There’s A Place For You At My Table // The Book Of Galatians (Part 2) // Charles Metcalf

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Welcome to week two of the Word of God. Somebody

say the Word of God. You gotta deepen your voice

and got the Word of God.

Come on now, I can't do that.

But anyways, we said this last week. This is our premise.

This is the thesis for the entire series.

It anchors on this truth.

This is not a suggestion, This is not up for hypothesis.

This is straight facts of what I'm about to say,

and it is this.

The Word of.

God is the only foundation that has the peace, purpose

and power to sustain the human soul. It's the only

one that can hold you up in a storm. It's

the only one one that can tell you who you

actually are, not what your situation has made you to be.

I'm gonna help some of y'all.

Some of you, the experiences you've had, the traumas you've

went through, have made you become a version of yourself

that is not actually you.

Let me help you.

So when you're little, and you don't get attention. You

performed for attention, and that was how you got it.

Now you have continued to do that pattern and you

are a grown person and the only reason you do

half the stuff you do is so somebody will look

at you and say, hey, I appreciate you. And if

they don't know the show outfit, your whole day is ruined.

Well, what the.

Bible does is it provides a better identity than the

approval of people. It says, whether you like me or not,

whether you like my outfit or not, I'm already liked

and loved and chosen by God. So I don't need

your approval. I don't need nothing from you. The Bible

is the only foundation that you.

Can stand on.

And that's why we're spending some time digging into the

Word of God. And you know, there's a study done

people interviewed churches around the world and primarily in the West.

They said, what is the biggest thing people struggle with? Like,

what questions do they have about church? And the first

question was how do I read the Bible? And the

second one the people asked was I don't know how

to pray?

How do I read a Bible and how do I pray?

And what I love about our church is our church

is intentionally addressing those two questions every single week. Every

single week we have prayer where you can come and

learn and grow how to pray.

And every single week.

We're gonna get in the Word on Sunday and we're

gonna study the Bible.

And it was funny. I was talking to a friend.

A friend texted me last night and he's off at

school and he was like, yo, man, I'm struggling to

I got two things. One, I'm struggling to read the Bible,

and then when I do read it, it doesn't feel

like it applies to what's going on in my life.

And I text him back and I was like, yo

I immediately it was like twelve thirty at night, and

he was like, what in the world, why did you

text you back? And I was like, well, you text me,

so I text you back. And so we were talking,

but I said the first thing is he plays football,

said every time you do a workout, do you feel

faster immediately after the workout, like immediately after you lift

them weight, you feel faster, stronger, quicker.

Do you feel that every single.

Time and he literally just texts, oh, I see where

you going with this? And I said, no, So just

because you don't feel it don't mean it ain't working.

And there's a part of reading scripture that is the

discipline and the practice of it. So I don't want

to skip over that.

Sometimes we got.

All these tricks and tips. The real trick and tip

is you got to open up that book. There is

no supersed fast way to get around. You gotta open

that thing up and you gotta read it. And the

second thing I told him, I said, there are some

things that make it easier in some better places, I said,

And I listen, I'm talking to like a eighteen nine

year old kids, and some of you are like, oh, ca,

you believe you said that.

Chill out, okay.

But the first thing I said, I said, number one,

you ain't got no business in the Old Testament. Stay

away from old tech. You don't know what's going on.

There's a lot of weird stuff. Unless somebody is walking

you through it, you're gonna get real confused. Around Genesis

chapter six, when angels start coming down and sleeping with

Pea people, and then Cousins is making love. It's just

a weird situation. You ain't got no business in Old Testament.

Second thing, I was like, when you can start with

maybe a Proverbs a day. And Third, all of Paul's letters.

Are really good.

He texts back immediately he said, oh dang, I was

deep in Exodus. I was like, yeah, brother, you gotta

get out of there. He's running football routes, like so

the locusts.

He's like, I don't know why that's.

An apply to my life, but reading the Bible is

a real thing. And so the reason we're doing this

series is to give us some practical handles of how

do we walk through scripture and how does it apply

to our life? And so today we are going to

jump into Galatians chapter two.

Galatians chapter two.

We did verse one last week, so I'm likes, everybody,

just stand up, stand on your feet, please, We're gonna

stand for the reading of God's word.

I know some of y'all like, why are we standing?

Well when a king walks in, you stand up. I'm

not the king, but the king is talking hello somebody.

So we're standing to honor the word of God. I'm

gonna read fast, So y'all ain't got a stand for

two long. Calm down. It's on the sky Bible. If

you didn't bring your bible, and sky Bible that's what

we call it. So here's what it says, Galatians, chapter two.

I'll read some of it off the screen. It says,

Then fourteen years later, I went back to Jerusalem again,

this time with Barnabas, and Titus came along too. I

went there because God revealed to me that I should go.

While I was there, I met privately with those considered

to be leaders of the church and share with them

the message I have been preaching to the gentiles.

This it's Paul talking.

So you know Paul, he was killing Christians. He gets saved,

he starts preaching, and then like the committee is like,

all right, brother, hold on, before you get too deep

in this, we gotta check what you saying. So they

call him in for a special meeting. He said, they

wanted to make sure that we were in agreement, for

they for the fear that all my efforts have been

wasted and I was running the race for nothing, and

they supported me and did not demand that my companion

tit Us be circumcised. Hello, watch out, that's a little crazy, though,

he was a gentile moving right Lilae and says even

that question came up only because of some so called believers.

There, false ones.

He's throwing shots, really, he said, who were secretly brought in.

They sneaked to spy on us, to take away the

freedom we had earned in Christ Jesus. They wanted to

enslave us and force us to follow their Jewish rules.

But we refuse to give in to them because they're

lame and not for a single moment. We wanted to

preserve the truth of this gospel message.

Keep going with me.

It says this, and the leaders of the church had

nothing to add to what I was preaching.

Now, listen to this.

This is why I love Paul, because he's just throwing

shots left and right. By the way, this in parentheses,

this is just.

A little rant.

He's like writing a letter to the church that will

be saved and canonized for thousands of years. And he says, also,

by the way, the reputation is a great leader literally

made no difference to me, for God has no favorites.

He's just like, just so.

You know, they called me in for a little meeting.

I didn't care what they said because God chose me.

God called me, so regardless of what they said, I

was gonna keep preaching anyways. Instead, they saw God had

given me the responsibility of preaching the Gospel to the Gentiles,

just as he had given Peter the responsibility of.

Preaching to the Jews.

