And it's good to be together today, isn't it?
And we have the opportunity to worship together.
And there's no better place we could be today than right here.
So thanks for being here. If you're watching online.
Thanks for joining us in worship.
And it's Valentine's Day weekend.
You guys had a good weekend, everybody.
Maybe not every. OK, Well, some clapping, some
real good weekends. Hey, today we're going to
continue our story of the story of Ruth, and we're going to
celebrate love done right. And so before we do that, I want
to celebrate something like that in our congregation.
So Ed and Kathy Weaver, this weekend you're celebrating 50
years of marriage, correct? Congratulations.
Can you congratulate them? God bless you guys.
And don't be mad at me for saying it up here.
Well, hey, it's Valentine's Day weekend.
If you're wondering why I look so terrible and why I kind of
sound terrible, it's because it's been kind of a long
weekend. Friday night, we've had sickness
in our house all week. Couple of my kids were sick and
Friday at 11:30. Now I, this will sound weird to
you, but Friday night I thought I'm going to go to bed early.
And so at 11:30 I was like, I'm getting in bed.
Now for some of you that sounds late.
For me, that's early. And I was thinking, I'm going to
do the responsible thing and I'm going to go to bed early.
And then at 11:45 my phone rang and it was Pastor Grace, she's
our teens are at Winner Retreat and she said hey, Eli is here
and he looks like death. He's he's in bad shape.
And so I said well I've got 3 basketball games to coach
tomorrow. My assistant coach is out sick
and so I got three games tomorrow.
I don't have the time tomorrow to drive in between and so it's
either tonight or late tomorrow night.
And so I got on the phone with Eli and he said please come get
me. And so at midnight, I left and I
drove 2 1/2 hours to Southern Indiana and picked up Eli and
drove back and got back at 5:00 and then had a game at 9.
Three games. Yesterday was a great day.
Hey, it really was great. But I'm kind of forgive me for
looking the way I look. OK, it's Valentine's Day weekend
here. Here's here's what I got.
But today we're going to be in Ruth Chapter 3, the the story of
Ruth is an incredible story of love, of God's love and God's
redemption. And today we're in Ruth chapter
3, Ruth chapter one, we saw the beginning of the story.
We met this family and, and, and Ruth is the daughter-in-law of
Naomi, Naomi and her two daughters and her husband.
I mean, her two sons and her husband moved away from the the
promised land, moved to to Moab, the place of Moab because there
was a drought. They tried to settle things
their own way. They went.
Tragedy struck. Naomi's husband passed away.
Ruth and Orpa, the daughter in And so we saw in Chapter 1 this
moment where Naomi, back to your people, you'll be better off if
you just go home, be with your people.
But Ruth, we have this perfect moment where she says, no, where
you go, I go. Where you stay, I'll stay.
Your people are my people and your God is my God.
And she makes this, this statement.
I'm going to choose love and faithfulness.
So that's Ruth chapter 1 and Ruth chapter 2.
They head back to the promised land, back to Bethlehem, and we
see that Ruth goes out into the fields and she's going out to
glean, which was a Old Testament practice.
It was that that God said, hey, when when you, when you harvest
your fields, leave the edges for those that are less fortunate to
come and gather. And so God had put this thing in
place that that people could come and be taken care of.
And so Ruth went out to glean and she just so happened to
glean in the field of Boaz. Boaz was a member of the family.
He's what would be considered a kinsman Redeemer.
Now in those days, if a husband passed away, then a relative,
one of his relatives could come in and redeem the wife by
marrying her, providing and then taking care of them and
continuing on the family. And so she just so happened to
be in the field of Boaz. This is, I said it last week and
the week before. This is Hallmark.
This is beautiful, perfect thing.
Well, route 3 is where it all comes together and it there is
this beautiful moment. I want to start by saying this.
When we love with faithfulness and obedience to God, it's God's
greatest blessings. I said Hallmark in Netflix.
Listen, I, I know some of you are into those movies, pretty
much any movie you watch, there's very few things that are
put out there these days that really honor and glorify God and
do things the way that he says we should do them.
This is a beautiful story of not just love, but of faithfulness
and obedience. It's good stuff.
And Megan said yesterday, she said, do you have a backup plan
for who can, who's going to be there if you're not there?
