Grace Haven Church

0:00 Would you like to hear a teaching that Jesus did that caused people to say, this is the best teaching we ever heard?

0:12 Sounds good, eh?

0:14 Would you like to know which one is it?

0:16 Look, I'm going to just share the people's response.

0:20 When Jesus concluded His address, the crowd burst into applause.

0:25 They had never heard a teaching like this.

0:28 It was apparent that He was living everything He was saying.

0:33 Quite a contrast to the religion teachers.

0:36 This was the best teaching they had ever heard.

0:41 Interesting, eh?

0:42 Like, what would cause people... I mean, don't trust too much people, because then you see a few chapters later that people also were crucified, crucified Jesus.

0:49 So, I know, but a little context here.

0:51 But in that moment was like, wow, this was the best teaching we ever heard.

0:56 Yeah?

0:58 It's found in Matthew 7, chapter 7.

1:01 Jesus is sharing some Godly principles, how to apply to your life.

1:05 But this is what Jesus said in Matthew 7, 24 to 29.

1:08 And the best translation says, Jesus speaking.

1:12 These words I speak to you, these words I speak to you are not incidental additions to your life, homeowner improvements to your standard of living.

1:22 They're foundational words, words to build a life on.

1:27 If you work these words into your life, you're like a smart carpenter who built his house on solid rock.

1:35 Rain poured down, the river flooded, a tornado hit, but nothing moved that house.

1:41 It was fixed to a rock.

1:44 But if you just use my words in Bible studies and don't work them into your life, you're like a stupid carpenter who built his house on the sandy beach.

1:54 When a storm rolled in and the waves came up, it collapsed like a house of cards.

2:01 Jesus concluded his address, the crowd burst into applause.

2:04 They had never heard teaching like this.

2:07 It was apparent that he was living everything he was saying.

2:12 What a contrast to religion teachers.

2:14 This was the best teaching they have ever heard.

2:19 Crazy, eh?

2:21 Jesus lived everything he taught.

2:25 He lived a life applying everything that was in God's word into his life.

2:32 And here she's encouraging us to do the same.

2:36 He's really giving people, I think that really stood out for people because they probably saw that Jesus was giving them the key to succeed in difficult times.

2:48 Right?

2:50 He was giving us insight into difficult times.

2:53 I was reading that and I thought like even if they said here like

3:01 they have never heard anything like this compared quite a contrast to religion teachers.

3:06 It seemed even too easy if you compare to religion teachers of the time.

3:11 Everything was based on regulations, norms, things you have to do, things you need to work, maybe even complicated to understand, difficult to understand.

3:20 But what Jesus was saying was easy.

3:23 Right?

3:26 Okay, so I just need to apply what I learned.

3:29 What you are saying?

3:31 That I just need to apply what you're saying into my life?

3:33 That sounds easy.

3:34 So I think that that's I put myself into the story.

3:36 I'm like, wow, it sounds really.

3:37 And I like one definition of easy I heard which says easy is something I can do.

3:45 Right?

3:46 No one's asking you to do something complicated, difficult.

3:48 Complicated is maybe something you need to learn a lot about it and then you get to do it.

3:52 But easy is something I can do.

3:56 So we have the situation here, something Jesus is sharing that is easy.

4:02 But why if it's easy, it's not what we do.

4:07 Right?

4:07 You can, if we agree, okay, this is something really easy, but why it's also something we don't do?

4:13 And I think the reason is simple.

4:15 It's also easy not to do it.

4:17 Right?

4:18 It's easy to do it and it's easy not to do it.

4:22 And Jesus is talking here about two examples.

4:24 One that applied what he heard and one that didn't apply.

4:32 So also easy not to apply it.

4:35 The thing here was like both of the builders, they had to put work into building a house.

4:44 They both put work into building a house.

4:46 But the difference was the foundation where the house was built on.

4:50 And that's what Jesus is taking us to understand how to build a house in his foundation.

5:00 I don't know if anyone here has built a house before?

5:03 Anyone here has built a house?

