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I want to jump right back into a series that we started a few
weeks ago. It's called God's Mercy on my
Master, where we're doing an in depth exploration and a walk
through the book of Jonah. Now, thematically, the book of
Jonah is the, the, the whole overarching truth or theme is
and a reminder is your story isn't over that, that with God,
your story, it is, it isn't over.
It doesn't matter who you are or where you've been or what you've
done or even what you're still struggling with.
Your story isn't isn't over. That's the overarching theme of
the entire book of Jonah. But one of the things that that
we've really honed into is really a main principle or a
core truth of what we call a big idea that has set up this entire
series in this entire conversation through the book of
Jonah. So if you're taking notes with
us, let me go ahead and let's go back to our big idea throughout
this series, just to make sure that we're all on the same page.
God's mercy is greater than my mess.
God's mercy is greater than a mess.
No matter what type of mess you're in, no matter if it if
it's of your own making or it is a mess that you found yourself
in. I think that we would all agree,
whether you're in the room with us or we're online with us, that
we've all found ourselves and maybe even this morning, you
find yourself in, in what you would describe as a, as a mess.
And, and here's the thing about about messes is a lot of times
we start to assume that that mess is, is bigger than our God,
that the consequences of that mess is, are greater than the
power of, of our God. So one of the things that we've
been doing is we've been walking through the book of Jonah.
We've been exposed losing some common laws that we that we
believe is Speaking of, of being in a mess or finding yourself in
a mess. This past week I had the
opportunity to to get away for a few days up and up in Ellijay
to, to, to pray and to write and to, you know, just do like
pastor spiritual things, right? So it was just it was just me
sitting there on the on the couch in a in a cabin, me, my
Bible, a journal, my iPad, some coffee.
And I started hearing some rustling outside and I just
assumed that it was somebody that made a wrong turn that
turned down the wrong driveway. Because just a few minutes
before, probably about an hour before, I had made that same
mistake. I turned down the wrong
driveway, realized I was at the wrong house and backed out and
found the right house. So I just assumed somebody made
the same mistake that I did. However, the noise kept going
and I thought, well, if somebody made the wrong turn, then what
are they doing hanging out on my porch?
So anyway, I pulled the blinds open and and this is this is
what I saw. He's opening the gate.
So there he is. That's the enhanced AI version.
However, the thing that the enhanced AI version doesn't have
quite right is I think it it it widened the smile, it shrunk the
claws and it got rid of the blood around.
I mean, this was not this was not Winnie the Pooh, right?
This was not like a care bear and this was not Smokey the bear
coming to remind me that only I can prevent forest fires like
this was a hey, this may be how it ends for you type of bear.
So anyway, I immediately went from a mode of God, please speak
to me to God, please keep quiet. I don't want that thing to know
that we're in here type of mode. And I, I, I appeared out and,
and, and just watched this thing and you know, I've legitimately
thought I legitimately thought this.
I mean, if I'm lying, I'm dying. I didn't realize this is how it
was going to end for me. Can you imagine like and I
immediately thought like, man, people are never going to
believe like Ben died, how like he got attacked by a bear.
And listen, I know that that's like spoiler alert, that didn't
happen. You know, in case you want to
know how the story ended. But in that how like big
situations or big messes like they, they, they tend to do in
our minds, they, they, they, they just blow up and, and, and
they become like looking back in hindsight, they become almost
like overly dramatic. But in the moment it can become
pretty paralyzing, right? And, and I think that that
exposes, that exposes kind of a lie that we often believe when
we find ourselves in a mess. I'm not talking about a bear on
your porch type of mess, but I'm talking about like a, a mess to
where you feel that like you've hit rock bottom.
And, and here's the lie that I believe that we often believe
when it comes to rock bottom, rock bottom's the end.
Rock bottom is the end. Let me ask you a question.
Have you ever, if you find, if you find yourself and maybe
maybe you're here with us this morning in the room and online
to where your thought is. I never thought I would be here,
whatever the here is like. I never thought that I would be
feeling this. I never thought that I would be
walking through this. I never thought that like that
it would all catch up to me. I never thought that I would be
at rock bottom. And maybe you've said things
like it's over think things will never change.
Where I am and how I am right now is where I'll always be and
how how I will always be. Or maybe in your mind you've
thought or you're thinking, if the people near me really knew,
really knew what I was going through and really know and
really knew what's going through my mind and the thoughts going
through my mind, they would have nothing to do with me.
