Back on Track with My Faith
Saddleback Church Weekend Messages
Saddleback Church
4.7 • 723 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Getting back on track does not start with fixing everything else. It starts with returning to God. Every area of our lives, our faith, health, finances, relationships, and work, flows from our relationship with Him. We looked at the story of Cain and Abel and saw the difference between giving God leftovers versus giving Him our best. Abel offered his first and best as worship, while Cain held back. God is after our whole heart. What we give our time and energy to is what grows. The appetite we feed is the appetite that shapes our lives. God responds to humility and holy hunger. As a church, we are stepping into 21 Days of Prayer and a season of fasting as we seek God together, leading toward our Return Gathering. This year, we are invited to trust God with our whole lives and give Him our best, not our leftovers.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, this is Andy Wood, and I'm the pastor here at Saddleback Church, and this is our podcast. |
| 0:07.9 | Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these new messages every week, and I hope you enjoy today's message. |
| 0:14.2 | Let's dive in. |
| 0:23.8 | Well, happy new Year, everybody. |
| 0:26.9 | It's great to be together. |
| 0:28.7 | I've been looking forward to this weekend. |
| 0:32.7 | And I do have to say, I have a shot of adrenaline in my system. |
| 0:38.7 | Like, I woke up this morning with just an extra dose of energy excited about our time together today. |
| 0:40.1 | Anybody ever had that happen? |
| 0:43.7 | Like you just wake up with a little extra energy, maybe a few people. |
| 0:45.9 | That happens in the earlier services. |
| 0:46.7 | There's more of that. |
| 0:49.9 | But today is a great day to be together. |
| 0:53.7 | I'm so excited about what God is going to do in our midst this year. We're starting a brand new message series. |
| 0:56.0 | It's called Back on Track. |
| 0:57.6 | And for those of you who grew up in the 90s, I cannot help. |
| 1:01.3 | Every time I say, back on track, I cannot help but think of Chris Farley in his Saturday Night Live skit. |
| 1:07.7 | You guys know that one? |
| 1:09.1 | The guy who, the van down by the river, I'm going to help you get back on track. |
| 1:13.9 | If you don't know it, watch it later. It's good. But today we're starting this new series. |
| 1:19.3 | You know, the other thing I find to be very interesting about the new year compared to the end of the year is there's no, there's no place in the calendar that feels further apart |
| 1:28.1 | than Christmas in like the first week of the new year. You know, there's so much on our minds |
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