10th September 2023 All Age Service - Luke Jenkinson - Right place, right time

So great to be here. I was going to start by saying that it's

a real privilege to be speaking this morning, but to be honest, I

got to say, it's a real plublage to worship with you guys today because

I really felt God's presence, I gotta say, And that for me is

the hahollmark of a fantastic church as a church where God is and that makes

all the difference. And I've a growing sense me, so before I get

into the message, I've growing sensing me whilst being here that God's just confirmed

again in the worship time there. This is a church that's God's on the

move. Believe it. Clem. Many of you know Clem Pherise. He

came to our church. We came recently, but it came about a year

or so ago. And one of th things he said to us is put

more chairs out because you're going to need it. And I was reminded of

that, and I want to encourage you with the same kind of thing.

I feel like God's the moving this place, and I think, get ready,

seriously, get ready, get ready for people coming in, and get

ready for problems. There are good problems to have, but problems of space

and problems of just trying to get around a number of people that's coming here

because God is on the moon. Amen. Amen, fantastic. Okay,

well, I was listening to Dave just the other week talk about harvest time.

He mentioned about how he really loves how there's an international feel to the

church is mentioned today as well, so you can actually say that you have

had a Yorkshireman come to your church. Okay. So I'm trying my best

not to speak in Yorkshire terms because there are no worship songs that you can

sing in Yorkshire. You can't say e by gum like and get the center

shop and all that type of stuff, but you can say that Yorksman coming.

And Lea does send her love. By the way, she was genuinely

gutted that she couldn't be here. It's just one of those things, a

little kind of a minium urgency yesterday that she just just she had to stay

at home. But she would have definitely been here if she could have been.

So I want to welcome everyone online as well. Thanks for tuning in.

You're a part of this just like everyone else is in the room.

So it's great to know that you're a part of this as well, and

so please drop in the chat, send the message in if you know you

listen to what we're saying, you want to say our men, you want

to get involved, you can do that as well, because we want to

be as much a part of this as everyone who was here in the room

today. As Dave said on Maritalia, we did that on purpose because it

needs you to remember just to beik star Wars, Luke Leah star Wars.

I really remember. We've got four kids. As Dad mentioned, we've got

hands Yoda if we've got Jared and Phoebe. Kezia is sixteen, Rubens thirteen,

and Jared and Phoebe your twins and they are eleven, and so we

have our handsful. Okay, let's get into the word. Let's just pray.

First, Father, we thank you, We thank you for this time

together. We pray Lord that we will be encouraged this morning. I pray

for the things I have to say, Lord will be of you and not

of myself. Lord, as I sought you this week. I believe that

this is a word You've given me for these people, and so I pray

to God it will land on good soil. I pray for that you're something

that will build and encourage people in Jesus' mighty name. Hey, I even

tried to remember your memory verse this week because I saw I saw you guys

give out chocolates, and I am a firm believer that you know, it's

a dream of mind to live in a world where chocolate is given away for

free and indiscriminately. So I hope I get an opportunity later or with some

chocolate zero calories. Yeah, yeah, I think you're beating Church is always

zero anyway. So I remember on an occasion where I was just I was

in the wrong place. I still work in office, and it had numerous

floors. It was quite a big office, and one day I needed to

go to the toilets, and the toilets on my floor were being renovated or

worked on, so I couldn't get into them. And normally I'd walk out

of my office door into the hallway and I turned left to go into the

toilets. So I went looking for more toilets, and there's toilets at every

single level in this building. So I went downstairs. I walked through the

office space downstairs, and I went out into the hallway and I turned left

like I always do and went into the bathroom. Immediately, I realized I

felt something was different about his bathroom. I couldn't figure out what it was,

and so I went into the cubicle and sat down, and after a

while I realized the difference was there were no urinals in this toilet, and

also it smelt a lot better than almost fragrance. And it wasn't until I

here's to let our heels that I was I just say left. I was

in the wrong place, and it was. It led to a very awkward

moment. I remember a different time where Lee and I we went to someone's

wedding and we didn't know them that well. Actually we've been invited. It

was like a church connection. Leah's dad was the pastor of the church at

the time, and so there's this church connection between the two churches, and

so we were representing a little bit the church. And so we got ready,

we went to all the pros. I mean, I hate wearing shirts

and ties and stuff like that, so I'm wearing shirts and ties. It's

warm outside. It was summer like it is today, and I was just

I was really not enjoying the fact that I had to get dressed up.