Or maybe you're here with us this morning and you have
convinced yourself that God is done with you.
That's rock bottom. That's rock bottom.
And one of the things that we're going to do this morning is I
want to show you through the book of Jonah how God wants to
completely tear apart that lie and show us the truth.
Show us the truth that he has for us.
And it doesn't matter. Again, it doesn't matter who you
are, where you've been, what you've done, and it doesn't
matter what you're still struggling with.
God is not finished with you. So I want to encourage you, if
you have a Bible with you, find Jonah chapter 1.
We're going to pick it up in verse 17 this morning, and verse
17 is going to be kind of an overlap of where we left off
last week. Jonah chapter 1 is really about
God giving God, Jonah, a prophet, a call for him to leave
his hometown in Israel and to travel 500 miles east to the
capital city of Assyria, a city called Nineveh.
And Jonah essentially said no, not going to do it.
I don't want to go there. I don't like those people.
So Jonah goes down to the near seaport, up a seaport called
Joppa. He hops onto a ship heading to
Tarshish, which is modern day Spain, 2500 miles West from
where he was trying to outrun God.
And we read at the very end of Jonah chapter 1 where God really
sent a storm to get Jonah's attention and to get him
rerouted back on, back on track. By the time we get to Jonah 117,
the sailors of the ship, they don't know what to do in this
storm. And Jonah says, hey, listen, if
you throw me overboard, then the storm will stop.
And they're kind of uneasy with that.
But eventually, that's sure enough.
That's what they do. They throw them overboard.
And where we pick it up. And Jonah 117 is Jonah's just
like hanging out in the sea. We don't know the length that
he's hanging out in the sea, but I don't think that it is very
long. Here's how Jonah 117 starts.
And the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah.
And Jonah was in the belly of the fish 3 days and three
nights. Then Jonah prayed.
Chapter 2, verse one. Then Jonah prayed to the Lord
his God from the belly of the fish, saying, I called out to
the Lord out of my distress. And he answered me out of the
belly of Sheol. I cried.
And you, Lord, you God, you heard my voice.
For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the Seas.
And the flood surrounded me. All your waves and your billows
passed over me. Then I said, I'm driven away
from your sight, yet I shall again look upon your holy
temple. I want you to notice in verse 5,
Verse 5 is going to start. If you feel that you've kind of
hit this rock bottom to where you feel that you're really
running low on hope, see if this resonates with you.
Jonah said the waters closed in over me to take my life.
The deep surrounded me, weeds were wrapped about my head.
He goes on to say, at the roots of the mountains I went down to
the land whose bars closed up on me, upon me forever.
Yet you brought up my life from the pit.
O Lord my God, when my life was fainting away, I remember the
Lord and my prayer came to you into your holy temple.
Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of
steadfast love. Then he continues on.
But I, with the voice of Thanksgiving, will sacrifice to
you what I have vowed I will pay.
Salvation belongs to the Lord. And the Lord spoke to the fish,
and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.
Now let's get a couple things out in the open before we go any
further. First thing that we need to get
out in the open. Do I believe that there was
literally a giant fish, a great fish that literally swallowed a
man by the name of Jonah, and that man literally lived in the
belly of that fish for three days and three nights?
Yes, yes I do. I do for several reasons #1
Jesus himself referenced Jonah three different times in his
earthly ministry. And one of those times he even
referenced him while in the belly of the fish.
And, and of those three times, Jesus never alluded to that to,
to any hint or even hinted at that it was some type of like
fable or Jewish fairy tale or some type of metaphor to Jesus.
Jesus spoke of Jonah as a historical man and Jonah being
swallowed by this fish as a historical event.
And I just happened to believe that Jesus is a pretty credible
source #2 I also choose to believe that if it is in the
Bible, I choose to believe it and, and, and, and that is not
me checking my brain at the door.
By the way, just because I don't understand it doesn't mean that
I shouldn't choose to believe it.
Here's here's where I'm getting at.
I believe that it's really the height of arrogance and hubris
to cherry pick the passages of the Bible that I like and that I
understand and to accept those. But to reject the passages that
I don't like or that I don't understand and push those to the
side. And just for the sake of like
intellectual honesty, if I do not believe Jonah 117, then what
gives me any credence or hope in believing John 316?
