13th October 2024 All Age All Nation Service - Dave Food - What's it Worth?

No, it's Court Strokes. Maybe that's Strokes College. It's literally

just around the corner. It's about five hundred yards away. Now,

we're not going in through the front door. The hall

we're meeting in is literally just behind the front door. Now,

first thing's real bonus for anybody who drives. Free parking

starting next Sunday. Ever since, ever since earlier on this year,

they started charging for parking in the on Sundays. We

have a car park at Strode So free parking, so

you're can invite your friends and don't have to be

embarrassed about saying, oh, you might have to pay for parking.

Free parking, and there's plenty of there's plenty, plenty, plenty

of spaces. Okay, I'm going to show you a couple

of quick videos about how to find it in a moment.

But the other thing I also want to say is

this is about growth. This room seats maximum fifty people.

This one here, the one that Cooper's Hall that we're

going to next Sunday, seats up to ninety people. But

I'm not just thinking about ninety people church. I'm thinking

about what next. And there's a sports hall at Strokes

College at six two hundred people, So you know, we're

moving just up the road. But we've got room to

grow to two hundred people there, you know, and I'm believing.

I mean, there was a band at a party last

night and I said to Hope as she looked at

the band, all the instruments, I said, I said to you,

how long before we have a band like this? Because

they had a keyboard player and three guitarists and a

drammer and a singer. How long before we have a

band like this at church? How long do you think?

She said?

How long?

Would you say? Hope said three months. I'm not holding

her to that, but I love the faith in that.

I love the faith in that says we're going to

have a big Now what I'm saying to you church,

and for those who are listening online, those who are part.

Of who we are.

You know, if you've got a musical gift, we need

a bigger band because we're going to fill a bigger

space and we're going to make more noise. There's gubby

room to dance, we're going to put flags up, room

to wave flags and things like that. So firstly, let's

give you So I don't know where you know wherest

Roads is. But if you know there's a there's a

there's a new cafe. Can I call it a cafe?

A place that serves pancakes. It's called Fluffy Fluffy. So

if you want to give a reference point to anybody,

it's just round the corner from Fluffy Fluffy.

So let's let's play the first video.

Up the drive.

So this is the way you would drive in or

walk in. This is the way to come in. I

thought i'd speeded it up. It just speed it up

because the people don't walk that fast. And then you drive,

drive through the gates and you get into the car park.

Please park anywhere in here. You we're just driving past

the entrance at the moment. It'll stop in a moment,

so plenty of parking space. Please come and join us.

Please invite your friends. Okay, Now, once you get to

the door and you've parked, there should be somebody there

to greet you. We need a bigger welcome team. We're

going to need a bigger welcome team. So now we're

going to go inside. You're going up up a few

stairs and there's just another thirty seconds, so you know

where you're going there will be signs, there will be

a frames and things to point you in the right direction.

Let's play the next one, Jonathan.

Up the steps and we will need to help people out,

anybody who If we need disabled access, we'll need to

talk to the college about that. But at the moment,

we're just going to come in this way. You turn first,

right around the corner. There'll be a sign there that

was just to help you to know where you're going.

I love the fact that we walk under a thing

that says be inspirational, be inspired, and then you walk

in here and this is the It won't look like

this on Sunday. We were just testing it out, but

this is the room that we'll be worshiping in and

as you can see a prophetic picture there of Hope

playing the guitar.

Okay, so now you know.

Now you should be able to find it between Fluffy

Fluffy and disquise if you want a reference point between.

So it's at the end of the high Street, go

in through Strodes and that's where we're meeting. And we

do need help to set up because it's going to

be different. It's not our own space, and we'll be

meeting there every Sunday doesn't mean we won't be using

this place. Friday Night's prayer will still be here if

we have a prayer, if we have a midweek meeting,

it'll be here, you know, until it doesn't fit in

here when we have a midweek meeting with sixty people,

then okay, maybe we'll have to hire. But so that's

where we're going. That's what it looks like. There's a

couple of pictures. We tried it out about a month ago.

We checked out all the technology. Jonathan's been playing around

is like a big kid at the moment because he's

buying extra wires.