But anyway, it's what you do weddings, right, So I went along

to the venue and we started looking around. This is a big venue and

it had various different rooms with different weddings going on. So he looked around.

I went to one room and that was not the people that we expected.

So we went to a different room, not the people we expected.

Went to the last room. I thinking this is ridiculous. Sure it should

be better signage. We should be able to find a wedding of our friends,

and so we went to his third room, not their wedding, which

is really strange. So we wrang up my father in law and said,

this is where's this supposed to be. We made a mistake. He said

it's next week. So I was annoyed. We didn't even go to the

wedding next week and forget it. Forget it. I'm not going, I'm

not getting ready. Twice it was I was in the wrong place, that's

the wrong time. Sorry, there was this wrong time where I was in

the wrong place at the wrong time, and then we've been in the wrong

place at the wrong time at the same time. So when I was a

teenager, we were out. The other friend of mine was out walking down

a back path and there was this like woodland area. Used to be a

quarry on the side of this, and then the other site was the backs

of these houses. We're walking down this path looking for something to do,

and when you were a teenage boy, what's better to do than climb trees.

And so we saw this massive tree was perfect for climbing. There was

branches all the way down, and so we got to we saw this tree.

But the problem was is that as the quarry ended, there was a

fenced off area where some industrial estate was, where these industrial factories were,

and so it was on the land, on the private land of these factories,

and so the fence, we know we can we can't climb this tree.

Never mind, we started walking a bit further down and discovered a hole

in the fence and thought, hmm, okay, we think we can probably

get away with sneaking through the fence climb because on the other side there was

all these bushes, bushes and more trees and whatever. Climb through all the

bushes and trees and get to this tree and climb it and it would be

amazing. So that's what we did. We climbed this tree at the top

of the tree. This is fantastic. I can't believe it made it to

this tree and no one's no one even knows we're here. It's fine.

And so we heard police silence going off, and now we didn't know,

but apparently there was some crazy man who was running around with a bb gun

shooting people, and the police were looking for him, but we thought they

were looking for us. So we plan it so like this. This is

really in the wrong place at the wrong time, and so we quickly climbed

down the tree and I started to head back through the bushes and through the

kind of the brush to get back to his whole fence. But my friend

saw that at some point they chopped down some of the trees and they piled

up the looks and the branches to one side against the fence, and he

said to me, look, if we climb up those branches and trees now

we can get over the fence. It'd be a lot quicker and we'll be

able to get away. I'm not getting in trouble, and that's what I'm

doing because I don't know if that's safe. I don't know if those branches

could hold our weight. So when I went back through the bushes and took

a bit longer to get to the hole the fence, but halfway through me

climbing through the bushes, I hear this loud, cracking noise and then this

high pitched scream that could only be uttered by a young man having certain parts

of his body tore off. I got through the hole in the fence and

I ran back to see what happened, and my friend had popped his leg

over the fence just as the branches broke, and he was straddled over the

top of the fence, screaming like a little girl. And I just pulled

him down quick and I quickly got to get away and nothing. He wasn't

injured, but it was definitely just the wrong place at the wrong time.

Has anyone been in the wrong place at the wrong time before? It's not

a good place to be. And today I want to talk to you though,

about someone who actually was in the right place at the right time,

but they didn't want to be Oh yes, sure, can I Okay?

Do I sound deeper? Now? I want to talk to you about Esther.

