Why Am I Still Empty - April 19, 2026

I'm Daniel, I'm one of the I'm the lead pastor here at Res

Church. Welcome.

If you're new. OK, I've had, I've had the

blessing of having some, some newborns and maybe you've had

kids or you're an aunt or an uncle or a cousin and you've

gotten to spend some time around infants and newborns as well.

And one of the things that's kind of unique if you're a dad

is it when that baby is really small, the mom almost

immediately bonds with the baby, The, the, the scent and the

smell and the feeding and everything.

There's a chemical reaction. And so the, the bonding is

really quick. But if you're the dad, you're,

you might as well be a lamp. You're just like, and, and so,

and you know, I mean, we all know that babies are cute only

because we're biologically wired to believe that babies are cute

because actually they're, they're kind of little tyrants.

They scream, they demand, they never say thank you.

And so for those first few months, if you're a dad, it's,

it's a little bit more difficult to connect.

And there's a moment with every single one of my kids.

And you might be able to relate to this.

Well, the light bulb comes on. And what I mean by that is I,

you know, I pick Avery up and it's some period of months into

her life. I pick her up and she recognizes

me Bing And, and in that moment, the, the, the connection with my

daughter becomes 2 two ways instead of just one way because

she actually recognizes that I'm not a lamp.

I'm, I'm, I'm dad and so, so up until then, you know, everything

that that baby's processing is just kind of a blur of hunger

and noise. And, but then in that moment, a

real connection starts. It's the moment that the

connection becomes mutual. It's the moment that it becomes

personal. And, and that's when everything

changes. And, and so we're going to

continue our series today. We're going to be in Acts

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chapter 2. That's exactly what happens at

the end of Acts one beginning of chapter 2.

The connection becomes real. You see, God had always been

there. He's always been present.

He's always been loving. He's always been leaning over

the crib since Genesis. But there's a moment in history,

a very specific, loud, fire filled moment where the Holy

Spirit arrives and all of a sudden the relationship isn't

just real, it's personal. It becomes intimate, it becomes

individual. And that's what we're talking

about today. Our big idea, if you get nothing

else out of today, is this. God wants in.

God wants in. Last week in this series that

we're calling day one, we talked about Jesus disciples being told

that they needed to wait for the arrival of the Holy Spirit.

And they're not given a lot of details about the mission of the

church and how it's supposed to work and when it's supposed to

happen and how are we going to spread this gospel.

And everything seems a little bit crazy because they're given

so little information. And we talked about why that was

because we love to have all of the details to feel like we're

in control of the outcome. And so we're going to pick this

story back up in Acts one. We I think we left off in verse

11 or 12, they walk back off this mountain.

It was a mount called all of it. It's about 1/2 day journey.

And so they've walked back and they're now in an upper room

with a bunch of the other disciples.

And so in the middle of axes, they're going to name off a

number of the disciples that are in the room.

But then we find out later there's 120 of them waiting in

this upper room. And Peter decides while they're

up there and they're waiting, you know, we now only have 11

apostles because Judas has taken his life and we need a 12th

disciple. And so they, they, they have

some criteria for that. It needs to be someone who's

been with Jesus since the beginning and has seen the

resurrected Jesus. And they whittle it down to two

candidates. And then they got to decide

between the two. We're going to pick this up in

verse 23. And they put forward 2/2 of the

disciples. Joseph called Barsabbas, he's

also called Justice. And Matthias, so they have

justice in Matthias. And they prayed and said, You,

Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which one of these two

you have chosen to take the place in this ministry and

apostleship, from which Judas turned aside to go his own

place. And they cast lots for them.

And the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered with the 11

apostles. Casting lots was an ancient

practice. You can read about it all the

way back in Proverbs 16. It's basically a version of

rolling the dice if they did it with stones, but you're just

rolling dice. And so the, the methods actually

used a bunch in the Old Testament whenever people

couldn't get access to God. So we've talked a couple weeks

ago about how access to God in, in that time was difficult.

And so if you couldn't get to the temple or you couldn't get

to the Tabernacle, or you couldn't get to a priest to get

access to God, then what you do is you'd, you'd use this method

of casting lots. It was the equivalent, the

theological equivalent of I'll flip a coin and let God decide

or guide that coin. And it wasn't meant to be

superstitious at all. It was a, it was an honest

acknowledgement that we don't have the internal capacity to

discern this for ourselves. And that sounds kind of crazy

now, and I'll explain why it's crazy now.

