God, I Don't Understand You | Chelsea Smith

We are continuing a throwback month and I'm so excited you are about to hear a message from me titled I don't understand God. And I don't know what you are feeling or facing right now but I would imagine there are some things in your life that you are going through that you just don't understand.

Maybe you don't understand your neighbor. Maybe you don't understand God. circumstances in life that we just can't wrap our head or our emotions around why these are happening. I preached this in 2019. I do have to say I was like, "Oh, I've definitely aged in in the past six years, but it's been a beautiful six years.

I'm grateful for it." Um, but I preached this right after I learned that my dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer. And oddly enough, we are six years later and he is miraculously still alive. But I didn't know that in 2019 when I preached this message. he was given a shorter amount of time to live than than what he is still alive.

And it's really fascinating looking back and realizing what our very human emotions are when we are going through circumstances in life that we can't understand and what does God want to do for us in the midst of those very real emotions so that we can come through seasons that we don't understand actually having grown and knowing God better.

God for you right now is not looking for your perfect understanding of him. What he wants is your full self, your whole self, your vulnerability, for you to come to him with the reality of what you're feeling and facing right now, even when you don't understand. I hope you enjoy.

So, turn in your Bibles with me to the book of Romans, chapter 11. And I'm so excited. Judah has been in the middle of a series, what I wish more preachers would say. And I'm going to continue on that series today. And can I just say so much of the heart be behind this series isn't that we're trying to like tell other preachers in the world what to do.

They have to do what God has called them to do. But you know, so often I sit here and I watch families in the parking lot getting your kids out of the car and knowing how much work it comes to it takes to come here as a family or watching single people walk in and wondering do I have anybody to sit by and the courage that takes or even taking the time to watch a service on the app.

We realize it's a huge investment that you make to participate in a community of faith. And part of the reason we say what we wish more preachers would say is we want to make this something that is really helpful for your real life. And not just so that you can have a good experience today, but so that Tuesday morning when you're in a real circumstance, there will be something that happened on Sunday that did something for your life.

So what I wish more preachers would say, and this is this is this is me, Chelsea, but it's both of us. What do I wish more preachers would say? Here it is. I wish more preachers would say, "Sometimes I don't understand God." And so this morning, we're going to talk about just that simple fact of sometimes I don't understand God.

And hopefully you're going to leave today with some a really practical thought of what do I do when these circumstances come that are God- ordained that I actually don't understand. Sound good? >> Are we ready? Are we down for that? I feel like I have to make a sports comment because my husband does all the time.

I was really cheering for the Blazers, guys, and it's not looking so good. I grew up in Portland, was born in Portland. The Blazers were my first team, and nobody cares. Okay, yay. I get to be a girl. The uh the premise for what I'm saying, what I wish more wish more preachers would say is sometimes I don't understand God.

I love it because this verse that we're about to read in Romans chap 11 is written by the Apostle Paul who was the greatest theologian, preacher, teacher that the world has ever known. Now, I think Judah is probably a super duper close second, but um I couldn't say you were better than Paul because somehow that felt a little sacrilegious.

So, I'm going to go with Paul's the best. Judah's a close second. So, here is the greatest preacher who has ever been known to the world. And this is his concluding comments on three very confusing theological chapters that we'll talk about in a bit. But let me just read his concluding comments.

This is what he says. He says, "Oh, the depths and the riches." Next page, shelves. I only have the first three words memorized. You like that? Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable are his judgments, and how inscrutable are his ways.

Now, this is very poetic language for Paul to say, "I don't understand God's judgments or his ways." He goes on to say, "For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor? Or who has given him a gift that he might be repaid?

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen." So here is the world's greatest preacher also saying in his own beautiful language, "Sometimes I don't understand God." Can we pray together? Jesus, thank you so much for your word.

And God, God, thank you for this incredible community of people who would take the time to listen to your word, who want to know you more, who want to know others more. And Jesus, I pray that you would help us this morning to really connect with you, to really hear from you.

Holy Spirit, speak to every person's heart exactly what you want to say in these next moments we have together in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. So, does anybody have any road trips planned for this summer? Road trips planned? Anybody have any road trip stories or scars or horrors? It's nothing like a road trip, right?

But in the Smith family, we have a dilemma. And that dilemma is the kids and I absolutely love road trips. They're so fun. you're stuck in a car, you you get good conversation, you can like do on your devices, but the um patriarch of our family cannot stand them and absolutely refuses to go on road trips with our family.

