The House We Are Building | The Bedroom
We believe God is building something far greater than what our eyes can see. In this series, Build the House, we’re stepping into His vision of a people who worship, encourage one another, and carry His presence into the world.
Being Fuels Our Doing
As we wrapped up our series The House That We’re Building, we felt the Lord reminding us again and again: unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain (Psalm 127:1).
We don’t want to just do things for God. We want to be with Him. Because being with Jesus is what fuels everything we do.
The picture of the house
We’ve been using a house as our picture these last few weeks:
The living room — corporate worship, where we gather to exalt Jesus.
The kitchen — discipleship around tables, where we grow together.
The bathroom — a place of freedom and confession, where shame and addiction lose their power.
The guest room — mission, where we send people to the nations.
But there’s one room that fuels it all: the bedroom. A place of intimacy with Jesus. If we miss that room, we’ll get busy in the rest of the house and run dry.
Being before doing
It’s easy to become like Martha in Luke 10 — working, serving, stressed — while forgetting to sit at Jesus’ feet like Mary. Jesus called Mary’s choice better. Why? Because being with Him always comes before doing for Him.
Without that, Matthew 7 warns, we can even do great things “for God” and still miss the kingdom. That’s sobering.
And yet, Jesus’ invitation in Matthew 11 is simple: Come to me, all who are weary, and I will give you rest. Not just physical rest — soul refreshment.
Two practical ways we stay fueled
Worship with passion. Not just Sunday songs, but a posture of life. Your work, your workouts, your parenting — all can be worship. Sometimes it helps to express it physically: raising hands, kneeling, bowing. Don’t hold back.
Pray with purpose. Prayer is where we learn to hear God. This is why I dream of a prayer room in our new building — a place where day and night, people cry out for God’s presence. Right now, one of the best ways to step into this is our 9:15 pre-service prayer.
The call for us
Some of you are carrying grave clothes — shame, fear, hidden addictions. Jesus is saying what He said to Lazarus: Come out. Leave those grave clothes behind. You don’t have to stay in death when life is available.
And as a church, let’s remember: the “doing” only has power when it flows from “being.” That’s how we build a house God Himself fills.
So this week, we want you to take one step: Choose a rhythm of being with Jesus. Set aside ten minutes each morning in His Word, or join us at pre-service prayer. Protect that time.
Because we’re not trying to be a busy church. We’re trying to be a people who are alive in Jesus — and let Him build His house through us.