Faith That Keeps Moving

Several years ago my boys were young.

The snow was falling and so we bundled up and went outside for

a walk. I led the way and they took full

advantage of the snow that I was packing down due to my weight.

When it comes to packing snow, God purpose built me for such a

task. I don't know how many of you

have ever been in this spot, but last Sunday after church, I went

to pick up some groceries for the family because it was cold.

I was like, I'll just take care of it.

And I accidentally bought a cake.

Has anybody else ever accidentally bought a cake?

That's what happened, kid. True story.

I was like, there's not enough Donuts out there.

And so I, like, I just was directed by the Holy Spirit to

my left and there was a buttercream cake there.

Yeah, you know. And then I was like, what do I

do? Because I want it?

And I was like, I can't just go home with a happy birthday cake.

So I asked them if they would personalize it.

So they did. And I personalized it.

It said best family ever. So I took home, I took home a

cake, said happy birthday, best family ever.

And then then two of us ate it and one of us did a majority of

the eating. Like I said, when it comes to

packing snow, I'm purpose built for such a task.

And as my boys and I were outside, every step that I took

made it easier for my kids to take their step.

If I stopped, they stopped. If I quit, it became harder for

them to continue. They needed me not just to take

a step, but to keep taking steps.

I want to welcome all of our different locations.

Those of you watching online and inside.

I am so glad that you are here today.

And I want to encourage you, if you're willing to, to lean all

the way in because this series has been building to these

precious moments that we're going to share today and I hope

will set the tone for us all as a church and as individuals in

2026. The series has been called There

has to be a place with the tagline, real stories of real

people with real faith. And through the stories of Craig

and Brandon and Lauren and Johnny, hopefully you saw this

tagline lived out. Every single one of them in

their own way, took a step of faith.

And because they took their step of faith, others have been able

to take a step. That is what it means to be a

follower of Jesus. Followers of Jesus are in

motion. They are following Jesus.

Where do we get this idea from? Probably the best theologian

ever, Jesus. Matthew chapter 4, verses 19

Matthew 4:19–20

through 20. Look what it says.

This is Jesus talking. Come follow me.

We are to be in the business of following him.

And what are we going to do when we are following him?

And I will send you out to fish for people.

He's talking to fishermen, He's going.

That is your occupation. But your preoccupation is to be

finding people and helping them come into a right relationship

with me. And what did these guys do?

Well, at once they left their Nets and followed Him.

Following Jesus is not just about taking a step or taking

one step, but about continuing to take steps.

Baptism is a very important step.

It is a big step. It might be your first step, but

it is definitely not your last one.

Serving is a step, but it's not your last step.

Your baptism is not your diploma.

Serving is not your associate's degree.

Giving is not your certification.

Sharing your story is not a box that you check, but a life that

you and I are invited to live. We are to use our stories, your

story and my story to bear witness to the reality of the

existence of God and the power of the cross of Jesus Christ and

His empty grave. Jesus describes what his fathers

would do. We unpacked a little bit of this

last week. Acts chapter one, verse 8.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes, and you

will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in Judea and

Samaria into the ends of the earth.

The expectation of Jesus is that those who follow him would be

about the things that matter to God.

Well, what are the things that matter to God?

We're told in Scripture that God sent his Son Jesus to die on the

cross to save us from our sins. And the reason Jesus came.

Look what it says, Luke chapter 19, verse 10.

Luke 19:10

We've unpacked this one before. The Son of Man, that's Jesus

came to seek and save the lost. There is a special priority that

God places on helping people who don't know him to be found in

him. And to those who claim to be

Jesus followers who stop taking steps, who stop doing the things

that he calls them to do, they take a step and they think

they're done. Jesus issues this warning.

Luke 1427 And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me

cannot be my disciple. So how do you and I keep taking

steps of faith? Super simple.

You keep being obedient to the things that God reveals to you.

That is why I spent a little bit of time at the very beginning of

this series talking to you about having an anchoring time.

An anchoring time allows you to grow spiritually.

And if you want to grow spiritually, you don't just need

a weekly routine, you need a daily discipline.

So when we were on anchoring time, it keeps you.

I call it anchoring because it keeps you from being blown away

by the winds of culture and circumstance.

An anchoring time allows you to build your life and your day on

a firm foundation. An anchoring time creates space

for you to grow in your relationship with Jesus.

