Moments that Change Us

Moments That Change Us

July 27, 2025

Pastor Brad Davis

• A moment in the presence of God changes everything
• Paul’s moment on the road to Damascus

“On one of these journeys I was going to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests. ¹³ About noon, King Agrippa, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, blazing around me and my companions. ¹⁴ We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic,^[a] ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ ¹⁵ “Then I asked, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ “ ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ the Lord replied. 

Acts 26:12-15

• What are you kicking against?
• To stubbornly oppose something that is ultimately inevitable
• What’s holding you back?

¹⁶ ‘Now get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen and will see of me.

Acts 26:16

• What needs to change?
• You are not too far gone for God
• Chief opponent to chief proponent
• He can be trusted

¹⁷ I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them ¹⁸ to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Acts 26:17-18

• What’s the purpose?
• A moment is not just for you
• One of the greatest moments of your life will be impacting someone else’s life

For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. ⁷ For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.

2 Timothy 1:6-7