The Worst Sinner: Week 5

For us saying good morning.

I am Pastor Mike, and I am so glad to

be here with you this morning.

If this is your first time or first time in

a long time.

We're so glad that you're here, and those who are

online glad that you're tuned in this morning as we

attempt to continue this wonderful series The Worst Sinner. When

this series came about, I was like, Oh, I didn't

know they were gonna be talking about me for six weeks.

But we all probably were like a little nervous about

that The Worst Center. We didn't want to find ourselves

being the key person we're talking about. But I'm glad

to be here with you this morning and want to

just start this morning with prayer.

Let's pray.

God, I thank you, Thank you for who you are,

thank you for the ways that you work in our lives.

Thank you for how you are leading us daily into

the spaces you want us to be that, Lord God,

where there's darkness, there's a light when we show up.

I pray right now, Lord God, that you would use

my words, the meditation of my heart or God to

speak with clarity exactly what you want to say in

this space in this moment, Lord, take it all, do

whatever you want to do in Jesus' name.

Amen. Amen.

Well, this morning we're looking at the life of Paul,

and we've been over in the series the last several

weeks looking at the life of Paul and all the

ways that Paul transforms, if you would, the church, and

how he infuses this journey that he was on. Who

was one who was after Christians, who were going to

pursue them, to destroy them, to kill them. This same

Paul has an encounter with Christ on the road of Damascus,

and his life is turned around forever. And now this

same Paul is now on a journey or crusade, a

mission to declare that Jesus is Lord, and that the

Church is there and needed and people can come into

the fellowship with the Lord. When we first think of Paul,

many of us may think of Paul as this courageous missionary,

this prolific writer.

We may think about him as this powerful preacher.

May be elong witted preacher in some spaces, but however,

Paul has been so important to our faith. He writes

most of the New Testament, and these letters that he

sends to the church encourages the church to continue on

in their faith. And so this morning we're going to

look at chapter nineteen. We've been kind of going through

acts and looking at this encounter that Paul has and

how he responds to the encounter, and so all of

those ideas or attributes of Paul that we think about today,

I want to look at a different attribute of Paul.

I want to look at Paul the disruptor. Everybody say disruptor,

say it against a disruptor. Uh huh oh yeah, good job.

Thank you.

Uh. The reality of it is that when Paul starts

this journey, he has one mission. He is going to

become a destroyer. He's a destroyer of Christians. He wants

to destroy this faith. He wants to destroy the way.

At that time, it was called the Way. There was

not really a form of Christians or Christianity.

It was the way. These people who seem to be

in the way.

He said, I'm gonna get them out of the way,

and i am going to destroy them. But then when

he has an encounter with Christ and he then is

filled with the spirit of God, he becomes a disruptor.

This morning, I want to talk with you from four

quick points and The first point about Paul being a

disruptor is this, disruptions with.

The power of God.

Disruption begins with the power of God. Anytime you hear

me talk about the power of God, I hope you

know that at this point, I am not talking about electricity.

I'm not talking about goosebumps. I'm not talking about a

smooth feeling that we feel on the inside. I am

talking about the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the

power of God. The Holy Spirit, as I always say,

is the acting, moving power of God. Anything that needs

to happen in the earth, anything that needs to happen

in spiritual realms, the Holy Spirit causes it to happen.

Nothing happens without the spirit. Nothing happens without the spirit.

No one saved without the spirit, No one comes into

relationship with Christ without the spirit. The Spirit draws and

the spirit keeps, and so Paul is filled with the spirit,

and he becomes a disruptor because he has the Holy Spirit.

I want to let you know so that if you

have the Holy Spirit, you will be a disruptor automatically.

It's a target on your back. And there are many

people who are in the faith and they don't feel

themselves disrupting anything. Everything is just normal. And I don't

know about you, but I like when things are smooth.

I had a teacher, professor. She used to call me, mister,

I'm okay, You're okay, because I just wanted everybody to

be okay.

Can we all just get along? Right?

But the reality is that when we step boldly in faith,

everybody is not gonna get along. Everybody's not gonna be okay.

But as long as we are in Christ, we are

going to be okay.

Amen.

