What happens when God takes us through 🏜 desert 🏜 seasons? He first gets rid of our comfort food. 

What are comfort foods? Basically anything we run to, to fill a need that has not been God. 

#STRONGERNOW!

God is calling us to let go of those things that make up our immature stages in life and fully embrace maturity in the new year. Mature faith, mature mind & a mature heart. God is calling us to grow up and put aside our childish ways.

Have you been holding on to stuff tightly when all that God is asking you to do is—let go? In our struggle with offenses, letting go of certain things and certain people, God is asking us to surrender fully to His will. Let go, and let God!

"Gradual victory: it won't always come assembled. Sometimes it shows up in form of bits and pieces. But it definitely is coming, little by little."

In this sermon by Pastor Emmanuel Adekeye, we learn that just as a graphical scatter plot is not complete until you 'connect-the-dots', we should never give up this season of our lives, although it seems scattered around with no sense of coordination, we need to wait till God starts to gather it all together again.

"Taking back the control of our minds by channeling the voices we give our focus to"

Stop handing out your minds microphone to the enemy to decide for you what God can or can't do. It is time to take back what is truly yours.

We all have our internal wars. The ones we battle with that nobody can hear or see. The voices of an angry mob living freely in our heads. And more often than not, these voices are at war with the voice of God in our hearts. What do we do then? 

Learn how to INTERRUPT THE VOICES, and come out on top of the situation.

The power of a million little miracles. 

Maybe we all need to take a step back and start to look for the tiny little miracles we often skip, and start praising God for them, rather than wait for the big ones to happen before we do. 

In this sermon, Pastor Emmanuel shows us again from familiar stories in the Bible how we can say we have faith and still sink, and how the enemy has been affecting our faith by attacking our focus. 

The level God has been trying to get us to is not one where all our doubts disappear, but one where we become STRONG ENOUGH to deal with them. 

Picking up from where he left off last week, Pastor Emmanuel showed us the correlation between Peter's broken nets and his brokenness. The moment Christ met Peter, He met him with broken-nets and a lot of brokenness that He was still going to fix and mend. Telling us that, there is no amount of brokenness that Christ can not mend and there is no broken person Christ can not choose and use.

Today in the sermon, we learnt that not only did Jesus' blood pay for the sins of the whole world, it also purchased a piece of land called the "potter's field of clay". It was a place where broken potter's vessels were thrown. And the same amount of money for which Jesus was sold, that land was purchased.