Lord of The Moment | Jerry Harris

Well, good morning Crossing Church.

How are you doing this fine day? Oh, you gotta be better than

that. I mean you got up this morning

and you get to live in this day. So how do you feel about this

fine day? You're all right, that's so

good. It's been, I mean that song is

incredible song. It's just the gospel in song and

love that song, all of our locations got to hear that.

And by the way, I want to welcome all of our locations,

all around this region. So thankful for each and every

one of you, and if you're inside her online, so Thankful for you

as well and celebrating 17 baptisms inside last week.

I know there's four more this week, God's just, he's just

undeterred. You know?

He just gets it done, doesn't he?

He does such incredible, incredible things and he's been

doing incredible things this weekend at the Crossing all of

our locations get together for both a Men's Conference in a

Women's Conference. And this was the rise conference

this last weekend over 1,000, women involved in that.

So I need to talk to all of the uncommon guys. 800 guys, 800.

They had 1000. Come on.

Come on, we can do better than that.

Anyway. You know, one thing I know about

those conferences is that it's a really concentrated time where

we're in God's word together and and we're open to God's word and

and there are moments in those events that are just profound

absolutely profound moments. And some of you may be carrying

one of those moments in your heart right now because God did

something in your life and it all in and it only took a

moment. But this really what I want to

talk about Today is, you know, that's what really Life Is.

Life is Just millions of moments, right?

Just millions of moments and some of those moments are

really, really good and some of those moments are really, really

bad. And then some of those moments

you really don't put a value on or you don't evaluate that way.

You're just kind of going through them, but I have to tell

you that I'm standing on this stage today right now because of

a single moment. That moment occurred in my life

in August of 1980. And I know exactly where I was.

I know exactly what was going on around me.

I remember it like it was yesterday but I can tell you

this when I experienced that moment with the Lord.

And I walked out of that room. Absolutely nothing in my life

would be the same because that was when he called me into

Ministry. And I want to reflect on that

today because, you know, the Jesus is Lord of the Universe.

I mean he is this Incredible God, over such a big, huge

things, but he is also the lord of the moment.

And there is incredible power in a single moment.

When I think about God, maybe when you think about God, you

think about his greatness and his vastness, his in

comprehensible nature, and his incredible power, but he's more

than the god of big things. He is the lord of the smallest

of things. And so is Jesus, the Lord of the

smallest of things when you hear Jesus teach and he talks about

the birds of the air. And we realize that there's not

a bird that falls from the sky but he doesn't know it and

record it and remember it and think about it. when he talks

about the Lilies of the Field, I know that every single flower

that blooms he knows it, every single flower that is cut or

that Withers, he's aware of it when he talks about the hairs on

our heads and how he keeps count of them, he is reminding us of

how he is not only the lord of the big things, but the lord of

the small things Last week, we heard about Jesus, the Creator.

We heard about, Jesus the light, we heard about him being the

author of life and this huge word, the word of God, the

speech of God that brought everything into creation And

today, I want us to leave that. I want us to leave the vastness

that John shared with us, trying to help us get a foundation

under us about who Jesus actually is, and I want us

together with John the author of the book of John to find that

same power in the smallness. And we're going to see that

Illustrated in Jesus's love for a single person in a single

moment and how that reveals both his character and his nature.

Because what we're going to do is we're going to see all of

that power concentrated into a single moment and what that

moment does. So I'm going to give you three

illustrations of that today, in the first one is in John 3 vs 1,

2 3. Now there was a Pharisee.

Okay, let's stop right there. What is that?

What's a Pharisee? Well, Pharisees were part of the

Jewish ruling class during the time of Jesus and there were

particular Pharisees and also a group called Sadducees that

together formed what was called the Sanhedrin and they were a

religious body but also a political body, they were the

government that existed under the government of Now, the

difference between a Pharisee in, a sadducee was Pharisees,

believed in life after death, and they believed in the

prophets of the Old Testament. Sadducees did not believe in

life, after death and did not ascribe to the prophets of the

Old Testament. So, there was a Pharisee, some

kind of know, a little bit about this.

A man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling

Council. He came to Jesus at night,

that's important that he came to Jesus at night and he said

Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God

for no one. Could perform the signs.

You are doing if God was not with him.

Oh, that's that's a great line. But that's a kind of a political

statement. Okay, Jesus replied.

