New Freedom Church

09/07/2026

What Are You Meditating On?

Psalm 119:97 NKJV
“Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day.”
Biblical meditation is not emptying your mind. It is filling your mind with the Word of God.
Meditation is “muttering and pondering what the Word of God says.” It is taking His Word and speaking it over your life until it becomes a living reality to you instead of what you see, think, feel, and smell.
The fruit of your life is based off of what you’re meditating on. As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. What you keep thinking on and pondering in your heart is going to affect the direction of your life.
You can meditate on negative things, and eventually you start believing negative. Or you can meditate on the Word of God and allow His truth to become stronger than what you see and feel.
Biblical meditation fills the mind, gives you identity, and helps you detach from the world while becoming attached to God. You are releasing the emotions, the lies, the worry, the anxiety, and the accusations of the enemy, but you are replacing them with the Word.
You replace fear with faith. You replace the lie with truth.
Here’s a challenge for you today:
Pay attention to what you are allowing your mind to stay on. Choose one scripture today and keep bringing your thoughts back to it. Mutter it, ponder it, and let the Word become bigger in you than what you see or feel.

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09/06/2026

Sunday Morning September 6th 2026 by Pastor David Patterson For more information about the ministry of New Freedom Church, visit
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09/04/2026

Check Your Heart

Matthew 6:1 NLT

“Watch out! Don’t do your good deeds publicly, to be admired by others, for you will lose the reward from your Father in heaven.”

Spiritual discipline is not about looking spiritual in front of other people. It is about what is happening in your heart when nobody else sees it.

This is behind-closed-doors discipline. It is doing what is right when nobody sees it. It is your integrity, your character, and your personal walk with God.

Everybody thinks of changing others, and nobody thinks of changing himself.

It is easy to look at what needs to change around us. It is easy to see what another person should do differently. But spiritual discipline brings us back to our own heart.

Check your heart in every situation.

The things we do in private affect how we live in public. If your character does not back up what you speak, something is going to break at some point. But when you allow God to work deeply in your heart, what comes out of your life begins to change.

Fruit that remains comes from roots that are deep.

Spiritual discipline is not about instant results. It is a daily, moment-by-moment walk with God that builds something lasting on the inside of you.



Here’s a challenge for you today:

Before you focus on what needs to change around you, check your own heart. Ask God to show you anything that needs to be adjusted and be willing to let Him do the deep work that produces lasting fruit.

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09/03/2026

Anchored Hope!

09/02/2026

It Starts in the Heart

Colossians 2:20,22-23 NKJV

“Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations- [22] which all concern things which perish with the using-according to the commandments and doctrines of men? [23] These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.”

Spiritual discipline is not just about changing outward behavior. The root of the matter is the heart.

We can focus on “do this, don’t do that,” but if we never deal with the heart of the issue, we are only trying to fix what is happening on the outside. It starts in here before you see what manifests out here.

How is your intimacy with God? How is your communication with God? What is happening in your heart when nobody else sees it?

Spiritual discipline is about the behind-closed-doors part of our walk with God. It is doing what is right when nobody sees it. It is allowing God to work in our integrity, our character, our thoughts, and our inner life.

We cannot free and purify our own hearts just by trying harder in our own willpower. We must give our will over to the will of God.

When the heart is being transformed, what comes out of our lives begins to change too.



Here’s a challenge for you today:

Instead of only looking at what needs to change around you, ask God to show you what He wants to work on in your heart. Be willing to let Him deal with the root, not just the outward behavior.

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09/01/2026

09/01/2026

Weary but Willing!

08/31/2026

Run to Win

1 Corinthians 9:24–25 NLT

“Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win! All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize.”

Spiritual discipline is not about punishment. It’s about training yourself now so that you are prepared to live the life God has called you to live.

Just like a runner has to discipline and train their body, we have to train spiritually. You don’t just show up to a race and say, “Well, I’m the winner. I showed up.” Showing up isn’t where it ends. That’s where it starts.

We have to live a life disciplined in our spirit to live for God.

Spiritual discipline is what helps us stand when life gets hard. We are all going to face trials, temptations, bad reports, and situations that are outside of our control. But when you have been training your spirit, you are able to handle those moments differently.

Instead of letting fear, feelings, or circumstances have the final word, faith rises up and says, “Yes, I hear that. Yes, I see what is happening. But I know my God is going to help me handle this situation.”

Spiritual discipline prepares you before the storm ever comes.



Here’s a challenge for you today:

Look at your spiritual life like a race you are training for. Ask yourself, “Am I only showing up, or am I intentionally training myself to be spiritually strong?” Make the decision today to run to win.

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08/30/2026

Sunday Morning August 30 2026 by Pastor David Patterson For more information about the ministry of New Freedom Church, visit
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08/28/2026

Don’t Let Offense Take Root

2 Corinthians 2:10–11 NLT
“When you forgive this man, I forgive him too… so that Satan will not outsmart us. For we are familiar with his evil schemes.”

A big area where the enemy works is in our feelings and emotions.
Offense is often where it starts. Someone hurts you. They speak to you differently. They don’t acknowledge you. Something happens, and in that moment you have a choice: What am I going to do with the offense?

If you allow it to remain, the thoughts begin. Then offense can become unforgiveness, and unforgiveness can eventually become bitterness.
Offense is the hurt or insult.

Unforgiveness is choosing to hold onto that offense and refusing to release it.
Bitterness is the hostility, and anger that begins to take root.
If we deal with the offense quickly, the root never has the opportunity to grow.
One of the greatest tests of whether you have truly forgiven someone is whether you can pray for them—not a manipulative prayer asking God to show them how wrong they are, but genuinely praying that God would heal them, help them, and do good in their life.

You can forgive someone without giving them access to you, but forgiveness means you are no longer wishing harm on them or holding onto what they did.

Here’s a challenge for you today:
If an offense comes today, deal with it quickly. Release it to the Lord before it has time to become unforgiveness or bitterness, and choose to genuinely pray for that person.
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