But, but in the Old Testament, for a lot of major decisions, we

see them cast lots when they're dividing up the land in Joshua

14, when they go to the promised land, when they're selecting the

scapegoat in Leviticus 16, when they're exposing the sin of

Aachen in Joshua 7, when they're identifying Saul as king in

First Samuel 10. All of these decisions they cast

lots for. It wasn't gambling.

It was a method of deferring to God when direct divine

communication wasn't available. Now, here's why this is kind of

notable here in Acts 1. When we see them do this, it is

the very last time in the Bible they will cast lots.

Never again. And it's not a coincidence that

the author of this book, Luke, he's very deliberate in in

listing out how they did this on purpose because he's about to

contrast it in the next couple verses.

So he knows what he's doing. You see, after Acts 2, which

which we'll read about in just a moment, the early church will

never cast lots for anything. They won't cast lots to select

elders or for mission decisions. In fact, when they send elders

or I'm sorry, when the church in Antioch sends missionaries in

Acts 13, the Holy Spirit speaks directly to them.

It says, set apart Barnabas and Saul.

When Paul doesn't know where to go in Acts 16, he gets a vision.

The dice are gone because what the dice pointed toward is now

living inside the believer. So you don't need an external

source anymore. And it's exactly what Jesus had

already promised. If we go back to his message in

John 1613, He says, But when he the Spirit of truth comes, He

will guide you into all truth. Even later.

James, who's the half brother of Jesus, writes a letter to the

church and he actually says this.

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, ask, not roll, ask.

So church, listen, this is important if you're, if you're

trying to follow Jesus to try to live this Christian life, I want

you to hear this. You don't need a Ouija board,

you don't need divination, you don't need to roll dice.

You have the spirit of the living God, who knows the mind

of the Father living inside of you in the moment here, after

this, this casting of lots in Acts One, it'll end the moment

that you ever have to guess again.

You don't have to guess. If you've ever been paralysed by

a decision, kind of stuck, not knowing the will of God, You're

not supposed to flip coins or read signs or wait for a feeling

that never comes. You have the Spirit of God, you

have the word of God that you have prayer to the Father.

You have wise counsel from others, Spirit led and filled

people. And that is the complete

decision making tool kit of the new covenant.

So they're in this upper room and other than rolling or

casting lots to select a disciple, what is it that they

were doing? Well, back up in the chapter

just slightly to verse 14, the the text is going to list a

bunch of names of people, tells us there's 120.

But look at what they were doing in verse 14.

It says this, all of these, all of these 120 people with 1

accord were devoting themselves to prayer together with the

women and Mary, the mother of Jesus and his brothers.

So this is now 10 days in this room.

They've been sitting in the upper room together waiting,

praying for what Jesus had promised.

Jesus ascends. We read about that last week.

And now for 10 days they've been in this room.

So it's 50 days total since the resurrection.

And they weren't told how long they'd have to wait in the upper

room. They're given no time frame

about how long it would take. So what are they doing up in

that room? Well, number one, they were

persistent. They were persistent.

It says they all join together constantly in prayer.

There's a Greek word there. It's procarturu Ness.

Procarturu Ness is a big long word.

Here's what it means. It means to attend to

constantly. It means to not quit.

It means to endure. That's the way their prayer is

being described in Greek. This wasn't a one time prayer

meeting. This was 10 days of non-stop

prayer in the upper room. No breaks.

They weren't killing time. They were positioning

themselves. There was a revival a couple

years ago back on a college campus on the East Coast.

And it started as a as a Sunday evening evening Bible study.

And the next thing you know, it just became constant prayer day

after day after day. And it actually made national

news. People were flying in to see

this, but what was actually happening was people enduring in

prayer. Secondly, they weren't just

persistent, they were unified. It says they all joined

together. And the actual phrase, the word

that's used here for join together or of 1 accord is used

a bunch in the book of Acts. Intentionally.

It is the word homothumadon. Homothumadon.

It appears 10 times in the book of Acts.

It means of 1 accord, of one mind, of One Direction.

