THE ALTAR OF ROUTINE | 1 Samuel 4

Pastor Robert delivers a powerful message that challenges us to examine the difference between religious routine and a genuine relationship with God.

Using 1 Samuel 4 and Ephesians 5:15-17, Pastor Robert shows us how easy it is to become spiritually comfortable and begin operating on “autopilot.” Prayer, worship, church attendance, serving, giving, and reading Scripture are all good things, but they were never meant to replace our dependence on God.

Israel’s response to defeat reveals the danger of relying on what worked before. Instead of seeking God, they brought the Ark of the Covenant into battle, turning a previous experience of God’s faithfulness into a formula for victory. They knew the routine, the history, and the things of God, but they had lost their dependence on God Himself.

The story of Eli and his sons also reminds us that our relationship with God impacts the next generation. Our children and those around us are watching not just what we say about God, but how we depend on Him in our everyday lives.

Pastor Robert asks three important questions:

1. When you feel defeated, what do you run to?

2. Will you wait for God to answer?

3. Does your routine bring shackles or freedom?

We don’t want to simply know how to have church, worship, pray, or read Scripture we want to know Jesus. The victory isn’t found in what we know or what we repeatedly do; the victory is found in who we know.

The routine didn’t save Israel. The Ark didn’t save Israel. Their history didn’t save Israel. They needed God. And today, we need Jesus.

WHY ENTHRONED?

Why are we here? What does giving have to do with being ENTHRONED?

For this special dedication service, Dr. Steven Benavides delivers a powerful word about how Jesus elevated the conversation about giving beyond percentages and obligations and brought it back to core values: faith, mercy, and righteousness (Matthew 23:23).

From the Mosaic Law to the examples of Abraham and Jacob, and from Malachi’s teaching on generosity to Hebrews’ picture of Christ as our High Priest, Scripture reveals that giving has always been about more than money. It reflects our trust in God, our recognition that He is our Provider, our desire for His presence, and our commitment to righteousness.

Ultimately, the question isn't simply, “How much should I give?” The deeper question is, “Who is on the throne?”

When Jesus is enthroned in our lives, our finances, possessions, priorities, and generosity come under His Lordship. Giving becomes more than an obligation it becomes an expression of worship, faith, and surrender.

We don't give to put Jesus on the throne. We give because He is already on the throne.

Overflowing with Worship | Romans 12:1-3

Pastor Robert delivers a powerful word about how to truly worship the Lord in the sermon titled “Overflowing with Worship.”

What does true worship really look like?

Through Romans 12:1–3, Pastor Robert shows us that worship is much more than singing a song or lifting our hands—it is a life surrendered to God. The word worship carries the idea of giving worth, honor, and value to someone, and Jesus showed us the ultimate example by surrendering His will to the Father in the Garden.

Pastor Robert challenges to offer God our bodies, minds, and hearts. True worship requires surrender—laying down our own desires, thoughts, fears, pride, habits, and anything that keeps us from fully allowing Christ to reign in our lives.

Jesus surrendered in the Garden before He picked up his cross. In the same way, God calls us beyond a moment of emotion or an outward appearance of Christianity and into a genuine transformation. We must be willing to pick up our cross, not just experience a Garden moment.

You don’t have to be perfect. You don’t have to have everything figured out. God is not looking for flawless people—He is looking for willing and surrendered hearts, minds, and lives.

1. My Body Broken for Him

2. My Mind Fixed on Him

3. My Heart Filled with Him

The question is: What “worth-ship” have you given to the things in your life, and what needs to be surrendered so Christ can truly reign? Are you willing to overflow with your worship before asking God to overflow with His blessings?

As we wrap up our Overflow series, listen and discover what it means to be Overflowing with Worship.

BE STILL AND KNOW TO OVERFLOW | Mark 6:30–44

Pastor Robert delivers a powerful word about what happens when God asks us to stop moving, rest in Him, and trust Him with what we cannot control in the sermon titled “Be Still and Know to Overflow.”

In Mark 6, the disciples return from ministry tired and exhausted, and instead of immediately sending them into another assignment, Jesus tells them to come away with Him and rest. Before He uses their hands to feed thousands, He first teaches their hearts how to sit with Him.

This message reminds us that there is a difference between 1. Serving Jesus vs. Sitting with Jesus. We can become so focused on doing something for God that we forget God desires relationship with us. Sometimes rest is not a lack of faith—it is an act of faith because we are trusting God to keep working while we stop.

Pastor Robert also challenges us to recognize the difference between 2. A Move of You vs. A Move of God. The disciples could see the work waiting for them on the shore, but Jesus was still in the boat. Sometimes we cannot physically move out of a situation, but we can move our focus, our heart, and our eyes back to Jesus.

Then we come to the miracle of the five loaves and two fish. Jesus did not only bless the bread—He broke it. The miracle and multiplication came through the breaking. The bread was taken, blessed, broken, and then given. Pastor Robert also challenges us to recognize the difference between 3. Breaking the Blessing vs. The Blessing in the Breaking.

