The Roads Church Podcast

What does it mean to unconditionally surrender to the Lord? When we are completely surrendered to the Lord we are yielding and relinquishing ourselves wholly to Him. We surrender our way of living and thinking so we can live in His. Unconditional surrender- sanctification- is a process of perpetual and continual surrender. He calls us into surrender to give us hope! SERMON NOTES: https://theroads....

We are never going to feel our way into a new life. You have to make a decision, get new information from God, and start applying it and don't compromise. And when the enemy comes - say "I'm coming." You make the hit - don't take the hits. The enemy wants to shut us down so we don't release what God's put on the inside of us to impact the world around us. Transformation is about what you are movin...

How do we disciple nations? It's about connecting to Jesus! Too often we think about changing culture by focusing on what we need to prevent from happening, instead of what we need to start happening. We have a laundry list of morality things we think if we stop all these bad things then we will become something. That's called "Religion." We will not become something by what we stop; we have to be...

𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧! Sometimes we get so focused on wanting to stop all the bad things going on in the world to make it better. BUT WHAT IF the greater influence is not what we stop, but instead it's what we start? How we view the world will greatly impact the way we influence the world. Are you ready to be challenged and take a look at Christian worldviews that are prevale...

"The influence of the kingdom of heaven on the earth is greater than the influence of the opposition!" Do you believe it? Do you believe that what God is doing in the earth is greater than what the opposition is doing? The devil has no delegated authority in our lives. He only has permissible authority. Unless we allow and agree and deliver our authority to the devil - he has no right. He has tact...

Our general mission in life is to influence culture with the kingdom of God. The way we do that as individuals is unique but the mission still remains the same. When we are influencing the world around us we are making disciples. We are ambassadors for Christ and we have a responsibility from God to bring His Kingdom and the reconciliation of Jesus to our people groups – nations – our walk with th...

Some of Jesus’ parting words to the disciples in Matthew 28:19, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations…” it is a call to a mission of obedience and authority. It is not arrogance to operate in the authority given to you by Jesus it is negligence not to! There will people along the way that will doubt you and the things that God has done, but the focus should be on individual obedience, no...

We have to be connected to our true authority – God- to know the authority that has been delegated to us. Sometimes as believers we don’t walk in authority because we are waiting on God to do something that He has already delegated us to have the authority to do. God is the only one who can delegate His authority. His authority and His truth is never up for debate! SERMON NOTES: www.theroads.churc...

Jesus came to the world with a mission. He was anointed to save the lost, preach the gospel, heal the brokenhearted, proclaim liberty to the captives, restore sight to the blind, and bring liberty to the oppressed. Just like Jesus we need to know our mission when we are engaged in a spiritual battle. When we know our mission and what we are anointed for we have something to offer those in need. Yo...

REMEMBER - the symbol of our faith IS the CROSS, and NOT a couch! Jesus said if you want to follow me - crucify yourself every day - BE A CHRISTIAN. Le'ts not focus on WHAT we go through but HOW we go through - as a good soldier. Embrace the resistance and opposition. A solder is TRAINED for the BATTLE - NOT for the BARRACKS. What God's grace has brought you through - gives you strength and author...

The Gospel of Jesus Christ is redemption! We often make decisions and choices that fall short of God’s best for our lives, but He gave us the simple Gospel truths to redeem our hearts and the plans that He has for us. When we live these truths through our lives we get to show those around us the redemption that comes through the crucial Gospel of Jesus Christ! SERMON NOTES: www.theroads.church/ser...

Wherever we are in life or wherever the decisions we make take us, God will always repurpose us for Him. God’s gifts and calls for us are never cancelled! Jesus takes the gifts and callings that He has given us and repurposes and reprocesses them. He does not repurpose us just for Him but also for us to reach the people around us. We are not perfect people but God is constantly reprocessing our he...