5:04 Okay, one person, two?

5:05 Awesome.

5:06 Three?

5:07 All the builders are sitting here in this area.

5:10 If you want anything about building knowledge, talk to them later.

5:13 Anyone else?

5:14 You built a house?

5:15 Okay, awesome.

5:16 More people, wow, more than last service.

5:19 All the builders come to this service.

5:21 All right, so that's really good.

5:24 Because, you know, like building a house takes time, finances, planning, more finances, more planning, readjusting, designing.

5:37 You know, like it takes a lot of work.

5:39 Like I'm the oldest of five siblings.

5:43 We are five siblings, four boys and one sister.

5:47 Like my sister is the most competitive person you can ever meet.

5:52 And, you know, my parents were really intelligent.

5:54 They had us like really close to each other.

5:57 So when we all, in our teenage years, they decided, let's do some renovations, like big renovations in the house.

6:07 We have four boys here willing to give up the summer holidays to build a house.

6:13 So yeah, I know how much work takes to build a house like we were fighting.

6:17 No, I don't want to do the concrete machine.

6:19 You do it.

6:20 No, I already did that last week.

6:23 Putting sand with a shovel on the thing.

6:25 Like really a lot of work.

6:27 And more if you have to do it.

6:28 It's different to watch something, someone doing it.

6:31 And it's another thing when you do it.

6:34 And I remember one day, like a really funny story, like we had to bring all the tools from the street into the house in the night, right?

6:40 So people don't steal it.

6:43 And that was in Spain.

6:47 We left the shovel with the sand, with a mountain of sand.

6:52 We forgot it outside just in the sand.

6:56 Next day we went out, it's like, oh, it's still there.

6:59 Dad, you told us to bring the tools, but no one's stealing that.

7:02 And my dad said, well, no one is going to steal that tool.

7:05 It takes a lot of work to work with that.

7:06 They would steal any other thing but that one.

7:09 So like you get really insights into the whole building thing.

7:12 That's why people just leave the tools outside because they know no one wants to work so hard.

7:17 Anyway, it takes a lot of time.

7:20 It takes finances.

7:21 It takes things, you know?

7:23 And then my parents, oh, let's change the color of the house.

7:26 We changed the color of the house.

7:28 They changed it like two level house.

7:30 When we finished next year, hey guys, you did awesome.

7:32 Why don't we build a swimming pool?

7:34 I'm like, no, I'm not digging any hole on a swimming pool.

7:37 You can hire someone to do that.

7:39 I'm not doing that.

7:40 But you know, like I think when we put this into the story of building a house, Jesus wants to talk to us about something a bit deeper than just renovation,

7:51 color, window style of the house.

7:55 He wants to talk to us about the foundation where we build the house.

8:00 So I just want to call this message, if you are taking notes, a solid foundation.

8:06 And that's something we can spend a few moments now talking about.

8:09 And you know, we started this year, 2023,

8:13 talking about building my life in Unshakeable Promises.

8:17 The team has been sharing over the last few weeks of the things that we can be established on.

8:22 Everything is in God's promises, in the Lord, in the world, God's love, in the vision, in Godly wisdom, in God's promises, in God's house.

8:33 No, and this really stood out for me when I thought, okay, what does it mean, an unshakeable promise?

8:46 It means that everything can be shaken, but that promise is still standing, right?

8:53 Everything can be shaken, waves, rain, storm, whatever, but the promise is still holding you.

9:01 And you know, I grew up in a part of Spain that is really is well known by earthquakes in Spain.

9:10 South of Spain, really close to the beach, earthquakes, and if it's bad, it's also like the waves are coming in.

9:16 But the whole city, the city where I grew up, it got destroyed around 200 years ago by an, the whole city by an earthquake.

9:24 And it really, then we had to rebuild the whole city and was like a whole thing to rebuild.

9:29 But now when people build, they always think, is this gonna hold if an earthquake comes?

9:37 Now growing up there, every year I could feel even one or two tremors a year.

9:41 You can feel it.