I'll give it a con text before they get to the verse that probably

you're all anticipating, because there's a verse in Esta that everyone knows. I

want to give you some context first, just to set the scene a little

bit. Esther is in exile, the Israelites in exile, and Esther is

one of those people, and she's lost her family. She'd been looked after

by her uncle. And one day the king aside he wants a new wife.

We've all been there joke. Hopefully Lee is not watching this online joke.

Love my wife. She's the best, but he fell out with his

wife. Decided because he's a king, he can just choose another wife.

So they go out and they look for the most beautiful women in the land,

and they find Esther and they bring her in and they give her this

whole beauty treatment regime, and she's called into the king ever so often.

She gets to talk to him and he gets to get to know her a

bit, and kind of like the Bible's version of like X Factor auditions,

she goes in. If he likes her, she gets to stay around kind

of thing, and ever so often, and he call them in to chat

to her and to get to know a bit. Then there's this guy,

though, a quite important guy called Hayman, and he falls out with Esther's

uncle Mordecai. They don't Modechai, won't bow down to him, he won't

honor him, and so Hayman plops this this scheme, plans his scheme to

not just get rid of Mordecai, but to get rid of all of Mordecai's

people. It's a really vindictive person, is Haymen. And so he convinces

the king that the Jewish nation Israelites are bad news. And so he convinces

him that that you know, on a certain day that we can allow people

basically to kill the Israelites and take all their stuff. It's a good thing,

he thinks. So he convinced them, and Mordecai finds out about this,

send out all the notifications, and Mordechai finds out, and he's absolutely

distraught. He basically does, I would say from Yorkshire, palls a paddy.

He has a tantrum, He puts sacloth on, he goes and he

cries loudly in the town center and and he lets everyone know that he's really

upset. And Esther finds out about this and sends a Mester and says,

what are you doing. I hear's some clothes, put some clothes on and

and and you know, stop making a scene kind of thing. And he

replies and says, I can't because because humans arranged for all our people to

be killed. He says, you've got to go into the king's presence and

ask him for mercy and put a stop to this. In other words,

he says to her, look, you're the only person who is positioned to

do this in the right place at the right time. And Esta says,

don't you realize if I go into the King's presence without him calling me in,

then he can kill me. That's the usual routine that I'm supposed to

be called in. And if I'm not called, if anyone in without being

called then unless the king is feeling gracious towards them, their executor for it.

So he's not even asked to see me for a month. In other

words, he's probably lot a bit of interest in me. He's probably speaking

to one of the other ladies and he's not really bothered about me. And

so if I go in there now, the like it is is the King's

going to kill me. And this is what Mordecai says in response in Esther

four verses twelve to fourteen, he says that he sent back this answer,

do you not think that I do not think that because you are in the

King's house, that you alone of all the Jews will escape. For if

you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise

from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And then

it comes to the verse that we love to quote, and who knows but

that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this most

you know the end of the story Esther, She decides to go ahead with

it. Then she goes into the King's presence grants her grace. She explains,

after several parties, I'm not really show that the purpose of those were

by the several parties. She explains situation. She explains how Harman's vindictive and

trying to wipe out her nation. She convinces the king to actually to kill

Harman instead and to create a situation whether Israelites can be free from this edict,

this rule that the kingyard had already put out. And it's a massive

victory saves the day. It's incredible. I want to just look at a

few things from this story that I think will help us in our own walk

with God. And you want here play chess, one person, Norman,

do you play chess? No? No, no grace there at all,

Like, no, No, she's wrong, she's I started to I used

to play chess when I was a kid. I learned how to play with

a kid. But then recently we're doing some like interest groups in our church,

and one of them was this chess thing, and so we do it

actually via an app, and we chat on the app and stuff, and

we played chess together, and so I got learning. I started playing chess

again, and I got thinking about chess. They preparing this, I thought,

you know, can you imagine if you were playing chess for a minute,

you set the whole thing up on the table, and then as you

started to play, you kind of crouched down and looked through the pieces to

the board and played the whole game looking through the pieces. You wouldn't do

it, would you. The way you play chess is you look from above

looking down, because from above looking down you have the perspective to see exactly

what's going on all over the place. If you crouched down, you can

only see what's right in front of you, and you haven't got the perspective

to see actually where you should move them to planning such a way to win,

to have victory. Can imagine if a poem turned round to the person

playing chess and said, leave it with me. I know what to do.

