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What's Your "I Must" - Pastor Rhonda Davis

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"By the grace of God, I am what I am, and His grace will not fail me."

1. Church Of The Harvest | Sermon Podcast | Cleveland, TN centers on Pastor Rhonda Davis's message "What's Your I Must" about focus, identity, and purpose for 2026. 2. Pastor Rhonda Davis is the speaker, and he says he has been at Church of the Harvest for 36 years and turned 65 this year. 3. The sermon asks what a listener's "I must" is and frames that question around Philippians 3:12 and Luke 2:49. 4. Davis quotes Paul saying, "I don't have it all together" and "I must press on" to take hold of what Christ Jesus took hold of him for. 5. He says Jesus saved people not only to escape hell but to be part of "his royal kingdom" and to lay hold of a calling. 6. He tells a story about Jesus at age 12 in the temple, where Mary and Joseph found him after three days. 7. He uses the temple story to show a child asking deep questions and Mary's anxious search for Jesus. 8. Davis then tells two family stories about children getting lost, including his brother Brian wandering out naked near the interstate and being found by a fireman with a dog named Butch. 9. He also describes Courtney going missing at Blockbuster until the family found her organizing videos. 10. Those stories lead into Psalms 139, where he says God finds people in the highest heavens, in hell, and in the uttermost parts of the ocean. 11. Davis says a hospital map helped an extended family member realize he was in room 413 and at a hospital, which calmed his fear. 12. He uses that example to say some people need God to locate them on his timeline and tell them where they really are. 13. The sermon contrasts "Kronos" time, tied to the Gregorian calendar and the Greek god Kronos, with "Kairos" as God's set time. 14. Davis says Kairos is "pregnant with purpose" and serves holy purpose rather than consuming it. 15. He argues that work is worship, naming plumbers, electricians, factory workers, teachers, mechanics, stay-at-home mothers, and people in the food industry as problem-solvers. 16. He quotes Psalm 90:17, "establish the work of our hands," and applies it to daily labor as service to God. 17. Davis says God redeems wasted days, prodigals, and seasons of self-obsession, and he describes watching people restore their lives and ministries after hard seasons. 18. He repeats that identity comes before purpose, saying listeners are "sons and daughters of the most high God" and are not defined as addicts, failures, or losers. 19. The tone is pastoral, energetic, and highly illustrative, with frequent Scripture quotations, personal anecdotes, and call-and-response moments. 20. People wanting a practical sermon on calling, identity, and purpose will likely connect; listeners wanting a short, low-illustration message may skip it.

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A New Year sermon about pressing on, staying about the Father's business, and trusting God to redeem lost time.

The sermon centers on "What's your I must" as a New Year summons to keep pressing forward, admit that no one has arrived, and stay about the Father's business.

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