The Roads Church Podcast

Faith in what I want or how hard I pray is NOT how it works. What God says has got to be our reality. Abraham BECAME according to what God "spoke." Faith has to connect with something God said for us to become. We need to know what God said, and then we "become" according to that, and not according to how we feel. God is not obligated to perform anything other than what He promised. Romans 5 : 1-5...

We are not “of those” who through fear or timidity shrink back and stop pursuing what Jesus died to give us, but we are convinced and persuaded to take the actions necessary to possess, experience, and preserve everything that Jesus acquired for us in this life and in eternity! "Faith is a requirement for the believer to please God." "But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who co...

What are you expecting when you come to church on Sundays? EXPECTATION. HUMILITY. DESPERATION. PREPARATION. URGENCY. Jesus humbled himself and became obedient unto death. Our mind should be the same as Jesus. Humility and obedience are connected. One of the greatest hinderances in the Church is spiritual pride. God is calling us to a level of longing - a desperation that affects our preparation an...

"I'm 'scoping' Jesus, because I've got a race to run! Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith. We lack endurance, because we're not keeping our eyes on Jesus as the "Finisher." Hebrews 12:1-2 NKJV 1 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is...

DO YOU NOT KNOW? Your life doesn't belong to you. You were bought at a price. Your life cost Jesus His life. He paid the debt that you were never able to repay. Your body is a temple of Holy Spirit. You are joined to the VINE - IF you abide in Jesus! "Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not! 16...

What wouldn’t you do to GET TO JESUS? Guest speaker Matt Woodruff shares his story of addiction, redemption, and the freedom that comes from Jesus Christ ALONE. "This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!" ‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭5‬:‭17‬ ‭(NLT‬‬) "I know what it means to lack, and I know what it means to experience overwhelming abund...

"I have something you can't take from me. I have something that endures forever." -Pastor Chad Everett We won't grow and be like Jesus in easy times. We become like Jesus through adversity. Persecution is coming, and God is saying that it is time for us to be prepared, to ENDURE. What we have, what we own, what is in our bank accounts - THE BIBLE SAYS THAT ALL OF THIS IS TEMPORARY. WE CAN NOT PUT...

If Christ fasted, should Christians fast? 𝗬𝗘𝗦. God is wanting to prepare the Bride for the days ahead, and fasting is a key tool that will help us be prepared. Fasting is something EVERY Christian should do. Fasting is difficult! Pastor Chad Everett said “I do not feel led to fast! I feel like eating!” What we feel doesn’t determine our direction. What Jesus says determines our direction. (Matthew...

Our faith grows stronger through adversity. Are we willing for Jesus to lead us into difficult situations? When we allow the Spirit to lead us, He will lead us into places we don't like. Satan will lead us into temptation with the agenda to trap us, causing us to fail and walk away from God. The Spirit will also lead us into an encounter with the enemy, not to hurt us, but His agenda is to reveal...

LEAVE ALL. RISE UP. FOLLOW HIM. Jesus gives the invitation to "Follow Me." Just like Matthew, what we decide to do after the invitation determines the relationship. There should be a measurable difference in our lives when we choose to follow Jesus. What are you not willing to leave for God? Is it holding you back from truly following Him? SERMON NOTES: https://www.bible.com/events/49008487 We inv...

Faith - is it a matter of it being too small? Does our Faith really need to grow? Or is it that we need to increase our kŏinōnia - our partnership, our fellowship, our communion with our faith given to us by God, and eliminate our kŏinōnia with everything else? What if rather than "increasing our faith," we realize that we're partnering with too many other things, other than our faith, and what Go...

The disciples were instructed by Jesus to "go" with nothing - not even food or extra clothing, and when He asked them if they lacked anything on their journey, they replied, "Nothing." Do you lack anything? Or is Jesus enough? Is there anything you are dependent on that if you are given a choice between it and Jesus, you'd choose it over Jesus? A job? A bank account? A house? Things we all "need?"...

It's only after Jesus speaks to us and shines into our lives does it create opposing forces operating in our lives. Before Jesus, only darkness leads us. With Jesus, we now have His light shining on the things of darkness, exposing them. It isn't once I find Jesus, I have no struggles, but rather, once I find Jesus the struggle begins. "Am I going to follow the Lord, or No?" The body of Christ has...

