The Language of Love | New Horizon Church

I'm in trouble because the first service, I explained what

I'm going to explain to you, and I explained that

the most important part of the message is the part

I'm trying to get to that is very hard to

get to. That I want to spend the most amount

of time, but by the time I get there, I

have the least amount of time. And so I'm trying

to tell you, get your heart ready. But before I do,

I just want to pray. Don't feel like you have

to stand, you just sit, but close your eyes for

a moment. Lord Jesus, Oh, we just welcome you, Father.

We just steady our hearts before you. We steady the

posture of our heart before you. We just present ourselves

before you a living and holy sacrifice. After all that

worship that we sang, after all that prayer we did,

we just present ourselves unto you. We present the soul

of our life, our mind, our will, emotions, the fabric

of who we are. And we asked that you would

just come and blow through that this morning. And I

know you've already been doing that as we've worship and

as we've prayed, and as we've honored you this morning.

I know you've been doing that, but now I'm asking

you go that as we present who we think we

are before you this morning, that you would just come

into that realm and just begin to mess us up.

I'm asking God that this morning would be a morning

not only a breakthrough, but of radical transformation. That we

would see you so clear this morning that who we

thought we were, any false identities, lies, deception, it would

just melt off of who we are are.

God.

I'm believing for that grace this morning, and I'm believing

that You're about to do some cool things and I'm

on board. So you say whatever you want in the

name of Jesus.

Amen. Well, I'm so glad to be here.

When the request came in to preach this morning, immediately

I knew it was a yes from my heart because

the moment I got the request, I heard the Lord

say the language of love and how that never happens

to me usually. I'm praying, I'm my Lord, help me, God,

what do you want to say? And it just came

to me and I knew right away, Okay, I have

to do this, And as he did it, he gave

me three categories of this topic that he wanted me

to address, and I'm gonna get to all three of them,

and the first two I'm barely gonna scratch the surface of.

And I'm gonna move fairly quickly. So if you miss something,

there's probably a recording. But if you miss them, just

don't worry about it. Keep staying with me, okay, because

if you somewhere too long, you'll you'll miss the next thing.

You know what I'm saying.

So I'm gonna move pretty quickly. Don't be overwhelmed. Your

heart might feel like like it's in Jesus' name.

Okay, this makes sense.

So when the language of love came to me, the

Lord highlighted three different categories he wanted to talk about,

and this the topic of love. If you're looking at

love as itself, the topic of love is actually a

common theme all throughout scripture. If you're looking in the garden,

if you're looking at the Law of Moses, if you're

looking through all the judges, through all the Prophets, through

the Psalms, through the Proverbs, the Wisdom to the New Testament, Jesus,

you're going through all the epistols. Everything, you're going through

all the topic of love. Is like, for God so

loved the world that he gave right, he loved the way.

That's that's that's who he is. That's the purpose of

Jesus because of the Father's love. If you're looking at

when they came to Jesus, like, what's the greatest commands?

And he says, you must love the Lord, your God,

with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind,

all your strength. And you must love your neighbor as

who yourself.

And then you have Paul writing the three.

What three things last forever? It's faith, hope, and love,

and the greatest is love. Right, So it's a common

theme that we find throughout scripture. And then Jesus says,

if you love me, you will obey my commands. So

it's kind of interesting because love demands and obedience the

love is voluntary. What he's saying is that if you love,

if who you are is love, the direct reflection result

of it is obedience and honor to the Lord. It's

not a twisting your arm. It's a privilege you step into.

Okay.

So the first category I want to go into, it's

words of love.

Say that with me. Words of love.

In Proverbs chapter eighteen, verse twenty one, Solomon writes, the

tongue can bring life or death. Those who love to

talk will reap the consequences. Come on, now, I love

to talk, and the word consequences is not necessarily a

negative connotation. We speak day today as though it is,

but it's not. It just means those who talk will

reap the fruit of what they're saying. Okay, So when

my wife and I just got married, we got married

pretty young. I was twenty, she was eighteen. I'm from

the slavin culture. We get married young, we have big families,

and we go to work when we're ten. Okay, that's

just what we do, and so don't ask me questions

about that. But when we got married, you know, I

figured out pretty quick that just because I want to

go doesn't mean we're going right, or just because she

wants to do something doesn't mean she's going to do it.