They realized everybody's not called to do the same thing.

That would shut down a lot of comments sections if

we could realize that for the same God who worked

through Peter as the apostle to the Jews also worked

through me as the apostle to the Gentiles. In fact, James, Peter,

and John, who are known as pillars of the Church,

recognized the gift God had given me, and they accepted

Barnabas and Me as their coworkers.

They encouraged us.

To keep preaching to the Gentiles, or they continued their

work to the Jews. Their only suggestion was that we

keep helping the poor, which we were already gonna do again.

They ain't got no new ideas verse eleven. This is

where we're gonna camp out today, this is where we're

gonna preach, it says. But when Peter came to Antioch,

I had to oppose.

Him to his face. Come on, y'all, just that's all

in combative people.

Yeah, you don't even.

Know why he did that.

Let's fight, Okay, calm down, Row three all right. When

he first arrived, he ate with the gentile believers who

were not circumcised. But then when some of the friends

of James came, Peter wouldn't meet with the gentiles no more.

He was afraid of.

The criticism from these people who insisted on the necessity

of circumcision. As a result, other Jewish believers followed his hypocrisy.

Even Barnabas was led astray.

When I saw that they were not following the truth

of the Gospel message, I said to Peter in front

of all the others, Paul, is no joke. Since you,

a Jew by birth, have discarded the Jewish laws and

are living like a gentile, why are you now trying

to make the gentiles follow your Jewish rules?

Come on, some of us do this.

We got our own rules, then we stopped following. Then

we judge everybody else who ain't following the rules.

Not following.

Oh you know what, it ain't been to church in

a while. You just showed up today. What are you

talking about? You have a two week streak, and I'm

proud of you. But let's chill. It says you and

I are Jews by birth, not sinners like the Gentiles.

Yet we know that the sinner.

Yet we know a person is not made right with God,

is made right with God by faith in Jesus, not

by obeying the law. We believe that Christ Jesus. So

and we believed in Christ Jesus, so that may we

may we may, Oh Lord, let me slow down here

almost just okay, here we go. Got that Moses anointing? Anyways,

you gotta read your Bible. He had a stutter. Okay, Charles,

come down, This doesn't stand up.

Okay.

But suppose we seek to be made right with God

through faith in Christ, and then we are found to

be guilty because we have abundantly abandoned the law. Would

that mean that Christ has led us in descend Absolutely not. Rather,

if I am a sinner, if I listen to this,

I am a sinner. If I rebuild the old system

of law that was already torn down. For when I

tried to keep the law, it condemned me. So I

died to the law. Listening to this, I stopped trying

to keep all its requirements so I might live for God.

My old self has been crucified with Christ. It's no

longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.

So I live in this earthly body by trusting in

the son of God, who loved me and gave himself

for me. I do not treat the grace of God

as meaningless, for if keeping the law could make us

right with God, then there was no need for Christ

to die. Hello, somebody, you may be seated. I want

to pray for us real quick, and we're gonna jump

into the message. Holy Spirit. Would you meet us, would

you speak? Would you do something thing only you can do?

It's in your name, We pray it. Everybody said, Amen.

If you're taking notes so much, you to write down

the title of my sermon today, right at the top

of your paper or in your notes. It's the title

is this. There is a place for you at my table.

There's a place for you underlying you at my table.

Me and my wife Abby Rose have been together for

ten years.

Now, and when we thank you.

When we first got together, I'll remember we were doing

our registry and I didn't necessarily understand fully how the

registry worked. But if you've ever done a registry, you

walk through there like you have actual money in your

bank account. So I had the little thing, you know,

they give you the little scanner. We're at Target or

somewhere and I'm.

Like, boot boot boot boot.

I'm just scanning some random spoons. I'm like, oh, two spatch,

let's thank you, boot boom. I'm scanning everything.

I remember.

We're going around doing our registry and Abby's like, hey,

we need to get a kitchen table. Put that on there.

See if anybody get us a kitchen table. You know,

with the registry, you're really hoping people just all of

a sudden getting money out of nowhere.

People you know, is broke.

You're like maybe if somebodyn'boy else it's six thousand dollars things.

So we're going through scared and stuff, and Abby's like, yo,

we need a kitchen table. I'm like, oh, we don't

need a kitchen table. I've already got one, and she

was like, what do you mean. I was like, I've

got a kitchen table.

We're fine.

So we get married, had the honeymoon, we come back

to the house and this is the kitchen table. I

was this is it right? Here is the actual kitchen table.

The great thing.

About this kitchen table is you can just pick it up.

It actually collapses. I think I'm not gonna do that.

But I had this kitchen table and Abby was like,

this is not a kitchen table. I said, first of all,

as the head of this household, I'm joking, this is

a kitchen table. No. We had a small apartment apartment,

and I was like, why we need this big table?

So Abby She's like, yeah, we're definitely gonna have to

get a bigger table.

And I was like, why do we need a bigger table?

She was like, well, there's.

Only two seats and I was like, well, there's only

two of us, so it's actually perfect.

I don't know what you're talking about.

And she said, we need a bigger table for all

the people we're going to have over. And it was

at that point that I realized a couple things. The

first thing is I didn't have any friends is the

first thing I realized, because I was.

Like, who is this list of people you know that

will be coming to our house.

I was so excited to meet them. And the second

thing I realized is the way I had set up

my life. Specifically, the way I had set up my

table is that there was no space for anyone but

me and one other person.

There was no space at my table.

So no matter who God sent my way, no matter

who I met, no matter what interactions I wanted to have,

no matter how much of an amazing host my wife was.

There was only two seats at my table.

And today I come to ask you the question, is

their space at your table?

Is there room at your table? You see, my.

Wife, she is like a lineage of SuperHost is what

I like to call them.

Her, her mom and Mimi.

Who has now gone to be with Jesus, our crazy

amazing host. You walk into the house and somehow there

are random French pastries being baked and weird salads with

all sorts of different stuff in there. I don't even

know what it is. There's hot tea and this is

on a Tuesday at two thirty. This is not an event.

And our families are very different in that way. You know.

The Metcalfs are more of the type of people that

show up to a party that has already been set,

but then we get that thing jumping you hear what

I'm saying, so you ain't got no tea, but you

ain't crunk like the Metcalf. So you come to a

Metcalf party. We gonna be lit, but you ain't gonna

have no plates, there won't be nothing to drink, get

in where you fit in. But my wife is an

amazing host. And I remember talking to her and her

explaining to me, we're gonna have tons of people in

this house. We're gonna create space for people. And I

literally had to learn and realize, oh, I'm gonna start

setting the table not just for me. And I'm afraid

there are many believers today that the only thing you

are concerned with, the only thing we get concerned with

in our modern world that can often lend to convenience

and selfishness is the table is only set for two

some of us. It is only set for us. In Jesus,

it's just me and Jesus.