Jesus has made liberty available to us but there are times when we have to defend that liberty. We are not fighting to make available but fighting to defend what Jesus has made available! We should not be intimidated by the freedom of others – even though we may disagree - we should be empowered by it! All people have the choice to apply the liberty and freedom that has been given to us. We have a...

Jesus is the perfection of liberty. We are the progression of liberty. To progress in the liberty that has been given to us – through Jesus - we first have to define liberty, declare liberty, and defend liberty. It was made available when He died on the cross for us, but we have to take hold of it for ourselves. Jesus is the only one that can provide us with true freedom and liberty. The extent we...

The culture of heaven is family. When we are born again we are invited into that family! We have Christ within us and when we view ourselves as sons and daughters of God He creates a healthy family – body of Christ – through us and with us. God longs to do thing through each of us! We need to view people as our brothers and sister through Christ not as sinners or we will never have system that val...

In Christ you are FREE, because He made you free. LIBERTY is available to every person no matter your race or gender - EVERYONE! It's available for you to take and apply. God gives us the ability to choose to apply His Liberty. You can't experience it, if you don't apply it. God loves you whether you embrace Him or reject Him. Our Liberty that God gave us - comes in connection and requires us to l...

The truth brings us freedom. Lies and deception entangle us in bondage. When we stand fast, hold our ground, in the truth of God’s word, we have liberty. Jesus gives us liberty even when our circumstances look as if we don’t have personal freedom. Our hearts can live in liberty though we may not feel it. “Let me be clear, the Anointed One has set us free – not partially, but completely and wonderf...

Race, status, and gender are on the same playing field in Christ. They are all equal in opportunity and equal in need. We all need a Savior! Though we are all equal in Christ, oppression, and injustice still happen in our world today. We have to acknowledge the injustice that happens in our society even if we have not contributed to it. Racism and injustice cannot be in Christ. “And we no longer s...

Now the Lord is the Spirit; and WHERE the Spirit of the Lord is, THERE is LIBERTY. When we are filled with Holy Spirit, we have liberty in our life. The Holy Spirit is not just with us, but in us - God dwelling on the inside of us. His presence in us - LIBERTY located in us - brings us freedom from addiction, breaks off chains and attitudes. When we are filled with Holy Spirit, and Living in Liber...

As we live in unprecedented times of social distancing we are far more removed from people than we have been in the past. Though we are not able to gather together as a community God is still drawing near to us and moving in our world in a unique way. He has hit the pause button in our lives and invited us to lean in and draw close to Him again. We have more time to be engaged in His presence and...

What is your focus on? Distraction from the promises of God and the places we are going can keep us from overcoming. If we focus on the promises of God above all else we can partake from His promises! What we focus on is what we partake from. When we know what God’s promises in our lives are we have to pursue them. When we reach our inheritance, promise, we have to possess it. The promises of God...

When we have the word of the Lord in our hearts we can speak with confidence that we will overcome! The opposition that we see may be great but He who is within us is greater. The word of the Lord helps us to have the spiritual stamina to endure the process of overcoming. We have to drive out the opposition with confrontation. We will never drive out what we will not confront! If the Lord is with...

When we are faced with real-life hardships and circumstances we can choose to, passively accept a life that is less than what God has intended, or we can fight to overcome the opposition to live the best life God has for us! The process of overcoming evil – negative actions, thought patterns or negative things that have been said or done to us, etc. – with the goodness of God creates opposition. “...

Why will we overcome? Caleb was certain that the one – God – who was WITH them could overcome. He was certain of the ability, the power, the might to endure and prevail that came from partnering with the Lord. The uncertainty of what was ahead of him was overcome by the certainty of Who was with him. When we are with God we are overcomers! SERMON NOTES: www.theroads.church/sermon-notes We invite y...

Overcoming Power- Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection was the opening of a door into the possibilities of walking into something the Father has prepared for us! God has prepared – through Jesus – a different life and inheritance for us. Just like the spies in Numbers 13, we have to see the inheritance and the different life or we will never know that there is a different way to live. When we se...