push it to the side God

can heal that the conditions in your

body that you feel like it’s just this

is what I’m gonna do it for the rest of

my life God can heal that

but you had to determine even though

it’s damaged now I’m gonna tell this

ground I’m gonna put believe I’m gonna

put my face out there and I once think I

doing a miracle where once I thought it

was just a footpath God wants to do

miraculous things in our lives down to

the details down to the everyday down to

the when I wake up in the mornings not

just the big audacious times when we

need him to hurry up and come through

for us he wants to heal the damaged

areas in our lives and so what I believe

is the scripture talks about that that

the the enemy the same came and stole

that seed immediately when it was thrown

out saying has one tactic and one tactic

only he’s a liar how you know you have a

footpath in your life is when you line

the Word of God up against that

situation does it align with it because

the truth is in God’s Word and the enemy

comes and he brings lies that we have

believed for so long we think it’s truth

but we don’t realize it’s not truth

until we line it up against God’s

word and we can see oh my goodness I

have been believing a lie the footpath

is nothing but a trail of lies what lies

have we been believing about ourselves

so much so that our faith our faith is

falling on hard ground cuz my is hurting

us lies tell us that we’re not chosen

lies tell us that we’re not enough lies

tell us that we made too many mistakes

for God to make work a miracle their

lies tell us that God can’t do it lies

will tell us that God doesn’t have the

ability to do it and it hardens us over

time where’s the damage come from in

your life was the parents that they were

supposed to love you and nurture you

didn’t do what they were supposed to do

the divorce being laid off the kids or

the grandkids not coming to visit you

the business falling flat over time if

we don’t surrender those things to God

they become a footpath and while God is

just waiting on the sidelines waiting

for you to believe in him waiting for

you to surrender that thing to him

waiting to work a miracle right there

we’re like no not that space you can

work over here but not over here because

it becomes hardened over time but the

truth of God’s Word in John 15 and 16

and I love this scripture Jesus is

talking here and Jesus says you didn’t

choose me I chose you

and I have appointed you to go and

produce lasting fruit so that the father

will give you whatever you ask for using

my name the lies will tell you that

you’re not chosen but see the Word of

God the truth says I chose you Jesus

didn’t go around the world talking about

eenie meenie miney moe okay I’ll let her

come here okay

no no no he literally designed you in

your mother’s womb to be here on this

earth as a gift

to those who come in contact with you

but we have to put the truth in us over

and over on a daily basis in order to

break up that ground that hardened

ground that damn is ground and let God

plant seeds of faith in there to do

miracles in place that may be the places

that maybe we have relegated as an

untouchable place

God wants to go in there and do work but

you gotta believe that you’re chosen

that you and I are chosen there is no

room for anxiety when I come up here cuz

he chose me

there is no room for fear when he tells

you there’s no room for worry when he

tells you because when God chooses you

he equips you to do whatever it is he

tells you to do

he doesn’t just choose you and think

okay go run along on yourself do it by

yourself he wants to equip you for

whatever He has called you to do

he chose you and sometimes on a daily

basis we have to remind ourselves I am

chosen I am not a mistake I’m not here

by happenstance I’m here on purpose

to do something that God has called me

to do so we have to identify the lies

that have been damaging our ground and

remind ourselves over and over I’m

chosen point number two what stops our

faith from growing its depth in this

story Jesus said that there was seed

that was sown or planted it’s a shallow

ground these are the people that those

of us that maybe our roots don’t run

deep and so we feel joy and energy when

we hear something from God but as soon

as persecution or problems come we’re

gone and it’s because our roots don’t

run deep do you know what helps a

plant’s roots run deep remaining

standing in the same spot for a long

time every time we uproot the plant and

move it somewhere else and uproot the

plant and move it somewhere else

its roots don’t have the opportunity to

grow deep Jesus is saying to us he said

if you want your roots run deep you got

to remain that means when pain comes you

don’t get to get up and run from the

situation where problems comes you don’t

get to get up and rub in the situation

when you don’t like that church you

don’t get to get up and run for this

from that situation

he says remaining it’s how our roots run

deep and John 15:5 through nine Jesus

again is speaking here and he says yes I

am the vine you are the branches those

who remain in me and I in them will

produce much fruit for our purply you

can do nothing anyone who does not

remain in me is thrown away like a

useless branch and withers such branches

are gathered into a pile to be burned

but if you remain in me and my words

remain in you you may ask for anything

