Intense-Pastor Kipp Penrod

Thank you for listening to this message from Life House Church.

Good morning, good morning.

Turn to somebody give them a high five.

Tell them it is good.

It is good to be in God's house this morning.

Come on emphasize good.

It is good.

It's dry in here.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

No rain in here.

Just God.

No rain in here.

No rain in here.

No rain in here.

Amen.

Listen, I just want to take a moment and talk about the campus that is launching October

15th.

And we are just watching as God unfolds and prepares and we are still believing for a

few more people from this Carlisle campus to get on board and come up to the East Shore.

I only want you to do that if God's speaking to you about it.

We're not trying to recruit, we're looking for people who are God is speaking to to come

Help out for six months at that campus and be part of the launch team into that community.

Again, we're starting up in two weeks up in the Linglestown area.

We're excited about that.

And we've got a meeting that's taking place Thursday, October 5th.

You want to write this down if you're interested.

If you want to see the campus, the East Shore campus, Thursday, October 5th at 630 p.m.

at the East Shore location, we're going to have an organizational meeting and really talk to the launch team

about what's going to take place in the future.

I couldn't be more excited.

I love when God does new things.

He's a birth in this new thing.

He's been birth in this in us for a man over a year now.

So we are excited about what God's going to do.

Just wanted to let you know, you need to be aware of what's taking place and God is good.

Amen.

Amen.

Well, listen, today is the I'm going into the final chapter of Second Timothy, Chapter 4.

2 Timothy 4 · chapter mention

And over the last couple of weeks, I don't know if you caught on to this or not, but we've been working through the book

of Second Timothy and we've really just preached the message out of literally every chapter along the way.

And just to give you a little bit of background, if you've been with us last couple of weeks, you know the background.

But Paul is writing from a Roman prison to a young man named Timothy, right?

A young pastor who is an emphasis.

And in this particular portion of the letter, he's given just more than just a little bit of encouragement

for Timothy to use his God given gift.

He's really getting ready to close out the letter and it's a little more than just some encouragement.

I don't know.

Has anyone ever given you more than just a little bit of encouragement?

Anybody ever prompted you on a little bit?

My parents used to do that when I needed to do my chores.

They gave me a little more than in some encouragement, right?

Their tone of their voice raised.

They got a little more intense about the whole thing and intensely.

And they would they would let me know like, hey, this matters, right?

This is important.

Well, that's kind of what's happening in the letter here in Second Timothy.

Paul is charging Timothy to use his gift to teach and to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ.

And this is not just a little rah rah session, right?

It's not just, hey, come on, let's do it's not an attaboy kind of thing.

This is not just a little verbal kick in the pants.

Anybody ever get a verbal kick in the pants?

Anybody get a verbal kick in the pants this week?

Raise your hand.

All right.

This is grab you by the lapel, right?

Get you hold by the lapels and grab your shirt.

And now I know this is in a letter and I think Paul might have done this.

I don't know.

I can ask him someday when I get to heaven, but I think Paul might have grabbed Timothy by the lapel.

God in his face and said, I need to stir something up in you.

I need to encourage you.

All right.

I need to give you a little more.

Pastor Andrew, come here a second.

I want to give you just a little demonstration of what this is.

Now, he's a lot bigger than me.

So I'm going to do this with a little less intensity.

Right.

But it's this kind of thing.

Right.

I think Paul would just say, come on, Timothy.

All right.

Man, you're a little flinchy this morning.

I appreciate that.

You know, it was Paul with this intensity and this passion and this firing of no holds

barred right at the end of his letter, as much as he could within a letter.

And I think that's where he was going in Second Timothy, Chapter four, verse one.

I'm just speculating.

But as you read this, I think you're going to see the intensity in this.

Let's pray before we read God's word.

Lord, we thank you for this day.

I thank you for each one that's in the house.

God, each one that's listening online.

God, as we get ready to launch the campus, God, in a few weeks, it'll be there as well.

God, I pray that your hand would just speak, that your word was speaking to our hearts

and your hand would be upon us.

And Lord, we give you glory in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Amen.

Well, Second Timothy, Chapter four, verse one.

And it says, now listen to the language here.

I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living

and the dead at the appearing of his kingdom.

Can you feel the intensity?

