Get inspired to grow your faith with weekly messages from Pastor Russ Austin at Southpoint Community Church.

In Gospel of Matthew 10, Jesus tells His disciples that if a town rejects them, they are to shake the dust off their feet and move on. It wasn't bitterness. It wasn't indifference. It was clarity: “I've done my part. I release this to God.”We live in a dusty world.Rejection leaves dust.Injustice leaves dust.Rude people, missed promotions, painful conversations — dust.If you don't learn to shake it off, you'll carry yesterday's dirt into tomorrow's assignment.Jesus promised abundant life in Gospel of John 10:10 — but you won't experience it if you keep showing up with dusty feet.

Can Jesus?Can Jesus heal the incurable? Restore what's broken? Free what's been enslaved? Turn your story around?The same Jesus who spoke galaxies into existence and flung trillions of stars into space is not distant from your pain—He moves toward it. When the leper asked, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean,” Jesus responded with three powerful words: “I will. Be clean.”Jesus is not only able—He is willing. He reaches toward our sickness, our sin, and our brokenness. He proved it at the cross, where He gave His life to heal us, cleanse us, and set us free.Whatever you're facing today, come to Him with confidence and faith:He can. He wants to. And He will.

Do you feel like you've been working hard but still coming up empty?Peter fished all night and caught nothing. Empty nets. Empty hope. Empty strength.But Jesus told him to go deeper.The deep is where you lose control and learn to trust.The deep is where your brokenness is exposed—but so is God's grace.The deep is where empty nets become miracles and empty lives discover purpose.If you feel exhausted, stuck, or searching… Jesus is calling you deeper.Your miracle is waiting there.

This message invites us into the radical concept of Jubilee—a divine reset button that God has been waiting to press in our lives. Drawing from Luke 4 and the ancient practice described in Leviticus 25, we discover that every 50 years, God commanded Israel to declare a year of complete transformation: rest for the land, restoration of lost property, and release from all debts and slavery. Yet remarkably, historians find no record of Israel ever observing this sacred year. For 1,500 years, God's people lived under the weight of insurmountable debt, exhausting labor, and relentless anxiety because of their inability to trust God and their insatiable greed. Then Jesus walks into the synagogue in Nazareth, reads from Isaiah 61, and declares that this ancient promise is now fulfilled in Him. He is sounding the horn of Jubilee—bringing good news to the poor, liberty to captives, sight to the blind, and freedom to the oppressed. The profound truth here is that our Jubilee begins when we recognize our desperate need and humbly accept Jesus not just as helper, but as the Son of God and our King. The message challenges us to examine whether we've become merely familiar with Jesus through proximity, or whether we've entered into genuine intimacy with Him. Our miracle, our reset, our breakthrough in 2026 begins at the altar of surrender, on our knees before the King who offers us rest, restoration, and complete freedom from everything that enslaves us.