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Philippians 4:10-19 | YOUR Needs Are Not Bigger Than God's SUPPLYYOU have been measuring YOUR need — and it keeps looking bigger than anything that could meet it.That is where the fear lives. YOU add it up. YOU look at what YOU have against what YOU owe, what YOU need against what is coming in, and the gap looks impossible. And the longer YOU stare at the size of the need, the more convinced YOU become that this is the one thing too big for God to cover. But this passage says YOU have been measuring the wrong thing.Philippians 4 ends with one of the most quoted promises in the entire Bible — and one of the most misunderstood.Because most people hear it as a nice sentiment: God will take care of you. But look at what the promise is actually measured against. It does not say God will supply according to the size of YOUR need. It does not say according to what is realistic, or what is left over, or what makes sense on paper. It says according to a completely different measure — a source so vast that the size of YOUR need becomes almost irrelevant next to it.The supply was never tied to the size of YOUR problem. It is tied to the size of His riches.Here is what most people miss. Before that promise is ever given, the person writing it shares a secret he had to learn — a way of living that most people never discover — that allowed him to be completely steady whether he had everything or almost nothing. He was not writing this from a place of abundance. He was writing it having known real lack. And the secret he learned in those seasons is the exact thing that unlocks the promise for YOU.But there is something else — a specific condition surrounding this promise that most people skip right over.This famous promise of supply was not spoken into a vacuum. It was attached to something specific these people had done — a way they had partnered, participated, and given into the mission of God when no one else would. The promise of "all your needs supplied" came directly on the heels of their willingness to be part of what God was doing. And that connection is the key that most people miss entirely when they claim this verse.There is a link in this passage between what YOU pour out and what God pours back — and between the secret of contentment and the promise of supply — that will completely change the way YOU look at both the need in front of YOU and the riches behind it.What was the secret he learned? What is the supply actually measured against? And what is the condition attached to the promise most people quote but never fully receive?Press play — because YOUR needs are not bigger than God's supply. This message will show YOU what the promise is really measured against, and why the source behind it makes YOUR biggest need look small.

Luke 8:1-3 | God Didn't Bring YOU This Far Just to WATCHYOU have been on the receiving end for a long time. God is about to move YOU to the other side of it.YOU know what it is to be helped. YOU have been carried, healed, provided for, rescued more times than YOU can count. And somewhere along the way, without meaning to, YOU settled into the role of the one who receives — watching what God does, grateful for it, but standing on the sidelines of the mission itself. As if YOUR job was to be blessed, and someone else's job was to build. But God did not bring YOU this far just to watch.Luke 8 reveals something about how God works that most people have completely overlooked.There is a detail in this passage that quietly corrects a belief a lot of people hold without ever questioning it. The most powerful ministry that ever walked the earth — one that healed the sick, multiplied food out of nothing, and had the very Son of God at the center of it — was sustained in an ordinary, surprising way. Not by miracles falling from the sky every morning. By people. By ordinary people who had been touched, choosing to give from what they had.Here is what most people miss.God could have provided for that mission any way He wanted. He could have made money appear, made provision fall like rain, removed every need supernaturally. But that is not the pattern He chose. Instead, He moved on the hearts of people whose lives had been changed — and invited them to become part of what He was doing. The very ones who had been healed became the ones who carried the mission forward. What they had received turned them from spectators into partners.And here is the part that will surprise YOU: it was not only about money.Some gave financially. But others gave something else entirely — a home, a meal, a place to stay, an act of service, something practical they already possessed. Across these passages, ordinary people used the ordinary things in their lives — their resources, their homes, their hands, their time — to sustain a move of God. Not one of them did something flashy. But without them, the mission would not have gone forward the way it did. Their part mattered more than they ever knew.That is the truth God wants to settle in YOU. There is a role only YOU can fill in what He is doing right now — and it is built out of exactly what is already in YOUR hands. YOU were not just meant to benefit from the move of God. YOU were meant to be part of it.What was the surprising way the greatest ministry was sustained? What did ordinary people give? And what has God placed in YOUR hands that He is inviting YOU to use for something bigger than YOURSELF?Press play — because God did not bring YOU this far just to watch. This message will show YOU why YOUR part matters, and how the very things already in YOUR life are exactly what God wants to partner with.

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Genesis 40:13-23 | What Made YOU Wait… Is Setting Up Something GREATERYOU thought the wait was over — and then it got longer.That is the part that almost broke YOU. It is one thing to wait. It is another thing entirely to think YOUR breakthrough has finally arrived — to see the door crack open, to feel the shift coming — and then watch it slip away and leave YOU exactly where YOU were. Forgotten. Overlooked. Still waiting, after YOU were so sure the waiting was done. And that second stretch of waiting is the one that makes YOU wonder if God forgot about YOU entirely.Genesis 40 ends in exactly that place.Someone had done everything right. He used his gift, helped someone in their moment of need, and did it with excellence and integrity while still stuck in his own hard place. And he made one simple request: when things turn around for you, remember me. It was reasonable. It was deserved. And the person he helped walked straight out into their breakthrough — and completely forgot he existed.The one connection that could have set him free forgot all about him.Here is what most people miss. That forgetting was not a failure of his breakthrough. It was the protection of a much bigger one. Because if he had been remembered right then, he would have gotten a small, quiet exit — a favor, a footnote, freedom through a side door. What the delay was actually doing was holding him in position for a moment that had not arrived yet — a moment so much larger that the early exit would have completely disqualified him from it.The wait was not punishment. It was placement.And there is a specific detail about the timing of what came next — how long the additional wait lasted, and the exact moment his name finally came up again — that reveals something staggering about how God uses delay. He was not forgotten. He was being saved for a door so much bigger than the one that closed that the whole painful wait suddenly made sense in a single moment.Because the thing that made him wait was quietly setting up something greater than the thing he originally asked for.There is a reason God let the first door close. There is a reason the wait got longer right when it should have ended. And once YOU understand what that delay was actually protecting, YOU will stop reading YOUR wait as rejection and start seeing it as preparation for something bigger than what YOU have been asking for.Why did the door close? How long did the wait actually last? And what was the delay setting up that a quick exit would have cost him?Press play — because what made YOU wait is setting up something greater. This message will show YOU why the delay that felt like being forgotten may be the very thing positioning YOU for a door far bigger than the one YOU thought YOU lost.