And so the Bible reads in chapter nineteen of Acts,

verse one, it says this. It says, while Apollos was

in Corinth, Paul took the role through the interior and

arrived at Ephesus. The interior was a difficult way. It

wasn't the easy way to get there. Let you know

that sometimes in our lives we're gonna have to take

the hard way. Anybody signing up for the hard way

not really right. We rather say, like, we always find

the easiest route to a place, But I want to

let you know the easy route you will miss some things.

But Paul takes the difficult route, and it says there

he found some disciples there he found some disciples taking

the hard way and ask them, did you receive the

Holy Spirit when you believed question mark? They answered no,

we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.

So Paul asked, then what baptism did you receive John's baptism?

They replied.

Paul said, John's baptism was a baptism of repentance. He

told the people to believe in the wanter coming after him.

That is in Jesus.

Paul helps them and preaches yet again this gospel to

let them know that Jesus baptized, that they might have

an encounter with the presence, with the Holy Spirit, that

they would be able to move forward in this way,

in this road towards what God wanted in the earth.

And so.

The Bible says, on hearing this, they were baptized in

the name of the Lord Jesus. When Paul placed his

hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and

they spoke in tongues and prophesied. There were about twelve

men at all. I just want to stop there.

For a minute.

These were disciples, These were believers. These were people who

had an encounter. They have been baptized in the baptism

of John. And we remember John as a cousin of

Jesus who baptized, and one day he even baptized Jesus.

But Jesus then helps them to go to the next level,

or Paul helps them to go to the next level,

and say, do you have the Holy Spirit? Why was

it important for them to have the Holy Spirit? The

Holy Spirit was because of the impact. We cannot have

impact without the Holy Spirit. You can be a Christian

and have no impact, no influence. You shake nothing up,

nobody even knows. But when you have the Holy Spirit,

I want to let you know, it's like having a

mark on your back there that one is on attack.

Why because he knows you can shift things up. When

you show up, things start to go a little crazy.

Why because the Lord is pulling on you, calling on you,

and yanking you towards the things that he wants in

the earth. You can't just sit in the boardroom and

just let anything go. You can sit in a community

and watch people suffer. You can't go to church and

just sit and sing and leave. There's something inside that

says I gotta do more. And so Paul is saying, hey,

did you receive the Holy Spirit. And when they went

through this baptism, they receive the Holy Spirit and some

of the gifts of the Spirit old up in verse seven,

it says there.

Were about twelve men in all.

Paul entered the synagogue and spoke boldly there for three months,

arguing persuasively.

About the Kingdom of God.

Remember in this section that he's in in Ephesus, he

goes always to the Jews first.

He always goes to the synagogue.

He's always preaching to the Jewish people to remind them

of what the Word said, the prophecies that were spoken,

and how those line up with Christ. He was there

to persuade them that Jesus is the promised Messiah, that

the Kingdom has come, and they may have missed it.

Now of course, in their minds are like, how is

it that you, who was a persecutor of the Christians

come now? And every single time Paul encounters them, he

always tells his testimony. I want to let you know,

the greatest thing you have in your life is your testimony.

The greatest thing you have is your testimony. It's the

place where Jesus found you. It's the place that he

found you when he found you at an altar and

he said, hey, I see you and I want you.

When you felt despised and you felt like no one

should love you, Jesus says, I see you and I

want you. I love you, and I got a mission

for you. And that's what Paul does. He tells his

testimony over and over again, and he compels.

Them to come to Jesus.

But some of them became obstinate and refused to believe

and public hum in line the way. They're like, no, no, no, no,

I'm staining from this. I don't want to be a

part of this. This is confused, and this is crazy.

We don't believe this. So Paul left them. He took

the disciples. I want to let you know, he took

disciples out of that space. There were some who believe.

I want to let you know when you go, everybody's

not gonna believe you. Everybody's not gonna want a part

of your Jesus. But that does not give you the

right to not speak about him. I know you can't

talk about Jesus on your job, and some of you can,

and you just choose not to talk about Jesus. But

the responsibility of the believer is to speak. I have

one of those jobs where I'm not really supposed to

talk about Jesus, but I wait for the opportunity. Oh

my lord, I'm like that crouching tiger.

Who's just waiting, and I'm like, okay.

And if somebody talks about faith, I say, listen. I

can't tell you what to believe, but let me tell

you about what I believe. When someone says I'm really

struggling with my faith, well what is your faith? And

if they tell me they're Christian, I say, oh, open door.

Anytime there is access, I am going to enter.

