The Generation That Seeks His Face
Saddleback Church Weekend Messages
Saddleback Church
4.7 • 723 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
From the Garden of Eden until now, Scripture tells one story: God’s constant desire to dwell with His people. Guest speaker Luke LeFevre calls us to be a generation that seeks the face and glory of God. Throughout the Bible we see God pursuing nearness, from the Tabernacle to Jesus to the Church today. We also see how God raised up and walked with people like David, who sought God’s glory and nearness in their lives. But what is God’s glory and how do we experience it? God’s glory is His presence among His people, and Luke asked a piercing question: Are we content to live without His presence? Like David, who longed to dwell in the house of the Lord, we are invited to seek God above all else. As we look ahead to The Return Gathering and what God has next, may we be a church that longs for His glory and seeks His face.
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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. |
| 0:08.1 | 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. It is so good to be with you all. |
| 0:27.2 | I love this church. |
| 0:29.7 | And when I say this church, I mean you all. |
| 0:33.7 | And this church holds such a special place in my heart. |
| 0:38.7 | I mean, I even just think about how God has met me personally in some of the most profound ways in my life when I'm here with you all. |
| 0:48.5 | And it's crazy to think it was a year and a half ago that I slid into Andy's DMs. |
| 0:53.7 | And it was like, hey, I think God wants to do something at your church. |
| 0:57.1 | You don't know me, but you're welcome. |
| 1:00.1 | And, but you know, I think one of the biggest things about that of like I was just thinking, |
| 1:07.6 | it will be forever seared into my mind, the picture of at the return gathering last |
| 1:12.6 | year. It's like 2 o'clock in the morning, and Andy and Stacey laid out on their face before God, |
| 1:21.2 | so hungry. And I just, I just want to honor like the humility of their leadership, the hunger |
| 1:27.4 | of their leadership. It's like, that like the humility of their leadership, the hunger of their leadership. |
| 1:29.1 | It's like that's the type of people in place that God can move in powerful ways. |
| 1:34.6 | And so I love this church. |
| 1:36.4 | I love being here with you. |
| 1:37.5 | It's such a joy and an honor to get to be here. |
| 1:40.6 | And I feel like what the Lord would have me do in this message is I want to just |
| 1:47.4 | stir and increase your faith for what I think that God desires to do in the life of your church, |
| 1:57.5 | in and amongst you. There is something, the word that I would use is sovereign. |
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