The third reason that I believe that this was a historical event
is again, just because I don't understand it doesn't mean that
I'm going to choose not to believe it.
I don't understand electricity, but I'm not going to sit in the
dark or in a not air conditioned room until I do, right?
So I just choose that the Bible has it in it, then I choose to
believe it. The second thing that we need to
get out in the open is super religious people, sanctimonious,
holier than thou, super judgmental people do not and
will not like the message of Jonah chapter 2.
They won't. And if he any point in time in
the room or online, you start to feel yourself kind of getting
riled up or ticked off or the words.
But what about can't seem to like stay inside of you?
Then as lovingly, compassionately and pastorally
as I possibly can, I want to encourage you to surrender that
to God, to repent of that spirit, and to ask God to soften
your heart towards his being in alignment with his heart.
Because you my friend, have become almost dangerously close,
like the second brother, the older brother in Jesus parable
of the prodigal son. Super religious people do not
like the message of Jonah chapter 2.
Because the the message of Jonah chapter 2 is there is grace at
rock bottom and grace does not make sense.
It is all based on God's favor, God's love, God's heart, God's
character, not our effort. Now let's move on to more
uplifting things like hitting rock bottom.
All right, did you know that if you're at rock bottom, did you
know that we have three choices that we face if while at rock
bottom? And again, rock bottom can be
can be defined like for for for Jonah, it was obviously being in
the belly of a whale or being in the belly of a fish for three
days and three nights. That's pretty easy to spot his
rock bottom. But for rock bottom for us, it
could be the IT could be the loss or the fracture of a, of a
marital relationship or something going on within your
family. It could be the passing or the
loss of a, of a loved one. It could be a it could be an
addiction that has that has come to light.
It could be a financial crisis in your life.
It could be a mental or an emotional breakdown.
Rock bottom may look differently for for for different ones of
us, but for every single one of us, we all have three options
when we hit rock bottom. If you're taking notes with us,
here's the first one. We do have the option to stay
down. We do have the option to stay
down. You see Jonah while in the belly
of the fish for three days and three nights, he could have had
the most disgusting, smelliest pity party in all of history.
He could have just sat there and went, well, I'm here, nothing I
can do. Lost all hope.
Did you know that you and I, we also have that choice to where
when we hit rock bottom, we can make the decision just to sit in
it. Just to sit in it and sitting in
it basically is this attitude of, hey, nothing will ever
change. I'm here, I've blown it, God's
done with me, other people are done with me.
My life is over. This is how it is going to end
that that's, that's staying, staying down here.
Here's the problem with staying down is staying down puts us
into a mindset of defeat. And it's that mindset of defeat
and not God that will take us out.
It's that mindset of defeat, not God, that will take us out.
So, but make no mistake about it, we do have the option just
to stay down at rock bottom. We also have the option #2 we
have the option to spiral down. We have the option to spiral
down. In Jonah's case, Jonah had the
option to double down on his anger and his attitude while in
the belly of a fish. I would even argue it's pretty
easy to double down on that anger and attitude while in the
belly of a fish. You and I, we also have the
option to continue to make things worse.
It is possible that when we are at rock bottom to take on the
attitude of I'm just going to double down on the things that
got me here. I'm just going to continue
doubling down, disconnecting myself from a sense of community
and, and, and accountability. I'm just going to double down on
doing my own thing and, and what makes sense in my own eyes and
what makes sense in my own brain.
I'm just going to double down on taking the advice of, of some
ungodly people that the wisdom of God is not coming from them
at all. And, and we, we take on that
attitude and we find ourselves saying things like, Hey, while
I'm here, I might as well as if nothing's ever going to change.
And make no mistake about it, things can get worse.
Things can get worse if we choose to spiral down.
So we can choose to stay down, We can choose to spiral down.
Or our third option is we can choose to surrender up.
We can choose to surrender up. Jonah could have stayed down,
could have spiraled down, but he chose to pray up.
He chose to surrender up. And the same thing's true for,
for, for you and I. And, and what it looks like for
us to surrender up when we're at rock bottom is if we find
ourselves in a situation or when we find ourselves at rock bottom
because of the consequences of our own making.
This is what it looks like for us to surrender up to own it.
God, you know that I've made some really bad mistakes.
Confess it, God, those mistakes weren't just mistakes.