When you have an anchoring time, it makes room for you to hear

His voice, see what your next step of obedience is, and

invites you to join Him in His mission.

And it sharpens you so that way you'll be useful for the things

that he assigned you to do. And when we were talking about

it, I said, you need a time. So you know, you got to pick,

hey, when am I going to prioritize?

It's not going to be the only time I connect with God today,

but this is when I'm definitely going to connect with him.

You need a place. Where are you going to do this?

I got word that some of you, you cleared out a spot in your

house. You made a place in a closet,

you cleared off a desk, whatever you got to do, you just need a

place. Listen, if you got no place,

wherever you are for a little bit is your new place.

If you're going, hey, the only place I got is in my truck

before work. Great, you got your place.

You just need a place where you're going to go.

And hey, you know what, I'm going to make this time about me

and my relationship with the Lord.

And then you need a Bible. And hopefully you guys have

grabbed a hold of those links. And I think those links are

still available in the app if you want them.

And then you need a plan. What am I going to do in this

time at this place? Well, there is one more thing

that you need to incorporate into your anchoring time, and it

is a time of prayer. The Bible assumes that the

followers of Jesus would pray to God and hear me.

I want you to hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me.

I know that there's a lot of baggage when it comes to prayer.

There's a lot of things that are a little confusing and hard to

understand and even hard to work through.

I know that there's some of you who are going, hey, I mean, if

God is omnipotent and he knows everything and he's all powerful

and he can do all these things, why do I have to talk to him?

If the Bible already says that He knows what I'm going to ask

before I even ask him, Why do I do this?

Well, I can just tell you, I get all of that.

I also just know that Jesus prioritized prayer and he

expects that his followers would communicate with him in prayer.

Over 300 times prayer is mentioned in the Bible.

There are 25 recorded prayers of Jesus in Matthew, Mark, Luke,

and John Paul. When he writes a majority of the

New Testament over 40 different times he talks to people either

mentioning prayer requests or offering up prayers.

When he sends his letters to the churches, Edwin Harvey has this

to say about prayer. A day without prayer is a day

without blessing. But here's the part I really

want to key in. A life without prayer is a life

without power. And so some of you you might be

wondering what a time of prayer could look like.

And I know the Bible warns about hypocrites who stand on street

corners or in front of a bunch of people in churches to be seen

by others and instead tells us to go into a private room, into

a secret place. And your father who sees what is

done in secret will reward you. But this is about doing in

public what you don't do in private.

You see, corporate prayer and communal prayer are expected in

the life of a believer. Furthermore, when Jesus and his

disciples were together in Luke Chapter 11, when it says when

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Jesus had finished praying, one of his disciples raised his hand

and said, Lord teach us to pray just as John, that's John the

Baptist, taught his disciples. This informs us of at least two

things. Teaching to pray in public is

OK, and two, Jesus modeled it for them.

How do we know this? Because if you have ever recited

the Lord's Prayer, it's because they said teach us to pray.

And what did Jesus do? He prayed in front of them.

And so today what I want to do is I want to give hopefully what

will be received as a gift. I want to show you just a slice

of my morning prayer time. And I want to say this, the, the

target that I have on the wall are those of you who are very

new to faith and you're trying to live the life that God has

called you to, the life that you want to live.

And yet you're not really sure how to maybe put all the pieces

together. And what I'm going to show you,

hear me, is a way, not the way. But if you're going, I don't

have any kind of clue and direction and your prayer time

is mostly frustration. I'm wanting to kind of give you

or guide you into a way for you to connect with God in prayer

that will become meaningful over time.

And so like I've told you guys, I have a desk.

I have a desk at home and I have a desk and the church office,

it's not this desk, but I have two desks.

They're exactly the same. And I got my nerd Bibles over

here like I told you about. And then I have a can't stop,

won't stop mug because can't stop won't stop.

And then I have a this is my journal from 2025.

Some of you guys have heard me talk about this is just my

prayer journal and don't zoom in too tight.

But the most important thing in my OK Part 1 is getting a thing

to write stuff down in. And I'll tell you why you want

to write stuff down is because you start writing all the areas

where you want God to move in your life and your prayer life

will grow because you'll start going, I want him here and I

want him here. I want him here.

You'll start to go. There's not a place in my life I

don't want him to be. And then this has been the

single biggest faith builder in my life.

