Fearless La Podcast

Pastor Jeremy shares a timely sermon on praising in the promise. Often times in life we find ourselves reaching out to God only when things are not going well. In those moments, Jesus offers us healing, but sometimes we are not living "whole" until we can circle back and praise him in the middle of our promise. 

Pastor Jeremy finishes the Hills and Valleys sermon serious with the Mount of Olives. The Mount of Olives is a place where Jesus often went to pray. However this time was right before Jesus was betrayed, and He knew the difficulty of the process. Our God is a God of the process, not just the promise. Sometimes we must walk through difficult seasons, and troubling processes to get to our promises. While walking through the process, we must have people in our lives that we designated not to just cheer us on, but to support us in our troubling times. However, there is a moment, when we need to seclude ourselves in the presence of God, to find the courage to continue in the process that God designated for us. Enjoy this power sermon form Pastor Jeremy Johnson.

God is not preparing the promise, he is preparing you for the promise. When God speaks something into existence, he speaks to the end, and not the beginning. Just because you are not walking in your blessing, does not mean you are not blessed. In this podcast, Pastor Jeremy Johnson breaks down what it truly means to be blessed by God. 

  If you’re a leader and want to see something changed in this life. You will have to go through a birthing process. You are going to have to go through moment of hard labor and work to see what you believe. Elijah puts his head between his knees - a birthing position - and begins to pray for rain. He’s trying to give birth to a rainfall that hasn’t come for 3 years, he’s travailing for it! It says that Elijah exclaims “go get your men, because I HEAR the sound of a heavy rain” he doesn’t say I SEE something, he believes and hears the rain.

In Deuteronomy 34:1-4, Moses climbs Mt. Nebo. At the top, God shows him the promise land but says, “I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it.” We all have a Mt.​ NEBO ​​in our lives: a ​Ne​​ ver-​E​​nding ​B​​attle over ​O​​urselves. We think that whatever happens in our lives ​must b​ e God’s will, not realizing that our own decisions can, and frequently do, interfere with God’s will for our life. Thus, we are always in a battle where we try to put our own will above God’s. Then, when things don’t go our way we are quick to blame God for the bad in our lives. We don’t realize that the reason things turned out that way was ​because we were fighting God’s will in the first place. Relinquishing control over our lives can be scary. Like the Israelites who doubted God, the fear of failure can be so terrifying that we opt for the comfort of slavery instead of trusting God to free us. God doesn’t ​just​ want to free us, though. God has great plans for our lives but we ne

If you’re finding yourself walking through a difficult situation, or a season of continuous crying, you are most likely in The Valley of Trouble and Weeping. Through these valleys, we can hold on to the comfort of knowing that God will NEVER waste a hurt. God does not just let things happen to happen so trust Him in the darkness! Has there been a situation that you thought was over—and God had healed you from it—but as time passed, it came up again? Some stubborn issues or sins will keep chasing you as long as you’re alive but the SAME God who defeated it the first time will do it again! He doesn’t do it the same way—usually ever. For Him it’s not about changing the battle, it’s about changing YOU! When the Israelites walked around the mountain for 40 years, He wasn’t trying to change the mountain, he was trying to change THEM! Pain is a part of the process and it WILL produce fruit. Pain is a gift, pain will make you pause and realize you can’t keep doing what you’re doing. We have to recognize t

At some point, we all find ourselves having to face some extremely tough decisions in life—even some really small decisions that may seem meaningless to you but will play a role in determining your future. If you find yourself in the valley of decisions, fear not, there are many ways to navigate this! Life is the sum total of all of our decisions. You are who you are based on the decisions you make in the life that you’ve been handed. You are not what you’ve been given rather, you arehow you use w​ hat you’ve been given. ​Focus on the big picture;​ not every open door is from God and not every closed door is from the enemy. The Bible says to KNOCK, and it will be opened. If you have to knock on a door for Him to open, it’s must already be closed to begin with. ​Know your values​; how you see yourself is how others will see you. ​Recognize the snowball effect​; one bad decision will lead to many other bad decisions. On the contrary, one ​good decision​ will lead to many other good decisions! We have to cre

Everyone loves being on the mountain tops, but seasons in the valleys are inevitable. It is important to acknowledge that the valley seasons produce harvests that you could never grow on the mountains. As sure as the grapes grow in the valleys of California, the fruits of our lives are produced through the valley. There are different types of valleys that we walk through in our lives—some of them we are even called to. One valley in particular, the Valley of Elah, is a valley that we are called to where we have the opportunity to destroy our giants. You may be sitting on top of the mountain top right now, but something still doesn’t feel right... Something is still tormenting you. The giant in your life is in the valley shouting up at you, taunting you. Maybe your giant is ​anger,​ maybe your giant is ​depression,​ or maybe your giant is the past ​abuse​ that you pretend never happened. Whatever it is, your giant is a big problem. A giant won’t go away until you destroy it. It’s not a one-day torm

As believers, we have a tendency to solely focus on the mountain tops—the good moments, the season where everything goes right. But that’s the thing; it’s just a ​season.​ Just as the mountain top is a season, so are the valleys—the low moments where the attack against you has been specifically made to take you out. Don’t be discouraged that others aren’t struggling with the same thing—that’s not ​their ​battle. But even though there is a tailor made attack for you, fear not because there is also a tailor made plan to get you through it. We have to understand that whether or not we believe that God is in the valley does not actually dictate his presence in it. ​He is there! ​He is omnipresent—everywhere at once and with you always!​ ​​We must acknowledge and be prepared for the valleys to come while we’re on the mountain tops. If you don’t understand that He is the God of the hills ​and ​the valleys, you will give up when you’re going through the low moments. Hills and valleys are the rollercoaste