They were sin to to to give it over to God and to ask for his
forgiveness and then to say, Hey, God, I don't have the
answers of how to get out of rock bottom, but I know that
you're here with me and I know that you don't want to keep me
here. That's, that's surrendering up,
that's surrendering up. And once we surrender up, not
stay down, not spiral down, but surrender up, then God can teach
us a lie. He can, He can break us from the
lie. He can teach us the truth.
He can break us from the lie that rock bottom is the end and
he can expose us to this truth. Rock bottom often feels final,
but it's often where God starts the rebuilding, even though rock
bottom feels final. And I don't know your story,
there's no way for me to know everybody's story in the room
online. But my guess is, is there's some
of us that are here this morning that you feel like you're giving
God like one last shot. And intellectually, you know the
God of the Bible and you know that he's got your soul and you
know that following his will and his words and his ways for your
life are best. But you're just kind of blinded
and overwhelmed by everything that's going on in your life,
and you feel like it will never change.
Can I give you some hope this morning?
Even though rock bottom feels final, it's often where God
starts the rebuilding. I can't imagine how final it
must have felt for Jonah. In the belly of a fish, in the
depths of the sea. Dark, smelly, isolated.
Always wondering not only how did I get here, but like, how
will anything ever change for me?
I think that some of us, even though we're don't, we don't
find ourselves literally in the belly of a fish.
Some of us, we find ourselves with kind of with that same
mindset, with those same questions, don't we?
How will things ever change? Can I tell you something?
What may feel like a dismantling of your life may very well be
God rebuilding your life in the right way.
What may feel like everything being torn down may be God
building up a new foundation in your life.
So how do we take that hope and turn it into reality?
I think that there are three things that you and I, we've got
to keep in mind when we are facing and when we find
ourselves at rock bottom. Here's the first one that I want
to introduce you to. I get to decide the depth of my
rock bottom. I get to decide the depth of my
rock bottom. If you've been with us
throughout this series, I wonder if you've noticed something so
far. And we we've only gone through,
you know, today we'll make Jonah chapter 2.
But I wonder if you've noticed this pattern when you read
through Jonah, Jonah one, and on into chapter 2 about the
direction Jonah's heading. Have you noticed that there's a
dissension, there's a descending nature about Jonah?
For example, in Jonah chapter one, verse 3, the Bible tells us
that Jonah went down to Joppa. In that same verse it says that
Jonah found a ship in Joppa that was heading to Tarshish and it
said that he went down into the ship in Jonah 15.
We're told that Jonah went down into the inner part of the ship
to to take a nap during the storm.
And Jonah 2 verse 6 where we read where Jonah went down into
the depths of the sea. You may say OK like that, that's
pretty interesting, but what, what's your point?
Here's the point. Jonah didn't just wake up 1
morning and find himself at rock bottom.
Jonah being at rock bottom was the destination for a direction
that he'd been heading in for a long time.
Can I say this to you again as lovingly, compassionately,
compassionately, and pastorally as I possibly can?
A lot of times when we find ourselves at rock bottom, we
don't just wake up there. We, we, we gradually drift
towards rock bottom and then the lights turn on and we realize
that we're at rock bottom again. It can be like making a
compromise here or there. It could be making like some bad
decisions or some choices here or there.
It could, it could be, it could be any number of things.
But here's the great hope, and I hope that doesn't come across,
that didn't come across as condemning or anything like
that. But here's the great hope.
Just because you may find yourself at rock bottom now, it
doesn't mean that you have to keep digging further down.
It doesn't matter. It doesn't mean that your rock
bottom has to keep going deeper. You guys say, well, Ben, how did
how can I keep my rock bottom from going deeper again, go back
to the three choices that we face.
We can stay in it. We can spot or we can stay down.
We can spiral down or we can surrender up.
I love what Jonah said in What God's word says in Jonah chapter
one verse 2. I called out to the Lord at out
of my distress and he answered me out of the belly of Sheol.
I cried and you, God heard my voice.
Can I tell you this? If you find yourself at rock
bottom this morning, that same invitation is open for you.
Turn your attention up to God. I called out to the Lord out of
my distress. Jonah called out to God in fish
guts and awe, called out to God and guess what, God answered.
Listen, if you call out to God in the midst of your mess, you
do not have to wait to clean yourself up.
He will answer you and He will welcome you with open arms.