9:42 Like you can like, oh, what happened?

9:44 Oh, it was an earthquake.

9:45 Like little ones, right?

9:47 But then even with little ones, you would see houses with little cracks.

9:52 That's really showing you a bad sign if a bigger one comes because it means that it's not so strong.

9:58 So it was really testing if you want to build a house and you ask the builders to build with good materials and they can tell you, they can promise you, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is the best materials ever.

10:10 But you will never know until things are shaken.

10:13 Until the earth is shaken, we'll really reveal what was this house built on?

10:18 What was the construction of this house?

10:20 So I really think it's the same for our lives.

10:23 The only way we're gonna find out what we have built on our lives is when things are shaken, right?

10:32 You know, this really made me think about if we are building our lives on these unshakable promises, Jesus is giving us the one key here, which is build your life on a solid foundation.

10:50 And I start with these words of examples that he's given us.

10:55 I think it's three parts of a solid foundation where we can build our lives.

11:00 Are you ready?

11:02 Yeah.

11:02 All right, let's start with part number one.

11:07 A foundation for me, a foundation for myself.

11:11 You know, no one starts this year wanting to fail.

11:14 No one starts this year, okay, 2023, my new year resolutions are gonna be negative.

11:22 They're gonna be worst-case scenarios.

11:24 No one starts like that.

11:25 Everyone starts this year thinking, if I work a few things out, maybe I can do this.

11:31 What about putting this as a goal?

11:32 Maybe not in two months, but maybe in six months.

11:35 Maybe if I start working out today, I don't know, in January, it's always like the gyms are packed with people that never go.

11:42 And the people that go, they don't go in January.

11:48 Right?

11:49 Anyone knows about it?

11:50 And you can do exercise at home as well.

11:53 But the thing is, how strong is that foundation that keeps you?

11:58 So no one starts this year wanting to fail, but things happen, right?

12:04 We all know that things happen through the year.

12:06 It could be sickness, could be disappointments, could be failure, mistakes that shakes things in your life.

12:16 Could be connected to mental health, could be connected to many other things.

12:19 But how strong is the foundation that we're building in our lives that's gonna hold us through these shaking, difficult moments?

12:27 You know, like for me, the pandemic was a big surprise.

12:34 I don't know how it's for you.

12:35 I think it's a shared experience that many people lived in a different way.

12:39 But it really brings me to church context.

12:43 Like we've been here part of building church over the last 10 years.

12:47 And I've seen crazy things happen over the last couple of years where it was like, wow, everything was shaken.

12:54 How you can spend time with people?

12:56 Now only with two people.

12:57 Now you cannot gather together.

12:59 Now only online.

13:01 Now spend time with yourself.

13:03 Now this, now that.

13:04 Like, I don't know.

13:05 It was crazy, but everything felt shaky.

13:09 Like six months without being able to go for a coffee.

13:13 In a coffee, like meaning things close, things shake.

13:18 Then close people to some people even maybe lost their lives.

13:21 Like things were really, really shaken.

13:23 But it was an experience lived different by different people.

13:27 But I thought when it comes to us in church,

13:31 I've seen people even leaving the faith when things got shaken.

13:36 People even leaving the forgetting what God has done for them when things were shaken.

13:42 So it really made me think, wow, this really rebuilt the foundation on what we build our lives.

13:50 For my life personally, for my wife and I, we took some time as well to go for walks.

13:56 We were doing home office and then walking around the block.

13:58 And every morning we started to think, okay, what if this happens?

14:02 What if this happens?

14:03 What if we lose a job?

14:04 What if this happens?

14:04 What if we, what if we need to cancel this?

14:06 What if we cannot meet anymore as a church?

14:08 What if, like we have like so many what if, what if, what if.

14:11 And at the same time, we try to find God's promises to build on every what if.

14:18 And that really gives us such a strength, even as a couple to know, you know what?

14:22 We already went through all the what ifs and the result is that God is with us standing in every difficult moment.

14:30 And really gives us such a resolve, such a strength to do.

