Crossing family, I love you and I'm so excited that we get to
spend time together today. I want to welcome those of you
joining at all of our different locations, those of you watching
online, and those of you who are part of our inside family.
I'm going to ask everybody all across this region to do me a
small favor. There is AQR code in front of
you if in all of your seats at all of our locations.
And I would like you to take advantage of that today for a
couple of key reasons. One, we are getting close to
Christmas and I know some of you are like, we haven't even
celebrated Thanksgiving yet. I know.
But we've got so much planned around Christmas that I want you
to start being prepared now. And one of the things that we're
going to be doing is the 12 days of service, and we would love to
have you join us in being in the corner of our different
communities. And one of the things that we're
going to be doing this year that we haven't done in the past,
this is a new thing that we're going to be trying to
accomplish, is we're going to be having a special ministry moment
called Blue Christmas at all of our locations.
If you are someone or know someone who is going to be
navigating their first Christmas without a loved one, would you
raise your hand? Yeah, we would love to do
something about that. The Bible says that we are to
mourn with those who mourn and that God is the God of all
comfort. And as his people, we are to
take the comfort that we have received from God and use that
comfort to comfort others. And what we want to do is we
want to have a very special service for people who are
navigating the Christmas season without a loved one.
And there is a great way for you to partner with us in there.
The second thing I want to make you aware of on the QR code is
we are nearing the launch of our Weaver location in Southeast
Iowa. And part of the promotional
piece or the launch piece that we're going to be doing for that
area is making a video about life change.
And what we're asking you to do is if you use that QR code or
save it or text it to yourself, there's a way for you to take
about 5 minutes out of your life.
You don't even have to talk if you don't want to, but for you
to write on one piece of a cardboard or a piece of paper
what life was like before Jesus and then flip it over and write
what life has been like since you found Jesus.
And why does this matter is because we want the people in
Weaver who look just like you to see somebody who looks just like
you find a relationship with Jesus and go, hey, I want what
they have. I'm, I'm in where you're at.
There's a lot of people. There's about 35,000 people in
southeast Iowa that do not have an intimate personal
relationship with Jesus Christ. And their life before Jesus
looks an awful lot like your life looked like without Jesus.
Except they can't do what you can do, which is turn it over
and talk about what it is now. And we would love for you to use
your story to inspire other people to allow God to write
theirs. And I would love it if you would
participate in that. Today we are concluding our
series on counterfeit fruit, establishing an authentic walk
with Jesus. And when you come into an
intimate personal relationship with Jesus Christ, the Bible
tells us that we receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
And when you receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, he begins to
produce fruit in the life of a believer.
What are these fruit, you might ask?
What we've been talking about every single week.
Galatians chapter 5, verses 22 through 23.
But the fruit of the Spirit is Lovejoy, peace, patience,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and
self-control. And as I wrote today's message,
there were three groups of people that I had in mind.
And if I didn't hit you, enjoy the QR code and, you know, keep
track of what's happening in the world during the sermon, OK?
The first group of people that I had in my mind is I wrote it for
those of you who you're a little bit skeptical, you're a little
nervous about giving your all to God.
You've got some questions that need answered.
I also wrote it for those of you who the idea of being a
Christian isn't appealing to you because you think that when you
decide to become a follower of Jesus Christ, you have to be a
doormat for the rest of your life.
And you've got a bit of an edge to you, a bit of a rebellious or
revolutionary spirit about you, and you're going, I make a
horrible doormat. I'm more of a puncher, OK, when
it comes to lover or fighter, I'm a fighter.
I don't really want to love anybody.
And the third group of people that I had in mind was for those
of you who you've been saying no to Jesus because you think that
to say yes to Jesus, and with all of the rules and trappings
of Christianity, we'll leave you with nothing left in this life
to even enjoy. That being said, let's get into
it. Holy Spirit empowered
faithfulness is not blind loyalty.
One of the fruits of the Spirit is faithfulness.
And a lot of us, we've equated faithfulness with blind loyalty.
And for far too long, and for far too many of us, our
questions have gone unanswered because we were afraid to ask
them. We were worried that if we were
to ask our questions about God and life and purpose and meaning
and origins and the afterlife and everything in between would
push us further away from God and further away from His
people. And so we even came to faith,
but it was a marginal faith. It was 1/2 hearted faith because
there were all these questions rattling around in our mind and
we were worried that if we were the one in class who raised our
hands, everybody would walk away from us.
