Elevation Point Church

We all have weaknesses, setbacks, and mistakes. The thing is, the enemy is really good at reminding us of our weakness. And as much as we’d like to think all weakness is behind us, the reality is that it’s not always that easy. What if my weakness isn’t just a part of my past? What if it’s still a part of who I am? The beautiful truth, however, is that even in the midst of all this, God is known f...

God always keeps His word. While it may look different than we thought it would, it doesn’t make His word any less true. Too often, we allow our surroundings to skew our view of what God said. If what we see looks different than what God said, we give up and stop short. But just because the surroundings may not match God’s promises right now, it doesn’t mean that they won’t line up with God’s word...

We tend to focus on what we’re going through, instead of who we’re going with. We feel unhappy because: The divorce was too much, we can’t figure life out, or life got rocky. But Paul says “no no, don’t focus on everything going on OUT HERE — it’s about WHO you have IN HERE. On the outside, it may not seem that there’s much to smile about; but as followers of Jesus, our smile comes from what He’s...

Moving on from seasons, people, and experiences is rarely ever easy. It’s natural to even need to mourn those things leaving our lives. While we know that what God has in store is always better, there’s still an understandable connection to what we’ve lost or left. It’s never wrong to feel sad for a moment, as long as we don’t stay there. We have to be willing to get up and move forward into what...

The Israelites are stuck. They’re at a mountain. No doubt, many of us feel this way or have felt this way at some time or another. Stuck in the same place we’ve been, with limited to no progress. The Israelites appeared to be stuck. They had been in Horeb for about a year — in the same place for an entire year. And what makes matters even more discouraging is that what God promised them was on the...

Have you ever faced a time where things didn’t go how you expected? Have you ever had a plan, but nothing went how you planned it? In those moments, it’s difficult to see how our wrecked plans could ever be a good thing. In Luke 24, Mary and Mary expected to pay their respects to Jesus in the tomb where He had been laid. They expected Jesus to still be dead. They expected the tomb to be closed. In...

Palm Sunday teaches us that God doesn’t always show up in our lives the way that we expected Him to. And while it’s easy to say we understand that, it’s difficult to live out. We all have expectations of how we want Jesus to show up in our lives and what we are believing for Him to do. The tension comes when He doesn’t do it how we wanted. In those moments, we often begin to doubt and reject what...

For the most part, we acknowledge that God has the ability to use us in significant ways, even though we may have a flawed past before knowing Him. However, what happens when we make mistakes after deciding to follow Him? We often feel like our present imperfections, rather than our actions before following Jesus, disqualify us. We may start to doubt that God can still use us after we've "messed i...

When it comes to being used by God or having a purpose, we expect it to go perfectly. God is perfect; so if we’re following Him, we think our lives will be perfect. Then, once things go differently than we thought they would, we begin to doubt God’s ability to use us. Once we fail, make a mistake, end up in a different direction than we thought — we view our purpose as over. However, God never sai...

Rahab was not living what most would call a “morally-pure” life when the Israelite spies met her. In fact, many would claim that disqualified her from being used by God. However, she was the one God used to protect the Israelite spies and help them escape Jericho. Her history didn’t disqualify her as most would think; but rather, it prepared her. You may think that what you’ve done has disqualifie...

The enemy of our lives knows that we are weakest when we’re on our own. Because of this, he tries to keep us from community — to keep us from going through life together. He’ll use betrayal, unforgiveness, jealousy, and whatever else he has to in order to keep us separated from others. However, God’s desire is for us to go through life together. Although it’s tempting to go through life alone, our...

When we hear the stories of David and Saul, we often forget that they weren’t always enemies. David was first a psalmist for Saul. Saul loved David. Saul’s son was David’s best friend. However, comparison, insecurity, and jealousy led to Saul creating an enemy out of David. We, too, must be careful not to do the same thing in our relationships. Many times, we self sabotage our own relationships ou...

Love is a word that we through around without much thought. We say we love people, things, and even ideas. But that word carries less and less weight the more than we fail to put actions behind it. Jesus never instructed us to SAY we love one another, He just told us TO love one another. In other words, the love we profess doesn’t matter at all, if it’s not lived out and shown through our actions....

Jesus instructed us to love all, even those who hate us. While that’s not easily done, and it may not make sense to our minds naturally, we were still instructed to do it. Jesus didn’t just tell us to do this, but He also displayed it throughout His life — most notably when He was willing to die for the sins of those who hated Him. Jesus showed us that love is not based on a feeling, it’s based on...

In I Kings 18:21, Elijah is pleading with the Israelites to make up their minds and choose who they were going to follow. One day it’s the Lord, the next day it’s Baal. It all depended on who/what they thought could provide for them, help them, or make them happy in the moment. The truth is that if Elijah were alive today, he would ask a lot of us the same question. Maybe not about Baal and God, b...

God says, through Isaiah, “Forget the former things – you can’t go back.” That’s the bad news. But the good news is, He can still make a way! God said, “I can do a NEW thing THROUGH the bad thing, I can make a way through the wilderness.” This is why your whole story is so important. We like to edit our story. We prefer to tell the happy parts, the parts that we’re proud of, and things we wouldn’t...

Have you ever made a decision that didn’t quite pan out the way you expected based on how it looked? In Genesis 13, Lot chose to go to the land that he thought looked the best in the moment. It was well watered, it was beautiful, it was most desirable. However, it turned out that it wasn’t what it looked like. And the land he chose, that he was so excited about — was later destroyed. That’s kind o...

While David was praising God in II Samuel 6:14-17, his wife, Michal, was watching him. She didn’t participate, and she wasn’t happy about it — but she watched. David could have allowed her displeasure to dictate his praise, but he chose to worship anyways. This is always the goal, but it’s not always easily done. The greater temptation and inclination is to allow those who are watching to turn us...

As we begin a new year, we generally feel hopeful. Hopeful that we’ll accomplish more, see more, feel God move more. However, as we enter a new year, we also face many of the same battles, the same fears and worries. A new year gives a fresh start, but it doesn’t completely erase everything that’s been holding us back or causing worry to inundate our hearts. The reality is that on the surface ther...