14:33 But it only came out on that shaking moments.

14:37 Before we never spent so much time on that.

14:40 Nothing was a really good strength to do that.

14:43 So one question that we ask ourselves out of that was, if the storm hits in five years from now, how strong is the foundation of my house?

14:59 I don't know if you ever asked that question to you,

15:02 but imagine if you asked the question to yourself.

15:05 If the storm comes, if the rain comes in five years from now, how strong is foundation that you're building today?

15:15 Is there anything I need to adjust now that will help my foundation to be stronger for the future?

15:21 Is there anything I know now that I can start applying now?

15:28 In the story, the rain comes for both.

15:30 Things happen to everyone, good things, bad things.

15:34 And I know we talk about a lot of times about it's not what happens, it's what do you do next, right?

15:39 We can always choose our response to how things happen.

15:42 But Jesus is also telling us here, it's also how can you be prepared the best for when things happen?

15:51 Jesus says here, if you work these words into your life, you're like a smart carpenter who built his house on a solid rock.

16:01 You know, sometimes we put so much work on our career, on our jobs, on our uni, school, you know, in so many areas of life.

16:10 But Jesus, I think that was the high contrast that people felt in that time because Jesus was telling them,

16:17 I want you to work on yourself.

16:21 Work these words into your life.

16:24 I want you to take time to work on yourself.

16:27 Not in the things that you do, work on yourself.

16:30 And I think that was probably the contrast with the whole religion thing.

16:32 We were like, I need to work on the things I do.

16:35 No, no, no, work on yourself.

16:37 Take these words that I'm sharing to you and apply them.

16:41 We know that God's words are full of life, full of wisdom for lives.

16:45 But the difference Jesus is saying here is the application.

16:49 Who are you becoming in the process?

16:53 Work on yourself so that all of your life is built on a strong foundation.

17:00 I think another aspect that people were probably really amazed in this teaching was that Jesus gave them insight into the future.

17:11 He was telling them, build now for when the storm comes.

17:17 He was telling them, I know what's coming into your life in five, 10, 20 years time.

17:23 And I'm giving you a key to hold on these difficult times.

17:27 Apply now what I'm giving you.

17:29 I'm thinking like this is amazing.

17:30 Jesus is giving us, he's saying that, wow, this man can see our future and he's giving us the solution for it as well.

17:39 He's telling us it's possible to have a better future because I'm in your life.

17:44 Learning to apply new things and this will need, that you will need in the most difficult times of your life.

17:50 So you can be standing.

17:52 You will survive the next crisis.

17:54 You will survive the next winter.

17:55 You will survive the next sickness.

17:56 You will survive the next difficulties.

17:58 You will survive any difficult thing that comes into your life because I'm your foundation.

18:08 I think it's a powerful word.

18:11 And you know, like if we go a bit more deep into what this foundation, what's the rock, this foundation that we were singing about and what it represents, in Ephesians 2, verse 19 to 22, we can read,

18:49 He's used the apostles and prophets for the foundation.

18:53 Now He's using you.

18:55 Feeding you brick by brick, stone by stone with Christ Jesus at the cornerstone that holds all the paths together.

19:03 We see it taking shape day after day, a holy temple built by God.

19:08 All of us built into it, a temple in which God is quite at home.

19:14 You know, it says Christ is the cornerstone.

19:18 He's the foundation, the solid foundation on which we can build our lives.

19:25 I think this is a guy like the crowd was amazed on these teachings.

19:30 He was giving us a different way of building our lives.

19:33 And you know, like I think also when it comes to building our lives, there's different seasons.

19:40 And I think that's what Jesus is telling us, apply now what you're hearing from me now.

19:46 Because there are different seasons.

19:48 Maybe you need to apply now something that's going to help you for the next season.

19:52 And I think like I've seen that in my personal life from my wife and I. And like I remember messages from Pastor Mark, from Pastor Joyce, like really, really key messages from my life that made me walk out of here and say, if I want to grow, I need to apply this now.