We thought that everybody else had it figured out, and we were
the ones who just didn't. But we were worried that if we
asked the question, the people around us wouldn't like it or
that God wouldn't like it. Let me be clear.
The Christian life is a life of faith, but it is a reasoned
faith. It is a faith that can stand up
to scrutiny and hard questions and can be tested.
Christianity is not for people who are intellectually stunted
individuals. It is for people who have put
lots of things on the table. They've put no religion and
atheism. They've put secularism and
humanism. They've put different world
religions on the table. And they've looked at it and
they've evaluated it and they've realized that there is a reason
to believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living
God, and that we can trust him with our life.
Our questions. Hear me, don't push us away from
God. You asking your questions will
draw you closer to him. And Satan gets you to not ask
those questions because he doesn't want you to get close.
There's a special group of people, can't believe I'm doing
this because I don't have time to respond to all the emails.
But look at this Acts chapter 17, verse 11.
Paul talks about a specific group of people.
Look at them now, the Berean Jews, these were the Jews from
the town of Berea, were more of more noble character than those
in Thessalonica. So there was something different
about the Bereans than the people in Thessalonica, for they
received the message with great eagerness and examined the
Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.
Here's what these Bereans did. They showed up for church.
They heard the sermon. So far you guys are doing pretty
good. And then they went home and they
went, is what I just heard true? Why does that matter?
Because if you leave here and you go, man, I don't know.
I don't know if what Clayton said or what Jerry said or what
somebody else said was true. You will not put that thing into
practice in your life. And when you don't put that
thing into practice in your life, you won't grow in your
relationship with Christ. What the Bereans did is they
went home and they go. I got to find out if what this
guy said is true and they searched the scriptures and they
asked the questions and their or their or their faith was
strengthened. When you read your Bible, what
you will find out is that the people in the Bible trusted God
because over and over and over again God proved himself to be
trustworthy, to be faithful. And it is because God is
trustworthy and faithful and reliable that the power of the
Holy Spirit that He produces in US the fruit of faithfulness.
And He makes you and I loyal. He makes you and I someone that
other people can depend on. Because you and I have a God
that can be depended on. And you and I are made in His
image and empowered by His Spirit, you and I can become
faithful, reliable people. There should be a bumper sticker
that goes on the car of every Christian.
Please don't do this. I'm just using this as an
illustration. Our reputation in all of our
communities should be that Jesus followers are the most trusted
people on planet earth. On our bumper sticker it should
say you can count on us. Our word is our bond.
People should be going anytime you do any kind of dealings,
relational dealings, business dealings, the most ethical,
dependable, show up on time, do the hard work, should be
Christians. The worst possible thing is a
person who calls himself to be a Christian lies on the resume,
has a really horrible work ethic and gets involved in all the
drama at work. You're just slaughtering the
reputation of Jesus. Wouldn't it be great if when
somebody says, yeah, I'm a Christian, they're like, we got
to hire all the Christians because they show up on time,
they work really hard, they get out of the drama, they go above
and beyond. You can trust them with
anything. Why?
Why?
Because we serve a God who's been trustworthy and his Spirit
is empowering us. Furthermore, check this out.
Jesus promises that people who have been faithful with a little
bit will eventually be entrusted with more.
And then he says that we will be blessed for how we have handled
our faithfulness. So in other words, when you
become a faithful, reliable, dependable person for Jesus and
for others in this area, God says that He will entrust you
with more things. And then he says He will reward
you based on what you've done with the things that He has
given you. It puts you on a path for you to
be a greater blessing to the people around you.
Here is a tough question, a really tough question for all of
us to wrestle with. Can God trust you?
Can others trust you? There's No Fear of consequences.
How would the people in your life rate you on the
trustability meter? When was the last time you were
completely and wholly obedient to God?
Can he trust you now? Others of you, you struggle to
embrace a life completely surrendered to God and a life
completely empowered by the Holy Spirit because you think that to
be a Christian is to forever commit your life to being weak
and wimpy. You have no desire to be a
doormat for the rest of your lives and have people walk on
you in perpetuity and you're going, man, I love Jesus, I love
his mission. I think that's great.
