1 00:00:02,500 --> 00:00:03,900 Thank you for listening to the river. 2 00:00:03,900 --> 00:00:07,700 Bend Church podcast Reverb in church exists to lead all people 3 00:00:07,700 --> 00:00:10,700 to know love and live New Life in Jesus Christ. 4 00:00:11,100 --> 00:00:13,000 We hope that you enjoy this message. 5 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:21,400 We are this week in week, 3 of the series, your will not mind 6 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:25,000 and this has been a guide through 21 days of fasting and 7 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,900 prayer. And so, today is day, 8 of 21, 8 00:00:27,900 --> 00:00:30,500 so give it up for yourself, if you made it Through the first 9 00:00:30,500 --> 00:00:32,000 week. This week of this, thank you, 10 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,900 Jesus, for your help. There's been a lot of battle 11 00:00:34,900 --> 00:00:37,200 going on this week, right? A lot of you've been feeling 12 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:41,500 that the battle, and so, if you've not joined yet, but you 13 00:00:41,500 --> 00:00:44,400 considering it, don't let the fact that we're on day 8, stop 14 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:47,200 you, there still 14 days and so you can jump in. 15 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:50,500 And, and begin praying, you begin fasting, you can find the 16 00:00:50,500 --> 00:00:52,200 info online. If you want to go to our 17 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:54,200 website, you'll find a downloadable PDF. 18 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:57,100 I think we may have run out of the devotional guides because 19 00:00:57,100 --> 00:00:59,000 you guys took those, but that is online. 20 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,600 Now you can grab it. And you can jump right in with 21 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:03,500 us during this season of fasting and prayer. 22 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:06,800 But one of the questions I asked myself this week, why am I doing 23 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:08,200 this? Why do this? 24 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:10,600 Why do we give up food or social media or things? 25 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,800 We love to seek God. Why are we serious about going 26 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:15,700 out of our way to spend time with the Lord? 27 00:01:15,700 --> 00:01:18,900 And really, the simple answer is this, it is the most tangible 28 00:01:18,900 --> 00:01:21,600 way to say Jesus. I want more of you and less of 29 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:25,500 me, more of you, less than me. I want 20:23 to be about more of 30 00:01:25,500 --> 00:01:29,800 you in my life and so it's a way to bring ourselves to full. 31 00:01:29,900 --> 00:01:33,200 Surrender, but only give you a new way to think about fasting 32 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:35,000 and prayer. It's just how I've been thinking 33 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,100 about it, as I meditated on it this week fasting. 34 00:01:37,100 --> 00:01:41,200 A here's what it says. I want all of you, Jesus, and I 35 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:45,300 want you to have all of me. I want all of you. 36 00:01:45,300 --> 00:01:49,200 It's not just about getting from God, it's about giving ourselves 37 00:01:49,500 --> 00:01:51,600 to God's. They wouldn't God gets all of 38 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:52,600 you. That's where you're going to 39 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:55,500 live your best year yet. It's not when you get all your 40 00:01:55,500 --> 00:01:57,400 prayers answered, I know, that's what we think. 41 00:01:57,800 --> 00:01:59,800 God will answer some prayers and it'll be a great. 42 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:01,200 Here. When the Lord pours out his 43 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:04,100 favor and blessing but you know what would be the best year yet? 44 00:02:04,100 --> 00:02:06,500 Is really a line underneath. The surround this idea of God 45 00:02:06,500 --> 00:02:08,199 you have all of me. I'm not holding back. 46 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:12,200 Anything anymore. 20:23 will be my best year yet. 47 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,800 If I live it under the lordship of Jesus, that's saying Jesus, 48 00:02:16,100 --> 00:02:18,900 you get all of me. I'm not gonna hold anything back 49 00:02:18,900 --> 00:02:21,000 from you. Wherever you tell me, that's 50 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,300 what I'll do. Whatever you lead me to go. 51 00:02:23,300 --> 00:02:24,500 I will wherever you leave me to go. 52 00:02:24,500 --> 00:02:27,700 I'll go what your voice says. I'm gonna I'm gonna go whatever 53 00:02:27,700 --> 00:02:29,800 you want to do in my life in 2023. 54 00:02:29,900 --> 00:02:31,200 Bring it. I'm here for it. 55 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:33,800 And so it's just joining our hearts with the Heart of Jesus 56 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,900 in that prayer, he prayed the night before he would go to the 57 00:02:36,900 --> 00:02:38,700 Cross. When he said, father, your will 58 00:02:38,700 --> 00:02:41,300 not mine. Why don't we pray that again? 59 00:02:41,300 --> 00:02:43,700 Because God loves us more than we know how to love ourselves. 60 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:48,000 He knows what's best for us. He does, what's best for us, so 61 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,800 we can trust him when we say God, I don't know, all the 62 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:52,000 answers. I'm just going to trust you, 63 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,300 your will flow through my life. And so, this season of prayer is 64 00:02:55,300 --> 00:02:57,100 not just about getting what we want. 65 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:00,500 It's about aligning ourselves with God so that he Can give us 66 00:03:00,500 --> 00:03:03,300 what we need. So as I prayed about this week's 67 00:03:03,300 --> 00:03:07,000 message, God really led me to do something that I have not done 68 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:08,600 in four years since I've been here. 69 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:10,500 The lord always asked me to do some first. 70 00:03:10,500 --> 00:03:13,000 Well, here's a first for you today, I've never preached the 71 00:03:13,008 --> 00:03:15,100 message twice, as since I've been here. 72 00:03:15,300 --> 00:03:18,800 The Lord took me back to his same, passage a lot of the same 73 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:20,400 ideas. Exactly the same ideas that I 74 00:03:20,408 --> 00:03:21,800 preached almost two years ago now. 75 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:23,900 So some of you are here and you're going to go, that sounds 76 00:03:23,900 --> 00:03:25,500 familiar in this some of your here and you're going to go, 77 00:03:25,500 --> 00:03:27,400 I've never heard that before. But you were here that day, you 78 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:30,700 just forgot and so I like you. But that's It works right? 79 00:03:30,700 --> 00:03:33,600 But the Lord really impresses. So, my heart several weeks ago 80 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:36,000 was like, I want you to come back to this message that you 81 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,100 shared because it's somebody needs it. 82 00:03:38,100 --> 00:03:40,100 You know. You know why I'm sharing it 83 00:03:40,100 --> 00:03:41,900 today? It's for somebody that's 84 00:03:41,900 --> 00:03:44,500 struggling with the faster with the prayer season. 85 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:46,900 Maybe you're not even praying and fasting. 86 00:03:46,900 --> 00:03:50,700 You just find yourself in January 20, 23 wrestling 87 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,300 wrestling with, you know, spiritual attack or battle in 88 00:03:54,300 --> 00:03:57,200 your life or wrestling with, you know, anxieties wrestling with 89 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:59,800 what does God want me to do in this new year just wrestling. 90 00:04:00,100 --> 00:04:02,500 And so this word has an encouragement and also a 91 00:04:02,500 --> 00:04:05,800 challenge with it today and here is the message I want to share 92 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:09,100 with you today. I am putting my yes, on the 93 00:04:09,100 --> 00:04:13,400 table, my yes, is on the table, Lord, literally my yes, is on 94 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:15,000 the table. I've had this little deal here 95 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:16,800 for a lot of years. I've used it in a lot of 96 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,899 different messages just to come before the Lord and say, God my 97 00:04:19,899 --> 00:04:22,800 yes. Is on the table, The Secret of 98 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:27,700 fasting and prayer is not a much about getting what getting God 99 00:04:27,700 --> 00:04:29,700 to say, yes to you. It's about getting us. 100 00:04:29,900 --> 00:04:33,600 Us to say yes to him. Take that in for a minute. 