You know why, because there's a tension between what she wants.

What I want. And we're pretty young.

So maybe you're smarter than us and you figured it

out pretty quick, but there was some tension sometimes, okay,

And yeah, we didn't project it on people because we

learned how to keep it to ourselves. But you know,

there was tension, and so what happened was through this tension,

there was a frustration.

That would build up.

And I don't know why it works this way, but

when there's a frustration that builds up, somehow it has

a connection to your tongue. I don't know how it works,

but when you frustrated, it's like it activates in your

tongue with you say things that in two minutes you regret.

You know why, because it's coming out of a place

that's probably not love.

And so you say things that you regret.

And so in the beginning of our marriage with the

Lord began to challenge both of us with is biting

our tongue And I'm not talking about like a you know,

a mental kind of body like physical.

Biting your tongue. And I was asking the Lord, why

are you asking us to do this?

We're not trying to be better, because if you try

to be better and you become better, that's a work

of the flesh, not the work of the spirit.

So why are you asking us to do this? And

he said, because I want to teach you the value

of your words. See, Jesus is the word of God. Right,

And in the garden, God said, let there be the

word created everything we see and the function of everything

that's happening around.

Us his word. What if you and I were to

value our words the way he values his? Okay, So

the language of love, it starts with the words of love.

And so as we were biting our tongue and Jesus

was showing me these things, I realized.

My good words are like they're like seeds.

Right, You say something and you didn't see the effect

of it, but it's hurting somebody deep deep within. Like

I found out years later some of the things I

said to some people that actually hurt them so bad,

and I didn't know because I was just you know,

it's naive or whatever you would to call it. But

I said things that were not out of a place

of love. But it was a seed that festered in

somebody's life that I never addressed, or was never addressed,

or they didn't protect their heart, but it was a

seed that festered and it caused them harm.

And that's just what words do. They're like seeds. And

if we use the seeds that come out of our

mouth to build people up, my goodness it will be beautiful.

So what we have is we have WWJD. Somebody tell

me what that is. What would Jesus do? I have

a new one for you this morning, ww js What

would Jesus say, Come on? Would he honor somebody with

his words? Or would he gossip? Would he encourage an

individual or would he discourage?

Would he build them up? Would he tear him down?

What would Jesus do? What would he say?

I'm not gonna stay here any longer because we gotta go,

We gotta go. I'll make a quick mention James Chapter three,

you know that chapter on the words, just the power.

He said, you can make grand speeches with words, and

then you can throw your whole life into flames just

because of the words he use.

Right, but he says in verse two, very very crazy.

And he says, the one who learns to control the

tongue is perfect, being able to control the rest.

Of their life.

Oh, my goodness, the power of the ability to use

this profoundly and for his glory. Put your hand on

your lips through creakes, say Jesus, help me use the

words that come from love in Jesus' name. Hey man,

now put your hand on your neighbor, say Lord, make

them perfect. If you know what I meant, you know

what I'm at all right, So next topic I want

to go into. Our next category of this topic is

the acts of love. It's talked about the words of

love a little bit. The acts of love. I believe

personally that the acts of love is one of the

most powerful tools of yours and mine warfare in this earth,

like amongst each other and in the world amongst the unbeliever,

like our ability to be have an action of love

that comes from love, or an action that shows or

demonstrates love to one another. I believe that's one of

the most powerful things we have on the earth.

So in.

Matthew chapter five, Jesus ushers in a new an interesting

perspective where he you know, and he says, you know

that the law says the injury, the penalty must match

the injury. Where he says, if somebody takes your eye,

then you must take their eye. If somebody breaks your leg,

you break their lege. Somebody takes your wallet, you take

their house. I don't know, like you know what I'm saying,

Like it shouldn't match, right, But he said, I say,

unto you do not resist the evil person.

Love your enemies.

And he says, if somebody slaps you on one side,

what do you do turn the other cheek?

Says. If you go to court and they take your shirt,

give him your coat? What says?

He says, if a soldier demands that you carry their

gear for one mile, to carry it for two.