And extra things.

Because all we need to do is take what we've

got here more toys and it's already we already know

it's working. We will all everything. So so thank you

Jonathan for all the hard work. This's so just a

little thing. Good job, and it won't be I really

do want to say one final thing before I give

an opportunity for some testimonies.

It won't be perfect next week.

There will be teething troubles, and so I want to say,

bear with us. If there's something you think doesn't work,

tell us one of the things we've already got is

Keris and cherry and helped us with this. We wanted

to have a better connection card. I don't know whether

you filled that. Most of you have filled out a

connection card at some point, but we wanted it to

be more engaging, more colorful, more bright, and just a

place to connect with us as church. So you know

that's already designed and that should be ready for next

week and ready to go. So there's plenty more things

coming in the pipeline. You may have noticed our giving envelopes.

Our giving envelopes started last week. That's all part of

us preparing for growth. So that's a little bit about strokes.

If you've got questions, ask me, come and let me

know if you've got next week onwards, if there's something

you've got a suggestion. We've got a room for Sunday school,

we'll have a place for crache, and we'll have a

place in the room. Actually sorry, let me just go back. Okay,

see these dividers at the back, We're going to have

a private space at the back for people to pray

and for pre prayer, also apprice if people want a

bit of more privacy, if they need prayer, We will

have space to pray for people. One of the big

things I think is a problem here. We don't have

room to make the Holy Spirit, not make the Holy

Spirit room to make space for the Holy Spirit to move.

He does sometimes, but it's just awkward because we're all

a bit crowded and it's all a bit awkward. We'll

have plenty of space for that. We'll have badges of

the ministry team and everything else. So that's what's coming, guys.

I'm excited. Are you excited? Yeah, So I'm going to

give an opportunity for testimonies if anybody's got a testimony

this morning.

Arash, do you want to come?

Come, Come, come, my friend.

He's upon all of you. So this is one of

my hugest tests. So many revealed to me to share

with all of you. It is listened clearly, So I said, God,

I have tested many you know, I have many, many

tests them, each of those I should share it, and

please show me also the worse and bye, as I

had Chapter six, verse eight. Also I heard the voice

of the Lord Jesus. Also I heard the voice of

the Lord saying, saying, whom shall go and who will

go for us? Who shall I send, Who shall I send?

And who will go for us? Then I said, here

am I Jesus? Here am I send me? He said,

go and tell these people. Keep on hearing, do not understand,

keep on seeing, do not perceive.

So showed me from morning time. But I did not notice.

When I said, God, please show me again and show

me the verse I should use. It showed me again

this verse. And when I was thirteen or fourteen, when

I got a light mind to understand around myself. When

I was young, too young, in my whole life, I

was looking for God. In my whole life, I was

looking for God.

God knows. But I never quit. Never I did not live.

I always have been on that way to looking for God.

My mom sent me to some religion, some religion school,

and somewhere else. We've done a lot of things about

religion and to also about acted. So one of the

big things was in my mind when I was too young.

I'm saying about young people. First I was in Iran.

I said, good, if someone burns in the first jungle.

How they can understand you? Who wants to.

Define about you to them or introduce you to them?

And if I was born Jewish or Christian or any ideology,

because there are many ways people are following. So who

could who could say Jesus is true? All glory bit

to God. So when I got this age, I think

I turned to forty years thanks to God and revealed

to me the mission ended and started another mission. So

I wasn't my parents choose to both?

I was.

We got two brothers, that's all. They choose him. But

I wasn't they choose look at God's way to light

people to shoot? Okay? So you were thinking about someone

if born in younger? Okay, you were my choose. I

got to be to God.

I gave book to them, the Bible.

I've been around thirty five or thirty three, four years

south of Iran. Whoever whoever was around me. I introduced

Jesus to them. Also I gave the book. It's not

easy to find a book in my country. I had

connection by Germany and also America. They sent me by

post by Ryan address.

I took it.

It was many books, not just one, not just two,

not just tree like these books. And then I moved

North Afria for two years. Also that side, I was

talking about Jesus to them, How amazing is God.

