Series: Finding Home

Sermon: Finding Home

Speaker and Writer: Amy Markoch

Refresh: Open with prayer. Ask for the Holy Spirit to open your heart to new understanding and for God’s character to be revealed.

Read: Psalm 91; John 14:23 (NIV). Note 1–3 insights or questions.

Reflect: Two months before my fourteenth birthday, we made the great migration across town. You would have thought that we moved across the country. Everything felt so unfamiliar. The houses were farther apart, the neighbors kept to themselves and the driveways were steep, making them terrifying to rollerblade down. Despite the upgrade in size and space, it just didn’t feel like home to me.

Home is suppose to be a constant, safe and familiar place, but what if it isn’t anymore? What can be our solace?

Imagine being wrapped in a thick down comforter. The warmth of being in that blanket is what I feel when I read Psalm 91. God like that down comforter. He is a secure place. We can find our home in Him. John 14:23 says “Jesus answered him, ‘If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.’” When we find our solace in Jesus, He will make His home in us. No more feeling lost. No more reorienting. Jesus is our constant. Jesus is our home.

Recalibrate: Will you make Jesus your safe place?

Respond: Pray that you will allow Christ to make his home in you.

Research: Read Knowing Christ More Intimately, a study on John 14:21–24.