Let me bring it into context.

If your boss requests that you do something outside of

your job description, you go above and beyond into their

job description. All right, acts of love. I'm gonna share

a few stories. Then we're gonna go into the next category.

I had a brother who now passed away. Once again,

we have big families. I'm not gonna get into that one.

But I had a brother who passed away. He was

two years older than me and the closest brother to me.

I was the youngest, he was the second youngest. We

had a phenomenal time living on earth together. It's pretty cool.

And when I was about thirteen years old, God actually

spoke to me. And I didn't give him my life

or anything, but he spoke to me. He said, Roman,

I want you to change your relationship with your brother.

And I was like, what in the world, okay, And

when we growing up, we just fought all the time,

and we fought so much that the nature of our

friendship became like our high would be like a smack.

Like literally when we would greet each other first time

we saw each other day, should.

Whack me upside my head. That's just the way we

did it. It's not abused, it's just the way we

said hi.

But I didn't like that anymore, and I didn't feel

like that was who we were. And so one day

he was coming home from where he can God challenge me.

He said, no more of this. And uh, I was

about thirteen at the time, and I was phoning the

laundry up on the stairs and he was walking up

to go to the hundry.

End I knew what was coming.

He walks past me, slap side my head, and I'm

just folding the laundry, and I didn't do a thing.

Usually i'll whack him in his leg and you know,

be like, what's up. You know, that'll be like anyway,

but you know, sometimes one thing turns into it and

gets violent.

But anyway, I'm not gonna get into it.

So so he passes me three steps after whacking me,

and then he stops and he does he does one

of these, and he goes back.

He looks at me.

It's like I missed the point. It's like he's saying, well,

what's up. Yeah, and he whacks me again. And I'm

folding the laundry.

And the words that Jesus says turn the other.

Cheek, and he's like, he's now uncomfortable, because you know,

you can imagine. And so what he does is he

starts whacking me. He's like, I know you want to

hit me.

I know you want to. I had him a bag

or whatever.

And then I'm overwhelmed with emotion. And you can't get

overwhelmed with emotion in a time like that, you know,

or else that's super embarrassing. But I'm overwhelmed with the

love of God. And the tears start coming out, and

I said, Bro, you're gonna hit me all you want.

I'm not gonna do that anymore. And he was so shocked,

he was so uncomfortable, he didn't even know what to do.

So he took his towel and went to the shower.

I'm telling you that man got changed from my active love.

From that moment on. He's a Mom, I'm buying rome

and driver's aat I'm buying him a car. And then

our friendship was next the level. Like we did a

bicker before he was like making fun of me in

front of his friends.

Now he was lifting. But this is my brother, this

is him, he's calling with me.

And it was like that that awesome thing, that one

act of love released in his life. I had around

that time. A little bit after that, I had a

mentor out of church. I was going to at a

camp when you know, we have food at the camp

and uh he the leaders got the chance to get

their food first, which I thought was crazy because leaders

should serve. But anyway, he got his, he had his

food and then he comes to my table and everything

that's on his plate is everything I want. And I'm like, hey, Alex,

his name is Alex Fertugen, the coolest guy ever. Say

I'm like, hey, Alex, is that for me? And he

was like oh yeah, like and he puts it right

in front of me. He's like, oh yeah, that's for you.

And I was young, so I was confused. I thought

he was serious. I didn't know that was his plate

for himself, but I was like, whoa.

That was for me.

He did that for me, and then I saw him

He went and grabbed plate and got the exact same

stuff for himself. I'm like, oh my God, that example

did so much for me, and that took one second.

His one act of love, one act of love, transformed

paradigm of my thinking. And as far as Christianity, I

was young enough that he showed me that somebody actually

loved me. He showed me that I'm worth something.

Just why.

You might think it's so silly, your act of love

in your workplace, at your homes.

Whatever you're doing. You might think it's silly, but it's

a powerful tool of your warfare, active love.

It showed me that I was worth something. It showed

me that God loves me. It showed me that somebody

can actually walk in humility that I can look up to.

And it showed me.

That Jesus lives in people. Just through one simple act.