Don't be shy.

If I'm using some word, please, because God hasn't created

us to be shy. If you cannot understand my word,

maybe that's my bad. So I'm talking about botion. If

I'm saying correct, how important bortion is in all of

the world. They're fighting to make it legal Jesus. So

they cannot fight against God. They cannot never. So Now

if someone thinking, oh, if someone lives in jungle or

far away, they cannot touch any technology, book or something,

how they can understand God has put something within us.

You cannot live alone.

If someone says, no, there's no God, but he's following something,

you cannot understand. He's okay, you're following science. Science shows

you there's God. Yes, a lot of things. I'm going

to finish it. So obedience and gratitude must learn, and

we will find the ability to move to recognition, to acceptance.

Please speak that word. It riveled to me Jesus. So

some people are ashamed. They think, oh, I'm too old,

I shouldn't do this. I can did memorize verse pastor challenge.

I am not young, I'm not kid. Also, I'm not old.

I'm in bitwain. I product to my age, but all

glory be to Gods. I am seven for him. So

if there is pastal challenge, picky quick, picky quick, for that,

you have to go forward.

You shouldn't go back.

I can memorize it, and also I can leave it you.

No, I don't need to do.

You need to encourage people, be very very open for

His actions.

You will see what does for you.

The elders of the church are carrying lights from the Jesus.

If we are here, we are here.

To find something. But here is not outside. So people

can give you lights. Your friend can give your lights,

your parents can give your lights. But this light is

completely different. You have to pick it. You have to

put it in the center, not on the left, not right,

not behind. You pick it from here for a whole week,

and next week you will get a little bit more

shine depends your capacity, your carry and then God will

give you more and more and more and more. God

bless all of you.

So our Rash mentioned age. So age has been a

factor for me in the last couple of weeks because

I got to sixty. I like it.

I like it.

Thank you a Rash.

I think for me what I heard from you is

very much about we have a responsibility to hear from

God for ourselves and to respond that. It's not just

about hearing. We can read the Bible, we can go

out and we can do whatever. But if we read

the Bible and we hear God and we respond to God,

then we go out and we do different things. And

I just wanted to reflect back on a word Showler bought.

See I was listening. I was listening. So I've read

this scripture several times. Shola preached on it. So this

was blind Bartimaeus. This is actually Luke's version. So there

is blind Bartimaeus sitting by the road where he always sat,

hearing loads of people go by, and they told him

that Jesus of Nazareth was the one going by, and

he cried out and said, Jesus, son of David, have

mercy on me. So this is just a guy. He'd

not met Jesus, he hadn't been taught, but sat there

in his normal place, begging at the side of the road.

God spoke to him because he knew to say son

of David. He recognized who God was, who Jesus was,

And Jesus stood still and said, come to me. And

they said, oh, okay, he wants you so and then

he Jesus said to him, what do you want me

to do for you? And he's said, Lord, that I

may receive my sight, and Jesus said, receive your site.

Your faith has made you well. So that I think

this is such an example of a man being in

the right place at the right time, with an open

heart and a willing heart, because he could have just

sat there, you know, he didn't have to cry out.

I think the version Shoulder read it sounded like actually

people thought he was a bit of a nuisance crying out,

sort of telling him to shush. But he had a

conviction in his heart, just like the man who might

be living in a jungle, who might be living, you know,

far from anybody who could explain, or away from technology,

away from even the Bible. You know, appreciating Arash what

you said that Bibles in Iran are not readily available,

Praise God that you managed to import some and share them.

You know, God blessed that word that you shared. However,

many years ago that there are still those Bibles are

still speaking God and salvation to people in Iran. So yeah,

I just want to say Thank you for the word Sean.

I did remember it. I'm still reading it. But being

in the right place at the right time, with the

right heart and being willing to move is the kind

of combination we need to have. So has anybody else

got a testimony?

Oh?

Come, Selma, come, I mean not go over the technology.

Good morning everyone. Firstly, I would like to warn everyone,

like apologize if I have a shaky wise because I've

been reading for this moment. And firstly, praise God for

this moment of testimony that he has a point in

my life because I've been waiting for a long time.

