Hi, I'm switched on now. It's so good to see you and it's
just wonderful to be back here again to share with you and such
a big group from all the different sites welcome and to
you online, welcome. It's just lovely to be here and
share fellowship together. Well, how was your Christmas?
Is it great? Some of you thumbs up.
Yes, it was good, special with loved ones clothes.
Some of you OK feeling a bit weary, Others could have been
better. OK, the good news, it doesn't
come around until another whole year.
But this is the the wonderful Sunday that's sandwiched between
Christmas and New Year and this is the time where we can just
blow away all that was passed and look towards the future.
Often this is a time where we just reflect and what's happened
in the last year or so and what are we really wanting as the
year starts 2026, Can you believe it?
So I think that Isaiah says it's so much better than I do.
And Isaiah 4318 and 19, I haven't got it on the screen
because I really want you to remember this.
Isaiah 4318 and 19. He says, forget the former
things, don't think about the past and dwell on it.
See, I'm doing something new. And I really believe that's what
he's got. For each one of us, he is going
to do something new. We're going to welcome our
wonderful new pastors, Chuck and Taron, for a start, for the
church. We're so excited about that.
But in our own individual lives, he's wanting to do something
new. We've had a very good Christmas
series so far, haven't we? With Denise speaking on the good
news and then we had Claire who spoke so powerfully on The Dust
and the Divine. And then we had Claire after
Claire speaking. We had wonderful Jenna last week
and what a moving talk that was. If you haven't listened, I
really encourage you from the Crib to the Clash.
And she also spoke about the cross and the crown.
It was just an amazing talk. And when I was praying about
what do I share today, I didn't know what these lovely ladies
were going to talk about. And I started to say, Lord, what
do you want me to share? And amazingly, he gave me this
title, the grime and the glory. And I thought, well, that's a
bit dramatic, isn't it? You know, especially for me
because I'm usually the gentle one who likes to encourage.
And he said, no, this is not the gentle time.
This is the grime and the glory. And I want you to speak with
boldness like you've never spoken before.
And I really loved me. But I really believe that this
is what he's what he has on his heart for us today, something
that is extraordinary as we are saying goodbye to the old and we
are welcoming the new, He is leading us as He has done
through all the ages on the grime to the glory.
So what I've called this talk is the light of life, because
that's Jesus. He brings light in the darkness.
He opens up all the shadows and he beams in his glorious light.
And it's the light that is healing.
It's the light full of love. It's the light with energy in it
to bring life and his life is not just stumbling onto the next
year with long arms. I always think it's like these
orangutan arms. You know when you're really not
really keen when you said to the kids tidy up your room with
supper time or that's the orangutan.
It's not that we are going in with excitement to see what he
has for us because it's abundant life.
It's full life in all of its glory.
So I want us to think today about two things as we are
looking at the light of life. He is the God of breakthrough.
And with God, when you've opened yourself to the God of
breakthrough, you can expect the unexpected.
And that has been His way all through the centuries.
Forget the former things. Don't dwell on the past.
And that's Isaiah 4318. You'll remember it.
See, I am doing a new thing. I believe He really is.
We often think at the Christmas time that it all starts at the
nativity, the little baby in the Manger, and it started eons
before then, before the beginnings of time and space.
Christ was there as a light in the most amazing way.
We can start reading in Genesis chapter 1, the beginning.
God created the heavens and the earth, and I love this.
It's just so moving and I almost can hear a Symphony swelling
now. The earth was formless and
empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the
Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
I've talked about this before, this amazing picture of a giant
bird hovering, pulsating, vibrating over this chaos.
And God spoke. God said let there be light.
And I can just hear the cymbals flashing.
It was light and things were irreparably changed.
The God of Breakthrough had torn open time and space and broken
into our world because he wanted to share himself, His glory, His
light, His life with us, His creatures, the ones that he's
made in the most extraordinary way.
You look at that little baby lying in the Manger and you
think there was more power in that little baby's finger than
in the biggest atomic bomb. But it was powerful, good,
powerful, healing, powerful life.
That is Jesus, the light of life all the way through the Old
Testament. It's the same picture.
God is the God, a breakthrough and when he comes, you can
expect the unexpected. Are you ready?
Let's look firstly at Moses. There's so many I could talk
about, but Moses, I really love him so much.
He's just such a down to earth guy.
I mean, he made many mistakes like we all do.
And then there was this time where he met God in front of
that burning Bush and God spoke to him.