Very truly, I tell you. No one can see the kingdom of

God unless they are born again. What?

Born again. Now, you and I, we understand

that term. Those two words is a term

because it's in our culture. We've heard it many times

before, but understand that in Jesus Culture and in Nicodemus

is time, they never heard anything like that.

And so this is just kind of blowing Nicodemus away.

So let's get a little bit deeper into the story.

First of all, Nicodemus comes at night.

Now he comes at night. Reason, because he's a member of

the ruling Council. And the ruling Council doesn't

really think much of Jesus. They don't like Jesus,

eventually. They're going to plot to kill

Jesus. And he doesn't want everybody

else to know that he has an honest curiosity about who Jesus

is and who he might be, and what he can do.

And so he comes under cover of Darkness, Because he doesn't

want the other Pharisees to see what he's doing. and you hear

him deliver the political line, Just Butters Jesus Bread on both

sides. You know, you obviously have

come from God because nobody could do these awesome things

that you're doing, you know, thinking that Jesus is going to

lean into him. So he delivers the political

line, but then Jesus just cow his him.

You must be born again. And Nicodemus is like what?

Where did that come from? I mean, when someone delivers a

political line like that, you're supposed to deliver one back

like, well, you know, I've heard about you Nicodemus and you're

part of the ruling Council. Mm, you know, you've come a long

way, man. Yeah, no, Jesus doesn't do that.

He just goes. You bet you have to be born

again and Nicodemus is completely thrown off balance.

I mean, you can read the rest of that story and it's like, well

how in the world am I supposed to enter into my mother's womb

and be born a second time? He has no idea.

He's just mind-blown, okay? But it is long enough for Jesus

to deliver the gospel to him. And that's what being thrown off

balance can do right. All of a sudden your defenses

are like all goofed up and you're like, well, I mean you're

listening, you're hearing your hearts open and in that moment,

Look what Jesus says, John 3:14 just as Moses lifted up the

John 3:14

snake in the wilderness. So the son of man must be Lift

it up, he, he is prophetically talking about his crucifixion.

That everyone who believes may have eternal life in him and

then the familiar scripture. For God.

So loved the world that he gave his one and only son that

whoever believes in him, shall not perish but have eternal

life. We use that scripture so often.

But often times, we don't realize that it was said to a

Pharisee, who is trying to impress Jesus, with the

political line in the middle of the night.

And he was just sharing that with that one guy.

For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the

world, but to save the world through him.

That's a gospel message. Many people have said, John 3:16

John 3:16

is the gospel in one verse. I'll put it like this just in a

little catchphrase ready? Born once.

Died twice. Born twice die once.

You know what I mean by that? Like everybody here all of our

locations and in this room we've all been born.

Once contrary to what your cousin said when you were young

trying to freak you out because they got you from the circus or

you came from under a rock, that didn't really happen.

You were actually born. We've all been born physically.

But if we are only born physically, we die two times.

Jesus makes that clear in the gospels that we all die

physically because it is appointed to us to die

physically, but he also says we die spiritually.

We are eternally separated from God, we die twice. so for only

born, once will die twice, but if we're born twice, Born

physically for mothers. And spiritually born of God then

we only die once physically, but inherit eternal life.

What a gift. What an Incredible Gift.

Jesus gave Nicodemus in this moment and it's all it was, it

was just a moment. It was in the middle of the

night. Was just a moment, but it

changed everything for this man. Later in John, we read The

Narrative of Joseph of Arimathea asking for the Body of Jesus,

after he's been cruelly crucified on a cross, then they

pried the nails out of his body rather than throwing him on the

trash heap of the hinnom valley. Joseph of Arimathea asks to have

his body because he had bought a tomb and had it made for

himself. But because of his love for

Jesus, he decides to give that tomb to Jesus.

Now, it's important that we read this in John because you have

four gospels in the Bible, Matthew Mark, Luke and John

Matthew, Mark and Luke are not eyewitnesses to this moment.

So Luke, he doesn't become a Christian until the journeys,

appalled much later and writes. Everything down as a

compilation, Mark was a scribe for Simon Peter.

So when you read the gospel of Mark, you're actually reading

Simon. Peter's, regular recollection,

but Simon, Peter was an apostle. And so was Matthew, the problem

is Matthew and Peter or Mark's gospel in Matthew's gospel,

they're not Direct. Misses, you know why?