I don't know how much these cost because I buy bougie ones, but

it's a highlighter. And I'll tell you why it

matters. It's because sometimes when

you're praying, if you don't have a record of what's

happened, you start to think that your prayers are bouncing

off the ceiling. You start to feel like it's not

working. And what a highlighter does is

it shows you all the areas where God came through.

And so when you get to a part of your prayer list that isn't

highlighted, but it's surrounded by other prayers that are

highlighted, it builds faith for you to keep praying in the areas

where you haven't seen God come through yet.

Does that make sense? OK, now, and some of you guys

are going to ask and I'm not going to have time to respond to

e-mail. So the team, if you go to the

app, if you're going, hey, I want my own journal and I want

my own highlighter and cup and all.

You know, you can get all that stuff in the at the app down at

the the merch link and you can get it.

But listen, you can go to you can go to Dollar General and get

whatever they sell there. I'm sure they have one.

You can get a post it note you can write on a Kleenex if you

got, you know, whatever you need.

But here's here's what I do. I get in my so this is my 26th

journal. And on the back I have sections.

So I have a section for church. I have a section for staff.

I have a section for healings. I have a section for let's just

personal. I have a section for salvations.

And then I have a general, which is where like, I don't know

where to put these. And what I do is in the morning,

I just, I go to my time, I go to my place and I pray over these

things and I have a soundtrack and I'm going to, you're going

to hear my soundtrack. We're not going to do the whole

thing, but we're just going to do a slice.

But let me give you some context so you guys don't get weirded

out. One of the songs that you're

going to hear is a song from I'm, I'm assuming Africa.

And the reason why I started listening to music that I can

understand that you won't be able to understand is the Bible

says that we get to heaven. There will be people from every

nation, tribe and language and tongue.

And I'm going, I want to start getting used to what it's going

to be like in heaven. And I don't know what they're

saying, but I know who they're worshipping.

And so that's part of it. And then there's going to be a

second song. And I got to tell you this in

advance. I know this sounds, it's like a

weird setup, but I don't want you to freak out and think that

like, the tech guys did something wrong.

And now we're listening to Clayton's, you know, Romance

playlist, OK. Because the second song is like

the best R&B I've ever heard in my life.

But it's called Spill House. And what they do is they do the

Psalms, but they do it with like art.

It is it just hits so hard. I fell in love with it.

So you I don't want you going. Whoa, where's Jennifer at?

OK, I just want you to know this is this is I'm giving you the a

real slice. Now.

I've, this is the most anxious I've ever been at our church.

So let me kind of give some of you some permission slips for

some of you in here, order something online like you don't

have to go on the journey, OK? It might if it's too weird for

you. That was not my goal.

If you want to pray with me, you can pray with me.

If you want to just watch, you can watch.

But my target is there. Some of you who you've never had

a spiritual father, you were not raised in a spiritual

environment, you do not have a spiritual track record or

legacy, but you want one. And I just want to show you how

a simple thing can lead to massive impact and change in

your life. So if you would, I would like to

pray. Heavenly Father, I thank you so

much for this church. I thank you for the people that

you bring in here every single week.

And God, I'm so thankful for the work that you're doing.

God, I'm thankful for how you've been so good to me.

It will take all of heaven for me to understand how many times

you rescued me, looked out for me, made a way for me, and got

so far this year. The thing that you keep

impressing on me is how faithful you've been to me.

I've given you every excuse you could ever want to give up on me

and walk away from me. You've endured my sin.

You've endured my doubt, my unbelief, my selfishness, my

anger, and my pride. Thank you.

Thank you for even making a way for me to have this time of

prayer with you today. Can I ask that right now you

would be with the churches in this region got specifically the

pastors who aren't a part of the crossing?

God, I don't know what they're feeling today.

I don't know if they feel encouraged or discouraged.

I don't know if they're hurt, if they're sad, if they're

frustrated, if they're beat down.

But God, I pray that today while they're preaching their sermon,

that they would feel your presence, God, that somebody

would come up and put their hand on their shoulder and give them

the encouraging word that they need to hear to keep showing up

and trusting you. God, impress upon their spirit

that they are not responsible for the fruit, but they are just

responsible to be faithful to the work that you've called them

to do. God, I ask that you'd be with

all the people in our church who have recently been baptized.

God, it blows me away how many people keep saying yes to you.

We got to help them to realize that their journey is not over,

it's just starting. And God, when Satan comes after

them, help them to realize that he has no power over them, that

because of who they are in you, they can overcome.

