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Zoe Church LA

You're Chosen| Better and Brighter | Chad Narayan

Zoe Church LA

Chad Veach

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this message, Chad Narayan reminds us that God is constantly at work, even when we don’t immediately recognize it. Centered on the idea of “come and see,” he challenges believers to shift their focus from stress, control, and what’s missing to the evidence of God’s goodness already present in their lives. Too often, we overlook everyday miracles because we’re fixated on what hasn’t happened yet. Chad encourages us to lift our perspective and trust that nothing is too difficult for God. When we stop striving and start seeing, faith begins to grow and anxiety begins to shrink. Instead of living as spectators waiting for something big, we’re called to become witnesses—recognizing, celebrating, and sharing what God is already doing. Ultimately, the message is a call to live with gratitude and awareness. When we intentionally look for God’s work, we begin to see His hand in every season. Gratitude doesn’t create miracles—it reveals them. And when we recognize His presence, our faith becomes stronger, our outlook becomes brighter, and our lives become a testimony.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome to another week here at Zoe Church.

0:03.1

We are concluding our series today called Better and Brighter.

0:07.9

But before we get into that, I just want to take a moment to say thank you to everybody who

0:12.2

gives here at Zoe Church because of your generosity and your faithfulness and obedience to tithe and give offerings.

0:19.7

We get to do what we get to do.

0:21.1

So we're so thankful.

0:22.4

But we're jumping into the final conclusion of our series, Better and Brighter.

0:27.6

Here we go.

0:29.4

We've been in a series.

0:31.3

We've been in a series entitled Better and we're going to try that one again.

0:37.4

We've been in a series entitled Better and Better and Brighter.

0:42.2

Let's go put that in the chats.

0:44.1

Zoe family, we've been in a series entitled Better and Brighter.

0:48.1

And we've been focusing on these two verses out of Matthew chapter 5 where Jesus calls you and I so wherever we come from in life

0:58.4

no matter your background or your job wherever you come from in life there is a communal calling

1:06.7

that that you and I share together and it's this to be the salt of the earth and to be the light of the world.

1:14.8

And salt makes everything taste better and light makes everything brighter.

1:21.0

And so you and I, in any space that we go into, any conversation that we have, any relationship, our home, our family, our neighborhoods,

1:31.2

our community, we are called to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world. I say it to

1:36.9

my kids like this. When I drop them off at school, I say to them, be a leader and be a light.

1:45.2

I give them all a hug and a kiss.

1:48.3

My kids are starting to get to the age now where they're like,

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