Finding Love in the Right Place: God's Love for Leah

We're excited to welcome a team from Vanguard College who will be joining us for a powerful and encouraging service. They won't just be preaching - they'll also be leading worship and serving in Kid's Church, making it a special morning for the whole family.

This sermon explores the narrative of Leah from Genesis 29-30 to illustrate how God loves us even when we feel unloved and rejected by others. Through Leah's story, we discover that in our younger years and beyond, we often seek love and validation in the wrong places. Leah, the unloved wife of Jacob, who was deceived into marrying her, experienced profound rejection from her husband, her father, and even her sister Rachel. Yet God demonstrated His faithful love to Leah in three specific ways: by blessing her within her circumstances through childbirth, by being present with her in her pain and hearing her cries, and by loving her through the people around her, particularly her children. The sermon challenges listeners to look past their circumstances and recognize how God has been loving them all along, emphasizing that the moment we stop remembering what God has done is the moment we start feeling unloved.