So, what do we do? I'm not going to drive by myself. And so, this me and the kids find ourselves buming road trips off of anybody that we can possibly find to go on a road trip with. My parents drive up from Palm Springs every summer and spend the summer up here.

And I normally send a couple kids down just so they can road trip up with their grandparents so that they can find a fulfilling road trip. It's like a 24-hour drive. So, a couple years ago, Amory, who and Elijah, who are the campus pastors in Los Angeles, Amory had been up here to spend some time with her parents for the summer and was driving home by herself.

And I was like, "Hey, I will I will drive home with you and we'll bring a couple kids and we're going to make a party of it." So, we get in the car and you know, the first thing you got to do when you're deciding your road trip is, okay, well, what's our what's our entertainment going to be?

What what are we going to do with these 24 hours that we have together cooped up in a stinky car because we were with junior high boys, which was kind of a mistake in retrospect, but so we settled on this podcast that was really popular at the time, this real life crime podcast.

And we, Amry and I are into it. It is like 10 hours of episodes and hearing about a person who was potentially wrongfully convicted and in jail for a murder and you hear him interviewed and you hear why he didn't do it and all the theories and we are invested into this podcast and then all of a sudden we get to the end and that was it.

The guy's still in jail. They don't still don't know who did it and there you have it. I was so mad at this stupid podcast. I decided I'm never doing real life crime anything again. I don't like those. I like the Hollywood versions where you get two and a half hours and you get a start, a middle, and an end and you know it's going to conclude and you can just be at peace with that.

No more of this real life crime drama entertainment for Chelsea. And I realized our life has enough mystery to it. Why would I entertain myself with mystery that is not going to be solved? Right? It's a horrible feeling to be so invested in something and not get an end.

But how much worse is it when it is our own lives and realizing that there are mysteries in our lives? There are things that are happening that we just don't understand and cannot be solved. particularly as people of faith when it comes to knowing God and who God is.

And there are some mysteries of God, if I'm just being really honest, that I'm okay with, I can handle. Like the fact that God is all knowing, like I know that, but I don't really understand that, right? The fact that God knows every thought that every single person is thinking right now on the planet who has ever lived, who ever will live, God knows the end from the beginning. that God knows everything.

I I Okay, how about this one? God has all power. Our God isn't a weak God. He is a powerful God. He doesn't need any external power source. He doesn't need to sleep. He doesn't need to eat. But in and of himself, he has all of the power he will ever ever need.

Okay. The one that really gets me is the fact that God hasn't had a beginning and he doesn't have an end. Do you ever try to think that and your brain just it literally like you can see yourself shortcircuiting like you just like take a second to try to think about it.

Our brains just we just we just can't understand that. I'm kind of okay with those parts of God that I can't understand. It's kind of like I can't understand how a giant airplane flies up in the air. Does anybody else understand that? But you know what? But I'm still in to hop on that airplane and get to where I need to go.

There are certain I don't understand quantum physics. I don't there's a lot of things I don't understand that way that I'm just okay with. It doesn't really affect my everyday life. But when I'm when I say there are things about God that I don't understand, I'm not even talking about those things.

I'm talking about the real everyday circumstances that we face in this life that affect us or our loved ones that if we're really honest with ourselves and if we're really honest with God, we can kind of lean back and say, "God, I don't understand that. I don't understand why some people who I love have been victims of horrific abuse.

I don't understand why diagnosis and disease and financial ruin comes upon really good people. God, I don't understand that. And you know, there are these moments in life where horrible circumstances happen and we get the mystery solved. you know, like um I have a friend who had to have open heart surgery um when her second son was a tiny little boy and it seemed like this horrible thing, but then when she was pregnant with her with her next baby, it ended up that because she had to have a heart condition, it was a high-risisk pregnancy and so they discovered something in her baby girl's life and was able to save her girl's life.

That is like bow tied up. Thank you, Hollywood. Mystery solved. The open heart surgery then makes sense because it saved the baby girl's life, right? Those things, we get those every once in a while. But what about the things in life that we never actually get an answer for?

Full disclosure, this is not for me. This isn't a message that was just like, "Okay, Chelse, let's get some nice thoughts to talk to church about." Um, the past probably six, eight weeks, my family's been on a journey of my dad being diagnosed with cancer. And you know it starts off with oh maybe some some numbers off and then the next medical appointment and the next metal medical appointment things get worse and worse and worse and then you know words like stage four and timelines get thrown out and the conversations I've had with God truly have been really God.

