The Grace to Think BIG
May 9, 2026ZChurch Message for May 16, 2026 (full service: • How You See God Changes Everything )
Associate Pastor Sharon Stark shares a timely message, “How You See God Changes Everything.”
The lens through which we view God affects how we see ourselves, our circumstances, and our future. Discover the freedom, peace, and confidence that grow when we see Him as truly good, trustworthy, loving, and faithful. It changes the way we approach life itself.
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Psalm 34:8 “O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.”
Nahum 1:7 “The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.”
Psalm 145:9 “The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.”
Psalm 27:13 “I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.”
Exodus 33:18–19 “And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory. And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee…”
John 14:9 “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.”
Jesus is the perfect picture of what God is like.
Acts 10:38 “God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil…”
James 1:17 “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”
Romans 2:4 4Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
Lamentations 3:22–23 “It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.”
God Can Be Trusted
Numbers 23:19 “God is not a man, that he should lie…”
Hebrews 6:18 “…it was impossible for God to lie…”
John 4:16 “God is love…”
Psalm 84:11 11For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
The Lord will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold From those who walk uprightly.
Colossians 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
1 Thessalonians 2:18 NKJV Therefore we wanted to come to you—even I, Paul, time and again—but Satan hindered us.
John 10:10 NKJV The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
2 Corinthians 2:11 NKJV lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.
John 14:30 NKJV I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me.
Ephesians 2:2 NKJV in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,
Isaiah 59:19b When the enemy comes in(,) like a flood,
The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.
Psalm 34:3 3Oh, magnify the Lord with me,
And let us exalt His name together.
Numbers 13:33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
Hebrews 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
1 John 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
Habakkuk 3:17-19 17 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: 18Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. 19 The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places.
Proverbs 25:2 2It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Rev 12:10 NKJV Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.
1 Peter 5:8 NKJV Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