20:11 And one example I think was a message from Joyce on worship and praise and how to apply that into my life, into a practical way.

20:20 And we got home and I was telling my wife, Sheila, hey, we need to do something about it.

20:24 What can we do?

20:25 What can we do?

20:26 And she said, oh, you're going to prepare a Spotify playlist with worship songs because we are believing for miracles.

20:32 We're believing for difficult things.

20:34 We don't want to just be comfortable.

20:35 We're going to stir up our faith and step it up.

20:39 So when we come into our home, we're going to play worship.

20:42 When we wake up in the morning, we're going to play worship.

20:46 When we go to bed, we're going to play worship.

20:48 And we did that for a season.

20:49 We really did that for a season.

20:51 Like all these songs, like really build such a faith into our lives that really made us such a resolve to know we can believe for bigger things.

21:00 But what's out of that?

21:01 How difficult is like a Spotify playlist that Sheila made?

21:03 And we still listen today to some of these songs.

21:07 And you know what's funny?

21:10 Like now I have a one and a half year old daughter

21:14 that she wants to play the same song on repeat.

21:17 That is not any of my worship playlist.

21:21 It's the Disney movie from Encanto.

21:23 I think like the Colombian influence here.

21:25 And she likes this really this strong girl, Luisa.

21:28 And she wants to play that song again and again.

21:30 Like she comes to me like, papa, tick, tick, tick, oh, oh, oh.

21:33 And then I know exactly what she wants.

21:37 And she was over and over and over.

21:41 And I thought like, well, isn't it funny that at least we have some time to prepare ourselves more with faith songs.

21:49 That I don't need that so much right now.

21:51 Don't get me wrong.

21:52 I still build up my worship and faith, but it looks different.

21:56 It's not like how it was before.

21:58 So for me, I look back and I say, God, you really knew how to speak to us in that specific moment that would build us to also enjoy more of these moments and to have a better foundation for these moments.

22:09 So I think that's really going back to how important it is each season of your life.

22:16 That's why it's important to apply now what you're hearing.

22:22 I want to share the second part of building a strong foundation.

22:29 And it's called a foundation for others.

22:32 First was a foundation for me.

22:35 Second part is a foundation for others.

22:39 Have you heard this airplane brief in case of emergency?

22:44 I know like we skip like we have some of my headphones and I don't even listen to it anymore.

22:48 But I know something like if you are in an emergency, put the oxygen on you first and then you can help others, right?

22:57 So the whole idea is that actually you need to be good yourself with oxygen so you can be helping someone else, right?

23:04 Also, Jesus gives us here a brief.

23:06 He says, we can read it in John 15, 5.

23:11 I am the vine, you are the branches.

23:14 If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit.

23:20 He's telling us that we need to be connected first to Him so that we can bear fruit.

23:25 And our fruit is always going to be connected to helping others.

23:31 You know, we're starting, as Connie was sharing, community groups next week, this week, 26th, I think.

23:40 And it's all about getting around the table of hospitality, generosity, growing together, praying for each other, sharing food, believing for our lives, speaking life, encouraging to each other, which is all building ourselves.

23:53 And at the same time, we always say, someone else benefits because we get together.

23:59 We have strategic partnerships.

24:00 We are people that we're helping that are in big need.

24:03 They don't have a foundation like what we have.

24:05 But because we are in a solid foundation, we can be able to reach to others that need that.

24:11 They need us to be strong.

24:13 Nothing with Christ, our fruit is always going to be connected to helping others.

24:21 At the beginning of this year, last year, 2022,

24:27 was a difficult conflict that is going on today in the Ukraine.

24:34 And we were able to send a little team to Warsaw to help people that were coming from our church, even in the Ukraine, crossing the border and seeking for help.

24:47 You know, we had some of the people here even today, and it's still not over, but I think, like, in that moment, we sent two people there, Connie and Jules, and they were, like, shocked by the stories of pain.

25:00 Like, they were like us, one Sunday, worshipping Jesus in church, next week, away in a different country.

