Crisis doesn’t catch God off guard. Even when famine gripped the whole world, God had already gone ahead to prepare a place of provision, protection, and purpose. Goshen was a space of divine difference, where God’s people were covered in crisis and multiplied in the margins. Goshen reminds us that we don’t need to be removed to be redeemed—because God is more than able, right where we are.

3 Questions to Receive all God has for you: God has so much for all of us, but are we in a position to receive it? The blessings of God are not incentive or carrot sticks but ways that he wants us to live day in and day out. These 3 questions will help you possess all he has for you.  

Text: Matthew 5:13-20

1. Are you fully present?

2. Is your Light Shinning?

3. Is the Gospel working for you? 

 In different seasons of our lives, we face circumstances that test our faith in God and His ability to provide for us. The blessing comes in knowing that God has already prepared for our situation long before we entered into it. Therefore, we have a choice, to trust, believe and follow His plans or to complain, doubt and create our own. His plans are always better and more abundant than anything we can contrive by our own hands.

Some things in life aren’t just broken—they’re beyond repair. They’re finished. Ezekiel stood in a valley of dry, scattered bones, where death had settled in. But God didn’t bring him there to mourn—He brought him there to act and to speak. God doesn’t just raise dead things—He restores what others have given up on. God is not only willing—He is more than able to restore. He has a vision for our valleys. 

 As highlighted throughout this series, humanity’s fall corrupted God’s “Very Good” intention for Creation, undermining mankind’s mandate to dwell interdependently and justly with God and one another. As a consequence, self-preservation displaced community transformation as love, mercy, and justice were replaced by hate, prejudice, and politics. However, God’s plan for creation has not changed. This series finale details how the ministry of Jesus serves as the ultimate act of civil disobedience, disrupting the systems of this world and recommissioning us for the glory of God and the "Very Good" of creation.  

Before God ever gave the world a prophet, a king, or a pastor—He gave the world a father. Before there were positions, platforms, or pulpits —there was a garden…and in that garden, God planted a man. Not as a ruler to dominate, but as a reflection of Himself— A cultivator, a protector, a name-giver…Fatherhood is sacred. Not just functional. Not just biological. Not optional. It’s part of the Very Good design of God.

In a year of being Rooted and Grounded, we’re recovering the foundational truths of our relationship with God, one another, and creation. In a time of shaking, we’re committing to become the people God envisioned—whole and holy, deeply established in His love.

God’s creation was never meant for us to passively occupy or consume — it’s always been accompanied by a call to actively participate in its flourishing and fruitfulness. From Eden to now, stewardship is a sacred thing. It shapes creation, reveals our faith, and transforms our lives. What we tend—or fail to tend—forms us and the world around us. 

What if I told you that God created us to rule… but not to dominate? To reign… but not to own? What if our job on this earth wasn’t to take, but to tend? Not to consume, but to cultivate? For generations, power has been used to exploit, image has been reserved for the elite and creation has been treated like a commodity. But Genesis doesn’t begin with a human grasping for godhood. It begins with God graciously giving us a role in His rule — in His very good design. We are not owners—we are image bearers. We are royal stewards, called to make the invisible King visible in how we treat His creation.

In the beginning, God didn’t just create individuals—He formed a world that was woven together in relational goodness. “Very good” wasn’t about perfection; as much as it was about connection. We were made to flourish in relationship not in isolation. God isn’t just saving you—He’s saving us.