You might say, not crazy, put your put your hands

in front of you, look at them and say, Jesus,

help these hands do mighty acts of love in Jesus' name.

Amen. All right, I'm gonna flip this.

Other's so much I got I got notes guys, I

don't usually do this much. No, it said, I'm trying

to stay on top of me because I know I

could go so with places. So the third topic I

want to get into gotta get my water. The third

topic I want to get into, which I think is

the most important thing at Julie One second, you guys, ready,

it's the intentions of love. Intentions of love. You see,

you can say all the right things, and you can

do all the right things, but it.

Means nothing.

If your heart's not there, if the intentions are impure,

if the position of your heart is positioned from selfishness

or jealousy, it invalidates your words and your actions. In

the garden of Eden, God created us in his image,

and that image was love. I'm gonna start moving very quickly,

and if you miss something, please don't sit there too long.

Just follow me, stay with me. In the garden of Eden,

God created us in his image, and his images for

first and foremost it's love. And he said to them,

the day you eat of the tree of the knowledge

of good and evil, that's the day you'll die. When

Eve saw the fruit, she was deceived by the serpent.

And when she saw the fruit. She said, it looked beautiful,

it looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom that it

would have given her. What is that, It's the three temptations.

It's the pride of life, the lust of the eyes,

and the lust of the flesh. It's the lust of

the eyes. Saw it was beautiful, the lust of the flesh.

It looked delicious, the pride of life. She wanted the

wisdom it gave her. And these two temptations they only

have a foothold if you begin to think from the

realm of selfishness and jealousy. Selfish she saw was beautiful.

She wanted it. Jealous she wanted the wisdom that it had.

In these two things, James.

Writes that where you find selfishness and where you find jealousy,

you'll find every disorder, You'll find every kind of evil.

And he says, this is not God's wisdom. Selfishness and

jealousy is the wisdom that the world travels on. And

we are not of the world because that is not

of God's wisdom. Jesus says to Peter that get behind me, Satan,

because you see things merely from a human point of view.

So the establishing idea.

What's happening here is that what God's intentions are and

what the world's intentions are way different. The world thinks

for itself, how can better itself, what it can do

to help protect what they have, and defensive God's thinking selfless.

For God's a love that he gave. Okay, you guys

with me so far. So when Eve takes that fruit

and she takes that and she just an interesting thought,

nothing happened. But when she gave the fruit to the

wand that God said you must not eat, and he

takes to the fruit, their eyes were open. I'm not

going to go there because that's not where we should

have been at KST. We went through that and by

the way, but you're not there, and we're not going there.

But when that happened, their eyes were open, and they

were they began to see things they were never created

to see.

They begin to.

Field things they were never created to feel. So we

know the story. God banishes them out of the garden.

Some of us think it's because God was angry, not

at all, go reread it. He was actually deeply in

love with humanity, and out of his love and protection

he banned them from the garden because in the garden

there was a tree of life, and he didn't want

them separated forever from him anyway. So I'm not going

to get into that either. But watch this when he

banned When he banned them, there was a prophetic word

that the seed of her and the enemists see enemy seed,

he will crush the enemy's head, and the enemy will

will hurt his heel. And so there was a prophetic word,

and there was a promise of a son, his name

is Jesus, that he would come and one.

Day restore us. Okay.

So the common theme throughout scripture became about a one man,

the promised Messiah that's coming. And so when Jesus comes

Hebrews chapter one, verse three, if you have the scripture,

please put it up. It says that Jesus the sun

radiates God's own glory. Okay, in the garden when God

created Adam and Eve, you and I radiated the glory

of God. And watch this and expresses the very character

of God, like if you see Jesus, you see who

God is.

Okay.

But let me add to it. When you see Jesus,

you see who you are because you were created in

his image, and what the author of Hebrews is saying

is that Jesus radiates the image of God, his glory,

and his very character. Like if you see Jesus, Jesus says,

when you've seen me, you've seen him, And he says,

I want you to be one with me, just as

I am with him.

It's us.

It's us against the enemy, not against each other. And

so the intentions of love needs to be restored to

the image of God, to the very character of God.

Some people say Jesus didn't have Jesus didn't want to die.

