Feed My Sheep

Mark: excited to share with you today. Been thinking, preparing, gonna kind of continue in the flow we've been in, from a little bit of a different angle. So yeah, get ready. We're gonna work through four different thoughts and passages and gonna pray together at the end. So it's gonna be a good morning. I wanna say good morning as well and hello to our friends in the Family Center and online. Mom, if you're there, I wanna say hi to you. She's always online. If you've been online on Facebook, you've seen my mom, she texts in there. She's like, I love Jesus and Diego and Cassidy. It's amazing. So, bon dia. And she doesn't speak English. So, she just watches because she feels the Lord. It is awesome. She worships. So, I'm just going to preach in Portuguese for her today. So, are you guys ready? We're going to see who's got the gift of interpretation this morning. We're going to preach in Portuguese. Okay. Alright, so hey, Pastor Josh has been teaching on the priesthood, right? And that we come before God and we go before people. And we come before God on behalf of people, we could go before people on behalf of God and both things are important but the order is really important. That we come to God first and then we go to people and everything really flows from that relationship with God. After all, these are the two greatest commandments, right? When they ask Jesus, what are the two greatest commandments or what's the greatest thing we need to get from the law? He said, hey, the first thing is that you need to love God with all your heart, soul, mind, strength. And the second is like the first, that you would love your neighbor as yourself, that you would love people. So these two things, you you sum up the law and they both have to do with love. And makes sense. And I've heard it said that, you you can think of it as like your vertical love to God and your horizontal love to people. And that's helpful. I like to think of these two ⁓ commandments and these two realities as like the two legs of a mature disciple. We need both legs to walk properly. And the first leg is to love God with all your strength, all your mind. ⁓ or your heart. And the second one is to love your neighbor, is to love people. So if we overemphasize just one leg, we're going to like walk like this, you know, we're going to be leaning or limping or we're going to need a crutch or if we only focus on one of them, but to walk faithfully and to actually be a faithful witness for the gospel, we need to learn how to walk with both legs. And so if we don't, our witness is compromised. Some people are all about being with people but not being alone with God. And others are all about it's me and God, it's God and me but they don't actually give themselves over to relationships and to invest into meaningful connection with people. So today I want to talk a little bit about God's heart for people, how he cares for people. I'm going to give you four biblical thoughts. On a vision for God caring for people. So we're going to work through four and this is not an exhaustive or a comprehensive list. There's so many things you could say. I mean, the Bible is full of those. So ⁓ I'm just going to give you four today. And these are things that God has spoken to me that I'm going to share with you. That's the fun of preaching. God preaches to you first. So then you can share with people, you know, that's the thing about reading the Bible. That's the problem. When you read the Bible, God speaks to you and he gets in your business. And that's also the blessing of reading the Bible because we need that. Amen. All right. So here we go. We're going to be starting from John chapter 21. If you have your Bibles open with me in John 21. So four biblical thoughts on choosing to care for people. You know, this is a choice. God leaves this thing up to us, but he definitely encourages it. We're gonna read about it today. And faithful disciples want to walk in these things. So I actually, wanna encourage you, if you have a notebook, a journal, this is actually the only time that it is acceptable to open your phone if you wanna type it in there, if you wanna take these notes. And also I wanna encourage you to... to also with the thought, I want you to write the scripture that goes with it. All four of these thoughts, there'll be scriptures that'll go with it to inform us of like this biblical vision for what we're talking about. So John 21, actually, can we start off just praying together? Will you pray with me, pray for me, pray that God will speak to you through me today? All right, Lord Jesus, thank you. Thank you that you are here, that your word is alive. These are not the words of man. These are precious, holy words we're gonna read today. I pray God that you would speak to us, even as we read your word, Lord. Form us into the image of Jesus. Conform us to the Son. Teach us how beloved we are and teach us Lord how to love others today. I think that you want to pull us Lord out of ourselves today. And I pray you'd give us grace to do that. To live that way. Turn our eyes, Lord, to those who are around us and lift our eyes to you. And we love because you loved us first. So I pray, reveal just how great, how deep, how wide, how high your love is for us, Jesus. By the Spirit, reveal it today. Open your scriptures, speak to us in your name, amen. All right, John 21, if you're there, say I'm there. Okay, so here's the thing, the context for this passage, Jesus is resurrected. He's coming back for his disciples, he's meeting them over a period of 40 days, he's meeting with many of them. One of his closest friends and disciples is Peter. And Peter went