Paul say, I charge you, Timothy, therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who

will judge the living and the dead at the appearing of his kingdom.

Listen, if your parents talk to you about your chores like that, how many know they'd

be intense, right?

I charge you to take the garbage out, right?

Before the, before the judge, before the living and the dead.

That's what he's saying.

I charge you before Jesus Christ.

I charge you before the Lord.

Can you feel the weight of what he's saying?

Can you feel the heaviness of this charge, the intensity in his words?

And then he hits him in verse two.

He says, he says this to Timothy, he says, preach the word, preach the word, preach the

word.

This is the gift that I've given you.

Preach the word, be ready in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, exhort with all

the long suffering and teaching.

This is intense.

This is Paul in a coaching moment, right?

Laying it on Timothy.

He's he's he's he can't be there in person.

So in a letter, as much as he can muster is kind of that a grab you at the lapel kind

of moment, you know, just getting a hold of him.

And then he says in verse three, for the time will come, he's given him the reason for the

time will come when they those that Timothy is speaking to will not endure sound doctrine,

but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they keep up for themselves

teachers, and they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables.

But you, Timothy, must be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of

an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

Paul was giving Timothy his current reality, right?

That's what a good coach does.

He's telling his current reality, maybe his future reality, and he's telling them preach.

And then with all the passion and muster that he can, you know, the zeal that Paul can stir

up, he's pushing him.

Use your gift, engage in the mission, engage in the gift that I've given you a gift that

Timothy was both commissioned and positioned to use.

And it's intense.

Paul is no doubt about what he's trying to communicate to this young minister.

And this morning I want to spur you along to engage in the mission of God that you both

been commissioned and positioned for.

God's put you in a position.

And I don't know if you know it or not, but he's commissioned you to use your gifting.

And I kind of want to verbally grab a hold of your lapels this morning with some intensity.

And I say that verbally because I don't want to physically do that because some of you look

like you could punch me.

All right.

Some of you look like you if I grabbed you by the lapels, you just hit back.

Right.

But I want to verbally grab you by the lapel and say, hey, stir up the gift of God that's

in you.

Right.

And I know what you might be thinking.

You might be thinking, man, I just got a coffee and came in this morning to hear a nice sermon.

Right.

I just came and settled in.

It's raining out.

I'm not a preacher.

Right.

I'm not called the vocational ministry.

I'm not a teacher.

I just walked in here with my coffee to hear a sermon.

But I got some intense news for you.

If you're following Jesus, Jesus has a mission that he is commissioning you for and that

he is uniquely positioned you for.

Amen.

And the beautiful thing with all this is the beautiful thing is, is that the mission is

the same for every follower of Jesus Christ.

We might have different roles in the kingdom of God.

We might have different positions or different responsibilities.

Our kingdom activity might look different from one another, but the mission and the objective

is all the same.

Paul knew it.

Timothy knew it.

Millions of Jesus followers across the globe know this because Jesus spoke it to his disciples

right before he left this earth.

And then he equipped every believer after he left this earth.

All right.

He spoke it before he left and he equipped believers after he left.

If you got your Bible, you can flip over to Mark's chapter 16 verse 14 and says this,

say later, later.

All right.

That's how he starts off.

Later, he appeared to the eleven.

Jesus appeared to the eleven disciples as they sat at the table and he rebuked their

unbelief, unbelief and hardness of heart because they did not believe those who he had seen

him after he had risen.

And he said to them, go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

He who believes in his baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe will be condemned.

And these signs will follow those who believe in my name.

They will cast out demons.

They will speak with new tongues.

They will take up serpents.

And if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them.

They will lay hands on the sick and they will recover.

So then after the Lord had spoken to them, he was received up into heaven and sat down

at the right hand of God and they went out and preached everywhere.

The Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying of signs.

Amen.

The mission is simple.

Jesus saved us from death, hell and the grave.

He saved us from our sins.

Our job is to go out and reach others and lead them to Jesus so they can be saved as

well.

That's it.

Right.

That's the mission.

You're saved and he lifted you up.

So your job is to go out and reach others so that they can be saved so you can tell

them about Jesus.

Right.

Get people to Jesus.

Raise them up in Jesus.

Does it sound complicated?

No, it's not.

Right.

It's not complicated.

