Oh Crossing Nation, I love you and I don't ever want to get
over. The fact that we get to be a
part of this beautiful season and mission together in 2025 is
off to an incredible start. I'm already hearing wonderful
stories of people taking their steps of faith in the life
change that comes alongside with it.
You might remember a couple of weeks ago when the roads were
covered in snow and it was really bad weather out and many
of you guys were not able to attend one of our physical
locations. But on that weekend we had 9
baptisms and in fact, we are already at 19 for the year.
And after service, I received a message on our internal comms
system of a screenshot of a person's Facebook message.
I got to read this to you. This is what it said.
Today marked a significant milestone for me.
I returned to church for the first time in 14 years alongside
some truly remarkable new friends who have enriched my
life with their presence. The snow covered roads did not
hinder my determination to open my heart to God's love and
guidance. As I step into 2025, I am
resolute in my commitment to personal growth and self
improvement, and I trust that God will illuminate the path
ahead. I am deep, deeply grateful for
the blessings of life and the opportunity to begin a new
journey. Hashtag Let God lead.
How cool is that? Then last weekend one of our
staff members saw somebody they had not seen in a while and he
asked what brought you here today?
And he said, well, a buddy was helping me lay some flooring and
I asked what I could do to thank him.
And he said not give me 100 bucks, not Take Me Out for a
meal. He said in exchange would you
see me at church tomorrow? And he came and after second
service last weekend, a young girl in our church came up to me
and she asked me what was the first verse that I read at the
beginning of last week's message.
And I said it was John 644. And then she said, is there any
chance you could start your sermon next week with that same
verse? Because I'm going to be bringing
somebody very important to me. And I want them to know that God
has been trying to get back into a relationship with them.
So if I may, I want to welcome all of you joining at our
different locations, those of you watching online, and those
of you who are part of our crossing family.
And I want to welcome those of you who are here for the first
time or the first time in a long time.
And we believe that you being here is no accident.
Why? Because John records these words
of Jesus in John 644, no one can come to me unless the Father who
sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day.
You are here for a purpose. For some of you, it might be out
of a routine. For others of you, you're here
today because you're just going through something and you need
some help and some hope. Others of you might be looking
for something new and something different.
No matter what's going on in your life, no matter what
brought you in, I know who brought you in.
God is trying to help you begin an intimate personal
relationship with His Son, Jesus Christ.
We've been talking a lot about the spiritual spectrum and no
matter where you see yourself on the spiritual graphic, I want
you to know that God loves you no matter where you are on the
spiritual spectrum has nothing to do with your value.
Every person, no matter where they are on the spectrum, was
created by God and loved by God. John 316 tells us that God so
loved the world that He gave his one and only Son, that whoever
believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
It does not say for God so loved all the plus threes and all the
plus fives. It says for God so loved the
world and that includes you. And as a church, our mission
here at the Crossing is to help people find an intimate personal
relationship with Jesus Christ. And we have a big audacious goal
that we want to make this region where we do life and ministry
the hardest place on planet earth to get to hell from.
In our region alone, we recognize that there are over
450,000 people who do not have a heavenly future beyond the
grave. This must and this should
consume us. But there is a harsh reality.
We cannot create the place we want to create unless we
createspace in our lives to become the people that God
created us to become. That's why we started the year
talking about making sure that we are creating space in our
lives to be committed to the Word of God.
How can we ever expect people to hear the good news about Jesus
if we don't know Him? How can we expect them to live
for Him if we don't know what living for Him looks like?
We don't want to just be people who read the word, but we want
to be people who do what it says.
It is better to live out one word of God than to read 10,000
words and do nothing. So in order to be the people
that God created us to be, we need to have a place and a time
and spend time in our word. Last week we talked about
prayer, creating space in our lives for prayer.
Right before I came out I heard an incredible, powerful story of
the Holy Spirit just working in a persons life to bless
somebody. Billy Graham, one of the most,
well the greatest evangelist that has ever lived, was asked
what are the most important steps in preparing for an
evangelistic revival for a lot of people to come to faith and
his answer was simple. It was prayer, prayer and
prayer. If we were wanting a phenomenal
move of God in the lives of our friends and our family, we must
be a people who are reliant on prayer and the power of God that
is released because of prayer. We want to start our days in
prayer. We want to have a place of
prayer and then we want to spend time praying before we step into
new things, whether that's going into the office or coming home
from the office, whether it is starting a conversation or
stepping into a meeting. We want to be people who are
covered in prayer. And one of the things you could
do, you could start a prayer journal.
