I need you to make a declaration by faith. Every mouth in this room open up and say, "God is with me right now. God is with me right now". Come on, say it again. "God is with me right now". Some of y'all at another campus [...]

This is an excerpt from “The Power Of A Better Question” I'm watching people stuck in survival mode. You get a little taste of tomorrow, a little glimpse of God's best, but the moment you taste the grapes, you start thinking about the [...]

Go to Matthew, chapter 2. I didn't get to this part last week, but we're going to pick up at verse… Well, let's review a little bit of what I did get to. The Scripture in Matthew, chapter 2… You remember the astrologers. We call them [...]

This is an excerpt from “Jump To A New Conclusion” You've been fighting some of the biggest battles of your life alone in this season. After a while, like my dad, you can start going crazy, coming to conclusions that are killing you. I totally [...]

There's a lesson today that I want to teach you, and I want to start at Luke, chapter 1. This will feel like you got a running start if you heard what I preached last week. It's really going to have some momentum for you. We've been [...]

I want to pray one more time before I preach. I want to pray for something specifically. Everyone stand at every location. In your home, stand. In your kitchen, stand. Get out of the bed and stand up in your Tommy Johns if you have to. Put a robe [...]

This is an excerpt from "But Now Be Strong." Has it been noisy in your heart lately? You can't tell the difference of "Whose voice is this? Is this God or is this the Devil or is it just my Twitter feed? Is this God, is this the [...]

One person was saying on YouTube, "It's not a laughing time. Don't you know what's going on in the world"? I had to restrain myself not to comment back. The joy of the Lord is my strength. If I don't find something to [...]

This is an excerpt from “What It Means Is Up To Me” Short-term success sometimes is the ultimate failure. Have you ever seen somebody who got in really good physical shape but did it the wrong way? Then it ended up creating this cycle to where they [...]

This is an excerpt from “Stop Crying, It's Coming!” When you find yourself in a period of reinvention and nothing seems familiar and nothing seems normal and nothing makes sense and nothing matches your prior map of meaning or knowledge, [...]

We love Jeremiah 29:11 in church. If you're new to church, you'd better learn that one quickly. Even the people who only come on Easter will quote Jeremiah 29:11 at you. "For I know the plans I have for you…" Wait a minute. [...]

Abba, we love you today, and we worship and adore you. We're not angels, but we want to gather around your throne like they do and give you praise, and we want to sing what they sing. We want to say, "Worthy, worthy, worthy is the Lamb to [...]

This is an excerpt from “The Father Saw.” This message finds many of us distracted and discouraged. When we come to this point, it is the revelation that the Father saw that enables us to get our focus back. You cannot preach a message like this [...]

Here's what I'm trying to say: let's stop being so quick to categorize people based on what we see with our eyes or where they are in certain behaviors in their lives. Judge nothing before the appointed time. You don't even know [...]

Self-awareness is a wonderful thing. Self-awareness will save you from doing stupid things, but self-awareness, as you're about to see in this text, can only take you so far. Simon is aware of his sinfulness, but he is not yet aware of his [...]

How are you doing, Chris? Have you recovered from tour? Fully. I was recovered last Sunday. I felt good last Sunday. Yeah, last Sunday was crazy. Were you here? God is so faithful. I wanted to mention really quickly how good of a timing this is for [...]

It's about to get good, because Paul is about to let us in on a principle that explains why some of us are struggling with discouragement, and even though we pray about it, we don't seem to receive what we need from the Lord. Let's [...]

Right now, we're going to take 21 seconds for the year 2021, and we're going to praise God for his mighty power and his awesome work, and we're going to do it in Gaston and Concord and Lake Norman and Ballantyne. We're going to [...]

It means Jesus knew what would happen to you in your childhood before he called you into this season of your own parenting. It means Jesus knew you would be at church today, because somebody dragged you, so he could get you this word that he needs [...]

You know God is using everything in your life, don't you? This incident is important, and it's what I wanted to ask you about today as we talk about finishing the year with God's favor. It says after building an altar to God in Bethel [...]

There's sometimes a tension between what you thought God showed you… It's a tension, and that tension is a real gift, because that's where growth happens. It's like, "God, I thought I was going to be married to her the rest [...]

It's okay to care what people think about you. It is not okay to be controlled by what people think about you. In Matthew, chapter 20, Jesus has just finished giving his disciples two consecutive lessons on the kingdom of God. The kingdom of [...]

Worship is worry in reverse. See, worry is when I start with my situation, and then I spin around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around, but God said, "Stop spinning". Instead of starting your [...]

What you face is no match for our God who fights for you. In “God’s Hand Is On You,” Pastor Steven Furtick of Elevation Church reveals that our shame doesn’t disqualify us from being used, it gives God the opportunity to do something mighty through [...]