25:08 And, you know, them too were able to help others hearing things of pain, hurt, disbelief, like, cry, whatever the situation was.

25:19 And they were able to help because they had a strong foundation for their own lives.

25:24 I don't know if you've been close to pain, but it can shake you, even if it's someone else's pain.

25:30 If you are not in a strong foundation, you are not going to be able to do anything.

25:35 I know, like, what Mark and Joyce sometimes say,

25:38 like, these kids that we are helping in India through strategic partnerships, we will not even be able to help if we are standing there.

25:47 You don't know what to do.

25:49 And I think this, for me, this whole team helping our church in the Ukraine from Warsaw was such a good example that you cannot prepare for that as a quick brief.

26:02 I just read a few Bible verses this week and go there and be strong.

26:07 You need to send people that are really strong and solid, so they can be able to help others that are shaken.

26:13 And I think that's really showed me that to build that foundation is always going to be to help others.

26:25 The third aspect of the solid foundation is the foundation for the storm.

26:31 You know, as I was sharing before with the city I grew up in, the earthquakes, they always shown, they always were revealing the foundation, if the foundation was strong or not, how strong is your house.

26:44 And even can be the little things, you add pressure on something, it reveals what comes out.

26:50 For me, even recently just being at that for a year and a half,

26:55 it's put pressure on certain parts when you are like not sleeping, when you are like not maybe with all the free time you had before, when you are annoyed with things piled up, piled up, piled up.

27:07 And then, wow, what comes out of me?

27:10 I'm like, oh wow, what's out there on me?

27:11 I thought that was like more patient.

27:16 But it's interesting, even with small things, it can reveal so much about the foundation that we're building in our lives.

27:24 And you know, the rain and the storm in the future could be different things for all of us.

27:32 None of us, we wish anything bad to happen.

27:36 But all we can do is to build today with what we know for the future.

27:43 You know, the rain comes and we don't know when.

27:45 The storm can hit and we don't know when.

27:48 But to think that it's never gonna come, just because things are good today, I think it's just naive.

27:55 Just to hope, I just hoping nothing bad happens to me.

28:00 And go life through that.

28:01 I don't think we are, our hope cannot be on hoping the storm doesn't hit.

28:08 But our hope can be in Christ, our foundation.

28:12 And I want to read here in Isaiah 40, 28 to 31 says, But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.

28:22 They will soar on wings like eagles.

28:25 They will run and not grow weary, not grow weary.

28:29 They will walk and not be faint.

28:32 Our part, my part is to build a strong foundation.

28:35 To apply today what I know and to build my hope in Him.

28:41 You know, God is promising us here.

28:43 It's one of the unshakable promises.

28:45 He's promising us not only that He's gonna be with us, but He's gonna be renewing our strength in the difficult times.

28:55 How powerful!

28:56 Who can say that?

28:57 That you're building your life in a foundation that not only you're gonna be peaceful, but full of strength.

29:03 You're not gonna be worried.

29:04 You're not gonna be, I don't know, look around.

29:06 I don't see anyone that can say so confident in difficult times.

29:11 My foundation and my hope is in Christ.

29:14 So I think it's lots of promises that we can apply.

29:16 What is it for you?

29:17 What is the promise that you're gonna hold on today?

29:20 That you can start building into your life and say, these promises, I'm gonna need them for the future.

29:24 You know, like one thing I want to share, one story, and then we're gonna finish the service soon.

29:32 But it's one, I don't know if you have seen the Christmas service.

29:35 It's just only a few weeks ago.

29:37 Not even one month ago, right?

29:39 What day is today?

29:41 22nd?

29:42 So less than one month ago, the Christmas online service.

29:46 Did you watch that?

29:50 It's a few stories that were there, and one story really stood out for me.

29:56 The story is from a friend from the Ukraine, Olga.

30:00 She came to Berlin.

30:02 And the story goes from one day to the other.

30:06 Everything, the whole life was shaken to the core.

30:12 Everything.

30:13 She had to jump into a car and drive, not knowing where to go.

30:17 The husband had to stay.