No, I don't put shit, I don't try to lead it,

but boy, if you open up that door, I'm coming

in full force. Why Because believers, we don't have much time.

We don't have much time. And when I'm saying much time,

I'm not talking about the end time, when it's all

said and done.

And maybe I am at the same time.

But what I'm saying to you is that you only

have a short life spent. You only have a short time,

a short window with certain people. There are only a

small window that people will be.

In your life.

And while they're there, please please give them Jesus, I

have this one kid I'll never forget. I'll call them

by some initials. I'll just say initial J.

Right. And he was leaving our facilities.

I was prepping him and going out, and we were

doing all these different things. And as we were going

to prerep him and get him a bank account and

get him set up for a license and all these things,

I was ready to release this kid, and the Lord

convicted me real quick.

The Lord said, you gave.

Him everything but me, And I felt so convicted, I said, Lord,

I said, but I didn't see the open window. And

just then, in that moment, this young man started talking

about his faith and how it had been shattered because

of his family life. So I went through the door.

I want to let you know that we have to

always take the opportunity. The Bible goes on to say

that he leads from the synagogue, and he took those

disciples with him, and he had discussions daily in the

lecture hall of Tyrannus. When this went on for two years,

so that all the Jews and Greeks who lived in

the providence of Asia.

Her the word of the Lord.

I want to let you know everybody's got to hear

about Jesus. Everybody, every opportunity, everybody needs to hear about Jesus.

And so he keeps on talking for two years straight

in this region. That all the Jews and the Greeks,

everybody who's in this region hears about Jesus. It doesn't

mean that they accepted him. They heard about him.

Hear that keep talking.

Don't stop talking just because they don't receive don't stop talking.

They may not receive him today, but if you keep

on talking, they might receive him next month, next year.

You don't know when.

But because you said something, silence is not an option.

Somebody should say, amen, we cannot be silent. And so

he keeps talking for two years, and the Bible says,

goes on and says, God did extraordinary miracles through Paul,

so that even handkerchief and apron aprons that he touch

touch excuse me, that had touched him.

He touched them, but they touched him. Amen, that touched

him were.

Taken to the sick and their illnesses were cured and

the evil spirits left them.

This is powerful. Could you imagine just a piece of cloth.

That touched him was taken to someone else and they

were cured of their omens, their illness. This is powerful.

This is what he does. This is what our God does.

God can use you as a conduit for miracles, for blessings,

for open doors.

He can use you. Listen.

I want to let you know, Paul is not that special.

We call him what the worst sinner, because we need

to know that our sins are not greater than Paul's.

None of you in here that I know about went

and sought to kill Christians, have you. But God used

the same vessel to be the same.

Vessel that would heal people, that would be.

Used to perform miracles to show the glory of God.

None of this stuff was about Paul. It was about

the God of Paul. And I want to let you know,

don't get it mixed up because sometimes we take this

thing so personal.

It's about me. It's about me.

It's about my progress and my blessings and my this

and that, my.

House, my car, my kids, my community.

My no no no, no, no, no no no, don't get.

It mixed up.

It's about the God of all that stuff. It's just stuff.

And if you don't have God, you have nothing.

So Paul.

Teaches us something Through this, he asks do you have

the Holy Spirit when you believe? And this draws them

into a relationship with the Holy Spirit. A church filled

with the Holy Spirit can not be passive or silent.

We push back darkness every time I see the ministries

of this church expand I always say, Wow, we're pushing

back darkness in another area. Can't be passive. The application

is this. The Holy Spirit is more than a comforter.

God's power is disruptive. The Holy Spirit doesn't come just

to comfort you and your time of need and you're

going through a difficult time. Yes, we're all going through

a difficult time. But the Holy Spirit also comes like

fire like power to destroy the works of the evil one.

The Holy Spirit is disruptive.

Second, true repentance disrupts our lives. When you give up

your stuff, it's gonna disrupt your life. The stuff we like,

you know what I'm talking about. Some of you like,

please don't talk call out my stuff. You know that

stuff that you can't do without, the people you can't

do without, the places you go that you can't do without,

the habits that you have that you can't do without.

But when we lay down those things and we then

repent of those things. Guess what it's going to disrupt

your life.

That pizza pie that you've gotta have two to three.

Times a week, you stop eating it, it will disrupt

your life.