you want and it will be granted when you

produce much fruit you are my true

disciples this brings great joy to my

father and listen I want you to lean in

on this one I have loved you even as a

father has loved me remain in my love

now I don’t know if this is

theologically correct honestly but I

have a theory I believe that in order

for our faith to grow our understanding

of God’s love has to grow with it

because how can you trust someone that

you don’t know if they love you or not I

believe that as I learn and as I study

and as I’ve read and as I read again

over and over and over about God’s love

for me my state in him has the ability

to grow Jesus I say here in this

scripture don’t just remain in me he

said remain in my love if ever there’s a

point in your life I got have had so

many times in my life where you have

questioned the love of God you can

almost guarantee your faith this

question – because when you ask somebody

do you love me what you’re asking is do

you see me do you hear me

will you sacrifice for me are you with

me in or out will you accept me as I am

and and can I trust you

ultimately when we know and when we

understand the love of God our trust in

him will grow to our faith in Him will

grow to and what I believe is going back

to the damage in our life that often

times God is paying a bill that he

didn’t rack up other people have treated

us like we are unloved other people have

acted like we’re unnecessary other

people have felt like they could be with

us or not be with us and because of that

it has made us question God’s love for

us when the truth is God is constantly

pursuing us he said I stand at the door

and knock you know when you love

somebody when you’ll give your last for

them it’s exactly what God did for us

Jesus is saying remain in my love

remaining very simply put is reminding

it’s reminding myself over and over and

over again how much God loves me and his

promises are yesterday man that his

promises will come true in my life but

you’ve got to remind yourself because

the truth is what you put in you will

come out of you how I remind myself is

making sure that the Word of God is not

something I just read on the screens in

this room that the Word of God is

something that I am God but I am taking

it in at all times

whenever I get a chance I’m taking it in

because I’m telling you that’s how your

roots run deep it can’t be that the only

time I’m reading a scripture is when I’m

in this place everybody says it all the

time that the word is the one book that

you were reading and it reads back to it

reads you breathes you back to yourself

whatever they say it reads you but

that’s why I has to be a part of our

daily faith because sometimes you’ll

think you’ll read a scripture and it’s

not that big of a deal and it was

probably a little boring and then later

on in life when you actually need it

that’s cursor comes back to your mind

it’s always important for us that we

remain in the love of God that we are

reminding ourselves over and over and

over again how much God loves us and how

he has promises that are for us it’s a

part of our daily faith there are

certain things that we make sure are

part of our everyday I’m pretty sure at

least 98% of every person in this place

brush their teeth today

ninety-eight oh man I mean

if people talking to you from a distance

they’re the 2% there are certain things

that we make sure are part of our

everyday because we know how important

they are this is the thing about God’s

Word it’s so important it changes us

from the inside out we’ll be a totally

different person if we take make it a

part of our everyday life we have to

remain we have to stay grounded a plant

a tree can come up against any kind of

weather if its roots run deep any kind

of problem if its roots run deep it will

have to get pulled up out of the ground

as quickly if its roots run deep and so

that’s why it’s important for us to

remain in God’s love

point number three what stops our faith

from growing point number three is

distractions this is a part of the

scripture where Jesus story where Jesus

says the sea was thrown when thorny

ground and the thorns literally choked

out the seed in John 15 and 2 it’s the

same scripture we kind of been going

back and forth to Jesus is talking here

and he says God cuts off every branch of

mind that doesn’t produce fruit and he

prunes the branches that do not bear

fruit so they would produce even more

pruning means to remove anything that is

unnecessary or unwanted in our lives so

in order for us to really see our faith

grow in the way that it should grow

there are some distractions that we’re

going to have to prove so friends we

might have to prune some hobbies we may

have to prune some attitudes we may have

to prove the things that are distracting

us because faith grows when we focus in

when we spoke his head and we stand

unwavering what God can do in our lives

but the problem we’re focusing in is our

peripheral vision

the things that come on the side of us

the worries the problems their attitudes

the people that come to distract us from

what God wants to do in our life and so

my question for you today is what needs

to be proved what’s stopping your faith

from growing because it’s standing in

your peripheral it’s taking your eyes

off the promises of God those things are

pruned and Jesus says so you can grow

more fruit pruning is not fun

pruning may hurt a little bit pruning