And I said I'm going to be here, I'm not missing this one, this
is too good. So staying with me Ruth, Chapter
3, I'm going to read the whole chapter.
It's long, just bear with me. One day Ruth's mother-in-law,
Naomi said to her, My daughter, I must find a home for you where
you will be well provided for. Now Boaz, with whose women you
have worked as a relative of ours.
Tonight he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor.
Wash, put on perfume, get dressed in your best clothes,
then go down to the threshing floor, but don't let him know
you're there until he has finished eating and drinking.
When he lies down, note the place where he is lying.
Then go uncover his feet and lie down.
He will tell you what to do. I will do whatever you say, Ruth
answered. So she went down to the
threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law
told her to do. When Boaz had finished eating
and drinking was in good spirits, he went over to lie
down at the far end of the grain pile.
Ruth approached quietly. She uncovered his feet and lay
down. In the middle of the night
something startled the man. He turned and there was a woman
lying at his feet. Who are you?
He asked. I am Ruth.
I'm your servant, Ruth, she said.
Now spread the corner of your garment over me, since you are a
guardian, Redeemer of our family.
The Lord bless you, my daughter, he replied.
This kindness is greater than that which you showed earlier.
You have not run after the younger men, whether rich or
poor. And now, my daughter, don't be
afraid, I will do for you all you ask.
All the people of my town know that you are a woman of noble,
noble character. And although it is true that I'm
a guardian Redeemer of our family, there is another who is
more closely related than I. Stay here for the night.
In the morning, if he wants to do his duty as a your guardian
Redeemer, than good, let him redeem you.
But if he is not willing, as surely as the Lord lives, I will
do it. Lie here until morning.
So she lay at his feet until morning but got up before anyone
could be recognized and he said no one must know that a woman
came to the threshing floor. He also said bring me the shawl
you are wearing and hold it out. When she did so he poured into
it 6 measures of barley and placed the bundle on her.
Then he went back to town. When Ruth came to her
mother-in-law, Naomi asked how did it go my daughter?
Then she told her everything Boaz had done for her and she
added, he gave me these six measures of barley saying don't
go back to your mother-in-law empty handed.
Then Naomi said, wait my daughter until you find out what
happens for the man will not rest until the matter is settled
today. Praise the Lord, you can have a
seat. All right, here's what we're
going to do. We're going to walk through this
story and then I've got 3 big points at the end that I want to
get to, but we're going to walk through this story, guys.
This story it, like most of scripture, is just filled with
goodness. Little things that if you catch
them and you got to study to catch them, filled with
goodness. So when we left Chapter 2, Boaz
has given Ruth the invitation to continue gleaning in the field.
She went into his fields. She was working.
He noticed her. And he said, you know what,
Please stay here under the protection and provision that I
can offer and continue to gather, continue to glean until
the end of the harvest. And so that's where Chapter 2
ends. Chapter 3 picks up toward the
end of that season, and all of a sudden we see that Naomi has a
plan. In chapter 1, Ruth says, Naomi,
I'm going to stick with you. She chooses to be faithful and
loving, and she says, I'm choosing to be with you.
Where you go, I'll go. Where you stay, I'll stay.
Your people will be my people. Your God will be my God.
Now Naomi in chapter 3 says, it's time for me to worry about
your future. See, they've been provided for.
They have food, but there's still the problem that Ruth, her
future is uncertain. She's unmarried, she's living in
a foreign land. And so Naomi comes up with this
plan and and what we see is so good.
This moment that we see that we're going to look at is so
beautiful. And guys, I mentioned Netflix
and ROM coms and and all of that stuff, Hallmark Channel movies
that they're fun. Sure, whatever.
This is really, really good stuff.
So here's the plan number one, get dressed up, get yourself
smelling good, get yourself looking good.
You like like this plan so far, pretty good plan.
I mean, this is a big thing you're going to do, so go ahead
and get yourself smelling good, get your best clothes on, and
then you're going to go meet Boaz.
Now, there's a couple things and I'm going to give you a lot of
stuff here and, and this will just be stuff that'll help you
understand the story a little bit better.
There's a couple ways we can see this.
Number one, it was customary when someone had lost a husband
and they were grieving that when they were ready to move on, they
would clean themselves up. They would get themselves
dressed up. And it was a sign that, hey, I'm
ready for what's next. So maybe that's in play here.
The other thing is she's going to.