Most of all, Lord, we ask you to give us the faith to receive your grace in this moment. We believe it's already ours in the name of Jesus. Put it in the chat. Say it with your mouth. "It's already mine right now". Come on! Clap [...]

So, whatever the Devil is doing in your life, he doesn't get the ultimate authority. It's not about the thorn; it's the story you tell yourself about the thorn. Paul could have just as easily come to the conclusion… Because he said, [...]

God's love language is trust. If you were to ask me from just studying the Bible for however many years I've been studying, since I was 16, how God receives love… He loves to be trusted. More than he even loves to hear you sing (and [...]

But we are coming to the following cities: Atlanta, Nashville, Tulsa, Fort Worth, Houston, Orlando, Sunrise, and Jacksonville. So get your tickets now. Some are already sold out but maybe you can maybe you can pray and the lord will answer. I have [...]

But it begs a question, doesn't it? Why would a God who has enough power to take down a giant with a rock leave something as small as a thorn? Why would a God who said you could have mustard seed faith and move something as big as a mountain…? [...]

How many realize that everything people called you is not something you should respond to at this stage in your life? You have to move past some things and see yourself in a new light. At least that's what God told Joshua when he instated him [...]

"I refuse to let unforgiveness in my heart block the future God has for me". He said, "So I want you to forgive, because I'm forgiving. We have to get our minds right". Here's what happened. This is the part of the text [...]

I believe our faith must survive the invisibility stage. The stage where you maybe, like Elijah, have heard something, sensed something, perceived something, believed something that you do not yet see. I spent like $70,000 on my seminary education, [...]

We want to welcome our eFam, our extended family all over the world right now. We're flinging the doors open, the digital doors. Come on in! The church is open! The Spirit is here! God bless you. Turn to the person next to you and say, "If [...]

Great faith doesn't look like you think it does. I don't care what anybody tells you about how long they pray or how much they believe God or how they taught their children how to knit quilts and pray for missionaries at the same time. [...]

Have you ever wanted to ask God, "Before I do this, before I trust you on this, what level of pressure is it going to involve"? The truth be told, if some of you would have known the level of pressure that came along with parenting, you [...]

Maybe when you feel stuck you're building strength. That's the only way you really build strength. It's to get to that sticking point, to get to that point where you can't push through. I used to have this spotter in high school. [...]

I want to go back to Corinth this week. Last week, we were talking about A Troubled Mind and an Open Door, that greatest opposition comes in the moments of greatest opportunity. I believe God gave somebody discernment last week about a door [...]

I wanted to remind you about Elevation Nights, starting on October 26, going through November 4. We're going to be in Atlanta, Nashville, Tulsa, Fort Worth, Houston, Orlando, Sunrise, and Jacksonville. If you know anybody who lives near there, [...]

I'm so glad you came today. I'm so glad God directed and ordered your steps to be here. I have a sneaking suspicion you're about to find out why you had to come to church today, why you had to log on today, why you had to click that [...]

How many times have I sent away something God put in my life because I caught a thought that I'm not enough? They wandered around and around and around in the wilderness for 40 years, not because of their enemy but because of their thought. [...]

What happens to you over time… It's not that you're not grateful and it's not that you're rebellious. That's not why you run. The reason you say, "I've had enough" is because you don't feel like you are [...]

I believe God wants to give somebody permission to copy the original, permission to do it differently. God is sick of your excuses. He is. He told me to tell you. He didn't say it mean like that. He said, "Tell them they have…" Does [...]

There's nothing you're fighting against right now that somebody didn't already fight against. That ought to take away a lot of the shame for those of you who don't feel like you deserve to be in church. If what the man said was [...]

This is a pattern you can copy: to be affirmed by your Father in heaven so that when you are tempted by your Enemy in the wilderness you will have at your core your knowing of who you are. "Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness [...]

Anything God does in our lives, all we have to do is go on our phones and find somebody who is "er" than us…better, richer, stronger, happier, thinner, ripped-er, cuter. This is the one that'll break your heart. You think your kids [...]

Be careful what you copy from other people because you don't see the full picture. I remember watching a documentary last year, and I got so jealous of the person the documentary was about because he had won something like 16 Grammys. The [...]

In owning your doubts, you don't disqualify your faith. "I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief". There are a couple of miracles in this passage. One is that the boy gets healed of his condition, and the second is that the man [...]

Change is external. Change could be traffic. Change can be weather. Change can be something that happens in your body. Change can be something that happens globally. Change happens externally, and it is a situation that is imposed by outside [...]

This is how God provides peace and joy and contentment and faith and hope and all the stuff that really matters, the stuff that doesn't perish, the stuff that doesn't get moldy, the stuff that doesn't get old, the stuff you don't [...]

I want you to look at this Scripture in Luke, chapter 6. I'm going to share a little story from the life of Jesus. Over the last two weeks, I've been unpacking what it means to examine your examples and think about what you're [...]