And for all the people in this region that are contemplating

starting their relationship with you, God, I pray that you would

watch over my words and my actions and the words and

actions of the people who call the crossing home and help us to

love them and encourage them as they get ready to take the step

that's going to change everything.

God, I pray to you at the Super Bowl weekend and all the people

that are going to be walking in these doors.

And God, there are some tough questions that we know we're

going to get the answers to those when we get to heaven, but

we want some answers right now. And so, God, I pray that you

would be with all of the services and all the volunteers

and all the invites and all the people who show up, and God,

that you would bolster our faith and help us to chase after you

more fully. God, I ask that you would be

with all of our elders and the directional team and the campus

pastors and the staff. God, my prayer for them is

consistent. Watch over their marriages and

watch over their parenting. And God, would you watch over

their relationship with you? They're at their identity would

be found solely in the fact that they are a child of God, not

that they are on staff or married to somebody who's on

staff. And God, that we would seek you

personally, not just professionally.

That we would crave your presence in every area of our

life. Keep us united and focused on

you and God, through the power of your Holy Spirit.

Would you make us effective? God, that fruit would come from

the things that we do for you and for your Kingdom.

God, there's some people that are in my life and in my sphere

that are just struggling right now with all kinds of health

challenges. And I want to thank you for the

fact that chapter got a clean bill of health on his tests.

And God, I know that he would have been faithful to you even

if it had come back negative. But God, thank you for that not

being a burden that he or my faint or my family or his family

had to carry. To God, there's other people

that haven't got that news yet. So God, I want to lift up N&R

and their daughter WK and M and their son O and their daughter

P. Got to ask that you be with JJ.

She's battling dementia and cancer.

And got to ask that you be with SH.

She's, she's in it right now. God, this one's probably been

the heaviest. You know this, I just love how

every time I'm around her you can't help but smile and laugh

because everything she does is contagious and got.

My biggest prayer is that her joy wouldn't leave her in the

midst of the diagnosis or the treatment.

God specifically, I'm asking that you would help her husband

serve her and love her and care for her in ways he didn't even

think possible. That it would only be through

the power of your Holy Spirit. Make him attune to her needs

before she even knows she needs them.

And God, I ask that you would protect their daughters

specifically, that they'd be able to see their mom walking

with joy and trust. God, we know that you're either

going to heal it in heaven, heal it immediately, or heal it

through the practice of medicine and everything that the doctors

have learned in the years of medical school and in practice.

And God, I'm coming to you asking that you would heal her

here on earth and that this would just be another person

crying about how good and how faithful and how powerful you

still are. God, I want to pray over my

family. God, thank you for putting

Jennifer in my life. Thank you for all the ways that

you made her completely different from me.

Thank you for saving her and bringing her into your home and

your family. Can I ask you to be with Zayn

and Maddox and Genera? Help them to grow up to love you

with all their heart, mind, soul and strength and embrace the

Great Commission to make disciples of all nations.

Help them to be leaders of others and followers of you and

God. I pray that when they start

looking for a spouse that they will find one who loves you

first and foremost and they find somebody who will love them.

Well. God, I want to pray right now

for some people to find a relationship with you.

God, Rs and KJM and AD and MF God, I want them to find what I

found in you. So God, would you use my words

in my life to make a difference in theirs?

But God, would you not just surround them with my words and

my voice and my testimony, but God, would you put people in

their path every single day who care for them, who will pray for

them, who will invite them, be an example to them.

God, that the walls would start to come down, but they would get

tired of the lies of the enemy. And they would start seeking for

your truth and realize that there's something more out there

that they've realized that that something is you.

God, I thank you so much for what you did in SVT this year.

Pray for her all our last year and this year she decided to get

baptized. And God, I'm asking that you do

the same thing in these names that one of these days they'd be

a part of the baptism video. They'd be part a part of the

testimony of this church and your faithfulness in your name.

I pray, Amen. What happens when you start

praying is your eyes and your ears start moving.

You see things differently, you hear things differently and it

is not hard. It is not scripted.

It just requires the discipline to go.

I want you, I want you. I want you in my parenting, I

want you in my marriage. I want you in my workplace.

I want you in my phone calls because you get to a point where

you don't want more of you. You want more of him.

And I knew all of those things for years, but it was until I

started writing them down and I started highlighting that God

started to bring about a significant shift in my life.