101 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:38,600 It's not as much about twisting God's arm and showing him that 102 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:41,700 were so sincere that God just going to say yes to everything 103 00:04:41,700 --> 00:04:44,700 we want. He will he tells us, pray, you 104 00:04:44,700 --> 00:04:47,400 seek me, you will find me. You knock the door will be open. 105 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,100 Like God tells us, I'm going to say yes to you, on some things, 106 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:52,600 I'm going to answer your prayers, but but more than 107 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:55,500 anything, the secret to this season, it's about getting us to 108 00:04:55,500 --> 00:04:58,100 say yes to him. And there's no greater place in 109 00:04:58,100 --> 00:05:01,800 scripture outside of Jesus saying yes to the cross. 110 00:05:02,300 --> 00:05:05,600 No greater place than Isaiah. The book of Isaiah in your 111 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:07,400 Bibles to Isaiah. Chapter 6, is where we're going 112 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:09,900 to be today. My yes is on the table. 113 00:05:10,500 --> 00:05:14,400 Here's what it says, Bible says this, it was the year King, 114 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:18,900 Uzziah say Uzziah, it's just fun to say it was I who was like, 115 00:05:18,900 --> 00:05:21,000 kind of like Isaiah. If you were Australian, who's 116 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:26,500 Lea King, Uzziah died, that died that I saw the Lord. 117 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:29,600 And so, this is Isaiah speaking. He says, he was sitting on a 118 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,100 lofty, throne. And so this is a vision that the 119 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:35,900 Prophet Isaiah had in prophet, Isaiah was a spokesperson to 120 00:05:35,900 --> 00:05:39,200 God's people, God would send him messages he would in turn go and 121 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:42,200 share it with God's people. The Jewish people, he was 122 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:45,400 sitting on a lofty, throne and the train of his robe, filled 123 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:47,700 the Temple. And so, in the setting, the 124 00:05:47,700 --> 00:05:49,200 stage here, for what, we're going to look at. 125 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:53,200 Historically, this event happened in 740 BC, we know that 126 00:05:53,200 --> 00:06:00,600 because King Uzziah who's iodide in 47, 40 BC, the book of first 127 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:04,100 and second chronicles, and first Second Kings in your Bible, they 128 00:06:04,100 --> 00:06:05,900 actually tell you the story of all the kings will. 129 00:06:05,900 --> 00:06:08,000 You will find whose eye is story in there. 130 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:11,700 Here's what we know about this Ayah, he started raining at 16 131 00:06:11,700 --> 00:06:13,500 years old, so you can imagine that. 132 00:06:13,500 --> 00:06:16,600 I mean over God's people, he becomes king at 16 years old, 133 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:19,200 and the deal is, he's one of the rare good Kings. 134 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:21,800 Most of the guys, you read about that served as kings. 135 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:23,800 They were terrible. They didn't last long, they were 136 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,600 ungodly. He was a Godly young king. 137 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:30,500 He reigned in, he reigned over guys who for 52 years, one of 138 00:06:30,500 --> 00:06:34,100 the longest rains in the history of of God's people, and people 139 00:06:34,100 --> 00:06:37,600 prospered under his leadership. But he was a good king with a 140 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:39,900 tragic ending because near the end of his life, he got 141 00:06:39,900 --> 00:06:43,200 prideful, he went into the temple and in the place of a 142 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:46,000 priest and he burned incense before the Lord God has 143 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,500 specifically said, only the priest can do this and he got 144 00:06:48,500 --> 00:06:50,800 prideful. He went in God, allowed him to 145 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:54,700 contract leprosy and he would die separated from his people. 146 00:06:54,700 --> 00:06:57,900 In a basically, a lepers Camp. He would die in isolation. 147 00:06:57,900 --> 00:07:01,500 And so, it caused people to question a lot in the culture. 148 00:07:01,500 --> 00:07:04,100 You got to, you got to They have to say the year King Uzziah 149 00:07:04,100 --> 00:07:06,100 died. It described a year where people 150 00:07:06,100 --> 00:07:10,100 were going God, where are you? Didn't you see the 52 years of 151 00:07:10,100 --> 00:07:12,600 faithfulness or you know, the 50 years of faithfulness? 152 00:07:13,100 --> 00:07:15,200 And you're going to strike this guy down from one little 153 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:17,600 mistake. God is serious about his 154 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:19,300 Holiness. But you know what? 155 00:07:19,300 --> 00:07:21,300 People were probably in a little bit of chaos. 156 00:07:21,300 --> 00:07:24,100 If you look at the hit the track record any time a king died. 157 00:07:24,100 --> 00:07:26,400 It was chaotic. Is there going to be a coup? 158 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:28,600 It's going to be an is the Sun going to take over what's going 159 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:32,100 to happen and it's always a chaotic and nervous time in. 160 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:34,600 In society when a king died. And so people were probably 161 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:38,000 saying God where are you? Why would you allow our leader 162 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:39,800 to die? Our good leader in his in the 163 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:41,800 prime of his late years of leading us? 164 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:44,600 Why would that happen? And so, do you know there's a 165 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,800 lesson for someone here today? I want us to learn from Isaiah's 166 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:49,500 experience. For here's the first thing I saw 167 00:07:49,500 --> 00:07:52,600 even in this verse verse when the circumstances on Earth calls 168 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:54,300 us to ask God, where are you? Where are you? 169 00:07:54,300 --> 00:07:56,600 Lord, we can trust that he's on the throne. 170 00:07:57,700 --> 00:07:59,300 Isaiah gives us a picture of this. 171 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:02,600 It is okay to ask. Where are you God? 172 00:08:03,900 --> 00:08:06,200 It's okay to ask God, are you here in my prayers? 173 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:07,300 Because it doesn't feel like you are. 174 00:08:07,300 --> 00:08:10,600 It's okay to feel that way, but Isaiah gives us a picture. 175 00:08:10,700 --> 00:08:14,300 There was some chaos going on on the earth and in heaven. 176 00:08:14,300 --> 00:08:15,900 The Lord was still sitting on the throne. 177 00:08:16,100 --> 00:08:18,900 Do you know why that can bring peace to our hearts, a little 178 00:08:18,900 --> 00:08:20,200 bit. Just to know that if God is 179 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:24,300 allowing some pain in our lives, some pain in our culture, it 180 00:08:24,300 --> 00:08:28,000 doesn't mean that he's out of control, he is sitting on the 181 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:33,299 throne, the gear is iodide. Isaiah, Isaiah cease cease. 182 00:08:33,500 --> 00:08:36,799 He's the Lord sitting on the throne and you know, sometimes 183 00:08:36,799 --> 00:08:40,700 when God delays, the answer to his prayers, this because the 184 00:08:40,700 --> 00:08:43,299 delay is because his best is actually on the way. 185 00:08:43,900 --> 00:08:46,900 In the case here he was doing a work in Isaiah. 186 00:08:46,900 --> 00:08:49,100 He was doing a work of Deliverance and healing and new 187 00:08:49,100 --> 00:08:51,100 life and that's what it'll do to us sometimes. 188 00:08:51,100 --> 00:08:53,600 Before God answers the prayer, it seems like he's out of 189 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:55,300 control, he's sitting on the throne. 190 00:08:55,300 --> 00:08:57,800 Where are you, God? But he is actually answering the 191 00:08:57,800 --> 00:08:59,400 prayer. He's actually doing a work in 192 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,300 you before he gives you what you're praying about. 193 00:09:02,300 --> 00:09:03,400 You know. One of the things I've learned 194 00:09:03,500 --> 00:09:07,000 Learned to focus in on when I feel like the moments first, 195 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,000 like, God, where are you? Are you hearing my prayers? 196 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,400 Lord, it, you know, sometimes you may even feel like this, if 197 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:14,700 there was a God, why would he not be answering by? 198 00:09:14,700 --> 00:09:18,500 Now, I'm not saying I don't have faith and I'm not Amanda tries 199 00:09:18,500 --> 00:09:21,100 to believe the word of God, but I mean sometimes you get to that 200 00:09:21,100 --> 00:09:23,400 point where you're going. God I have prayed, I have 201 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:26,000 fasted, I have sought you. Where are you Lord? 202 00:09:26,900 --> 00:09:29,600 There's a couple of things that I've learned to do first, I ask 203 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:31,600 myself the question. Did the sun come up today? 204 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:35,800 If so, I can go back to the beginning when God set things in 205 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,400 motion. And also, I'm reminded of this 206 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:41,200 verse that the mercy of the Lord is new Every Morning. 