Homily Short, Fifth Sunday Easter, May 03, 2026

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What does God truly desire for your life? This reflection explores three powerful truths revealed in the Gospel: God wants to remove fear, draw close to you in relationship, and empower you to live a transformed life. Discover how listening to His voice can lead to deeper peace, purpose, and impact.

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So I have an important question for you. What does God want for you? What does he want to do for you? Where is his heart at when he thinks of you, when he looks at you? Quite often we can approach God with, well, God, I want this, I want that, X, Y, Z, you know. All good things, good prayer, don’t get me wrong.

But what is God’s heart? What does he desire for you? I think there’s three things that we see kind of playing out in the gospel. The first is God wants to cast out fear. The second is that he wants to be with us.

And the third is God wants us to do the things that he does. So first, if he wants to cast out fear, what are we afraid of? Many things that we fear. I think there’s just common worldly fears that we have, losing a job, a loved one, a family member, a home.

And I think most powerfully is a fear of God, is a fear of what is God going to ask of me? If I commit here, what’s he going to take? Will I get anything back? And that fear, that can be paralyzing. You know, I see many people in the world, what do they do? They’ve got, well, I’ve got a good family, I’ve got a good house, stable income. You know, maybe they pray every now and again or come to church sometimes.

And they think that that is the best life. They’ve got it, they’ve made it. They’ve got true peace and joy.

There’s a degree of comfort there for sure. But man, it cannot compare to what God has for us. The true peace, the true joy, the true life that we were made for when we pushed past that fear and we reach out to him.

If this is what God wants, he wants to be with you, he wants to speak to you, it’s not supposed to be an uncommon experience that we would hear God’s voice. Ask for that. Make that prayer.

God, I want to hear your voice. I want to hear you speaking to me. Surrender him to your fears.

Give those over to him. Lord, I’m afraid of what you’re going to take. Lord, I don’t think I have enough to give.

Lord, I don’t think I’m good enough. Tell him that. Ask him to speak to you, asking boldly and simply for him to speak to us, to break through into our lives that he can’t do that.

And then when he does, what happens? We begin to do the things that he does. We are empowered. So we can teach, we can share what God has done for us with other people.

We can love them. And I think we can also do more of the supernatural things. We begin to live a supernatural way of life.

That’s what God wants to do for each one of us. He wants to cast out the fear in our lives so that we can turn our lives over to him. So that he can be with us.

That we can know and encounter him powerfully in our prayer. That we would know his voice. We know what it sounds like when he speaks to us.

What it’s like when he looks at us. What his gaze feels like. That we know and encounter those things.

And then we can go out and we can do the very same things that he does. Be that healing. Be that supernatural signs.

Or be that just loving your neighbor as he did. Showing them mercy. Caring for them.

Raising them up with his love. With his heart. That is what’s possible for us.

There is so much more that we can have than worry about living. Be bold. Pray with expectant faith that God is going to show up and calling out to the Lord.

I promise that he will answer. Be persistent in listening. Take those times of silence.

And you will hear God. And he will transform you and those around you.

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