Roman Kotelevskiy | August 31st 2025

Thank you God. Stay standing. If you can, I should

put your hand on your heart. Say Jesus, everything is yours.

I hold nothing back. If you give it, I'll take

it in Jesus name. Amen. Oh right, Amen, Amen. I'm

so glad to be here. John. Are you in the

house where you at? John? John? Can you do me

a big favor? Can you just a little bit? I

feel like it's either I'm gonna run over it or

it's gonna trip me up one or the other. I

don't know. But if you can this way, this guy's

teasing me. Yeah, put her center. Thank you John, And

then when you're done, please come back. I wanna chat

with you for a second. I'm the new young adult

pasture here and I'm super excited to do that. It's

amazing journey. If you're eighteen plus in the building or

watching online, or you know somebody who needs community, we

want to get plugged in. We want to get connected.

Starting in September. Tomorrow, September, isn't it. Starting in September,

several times a month, we're going to go into the

homes and we're gonna do like fellowship style worship, encountering

God food. It's just gonna be tons of fun. So

if you want to get information on that, come see

me after service. That's perfect. John. Actually, when you were playing, man,

I saw you playing and you were like, you were

totally playing. You know what I'm saying. There's people who

can play, right, there's people who could totally play. And Man,

when you were playing, I was expecting that thing to

do what it did last year. It didn't break if

you weren't here. John was just totally worshiping like a

year ago, and he was in the middle. I was

standing right there and he was, and the whole thing

just went kaboom and it just broke off. And then

the Lord touched me when that happened, and he said,

why don't you worship that way? And it just blew

my mind and it set me on a trajectory somewhere.

But as you were worshiping, I felt like the Lord

was highlighting you to me. And I just felt like

the Lord said, now is your season and there's a

call on your life. Man. Everybody knows that your wife

knows that you're not perfect. Nobody's saying that, but there's

something in your heart, man, like when you're going for God,

you're going one hundred percent. If you're making a mistake,

you're going one hundred percent with it. True. Yeah, but

God loves that about you because you're a one hundred

percent and no matter what you're doing, Man, we just

stretch your hands. Father, We thank you for John, and

we thank you that the one hundred percent journey is

just the beauty of who you've made him to be.

And from this moment on, God, I thank you God

that your voice will become so clear, and the destination

of where he's headed will become so clear, and the

steps you will take will have so much purpose in

Jesus name, we bless him. Amen. Ah, Well, does anybody

else want to move something on the stage? Now? I'll

get it. No, I felt like that. Just God's so good. Well,

if you're here for the first time, well, hi, family,

I got some family here. Hi guys sitting in the back. Girl,

that's so cool. If you're here for the first time,

welcome to the unexpected. We don't know what's going to happen,

except we want to see the Lord come through, encounter us,

let us know who he is, and maybe give us

a clearer picture of that so that we have something

to pursue stronger, sharper, more bold, with more authority. Last week,

if you were here, we talked about the God of

my past. If you weren't here, just briefly. Sometimes we

go through things in life and we have mountains too

high to climb and too wide to go around, and

the Lord and his Goodness sometimes takes us back memory lane,

and he takes us to revisit not our past and

sin or failure, but to revisit His glory in our past,

and sometimes to remember, oh, yeah, I remember, God, you

delivered me from so and so. You delivered me from sin,

this bondage. You gave me a hope when I had none.

You freed me from this when I wasn't free. And

you go through this memory of who God is. God

takes you into your past to remember who he is

and what he's done, so that when you come back

through that journey you have the faith and you realize

the mountain that was big actually isn't so big. And

you say to that mountain, get up and be thrown

into the sea. And it is so, it will, it

will be done. And we talked about all that last week,

and I don't have the time to really share more

about that, because today we're going to talk about the

God in my future. Say God of my future. Amen.

So I'm gonna dive right in, and i am gonna

go fast, Okay, and it's on purpose. Don't try to

retain it all, just taking what whatever the Lord's doing

in your life, and we'll just go from there. Cool.

Hebrews chapter eleven, Verse one. Please. Now, faith is the

substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

One more time, faith is the substance of things hoped

for and the evidence. Let's read all together. Now, faith

is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of

things not seen. A different translation says, faith is the

confidence that what you hope for will actually happen. Come

on the substance, it's the tangible thing that we have

that gets us to what we're hoping for. Here, let

me put it in a different way. We're all in

a vehicle, and this vehicle is driving us somewhere. This

vehicle is called faith, okay, and faith is driving you

to your hope. Put it back on the screen, Thank you,

my friend. Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for.