Because when Jesus was arrested, they all ran.

And they weren't there, when Jesus was crucified, only one

apostle was there, and that was John.

So, John is testifying to what he actually saw.

What he actually heard what he actually experienced.

And he saw that Joseph of Arimathea along with a friend, a

guy by the name of Nicodemus. Asked for Jesus body, washed it

wrapped it, and bury it. In Joseph of Arimathea, his tomb

and rolled a stone over it. Nicodemus helped to bury my

Lord. He honored my Lord.

And all indications of everything that was written

about Nicodemus afterwards indicates this truth that he

took the words of Jesus. Seriously, he was born again.

now, you know, Nicodemus, he had a lot to live up to and so do we

He was a man that had a lot of priorities, he'd worked hard to

get where he was and so do we. We have some of us in all of our

locations right now we have all these things that we've done in

our lives. We tried to put the right people

around us, Network, right? Say the right things, not miss

those things up because we have these priorities.

And sometimes if we do, and we start having a relationship with

Jesus. Jesus can get in the way of

that. He might even threaten all that

you've built in your successful life.

That's why Nicodemus came at night because Jesus could

threaten everything that he built in his successful life.

Spending his life climbing the ladder, looking for approval,

But there came a moment when Nicodemus, laid it all down, and

you know why? Because Jesus was Lord of a

moment, his moment and that moment came at night.

When Jesus said you must be born again.

Second Story, John chapter 4. Now Jesus learned that the

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Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more

disciples than John. Although in fact, it was not

Jesus who baptized but his disciples.

So he left Judea and he went back once more to Galilee.

Now he had to go through Samaria.

He had to see that word right there.

Well, that's just not true. You don't have to go through

Samaria. As a matter of fact, Jews didn't

want to go through Samaria Jews, hated Samaria.

And they hated Samaritans, they had actually had a racial hatred

of Samaritans for over 700 years.

They did not mix well and so Jews.

If they were going from the north to the South and South to

the north, they would actually take a more difficult road to

get up there just so they would be able to bypass Sumeria but

then you have this work Hold on to that.

Jesus had to go through Samaria. There's a moment in Samaria,

waiting for Jesus. So he came to a town of Samaria

called sychar near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his

son. Joseph and Jacob's, Well, was

there and Jesus tired as he was from the journey sat down by the

well, and it was about noon. What time was it noon?

Okay. When a Samaritan woman came to

draw water? Something wrong with that

because women don't in Jewish times in historical times.

Don't draw water at noon. They draw water in the early

morning. Sometimes before the sun gets

up, its up so that they can use it for their families.

And yet a Samaritan woman comes to draw water at noon.

And Jesus says to her, what Jesus says to her, Jesus talked

to her, Jesus to be a Jewish man, talking to a Jewish woman,

even out in public. Not really acceptable talking.

Samaritan woman not acceptable at noon.

Very not acceptable. Jesus said to her, will you give

me a drink? Wow.

Before we get into the substance of their conversation with each

other, we have to understand just how much it's wrong with

this moment. Okay, the first one we've

already discussed, Jesus is in Samaria.

So I mean Jews. In general wouldn't do that a

Jewish rabbi definitely not that.

That's who Jesus was. And then this woman comes at

noon and there's a reason she comes at noon.

She comes at noon so that she can avoid all the other women in

the town because she has a reputation and her reputation is

not a good one. Jesus brings that up in his

conversation with her. She's been married five times

and the man she's living with now.

She is not married to Then Jesus speaks to her which is wrong on

all accounts. But they all speak volumes about

Jesus, don't they? When you read, he had to go

through Samaria that speaks volumes about Jesus, when he's

there at noon. And he speaks to a woman who is

has questionable not questionable a really bad

reputation and he breaks all of these taboos.

This is telling you so much about Jesus.

It also ought to tell you about Jesus in his relationship to

you. And then he tells her, I can

give you living water. And you'll never be thirsty

again. And she's like, well, give me

some of this water because I hate coming to this.

Well, it's really what she says. And then they start this

conversation. And then Jesus just blurts out

this horrible truth about her life.

Of the kind of woman, she is. Because she says she's not

married and he goes, well, that's true.

You aren't, because you've been married five times in the man,

you are living with your not married to that would probably

end a lot of conversations, right?

