Grace Assembly Sermon Series

Today we are joined by our founder pastor Mike Oney. Leaning on both personal experience and biblical examples, Pastor Mike speaks today about what happens in our life during seasons of change or transformation. We will all experience them and the Lord uses these times for our good.

We start service by recognizing our Youth that graduated High School this year:

Jouana Garcia

Mya McBride

Jordan Stitt

We then pray over Chhaya Lama as she leaves us for a little while to finish her Master's degree.

Pastor John then goes to John 13 as through the Word, the Lord can help us navigate life. It deals with the matters of our heart and the human spirit. Looking to the Last Supper, Jesus knows His betrayer and He knows He is betrayed and yet He does something amazing. Jesus then sets the bar for us - serve each other.

Today Pastor John wants to deal with hopelessness. Situations and life seem too overwhelmingly hard. And we foamy get there by going into the Valley of Common Sense or the Valley of Logic.

Going to John 17, Pastor John looks at a prayer of Jesus - a prayer for us even before we were born - that we may have His joy fulfilled in us. Like the dry bones, He wants to put new life in us. So dry bones, hear the word of the Lord and be refreshed by Him.

Starting in Luke 24, Pastor John talks about the promise of the Father, power from on high, His Holy Spirit and the fullness of His friendship and indwelling.

Pastor John starts the service by inviting Dave MacLaren to offer a word and prayer of rededication of this body and our nation to the Lord.

Pastor John then goes to 2 Chronicles 7 to begin an exhortation for the Lord's people called by His name.

About a month ago, Pastor John went to Luke 4 to remind us the devil looks for an opportune time to tempt us. But Pastor John wants us to learn from 1 Peter 5 that at the proper time the God of all things will exalt, restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish us.

After an extended period of receiving multiple words from the Lord, Pastor John then goes to 1 Peter 4 to help us gain an eternal perspective and to love.

From the opening prayer, to offering, worship, and the messages, our Youth take over service today and lead us in our time with the Lord.

Service starts with the Human Video from Fine Arts. Then Vanessa Stitt, Skyler Stitt, Blessing Otte, Faith Dossou, and Arrington Johnson lead worship. Finally, each with their own unique message to offer, Skye Hawley, Joanna Garcia, Vanessa Stitt, Arrington Johnson, Jason Van Der Watt, and Zachary Thrift bring testimonies and a word from the Lord.

Service starts with Greg and Michelle Pomarico dedicating their son Shiloh to the Lord.

Then reminding us of last week's message, Pastor John states that the thing you dwell on the most is probably the thing you have the most faith / belief in.

Returning to John but chapter 14, Pastor John talks about unfulfilled expectations and how these easily turn into no faith. If we need proof, we missed a fundamental aspect of faith and probably blocked our blessing. Instead, trust in God and don't be troubled.

Going to chapter 4 of Luke's gospel, Pastor John looks at the temptation of Christ to demonstrate how our enemy uses his greatest weapon against us - his words at opportune times. And Jesus brought order to the trouble, the chaos Satan sought to create, by using the Word.

Likewise, God wants to bring order to our chaos, not remove us from it. We know we can trust Him and His power. Going to Genesis 1, Pastor John reminds us He brought order out of the universe's chaos. If He can bring order to the universe, how bad can our trials be to Him?

It comes down to one question - where is our faith?