Vineyard Richmond Weekly Message

When you are hard pressed – what do you lean on? Who is standing beside you? Who will “Stand by me” when you are in the fight?

Have you ever felt “world-weary?” Have you ever felt like no matter what you do, you can’t make things different? Can’t make them better?

You will only be as healthy and strong as what you take in. What does your time with God look like?

Storms come into our lives; we cannot avoid them, but we can decide how we will embrace them.

It’s vacation time. We need to get away from the pressures of life, to relax. A real change of pace. What do you need a break from?

Scripture tells us over and over that God is near to the poor, the oppressed, the widows, and the broken hearted as well as the hopeless.

It’s an inconvenient reality - we are in a spiritual battle. And some of the things that have been happening in our community of faith are proof positive of that - that there is active opposition to us: our spiritual growth, our marriages, our relationships, our everyday lives.

A shepherd— one who cares, who lives with the sheep, who walks among them, one who heals them. God is here tonight for you and I. He is here because we need him. He is here tonight because he wants us.

We have a God who picks us up and carries us all the way through when we can’t walk anymore. When we are exhausted from the caves we’re in, whether by our own doing or someone else’s, we call out to the Lord and ask him to do the stepping.

When has God not been your favorite person? This is the crux of how we sometimes waver in our faith— when something seems too far out of God’s character.