Genesis 39:19-23 | What Looked Like PUNISHMENT… Became YOUR PROMOTIONYOU are being treated like YOU did something wrong when YOU didn't.That is one of the hardest places to stand. YOU kept YOUR integrity. YOU did the right thing. And instead of being rewarded, YOU got demoted — sent to a lower place, handed a harder season, treated like a punishment that YOU never earned. And everything about it screams that this is the end of YOUR story: unfair, undeserved, and going nowhere but down.Genesis 39 is the passage that redefines that exact moment.Someone had just been thrown into the lowest place available — punished for a crime he never committed, sent to a dungeon on the word of a lie, with no trial, no defense, and no one to speak for him. It was the bottom. By every appearance, it was punishment in its purest form: unjust, humiliating, and final. Anyone looking at his life in that moment would have said God had abandoned him.But something went down into that low place with him.Here is what most people miss. The prison did not become a place of despair. It became a place of rising. In the very location that was meant to bury him, favor found him again. The person in charge began to notice something different about him, and step by step, he was given more and more responsibility — until the one who was thrown in as a prisoner was quietly running the entire place. The punishment had become a position.What looked like the bottom was actually a training ground.Because the skills he built, the trust he earned, and the character that was formed in that low place were the exact things he would need for the enormous thing God was preparing him for next. He did not know it yet, but the prison was not a detour away from his destiny. It was the direct road to it. The demotion was disguised preparation.There is a specific reason everything he touched in that place began to prosper — a single factor named in this passage that had nothing to do with his circumstances and everything to do with what was with him — and once YOU understand what it was, YOU will stop measuring YOUR season by how low it looks and start looking for the thing that followed YOU into it.What went into the prison with him? Why did everything he touched there succeed? And what if the punishment YOU are enduring is actually the promotion YOU have been praying for, in disguise?Press play — because what looked like punishment became a promotion. This message will show YOU why the low place YOU are in may be the exact place God is positioning YOU to rise — and what has to be with YOU for it to happen.

Genesis 37:26-28 | The Place YOU Didn't CHOOSE… May Be Part of the PLANYOU ended up somewhere YOU never would have chosen.A situation YOU did not sign up for. A place YOU were pushed into by someone else's decision, someone else's betrayal, or circumstances that were completely out of YOUR hands. YOU did not want to be here. YOU did not plan for this. And a part of YOU has been treating this whole season as a detour — a mistake to survive and escape from — never once considering that the place YOU did not choose might be the exact place YOU were meant to be.Genesis 37 begins with someone taken to a place he never chose.He did not go willingly. He was handed over, sold, carried off to a foreign place by people who were supposed to protect him — for a price, like he was nothing. Everything familiar was stripped away. Everything he had been promised seemed impossible now. By every measure, being taken to that place was the end of his story. It looked like betrayal had won and his dreams were finished.But something went with him that changed everything.Here is what most people miss. In the place he did not choose — the place that looked like punishment, like the ruin of everything — something began to happen that never could have happened anywhere else. He did not just survive there. He began to rise. Favor found him. Everything he touched started to prosper. The very place that was meant to bury him became the place he was quietly being positioned and prepared for something far bigger than the life he lost.The place he did not choose was the place God had chosen for him.And it was not only for him. What happened in that place spilled over onto everyone around him — even the household of the man who owned him was blessed because of the one who had been dragged there against his will. The forced place became a place of overflow.There is something in this passage about what follows YOU into the place YOU did not choose — a presence that does not stay behind when YOUR circumstances change — that will completely shift how YOU see the situation YOU have been begging God to get YOU out of. Because YOU may have been so focused on escaping it that YOU never noticed what God was doing inside it.What went with him? What started happening in the place he never chose? And what if the thing YOU are trying to escape is the exact place YOU are being positioned for?Press play — because the place YOU didn't choose may be part of the plan. This message will show YOU what God does in the seasons YOU never wanted, and why the place that looks like a detour may be YOUR exact assignment.

In this week's message, Pastor Sean teaches through 2 John 1:7–13, warning us about the importance of staying grounded in the truth of Christ. The message challenges us to be careful about what we allow to influence our faith and to recognize teachings that lead us away from who Jesus is. Pastor Sean emphasizes that standing firm in the truth requires both discernment and faithfulness, while continuing to show Christlike love to others. It's a timely reminder to guard what we believe, remain faithful to Jesus, and not allow anything to pull us away from the truth of the Gospel.

Mark 5:22-24, 35-43 | Your Story Didn't END… Your Faith Still Has a FUTURESomeone already told YOU it was over.Maybe it was a person. Maybe it was a report. Maybe it was the voice in YOUR own head that looked at the situation and reached the only conclusion that made sense: this is finished, there's no point hoping anymore, stop troubling God about it. And YOU almost believed it — because from where YOU were standing, the evidence was overwhelming. It really did look like the end.Mark 5 is about the moment right after someone gets that exact news.A desperate parent had come looking for help for a child who was slipping fast. And while they were still on the way — before help could arrive — the message came that every parent dreads. It's too late. She's gone. Don't bother the Teacher anymore. The one thing they were racing against had already won. The story, as far as everyone was concerned, was over.And then came a sentence that made no sense given the news.Here is what most people miss. Instead of offering comfort, instead of acknowledging the ending everyone had already accepted, the response was a quiet instruction that flew in the face of the facts: don't be afraid — just keep believing. It was spoken directly into the worst possible moment, over a situation that was already being called finished. And what happened next depended entirely on whether that instruction was obeyed after the bad news had already landed.Because when they arrived, everyone was already grieving. The mourning had started. The ending had been accepted by everyone in the room.But the situation was described in a way that stunned everyone present — a reframe so unexpected that the grieving crowd actually laughed at it. And then, with only a few people allowed in the room, something was said and done that reversed the very thing everyone had already buried in their hearts.Two words. And a story everyone had closed was suddenly wide open again.There is also a strange, tender detail about what was said right after — a specific instruction about what to do next — that reveals how completely God restores what looked permanently gone. It is not the ending anyone in that room expected.What was the instruction given after the bad news? What was said in that room? And why is the ending YOU already accepted not necessarily the ending at all?Press play — because YOUR story did not end, and YOUR faith still has a future. This message will show YOU why the report that said it was over was not the final word — and what God still does with the situations everyone else has already grieved.