207 00:09:41,900 --> 00:09:43,900 God's Mercy is new. Another question. 208 00:09:43,900 --> 00:09:45,800 I ask myself, do I have air in my lungs? 209 00:09:45,900 --> 00:09:49,600 Can I breathe right now? God provided that he met up. 210 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:52,100 He answer my prayer right now, but he is sustaining me. 211 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:54,700 He sustaining me until he can give me the answer. 212 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,200 Do I have someone that loves me? That's another question. 213 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:00,400 I asked and I hope you do. There actually is somebody that 214 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:02,300 loves you and you may not know it, but there are people that 215 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:03,900 Love you. There's a God, that loves you 216 00:10:04,100 --> 00:10:06,000 but if you have somebody that loves you, then that's a 217 00:10:06,008 --> 00:10:08,300 reflection of the love of God. And that's just a reminder, you 218 00:10:08,300 --> 00:10:10,700 know, I don't have all my prayers answered yet, but it's 219 00:10:10,700 --> 00:10:13,500 sun came up. I have air in my lungs and I 220 00:10:13,508 --> 00:10:16,500 have somebody that loves me. If you have those three things, 221 00:10:16,500 --> 00:10:18,900 that's a picture of God's grace poured out on you. 222 00:10:18,900 --> 00:10:21,800 Even when the circumstances of the world are out of control, we 223 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:24,000 can be reminded, you know what? God still in control. 224 00:10:24,500 --> 00:10:27,400 So next there is a picture of worship painted in the book of 225 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:29,400 Isaiah. Now, for some of you guys that 226 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:32,600 grew up in a, maybe a more traditional church wedding, You 227 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:34,200 didn't clap and you didn't get loud. 228 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:36,500 Listen, I'm about to blow your mind Heavens, gonna be crazy for 229 00:10:36,500 --> 00:10:38,100 some of us, some of y'all right now. 230 00:10:38,100 --> 00:10:39,800 You have a hard time singing. Use kind of like you got a 231 00:10:39,808 --> 00:10:41,800 little movement going on when we're worse, when I like it, 232 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,200 some of you singing hands up. But let me show you what Worship 233 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:45,700 in heaven. Looks like some of us gonna be 234 00:10:45,700 --> 00:10:48,200 like, holy smokes. What did I just walk into? 235 00:10:48,300 --> 00:10:52,900 Look at this picture, he saw the Lord sitting on a throne and it 236 00:10:52,900 --> 00:10:56,600 says the tending him were Mighty seraphim, seraphim each? 237 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:00,000 Having six wings. And so, this is a beast with six 238 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,900 wings worshipping for the Lord. If we brought one Of those in 239 00:11:02,900 --> 00:11:04,300 today. Everybody would leave you be 240 00:11:04,300 --> 00:11:06,700 like that. Listen, I liked Joe and I liked 241 00:11:06,700 --> 00:11:09,100 Riverbend until they brought the six winged beast in like I'm 242 00:11:09,100 --> 00:11:11,200 out. Can't do it anymore. 243 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:15,400 It says that the seraphim had six wings two Wings. 244 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:19,700 They covered their faces with two, they covered their feet and 245 00:11:19,700 --> 00:11:22,200 with two, they flew. So, now you're in the flapping 246 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:25,700 of wings, they were calling to each other, just like the song 247 00:11:25,700 --> 00:11:27,200 We were singing. You're worthy of it all. 248 00:11:27,300 --> 00:11:29,800 Here's what they were singing. Holy holy. 249 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:32,000 Holy is the Lord of Heavens armies. 250 00:11:32,100 --> 00:11:34,300 The Earth is filled with his glory. 251 00:11:34,500 --> 00:11:36,300 Now here's the here's the Shocker. 252 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,400 Their voices shook the temple to its foundations. 253 00:11:40,900 --> 00:11:43,000 I don't know if they had subwoofers in microphones. 254 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:44,900 I don't know if it was just their voices, but they add 255 00:11:44,900 --> 00:11:46,900 something and it was shaking the building. 256 00:11:46,900 --> 00:11:49,400 The worship was shaking the building, the neighbors were 257 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:51,600 knowing what's going on in there, like, man, they're at it 258 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:55,800 again over there shaking the foundations and the entire 259 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:58,600 building was filled with smoke, you may be okay with a loud 260 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:00,800 speakers but as soon as the smoke came in your like I knew 261 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:02,300 it, I'm out of here. I'm not taking that. 262 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:05,000 That it's in this, in this picture of worship in heaven. 263 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,500 Blowing your mind though like this Beast worshipping before 264 00:12:08,500 --> 00:12:12,000 the Lord flapping its wings saying, holy is the Lord. 265 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:15,300 And as they sing their voices, the music is so loud. 266 00:12:15,300 --> 00:12:18,400 That the ground is shaking the foundation of the temple is 267 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:20,800 shaking and then smoke starts to fill the room. 268 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:25,500 They have Hayes machines in heaven, come on, and this Beast 269 00:12:25,500 --> 00:12:27,000 is seraphim. We don't know a lot about them 270 00:12:27,008 --> 00:12:28,100 because we don't have them on Earth. 271 00:12:28,100 --> 00:12:30,900 But here's what we do to, they had six wings and two of them 272 00:12:30,900 --> 00:12:32,300 they took and covered their faces. 273 00:12:32,500 --> 00:12:34,500 As they were in the presence of God Almighty. 274 00:12:34,500 --> 00:12:37,900 As if to say, I can't look on his majesty with two, they 275 00:12:37,900 --> 00:12:41,900 covered their feet as if to say I humble myself before the Lord, 276 00:12:41,900 --> 00:12:44,400 it would be in a sign of humility to cover their feet. 277 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:47,900 And with two, they flew crying out to the Lord. 278 00:12:48,700 --> 00:12:53,000 So listen, the Earth circumstances were not good at 279 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,800 this time but Heavens worship was not interrupted. 280 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:58,700 See, here's the lesson that we can learn. 281 00:12:58,700 --> 00:13:02,000 Heavens worship isn't interrupted by our circumstances 282 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:06,800 and neither You should hires be. Listen no matter what 20:23 283 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:09,500 brings our way we get to decide if we're going to worship our 284 00:13:09,500 --> 00:13:12,500 king or not. You and I get to decide it. 285 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:15,400 Nothing can decide it for us. There are some things that 286 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,500 cannot be taken out of the hands of people and one is what we 287 00:13:18,500 --> 00:13:22,200 choose to worship. No matter what 2023 brings 288 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:24,100 listen. I'm praying that God brings 289 00:13:24,100 --> 00:13:26,600 healing because I know a lot of you have reached out to me via 290 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:29,600 email, you text me, you've dropped up that prayer cards to 291 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,200 us and said, I'm praying for healing, for myself, for my 292 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:35,000 family, for others. And so I'm praying. 293 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,300 And listen, when the healing comes, we're going to worship. 294 00:13:37,300 --> 00:13:40,500 I'm praying that God will pour out blessings and listen as he 295 00:13:40,500 --> 00:13:42,000 does. Going to praise him, we're going 296 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:43,900 to worship. But listen, when God brings 297 00:13:43,900 --> 00:13:47,900 difficult, things to mold us, and perfect, us, and make us the 298 00:13:47,900 --> 00:13:49,900 people of God that he wants us to be. 299 00:13:49,900 --> 00:13:51,900 We're also going to worship Him church. 300 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,500 That's when we're going to need each other to lift our arms up, 301 00:13:54,700 --> 00:13:57,100 when somebody's going through a hard season, you need somebody 302 00:13:57,100 --> 00:14:00,100 to come alongside you and lift up your arms, you know, do you 303 00:14:00,108 --> 00:14:03,800 know who gets how one the way you can decide how you going 304 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:05,600 worship and what you're going to worship each day? 305 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:08,000 No matter what circumstances comes? 306 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,300 It's all about. What worship soundtrack? 