You and I, we get to, we actually get to decide the depth
of our rock bottom. The second thing that I want to
show you is this. There are no elements of my rock
bottom that are outside of the control of God.
There are no elements of my rock bottom that are outside the
control of God. Again, let's go back to Jonah.
Jonah must have felt like everything was just completely
out of control, right? That he had no control over any
of it. But I want to read through that
passage and I want to keep going back, keep going into verse 3
where it says I called out Jonah said I called out to the Lord
out of my distress and he answered me out of the belly of
Sheol. I cried and you God heard my
voice. That is not just information for
us about Jonah. That's an invitation for us to
surrender to God. Check this out though, verse 3
for you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the Seas, and
the flood surrounded me. All your billows, all your waves
passed over me. Here's what I want to get you to
do. Look at the note sheet that you
received on your way in. At the top of that note sheet is
the passage that we just read all of Jonah chapter 2 and then
throwing in Jonah 117. I want you to circle a few words
there. I want you to circle the words.
Find the words your waves and your billows, your waves and
your billows. Then after you circle them or
underline them, why don't you look up here?
Whose waves and whose billows gods?
Whose storm and whose wind gods? Whose great sea gods?
Whose great fish gods? Nothing was out of the control
of God. You know, Jonah looked around
and he had no control. And I would even argue that when
Jonah looked around and he focused on all the things that
he had no control over, everything was chaotic.
But then when he started to realize and he makes this
turning point, his prayer in verse 3, your waves and your
billows start to realize God, I have no control over it, but
you've never lost control over it.
Guess what? The chaos turned to surrender.
Here's what I want you to know.
If you find yourself at rock bottom or if there's somebody
that you know that finds himself at rock bottom facing a
situation that they have no idea how to get out of and they've
they're, they're, they're teetering on just giving up is
remind them. And maybe this is a reminder to
you that what you don't have control over, God never lost
control over. And when you start to realize
that, that thought begins to pivot to surrender, and it
begins to pivot your attention because when you look at all the
things that you can't control, what do we do?
We panic. When we look at the things that
are always in God's control, what do we do?
We pray. There's a huge difference there,
but make no mistake about it, there's no element of our rock
bottom that is outside of God's control.
And the reason that that is such great news and gives us great
hope this morning is because we don't have to focus in on all
the things that we don't have control over.
We just got to focus in on all that He has control over.
It's a huge, huge hope. And once we realize that there's
no element of our life that God does not have complete control
over man, that changes everything.
That changes everything. And then it leads us to the
third and final point that we're going to talk about this
morning, Where I lack God names himself.
Where I lack God names himself. Did you know that there are two
elements, 2 elements to surrendering to God,
acknowledging where I lack, and turning to the God that doesn't.
That's it. God, I lack the capacity or the
ability to change anything about this situation, but you don't.
God, I lack the capacity and the ability to change that person's
heart or mind, but you don't. God, I lack the capacity or the
ability to change anything about this circumstance, but you
don't. God, I'm struggling because I
lack the ability and the capacity to, to change how I
feel about everything that's going on.
But you don't. And once I realize, once I
realize what I lack and that there is a God that does not
lack in that area, that leads to surrender.
Let me kind of put some boots on what surrender means for us.
It means that we call out to God specifically call out to God,
not not these, not these template prayers, not these
like, you know, God bless the gift and the giver type of
prayers or or not, not like the, the, the, the rope prayers.
I'm talking about like getting super, super specific.
And I want to give you some tools this morning.
Did you know throughout the Bible there's certain names,
There are different names given to God.
Now, the overarching name given to God is Yahweh or Jehovah.
But there's certain names that list not only who he is, but
what he does. And I think that it's really
important for us to call out specifically to that God and
name him specifically. So, for example, I want to show
you some of the names Jehovah Jireh.
Jehovah Jireh, if you were struggling, if you're struggling
with need this morning, not want but but legitimately need, call
upon the God who provides his name is Jehovah Jireh.
Here's another one. Jehovah Rapha, do you need
healing? Physical, mental, emotional,
spiritual? Do you need healing?
Jehovah Rapha, He is the God who heals.
How about this one, Jehovah Shalom.
Are you struggling with with anxiety to where when you go to
bed at night, you lay your head down, you close your eyes, but
even though you want your body to turn off, your mind is just
racing? You struggling with stress and
anxiety and worry. Are you trying to, to, to, to
solve today? What's tomorrow's problems?