And you can imagine the absolute terror of a Bush that was
burning but not consumed. And then the voice coming out
and speaking and saying, I've called you and I have a plan for
your life to set the captive spree.
And he would just say, no, not me.
Now I just want to share with you quite honestly, as I'm
afraid about this. I know that the God of
Breakthrough truly has a plan for each one of you like he has
for me. And I'm the one who feels so
unworthy and so useless often and I really do make mistakes.
But he's saying, don't worry, I am with you.
I'm calling you for a purpose because I want to use you to set
you free, but then to use you to set the others free.
The world is walking in darkness and chaos and the Holy Spirit is
hovering and brooding and even in this room I can just sense
He's here wanting breakthrough and it's not this gentle heaven
touching earth. Sometimes it is that way with
the Lord. It's beautiful and it's like
little dewdrops. The way that this is described
in Genesis is a rupturing. It's a ripping, it's a tearing,
it's a breaking. It's quite a forceful in coming
into our time and space because of the urgency that he wants to
rescue. And what he said to Moses was he
would be with him, but he would call him.
And Moses kept making excuses. And I love the way that God is
the God of the unexpected. Moses is probably his comfort
blanket, so to speak. Was his ride makes mad of her.
But he would have had that ride hurting the sheep 'cause he was
a shepherd. The guy said, what's in your
hand? And he knew it was his staff to
throw it on the ground. And it became a snake.
And it says in the Scripture, Moses was terrified.
And I can just imagine him jumping and dodging the stake.
And the Lord told him how to take it and use it.
And with that rod he struck the Red Sea, and the Red Sea opened
again. The Hebrew word is this tearing,
rupturing, breaking of God, of the breakthrough coming in and
doing the impossible. Expect the unexpected.
And this, dear Moses, we were singing Show me your face in
such a beautiful way. Thank you.
We were singing. Moses, this man who was in his
80s climbed Mount Sinai. And if you've been to Mount
Sinai at all, you'll see it is a mighty big mountain.
It's about 7 1/2 thousand feet. There's over 2000 meters that he
went up there and he asked God this amazing, public, audacious
question. Show me your glory.
I love the fact that Moses wanted more.
He saw such miracles. He saw the plagues, he saw the
Red Sea open, he saw the Manor, he saw the fire by night and he
wanted more. Oh, I want more.
And he said, show me your glory. And God said, you can't see me
and live because that is the brilliance of the light.
It is too dazzling that you just cannot see him and live.
So he very lovingly hit him in a cleft of a rock, and he passed
over him. And it is just that this sort of
after light glimmer, the trail, the trace of life of light that
came over Moses as he was in the cleft of this rock.
And it was so intense and dazzling, although it just was
like after lightning. You see this face of light when
he came down from the mountain, his face actually radiated.
I've seen so many old stained glass windows of Moses and he's
got horns because people actually thought it was like
light beams going ping, ping, ping out of his head.
The light was so bright because of this encounter trail of God's
light and His glory that was Moses.
All through the Old Testament, the prophets keep talking about
this light that is to come. Let's look at Isaiah.
Isaiah Chapter 9 verse 2 says the people who walk in darkness
will see a great light. For those who live in a land of
deep darkness, a light will shine and I just love this.
It's breakthrough. It's God just ripping open and
letting his glory and his light come beaming in.
When I was praying about this, I thought so often when I talk, I
I always get a sense of violence and gentleness.
I feel the Lord saying today is the day of the brass band and
the drums. And when I said we're going to
really let it, let it go, because this is a message where
it is loud. You can't actually tiptoe
through it. It's God wanting to say wherever
you are, whoever you are, allow me to breakthrough into your
life and show you my light, who I am as you've never seen and
known me before, Because that way I can equip you to be who I
want you to be and to do what I want you to do.
So those who walked in darkness, yes, they, they have, those
who've walked in darkness have seen a great light.
And when you see that light and you know that light, your life
is irreparably changed. Those who live in a land of
darkness, and I land in many ways is in a land of deep
darkness. Let them see the light.
And that's the way that Lord is speaking.
Do you know that they were amazing prophecies about the
light coming? And then expect the unexpected.
You know what happened after that?
Malachi spoke. He was a prophet, a minor
prophet. And for 400 years there was
silence, nothing. Expect the unexpected.
Everybody's ready for the light and nothing happens.