307 00:14:10,300 --> 00:14:12,700 You listen to every day. Courtney got me are pods for 308 00:14:12,700 --> 00:14:14,300 Christmas. I never had any more so I'm 309 00:14:14,300 --> 00:14:16,600 like, you know, I'm looking at him like, well, you know, I'm 310 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:18,000 learning all these noise-canceling. 311 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:19,700 I don't have to hear anybody. I don't want to hear it too 312 00:14:19,700 --> 00:14:23,600 great. And so I'm learning though, you 313 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:26,500 know, I've had earbuds before but I've never had any nice with 314 00:14:26,500 --> 00:14:28,700 it. So when I put this in, guess who 315 00:14:28,700 --> 00:14:34,900 gets to decide what I pump into this thing, I do I get to decide 316 00:14:34,900 --> 00:14:39,700 what I pump into this earpod nobody else gets to decide what 317 00:14:39,700 --> 00:14:42,000 I'm going to put into it. Do you know, one of the best 318 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,600 ways you can decide apart from your circumstances, how you 319 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:47,100 going to worship? What soundtrack? 320 00:14:47,100 --> 00:14:48,600 Are you going to play into your head every day? 321 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:52,200 What do you listen to? Because whatever you pump in 322 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:55,800 determines, how easy or not, it is for you to worship you pump, 323 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:57,700 Jesus, send you pump worshipping. 324 00:14:57,900 --> 00:14:59,800 It's crazy how it changes your day. 325 00:15:00,100 --> 00:15:04,000 Courtney, Austin in the mornings especially with even Kids were 326 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:07,700 in school, she would get up, go to work really early and she 327 00:15:07,700 --> 00:15:10,000 would turn her phone on in first you'd hear a phone come on in 328 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:12,600 the bathroom would like some, you know, you are worthy of it 329 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:14,100 all and you here, you're not, here she goes. 330 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:17,100 And boy about the second line. She's singing to the top of her 331 00:15:17,100 --> 00:15:19,700 lungs in the whole house is awake now because she is setting 332 00:15:19,700 --> 00:15:23,100 her tone for the day. Instead, he her tone in worship 333 00:15:23,100 --> 00:15:26,600 for the day and I love it. Listen, you get to decide if 334 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:29,700 circumstances are going to change how you worship or not, 335 00:15:29,700 --> 00:15:33,600 nobody else can. You get to decide it as we move 336 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:35,200 for listening as we fast and pray. 337 00:15:35,500 --> 00:15:37,000 We're going to learn to set our worship. 338 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,500 Antennas towards the Lord. God, I want to, I want to set my 339 00:15:39,500 --> 00:15:42,500 worship station on you Lord, fill me up today. 340 00:15:42,700 --> 00:15:45,400 And so Isaiah standing here watching this worship service 341 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:48,200 happen and surely, he's blown away, because they never seen 342 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:49,600 anything. He'd never seen anything like 343 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:50,900 this. But look what he says here. 344 00:15:51,500 --> 00:15:53,500 Then he says this, it's all over. 345 00:15:53,500 --> 00:15:56,800 I'm doomed for I am a sinful man in the presence of the Lord, he 346 00:15:56,800 --> 00:16:00,100 recognized it immediately. I have sinned, he says, I have 347 00:16:00,100 --> 00:16:02,700 filthy lips. And I live among people with 348 00:16:02,700 --> 00:16:04,600 filthy lips. I don't know exactly why he 349 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:06,600 brought out the filthy lip service probably other lip. 350 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:09,100 Maybe he just said something he really regretted right before he 351 00:16:09,100 --> 00:16:11,700 went into this Vision, you do that before listening. 352 00:16:11,700 --> 00:16:13,700 Come on, I know some of y'all driving to church this morning. 353 00:16:13,700 --> 00:16:16,100 I know some of those conversations in the car yelling 354 00:16:16,100 --> 00:16:17,900 at the kids. You know, I wouldn't get out and 355 00:16:17,900 --> 00:16:19,600 cook a morning Pastor. So good to see you today. 356 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:22,400 Work so good to be at church. I'm not saying I was riding in 357 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:24,000 your car. I'm saying listen I got a car 358 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:27,500 to, I brought my kids to church at one time but I don't know why 359 00:16:27,500 --> 00:16:29,800 he felt convicted but he was like, I've been I've been 360 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:31,300 cussing. I've been I don't know what he's 361 00:16:31,300 --> 00:16:31,900 been doing. It. 362 00:16:31,900 --> 00:16:34,100 But like here you guys, I have filthy lips and I live among 363 00:16:34,100 --> 00:16:36,000 people of them. Filthy lips yet. 364 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,600 I have seen the king, the Lord of Heavens are, you know, you 365 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:40,500 know why? One reason I think he said that 366 00:16:40,500 --> 00:16:42,200 because he heard these beasts and you know what they were 367 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:44,100 using their lips to do, glorify the Lord. 368 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:47,000 Holy holy, holy is the Lord, the whole earth is full of his 369 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:48,600 glory. I think it was a conviction 370 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:50,800 because that wasn't what he was using his words to do. 371 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:54,200 But he said yet I have seen the king the Lord of Heavens armies. 372 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:57,100 And so what it means is it's all over for me. 373 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:01,600 Isaiah was a Jewish young man and so he knew the scripture, If 374 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:04,200 anybody saw God, they were taught, he would die. 375 00:17:04,599 --> 00:17:07,500 And so he said, you know, I know that God is Holy and I'm seeing 376 00:17:07,500 --> 00:17:09,500 God in this Vision, I'm going to die. 377 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:13,500 It's all over for me. Admit that I'm a sinner, see, in 378 00:17:13,500 --> 00:17:16,400 the presence of Jesus, he became aware of his sin. 379 00:17:17,599 --> 00:17:20,800 For some of us, do coming back to church for the first time in 380 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:23,500 a while, or maybe tune in online, maybe Oakwood, you're 381 00:17:23,500 --> 00:17:25,300 coming in for the first time in a while. 382 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:28,900 The first thing you feel, hopefully is love and in fact 383 00:17:28,900 --> 00:17:31,700 that you matter because we work hard at that, but if you hang, A 384 00:17:31,700 --> 00:17:34,300 long enough, the holy spirit of God is going to start working on 385 00:17:34,300 --> 00:17:36,300 your heart and you're going to start feeling some conviction. 386 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:40,100 It's not a bad thing. It's not God hating on you, it's 387 00:17:40,100 --> 00:17:43,200 not god pushing you away. It's actually his grace calling 388 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:46,100 you hire saying there's a new life version of you. 389 00:17:46,100 --> 00:17:49,500 To be lived in 2023, God's got more for you and better for you 390 00:17:49,500 --> 00:17:52,200 than you lived in 2022. And you gotta decide if you're 391 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:55,300 going to step into it or not. But here's the thing, just like 392 00:17:55,300 --> 00:17:56,800 Isaiah. Here's the lesson for us. 393 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,300 When we enter the presence of Jesus Through worship, it'll 394 00:18:00,300 --> 00:18:02,900 make us aware of our Our sin, but here's what we learned from 395 00:18:02,900 --> 00:18:08,500 Isaiah, don't run from God. Don't run away from God, listen 396 00:18:08,500 --> 00:18:11,600 in the presence of Jesus makes Isaiah hyper aware. 397 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:13,600 He goes, God, it's all over for me. 398 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,300 I'm a sinner. And I'm doomed and see for us, 399 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:19,700 here's the beauty. Jesus already took our sin debt 400 00:18:19,700 --> 00:18:23,000 on the cross, and so when you feel conviction, do you know, 401 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,900 all God is doing. He's not trying to push you down 402 00:18:25,900 --> 00:18:28,500 and push you away. He's trying to get you to submit 403 00:18:28,500 --> 00:18:30,600 to Jesus. Who's already paid the cost for 404 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:32,500 you? He's already paid the price for 405 00:18:32,500 --> 00:18:34,800 you. He's saying submit to him. 406 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:37,700 You can change and live. New Life in him. 407 00:18:37,700 --> 00:18:41,800 But you know our gut reaction is to run when God starts working 408 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:45,800 in our lives. We start praying and singing and 409 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:48,200 fasting. We get around other believers 410 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:51,000 community of people. Sometimes we will feel 411 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:55,600 conviction in our gut is to run. But listen, when God brings sin 412 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:59,500 to the surface in our lives and by sin, I mean any wrong thing. 