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Welcome to the weekly audio podcast for Discovery Church in Bakersfield, CA where our our purpose is to lead people to love God passionately, love each other authentically, and change the world for Christ. Our desire is that this podcast will encourage you in your relationship with God. Visit us at www.ilovediscovery.church
Join us for Part 3 of "Fight For Your Family" with Pastor Mike Santiago from Focus Church in Raleigh, NC. In this powerful message, we’re diving into what it means to fight for your kids—and how the best way to raise great kids is by having a strong, Christ-centered marriage. When parents lead with love, unity, and faith, their children thrive. Don’t miss this life-changing word!
Acts 1:7 says I will pour out my spirit to all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy! Join us this very special Sunday where the Sons and Daughters of the House speaking come from our very own Next Gen Pastors and our Counseling Center Therapist.
Jesus is still meeting people right where they are! Join us for this special Eastern message as we celebrate the triumph of the resurrection.
Develop Godly Frendships! Join us for our final sermon of the series, Anxious for nothing as we discuss how to speak healing and stength with others rather than our own
The distance between the truth I know and the truth I live equals the pain I experience. Join us in part 3 of our Anxious for Nothing sermon series as we discover how to choose health and healing in our lives.
Are you fighting for safety or from safety? Is being obessed with safety a bad thing? Join us in part two of our sermon series, Anxious for Nothing, as we discuss how to choose God over obsession with safety.
Anxiety is not your identity, it is your alarm system! How can we use anxiety to live in freedom? Join us for week one of our new sermon series, Anxious for nothing, where we redefine anxiety in our lives.
What is the 2nd most important relationship after Jesus? Yourself! Join us for our final week of Relationship Rehab as we discover how to heal within ourself.
Parentine should look at the big picture of raising up young adults for Christ! Join us this weekend Relationship Rehab as Pastor Shaun shares his journey parenting should be for restoration.
All Relationships have conflict, great relationships have healthy conflict. Join us this week in a special co-message from our lead Pastors, Pastor Jason and Veronica Hanash, as they share how to restore harmony within all your relationship through conflict.
Casual Friends can be the result of my circumstances, but close friends should be the result of my choice! Join us in our new sermon series Relationship Rehab as we discover how we should be building and choosing our friendships.
It is more spiritual than you think! There are spiritual forces that are fighting against them, but join us this Sunday to find out which steps you need to take to find Freedom.
The name above all names is Jesus! Join us for this special Christmas at Discovery message where we find the 7 truths in the name of Jesus.
You can't control your future events, but Jahovah Shammah Shall be with you! To seek the Lord's way we have to be humble and desperate for his desires. Call the name, Jahovah Shammah.
Jehovah Rapha, the God that heals! The God that healed then is the same God that heals now! He is still Healing today and you can be healed.
Fight on the Mountain and fight in the valley! God will do spiritualy what you do practically!
Follow God quickly, completely, and willingly! A lot of the problems we face comes from delyed obedience. Discover what it means to know Jahovah Jireh!
When you choose to run from the battle. You choose to run from your breakthrough! You whould fight differently I'd you fought from Yaweh Tsaba
Fear tolerated is faith contaminated! Let's learn to be blessed amidst the trials of this life.
You can't control the legacy you receive, but you can control the legacy that you leave.
Be intentional with your circle! Join us in week one of our unstoppable sermon series. What does it look like to strengthen and grow Within your own unstoppable community.
The Highest form of spiritual warfare is the proclamation of the good news. Learn how to identify and break strongholds in your life and replace the lie of the enemy with God's truth.
If you lack depth and determination. You will quite something that is difficult at the earliest explainable opportunity.
Join us this Movement Sunday with guess speaker Preston Ulmer. Discover how questioning your religion can lead you to a healthy and Holy God
Impurity affects your Family, Faith and your future. Make a commitment with God's standards and pass the Purity Test.
Get out of that Pit! It's Important to know how you got into that pit, But also learn how to get out of it.
God has a dream for you! How can you put aside your pride and walk in destiny? Join us in week one of our new sermon series Dream to Destiny. We will be studying the life of Joseph and learning how to go from Dream to Destiny.
You can't change what happens to you, But you can change how it looks in your mind! Join us this brave Sunday with special guest speaker Dr. Caroline Leaf.
Everyone can't go where God is taking you! Discover which relationships are healthy and which are toxic in your life
Life imbalances no longer have control over you. Heal the toxins within your soul and step into your true identity.
When you walk in the truth, you have confidence in his coming, conformation that you are his child, you have conviction towards his commands and compelled by the holy spirit.
Join us in week 2 of our letter of 1st John sermon series! How does one walk in the light? Adopt a biblical worldview, start walking in the light.