I was a week before my dad was initially diagnosed with some potential cancer. I had just been having a conversation with Judah saying, you know, I don't think I've ever appreciated or needed my dad more in life than I have in this season right here. And then literally fight I called my dad and just had a conversation with him about that.

And then 5 days later, he has to call back and say, "Hey, I got some bad news from a doctor. Are you sitting down?" And for me, it's just like, really, God? Now the end of that story isn't written. We're still believing for a miracle. Still believing for that Hollywood journey. is still believing for a turnaround.

We'd love your prayers for my dad, Craig Smith, if you think about him. But there are real circumstances in life that if we're really honest with ourselves, and I wish more preachers would be honest about this, that sometimes I don't understand God and what he's doing and frankly why he's doing what he's doing.

And as I've gotten older, 40, I love it. How many times have Judah and I, by the way, said we're 40 this year. Like I think we're so proud of it. And you know, like five months from now when we have our 20 year anniversary, you're going to hear that about a hundred thousand times.

So you can just buckle up for that. So turning 40 and having been married for almost 20 years feels so good. I have decided that I am going to embrace the mystery of God. I have decided that I want to live a life that I am okay with the things of God that I don't understand.

But here's the thing. What about when they're personal? The verse that we we read in Romans chapter 11 at the end, as I mentioned, that was the end of three chapters of Paul describing what is such a convoluted theological topic, which is why do some people accept the forgiveness of Jesus and other people don't.

I remember when I was in Bible college and taking a Romans class, we spent week after week after week on these three chapters. And I got to the end of verse 11, which is the verse we just read, and realized, huh, I don't understand that any more than I did at the beginning.

And we just studied it for all these weeks. It's one of those like confusing theological topics that Paul just at the end throws his hands up and he's like, who can know the ways of God, huh? They're just they're just really, really, really big. But for Paul, it wasn't about theology.

It was personal for Paul. Read back to how he starts this section in Romans chapter nine. Starting in verse one, this is how Paul starts off these three chapters of deep theological discourse. He says this, "I'm speaking the truth in Christ. I'm not lying. My conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers and my kinsmen according to the flesh." Paul was talking about his grandma and his aunt and his sister and his brothers. And so this isn't just theology to Paul.

This is real life. And so as he pens these words, he understands what it's like to have something so deeply personal to you that when you get to the end of thinking all the way around it and God this and God that you still don't understand. So, how do we come to the place that Paul did where we embrace the mystery of God and not let the things of God that we don't understand crush our faith?

I'll get to the answer in a second, but first, let me tell you the two things that our human nature tends to do with the things about God that we don't understand. And neither one are going to lead us into very good results. And if we aren't careful, we're just going to default to our human nature and just go back to natural ways of thinking.

The first thing that we as humans, we all do this, tend to do when we find ourselves with something we don't understand is we just try to numb the pain. Has anybody ever been there? And I don't know if we numb the pain. There's good ways to numb the pain.

Maybe you just exercise or maybe you work, which I don't know if that's good or bad. Or maybe there is a substance that you are just enduring and getting through the day just so that you can get home and get to that substance. Or maybe that there's just porn that you know once you get there then the pain is going to be numbed and you're going to forget it.

Or maybe you can do what Judah and I did when Judah's dad was fighting cancer. Judah's dad had a six-year journey of fighting cancer. And the first couple years we were like all in and praying and doing all the right things. And then we got to a point where we didn't really know what to pray anymore. more and we didn't have any words to say and we had toddlers at home and life was crazy and so you got to understand this is the early 2000s so there's no Netflix there's no binge watching TV shows but the only option we had was to go to Fred Meyer and buy sets of DVDs and so Judah and I being you know the pastors that we are like okay walking through the aisles of Fred Meyer DVD section that does not even exist anymore I don't think only one blockbuster left in the world how Crazy is that?

Those are my high school days. They're gone. Bye-bye blockbuster. Bye-bye DVDs. So Jude and I went to Fred Meyer, got our DVDs. Here's what we got. We got the collection of Hallmark movies and we got the TV series 24. And depending on what mood we were in that night, we would either watch a Hallmark movie or just go with Jack Bower and watch him just dominate life.

I'll be honest, we went with Jack Bower most nights. But it was just we were just trying to numb. We were just trying to escape. We were just trying to just just give me a few moments where this pain doesn't feel quite so real and quite so acute.

