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More Than What I Asked For | Nadia Hubbard | City Light Church
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More Than What I Asked For | Nadia Hubbard | City…
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Well, my name is Nadia. To some, I am Zion and Zoe's mom. To others, Pastor Jay's wife. And I absolutely love that. Jay and I have been married for 12 years and we've been doing ministry together for 15 years. I married my best friend. He is handsome, he cooks, he cleans, he can preach. But really, he loves the Lord and he loves us so well. And I am forever grateful. Can I just say, two of the most important decisions that you will make in life are one, deciding to follow Jesus and two, who you choose to marry. So choose wisely. I think I made the best decision. I love you, babe. Well, bear with me today. It's tough out here for the 30 year olds with braces. Someone last week asked me, how's it going? And I was like, it's great. I've gotten used to it. Well, that was a lie. It's awful. This week, every week is a case by case scenario. This week I have cuts everywhere. On my way to service last night I went to Target and I did a pickup order for turmeric because that's what the TikTok doctors told me to use. It did not work. So we're surviving off of Kenka. We will make it through today. Go with me to Joshua 14:10. It says, and now behold, the Lord has kept me alive as he said these 45 years, ever since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered in the wilderness. And now here I AM this day, 85 years old as yet, I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me. Just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both for going out and for coming in now. Therefore, give me this mountain of which the Lord spoke in that day. Give me this mountain was our word of the year. So only feels right to end the last weekend. A 2025 in it. My message today is called, I got more than I asked for. Turn to your neighbor and say, I got more than I asked for. Turn to your other neighbor and say, you're getting more than you asked for. Lord, I pray you would speak through me. Lord, would you use me as a vessel to encourage your people? I pray that people would leave full of hope, full of faith, and ready to take on all that 2026 has for them. It's in your name we pray. Amen. Well, if you know the Hubbards, you know that they're all about these things. The LA Dodgers, the LA Lakers, the Raiders, and Disneyland. This has been from generation to generation. And if you have a problem you can go find Jay after service. He'll be out in the lobby. But it's been from generation to generation and now our children are unfortunately indoctrinated as well. So we are just a big Disneyland loving family. Zion has recently, over the last few years, graduated to the big kid rides. And Jay also, he loves the big kid rides and he secretly loves it. Now he has a riding partner and at some point of the day there's a separation that happens and they go and they ride the big kid rides. And then it's me and Zoe, my little four year old, and we go ride the Zoe rides and we get to do like all the fantasy, all the cute, fun things. And there's one non negotiable, we always must ride the carousel. She loves the carousel. No matter how many times you go to Disneyland, we will ride the carousel. So one of the more recent times when we went Disneyland wasn't busy, which is a shocker. So we got to go to Fantasyland, rode all the kiddie rides really quick waits five minutes for Dumbo and five minutes for the Teacups. Or we just walked on. It was amazing. And surely we had a ride the carousel and we went around and around and around and around. And we didn't write it one time. No. Not two times, not three times. We rode this carousel four times and it just kept circling and circling and circling and circling. Well, today I want to walk you through how to possess the promises that God has for you. And in order to do that, we have to get off the carousel and stop circling. Point number one, choose obedience. Deuteronomy 1:6 says, when we were at Mount Sinai, the Lord our God said to us, you've stayed at this mountain long enough. It's time to break camp, move on. Look, I am giving all this land to you. Go in and occupy it. The scriptures we encounter in Joshua are not isolated moments. They are crescendo of a much larger story spanning over 40 years and four Old Testament books. Sorry, over 80 years in four Old Testament books. Exodus covers roughly 80 years, beginning with the birth of Moses and ending with Israel's arrival at Mount Sinai. Leviticus takes place during the one year Israel remained on Mount Sinai, where God formed them into a holy people. Numbers spans the 38 years that follow, beginning out Mount Sinai and continuing all the way to the plains of Moab, which was the threshold of the Canaan. The threshold of Canaan. The threshold of the promise. This is also when Caleb went out to spy the land. He would have been 40 years old at this time. Deuteronomy captures about one month as Moses delivers three sermons to Israel on the plains of Moab. Deuteronomy 1:6 comes from that first sermon. Moses is urging the people to remember what God had already said and to move forward in faith, just as Moses encouraged Israel. I've come to encourage you. Just as Caleb returned from a scouting report full of faith, confident that they could take the land, I've come to tell you this. You can take the mountain that God has for you. You've been circling and circling and circling, finding yourself lost, stuck, paralyzed. And God is saying, you've been at this mountain long enough. It's time to move. So many of us are camped at the base of mountains that we were supposed to take. But we find comfort in camping in our campsites of fear. Our campsites of excuses are campsites of familiarity. Show me your friends and I'll show you your future. Not every friend can make it into the next season with you. Campsites of insecurity and comparison. Campsites of bitterness and unforgiveness. Unforgiveness is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. The campsite of addiction. And you're just circling and circling and circling. But God is saying, you have been here long enough. Break camp. Move forward. I have more for you. Obedience is not about having the full map, about realizing that staying where I'm at is no longer faith. And movement