Sunday, November 9, 2025
Good morning Church
I’ve heard it said, “Never put a period where God puts a comma.”
When the messenger came with news that Lazarus was sick, Jesus responded saying, "This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God.”
God’s ways of doing things are not the same as our ways and rarely is His timing the timing we would choose. But we can rest assured that His ways are always for our best and for His glory.
Isaiah 55:8 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD.”
To everyone’s surprise, Jesus didn’t drop everything and go running to Lazarus’ bedside. If He had, the gospel would likely contain another account of a healing. Instead, He delayed his trip. But with God, delay does not equate to denial. In fact, His delay elevated the situation from a healing to a resurrection.
It’s not over until God is done! But often, there is a gap of time after the comma and before the period. What we do in that gap matters. We can grumble, complain, and wallow in self pity while we prolong the misery by the words of our mouth. OR, we can worship our way right into the provision that God has already prepared for us.
What we do in the gap matters! See you at church.
Sunday, November 2, 2025
Good morning Church
On Friday evening, Deborah taught on praying out the goodness of God; specifically on how our words of faith set God into motion to perform His Word, and how when we praise God for what He’s already provided for us, that’s a way of speaking our words of faith.
She shared from a Nancy Dufresne book that when we worship Jesus as our Healer, our Provider, our Victory, that’s what He will be for us.
“Our worship invites Him to be what we need Him to be for us. What we worship Him for is what we have faith for, and He can only manifest what we have faith for. That goes for a local church, too. If a church worships Him as Provider, His provision will flow abundantly. In fact, a congregation can worship their way into the provision God has made for them - lands, buildings, equipment, furnishings.” - N Dufresne
Let me say that again. As a congregation, WE can worship OUR way into the provision God has made for us - lands, buildings, equipment, furnishings
The intensity of our praise reflects the depth of our faith, which determines the magnitude of our breakthrough.
Eagles Nest, what are we waiting for? See you at church!
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Good morning Church
Imagine living a life of Radical Gratitude!
Radical, by definition, means “very different from the usual or traditional.”
Radical gratitude is more than the usual gratitude that says thank you at the McDonald’s drive-through, or acknowledges when a driver lets you cut in. While it is good to be grateful for every act of service or kindness, that kind of gratitude is conditional and short-lived.
Radical gratitude, on the other hand, pervades our very being. Its there when we open our eyes in the morning, simply because we opened our eyes. It is not conditional to perfect circumstances, but is present in spite of imperfect happenings. It’s possible because of a radically good God living on the inside of us. Radical gratitude is not an event – it’s a lifestyle.
The Bible tells us in Ephesians 5:20 that we are to give thanks ALWAYS for ALL things to God the Father.
Sean recently taught a message on gratitude in which he said, “Gratitude responds by giving thanks. You don’t think your thanks – you express it. If gratitude is in my heart, it needs to be obvious somewhere outward.”
Lets think about what our typical outward expression of gratitude to God looks like. Then, lets re-imagine what it would look like to express some radical gratitude this morning!
See you at church!
Sunday, October 19, 2025
Good morning Church
John 11:3 tells us that Mary and Martha sent someone to tell Jesus, “Lord, the one you love is sick.”
In a devotional I read this week, the writer emphasized the fact that the messenger did not say ‘The one who loves You is sick’; He said, ‘The one You love is sick.’ When He heard the cry for help, Jesus responded, not because Lazarus loved Him (although he did), but because He loved Lazarus.
“The power of the prayer does not depend on the one who makes the prayer but on the one who hears the prayer.”
Jesus was – and is – moved by compassion, motivated by love, and holds all the power. So when we come to Him and tell Him that someone He loves is sick, or lonely, or depressed, He hears us and He responds. And all the power of heaven backs Him!
In everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God (Phil 4:6)
...and then Love does the rest.
Lets bring our requests and our thanksgiving this morning, and prepare to be amazed!
See you at church!