Okay, I hear you.

Some of us is just set for our family. It's

just set for people who go to our church. It's

just set for people who voted like us. It's just

set for people who are in our same tax bracket.

It's just set for people who aren't confused on their

sexual identity. It's just set for people who can interpret

the scriptures exactly.

It's just set for.

People who we think like, act like, look like. It's

just set for people who are pretty much just like you.

And the only problem is, as comfortable as that may be,

it is completely contrary and opposite of the Jesus we

follow and the gospel message he preached. Galatians Chapter two,

Paul starts off. He's on his same energy as he

was chapter one.

He's firing shots. He's like, I don't need nobody, I

don't care about nobody. I don't care who you are.

I'm still gonna preach.

And then he sees Peter, who's supposedly a big deal,

and Paul does not care how big of a deal

he is. He realizes there's something off with Peter. That is,

Peter is switching up based on who he's around.

He's switching up. Come on, you got these friends you around?

Somebody like, what up? Dog? And then you're walking up.

Like, hey, how you doing? Glad to be here?

Uh?

Yes?

The stock market? It's like, what are you stock market?

You can't even fail stock market? What are you talking about?

But Peter is switching up. You see, there's the jew

and the Gentiles. The jew are God's chosen people. They

had the Law, they had of the Ten Commandments, all

these things that were given to them as a means

to simply be a band aid to the problem of

sin that Jesus actually healed and was.

The solution for.

The only problem is Jesus comes. He dies on the cross,

completely fulfills the law.

But they want to keep their rules.

Why because rules make it easier to measure if I'm.

Better than you.

Come on, this is why we still teach the law

today in church. Some churches you will go and it'll

be like, yay, hey, yeah, grace, but also do this,

do this, do this, do this, because teaching rules makes

it easy to measure who's a good Christian and who's

a bad Christian. Grace doesn't do it for everybody. Come on,

I know we preach grace, but I want something deeper

than grace. Oh so you don't want Jesus, Paul says,

you want to rebuild the old system that was torn

down by the man who put on flesh and bloon

and came and walked on this planet. You want your rules.

So the Jews want their rules, and the Gentiles are

kind of wild and rowdy, and they just heard Jesus

is saving people if you believe in your heart and

confess with their mouth, and they're like, let's go. And

they're like those friends that first get saved. You know,

those friends you got, They're like saved, they're on fire,

but they also got some wild stuff.

They're like, yo, just chill.

It's like, no, Jesus, save me, bro I'm out here.

It's like, yes, but just the guy's preaching. You can't

be crumping while he's preaching. It's like, oh, love God,

It's like okay. So this is the tension that's going on.

And Peter, when none of his Jewish friends are around, he's.

Like, man, I love y'all.

Let's eat.

Let's have dinner.

And then his friends walk in and he immediately rejects them.

Oh I don't know them. Oh yeah, we don't.

We definitely don't eat with them.

They're crazy.

And Paul says, I called him out to his face,

why because he was twisting the message of Jesus. And

here's what I have found. There is so much tension

that happens in the church, not even because of people

who don't follow Jesus, but because I don't like the

way you follow Jesus compared to the way I follow Jesus.

That's all this is. They're both saved by grace in

love with God, and they're saying you gotta follow him

how I follow him, and if you don't follow him

that way, it's wrong. And Paul comes to it and says, yo,

it's not true. You're trying to make everybody follow these rules.

But that's not the message Jesus spoke. This whole conversation,

it centers around a table.

Who should you eat or not eat with?

Who should be at your table? As far as Peter

is concerned, there are certain people who shouldn't be at

the table. Are there people in your life that you

feel like shouldn't be.

At the table? Come on? I know we say like, all.

Are welcome and God will take you as you are,

but then we look at certain people and think, yeah, yea, yeah,

but you gotta put on some different clothes.

Come on now.

Yeah yeah, but you better stop talking crazy because if

you come in here in church like that, God might

strike you en lightning.

Yeah.

Yeah, Grace is for everybody, but if you vote for

that person.

I don't know if you get grace anymore. Come on.

Stuff you don't say, but we see it all the time.

There are certain seats and yeah, yeah, everybody's welcome at

my table. And then somebody walks up and you're like, oh, sorry,

this seat is taken. Yeah, yeah, no, that seat is taken. Yeah.

This is by my friend, this is by the person

who voted like me, this is for my business partner.

And then people show up.

It's like yea, heay, yeah, but I'm sure there's other

tables and everyone's banking on someone else's table.

You're betting on.

Oh well yeah, just come to church and let the

whole church like love the neighborhood.

No, no, no, you love your neighbor.

Let's not stop blaming the church as the main place.

You have an actual kitchen table. This is my actual

kitchen table, real life. It's got stains. My kids. Then

gouge the freaking wood out the thing. I get frustrated

looking at it right now. This is where in a second,

watch in a second, I'm gonna have my kids come

up here.

It'll be at the end of the message. I promise you,

two girls is gonna fight.

Over the seat. It happens every single day we sit

at this table. But this whole sermon is around Peter

feeling like he shouldn't sit at a certain table. And

here's the question I asked myself, At what point did Peter,

who walked with Jesus forget all the tables he sat

at with Jesus. Peter, you don't eat with certain people.

Do you remember when you went to the tax collector's house?

Oh? You forgot when you were walking.

With Jesus and a man's ichias was up in a

tree and he gave up everything he had sitting in

front of dinner with horrible sinners.

Did you forget when you sat with Jesus at that table? Oh,

you want to act different.

Now you've been following Jesus and you've got a little status.

In the church. Now, do you remember when you.

Were at the Pharisees house and the woman who everybody

said shouldn't come in busted open the door and started

anointing Jesus's feet with oil and dried.

It with her hair. Did you forget about that table?

I know you've been following Jesus for a long time,

and you get tons of prophetic words, and you've never

missed a Bible study. But do you remember where Jesus

found you? Do you remember when he came to your table?

And somewhere along the way Peter forgot the countless dinners

he sat at as people walked up and criticized his savior.

Matthew nine, the Pharisees.

