You Don't Heal By Being More Loved By The World

God Didn't Show Up To Help You Win. He Showed Up To Change You.

You've been asking God to remove the struggle.. Take away the temptation. Stop the pattern. Make the fight easier. And it hasn't gone away. And somewhere in the back of your mind you've started wondering — does God even hear me? He heard you every single time. He just had a different answer than the one you were asking for. Genesis 32 is one of the most misread stories in the entire Bible. Jacob wrestling through the night with a mysterious man. Most people read it as a man fighting God and winning. But when you understand what's actually happening — who this figure is, why He let Jacob hold on, and what He did with one touch — everything changes.God didn't show up to help Jacob win. He showed up to change who Jacob was.He didn't remove the fight. He got in the ring. And in the middle of the most exhausting night of Jacob's life — God changed his name, restored his identity, and transformed everything. The hip wasn't punishment. It was proof. God had control the entire time. [http://time.So] So [http://time.So] the question isn't whether God is in your struggle. The question is — are you still trying to win it on your own terms? Or are you ready to stop striving long enough to let Him change who you are? This is Episode 3 of the series — You've Been Missing This In The Bible The Whole Time. Watch from Episode 1. "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome." — Genesis 32:28 🔥 New episode every day this week — subscribe and hit the bell. 📖 Bible Study — Sat (Coed) 7PM Eastern — DM "Bible study" to join 📌 Join the Mentorship: 👉 https://www.buddybrand.fitness/mentor [https://www.buddybrand.fitness/mentor]... 📲 DM me on Instagram — I answer every message: 👉 / buddybrandfitness

Stop Giving God What His Son Already Gave You

You've been trying to give God enough..More discipline. More sacrifice. More effort. Negotiating with him — if I give this up, if I commit to this, if I stop doing that — maybe then he'll be satisfied. Maybe then he'll finally show up. But Genesis 22 reveals something that most Christians completely miss when they read the story of Abraham and Isaac.God never wanted the sacrifice. He already provided one.When Abraham raised that knife — fully surrendered, fully obedient — the Angel of the Lord stopped him. And in that moment God revealed what He had been pointing to the entire time. A ram caught in the thicket. A substitute already provided. A foreshadow of what was coming through Jesus thousands of years later. This was the cross before the cross.Abraham said it himself in verse 8 — "God will provide the lamb." And God did. Not through Abraham's sacrifice. Through His own. [http://own.So] So [http://own.So] stop trying to give God something He already took from His Son. Stop negotiating with a God who already settled everything. Stop sacrificing the parts of your life that Jesus already paid for on the cross. [http://cross.You] You [http://cross.You] don't give your life to Jesus. You receive the life He already gave for you. This is Day 2 of the series — You've Been Missing This In The Bible The Whole Time. Watch Day 1 first." Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide." — Genesis 22:14 🔥 New episode every day this week — subscribe and hit the bell. 📖 Bible Study — Tues (Women's) | Wed (Men's) | Sat (Coed) — link in bio

Most Christians Read The Old Testament Without Seeing Jesus In It

But he was already there. Already moving. Already pursuing broken people long before Bethlehem. Long before the manger. Long before anyone knew his name. Genesis 16 is one of the most overlooked passages in all of scripture. And when you see who Jesus was pursuing in the Old Testament — and why — everything you thought you knew about when God started coming after you changes completely. Hagar wasn't a prophet. She wasn't a patriarch. She wasn't chosen or celebrated or important in anyone's eyes. She was a slave girl — used, discarded, and running alone in the wilderness with nothing. And Jesus found her there. Not because she earned it. Not because she came looking for him. He went to where she was. He called her by name. He saw her when nobody else would. That's not a New Testament story. That's Genesis. And if that's who he was pursuing before the cross — what does that tell you about where he is right now in your wilderness? This is Episode 1 of a brand new series — You've Been Missing This In The Bible The Whole Time. This changes everything. "She gave this name to the LORD who spoke to her: 'You are the God who sees me.'" — Genesis 16:13 🔥 New episode every day this week — subscribe and hit the bell. 📖 Bible Study — Tues (Women's) | Wed (Men's) | Sat (Coed) — link in bio

You Don't Heal By Being More Loved By The World

Your whole life you've been trying to heal by becoming more loved.. By the right person. The right relationship. The right amount of success. The right version of yourself that finally feels worthy enough. And it never works. Because you can't heal from a wound with the same thing that caused it. 1 John 4:7-8 carries the most important revelation Buddy has ever encountered. Not that God loves you — but that God IS love. His nature is love. Which means love isn't something He gives and takes away based on your performance. It's what He is. Always. Toward you. Right now. In the middle of everything you've done and everything you're still fighting. John wrote this as an old man. The last living eyewitness of Jesus. After everything he saw — miracles, crucifixion, resurrection — he came back to one thing. Love. That's not an accident. You don't heal by becoming more loved by the world. You heal by realizing you're already fully loved by God. And once you encounter that love — the counterfeit stops satisfying. The cycles start breaking. Because you finally found what you were looking for all along. "God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them." — 1 John 4:16 🔥 Subscribe and hit the bell — new devotional every week. 📖 Bible Study — Sat (Coed) 7PM Eastern — DM "Bible study" to join

I Spent Years Trying To Earn What God Already Gave Me

For years Buddy prayed for purpose. Begged God to reveal his calling. Worked harder. Tried to be more disciplined. More worthy.. And the whole time God was saying — stop praying for what I already put inside you. 2 Timothy 1:9 breaks open the most exhausting lie most Christians believe. That your calling is something you earn. That your identity is something you perform for. T hat if you just do enough — God will finally release what you've been chasing. But grace was given before the beginning of time. Before your mistakes. Before your best days. Before you existed. You can't perform your way into something God decided before creation. Stop striving. Start abiding. The tree doesn't strain to grow fruit. It yields — and produces exactly what it was created for. "He has saved us and called us to a holy life, not because of anything we have done, but because of his own purpose and grace." — 2 Timothy 1:9 🔥 Subscribe and hit the bell — new devotional every week. 📖 Bible Study — Tues (Women's) | Wed (Men's) | Sat (Coed) — link in bio