That's what I've been doing. In fact, today after a first
server or during first service, one of the things that I've been
praying for is going to get answered and I and just
overwhelmed how good God is at that stuff.
And some of you might want to join me and a bunch of our
leaders at our church who are praying for our Weaver location.
Every day at 3:00 PM, I have an alarm set on my phone that goes
off that just says pray for Weaver.
And what we're praying for is for our Weaver location to have
300 people 4 weekends in a row. And if you're looking for a way
to get out of conversations that typically occur at around 2:55
every afternoon, this is a great, this is a great one.
And it's actually been kind of fun because if I'm on the phone
with somebody, I go, hey, we got to we got to pause.
Or if I'm taking kids somewhere at 3:00 every.
But when the alarm goes off, we could just spend some time in
praying, my boy. We had a chance to unload the
the chairs that those of you and we were sitting in.
And we, we hopefully, well, I don't know if it was hopefully
or not, but we were, I think the first people to ever pray over
those chairs. And it's fun when I have my boys
in the car and we pray for Weaver because they remember
praying over the chairs that the Weaver people are sitting in.
If we are indeed going to make this region the hardest place on
planet earth to get the hell from, we have to Createspace in
our lives, not just for prayer, not just for reading the Word,
but to serve the mission of God. Matthew chapter 18 you guys are
2818 through 20 says this. Jesus came to them and said all
authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you
and surely I am with you always to the very end of the age.
You guys have heard this a bunch of times, but we got to do a
quick recap. When Jesus gave the Great
Commission, it was an expectation that there would be
full, active, passionate participation.
This is not something that you and I have the right to ponder,
consider, or evaluate. This is something that you and I
are to do above all else. You and I do not get to come up
with our own mission. Why?
Because Jesus has all authority. If He is the King of our lives,
you and I are bound to be obedient.
We must make His last words our first priority.
So let's put the spiritual spectrum up for just a second.
So when it comes to your participation in serving the
mission of God, what number would you give yourself?
Let's say a -. 5 is someone who just shows up for church and
watches, but they're not leveraging their abilities to
advance the Kingdom. It is as soon as worship's over,
soon as the communion. We've got to get out of here
because I don't want to meet anybody, OK?
And if you're here, we love you. We just hope you don't stay
there. Plus 3 or -3 might be somebody
who doesn't believe that God could use them.
Maybe a -, 1 is somebody who used to be active, but for some
reason or another, they no longer are leveraging the gifts
that God has given. And they're kind of sitting on
the sidelines. They think that they need to
heal or they want other people to have a place to play.
And both of those are ways that Satan uses you to stop using
what God has given you to advance His Kingdom.
Maybe a zero is somebody who is ready to start serving the
mission, but they're not completely sure where they fit
in. Maybe a + 1 would be somebody
who's just starting to leverage their gifts and abilities for
the advancement of God's Kingdom.
A + 3 might be somebody who's God is using them in ways that
they never thought possible. And a + 5 is somebody who has
turned absolutely everything over to him.
They've written God a blank check in their lives.
I will do whatever, whenever, for whoever, for however long
you want me to do it. What number would you give
yourself? Take a second.
What number? I am not as concerned about the
number that you have. I'm more concerned about this
year you moving on the spiritual spectrum from left to right.
So if you're a -, 1, I'm hoping that this year you'll become a
zero. If you're a plus one, I'm hoping
that this year you'll make the moves to become a +2.
And how do we move from left to right in two ways, through faith
and obedience. It is when we believe that God
has called us, equipped us, and step into ministry moments.
It is in that that we realize what God has actually placed not
just in front of us, but in US. I want to walk you through a
really powerful verse. First Peter chapter 4.
This is what it says. Each one should use whatever
gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering
God's grace in its various forms.
If anyone speaks, they should do one do so as one who speaks the
very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do
so with the strength that God provides, so that in all things
God may be praised through Jesus Christ.
To Him be the glory and the power, forever and ever.
Amen. There's four things I want you
to notice inside of this chunk of scripture.
The first thing is, everyone has a gift.
Every single person that is hearing my voice and every
single person that the people who are hearing my voice will
ever lay their eyes on has a gift.
