Lakewood Midweek | A Life Built on Jesus

Main message: Build your life on Jesus as the firm foundation so that when inevitable storms hit, you remain secure and can be rebuilt stronger; storms reveal what your life is truly built on.

Key points:

• Jesus' parable (wise builder on rock vs foolish builder on sand) shows identical-looking lives can respond very differently to crisis depending on their foundation.
• Many people unknowingly build on shifting things—career, money, status, approval—which cannot anchor the soul.
• A true foundation in Christ endures trials; the speaker illustrated this with a friend whose house was destroyed by an F5 tornado while the family was saved by the intact foundation/basement.
• Three diagnostic questions to assess your foundation: What do you default to under pressure? How do you treat weakness in yourself and others? What do you build when there is no deadline?
• Practical call: invite Jesus to be the architect of your life, allow the Holy Spirit to inspect and reconstruct priorities, and surrender ongoing control so God can enlarge and restore you.

Scriptures mentioned: Matthew 7, Matthew 7:24, Romans 8, Matthew 6:33