So the question becomes what are we hoping? Right, you're

today looks like what you're hoping for now here in

the West and in the US, and and just culturally

we've we we use faith, or excuse me, we use

hope and wish interchangeably as those the same thing when

it's completely opposite. For example, something bad happens and you're like,

I really hope it gets better. What you're saying is

I really desire and wish for it to get better.

That's not hope. Hope is it will happen. It's just

a matter of time. Like when my wife and I

were going through infertility, I kept saying to her, this

will happen, we will have a child. I don't know

if it's this month, next month, or the month after that,

but my hope is confident it's gonna happen. And my faith,

my faith day in day out. We kept trying, we

kept believing, we kept praying until what we hope for

came into fruition. So our faith is the vehicle that's

driving us to where our hope is. So I would

challenge you church to stop using hope blatantly or as

though it carries no value. Hope is eternal value. Okay.

The challenge is that in today's society, we don't know

what we're hoping for, so we're confused. Like our hope

goes as far as I hope I get my bills paid.

I hope that my friend will be better to me,

or I hope my kids will listen better, or I

hope I get breakthrough in the financial realm, where I

hope people can see me or love me or accept me.

It goes so so low. We've diminished hope. And my

goal this morning, in the next twenty minutes, and please

Lord help me, is that we get a pretty clear

picture of what hope is, so that maybe we walk

out of these doors knowing who we are in the Lord,

walking out with confidence we never knew we had, walking

out with authority and believing for more than we've ever

believed for in our lives. Amen. Amen, Pastors that can

you help me? Please? Can you run somewhere from me?

I don't I know. I'm known as like the prop guy,

and I didn't bring any props today, but I figured

we need a prop and I use it the first service.

Can you go into the fellowship, Paul, You know those

two trees that sit on the side. Can you bring

one of them? Just bring one please? Thank you brother.

I love Zach. If you don't know, Zach, you're missing

out in life. Truly, you don't know. You don't know

the most encouraging person you've never met, you know, isn't

it true. He's like he just doesn't he doesn't quit.

He's just he's like, he'll find the goodness and he'll

call it out. You'll be living like garbage and be like, dude,

I could just see the man of God. You are man,

You're just amazing, and you'll see it right, He'll see

right through the ugly and see the beauty. And that's

just it's a gift to God. So as he's bringing

that for us to know and understand the hope of

God and to what we have been called to, we

have to go so where in history, we have to

go back to the beginning, say beginning. Thank you, Pastor Zach.

Just if you can place it right here. I can't

wait for what Pastor Joel has to say about this tree.

That's what happened in the garden. It fell apart. God

planned the garden for goodness and it just okay, well,

for us to understand why we even hope and what

we're hoping for, we have to go to the original

design and the intention of the author. Correct. So when

we go back into the garden, this is what this

tree represents, the garden of Eden where it began. When

we go back into the garden, we find that God

created man in whose image and in his image and

likeness he formed them, and then he ordained a few

things over man to be like. And first and almost

he said, be fruitful and multiply. And then he said,

I am giving you dominion, rule and reign over everything created.

He said, plow this ground and make beautiful things. When

God created Atom, he also brought the animals to Atom,

and he said, what would you name them? Adam. So

not only do we have the ability to rule, to reign,

but we also have the ability to imagine with God,

co labor with him in our original design. Like we

put so much pressure on God to do the thing

He's already done, and now it's our job to say, Okay, God,

you've done that. You've given me the power, and now

I have the authority to rule, to reign and make

things happen. And so when Moses was leading Egypt out

of or when Moses was leading the Israeli nation out

of Egypt and the Egyptians came to kill them, Moses

said to the people, watch what God will do. And

then God said, why are you crying out to me?

Take your staff, divide the sea? Walk. But so many

times we're like, just wait till what God will do.

Just wait, just wait on God. And there's nothing wrong

with waiting. And if you're in that season God's leading

you that way, please wait. But I'm telling you, when

you understand the same power that raised him from the

debt lives in you, You're gonna walk a different way.