I just don't want to be used and abused by everybody for the rest
of my life. If you were to put it maybe a
different way, just talk to the fellas.
You're kind of going, listen, I'm not giving up my car hearts
and my Ariats for banana Republican scarves.
That's just not me. And if that's you, I was trying
to think, you know, scarves. If that's you, I've got really
good news for you. The fruit of the spirit of
gentleness is not weakness. I'm going to talk for just just
to the men for a second, women, I'm going to talk to them.
Please don't take offense. A life that is characterized by
biblical gentleness is a far cry from a feminine, passive, timid
life that many have tried to turn it into.
Let's take a deeper look. First off, gentleness is a fruit
of the Spirit that requires the power of the Holy Spirit, which
means that gentleness is a supernatural, powerful thing in
the life of a believer. You do not need the Holy Spirit
to be timid and passive. In fact, Paul when he is writing
a letter to Timothy who is the leader of a church in Ephesus,
he has this to say to Timothy in second Timothy chapter one.
For the Spirit that God gave us, so this is from God, does not
make us timid, but gives us power, love, and
self-discipline. So do not be ashamed of the
testimony about our Lord or of me, his prisoner.
Rather, join with me in suffering for the gospel by the
power of God. Paul is reminding Timothy not to
be afraid or passive or a doormat, but to step into the
fray and if necessary, suffer for God and for His mission.
And this is where gentleness shows up.
Gentleness shows up in how we step into these moments.
Galatians chapter 6 verse one gives us some great insight into
this. Brothers and sisters, if someone
is caught in sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore
that person gently. Let me explain this.
Some of you don't point, just go on the journey with me.
Some of you, you are you're, you're John Wayne Christians.
You come into you, people are sending, people are acting a
fool. Kids are fighting.
You come in, you shoot everybody, and then you start
asking questions. All right, now who started it?
And it's just bodies on the floor, right?
Your kids are yelling at each other.
And what do you do? You step in and you scream even
louder. And what do you do?
The kids start screaming louder because you're screaming louder.
So you can be a John Wayne Christian.
You can be a John Wayne parent, you can be a John Wayne spouse,
or you can be like a Liam Neeson.
I have a very special set of skills.
You can you can fix this issue before I fix you.
The clock starts now. That's gentleness.
Gentleness is stepping into the same situation.
And the louder they yell, the softer you get, because a
yelling person can't hear you if they keep yelling.
And if you get softer, they have to stop yelling to hear what
you're saying. You are strength under control.
A Christian can be bold, can be courageous, can be honest, can
be strong and still be gentle. In fact, the way the ancients
described the world, gentleness was all about strength under
control. They would use it to talk about
when they would tame a wild horse or an elephant.
A big massive creature full of incredible strength that could
be LED around by a small rope. Strength under control.
And if you took a wild horse and you trained it so that way you
could control it. That same wild beast that has
the strength to pull a log out of the forest to take a chariot
into war, would stand in a pasture and let a little girl
lay in its shadow on a sunny day.
It's an attack dog that is on alert.
It's always watching, always looking, but the kids can
wrestle and play all over it. But at the Masters command it is
go time. We have a dumb dog at our house.
Golden Dummy and we don't have that dog.
We have a dog who barks at everybody like he's going to
kill everybody, right? So people, Amazon persons coming
up to our house, open the door. He just comes out, pet me,
please, pet me please. That is not gentleness.
That is moron. That's what we have and
Christian shouldn't be that. Imagine having a dog that's just
looking at you going, do you want me to?
How do you want me to get into this?
You want me to get I'm not doing anything till you tell me I'm
not doing anything till you release me.
Strength under control is gentleness.
And how many of you, when was the last time you released
strength because God told you to?
A lot of times we release our strength and then we ask God and
everybody else to forgive us. What the Spirit wants to produce
in you is something that is powerful and effective and
productive and good and kind. He wants to produce something in
you that is gentle, that turns people around, that changes the
trajectory that a person's life is going on.
Proverbs 15. One says a gentle answer turns
away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Strength under control is useful and purposeful, and it is not
harmful. So parents, if you feel like the
last time you kind of dealt with the situation in your house, it
was not as productive as you wanted it to be and it was more
harmful than you intended. You probably weren't living by
the spirit because you probably were not gentle because
gentleness, strength under control.