It's not like I don't have any testimonies. I have

tons of testimonies, but I've been waiting for this moment.

I was asking God, I want to start my sharing

from this point with this testimony. So I was being

childish with him during my prayer and praise God. He

was faithful and He's faithful forever. And I would like

to share that I got a job. Praise God, and

thank you church family. Thank you because we've been praying

for my job for a long time and you all

were with me in this journey. I really thank each

one of you, and thank you Jonathan my husband, because

he was with me no matter what people said he was.

He stood next to me and he was like.

Don't worry, just go whatever God does. He knows he

has his perfect time. Thank you for that and thank you,

thank you so much. And I would like to say

that God has plans to prosper us, not to harm us,

and it's it's for each one of us. And he

can do impossible things to possible. And praise God. And

now I'll start my testimony journey every.

Time, I mean every opportunity.

I'll not lose it, like I'll start it from my

first testimony to date from next time. And thank you Jesus,

thank you for this day.

Thank you Sama. And it's a good job. It's the

right job for you. And even before you start it,

God's increased it for you. So Sama applied for a

job which was a certain number of hours, and then

even before she started, they've given.

Her more hours. So praise God.

Anybody else got a testimony before we have, Oh.

Yeah, yeah, praise God. Yesterday I was studying the Word

and I was reading John telf So as I read

about Lazarus dying, Jesus knowing is gonna be dead, but

he wants to use that as a testimony. So Jesus

goes and raise and speaks, Lazarus, come forth.

You know what happened.

Lazarus comes forth, he says, and take off whatever bind

seems so he can be free.

So I'm looking at how.

Jesus, with just one word causes somebody who is long dead,

decaying and smelling, probably that the womb had already bastard,

because before you bury somebody, you keep him a day

or two.

Then they say he was buried for four days. And

I sat there and I pondered, and I said, God,

how can this be?

You know how you sit there and start imagining. Of

course Jesus is God.

But then the next time he sits as he was before.

He's reclining with him at the table and they are

eating together. And then the people who saw this, like me,

were just so shocked that this happened. What did they do?

The next day? They laid palm trees and everything. In all,

they didn't have any more words to say. As believers,

we need to get to a place where we believe God,

where we have no words to say. Cherion was encouraging

us to say, there is nothing bigger than God. God

sees our problems before they happen.

So in all of.

This they laid palm trees, and he came, and they

could only say, Whosannah, hoosana? That was they could they

well shot for words, Whosana?

Can the church get?

Can we get to a place where even before we

see anything that we are looking for, get to that

position where we say, God, you can you already have

done this? Hosanna to you who has already saved me,

who has brought me to this place of glory, who

has a.

Plan for me.

Whether you're born in the jungle, like Arius, Aras was

here sharing and you, he identified with us in the jungle.

He was born in the couch shed, he was born

to identify with the poor. So that we may not

say it's only for kings, it's only for the land,

it's only for graduates that we can get to this

place where we say Hosanna.

What can I say?

I'm short of words apart from saying Hosanna to you

must high Hosana, my father, my king, my deliverer, my healer,

my advocate, Hosanna.

You've seen this and you've got.

A plan so yes, our Hosan, where is our Hosanna?

As we move in the next position, we require faith

to get there. We require faith to make a difference.

We require faith to participate in what the church is doing.

Let's take our positions Hosanna.

Thank you, Dear.

Anybody else Okay, we'll come around the word. So Dave's

bringing the word. Might even pray for you, Father God,

I thank you for Dave, and I thank you for

the word that you've given him for us for this morning. Lord,

you only give words that are in season. So this

word is for us who are here and those listening

online and who will listen later, and it's for today.

So I pray you would help Dave to utter words

that are truly and only from the heart of God.

Amen.

Amen, Thank you.

Do I need this?

Jonathan?