So in this garden, God created them to rule, to reign,

to have dominion, to have authority, to expand. The idea

beyond multiplying and expanding, was that as the garden grew,

the entire earth would be filled with the knowledge and

the glory and the splendor and the wonder and the

majesty of this God we worship. Why because Adam and

Eve in his likeness, cause him to go that way.

We're created in his image. So lo and behold, we

know that there was a satan. There was a deceiver Lucifer.

And we all know the story the fall in the garden,

how the serpent came and deceived Eve. Eve gave out

of the fruit. They both ate, and when out of

eight their eyes were opened, they began to see things

they were never called to see. They began to feel

things they were never called to feel. They begin to

identify in ways they were never called to identify in.

So if you tell me you're a certain identity, I don't.

I don't necessarily not believe you, but I know your

true identity looks like something else. Okay, So they began

to live away. They did it they were never called

to live. And watch what happens when God comes into

the garden to address the situation. I want to highlight

what God says to the serpent. So if we go

real quick, we're going Genesis three point fifteen. I believe

the first one in Genesis says, I will cause thee

God is speaking to the serpent, the devil. I will

cause hostility between you and the one, between your off

spring and her off spring. She will strike your head

and you will strike his heel. He will strike your head. Guys,

please understand from the fall from the very first breath

of the fall of man, when we lost the image

of God. One of the first things God says to

the Satan, the one who took authority in the spiritual

realm from Adam. He says, there is coming a day

where my son will come and he will cross your head.

Do you know? Do you know what it means to

strike ahead? It means to give a death blow. From

the very beginning, God is saying to us, Yes, you've fallen,

Yes you fell sure, yes you're not living to your

full potential. But if you look ahead, there's coming a

day where there's one that will strike the head of

the one who deceived you and took your place of authority.

Real quick. I'm gonna go real, real, real, real quick.

Genesis five twenty nine. Please lameck. Okay, who's lamex? We

all know Enoch? Who knows Enoch in the building. Enoch

is a guy who lived three hundred and sixty five years,

And when he lived three hundred sixty five years, he

lived in such close relationship and union with God that

one day he was no more because God took him. Okay,

three hundredsand how many days in a year? Three sixty five.

Enoch lived three hundred and sixty five years, representing one

day for every year, in such close proximity that he

was no more Enoch. It gives birth, not him, but

his wife gives birth to a man named metthus Lah

say methuse law Methuselah is the longest recorded individual we

know scripturally. He lived nine hundred and sixty nine years.

Some of you don't want to live another day, okay,

But he lived nine hundred and sixty nine years, and

he through him gives birth to a guy named Lameck. Lameck,

a guy who grandfather walked in such close proximity, whose

dad walked so long. Lamck begins to utter prophetic utterances.

And when Noah the scriptures say nay meg name or

Lamik named his son Noah, for he said, may he

bring us relief from our work and painful labor of

farming this ground that the Lord has cursed. What is

Lamix saying? He's saying, May there be one that comes

in the likeness of the one who steps on the

serpent's head and bring us relief from this curse that's

been released. So Noah, we know this to be true.

There was a flood, and Noah was ordained by God

to fulfill this word. And see, all these people in

history got glimpses of this hope, glimpses of this hope

that you and I carry. And so Noah builds this arc.

And in the arc, oh, such a beautiful story. There

is eight individuals. And so when the water for forty

days rains like crazy, water is coming out of the ground,

it's Mayhem for forty days, and the water covered the earth.

And God reveals to you and I that the only

way from the old to the new is through baptism,

when He baptizes the world. All of this a foreshadow,

all of this a foreshadow of what's to come. How

many in the arc eight? What does seven mean completion?

What does eight mean? New beginnings? Oh? Lord, just way

too many things to ignore, way too many things, and

all these stories. Can you pull up Hebrews eleven? Is

it thirty nine or something like that? Watch this. All

these people earned a good reputation because of their faith.

Remember faith as a substance of things you're hoping for.

Excuse me, Yet none of them received all that God

had promised. So all these people, seeing the Christ coming,

that he's coming. We know he's coming. So we're doing

things today that's leading us to tomorrow, and one day

we will see. Maybe we won't experience the fullness of it,

but we will see it. Hebrews. Actually, this is not

this is not back there. But I gotta read this.