413 00:18:59,500 --> 00:19:02,600 You've done Bible calls that sin when we sin against God, we do 414 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:05,500 wrong against the person. We do wrong against ourselves or 415 00:19:05,500 --> 00:19:09,200 we do wrong against God himself. When we do wrong, that's called 416 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:12,000 sin when God brings that sin to the surface of our hearts. 417 00:19:12,100 --> 00:19:15,100 He's not trying to judge you. You, he's trying to cleanse you. 418 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:18,900 God wants you to walk out free, you know, one of the 419 00:19:18,900 --> 00:19:21,900 frustrations that I have as a pastor, I see people walking 420 00:19:21,900 --> 00:19:26,400 bondage that don't have to There is new life for you. 421 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:30,300 People give up on themselves because their past is so painful 422 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:32,300 and the mistakes they've made or so, but they give up on 423 00:19:32,308 --> 00:19:35,900 themselves and they assume God can't heal you anymore or maybe 424 00:19:35,900 --> 00:19:38,300 you just have a personality trait or a tendency and you feel 425 00:19:38,300 --> 00:19:40,800 like God, you can't heal this. How could you forgive it? 426 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:43,800 Because it's such a struggle for me and yet the crawl says you 427 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:46,000 are forgiven. There is Grace for you if you 428 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,800 will lean into it. But our gut reaction is to run. 429 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:51,300 You know what? Sometimes that's the voice of 430 00:19:51,300 --> 00:19:54,300 the enemy trying to shame you when God's trying to cleanse you 431 00:19:55,300 --> 00:19:58,100 he says if you confess it to me I'll cleanse you Isaiah 432 00:19:58,100 --> 00:20:00,700 confessed, it right there in the presence of God, I'm a sinful 433 00:20:00,700 --> 00:20:04,900 man, I have filthy lips, lean in, don't run, you know what I 434 00:20:04,900 --> 00:20:06,400 believe. I believe that this is the 435 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:10,300 pivotal moment in Isaiah's Ministry, I think if Isaiah In 436 00:20:10,300 --> 00:20:13,100 This Moment, instead of confessing had tried to run away 437 00:20:13,100 --> 00:20:15,800 from God, at that moment, God would have probably raised up 438 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:17,400 another Prophet that would say, yes to him. 439 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:21,200 M, how many times do we miss? The blessing of God on our 440 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:23,200 lives? Because we run when he starts 441 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:24,800 trying to convict us about something. 442 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,600 You know what you got to do? Maybe, maybe 20 23 in this. 443 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:31,400 This season is coming back to the Lord and just lay in your 444 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:33,600 heart out and saying, God, I know there's some things you 445 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:38,200 were convicted me about it one time and I got numb to you, I 446 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:42,000 got none to your voice because I wanted to hold on to those 447 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:43,600 things in my life. And Lord, you were trying to 448 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:46,600 strip it out so that you could make me the man and the woman 449 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:50,400 you wanted me to be. And so, as a addicted, not run, 450 00:20:50,500 --> 00:20:54,800 he responded right there with with opening himself up to 451 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:59,000 Cleansing the presence of Jesus will make us aware of our sin 452 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,700 but we shouldn't run. That's his love and conviction. 453 00:21:02,100 --> 00:21:05,300 Look at this. Then one of the seraphim flew 454 00:21:05,300 --> 00:21:08,100 over to me with a burning coal, he had taken from the altar. 455 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:11,400 Listen, not just the again, mind blown in worship here. 456 00:21:11,700 --> 00:21:14,800 All of a sudden this heavenly creature starts flying towards 457 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:16,100 you. At that point, I wouldn't have 458 00:21:16,100 --> 00:21:19,500 blamed to do for running. Just going to say It says a 459 00:21:19,500 --> 00:21:22,500 burning coal, he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs, 460 00:21:22,500 --> 00:21:26,000 he touched my lips with it and he said, see this Cole has 461 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:27,900 touched your lips. I can't help it. 462 00:21:27,900 --> 00:21:30,200 Say man, why did he have to tell him it touches lift? 463 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:33,000 He just touched your face with a burning coal from the altar. 464 00:21:33,100 --> 00:21:35,200 He didn't have to say that he knew that, right? 465 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:39,100 This coal has touched your lips. Now and your guilt is removed in 466 00:21:39,100 --> 00:21:42,300 your sins are forgiven. Can I just say this? 467 00:21:42,900 --> 00:21:45,700 We can clean this up, but in this Vision, it had to be 468 00:21:45,700 --> 00:21:48,700 painful. We don't get that whole pit, 469 00:21:48,700 --> 00:21:51,300 Isaiah didn't go on and on about how much pain he went through. 470 00:21:51,300 --> 00:21:54,400 When the guy put all he gives us gives us as the end result. 471 00:21:54,900 --> 00:21:57,800 But don't you know, if somebody takes a hot coal and they put it 472 00:21:57,800 --> 00:21:59,300 on your lips, you probably want to do that. 473 00:21:59,300 --> 00:22:00,900 You know, my mama probably want to do that. 474 00:22:00,900 --> 00:22:02,400 To me a few times. I'll say that. 475 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:06,500 But cleanse that mouth boy who, you know, but look at this, 476 00:22:06,500 --> 00:22:12,200 there was pain in the cleansing. I don't like this reality IMA be 477 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:14,600 real. I do not like this reality when 478 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:16,300 God starts doing a cleansing work. 479 00:22:16,300 --> 00:22:18,100 Can you guess what? There's Don't be paying, you 480 00:22:18,100 --> 00:22:20,100 know why it's so hard to pray and fast. 481 00:22:20,100 --> 00:22:26,300 Pain discipline we have to choose to overcome our own pride 482 00:22:26,300 --> 00:22:30,500 and our own desires so that God may do a greater work in us but 483 00:22:30,500 --> 00:22:32,800 the Lord sent this messenger and it was painful. 484 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:36,300 Listen, if you've been in a painful season with the Lord 485 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:39,100 maybe for a while maybe God hadn't been answering like you 486 00:22:39,108 --> 00:22:41,600 want it. Listen, this word gives us much 487 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:43,300 hope. God is not hurting you, he's 488 00:22:43,300 --> 00:22:46,100 trying to heal. You God is Not destroying you. 489 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:49,200 He's preparing you for for a wholeness and renewal and 490 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:51,300 restoration, let me give you the lesson that we learn here. 491 00:22:51,500 --> 00:22:54,900 Confession leads to Cleansing and it may be painful, but it's 492 00:22:54,900 --> 00:22:59,100 always powerful. I don't know about you but I 493 00:22:59,108 --> 00:23:01,600 want the anointing of God on my life, like, if I'm going to live 494 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:03,600 as a follower of Christ, if that's my path. 495 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,400 For this life, I want to live under the anointing of God, 496 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:09,000 meaning I want the spirit of God to be on my life. 497 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,500 I want to everywhere. I step, I want God to use my 498 00:23:11,500 --> 00:23:14,000 life, I don't want him to be with me, but here's the thing 499 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,400 until I'm willing to confess confess and be cleansed. 500 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,600 I can't get to that place. God doesn't want to pour His 501 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,200 anointing on dirty vessels. He'll love us, and it'll take us 502 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,400 to heaven, but if you want to live in the power and the 503 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,400 anointing, God, at some point you got to say God, I am a 504 00:23:29,408 --> 00:23:31,200 sinner. I still have messed up saying, 505 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:34,000 Lord, I want to confess it to you and I know it's going to be 506 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,100 painful to walk through it. But Lord I know the power comes 507 00:23:37,100 --> 00:23:41,400 to that see the fasting a season will not bring God's best for us 508 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:45,600 unless we confess. In this season we can't just 509 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,500 ask. We also have to confess. 