In the same way, there are seasons where God allows things to be broken off our lives so He can multiply what He wants to do through us. We want the blessing, but we do not always want the breaking. Yet sometimes the breaking is exactly where freedom, healing, restoration, testimony, and overflow begin.

• Maybe you are tired.
• Maybe you are exhausted.
• Maybe you are waiting for your next move.
• Maybe you are in a breaking season.

Jesus may be saying,  “Sit down. Rest in Me. Put it in My hands.”

The bread was blessed, but it still had to be broken. And after everyone ate as much as they wanted, there were twelve baskets left over.

That is overflow.

Listen to this message and be encouraged to stop striving, rest in Jesus, surrender what you have, and trust that He is more than enough.

Scripture: Mark 6:30–44
Message: Be Still and Know to Overflow

I CHOOSE TO OVERFLOW | 2 Kings 4:8–37

Pastor Robert delivers a powerful word about what happens when something good stops in the sermon titled “I Choose to Overflow.”

In 2 Kings 4, we meet a Shunammite woman who made a choice to make room for the man of God. What started with a simple meal became a room, a relationship, and eventually a blessing she never expected. But when that blessing suddenly died, she had another choice to make: surrender to what happened or run back to the place where the promise came from.

In this message, we are reminded that:

1. If you feed it, they will come
2. If you build it, they will stay
3. Fear God, not His blessings
4. Fight for your birthright
5. Breath on what looks buried

Pastor Robert walks through the power of our choices, the relationships we intentionally and unintentionally establish, learning not to fear the blessings God gives us, fighting for what God has promised, and believing that God can breathe life into places we thought were buried forever.

Maybe you've been feeding something that has been hurting you. Maybe you've made room for something that was never supposed to live with you. Or maybe there is an area of your life that feels completely dead.

God is still here.

• What looks buried to you is not too buried for God.
• What looks dead to you is not too dead for God.

Listen to this message and be encouraged to choose what you will feed, what you will make room for, and what you will believe God can bring back to life.

Scripture: 2 Kings 4:8–37

Message: I Choose to Overflow

TILL YOU OVERFLOW | 2 Kings 4:1–7

Pastor Robert delivers a powerful word about what it means to overflow in the sermon titled “Till You Overflow.”

In 2 Kings 4, we meet a widow who finds herself overwhelmed by fear, debt, grief, and uncertainty. She feels as though she has nothing left, but when the prophet Elisha asks her, “What do you have in your house?”, she discovers that the little she overlooked is exactly what God wants to use.

This message reminds us that:

1. Overflow requires surrender
2. Overflow requires obedience
3. Overflow requires us to be empty

Pastor Robert challenges us to stop focusing on what we don't have and recognize what God has already placed in our hands. The widow had a small jar of oil, but when she surrendered it and obeyed God's instruction, what looked like scarcity became provision.

But the greatest lesson isn't simply about receiving a blessing. The blessing is not the Blesser. God doesn't fill us just so we can keep what He gives us. He fills us so that we can pour it out into the lives of others.

Whatever is filling you will eventually overflow from you. When life squeezes you, what comes out? If fear, anger, bitterness, or anxiety are filling you, they will eventually overflow. But when God's Word, prayer, His presence, faith, and the Holy Spirit are filling you, God can overflow out of you.

Maybe God isn't asking you, “What do you need?” Maybe He's asking you, “What do you already have?”

• What is in your hands?
• What is in your heart?
• What is in your house?

Place it in God's hands and trust Him to make little become much.

The goal isn't just to be filled.

The goal is to overflow.

Scripture: 2 Kings 4:1–7

Message: Till You Overflow

STOP THE FLOW TO OVERFLOW | Joshua 3:1–17

Pastor Robert delivers a powerful word about what happens when God stops the flow in our lives so that He can bring us into His overflow in the sermon titled “Stop the Flow to Overflow.”

In Joshua 3, the Israelites stood at the Jordan River facing something they had never experienced before. They didn't know the way forward, but God instructed them to follow His presence. Before the river stopped, they had to step into the water. Before they saw the miracle, they had to trust the Word.

This message reminds us:

1. The overflow will take you where you have never been before
2. Sometimes God lets you feel what’s against you, so you know who is for you
3. God needs to stop your flow, so He can overflow

Pastor Robert encourages us to trust God when we don't know where we're going, to get our feet wet even when the circumstances still look impossible, and to understand that our waiting, standing, hurt, and difficult seasons are not wasted. Sometimes God is using the very place we want to escape to create our testimony, our breakthrough, our faith, and our next season.

The Jordan was overflowing, but God stopped the flow. He didn't do it simply to make Israel

wait. He did it to show them who He was and to lead them into the promise He had prepared for them.

Maybe God is asking you to stop relying on your own flow. Maybe you're standing at the edge of something you've never experienced before. Or maybe you're in a season where God seems to be making you wait.

• Your waiting isn't a waste.
• Your standing isn't a waste.
• Your hurt isn't a waste.

The Jordan wasn't the destination. It was the transition into the next chapter.

Listen to this message and be encouraged to trust God's direction, get your feet wet, and believe that what God is stopping today may be making room for the overflow He has ahead.

Scripture: Joshua 3:1–17

Message: Stop the Flow to Overflow