Unite180 with David Grobler

"God sees you — not only when life makes sense, but right where you are."

In this powerful and deeply personal message, Pastor David Grobler unpacks the story of Hagar and Ishmael to remind us that God sees us in our wilderness seasons, our pain, our confusion, and our unanswered questions. Through Hagar’s encounter with the Angel of the Lord, we see that God is not waiting for us to “arrive” before He notices us — He sees us now. This sermon challenges us to confront identity, obedience, and the places we try to run from, while discovering the grace of a God who calls us by name and meets us where we are.

God shapes you slowly… but He moves in your life suddenly.

In this powerful message, Pastor David Grobler teaches how God forms you in hidden seasons long before He brings breakthrough into the open. We often desire the “suddenly” moments — promotion, opportunity, breakthrough, favour — but forget that God prepares us through slow shaping, private battles, and unseen faithfulness. Using the lives of David, Joseph, and Israel, this message reveals that it is the right heart, not talent, that positions you for the door God opens in a moment. The question isn’t whether God can move suddenly — the question is whether your heart is ready when He does.

“Sometimes what feels like comfort is actually what keeps you from seeing God.”

In this profound and confronting message, Pastor David Grobler teaches how comfort, success, and stability can quietly blind us to our need for God. Drawing from Isaiah’s encounter in Isaiah chapters 5 and 6, this sermon reveals how even a prophet can speak about God without truly seeing Him. Pastor David unpacks how Isaiah boldly pronounced judgment on others—until a personal encounter with God shifted his perspective from “woe to you” to “woe is me.” True transformation happens when we stop measuring others and allow God to reveal where we stand before Him. When comfort dies, vision awakens—and grace does the work we cannot do ourselves.

“Your breakthrough begins the moment you refuse to stay who you’ve always been.”

In this powerful message, Pastor David Grobler unpacks the night Jacob wrestled with God at Peniel—a turning point where God confronted the identity that had defined him since birth. Jacob wasn’t fighting for money or survival; he was fighting to stop being Jacob the deceiver and finally become who God intended him to be. God meets Jacob in the struggle, wrestles through his fears, his patterns, and his old identity, and transforms him into Israel. This message reveals that God isn’t intimidated by your history—He steps into it to change you from the inside out.

“The Presence of God doesn’t visit your life casually—your whole life is shaped by how you host it.”

In this profound message, Pastor David Grobler teaches that the presence of God is not simply a feeling or a moment—it is His face (“Panin”), His nearness, His voice, and His transforming power. Many believers seek God’s hands for what He can give, but few seek His face for who He is. Through the stories of Samuel, David, Obed-Edom, and Joshua, Pastor David reveals that the presence of God shapes identity, brings blessing, and releases empowerment. Samuel became Samuel because he grew up sleeping beside the Ark. Obed-Edom’s entire household was blessed for making room for God. Joshua was empowered to lead because he refused to depart from the tabernacle. And David learned—painfully—that the presence of God cannot be handled casually or carelessly.