through a lot, those last final days of Jesus and after the resurrection. If you know the story, you know that Peter was a really confident guy that would make these big statements to Jesus. He'd said to Jesus, leading up to his death, said, hey Jesus, even if all of them betray you, I won't. I'll go to prison with you. I'm gonna die for you. If you know the story, you know that it didn't turn out that way. At least not at the beginning. He was really confident in his love for Jesus. He was really aware of... of his zeal for Jesus. But he went through a process of humility and humbling and restoration. This is a part of that conversation. When Jesus comes back, he makes it a point to say, hey, go tell my friends, especially Peter, go after him. When Jesus first called Peter, he called him when he was fishing and said, hey, come. First he says, throw the net on the other side and they have this miraculous catch a fish. He says, come, I'll make you a fisher of men. Then he follows Jesus, but then he comes back and they are again fishing. When Peter went through that experience leading up to Jesus' death, where he denied Jesus three times, if you know the story, you know that one of those times he's around a charcoal fire. There's a teenage servant girl around there that says to him, hey, Peter, don't you know Jesus? Aren't you one of those guys? He says, no, who? Never heard of that man. And so he denies Jesus three times, the rooster crows, you know that story. Then Jesus comes back to him and meets him around the charcoal fire. These are the only two times in scripture that you see the mentioning of a charcoal fire. So Jesus is curating an environment to restore Peter. Do you see the context here? So he cares about him so much. He cares about us. He loves us. He's patient with us. So verse 15. When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? I want you to imagine this scene, the beach, Jesus is pulling Peter aside and he's probably pointing to all the other disciples and saying, hey, do you love me more than all of them? I remember early on, I'm just make a quick comment here. This is not on my notes. Early on, my walk with Christ, 16, 17, I had these friends, we were all zealous for the gospel. And we would talk to each other and say, hey, I'm gonna be the guy that loves Jesus the most in this city. And we would like go out and preach the gospel in the streets and in public transportation. We'd go up this mountain and pray. We would fast and then we would come back down and we would brag about it. And we will talk to each other and I'm like, look at what God's doing, look at it, but it's all about us. ⁓ Now remember reading this passage and I remember reading about Peter and I remember reading about John. Now remember the Lord saying, hey son, it is important to love me with all your heart, but even more important than that, it is crucial that you know how much I love you. Here's why I'm saying this. Our confidence in the new covenant is not in how much we love God, but it is in how much He loves us. If we place our confidence in how well we're doing and how much we're loving Him, how much we're keeping up our spiritual disciplines, we're gonna set ourselves up for a roller coaster of a spiritual life. And when we're doing well, we're gonna feel like we're better than others and pride will fill our hearts. And when we're not doing well, condemnation and shame will come and say, you're not worth anything. And so Jesus is trying to call Peter out of that. And you know, his other best friend, John, he decided to choose another route. He said, you know what, from now on, I'm going to see myself as the beloved. And he called himself the beloved. know, Peter would boast about his love for God and he denied Jesus, but John would boast about Jesus's love for him. And he went with him all the way to the cross. It is the love of God that carries us through the storms. and the persecutions and the trials. It is not how well we love him. Our love can be flawed and inconsistent and a lot of times weak. But his love never changes. And so you can read in the Bible, you have several stories of these guys that got a revelation of their belovedness. I'm speaking to somebody here this morning. It's not even in my notes, but I feel like I am supposed to speak to this. Daniel chapter 10. Daniel is an old man now. He lived in Babylon faithfully. He's by the river and he has a vision of Jesus. And he's so weak and so tired that he falls down and says, I felt like I was gonna die. Because he was believing for his people to get out of Babylon. It had been 70 years, so he's by the river. You can read in Daniel chapter 10 later on. So he's over there and Jesus shows up and he's down on the ground. And Jesus comes to him and says, Daniel, you are a man deeply loved. and he touches him. And then he says it again, Daniel, you are dearly loved. You are my beloved. You know what Daniel says to him? ⁓ Lord, speak to me because when you speak to me those words, I am strengthened. John got that revelation. Jesus, before he started his ministry, the heavens were open. This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. When they're on the mountain of transfiguration and they're talking a bunch and Peter again is, you know, super confident in himself. And God says, hey, hey, stop talking. This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. Again, that is our confidence in the new covenant. If you're here today and you have not yet heard God speak to you directly, you are deeply loved. Maybe he will use my voice today. You are deeply loved. Jesus loves you so much. He died for you. Amen. Have a great week. All right. This wasn't on my notes, but let's go. We got a cruise. ⁓ So here's a passage. Simon son of John, do you love me more than these? said to him, yes, Lord, you know that I love you. He's humbled. He said to him, feed my lambs. And he said to him a second time, Simon son of John, do you love me? He said to him, yes, Lord, you know that I love you. So he said to him, tend my sheep. He said to him, the third time, Simon, son of John, do you love me? Three times, just like the three times that Peter denied him. Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, you love me? And he said to him, Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you. So Jesus said to him, feed my sheep. Who in here loves Jesus? Awesome. Almost all of you, we got some work to do Pastor Josh. There more. There's an expression of love to Jesus that you only step into when you care for people. There's an expression of your love for Jesus that you can only step into when you take care of people. So he's saying to Peter, hey, do you love me, Peter? Take care of my people. Feed my sheep. This is the title of my message today, by the way, feed my sheep. Some of you here today, you need to hear this. Do you love me? Jesus is asking you, take care of some people. Pull some people in, open your home, share dinner with somebody. Tell them about the gospel. Love them. Hear their stories. We are a church that deeply cares for people, but some of us need to be reminded of that. This is the heart of the gospel. Feed sheep, care for people. know, sheep are God's people. So you see here, and with Peter, he started off calling him the fish man, and now he's saying, care for sheep. Both times that Peter's called to follow Jesus, it includes caring for people. This is crucial, and it is a part of the gospel. If we follow Jesus, We're gonna get his heart for people and it's not gonna be just about me and him, but about those who are around us. And so he's saying, fish some people the first time around. This is the evangelistic nature of the mission. Which the church is called to care for people beyond these walls and out there, amen? And the second time he's saying, hey, feed sheep. So these are God's people. This is the flock. So we're both to... to walk in the pastoral heart of Jesus and in the evangelistic heart of Jesus. And Peter understood that. Both times he was called, it was fish and then sheep. And this is the nature of the mission, that we would care for people like that. So there is an expression of love to Jesus. This is the first thought that I would like for you to write down. There's an expression of love to Jesus that you can only step into when you choose to care for people. It's up there actually. This is how Jesus persuaded me into the ministry. He was like, hey, I'm like, Jesus, I'm just so glad that I get to be with you and you're with me. And he's like, hey, you know what? It's not just me and you, buddy. Go care for some people. That's how he persuaded me into entering into pastoral work. To a lot of us. And this is not just for those who are here. Actually, this is his heart for his people to step into. Amen. So again, both times he calls Peter, it includes caring for people. So now let me ask you. How did Jesus teach us to pray? What's Jesus' model for prayer? Our Father in heaven, hallowed the Lord's prayer, amen. Can we actually say that together? Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. Pay attention to that prayer. You will notice that in the structure of the prayer, the whole prayer is in the plural form. Right before this, he actually said to them, when you pray, go into your room, close the door. Your father who sees you in secret will reward you in public. Well, if I'm in secret, if it's me and God, why am I not praying, my father, forgive me, give me my bread? Because he intended for a faith expression to include others. Most of the time you see God referred to in scripture, he talks about our God is not just my God, my Jesus. There are a few instances where that happens, but it's our. our bread, forgive us, our trespasses. So he's teaching us something here. Our faith is not an individualistic faith. Our faith is communal. It is familial. It cares for others. When we're saved, we're not just brought into an individual relationship with Jesus, but we're brought into a family. And if God is my father and God is your father, then that makes us brothers or siblings. Is it too simple today? So that makes us family. So we hear people say like, ⁓ I love God, I just don't care for the church. You know what? I'm all about Jesus. It's just the people part. Can I tell you, that just isn't possible. You may be interested in the teachings of Jesus, but if you're a disciple, there's no way that you can apprentice under him, follow him, learn from him, and not care for people. Some people may say, well, you know what, like, I'm not a people person. I get that. But my question to you is, are you a Jesus person? Because if you're a Jesus person, Jesus cares about people. So then that makes you somebody who cares about people. And I'm not talking about personalities here. I'm talking about a posture of the heart, an attitude of life, a lifestyle. Amen? So there's no such thing as an unchurched Christian in the New Testament. Did you know that? If you read the New Testament, you do not find a Christian that is unchurched. You may be thinking of like maybe the thief on the cross, you know, who gets saved and Jesus like, you're gonna be with me today, paradise. But we don't see his next day, because he was on the cross. Or if you were to think of somebody else, like maybe the Ethiopian who was on that chariot and