Okay, we're talking about abundance this month in September. October,

sorry October, talking about abundance. So I don't know whether

you live in abundance in the United Kingdom, but it

doesn't seem like it is full of abundance, because for me,

abundance means we have more than enough, more than enough, plenty,

more than enough. And so when you put your hand

in your pocket and there's nothing there. Am I living

in abundance. I have the privilege of being a trustee

of Abba Father's House, the orphanage in Uganda, and every

week juliet sends me a little email that says, Dave,

can you send this money to Uganda? Because we got

we manage the money we send and I feel very

rich every week because Juliette says, please send a hundred

or two hundred pounds. That's millions of Ugandan shillings. My

wife got dressed up for her birthday party and Debbie

did her hair, and I thought, you look like a

million dollars. It's saying we use, isn't it. You look

like a million dollar and we think a million's a

big number. So when I talk about abundance today, I

wonder how big you're thinking. Because abundance, well, do you

know what, Well, I could be a millionaire every week

because I send over a million Ugandan shillings to Uganda.

Not my money, it's Abba Father's houses money. But just

just typing that number into the exchange system, it got

lots of numbers.

You know, I could pick up this.

It's a thousand scholar Kumbe one thousand Nira from Nigeria.

I believe it's worth about fifty pence. So to say

you look like a million dollars will be to say

you look like about five hundred quid in Nira. I

could say in Venezuela, you look like a million bolivar.

That would be about twenty quid. So we talk different languages,

we talk different currencies.

Some of you know.

I worked in Papua New Guinea for a number of

years and they used to call me Brother David. They

used to call me Brother David because they were very

sad that I didn't have a wife. I was twenty

three years old at the time, and so they gave

me this. And this is a necklace in red coral

that is enough to buy a wife in Papua New Guinea.

They gave this to me because they said, brother Dave,

you need a wife. I'm glad I waited, but I

promised Joel. I promised Joel this. I said, I'm going

to give you a million dollars today and we'll get

to that in a moment. Now you're all excited, don't you.

You're all excited. We'll get to that in a moment.

Let's just have a few scriptures just to encourage us

on the way. Jonathan, do you want to bring up

the first one? Do you know you're special, You're precious,

You're unique? And it says in Psalm one hundred and

thirty nine, where you formed my inward parts, you covered

me in my mother's room.

You are not a mistake.

I want to declare this because I think it's very important,

very interesting that Arash said about abortion. You know, you

are created in God's image. Every one of you, not

just not that's the best looking people. Every one of

you is created in God's image. And it goes on.

David goes on to say, I praise you for I

am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are your works, and

that my soul knows very well. I want you to

look at yourself and put your hand upon yourself and say,

i'd be made in God's image, and I am precious.

And so I want to declare that. I want to

proclaim that. I want to shout that out. And if

you ever doubt, if you kind of look at yourself

in the mirror and go ooh, you're looking a bit

wrinkly today, or do you've got a spot you know,

just wash the spot will go away, and look back

in the mirror and say, you're looking good today. I

want to encourage you to feel good about yourself because

it's one of the lies the enemy loves to keep

on rubbing in our face. Oh you're not quite as good.

It's one of the reasons why one of the biggest

industries in the world is makeup and creams and those

kind of things. It's one of the biggest industries in

the world. And there are a number of I've got

a couple of friends who said I'm going make up free.

They say, I feel really good about myself now because

I don't have to worry about all this stuff to

put on. Jonathan, give me the next next scripture. So

I'm just going to go through a few scriptures I

want to. I've not got the quotes in front of me.

You're going to sick, yes, okay, okay, it's just not

on that screen there. We're trying to get really technical.

We've got a screen in front of us now. In

Isaiah forty three, verse four, and Chola influenced by you

amplified because you are pressing.

Now, why are we pressured?

Because you are precious in my sight and honored, and

because I love you, I will give men in return

for you, and people's in exchange for your life. God

actually ultimately did this when he sent his son Jesus

John three to sixteen. God sent his one and only

son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but

have everlasting life. Now, these are the precious things that

God has for us, the precious things that he shows us,

the precious things that He wants to bring to us.