You don't need a special degree.

You don't need to take 120 hours of classroom time to get all this right.

To get it right.

The mission is clear for every believer.

Do anything and everything necessary to bring people to Jesus Christ, to bring them into

the kingdom of God.

That's the mission.

And if it weren't weird, I'd have you grab the person beside you by the lapels this morning

and get in their face and say, this is the mission.

Right.

This is the mission.

We'll go out and find people who don't know Jesus yet.

Some of you want to do it.

I can see it in your eyes.

You just want to get a hold of them.

Right.

You want to grab them and tell them this is the mission.

Listen, we can't get off task, church.

We can't allow ourselves to get distracted from this.

We can't get lost in the how we're going to do this and forget about why we're doing this.

Right.

Somehow we got to get connected.

We got to keep focus.

Someone brought the gospel to you and Jesus rescued you from the place that you're in.

Our job is to do the same thing.

We're taking Jesus to somebody else so they can get rescued.

We do the same thing that somebody else did for us.

People listen, people spoke into my life and changed my life.

They brought me to Christ.

I owe them for that.

I really do.

To tell them at least thank you for bringing me to Jesus who saved me.

Right.

Everyone is engaged in the same mission and you might still be thinking, listen, I'm not

a preacher.

I'm not one of the original 12.

I don't even really like talking in front of people.

Right.

So how do I do this?

Some of you maybe just got saved.

You've maybe only been saved for a week, a month, maybe only a year.

And you're thinking, how do I do this?

Right.

At a minimum, how do I do this?

Well, I can tell you this.

Paul did it all the time.

Timothy did it all the time.

I've watched hundreds of Christians do all the time and I've seen people who have been

saved for less than a day do this.

Every follower of Jesus can testify to how Jesus personally saved them.

You can testify.

You can speak.

If you're following Jesus, even if you've only been saved for a day, right.

And how if Jesus, you're following Jesus Christ and he has saved you from your sins and you

know that you've got a secure future in him, that he has has washed you clean, that one

day heaven will be your home, that one day you're going to walk with him and you can

walk with him and talk with him now.

And one day you're going to physically do that with him.

If you know that in your heart, if you remember getting saved, if you remember that God has

raised you up, right.

You've got a testimony.

You've got to, you got a story to tell.

So who have you told?

Who have you told?

Who have you testified to?

Some of the best testimonies happen right after the fact, right.

You know, listen, when the news goes out, they, when the news goes out, they don't wait

till three weeks later, right.

To report something, right.

If there's a house that caught on fire, they're going over to the neighbors.

What'd you see?

What'd you see?

Tell me what you saw.

Right.

And the neighbors go, Oh, there's flames, you know, and they caught on fire.

And there were fire trucks and they're telling the whole story.

And I ran across and helped out, you know, they're telling and they don't wait till they

don't go three weeks later and say, Hey, there was a fire three weeks ago.

What'd you see?

All right.

You can start right away.

If Jesus has done something for you, you can testify to what he's done.

You don't have to have teaching skills and preaching skills.

You don't have to be ordained to tell your story.

You just got to tell it.

You just got to speak it.

The beautiful thing is I've seen people do this right after they got saved and they're

amazing.

They're just so excited about what Jesus did for they go tell everybody.

Right.

They're just going place to place.

They don't sometimes they don't even know what they're talking about, but they just

go tell somebody about Jesus and we need to do that.

And here's the beautiful thing.

Here's the beautiful thing about telling your story about testifying.

If you go testify, people will not argue with your testimony.

Do you know that they're not going to argue with your testimony because it's your story.

They're not going to argue about your story because it's your story.

One of the messages that you hear in the world these days and has been for some time now

is this message of tolerance, right?

Which we're supposed to tolerate everything as a whole different message.

I'm not going there this morning, but use that to your advantage.

By the way, they'll listen to your story.

They'll listen to what you have to say.

They'll they may not agree with you.

They might accept or reject what you're saying to them in their mind, but they will graciously

listen to what you have to say.

Tell them this story about what Jesus did in your life.

And I know there are people here who've got all kinds of different stories, right?

Some of you are thinking, I've been in church since I was like this tall.

I got saved when I was five.

I've been following Jesus ever since.

I don't have a really cool, crazy story, right?