Have you felt that you're so pumped up and ready for God to
move? You're waiting for the light,
you're waiting for breakthrough and nothing happens.
But God was preparing the perfect time, the perfect place.
And you know, there are over 300 prophecies in the Old Testament
about Jesus Christ coming, how he would be conceived, what kind
of birth you would have, what kind of life you would have,
what his character would be, how he would identify with the poor
and the broken, how he would heal, how he would feel the pain
and how he would be beaten and bruised, and how he would go as
a perfect sacrifice. Over 300 prophecies about him.
And so at the right time, at God's perfect time, he broke
through. There he is again with this
rupturing, tearing open and God coming in to be among us because
no longer were we to be in the dark about who God is, what he's
like. He came to show us.
He came to say touch me, feel me, know me, because it's about
relationship. That's what was so beautiful
about Moses. He wanted the relationship, not
just the religious of the Tabernacle and all the things
that he was taught to do, which is good.
You've got to go through all those, study the word, do this,
but it's relationship anywhere, anytime, everywhere, all the
time. That's what it is, knowing him
and him knowing you and really being one with him.
And that time of Moses in the rock, I think is one of the most
intimate, beautiful moments in the whole of Scripture where God
was so gracious. He wanted to see the glory, He
wanted to see the pump, He wanted the big brass band.
But God just lovingly said you can't see me and live.
And he said what I'm going to show you is who I am, my
character. My goodness will pass.
And isn't that so gracious of him?
We want the big lights and the effect, don't we?
The razzmatazz. But what he says is, I want you
to see my character. And that's why expect the
unexpected. When Jesus was born, it wasn't
the White Horse and the stallion and the Messiah all in gold
coming in. It was the most ridiculously
impossible, mundane mercy case. And Denise went through that and
some of the other speakers in the Christmas series that it was
to shepherds that God first revealed message that the Christ
child was born and shepherds lived with the sheeps smelt like
the sheep we've covered with sheep.
This isn't that. And they are the ones who
illiterate and educated. They went for showers out there
every day on the hillside, but they were the ones that God knew
but received us with joy. And they were full of joy and
they came to worship. And we know that this baby was
born in Bethlehem as it was predicted, and he was raft and
swaddling toes. And we know that all the sheep
that were in that hillside around Bethlehem were the
perfect little lambs that we bred for sacrifice.
That's what was in that area of Bethlehem.
They were the little lambs that were wrapped in swaddling
clothes and put in a stone through and then later
sacrificed with the temple. And that's exactly Jesus, this
perfect little baby God's gift, wrapped in swaddling clothes who
one day would move to the cross and then the crown as we've had
in the past. So that's how it started.
Messy. Not what we think, expect the
unexpected, But that's the breakthrough.
Jesus showed us what God was like.
We can read that in Colossians 115.
He is the exact image, the essential manifestation of the
unseen God. When you've seen Jesus, you've
seen the Father. And in Hebrews 1/3, this is the
one that I absolutely love. The sun is the radiance, the
only expression of the glory of our awesome God, reflecting
God's Shekinah glory. The light being the brilliant
light of the divine, the exact representation of the perfect
imprint of the Father's essence. So the essence of who God the
Father is, Jesus showed us in brilliance.
That's Hebrews 1/3, and if you read that in different versions,
you'll catch excitement of that, that it's sheer brilliance.
That was Jesus. Mark is a wonderful gospel.
I love reading Mark because he's very on the go immediately,
straight away. He he's an action man.
He was very young as a disciple. But amazingly, of all of the
Gospels, Mark is the one who describes this rupturing of
heaven and breakthrough, which Matthew and Mark and John
haven't expressed in quite the forcible way.
Twice Mark uses a word. I have to have a sip of water
before I say it. The way he says heaven was
opened. It's so you know why I had to
have a sip of water? I hope I didn't splash you.
Can you go? Those who speak Afrikaans and
German can go Ghidzo. It means tear, rupture, RIP open
Ghidzo. And Mark uses that only twice in
his whole gospel. The first time is when Jesus was
baptized and he's coming out of the water and as if the heavens
were. Kid.
So we get schism from that, actually in English, which is
rather polite. But kid, so is he ripped open
heaven. He tore it open because he
wanted to come down in a way that would manifest his glory.
And that's the Holy Spirit again, like this beautiful bird
coming, but in peace, resting on him and remaining on him.
Mark uses that deliberately. It's a forceful, almost violent
rupturing. It's irreversible.
