Feeling or Father | Season 14 Episode 7 | Pastor Ryan McVety

Your feelings are real. But they were never meant to rule you.

In this episode of The River Worship Podcast, Pastor Ryan McVety delivers a bold and timely message confronting one of the greatest idols of modern culture: the idol of feelings.

From Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane to Paul’s teaching in Galatians, this sermon explores the daily spiritual tension between flesh and Spirit, feeling and Father.

Main Movements:

• There Are Only Two Directions You are either walking toward the flesh or toward the Spirit.

• What You Feed Grows Your emotional rehearsals become your spiritual realities.

• Jesus Felt Deeply but Trusted Fully The issue is not what you feel. It is what you enthrone.

Scriptures Referenced:

Matthew 26:36–39

Galatians 5:16–17

Galatians 6:8

Romans 8:6

Proverbs 4:23

Jeremiah 17:9

If you have been exhausted by anxiety, insecurity, fear, or emotional swings, this episode will re-anchor you in truth.

Choosing your feelings feels natural. Choosing your Father unlocks the supernatural.

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Title: You’ve Got the Wrong Guy

Have you ever sensed God nudging you toward something and immediately thought, “This cannot be for me”?

In this episode, we unpack the story of Moses in Book of Exodus 3–4 and explore what really happens when insecurity collides with calling.

Moses asked, “Who am I?” God responded, “I AM.”

In This Message:

1. Why insecurity often shows up at the door of destiny
2. Why the pressure you feel is rooted in thinking it depends on you
3. How God’s presence, not your ability, carries the assignment

This message will help you:

• Stop disqualifying yourself

• Take obedient steps without waiting to feel confident

• Rest in the sufficiency of the Great I AM

You may feel like the wrong person. But with God, you are never standing alone.

Listen, share, and take your next step.

Scary Love: 3 Questions That Will Change Your Relationships

Love can be terrifying.

The fear of choosing wrong. The fear of losing it.

The fear of asking someone to be what only God can.

In this message from Ecclesiastes 4:9–12, we walk through three defining relationship questions:

1. What are you really looking for?
2. How do you find it?
3. How do you keep it?

You’ll discover: • Why attraction cannot be your main filter • Why becoming matters more than searching • Why God must be the third strand • How to build a relationship that withstands attack

The goal isn’t one date. It’s one lifetime.

Seek first the Kingdom, and let God build what lasts.

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I NEED A SECOND – Pastor Larry Brey

Have you ever felt like everything was happening at once and you just needed a moment to breathe?

In this sermon, Pastor Larry Brey unpacks a powerful biblical theme: when God’s people are overwhelmed, God provides strength—often through people, prayer, or divine interruption.

Through the stories of David and Jonathan, the honest cries of Psalm 13, and Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, this message reminds us that asking for a second doesn’t mean you’re failing—it means you’re human.

This episode will encourage you if:

• You’re emotionally exhausted

• You feel surrounded or under pressure

• You’re waiting on God and need renewed strength

• You’re learning to trust God in the delay

🎧 Listen now and be reminded: God sees you, God hears you, and God strengthens you.

Have you ever looked back on your life and thought, “Wow… I see it now”?

In this message, Pastor Ryan McVety teaches from 2 Kings 6 and reveals how spiritual vision, not circumstances, determines how we experience victory.

Elisha’s servant thought they were surrounded by the enemy — until God opened his eyes.

This sermon will encourage you if:

• You feel under attack or overwhelmed
• You’re questioning where God is in the middle of pressure
• You need a reminder that heaven is closer than you think

You’ll learn why:

• Resistance can be evidence of progress
• God is surrounding you even when you can’t see Him
• Who you trust determines what you see
• There is always more happening than meets the eye

🎧 Listen now and let God shift your perspective.

You may walk away saying, “I see it now.”

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Faith doesn’t skip to the miracle, it prepares for it.

In this episode, Pastor Ryan McVety delivers a timely message titled Faith Doesn’t Skip, teaching that genuine faith isn’t about giant leaps but daily obedience. Rooted in Proverbs 21:31, this sermon reminds us that while victory belongs to God, preparation belongs to us.

God doesn’t give us the full roadmap, He gives us illumination for the next step.

This message challenges listeners to stop waiting for breakthrough before changing behavior and instead live in faithful obedience now, trusting that God is working ahead of us.

If you’ve been praying for change, direction, or breakthrough, this message will reshape how you walk it out.

🎧 Listen now and grow your faith, one step at a time.

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Peace doesn’t always come from adding more, it often comes from canceling what doesn’t belong.

