Have you ever felt hindered by the Lord? Have you ever felt like God is ruining your plans instead of the other way around? Today, Pastor Jeff shows you that if you want to experience growth like never before and be a new creation like you desire to be, let God wreck you with His plans. The moment you choose His plans for your life is the moment that your life begins to bear fruit again. Don’t dwell in your mediocrity and make an impact for God’s kingdom. Sacrifice yourself to Jesus, just as He did for you. 

If you watch how people act in public, you can usually tell what they worship. If someone’s attitude is always about getting money or hitting a new personal best at the gym, you’ll see the fruit of that worship in how they treat others. Pastor Jeff reminds you today that false gods aren’t the only idols that you may worship in your life. Money, political power, and even the pursuit of popularity in Christian culture can all become idols if they overshadow your worship of God. He deserves all your praise.

Do you wish you knew more about how God is going to resolve the world’s problems? Wouldn’t it be easier to go through life knowing how everything is going to pan out? Well, Pastor Jeff reminds you today that it’s not your job to know how and when things are happening. In fact, only God has the full picture of what is going on in the world. Your job, as difficult as it may seem, is to rest in the promises God has given you and have faith that everything will come to pass just as He said it would.

Is the God you serve a real God or a figment of your imagination? You’d better figure that out while you still have time because Pastor Jeff reminds you that every other god besides the one true God is a false one, and they will leave you high and dry when you need them the most. Instead, look at the example of Daniel, who had been given the power to interpret King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream by the God of Israel. His faith in God set him apart from all of the king’s mystics and gave him the ability to gain a position of privilege in the king’s court.

Standing up for what is right may not be an easy task. It’s like trying to swim upstream in a river, it feels like the whole world is trying to push you in the opposite direction. But Pastor Jeff encourages you today to stay the course. If you are really standing for the truth, God will be with you, and He will bless you even more down the road. Daniel and his friends gave up rich food and good wine to be obedient to God, and they were blessed with favor by the head eunuch of King Nebuchadnezzar.

King Nebuchadnezzar was a wise, if evil, ruler. He knew that the way to truly conquer the nation of Israel was not just to take their land, but to squeeze out their culture by forcing them to assimilate into the pagan Babylonian society. Pastor Jeff shows you today how Nebuchadnezzar’s plan was to turn the young Jewish prodigies into his own servants and use those servants to influence the Jewish people. However, those young men were faithful to God and foiled the Babylonian king’s plan.

When’s the last time you felt your faith progress? When’s the last time you felt that excitement that you first felt when you originally gave your life to Jesus? In today’s message, Pastor Jeff reminds you of the importance of always being committed to growing your faith. When you don’t water the garden, you stop bearing fruit and it’s not enough for God to remain in neutral. Don’t just be a traffic cone for God’s kingdom. Be the best version of yourself by giving your all for the sake of Jesus. 

In our faith journey, it’s easy to forget about the vast power of God’s mighty hand. When we’re stuck in our circumstances, how do we get out of our own way and into God’s arms? Today, Pastor Jeff wants you to know that if you want to move on from your circumstances and enter into a life full of purpose, never quit on God. He will never leave your side and is always working everything for your good. Use His power to turn the world upside down in His name. Preach God’s gospel and grow in your own faith. 

Earthquakes, hurricanes, and all kinds of natural disasters can pommel a building and push its foundation to its limits. It takes lots of engineering to make a large building be stable. Well, Pastor Jeff warns you today that just like those buildings, your foundation will be tested as well. If you don’t build a strong foundation on the rock of Christ, you don’t stand a chance against what is coming your way. Only Jesus can give you a foundation strong enough to withstand the disasters of life.

The whole point of the Sermon on the Mount was for Jesus to show the people listening to Him how they could live a life that was pleasing to God, and how they needed a Savior to rescue them from the punishment of death and sin. When you build your life on the teachings of Jesus, you can withstand the storms and the struggles that the world will use to try and knock you down. But if you build your life on the sandy foundation you find in the world, you won’t be able to withstand those storms.