There were no factions in the room.

There were no theological debates about whether the spirit

would or wouldn't come. No one was lobbying for a

preferred agenda. We have to do it my way.

They were of 1 accord, a unity that was itself important for

what was about to happen. See, I personally believe that

the way that you get to that unity is you actually have to

start praying together to get there.

I don't think you get to this unity that we see in the book of

Acts if you're not praying together.

I think 1 leads to the next. And if you want this kind of

Unity Church, come pray together.

Come pray together over and over and over again because prayer

together builds unity together. So they're praying together.

It builds unity together. And 3rd, they were dependent.

Jesus said that they would not be able to do this without the

Spirit. You need to wait to go do this.

They knew they couldn't manufacture what was coming,

they couldn't strategize it, they couldn't fund it, they

couldn't network their way to it.

So 120 people with 0 ability to do what Jesus had called them to

do without the Holy Spirit get up and up a room and their

prayer wasn't, Lord bless what we're about to build.

Their prayer was we can't move without you.

A theologian, John Stott, observes that the waiting period

of those 10 days was not passive.

He says it this way. They were not idle during those

10 days. They were busy in prayer.

Church, we need to be busy in prayer, not not too busy to

pray, busy in prayer. He notes that the early church's

posture of corporate, persistent, unified prayer is

itself a model. It's not just for revival, but

for an ordinary Christian life. Hear me, Church, for the

ordinary Christian life, we should be busy in prayer.

DA Carson commenting on this Greek word homo thermidon is in

the theme that in Acts he actually says this.

He says that every time this word is used in the book of

Acts, it's not coincidental that every time it is used it it

precedes some significant divine moment comes right after it.

So every time the church prays gets in one accord, he uses this

word because the next thing after the church gets in one

accord is something phenomenal from the Spirit.

Unity is not the result of God's blessing.

It is repeatedly shown as the condition to get God's blessing.

When you walk in those glass doors on a Sunday morning, there

are three ES. We call them three ES.

It's a vinyl that's on the door. When you walk by it, it says

expect, engage, and encourage. It says expect God to move.

Engage with the worship and with the Word of God and encourage

and be encouraged. And we ask you to do that

anytime you walk in here. And it maps directly to the

posture of the 120 in the upper room.

They're expecting God to move. They are engaging in prayer.

They're in one accord. And what we try to model every

Sunday when you come in here is the exact same thing they're

modeling in that upper room. And when they do that, then it

gets spicy. Look at Acts 2, verse one.

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together

in one place, and suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a

mighty rushing of wind, and in it filled the entire house where

they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire

appeared to them and rested on each one of them, and they were

filled with the Holy Spirit and begin to speak in other tongues

as the Spirit gave them utterance.

So we're 50 days from the resurrection.

We're also 50 days from the Passover.

They are celebrating a festival called the Feast of Weeks in

Jerusalem right now. And Israel celebrating what was

really an anniversary of the giving of the Mosaic Law back on

Mount Sinai when Moses comes down with the law, the 10

commandments. And here's here's God's word.

And so they celebrate that fifty days after the Passover.

And so thousands of people have gathered in Jerusalem what

happens on the anniversary of the giving of the Law?

God gives them the Spirit, which means that the Law now gets

written on their hearts. This has been prophesied both in

Jeremiah 31 and in Ezekiel 36 had pointed to a moment when God

would no longer use external laws, but rather internal heart

change. The feast of weeks which fell on

this day had come to be associated with the giving of

the Law on Mount Sinai. So it was fitting that the New

Covenant should be inaugurated on this day.

The Law written on the heart, replacing the Law written on

tablets of stone. That didn't replace the Law at

Pentecost. He relocated it.

He moved it from a stone tablet that you have to look at to a

heart you can't ignore. Why?

Because God wants in. It says they heard a sound like

the blowing of a violent wind. Not an actual wind, just the

sound of it. That's that's a repeated pattern

that we see in the Old Testament, the breath of life,

like in the Garden of Eden when God breathes life into Adam, or

in the valley of dry bones where Ezekiel hears the dead bones

come alive through the divine breath of God.

It's a creation moment as the spirit descends on the

believers. But you know what they didn't

see? They didn't see wind.