In one Peter two nine, it says, but you are

a chosen generation. Do you know you are chosen? You're

not a mistake, and you are chosen, a chosen and

not just a chosen person, A chosen generation, a royal priesthood,

a holy nation, a holy nation set apart his own

special people. We're not just ordinary people. We're His special

people that you may so, why are we saying all this?

Why are we chosen? Why are we royal? Why are

we holy?

Why are we a special people that you may proclaim?

That means speaking out loud, guys, I want to encourage you.

I've shared this with a few people. This week, I said,

do you know what, I'm getting more used to praying

out loud. I used to do quite a bit of

praying in my head. I did quite a bit of

praying in my head because I didn't want to disturb people.

Here's a little trick. I should have brought my headphones

out with me. I'm going to be doing this. I'm

going into London this week. I'm going to be putting

my headphones in and then the lead will go into

my pocket, but it won't be connected to my phone,

and I'll be talking on my headphones and I'll be

praying out loud as I'm walking. Because none of us

think it's crazy when we see somebody walking down the

road with headphones in. Well, okay, just talking to someone

on the phone. So why can't we pray it out

loud as we're walking. It's a simple little trick, you know.

We're just do you know what? When we pray in

our heads, it gets all confused, It all gets mushed up.

We don't make sentences, We just get concepts and they

all get blurred up. And do you know when we

have to actually put it into a sentence, it becomes clear.

It becomes formed, it becomes.

Formulated, and speaking it forth is a moment of faith.

When it's still in our head, it's just a concept.

When we speak it forth, we make it.

You know. Salma said, you know, I'm coming up here,

and I'm shaking a little bit.

You know. She was nervous, you know, but when she

started to speak, calmness came upon her. When we speak,

confidence comes. So we are chosen royal, holy and special,

so that we proclaim his praises for him who called

out of darkness where we were into his fantastic light.

Now I'm not just talking about a torch light. Now,

I'm not just talking about strip lights. I'm talking about

imagine yourself being on the biggest stage in the world

and a spotlight is shining on you. That's the kind

of his marvelous light that I read about. And this

is my memory verse for this week. So I'm giving

you a bit of warning here now, not the amplified version,

by the way, But Zephah, When was the last time

anybody in the room read Zephyniah? Yeah, when I meet

him in when I meet him in heaven, I'm probably

going to have to say, do you know I didn't

read your book very often.

I'm really sorry, and again.

Amplify the Lord, your God is in the midst of you,

a mighty one, a savior who saves. He will rejoice

over you with joy. He will rest in silent satisfaction.

You know that moment when you go, that's silent satisfaction.

I know I still went. But you know, as parents,

when your children do something brilliant, you just you sink

in yourself and you go, oh, this.

Is a moment. He will rejoice over you with joy.

He will rest in silent satisfaction and in his love.

He will be silent and make no mention of past

sins or even recall them. He will exalt over you

with singing for anybody who's had I have a voice,

Julia told me. Julia and I were at university together.

We were in the same block. We were nearly neighbors.

There was a staircase between us, and I like singing.

And apparently I didn't know this till quite many, many

weeks later, but I used to go in the shower

and sing. It's a shared shower, you know, there'll be

a shower on each floor. And apparently I had my

I managed to the right note that made the pipes

in the building vibrate. So I'd be singing in the

shower and the pipes in the building would be vibrating.

But do you know what, I know that I have

a fairly resonant voice. I know I have a loud voice,

and there have been various children that I've sung over,

just like I believe this scripture is about. Because there's

something about going from spoken word to singing. I've got

some people I know who've got Alzheimer's, do you know what?

Sing a song from their children from Sunday school from

They can remember every word, they can't remember what they

had for dinner yesterday, but start a song and they'll

finish it. There's something about singing, you know. And why

are choir is so popular? It's because we corporately do

something together. And do you know what, I think that's

just an illustration of Heaven. You know, we're designed to

sing even if you've got even if you think you've

got an average voice, and we can all sing again

at university. Julie and I used to have a couple

oh what was his name? Who couldn't sing? Ohen, Yes,

there he goes straight away she knew. We'd often sit

in front of Owen in church, and he wasn't very tuneful.