That you are in. If you said that, But that's

what he says. And then she says, I can see

that you're a prophet and then she wants to talk theology.

Talk theology with Jesus. That's probably not a good idea

because he's going to win that argument.

But he gets all past all of that. reveals to her, that he's

the Messiah and then She has this response.

From This Moment. Look at the response. 428.

Then leaving her water jar. I love that.

No reason. She's there is to draw water and

suddenly everything that was important or urgent and her life

doesn't matter anymore. She doesn't even care about

getting water anymore. She leaves her water jar.

And the woman went back into the town and said to the people,

what she was goes back to town. All the people that hate her,

and she talks to the people. And this is what she says.

Come see a man who told me everything I ever did and

they're going that must have been a long conversation.

Wow. Woo.

Because they knew her. Could this be the Messiah?

Her story is her story. Her past is her past But the

difference is she's not ashamed anymore.

You see that come and see a man who told me everything I ever

did. Yeah, you know it.

So does he It was just a moment. Just a moment in her life but it

made all the difference changed everything. and when I look at

her and I apply her to our lives today, unlike Nicodemus who had

a lot to live up to, she had a lot to live down to Would that

describe you today, that you have a lot to live down to

because you see we all have a past, don't we?

Are there people who won't let you rise up past against your

past, like that? How what the past can do?

How can weigh you down? How others can use it to put you

down, right? You know I'm saying like like oh

really? I've heard people say that guy

won't come to. If that guy came to church, the

whole place would fall in. Have you ever heard that before?

Yeah, because it's surpassed weighing a person down.

She had a lot to live down to, but Jesus has the ability to

change the nature of your past and what had been a tragedy

turns into a testimony. And that's why she said, come

and see a man that told me everything I ever did.

How would you like it? If somebody goes, let me tell

you everything. You did.

Everybody check this out. Let me tell you everything that

you did office. Let everybody know that she's

not ashamed. Go ahead.

Because it changed the nature. Of her past.

And Jesus can do the same and he can do it.

In a moment. Third story.

John chapter 5. Now, there is in Jerusalem near

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the Sheep gate a pool. Which in Aramaic is called

Bethesda and which is surrounded by five color covered Colonnade.

Sounds really pretty, doesn't it?

You're great number of disabled people, you still lie, the

blind, the lame and the paralyzed, and they waited for

the moving of the waters, which by the way, was a Superstition

in verse 4, we actually have a verse.

This is one of those rare verses in the Bible that is not

recorded in the original manuscripts of the New

Testament. We see this like in the 11th

century and I think it's interesting what is talking

about because it's actually talking about this legend of the

pool of Bethesda from time to time, an angel of the Lord would

come down and stir up the waters.

And the first one into the pool after each such disturbance

would be cured of whatever disease.

They had that least that was the Superstition at the time.

And one was, there had been an invalid for 38 years. 38 years.

When Jesus saw him lying there, learned that he had been in this

condition for a long time. He asked him the dumbest

question in the Bible. Do you want to get?

Well, no. I just like The View.

I just kind of like it here, you know, it's, you know, got a nice

breeze over the water. No, no.

What is this story tell you? That Jesus has the power to

reverse the irreversible and he has the power to reverse the

irreversible in a single moment. How long has this man been here?

38 years? Let's say that something

happened to him when he was 12. How many of you are here here at

one of our locations right now and you're 50 years old or

older? I mean this would Define your

whole life, right? This is his life.

And it's by the Sheep gate. So we read that a little while

ago. Well, the Sheep gate is on the

northern part of the Temple Mount area and it was called the

Sheep gate, because it's where the Sheep would come in.

They be herded into the Temple Mount area for sacrifice, but if

you've ever been to Israel, it's you know, where they were.

They shepherd the Sheep, where they pasture the Sheep.

It's dirty really dirty. So I want you to think about

dirty sheep coming into the Sheep gate, being washed out of

the Waters of the pool of Bethesda.

What would that smell like Some of you guys just can't get the

past the smell of your dog, when you watch the dog, imagine what

it's like when thousands of sheep being brought in for

sacrifice or being washed and what that would smell like, what

a dirty smelly place. So then it just doesn't make

sense. Why would people who are sick?

Blind, lame paralyzed. Why would they be there?