510 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:51,000 You know, this verse but it's a powerful truth that we need 511 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:59,600 today. says this, if we confess our sin to him, Now, the next 512 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:03,500 piece of this could say, once we tell him, he'll never look at us 513 00:24:03,500 --> 00:24:05,200 the same and how we do each other. 514 00:24:05,900 --> 00:24:08,800 Come on. I mean, sometimes that's how it 515 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:12,000 feels once I tell you how rotten I really am and how messed up? 516 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,700 I really am. You'll never look at me the same 517 00:24:13,700 --> 00:24:17,400 again, it's not really true because all of us have our sins 518 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:20,400 struggles and if we're all really honest and we would all 519 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,100 go. Oh you're just as bad as me like 520 00:24:22,100 --> 00:24:26,100 you need Jesus just as much as I do but if we confess our sins to 521 00:24:26,108 --> 00:24:29,100 him, look at this. He is faithful and just to do 522 00:24:29,100 --> 00:24:32,900 what forgive us and to cleanse us. 523 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,200 Do you know what this means? Cleanse us from wickedness is 524 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,600 the cleansing of the guilt off your life. 525 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,000 Only the Lord. Can do this, you can't right 526 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,100 your wrongs enough to get cleansed of your guilt people 527 00:24:44,100 --> 00:24:46,900 tried every day. I've done so much wrong. 528 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,700 So I got to do a lot of right to write it in. 529 00:24:48,700 --> 00:24:51,400 The Lord says this, if you'll confess it to me not only will I 530 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,700 forgive you so you can come be with me forever. 531 00:24:53,900 --> 00:24:56,000 I will also cleanse you right where you are. 532 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,200 I'll somehow give your conscience the ability to start 533 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:03,400 over by the power of my spirit. See what this season of prayer 534 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:07,000 is really about, is God, finally getting you and me to be real 535 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,400 with him. To be real with him. 536 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,800 We don't have healing because we keep hiding Church. 537 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,600 I'm speaking looking, I can come out here and amen. 538 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,700 Myself this morning, we don't get the healing that we need 539 00:25:19,700 --> 00:25:25,400 because we keep hiding things. We think from God, Oh God, you 540 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:27,300 saw that. I don't want to talk about that. 541 00:25:27,300 --> 00:25:29,100 Can I just go raise my hands and worship? 542 00:25:29,100 --> 00:25:32,500 Let's just not talk about that. If you want freedom. 543 00:25:32,500 --> 00:25:34,400 Freedom will. Come cleansing will come. 544 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,300 When you finally get to the point where you're going. 545 00:25:36,300 --> 00:25:39,400 God, you got me. I'm going to confess it to you 546 00:25:40,100 --> 00:25:43,100 and say, here's what we talked scripturally forgiveness and 547 00:25:43,100 --> 00:25:46,800 cleansing can come when we confess to God, but James tells 548 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,700 assist, you should also confess the when you're walking through 549 00:25:49,700 --> 00:25:51,900 a difficult, maybe you're trying to get out of a Sim battle 550 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:56,500 confess it to a trusted brother or Her in Christ and they then 551 00:25:56,500 --> 00:25:58,100 you can actually find Freedom through that. 552 00:25:58,100 --> 00:26:00,700 So, listen, what is the holy spirit? 553 00:26:00,700 --> 00:26:03,000 Trying to free you up from in your life right now? 554 00:26:03,500 --> 00:26:06,500 You automatically know, probably in your mind, you go, there's 555 00:26:06,500 --> 00:26:08,100 something I know God wants to free. 556 00:26:08,100 --> 00:26:10,000 He wants to cut that out, because that's not who I'm 557 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,000 created. That's not the new life version 558 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,000 of me. That's not who the Lord created 559 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:15,100 me to be. I know there's something needs 560 00:26:15,100 --> 00:26:16,400 to go. Is it pride? 561 00:26:16,500 --> 00:26:19,000 Well, sure, for all of us. Is it porn? 562 00:26:19,300 --> 00:26:21,500 Maybe. Is it secret sin? 563 00:26:21,500 --> 00:26:23,400 Is it bad attitude? Is it hate? 564 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:24,400 Is that addiction? Is it? 565 00:26:24,700 --> 00:26:27,200 something else rule your life instead of God listen I'm just 566 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:31,300 telling you we serve a God who can If I didn't believe that he 567 00:26:31,300 --> 00:26:33,300 could rid us of these things and cleanse. 568 00:26:33,300 --> 00:26:35,800 If those he thinks I couldn't stand with the authority and 569 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:39,700 preach but we have to get down to the root of it. 570 00:26:39,700 --> 00:26:43,900 Healing comes when we stop hiding get to the root. 571 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,200 Pray about your anxiety. But what is the route? 572 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,400 I mean, tell God you want to get rid of it but getting down to 573 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:50,300 the root of it and confess it to him. 574 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,300 What are you scared of what's driving? 575 00:26:52,300 --> 00:26:55,100 It doesn't mean it'll go all the automatically away, but listen, 576 00:26:55,100 --> 00:26:57,900 he can work on it. What about that section will 577 00:26:57,900 --> 00:26:59,800 send struggle. You have that's holding you 578 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:01,500 back. Back from the anointing of God 579 00:27:01,500 --> 00:27:04,200 in 2023. It took you out in 2022. 580 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,300 If you're really honest. I'm not saying you weren't a 581 00:27:06,308 --> 00:27:07,800 believer in that. God didn't love you. 582 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:11,100 I'm just saying, impacted your life, and impacted your mindset, 583 00:27:11,100 --> 00:27:13,700 and how you view people, and it pulled you in. 584 00:27:13,700 --> 00:27:15,800 So closely. What if the Lord says you get 585 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,100 real with me about it, let's get down to the root. 586 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,700 What do you really want? What's driving that I want to 587 00:27:20,700 --> 00:27:22,500 free you up? I want to cleanse you. 588 00:27:22,500 --> 00:27:24,100 I don't want to, I want to crush you. 589 00:27:24,500 --> 00:27:28,100 I crushed my son on the cross. That's what the father says for 590 00:27:28,100 --> 00:27:31,300 that sin. If you Want to change and live 591 00:27:31,300 --> 00:27:34,300 New Life listening to key. Is this get real with God? 592 00:27:35,300 --> 00:27:38,900 My prayer is in Jesus name, over Oakwood over Gainesville over 593 00:27:38,900 --> 00:27:42,600 those tuned in today. May the spirit bring boldness to 594 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,000 say yes to confession because it's hard. 595 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:47,700 In the moment, we make up our mind. 596 00:27:47,700 --> 00:27:49,100 You know what? God, I'm not going to play games 597 00:27:49,100 --> 00:27:50,600 with you anymore, man. Get real with you. 598 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:56,000 You just met walk out free. Uncaged from the sin that's been 599 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,700 holding you back. See it was after confession and 600 00:27:59,700 --> 00:28:02,300 cleansing. That Isaiah is ears were open to 601 00:28:02,308 --> 00:28:05,000 hear God. There was never another time 602 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,700 that he heard God here he heard what was happening? 603 00:28:07,700 --> 00:28:10,900 He heard the Sarah from worshiping, he heard the ground 604 00:28:10,900 --> 00:28:13,300 shake. He saw the smoke coming in but 605 00:28:13,300 --> 00:28:16,400 it doesn't say that he heard God until after what the cleansing 606 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,000 after. The cleansing took place after 607 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,200 the confession. The repentance took place. 