Acts 20:7-12 | You Never SAW… What God KEPT From YOUSome of the worst things that never happened to YOU were blocked by a hand YOU could not see.That is the part almost no one thinks about. YOU can name the battles YOU fought. YOU can point to the storms YOU survived. But there is an entire category of disaster YOU will never be able to list — because it never touched YOU. It was stopped before it reached YOU. And YOU went on with YOUR life never knowing how close it came, because God blocked it so completely that YOU never even saw it.Acts 20 is the story of one of those moments.A group had gathered for something sacred, late into the night, in a crowded upper room. And in the middle of it, something went horribly wrong — a sudden accident, the kind that turns a holy moment into a tragedy in an instant. On the surface, it looked like the worst thing that could have happened. But underneath it was something far bigger than the accident itself — a disaster that could have destroyed far more than one life.Here is what most people miss.That moment could have become a catastrophe that ended everything. There were people already watching, already suspicious, already looking for a reason to shut the whole movement down. A tragedy like this, in a gathering like that, could have handed them exactly what they were waiting for. The scandal. The blame. The questions. The end of a ministry that was already under constant scrutiny. What looked like one accident was actually a loaded weapon aimed at everything God was building.And then God blocked it.What one person did in response — and what happened to the one everyone thought was gone — completely erased the disaster before it could ever form. The catastrophe that should have followed simply never came. The scandal that was seconds away never happened. And instead of the end of everything, the night turned into relief, celebration, and a testimony that is still being read two thousand years later.Here is what that means for YOU. There is a promise in Scripture that God will keep YOUR foot from being caught in a trap — traps YOU never even see, disasters that were set for YOU that YOU will never know about, because He stopped them before they closed. YOU have been protected from things YOU cannot name. YOU have been spared from traps YOU never saw coming.What was the disaster that almost formed? What did God do to block it? And how many times has He done the same for YOU without YOU ever knowing?Press play — because YOU never saw what God kept from YOU. This message will open YOUR eyes to the unseen protection that has been over YOUR life the whole time — and why YOU are still standing because of things God blocked that YOU never even knew about.

As we begin our look at 2 John, Pastor Sean teaches through 2 John 1:1–6, focusing on the connection between truth and love in the life of a believer. The message reminds us that genuine Christian love is rooted in the truth of who Jesus is and is demonstrated through the way we live and follow His commands. Pastor Sean emphasizes that love and obedience are not separate parts of our faith, but work together as we walk faithfully with Christ. It's an encouraging reminder that following Jesus means knowing His truth, living it out, and loving others well.

Acts 28:1-10 | The ATTACK Was Real… The VERDICT Was WRONGPeople watched what YOU went through and quietly decided what it meant about YOU.That is the part that hurt almost as much as the attack itself. Something came against YOU — real, painful, undeniable — and instead of compassion, YOU could feel the conclusions forming around YOU. Maybe they said it out loud. Maybe they just thought it. This must be judgment. He must have done something. This is what happens to people like that. The attack was bad enough. The verdict people spoke over it was worse.Acts 28 opens on exactly that scene.Someone had just survived one disaster, and the moment they reached safety, something else latched onto them — sudden, dangerous, and visible to everyone watching. And the crowd reacted instantly. They looked at the attack, and they pronounced a verdict. They decided, out loud, exactly who this person was and exactly what was about to happen to them. They were so certain, they simply stood back and waited for it to come true.They were wrong about all of it.Here is what most people miss. The attack was completely real — there was no denying what had happened. But the verdict the crowd attached to it was based on a belief most people carry without ever examining it: that if something bad is happening to YOU, YOU must deserve it, and the outcome is already decided. That belief is exactly what this passage dismantles.Because what this person did with the thing that attacked them — and what did not happen next — flipped the entire verdict on its head.The crowd waited for the worst. They watched for it. And when the thing they were sure would happen simply did not come, they were forced to completely reverse everything they had just declared. The same people who had written this person off had to admit they had read the entire situation wrong.But that is not even the biggest part. Because surviving the attack was not the end of the story — it was the doorway into something that ended up blessing an entire island. What the enemy meant as a verdict of death became the platform for a wave of healing that reached people who had nothing to do with the original attack.What latched onto them? What did the crowd declare? And what happened when the verdict they were so sure of never came true?Press play — because the attack against YOU may have been real, but the verdict people spoke over it was wrong. This message will show YOU why what looked like judgment was never the final word — and what God can do on the other side of an attack YOU survived.

The System of Seed | Seed to Harvest | Abundant Life Church | Pastor Sean Thomas

Mark 4:35-41 | Your Answer Arrived Before the Bad News DidThe answer to the storm YOU are in was released before the storm ever started.That is the part almost no one catches. YOU are so focused on the bad news in front of YOU — the diagnosis, the call, the moment everything shifted — that YOU never stop to consider that God may have already spoken YOUR outcome before the trouble ever showed up. The answer did not arrive in response to the crisis. It was already there, spoken, settled, before the crisis had a name.Mark 4 shows YOU exactly how this works.Before a single wave rose, before the sky turned, before anything went wrong at all, a promise was made — a clear word about where they were headed and where they would end up. It was spoken in calm weather, when nothing looked threatening. And most people forget that word entirely the moment the storm hits, because the bad news feels so much louder than the promise that came before it.Then the storm came. And it was not a small one.Here is what most people miss. In the middle of the worst of it — with everything shaking, water pouring in, and experienced people convinced they were about to die — the One who had spoken the promise was doing something that made no sense for the situation. Something that looked, at first, like He did not care. And what He was doing in that moment is the very thing that reveals whether YOU actually believe the word that was spoken over YOU before the trouble came.Because if the destination was already promised, the storm was never able to change it.There is a specific thing He said when they finally woke Him — first to the storm, then to them — that flips the entire situation. Most people focus on what He said to the wind. But it is what He said to the people afterward, one piercing question, that exposes the real reason storms shake us the way they do. And once YOU hear it, YOU will understand that YOUR panic was never really about the storm.What was the promise spoken before the storm? What was He doing while it raged? And what did He ask them when it was over?Press play — because YOUR answer arrived before the bad news did. This message will show YOU why the word God spoke over YOU still stands, even when the storm is screaming the opposite.