There's no problem, I'll win this game for you. It wouldn't happen.

And you're the same with God. And I think Mordekai knew this.

Mordekai says to Esther. He says, if you remain silent at this time,

relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place. I've read

Esther so many times, and I focus every time on the verse that talks

about being positioned for such a time as this, that I've missed what Mordecai

says. Mordecai's faith is not in Esther. Mordekai's faith is in God.

And he's saying, Esther, your position for such a time as this,

But if you decide not to go ahead and do what needed to be done

to save your people, God will find another way. God's got plan ABC.

God knows the plan. God can see everything from above. God's plan

is perfect. Monaka. I knew that God had a plan. But Esther's

choice wasn't Shall I save the Israelites or shann't I? Esther's choice was simply

this. Do I want to be a part of God's plan? And I

think God's inviting all of us to play a part in his plan. To

trust him for the plan, and to trust that when we're in the right

place at the right time, that we can play an important part of his

plan. God has a plan? Do you want to be part of it?

And we read often we quote Jeneremiah twenty nine, verse eleven. I

bet you can all say off by heart, for I know the plans I

have for you, declares the Lord plans. I prossiber you not to harm

your plans to give you a hope and a future. And I've done it

myself. You cut that verse to yourself. God's got great plans for me.

God's got great plans for me. Or sometimes I read it and I

go, God's oh, yeah, I can't wait. God's God's gonna provide

me with the house, and provide me with the car, provide me with

the money, provide me with the job, and yes, I believe all

those things. But the truth is I'm playing a part in God's plan.

God's not playing a part in my plan. God's got a plan. Do

you want to be part of it? And we might never see the reason

for the plan. We might never know the bigger picture on some things.

Sometimes we will, but the truth remains, God has a plan, he

has a higher purpose. He's working things around for good and we get the

wonderful privilege of being a part of it. So I want to ask you

today where are you relying on your own plans? Because that's where God So

that's where you are blind to God's plan. The second thing I want to

talk to you about with this from this this passage of scripture is, you

know, recently I married my brother and sister in law. I found that

strange saying that as a minister. I know it means that I performed the

ceremony, but it sounds like there was some kind of weird three way relationship

going on. That's what I married them, so as in I officiated the

service, and like all weddings, and you'll, I would imagine, mostly

been a part of a wedding. At some point after the wedding, you

go and you have the photographs. Yes, And so we went to have

the photographs and like like like you like you expect. The camera man was

there and he looked for the best possible place for the photograph. And then

what he did is is he he positioned everybody perfectly. So it's right,

I want you to come over there a bit and I can have all the

bride's family up first, and I want you over there, and Dad,

can you move around the back over there please? And you over there?

Can you just turn slightly this way? He positioned it perfectly. Now,

my son Jared, he's a little bit awkward it comes to photographs. So

when you know, most people go to a photograph, they say, smile

and you smile and it's nice. How genuine it is. Look, it's

nice, you think about nice things and you smile. My son Jared,

though, when you sit to him smile, he goes this. He can't

put a genuine smile. This is really weird. He's got the best sense

of humor, the best laugh, the best smile when it's genuine. But

put a camera in front of him and he's like like this, Monechai says

to Esther, who knows that you have come to your royal position for such

a time as this, Just like that, Cameron, Man is positioning people.