changes your entire environment but

pruning helps you grow more fruit and so

it’s important for us to see what are

the things that may be distracting us

from our faith growing to the level that

it can grow here is the thing about

faith faith grows and discipline

discipline isn’t fun you know nobody

even likes the word no ones like I’m

disciplined like please like weird flex

nobody nobody goes around telling people

how disciplined they are but we see it

in their fruit and the lives of people

that are disciplined in the lives of

people where faith is a part of who they

are every single day we see it in their

fruit we see joy in the midst of sorrow

we think peace that goes beyond

understanding we see them loving people

that feel like they’re unlovable we see

that in the fruits of these people and

we want to be these people faith grows

in discipline discipline is doing it

even when it doesn’t feel good but you

know it’s necessary discipline is doing

it even when it doesn’t give you any

thrills and you get no attention for it

and yet still you know it’s necessary

Jesus he showed us this in Scripture

Jesus he modeled this because just like

Jesus just like you and I jesus was a

human

but you see when Jesus started his

ministry he fasted for 40 days and 40

nights and while he was in the

wilderness a nd tried to tempt him and

Jesus said no it is written every single

time the enemy tried to lie to Jesus and

create damaged ground in him Jesus came

back with it is written he came back

with the truth Jesus didn’t allow people

to come and do whatever they want to do

in his life Jesus he proved himself of

distractions

it’s that Jesus withdrew often he got

away from the crowds often intentionally

because he knew they would distract him

from his faith being what it needed to

be because daily face sustained Jesus

Jesus didn’t tell you and I to remain in

his love without showing us that he does

the same thing he said as I remain in my

father’s love remain in my love Jesus

showed us by example that in order for

our faith to grow on a daily basis we

have to identify the damage what are the

lies that we believe in order for our

faith to grow on a daily basis we have

to remain in the love of God and grow

some deep roots in order for our faith

to be on a daily basis we have to prune

distractions and get rid of the things

that are taking our focus off of God

what I love about Jesus is that when he

went on the cross for you and I

Jesus had he said seven different things

the last thing he said was a faith

statement showing us over and over again

that his faith his daily faith sustained

him so much why he was on this earth

that even to his last breath he spoke of

faith in Luke 23 and 46 the last thing

jesus said on the cross it says then

Jesus shouted father

I entrust my spirit into your hands

and with those words he breathed his

last how do you want to live this life

do you want to see everything that God

can do in you do you want your faith to

grow so much that it produces 30 60 100

times as much as you plan it do you want

your faith to be so overflowing so

explosive that other people can feed off

of it

other people can be sustained off of

your daily faith we got to make faith a

part of our everyday lives because this

whole entire sermon series could be a

fantasy for somebody could be a shoulda

coulda woulda

for somebody or it can be reality it can

be how you live your life every single

day we have to spend time in prayer

every day reading your word and worship

intimacy with God because slowly and yet

surely we will see our faith grow to a

place where God is doing miracles signs

and wonders in our lives

well we can believe God for anything

even the details

let’s pray God I thank you so much for

your word thank you God that your word

will change us from the inside out the

guy your word comes to sustain us God is

not just a book that we read Lord but it

is something to help sustain us in every

day life today God we surrender our

damaged ground to you today god we ask

you word to help us prove the

distractions in our lives we asked you

God to help our roots run deep we love

you Lord and we are so grateful for the

many promises that you share with us the

many promises that will change us from

the inside out

thank you that our faith is daily faith

in the name of Jesus we pray amen

I’m gonna ask you actually to keep your

head down in your eyes close we are

going to to open up this opportunity for

someone who maybe maybe you slipped away

from your relationship with God or maybe

you you never had a relationship with

God and today you want to receive the

gift of salvation this gift has changed

so many of us in so many ways and today

maybe is a start of your daily faith we

want to take the opportunity if we

didn’t take this opportunity we wouldn’t

be doing what we were called to do as a

church

provide space for people who want to

enter into a relationship with Jesus

Christ if that is you today I’m gonna

ask you to repeat after me in action I’m

gonna ask everybody to repeat as me

because we don’t pray by ourselves here

repeat after me say dear lord thank you

for the gift of salvation a gift that

changes me cleanses me and heals me I

believe that your son

died on the cross and rose from the

grave so I can have freedom in him today

I receive salvation and my life is

forever changed in the name of Jesus we

pray amen