To say that you don't have something to offer is to say
that God is a liar. When God made you, he gave you
gifts, passions and abilities. No matter where you are on the
spiritual spectrum, you have a gift that was given to you by
God. A lot of people are, you know,
one of the, you know, a great chapter in the Bible is Romans
chapter 12. And a lot of people remember
like the first 2 verses of Romans chapter 12 where it talks
about that we're supposed to offer our bodies as a a living
sacrifice to God, which is holy and pleasing to him.
And that in doing so, we're not going to be transformed by the
world, but we're going to be transformed by the renewing of
our minds. And then we'll be able to test
and approve what God's will is, is good and pleasing and perfect
will. And everybody knows that.
But if you keep reading in Romans 12, it actually talks
about all the gifts that God has poured out into his people.
In verse 4 it says for God or for just as each one of us is
one body with many members and these members do not all have
the same function. So in Christ we though we are
many form 1 body, and each member belongs to all the
others. We have different gifts
according to the grace that God has given each of us.
If your gift is prophesying, then prophecy in accordance with
your faith. If it is serving, then serve.
If it's to teach, teach. If it is to encourage, then give
encouragement. If it is giving, give
generously. If it is to lead, do it
diligently. If it is to show mercy, do it
cheerfully. Every single one of us has a
gift. In fact, I'm going to do an
entire sermon on the gifts that God has given us in, I think
October or November of this year.
So don't leave our church yet. Stick around, OK?
I'm, I think you'll love it. Now, second thing, so one,
everybody has a gift. Look at your neighbor.
So you have a gift. Now turn to your other neighbor.
It's not as good as mine, but you have one.
OK, you have a gift. The second one is that we are to
use our gifts in service of others.
Lots of us, we use our gifts to build our own Kingdom instead of
the Kingdom of God. Many of you why you get promoted
at work is because you are operating in your giftedness.
The very thing that is making you successful in the workplace
or successful relationally. More than likely that is a gift
that you have from God and there's nothing wrong with
leveraging that gift for you to get promoted to be successful in
the world. However, that gifts primary
purpose is not to benefit you. That gives primary purposes to
advance the mission of God. Here's the easiest way for me to
describe it. Sometimes when our kids are, you
know, it's a snow day or kids are just being silly.
Do you guys, and you guys probably did this too.
You, you move all the furniture in the house.
You pull all the chairs away from the dining room table and
you get some sheets and some blankets and and some towels and
you made a Fort in the middle of the living room.
And then as soon as they make it, it takes them like an hour
and a half to make it. And they only want to play in it
for like 5 minutes and they want you to be in there for all of
it. And and yet they didn't make it
your size. So like you're trying to get in
there, you throw out your back and now you have to go see a
chiropractor, right? So you're like, OK, OK, I've
been down here long enough this month.
But isn't it crazy then when you say, all right, guys, let's put
it all back, then they're like, no, please, no, leave it up,
please. That's all they want.
They want to make the Fort and then they just want to leave the
mess in the middle of the house. But the problem is, is it's
while it's cute and it's fun that we don't live in this.
This is not how we live. These chairs have a real purpose
and it's not holding up your jank Fort.
It's so that way when we eat cereal, we can sit at the table
and the sheets, they go on the bed.
I you have to be an absolute savage to not have sheets on
your bed. How do you how do you these
sheets are not for a Fort. They are going on the bed
because I'm not sleeping on a bed that has no sheets.
We OK, so we went about a year and a half ago, we went
furniture shopping and the the guy who was selling his stuff,
he's he's good at his job. He has a gift.
If he, if he wanted to use that gift to tell people about Jesus,
it would be phenomenal. The church would be three times
the size because he conned us. He, he, he, he had a bed there
and it had buttons on it and it would move the bed.
And my family fell in love with it.
And have you ever noticed that, like you, they don't let you
spend the whole night in that bed before you buy it?
So you just aren't in it for like 30 seconds.
You're like, yeah, I can spend a third of my life here.
This is fantastic. And so we bought and I don't
want to please don't leave our church, but I got, I want to be
honest. We bought an adjustable bed.
So we're that commercial at like 3:00 in the morning of 2 old
people. OK.
The problem is, is when we adjust the bed too high, I fall
off because half of my body now doesn't fit on.
