The God of Generations

Welcome to Gateway Churches Podcast.

Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

I'm really excited about the word today, and I want to share a word with you that has been ringing inside my heart ever since, you know, these past two months, where that has been so special and so shaky in many in very many ways.

This is a word that actually was vital and essential to bring our church through the crisis we passed through in like 10 years ago.

And from the very beginning of what has happened here lately, I have felt this word just ringing in my heart as part of the future and part of the next chapter for Gateway.

Now, before we go into the word, I want to say to you who might be here feeling I'm still hurting, you know, I've I've I've struggled even thinking about the future.

Let me just tell you that's okay.

It's okay to not be okay sometimes.

And we all heal according to different timetables.

Amen.

And that's okay, that's allowed.

But you know, sometimes vision is actually essential for the process of healing as well.

Because if we don't know where we're going, we risk staying behind in the valley of tears a little too long, where God really wants us to pass through the valley of tears slowly, gently, and holding the hand of Jesus.

Amen.

But let me just share a word with you that I pray will bring encouragement and strength and inspiration for you.

Um, if you brought your Bible, which is a good thing to do when you come to church, or have your U version app or whatever, you could um look uh up Exodus chapter 3 and verse 15.

Exodus 3 · chapter mention

This is going to be one of our key scriptures today.

Exodus chapter 3 and verse 15.

Exodus 3 · chapter mention

This is one of the many Old Testament references where God introduces himself by a certain name.

And when he does, it's always to reveal an element of his character.

And this verse actually blows me away.

It says, God actu also said to Moses, say to the Israelites, the Lord thy God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.

This is my name forever, the name you shall call me from generation to generation.

Now the people of Israel had heard God introduce himself in many ways and by many names, but this was very unique because this is actually the God of the universe, the creator of all things, saying, I'm gonna name myself according to these three guys.

I'm gonna take the name of three human beings, tiny small parts of my creation, and I'm gonna call myself whatever they are called.

And and I mean, when we hear that, I think we're normally just assume that these three guys must be standout human beings, they must be the most amazing people that has ever walked the earth in order for God to name himself according to their names.

And we look at the first one, Abraham.

Yep, check box, check the box for sure, standout human being, father of the Jewish people, father of us all through faith.

And then we look at Isaac, and we go, hmm.

Okay, a bit mediocre, but still, you know, okay.

And then we come to Jacob.

Now, this dude has serious problems.

He lied to his father, he tricked his brother to sell him the birthright.

This guy had several serious problems, and still God names himself according to this person.

But this is where we have to realize God is not talking about merit.

He wants to make another statement.

He wants to tell you and I that he is the God of generations, he is the God of generations, his kingdom is a kingdom of generations.

And why is this so important for you and me?

Because one of our highest callings as a church is to reflect the nature of God to this world.

We're called to proclaim, to prophesy, to live out everything that God is.

Amen.

We know God is love, so we want to love our world to reflect the nature of God.

We know that God is good, so we want to spread goodness to our world to reflect the nature of God.

We know that God is a God of forgiveness, so we want to forgive our debtors so that we can reflect and proclaim the nature of God.

God is a generation God, so we what?

I'm glad you asked, Gateway.

So we will build a church where generations are standing side by side, loving each other, praying for each other, blessing each other, and remembering that generations are not called to compete, but to complete one another.

In the middle of a society where generations are torn apart, greater than ever, more than ever.

I think the calling of our church is to go the other way and build a church that truly reflects the God of generations.

Can we say amen in the house of the Lord?

Now, in Malachi chapter 4 and verse 6, this is the very last verse of the Old Testament.

Malachi 4 · chapter mention

And I found it fascinating that God chooses to end the entire Old Testament with this verse.

It says, He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents, or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.

God chooses to end the entire Old Testament, not with a verse of about prayer or worship or love in general, but about generational connection.

This speaks to my heart how important this is to the heart of the Lord.

And I want you to take a notice about what Malachi is saying here, because there's some elements to this verse that are so important for you and I.

And I realize that today and weekend services, I'm speaking primarily to the parent generation.

And this verse directs the parental generation, you and I, and he says that he, the Spirit of God, will turn the hearts.

Can we say hearts?

The hearts of the parents.

This is the first thing we need to realize in the process of building a generational aware church.

It's a heart thing.

