The Best Of: Find Your Strength
Mosaic - Erwin McManus
Mosaic - Erwin McManus
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🗓️ 15 January 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
This week, Lead Pastor Erwin McManus compels us to lean into joy in a new way. Often when we are facing challenging times, joy is the last thing on our mind. But in this encouraging message from our ‘Best Of’ series, Pastor Erwin shares that God’s way of strengthening us when we’re struggling is through the power of celebration.
Teaching out of James chapter 1, Pastor Erwin highlights Jesus’ words which instruct us to rejoice when we face difficulties of all kinds. Why? Joy creates the character we need for the future God wants to create through us! Though challenges feel frustrating in the moment, we’re reminded that God is building us beautifully from the inside out. That is worth celebrating!
Pastor Erwin asks us how often we question why God’s promises haven’t come true in our lives. He proposes that it may be God that is asking us why we haven’t overcome our doubts when God has continually shown himself to be faithful.
If you have been facing a difficult season and are wondering where God is, this message will encourage you that God is strengthening you with his joy in the middle of the challenge!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, I want to walk you me to the Mosaic podcast. I'm Pastor Erwin and I fell |
| 0:12.8 | McManus and just wanted to thank you for listening. In case you didn't know, I just released |
| 0:17.4 | a new book, it's called The Genius of Jesus, The Man Who Changed Everything and you can |
| 0:21.5 | order it today at thegeniusofJesus.com. How is it possible to have a life-changing |
| 0:29.5 | encounter with Jesus? And then the very next day, feel like your life is falling apart. |
| 0:35.1 | Because I know that there are many of us here who've had that moment. You have that moment |
| 0:40.8 | where you just know the God speaking to you, you know that you're sincere, you're giving |
| 0:44.4 | them everything you have. Have you ever had that moment that's so exhilarating, so |
| 0:48.9 | extraordinary, you think, man, my life is so different. I'm never going to be the same |
| 0:52.7 | again until the next day. And then you're like, what happened? I made this huge |
| 0:58.5 | decision. I gave my life to Jesus. I opened my life to the creator of the universe and I'm still |
| 1:06.9 | not different. And you don't realize that the different happens at the very center of who you are |
| 1:13.2 | and the process is allowing what God has done inside of you not become a part of all of you. |
| 1:19.5 | But of course, a huge further problem is that we thought God was going to change our life |
| 1:25.2 | around us, not our life within us. And you wake up the next day with the same problems. |
| 1:31.3 | Wouldn't it be nice if you could open your life up to God, give your life to Jesus, and then all |
| 1:38.8 | the mistakes you've ever made have just been cleared out. All the momentum of all the bad choices |
| 1:44.7 | are now gone. And then on top of that, because every day has its own challenges, no more challenges, |
| 1:53.2 | no more problems, no more struggles. But the reality is that life is full of so many challenges, |
| 2:01.6 | so many struggles. And I think this is where sometimes we get confused. And so last week we |
| 2:06.5 | saw that one of the things that God wants to do is he wants to actually teach us how to live, |
| 2:12.3 | that he's not trying to give us a new religion or a new belief system or new rituals. He's |
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