He had to die. Let me tell you something. That's

a false eye from hell. Jesus wanted to die because

you were the joy set before him. Okay, I really

have to stay on focus. I want to present an

idea to you. Love is one sighted that you didn't

hear that much. Well, you know, it takes two to

make this work. You know, you have to do something.

You know, because if I'm the only one doing it

and then you're not doing it, and then I'm just

the one that's serving and you're not serving, and I'm

the one who's brain and you're not brain, we can't

make this thing worry. And if I'm doing all this

stuff and you're not doing anything, then whatever it is

not going to work.

I'll tell you what before you said yes to him?

He hung there.

One sided. See, love does not require to work, does

not need reciprocation.

Does.

I do not need you to say you love me

when I say I love you, because my love is

not conditional on what you are, how you do, what

you're feeling, what you're doing, what you've done to me.

Why because it's I present myself in that place, not

demanding you to take your place. You live before God. See,

I can't judge the love that you have. I can't judge.

I can't. I can't judge it. Why because I can't wait,

I can't. I can't put a weight to it. I

don't know how much you love because you can do

all the things and say all the things, but not

have it in you.

And it's a zero.

Only God can see that. Therefore, I take my position

as one sided love. I'm gonna say something real quick,

and I don't misunderstand me. But when my wife and

I got married, I would say things, sirr, I don't

care if you run off with another man. Why because

I see you for who you are and I love you,

not that it wouldn't hurt, but I see her for

her value, her potential, who she is in the Lord.

And the only reason she would have done that or

failed to meet her commitment is because.

She lost sight of who she is.

So why would I take her failure and take it

upon myself and cause that division.

I'm not trying to put.

This on anybody circumstances life thinks. I'm not doing that.

I'm just saying that when you, as a man or

a woman of God, take the position of love, you

are the one who brings holiness to the marriage. And

I wasn't planning to get into marriages. This happens that

it just happens, you know, when you're married, it just happens.

But this goes into every relationship that you have. You

could be at work and you take the position of love,

and in the face of injustice, you do the acts

of love because.

You have the intention of love. And when you have

the intention of.

Love filled with the act of love, it has the

power to release the Kingdom of God wherever you're at.

It says, if you do something.

For the sight of others, Jesus says, if you do it,

if you pray for people to see, you've received your reward.

People saw.

But if you pray before the Lord, your intention is pure,

he will reward you. Love is one sided. I'm gonna

say real quick, I'm gonna go deeper into this.

Just for a second. You guys with me. He guys. Okay.

There's a man, a lot of you know him. His

name is Todd White.

Many years ago he was He's just a crazy guy

that loves.

To pray for people. And his family gets to witness that.

And one of his daughters was four years old and

they were on vacation on a beach cheap place, Hawaii somewhere,

and they're just laying down to the beach and the

daughter sees some man limping along the water. She says, Daddy,

let's go pray for him. I want to go pray

for four years old, right. So she goes, and she's like,

and Todd goes with his daughter and the daughter initiates everything.

She's like, sir, I saw you limp in. I just

believe that Jesus wants to heal you. Can I pray

for you?

And the guy wasn't about a deny it, four year old.

If you deny, that's you're a big sinner. By the way,

if you deny it, four year old. And so he's like, well,

giggles because he's not a believer. It's like a sure, honey,

go ahead. And she's like, she gets on her knee.

It's the cutest thing I heard. She gets on her

knee and she puts her hand on his leg. She's like,

Jesus blessed this food in Jesus name, Amen.

For four years old. And the guy chuckled. You know,

it's like, oh, cute kid. She goes, okay, sir, check out.

But the guy gets one hundred percent held one hundred

percent Why because the power was not and what she

did it was in the intention. Results are revealed by

the faith attached to it, in the same way words

of love and acts of love should be the result of.

The intention of love. This's making sense. So what's the problem.

The problem is how we think, or how we perceive ourselves,

how we perceive him. You and I were so good

to distance our personal self from the character of Jesus.

When the selfishness is knocking on our door, and when

jealousy is knocking on our door. We're so easy to

make a distance. Well, I'm not she Jesus. Well that's

Jesus here. Of course he would do that. But I'm

not him or not perfect.

