Spiritual Blessings | Blessed | Part 2

This morning we continued our series, Blessed, with a powerful message from Senior Pastor David Dwight. The ultimate blessing is not the granting of what we asked of God, but the intimacy with Him that grew in the years we prayed for that miracle, longed for that financial stability, ached for the restoration of those relationships, or cried for the healing of mental and physical illnesses.

Whatever draws us closer to God is, in the truest sense, a blessing. He is our prize. As followers of Jesus, we live by a gospel-shaped value system — not the world’s. What culture might see only as hardship, we see as an invitation to experience the richness of God’s kindness and grace more fully.

At the core of every longing is a deeper desire for God Himself, even when we don’t realize it. And it’s in the struggles and in the waiting that He grows our relationship with Him, knowing that the joy to come will be magnified beyond what we could ever hope for or imagine.