They saw fire. You know, throughout the Old

Testament when God made his presence visible to people, it

was always fire. Think about the burning Bush

that burned so brightly Moses couldn't even look at it

directly. Or the the pillar of fire

leading Israel through the wilderness, visible to everyone.

1 manifestation for the whole nation.

Or Exodus 19 fire consuming Mount Sinai when the law was

given. This is the anniversary of that

one big fire or big cloud, one pillar, always 1 manifestation

for the for the community. And then in Acts two, verse 3,

it's not one big fire anymore. They saw what seemed to be

tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of

them. So that fire doesn't come down

as a cloud or a pillar. It comes down to begins to

divide 120 times. It becomes individual.

In the Old Testament, there's a story of something called the

Shekinah glory that once filled the Tabernacle.

So overwhelming was this presence, this fire from God,

that the priest couldn't even go into the Tabernacle.

And now that same presence, that visible presence of God, is

splitting itself and dividing itself to each of the individual

believers sitting in the upper room. 120 individual flames.

This is the theological revolution in Acts 2.

God doesn't live in a building anymore, He lives in his people.

The Temple of the Holy Spirit is not in Jerusalem.

It's in every believer in this room and every believer after

that. Martyn Lloyd Jones says that the

transition from the temple to the body is not incidental, it

is the entire point. God always wanted to dwell with

his people. The difference is now he dwells

in his people. The Shekinah glory that filled

the temple, the same fire Moses couldn't look at the same glory

the priest couldn't stand in, divided itself into 120

individual flames landed on 120 ordinary people.

God didn't get smaller, he got more specific.

He got personal. God wants in verse 4.

And they were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak

in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Now there's a festival going on. Now there were dwelling in

Jerusalem, Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven.

And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were

bewildered because each one was hearing them speak in his own

language. And they were amazed and

astonished, saying, are not all of these who are speaking

Galileans? How is it that we hear, each of

us, in his own native language? If you keep reading, what you're

going to see is a list of how many different regions and lands

and languages were all represented, and somehow every

one of them could hear the disciples in their own language.

So we're going to, we're going to take a quick sidebar from our

story because I want to make a theological point.

There's a doctrine that is introduced here that's it's a

bit controversial because it involves speaking in tongues.

That's what we're reading here, speaking in tongues, and I don't

want to skip past it without addressing it.

So here's what you need to know. The Bible actually addresses two

different types of manifestation of speaking in tongues, and

they're actually separate things, distinct gifts.

The first one is what we're reading here in Acts chapter 2.

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It is speaking known human languages, real people hearing

their real native languages spoken fluently by Galileans who

had never learned of those languages.

And the purpose is very clear. The Gospel is crossing every

linguistic or language barrier all at the same time.

That's what's happening in the text.

Now there's a second type of speaking in tongues that we read

about in First Corinthians 14 when the apostle Paul addresses

it with a church and he writes this, anyone who speaks in a

tongue does not speak to people, but to God.

Paul calls it a personal private, and he and, and it is

edifying to the speaker. And he doesn't forbid this type

of speaking in tongues. He actually says, I, I would

like every one of you to speak in tongues.

But he does regulate it in a corporate setting without an

interpreter. He would say that needs to

remain private because it's between you and God.

Gordon Fee, one of the foremost New Testament scholars on the

Holy Spirit, says it this way as a gift of private prayer and

utterance. Paul speaks of tongues quite

favorably, obviously a topic that for Paul is very personal

and private. The breakdown, the controversy

for him has occurred when what is personal and private comes

into the public assembly since it has no facility for

strengthening others. If you're, if you're pretty new

to Christianity and and you're like, why are we taking time on

this? People have lost their minds

over this. OK, there is some some real

debate on both sides of this issue and let me tell you where

our church stands on this. We believe that we would call

this an open handed issue. There are Christians who

genuinely love Jesus and believe that certain gifts ceased after

the age of the apostles. We call that theological term

cessationism. There are also Christians who

believe that none of those gifts ceased and are still active

today. We would call that

continuationism. Both can worship here.

Neither breaks the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Now we're open handed regardless of what you believe.

We would say there is a biblical way to honor God regardless of

how you believe. But here's what we are not open

handed on. The Holy Spirit is real, present

and active. However He chooses to show up.