But recently I heard a research professor say this about numbing life. She said, "You can't choose the parts of life that you're going to numb. If you're going to numb the pain, you're going to numb the beauty. If you're going to numb the hard things, you're going to lessen the excitement of the good things."

And I thought, gosh, that sounds so much like the scripture. Because if we numb the deep parts, then all we're left with is shallow. And we just have shallow relationships and shallow interactions and shallow conversations with God. And if we aren't careful, we can find ourselves living this numb, shallow life because we don't really want to face the fact that our God who we love and who is good and who is loving is doing things in our lives that we just don't understand.

You know, the second reaction that is our human nature, which I think is even worse than numbing, is this. We take God and we try to pull his thoughts down to our level. Isaiah 55 says this, it's such a beautiful verse. Isaiah 55 and verse verses 8 and N.

This is God. He's saying, "Hey, my kids who I love, my thoughts are not your thoughts, and neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts are higher than your thoughts."

And so we serve this God who is so powerful and so omnipotent and knows everything and knows things that we will never even begin to understand. But yet when circumstances in our life happen to us that we don't understand, we tell God, I'm not going to serve you until I understand what you're doing.

And in that moment, we have taken a really big God and lowered him down to our level of intellect. And what we have subtly done is made an idol of our own intellect by saying, "God, if I don't understand you and if I don't understand what you're doing, then I'm not going to serve you or worship you or trust you."

And I got to love you here on a Sunday morning, but that's actually idolatry. And you are actually only worshiping yourself. And what you have done in that moment without knowing it is you have taken this really big, amazing, extraordinary, loving, kind God and you have made him really small because he can only be as big as your thoughts are.

And then what happens in the moment when you need a big God? When you're facing a trial again, all you are left with is a small God. And where does your faith lie when that happens? Okay, so here we are. We don't understand God. We don't want to numb the pain because we don't want to numb our lives.

And we don't want to bring God down to our level of intellect because we don't want to make God small. So what do we do? Paul gives us a beautiful thought here at the at the end of our verse that we read in verse 36. Verse Whoa, did I just say 36?

Yep, I did. I was going to sing my husband a song, but that was going to be wildly inappropriate. Okay, verse 36. Paul gives us a clue and it has nothing to do with sex. He says, "For to God and through God and for God are all things forever.

To him be the glory forever. Amen. What did Paul, the greatest preacher of all time, do when he came to a very personal place in life that he didn't understand God? He chose to worship. To God be the glory forever. Amen. And when I say worship, I'm not just talking about singing songs that are led by a band, although that is a beautiful part of worship.

When I say worship, I mean having real conversations with God where you are completely honest with him and say, "God, I feel this. I feel this. I feel that. But Lord, I'm you're still going to be big in my mind." Jesus said it in John chapter 4. He said, "I am looking.

There is a time that is coming and I am looking for people who will worship in spirit and in truth." The whole thought of worship is that it's got to be full of truth. And if we can't come to God with the truth of what we're really thinking, we're really facing, we're really going through, then we can't really worship God.

And those moments of facing God with truth should always lead to moments of a greater truth. And the greater truth is, God, but I know you love me. And God, you gave me Jesus. And if all I ever get from you is your son, Jesus, and his love and his forgiveness and his redemption, then that's all I'm ever going to need.

God is looking for people to worship in spirit and in truth to have a real conversation with God. So, we're not numbing and we're not making God small, but we're facing those things headon that we don't understand. David in the Bible was the best at this. I'll read one of his psalms.

Psalms chapter 13. It's one of the shorter ones. They're they are throughout the Psalms. If you need an example of what this looks like, listen to what David says. I love it so much. He's so emotional, just like my husband. He says, so dramatic language. He says, "I'm hurting, Lord.

Will you forget me forever? How much longer, Lord?" I mean, you can't tell me he's trying to numb this pain. How much longer will you look the other way when I'm in need? How much longer must I cling to this constant grief? I've endured the shaking of my soul, so how much longer will my enemy have the upper hand?

It's been enough. Take a good look, God, and answer me. Breathe life into my spirit. Bring light into the eyes in this pitch black darkness. I will or I will sleep the sleep of death. And listen, this is all the same sentence. No circumstances have changed. He is still in the exact same place.