Well, the reason that they were there is because of the

Superstition, and the Superstition was partly Greek

and partly Pagan because it was called there was a temple to

asclepius there, who's like the father of medicine.

And it was there was also a temple to Fortuna who was the

goddess of Good Fortune. So you put like medicine and

good fortune together and you can see that there was this

superstition. That kind of grew up out of

that. Like, if you could be the lucky

one that gets first in the pool, then you win the prize, you get

healed. The Jews would put the infirm

there because of a belief that they had kind of like Karma.

They believed that. If you had a really bad

infirmity in your life that it wasn't by accident that it

wasn't random that that was God. Either punishing you or

punishing your parents for what they had done and that is why.

You were there. So you were actually getting

what you deserved. So they would consciously put

sick, people away from them. So you wouldn't see Pharisees or

Sadducees are priests or Jewish religious leaders anywhere

around the pool of Bethesda. You wouldn't see that?

So this man for 38 years has been surrounded by sick people

smelling the stench of dirty sheep.

Never able to get into the water.

And he's just invisible. He's just invisible.

But he's not invisible to Jesus and I want you to see this

moment because while no other Rabbi would ever have gone to

the pool of Bethesda. Jesus there, Jesus is there to

be Lord of a moment. Of all the places that Jesus

could be? He picked there.

That stinky smelly place was sick people.

He picked their, he picked this man and he picked this moment.

Now, the man he put his faith in the water.

He'd have any faith in Jesus. He put his faith in the water.

He put his faith in the Superstition, but for all of his

faith in the water, and all of his faith in the Superstition,

none of that had ever helped him this man had no faith at all in

Jesus. He had no expectation of Jesus.

Nothing. All he wanted was the answer.

That simple question that Jesus said he wanted to get well, and

this was his moment. Look at John 5, 8 to 13. and

Jesus said to him, get up. You know what?

Jesus is to say that some of you today and he said, hey get up,

what are you doing? Get up, pick up your mat and

walk. At once the man was cured.

Now when Jesus cures you, he doesn't cure you like this.

This guy. Could probably put moves on.

Like dance moves. Because when Jesus cures you, he

cures you. Here at I'm saying.

He was cured, he picked up his mat and he walked rolled that

sucker up. Put under his arm started

heading to wherever was going to be home, right?

Check this out, check out this, the Jewish religious leader

thing and try not to think about us.

The day on which this took place was the Sabbath a holy day

Saturday from the fourth Commandment the Old Testament.

And so, the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed,

who never even noticed him before, who never took care of

him, who didn't love him? Who didn't think a thing about

him said to the man who had been healed.

It is the Sabbath the law. Forbids you to carry your mat.

Okay, but he replied. The man who made me well said to

me, pick up your mat and walk. I'm just, I'm just doing what

the guy said, boy, if we could just get that in our heads, with

when Jesus tells you just do what he says, why do you argue

with him? Why do you want to come up with

an excuse or rationalized just do what he says?

This, what this guy did? He just did what he said.

So they asked him. Who is this fellow?

Who told you to pick it up and walk?

We're going to go get that guy. The man, the man who was healed,

had no idea who it was. For Jesus had Slipped Away into

the crowd. That was there.

I love the story. I love this story because it's

showing you that what Jesus does to a person who doesn't have

faith. well, maybe Didn't have faith.

You just didn't have faith in. Jesus, had faith in all the

wrong things and they're still Jesus right there.

Now I don't think any of you going to argue with me.

This man. Really wasn't living at all.

And I wonder if some of us feel the same way like we're not

really living at all. Like maybe to everybody else.

We try to put on a front like everything's okay but it is, not

okay. That maybe it's not a physical

infirmity, but there's something that we're dealing with, and

we're just not, okay? And sometimes that makes us feel

like we're worthless. Like we're invisible like we're

lost in a place. We feel powerless.

To reverse our situation. But Jesus specializes in

reversing the irreversible and he does it in a moment.

I don't know which store you might be connecting with today.

Maybe you're connecting on some level with all three.

Maybe you're trying to kind of live that life with one foot in

the world and one foot spiritually, and you're kind of

trying to be like Nicodemus, but you're in a compromise because

you have a lot to live up to, maybe you're dealing with a past

that has you weighed down and broken because you have a lot to

live down to, and people won't let you get past it.

Your past or maybe you just feel invisible.

Like, you don't even matter and you're not even there.