Can you get the feeling, and you know the second and only time
that Mark uses that tide, Sir, in his gospel, it's when Jesus
died on the cross as the perfect lamb, taking on himself the full
sacrifice of all the sins of everything you've done.
I've done Hitler, all of the people in the past, all that
will come who've done anything wrong at any time.
He became sin. Who knew no sin we would be
righteous and one in relationship with God, this
incredible sacrifice and when he died on the cross hide though
was the temple curtain. It was ruptured, it was torn, it
was rent. And that's only two times that
Mark uses that. And that temple was amazing
because only the high priest could go into the holiest of
holies once a year behind this incredible curtain that was as
wide as a man's hand, about four inches or more thick of gold,
woven thick temple. It was 60 foot high, 18 meters
high. That curtain took 300 priests to
move and help it to get erected. That's what Josephus, who's the
story and who wrote a lot of in the time of the 1st century.
He said it took 300 piece to even lift it and move it.
That was ripped. I think.
So just like that from top to bottom.
Can you sense that? God is saying with urgency, with
passion, with love, there's no separation, but Jesus did I want
to RIP open. I want to open heaven so that
you and I can be 1 not just from time to time, but forever.
This is this amazing breakthrough God.
And once we give ourselves and receive them and understand that
expect the unexpected because he can move in ways you wouldn't
even dream possible. And he loves to use ordinary
people. He loves to use ordinary, not
the high and mighty and haughty and pride.
You think they know it all. And, and often when I'm sharing
the Greek words, it's not because I want to rattle off
that I know. It's not that.
It's because often that word is more punchy than our English.
Sometimes the translations quite bland.
But if you get the real sense of what the original was, you
almost feel it in your bones, don't you?
So I'm going to just move along. Heaven gets ripped open and God
comes in rupturing is the translation because here's the
brakes with God. Now two more things I want to
share with you about Jesus. He himself declared that he is
the light of the world. And there there are two
instances where he actually said I am the light of the world and
you know where those are. It's so significant and so
interesting. The one was in John chapter 8,
after the woman had been caught in adultery.
She knew she was wrong and she knew she was going to be stoned
to death because that's what happened in those days.
So she was in the middle of the town square, probably with all
the people around, and they had their stones and they were ready
to pelt her. And it seems horrific to us, but
that actually happened then. And sometimes this even happened
today. They would punish her that way
and Jesus was there and we read that in John age.
He was just putting his hand in the sand and he asked them who's
without sin? You cast the first note.
What I think is so interesting about this is that whole group.
You can imagine the tittering and the twittering.
Oh, you know, she's on the wrong.
They'll never tell you what the guy did.
But anyway, she was there and what is interesting is that John
records they started to leave and walk away the oldest first
those older guys realized I I can't throw that stone.
And then you can imagine these young hot heads thinking I'm
going to store throw. But eventually they realized
they had to and they all walked away and left her.
And Jesus said I don't condemn you either.
I don't sin anymore. I am the light of the world.
That's when he said it. It's amazing, isn't it?
So many people are sitting in shame, waiting for the pelting
of criticism, maybe from people who are closest to them.
Maybe her family members would have been there really to pelt.
And I'm just saying to you, let the God of Breakthrough come
into your situation. Let him love you where you are.
Let him bring in his light because it's a healing light.
It's a warm light, it's a light of love.
And when you think of the dust and you think of the way he made
Adam the same creator, beautiful Jesus Christ our Lord.
The second time that he said I am the light of the world is in
the next chapter, John Chapter 9.
And this is a wonderful passage where it's the blind man Feast
of Tabernacles. They're crowds.
Josephus said there were probably a million Jews coming
to to to Jerusalem. I mean a million Jews coming to
Jerusalem for the feast of Tabernacles in that time.
It was fully crowded and at in the crowds this blind man was
sitting there and Jesus went to heal him.
You know, again what I just think is so wonderful about the
Lord. He is the one when everybody
shield away from lepers because they had these big ulcerated
sores that often oozed pus and stank and they were the
outcasts. Jesus went deliberately to touch
the leper, and that skin was made whole.
They'd like a young babies pure with the blind man.
He could have at a word said sight come, but he didn't.
He did the healing in a way that that blind man would know
something different. In all the crowds milling, Jesus
spat on the ground and again spit.
The blind man couldn't see, but he would have heard that, he
would have known someone spitting and Jesus said made mud
from the dust and he put the mud.