In this Season 14 premiere message, Cancel It, Pastor Ryan McVety teaches how the real battlefield isn’t external, it’s in your mind. Using the powerful metaphor of noise-canceling headphones, he explains how believers don’t just mute negative thoughts, they reverse them with truth.

Rooted in 2 Corinthians 10:1–5, this sermon will help you:

• Identify mental strongholds

• Take every thought captive

• Replace lies with God’s truth

• Submit your thoughts to Christ

• Walk in lasting peace

If you’ve been wrestling with fear, anxiety, doubt, or mental noise, this message will give you practical, biblical tools to cancel the enemy’s voice and crown Jesus as King over your thoughts.

Listen now, and start canceling what doesn’t belong.

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What’s the Soundtrack of Your Soul? | Pastor Ryan McVety | The River Worship Season 13 Episode 14 Season Finale

Watch this Powerful Christian Sermon on Focus, Faith & Overcoming Anxiety

Spotify Wrapped just exposed your listening habits… but what if Heaven released the Wrapped of your mind?

Pastor Ryan’s message asks a question that will define your entire spiritual life:

👉 What is the soundtrack of your soul? 👉 What have you been putting on repeat—praise or pity, worship or worry, the voice of Heaven or the voice of anxiety?

In this transformative sermon, Pastor Ryan McVety breaks down a life-changing biblical principle:

1. What You Magnify Will Multiply

Your mind is never silent. The soundtrack you focus on—fear, stress, comparison, or God’s promises—becomes the soundtrack of your soul. David says in Psalm 34, “O magnify the Lord… let His praise be continually on your lips.” Because what you stare at grows, and what you magnify multiplies.

2. What Voice You Magnify Determines Your Steps

Just like Jesus in Matthew 3–4, you are constantly choosing between two voices: ⚡ The voice of Heaven (“You are My beloved”) ⚡ The voice of hell (“If you really are…”)

Your “Top Artist” this year—your dominant internal voice—will shape your decisions, your confidence, and your destiny.

3. Peter Shows Us the Power of Focus

In Matthew 14, Peter walks on water as long as his eyes are on Jesus. The moment he magnifies the storm, he sinks.

Same storm. Same waves. The only difference? Focus.

When you magnify Jesus, you step into miracles. When you magnify fear, you sink in the very thing God called you to walk over.

A New Soundtrack for Your Soul Begins NOW

Fear, anxiety, shame, comparison—these have been the “Top Songs” in too many minds this year. But tonight, Heaven releases a new soundtrack:

Faith. Peace. Courage. Identity. Jesus.

He is the voice that affirms you. He is the One who sees you in every storm. He is the One who catches you when you fall. And He is the One who calls you forward: “Come.”

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Episode: S13E12 — BOUND BY LOVE | Pastor Ryan

In this powerful message, Pastor Ryan breaks down a single verse that has the power to change everything:

Hebrews 12:2 — “For the joy set before Him… He endured the cross.” And that joy… was YOU.

This episode explores:

• Why Jesus chose the cross when He could've stepped off at any moment

• What the cross reveals about your worth and identity

• The origin of sin in the Garden and the cost of free will

• Why God would pay the highest price ever paid—His Son—for YOU

• The dangerous things we bind ourselves to (fear, shame, addiction, comparison)

• The invitation to be bound to Christ the way He was bound by love for us

You’ll be reminded:

✨ You are not an accident

✨ You are not too far gone

✨ You are not disqualified

✨ You are not condemned

✨ You are LOVED—deeply, fiercely, eternally

Christ stayed on the cross not because He had to… but because He WANTED to. Your freedom was worth His suffering. Your healing was worth His wounds. Your life was worth His death.

At the end of this message, Pastor Ryan leads listeners into a moment of decision—an opportunity to step into freedom, break every chain, and experience the love of God personally.

If you walked in bound, you’re walking out free.

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Title: BOLD MOVE Speaker: Pastor Stephen Finch - Elevation Church GTA

What if one bold step of obedience could change someone else’s eternity?

In today’s message, Pastor Stephen Finch teaches from Daniel 6, reminding us that bold faith isn’t just something we believe — it’s something we live out loud.

🎯 Message Highlights:

🔹 Open a Window Live your faith publicly and unapologetically. Simple actions inspire kingdom conversations.

🔹 Be Great Do everything with excellence — because excellence brings glory to God.

🔹 Don’t Do It Alone Even Daniel needed godly community. We grow stronger when we walk together.

📌 Scripture References:

• Daniel 6:3–10
• Daniel 6:26–27
• Daniel 2:17

💬 Listen now and be encouraged to take your next bold move for Jesus.

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