Speaking of control, the last fruit of the Spirit is
self-control. And many people today believe
that self-control equals no fun. And so they feel like a yes to
Jesus is also saying yes to a boring, unenjoyable life.
Now I want to be clear. Crossing family, pay attention.
Fun should not be an idol in our life that you pursue.
How many of you guys all the time.
Work is fun, yeah, but we do it anyway.
Because it's good. How many of you parenting is
always fun? No, but we parent because it's
good. There are good things in life
that are not always necessarily fun, but that does not keep us
from doing those good things. However, there is absolutely
nothing wrong with enjoying the gift of life that God has given
us or enjoying ourselves on the mission of Christ.
Look what it says in John chapter 10 verse 10.
You've heard me say this like 100 times here the thief that
Satan comes only to steal and kill and destroy I this is Jesus
talking have come that they may have life and have it to the
full. The idea that life with Jesus is
mundane, archaic, not enjoyable. Hear me is a lie from Satan
himself, and Satan is out to destroy you, and Jesus is out to
save you and to give you the life that you were created and
destined to experience. And if you are saying no to
Jesus because you think that somehow life with Him will not
be better, you are listening to the voice of Satan.
You see, in our flesh we see rules and restrictions and
regulations, but through the power of the Holy Spirit, we see
righteousness and protection. For instance, when we tell our
kids not to touch the stove, is it because we are horrible,
rotten, despicable, unloving parents who never want our kids
to enjoy the fullness of a hot stove?
No, we're going. Look, man, that's not nearly as
fun as you think it is. Look at your brother, Nubs.
Like he kept touching it. You look at them and you say,
listen, I know this sounds appealing.
This looks like a lot of fun. Just don't.
And it's not because you don't love them, it's because you do.
This isn't a rule to keep you from enjoying life.
This is a rule to keep you from hurting in this life.
This one's going to hurt a little bit.
The area where you see Jesus as restrictive is probably the area
where your biggest idol resides and where Satan has his deepest
stronghold. Let me give you 3 illustrations.
If you see Jesus's teaching on enemy love as restrictive, it
might be because you want to just be an angry person, or you
want to have other people looking at all the shortcomings
of others instead of you having to own your own shortcomings.
If you see Jesus's teaching on generosity as restrictive, it
might be because you wrestle with greed or a scarcity
mindset. If you see Jesus's teaching on
let's do another fun one, sexual purity, it might be because you
would rather use people for your sexual gratification.
Let me explain. Jesus lays out a pretty awesome
hot stove argument that a hot stove is really, really good for
making warm food that's good and tasty to eat.
However, if you use the stove to touch it and play cards on you
and everybody around you will get hurt.
And God, when he set up sex, said sex is good.
It's desirable, it's beneficial, and it should take place in the
context of a husband and a wife, in the confines of marriage, and
anytime you operate sexually outside of that, you cause pain
and hurt and sorrow. When you stack multiple
partners, you have to ask yourself, am I actually loving
these people or am I using them to get what I want?
And in marriage we are to serve one another, not take from one
another. So you're taking a good thing
that God gives you and you are using that good thing for
yourself for self worship, and you are purposely using another
person to fill the hole in your heart.
Or you're inside of a marriage and you decide to start having
sex with somebody outside of marriage and then all of a
sudden that relationship disintegrates because the broken
covenant is just too hard to repair.
Or you're having sex outside of marriage and you end up getting
pregnant. And then you have to ask
yourself, do we, are we going to keep the kid or not keep the
kid? And let's say you decide to keep
the kid and then you decide to keep the kid and you decide to
get married, but you're getting married now because, you know,
we got a kid and we want this kid to work out.
But maybe you decide you're not going to get married.
And then this kid now doesn't get to have a, a home with a
father and a mother. He gets to live in a home with a
dad sometimes and a mom sometimes.
And you can trace all of that back to you just didn't trust
that God's way was the best way. And then you and all the people
around you are, are navigating a sexual pain from something that
God intended to be an incredible blessing in your life.
Like think about it. If you were to just take God at
his word, I'm going to just talk to the junior high and high
school kids. If you were to wait until you
got married to have sex, check this out.
This would be your story. You wouldn't ever have to worry
about St. DS Check.