Jesus is at a tax collector's house. Now you do

not understand, and I cannot emphasize how insane this is.

Tax collector they rob their own people. They literally are

a part of the Jewish community. They start working for

the Roman government. They would show up to people's house

collecting taxes and would say, hey, they need one hundred

and fifty dollars, when really they only need a ten.

They would lie to them if they didn't give it

to them. They would tell the Roman soldiers beat them up,

take their money, and I'm gonna take the extra one

hundred and forty dollars I made, and I'm gonna get

rich off of taking advantage of my own people. This

is the person that Jesus sits down in Matthew nine with.

And look at what the scriptures say. It says this

in Matthew nine. It says Matthew nine. Verse nine, It says,

as Jesus was walking along, he saw a tax collector

named Matthew, and he said, follow me. Later Matthew invited

Jesus and disciples to his home as dinner guests. Listen

to this language as along with many tax collectors and

other disreputable sinners.

This was a bad dinner party.

All the bad people, all the people that we would

think don't deserve Jesus, all the political figures you would

be horrified.

To see and to know and be seen with.

Jesus calls a dinner and invites.

Them all over. And this is what the scriptures say.

But when the Pharisees or the church people, or the

people with the rules saw.

This, they asked his disciples, why does your teacher eat

with such scum? Is there space table?

There was space at Jesus table, space for Pharisees to

ask questions, space for Mary to lay on his chest,

and Martha to be so overwhelmed with her list that

Jesus slowed her down. There was always space at Jesus table,

space long enough for Zycheas to sit there and enjoy

a meal. And then be so wrecked by just the

presence of God that he stands up.

This is what happens.

Psycheah stands up and he's standing up, and his friends

are like, stand up.

It's like kids. He's like, oh am, you'll get that

tomorrow when you read it.

But he stands up and he says, I'm gonna give

away everything I have.

And they're like, what are you doing? Man?

He's like, and if I've ever wronged anybody. His whole

job is doing wrong to people. But he says, if

I've ever wronged anybody, I'll give away twice as much

back to them as I took from them. Peter was

at every single one of these dinners. But somewhere along

the way he started off at a table like this

with Jesus, with Mary and Martha and the unnamed Pharisee

and Simon, all these different people, And slowly, somehow he

went from this table to this table. Somehow his table

got so small that certain people weren't invited. Now, I

want to be clear with you today, I'm not talking

about an actual kitchen table. I'm talking about your life.

Is their room in your life for people who are

different than you?

Is their room in your.

Friend circle for people who don't know Jesus yet. Is

their room with your kids for other kids who maybe

parents aren't as present for them to come over and

hang out, and you not be like, where your mama at?

Why are you always over at my house?

Maybe it's because they sense the peace of God in

your house and they're trying to get something different. Maybe God, somehow,

in his miraculous sovereign hand, realized you had exactly what

that person needed. But you saw the way they were

dressed and thought, there's no way God could.

Be trying to get me to talk to him. What

if he was?

What if the people we look at crazy and we

talk about are the very people God's trying to get

to come sit at our table. And I get it.

It's gonna cost you something for those people to sit

at your table. It's gonna cost you some reputation, it's

gonna cost you some side eyes, it's gonna cost you

having to go out of your way. But here's what

I've realized. God sends the people, but you have to

set the table. God will send the people, but we

have to set the table. What do I mean? We

have to set our lives up in a way where

if God wanted to send somebody different than us, we

would actually have the space to share the love of

Jesus with them. Now, I know you can hear a

sermon like this and think the whole thing is an analogy,

and you're like, yes, my life is a table, and

I will invite someone over to your house, bring someone

with you in the seat next to you at church.

Some of us get so ethereal with the Bible stuff

that ain't ethereal. Literally, I'm like, I embarrassed my neighbors

and brought them up on stage, and I'm so sorry

I did that. I love you very much, but legit,

there was a point. Abby is like captain of the neighborhood.

She'd be out there, they'd be having all types of

soare's and pizza parties, and I just be inside, you know,

seeking God, of course, But I no, it's honestly just

because I get overwhelmed with all the people. I'm like,

oh gosh, I don't know, but I literally got convicted.

And God was like, when you're gonna start loving your

real neighbors. Some of us get so Christian, so saved

that we can't do.

The normal stuff like love your neighbor.

You're like, yes, we're just like the people in scripture.

Who is my neighbor?

Technically, let's start with the people on your left and

you're right and across the street, and then just see

where it happens from there. Think of how many interactions

you have every day with people who could be at

your table, the person that waits on you at the restaurant.

Some of us, I gotta say this, some of us

have Oh jez, let me come damn.

Okay, we treat people who waiting on us like they're

not humans. You look straight through them, You drink a

little drink in two seconds, and you start shaking the

glass like some kind of I don't know who you.

Think you are. This is a person.

We can learn their name, We can say hi to them,

we can say thank you. We can leave them a

tip and not be stingy. And if you ain't gonna

leave a tip, don't bust out that in by card.

Keep that thinky thing to yourself. Come on, now, we

want to talk about I'm gonna go on a mission strip.

Why don't you go be nice to.

The person at burger king and then see what God

will do through your life. This is real, Like we

can actually live this out in daily life. When you

go get gassed and you walk up to the person

to pay for your own little three dollars a gas,

come on, you get paid tomorrow, so you just need

enough to get on. Hey, how's your day going?

All's going?

This happens every single time. I promise you you ask

them the first question, they will either look up surprised

because you're the first person to.

A knowledge them that day. Hey how you doing?

Sam? What he'd be thinking?

I'm prophetic.

I just read his name tag.

That's all I did. I just read the name tag. Hey,

how you doing? Sam? Do you know me? No? Man,

it's just said your.

Name is on your shirt? Brother? How's your day going?

I always ask the same question. You just starting know

you're about to get off. Just oh I'm about to

get off, fool Jesus.

What you gonna do today?

Man?

I'm gonna go home and sleep. Man, I feel you

on that brother. What you doing tomorrow?

Oh?

Man, I'm not doing nothing tomorrow.

You know what you should do. There is this party

that I go to every single Sunday, and I happened

to be speaking at the party tomorrow.

You want to come hang out at the party. What

you mean a party?

Well, I mean it's kind of like a church, you know,

but it's like, just give it a chance. This week,

we walked into the to the store. I was looking

for this specific shirt and I walked in and I'm

just going through and I really had to stop myself

because I get on the mission trying to find something.