he was reading the passage of Isaiah and. The church history actually, there a lot of evidence that he went down to Africa to plant churches. So there's no such thing as a non-church Christian in the New Testament. So where did we get that idea? It is not in the Bible. We got that from culture that is pulling us into ourselves. Individualism, you do you. Do your own thing, man. DIY your faith and watch YouTube and get inspired, but then just live however you want to live. Nobody gets to speak into your life. Nobody knows you. We did not get it from the Bible. Alright. So, okay, the second thought is our faith is communal and our main prayer is in the plural form. So Jesus expected our prayer life to include others. Amen? Do you pray for other people? Can I share a couple more? You didn't convince me. Okay. Good. So here's the thing. I understand when we speak to this, ⁓ some of us refrain from deep relational connection because we've experienced pain or wounding, disappointment around relationships before. Maybe that was with leadership or church experience or maybe even like a marriage thing or a family thing or, you know, friendships, things that just didn't work out and it was painful and it was hard and so it is a natural response when you go through that to oftentimes pull back and take a step back because you know that if you step back into it you may hurt again and you are not wanting to go through the pain and so I understand that but I think that God wants to heal us of that. And oftentimes, our response to the wrong version of something good, that being leadership or church, those are good things. But our response to a wrong version, a broken version of that, is to go to no version of that. But the right response to the wrong version is not no version, but the right version. So could it be that God actually wants to use a redeemed version of that which hurt you to heal you? Could it be that God actually wants to use a redeemed version of that which hurt you to actually heal you? See, I came into the faith and I was really broken and so much pain and depression and I'm in the room and I'm reading the Word and I have a guitar and the Holy Spirit. I actually did not go to church at that time. I wasn't a part of a church. For like three months, I'm in the room, me and God. And ⁓ I'm starting to become convicted of sin, you know, things that I was doing in the world that I'm like, this just doesn't work anymore. So would come to God and say, God, I messed up, forgive me. And 1 John says that when we come to Him, we ask for forgiveness, He's faithful to forgive. So I would come to Him and I say, God, forgive me, I messed up. But then I realized I kept coming back to Him about the same sins. Cycles God I mess up again. Forgive me God. I mess up again. Forgive me God I miss I'm reading the Bible again the problem and the blessing of reading the Bible is that God speaks to you So reading the Bible I'm in James chapter 5 verse 16 and it reads like this Confess your faults one to another so that you may be healed When I'm reading it the word may be healed jumped off the page to me. I'm like one to another that you may be healed. And I heard the Lord say to me in my room, He said, son, you can be forgiven here in this room locked up, me and you, but you cannot be healed in isolation. You can be healed just you and God. Or you can be forgiven just you and God locked up somewhere. But healing takes place in the context of one another. And so some of us... believe the Lord wants to restore hope for relational depth, for a meaningful connection with people. Some of us actually in this church, we've been going through a process of healing and the Lord is asking you, do you love me? Hey, the healing that I'm doing in you, I want to do through you. The things that I've shared with you, I want to have you share with others. And that is actually a promise over this house. You know, if you've been here for any length of time, you would know that over 30 years ago, Pastor Gary is planting this church and a promise over this house, you know, that God would bring healing and that he would restore those who have been broken and hurt, know, hurt in church, hurt in life. Do you know that? If you've been here, how many of you guys have seen God heal people in this church? They come in for a season of time and they're healed. But I believe that today I'm speaking to some of you that are here, that will be here, that are watching online. You have been in the process of healing, but the Lord doesn't intend for that to just end with you in your seat. He's calling you back into taking care of people. He's saying, hey, just like Peter, you've been through a lot of stuff. I love you. Calling you back to myself, but now I'm calling you. If you love me, feed some sheep. Feed some sheep. So yes, the third thought, know, people may hurt us, but people are also used in bringing us healing. And I want to share with you, you can be forgiven by yourself. but we cannot be healed in isolation. You know, it's interesting, Chris was up here before me and he was stealing my sermon. He was like, you cannot taste and see the goodness of God in isolation. I'm like, yes, preach the message, let's go. Anyways, I believe the Lord's speaking to some of us about that today. All right, I have one more thought to share. You guys ready? Okay. Open with me on Matthew 9. Matthew 9 verse 35 If you're there, say, I'm there. Give you another few seconds. You know, I plan to preach on this before I realize it was Say Yes Sunday. So I'm not preaching on this just to get volunteers for hope. I'm preaching on this to get mature disciples of Jesus. But you should say yes. You should. It is a good thing. All right. Everybody there? Matthew 9, verse 35. Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction. When he saw the crowds, can you say the crowds? He had compassion for them. Can you say compassion? You know what the word compassion means? Where it comes from? Compassion means with passion. Passion comes from the Latin. And passion actually means willingness to suffer for someone's good. You know the passion of Christ is the suffering of Christ. To have compassion for people is to be willing to suffer to go through inconveniences. and challenges so that they would benefit from. No, this is a hard week for our city where we had those two officers. You know, I know a lot of people are mourning. It's hard. But you think about how special it is to have these officers who are willing to sacrifice their lives for the benefit of our city. So we honor them. It is a hard week. I know a lot of people are carrying that now, and I believe the Lord wants to bring grace and families in our city and all of that. But compassion. That's a profession that you're moved by compassion. And so Jesus had compassion on them. Okay, back to the passage. because they were harassed and helpless like sheep without a shepherd. Wow, there it is again. Jesus looked at the crowds, he saw them as sheep without shepherds. And so he said to his disciples, can you say disciples? So there are two groups here. There's the crowd and you have disciples. There's no third option. You have the crowds and you have the disciples. The crowds were out there. They were listening to the teaching. They were blessed by the ministry. They were watching everything. They're around the things of Jesus. But the disciples are entrusted with his heart. And so he's elbowing them and saying, hey, talking to his disciples and they're looking at the crowds. Hey, look over there. The harvest is splentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest." So what he's saying, in other words, he's elbowing them and nudging them and saying, hey guys, we need more shepherds. We need more laborers. Do you see the crowds? Hey Peter, they need shepherding. Hey John, they need help. They're helpless. So he's calling his disciples to get the vision that he has in his heart and moving them with his compassion for people. They're looking at the crowds and he's saying, guys, look at them. They're helpless. You know, at times I walk through campuses in this city and I feel the heart of Jesus for the young adults saying like, they need help. They need shepherding. We all need shepherding. But for those of us who have met Jesus, who are his disciples, we're called to participate. in the harvest. Not just to watch it on the news or to see it on Facebook. Look what happened over there in this place, in this city. Guys, there's a harvest in Springfield. He's pulling us in and he's saying, you're not just here to attend church, you are the church. You're not just here to watch things happen, but to participate. You are co-labors in the kingdom. I want to share my heart with you so you are part of what I'm doing. And so he's saying, here's how it starts. I'm gonna give you my heart and pray. How do you pray? You need to be moved with compassion. ⁓ I don't have that kind of heart for people. Jesus does, ask him for it. And so he's saying. If you're my disciple, that looks like you being a co-labor. There's no third option. You have the crowds and the disciples. And you have the harvest and the laborers. There's no option C. There's no spectator. ⁓ you know what? I'm going just get my ticket to heaven. I'm going to sit over here when this whole thing is done. Jesus, you take me up with you and you do your thing. So discipleship and mission go hand in hand. There's no way for you to walk in discipleship and not have a missional heart to care for people or a pastoral heart. You know, this right here, he's telling his disciples that the crowd needs shepherding. I believe that every disciple is meant to have a pastoral grace on their hearts. I'm not talking about an office or a full-time thing. Talking about a heart to care for people. I believe that actually Most of the pastoral work of our church should not be done through people on staff, but through us. Over here, in the Hope families and in the ministries around here, in the relationships, in the dinners, in the visits in the hospital, in the prayer times together, in the relationships where we care for one another. You see, when Jesus is with them, He knew he would ascend to the Father. So Jesus in the flesh, the incarnate Son of God, could not personally pastor all the people in the crowd. But when he ascended, he poured out his Spirit. And now we have his Spirit so that we can do the pastoral work and we can touch many, many people. He said, the letter that the people of God will do greater works than what he did because we now all can carry the Holy Spirit and walk with a pastoral heart. And so he's saying to his disciples, guys, all of you are laborers and also pray for more laborers. We're gonna need some help. Do you have a vision in your heart where you know you're gonna need to pray for more people to help you? Do you have a vision in your heart that is bigger than yourself? So Jesus is saying, guys, we need more help. Listen, the Holy Spirit is poured out, 120 in the upper room. Peter gets out of there, the same Peter who denied him, who was restored, he preaches the gospel and 3,000 are saved and baptized. One day, they went from 120 to 3,000. So that makes it about a 30 to one ratio. Everybody that was filled with the Spirit had some work in front of them. What do you