We've taken a king size bed and we've made it this and the
problem is, is I'm so big and the slope is so high that the
the top part of the fitted sheet is just hanging on for dear
life. We got to put ratchet straps
underneath it. And so sometimes I'll be
sleeping and it'll come flying off and I'm trying, I'm trying.
I'm I don't have sleep apnea. I'm being strangled to death by
the fitted sheep. Now listen, even with me, the
fact that I'm alive is a miracle.
And even under all of that, do you?
I'm still putting a sheet on my bed because I would rather get
suffocated by a rogue sheet than sleep on a bed with no sheets.
Because sheets have a purpose. Therefore, when you are going
out and using your gifts, talents, and abilities, hear me.
When you are using the sheets that God gave you to build forts
in your living room, while it may be cute and fun, it is not
why they are there. They are there for you to do
something magnificent for the cause of Christ.
Third thing, it is through the power of God that we are able to
do more than we think, for longer than we think, because
God is the one who supplies us with the strength that we need.
And even when we don't feel like leveraging our gifts, God
promises that He will come through and use it for His
glory. His strength will overcome your
feelings of inadequacy. His strength will overcome your
tiredness and your fatigue and your willingness to participate
#4 so that God gets the glory. When you and I use our gifts for
our own glory, we have received our reward.
But when we do things for God's glory, God promises to reward
us. How many of you you married a
good gift giver? Yeah.
Raise your hand, Jenny. OK.
How many of you didn't? OK, Right.
OK. You'll love this.
So I was joking with my kids all leading up to Christmas.
That was going to give them a big lump of coal because
apparently I make jokes like an 80 year old man.
And I think most of that is because I have an adjustable bed
that is built for 80 year old men.
Like it comes with a bedpan. It's a pretty cool bed.
And like the nurse comes standard, you know, press the
button and the they come into the room.
Anyhow, I sleep in a hospital. Anyhow, so I was telling my kids
that they were going to get a lump of coal and I kid you not,
for Christmas, both of my boys bought me a lump of coal and I
was like, OK, well done boys. Anyhow, look what it says in
Second Corinthians chapter 5. So we make it our goal to please
Him, whether we're at home, in the body, or away from it.
Second Corinthians 5 Finding 10. Let's keep going for that.
We must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ so that
each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while
in the body, whether good or bad.
God is a gift giver and God is going to reward you for the
things that you have done. The word here for the judgment
seat is the Bema. The Bema seat, it is a raised
platform where you would give out an awards after an athletic
competition. Think of the Olympics for a
second where you have first, second and 3rd and it's the
Olympics. It's us, us and you know some
other country because we dominate.
And we when they step onto the platform to receive their reward
for what they have accomplished. When you and I are before God,
we will there will be two judgments.
One of the judgments is the Great White Throne.
This is where you and I will be asked, what did you do with
Jesus? And the correct answer is this
is all about salvation. The correct answers, I made him
my Savior, I turned my life over to Him.
He saved me, He rescued me and my life was covered in Him and
now it belongs to him. However, the second judgement is
this Bema seat where we are rewarded for the things that we
did for the cause of Christ. This question is in light of my
son Jesus. What did you do with what I gave
you? This is not about heaven or
hell. This is about what heaven will
be like for you. This question is all about
lordship. Did you just receive a salvation
and say yes Jesus, you can be my savior, but I'm going to do
whatever I want with my life for the rest of my life.
A person like that has a cold hearted view of God.
They're completely self-centered.
I just want the good of God, but I don't want to be a part of
other people having what I have in Him.
This is about what did you do with all of your time and all of
your talents and all of your abilities.
It will be about how you leveraged your money, how you
opened your home, how you used your time.
It will be about how you purposed your gifts and whether
it was for your glory and your mission or God's glory and God's
mission. I know that for some of you,
this might be kind of hard to take in, but if you start
reading your Bible, you're going to see that this shows up over
and over and over again. For instance, when Jesus is
telling us how to pray, he says, hey, don't do all of your
prayers out in front of everybody.
So everybody thinks you're spiritual.
Well, when you pray in a bunch of hope in front of a whole
bunch of people and everybody thinks you're spiritual, guess
what? You everybody thinks you're
spiritual. You have received your reward,
but Jesus is going to a room where nobody sees you, and your
Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Hey, when you fast, when you decide to say no to eating so
that for a time dedicated to the Lord, don't walk around telling
everybody about it. Oh, man, I am hungry.