Look how involved he is, isn't it beautiful?
He put the mud on his eyes and he said now go and wash in the
pool of saloon and you will see. And this man would be helped and
groping. Some scholars say it was almost
half a kilometer from where this took place to on the word up to
the temple where the people would go to the actual pool of
Siloam. But then you know what happened
in 2004. I mean, not very far long ago,
they were cleaning and mending a pipe that was burst just in the
southern side of the wall of the Old City of of Jerusalem near
the South gate. And as they were mending this
broken pipe in 2004, they thought, hey, this is opening up
to like a big chasm. And they started to dig and the
archaeologists found this massive pool of Siloam.
They all thought it was just a small, a small place.
But as they opened it up, you know what they found?
2 sizes of an Olympic pool, 2 Olympic pool sizes.
Under the ground near the South Gate in Jerusalem are this
massive pool of Siloam that was fed by Gishan Springs.
That was what he went to washing.
And it's so amazing that I just love the way the Bible is not
just a book that is spiritually rich, but historically accurate.
And this man went and he saw, but before Jesus spat on the
ground, he said, I am the light of the world.
Isn't that interesting because everybody's walking in darkness
and in blindness and if you don't receive him, you're going
to be spiritually blind just like that man.
So I think that's just amazing. Those are the two times the
adultery again, it's the dust. It's like Adam and that's our
Lord beautifully. So now the punchline.
We know about Moses, we know about the prophets, Jesus saying
he's the light of the world. But Jesus said, if you believe
in me, if you receive me into your life and let me cleanse you
and change you from deep within, you become the light bearers,
which is absolutely astounding. We have that precious gift of
his light shining in US and through us to impact the world
around us. You are the light of the world,
He said the light bearers. The Passion translation puts it
so beautifully in Matthew 514. Your lives light up the world.
I think we have got it on our side.
Your lives light up the world. But how can you hide A city that
stands on a hilltop? And who would light a lamp and
then hide it in an obscure place?
Instead, it's placed where everyone in the house can
benefit from the light. So don't hide your light.
And I'm saying that to you, and I'm saying it to myself.
Let it shine brightly before others.
My, we need bright lights in this very Dark World, don't we?
And it's the Lord in us. We can't say that we are in a
great shakes, but it's the Lord in US shining through us that
can really impact other people's lives in the most amazing way
because it's Him in US doing it. I love the message translation
too, because the message translation says here's another
way to put it. You're here to be light,
bringing out the God colors of the world.
And Serena sitting there, you first share this and I, it
impacted me so much bringing out the God colors of this world.
God is not a secret to be kept. We're going public with this, as
public as a city on a hill. If I make you light bearers, you
don't think I'm going to hide you under a bucket, do you?
And I'm just thinking of all of you sitting here thinking I have
got a calling. I know I've got a calling.
The Lord has said to me that I'm going to be able to do this and
say that and be that and you don't feel adequate or
circumstances have kept you in darkness.
I really say with urgency and love, be His light bearers.
Come on, let him breakthrough, let him rupture that unbelief.
Let him open up the fear. Let him come in, bring his light
and all it's dazzling beauty and glory, and start using you and
you and you and you and me to make this world filled with his
light. Come on, we're going to do it.
What I love is, he says by opening up to others, you'll
prompt people to open up to God and then they'll see what He's
done in your life and what He can do in their lives.
So don't, let's be timid and don't let's just go groping into
the next year. Do you feel a sense of
breakthrough? I do because it's our choice.
It's all here. He's given it to us and we are
the ones that he says are his light bearers.
You might be sitting there nodding your head, but in your
heart you've got your arms folded and you're thinking,
there's like little Johnny. This is the day before kitties
had to wear seatbelts in South Africa, the story told.
Actually, my little son who was sitting at the back but kept
wanting to stand up in the car. And I said, you've got to sit
down. You could not let us stand up.
Sit down when we're driving. Is it all right, Mom?
I might be sitting down, but I'm really standing up.
And I thought, you know, that's how it is sometimes with us.
We, we kind of think we've got to obey.
It was a man called Saul who was very resistant to the gospel and
especially to Jesus. And he was on his way to
Damascus to find out, root out the Christians and get them
thrown into jail. This is a true story.
And on the way, he met Jesus, who was resurrected but appeared
to him in dazzling light because he is the light of life.