But you know what, he loved worshiping God, and I

loved hearing him worship God. Okay, you couldn't follow a tune.

He couldn't tell you. When people say they're tone deaf,

they can't tell you which is up and which is down.

You know, you go.

Most of us are not tone deaf. We just need

to train our voices better. Could We would completely agree

with me on this one, and she could help you

with that if you were.

As an advert for you, Joe Jingles.

But you know what, he rejoices over us with singing.

In Corinthians, it says this, therefore, why are we done this? Therefore,

if any person is ingrafted, not just aligned ingrafted, ingrafting

is about cutting into a tree and putting something else

in there, so that you draw strength and sustenance from

the plant you've been grafted into. Ingrafted in Christ, the Messiah,

He is a new creation. We are new creations when

we're grafted in. That means a new creature all together.

The old, previously moral and spiritual.

Condition has passed away. It's dead.

Behold afresh and new has come. Jean, I just love

this scripture. I think this is fantastic. Therefore, if any

person be grafted into Christ. And so why am I

telling you all of this? I'll come to my final

verse in a moment, Joel, when you come and help me,

I want you to give one of these to everybody.

What does it? What does it say on there?

Million pounds, pounds.

Dollar?

Okay?

So Joel is going to come around and give you

a million dollar note, one each. It's my gift to you.

It's my gift to you. And you might think wow

when you say to someone you look a million dollars. Okay,

depends what currency you're talking depends depends which dollars you're

talking about. Do you know what there's something worth more

than a million dollars? You're worth more than a million dollars.

And as Joel brings that around, I want to end

with a story a friend that I know quite well,

Colin Dye, who used did in League Kensington Temple. He

was out doing a mission in Brazil. He'd been ministering morning, afternoon,

evening and he was tired and one of the meetings

that he was meant to be involved in got canceled.

The whole weekend got canceled, and so he had an

opportunity to go home earlier. So he rang up the

airline and he wanted to get a ticket to come

home early. And it was going to cost him thousands

of dollars more to change his ticket to come home early.

And do you know what, he kind of thought, well,

maybe I could stay, but I want to be back

with my kids. So he paid a couple of thousand

dollars for this extra seat, thinking what a waste of money.

And he sat down in the plane and the lady

sitting next to him turned to him and said, so,

I can't remember her name, but she's She introduced herself,

he said, and who are you? And he started talking

and they talked all the way back from Brazil. All

the way back. He led her to Christ on the plane.

He talked about miracles.

He prayed for her. I believe she was healed on

the plane as well. And do you know what.

He got to Heathrow and as he got off the

plane as is, he said, farewell to them, Farewell to

this lady, he said, and said it was worth one thousand

dollars to sit next to you. Just think about it.

I'm not really giving you a million dollars. Sadly, it

does look like a million dollar notes, but if you

turn it over on the other side, it talks about

how precious you are, how.

Valuable you are. And I want to give you all

one of those.

Put it in your wallet, put it in your pocket,

put it in your handbag, and then give it away

to somebody. Don't just give it away. Talk about it.

Are you taking one for yourself? Do you want one

as well? You're welcome, You've got one. Okay, good? Because

I believe you're a million dollars. I believe you're wonderful,

beautiful people. And I'm not talking of Venezuelan Bolivar, and

I'm not even talking to you Agandon shillings. I'm talking

dollars or more than dollars. Maybe there are accourrencies that

are better than the US dollar.

I don't know.

But do you know what you have been paid as

a price has been paid for you?

The Lord God, the Lord your God.

In your midst, the Mighty One will save, He will

rejoice over you with gladness. For those listening at home,

I believe this is true. As well. He will quiet

you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.

Let me pray, Father God, thank you for the privilege

to know more about you. Thank you that you made

away despite our sin and our humanity, and our fleshfulness

and our lustful desires. Father, even though we've made bad choices, Lord,

you still sent your one and only son, Jesus to

die in our place and pay a price for our sin.

And let us know freedom from guilt and freedom from

the fear of sin and death. And so, Father God,

we embrace the fullness of that truth. Help us to

walk in it. We pray in Gus's mighty name.