We want to be a people who are positioned to receive Him in a

biblical manner. In my opinion, one of the most

interesting things that happens in Acts chapter 2 is everything

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seems very new, But the reality is I think it's actually the end

of a beautiful story that started all the way back in

Genesis. And I want you to, I want to

show you something that happened in Genesis.

And if you're unfamiliar with the Bible, if you're new, I'll

do my best to kind of summarize what happens.

But there's a, there's a crazy weird story in Genesis Chapter

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11 where people decide they're going to build a building to

God. They can actually build a tower

tall enough to get to God. In Genesis 11, chapter 1, it

says this. Now the whole earth had one

language and the same words, and they're all together in one

place. Verse 4 Then they said, Come,

let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the

heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be

dispersed over the face of the whole earth.

And so they're building the tower to God, and God

intervenes. Verse 9.

Therefore it's name was called Babel because the Lord confused

the language on all the earth. If you've read the story, he

comes in, he everyone suddenly speaking different languages and

he scatters them. And from there the Lord

dispersed them over the face of the earth.

So in arrogance, humanity decided we would build to God

yet another moment where we decided we could be God or like

God. And God responds to the pride

and the rebellion by striking people with confusion.

And the result is division, tribalism, the origin of every

language barrier, cultural conflict, and national war in

human history. Here's here's why I'm bringing

that up. The exact opposite happens in

Acts 2. It's the end of that story.

You see, in Acts 2, instead of man building to God, God comes

to man. We go in reverse.

Instead of one group of people being scattered into many, we

actually get all of these different languages and all

these different nationalities gathered into one.

So instead of being scattered, God is gathering, and instead of

withdrawing his presence, he's pouring it out.

Instead of the building stopping like it did in Babel, the

building of the church has just begun and has continued to this

day. In Acts 29 through 11, Luke

lists 15 different regions. Scholars like NT Wright and

Daryl Bach note that this list roughly maps into all of the

known inhabited world. It's a symbolic inventory, The

scattered nations of Babel now all being called together into

one place, hearing one message in their own languages.

Just think about the direction. Babel is humanity ascending

toward God. Pentecost is God descending

toward us. This is not just a reversal of

the language miracle. It's a reversal of the entire

theological posture of humanity before God.

Babel says we will reach up and grab you.

Pentecost says I have come down to get you.

This is the gospel compressed into architecture and it answers

the deepest human question. Can I get to God with a better

one? What if he already came to get

you? That's what Christ's blood on

the cross has accomplished. Jesus made a way for you and I.

Now there's another point here because he he very purposefully

mentions that the crowd says these are Galileans.

And so we could talk about how Galileans were very uneducated

men suddenly doing amazing things for God in the Spirit.

But I can't see how that would be applicable for a church in

Oildale. So we'll move on.

What do we do with this story? It's beautiful, it's amazing,

it's crazy. But now what?

Kent Hughes says this in his commentary about the book of

Acts. He says a grandson asked his

grandfather, Grandpa, what is the wind?

The old fisherman replied, I cannot explain the wind to you,

but I can teach you how to raise the sails.

So you can't manufacture the Holy Spirit, you can't produce

Pentecost, you can't engineer a revival, but you can position

yourself to receive what Jesus is ready to give.

The 120 disciples that are in the upper room raised 3 sales.

These are the same 3 sales available to you.

And I, number one, raise the sale of persistent prayer.

That doesn't say that the 120 prayed once and then waited.

They prayed constantly for 10 days.

Persistent prayer is not trying to change God's mind.

It's the act of making yourself available.

It is posturing ourselves toward God and staying there.

There are people in my life that I have been praying for for

years, and it doesn't seem like there's been any progress.

But nothing that I do as a pastor is more important than my

prayer life. Nothing.

And there are weeks that I am so terrible at being consistent in

prayer that it is embarrassing. In fact, I often times think

that God drives and allows suffering in my life so that He

will drive up the desperation and urgency for His presence.

And my question for you, is there someone, something in your

life that you prayed about once, twice, three times and you gave

up on? Can you imagine if the disciples

had quit on day 7? The second sale they raised is

the sale of unity. The Spirit came when they were

in one accord, homothymidon in one accord.

Division in the body is not just a relational problem between

people, it is a spiritual blockage.

