Vulnerability

“of physical vulnerability, those that are also mentally vulnerable, emotionally vulnerable, but ultimately those that are spiritually vulnerable. And so I'm going to hand the microphone to my friend, Victor Slaughter here, and one of our staff members here on our missions team as well. And he's going to talk about what that looks like internationally. And then I want to try to give us a little bit of encouragement to what that could look like here in our own front yard, backyard, side street, everywhere that we walk and go here on this part of the world”

“But also, also there's other times that he comes and he tempts us at our very, very lows. notice that Jesus was hungry, right? He was weak. He was vulnerable. And sometimes Satan tempts us when we're hungry, tired, vulnerable, when we're grieving loss. And in verse two, it says this, after fasting 40 days and 40 nights, he was hungry. He's at a place of vulnerability. Notice, Satan didn't come the first time.”

“But there is one other thing about opportunity that I want you to know, and that is opportunity is vulnerable. It's vulnerable. What I mean by that is we either use it or lose it. We seize it or we waste it. And in every one of our lives, one of the most important things that we must do every day is to realize that the opportunities we have today are vulnerable. And if they're valuable, then we must do everything that we can to give our time, our attention, and our energy to it.”

“vulnerability of love the vulnerability of Love look what it says in Chapter 13 Verse 7. it says love bears all things believes all things hopes all things and endures all things so what that means Bears means it covers all things believes it means that we're fully persuaded of this fact hopes is trust in get this comma or giving up control to really be vulnerable and to love something means that you give someone else power over your heart”

“a time in all of this when I have felt greater exposure and greater vulnerability and greater demand and greater struggle. And that's not just because I'm a pastor. That's because I'm a person just like you. And you've struggled with those things. And so let's give each other some space and some room to acknowledge the vulnerability that we've struggled with, but to remember that the greatest way to address vulnerability”

“cares for orphans and widows in their distress and their affliction. In James' world, these would have been the most vulnerable. They had no way to really fix their condition. And so they were reliant upon others just to live. So this represents the most vulnerable people. But it was never just meant to be orphans and widows in their distress.”

“And that means that any time you get to the place of vulnerability, the shifting of weight, you are going to fall. So you need to recognize your vulnerability. You need to know at what point you're putting yourself in a place where falling is a very real possibility because just as there is the physical force of gravity, there is the spiritual reality that we need to overcome the gravity of our own desires.”

“the vulnerable. They go after the weak. And I'm telling you, when you are lonely, you are prime target for Satan to come in and to devour your life. That's why that the answer is not to become devoured by your vulnerability, but to find a way to get connected to community. You cannot enter a doorway on any of our Warren campuses without seeing a medallion. And in that medallion, there are four words. It simply says worship, connect, equip, and send. These are the”