Yeah, I they're like, eat something.
I can't. I'm fasting.
I'm saying no to food because I'm a hyper spiritual person and
it's important for me that you know that I am a hyper spiritual
person and you and people around you go, that is a super
spiritual person and you will have received your reward.
But Jesus says, hey, when you fast, take a shower, put some
makeup on if you're a girl, don't put some makeup on if
you're a dude and comb your hair, put some gel in it, spray
yourself with some Cologne and walk around like nothing is
happening and your father perceives what is done in secret
will reward you. First Corinthians chapter 3
verse 8 says the one who plants and the one who waters have one
purpose and each one will be rewarded according to their own
labor. When you stand at the Bema seat,
the right answer for you is I gave my life as a living
sacrifice to God to bring God all the glory to love my
neighbor, to reach the lost, to disciple the save.
I took all of my talents that you gave me and I use them to
serve people and to point them to Jesus.
I took the money that you gave me and I use it to advance your
mission and build your Kingdom. I use my time and I invested in
people and Kingdom causes. I took my words and I use them
to pray to you and to pray for for other people and that God
would open doors to share the good news about his Son Jesus.
And Jesus is very serious about this.
Look what it says in Revelation chapter 22.
This is Jesus talking. This is like a cosmic Santa
Claus watch. Look, I am coming soon.
My reward is with me and I will give to each person according to
what they have done. Do you not see Santa Claus all
over this? Except now it's instead of like
a fat white dude in a red jumpsuit, it is the King of
Kings and the Lord of Lords, which is actually tattooed on
his thigh with a sword coming out of his mouth, wearing all
white, carrying his gifts with them.
And according to everything you have done, you will be rewarded
by him. In other words, what you and I
do in this life matters in this life and in the life that is to
come. Two ways you can serve.
The Mission 1 is in the community.
We should be the best at mowing widows lawns and shoveling their
drives. We should be the best at going
to schools and helping the teachers.
We should be the very best at coaching kids teams and
ascribing value to the kids that are entrusted to our care.
We should be the most committed, the most dependable people that
anybody ever interacts with. And as a church, we want to come
alongside of you and help you to leverage your gifts and your
passions and your abilities to meet the needs of the community.
However, unless you tell us that you are ready to make a
difference, how can we help you start making a difference?
One of the gifts that God did not give church staff members is
the ability to read minds. You have to take your step of
faith and obedience and say, put me in coach, I want to play now.
You are not responsible for doing everything I just listed
on that list because each of you has a different gift, but you
are responsible for making sure that the gift that you have is
leveraged in your community to point people to Jesus.
The second way you can do this is in the church.
It would blow you away how many people serve or God uses to
serve every single weekend to make our ministries happen.
If you like kids, I want to encourage you to serve in the
kids area. If you like technology, join us.
If you're like, I like technology, but I don't
understand technology, we'll help you learn it.
We can teach you. If you like music, join the
worship team. If talk to our staff, show up
early and greet people at the door.
Every person has smile muscles here at practice.
OK? Some people have better smiles
than others. Like I lose my eyes when I
smile. They're just gone.
I mean, it's like Clayton, open your eyes.
They are OK. You either get teeth or eyes.
You can't get both. OK, So just tell me which one
you want and I'll deliver. When people show up at our
church, they should be greeted by the most friendliest people
on planet Earth with the best smile on planet Earth.
Every single person who steps on the campus at one of our
locations deserves to be treated with dignity and kindness and
respect. When I retire from ministry, if
I don't go to some mission field, I'm going to take over
the parking lot team and I'm going to run that parking lot
ministry like a dictator. OK?
Only savages need apply because we are going to dominate the
parking lot. You want to know why this might
be the most important role in our church?
Because surveys show that people make the decision about whether
or not this church is for them 7 minutes after they pull into the
parking lot. This is before they ever hear a
sermon. This is before I ever frustrate
them with a joke. This is before they ever realize
they don't like or they do like the worship. 7 minutes.
It starts in the parking lot. So to all of you out there that
are wearing your city gear and you're driving golf carts or
you're greeting people outside, God bless you.
Because people are making the decision about our church when
they see you, not when they see me and hear me.
I just want to be super clear about this.
