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Can We Talk? | Teddy Matthews | Sermon Notes — Hello Pastor

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Can We Talk?

Change Church • Oct 9, 2026 • 38 min

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Take this message with you through a journey of Scripture, reflection, and prayer.

Summary

Before stepping into your God-given destiny, you must honestly address the disappointments and discouragements that have shaped how you view life. Jesus meets us in our prolonged seasons of suffering as El Roi—the God who sees—inviting us to stop settling for dysfunction and release our assumptions about how healing should happen. True breakthrough occurs when we acknowledge what we desire, reject passive settling, and immediately obey His Word, turning our past struggles into powerful testimonies.

Themes

Overcoming DisappointmentHealing and RestorationFaith and ActionBreaking Cycles of SettlingTrusting God Beyond Human Limitations

Pastor's Points

1.

Acknowledge what you want

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Audit what you've accepted

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Abandon your assumptions

4.

Act on what He said

Key Points

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Acknowledge what you want: Clearly define and express your true desires to God rather than suppressing them out of fatigue.
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Audit what you've accepted: Examine where long seasons of disappointment have caused you to passively accept dysfunction or settling.
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Abandon your assumptions: Let go of rigid ideas about how God must bring breakthrough or what human resources are required.
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Act on what He said: Walk in immediate obedience to Jesus' command without waiting for emotional feelings or external signs.
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Before stepping into your calling or destiny, you must honestly address past disappointments and discouragements.
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Even when you are not actively looking for God, He sees you in your prolonged season of pain as El Roi, the God who sees.
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Prolonged disappointment can cause us to lose expectation, leading us to mistake a single human method for the only way God can move.
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Sermon Moments

“We don't just hear through our ears. We hear through our experiences.”

“You can leave a place without the place leaving you. You can leave a person without the person leaving you. You can survive something and still be shaped by it.”

“Sometimes stuck isn't always a place. Sometimes stuck is a pattern.”

“He was looking for healing, but he wasn't looking for the healer.”

“You can be in something so long that what you're in gets in you.”

“Prolonged disappointment is when you have experienced such frequent disappointment that hope keeps making appointments with what reality can't keep.”

“When the enemy can't stop you with sin, he attempts to stop you with settling.”

“He's carrying what he was laying on. He said, 'I don't even want you to leave your mat. I want you to take your mat with you.'”

This Week

Take time this week to honestly bring your disappointments and emotional wounds to God in prayer rather than ignoring them.

Audit areas in your life where fatigue, frustration, or past failure has conditioned you to settle for passive acceptance.

Express your deep spiritual and personal desires to God, asking Him for better instead of remaining comfortable in dysfunction.

Release your assumptions about how God must answer your prayer or who He must use to deliver your breakthrough.

Identify negative self-talk or 'faith fatigue' driven by past experiences, and replace those thoughts with the promises of Scripture.

Step out in immediate obedience to God's Word, even when you do not feel emotional changes or see immediate physical signs.

Share your testimony of how God brought you through past struggles as a visible display of His victory and power in your life.

Remember This

Jesus sees you in your long season of suffering and calls you to stop settling, abandon human assumptions, and act in immediate obedience on His Word for complete breakthrough.

A Challenge for You

Search us, God. Reveal what disappointment has taught us, reveal what rejection has taught us, reveal what pain has taught us. Show us the wound that we made authority, and give us the grace to hear you again.

These are personal sermon notes shared to help you remember the message — not a replacement for Scripture, your church, or your pastors.

Read each passage, or hear where it was taught.

John 5:1-9

John 1:1

Genesis 16:13

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