I've just been walking with Jesus all along the way.

That's the most awesome story in the world.

You know, can you imagine just talk to somebody who doesn't know Jesus at all and you say,

Jesus saved me when I was young and he began to speak into my life and I began to learn

his ways and he began to step me through and he walked me through this and he walked me

through that.

And they're going to be like, wait a minute, you're telling me when you were a kid, you

got saved and God began to speak to you.

You're like, yep, he began to speak to me.

When you were a kid, when you were a kid, you began to hear from God.

Yep.

I began to hear from God.

When you start telling the story, people want to hear from God.

They really do.

People that are out around you or you could be completely opposite.

Maybe you didn't follow Jesus since you were this high, right?

Maybe you didn't know on the pews and the chairs when you were a kid.

Maybe you didn't go to church at all.

Maybe you got steeped in the world and you got wrapped up in sin and your life was a

train wreck or something in between, right?

And you came to Christ and all of a sudden Jesus set you free.

How many know you have a story to tell?

You got something you can tell them like, hey, I was here and I was messed up in my

head.

I was messed up because of sin and Jesus walked me out and now I am free.

I am whole and God's still working on me, but he's going to get me there one day, right?

You can start telling that story and it's amazing.

And people are listening and like, really?

Yeah, really?

It's your story.

See, I'm a pastor and I can get into Bible discussions with people.

People love Bible wars, by the way, right?

I can get into a theological discussion with somebody and they'll argue all day long with

me.

They'll go back and forth, but they're not going to argue your story.

They can't minimize your story and you need to not minimize Jesus in your story.

We do that all the time.

We minimize Jesus in our story.

Don't do it.

Tell them.

Tell someone that hasn't heard yet what Jesus has done in your life.

Remember, just tell them, listen, I remember what Jesus did.

Come on.

It's true.

Now, you remember I said at the beginning that Jesus gave him the mission before he

left, but he also empowered them after he left.

Well, 50 days after Jesus was resurrected from the dead and 10 days after he ascended

into heaven, something took place called Pentecost in Acts chapter two and Jesus told him it

would happen.

He said, guys, I want you all to go, all you that are following me, I want you to go to

Jerusalem and just wait on the promise.

All right.

Have you ever seen one of those social media videos like this?

Just wait for it in the bottom.

How many of you just got to stop and wait for it?

Right.

He's like, just wait for it.

Just wait for it.

You know, something's going to happen in the video.

Just wait for it.

That's what Jesus did.

The disciples, he's like, you just need to go to Jerusalem and just wait for it.

All right.

Just wait for it.

Just wait for it.

And they do.

And in Acts chapter one, verse four, it says this and being assembled together with them,

he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to just wait for it.

Right.

To wait for the promise of the father, which he said, you have heard from me for John truly

baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.

Not many days from now.

Therefore, when they had come together, they asked him, saying, Lord, will you at this

time restore the kingdom to Israel?

They're still thinking about Israel.

He said to them, it's not for you to know the times or the seasons which the father

is put into his own authority, but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come

upon you and you shall be my what?

Witnesses.

Say it.

Witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in a Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth.

What do witnesses do?

They testify.

They testify.

Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to believers so you can be empowered to be a witness.

So you are empowered in telling your story of what Jesus has done for you.

He empowers that.

I hear Jesus followers do this all the time.

They're just shocked out of their minds.

Right.

They'll say, I got into a conversation with somebody and I started talking to him about

Jesus and I don't even know what happened.

All the words just started coming.

I just started speaking to him and the words started flowing and I don't even where it

all came from.

I know it didn't come from my head.

It's just, I couldn't even believe it.

I don't even remember everything I said.

You know why?

The Holy Spirit's empowered you to do that.

That's part of why the Holy Spirit came.

To empower you to be witnesses.

To empower you to testify.

That's why they say it.

That's why, and they're shocked out of their minds.

They're like, it was just the coolest thing ever.

I'm like, yeah.

It's Holy Spirit.

Right.

It's not you.

It's him.

It's him working through you.

Just step out of faith and tell somebody.

Testify.

Tell them their story.

Amen.

Amen.

Let's jump back to Paul and Timothy.

Paul, intensely telling Timothy to engage in the mission.

Second Timothy 4.2, preach the word.

Right.