Pretty awesome like that one. You don't ever have to worry
about getting a phone call that says I'm pregnant.
You don't ever have to navigate the issue of abortion in your
dialogue. You don't ever have to worry
about whether or not the person you married was marrying you
just because you you had a kid like you are in the spot.
You never have to navigate issues of comparison and whether
or not somebody else thinks you're a better kisser than you
like you. All of these things are a gift
that God gives you. And think about how much time
and energy and money the world is trying to get you to operate
sexually outside of God's design.
Because as soon as you operate outside of that, they can
monetize it, they can devalue for it, they can hurt you, they
can put you in bondage. Hear me now I know, I know.
I know the clientele of the Crossing.
So let me say something. I'm assuming that the
illustrations that I just gave apply to almost 98% of you.
Hear me? None of that, none of that, none
of that was designed to make you feel less valuable, less
lovable, or that you are a failure.
I just wanted to show you that when you control yourself and
you allow God to lead you, it leads to greater blessings.
And I need you to hear me. There is not a single decision
that you have ever made that our God will not send His Son to die
on the cross. For there is not a single sin
that you have committed that He cannot redeem and repurpose.
But I want us to operate where we are experiencing the blessing
of God more than we are experiencing the redemption of
God. When I began the sermon series,
I was really, really nervous because there was a part of me
that was going, some of the people are going to go, you know
what, I'm really going to start being a spirit LED individual.
I'm going to start allowing the Holy Spirit to direct the
affairs of my life and I'm going to operate in his power and in
his spirit. But I was nervous that some
people would use this sermon series to create a permission
slip. Man Clayton said that, you know,
godly love has boundaries. So now I don't have to talk to
my mother-in-law anymore. I drew a boundary crossing
family. Our our world is in desperate
need. Not of a better version of you
and me, but a you and me that has been made completely new by
the power of God. It is in desperate need of a you
and me that is Spirit empowered, spirit directed, spirit
controlled, a you and me that is producing something that could
only come from God. You might be asking how does
this fruit come about in the life of believer?
It happens when you and I remain, abide in God's Word and
prayer and biblical community and walk it out in obedience.
I've been doing the same chunk of scripture every single week
because I want to drill it into our souls.
John 15. Look what it says verses one
through 5. This is Jesus talking.
I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.
He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every
branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even
more fruitful. You are already clean because of
the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me as I also remain in
you. No branch can bear fruit by
itself. It must remain in the vine.
Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me.
I am the vine, you are the branches.
If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit.
Apart from Me, you can do nothing.
Let me unpack this crossing family.
God expects fruit in the life of a believer, and if there is not
godly fruit being produced in your life, it means that you are
not connected. You have been cut off, but a
good branch bears fruit. And when he sees fruit, he
prunes you so that you will become even more fruitful.
So you should be sitting here going, you know what?
I don't want to be cut off, so I want to produce fruit.
But I started produce fruit started being produced in me,
and now he's cutting me up. But let me tell you why he's
cutting you up. He's cutting you up every time
you feel a conviction over sin. He's cutting you up every time
you feel a pressure or a prompting to do something that
takes you outside of your comfort zone.
And when you do that, that's where you grow because you do
not grow in your comfort zone. So you're going, Clayton, I got
to produce fruit because that's what you say Christians do.
So I want fruit coming out of my life.
How does that happen? It happens when we remain and
when we abide in Him, when we become wrinkly or pruney.
Just like when you take a long hot bath, over time your fingers
will in your toes will get all wrinkly.
You can't force the wrinkles. All you can do is remain and
abide, spending time with God in His Word, in prayer and in
community, and walking it out in obedience.
Why? Because the fruit that this
world desperately needs and the fruit that God is looking for
can only come from Him. Because we have nothing to offer
apart from Him. Husbands, do you know what you
have to offer your wife? Father's, do you know what you
have to offer your family apart from God?
Nothing. Wives, Mothers, do you know what
you have to offer your husband and your kids apart from God?
Nothing. Do you know what you have to
offer the people that you are at work with, who sit next to you
and bump into you? Nothing apart from God Bosses.
You have dreams, goals and ambitions of being a great place
where people are be able to work hard and enjoy time with their
family and provide for their needs and retire in dignity.
Do you know what you have to offer?
All the people you think about on a regular basis and the
pressure you feel? Do you know what you can offer
them apart from God? Nothing.