Do you, do you need that sense of peace and and calm to come
over your over your mind? Jehovah Shalom, the God of
peace. If you're struggling with
loneliness, Jehovah Shema. Jehovah Shema literally means
the God who is there, the God who is there.
Wherever you are. Jehovah Shema, he is there.
If you're struggling with timidity, with fear, with
feeling lesser than insecurity. Jehovah Nisi, the Lord, is my
banner, that I am not here on my own strength, on my own accord.
I am here in the name of the Lord Most High.
I am a son. I'm a daughter of the king
Jehovah Nisi. If you're struggling with past
guilt or shame, Jehovah Secondu. Jehovah Secondu is the Lord is
my righteousness. You ever felt that whisper of
like when you hear somebody that says, hey, God wants to do great
things through you. God's not finished with you
almost hear that whisper of accusation.
He's not talking to you. If people knew what you've done
in your past, you'd be disqualified.
If people know what you still struggle with, you'd be
disqualified. Jehovah Secondu is the Lord is
my righteousness. My righteousness is not based on
me. It is based on what has been
bestowed upon me because of what Jesus has done for me.
I stand covered in his blood and I stand in his righteousness,
not on my own resume. If you struggle this morning
with sinful strongholds, Jehovah and Kadesh, Jehovah and Kadesh
is the Lord who sanctifies you. Struggling with a habit or
you're struggling with an addiction.
You're struggling with a stronghold.
You're struggling with a strong pull to go back to what Jesus
has set you free from Jehovah M Kadesh God, you are the one that
sanctifies God. Would you sanctify me?
Sanctifies just another way of saying that I am in process of
becoming who God created me to be.
God, would you continue processing me forward in
righteousness? And then this morning, if you're
struggling with a lack of direction and you need guidance,
Jehovah Raha, the Lord is my shepherd.
I shall not want. Let me ask you a question this
morning in the room online. Here's the question.
Who do you need to turn to? How do you need to turn to God
and how do you need to call upon God this morning?
How do you need to specifically turn to God?
Listen, in just a moment, I'm going to pray over us and we'll
have another opportunity to stand and to worship God through
Psalm. But it's really an invitation
for you to respond. And we're all going to respond
in one of three ways. We will respond by staying down.
We will respond by continuing to spiral down, or we will respond
by surrendering up. God puts the ball in our court
and allows us to the side. Listen, what seems chaotic to
you right now is still in the control of God Almighty.
My encouragement, I beg you, and I plead with you to turn it over
to Him. Surrender up to him.
And how that looks is if you want to come down and pray with
a pastor, we'll have pastors down here.
If you want to come down and just kneel down at the front and
spend some time in prayer and maybe even bring somebody with
you, then come down and pray. Surrender up to God.
The way that we surrender up is most often on our knees.
So this morning, will you stay down?
Will you spiral down, spiral down, or will you surrender up?
God, we thank you and we love you for your word.
God, we thank you that you have given us the life and the
writings of this prophet Jonah that reminds us that no matter
how far we may have run from you, no matter how fast we have
tried to run from you, God, we can never outrun you.
We can never outrun your love. We can never outlaw outrun your
plans for us. God, the plans that you desire
for us are good. They are for our good and for
your glory. God, many of us this morning, we
either find ourselves at a rock bottom or God, we find ourselves
in the life of someone else that we're close to, that they are at
a rock bottom. So God, whether it is us,
ourselves or us, on behalf of someone that we love, God, I
pray that you would break down any hesitations, any walls, any
hesitations for us to surrender up to you, God, for us to look
at all the things that we don't have control over and to
understand. If we focus on that God, we
panic. But if we focus in on all the
things that we have no control over but the those things, those
same things you've never lost control over, God, that gives us
a sense of hope that no amount of money can ever buy.
And God, that knowledge that what may be chaotic to me is
always in can in your control. God, it's under that guise and
it's through that lens that we surrender to you this morning.
So God, I pray that you would move in, in, in might.
God, I pray that you would move in freedom.
God, I pray that you would go to the deep and the secret places
of all of our hearts and our minds this morning to do what
only your Holy Spirit can do to provide freedom.
God, remind us that you are not finished with a single one of us
yet. God, may we be surrendered to
you. And it's in Jesus name that we
pray. Amen.
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