God is positioning you. He's positioning you the whole time. And our

job as Christ followers is to be positioned by him and then to what smile,

to have the right attitude towards saving our God. God positions us,

but we position our heart one Samuel sixteen, verse seven. People look at

the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. As human beings,

we have an attraction to how things look, to how things feel,

to what things do. We spend a vast amount of time thinking and working

and working for where we want to be and how we want to be perceived

and what we want to do. But before we do anything, before we

look a certain way, before we ever get to where we want to be,

before we ever have the things that we want to have, God is

looking at our hearts. A heart that is positioned to serve God belongs to

a person that God can position for his plan. The bigger the heart position,

the bigger the position in the plan. God. Listen, God does

not need your good looks. Thank Goodness for that. God doesn't need your

good looks. He doesn't need your money, he doesn't need your time,

he doesn't need your position or socialtard status. He doesn't need anything that you

can bring to the chessboard. He just wants your heart. He can do

anything if you give him your heart. So I'll ask you a question,

what areas of your heart are you reserving for what you want? Because that's

the area in your life that God won't move. I recently went to the

gym on Saturday. I never go on a Saturday. I always go using

Monday to Friday. I mean in the gym every day, but then I

have the weekend off. And this one week, just a couple of weeks

back, I missed a day in the week, and so I'll go on

Saturday instead. It was quiet and I went in bout it quite when I

first got there. It got busier and so I did my workout routine,

and then I had to go and speak to the gym owner. It's a

small gym, and I've known the guy for eight years now, be going

there for about eight years. Got a decent relationship. We don't always chat

most times morning morning and that's it. But occasionally have we have chats.

And I went on this occasion up to speak to him about something I need

to ask a favor of him. And we were chatting and he got onto

complaining, moaning about how difficult things were for him with the gym since COVID,

you know, financially, and some of the struggles he was having.

He was just he was unburdening himself. And I was just listening, thinking,

why I think I've come to day to train, That's all I come

to do. But you know, I can spend a bit of time and

listen to a friend. It's not a problem. And so he's chatting away

and then he turns onto his the conversation on to his health and he had

some health issues. I knew about it, tom Me about it before,

and so's he's he's chat away about his health and he's getting more and more

worked up, and he just he's just talking and talking, and I just

got to sense a real desperation in him, and he's getting more upset,

and I started to get upset. I'm thinking, I care about this guy,

like I've known him for eight years now. I genuinely and he's telling

me all this stuff. He's getting upset and he tears the sort of fall

down his face, and then I started to get emotional and tears the phone

down my face and I said, look mate, I said, I've known

you for eight years. I don't just come here because like it's the gym,

like I come for you as well. I care about you. I

genuinely care about your power. I mean hugging and crying together, and he's

he's absolutely weeping in my arms, and the whole gym is looking and my

heart was completely broken for him in that moment in time. And as we're

they're just both crying, I said that I love your mat. I love

him, and I said, I said, I just couldn't leave without praying

for him. And so I said, kind I pray for you, and

he said, yes, please keep praying for me. And he knows I've

been praying for him before. I said, I'll be praying for your man

as I've left, you know, So he knows I pray pray for him

at times. And I was like, no, I had his urgency.

I have to do this now. I have to pray for you now because

my heart's breaking for it, And so in the in the middle of the

gym, with everyone looking, with two big blokes crying with arms round each

other, I'm saying, Jesus healing, Jesus, give it, you know,

give him the finances, and Jesus bless his business, Jesus bless his

marriage, Jesus look after him, heal him because I love him, God,

and I need you to step in and do something. And then we

just we hooked and he says like, thank you so much. And I

left and I got in the car and I cried all the way home,

and I watched my house and Leah's like, what's wrong. What happened?

You went to the gym, I said, I just went to work out.

I wasn't even in a good mood. I just want to be left

alone, I said. By having this conversation, and I never I never

expected to happen, it was so powerful, and I was able to pray

for Ryan in front of everybody in the entire gym. Was it was such

a good moment and I never anticipated it. I never knew that was going

to happen that day when I decided to go to the gym. And the

point I want to make is my third and foul point is Esther's time in

this story was now. It was now. It wasn't let me think about

it for a while. She acted in the moment. The person that you're

sat next to now, they may need your encouragement or prayer. Now.