So what you do is.

You sell yourself short, You sell yourself so cheap, You

sell yourself to the identity of a world that said

it over you. And I'm not even saying perfection here.

I'm not saying I'm just saying, like regular little things, Yeah, worship,

if you come up, that'll be great. I'm just saying, like,

when you distance who you think you are from who

Jesus is, You've caused a great disservice to the value

on your life. You've caused a great disservice to the

value He put on your life through his blood and sacrifice.

This is not a message of condemnation. This is actually

a message of privilege. You see when when even Adam,

when they send in the garden and the identity of

love was true from them Hebrews we talked about it

says that.

He Jesus radiates the glory God and.

Expresses can we put the scripture back up and expresses

the very character of God Wh's what it keeps saying.

And when he cleansed us from our sin, think with

me for a moment, when he cleansed you from the

sin that was established in the garden and the rain

of it. When he cleansed you from the false identity,

from the I'm not Jesus conversation, When he cleanses you

from that he sat down in the place of honor

at God's right hand. Why because he finished the work

that he was supposed to do. Now, the only responsibility

that we, you and I have is the soil that

that word lands on. And how willing are you and

I this morning to lay down false identities, false perspectives

of our cells to take on the righteous identity that

we are made in the image of love. Because the

moment you present yourself to God and allow him to

come and mess with the fabrics of your thoughts, of

your will, of your emotions, what you think you are,

how you think you grew up, well, whatever happened to

you as you grow up. When you let the God

of the universe, who created you in his image, to

come into those places, I'm telling you what the first

thing he will do is kill who you think you

are and that he's really good at that, really good.

First Corinthians, Chapter thirteen. Oh Lord, do we have a

sign up? If you got kids, go get your kids.

Please.

Those not very nice. If you have children, they're very amazing.

Please bring them.

We're going to be done.

Oh mess, enough see the power you're were and how

you say, Oh my God, this is not good.

Lord, help me okay.

First Corinthians, Chapter one, Chapter thirteen, Verse one. If I

could speak all the languages of the earth and of

the angels, if.

I had all the words of love but didn't love others,

I would be super annoying. That's what he's saying.

Actually, he's saying, you'd be worse than annoying. A noisy gong,

a noisy gong or clinging symbol. That's even that's a

negative zero. If I had the gift of prophecy and

understood all of God's secret plans and possessed all knowledge,

and if I had such faith that I could move out,

but I didn't love, that would be nothing. If I

gave everything I have to the poor, if I did

all the acts of love, they could think of all

the things that you would look at somebody and say.

Wow, that person's filled with a lot of love.

If I did all those things but I didn't have love,

I would have gained nothing.

Love is more than what you see. Has to be

that intention purified. But how do we get that intention purified?

The biggest violation of the way of love is selfishness

and jealousy Verse four.

Love is patient, it is kind, Love is not jealous.

Both soul proud or.

Rude does not demand its own way. Two things we

just read.

Love is not jealous and love is not selfish. Keeps

no record of being wrong. It's not irritable.

I want to quickly go to as I wrap this up,

Matthew after sixteen. I referenced this passage earlier when Peter

asks his disciples, he says, who.

Do people say? I am?

And then Peter gets up and he's like, you are

the Messiah, the wane of God. And then Jesus says, simon,

you will be called Peter, which means rock. And upon

this rock, Aulbill mach Or. She just gave Peter the

title that anybody wanted.

You know. It's like because all they could think of

is selfish? Who sees me? How they see me? Who's creator?

All that stuff right, and then he goes on to

tell them how Jesus must die. And so Peter, with

the established identity that Jesus just gave him, he's like,

Heaven forbid. Literally, Jesus just says to Peter, whatever you

bind on earth will be bound in heaven. Whatever you

whatever you lose on earth, will be loose to heaven.

And then Peter goes Heaven forbid. And then Jesus looks

at Peter and he's like, get behind me, Satan, because

you see things merely from man's world perspective and knockouts.

Watch the very next thing. He says, this is.

So good, and this is the answer that we need

this morning. I really sense it. Verse twenty four. Then

Jesus said to his disciples, if any of you wants

to be my follower, if you want to follow the

very image that you were created, and from the beginning,

it's not a strife thing.

