Sunday AM Recap
April 19, 2026
Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/ITJCH3wPgg8?si=ZYvhjlUr-oxzehUf
Pastor Jeff Spangler opened the service:
Come with expectation.
Worship by choice in agreement.
Worship with our tithes and offerings - have a freedom to give back to God what is God’s.
New challenge - in worship, become of one mind with HIM so we care bringing our seedbag to the message and grabbing what we need to share what needs to be shared. Moving from spending so much time in word study and eating regurgitated food to eating steak because we are READY in EXPECTATION.
Apostle Susan Powers led worship for the first time since 2021. In preparing for worship, she was looking at the latest worship songs out there, and the Lord told her: “Susan, I’m not trending. There is an anointing on your life, and it was a season but it’s also a SEASON.”
The Lord said worship this morning was a reset - not that we did anything wrong, but it’s time for a rest, to remember who we are singing to.
Elementary Worship
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQpYxrm0CfE
Bible Story: Saul Becomes a Believer
***Some notes to start (not in message):
***Definition of value: perceived worth. Utility. Importance of something. Often represents fair return in money, goods, services, balance of benefits OR intrinsic worth derived from being created in God’s image, not by material wealth or utility (spiritual righteousness over material possessions
Pastor has been watching legislation in the Kansas House and Senate. Things that affect you are being discussed and legislated. Example: Wednesday night.
There’s a right of order that you debate legislation. You don’t debate directly at someone, you debate at a mediator. The Speaker of the House runs the order of events. The person who wrote the bill presents it, reads it, and then presents themselves for questions. Then as people stand to discuss the bill, they address their questions to Mr. Speaker. And if they start to address each other, the Speaker will say “please address me.” Same process in the Senate.
The process goes through a MEDIATOR.
In this day and age, we like to debate at each other rather than through a mediator. Now if we don’t think alike, you’re a hater and you’re wrong.
We need to be in a mindset of asking the Lord Jesus to be our mediator, as we question and as we answer. And it’s important to not just ask for good answers but good QUESTIONS.
New series: “Good Question”
We don’t always have to be the smartest in the room. Sometimes we need to be the smartest questioner in the room. Example: “It’s not the way I think it is”…so a good question would be: Lord, how is it?
Our Lord wants to answer good questions! But it’s up to us to formulate a good question. It’s time to not just be a hearer of the Word, but to formulate questions to chew on all week long to become something different.
Watching debates - it’s all about getting their points across so they can get votes. Expressing disdain for their opponents rather than actually solving anything.
You get out what you put in. Put in a bad question, you won’t get great solutions. We need to understand about asking GOOD QUESTIONS.
If we don’t ask the right questions we can’t get the right answers!
We all desire to not look stupid. We start questions with “let me start with a dumb question.” What we really mean is, “help me understand.” If we just nod along, it’s assumed we are like-minded. Expectations are built. Asking good questions is important for being like-minded!
It’s important to have good questions in order to have good solutions.
“It’s not the way you think it is.” “Oh Lord…how is it?”
Matthew 16:17-20
17 Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven. 18 And I tell you that you are Peter,[a] and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades[b] will not overcome it. 19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be[c] bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be[d] loosed in heaven.” 20 Then he ordered his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah.
Jesus didn’t tell them who He was - He SHOWED this who He was But not all of them perceived Him the same. “Who do THEY say that I am?”
It’s time to read it again…differently.
This was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven. Another way: this didn’t come from the Earth, it came from up above. Are there things by said by others that formulate how you think? We debate back and forth - and we leave the mediator out of it. Jesus says: “ADDRESS ME.” JESUS has a plan. HE is relevant. It’s time that we address Him in all that we do. Flesh and blood - that’s judgment. What we see and hear, as human beings we judge. But DISCERNMENT comes only from the Father, and your judgment does not. So the question is: am I sitting in judgment of the situation? Or exercising discernment from the Father? Who influences you? Hopefully Jesus does much more than your situation, or how learned you are. Not revealed by flesh and blood but by the Father…judgment vs discernment, Don’t sit in a position where flesh and blood is dictating to you.
I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. 19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; We think we have to get everyone saved and then disciple them. Jesus went out and made disciples, over and over. And PRAYED for them. And then He released them to go and disciple others. It’s not about counting the number of saving pledges. It’s not about just inviting people. In building a church, it will be about gates and keys. What would we call a person whose job it was to maintain the keys to the gates…GATEKEEPER. God has called us special forces…but it’s not the way we think it is. We are Special Forces Shepherds, out here to teach the sheep in our own pastors to teach them the ways of The Good Shepherd. We can’t fear the gates of hell, they won’t overcome us! So when we are in a rough place, we are positioned with the keys! The keys to the Kingdom! Building a church takes gatekeepers that are taking their keys to the gates! We have been GIVEN KEYS!
Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be] loosed in heaven. Sometimes we are unlocking things that need to stay locked and locking up things that we need to loose. Be asking the right questions…what should we be loosing and binding? God doesn’t NEED you to loose anything, He’s a big God. It’s not about us! Ask the questions: who is caught behind the gates of hell? How do we use these keys to set slaves free? Are you trying to loose something that doesn’t know it's caught? Maybe things need to be bound before things are loosed. We have to ASK GOOD QUESTIONS about loosing and binding! What you value will determine your path, decision, and actions. (***See notes above!) We value different things! And the way we value will determine our path…so be careful where you place your value!
When people come for The Gardens, people are not going to look the way you are used to. Are you going to judge or discern? They are up against the gates of hell - are you ready to show up with your keys? Are you asking what to loose and what to bind?
So if we are going to ask good questions, we need to know how to like-mindedly lay value the same way. The Gardens depend on it.
Philippians 2:1-4
Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
THEREFORE - go study that!
3 things:
Make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. We are the church - we must be like-minded. With who? With Christ, same love, One Spirit, one minded. Like-minded happens when we ASK GOOD QUESTIONS. IT’S TIME TO ASK GOOD QUESTIONS. How can we be one-minded in Christ? If you have these things from Christ - comfort, tenderness, compassion - then we are to be one in spirit and of one mind.
In humility value others above yourselves, Humility - valuing others above yourself. Are you about your own interest or others’ interests? False humility is myself over others. So a good question to ask would be: how do I see value in others?
Not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
Interest - cost and reward. Cost vs reward. To have an interest in something costs us something. To have an interest in Jesus costs us something. The other side of interest is reward. There’s a reward to asking a good question, and there can be a cost! Interest is a good study! And it’s not about YOUR cost and YOUR reward, it’s about what it is going to cost THEM! Interest is calculated by principle…the bank way is princiPAL. In Jesus it’s princiPLE. God’s principles must come into play. So good question is…which is it? Principal or principle? PAL is about what it costs you…PLE is about OTHERS.
(***Rhonda Brisendine: Look at it as an investment in others because you BOTH benefit.)
IT’S TIME TO ASK GOOD QUESTIONS. The point of asking a good question is so we have the same answer - like-mindedness!!! And this is not to benefit you…it’s to benefit others…care about them so all will go well with you.
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