This is just way too good. This is the moment

for it. Hebrews. I gotta where you at Hebrews. One, one, one,

you gotta hear. This is just way too good. Long ago,

Listen carefully, God spoke many times and in many ways,

through our ancestors and the prophets. These final days, he

has spoken to us through his son. God promised everything

to the Sun and as an inheritance, and through the

Sun he created the universe. Listened very carefully. The sun

radiates God's own glory and expresses the very character. The

sun radiates God's own glory and expresses the very character

of God. So all these people are getting glimpses into

this sun that's coming. Remember when, oh Lord, remember when

Jesus was on the mountain of Transfiguration, and all of

a sudden there was Moses and and these two what

do they represent? They represent the law and the prophets,

you know, just a crazy thought. You don't have to

go deep into this one. But you know how God

does not live in time, right right? And you know

how God, you know, he could transport people from one

area to Okay, we're not gonna go there. But God

does not live in time. So God is outside of

time and we're living in a time zone. But there

was a moment that happened on that transfiguration a mountain

where Jesus transforms into something Elijah, Moses show up, and

I'm wondering if back in history when Moses was a

live that's actually when he showed up. Do you know

what I'm saying? Because God's not living in time, I'm

not trying to get We might get in trouble with

that one, but listen, that's not the point. The point

is that when Jesus shows up in the natural, he

expresses the very promise that God has released. Okay, I'm

gonna skip that one for the sake of time. Luke

chapter ten. We're gonna go right into the life of Jesus. Luke,

chapter ten, verse seventeen. When the seventy two disciples return,

they joyfully report to him Lord even the demons obey

us when we use your name. Yes, he told him,

I saw Satan fall from heaven like a lightning. Why

is Satan falling from heaven because heaven has been given

to Satan in this realm. When Satan deceived man, they

gave over their authority to rule into rain. So Satan

took that place. And what Jesus is saying when I

have come, I have give watched this. This is so

so good. Look verse nineteen. I have given you authority

over all the power of the enemy. You can walk

among snakes and scorpions and crush them. This this just remind

you of something spoken in the garden. Oh this is

just so good. I don't know if anybody gets kiddy,

but when I see these kind of things, I'm like,

ooh so good. It gives me like this confidence that

what I believe is real. Like how many of us

come here. You don't want to just hear a good mess.

You need something that's gonna walk out there with you

and break the neck of the enemy. And your life

and your kid's life, and your financial life, and your

relational life and your marriage. You need something that's real.

You need something that's powerful. You don't need just somebody

saying to have a good week, see you next week.

You need a living gospel that transforms everything. Wooh, thank

you God. Watch this verse twenty. But don't rejoice because

evil spirits obey you. Rejoice because your names are registered

in heaven. So a lot of us take this as like, hey,

it's not about what you can do for the Lord,

it's about actually getting to heaven. False. What is Jesus

saying saying, don't rejoice because you have a hand that

can do something. Rejoice because you've been restored to the

original identity in Christ. Because when your name is registered

in heaven, that's God saying I have given you all

that is mine. I have returned you to the original

purpose that I have ordained, that you would be fruitful,

that you would multiply, that you would have dominion, that

you would rule and rain cover the earth with the

whole glory of God. Matthew twenty eight real Quick twenty eight,

verse eighteen. You know that Jesus came, He lived a

perfect life, he died a gruesome death, and then when

he was buried for three days, he raised from the

dead by the power of the same spirit that lives

in us. And when he raised from the dead, Jesus

came and told his disciples, what I have been given

all authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore go, Can

you say go one more time? Go therefore, go and

make disciples of all the nations. He didn't say go

and try. He didn't. So he didn't say go and hide.

He said go and make How many of us know

that this is not a suggestion, This is not a

maybe yes, maybe no. This is a do it because

it's on your life to do it. Go and make

the disciples of all the nations. So what we have

here is we have the Gordon. We have people showing

up throughout the Gordon, or throughout history looking forward to

the time when Jesus shows up. How many of us

know that Jesus is the living, breathing Word of God.

So the Word shows up, he makes the menifest presence

of God in the very character and nature of God

redeems us back. And then what he does is he

gives us a commission. So many of us are stuck

in win is the end happening? Is it happening tomorrow

or is it happening in two years? Is it happening

in ten or is it happening in one hundred? Listen,

nobody knows, but we know something. I need some shoes, Dennis,

Can I use your shoes again? Please? My brother, You

all need to see this. Praise the Lord. You see these,

This is your hope. It's right there. Second, God redeemed

something that happened here through the cross, and he says, go,

this is your assignment right here. Go and you don't stop.

