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Mercy Culture Church
Connect with God: Expression
Pastor Les Cody
Locations & Times
Mercy Culture Fort Worth
1701 Oakhurst Scenic Dr, Fort Worth, TX 76111, USA
Sunday 9:00 AM
Sunday 11:30 AM
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If you would like to learn more about our culture, how you connect with God, get plugged into community and begin your journey to encountering God daily, MC Connect is your next step!
Text CONNECT to 59090 or visit mercyculture.com/connect
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🏛️ Reformation Weekend | June 4–7
We are hosting Reformation Weekend, June 4–7, in our nation's capital, Washington, D.C. We are gathering to seek the presence of God, contend in prayer for reformation, and march as Citizens for Life — and you are invited!
We are believing for Encounters & Visitations as we declare that America is holy ground. Text REFORMATION to 59090 to be a part of it!
We are believing for Encounters & Visitations as we declare that America is holy ground. Text REFORMATION to 59090 to be a part of it!
❤️ June is Life Month
Citizens for Life is reforming culture to a pro-life culture through awareness, action, and adoption. We are hosting marches all over the nation as we declare, "June is Life Month!"
Text LIFE to 59090 to join or host a Citizens for Life March and sign the petition.
Text LIFE to 59090 to join or host a Citizens for Life March and sign the petition.
🔥 Pentecost Grow Guide
Text GROW to 59090 to receive a special Pentecost grow guide and a Connect with God through Expression grow guide.
You can connect with God through Expression!
2026 is the year of Encounters & Visitations!
You choose your Daily Encounter, God chooses your Holy Visitation!
When you go through MC Connect, you will learn how you best connect with God.
Text CONNECT to 59090
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Connect with God Sermons | Mercy Culture
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8e31p1Ynlz9jfTqmNVfnUkg2elLhQqs0You can connect with God through Expression!
Expression is feeling close to God when you are creating–whether it is through writing, painting, playing, dancing, etc.
Hebrew: בָּרָא (bara) = To create; bring into existence.
Hebrew: מְלָאכָה (melakah) = Workmanship; craftsmanship; skilled creative labor.
Bara (בָּרָא): God creates.
Melakah (מְלָאכָה): Humans create with Him.
Melakah (מְלָאכָה): Humans create with Him.
Creativity is not secular by nature—creativity originated in God.
Expression without surrender always becomes self-glorification.
They were filled with rebellion!
2026 Mercy Culture Prophetic Word Resources
This is the year we root out rebellion!
https://mercyculture.com/year-of-encounters-and-visitations/At Babel: Humanity tried to ascend to Heaven.
At Pentecost: Heaven descended to humanity.
At Pentecost: Heaven descended to humanity.
When there is nothing higher than self-expression, expression eventually becomes corruption.
Pentecost begins the redemption of what Babel fractured.
At Babel, humanity used language to glorify themselves.
At Pentecost, the Holy Spirit took hold of human language and used it to glorify God.
At Pentecost, the Holy Spirit took hold of human language and used it to glorify God.
Two Expressions of Tongues in the Bible
1. Speaking in an unknown human language to communicate with people
2. Speaking in a spiritual prayer language to communicate with God
1. Speaking in an unknown human language to communicate with people
2. Speaking in a spiritual prayer language to communicate with God
Tongues are Spirit-empowered speech that help believers commune with God and strengthen their spirits.
Simple Definition: Tongues are a heavenly language given by the Holy Spirit.
The goal is not merely to speak in tongues—the goal is to encounter God.
Question:
Are tongues for everyone?
Are tongues for everyone?
Jesus did not present tongues as something strange for the spiritual elite.
He presented them as part of Spirit-filled Christianity.
He presented them as part of Spirit-filled Christianity.
Practical Advice:
1. Pray in the Spirit daily
2. Worship privately
3. Write/journal creatively before God
1. Pray in the Spirit daily
2. Worship privately
3. Write/journal creatively before God
The Church has lost its hunger for encountering God!
We have turned worship into the pursuit of “artistry” and not presence!
Correction:
The Holy Spirit isn’t weird—people are weird!
The Holy Spirit isn’t weird—people are weird!
Abuse does not eliminate biblical truth.
Expression in the Bible:
- People wept
- People wept
Expression in the Bible:
- People wept
- People danced
- People wept
- People danced
Expression in the Bible:
- People wept
- People danced
- People shouted
- People wept
- People danced
- People shouted
Expression in the Bible:
- People wept
- People danced
- People shouted
- People sang
- People wept
- People danced
- People shouted
- People sang
Expression in the Bible:
- People wept
- People danced
- People shouted
- People sang
- People prophesied
- People wept
- People danced
- People shouted
- People sang
- People prophesied
Expression in the Bible:
- People wept
- People danced
- People shouted
- People sang
- People prophesied
- People wrote songs
- People wept
- People danced
- People shouted
- People sang
- People prophesied
- People wrote songs
Expression in the Bible:
- People wept
- People danced
- People shouted
- People sang
- People prophesied
- People wrote songs
- People fell on their faces
- People wept
- People danced
- People shouted
- People sang
- People prophesied
- People wrote songs
- People fell on their faces
Expression in the Bible:
- People wept
- People danced
- People shouted
- People sang
- People prophesied
- People wrote songs
- People fell on their faces
- People spoke in tongues
- People wept
- People danced
- People shouted
- People sang
- People prophesied
- People wrote songs
- People fell on their faces
- People spoke in tongues
Expression in the Bible:
- People wept
- People danced
- People shouted
- People sang
- People prophesied
- People wrote songs
- People fell on their faces
- People spoke in tongues
- People wept
- People danced
- People shouted
- People sang
- People prophesied
- People wrote songs
- People fell on their faces
- People spoke in tongues
Expression is meant to glorify God.
The Holy Spirit did not come to glorify people.
The Holy Spirit came to glorify Jesus.
The Holy Spirit came to glorify Jesus.
Babel:
“Look what we built.”
Pentecost:
“Look what God has done.”
“Look what we built.”
Pentecost:
“Look what God has done.”
When you’ve truly encountered God, expression becomes difficult to suppress.
The baptism of the Holy Spirit is not about spiritual elitism.
God did not merely save you from sin. He wants to fill you with His Spirit.
The Holy Spirit wants to redeem your expression and fill it with fire again.