Sermon: Do Things Differently

I was afforded an opportunity to share a sermon at my church called “Do Things Differently”. The sermon was all about how there are seasons in our lives when God makes us do an about-face, when we move away from everything we used to do in order to do something new. It’s that new way of thinking, speaking, interacting, seeing the world is totally different from the way we’re used to thinking, speaking, interacting, seeing the world.

God is about to start switching things up because God is in the pivot. The Lord is about to change some things. He’s about to cause us to do an about-face. Where you were once facing east, you’re about to face west. Your job is about to change, the way you think is about to change, your finances are about to change, your household is about to change, how God interacts with you and how you interact with God is about to change. It’s time to do things differently.

Depression is coming off of you because you’re going to do things differently. The weight is coming off because you’re going to do things differently. Joy is going to be resurrected in your spirit because you’re going to do things differently. You will be able to breathe again because you’re doing things differently.

God is calling for us to do things differently. Now is the time. Join the Lord in the pivot.was afforded an opportunity to share a sermon at my church called “Do Things Differently”. The sermon was all about how there are seasons in our lives when God makes us do an about-face, when we move away from everything we used to do in order to do something new. It’s that new way of thinking, speaking, interacting, seeing the world is totally different from the way we’re used to thinking, speaking, interacting, seeing the world.

God is about to start switching things up because God is in the pivot. The Lord is about to change some things. He’s about to cause us to do an about-face. Where you were once facing east, you’re about to face west. Your job is about to change, the way you think is about to change, your finances are about to change, your household is about to change, how God interacts with you and how you interact with God is about to change. It’s time to do things differently.

Depression is coming off of you because you’re going to do things differently. The weight is coming off because you’re going to do things differently. Joy is going to be resurrected in your spirit because you’re going to do things differently. You will be able to breathe again because you’re doing things differently.

God is calling for us to do things differently. Now is the time. Join the Lord in the pivot.

Candance Greene

Rev. Candance L. Greene is an ordained Itinerant Deacon in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She is the 2023-2024 Hooper-Keefe Preaching Award recipient. Chosen by the faculty at Fuller Theology Seminary, this award is given to students who have shown an outstanding giftedness in Homiletics (preaching).

Rev. Candance is a published writer, podcaster and the founder of Cherishedflight, a ministry dedicated to helping people realign with the peace of God. She has produced over 100 episodes of Cherishedflight the Podcast where she shares biblical steps her listeners can take to implement the peace of God in their lives on a daily basis.

Candance is a graduate of Paine College where she earned a BA in English, and Goucher College where she earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing. She has been published in a variety of anthologies, scholarly books, and journals including: Bittersweet: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Women’s Poetry; Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction; Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir; and the Huffington Post. A native of Nashville, Candance now resides in Baltimore with her husband and three children.