Be ready in season, out of season, convince, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and

teaching.

I want to take just a few minutes.

I don't know if I've ever done this before, but I want to take a few minutes just to talk

to teachers and preachers.

The rest of you, if you want, you can just sip on a coffee for a little bit.

All right.

Some of you, God has gifted you to teach and to preach.

I don't think I've ever done this in a message.

I don't think I've ever really kind of commissioned people who have a calling on their lives to

teach and preach.

But I got to speak to you for a couple of minutes because God compelled me to do this.

All right.

I'm calling out to the teachers.

This is a grab you by the lapel kind of moment, by the way.

All right.

Some of you are gifted to teach.

Some of you are gifted to preach and you are at some level of that gifting.

You could be at the, at the level of exploring, right?

You could be at the place like you kind of know God's prompting you to teach and you've

got this ability and you've got this thing that's gnawing at you inside and you know

that that you want that you're supposed to instruct people and you got this thing that's

working on you and it's kind of stern in you.

Some of you got that on the preach, right?

The preach side of this, that some of that thing that's inside of you that's stirring

and some of you are on the front end of that thing and you need to not ignore that.

You need to hear God's you need to hear God's call.

You need to hear God's voice in that.

You got, you got to let, you got to let me grab you by the lapel this morning and kind

of get in your face just a little bit about that because some of you I am convinced in

this house God is calling you out to teach and you need to start moving that direction.

You might not have everything you need right now.

You might not have all the tools you need.

You might need to get some biblical instruction so that you can go out and teach.

You might be at the beginning.

You might be somewhere in the middle, right?

You've had the biblical instruction.

You've had the time.

You've people.

You know what happens with this kind of thing?

What will happen is you'll start teaching something somewhere along the way, right?

Whether it's official or not and all of a sudden the people in the body of Christ begin

to recognize it.

I remember when I first did this, I was scared to death to get in front of people, but I

taught some classes and I remember I taught these classes and I remember an older gentleman

coming up and he's telling me you got a gift, you know, and he started stirring up what

was already in me and I knew it, you know, and he said you got a gift in this.

You got to start using this for the kingdom.

That's what will happen.

You'll start and you might be somewhere in the process.

You might be at the beginning.

You might be here.

You may be maybe you maybe you taught before the word of God.

Maybe that was something that God stirred up in you and it's stirring again, you know,

and it's starting again and life got in the way and you got busy doing things, right?

Because that's how God has you in a different season for a little while and then he starts

bringing it back around and he says it's time.

It's time again.

It's time to start teaching.

It's time.

So come out.

It's true.

And God calls and draws.

He was doing this with Timothy.

Timothy, he's telling him it is teaching and preaching in you, Timothy, right?

And some of you will just have the teaching.

Some of you are going to have the teaching and the preaching and if it and I'm calling

you out this morning, I don't have time to unfold the importance of this completely.

I got a matter of fact, I'm gonna ask the praise team come up and while they're coming,

I'm just going to unfold one piece of this.

Why this is so important and why this matters and why you can't ignore this stir that's

inside of you.

All right in Hebrews chapter five verses one through 11, the writer of that book, which

is actually believed to be Paul is giving a bit of a discourse and he's talking about

the priesthood within the body and he's speaking along the lines of listen, the priesthood

was really came the priesthood.

God assigned the priesthood in the Jewish culture through the line of Aaron.

So Aaron's descendants were all of the priesthood.

They were the ones that were to act as the priest, but he goes on to speak about Jesus

being from the order of Melchizedek.

So he's kind of going into some deeper things in God's word and he almost stops himself

in the middle of this and he speaks in this manner.

He says this in Hebrew 512.

He says for though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you

again the first principles of the oracles of God and you have come to need milk and

not solid food for everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness

for he is a babe, but solid food belongs to those who are of full age.

That is those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and

evil.

Therefore leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection,

not laying us again the foundation of repentance from dead works and faith towards God.

We need teachers and preachers because people need to move from milk to meat.

They need to move from the soft food to the deeper things of God.

We need teachers and preachers who will engage so that the believers that come into the kingdom

can hear the word of God and they go from the milk.

You can't live on milk forever.

Amen.

We give it to babies.

Babies need milk.

Right?

My granddaughter, she needs milk and she's on that.