Can you pull that verse back up in Matthew twenty eight,

You don't stop until the nations have been disciples. We

don't let go until everything falls under the submission of Christ.

Don't you tell me that it's gonna get worse when

the Lord said, go make disciples. Don't you tell me

that this sickness is gonna have you when in Mark

he says, those that believe will lay hands on the

sick and they will recover. Don't you tell me you're

diagnosis when there's a better and bigger word. Your diagnosis

is a shaky ground. But the Word of God is

a solid foundation. We have more hope in the surroundings

of our current existence than the Word that is eternal

through time. And faith will always drive us to what

we're hoping for. So if you and I see the

words of God and we say, God, you said that

the nations will be disciples God, you said, and Mark,

let me pull it up real quick. These the miraculous

signs will accompany those who believe they will cast out demons.

You said that the demons will be casted out. And

I won't stop, I won't quit, I won't let go.

I won't give in until every demon is gone, until

every sick is healed, until every nation is disciple. And

that's the hope of my calling. But we're so petty

sometimes it's just true, especially in the West. God, just

keep me through this day. I'm not saying your day's

not hard. I'm not. It's real. It's real. Life is real,

Like last night, somebody in my neighborhood got shot, like

it's real, like life. I'm not saying what you're going

through doesn't have validity or doesn't have meaning, or it's

not waightful or not hard, or I'm not saying that

at all. I'm just saying the ones from the beginning

who saw whatever they saw, no matter what they went through,

did not change the outcome of their life, and that

was the reputation they earned that when we hear their stories,

it empowers something in us that you and I can

walk in more freedom, more strength, more ability. And now

that the Christ has come, the same one that rose

from the dead lives in us. We're unstoppable. What if

we start believing that? So it doesn't matter if we're

right here in this journey and at the on the

other side of that, you know what's happened, you know

what's coming. Jesus is coming. It doesn't matter if we're

here or we're here because nobody knows, or we're right here,

nobody knows. That's not our quest. Our quest is to

keep our eyes on the Christ. Keep our eyes on

the Christ. Keep our eyes on the Christ. Oh Lord,

where should I go? Lord? Real quick? I'm just gonna

briefly make some comments practically how we overcome. First John

chapter five, the scriptures declare that anyone who believes that Christ,

you don't have to put it up on the screen.

I'll just paraphrase. You can look it for yourself. Anyone who,

anyone can overcome this world if they believe that Jesus

is the son of God. And Jesus was revealed in

three by three witnesses, by his blood okay, by the

spirit who testifies about him, and by water okay, through baptism.

Those three things. Anybody who believes in the sun must

acknowledge these three witnesses who do not lie. The blood,

the water, and the spirit who testifies. Okay, these three things.

Later on in Revelations, we can actually pull this one

up Revelations. I believe it's twelve. Is it up there?

Tell me if it's up there, I'll just read there.

Then I heard a loud voice shouting across the heavens.

It has come at last the salvation, power and the

Kingdom of God and the authority of His Christ. For

the accuser, the devil, the lucifer, the one from the

beginning that deceived us of our brothers and sisters, has

been thrown down to the earth. And the one who

accuses them before, that's the one who accused them before

God day night. Next verse. Watch this, and they have

defeated him. Not they will not, they mu right, not,

they have to try. But they have defeated him by

the blood of the Lamb, by the word of their testimony.

Don't skip the last one. You skip the last one,

you lose every time. And they did not love their

lives so much that they were afraid to die. The

blood Jesus is revealed through the blood. What's the next one?

The word of their testimony. That's what the spirit brings

to reveal Jesus. And that they didn't love their lives

unto death. That's water baptism. What happens when you're baptized.

You let go of your old life. You die to

all the fears, all the insecurities, all the past, all

the demons, all the wrongs, all the hardships, and your

race to life to a brand new creation. That is

how you overcome. That is what we need to look

forward to real quick. Hebrews chapter twelve, Verse one. Therefore,

since you and I are surrounded by such a huge

crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us

strip off every weight. Oh there is a distinction here.