While we are excited that you are serving alongside of us, if
you are serving so that we will say thank you, you won't get it
as often as you would like. And I'll there's a theological
reason why we are thankful we get to serve alongside of you.
But when we start saying thank you, you might think that you're
doing it for us. And if you think you're doing it
for us, the thank you you get from us will be your reward.
But if you do it for him, it doesn't matter if somebody says
thank you because you're doing it for him.
You're stepping into your purpose and God promises to
reward you for the things you have done.
Crossing family. We must be in the corner of the
person who invited their friend that they have been praying for.
We got to be in the corner of the parent who's praying for
their their child to one day return to their faith.
We need to be in the corner for them in the parking lot and we
need to be in their corner at the door.
We need to be in their corner in the line for coffee.
And if you bring some for the first time, you have my
permission to cut all the way to the front and say this is their
first time. And if somebody who gets
frustrated that you are cutting in line doesn't like it, I will
find them some other way to spend their Sundays than ruining
our coffee line by being upset about people who are coming to
our church for the very first time.
And you might think that is a bad strategy to grow your
church. And listen, we love you and
we're super thankful for you. But our church is so stinking
serious about people finding an intimate, personal relationship
with Jesus Christ. I pray that one day there is no
room for Christians to get coffee because lost people are
filling our coffee lines. Do you hear what I'm saying?
We got to be those kind of people.
There needs to be people in their corner when they're
checking in their kids areas and to take them on a tour.
We need to make sure there are people that are making sure that
we are helping make sure the place is clean and that it
smells good. We need to be in their corner as
they walk into the auditorium and how the lights are
programmed and the music is mixed and the music is played
and the songs are lifted to heaven.
We got to be in their corner. Look right now, wherever you're
watching me, look around and make eye contact with like three
people in this room. The people you are making eye
contact with have people that they want to know Jesus, and we
need to be in their corner and we need them to be in ours.
We need to make good on a promise that if you bring
somebody that matters to you that is far from God, we will be
in your corner and we will be ready and we will take
everything we have and we will leverage it for God's Kingdom
causes and God's glory. We need to be the very best that
we can be so that God will entrust us with even greater
ministry effectiveness. There has to be a place that is
committed to helping people who are lost find their home in Him,
and it will not happen unless you and I leverage the very
things that God has blessed us with to be a blessing to others.
We're moving to a time of decision.
If, if you don't have an intimate personal relationship
with Jesus Christ, you, you got to kind of wrestle through the
1st judgment. And when you stand in front of
the great white throne, you can either stand on your record and
what you have done, or you can stand on the record of Jesus.
I'm going to unpack a ton of this next week, so I'd encourage
you to come back. But you can stand on your record
or you can stand on Jesus's record.
And I'll just tell you, no matter how good you have been,
your record will not be good enough.
But through God's grace and His mercy, He provided a way in
Jesus for you and I to be saved. And if you were here today or
you're watching online and you have never started an intimate,
personal relationship with Jesus Christ, I just want to encourage
you, don't put it off any longer.
And in faith and in obedience, make a step today to draw closer
to Him. Maybe while the people in the
room are standing and singing and some of them are coming to
the steps and praying your step, your next step of faith and
obedience would be walk over there underneath the screen next
to the baptistry and talk to one of our staff members or or going
by the new here booth before you leave today.
Maybe it's turning to a person in your row or a person who
brought you and saying, hey, I got some questions and I need
some answers. Don't put it off to the rest of
you in the room. To those of you who do have an
intimate personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Serious question. What is going to be your answer
when you are standing at the Bema seat?
What is going to be your answer to what you did with all that
God gave you? This region needs us lost People
need us to use the gifts that God has given us to help them
find their way home, and we have got to be in their corner.
We've got to show them that God loves them and that His people
love them. If you're here today and you are
not leveraging your gifts for His glory, change can happen
today when you take a step of faith and obedience.
Would you stand with me, God? I'm so hopeful.
I believe that any moment you could stir something mighty and
powerful in this church. So many people are desiring to
do things for you and they just, they're just stuck on go.
They want to do something. They just have a hard time
taking that next step. God, I pray that today you'd
give them the courage and the strength to do it.
That the lies of Satan would be silenced.
That the people listening to my voice would hear your voice the
loudest. That you would make it clear to
them what it is that you are asking them to do, and that
you'd give them the courage to do it.
Your name I pray. Amen.