If you're hearing this message and.

You feel discouraged or upset about yourself, it's not even

a strife. It's not a comparison message. This is an

opportunity message. This is an invitation message to step into

an identity that you were created into so Jesus says,

if anyone wants to be my follower, you must turn

from your selfish way away that you were never created for,

and you must pick up your cross and follow me.

If you try to hang onto your life, you will

lose it. But if you lose your life for my sake,

you will save it. Some translations and say you will

find it. Listen, if you lose who you think you are,

to take up an identity that God's called you to,

you will find life. How many billionaires, millionaires, people who

you would say were successful, are so depressed, so lost,

and so confused the thing that you put a value on,

and God says, that's a zero wife because you don't

know who you are.

You could be a billionaire. You could be a millionaire and.

Happy, or you can have a successful life and a

great family and be happy. But first, foremost has to

be restored in identity, the image of God.

In your being. This is making sense. Come on, get

to your feet if you can.

Oh, Lord, sorry, guys, I'm just I got so much

fire and passion in my heart that I just okay.

If you're in this room and you want to give

your life to the Lord, like fully one hundred percent,

like one hundred percent life for real, Like you want

to lay down a false identity.

Of who you're not and say, I'm going to give

my life to the Lord. I'm gonna make the Lord

and Savior my life.

Could be your first time, or it could be that

you're just you've been way backslidden and you just don't

even know who you are anymore. I want you to

raise your hand right now. That's you right there?

Who else? Sorry, I'm sorry, let me be clear. I

see your hand there one more time.

If you're giving your life to the Lord, or if

you're rededicating it, I want you to raise your hand.

I see one back there, I see one here? Who else?

I see one over there? Come on, come on, let's

share them up. Who else at one hundred percent?

Come on?

Actually, come up here, come up here.

If you're frill about the Lord, come on.

Okay, your shot, that's fine, Come on up, Come on up,

anybody else, I'll give it a moment. Just don't worry.

Come on, anybody else, we'll wait. We'll wait thirty more seconds.

You ready, anybody else? I don't feel pressure. I hope

you don't either. But if you feel fire, you probably

need to be here. Give it another thirty seconds. It's important,

important that if you're thinking through if you should or shouldn't, this.

Is very good because you should count the cost.

That's okay, I'll give you another fifteen seconds.

Thank you Lord. If you're up here, you probably already

feel You feel it, don't you. It's happened at home

on I'm just standing next year. I feel it. Why

because there's a beauty that happens.

And surrender when you lay down a line to take

up the truth, come out three more seconds. Anybody else,

come on up quickly. I know I'm waiting for one

individual at least.

Who are you? Where are you? Is that you? Is

that you? Come on up here? Oh you're such a princess. Okay, okay,

shreut your hands real great Father, we thank you for

these individuals. You can get some guys behind them. Father.

We just thank him all shresh, Come on God, it's

doing some Father.

We thank you for the mighty move of for stirring

the spear got with Thank you that heaven's rejoicing.

We're rejoicing too.

In the name of Jesus, I just speak and declare

over all your lives, that the Lord sees you, he

wants you, he chose you, he's redeeming you, he's transforming you.

You're gonna have a different language to your words. You're

gonna have different actions to your deeds. You're gonna have

different intentions to your heart. Come on, and then this surrender.

Just allow the Lord to transform you from the innermost place.

Come on, The Lord is doing something. If you gotta go,

you gotta go. But I'm telling you the Lord is

doing something. If you're on the Destiny Team and you're

not gonna hurt reality here, I want you to come

up and join stand here, and I want to invite

if you're dealing with something, maybe it's a false perspective

and identity that you're you've been hurting with, I want

you to come and pray with the Destiny Team member,

because the Lord is unleashing goodness this morning. And the

Lord will be faithful if you give him the posture

of your heart and you give him good soil. I'm

telling you seeds will grow the seed of your true identity,

and the Lord will grow this morning in the name

of Jesus. Will close your eyes, lift your hands, Father

we lift you up, we glorify you this morning, and

we thank you God that you're purifying our intentions, you're

purifying our hearts.