The home that you're going back to may need the peace that you can bring

now. The workplace you're going to tomorrow may need your gospel message now.

That friend that you have now may need your forgiveness and your acceptance. The

church that you're in now, I won't say may need your service, does

need your service. We sometimes read that scripture about being positioned for such a

time as this and thinking, yes, it's that big moment, that big

moment for Esther, But God's been positioning you since the very start. Every

single day that you walk around this planet, you are God's servant to be

used now, and you never know when it's the right time, the right

place for you to be God's servant. You can change someone's life walking to

the shops. You can be that beacon of hope in that dark work foot

workplace. You can be that person who shows up earlier on a Sunday to

help set up and pack down. I gotta say, I've not been here

for a while. I've just seen you guys come here in days. I

know you've been such a great blessing to Dave and Julia. I got to

say, I see your hearts. I really see your hearts. I think

it's fantastic. Keep going because I think when I was talking early about God

doing something in this place, it's through God's presence being here, and it's

through the worship. I think if you guys can get people through the door,

God's Holy Spirit will do the rest. I mean, so play your

part. Play your part, pick up your tools, do something. Help

in some way. You never know how God can use you because you are

always in the right place at the right God's not waiting to position you.

He's been positioning you since the very start. We just have to wake up

to that. James two, verse fourteen to nineteen says, what good is

it, my brothers and sisters? If someone claims to have faith but has

no deeds, can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or sister is

without clothes and daily food. If one of you say to them, go

in peace, keep warm and well fed. But there's nothing about their physical

needs. What good is it? In the same way, faith by itself,

if he's not accompanied by action, is dead. But someone will say

you is talking to James the writer. You have faith, but I have

deeds. But James says, no, you show me your faith without deeds.

But I'll share my faith by what I do. God's called you for

such a time as this, So I'll ask you a third and five question,

what thing do you believe you need to do? But the fear seems

too great because that's where the miracle happened. In that moment, hugging Ryan

the gym owner, with everyone watching, I had a choice, just like

Esther did. Do I do the thing that's going to bring God into the

situation or do I run away? Do I walk away? Do let it

go? And I chose in that moment. I don't always choose, but

in that moment, because my heart was so broken him, I chose to

bring God into it. And it was a powerful moment. There's powerful moments

for eaching every one of you, because God's positioned you for such a time

as this. Amen, Amen, now this message today, I was thinking

about it. I've preached an awful lot of message in my time where I'm

trying to rev people up into serving church more or whatever, and that's not

what the heart behind what I'm saying today at all. I just think there's

been so much focus in churches who preach messages about, you know, people's

callings and people's destiny. I'm tired of trying it myself great, tired of

trying it myself look good. I've just come to a conclusion, after many,

many years and trials and things that God's brought me through, that I

exist for one reason, one reason only to serve His purposes and to make

him look great and to glorify him. So God's inviting you today. He's

saying, Hey, normOn, I'm doing something pretty amazing. Do you want

in? He's saying, Hey, Dave, I'm doing something amazing in this

place. Do you want in? He's saying, Jonathan, I'm doing something

amazing in this space. Letty, I'm doing something amazing in your life if

you'll let me. Do you want in? Do you want to be a

part of my plan? I have the privilege of leading the church, as

Dave said in Sheffield and a Church. I love my church so much and

when I come to places like this. I fall in love with places like

this as well, And there isn't being because we have the same heart.