I knew exactly what I was looking for, so I

walked in there like you need to help. I'm like no,

I'm gonna thank you. And I just walked straight to

the back and I started talking to God. He's like, oh,

you're that You're that guy And I was like, yes,

that guy.

He was like, you're the Transformation church. Will Michael tell

Yeah yeah? And he was like, man, I used to go.

There a long time ago, but I don't really I

don't really do that church thing anymore. I was like, oh, man,

well I used totally come back.

I'd love to see you sometime.

There are so many interactions like that on a daily basis,

where the table of your life people are waiting, waiting

for an invitation. What was the most awkward moment in

middle school when you walked into the lunch room. Come on,

some of y'all will take you back to your first rejection.

You come on, like you walk into the lunch room,

you got your nasty square pizza and chocolate milk, and

you do one of these. I know now y'all get sushi,

but we used to get square pizza on Wednesdays.

Or maybe somebody's mama brought chick.

Filt, but it was the awkward moment waiting to be

invited to a table. Could I submit to you that

there is a world right in front of us every

single day, standing here waiting for someone to invite them

to the table. God sends the people, but we set

the table. I'm going to close out by giving us

three points on how can we set the table? If

our life is a table to invite those two people.

Who believe, who don't believe.

People who we agree with who we disagree with, we

can live our life in a way that is a

living in invitation to the table, a living invitation. Everywhere

I go is an opportunity to invite someone to the table.

Every person I meet is an opportunity to introduce them

to the Jesus that has changed my life. How do

you set the table? The first thing?

Write this down? One you gotta prepare.

Come on, if you've ever had people over to your house,

depending on your personality, you will start preparing pretty early on.

Now some of y'all you don't prepare, and then you

be trying to door dash everything and it's too late.

But in our house we having people over abby immediately.

How many people are gonna have Let me think, make

sure the plates, Let's make sure we got everything.

Who's bringing this, who bringing that?

And if you are going to live a life that

is a invitation, what am I talking about?

Practically?

A life that is open to talking, to encouraging people,

to inviting people to church, to being a small light

in the darkness of your office. Everybody's negatives.

You want to know how you invite people to the table.

You're the one persons, Hey man, at least we got

a job.

Come on. You don't remember when we was going through.

COVID and they was doing the layoffs and we went

work from home and it was about to be permanent

from home, and then they brought us back.

Thank you Jesus, we got a job. Small moments inviting

to the table.

Hey, I know there's a lot of crazy stuff going on,

but you know what the Bible actually says about Jesus.

It says he is new mercy every single day. So

I know yesterday it was horrible, but guess what. Today's

a fresh start. You meet somebody at the restaurant.

Man, I pray you.

Have an amazing day. I pray this is the best

day you ever have. Little moments, but to do that,

you have to prepare. And this is so beautiful because

there are so many opportunities for us to prepare. You

may be somebody who you start to realize that maybe

you're single right now, but you're starting to read books

about being married. Why, Because you're preparing for someone you

want at your table. Don't ask for nothing you're not

willing to prepare for. I'm gonna say that again. Do

not ask for anything you're not willing to prepare for.

I want somebody at my table with integrity and who's

gonna be faithful and gonna be honest. So I'm gonna

start preparing to be faithful, to be integrists, and be

honest because that's who I want at my table. Why

are you studying other world religions. What you do in

reading the Koran? Well, I know there's millions of people

who believe other stuff, and I don't want to just

be ignorant and yell that ain't the way. That ain't

the way. I want to be able to hear what

they have to say and say yeah.

Yea, yeah, almost there.

Let me show you the living word, let me show

you Jesus. So yeah, I'm doing some work right now

because I'm setting my table for who God is going

to send some of us.

And this is this is There will be so many times.

Whether there will be thoughts or critiques of like man,

some churches just trying to be colchry relevant and trying

to be cool. No, you know what partly I'm doing

Half the time i'm preparing my table, I realize is

this is the narrative you're getting, This is what you're

being fed.

And I have a real solution.

So I'm aware of what's going in culture. Not because

I'm trying to be cool. I'm a grown man with

four kids. I ain't got no time trying to be cool.

But what I do want to do is set my

table so if God sends someone in my world that

is confused and hurting, and all they've heard is that

you can just change whatever you don't have to. They

don't hear that. If they can hear the good news,

there's a God who loves you just as you are.

And yes, I understand what you've gone through, and yes

I understand you have some real questions. But my life.

There's a place where there's always a seat.

For someone new at my table. Got to prepare the

next ding. Number two is you got to be present.

Some of us spend so much time being ready and

prepping for who might be at your table one day

that we ignore who's at your table today. On again,

God's gonna send me out and I wanna be a

missionary to the industries.

It's like, well, Stark's industries, what are you talking about.

We don't know.

Yet. Your cousin is that your table every Sunday? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

but you know they're just kind of crazy. But in God,

one day, it's gonna use my life. But your grandmother

is at your table right now. And we spend so

much time preparing for the other people that we're not

present with who God has put at your table now

right now.

There are people at your job.

Yes you want a promotion, and yes you want to

change jobs, but right now, there are people in your

cubicle that need peace. They need to know that life

is not dictated on just getting promotions, that you can

have a peace even if you work the same job

for forty years straight and they never see your gifting.

But we're so worried about well, you know, I'm gonna

be a minister to the CEO. Okay, yes, And who's

right in front of you? Who can you encourage today?

Who can you be kind to right here, right now?

I don't need another moment. I don't need to look

for anything else. I don't And I want to say

this because sometimes even in church world and culture, we

be getting prophetic words and encouragements about what God's a

gonna do and where He's gonna take you. And that's amazing.

But also God is gonna take care of that. He's

gonna make sure that happens. Your responsibility is to be

faithful where you are right now, setting the table of

your life, being present with who God has put in

front of you. You gotta you gotta prepare, you gotta

be present.

The last one is.

You gotta pray, and this is a specific prayer. God,

would you open my eyes to see who you're sending

to my table? God, opened my eyes to see who

you're sending into my life on purpose?

Who I literally I.

Have so many random stories and I won't use people's

name because in this room, and I want to embrass you.

I was in an airport one time. I'm walk getting

off the airport. I'm sitting on the airport next to

mister Scott and Misus Scott's right over here and I'm

sitting there and there's someone sitting next to him, and

the Holy Spirit is like, you need to talk to

that guy. And I'm like, absolutely not, that would be weird.