A contract is based on mutual distrust. A covenant is based on mutual commitment. Grow your Marriage! CONNECT WITH US!
If your not ready for marriage, than your not ready for dating.
Join us for week 2 of our Red Flags sermon series as we dive in to 21 Red Flags in Dating? How can we better analyze our relationships to see what are Red Flags and how can we prevent potential Flags in Dating? Break toxic relational patterns with God's word.
Join us in week one of Red Flags, our new sermon series to look at Red Flags within our friends, our loved ones, and even ourselves! Which friends are Red Flags and how can the Bible show you how to tell?
Test the spirits to see whether they are from God!
Join us in week four of Focus, the Focus of Love. Without love, all you say, know, believe, give and accomplish is inadequate. Receive the love of God and share it to the world!
Test the spirits to see whether they are from God!
Join us in week three of Focus, What is God's will? Hear the questions you should be asking yourself to fulfill Gods will rather than your own.
Focus on the Renewed Mind. Join Pasor Jason in week two of the series Focus as we learn how to renew your mind to focus on the things above.
Your distraction is causing no traction, and the devil doesn't need to destroy you when he can distract.
God is not asking you to feel forgiveness, he is asking you to do it. Choices lead, feelings follow
The worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things to come in and choke the word.
What kind of circumstances cause fear? Any! BUT when hope seems lost, we can anchor in him. Join us as we kick off Part 3 of our Sermon Series "Perfect Peace." Pastor Shaun preaches the types of fear we may be facing and how to overcome them with our Savior.
Rejoice in the Lord always. Do not be anxious about anything... Join us as we kick off Part 2 of our sermon series "Perfect Peace". Pastor Jason continues this series with a message on finding our peace in our Lord when anxiety tries to strike us.
You can't change your past, but Christ can change your future. Join us as we kick off Part 1 of our new sermon series "Perfect Peace". Pastor Jason begins this series with a message on no longer being imprisoned by our past, but instead, walking in the healing Christ has for us.
What is Heaven Like? Heaven is a real place, it is the right place, heaven is a rewarding place, and so much more!
What you believe about eternity determines how you live today. If we don't accept the reality of hell, we will never appreciate the glory of the gospel or the the goodness of Jesus.
Death has been a topic that most people avoid talking about because of fear. There is fear about how we will die, what will happen to us afterwards, whether we lived a good life? But is death really a mystery or is there anything we know for certain about what happens? Here is what we do know: what you believe about eternity determines how you live today. And what you believe can be based on what the Bible says!! Join Pastor Jason as he walks us through what the Bible says happens after we die in part 1 of this Life After Death series.
In Matthew 22:38 Jesus tells us the number one commandment is to love the Lord our God with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our mind. The second is to love our neighbor as ourself. But what if we find ourselves loving other things that have taken priority in our life? What if we find ourselves drifting from the number one commandment? How can we redirect ourselves to the one thing that matters most? Join Pastor Jason on this week's sermon to learn how to get back to our one thing.
Stop treating the church like an event to go to rather than a family to belong to. In this sermon, Pastor Jason highlights what it means to not just be a part of the church but to belong there.
Do you know the difference between Salvation vs Religion? Often times we can get caught up in religious acts or disillusioned with religious people that we miss what God intended for us in the first place; an intimate relationship with Him. Join Pastor Jason as he walks us through the forms of toxic religion and how to have life-giving faith on part 3 of this Elements of Faith series titled, Salvation vs Religion.
If you believe in God, but don't believe in the Bible, are you being led correctly? Although the Bible is the most questioned book ever written, it is an essential part of our faith. It can be trusted and is useful to guide us, even today. It is not irrelevant to our current time and on the contrary, it continues to be proven accurate. Join Pastor Jason as he walks us through research that has proven the Bible's trustworthiness and how you can use the Word of God in your daily life on part 2 of this Elements of Faith series titled, Can the Bible be Trusted.
James 2:19 says, "You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder." Now more than ever it is critical for us to have foundational knowledge about our faith. It is no longer enough to simply believe in God. We must know Him! And how do we do that? How do we even know what foundational knowledge we need to have to defend our faith? Join us for part 1 of our Elements of Faith series where Pastor Jason will walk us through the first element, who God is.
God has called for all of us to be ministers. This is something that is not limited to pastors, but a responsibility we all carry. But how can we do that? What do we need? In 1 Peter 4:10, we are told we are all given gifts by the Holy Spirit. There is a variety of Spiritual gifts to further grow His Kingdom. Do you know what yours are? Are you operating with the power of the Holy Spirit with your gifting? Learn with Pastor Jason the different categories of gifts and what yours are, on this 4th and final part of our Outpouring series.