need from me guys? I'm opening my home. Send 20, send 30, send 15 people my way. I'm gonna love them. Yeah, it'll be hard. I'll have to wash dishes and make meals and clean the house. So what? What else are we here for? All righty. ⁓ Charity or Tyler, you guys can come on up. We're gonna pray. We have seven minutes left. So here's the thing, we're here to equip the church. We're not just here to do all the pastoring. So I just pray that today God would give us a heart to pastor people. that he'd give us his compassion. Can you stand with me? I want to pray with you. I know they will come up here in just a moment. Pastor Gary always says this, there's no such thing as a Christian without a ministry. There's no such thing as a Christian without a ministry. Maybe a season for you to heal, to be restored. But he's counting on you to be a part of what he's doing. Such a joy. There are hard things, but it is such a joy. Will you close your eyes with me? Let's just pray. Let's take a moment and pray. Lord Jesus, you keep your eyes open, you can bless, just pray. Will you put your hands forward and say, Lord Jesus, give me your heart for people. Give me compassion. No, Jesus was moved with compassion. That means his guts were moved towards people. Yeah. Now I'm going to ask you a question and we're going to take 60 seconds and just see what God will say. Here's the thing. When I talk about this, some of you hear me say, ⁓ I got to do more. Let's be honest. Talk about caring for people. Like I got to do more. To some of us, listen to this carefully. You can look at me now. To some of us to care for people, it doesn't actually mean doing more. It means doing less. ⁓ We're too busy to care for people. But to some of us, yeah, it may actually mean that we're gonna get involved with something else or Ed. That's why we need to hear from God. So here's the question that I have for you today. We're gonna take 60 seconds. Who is God calling you to care for? If you need to close your eyes and ask him, God, who are you asking me to care for? He may bring a neighbor, a relative, a friend, a coworker, or an age group, kids, teenagers, young adults, elderly. I'll take 60 seconds and I'll watch the clock. Let's just ask that together. would say you got some beautiful. If you haven't yet, keep asking the Lord. That's beautiful. He'll give you wisdom how to walk in that. I want to pray for two groups of people here before we go. have just a couple minutes. Some of us here today, we need to move from the crowd to discipleship to Jesus. We've been around the things of Jesus, but we haven't yet fully surrendered our hearts. And you may be here like, I don't want to leave this place without knowing I'm at peace with God. I'm saying yes, I'm committing to Him. I'm recommitting to Him. I'm laying down my life to follow Him. So with every eye closed, let's just honor this moment. If you're here today and you're like, you know what, I've been in the crowd. I want to be a disciple and I want to follow Jesus. Will you lift up your hand right now boldly? Okay, I see your hand there. Praise God. All right, I see your hand there. see your hand. Praise God. Five hands, six hands. Come on. Thank you, Jesus. If you're here, you need to lift up your hand and just say, I'm saying yes today in a fresh way. Just keep your hand up. We need boldness for this. If you're saying yes to him, to follow him today. All right. Thank you, God. Here in just a moment, I'm going to ask the ministry team to come forward. We're going to have some people here. It is important when we say this kind of yes to God to share with somebody. That kind of seals an agreement. So the second group of people I want to pray for, you have been in a season of healing and restoration. And when I spoke these words today, you knew that God was speaking to you and saying, God is recommissioning me into the ministry. He's calling me back to care for people. If you're here and you're in that place, you're like, I need to care for people. I know I'm called to this. Lift up your hand. Come on. I want to pray for you. All right, I see your hand. I see your hand. I see. Thank you, God. God, I just bless these people today, these precious brothers and sisters. Grace of God. A fresh anointing. Thank you for healing. Thank you that you are leading them and thank you that you have the right people for them and that you brought them here for this time. You brought them to this church for this time. Give them Lord wisdom. Give them Lord insight into what's ahead and also activate faith so they can take the steps towards it. I pray for activation in Jesus' name. Faith arising, hope arising, dreaming with God in Jesus' name. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Can we all give Jesus thanks? I saw hands all over the place. Thank you, Jesus. All right, all right, all right. We love you, Lord. This is His heart. He loves people. Can I ask some of the ministry team to come forward quickly? I would love to have some up here. We have just a few seconds left. If you raise your hand, I want to ask you to be bold and come pray with somebody. It's important you share and just let them bless you. So right now, if you raise your hand and start coming forward and pray with somebody, just say, this is why I raised my hand. If you're saying yes to Jesus for the first time, if you're recommitting to Jesus, or if you're saying yes to feeding people and caring for sheep, come on forward. Come on, don't be shy. Other than that, Tyler's gonna lead us here. You guys have a wonderful week. We love you. We'll see you around. God bless you. Bye bye.

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