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Leading and Feeding Your Soul Part 3

January 22, 2023

Your soul is constantly being shaped—by your experiences, your thoughts, your relationships, and the voices you listen to most. In Part 3 of Leading & Feeding Your Soul, Pastor Kevin Gerald teaches how to identify unhealthy patterns, overcome identity confusion, and develop the daily habits needed to build a healthy, thriving soul. Through powerful biblical insight, Pastor Kevin unpacks why so many people remain stuck in cycles of offense, discouragement, insecurity, rejection, and emotional pain. You'll learn practical ways to read your soul, lead your soul, and feed your soul with God's truth instead of allowing negative experiences, past wounds, or cultural influences to define your future. If you've ever struggled with identity, emotional healing, generational patterns, overcoming offense, renewing your mind, or finding freedom from past hurts, this message offers biblical wisdom and practical encouragement for real transformation. Discover how God's Word can reshape your self-image, how the Holy Spirit helps strengthen your soul, and why learning to "shake off" unhealthy residue is essential for spiritual growth and emotional health. God has not called you to live stuck in the pain of your past. He has called you to live free, healthy, and strong from the inside out.

Talk-It-Out

Icebreaker

What’s a habit or mindset you’ve had to intentionally change in order to grow personally or spiritually?

Discussion Questions
  • What statement, story, or illustration from the message stood out to you most? Why?
  • Why do you think David spoke directly to his soul in Psalm 42? What does this teach us about spiritual self-awareness?
  • Pastor Kevin talked about identity confusion and false labels. What are some ways people allow culture, comparison, or past experiences to define who they are instead of God?
  • Are there any negative labels, unhealthy patterns, or recurring thoughts that have influenced the way you see yourself?
  • What “dust” from past disappointments, offenses, hurts, or failures may still be clinging to your soul?
  • What practical step can you take this week to strengthen your identity in Christ and intentionally lead your soul toward God’s truth?
This Week’s Action Step
Every morning this week, spend five minutes practicing the three habits from the series:

Read your soul: What am I feeling and why?
Lead your soul: What truth do I need to believe today?
Feed your soul: What Scripture will I meditate on today?

At the end of each day, ask yourself: “What do I need to shake off before tomorrow?” Then intentionally surrender it to God in prayer.

Key Scriptures

3 John 1:2 — “Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.”

Psalm 42:5 — “Why are you downcast, O my soul?… Put your hope in God.”

Galatians 6:4 — “Make a careful exploration of who you are.”

Philippians 4:13 — “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”

1 John 4:4 — “”Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.”

View Transcript

Welcome. Welcome to the weekend at Champion Center. And uh I want to just remind you next weekend is vision weekend.

Vision weekend is always a special weekend for us as a church. And that’s when we, you know, we lift up our eyes and we look into the future. And that Sunday, I’ve had people say to me, you know, pastor, you not only helped me see the future for our church, but you helped me have a vision for my life. And so, it’s just an it’s just a powerful weekend. And we’re excited about it next weekend.

And then along with that, we’re going to have baptism Sunday next weekend.

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Look at your neighbor and say, “Let’s let’s be baptized.”

That doesn’t mean let’s all get baptized next week. But it means if there’s anybody in the house who is not yet baptized, come on.

What are you waiting for?

Let’s all be baptized.

Baptism is a special moment. I think all of you who have been baptized would say, “I’ll never forget when.”

And it is a special moment of devotion.

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It’s a great time for every believer to go public with our faith.

So, if you’ve hesitated, that’s I’m talking to you. If you’ve kind of said, “Well, it’s not convenient now.” um there may you know that there may be some hesitations inside of you and if you get too much in that habit you’ll you’ll continue to think that way and hesitate and I’m just saying to you as plainly as I can today don’t put it off anymore be baptized if you’re a Christ follower be baptized.

And at the same time when I’m talking about vision weekend, talking about what’s ahead for us as a church, talking about getting baptized and being devoted and making a commitment, I also want to encourage you to go to church essentials at your location.

It’s our welcome to church sessions where we invite, welcome, inform and just bring our church together for the vision that is ahead of us.

And so if you know you belong here, it happens on weekends right after service.

At every location, let’s do this stuff. Let’s not just be in the bleachers saying, “Yeah, man.” Let’s join the church. Let’s get baptized. And let’s move our lives forward in God’s plan for our life. Amen.

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Okay, everybody say with me, “My heart’s open. My mind’s ready. Make me better, God. By your word. I receive it. I believe it. And I won’t be the same again. In Jesus name.”

You may be seated.

Today we are in session three of Leading and Feeding Your Soul…

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“Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health just as your soul prospers.”

I proclaim that over you today.

I would that you would be in health.

Come on.

I pray that you would prosper in all things even as your soul is prospering.

If you’re here today and you say, you know what, I want to fight for the health of my soul. I want you to raise your hand.

Your hands are up in the air.

And I just want to encourage you right now.

Start to lead.

Start to feed.

Watch what happens.

Holy Spirit, I pray right now for strength, confidence, and courage to fill this man and this woman, this young person’s life right now.

I pray that you would help us to read our soul, lead our soul, and feed our soul.

Holy Spirit, make this the first day of a new day, the turning of a page for a new chapter in our own life.

A day that we’ll look back at because people are going to say, “You know what? You’re different. Wow, you’ve changed.”

I pray in Jesus’ name.

Holy Spirit guide us, lead us, teach us, be our counselor.

As I end this series, I pray Holy Spirit take over.

We ask you to show us, remind us what we’ve heard, and make us everything that you’ve called us to be.

In Jesus’ name.

Amen.

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Amen.

Come on, let’s celebrate today.

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Okay. Wow. This series has been fun.

I want to pray for anyone who needs a new beginning in your life and your relationship with God…

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“Lord Jesus, welcome to my world.

Come into my life in a fresh new way.

Today, I want you to be the leader.

I want you to be the Lord of my life.

Forgive me of all my sin.

And make me a new person.

I belong to you.

And I boldly declare this is my first day of a new life.

In Jesus name.”

Welcome to the family.

Welcome to a brand new beginning.

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People wonder why things don't work . . . in situations, in relationships, at work, but the first place you need to look at and focus on is you. You're the keeper of your soul and the enemy doesn't want you to deal with what is in there. In this message, Pastor Kevin Gerald focuses on the three things your soul needs to be healthy and prosperous: to be read, to be led, and to be fed.

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