And he says, "Don't let my enemy proclaim I prevailed over him. For my adversaries will celebrate when I fall." Same circumstances, but look what he does. But Lord, I have always trusted in your kindness. So answer me and I will yet celebrate with passion and joy when your salvation lifts me up.

That is a man who knows how to worship. He wasn't numbing his pain. He wasn't holding back the punches from God, but he wasn't making God small. and he was letting the really big truth of God be the truth that dominated his life. And as we conclude this morning, I just want to look at one woman in the Bible who I think was an incredible lady at actually living this out.

Yep. Sorry guys, you got a lady preacher telling you a story about a woman. Welcome to our world. So, so Leah is a woman. Her story is found in Genesis chapter 39. And she is a woman who was familiar with Heartbreak. Now, I thought I knew Heartbreak when I was 20 years old.

And I found out that the boy I had a crush on actually liked my best friend and that's why he was hanging out with us. I cried for that whole weekend long. I thought my life was over. I thought I was devastated, but hey, thank God, right? So, that was me.

But Leah knew true and genuine heartbreak. She was an older sister with a gorgeous little sister. And this man named Jacob comes to work for their family and he sees this beautiful sister Rachel and he falls madly head over heels in love with her. And back in those days, you had to pay a bride price.

And so Jacob comes to Rachel and Leah's father and he says, "I I want to marry Rachel. What do I do?" And and the dad says, "Well, you got to work for me for seven years." And the Bible says that he was so in love with Rachel that those seven years just went by in an instant because of the love he had for Rachel.

So those seven years passed and they have the wedding celebration and the ceremony and the dancing and I don't know if either it was really dark outside and they forgot to light the candles or they had the most extraordinary wine known to man at this party. But the next thing that happens is they go to consummate the marriage and apparently uh Jacob misses this part because he wakes up in the morning and it's not Rachel who he has consummated the marriage with.

It's Leah, the older sister. And Leah knows that she's unloved. Can you imagine what it felt like for Leah to have to be pretty much forced to marry a man who she didn't love, who she knew didn't love her, and she just has to go along with it because that was the culture.

And Jacob was just iate and he says goes to their dad and says, "What what what are you doing?" And he said, "Well, it's not our culture. The older sister gets married first, so wait a week and then you can marry Rachel, but you have to work another seven years."

So, everybody is mad at Leah at this point. Dad's mad at her. Rachel's mad at her. Jacob's mad at her. She is in an unloving relationship. In fact, we're going to pick her story up in Genesis 29 and verse 31. is this. And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, she wasn't just unloved.

She was actually hated, she knew some heartbreak. There were some things going on in her life that she didn't understand. It says this, "He opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. And Leah conceived and she bore a son. And listen to this. She called his name Reuben. For she said, because the Lord has looked upon my affliction, now my husband will love me."

In other words, my circumstances are about to change. But it didn't happen. And it says she conceived and bore another son and said, "Because the Lord has heard that I am heard, now she's thinking about God and he's given me this son also." And so she called his name Simeon, which means heard.

And now she conceived a son and said, "Now maybe this time I don't have faith that my husband's going to love me anymore, but maybe this time he'll at least be attached to me because I have borne him three sons." Therefore, his name was called Levi. And you know, we read these verses in like 15 seconds, but this was year after year after year of disappointing circumstances, of nobody in her life loving her, of feeling completely alone and unloved and hoping her circumstances were will change and they're not changing.

They're not changing. She's done everything she knows how to do to change her circumstances. And here she is still feeling unloved and brokenhearted. But listen to what happens next. And then she conceived again and bore a son and said, "This time I will praise the Lord." Therefore, she called his name Judah, which mean which means praise.

And then she ceased bearing. And you know that in Leah's lifetime, there is no way that she could have known what was happening here. But the truth is that Judah, this son who was born out of a pain and a grief and a heartbreak and a rejection, this son Judah that led to praising God would end up being the great great-grandfather of Jesus.

And God saw this woman Leah and he realized, I need something in the DNA of the son of God, my son Jesus, that's going to come from Leah that can maybe only come from a certain type of pain and heartbreak and praise that results in praising me. And as a result, Jesus was exactly who he was because of this.

But here's the thing. Leah could have never known that in her lifetime. I think when she got to heaven, she got to figure it out. And I really do believe when we get to heaven, a lot of the mysteries of God will be solved. And not like it'll even matter anymore.

