Vineyard Richmond Weekly Message

What is one thing you are asking God for right now?

Dan Kirstein from Enrich joins us and shares a word for our community.

Today, we're talking about how God wants us to interact with our families. So what is family supposed to look like?

Why is it that someone can hurt us so quickly, even when they aren’t meaning to?

Israel made an agreement that they would not neglect the house of our God. But why are people so quick to throw in the towel?

God moves in our lives so that we have a story to tell? Why would he do that?

The enemy is trying to get you to question everything so that you will give up on God, your marriage, your church, your job—because you don’t understand what God is doing as he works on your behalf.

Paul told the Ephesians (and by extension, us) that we don’t wrestle against flesh and blood - in other words, the enemy isn’t people.

Nehemiah risked his life, heavily invested his resources, sold the vision, and then stayed the course!

When have you missed out on something because you were afraid to ask for it?

Sooner or later it is time to act. In our story, Nehemiah came to God with his heart in his hand. You can only sit and do nothing for so long.

What part of your life feels like it is in rubble? What needs to be raised up?

Doctrine will make or break our unity - so we defer to Jesus and we don’t stray from Him. Desire will make or break our souls - so we aim to desire godliness, not what we can get out of it. Direction will make or break our ministry and our witness - so we make Jesus our aim and keep going His way.

God sent Jonah to Nineveh to speak to Ninevites. These weren’t his friends. He wanted to be with his friends.

If you aren’t plugged into your local church— serving and being served, you are an orphan. But, God came to build a family.

I surrender to Christ and then testify to others. I serve the kingdom by serving the humanity around me. I persevere until the coming of Christ— no compromise. We are family, you do not have to be alone.

Jesus came to seek and save lost people. He is looking for you and you can draw near to Him today. He doesn't shame you and He's not mad at you.

Living by the letter of the law doesn’t cut it. Jesus brought a higher deeper meaning and invites us to practice the spirit behind the law— thereby fulfilling it.

How many voices are you listening to? The music is playing— we all chase the same God but we are called to different lives. We make different decisions, but we all are invited to dance.

When we don't understand why lean on who God is. God is going to take us to a place as a community where we will say to the world "How do you like me now?"

We’re gonna go to a Psalm where David was clearly being eaten apart by some of the stuff that he’d done and experienced.

Marvin Gaye says there is no height or depth to which he would not travel to be with the one he loves. But God actually did just that. God so loved that he gave.

What keeps us from calling out to God in the first place?

This is a psalm to meditate on and have in your back pocket. Who are you listening to? Where are you running? What is the truth?