Hot Mess: Life
Pastor Kevin Taylor
June 8, 2025
1. Emotional Hot Mess
6 I am worn out from my groaning. All night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears. Psalm 6:6
3 Now, LORD, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.” Jonah 4:3
4b “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life; 1 Kings 19:4b
7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7
6 Do not be anxious about anything Philippians 4:6
2. Physical Hot Mess
25 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26 She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. 27 When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” 28 Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering. Mark 5:25-28
14 Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. 15a And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. James 5:14-15a
9a But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” 2 Corinthians 12:9a
3. Spiritual Mess
17 Now the LORD provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. Jonah 1:17
1 From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the LORD his God. Jonah 2:1
3a Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to Nineveh. Jonah 3:3a
1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. Psalm 51:1-2