But I believe that we can take Leah's example and say, "God, I am going to praise you through this pain. I am going to praise you even when I don't understand. Even if my circumstances aren't going to change, I am going to be the kind of person who isn't just numbing, who isn't just making you small."

And can you imagine if we all become that? What kind of community we can become? If we live these kinds of life that we could admit, God, I don't understand, but I am going to worship you and have real conversations and really live this life with you. Can you imagine what we can be and do together?

I think we we could be a pretty amazing community and I think we could really help each other out along the way. And I think maybe when you have a friend who's going through something and they don't know how to have that conversation that you can initiate that conversation, say, "What does it really feel like?

How are you really thinking towards God? How are you really feeling in this moment?" And we can help each other make God so big even when we don't understand him. Can I pray for you this morning? If you wouldn't mind just bowing your heads so that every person here can just have a moment of privacy and just a moment to really think about God and maybe even think about some of those things of life that you've been trying to numb and trying to just keep that pain at bay.

But if you're honest with yourself, you've realizing, yeah, but I've been numbing a lot of life. I want to pray for two groups of people this morning. First, if if you're in here this morning and I started out talking about God is personal to me and and I know him and you'd say, "Chelles, I don't know if I've ever had that encounter, but I want to know God in that way."

And maybe you don't even understand everything that that means, but you'd say, "Chelsea, I want to know God in a real and personal way." I'm going to count to three and just have you lift up your hand and I'm going to say a quick prayer for you. And I believe in that moment you can know God and you can know his forgiveness and you can know that he is real in your life.

If that's you all over at any of our locations or even on the app, I'm going to count to three. One, two, three. Can raise your hand all over. Beautiful. Thank you. Even if you're in your living room, you can raise your hand. God sees that. That's awesome.

Thank you. I'm going to pray for you now. Jesus, I know that you have seen every hand. And Lord, you know every circumstances. And God, I pray for my friends here today. Lord, that you would reveal yourself to them in such a personal, real, authentic way. Jesus, I ask that you would show yourself strong on their behalf.

Thank you that you forgive us all of our wrong for the incredible life that you lived and the journey that you can begin in our lives in Jesus' name. Amen. Hey, thank you so much for watching that message. I really hope that you found yourself someplace in that story and someplace in that message.

And if you found yourself in that very human place of numbing the emotions or trying to make God small, can I just say thank you for sticking it out? And I truly believe that as we're vulnerable with ourselves, with our community, with the group of people that you're watching service with, that there is going to be such a beautiful breakthrough, an encounter with Jesus, an encounter with the people around you.

And I believe especially for those people who find themselves numbing that there is going to be an awakening. There is going to be a sense of waking up because you recognize that you can trust God even with the things you don't understand. I believe that for you right now in this moment, wherever you are, God is going to show up.

You're going to wake up and it might feel a little uncomfortable at first, but there is going to be a beauty and an aliveness after this that you did not expect or anticipate. Thank you so much for joining us today. Hey, if you're watching with us here on YouTube, I want to invite you to a space that is curated and crafted specifically for you, and that is our church home app.

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We can't wait to see you there. ((music playing)) It's been a minute. Where do I begin? ((music playing)) I've let the distance creep it way back in. I've offered love so inconistently. ((music playing)) Your heart is stay. You won't change. ((music playing)) You're still worthy. ((music playing)) You're still crowned in majesty. You're still perfect. You still bring me to my knees.

You're still holy. ((music playing)) You're still good beyond belief. King of glory. You're still everything. Oh, everything to me. Oh, help me Jesus. Stir your fire in. Renew my faith. When doubt is crippling, I'm open ready. Heart is on my sleeve. I need your presence more than anything. You're still worthy.

You're still crowned in mesty. You're still perfect. ((music playing)) You still bring me to my knees. You're still holy. You're still good beyond belief. King of glory. ((music playing)) You're still everything. Oh, everything is me. ((music playing)) And all that I need is you. All that I need is you. All of your heart.

All that you are. And all that I need is you. Lord, all that I need is you. My whole heart, all that you are, all that I need is you, Lord. All that I need is you. Oh, all that you are. Heat. Heat. ((music playing)) ((applause)) Oh, ((music playing)) oh, ((music playing)) oh, oh. ((music playing)) You're still worthy.

((music playing)) You're still crowned in mesty. You're still perfect. You still bring me to my knees. You're still holy. You're still good beyond me. King of gloryy ((music playing)) are still everything. Oh everything to me. ((music playing))