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Mosaic - Erwin McManus

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

At times, it can feel as though we are too broken for God to do anything great in our lives. The incredible news is that there is nothing God can't use in our lives to make us better. God takes our damage and uses it to make us who we were actually created to be. No matter what we're going through or what we have experienced, God has an incredible way of pulling us together because with God nothing is wasted.

Moses' life was so unexpected on many levels. His story is a true reminder that how we start doesn't have to be how we finish. Sometimes we make decisions and let them cripple us and steal from our future. In Acts 7:30-32 Moses met God and God directed him toward his future. It says “An angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai. When he saw this, he was amazed at the sight. As he went over to get a closer look, he heard the Lord say: ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look."

The only way to leave our past in the past is to let God create a new future. There are things we will do that we must own. There will always be people who want to define us by the worst moments in life. Even when Moses was running God, was preparing him. When we think we are wasting time, God uses time as fertilizer. We must remember God looks at us at our worst, and only sees all the good we can do.

“With God there is nothing wasted." - Erwin McManus

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"Nothing Wasted" message by Erwin McManus, previously recorded at Mosaic Hollywood.

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0:00.0	Hello this is Erwin Raphael McManus. I'm the lead pastor of Mosaic. Welcome to our podcast. Thank you for joining us today.
0:15.4	I hope this talk inspires you, encourages you, and transforms you, and that this is
0:20.5	just the beginning of a conversation between you and Jesus.
0:24.0	Enjoy the message.
0:29.0	For the past several weeks, I've had an opportunity to kind of travel around a little bit.
0:32.0	We were down in Sydney and
0:33.9	and then actually yesterday we were up in Carmel and a couple of weeks ago we're on a farm
0:38.2	and have you ever had different disconnected experiences but begin to hear a recurring theme.
0:44.4	It's almost as if someone's trying to have a conversation with you.
0:49.0	We were on a farm a couple of weeks ago and my wife Kim grew up on a farm so she was having the time of her life. I mean I was happy to be there.
0:54.6	And anyway it was a wonderful experience to be able to go to and leave.
0:59.4	And I could tell that Kim wanted to live on the farm.
1:03.2	We were there with two of our friends, Tertes,
1:05.0	and Matthew, who are the founders of Caffrey Gratitude
1:08.0	and Grasius Madre, and they had this organic farm. I thought all farms were organic but I was learning all kinds of things while I was there and it was a little different for me, you know, because I'm used to maybe a dog running through the house, not like lambs,
1:22.8	running through the house, but it was all right.
1:25.3	And then Matthew took me in a walk to the farm
1:27.5	and started explaining things to me that I don't remember
1:30.0	or understand, and did not understand
1:31.6	while he was explaining them.
1:33.0	But it didn't look like a form,
1:35.0	because I had it in my mind an idea,
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