This plan is to bring Boaz and Ruth together.
And you don't want to go smelly and ugly, right?
I mean, that's not Hallmark. That's not Netflix.
That doesn't work. And so she says, get yourself
dressed up, make yourself attractive.
And then she says, go to the threshing floor.
They're finishing up. They've been working all night.
Go to the threshing floor, she says, but wait, don't do
anything until he's done eating and drinking.
Wait. And so she goes and she waits.
Now, there's a couple reasons for this.
Maybe #1 this wasn't to be a public event, this was something
between Boaz and Ruth #2 he's probably just going to be in a
better mood if you wait. And this moment is a big moment.
I mean, she's putting herself out there.
And so it would be wise to not interrupt him and his eating and
drinking, but wait until he's done.
Then she says wait till he goes and lies down.
This is maybe my favorite part, Says watch where he lays down.
All right, let me translate that for you.
Don't get the wrong guy. Don't mess this up.
Make sure you know exactly where Boaz is, because if you get the
wrong guy, this all gets ruined. Watch.
Take note where he lays down. Then there's this weird thing
when he lays down and falls asleep.
Uncover his feet. OK, there, there's a lot there,
but what's going to happen if she uncovers his feet?
Anyone Oh, he's going to wake up.
He's going to wake up. This is all part of the plan.
Now there is some significance to the corner of his garment and
we'll see that in a minute. But but she says when he falls
asleep, go ahead and uncover his feet.
And then it it sets the stage for what's going to happen.
You see, you guys thought that when someone steals your covers
that that's disrespect. It's really just this beautiful.
It's this respect. It's this, hey, I want to be
closer to you, right? No kidding.
I, I, I mean, our room is the Arctic.
And some of you men love that. Not me.
And, and I had these, I had these two blankets that I was
using, one from Guatemala. Guatemalan blankets are not
heavy. And so I had a Guatemalan
blanket and then another one over it.
And some of you guys are looking at me and judging me and saying
you're a Sissy. But I had these two blankets.
And a couple weeks ago, Megan decided she was going to steal
the better of the two blankets and put it on her side.
And I'm telling you, for a week, I wasn't sleeping well, it's
freezing. Finally got my blanket back, my
blankie. I'm such a grown up.
Don't judge me. So she uncovers his feet, just
the corner of his garment, uncovers his feet and, and, and
of course, he wakes up. Now, I, I want to talk about
something really quick. I don't want to spend too much
time here, but this plan, it's a plan.
Naomi and Ruth put this plan into motion.
I'll be honest, I've studied a lot of different places and
people. I have done a lot of research on
this. I'm not sure if this was a pure
plan or this was a manipulative plan.
Naomi certainly had tried to take matters into her own hands
before. This certainly doesn't seem like
a real good situation to put yourself in.
To go to the threshing floor, to wait till he's asleep and
everyone's asleep and then to sneak in and to uncover this
seems not parent approved right? Doesn't seem like the best plan
now. Maybe the intentions are pure.
Maybe. Maybe like I said, people are
divided. Here's what I do know.
The outcome is completely pure. Verse 7, When Boaz had finished
eating and drinking and he was in good spirits, he went over to
lie down at the far end of the grain pile.
Ruth approached quietly, and she uncovered his feet and lay down.
Also a really good part. In the middle of the night,
something startled the man. He turned and there was a woman
lying at his feet. Who are you?
He asked. You ever been startled and not
knowing who was around you? This happens to me sometimes.
I wake up, I'm in a panic, and Megan's there and I'm like, not
because she's anything's wrong with her, but just because
there's something wrong with me. Who are you, you ask?
I'm your servant, Ruth, she said.
Now spread the corner of your garment over me.
Since you are a guardian, Redeemer of our family.
We, we see the situation and, and listen, if you watch movies,
if you watch Hallmark, Netflix, any of it, you're seeing plenty
of situations similar to this. And 99.9% of the time they are
not God honoring pleasing situations and and the
circumstances are here for things to happen that don't
honor God. But what we see is that there's
purity. This is not a situation I would
want my kids in. It's not a situation my parents
wanted me to be in. I'll never forget my senior year
high school, a big group of us church kids, by the way, not all
from our church, but different churches.
We decide we're going to go to prom together.
And so everyone decided that we were all going to spend the
night at the same house after prom.