As disciples, followers of Jesus, we need to endure trials, testing and longsuffering. Matthew 24 says, "He who endures to the end, shall be saved." Being a disciple, requires us to OBSERVE what He has commanded. To see it, apply it, and obey it. How serious it is when we trample Jesus, the son of God, under our feet when we don't choose Him, but rather be the god of our own lives. The blood that...

Jesus prunes those that He loves. (John 15:2) How many are willing to be pruned by Jesus? What's too much for Jesus? NC Campus Pastors - Louis & Mona DeVous challenges us to be careful of the "get by" mindset. God is challenging us to break it off, step out in faith and go above and beyond for what seems over-the-top. ENCOUNTER TESTIMONY PLAYLIST - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOiIvDYioGk&list=...

Stuck between the Red Sea and Pharaoh's Army? And there's "NO WAY OUT?" Stand still! Look at Jesus. Keep quiet, and move forward. The Lord will fight for you! Even when the obstacle is still there, it's our responsibility to trust God, and keep moving forward to what He's told us to do. What have you seen God do in your life before now? He can do it again! SERMON NOTES: https://www.bible.com/event...

"CHRISTIAN" means CHRIST-LIKE, it does not mean church-goer. What are we choosing? What are we becoming? Examining “As it is in Heaven” (Matthew 6 : 9-13) means examining what we are choosing. Choosing His Kingdom AUTOMATICALLY means saying “no” to the kingdom of the Earth. It is a love relationship with the King of Kings, Jesus, that causes lesser loves to fall away. When the Kingdom of Heaven co...

CHURCH - our lane is the EARTH! It's God's dominion, Jesus is the King, and the world needs the truth to be set free. God put a system in place to have His will be done on earth - PRAYER & DOMINION. We must be in relational communion with God in order to exercise the delegated authority for influencing all areas of society. The ramification of Christians not taking dominion is ungodliness ruling....

What if everything we've ever known about Church, is not like it is in Heaven? What if what we're comfortable with is not God? What if what makes us comfortable doesn't make Him comfortable? Church it's not about us. It's about Jesus, and God wants to break a culture of religion that is picky and preferential. God is wanting us to transition from singing about someone to seeing Him, for our worshi...

William Wood, from Global Awakening, shares with us the importance of seeing ourselves through the lens of our Creator. "When we desire to be somebody else, or take on somebody else's identity, or find our identity through some other means, we create within ourselves a dual identity, which creates an internal conflict that can only bring trauma to the soul. It is so important to understand who we...

Jesus has all authority in the Earth. This is Jesus' earth, and He's looking for ambassadors who will possess it for Him as authorized representatives of Jesus, as God pleads through our lives for people to be reconciled to Him. Our lives should be a walking billboard, through our words and actions - "Be reconciled to God." It's our job to take back the earth, teaching people to obey and conform t...

Church, we have an assignment! It is God's original plan. It is to bring the Kingdom of Heaven to the Earth. It is through Jesus that we are redeemed from a dead spirit to a born again, living spirit that can house Holy Spirit. It's the same power as Jesus himself was anointed with to fulfill God's plan. Jesus used the power He was given to "do good" everywhere He went teaching, praying, laying on...

Maranatha is a groan and a prayer that before the return of Jesus will be the overwhelming cry of all of us, both individually and corporately - "COME LORD JESUS!" It is the plan of God that the Church, as His people, recover the Maranatha cry to determine that our lives are in alignment with His desire for us. In the early church there was a declaration - "Maranatha!" that has mostly been lost to...

From the very beginning, God's desire was Heaven on Earth. Jesus said to pray for the will of God to be on earth AS it is in Heaven. So we are to pray that Earth is the same way it is in Heaven. God assigned us to make Earth like Heaven from the beginning, when He put us in the Garden of Eden that we were to tend/work and keep/protect, as we increased it to spread around the world. Even the buildi...

Will we be satisfied with little nibbles of bread for ourselves, or will we beg for loaves because someone is needing a miracle? The door may be shut now, but we keep knocking. We keep asking. Do you have the resolute boldness that goes beyond normal restraint, with no sensitivity for what is proper like Jesus taught us to pray that never gives up, never quits? We have nothing to offer others with...