I might keep going on the plane. Then, God, the

whole time you need talk to you need talking, you talking,

you talk. I'm like no, no, no no, And I said, Okay,

if he's behind me when I got off the plane,

I'll do it. And I'm just making up nonsensical deals

with God. I get off the plane, I turn around.

It's Missus Scott. I'm like what we Sorry?

God, So I just keep going. I'm like just completely disobedient.

You're suppos talking, like no, not do it that would

be weird. I'm my head down. I look up.

He's standing right here and I'm like, well, okay, that's

he's looking out the window, got headphones on. He's like

super cool high school kid. He got headphones on. He's

staring out the window. And I'm at this point have

been so disobedient that now I have to awkwardly be

obedient to God. So I walk up to him. I

tap him on the shoulder. I'm like, hey, this is

super weird, but I saw you on the plane. And

then I'm like, wait, what is happening. This is weird.

I'm like, it's not.

Weird, Like God told me to talk to you, and.

He's the whole time. He's just like okay, like this

is real life. What happened?

And I'm like, you think maybe like I could get

your Instagram?

Like I'm like, what is happening. I don't know.

I'm panicking. I literally get his Instagram and I just

said it, Hey, I was, I was on the plane.

I feel like God wanted to encourage you. He's proud

of you. Hey, listen, no matter what decision you happen

front of blahlah blah blah. I send in the text

message beautiful thing. He's at church right now to this day,

from that plane ride.

That happens to all of.

Us every single day. You're in the grocery store and

God's like, Hey, why don't you just encourage them?

God, I can encourage them. That's weird. You're already weird.

Let's just be honest, like.

We're so worried about being perceived as weird that we

rob ourselves of the opportunity to be an answer to

someone's prayer. How God opened my eyes to see who's

at my table? I said that this is our real

life kitchen table, and I'm gonna actually.

Invite Where are the kiddos?

Here are they here?

They're coming?

All right, Rosie come up here with me. Everybody give

it for Rosie. It's my wife, Abbie Rose. You're so beautiful,

the coolest person I know, and you're an amazing painter.

You're welcome. This is our real life table. We can

come sit down at the table. What are we doing?

We talked about this in the run through Babe, come

on now, but we started off at the time I

hear crying. I know my kids are coming up quarter due.

You can go grab me.

Yeah, sure, I'll just stand here by myself in freestyle.

But no, I want you to have a picture of

what real life looks like. And here's where we'll close

this out. Sometimes we think that inviting people to the table,

or these moments with God, or the moment where God's

gonna do this amazing thing through your life is supposed

to be this grand, huge moment.

And I want to encourage you.

It happens in the natural flow of everyday life, everyday life.

My goal and hope is that you would hear this sermon.

You would walk out of here, and when you get

in your car and you're deciding where you're gonna go eat,

you would immediately be thinking, God, who are you gonna

send to my table today?

God, I can't wait.

Imagine what your life would be like if on your

way everywhere, your expectation, your thought, your question was God,

Oh my goodness, who am I about to see today?

Are on my beautiful babies?

Come over here, chickens come up, run, run, run run run.

Now y'all sit down, get in your seats. Okay, where

y'all gonna sit?

Okay, see boom, what I tell you?

What did I tell you?

Look at y'all being kind.

Okay, with the kindness, this is Blue that we gotta

get her some puffs, come on, because she will ruin

the whole sermon. Hey, Bluie, these are our real life kids.

So this is our low Phoenix. He is five years old.

You wanna say hi? Hi? This is Luna Rose Metcalf,

the Champion.

Do you want to say hi?

This is Jade October Metcalf.

Do you want to say hi?

Okay, you want to say hi? Okay, say hello.

She wants to eat the microphone.

But every single day, our family sits at this table,

and amongst all the conversation, amongst handing out puffs, Blue

about to jump out of her seat. Every single God

sends my grandfather, our grandfather, Poppy, who sits right in

this seat. And every single Friday there's an opportunity where

our family sits around the table and I get to

hear a man talk about following Jesus, who has followed

him for fifty plus years, whose wife just went to

be with Jesus after forty plus years of marriage.

And it's not just a random moment.

It's a beautiful moment where God has intentionally.

Sent someone to my table. Why is it powerful?

Because I didn't grow up with my grandfathers in my life,

I didn't, But every single Friday, if I have the

eyes to see it, God says, even though you didn't

grow up with your grandfather, in this season of your life,

every single week, you get time with your grandfather to

be encouraged, to pray over you, to encourage you. Real life,

other people that sit at.

This table, our friends bring a.

Walk through one of the most crazy things and situations

and are carrying like amazing.

Followers of Jesus.

But when they were talking about trying to have a baby,

it was this table.

God sent them into our life.

To talk, to have discussion, to go back and forth

when it wasn't going well, when it wasn't working out,

when they found out they got pregnant, when they found out.

There was an issue. All happened at this table in

real life.

One of the most beautiful surprises that I did not expect.

God sent three rowdy kids named Ava, Charlie and Romey

into my life to sit at this table. What am

I saying amongst regular life? If you would create the space,

you would be surprised at how diverse, how different and

how beautiful life could be if you invited people to

your table.

Now listen, thanks for clapping, guys. I appreciate that.

The reason I bought my kids up here is because

I don't want to be the only Metcalf that lives

my life inviting people to the table. I want to

raise a family that says, you know what the Metcalfs

are about. We always leave space for people. We always

believe the best in people. When everybody else runs away,

we run toward people.

This happened the other day, didn't Arlo. We were watching

Luca yesterday, weren't.

We And that part in the movie where Luca falls

down and his friend runs after him. Do you remember

what I was saying to you? Do you remember what

I said, there's a lot of pressure. I didn't talk

about it. Yeah, he said, I forgot.

I talked to him.

I said, hey, buddy, you see how he fell down

and everybody left him.

Metcalfs are people.

When people fall down, we run to him. I'm trying.

I'm trying to build a life that there's always space

for people at my table. And even though my family

only fills one side of the table, we live our

life with six other open seats, planning, preparing for God

to send someone into our life that needs what we have.

And I would submit and ask everyone in.

Here, amongst your regular life, with your kids, with your family,

with yourself, wherever you may be, is there space at

your table?

Kids? I love you, thank you very much. Can you

give up for my babies?

You can exit the stage now.

I might ask everybody to stand up. If you would,

we're gonna get out of here.

Leave the puff spabe. Don't even worry about it. Okay, Hi,

you gotta call that way. We're gonna close this service

out a specific way.

I might ask everybody, if it's not an emergence, if

you could stay.

We're about to get to one of the most important

parts of the service.