All the guys, all the girls, a group of like 8 of us.
My parents decided everybody but me was going to spend the night
at that house, and I was a little upset about it.
Everybody else is hanging out there.
Why can't I go hang out with them?
And here's what I want to say. Thank you, mom and dad.
Thank you for not putting me in that position where I could have
messed up. Thank you mom and dad.
This certainly seems like a position and and listen, whether
the intentions were pure or not, here's the deal.
Ruth and Boaz found themselves in a position.
He's eaten, he's drank, they're laying on the floor.
He find they find themselves in a position where there could be
problems, but it doesn't happen. Instead, Ruth goes off script.
Instead, she says, cover me with the corner of your garment, for
you are a kinsman Redeemer. Now.
This is beautiful, guys. There's nothing sexual.
There's nothing immoral. There's nothing dirty about
this. This is basically a marriage
proposal, Ruth says. Take your garment that was
pulled back and spread it over me.
Now. Now the the language here is
actually the same language we see in Ruth chapter 2 when Boaz
says, Hey, May God bless you, May he richly reward you under
whose refuge you've you've take under whose wings you've taken
refuge. Boaz said that to Ruth in
chapter 2. He says, May God bless you
because you've taken refuge under his wings.
That's the same language that's used here.
Spread your, your, the edge of your garment over me.
I want to take refuge under you. For you are a kinsman Redeemer.
This is a marriage proposal, which was perfectly OK because
she had the right as a, as a woman whose husband had passed,
she had the right to ask the kinsman Redeemer to redeem her.
And So what we see what happens next in this moment that 99.9%
of the time our world shows us something different.
What we see is something beautiful, real love, real
faithfulness, real obedience. Verse 12 Boaz says, although
it's true that I'm a guardian Redeemer of our family, there's
actually another who's more closely related than I Stay here
for the night in the morning. If he wants to do his duty as
your guardian Redeemer, good. Let him redeem you.
But if he's not willing as surely as the Lord lives, I will
do it. Lie here until morning.
Now this is important guys. We we need to see this So she
lay at his feet until morning, but got up and anyone before
anyone could be recognized and he said no one must know that a
woman came to the threshing floor.
There's nothing dirty about this.
They didn't do anything wrong. They were in that tough
situation, but they chose faithfulness and obedience to
God. Now you're you might be
wondering, why would he say don't tell anyone?
That seems shady, but the truth is, this is about protection.
See, if he says, all right, get out of here and I'll come get
you tomorrow, that puts her at risk.
But he says, no, just stay there.
Nothing bad is going to happen. And then we've got to make sure
nobody knows. Now, why would he say that?
That once again seems shady, But.
But here's the deal. If he's going to go to the other
guardian Redeemer, the other kinsman Redeemer, and then if
word gets out that she spent the night with Boaz on the threshing
floor, we've got all sorts of problems.
Instead, they live in obedience and in the morning.
She heads home. We've seen Boaz is a man of
integrity. We've seen Ruth is a woman of
virtue. And they're both walking in
complete obedience to God. So much so that Boaz doesn't
say, I've got you. He says, no, hold on.
There's another person in front of me, another person that
actually has the right to do this before me.
And I want to, and I'm all in, but I'm not going to be
disobedient. I've got to go take care of that
first. So this is not your typical
Netflix story. It's not your typical worldly
story. This is a story of beautiful
obedience and faithfulness. All right, three things.
And I want to start by saying this, guys.
And I'm not just talking about romantic love here.
I'm talking about the love that God gives us, maybe in romantic
relationships, maybe in friendships, maybe in in your
relationships with family members.
Love is a gift from God and it is worth doing right.
Just to start three things we're going to look at, but let me
start here. Love is a gift from God.
And if we do it right, there's great blessing.
It's worth doing right. All right.
So the first thing we see is that there is personal blessing
and obedience and love and being faithful to God.
See, Ruth in chapter 1 chooses to be faithful to Naomi.
She says, I will stick with you. Your people are my people.
Your God is my God. Wherever you go, I'm going.
And so she chooses faithfulness. Now, 2 chapters later, maybe a
few months later, we see that Ruth is going to be redeemed
through this whole thing. Her choice to be obedient and
faithful, her choice to do things the right way.
Now she ends up in a better position than she was before.
She has a guardian Redeemer. Boaz is going to redeem her.
