The Source Church

In today’s society men are living under tremendous pressure 

These pressures and responsibilities are very real, and often part of life as a man. But how we handle them is the key.

Your situation does not have to be perfect for God to step in and bring you strength, peace and answers to your current situation. He’s a NOW God with a NOW answer.

Lamentations 3:22-23 AMP

It is because of the Lord’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, Because His [tender] compassions never fail. They are new every morning; Great and beyond measure is Your faithfulness.

Let’s look at what’s causing it…..

Building intimacy with God 

Acts 1:8 Amplified

But you will receive power and ability when the Holy Spirit comes upon you.

The Holy Spirit is the profound power that helps you

- know how to handle decisions

- How to step into divine favor

- How to avoid pitfalls and crisis.

- How to have power and peace in crisis and chaos

- How to see supernatural living actually happen

So what does this look like?

Cancel culture is rampant these days.

Cancel Culture:

a way of behaving in a society or group, especially on social media, in which it is common to completely reject and stop supporting someone because they have said or done something that offends you

People talk online much worse than they would to your face. But God sees what you type as much as he sees what you say! You will be held accountable for every word.

We want to talk about some powerful women today and their journey in the wait.

Every woman in the Bible who waited longer than expected, gave birth to a baby that changed History.

Maybe its not a baby you’re believing for, but instead a restoration, a ministry, a career or opportunity. God’s timing is always perfect if we allow ourselves to trust Him.

2 Corinthians 4:8-9 NLT

We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair.  We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed. 

Whatever your situation - you may be wounded but with God you’ll never be broken!

There are different kinds of wounds - some are inflicted on us out of our control. Some that WE unintentionally caused ourselves. God is able to redeem both!

2 Corinthians 4:8-9 NLT

We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair.  We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed. 

Romans 8:35,37 NLT

35 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death?……

37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

There are different kinds of wounds - some are inflicted on us out of our control. Some that WE unintentionally caused ourselves. God is able to redeem both!

2 Corinthians 4:8-9 NLT

We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair.  We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed. 

Hard times often make us question God - where are you? Are you punishing me? Are you mad at me? Did I do something wrong? Why am I going through this?

2 Corinthians 4:8-9 NLT

We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair.  We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed. 

Have you read a book or watched a movie that ends shockingly bad?

It leaves you in a really bad place. You ask yourself the question, why did it end this way? I didn’t expect this to happen.

Matt 12:40 tells us that Jesus descended to hell, to pay the price for our sins.

But he didn’t stay there! He defeated the power of death, both physically and spiritually.

We’ve been learning to step into our Christ identity, and not allow other identities to take primary place.

- In any of those identities, we are easily pulled into victimhood and bondage.

Colossians 3:11 TPT

In this new creation life, your nationality makes no difference, nor your ethnicity, education, nor economic status—they matter nothing. For it is Christ that means everything as he lives in every one of us! 

So freedom comes when we find that we can have a new identity through Jesus Christ.

Now that we know who we are and how to live in that, there’s a second part we need to now dive into that’s just as important.

Who are YOU? How do we see the people around us? What Identity I put on you is as important as the identity I put on myself.