The opposite of Pentecost is a church that is scattered.

While in the same room every week in your life and in your

church, you will have opportunities for disunity.

They will be available to you. You'll have opportunities to be

offended. They are available to you.

You have opportunities to find things wrong with this church.

That's not that hard. In fact, every person who's ever

been part of a church has experienced church hurt.

I'm not minimizing church abuse. That's different.

What I'm saying is that to be around other messy humans is at

some point to be hurt. Amen.

In fact, I've never been hurt as deeply as I have by people in

the church, this church. But we have a choice to be

offended, to be wounded and stay there, or to prayerfully choose

unity, to love inside the conflict, to forgive freely, to

think the best of others. In fact, we're we're in our

leadership development. We teach once a month.

This thing called Supercharged over in the Chapel.

It's tonight at 5:00 PM. You're all welcome.

We are going to teach on thinking the best of others.

I have days as a pastor where it feels like I can't stop crying.

And yet in the midst of that, God has done his most beautiful

work in my life and through this church.

And I'm trying to tell you that it's worth it.

It's worth it. Is there a relationship in your

life, in your small group, in your family, in your marriage

where you're carrying division that needs to be resolved?

Because we see a pattern where the, the, the Spirit empowers A

unified body. 3rd sail, raise the sail of expectancy.

They weren't in the upper room hoping for the best and crossing

their fingers. They were waiting for Jesus

because he said to wait. Expectancy is faith with an

address. It's believing that God is going

to do something specific. You know, every time we preach a

message in this church, I actually expect that they're

going to be people that are giving their life to Christ.

Every single time, every single time we preach, every single

time Pastor Dave or Richard or anyone comes up and preaches a

message and gives an invitation, I'm looking around because I

expect God to save people. And you can say, hey, that's

naive or that's unrealistic, but I'm on my toes waiting for God

to move because I'd rather be a fool than miss it.

Call me a fool, but don't let me miss a move of God and then

wonder why my faith is boring. We say we believe in a real act

of God, but are you expecting him to move?

When you walk into this church on a Sunday morning, when you

sit down to pray during the week, do you genuinely believe

that the Spirit of God is present and active?

Or have you gotten so practical, so managed, so efficient that

the Holy Spirit is an afterthought?

We can't make the wind blow, but we can raise the sails.

We can be persistent. We can fight for unity.

We can be expectant. And when we do that, when a when

120 people came together and the wind comes, everything changes

because God wants in For some of you here today or or maybe

watching online, maybe you've never surrendered your life to

Christ. And so you, you hear me that God

wants in that, that he desires to save you.

And you're not even sure what that means.

Let me explain. Jesus died on a cross to pay the

penalty for your sin. Three days later he walked out

of that tomb alive, and He is offering you salvation,

forgiveness, and eternal life. The Bible says that to be saved

you must believe in your heart that God raised Him from the

dead, and you must confess with your mouth that He is your Lord.

So I want to offer you a chance to do that today, to let Him in.

If you'd like to surrender your life to Christ and follow him as

King, I'm going to lead you in a prayer.

Will you all bow with me for just a moment?

close your eyes. If you want to declare today

with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, just pray this after me.

Jesus, I know I'm a Sinner who can't save myself.

I want you to save me and adopt me into your family.

I surrender everything to you and I receive your promises of

forgiveness, of adoption into your family, and of eternal

life. Be my Lord.

Please Jesus, if you said that prayer for the very first time,

would you be brave and raise your hand for me to see Thank

you, thank you, thank you can put your hands down in Jesus

name, Amen. Real quick Jesus loves you more

than you actually believe or imagine he does and if you just

gave your life to Christ. Welcome to the family.

In just a moment, we're going to respond to this sermon.

Our prayer team is going to come up here.

We we love praying for you guys and with you guys for any

reason. But as you stand to sing this

song, if you just made a declaration of faith to Christ

or you've done it recently and not told anyone about it.

I want you to to go back to one of those two tables in the back.

It says I raised my hand. We have a gift for you.

We want to celebrate with you. We're excited for you.

We want to talk about what a journey of following Christ

looks like. So will you stand with us?

Our per team is going to be up here.

You move as the Lord leads you. We thank you church.

We love you.