You may be gifted, but are you operating in God's anointing? We can walk around thinking we're producing, we're good at what we do, but we can miss the anointing from God. We can get focused on thinking we are the ones doing versus seeking God and preparing our hearts for Him. So, how do we increase the anointing of God & how do we get a fresh outpouring? How do we prepare ourselves daily to receive God's anointing to work in our gifts and thus He get all the glory? Learn with Pastor Jason what it is like to live a Spirit-led life on part 3 of our Outpouring series.
When the church received the filling of the Holy Spirit, He intended for them to be a witness. We are meant to be a witness to Him and we are intended to make disciples. How do you do this? Through prayer! There are five prayers you can pray from God’s word to allow the Holy Spirit to lead you to live the life He wants you to live. Learn with Pastor Jason what it is like to live a Spirit-led life on part 2 of our Outpouring series.
Are you settling for less than what God wants to give you? Perhaps you have been baptized in water, but have not been baptized in the Holy Spirit. Thus, you may be missing the fullness of God to transform you because you may be unaware or perhaps you do know, but you're afraid. Know that there is more! There is more God wants to give you! Join Pastor Jason for part one of the Outpouring series and learn how to be filled until you’re full with the power of the Holy Spirit.
Unmet expectations are the root of broken trust. That can trickle down all of our relationships; even the one with God. We can build a relationship with Him, where we only set out to ask what He can do for US and when what we want doesn't happen in our own timeline, we lose trust in Him. So, how do we change that? It is by allowing Him to heal the wounds that are preventing us from trusting people and causing us to put a wall up to trust Him too. Join us as Pastor Robert takes us through the daily habit of trusting again so we can lean into His understanding and not our own.
Not having control over what’s controlling us can cost us everything. For Moses, it was a struggle with anger. For you, it may be something else but we all struggle with something. Perhaps it's certain areas of our personalities, emotions, and proclivities? If you've been fighting a losing battle for control, today you can be made an overcomer! Join Pastor Jason for the conclusion of our Moses series and receive the grace and strength of Jesus to get control of what’s been controlling you!
Everything begins with a thought. We battle between believing God's promises and believing the enemy's lies. God wants to give you a new way to think in order to take you to the next level. Learn to take your thoughts captive according to the word of God. Join Pastor Jason for part nine of our Moses series and let's learn how to change our thoughts to believe God's promises for our lives and step into our promise land.
God wants to have a powerful and personal relationship with you! We can read about the relationship that Moses had with God and think that it is not for us but God wants to show His glory in our lives too. We often don't see His glory or experience the power of His presence in our lives because we're not comfortable with the cost. Our salvation is free but there is a principle of reciprocity that the manifest presence of God requires. Join Pastor Jason for part eight of our Moses series and let's develop a hunger for the presence of God.
What happens when what we think should happen doesn’t? In seasons when our circumstances go from bad to worse, it can not only test our faith but if we’re not careful it can leave us discouraged and uncertain about following Jesus. Join Pastor Jason for part 4 of Moses and see how we can not only overcome doubt and fear but also find the courage to face down anything that comes our way!
The Ten Commandments served to liberate God's people not restrict them. They serve to help us know how to develop and strengthen our relationship with both God and people. The first four are about our relationship with our Heavenly Father and the other six are about our relationship with the people in our lives. Join Pastor Nic for part 7 of our Moses series as he shows in the word of God how our freedom isn't limited by God's moral law but rather how we limit Christ in our lives.??
There have been and will be, times in our lives when things get tough and when we can't see a way forward. It would be easy to surrender in those moments in life and go back the same way we came. It would be easy to fall back into bad habits, familiar sins, old friends, and dysfunctional cycles. Join Pastor Jason as he shows us through the life of Moses how the promise of God is to take us through our struggles. Don't go back! Don't give up! It's time to go through!
There have been and will be, times in our lives when things get tough and when we can't see a way forward. It would be easy to surrender in those moments in life and go back the same way we came. It would be easy to fall back into bad habits, familiar sins, old friends, and dysfunctional cycles. Join Pastor Jason as he shows us through the life of Moses how the promise of God is to take us through our struggles. Don't go back! Don't give up! It's time to go through!
Saying yes to God is the greatest decision you can ever make! Just like Moses, God has a plan for your life. He called Moses out of what seemed like obscurity to be one of the greatest leaders of all time. Your current situation may look very far from what God has placed in your heart and maybe that has caused you to doubt your purpose and calling. Whether you find yourself in the palace or in the wilderness, God is calling you out. Join our guest speaker, Pastor John Martin, as he shows us through the life of Moses, how to say yes.