A couple years back, I, I was thinking about getting ready to
to preach to you guys and there's a lot of different ways
to think through preaching. And as I was thinking through
it, like the task felt very heavy to me.
And so I just started doing something every time before I
get up and preach and I just spend a little bit of time on
one knee. I kind of like do a little Tebow
during the opening worship set. And I just started praying this
prayer and it has been the most freeing prayer that I've prayed.
And I'm one of those guys where like if I kind of stumble across
a prayer, like I'm just going to run that prayer forever.
Like I pray the same prayer over my kids every single day.
If you asked me to do your wedding, you get the exact same
wedding I give everybody else. You want to know why?
Because I asked myself this question.
If I could tell anybody anything on their wedding day, this is
what it would be. And so before I preached one
day, I just kind of prayed a prayer.
And I was like, you know what, I'm going to pour concrete on
that one and I'm going to just run that one over and over
again. Because for all the areas where
I have tons of confidence and I can step into those moments when
you come to the realization that you have nothing to offer
anybody if it is not spirit directed and spirit empowered.
So here's the prayer. I pray, Heavenly Father, I am
nothing. My sermon is nothing.
This church service is nothing. This church is nothing.
My life is nothing unless you are in it.
So fill this place with your spirit.
Do what only you can do in ways that only you can do it.
Start a fire in this church that Satan can't put out.
And sometimes you'll get done with the sermon and you'll go,
that was a really good sermon. And both me and you are really
surprised. And sometimes somebody will come
up and they'll go, man, you were speaking just to me.
Do you know why that happens? It is not because I'm gifted.
It's not because I'm creative. It's not because of the late
nights or the early mornings. It's not because of the amount
of pages I read and the amount of words that I wrote.
Man, I love you. And the most freeing thing is
when I came to the realization I have nothing to offer you but
him and I would love to find out what would happen in this region
if we started praying that prayer and God kept answering
it. We're moving to a time of
decision. If you are in this room or you
are watching online right now and you have yet to start an
intimate personal relationship with Jesus Christ, you have yet
to experience the abundant life that God has in store for you.
It's been an incredible year here at the Crossing, and I'll
get to tell you more about that in a couple of weeks.
But every single week, usually on the front end, sometimes on
the back end of the service, we get to watch the baptism video.
And I wish that there was just enough time for us to hear
absolutely every single story of every single person who gets
baptized at this church. Because if you were sitting here
today and you've never started that journey, you've never been
obedient in that area and you've never come into that intimate,
personal relationship with Jesus Christ, you have no idea how
meaningful that moment is when you finally allow your life to
be directed by Him, forgiven by Him, redeemed by Him.
I wish I could describe it to you, what it's like when you
feel the love of God and the joy of God and the peace of God and
the patience of God and the kindness of God and the goodness
of God and the faithfulness of God and the gentleness of God
wash over your life. And so today, if you're a
skeptic and you've got questions about a life with Jesus and you
haven't asked them, would you in faith, would you ask him?
Today, if you've been saying no to Jesus because you didn't want
to be a doormat, but today you start asking the questions about
what it means to actively engage, not passively, actively
engage in furthering the mission of God.
For those of you who've been saying everything about
Christianity through the lens of rules and regulation, instead of
God equipping you for the good things he has in store for you,
I would just tell you, don't put it off.
And in just a few moments, when the people around you stand and
sing and other people come to the steps and pray, I want to
encourage you to walk right over there underneath that screen
next to the baptistry, and start a conversation that can
completely change your life and more importantly, your eternity.
To the rest of you in the room, to those of you already have a
relationship with Jesus Christ, would you start praying the
prayer that I pray and see what God does?
Would you stand with me? Heavenly Father, we want to be a
part of something so impactful, so meaningful, so special, that
the only one who could possibly get the credit, the only one who
could possibly get the glory, is you.
All of our talents, all of our abilities, all of our strengths,
we surrender them to You. Because we just want you.
We just want you to move you, to lead you, to direct you to
empower. We just want to say yes.
Yes to your promptings, Yes to your urgings.
Heavenly Father, we're asking you to do what only you can do
in ways that only you can do it. Yeah, we're asking you to start
a fire in us that Satan can't put out.
In your name, I pray. Amen.