He doesn't say that he will turn the sense of fashion of the parents, God forbid.

He doesn't say that he will turn the taste of music of the parents to the children, God forbid, too.

He says he will turn the hearts, he will turn the love, the appreciation, the prayers, and the encouragement of the parents to the children.

It's a heart thing.

And also, please note, Gateway, that it says it starts with the hearts of the parents.

Any generational connection process needs to start with you and I realizing we're not just individuals separated completely, we are links in a chain.

God looks at us as spiritual parents for the young generation that you just saw flash by on those screens.

He will turn the hearts of the parents.

That's where it needs to start.

And the first time I came throughout this process to you was back in June.

That was the first weekend after everything happened, and we were all thrown into this whirlwind of confusion and grief.

And that weekend was very special for me because on Friday night I spoke at the student conference, and I saw thousands of teenagers encountering the glory of the Lord.

And the next day I spoke to you, and we were at a different place.

But in my heart, these two blended together, and I heard the spirit of the Lord says, Say, this is the next step, this is the future.

I will pour out my spirit upon the next generation.

And only later did I hear about the prophecy from Pastor Jensen.

10,000 young people flooding into this church.

That will not happen automatically, though.

Young people will only come to a house where they feel wanted.

They will only come to a house where there are parents.

So Gatesway, please don't misunderstand me.

This is not about you understanding the young generation.

Maybe you feel I don't get the young people.

I got good news for you.

They don't need you to get them.

Please, if you're 80, don't wear leather pants and pierce your eyebrow and think I'm really relating now to the next gen.

Yo, dude.

That will not make you relevant, that will make you pathetic.

Let me tell you this: the next generation don't need another friend.

They have friends.

What they need is a spiritual father and a spiritual mother.

They need to fall into the embrace of a generationally connected church that sees them, appreciates them, prays for them, and loves them.

Can we say amen again?

Now, when we started the process in our church of making our church more generational aware and more generationally connected, I had some church members come up to me and say, Oh, is it only about the young people now?

Are they the only ones who are important?

I'm not important anymore.

And I said, You know what?

To say that is like a young family who's just had their first baby saying to one another, Oh, we're not important anymore, we guess.

It's only about this baby now.

My friend, you just became twice as important as you've ever been in your life.

Because now you're a parent.

Now you have responsibility to pray and to raise and to encourage and to lift this child up to everything that God has called it to be.

So the generationally connected church is not just one generation instead of another, it's every generation together.

The hearts of the parents turn to the children, the hearts of the children turn to the parents.

So, what are we to do then?

We who may be belonging to the parental generation, those of us who identify as grown-ups.

Let me tell you two things that are so important as we prepare to receive the answer to this prophecy of 10,000 young people.

Number one, pray for the next generation.

Pray for the next generation.

Regardless of whether you have biological children or not, you can have spiritual children.

And as you pray for the next generation, I know what will happen.

Your heart will open up and you're gonna start loving the next generation.

Because whatever you pray for will become important for us.

Amen.

And why do we need to do that?

For many reasons, my friend.

One of these reasons is that this next generation, the young generation of today, is a vulnerable generation.

The devil seems to hate this generation because he's throwing everything he has of darkness and and and depression and and uh all kinds of of uh of uh challenges right at its face.

But that's actually an encouragement to me in one way, because do you remember the greatest story of salvation in the Old Testament?

That was the Exodus out of Egypt.

The children of Israel got got to leave the years of slavery behind and come back to the promised land.

That beautiful outpouring of salvation and freedom was preceded by a dramatic attack on the young generation.

The devil panicked and placed in the heart of Pharaoh to try to wipe out the babies of the Jewish people so that he would be able to try to wipe out the Savior among them.

But he failed.

And then we move to the New Testament, and we see the greatest story of salvation in the New Testament.

Obviously, it's Jesus coming, and again, Jesus' coming was preceded by an attack on the young generation.

The devil placed it in King Herod's heart to try to wipe out the Jewish babies so he could wipe out the Savior.

And again, now I see the same thing happening with the young generation of our time.

We see suicide rate go go crazy, we see mental health problems increasing.

And even nowadays, they don't even, the young generation is not even given the security and the stability of knowing that I'm a boy or a girl.

Everything is taken away from them.

The devil seems to hate them.