is the next act of obedience. Sometimes you gotta go without understanding. You gotta go without knowing and trust that he will lead and guide every step. Do you know why most of us don't stop circling? Most of us are just too comfortable. But in order to possess the promises God has for us, we've got to choose faith over comfort. Point two, choose faith over comfort. If I'm honest, many of us are just playing it safe. We've grown comfortable. Comfortable in the job, comfortable. Comfortable with the friends, the kids, the business, the significant other, the routine. We're just comfortable. But there's more. God has more for you. More for your family, more for your business, more for your job, more for your ministry. I am a prisoner to my own comfort. Come on. I'll say that again. I am a prisoner to my own comfort. Can I tell you what's uncomfortable, at least for me? Maybe not for you. Maybe this is easy. Maybe For Omar and Abhi, going to the gym, it's uncomfortable. 5am it's dark. Have you ever been awake at 5am it is dark. It is uncomfortable. It is. It's cold. You got to warm the car up. It is uncomfortable. Only to go and just get crushed me. Nadia at 5am is not the same. Nadia at 9am and that is facts. It's uncomfortable. At the beginning of this year, I had a realization that I was stuck. I was lost. I was lonely and I was circling and I wasn't sure what to do. But I knew I needed to do something. I could not stay where I was. And in April, Pastor Jabin preached this message called we cannot stay here. And when I say, it shook me to my core. It shook me to my core because I knew I could not stay there. I had to move. So I started running. Not running from God, like literally running. I had to move. I had to do something to help my mind, to free my mind. And somewhere in the middle of the uncomfortable, the discipline in the early mornings, in the resistance, in the cries to the Lord, I found the healthiest version of myself. But it took me literally moving, being uncomfortable. And I hear the Lord saying this today. Step out. Take the leap of faith. He's got you. He won't let you go under. He's given you the land, now go and occupy it. You can have all the faith in the world, but faith requires action. And you've been sitting here waiting for God to do it, but it requires movement, so you gotta get up and walk in it. Hebrews 11. 8 says by faith in Abraham obeyed. When God called him to leave home and go to another land, he went without knowing where he was going. God will provide it, but you must pursue it. He will open the door, but you must walk in it. He will guide you, but you must go. Choose faith over comfort. You know, 40 years, that's a long time to be wandering. Can you imagine? God gives you a promise and then you spend 40 years wandering. My last point is choose endurance. Israel had just arrived at Mount Sinai, and Caleb was a part of the 12 spies chosen to scout the promised land. He came back full of faith. Surely we can take the land. Have you ever felt like God gave you a sneak peek of your future? A glimpse of what could be a vision that filled you with faith and hope? That was Caleb, full of faith, full of hope, convinced this generation could take the land. Yet his faith was immediately met with opposition. Opposition cannot break faith. Come on. So what is faith? Hebrews 11:1 tells us now, faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. But here's what's interesting. Caleb had seen the land. He had seen the promise. And Just like many of us, we've seen the promise God gave us. So why do we say Caleb had great faith? Because what he didn't see was the delay. He didn't see the wandering. He didn't see the 40 years. He didn't see the waiting. You need faith not just for the promise. You need faith for the process. The process will always be the unknown portion of God's plan. Caleb's faith wasn't a moment. It was on display year after year after year. And sometimes the call is simply to have the faith, to wait. Life is not a lightning lane, although I wish it was so. Remain steadfast in the word that God gave you. Endure. Remain. Don't quit. Don't lose hope. Delay does not cancel promise. So now we can read Joshua 14. And it has an entirely new meaning now. Behold, the Lord has kept me alive as he said, these 45 years, ever since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered in the wilderness. And now here I am, 85 years old, yet I am as strong this day as on the day Moses sent me. Now, therefore, give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke in that day. See, many translations say hill country. He said, God, give me this mountain. But he got more than he asked for. He got the entire hill country. And I'm declaring today that the promise does not stop with the mountain. The promise expands to the entire region.
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Because when you get the mountain, you get everything that comes in with it. When you get the mountain, you get the peaceful meadows. When you get the mountain, you get the fertile soil that whatever you sow will grow. When you get the mountains, you get the rivers of provision. When you get the mountains, you get the oceans of his love. Wave after wave, you get the thousand cattle on a hill. Because our God will always give us.
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More than we asked for. For. Come on.
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Do you believe that today?
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I don't know what you're believing God for.
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I don't know what miracle you're waiting on.
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But I know that God will bring you more than you ask for. Can I pray for you, God? I thank you. For every person here. I thank you, Lord, that you love us too much to leave us where we're at, God. That you have good plans for us, that you love us so much. And I pray, Lord, that while we're waiting on our promise, while we're waiting on what you have for us, while we're waiting on the miracle, would we not lose hope? Would we not lose faith? But will we trust that you have good plans in order for us that you are working all things out for our good. We love you, Lord. Lord, we're stepping into this year full of faith, full of hope, knowing that we can take the land that you are with us. We love you, Lord. Amen and amen.