This is not the way to pray, but it is a way for you to have a

meaningful encounter with God. And what will happen is your

time with Him will increase and your joy to spend that time with

Him will increase. If you're thinking that

tomorrow, this is not my testimony that I did this day

one and I couldn't wait for day 2.

I did it because he told me to do it and I wanted to be a

follower of Jesus. But over time, things shift.

I got a letter in December from a girl in our church named

Riley. This is what she said.

Words cannot even begin to describe how incredibly grateful

I am. I'd like to share my story with

you. On September 15th, 20231 of my

grandmother's passed away from a heart attack.

That day it felt like the world stopped spinning.

A few weeks later, I lost my other grandmother.

Unfortunately, due to the scheduling, I was only able to

attend one of the services and that absolutely broke me.

I tried to move on with my life. It was like trying to run a

marathon with a leg that was shattered into thousands of

pieces. It was painful and extremely

difficult. I decided to ignore my feelings

and shut everyone out of my life and spiralled into depression.

There were multiple nights that I would lie in bed and think

about how if I died in my sleep then I wouldn't care because at

least I would be with them. That was the only sliver of

faith that was left in me. I didn't believe that God

existed because if he did, then he wouldn't have let my

grandparents die. I have the mindset that if God

were real that I wouldn't have been experiencing so much pain

and suffering. We're going to answer both of

those questions next week on Super Bowl weekend.

This depression and mindset stayed with me for what felt

like an eternity. That was until an old friend of

mine asked me if I wanted to go to church.

She took a step, I was scared to go back again but I was just as

scared to say no. February 4th 2024 I woke up with

an immense amount of anxiety. I had already told my old friend

that I would go to church with her, but I was terrified.

Anxiety was taking over my body, I felt like throwing up.

I just wanted to stay home. However I was scared of bailing

on her. So I got up and drove to church.

Her friend step led to her taking her step.

As I was listening to the sermon about anger.

Everything was going in one ear and out the other.

So if you've ever had that experience at our church, you're

not alone. I decided to give church one

last shot and that was it. The next sermon was the Super

Bowl Sunday sermon about going pro in what matters the most

that day. All the pieces aligned and

everything clicked. Listen to this line.

Jesus was the missing piece to my story.

I started showing up to church every weekend and praying more

often, but I was still convinced that I was too far gone.

Week after week I felt like I was being called out and it was

like God was sending emails to the church every week about my

life. We've all been there.

Slowly, my heart began to soften and I started to have a

relationship with Jesus again. This time, my relationship

wasn't filled with dread and resentment as it had been in the

past. It filled me with a happiness

that I had never experienced before.

My favorite line? I got my smile back and I was

filled with hope. I started to see church as a

privilege instead of a chore. Every week at church, I sit in

the same section and listen to the sermons.

Sometimes I'm filled with hope and joy for what is to come.

Other weeks I feel ashamed because I realized of how much

I've screwed up. However, every time, without a

doubt, I hear that we are not too far gone from God and that

He still loves us. Every week I'm filled with the

hope that Jesus will guide me through my darkest valleys and

my highest mountains. No matter what my day looks

like. He's right by my side and if it

weren't for that, I wouldn't be anywhere close to where I am

today. I got baptized on March 2nd,

2025. That was her step and I have

baptized 2 of my best friends. Their steps.

If you were to ask me at the beginning of 2023 where I

thought I'd be in 2026, I probably wouldn't have had any

idea. But if you ask me now where I

think I'll be in 2026, I can tell you with full confidence

that I'll be at church on Sunday, Collective on Tuesday,

DBS on Wednesday, and Kids ministry on Thursday.

No matter how chaotic life gets, I still try my absolute best to

make it to each of those commitments, along with reading

my Bible and praying daily. Again, From the bottom of my

heart, I'd like to say thank you.

Words cannot truly begin to express how ungrateful, how

incredibly grateful I am for everything that this church has

done and for everyone in it. Crossing family.

Hear me. I want to see this happen again

and again and again and again and again.

Hear me, we are not trying to grow a large church, we are just

trying to make sure that there is room for the next person to

find what we have found in an intimate personal relationship

with Jesus Christ. We have an audacious, God sized

goal to make this region the hardest place on planet earth to

get to hell from. And I need you to know.

I know that sounds crazy and idealistic and completely

unrealistic, but I don't care. I want to see it happen.

It's my unreachable star, and I hope it will become yours as

well. It reminds me of the story of

Don Quixote, published in two parts in 16 O 5 and 1615.