But I think you relate to at least one of them.

I know I do. What I really want you to see

what I want you to hear today, is this.

That even though we serve a God, who is a god of the universe and

even beyond that, all things that are and things, we don't

even begin to understand. He is a god of the smallest of

things, and Jesus is the Lord. Of the smallest of things.

And when you sometimes think of yourself as being so ignition

insignificant in such a vast universe, Nothing could be

further from the truth when it comes to Jesus.

Because you are so significant to him.

And even though this moment might pass by you and it Go

virtually unnoticed. This moment means all the world

to him and you cannot promise him.

What you're going to do with the next one, or the one after that

or the one a month from now, or a year from now, or a decade

from now. But you can do something about

this one. The one you're in right now. and

I wonder, If you'll let the power of Jesus, be displayed as

you give this moment. Over to him.

We're moving to a time of decision.

So what are we looking at here right now?

What are you looking at right now?

Do you know, there's Echoes of conversations going on in your

head right now. I know there is because there

are mine. Echoes of conversations.

Yeah, you got a lot of things to work out.

Jerry, there's a lot of things that you need to kind of wrestle

with it. Kind of work through then, maybe

then maybe you can talk about this, you know, there's Yeah.

I you know Jesus loves other people and and maybe maybe if I

worked hard enough I can get Jesus to like me but maybe not

right now. In love mean.

Definitely not like me and I don't think you know all of

this. Now I want you to know that that

isn't used speaking to you. That there's an evil spiritual

world around us and the demons never stop working on us.

Trying to talk us out. Of the simple truth that Jesus

loves us enough to die for us. And he is not willing to let us

go. And even when we are faithless,

he remains faithful for. He cannot disown himself that we

are children of God, only through Jesus Christ.

And he paid our debt to set us free and that's the simple

truth. And I'm telling you, even though

you can hear the Echoes of those voices.

As you come into this room, I can tell you that God has his

angels stationed around this room right now and he's saying,

nobody gets in here except my son.

And Jesus is walking in the Isles right now.

And he's looking at you and he's asking you a simple question.

What some people would say is a stupid question.

Do you want to get well? Some of you have been Paralyzed

by this pool for longer than 38 years, looking pathetic because

you're trying to put your faith in some water or into some

Superstition, that's not going to do you any good at all.

But you keep trying to do it on your own and it isn't going to

work. But today is a day where Jesus

is walked by. In This pathetic place, we call

a church full of Sinners. And he says, do you want to get

well? And today is a day, you Say

yeah. I do.

You can't guarantee him any moments coming up?

But you can give him this one right now.

There's going to be somebody standing right over there by

that baptistry that would love nothing greater and to share

with you. The greatest gift of the Gospel,

you can make a hole in that water in the baptistry.

And I've heard people say that when you buy a boat, It's just

makes a hole in the water that you throw money into you ever

heard that. but when you make a hole in that water, you keep

reaching in and you keep drawing the blessings out of it.

If you don't know, Jesus come to know him today.

Don't let everybody else get the blessing.

You get the blessing. You're here today and maybe

you've made that decision, you have that relationship with

Jesus Christ, and that's great. But the burdens are weighing you

down. They're weighing you down. the

scripture says Jesus says, these words come to me, all you that

labor and are weighted down heavily Laden.

He says Now, give you a rest. you know, when people come up

here, That's why they do. You see this front full of

people? They're getting down low. so

that they can let go of their burden, whatever that burden is,

and let me just end with this. When Jesus was at the pool and

he told the man get up. Do you really think that that

man was way over here? And Jesus was way over here and

he goes hey get up. Or do you think Jesus was here

in the guy? Was right there and he said, Get

up. You come up here and you lay

your burden down. And you'll feel the hands of

Jesus lifting you up. Scripture says, humble yourself

in the sight of the Lord. and he, Will lift you up.

Would you stand with me? In Jesus name.

Heavenly father, I pray. That we as your children.

Would come to you. And if today is the first day,

That first moment. At father, take that moment.

So when we walk out of this place, we don't walk alone and

we Never Walk Alone Again. That you're with us. the father,

if we are believers in you but we're carrying burdens that we

walk out lighter and more joyful because you've taken that burden

from us, Father. Now, Come see your children,

Jesus. Minister.

To us. I pray in Jesus name.

Amen.