Now that tells me one thing: there is an outpouring of salvation coming our way.

God is about to do something incredible, and the devil has every right to be nervous, but still, we need to pray for the next generation.

As spiritual fathers and mothers, we need to take our responsibility and pave a way for the next generation in our prayers.

I want to tell you a story, and I want to rewind because I'm a history buff.

I want to rewind to the year 1755 and to a certain little village in Great Britain, and I want to introduce you to a 15-year-old boy.

15-year-old boys don't look like that anymore, though.

But you know, fashion comes and goes, so just give it a few more years.

And all over Texas, I guess there will be 15-year-old boys looking like that.

I don't know.

This little boy was called William, and at the age of 15, he partook in a service and he heard a man speak, and this man's name was John Newton.

John Newton used to be a captain of a slave trading ship.

For decades he had been kidnapping and transporting African men and women to the British colonies.

He had the blood of thousands of people on his hands.

But one day he experienced a storm and he looked death in the eye for the very first time ever, and he realized he wasn't ready to die.

So in agony, he called out in the storm, God help me, save me, and if you do, I will serve you forever.

The storm calmed down.

John Newton gave his life to Jesus, and then he served him for the rest of his life, preaching two things: salvation through faith in Christ, and preaching against the slavery that used to be his profession.

He would also actually go down in history as the author of the hymn Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound that saved a wretch like me.

Young William hears John Newton preach, and he has this in life encounter with the Lord.

His heart catches fire, and this 15-year-old makes up his mind, this is what I want to do with my life.

I want to spend it fighting the slavery and the slave trade in Jesus' name and for the glory of God.

And this 15-year-old realizes that I can't do this by being a pastor or a preacher.

I need to get in among the decision makers.

So he started studying really hard.

And every single one of us knows that when a 15-year-old boy starts to study really hard, that means that God Himself is on the move, right?

So he studies really hard, and after only five years, at the tender age of 20, he's elected into the British Parliament.

And here he launches his plan.

He starts preparing a speech that he will call the abolition of the slave trade.

And he doesn't prepare this speech for weeks and months, he prepares it for 10 solid years.

And after 10 years, at the age of 30, he enters the pulpit of the parliament and he holds this speech three and a half hours long, going through every argument why slavery is a horrible abomination.

It's unrighteous.

It's against the heart and the nature of God.

And then at the end of his speech, he takes a vote to say to the parliament, let's vote out the slave trade out of the British Empire.

And everybody said no, because they all had slaves and they didn't want to lose them.

But young William was back again the next year.

Same speech, no again.

Next year he is back, no again.

Year after year after year, 10 years, 15 years, 16 years, 17 years.

On the 18th year of him holding the same speech, the parliament finally said yes, because I guess they realized this is the only way to get rid of this young man.

And that day the slave trade became illegal in the British Empire.

Now young William moves on to the next phase of his mission.

And to make a long story short, that took another 24 years of hard political labor, and his purpose was to set the slaves free, those who were already in the empire somewhere.

And in 1833, the British Parliament took a vote and made slavery illegal completely.

That day, 1.5 million slaves became free people.

And only four days later, William Wilberforce died at the age of 74.

And I trust that he heard the voice of God say, Well done, good and faithful servant.

And when you go to Great Britain, you will see monuments, you will see statues celebrating this amazing man.

And I couldn't be more in agreement.

He should be honored.

But what few people know was that he was not alone, he had a spiritual father backing him up all the way.

And that spiritual father figure was a man called John Wesley.

John Wesley was the founder of the Methodist movement, he was a revival preacher.

And what touches my heart in a special way was that when young William Wilberforce started out his journey, John Wesley was already coming to the end of his race.

But before he did, John Wesley, the parent generation, looked back and he saw the hand of God upon the next generation.

Even though that hand of God took on a bit of a different expression, he recognized it and realized the Spirit of God is upon this young man.

And he started praying for him every single day.

And if you go to London, you can actually go to the house of John Wesley, which is now a museum.

And I love to visit there every time I come.

And there are letters all over the walls, letters written by this spiritual father to his spiritual son.

And I love stopping by those letters and read them, especially one of them.

This letter must have been penned by John Wesley at a time where I guess young William was tempted to give up.

After all these years of failure, failure, failure, all the time, year after year.