And he appeared to Seoul in such a startling way that Seoul just
collapsed to the ground and he was totally blinded and he
couldn't eat for three days. People had to lead him.
And then a very brave soul and Ananias came and prayed for him
and we read it was like scales falling off his eyes.
And my goodness, what a change man.
After that encounter with Jesus, he became the fieriest preacher.
People were still scared of him because they thought he was
pretending and that they would get into jail.
But they could see he was prepared to die.
He was prepared to go to prison for his faith because he had
encountered Jesus. So I urge you, if you've really
met him, just give your lives to Him and expect the unexpected
because He's about to do new things in our land, in our
church, and in our hearts and our communities.
So even if you're sitting there and you're sitting down, but
you're really standing up, He knows that's OK, but open
yourselves to him. And I went to close by just
wrapping up. We started with Genesis and
God's speaking. Let there be light.
And you know, four days later, the sun and the moon were
created. Light came first, four days
later fight because Jesus has always been then I was through
him. Everything was made and was held
together. And in the Book of Revelation,
right at the end of this amazing Bible, we read in Revelation 21
that one day, and this is true, we're going to be with the Lord
forever and of our forever home. And this is where we're not
going to need a son, we're not going to need a moon, because he
is going to be everlasting light, and he's going to be
flooding us with his light in such a beautiful way that we
will need no extra light. Let's just read that from
Revelation. And the city has no need of the
sun or the moon to give light to it with the glory, the splendor,
the radiance of God has illumined it.
And the Lamb. Remember how we started with a
little lamb in the swaddling clothes, perfect picture of
Jesus as a baby? Yeah, the Lamb is in his final
glory. He is.
It's Lamb and it's light. This is the truth.
And we will all be there to see it.
So I just encourage you to start seeing yourself in a new way.
And I'm sorry, we're going to go back a slide before to One Peter
29 because I want to really close with this.
You are God's chosen treasure. You may not feel like it, you
may not think you look like it, but you are God's chosen
treasure. You are priests and kings,
priests because you mediate between people and God and you
minister to God and kings, Queens.
You're part of royalty, not because you deserve it or I
deserve it. Because He's chosen us to be
there with him. A spiritual nation.
That's who we are. Set apart as God's devoted ones
who love God. He has called you out of
darkness to experience His marvelous light, and now He
claims you as his very own. You will forever belong to Him.
So maybe your Christmas was lonely and you're not looking
forward to New Year because it's going to be lonely.
You are not alone. You are His forever beloved.
You are with Him, inseparable until eternity.
He loves you intensely. That He ripped open heaven.
He did that for you. And he did it because you have a
calling, a strong calling. He did this so that you would
broadcast his glorious wonders throughout the world.
And when you've surrendered your life to him, expect the
unexpected. You don't know where he'll send
you, like to Nepal. You don't know where you're
going to go, what you're going to do.
The fact that I'm up here and I came sitting in the back for
years in the back row, and now He has a purpose for everybody.
We're no great shakes, but we hold the light of lights in us.
We hold the light of life within us.
So would you stand if you're able, and let's commit this time
to the Lord. If you would like to open your
hands as a token of surrender or your hearts, there's such a
beautiful presence of the Lord here.
The Holy Spirit is moving, drawing you into a deep oneness
with Himself. He doesn't want you to struggle
on anymore. He wants to be that breakthrough
in your life, and He wants to draw you close forever so that
you can experience His light, which is healing and love and
wholeness. Oh Lord, we love you and we are
so grateful for you. That you broke into our messy
time and space to show us your love in a tangible way.
That we could see and touch and feel and see how you spent so
much time with the outcasts, with the lonely, with the broken
hearted, and also with those who were successful.
Nicodemus who came to you and each one you spoke with such
love and Lord, I know you are here today, speaking, wooing
each one who is here and listening online with love.
Surrender to him. If you don't know him, give
yourself to him. There's nothing more important
than that. That's why you were made and
that's why you are here. The Lord, we say, come the last
flood us take on everything that we've done that's wrong.
It's disappointed you that's caused our brokenness or our
hardness of heart, our bitterness, our anger, our
resentment. You take Lord, just clean us and
shine your light into this dark areas of our lives that we
haven't given to you yet. Shine.
We don't want them. They bring us down, they make us
miserable. We give it to you.
And instead we receive your forgiveness, we receive your
light, we receive your love and your joy and an abundant life.
Thank you that you are the light of life and we bring glory to
your name by all saying Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Amen,
Amen.