The Everyday Church Podcast

Make Room (Week 9) Worship #3

On this episode, Pastor Randy continues the topic of making room for worship. No matter where you are in your walk with God, there will come a time when you have to choose to worship (or not) even though your circumstances don't warrant your praise. 

 

Those moments seem foolish to outsiders, but worship in those moments will cause the presence of God to come into your situation. He will then either change the circumstance or He will change you. 

 

From Sunday 12/05/2021

Make Room (Week 8) Worship #2 (Yadah)

There are seven primary Hebrew words translated as "praise" in the English Bible.  Just as we often use the word "love" in many facets. We love our family, love sports, or love Chick-fil-a. Even though we use the same word, the meaning isn't exactly the same. 

 

Similarly, when we read the word "praise" in Scripture the actual meaning might be deeper than our English understanding of the word.

 

On today's episode Pastor Randy takes us a bit deeper to understand two of the seven most used words for praise. 

 

You'll be encouraged to worship and praise like never before, understanding that when we lift our hands, it's more than just an act of spiritual surrender, it's an act of war (on the enemy).

 

From Sunday 11/28/2021

 

 

 

Make Room (Week 7) Worship

The modern church has unintentionally diminished the meaning of the word 'worship'. The term 'praise and worship' has become synonymous with music. Praise = fast songs / worship = slow songs. But the apostle Paul tells a different story in the New Testament. 

 

Romans 12:1 — Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 

 

In essence, true worship is about living a life of sacrifice to God. While music certainly plays a very significant role in our worship and connection to God, we do ourselves a disservice when we only associate worship with music. 

 

God is inviting us to a life of sacrifice. He wants our entire heart, soul, and mind, not just our musical preferences. 

 

From Sunday 11.21.2021

Make Room (Week 6) Gratitude 2

"When we constantly focus on what we do not have, what we do have will never be enough."

 

On this episode Pastor Randy continues the conversation on gratitude. Are we missing all that God has for us by not living a life of gratitude?  Luke 17:11-19

 

From Sunday 11.14.21

Make Room (week 5) Make Room for Gratitude

Did you know that gratitude has been scientifically proven to bring health benefits? #MindBlown 

 

We're often surrounded by distractions and chaos. We're bombarded with constant reminders of all that we don't have. Focusing on these kinds of things will most defiantly push gratitude out of our lives. 

 

On this episode Pastor Randy encourages us to make room for gratitude. And by doing so, we will reap benefits spiritually, emotionally, and even physically. 

 

From Sunday 11/07/21

 

 

 

Make Room (Week 4) Make Room For Pain

Pain -- No one likes it, but what roll does it play in our lives? Like it or not, everyone will experience pain, grief, and loss in life. There's simply no way around it.

 

Is it possible we miss what God might be saying through our pain, because we're too busy trying to avoid it at all costs? 

 

On this episode, Pastor Randy encourages us to listen for the voice of the Lord in the midst of our painful circumstances. 

 

 

From Sunday 10/31/21

Make Room (Week 3) Digging Ditches

"Making room and preparation are acts of expectation."  When you're expecting company, what do you do? When you're expecting a baby, what do you do? You prepare. You can tell if someone is truly expecting something by the way they prepare for it.

 

On this episode Pastor Randy encourages us to "dig ditches" as described in 2 Kings 3. In this passage, digging ditches was the preparation needed for the miracle that God had promised. 

 

How many of us are missing out on the healing and freedom God has for us simply because we haven't prepared (dug ditches)?

 

From Sunday 10/24/2021

 

 

Make Room (Week 2)

There are two battles in the war for freedom. One is the battle to get free, the other is the battle to stay free. Making room for the presence of God in our lives is only part of the equation. Once we've cleaned out all of the junk, and completely surrendered to Christ, we must fight to maintain that new found freedom. 

 

Jesus tells us that when the seed (the Word of God) is sown, the birds of the air come immediately to steal the seed.  Don't allow the enemy of your soul to steal what God has begun. Fight for your freedom. But never forget, we're fighting from a place of victory because Jesus already won the war on the cross. 

 

From Sunday 10.17.2021

Make Room

"The reason many of us can't move beyond surface level change is we're living a life of surface level Christianity."

 

God is inviting us to go to a deeper place. He desperately wants to come into our lives and bring freedom and healing to the deep wounds of our past. But we have to allow him access to those places. We have to 'make room' for Him to move in our lives.

 

On this episode Pastor Randy encourages us to make room for the Holy Spirit in every area of our lives, even the mundane. What would happen if we made room for Jesus, not just in the 'big stuff', but also in our household chores, our commute, our everyday tasks?

 

From Sunday 10.10.2021  

 

 

 

Winning Culture (Week 8) Loving Union with the Father

In this episode Pastor Randy encourages us to develop a 'loving union' with the Father. EVERYTHING ELSE will flow from that relationship. The truth is, until we get that right, nothing else can be right. So many Christ followers are leading and living on empty. We're trying to live fulfilled lives, but operating out of a deficit.

 

Author and Pastor Pete Scazzerro says this, “Spiritual deficits reveal themselves in too much activity. Unhealthy people engage in more activities than their combined spiritual, physical, and emotional reserves can sustain. They give out for God more than they receive from Him. They serve others in order share the joy of Christ, but that joy remains elusive to themselves. In their more honest moments, they admit that their cup with God is empty or, at best, half full, hardly overflowing…”

 

I don't know about you, but I don't want to be empty or half full. It's time to win culture by opening the doors to our hearts wide open, allowing the Holy Spirit uninhibited access to every area of our lives, so we can once again minister and live out of the overflow.

 

This episodes contains multiple quotes from the book The Emotionally Healthy Leader by Peter Scazzero.

 

From Sunday 10/03/2021