608 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,000 Saying God you got me. It was at that point, so I 609 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,900 wonder maybe God is waiting today on somebody to say yes. 610 00:28:28,100 --> 00:28:31,000 Us to confession. Yes to getting real with God 611 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,500 before he's going to answer and give you the answers that you 612 00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:36,100 want. Look at this point he heard the 613 00:28:36,100 --> 00:28:39,300 Lord saying it says I heard the Lord asking then I heard the 614 00:28:39,300 --> 00:28:42,600 Lord asking whom should I send as a messenger to this people 615 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:46,300 who will go for us? And this us here is just an 616 00:28:46,300 --> 00:28:48,900 indicator of the Trinity. God the Father God, the son, God 617 00:28:48,900 --> 00:28:53,700 the Holy Spirit, having a conversation in heaven 33 in 618 00:28:53,700 --> 00:28:56,600 one. God he said that Isaiah says he 619 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,900 hears this conversation and Isaiah's pipes up and says here, 620 00:28:59,900 --> 00:29:02,000 am I send me now? Here's the interesting thing 621 00:29:02,500 --> 00:29:04,600 before. Isaiah knew what the assignment 622 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,400 was, he put his yes on the table. 623 00:29:08,500 --> 00:29:10,900 Again, something I'm really uncomfortable with. 624 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,100 I know that I'm preaching. I'm going. 625 00:29:13,100 --> 00:29:15,500 Hey, trust God, he knows what's best for you. 626 00:29:15,500 --> 00:29:16,900 He's going to do what's best for you. 627 00:29:17,300 --> 00:29:19,900 But when it comes down to saying, God, I will say yes to 628 00:29:19,900 --> 00:29:22,900 you, no matter what you say, I'm going to go ahead and put my yes 629 00:29:22,900 --> 00:29:25,200 on the table. That's a difficult task in it 630 00:29:25,900 --> 00:29:29,200 because see what we like to do is pray and fast and God, what 631 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:30,700 do you want? And then we want to hear it. 632 00:29:30,700 --> 00:29:33,100 And then we want to make up our minds, whether will obey or not. 633 00:29:34,300 --> 00:29:36,000 God, that's too much. You're asking, I don't want to 634 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,300 do that. Okay God, that sounds pretty 635 00:29:37,300 --> 00:29:40,200 good, I'll do that. But what if men and women of God 636 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,200 got so powerful in their faith and in their prayer lives that 637 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:44,700 we just took our yes with us everywhere. 638 00:29:44,700 --> 00:29:47,200 We went, God, what do you want me to do today? 639 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,900 Here's my yes. How do you want? 640 00:29:49,900 --> 00:29:50,900 What do you want me to give today? 641 00:29:50,900 --> 00:29:54,700 God, who do you want me to love on minister to how do you want 642 00:29:54,700 --> 00:29:56,800 me to treat my family today? God hears, my yes. 643 00:29:56,900 --> 00:29:59,800 What do I need to change out of my selfish life so that I can 644 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:03,300 see life change come to my Homer or to my friend group or maybe 645 00:30:03,300 --> 00:30:05,700 to my dorm room? Lord, here's my yes. 646 00:30:05,900 --> 00:30:07,800 I don't want to live. Like I've been living anymore. 647 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,000 God, I'm just gonna go ahead and put my yes on the table before 648 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,600 you even say it because I know you love me. 649 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,000 Listen this season of your will not mind. 650 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,100 That's really what it is. I want to put my yes on the 651 00:30:16,100 --> 00:30:18,400 table. Do you want to hear God, though? 652 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:23,300 Here's the secret. If I want to hear God, I have to 653 00:30:23,300 --> 00:30:27,900 get near God. You don't want to say this. 654 00:30:28,700 --> 00:30:31,000 We often want God to shout at us. 655 00:30:31,500 --> 00:30:33,800 Lord, not. You see me, praying and fasting. 656 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,700 Can't you just shout out to me from Heaven. 657 00:30:36,700 --> 00:30:38,200 Lord, make your message. Clear. 658 00:30:38,300 --> 00:30:41,400 Give me my answers. But throughout scripture, do you 659 00:30:41,408 --> 00:30:43,600 know how God often speaks a whisper? 660 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:47,800 The calm Whisper of the Holy Spirit. 661 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,200 He doesn't yell. He whispers, he speaks softly. 662 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,100 You know, you know what you have to do, if you want to hear 663 00:30:52,100 --> 00:30:54,200 someone, when they're Whispering, you have to lean 664 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:58,300 near to him. I'm convinced that God is 665 00:30:58,300 --> 00:31:00,200 speaking. We're just not leaning close 666 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,200 enough to hear the whisper of the spirit of God. 667 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,000 Oh Lord, speak to me. God, I want to hear your word. 668 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,700 Lord, I want to hear what you want me to do for 2023. 669 00:31:08,700 --> 00:31:11,100 I need your answers. What if he's trying to answer, 670 00:31:11,100 --> 00:31:13,100 but we refuse to lean in close enough. 671 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:17,300 Listen, Isaiah teaches us this, when you repent and you confess 672 00:31:17,300 --> 00:31:19,700 and you lay your heart out before the Lord and you lean in 673 00:31:19,700 --> 00:31:22,700 this at that moment, you can finally begin to hear God 674 00:31:22,700 --> 00:31:27,500 speaking to you. Here's what Jeremiah said. 675 00:31:27,500 --> 00:31:30,100 If you look for me wholeheartedly, you know what 676 00:31:30,100 --> 00:31:32,600 that means? Full surrender to my lordship. 677 00:31:32,900 --> 00:31:35,900 All my heart. God I'm not holding any piece 678 00:31:35,900 --> 00:31:37,100 back. Nothing. 679 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:39,400 If you look for me wholeheartedly, here's the 680 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,700 promise. You will find me this season of 681 00:31:41,700 --> 00:31:44,700 fasting and prayer. It's not just about giving God 682 00:31:44,700 --> 00:31:48,200 all getting all of God. It's about us giving all of 683 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:51,400 ourselves to him, but we have to go out at wholeheartedly. 684 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:56,000 See, look at this, Isaiah said, this again, here I am send me. 685 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,600 You know what he was saying? Here's what he was saying. 686 00:31:58,100 --> 00:32:01,900 Lord my yes is on the table, there it is. 687 00:32:01,900 --> 00:32:04,000 God, what do you want? To do before he knew the 688 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,600 assignment. Now we don't have time to get 689 00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:07,900 into it today but you can go read Isaiah's assignment. 690 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:09,900 It wasn't a really fun assignment. 691 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,200 But he signed up anyway and he did it for his entire Ministry, 692 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,600 his entire life. He said, yes, Lord, here I am 693 00:32:16,900 --> 00:32:20,000 send me, my yes, is on the table. 694 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,300 I don't know how long he had prayed for this Encounter of 695 00:32:22,300 --> 00:32:25,600 God, encounter with God, maybe he was going God show up in my 696 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:27,600 life. I just need you guys show up in 697 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,400 my life, but I think he had made up his mind ahead of time when I 698 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:34,400 get that encounter with God, I'm gonna say yes to what if God is 699 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:38,000 waiting on your yes, before he shows you the rest of what he 700 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,600 wants for you. See when God sees your yes, he 701 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,600 will show you the rest but often he may be holding back because 702 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:46,700 he knows that you're not going to do what he says. 703 00:32:46,700 --> 00:32:50,400 Anyway, usually when I talk about yes I'm talking about 704 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,300 serving. Sometimes you may hear a message 705 00:32:53,300 --> 00:32:55,700 like this and it's like who wants to go to the mission 706 00:32:55,700 --> 00:32:57,800 field? Far away and praise the Lord. 707 00:32:57,800 --> 00:32:59,700 There are people that are called to do that and then people here 708 00:32:59,700 --> 00:33:01,900 probably called to do that. There are many they already. 709 00:33:01,900 --> 00:33:04,500 Are you going to go far away and tell people about Jesus and love 710 00:33:04,500 --> 00:33:07,300 people in his name? But I want to shift the 711 00:33:07,300 --> 00:33:09,700 perspective a little bit today, today? 712 00:33:09,700 --> 00:33:12,600 Yes, is not just about like going and doing for God. 713 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:14,200 It was for Isaiah. Do you know what? 714 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,500 Yes, this is today. It's about God. 715 00:33:16,500 --> 00:33:20,500 Doing a work in me. And you, God, I'm not going to 716 00:33:20,508 --> 00:33:23,500 hold anything back in this season of fasting and prayer 717 00:33:23,500 --> 00:33:24,900 from you. Lord. 718 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:26,800 I'm letting you deal with my sin. 719 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,900 That I think, I've been holding onto behind the scenes to spend 720 00:33:29,900 --> 00:33:32,400 killing me, literally, killing me behind the scenes. 