New City Church - Nashville

The Water We Swim In: Feeling Unseen in a Highly Visual World // Genesis 16 // Trey Hayman


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Do you ever feel unseen? Overlooked?

In this week's message, Trey talks about a powerful story of someone who is taken advantage of, hurt, and used, where she describes God as "the God who sees me."

It's a story about a woman named Hagar and her discovering she was pregnant with Ishmael.

She is the only person in the Old Testament to directly name God, and this is what name she ascribes to Him. What a profound statement about the character of God to showcase this aspect of His character when her world screams something so different.


In this world, it's so easy to feel overlooked, like you have to vye for the attention of others, but what if you aren't only looked at? What if you are fully seen?

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