Acts 8:1-8 | The PRESSURE YOU Hate… Is Moving YOU FORWARDThe pressure YOU are under right now is not trying to break YOU. It is trying to move YOU.But it does not feel that way. It feels like an attack. It feels like the worst possible timing. It feels like something is trying to push YOU out of the place YOU worked so hard to build, away from the comfort YOU finally found, into a season YOU never would have chosen. And everything in YOU is resisting it, praying for it to stop, asking God why He is allowing something this hard.Acts 8 is about a moment exactly like that.Something devastating hit a group of people all at once — a wave of pressure so intense it scattered them, drove them out of the place they called home, and forced them into unfamiliar territory they never planned to go to. By every measure, it was the worst thing that could have happened. It looked like the end of everything they had built.It was the beginning of everything they were made for.Here is what most people miss. The very pressure that scattered them is the exact thing that spread them — into places they never would have gone on their own, carrying something the whole world needed but would never have received if everyone had stayed comfortable where they were. What looked like destruction was distribution. The push they hated was the push that positioned them.And one of the ones who got scattered walked into a city he had no plans to visit — and what happened when he got there is almost hard to believe.An entire city that was in darkness suddenly filled with joy. Things that had tormented people for years were broken. People who had suffered were made whole. Revival broke out in a place that would have never been reached — and none of it would have happened if the pressure had not pushed him out of where he was comfortable.That is the part YOU have to see for yourself. Because the pressure moving YOU right now may be aimed at a purpose YOU cannot see yet — a place, a person, an assignment on the other side of the very thing YOU keep asking God to remove.What was the pressure? Where did it push them? And what broke open when they got there?Press play — because the pressure YOU hate is moving YOU forward. This message will show YOU why what feels like being pushed out may actually be YOU being pushed into purpose.

Pastor John Nuzzo and Pastor Sean Moore continue discussing the transition of leadership of Victory Family Church.  Pastor Sean answers questions about what has been most surprising and what he is most excited about.  They discuss the process of empowering the Abraham generation to accelerate the Isaac generation so that they miss the pain and potholes of the Abrahams.  Over the next three years, these two leaders will teach the Abrahams how to accelerate, not just tolerate the next generation.  These leaders have a father/son relationship which allows them to be truthful with each other.  In three years, the church will be larger, have more income, have eliminated debt, expanded Kingdom Builders, and will be the greatest it's ever been known for.  Pastor John and Michelle are accelerating Pastor Sean and Sarah so that they can go further and faster, which is what we all desire for our own children.  Stay tuned for the days ahead and see God's grace and provision in action!    The Acceleration Mandate by Pastor John Nuzzo details roadblocks and resources for the Abraham and Isaac generations with a clear pathway and roadmap to address those roadblocks.  The Acceleration Mandate is available wherever books are sold.

Pastor Sean addresses the collective staff of BBC and BBA as we launch into another school year. He shares his desire and Christ's command for us to be unified and to make disciples.

08-02-26 Listen in as Pastor Sean delves into Part 2 of this incredibly timely and powerful message!

Pastor Sean addresses the collective staff of BBC and BBA as we launch into another school year. He shares his desire and Christ's command for us to be unified and to make disciples.

In this special Presbytery Sunday service, Pastor Sean Gleason leads Mercy Culture Waco through a powerful time of prophetic ministry, drawing from 1 Timothy 4 and Acts 13. Visiting pastors Brandon and Nellie Grulé from the Fort Worth campus minister prophetic words over several individuals, couples, and the congregation, with themes of faithfulness, fruitfulness, clarity, new seasons, and the courage to step into calling. Pastor Sean reminds the church that prophetic words from leaders serve to confirm what God has already been speaking in the secret place of your daily encounters. Through words submitted over individuals and couples, the congregation witnessed powerful prophetic ministry centered on stepping forward in calling, the removal of fear and white noise in daily encounters, the breathing of new life into dry and weary places, and the Lord publicly honoring faithfulness that had gone unseen. The Waco campus also received a corporate prophetic word declaring that a new wineskin is required for the new wine being poured out, that more oil, more souls, and more victory are coming to the city, and that a season of soul winning and hunger for the gospel is at hand. The vision of Mercy Culture is to take people from corporate encounters with God to daily personal encounters with God. At Mercy Culture, one of our unique characteristics is that we are a presence driven church. We are not built around any person or ministry. We are built around the presence of God. Each week, you will hear a teaching from our Lead Pastors, Sean and Natalie Gleason or another leader in our community. To learn more about Mercy Culture, visit https://mercyculturewaco.com

In this special Presbytery Sunday service, Pastor Sean Gleason leads Mercy Culture Waco through a powerful time of prophetic ministry, drawing from 1 Timothy 4 and Acts 13. He unpacks what presbytery is, explaining that it is a council of mature spiritual leaders who prayerfully and prophetically affirm the calling of God on a person's life through the laying on of hands and prophetic ministry. Pastor Sean reminds the congregation that prophecy is not reserved for a select few, but that every believer can hear the voice of God and that prophetic words from leaders serve to confirm what God has already been speaking in your personal daily encounters. Through visiting pastors Brandon and Nellie from the Fort Worth campus, the church witnessed powerful prophetic ministry over several individuals and couples, with words centered on faithfulness, fruitfulness, the removal of fear and hesitation, intercession, boldness, and the call to step forward into what God has already prepared. The congregation also received a corporate prophetic word declaring that a new wineskin and new wine are coming to Waco, a season of soul winning, more oil, more presence, and a greater hunger to share the gospel with the city. The vision of Mercy Culture is to take people from corporate encounters with God to daily personal encounters with God. At Mercy Culture, one of our unique characteristics is that we are a presence driven church. We are not built around any person or ministry. We are built around the presence of God. Each week, you will hear a teaching from our Lead Pastors, Sean and Natalie Gleason or another leader in our community. To learn more about Mercy Culture, visit https://mercyculturewaco.com

In this special Presbytery Sunday service, Pastor Sean Gleason leads Mercy Culture Waco through a powerful time of prophetic ministry, drawing from 1 Timothy 4 and Acts 13. He unpacks what presbytery is, explaining that it is a council of mature spiritual leaders who prayerfully and prophetically affirm the calling of God on a person's life through the laying on of hands and prophetic ministry. Pastor Sean reminds the congregation that prophecy is not reserved for a select few, but that every believer can hear the voice of God and that prophetic words from leaders serve to confirm what God has already been speaking in your personal daily encounters. Through visiting pastors Brandon and Nellie from the Fort Worth campus, the church witnessed powerful prophetic ministry over several individuals and couples, with words centered on faithfulness, fruitfulness, the removal of fear and hesitation, intercession, boldness, and the call to step forward into what God has already prepared. The congregation also received a corporate prophetic word declaring that a new wineskin and new wine are coming to Waco, a season of soul winning, more oil, more presence, and a greater hunger to share the gospel with the city. The vision of Mercy Culture is to take people from corporate encounters with God to daily personal encounters with God. At Mercy Culture, one of our unique characteristics is that we are a presence driven church. We are not built around any person or ministry. We are built around the presence of God. Each week, you will hear a teaching from our Lead Pastors, Sean and Natalie Gleason or another leader in our community. To learn more about Mercy Culture, visit https://mercyculturewaco.com