Have you ever felt like you failed God or missed His will? So many times in our lives we disqualify ourselves from God’s plan and design because all we see is our shortcomings. When we miss what we believe is the will of God or when we make mistakes, how do we continue to walk with God? Join Pastor Jason for part 2 of Moses, as we see that God’s plan, purpose, and redemption power are not stopped by our flaws. He still loves you and He still has a plan for you!
“Who am I?” is a question that so many of us wrestle with throughout our lives. Moses struggled with the same question. He was born a Hebrew slave, raised as Egyptian royalty, exiled as a murderer, and raised up as a deliverer! His history was complicated, to say the least! Join Pastor Jason for part one of this series and see how your identity is defined by God and not by our history.
Politics are divisive in nature but as a follower of Christ, it’s important to know that God does not align with your political party or beliefs. The reality is that Jesus is interested in people, not politics. In the church, unity should take priority over politics and as Christians, we are to build bridges and not walls. How should we prioritize standing for people to know Jesus, over standing for our political beliefs? Join Pastor Jason as he jumps into the ‘Hot Seat’ and has a conversation on the controversy of polarizing politics.
At face value, the Bible appears to both subjugate and affirm women. Without proper context, it would seem the Bible contradicts itself and because of this, many have misinterpreted scripture and filtered it through personal preferences and/or cultural bias. Because of these misunderstandings, a lot of people have unanswered questions like - What is God's design for women in leadership? What is the role of a woman in the church, at home, and in society? And what does the Bible actually say about gender equality? Join us as Pastor Jason jumps in the 'Hot Seat' this week as we talk about, women in leadership.
When we struggle with mental health, we often carry shame and frustration that only add to the weight of it all. Is it physical or spiritual? Is it a faith issue or a health issue? There are so many things that are misunderstood when it comes to mental health issues. So we must ask the question, do our views and approach line up with the Word of God? Join Pastor Jason as we jump in the ‘Hot Seat’!
Pastor Jason is jumping in the "Hot Seat" in this first message of our new series and talking about what can be a difficult and controversial topic of sexual identity. We all have experiences, opinions, and feelings that have formed our beliefs on our sexuality and identity. Many of us are either dealing with these issues in our personal lives or we have family and close friends that are struggling with sexual identity. What if we stop and ask the honest question, "What does God's word actually say and what is God's view of me and the ones that I love?" Can we struggle with these issues and still love Jesus? Join us for this powerful message and let's explore the truth of God's word filled with love and grace, together. Let's jump in the Hot Seat!
How you arrived at where you're at in life, does not have to determine where you go from here! It might look messy but don't be fooled, your mess might just be a setup for a miracle! Today we learn some powerful truths from one man's healing. Join Pastor Jason for part six of our series, Miracles: Healing the Blind Man.
There are all types of storms that we face in life from physical, emotional, financial, & relational. Whatever storm you're facing right now, this message is for you! Just because you can't see Jesus doesn't mean that He can't see you! He's right there and it's time to activate our faith and step out! Join Pastor Jason as he shares part 5 of our Miracles series in the Gospel of John, Walking On Water.
What if God's provision is in the very problem you're asking Him to take you out of. Our prayers often ask God to fix our circumstances and God is looking to fix us instead. While we're doing the math of how what we have is enough to meet what we need, God is asking us to simply trust Him. When we do, we can have a revelation that whatever we have is enough in God's hands! Join Pastor Jason as he unlocks this truth and so much more in Miracles: Feeding The 5,000.
God never speaks to the surface of your situations but always addresses the deeper issues. He is far more concerned with making us whole over getting us healed. Are you seeking symptomatic relief or do you really want to be made complete? Join Pastor Jason for the third installment of our series, Miracles: Healing the Paralyzed Man. Like this man, we too can learn how to accommodate for our sickness or sin, instead of seeking the one who can make us new.
Our approach to God will determine the outcome of our miracle. When we stop chasing the signs and start seeking the Savior, our faith grows stronger and our trust of God's process and plan deepens. Join Pastor Todd for part 2 of Miracles: Healing the Official's Son
The very first miracle that Jesus performed in the Bible wasn't one you might choose to launch your ministry. He was at a wedding party and they ran out of drink, so Jesus turned water into wine. Join Pastor Jason as he shows us the deeper truths of Jesus' first miracle and what it means for you!
Learning how to date benefits those that are wanting to get married and those that are already married! Join Pastor Jason as he shows us some dating principles in God's Word and the importance of whom we date and how we date. The process of who & how will determine the outcome of our relationships.
When it is dark; When it is uncertain; When you feel afraid; When you feel like you're in the storm; Hope is the anchor that will keep you firm and secure. “And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it." Hope is Alive.
When it is dark; When it is uncertain; When you feel afraid; When you feel like you're in the storm; Hope is the anchor that will keep you firm and secure. “And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it." Hope is Alive.