The first thing I'm gonna do is.

I'm going to pray for people who want to make

space at your table. You realize that you've maybe been

living a small life. You've been living a life where

you don't have many friends who are different than you.

Maybe you don't have much space.

For people that are I think different, act different, look different.

But you want to live a bigger life, and you

want to live a life that sets the table that

invites people that sees meeting someone new as an opportunity

and not intimidating. I want to first pray for that

group of people. If you say you know what, God,

I want eyes to see who you're sending it at

my table. I want to see what you're doing, and

I want to be a part of it. I'm asking

everybody to about your heads and close your eyes. If

you're in this room and you're saying you know what,

I want to leave here today and live differently.

I want to be a living invitation.

I don't want to live a life where people are

not welcome at my table. I'm going to ask you

to raise your hand if you want to pray that

prayer you say, I want to live a bigger life.

I want to live an open life. I want people

to be invited to my table.

Holy Spirit, you.

See every hand lifted, You see every hand lifted, You

see every heart that is open. And God, we are

coming to you today asking that you would give us

eyes to see who are you sending to our table.

Who have you placed in front of us that we

can love. Who have you placed in front of us

that we can encourage? Who have you put around us,

family members and coworkers. Lord, God, we don't want to

walk through this world only living for ourself, but we

want to see people or God and show them You.

So God, give us.

The spirit and the strength to prepare, give us the

contentment to be present.

And God, open our eyes to see who You're sending

to our table, every head bow and every eye closed.

There's a second group of people I want to pray for.

And these are people that have felt like you weren't

welcome at the table. These are people that maybe like

the people that Peter was talking to, there were certain

people that kept you out of the church, that felt

like you had to work up to get to God.

There are people in this room that you have to

realize that the Bible said Jesus is actually preparing a

table for you.

The scripture says in.

Psalms twenty three, he prepares a table in the presence

of my enemy. Can I tell you the gospel and

the good news of Jesus is it doesn't matter what

you've done, it doesn't matter how broken you are. But

Jesus is the first person to say, there's a place

at my table. And if you are in this room,

and you are not following Jesus. He is not the

head of your life. There is a spot for you

at this table. Do not believe the lies. You don't

have to do a bunch of things to earn it.

You don't have to act like you're okay. You can

come broken, you can come hurting, you can come with questions.

But Jesus today says there is space for you at

this table. If you're in this room and you want

to accept Jesus as your Lord and savior, you want

to give your life to him, I'm gonna count the three.

I'm gonna ask you to raise your hand. When you

raise your hand, I believe it's gonna solidify on the

outside what God is already doing on the inside.

I'm gonna count the three.

If you want to accept Jesus as your savior, I

want you to raise your hand the count of three. One.

He loves you too.

This is the best decision you could ever make. Three,

lift your hand all over this room. You want to

accept Jesus as your Lord and savior. I see you

right down here, I got you right up there. I

see you so proud of you. I see your ma'am.

I got you right there. Brother's so proud of you,

so proud of you. Welcome to the table. Hey, listen,

as a church family, can we pray out loud together?

Would everybody pray with me?

Everybody say, Dear Heavenly Father, I love you, Dear Jesus,

I admit I'm a sinner, Save me, change me, transform me,

make me new. Thank you for having a place for

me at the table. In Jesus name, I pray. And

everybody said, amen. Can we celebrate those?

Oh? Come on.

Now listen, hey, we're in about the moment. We're gonna

take a moment to pray over all of our students,

over all of our students.

But before we do that, if you're in this room, you.

Just accepted Jesus, I want you to raise your hand

back up again. We want to make sure you leave

here with a Bible. So if you gave your life

to Jesus, you raise your hand the first time. Come on,

some of y'all jumping in on the second time because

you want the free Bible. Calm down. If you gave

your life to Jesus, raise it high, and our team

is gonna.

Confind you to give you a Bible.

We are so proud of you for making that decision.

Can we give it up for everybody who made the

decision to follow Jesus. You see somebody around you that

raise their hand, make sure you give them a hug. Hey, listen,

we're gonna do this to close out service. We have

a lot of people who are starting back up school.

A lot of people have already started school, but we

thought before people are moving off to college, before you

get into the throes of classes and courses, We're gonna

take a moment to pray over all the students in

all of our teachers. So if you are a student

or a teacher, I want you to come down to

the front right now, a student or a teacher. Student

or a teacher, come down, make your way down front,

come out of the aisle. If you do not have

to leave, I would ask that you would stay to

help pray over.

These students, over these teachers. There's a lot of people.

Come on, y'all gonna squeeze in, get in close all

of our students.

And our teachers. Come on, scoot in.

We got a lot of people who are making their

way down.

Scooty and close, scooty and close, scoot in.

Close. Come on, y'all, close as in closer than.

Where you are right now.

So just wherever you are right now, come closer than

that because everybody's coming up. Come on, keep making room,

y'all can come make room around here. You have come

on us, and we're gonna get everybody up here. Students

and teachers, make space. There's room over here, y'all.

Scoot around.

And listen as you come forward. I want you to

know these aren't just worries. I'm gonna believe and prophesy

this over you.

One. The heaviness and the weight.

That you have already felt before entering this new season

is not your portion. The heaviness, the weight, the overwhelmedness.

That is not what God has for you. And it

does not have to.

Be how this year goes. Some of you you have

already school is.

Maybe it's been the first couple of weeks of school

and you felt like, man, it was a fresh start.

I want to this is gonna be a different year,

and a couple of days in you feel like it's

the same old story. I promise you that is not

the end. That is not what this will be. I

believe right now that this year is going to be

something different. There's gonna be something new on the inside

of you, and I am believing that one the heaviness

will not be your burden. The second thing I want

to believe and I want to speak over you, is

that where past years have been fuzzy teachers, where it's

been unclear how you're supposed to teach these kids and

you have those students you seem you can't get through to.

Past year is where it's been fuzzy students, where it's

been unclear which friend circle to be in, where it's

been unclear on who you're supposed to be and how

you're supposed to This year will be the clearest year

you have had, the clearest year. And the last thing

I want to speak over you is that this will

be the most confident year. Confidence not in something superficial,

but confidence in what God put on the inside of you.

Confident that you can hear His voice. I want to

speak that over you. Some of you, students and teachers,

you've went back and forth. Do I really hear God?

Is that hymn?

How do I know?

It wasn't just me?