In this special Presbytery Sunday service, Pastor Sean Gleason leads Mercy Culture Waco through a powerful time of prophetic ministry, drawing from 1 Timothy 4 and Acts 13. Visiting pastors Brandon and Nellie Grulé from the Fort Worth campus minister prophetic words over several individuals, couples, and the congregation, with themes of faithfulness, fruitfulness, clarity, new seasons, and the courage to step into calling. Pastor Sean reminds the church that prophetic words from leaders serve to confirm what God has already been speaking in the secret place of your daily encounters. Through words submitted over individuals and couples, the congregation witnessed powerful prophetic ministry centered on stepping forward in calling, the removal of fear and white noise in daily encounters, the breathing of new life into dry and weary places, and the Lord publicly honoring faithfulness that had gone unseen. The Waco campus also received a corporate prophetic word declaring that a new wineskin is required for the new wine being poured out, that more oil, more souls, and more victory are coming to the city, and that a season of soul winning and hunger for the gospel is at hand. The vision of Mercy Culture is to take people from corporate encounters with God to daily personal encounters with God. At Mercy Culture, one of our unique characteristics is that we are a presence driven church. We are not built around any person or ministry. We are built around the presence of God. Each week, you will hear a teaching from our Lead Pastors, Sean and Natalie Gleason or another leader in our community. To learn more about Mercy Culture, visit https://mercyculturewaco.com

Pastor Sean sits down with Desi Pancione, who talks about the wonders and rigors of running a school for many children in the Central African Republic. Listen to her struggles, joys, and how she puts her trust in the Lord as He has continued to call her to this ministry in the heart of Africa. 

In this episode, Pastor Sean sits down with Franco Bosio, Pastor of churches in Italy and runs a ministry for counseling many in different walks of life.  Listen in as he shares how the Lord continues to sustain Franco in and through the joys of the Lord's ministry to the people of Italy.

In this week's message, Pastor Sean teaches through 1 John 5:13–21, reminding us that God desires His children to live with confidence in the assurance of their salvation. The message highlights the privilege of approaching God in prayer, trusting that He hears us and works according to His perfect will. Pastor Sean emphasizes that believers are called to remain faithful, guard themselves from the distractions and idols of this world, and continue abiding in Christ. It's a fitting conclusion to 1 John, encouraging us to rest in the certainty of our salvation while faithfully walking with the Lord each day.

7/26/2026 - Man of War - Pastor Sean O'Rourke by Zion Christian Fellowship

Mark 3:1-8 | They Rejected YOU — but This Is NOT a Dead EndYOU did the right thing and got rejected for it.That is the part that stings the most. It would be easier if YOU had failed, if YOU had earned it. But YOU did something good — something right — and instead of being celebrated, YOU were criticized, pushed out, or quietly plotted against by the very people who should have been in YOUR corner. And it left YOU wondering if doing the right thing was even worth it.Mark 3 opens on that exact scenario.Someone did something undeniably good, in front of everyone, to help a person nobody else would help. And instead of joy, it triggered a reaction so hostile that the people watching immediately began making plans to destroy Him. Not correct Him. Destroy Him. The good deed did not open a door — it seemed to slam one.But that is where most people misread the whole situation.Here is what most people miss. He did not stay and fight the people who rejected Him. He did not argue, defend Himself, or try to win them back. He did something that looks, at first, like defeat — He withdrew. He moved. And what happened the moment He did is the entire point of this passage.Because the place He withdrew to did not get smaller. It got bigger. Far bigger.People started coming to Him from directions and distances that had never happened before — from regions that had never sent anyone, crowds so large they are listed by name and place in the text. The rejection in one room did not shrink His reach. It multiplied it. What looked like the end of something was actually the doorway into something larger than anything He had walked in before.There is also a detail at the very start of this passage — a man told to do the one thing he physically could not do, in front of the people waiting to accuse — that will change the way YOU respond the next time God asks YOU to move on something that looks impossible while people are watching, hoping YOU fail.So what did he do? And what happened when the rejected One kept moving?Press play — because they may have rejected YOU, but this is NOT a dead end. This message will show YOU exactly what to do when doing right gets YOU pushed out, and why the door that slammed was never the only door.

Luke 10:1-21 | What Jesus Gave YOU That YOU Never UsedThere is something Jesus already handed YOU that YOU have never picked up.Most people are waiting to receive something they were given a long time ago. They are praying for power to come down, asking God to send what He already released, standing empty-handed in front of a gift that was placed in their hands the moment they believed. And because no one ever showed them what it was — they have carried it for years without ever using it once.These three passages, read together, expose exactly what that gift is.Most people know Jesus healed the sick. That part is familiar. But there is a second half to the story that most people skip right over — the moment He turned to ordinary people, people with no title and no track record, and handed them the same thing He had been operating in. He did not tell them to watch. He did not tell them to wait. He told them to go do it.And they came back stunned at what happened when they did.Here is what most people miss. There is a specific thing He said to them right before He sent them out — a sentence about authority that most believers have read a hundred times and never once applied to their own life. It was not a suggestion. It was not poetry. It was a transfer. And the moment YOU understand what was actually handed to YOU in that sentence, YOU will stop asking God for something YOU already have.What was that sentence? And what does it mean YOU are already carrying?There is also a warning buried in these passages — something Jesus said about where the real danger is, and it is not where most people are looking. Everyone focused on the power. He redirected them to something far more important, and most people miss it completely because it comes right in the middle of the celebration.And there is one detail about how this whole thing is supposed to keep going — a phrase in Mark that says what began with a few was never meant to stop with them — that puts YOU directly in the story YOU thought was only about people two thousand years ago.Press play — because what Jesus gave YOU, YOU may have never used. This message will show YOU exactly what was placed in YOUR hands, what He said when He gave it, and how to finally walk in it.