And not only that, Boaz is a great guy.
She's taken care of. But I want you to see verse 10
because I think Boaz response is significant here.
When she says I want you to cover me with your garment when
she proposes his response is this.
The Lord bless you my daughter, he replied.
This kindness is greater than that which you showed earlier.
You've not run after younger men, whether rich or poor.
Now my daughter, don't be afraid.
I will do for you all you ask. All the people of my town know
that you're a woman of noble character.
All right, here's what I want you to understand today.
It wasn't just a blessing for Ruth, it was a blessing for
Boaz. She says, will you redeem me?
Will you take care of me? Can I take refuge under you?
And he says thank you, because not only is it a blessing for
her, but it's a blessing for him.
See, she's a woman of noble character and he, it ends up
with a wonderful woman in this, he says you could have run after
other people. You could have run after money.
Instead, you choose me. Thank you.
Because she's such an honorable woman.
Boaz is thrilled. Now the question that I have in
here and it doesn't get answered is was she really good looking?
It doesn't say. I'm going to guess yes, but I
don't know. Probably.
I mean, it kind of matters, but but, but here's the deal.
It doesn't tell us if she's beautiful physically or not.
But what it does tell us is that she's such a beautiful person
and faithful person that Boaz knows, knows that he has a
blessing here, He's blessed. And then they come to this
moment, this moment that our world gets wrong 99.9% of the
time. And what do they do?
They stay obedient and faithful to God and they walk away from
this night with no shame. That's important, guys.
No shame with no guilt. They walk away from this night
completely pure and clean, guys. That that is love is a gift from
God and it's worth doing the right way.
We probably all have some regrets.
Raise your hand if you have some regrets in life, all right?
Raise your hand if you're not honest and the half of you that
are either asleep or not being honest.
We all have regrets, right? We all have things that we
probably would have done different.
I can promise you that you will never be sorry for living
faithfully and obediently to God.
Love is a gift and there is so much blessing and doing it the
right way. There's personal blessing in it
#2 their obedience not only gives them blessing and not only
provides for them, but also Naomi and others benefit from
it. When we love well, when we are
obedient, when we are faithful, it actually spills out to
others. You guys know that other
people's actions and choices have an effect on you, right?
Maybe some of you have been radically affected by the
choices of people around you, whether they loved the wrong
way, loved the right way. I, I know that this is true for
all of us. They have an effect, and the
same is true here. This is so, this is so awesome.
I want you to see this verse 16 when Ruth came home to her
mother-in-law, Naomi, Naomi asked how did it go my daughter
And then she told her everything Boaz had done for her.
And then she added, he gave me these six measures of barley
saying don't go back to your mother-in-law empty handed.
Now that might not mean anything to you, but man, if you think
back to chapter 1, Naomi went to Mohab.
She came back lost her husband, lost her two sons.
She comes back to Bethlehem and they say, hey, it's Naomi, There
she is. And Naomi says, no, no, no, no,
don't call me Naomi, call me Mara because I'm bitter.
And then what does she say next? She says I went away full, but
God has brought me back empty. Here we are two chapters later
and God is still providing. And I don't think this is a
small thing. Boaz says.
Yeah, I'll redeem you as long as it works out.
I'm going to do it the right way.
But don't go back to your mother-in-law empty handed.
Take this with you. I think God is just showing over
and over again that He provides for his people.
She thought that God had taken everything.
Meanwhile, God was working through the story of Ruth and
Boaz to continue to provide for Naomi.
Our obedience can be redeeming and restoring for other people.
Guys, I grew up in a house with two.
I grew up in a house with two wonderful parents who loved
well, who were faithful and obedient to God.
And I saw over and over again that when you do things the
right way, there's so much blessing.
And I personally have benefited and been blessed so much by
their choices and their obedience and their
faithfulness. Guys, your choices don't just
affect you, they affect the people around you.
When you're faithful to love and care for others, number one,
you'll never come away empty. But #2 neither will the people
around you. All right, the third thing, I'm
already crying a bunch. This is maybe my favorite part.
Their obedience redeemed the story of a girl who was born
into brokenness, generational brokenness and sin.
There's this really cool parallel we're going to see
here. Ruth's story was a story of
brokenness and pain. She comes from a people I talked
about this last week, the Moabites, who had a really bad
past. They were thought of poorly.
