FEARLESS

In this podcast, Pastor Jeremy Johnson gives us a powerful sermon on vision with practical ways to confidently take on the New Year. God's vision in our lives is more than something we can piece together on our own. It can be easy to forget that a "God Vision" is more that just a daydream. Vision without action is a daydream. The Bible says, "For we are God's masterpiece. He created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago." Ephesians 2:10. Today we walk confidently in that, believing that God knows our destiny more than we do. It takes action, habit and character to get there. We end our year with an expectant heart and are challenged to view ourselves as God's masterpiece rather than broken pieces put back together again. What are you believing for in the New Year?

The Sunday before Christmas, Pastor Jeremy unwraps a relevant message about the birth of Jesus Christ, and talks about how God gives us presents in unwelcoming packages. Have you ever prayed for growth in your life, and received a trial? Sometimes God gives a present that doesn't look nice to open, but the gift is on the other side of the wrapping paper. Enjoy this podcast by Pastor Jeremy Johnson.

This weeks podcast is featuring a very special guest, Pastor Banning Liebscher from Jesus Culture in Sacramento, Ca. He shares a challenging word on what it looks like to grow in your faith as a believer. We pray that this podcast inspires you towards your development in this walk of faith.

Pastor Jeremy Johnson preaches from a passage found in Luke 10:25-27 about the good Samaritan. In their time, the two words "good" and "Samaritan" would never have been paired together because of the generations of racial divide that was between them. This podcast talks about loving your neighbor. Sometimes we try to find loop holes in our love for others, "I'll love you if.." or "I'll love you until this happens". Today with ditch the loop holes, and pursue love in its purest form, modeled by Jesus Christ.

In this podcast, Pastor Jeremy dives in deeper to the concept of being whole. The text can be found in Matthew 20:1-16. This parable speaks to us so often, because sometimes we feel like we have earned more than we have received. This is a challenging topic, but as we learn, everything from God is a gift. By our actions we have earned death, but God's free gift for us is eternal life. Everything that we have is a gift from God, and the sooner we see that, the sooner we can have an attitude of thankfulness. We hope you enjoy this podcast.

Pastor Jeremy shares a timely sermon on praising in the promise. Often times in life we find ourselves reaching out to God only when things are not going well. In those moments, Jesus offers us healing, but sometimes we are not living "whole" until we can circle back and praise him in the middle of our promise.

Pastor Jeremy finishes the Hills and Valleys sermon serious with the Mount of Olives. The Mount of Olives is a place where Jesus often went to pray. However this time was right before Jesus was betrayed, and He knew the difficulty of the process. Our God is a God of the process, not just the promise. Sometimes we must walk through difficult seasons, and troubling processes to get to our promises. While walking through the process, we must have people in our lives that we designated not to just cheer us on, but to support us in our troubling times. However, there is a moment, when we need to seclude ourselves in the presence of God, to find the courage to continue in the process that God designated for us. Enjoy this power sermon form Pastor Jeremy Johnson.

God is not preparing the promise, he is preparing you for the promise. When God speaks something into existence, he speaks to the end, and not the beginning. Just because you are not walking in your blessing, does not mean you are not blessed. In this podcast, Pastor Jeremy Johnson breaks down what it truly means to be blessed by God.

In Deuteronomy 34:1-4, Moses climbs Mt. Nebo. At the top, God shows him the promise land but says, "I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it."

We all have a Mt.​ NEBO ​​in our lives: a ​Ne​​ ver-​E​​nding ​B​​attle over ​O​​urselves. We think that whatever happens in our lives ​must b​ e God's will, not realizing that our own decisions can, and frequently do, interfere with God's will for our life. Thus, we are always in a battle where we try to put our own will above God's. Then, when things don't go our way we are quick to blame God for the bad in our lives. We don't realize that the reason things turned out that way was ​because we were fighting God's will in the first place.

Relinquishing control over our lives can be scary. Like the Israelites who doubted God, the fear of failure can be so terrifying that we opt for the comfort of slavery instead of trusting God to free us. God doesn't ​just​ want to free us, though. God has great plans for our lives but we need to trust him​ ALL the way​ ​​if we want His promises for our lives to be fulfilled. Moses didn't bring the Israelites out of Egypt for them to die in the wilderness; he believed in God's promises and we need to too! However, Moses broke faith with God and, as a result, though God showed him the promise-land, God did not let him enter into it.

Giving God control is not about choosing what area of life—or how much of one area—you're going to give him. Choosing to hold back a part of your life is still you maintaining control over your life. God ​wants​ to release his will into our lives—if only we let him. We always want to do things our way because it's more comfortable but God is close to those who trust him and when you do, you realize that He is the ultimate source of comfort. We forget that when we partially obey him, we partially disobey him as well. That disobedience gets in the way of His will and prevents us from entering our own promise-land, like it did with Moses.

Jesus was constantly checking in with God to make sure that God's will was being done—not his human one. The Lord's prayer even says, "​THY will be done."​ Giving God control so that His will can be released into our lives isn't easy, but God is always one prayer away.