Mark 7:24-30 | NOT MY CHILD — What YOU Refuse to Accept Changes ItThere is something coming against YOUR child that YOU have decided YOU will not accept.YOU have watched it. YOU have prayed about it. And somewhere along the way YOU made a decision that YOU may have never said out loud — that YOU are not going to sit down, YOU are not going to go quiet, and YOU are not going to accept this as the final word over the one YOU love. That decision is the exact place Mark 7 begins.A mother came looking for help for a child she could not free herself.She came with nothing that should have worked in her favor. She was the wrong background. The wrong region. The wrong person to be asking, by every social rule of that day. And when she made her request, the response she got back was not the immediate yes YOU would expect — it was something that would have stopped almost anyone else cold.She did not stop.Here is what most people miss. What she said next — in the face of a response that sounded like a closed door — was so unexpected, so quick, and so full of a certain kind of faith that it did something the Gospels rarely record. It changed the room. Her answer is one of the boldest things any parent says in all of Scripture, and most people read right over it without realizing what just happened.What did she say? And why did it work?Because the moment she said it, the situation over her child turned — and she was not even in the same place her daughter was. There was distance between them. She never touched her child. She never went home first to check. Something happened at a distance, in an instant, based entirely on what this mother refused to accept.There is also something in how the deliverance is described — where the child was, and what the mother found when she finally got there — that will change the way YOU pray over the ones YOU love who are not even in the room with YOU right now.Press play — because NOT MY CHILD is not just a phrase. It is a position. This message will show YOU exactly what this mother refused, what she said, and why what YOU refuse to accept over YOUR family may be moving Heaven right now.

07-26-26 We are mind, body, and soul. What makes us Hole AND Whole in the fullness of how God created us?

Jesus Saves us to Serve // Pastor Sean CurryStonecreek Church

In this week's message, Pastor Sean teaches through 1 John 5:6–12, pointing us to the certainty of who Jesus is and the testimony God has given about His Son. The message highlights that eternal life is found in Christ alone, and that God Himself has provided all the evidence we need to trust in Him. Pastor Sean emphasizes that our assurance of salvation is not based on our feelings or performance, but on the truth of God's testimony and the finished work of Jesus. It's a comforting reminder that those who have the Son have life, both now and forever.

Mark 5:25-34 | YOU Spent Everything and Got WORSE Instead of BetterYOU did everything right and it still got worse.That is the part nobody prepares YOU for. YOU followed the advice. YOU went to the people YOU were told to go to. YOU spent what YOU had — money, years, energy, hope — and at the end of all of it YOU were not just no better. YOU were worse off than when YOU started. And somewhere in there YOU stopped telling people about it, because YOU were tired of explaining why nothing was working.Mark 5 is written about someone standing exactly there.Twelve years. Every option exhausted. Every resource gone. And it was worse than YOU think, because there were rules in place at that time that made it forbidden for someone in that condition to even be in a public crowd — much less reach for anyone in it. She had no money, no options, and no permission.She had one thing left.And what she did with that one thing is the reason this account is still being told two thousand years later.Here is what most people miss. That day, she was not the only person making contact with Him. A crowd was pressed in on every side — people bumping into Him, brushing past Him, touching Him from every direction. Only one of them walked away different.Something separated her from everyone else in that crowd. It was not her condition. It was not how long she had suffered. It was something YOU cannot see in the passage unless YOU slow down and look for it — and once YOU do, YOU will understand why some people stay around God for years and receive nothing, while someone else reaches one time and everything changes.There is also something she said before she moved. She said it to no one but herself. Nobody heard it. And it is the single most overlooked sentence in this entire passage.Then He stopped. He was already on His way somewhere urgent — a situation that could not wait, that a powerful man had begged Him to come to — and He stopped everything in the middle of a crowd to find her.Why?And the first thing He said when He found her was not about her body at all. It was one word. An identity word. And it handed her something she never even reached for.Press play — because YOU spent everything and got worse instead of better, and this message will show YOU the one thing YOU still have, what to do with it, and why YOUR situation is not as finished as it looks.

Psalm 126 | YOUR SUDDEN TURNAROUND — Everything Looked Lost… Then God Stepped InIt had gone on so long that YOU stopped expecting it to change.That is what makes a sudden turnaround so hard to believe when it finally comes. YOU had already adjusted to the loss. YOU had made peace with the way things were, lowered YOUR expectations, stopped bracing for a breakthrough that never seemed to come. And then — with no warning, no build-up, no gradual improvement YOU could track — everything moved. Fast.Psalm 126 opens with people living through exactly that.They were looking back at a reversal so sudden and so complete that when it happened, they could barely believe it was real. It did not come slowly. It did not come in stages they could measure. It came all at once, out of a season that looked permanently settled — and the shock of it was so overwhelming that they reached for the only comparison big enough to describe it.It felt like a dream.That is the exact word they used. What had looked finished turned around so dramatically, so quickly, that living through it felt like something they would wake up from. And the way it happened — the timing, the speed, the completeness of it — reveals something about how God moves in the seasons YOU have already given up on that most people never stop to notice.Here is what most people miss. This psalm does not treat the sudden turnaround as random. There is a specific thing described in these six short verses — something that happened before the turnaround, quietly, in the hard season, when nothing looked like it was working — that was directly connected to the reversal that came later. Two things that seem completely unrelated are tied together in a promise so precise that once YOU see it, YOU will understand why YOUR long season is not wasted time.What YOU did in the hard part is connected to the turnaround that is coming.There is also an image near the end of this psalm — a picture of someone leaving one way and coming back completely changed, carrying something they did not have when they left — that most people read as poetry and miss as a pattern. It is not just describing what happened to them. It is describing what is on its way to YOU.And the small, easily-missed detail about how the whole thing starts — the part God responds to — is the key to the entire message.Press play — because YOUR sudden turnaround is not as far off as it feels. Everything looked lost, then God stepped in — and this message will show YOU exactly what triggers the turnaround, and why the season YOU almost gave up on is the very one God is about to reverse.Thank you for joining me today. Subscribe for daily teachings, morning prayer broadcasts, and live services.

In this week's message, Pastor Sean teaches through 1 John 5:1–5, reminding us that everyone who believes in Jesus Christ has been born of God. The message highlights how genuine love for God is expressed through joyful obedience to His commands, not as a burden, but as the natural response of a transformed heart. Pastor Sean emphasizes that our victory over the world doesn't come from our own strength, but through faith in Christ. It's an encouraging reminder that because Jesus has overcome the world, those who belong to Him can walk in confidence and hope.