As disciples of Christ, one the most faithful action we can take is to love others the way Christ loves us. We know that as humans, it is a challenge to love people well. We are often better at cutting people off rather than loving them unconditionally. So when we do love people unconditionally, we know it is supernatural. That type of love is not human; when other people see it, they see God through us! Not only that, but when we see it, we also know it is God. When we are loved well by people in our circle and in our community, it makes us grateful to God. It is that type of love that changes the atmosphere, the community, and even the world. In order to love others like that, we must first recognize and accept that God loves us despite us. When we begin to accept the type of love that God is offering, it instills in us confidence which, in turn, increases our faith. As our faith increases, we no longer wish for God to remove us from situations or remove barriers in our life. Instead, we ask for Go

In this podcast Pastor Jeremy shares how in John 2, Jesus turned water into wine, and how that miracle can apply to our lives. Sometimes we ask God for one thing, and he gives us something else that he is going to use as a miracle. Maybe the thing in your hands today seems minuscule, but Jesus wants to turn that into a miracle. He wants to turn your water into wine. Listen today to this life changing message from Pastor Jeremy Johnson  

One of the most beautiful things about God is that He is God despite what you do or don’t do. He will finish what He started in your life. If you’re breathing today, then He is not done with you yet. Don’t ever feel limited by your circumstances because our God isn’t limited by them. Throw away your timeline. Throw away your controlling ways because incredible things come when you let God unravel it. God alone is your refuge, your safety, and He always wants to push you further.  

Spiritual hunger comes from a place of knowing that you need God in your life. Pastor Corey Russell shares a word on what it looks like to be hungry for more of God. Having an appetite for Gods presence. Hunger gets the attention of Heaven. In this podcast, hear how your life can be impacted through the power of spiritual hunger. 

Pastor Corey Russell shares an exciting work on the biblical principles of prayer. The disciples walked with Jesus for three and a half years, and the one thing that they constantly asked was that Jesus would teach them to pray. Prayer changes things, it shifts things in our atmosphere, and without it, we are only as strong as ourself. With God for us, who can be against us. 

This week Pastor Jeremy Johnson shares, that as Christians, sometimes we think that we only get tested during our struggles that there will be no more tests after the miracle happens. We fail to realize that the mountaintop is where we have the most to lose, and will likely have to face the greatest tests. However, you can be certain that if God is testing you, it means that you already have the answers inside of you. Our God will never set you up for failure. He has prepared you and is trying to graduate you to the next level.

  When we are faced with fear, we have two choices we can make. We can either face the fear head on, not giving it the authority to steal our joy and peace, or we can become a victim of fear, letting it settle into our lives where it breeds doubt, anxiety, and depression. By choosing not to waste our energy on fear and by walking the path of victory, we give God room to make us His warriors. If faith is the currency of heaven, then fear is the currency of hell. Let’s not carry around the currency of hell! Don’t be discouraged during the pressing or the sifting in your life, because God is preparing something amazing! It’s in the pressing that pride is crushed out; it’s in the sifting that God filters out all that is holding us back. He will send you to places of brokenness, but only so that He can bring you to places of freedom and healing. God is not afraid to come our broken and hiding places and when He does, He wants to bring us out. Be encouraged and remember that we do not have to rely on our strength

Fear is a trick that the enemy has used to try to take our eyes off Jesus since day one. Fear comes to destroy, and it brings friends like doubt, anxiety, and depression to distract us. In Psalm 46 it says that God is our refuge and our strength, always ready to help us in times of trouble. We win by calling out to the One who has already won the victory for us! The majority of those in the Bible who were called by God were not equipped with wisdom right away. They weren’t famous or influencers, and they weren’t perfect by any means. But God chooses the least qualified and equips them once they say “yes” to His call. Every person is called, and your knowledge or age doesn’t negate that. Anything could come against you and it wouldn’t matter, because God is with you! He will give you the strength and courage you need AFTER you say “yes” to the call. God doesn’t call the qualified; He qualifies the called. Take back what the enemy has stolen from you today, and say YES to the call on your life.

In this podcast, Pastor Jeremy Johnson shares, when we honor God the way the Bible tells us to, we end up seeing all that He is worth. Faith and honor go hand in hand. When we honor God's word, we are saying that we have faith in Him, and then we will see miracles happen.   

Honor, by definition, is “to render or esteem glorious.” It’s one of those words, similar to“love,” that immediately is understood in the world and in the church. In this podcast, Pastor Jeremy Johnson shares, when we honor God the way the Bible tells us to, we end up seeing all that He is worth. Honor is not given, but authored. For example: When we look at a collectible baseball card, the card’s value changes not because of the card material itself but because who was on the card and what is branded on the player. In the same context, we hope that others would see the branding of Jesus in our lives, and for it to bring value to the world. Our value comes from who He is, not who we are.

Everyone always talks about Jesus turning water into wine, but when Jesus created this miracle in John 2:1-11, He was actually fulfilling a need. At this time in history, if anyone would’ve thrown a party, or in this case, a wedding, and ran out of food or wine, it was considered poor form and they would’ve shamed the man for his entire lifetime. Although this man’s highest need may have been salvation, that was not his immediate need at that given time. As Jesus acknowledged this, he fulfilled the need, removing the window for shame to come in, and in turn, the miracle was witnessed by his disciples (something that the disciples needed to experience, as well).   In this podcast, Pastor Glen Berteau shared several real-life stories of how simple it is to reach others when we just approach everything with the heart of Jesus. A question as simple as, “Can I pray with you about something?” can ultimately bring down the walls between us (the Church) and the lost. Ultimately, we need to make an effort to fin