That coffee you drink in the morning at some of

you sip your coffee this morning.

Right when you stop drinking that coffee, you get that headache.

You know that headache. Listen, it's a horrible headache. It

disrupts your life. I want to let you know that

when we come into true repentance, repentance will disrupt our lives.

That relationship that you're in, that you know is not

leading anywhere, that you know does not elevate God, that

does not glorify God, that does not bring anything to.

Your spiritual life at all.

When you let go of that relationship, it will disrupt

your life because.

You like it. What are you talking about, Pastor Mike.

The Bible goes on to say this in the same chapter,

it says some Jews went around driving out evil spirits.

They try to invoke the name of Jesus, the Lord Jesus,

over those who were deemon possessed.

They would say, in the name.

Of Jesus, who Paul preaches, I command you, come out,

seven sons, receive a Jewish chief priest.

Now notice he was a Jewish chief priest. These are his.

Sons, right, But they trying to floss and finesse a

little bit.

So they saw what Paul was doing, and.

So they said, if Paul could do it, I could

do it too.

The problem is is that they didn't have the power

of the Holy Ghost.

Watch out. Don't you go out here trying to be

bad and you ain't got the Holy Spirit. Don't you

go out here praying for people, laying on hands and

you haven't even asked the Holy Spirit to come and

live and dwell in your life.

Don't you do that? Why?

Because the Bible says this. It says they were doing this.

One day the evil spirit answered them, Jesus, I know,

and Paul I know about But who are you?

Uh?

Huh?

Who are you?

Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on

them and overpowered them. He gave them such a beating

that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.

Lord have mercy, listen. Don't you play. Don't you play

because you might get yourself whooped. Okay, they got whooped

on that day, right, and so they didn't have the power.

I want to let you know the power is available

to everyone in this room if you are a believer,

if you believe in Jesus Christ. They did not believe

in Jesus Christ. They were just doing the practice. I

want to let you know. It's not about practice.

It's about relationship.

Your relationship will drive you into practices and new things.

It will drive you to do the things that you

are uncomfortable doing. Speaking to the stranger and the CBS,

it's saying, can I pray for you? We often cop out,

I don't know, Lord, Holy Spirit, just have your way.

We cop out. We usually tell people I'll be praying

for you. Sometimes we do and sometimes we don't. It's

always a good thing to say, I'll be praying for you.

Oh thanks, but what does that really mean. Stop saying

it and do it. You got two minutes. You waste

more time on Instagram and Twitter. Can I pray for

you right now?

Yeah? It might be uncomfortable for you, but go ahead

and pray. It might be.

Uncomfortable for them, but you know what, somebody would appreciate

the fact that you took the time to stop everything.

And pray for them right there in the moment, because

they mattered, and so these gods would playing the game.

When this became.

Known the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, they were

all seized with fear, and the name of the Lord

Jesus was held in high honor. They was like, don't

play with God. Don't you play with Jesus, don't play

with him. Many of those who believe now came and

openly confessed what they had done. A number who had

practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly.

They were calculated to be in the value of screen

value of the scrolls. The total came up to fifty

thousand drachmas. In this way, the word of the lords

spread widely and grew in power. I want to let

you know, true repentance will change everything in your life.

This was a public display of repentance. They brought their scrolls.

They said, Hey, we were practicing some witchcraft, we were

practicing some sorcery, we were doing.

All of these things.

But when we heard about what happened there, we knew

that we can no longer.

Do that anymore.

And I want to let you know repentance is not

just saying we're sorry, but it's a complete shift from

allegiance to the powers of darkness in our lives.

It's a shift.

It's not just saying I'm sorry, I won't do it anymore,

but as a shift, and others should know what happened.

Something shifted in his life, something shifted in her life.

There's been a change.

Why because we have come into true repentance. I want

to let you know. The application is this. We're often

comfortable with repentance that stays private.

I'm gonna say that again.

We're often comfortable with repentance that stays private.

I'm not telling nobody.

And listen, I'm not saying this morning we need to.

Have a big.

Hoorah and everybody repent and openly confess. And that would

be fine too if the Lord drew that to happen

this morning. But I'm saying this that we have to

open up our mouths to somebody, whether it's a comfort

on a friend, someone close to you, that you can say, hey,

I am turning this around.

The Lord is turning this around in my life.