In this episode, pastoral interns Micaiah and David discuss Pastor Sean's latest sermon from Romans 11:1–10: "Remnant by Grace" from our sermon series through the book of Romans.Watering Seeds is a ministry of Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Asheville, NC. You can learn more and hear our sermons on our website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.covenantreformed.net/sermons⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. You can also find our sermon recordings on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sermon Audio⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

In this compelling message, Pastor Sean Gleason explores what it truly means to pray for deliverance, drawing from Luke 22 and Matthew 6. He unpacks the truth that deliverance is not a one-time event, it is a daily prayer, because just as Jesus gave us a model for daily prayer that includes "deliver us from evil," we must daily partner with God against the schemes of the enemy. Pastor Sean challenges believers to stop making prayer their last resort and to make it their first priority. Pastor Sean warns that there is no neutral ground between good and evil, and that Christians can unknowingly partner with the enemy through gossip, slander, unforgiveness, control, and manipulation, forms of what he calls Christian witchcraft. He calls the church to repent from any partnership with the enemy and to return to the most powerful weapon available, simple, sincere, daily prayer. This message challenges believers to understand that the disciples fell asleep in prayer not out of rebellion but out of sorrow, and that many people today do the same, spiritually falling asleep when the weight of life becomes too heavy. The answer is not to sleep, it is to rise and pray, because when you pray, God can and will deliver you from evil. The vision of Mercy Culture is to take people from corporate encounters with God to daily personal encounters with God. At Mercy Culture, one of our unique characteristics is that we are a presence driven church. We are not built around any person or ministry. We are built around the presence of God. Each week, you will hear a teaching from our Lead Pastors, Les and Nikki Cody or another leader in our community. To learn more about Mercy Culture, visit https://mercyculturewaco.com

In this compelling message, Pastor Sean Gleason explores what it truly means to pray for deliverance, drawing from Luke 22 and Matthew 6. He unpacks the truth that deliverance is not a one-time event, it is a daily prayer, because just as Jesus gave us a model for daily prayer that includes "deliver us from evil," we must daily partner with God against the schemes of the enemy. Pastor Sean challenges believers to stop making prayer their last resort and to make it their first priority. Pastor Sean warns that there is no neutral ground between good and evil, and that Christians can unknowingly partner with the enemy through gossip, slander, unforgiveness, control, and manipulation, forms of what he calls Christian witchcraft. He calls the church to repent from any partnership with the enemy and to return to the most powerful weapon available, simple, sincere, daily prayer. This message challenges believers to understand that the disciples fell asleep in prayer not out of rebellion but out of sorrow, and that many people today do the same, spiritually falling asleep when the weight of life becomes too heavy. The answer is not to sleep, it is to rise and pray, because when you pray, God can and will deliver you from evil. The vision of Mercy Culture is to take people from corporate encounters with God to daily personal encounters with God. At Mercy Culture, one of our unique characteristics is that we are a presence driven church. We are not built around any person or ministry. We are built around the presence of God. Each week, you will hear a teaching from our Lead Pastors, Les and Nikki Cody or another leader in our community. To learn more about Mercy Culture, visit https://mercyculturewaco.com

Genesis 32:24-31 | YOUR BREAKING POINT — What YOU Fear Most… Isn't Your Greatest BattleThe thing YOU are most afraid of is not the real battle.It feels like it is. It has YOUR attention, YOUR sleepless nights, YOUR knot in the stomach every time YOU think about tomorrow. YOU have been bracing for it, preparing for it, praying about it — convinced that if YOU can just survive that one thing, YOU will finally be okay. But Genesis 32 reveals something almost no one sees coming: the battle YOU are staring at is not the one that is actually about to change YOU.Because on the night before the thing he feared most, this man ended up completely alone.Everyone he loved had been sent ahead. The noise was gone. The distractions were gone. And in that silence — in the dark, with no one left to perform for and nothing left to hide behind — something happened that had nothing to do with the enemy he had been dreading for twenty years.Someone met him there.And what took place between them lasted all night — a struggle so intense, so personal, so unlike anything he expected, that by the time the sun came up, he was not the same person who had walked into that night. Not because he lost. Because of what it cost him to win.Here is what most people miss. There was a single moment in that struggle — one touch — that changed everything in an instant. It did not end the fight. It marked him. And he walked away from that night carrying something in his body for the rest of his life that told the story of what happened when no one was watching.What was touched, and why, is the heart of this entire message.And there is more. Before it was over, he said something — a demand, a refusal, a decision not to let go — that most people are too proud, too tired, or too afraid to ever say. And the moment he said it, he was given something he had spent his entire life chasing the wrong way.A new name. A new identity. A permanent change.But the reason it happened — the thing that had to break in him first before any of it could — is the part YOU have to hear for yourself. Because YOUR breaking point may not be YOUR ending.It may be the exact place YOU have been trying to avoid, when it was always the place YOU were meant to be changed.Press play — because what YOU fear most is not YOUR greatest battle. This message will show YOU what the real one is, and what is waiting for YOU on the other side of the night YOU thought would break YOU.Thank you for joining me today. Subscribe for daily teachings, morning prayer broadcasts, and live services.

Pastor Sean speaks on how God's way really is better!   Main Scripture:  Isaiah 55:9   *This episode was recorded on 07/19/26

Pastor Sean uses the Bible version NRSVue In part two of our gospel series, we consider how sin separates us from a holy God and causes negative consequences in our lives. Isaiah 6:1-5 The prophet Isaiah saw God in an incredible vision. This intense experience made him acutely aware of his own sin as well as that of his people. Isaiah 59:1-4 The people of Israel were mired in sin. It came out of every part of their bodies, their hands, fingers, lips, and tongues. Isaiah 1:11-17 Even though the people were pursuing evil and taking advantage of the vulnerable, they continued to perform their religious rituals. This hypocrisy greatly offended God. Isaiah 6:5-13 God called Isaiah to be a witness to the coming judgement in full knowledge that the people would not repent. God had been patient for centuries, but it was time for judgement. Mark 4:10-12 Jesus saw a parallel to Isaiah's mission in his ministry. He knew people would reject him and fail to hear his message. Luke 19:41-44 Like Isaiah, Jesus saw the storm cloud looming on the horizon. About thirty years later, the Jewish people rebelled with the result that the Romans conquered Jerusalem and destroyed the temple. (It has never been rebuilt.) Revelation 20:11-15; 21:7-8 In the end we will each stand before the throne of God. What excuse can you give for your sin then? Today is the day of repentance. Now is the time to get right with God and receive his forgiveness. Then it will be too late.The post The Gospel 2: Sin Has Corrupted Everything first appeared on Living Hope.

