Pastor Shawn/beautiful Temple Podcast

As in the natural so in the spiritual, God works through and in the storm.

The Bible tells us that our walk with God is going to be a journey of ups and downs. We are continually moving from strength to strength, victory to victory, glory to glory! In between the victories there are struggles. In between the breakthroughs there are battles.

Where is your faith? What are you doing to increase it? Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. It is time for the people of God to increase their level of expectation. God said He would do it. We need to trust and challenge Him

How many of us have looked back at our life and realized that it is only the grace of God that we have lived this long? Car wrecks, drugs, gang violence, drowning and so many other circumstances have taken the lives of those we have been acquainted with, Some of you here, right now you know that if it wasn’t for the grace of God you would have died in that car wreck, you would have been the one spending your life behind prison walls, or you would have been the one who died of a drug overdose. How many know we don’t always listen to wise counsel, (we could have saved ourselves a lot of grief and pain had we just listened to those who tried to instruct us)

Even though what we have seems small, weak, insignificant this is on purpose, because God has designed it so that what we have must be connected to him, to work. The difference is the power of God. It is not your ability, your knowledge, your talent, or the size of your gift or the beauty of your gift that matters All that matters is: How much of God is in your heart. Your heart represents what you have that you’re willing to surrender to God.

It is time to stop allowing the enemy to use the weak and the willing to ruin your walk with Jesus. In the presence of the fool and foolishness, just subtly rise up on your tippy toes as a trigger to remind you that YOU ARE A SON OF GOD AND YOUR AFFECTIONS ARE ON THINGS ABOVE AND NOT ON THIS EARTH. Instead of coming down I will elevate myself higher. You can even thank them for their help.

There are crowds of people in churches across America today. I am glad they are all in church today. But I worry, because the Altars are empty. When people count the cost of discipleship, it's too costly. Do you know that Jesus wants to pull you out of the crowd into the committed today? It will cost you at lot.Jesus said, "It will cost you everything." But it will be worth it all in the end. The fact that you are here shows your desire for Christ. But are you part of the crowd, or are you in the committed? Jesus wants you to lay your life on the altar today.