He must have come many times to the point where he said, I've done my best, but it's it doesn't seem to work.

And then there's that letter from John Wesley from a spiritual father to a spiritual son saying, Rise again, young William, rise again.

If God is for you, who can be against you?

Rise again, young William, rise again.

He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

Nothing is impossible for God.

So I praise God for William Wilberforce, but I also praise God for spiritual fathers like John Wesley.

Let's agree and step into that responsibility of praying, encouraging, and paving the way for the next generation.

Can we say amen?

The second thing, the second thing we need to do to create this generationally aware church, this house of safety and warmth and a The thousands of young people to flood into our community and to our churches is basically this add spiritual parent to whatever you're called to do.

Add spiritual parent to whatever you're called to do.

If you're a businesswoman or a businessman, add spiritual parent to that.

If you're a housewife, add spiritual parent to that.

If you're a doctor, add spiritual parent to that.

Take on that identity of a spiritual parent because we all share this calling.

And because men and women of God did so throughout the Bible, we saw the next generation rise up and flourish.

And there are so many examples of this.

We have the story of Moses and Joshua.

Oh, how I love that story.

Moses and Joshua as described in Exodus 33.

I feel for Moses.

He was called to be the pastor of the worst church in human history.

I did nothing but complain throughout.

I guess that at the end of the day, he would be so sick and tired of all these complaining people that he couldn't wait to go into the tabernacle and just spend time alone with God.

But you know what?

He had added a spiritual parent to his calling as the leader of Israel.

So he didn't walk in alone, even though I guess he would have wanted to.

He brought a teenager named Joshua into the presence of God.

And I can see these two men, one father, one son.

Moses introducing Joshua.

Joshua, this is what it feels like when the presence of God is here.

Joshua, this is how you listen to his voice spoken into your heart.

Joshua, this is how you position yourself in worship, in awe before the presence of the Almighty.

And this chapter ends with saying by saying that Moses left the tabernacle, but Joshua stayed behind.

And inside that tabernacle, the next leader of Israel is born.

But he could be born because of the spiritual parents who opened the door for him and introduced him to the presence of God.

We have the same story or a similar one.

In the story of Eli and Samuel, 1 Samuel chapter 3.

1 Samuel 3 · chapter mention

Little Samuel is basically raised in the temple, just like some kids at Gateway.

Basically grown up in a super Christian environment.

But still, this chapter says that Samuel did not yet know the Lord.

He knew of the Lord, but he did not yet know him personally.

And then one night the voice of the Lord calls out in the middle of the darkness, going, Samuel.

Samuel doesn't realize, he doesn't realize what's going on.

He misunderstands.

He goes over to Eli and said, Why did you call?

And Eli said, I didn't call.

And this happens two or three times.

And finally, Eli understands the Lord is calling Samuel.

And again, he takes on the role of a spiritual parent, adding to his calling as a priest.

And he says, Samuel, next time it happens, this is what you say.

This is the position you take.

Ask him to speak.

Tell him that you will be his servant.

And Samuel goes back with the advice given from a spiritual father.

And the next time God speaks, Samuel knows how to respond, how to relate to God's presence.

And God's word starts to speak into the ears of Samuel, and one of the greatest prophets in the Old Testament is born.

Because a priest added spiritual parent to his calling.

And we see this even as Samuel himself grows up in 1 Samuel 16.

How he enters into the house of a man whom God has spoken to him will be the father of the next king of Israel.

And this father lines up all of his sons apart from one.

Talk about rejection right there.

He was asked to line up all of his sons, and then he lines up all of them without apart from the youngest, and he just goes, nah.

He didn't even bring the boy to the audition.

But Samuel has the eyes of the Lord.

He has the eyes of a spiritual parent, realizing, isn't it?

Isn't it one more?

And he's this boy, David, is brought in from the fields, and Samuel sees beyond the exterior, sees the hand of the Lord, he anoints the boy, and from that moment on, as you read on in 1 Samuel, you'll see that not only is Samuel now a prophet of Israel, he's also a spiritual father for the next generation.

He added the the role, the identity of a spiritual parent to his calling as a prophet of Israel.

And I want to close with this a final story that relates to you and I in such a special way.

And then we're going to do a very special prayer, prophetic proclamation, standing in the gap for generations and just declaring ourselves to want it to be a church that reflects the God of generations.

