Testimony Sunday | Build The Church | July 12, 2026

Wow.

Good morning, KCC.

It's uh been a while since I was up here.

Uh I was born into this church.

My parents, Carl and Kathy Thompson, have been part of this church for a long, long time.

It's really good to see some of the faces here.

A lot of you are new, but some of you you're just part of the furniture here.

Every time I come here, you're some of you are older than the furniture here.

And um but this church, this church sent out my family as missionaries to the Dominican Republic uh when I was five years old, and for 12 years, this church was helping my family do missions in the Dominican Republic.

And I just want to say thank you.

Some of you here who have been here for a long time were giving the money to help my family buy groceries while we're ministering to the Dominican people.

So thank you.

Thank you so much.

Some of you were praying for me and for my family while we're ministering there all those years ago.

I think I have a picture of our family from like 17 years ago or something like that.

So with my uh grandparents as well.

Oh, first picture, first picture.

And um, yeah, so thank you.

Thank you so much.

Your prayers and your giving made a difference then, and and the fruit is still growing.

My parents, all my siblings are 100% following Jesus, and it's just awesome.

So, can I say thank you, KCC?

Thank you so much.

I I actually have a recording of Pastor Dave praying for me at my baby dedication.

Isn't that cool?

That's bragging rights right there.

That's uh then when I was 17, I left the Dominican Republic and went to Thailand.

And God called me there long term, fast forward through the last 16 years.

Um I learned the language, learned the culture.

God gave me a beautiful wife and three kids.

That's the next picture.

Next picture.

Okay, there's my wife Opal, she's here today, and then the three kids, Nate and Rosie and Ezra.

They're downstairs.

And uh, we took this picture last week.

There was a double rainbow in the sky by the lake.

It was beautiful.

And so I've been in Thailand these last 16 years.

Too many things to tell you about all of that, but let me just highlight one quick story of how God is moving in Thailand.

And that is that for the last three years, I've been working as a teacher, and it's a unique position because I get to teach the Bible to uh 350 students that are almost all of them not believers, and I get to teach them Monday to Friday, every day, all year long.

It's amazing.

It's like a missionary's dream come true, okay?

You get to teach the Bible to these kids week after week.

And I've I've shared the gospel in many schools, and you go there and you share, and then they don't invite you back, and you're like, okay, well, I hope God does something with that.

But for three years, I've been able to uh share at this school, and over the last year and a half, we've really started to see the fruit.

We've had many students giving their lives to the Lord.

And one story I'll highlight is last year in August, uh, a new teacher came to the school and um he got set up.

I'll just put it that way.

He ended up sitting with me in my office, and he wasn't he had never thought about Jesus in his life, but within a few weeks, he was having these experiences of the presence of God all the time.

And he would tell me about all these divine coincidences that kept happening in his life.

And about six weeks into the school year, he gave his life to the Lord.

He just came up to me and said, I was born again yesterday.

It was so awesome.

And did I share the gospel with him?

Well, yes, but did I save him and make him born again?

No, it was the movement of the Holy Spirit in his life.

And that's just so cool.

I felt like I was just sitting back and watching it happen.

And since then, the guy's just on fire for Jesus.

He's like, every time I think, oh, I think I need to address this issue in his life a little bit and prepare myself and pray for him, and then go talk to him.

He's like, before you say anything, you know, last night the Holy Spirit was convicting me about something in my life, and so I've repented and I've decided to change that.

I'm like, this is the easiest discipleship I've ever done in my life.

It's so good.

And that is the Spirit of God moving in response to your prayers.

And let me put up some stats of Thailand here.

Uh so Thailand has about 70 million people, and uh, this is from Joshua Project.

About 61 million of those people are considered unreached.

So that means they've never had a significant encounter with a Christian.

They, if they wanted to go to church, they'd probably have to travel a long ways to get to a church.

They've never been able to hear the gospel in a way they could understand.

So, can I ask you, KCC, to do something?

Pray to the Lord of the harvest to send workers into the harvest.

Because if nobody goes, how are they gonna hear if nobody tells them?

How are people gonna go if they don't get sent?

Pray for more workers.

Could you do that for me?

Could you guys pray for Thailand?

We want to see this number change from 0.7% Christian to what?