I do, gen you mean that that's what I love about life links we

all have the same heart. But I love my church and I love it

because it's full of incredible and generous and loving people. And I never feel

qualified to lead it, and I never feel deserving of the attention and the

respect that people give me. They are so good to me. But there

is one reason and one reason only that I've seen God move at times in

my life, and that's when there was a chance to attend a service,

I SUI yes. And when I was asked to stat chairs at church,

I said yes. And when I was asked to serve on production team and

set up all that stuff and spend countless I was fixing wires, and I

mean, Dave and Julia remember me at life thinks conference running around sweating like

I'm doing now, not because of the heat, because I was trying to

fix some speaker that wasn't working or something. When I was asked to serve

on production, I said yes. When I was asked to set up for

parent and toddlers every single week before school, I said yes. And when

I was asked to clean the church every single Saturday, I said yes.

And when I was asked to lead the production team because no one else wanted

to, I said yes. And then when I when I heard that the

church needed youth helpers in the youth team and I could. I couldn't at

the time, even I couldn't even walk at the time. I had an

hour in a car accidental water for five years. But because there was a

need, I said yes. And when the church needed someone to develop its

media because it had no media. There was no Facebook page, there was

no images and graphics and all type of stuff, even though I knew nothing

about it, I said yes, I'll figure it out if you need it.

And when I got asked to lead the youth team, me and Leah

together I said well, we said yes, And when we asked to when

we were asked to lead the kids team, we said, guess what.

Yes. And when I was asked to join the leadership team at the church,

I said yes. When I got asked to join the trustee team,

I said yes. And then one day when the church needed a new pastor,

we said yes. Nothing, there's no rocket science, just about glorifying

God and saying yes, being in the right place at the right time,

and giving him your your own And you know, when I put out that,

it kind of sounds easy, but it's not, because the devil will

try and get on the back of everyone who'll be saying yes. But it's

worth it. Esther Nearly said no. God has a plan, and its

plan will lead people to eternal salvation and freedom from all the things that hurt

and buying them up. And you are positioned for that plan. Just say

yes, amen, Amen, can we pray it's cause, in fact,

let's have a response. I'm not planning. But you know, maybe maybe

today God's been steering your heart. Maybe today you want to re commit yourself

to saying yes. Maybe you want to ask God to open your eyes more

to those moments in your life where he's looking for you, to recognize that

you're there at the right place at the right time, so that he can

do something powerful for you. Then if that's you today, why don't you

just while no one's looking, raise your hand and I'll pray for you and

will pray and believe that God's going to do something powerful in your life.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Amen Amen, Ah God, thank you so much for the people who have

raised their hands. And pray from Father that you will, even from the

moment that this service has finished, Lord, you'll create little God moments where

they can be u as powerfully as part of your plan. I pray Lord

that you will begin to open their eyes to every single situation in their life

where they can bring life and hope and joy and peace to be Jesus in

that situation. I pray, Lord God for miraculous moments, for times low

where people come to know You because of these folk who have stepped and said,

I want to be used by you God. Whatever it may be,

whether it's stacking chairs, whether it's praying for somebody, whether it's serving in

production, whatever it may be. I pray, Oh God, that will

be powerful moments as a result where lives get changed. I pray for this

church Lord as well. I thank you for that word. Lord, you

gave me that confirmation that you were on the move in this place. Lord.

We're excited to see what you're going to do. Lord. We're asking

for the harvest. I know they've preached it last week we're asking for the

harvest. The harvest is ripe. Lord, and you say that the workers

are few, will not in running me Christian Fellowship. There will be plenty

of workers here farther, because we're the ones who are going to say yes

and so follow bring the harvest in. In Jesus' mighty name, Father,

we pray that in quick time, Lord, that Lord, this room will

be completely f to the rafters. We pray for good problems. We pray

for double services. We pray for new buildings. We pray Father for movement

forward. We pray the Kingdom of God will be expanded in this place in

the mighty name of Jesus for your glory, so that we might lift up

your name even into a greater place in this area, so that people that

surround this church, Father will come to know you. They'll find that life

because we believe, Father that you have a plan and we want to be

part of it. Jesus name, Amen, Amen, Thank you ever so

much for listening, your patience and your enrolment. It's been a pleasure. And Dave