The Lord has convicted me of this thing, and I

am laying this down at the.

Feet of Jesus.

But the world needs to see the fruit of a

truly repentant life. I don't do this no more. I

don't go there no more. I'm not living that way anymore.

And the fruit is how the Holy Spirit operates in you.

From that point forward, we're called point three. We're called

to confront the systems of idolatry and injustice. I want

to let you know, there's so much idolatry in our world,

so many idols. No, they're not like the idols of

old time. Many of us we don't have statues and

crystals and all that type of stuff. And if you do,

Lord Lord, because you can't have both. I'm gonna say

that again, Thank you, Holy Spirit. You can't have both.

You can't have Jesus Christ and crystals. You can't have

Jesus and a poem reader. You can't have Jesus and

practices that don't align with the Word of God. Somebody

should say, Amen, it's Jesus and Jesus alone. The song

said all to Jesus, I surrender all to him.

I freely give everything, all the.

Stuff that's in me, I lay it down, I surrender all.

I surrender all, not some.

And so the Bible talks about this, and I'm gonna

kind of go through this kind of quickly in the

sake of time, but it acts nineteen. The Bible goes

on to talk about about that time. There are roles,

a great disturbance about the way. Remember the way is Christians.

This group of believers, a silver smith named Demetrius, who

made silver shrines to Artemis, brought in a lot of

business for the craftsmen there here. That brought in a

lot of business for the craftsmen there. He called them together,

along with the workers in related trades, and said, you know,

my friends, that we receive a good income from this business.

And you see and hear how this fellow Paul has

convinced and let us stray large numbers of people here

in Ephesus and in practically the whole providence of Asia.

He says that God's made by human hands are no

gods at all. There's danger not only that our trades

will lose this good name, but also that the temple

of the great Goddess airmated Aramis will be discredited, and

the goddess herself, who is worshiped throughout the providence of Asia,

and the world will be robbed of her divine majesty.

They were so concerned about this God, this goddess, that

they said, listen, we got to do something about this.

Now.

The real deal is they were worried about the money.

They were worried about the money. This was an economic system.

They made these statues. People purchased this statue, and they

made a lot of money from this. And if you

preach Jesus and people start believing in Jesus, then these.

Statues have no value.

I want to let you know that sometimes in the

world that we are around, some of this is all

about economy. Jesus is not profitable. Jesus is not profitable

in the healthcare system because when Jesus shows up, people

start getting healed.

Doctors can't make money off of that.

He's not profitable in the legal system because when Jesus

shows up in the courtroom, people go free.

When Jesus shows.

Up in any size of place where people are making money,

things change. There is a lack of certain things. When

the people of God come together. Guess what, we can't

be bound with housing issues. When the people of God

show up and start doing Jesus stuff and people find housing.

People who are hungry are fed, people who are naked

are clothed. People who are in prison are visiting. The

elderly are taken care of. I want to let you know,

when Jesus shows up into an economy, it starts to

change and shift.

And people who are.

Empowered because of money no longer in power because Jesus

starts providing for needs. There's a shift. So these guys

were so focus on the economy are the mass these silversmiths.

They started a big issue in the city.

Notice this, paul never goes directly after this false god.

There's nowhere in.

Scripture where paul An acts where he literally says, this

god is a false god. You should not follow this

false god. I want to let you know there's some

things you don't need to say. There's some things you

don't need to say. We don't need to become political

in order to serve the Lord. Put your politics to

the side and serve Jesus. When you elevate Jesus.

Guess what. The more you elevate Jesus, every false god

is god. About the more.

You elevate Jesus, everything that is wrong with our world.

It is now put on display.

Why because the people of God live Jesus higher than

every other system. There's some things you don't have to say,

and there are other things we must say, like Jesus

is Lord. He's Lord over everything, everyone, every situation, everything

that goes on in our earth, in our world, in

this place that we live, our areas, our regions, our neighborhoods, everything,

He's the Lord over all.

That's what we need to say. The application is this.

We disrupt systems when we embody the values of God's Kingdom.

When we do the kingdom stuff, we disrupt systems. We

disrupt systems. When we feed people just to feed people,

to show the love and the goodness of God, we

disrupt systems.

I don't know about you, but I want to.

Disrupt some systems, some systems that have been around a

long time.

When we shop to the local school, the school.