They were made fun of. They were enemies of God.
And through her obedience, there's redemption, not just
redemption for her and Boaz, not just provision for Naomi, but
generational change. And we're really going to look
at this next week. But I want you to see this real
quick. Ruth is a Moabite.
Told you the Moabites have a pretty bad past.
Genesis 19 shows us this past. And there's a really close
parallel here that I, I, I would hate it if we missed it.
See, in Genesis 19, Lot is with his two daughters.
So once again, we have two women and the daughters, we don't know
what the future holds. And so they decide that they are
going to take matters into their own hands.
And so here is the story of how the Moabites became.
And I got to warn you guys, this is this is ugly.
It's dark law. And his two daughters left Zohar
settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zohar.
He and his two daughters lived in a cave.
One day the older daughter said to the younger daughter, Our
father is old and there is no man around here to give us
children. As is the custom all over the
earth. Let's get our father to drink
wine, then let's sleep with him and preserve our family line
through our daughter or our father.
That night they got their father to drink wine and the older
daughter went in and slept with him.
He was not aware of it when she lay down and when she got up the
next day, the older daughter said to the younger, Last night
I slept with my father, let's get him to drink wine again
tonight and then you go in and sleep with him so that we can
preserve our family line through our father.
So they got their father to drink wine that night also and
the younger daughter went in and slept with him again.
He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.
So both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their father.
The older daughter had a son and she named him Moab, the father
of the Moabites. Today, two women a plan.
How are we going to take care of our future and nights a night
time plan. And what we see in Genesis 19 is
that Lot's daughters chose disobedience and unfaithfulness.
And the result of that was a whole family of people, the
whole Moabite clan, became enemies with the creator God.
Not only that, they were ridiculed.
They were looked down at. Everybody knew they were
incestuous people. I mean, they became outcast
because of their choices. Oh, don't lose this, guys.
Don't let this be lost on you, that Ruth, a Moabite who comes
from a generation of brokenness, incestuous disobedience, she
finds herself in this situation in Ruth chapter 3, and all of
the ingredients are there for more darkness and more ugliness.
But instead she chooses faithfulness and obedience.
And in that, God redeems and restores a broken past.
Here's the beautiful thing. Today, God's blessings and God's
redemption are for any that will choose to be obedient and follow
him. Any Moabites, People who have
broken past, people who have messed up, people who have
sinned, people who have done the wrong thing.
For anyone willing to choose to follow Jesus, there's
redemption. There's hope and there's a
future. Next week we're really going to
0 in on what that looks like. Worship team, come on up.
But today I just want to end us there.
Ruth Chapter 3, a moment we see if you watch TV, if you watch
movies, you see this moment played out over and over again
and our world shows us the wrong picture.
We see in Ruth chapter 3 a beautiful moment of obedience
and faithfulness. In that we see personal
blessing, in that we see that God blesses others through it.
And in that we see that God changes generations of hurt and
pain and brings hope. Staying with me, it's
Valentine's weekend, a weekend that typically the world is
focused on love, romantic love. But listen, I want to talk to
you just about love. Maybe some of you come from a
really broken past. Maybe some of you have broken
your past. Maybe some of you have messed up
and messed up, or maybe you've been really strongly affected by
the decisions of others. And maybe you find yourself
Today I got good news. God's blessings are here for
you. His love, His protection, His
provision, His salvation, His hope is here for you today.
All it takes is choosing Him. I don't care where you've been,
what you've done. I don't care if you're a
Moabite. God's here.
He loves you and he's calling you to him.
We're going to respond. We're going to sing a song.
God, a revival. I just want to invite you today
if you want to commit yourself to Him, maybe you don't even
have that broken of a past, but today you just want to say, God,
once again, I commit myself to you.
I want to invite you. You can come to an altar.
You can pray at an altar. You can kneel at your seat,
whatever it is. I want to invite you to respond
this word. And today I want you to choose
love, faithfulness, obedience. And I don't want anyone walking
out of here without the blessing of Godfather.
Speak to us, lead us, guide us, help us to respond to you.
We want revival, we want it personally, we want it to spill
out to the people around us. We want it for generations to
come. Redeem and restore what's broken
now. Help us to choose you today.
We give you everything. We surrender to you now.
We respond in Jesus name, Amen.