I want you to catch this. Let us strip off

every weight that slows us down, especially the sin. So

weight doesn't necessarily mean sin. Well, don't judge me. I

can do this. I'm not judging you. But if this

is you should probably listen right I don't care. Maybe

you can drink that and nothing's bothering you, but I

know somebody else can't. And if you're the one who

can't and is bothering you, you should probably listen. Stripping off

every weight that holds us back. I want to watch

this next part, especially the sin that so easily trips

us up, and let us run with endurance the race

that God has set before us. How many of us

know what the race is? We talked about that just

a second ago. It's seeing the nation's disciple, it's seeing

every demonic spirit cast it out. Pastor Dwayne mentioned a

few weeks ago, we are all full time ministers. We're

actually all paid full time missionaries ministers. That's because wherever

you go and all that you do, you are a Christian.

You know what a Christian is, a christ like one.

You know what Christ did everywhere he went. He'll the sick,

cast it out, the devil's preach the gospel, love the people.

He was hanging out with the broken. He wasn't scared

of what they might think about him. He wasn't scared

to get his hands dirty. He got in the mud

with the prostitute. Oh that's our Jesus. We do this

by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates

and perfects our faith because of the joy awaiting him.

If I can print a picture on your mind this morning,

so many times we're used to hearing beholding God, and

it's true, you need to behold the beauty of Jesus

because when you see him rightly, you can see and

reflect what you see. Okay, but this is talking a

bit about a different situation to follow Jesus, keeping your

eyes on him running a race. By keeping your eyes

on Jesus, that means you're looking at the back of Jesus.

What is that saying? That means he's going ahead of you,

and he's leading the way. He's leading the way. And

so if I can imprint a picture, no matter where

you are in your situation of life right now, no

matter how much you believe in Him, no matter what

you're going through right now, if you can, for a

moment even close your eyes as I'm speaking, just begin

an envision in front of you, maybe not the face

of Jesus, but the back of his head, and you

see him walking, and I just want you to begin

to in envision which way is he going? Is he

going to the left or is he going to the right.

Is he stopping and waiting or is he going Is

he bending down to get to work or is he

walking to get to another location. Let's let me tell

you something this morning that if you keep your eyes

on Jesus, he is your reward. He is your reward.

Just stand to your feet. The prerequisite for a life

living full of hope is denying yourself in the west

where the center of our world and it inconvenience is me.

I'm out. I would challenge you this morning to lay

down your life for the sake of your King. I

would challenge you this morning, if you're here and you

don't know this King Jesus, that you would come and

be introduced to him. Last week I made a call.

There was four individuals that responded to give their life

fully to the Lord, and I want to make a

similar call. There's a word over this morning that that

people are going to come into the hands of Jesus.

So we're going to start singing and we're going to

start praying, and the Destiny team is going to be

up here. But if you know you need to give

your life to the Lord and submit not to your

own desires, not to your own future, but a real God,

a living God, the one who breathed you into existence,

the one who formed you, the miracle you are in

your mind womb, the one who knows you're tomorrow, the

one who knows exactly how you feel right now that

if you would yield your heart your mind to him

this morning, I would challenge you to surrender it all.

But on top of that, when the Destiny Team comes

up front for those who don't know what they're hoping

for and they just need fresh revelation for their own

personal life, on top of the great commission, would you

come and get prayed for? The Destiny Team operates in

the prophetic and they will speak a word over your life.

There's things that will shift. I feel the grace this morning.

So two things. If you're giving your life to the Lord,

full surrender or rededicating or more fully surrendering to him,

please come up. But also if you just need a

simple shift, God, give me a vision, give me a

clear picture of God, give me something to grab onto

and run with endurance with. Would you come up? So,

Destiny Team, would you come. We're gonna pray us out

and as they worship, don't be in too much of

a rush. If you gotta go, you gotta go. Which

would you submit to the voice of God that may

be speaking to you right now. The way he speaks

many times is through conviction. You're convicted to do the

right thing in life? Would you do that? Father? I

thank you this morning, this afternoon for your beautiful presence. God.

I thank you for each individual at the sound of

my voice. I rebuke every lie in their minds. God,

I rebuke every deceitful thought that might hold them or

hinder them from your presence, from your goodness. God, I

thank you that this morning the morning of rejoicing and

being glad. God, I thank you that this morning is

a morning of celebration. We're celebrating the Lord this morning,

all your faithfulness, all the good things you're doing, all

the wonderful things that you're about to do. In the

name of Jesus. We love you God, and we accept

everything that you're about to do. Amen.