But how many know somewhere in the first year of life, right?

You start shoving a banana in their mouth.

Come on, you start squishing up food and you start moving them towards solid food and you

talk to them and say, one day you'll buy a steak.

It's awesome.

Right?

You're going to put some A1 on that thing and you're going to love it.

You start moving them from here to there.

That's what teachers and preachers do.

That's what you're commissioned to do.

It starts in the children's area over here.

Do you know that most people get saved before the age of 12?

There's ministry happening over here.

Big time.

Big time.

Come on.

You're moving them from milk to meat.

So here's the thing, I'm actually staying this morning.

At a minimum, at a minimum, at a minimum, the mission is to testify of what God has done.

At a minimum.

Some of you, some of you, God's stern in you to teach and to preach.

This is a kingdom thing.

This is a body of Christ thing.

And I'm going to ask you to do something.

I'm going to ask you to come forward this morning.

I think we need to pray together.

There's something about moving forward.

If you would, if you're new this morning, I know this might be a little uncomfortable.

It's fine.

You can just stay right where you're at if you want to.

We're just going to pray.

That's all we're going to do when we get up here.

We're going to pray together.

Just move up close if you can.

Some of you don't mind getting near me.

Get up close so others can come in behind.

Everybody up front.

Come on, move up, move up, move up, move up, please.

Thank you.

Move over if you can a little just so we can spread out.

I know we've got a lot of people here this morning.

I want you to hear me.

I want you to hear me.

I'm going to talk to teachers and preachers first.

I'm calling you out this morning.

Calling you out.

Grabbing you by the lapel.

If God is gifting you in this or if He's pulling you out to develop that gift in you, you need

to tell someone.

If you don't verbalize it, if you don't verbalize it, if you don't name it, it is so easy to

shove that thing back down.

You're going to go to lunch this afternoon.

You're going to eat some food.

You're going to get all cozy, pull a blankie up over you in this rain.

You're just going to forget and just try to let that thing slide by.

I can tell you for a fact that God will bring it back around, by the way.

He will.

His callings are without repentance.

That's what the Word of God says.

All right?

So you might as well just act on it now.

You need to tell somebody.

I want you to come to one of the pastoral staff in this church and let them know.

Our job is to help you walk through that.

That is our job.

All right?

Hopefully we don't fail you in any way in that.

Our job is to help you walk through what God has gifted you with.

So I'm calling you out.

I'm not going to grab you physically by the lapel, but I would if I could.

You need to walk in this.

Paul did it to Timothy.

He said, preach the Word.

Teach the Word.

All right?

At a minimum, for all of us, we are to testify.

We are to testify.

We're going to all pray together right now.

All right?

I want you to bow your heads.

This is calling it out.

Father, I come to you right now.

I pray for each one in the house this morning that's here.

They are not here by accident.

God, this is God ordained.

Lord God, you work this all out on their behalf.

Lord God, I pray right now you stir up the gift that are in some.

Lord, some, they need to engage in teaching.

They need to engage what you've put in their hearts and what's in their minds.

Some need to just relaunch again back into what you've already have in them and what

they've already worked out, what they've already practiced.

They're not here to come here or to preach.

They're to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ.

They are to speak out.

They're gifted in it.

They need to use it.

God, I pray right now.

God, work in their hearts.

God, use them in this.

Lord God, step them out, Lord, and help them launch forward.

God, I pray this in Jesus' name.

In Jesus' name, do this.

God, I believe.

God, I know you set us aside for seasons sometimes.

I understand that.

God, if it's a God ordained season, we understand that.

We get it.

Lord God, that's a thing.

But Lord God, right now, if you're tugging on hearts, God, pull them out and push them

forward in this.

Help them see past all the circumstances.

God, and lean on what you're speaking to them.

Lord God, in Jesus' name.

Jesus, I ask that you would stir up the testimony in us.

God, the story.

God, whether we got saved 40 years ago, four years ago, or four days ago, God, stir up

that story.

God, let us tell of what you're doing in our lives.

Because God, it is powerful.

Holy Spirit, you will.

You will bind together with that testimony.

You will empower that testimony.

It won't just be a story.

It'll be you.

Lord, I ask this in Jesus' name.

In Jesus' name.

In Jesus' name.

Amen.