Be Hope Church

KEY POINTS - God makes me to make me. - Your focus defines your future. - Adversity is not the failure of God, but the favor of God. - God can’t make you until you make Him first.

KEY POINTS - Accessibility is the leverage sin uses to pull you from God’s plan. - God hates anything that hurts. - Holy is not what you’re doing. Holy is who you’re becoming. - God uses our scars to show how He saves.

KEY POINTS - Good is the enemy of great. - Great can be the enemy of good. - First church champions love second place.

KEY POINTS - What we see gives us a perception of who God ISN’T. Yet what we DON’T see gives us a truer picture of who God IS. - Every trial, test, and temptation is not an attack from God, but about His all-out affection for you. - God’s affection is often demonstrated by developing you through the difficulty. - The God we don’t see is the God who sees what we can’t see. - God doesn’t give you Hi...

KEY POINTS - What we see gives us a perception of who God ISN’T. Yet what we DON’T see gives us a truer picture of who God IS. - Every trial, test, and temptation is not an attack from God, but about His all-out affection for you. - God’s affection is often demonstrated by developing you through the difficulty. - The God we don’t see is the God who sees what we can’t see. - God doesn’t give you Hi...

KEY POINTS - Pick up the pieces. - Don’t overlook the leftovers. - God can do big things with little faith.

KEY POINTS - Ahava = Hebrew word for love - Ahava is an action, a sacrifice. - The previous standard was self-love, providing the Golden Rule. The NEW standard is not to love as you would yourself, but to love as Jesus did. - We don’t choose feelings. We execute expectations of how to love. Actions speak louder than words. - If we really love someone, it will be our concern that they know Christ.

KEY POINTS - God uses light in ways that we don’t. - The world uses light to condemn. - God uses light to heal.

KEY POINTS - To see what’s great in you, you must know the God who’s in you. - Jesus is the access point for God to develop you for greater things. - “Preconnected” means you already have. “Reconnected” means you’re always trying to earn. - It’s not dead, it’s developing. - “Cut back” is God’s work for greater things. - You are saved by grace – sin cannot become your excuse for living less than wh...

KEY POINTS - The ground work is God’s work. - My struggle is rich soil for new opportunity. “I am an overcomer. I serve a resurrected God. In moments of defeat, I stand firm at the feet of Jesus knowing difficulty and struggle serve as seasons for the start of something new.”

KEY POINTS - Identity lives on the other side of the struggle. - Don’t let the past damage your identity. - Holy ground is where you claim your identity. - Practical steps to standing on holy ground: Making church a weekly priority (Becoming Early People), Giving God the first five minutes (Bible app, praying, giving thanks), Having a plan to read God’s word. “I AM because God is The Great I Am. M...

KEY POINTS - Give no space to F.E.A.R. - Ask yourself the question: what am I doing here? - You must walk by faith.

4 Reasons why we settle: 1. We settle because we’re tired of waiting. 2. We settle because we don’t believe we deserve better. 3. We settle because we feel pressure. 4. We settle for safe. What we were made for: 1. We were made for relationship. Matthew 6:33, “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, all these things will be given to you as well.” 2. We were made for freedom. Galatians 5:...