We did this back home at Word of Life and starting to raise our awareness that we are generations called to coexist, back one another up, pray for one another, and bless one another.

And we saw the outpouring of the Lord in beauty and glory come upon us as we did.

I could stand there until tomorrow and just give you examples of miracles and beautiful things that happened.

Just two years after our crisis, we decided to build a big, big sports arena as a gift to our next generation.

The parental generation raised the money.

We launched the construction of the sports arena and didn't intend to make money of it or anything.

It's just a gift to our next generation.

And then we completed it, and all of a sudden, the city, our city, came to us and said, Hey, whatever time that you don't need this arena, we want to rent it for our schools.

And we said, Okay, so we blocked every slot that we needed, that we wanted for our own kids and youth.

And then the city rented every single time slot that was left, which means that now all of a sudden we have 5,000 young people coming into our church campus every single week.

Five thousand young people, which has just revolutionized our whole evangelistic approach and our youth ministry.

God is ready to open up any doors that that uh that he has in his heart as we respond to the calling to be a church that reflects the God of generations.

The last story, actually my favorite one in the Bible, is the story of Elizabeth and Mary.

Elizabeth and Mary, how I love this.

Luke chapter 1, verse 26.

Luke 1:26

In the sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David.

The virgin's name was Mary.

And then the angel goes on to describe to this little girl, probably 14 or 15 years old, that God has a calling upon her life, and that her life is so much more important and valuable and precious than she might have ever realized.

And this teenage girl is trembling at the information, and then she responds, verse 38 I am the Lord's servant, Mary answered.

Then the angel left her.

Yes, Lord, I want to do whatever you want me to do.

Yes, Lord, I want your will and your purposes for me to be fulfilled.

But then it says, and the angel left her.

Verse 36.

Even Elizabeth, your relative, is gonna have a child in her old age, and she's now she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month.

Mary, I prepared a spiritual mother for you.

I prepared someone who is older than you but can relate to what you're going through because she's going through the same thing, but she's further in the process.

She knows what is gonna happen to you, and you can be safe in her embrace of prayer and love.

And it says in verse 39, at that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judea where she entered Zechariah's house and greeted Elizabeth.

That journey from Nazareth in the north to Ain Kerem in Judea would have taken about two and a half days to travel.

Can you see this teenage girl just touched by the Lord, but also realizing now that I need more than my peers now, I need more than my friends, I need to rest in the safety and this prayers and the love of a spiritual mother who can tell me what lies ahead of me now.

And he says, When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

Gateway, could you please for just a second not think of these two women as two individuals but as two generations?

The married generation, recently touched by the Lord, full of inspiration and commitment to live their lives for the glory of God, but might not necessarily know exactly how, what's gonna happen, what is the next step, and then the Elizabeth generation who is already pregnant but has gone further in the process.

When these two generations come together, the Holy Spirit falls on both of them, and we realize it's not just Mary who needs Elizabeth, it's the Elizabeth generation who needs the Mary generation as well.

One generation brings enthusiasm, inspiration, energy.

Another generation brings stability, experience from having walked with the Lord for a longer time.

When we look at our past as a Christian as Christianity, we look at the different moves of revival and refreshment that has come upon the world in the past hundred years.

Sadly, most of these movements have been one-generation movements.

And I didn't think I don't think that God intended for that to be so, but I think time and time again we have failed with our generational connection.

But what if in the months and years to come we could rise up as a church and decide we're gonna build a church that will reflect the God of generations.

We will build a church when the generations will stand side by side in love, prayer, appreciation, and encouragement of one another.

And as we do, as we come together, as Elizabeth meets Mary, the Spirit of God will fall on both generations, and the name of Jesus will be glorified.

That if Jesus does not come in my lifetime, and if I get to live to be an old man, the last thing I want to see spiritually before I close my eyes for the last time is the back of the next generation passing by the point where I stopped to go on to see greater outpourings of the spirit than I ever saw, and build greater churches than I ever built, and reach more people with the gospel of Jesus than I ever reached.

And I just want to welcome you and encourage every single one of you that might relate to yourself as a grown-up, as the Elizabeth generation, to join me in that prayer and that desire.

Right now, we're gonna do something in all the campuses all over our Gateway family.