2 Chronicles 20:14-25 | IT'S NOT YOUR FIGHT — The Battle YOU Feared… Was Never Yours to WinThere is a battle YOU have been trying to win that was never assigned to YOU.YOU have been strategizing over it. Losing sleep over it. Running the numbers, rehearsing the arguments, bracing for the outcome YOU are afraid is coming. YOU have been carrying the full weight of something as if the entire result depends on YOU getting it right — and the exhaustion YOU feel is the exhaustion of fighting a war that was never yours to fight.2 Chronicles 20 was written for the person carrying that exact weight.Here is the situation. A massive threat was coming. The numbers were not close. There was no strategy that made sense, no plan that added up, no realistic outcome where the people facing it came out alive. And the leader did the one thing most people do last instead of first — and the response he got back was not what anyone braces for when they are outnumbered and afraid.He was told to stop preparing for the fight.Not fight harder. Not fight smarter. Stop.And then he was given an instruction so strange, so backwards, so completely opposite to what YOU do when an enemy is closing in, that most people read it and cannot believe it worked. It should not have worked. By every rule of war, it was the most reckless thing they could have done.It is exactly what they were told to do.Here is what most people miss. There was a specific position they were told to take — a place to stand, a thing to do while the threat kept advancing — and the moment they did it, something began to happen to the enemy that no soldier in that army lifted a finger to cause. They never swung a weapon. And by the time they reached the battlefield, what they found there stopped them in their tracks.What they saw is the part YOU have to see for yourself.And there is one more thing. What they did in the days after the battle — and what it took them three days to finish gathering — reveals something about what is waiting on the other side of a fight YOU stop trying to win in YOUR own strength. It was more than they could carry.Far more than they expected.Press play — because IT'S NOT YOUR FIGHT. The battle YOU feared was never yours to win — and this message will show YOU exactly what YOU are supposed to do instead, and what is waiting for YOU on the other side of it.Thank you for joining me today. Subscribe for daily teachings, morning prayer broadcasts, and live services.

In a world that celebrates striving and self-sufficiency, Psalm 131 offers a better way. Pastor Sean invites us to stop carrying what only God can carry and discover the kind of rest that can only be found as we humble our hearts, quiet our souls, and anchor our hope in Him.

Mark 5:25-34 | REACH ANYWAY — Every Door Closed… But God Left One OpenTwelve years. Everything tried. Nothing worked.YOU know what that season does to a person. YOU spend everything YOU have. YOU go to everyone YOU are told to go to. YOU do what is supposed to work — and not only does it not work, YOU end up worse than when YOU started. And by the end of it, YOU are not just sick of the problem. YOU are sick of hoping.That is exactly where Mark 5 begins.The person in this passage had run out of every option a human being can run out of. Money, gone. Options, gone. Permission, gone. And it was worse than YOU think — because there were rules in place at that time that made it flatly forbidden for someone in that condition to even be in that crowd, let alone reach for anyone in it. Legally. Publicly. Religiously.Every single door was closed. Except one. And what she did with that one remaining door — the one thing that had not been taken from her, the one thing nobody had the authority to shut — is the entire reason this story is still being told two thousand years later.Here is what most people never notice. That day, she was not the only person touching Him. A whole crowd was pressed up against Him. People were bumping into Him, brushing past Him, making physical contact with Him from every direction.Only one of them left different. Something separated her from every other person in that crowd — something YOU cannot see in the passage unless YOU slow down and look for it. And once YOU see it, YOU will understand why some people are around God for years and never receive anything, while someone else reaches once and everything changes.There is also something she said — before she moved, before she reached, before anything happened — that she said to no one but herself. And it is the single most overlooked sentence in this entire passage.And then there is what He did next. He stopped. He was already on His way to something urgent, something that could not wait, something a powerful man had begged Him for. And He stopped everything — in the middle of a crowd — to find her.Why? And the first word He said to her when He found her was not about her body. It was not about her healing. It was one word — an identity word — and it gave her something she had not even reached for.YOU are going to want to hear what it was.Press play — because every door may be closed on YOU, but God left one open. REACH ANYWAY. And this message will show YOU exactly which door that is, and exactly what happens when YOU stop asking for permission and finally reach.Thank you for joining me today. Subscribe for daily teachings, morning prayer broadcasts, and live services.

In this compelling message, Pastor Sean Gleason explores what it truly means to bring supplication to God, drawing from Matthew 6 and Exodus 16. He unpacks how the Lord's Prayer moves from acknowledging who God is, to praying His will be done, to finally bringing our requests before Him as our daily bread. Pastor Sean challenges believers to stop questioning whether they deserve God's provision and to start asking like a beloved son or daughter, because a good father always wants to meet the needs of his children. Pastor Sean warns that the orphan spirit will convince you that you have to earn or perform for God's blessing, while the spirit of adoption produces the freedom to simply cry out, Abba Father. He calls the church to be careful not to trade one ditch for another, neither falling into a prosperity gospel that worships what God gives, nor a false humility that refuses to ask a good father for anything at all. This message challenges believers to recognize that their prayer life reveals what they are truly dependent on, because the goal of supplication has never been the answered prayer itself, it has always been getting to know the Provider behind every provision. The vision of Mercy Culture is to take people from corporate encounters with God to daily personal encounters with God. At Mercy Culture, one of our unique characteristics is that we are a presence driven church. We are not built around any person or ministry. We are built around the presence of God. Each week, you will hear a teaching from our Lead Pastors, Sean and Natalie Gleason or another leader in our community. To learn more about Mercy Culture, visit https://mercyculturewaco.com

In this compelling message, Pastor Sean Gleason explores what it truly means to bring supplication to God, drawing from Matthew 6 and Exodus 16. He unpacks how the Lord's Prayer moves from acknowledging who God is, to praying His will be done, to finally bringing our requests before Him as our daily bread. Pastor Sean challenges believers to stop questioning whether they deserve God's provision and to start asking like a beloved son or daughter, because a good father always wants to meet the needs of his children. Pastor Sean warns that the orphan spirit will convince you that you have to earn or perform for God's blessing, while the spirit of adoption produces the freedom to simply cry out, Abba Father. He calls the church to be careful not to trade one ditch for another, neither falling into a prosperity gospel that worships what God gives, nor a false humility that refuses to ask a good father for anything at all. This message challenges believers to recognize that their prayer life reveals what they are truly dependent on, because the goal of supplication has never been the answered prayer itself, it has always been getting to know the Provider behind every provision. The vision of Mercy Culture is to take people from corporate encounters with God to daily personal encounters with God. At Mercy Culture, one of our unique characteristics is that we are a presence driven church. We are not built around any person or ministry. We are built around the presence of God. Each week, you will hear a teaching from our Lead Pastors, Sean and Natalie Gleason or another leader in our community. To learn more about Mercy Culture, visit https://mercyculturewaco.com