Woodland Hill Baptist Church

04/30/2026

Matthew 21:21 🤍
“Truly I tell you, if you have faith and don’t doubt… you can say to this mountain, ‘Move,’ and it will move.”
Let me say this to you real clear… even when you can’t see a way, God already made one.
You’ve been stressing, overthinking, trying to piece everything together on your own… and God is saying, “Speak to it.”
Yes, speak to those mountains in your life. Call things into alignment. Declare favor over your situation.
Stop magnifying your problems and start magnifying your God.
That situation you’re dealing with?
That person who tried to stand in your way?
That case?
That mistake?
None of it is bigger than God.
They lied on you? It doesn’t matter.
You lost something? God can restore it.
You made a mistake? He already knew and still made a plan for you.
This is NOT the end for you. What feels like a setback right now is really God shifting things into place.
It’s like a slingshot… the pressure, the pullback, the delay — it’s all preparing to launch you forward.
You’re stepping into a season of favor, restoration, and breakthrough… the kind that doesn’t even make sense to people watching.
So open your mouth.
Speak life.
Declare the outcome.
Stand firm in your faith.
Because when you speak in faith… things HAVE to move. And what God already set aside for you? You’re walking straight into it.

04/30/2026

Being unable to sleep, I came across this on Facebook. It says everything I have been feeling. I truly believe God has great things in store for Woodland Hill Baptist Church. We just need to have faith. Our root is still alive!!!

In 1948, when the first senior class graduated from what is now Lipscomb University, J. P. Sanders placed a small acorn at every graduate’s plate. Beside it was a simple note:

“If God can take an acorn and make an oak, think of what God can do with you.”

An acorn does not look like a forest. It looks small. Ordinary. Forgettable. But, the inside tells a different story. An acorn is a design only God can see and a result only He can produce.

Joseph looked like a slave before he looked like a ruler.

David looked like a failure before he looked like a king.

Peter looked like a coward before he looked like a preacher.

Moses looked like a fugitive before he looked like a deliverer.

Gideon looked like the least before he looked like a leader.

Scripture is full of people who seemed ruined in the moment — deceivers, doubters, deniers, broken men with messy stories. Yet, God refused to let their worst chapter become their final sentence because God specializes in unfinished people.

He grows strength in hardship.

He grows humility in failure.

He grows faith in waiting.

An acorn must split open before it rises. Something must break so something greater can show through. That is where the question becomes personal: What will you allow God to grow in you?

Will you let disappointment harden you —
or deepen you?

Will you let failure define you —
or refine you?

Will you let the pain break you—
or build you?

Will you let the struggle stop you—
or shape you?

The oak does not appear overnight. It grows quietly, steadily, and faithfully. So do souls surrendered to God. You may feel small today. You may feel buried, overlooked, or behind. Yet, buried seeds are not dead. They are becoming.

If God can take an acorn and make an oak, then stop measuring your life by what you saw yesterday and start trusting what God is growing for eternity.

This life is an adventure of growth.

Your story is not over.

The root is still alive.

04/14/2026