We're gonna pray for the different generations, we're gonna have two representatives for those two generations, one representing the Mary generation and one the Elizabeth generation.

And we're gonna have gener the generations praying for one another, blessing one another, and we're gonna pray that God will pour out his spirit on both generations and give us the strength and boldness to move into the future as a generation church.

So, all over the campuses and including here at South Lake, can I ask every single one of you who are 40 or younger to please stand up right now?

If you're 40 or younger, please stand to your feet.

You're representing, you're representing the generation that God spoke to us about prophetically.

This is the generation that's gonna flood into this church and all over the campuses, in every campus in the Gateway family, with every single one of you who are 40 or younger, just stand in the presence of God.

And we're gonna dismiss the campuses, but just don't go anywhere.

We're gonna have a few minutes of prayer and allow the presence of the Spirit to touch both generations and make this work in our hearts to connect us so that the Spirit will fall on both of us.

I'm gonna ask the person representing the Elizabeth generations in all the campuses to lead us in prayer as we now dismiss all the campuses and we move on to pray and bless one another.

As I was worshiping, I heard the Lord say that hope is arising from the ashes that we've all experienced recently.

And it's arising in the faces of every single one of you standing.

And it's arising across generational lines.

So I'd like to pray a blessing over you.

If you'll just hold out your hands and close your eyes and receive.

Lord, we just thank you that each and every person standing in this room, hope is rising right now in our church community, in our convictions, in every place, Father, that needs these people, Father.

I thank you that you are there.

I thank you that your word says in Hebrews 14 that you are the same yesterday, today, and forever.

And Lord, I thank you that you're not just a story we read about, you're the God of again, and you're going to do miracles and wonders in these individuals again and again and again.

Lord, we just thank you that whatever they're navigating right now in their own lives, whether trials or tragedies, we thank you that this imparts for them to understand that now is the time that they can lead people to the one that can take those toxic things in their lives and turn it into a sweet healing tonic for the world to experience.

Lord, we thank you and we bless this generation.

We bless them that they come together in unity and lead in the place that they need to rise.

Thank you, Father.

Amen.

In Jesus' name, in Jesus' name.

You may be seated, and can I ask the Elizabeth generation to stand up?

If you are 41 or more, praise God.

There is enough stability in this room to embrace and launch the next generation.

Will every single one of you just open up your hearts, lift up your hands, and allow God to touch your heart right now and place that parental responsibility, that parental identity inside your heart as we will have someone from the married generation pray God's blessing upon you.

Father God, I just want to thank you for this day.

Thank you for every single heart at Gateway Church, Father.

I pray specifically for the ones who are standing in this room that Father God, you would give them strength, and that Lord, you would anoint their tongues, God, that you would anoint their feet, Father God, that you anoint their hands, and that everywhere they go, Jesus, you would be with them, Father God.

And the people around them, whether it's their kids, God, whether it's their co-workers, Father, I pray that they would see a reflection of you on them, Father.

You have been so good in this church, Father God.

You've been so good in their lives, Father.

I pray for continuation of a blessing over all their lives, Father.

I pray for those who are struggling financially, that Jesus, you would be with them and that you would uh bless them financially, Father.

I pray for those who are struggling in their health that, Father, please, please, please send healing among them all.

God, you are so good, God.

You are so powerful and magnificent, God.

I pray that their wisdom that they've accumulated over the years of their lives, that, Lord, it would fall down on my generation, that God, my generation would be open to correction.

Thank you so much for this day, and thank you for all you've been doing in this church, Father.

That's in Jesus' name, amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Hold on to you.

I don't want to let this one go.

We have all the merry stand up again.

Just find someone that is not really your age and just give them a high five or a heart.

And just let us demonstrate that we are a generation church here to support one another, pray for one another, love on one another.

Thank you, Lord Jesus.

Thank you, Lord Jesus.

Now let's just lift up our hands and worship the Lord.

Father, we thank you.

We thank you for doing a beautiful work in our heart.

We thank you for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

As Mary comes to Elizabeth and Elizabeth comes to Mary, may the presence of God, the Spirit of God, will be poured out on both generations, all generations, and may we reflect the God of generations as we move on in the weeks and months to come.

And all people say, Amen.

Let's worship the Lord together.

Thanks for joining us today.

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We hope you have a great week.