That nobody wants to go to, but we shocked to

the school, and we say, I'm here. I just came

to serve. I don't know what I came to serve for,

but I'm here as a representative of the Kingdom of

Jesus Christ. It's a shift that happens, That's what God

is calling for.

I gotta move.

Finally, there is boldness in the face of opposition. Paul

displays boldness in the face of opposition, and.

I want to let you know boldness, just like what

I said.

Is not about you getting muscled up with an army

rolling into a place.

Boldness is standing your ground.

I'm talking to a believer this morning who needs to

stand their ground at their job. I'm talking to a

believer this morning who needs to stand their ground in

their school. I'm talking to a believer this morning who

needs to stand their ground and their home. I'm talking

to a believer this morning who needs to stand their

ground in their community. Don't fall in and don't become silent,

but stand your ground with boldness.

As you remain.

Bold, God will gain the glory. I want to let

you know that God doesn't want you to fix anything.

God in called for you to fix anything. He just

wants you to show up, say what he says, do

what he does, and then watch him make the change.

Church at the Crossing.

Whether you're in this room where you're online and you're

tuning in today, I want to let you know that

God is calling for a radical change in our faith.

That we don't become casual Christians.

Who come to church and treat it like a country club,

but we become disruptors who show up to spaces and

who remain available through the power of the Holy Spirit.

I want to let you know I like to wash clothes.

I love washing clothes.

Right some of you are like, I got a load

for you right now, But I love to wash clothes.

The process of washing clothes, and so in our house

we have a we have a washer drawer upstairs, and

then we have this combo washer and drawer, which I

really love.

Put it in one time. It washes and drys, you know, easy.

But what I've noticed about both units is that inside

the washer there's these levels that come out, you know,

and I had to do a little research on that.

We call those the agitators.

The agitators are actually what gets the clothes clean because

as the clothes hits those and moves with the water,

it moves with the soap and definitely the fabric soft

man amen, as it moves it hits it, it starts

to bring out the dirt. I wanna let you know

that those agitators don't move. They stand their ground inside

the machine, and no matter what item comes in the machine,

it does the same job.

No matter what looks more like my grandma's washer, right,

it cleans what is dirty. It stays in the same place.

Because if you don't have the agitator, guess what, the

clothes don't get cleaned. I wanna let you know that

the world needs an agitator.

The world needs a disruptor.

They need somebody to show up into those spaces and say,

I am a representative of Jesus Christ. I'm gonna stand

my ground. I'm gonna stand my faith. I'm gonna be

true to what God has called me to do. I

am filled with the Holy Spirit. I know my job,

I know my responsibility, and I will not be moved

this morning. I am praying that someone has moved to

say I want more. Stand on your feet with me

this morning as a worship team comes, I'll say this

and we're gonna move. I remember you know my story

with my mom. My mom gave her heart to the

Lord under my preaching one time and she got saved,

but she was still struggling with a whole lot of stuff.

And the Lord told me he said, be silent and

don't say nothing.

Ah.

I want to say, hey, Mom, why don't you Ah,

just love her, just love her, just love her, just

love her. I said, Okay, just love her and I'll

never forget. He said, love her and live it. Love

her and live it right. And so I did those

two things, kept doing it, kept doing it. And I

remember one day my mom said to me, she said, Lord,

Lord's son, I've been praying to the Lord, and I

just want more. Well, Mom, you're going to church. Mom,

you're reading your word. Mom, you're praying. I want more.

And I said, Mom, called mommy. I was like, Mommy,

what you're asking for is the power of the Holy Spirit.

My mother prayed the prayer, she receive the Holy Spirit.

And I got to tell you that as the Holy

Spirit started to agitate and disrupt her life, I didn't

even recognize her at times because of the work that

the Lord was doing in her. Maybe you are here

today and say, Lord, I want more. I want you

to do a work in my life that the people

around me don't recognize me anymore, but they know I'm

here and on assignment and ready for you.

Can you pray with me? Right?

Now, God, I thank you so much for your word.

I thank you for who you are. I thank you

for the way that you make in us and how

your Holy Spirit does the work that we cannot do

within ourselves. Holy Spirit, come even now, transform our minds,

transform our lives, transform our hearts.

Holy Spirit, reach.

The one who's wanting more today, who wants to be

a disruptor. In your name, we thank you for this

now in Jesus' name, Let everybody say amen.