30:20 And the one thing that she had built as a foundation in her life,

30:25 I know God is not gonna abandon us.

30:29 And I know I need to be with my spiritual family in these times.

30:35 You don't have time to think in that moment.

30:37 She didn't have any time to think.

30:39 All came out what she has built as a foundation for her life.

30:44 And you know, like if I hear these stories, like even we had the opportunity to talk recently, and she was telling about her husband that is right now in the Ukraine.

30:53 And he was, they have two kids.

30:57 The kids were in the car at the back as he was driving alone.

31:01 But she told me the husband over the last years has been telling before going to sleep stories of faith to the kids.

31:10 What a foundation to build.

31:12 Imagine to leave your family knowing they're gonna be, at least they have a strong foundation that's not gonna shake them.

31:19 They have stories of faith.

31:21 They know where to go.

31:22 They know how to go.

31:23 They're going to God.

31:24 And everything, how many people around are shaking, but they are still standing because of God's grace.

31:29 You know, I think like all I want to do when I hear that, I don't know what's gonna happen in my life in the future.

31:35 I don't wish anything bad.

31:36 But all I can do is to build a strong foundation for my life today.

31:40 And it starts today.

31:41 It starts today.

31:42 And I think like if sickness hits,

31:49 I want to be able to speak God's promises over my life with faith.

31:55 For my wife, for my child.

31:56 We have people here, even in our community, they have like kids that are sick and they're speaking God's promises over their lives.

32:03 If the crisis hits, we are hearing about crisis, if it hits, well, I want to stay strong knowing that God is my provider.

32:13 Everything can be shaken, but God is my provider.

32:16 And He has promised that He will stand, I will stand in His promises.

32:21 What if, what if, what if?

32:26 We can't control when the storm hits, can't control all that, but all we can do is to build our lives in the solid foundation.

32:38 I think this is really how we can plan for the unexpected.

32:41 We talked about the earthquakes, we talked about all these things and we only will see what we build our lives on when things hit.

32:48 I want to read here, John 16, 33 that says, Jesus is speaking to us.

32:54 I have told you these things,

32:57 so that in me you may have peace.

33:00 In this world, you will have trouble, but take heart, I have overcome the world.

33:07 In this world, you will have trouble, but take heart, I have overcome the world.

33:16 Now, here Jesus is giving us the practical and hopeful reassurance that He will be with us through the storms.

33:24 He's looking into our lives in five years time, in 10 years time, in 20 years time and telling us, I will be with you when you need me the most.

33:38 Apply my words today and you will have peace when the storm hits.

33:42 How powerful is that?

33:44 How powerful is that?

33:45 I know it's simple, I know it sounds easy, but as we said, it's easy also not to do it.

33:51 And I think if we just leave from this place knowing, God, why are you speaking to me today that I can apply now for my future?

34:00 I believe God is speaking to every single one of us.

34:02 I believe God is revealing things that He wants you to apply into your life today.

34:08 I would like to ask the team in a moment to lead us in this song and maybe it could be a moment between you and God.

34:17 We're still at the beginning of the year.

34:18 We're still at the beginning of the year looking hopeful to the future.

34:21 We are not waiting for any disaster.

34:23 We are believing for God to prevail in our lives through the year.

34:28 But what if we ask ourselves this question?

34:33 If rain comes in five years from now, how strong is the foundation of my house?

34:41 If the storm hits, will I still be standing?

34:46 You know, I know God wants to prepare you to be strong for you, for your friends, for your family, for people around you.

34:54 And you know, I think like it's something we can... Maybe it's between you and God.

34:59 Maybe it's a real thing.

35:00 Maybe it's just, I know these things that you've been telling me over the last weeks.

35:05 Maybe it's about worship.

35:07 As I said at the beginning, maybe it's you worshiping at home.

35:10 Maybe it's applying something about Godly finances into your life.

35:14 Maybe you will need that in the future.

35:15 Maybe it's about reading God's promises over health and healing.

35:20 Maybe you will need that in the future.

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