Considered the first modern novel, it was Harry Potter

before Harry Potter was Harry Potter.

It follows Alonso, an aging Spanish gentleman who becomes so

absorbed in tales of chivalry that he reinvents himself as Don

Quixote de la Mancha, a wandering knight determined to

revive knighthood, defend the helpless, and uphold honor.

Eventually, the story was transformed into a musical

masterpiece called Man of La Mancha.

It opened on Broadway in 1965 and became an immediate success,

running for 2328 consecutive performances.

At its emotional core is the song The Impossible Dream.

How good is this song? Very good.

So good, in fact, that hundreds of artists have covered it

spanning decades. Sinatra sang it.

So did Elvis. So did Andy Williams.

So did Luther Vandross. Neil Diamond, Jennifer Hudson.

I could list 100 more. The lyrics To dream the

impossible dream. To fight the unbeatable foe.

To bear with unbearable sorrow. To run where the brave dare not

go. To right the unrightable wrong.

To love pure and chaste from afar.

To try when your arms are too weary.

To reach the unreachable star. This is my quest.

To follow that star, no matter how hopeless, no matter how far.

To fight for the right without question or pause.

To be willing to March into hell for a heavenly cause.

And I know if I'll only be true to this glorious quest, that my

heart will lie peaceful and calm when I'm laid to rest.

And this world will be better for this.

That one man, scorned and covered with scars, still strove

with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable Star

Crossing family. I have good news.

We don't have an unbeatable foe and our fight is not hopeless

because we have been empowered by the same spirit that raised

Christ from the dead. I wrote this sermon series like

I do all sermon series with a soundtrack.

We sang the song last week. We're going to sing it again in

a few moments. I got deep into black gospel

music and the song that played was the two songs that you heard

during my prayer life, and it's the song called Believe for It.

Our region right now is saying that this mountain can't be

moved. Our region believes that these

chains will never break. But they don't know you like we

do. There's power in your name.

Our region has heard that there's no way through.

Our region has heard that the tide will never change.

But they haven't seen what you can do.

There's so much power in your name, so much power in your

name. Verse 3 We know that hope is

never lost, for there is still an empty grave.

We believe no matter what, there is power in your name.

So much power in your name, the bridge.

You are the way when there seems to be no way, we trust in you.

You have the final say. You are the way when there seems

to be no way, we trust in you. You have the final say.

And then the chorus is nothing but a beautiful prayer of people

begging God to move the immovable, to break the

unbreakable God. We believe.

We believe for it from the impossible.

I don't know where you're sitting today, and I don't know

what you're sitting in, but I know that there's some of you

right now. You are in the impossible.

Marriage isn't where you thought it would be.

Life isn't where you thought it would be.

Family's not what it's supposed to be.

Your faith isn't where you hoped it would be.

The diagnosis isn't what you thought it would be.

From the impossible, we'll see a miracle.

We believe for it. We believe for it.

This year I am believing and praying for a move of God in

your life, in the life of your family, and in the lives of the

lost of this region. Will you join me?

We're moving to a time of decision.

To those of you who don't know Jesus, there is no better time

than today than to get your life right with Jesus and hear me in

a way that only God can work. The step you take today could

not just change your life, but the life of your loved ones.

Over and over again our waters have testified when we hear

someone start to share their story saying I got baptized and

I found Jesus just a few months ago and now I'm here with my mom

and my dad and my aunt and my uncle.

You have no idea what God can do through you and in you once you

belong to Him, and the start of your spiritual journey will help

somebody else start theirs. And so in just a few moments,

when the people around you stand and pray and people begin to

sing, encourage, would you walk right over there and say today's

the day? This is the time.

To the rest of you in this room and to those of you watching the

line who already have a relationship with Jesus Christ,

I'm going to make this super simple.

What step do you need to take? Because somebody else's step

gets easier after you take yours.

And would you join me and asking God to give you a can't stop,

won't stop attitude of pursuing him and the lost in our region

this year. Would you stand with me?

Heavenly Father, we're asking you to do it.

We're coming to you asking you to make it so that you would

write our hearts in your direction, that you would allow

everything that is not of you or for you to fall off of us so

that way we can just chase after you got in a supernatural way.

We're asking that you would give us eyes to see the things that

you're calling us to do and give us the courage to be obedient to

it and God, that through our obedience, other people could

come to faith. In your name I pray.

Amen.