721 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:33,800 I'm tired of holding on to the Lord. 722 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:35,900 Here's my yes. Deal with me, Jesus. 723 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,200 I'm ready to be cleansed. Lord, will you deal with my 724 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:41,600 addiction listening? Are some good people that God 725 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,300 loves and you know what the enemy keeps trying to come back 726 00:33:44,300 --> 00:33:48,500 over you with this addiction. And circumstances. 727 00:33:48,500 --> 00:33:50,700 Keep trying to push. You back in that direction. 728 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,200 Can I just say? Just keep saying yes to him 729 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:54,500 again. Let him take it again. 730 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,400 Let him work on it again. Let him cleanse you again. 731 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,100 Yes, Lord change. How I treat my family. 732 00:34:02,500 --> 00:34:06,300 Yes, Lord deal with my hate in my anger and my pride Lord deal 733 00:34:06,300 --> 00:34:10,000 with any racism and me deal with any unforgiveness in me, deal 734 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,900 with any Brokenness in Me. God, I'm tired of trying to hide 735 00:34:12,900 --> 00:34:16,100 it and make sure everybody else thinks I'm fine when I got all 736 00:34:16,100 --> 00:34:19,500 these struggles going on. Lord my yesterday is about you 737 00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:23,000 bringing healing see maybe yesterday is about you. 738 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,400 Finally surrendering your life to Christ. 739 00:34:26,699 --> 00:34:28,800 There are some that hope for whatever reason, they know the 740 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,300 love of God, and they hear a message like this, but they hold 741 00:34:31,300 --> 00:34:34,100 back on God, they refused to let him have everything. 742 00:34:34,100 --> 00:34:36,400 So, maybe, yes, today, for you is saying, Jesus. 743 00:34:36,500 --> 00:34:38,800 I'm ready to let you be the Lord of my life. 744 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:42,500 I'm ready for the first time to surrender under your lordship. 745 00:34:42,500 --> 00:34:45,300 See, here's the question. Is it time for you today? 746 00:34:45,300 --> 00:34:50,300 To put your yes, on the table? Freedom is on the other side of 747 00:34:50,300 --> 00:34:53,300 surrender. So here's what I want to do. 748 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,900 Right here in Gainesville and in Oakwood, I want you to bow with 749 00:34:55,900 --> 00:34:59,000 me all over the house. Stay with me, Oakwood, just bow. 750 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,400 Listen, if you, if you lose attention when you close your 751 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,300 eyes because I don't want you disconnect and yet we're not 752 00:35:03,300 --> 00:35:06,400 done, you can look at me, that's fine, but I want you to stay 753 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,100 with me for just a moment and think about this, if freedom is 754 00:35:09,100 --> 00:35:12,700 on the other side of surrender, just like Isaiah said, yes, 755 00:35:13,300 --> 00:35:16,000 maybe it's time to say yes, to let God do the work in you, so 756 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,500 then he can do the work through you. 757 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:21,100 So here's what I want to ask you today. 758 00:35:21,900 --> 00:35:26,300 Both here and at Oakwood, if you would go, Joe, I know that I 759 00:35:26,300 --> 00:35:28,500 need to put my yes on the table before the Lord. 760 00:35:28,500 --> 00:35:30,200 Today, I want you to stand up right where you are. 761 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:31,800 You everybody else? Just keep your head down. 762 00:35:31,900 --> 00:35:34,000 If you go Joe, I know there's a work in my life. 763 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,400 I know this will work through my life. 764 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:36,700 I want you to stand right? Where you are. 765 00:35:36,700 --> 00:35:39,200 Oakwood you to thank you, come on, stand up right, where you 766 00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:39,800 are? That shoe. 767 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:41,100 I won't pray for you this morning. 768 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,100 That's all we're going to do. I'm going to pray that the Lord 769 00:35:43,100 --> 00:35:44,300 will put because of your boldness. 770 00:35:44,300 --> 00:35:45,400 Thank you. Anybody else? 771 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,000 If you go Joe I'm putting my need to put my yes on the table 772 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,700 before the Lord today. Thank you. 773 00:35:49,700 --> 00:35:51,600 Come on. Do you 20 quid? 774 00:35:51,700 --> 00:35:53,800 Would stand up right there where you are because I want to pray 775 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:56,600 for you and then we're going to worship as we close this place 776 00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:58,800 out today. Maybe you standing today is used 777 00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:01,700 to signify and I Surrender my life to Jesus Christ today. 778 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:03,700 I'm not holding back anything anymore. 779 00:36:04,100 --> 00:36:06,600 I'm not holding it back. I'm ready for the Lord to deal 780 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:08,600 with my sin. I'm ready for the Lord to deal 781 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:11,700 with these things that are trying to press me down right 782 00:36:11,700 --> 00:36:14,600 there where you are listing. Many of us standing here in 783 00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:16,800 Gainesville and Oakwood. I want to pray over you this 784 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,900 morning if that's you. So father, I thank you for those 785 00:36:19,900 --> 00:36:21,600 that are bold to stand and say my yeah. 786 00:36:21,900 --> 00:36:26,600 Is on the table today and got on to praise you, that they had the 787 00:36:26,900 --> 00:36:29,300 courage to do. So right here where we are in 788 00:36:29,300 --> 00:36:32,600 order to ask you. Now in Jesus name God will use 789 00:36:33,100 --> 00:36:35,400 you hear their? Yes, Lord. 790 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:37,400 They stood up with their feet in front of everybody. 791 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,000 They just stood in the room and said, Here I Am Lord, here's my 792 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,000 yes. So God whether it's a Sim battle 793 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,400 whether to surrender to you whether its submission to your 794 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:49,100 will, whatever it may be. God, I pray that you would see 795 00:36:49,100 --> 00:36:50,600 it and you would accept it and Lord. 796 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:52,400 Now, you would pour out your You're cleansing. 797 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,700 Lord that they would continue to follow through, continue the 798 00:36:55,700 --> 00:36:58,500 conversation of cleansing and healing and repentance and 799 00:36:58,500 --> 00:37:00,600 confession with you. And God, we're going to look for 800 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,800 great things. You can do across your church 801 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:06,000 through this. So father, pour out your grace 802 00:37:06,100 --> 00:37:08,400 on everyone. Thank you that you don't convict 803 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,800 Us in order to push us away, you can victis to pull his clothes 804 00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:15,300 so that we can lean in and we can accept that love of Jesus 805 00:37:15,300 --> 00:37:18,100 poured out. So God today I'm going to give 806 00:37:18,100 --> 00:37:20,400 you glory for what you're going to do here and Oakwood and all 807 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,800 those tuned in today, God we're going to give you the glory. 808 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,100 Here is our yes Father as a church. 809 00:37:25,100 --> 00:37:27,900 I'll just say is as the pastor of this church that I get 810 00:37:27,900 --> 00:37:30,600 privileged to be Lord. Our yes, is on the table. 811 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:32,800 Lord Riverbend churches. Yes. 812 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:34,300 Is on the table. What do you want God? 813 00:37:34,300 --> 00:37:37,200 When you want it, where you want it, how you want, it load, it is 814 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,800 your church. Lord, we are stewards and we 815 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:41,400 were blessed to get to do what we do. 816 00:37:41,700 --> 00:37:44,200 So God, with all my brothers and sisters standing across the 817 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:45,600 room. Now I say, Jesus. 818 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:49,500 Thank you. We go. 2023 bless this year with 819 00:37:49,500 --> 00:37:52,200 your presence. God, have all of us in. 820 00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:54,900 Jesus name. Thank you for listening to the 821 00:37:54,908 --> 00:37:56,400 river. Bend Church podcast. 822 00:37:56,700 --> 00:37:59,400 Learn more about who we are as a church and how to connect you 823 00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:02,300 can head over to our website Riverbend Church dot life.