No, The Bible says, my sheep know my voice and

a stranger. They will not listen to you know the

voice of God. He speaks to you, and this year

you are going to be surprised and shocked.

God's gonna give you wisdom.

He's gonna tell you to pray for people some of you.

There's gonna be gifts that start to rise up.

Teachers.

God's gonna have you prophesying over the those students. Come on,

you're gonna be speaking life when they get death at home.

You're gonna be the one place that calls out the

Greatness on the air. No, you're not that person. And yeah,

you got in trouble, but God has a call.

On your life.

So I'm gonna pray that over you specifically. And there

is everyone watching online. You are just as much a

part of this. We're gonna begin to pray over people.

I'ma ask everybody in this room, We're not gonna play

with this prayer. I'm serious, we are not gonna play

with this prayer. Our team even went through and started

getting teachers and schools from TC nation around the world.

If you're in this room, I want you to begin

to call out teachers and students and names that you see.

We are about to.

Go to God and go before Heaven on behalf of

every student and every teacher, that the heaviness would be

broken off of them in the name of Jesus, that

the spirit of joy would have erupted on the inside

of them. That there would be clarity where the enemies

trying to confuse who they were, try to confuse his voice, there.

Would be clarity. And we are praying for confidence.

So I'm gonna ask everybody in this room, everyone watching online,

would you begin to pray with me right now, Dear

Heavenly Father, Right now we come before you, and I

am praying over every single student, first of all, Lord God,

that first of all, Lord Jesus, you would bring some

confidence on the inside of them. Lord God, I speak

against heaviness right now in the name of Jesus. Heaviness

be gone. In the name of Jesus. The weight of

your past decisions gone, the weight of who want people

want you to be gone, The weight of misstep or

mistakes gone.

In the name of Jais.

Old pressures and negative self talk that you have put

over yourself gone. In the name of Jesus. Now we

cast off every weight and sin that has entangled us.

I thank you, Lord God. You would strengthen their weak needs.

Lord God, they would get a fresh outlook on life

where life has been dark and closed off. Would you

open up their eyes to a new day. It's a

new day in the name of Jesus, a new spirit.

In the name of Jesus God, I thank you. And

right now, God, we pray for clarity. Clarity, Clarity for

every student, Clarity for every teacher. Lord God, I thank

you for clarity on which decisions to make and not

to make. Come on, I'm praying for clarity that God

would speak to you clearly, don't go to that party.

Nope, you're not going to that event. Yeah.

I know everybody's at the football game. You're staying home. Hey,

I know you wanted to stay home, but you need

to go to that event. God, Clarity in the name

of Jesus. Clarity for every teacher.

Yep.

Today you just gonna talk to the students. I know

you had a whole lesson planned, but you're gonna ask

them what do they need, and you're gonna start to

pray over these students. Clarity for every teacher.

Clarity. There are some of you in this room. You're

supposed to be a teacher, and you've been praying about it.

God says you are called and you have something for

this next generation. Clarity in the name of Jesus, got

it right now. I thank you for a God given confidence,

a God given it confidence, confidence for every teacher. I

speak to every teacher, Lord God, that they are called

by you. You may feel unqualified, feel overwhelmed by the

amount of students or the responsibility you've been given. God

has chosen you, God placed you in their life, and

he has given you wisdom and everything you need for that.

I pray for confidence. I pray confidence over every student

that they would walk knowing that they are chosen by God,

that they wouldn't second guests or settle. You will not settle.

I feel that so strong. You will not settle for

something beneath you. You will not settle for friendships that

are beneath you, for standards that are beneath you. But God,

I pray a new strength, a new strength in the

name of Jesus, a new strength. You're gonna go to

past situations that you would have given into, and you're

gonna have the strength to say no, come on. I

believe that past things that you would have fallen into.

You're gonna have a new strength, new strength.

In the name of Jesus.

God.

Right now I.

Speak peace, Peace, be still for every student or teacher

with a rushing mind.

There's some of you.

It feels like your mind is just spinning in circles

and you can't slow it down.

Peace in the name of Jesus.

For those of you who There are some of you

that you feel.

A burden for the school.

You're going into, and I want you to know that

you are sent to that school on purpose. It's not

an accident you're at that school. It's not an accident.

You have those friends. It's not an accident. Teacher that

they gave you, those students. God, would you.

Thank you, Jesus God.

Would you equip people for the mission you put in

front of them. It says in that Scripture and Relations

that the people realize that Peter was called to the

Jews and Paul to the Gentiles. I thank you for

the unique call that is on your life to reach

the people God called you to reach. Every teacher there

are specific students God put.

On your heart, and I thank you for that.

Every student there's specific friends you have and specific people

you're gonna meet. Its specific people you're gonna see. And

when you hear and you feel that moment where God says, hey,

I want you to step out.

Hey, I want you to say something.

Hey, I want you to start a Bible study. Hey,

you will trust that voice. You're gonna remember this moment.

I promise you, some of you, God's gonna have it.

You start a Bible study, something you ain't never done before.

You don't even read the Bible. Right now, God's gonna say,

start a Bible study.

Trust that voice God's speaking to you. You don't have

to have it all figured out. And I thank you

Lord God for an awareness of your new mercy. Every

single day.

Come on, some of you.

You get stuck in one mistake and the next day

you think we're already messed up yesterday.

So what am I gonna do with today? You have a.

Fresh start every single day. Better than that, you have

a fresh start every second you call on the name

of Jesus.

You don't have to wait for a new day.

You can make a mistake, walk out of that party

and say, God, I give it back to you. God,

I thank you. You're on the inside of me. I

thank you that you had strengthen me, that you would

encourage me. I'm gonna ask everybody in this room to

bow your heads and close your eyes. I'm gonna ask

I do this with my kids, and I'm gonna do

this and ask everybody in this room to We do

confessions at the Metcalf House. And it's not just cliche.

The Bible is clear on the power of confession. The

Bible says, if you believe in your heart and confess

with your mouth, you shall be saved. So the way

you receive the grace and the miracle of salvation is

by a confession. And so I believe the power of

what you say it matters. The power of what you speak,

it matters. So we're gonna go through this confession, and

we're gonna say it today when everybody to repeat after

me say, I am chosen by God. I have everything

I need for what He's asked me to do.

His spirit guides me. I hear his voice.

I wake up with bright eyes and an expectation. The

joy of the Lord is my strength. I walk with

purpose and power in every step. God is gonna use

me to make a difference.

I hear him. He's with me and I.

Have all that I need in Jesus' name.

Amen.

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