100%.

Let's go.

Yeah, that would be awesome.

Could you pray for Thailand?

And because your prayers make a difference.

I I can't, I can preach the gospel to people all day long, and nothing's gonna happen if God's not opening their hearts and saving their souls, right?

So can you guys please pray?

I think I have a picture of me at school.

We'll just hi, there's me with Nate at school.

He's cute.

Okay.

And and then the last image, if you would like to, there is a uh the next picture after this.

Is there one more picture?

No?

Okay.

Well, I just wanted to share with you guys this uh cool resource.

I can share it with you later, but uh a guide to praying for Thailand to help you understand the Thai culture and the Thai people and how you can pray for them.

Will you please pray for the Thai people?

Do you mind if I pray for the Thai people right now and you guys can just agree with me?

And Jesus, you love the Thai people.

All 70 million of them, you know their name, you know everything about them, you knit them together in their mother's womb, and you care deeply for them.

Would you please bring revival to this nation?

Would you please send more workers into the harvest?

Would you please bring these people to know you?

Bring a conviction from the Holy Spirit, bring a repentance of sin, and do the miraculous work of making each and every one of them into a new creation.

All the love that we've experienced from you, we pray that they would experience there in Thailand.

We pray for them, Lord.

Would you save them?

In Jesus' name we pray.

Amen.

Amen.

Thanks, Matt.

Uh, I had the privilege, my wife and I had to go to Pastor Brody's house, and he fed me authentic Thai food.

Him and Opal Opal made it.

I'm not gonna try and pronounce the dish because I got it wrong every time that I was sitting with him.

Calsoy says, Is that right?

Yes, Opal's got her hands up.

I said it correctly, all is well.

Uh and uh she asked me how hot do I want it, and I said uh I don't handle heat that well.

Uh and it was not that hot, but it was amazing food.

Uh so this morning you can see that we have some people that are making their way to the stage.

Today is Testimony Sunday.

Yeah.

So before I bring them up, I just want to share just a few things about this.

You're gonna hear some things this morning that are gonna be raw and real.

Because the gospel of Jesus Christ doesn't care about history, doesn't care about what's going on in your life.

It just knows that you need to be saved.

Amen.

And so we're gonna hear this morning.

They're gonna, do you know what I love about these three is that they have been through the foundations course and I heard them all speak and their their opportunities.

It was interesting because we asked for a homily, and a homily is Bruce's fancy way of saying we need you to share for five minutes.

And Emily had said before that we start this, he said, man, I'm glad that Bruce isn't there to hit the buzzer and tap on the thing just as the five minutes runs up.

Something that we learned from Stern Orm years ago that he did it to us in Bible school.

Uh, but their testimonies are powerful.

And this morning I just wanted to just lay this out for us.

Uh, is when we give a testimony, it shows evidence of what God has done in someone's life.

It shows evidence that God moved, it shows evidence that something that was broken, something that was not in great shape, something that needed to be restored, it shows evidence of God's restoring power.

Amen.

When we look at the when we say the word redeemed, redeemed means brought back.

Redeemed means rescued.

And when we get rescued, that rescue does cost us something.

So when they come up, this is what I want from us.

I want you to lean into their testimonies.

Just don't respond to the feel-good part part of this.

They're gonna have some amazing uh moments where it's gonna be feel-good, but I want you to hear what God has done in their life as we share these testimonies.

You're gonna see what God has done in the worst of situations that brought people from something that we would look at maybe, or maybe this is that you identify with this, but God is gonna show you in your heart this morning what God is able to do in people's lives.

Amen.

And so I just want to just pray for all three, and then we're gonna start with Nick.

So Lord, just bless them as they come and they share your word, but they share a testimony of what you've done in their life.

Lord, give them boldness to be able to speak the truth that you have in their life.

In Jesus' name.

Amen.

All right, Nick.

Let's give Nick a hand.

All right, good morning.

My name is Nicholas Alexander Mercy, if you didn't know.

Um, over the next few minutes, I just want to share with you how God took a broken kid uh from a broken home and turned him into his mess into a message.

So I'll start with Romans 8.28.

I believe that that is one of my favorite verses from scripture.

Um, Romans 8.28.

And we know that God works all things together for good of those who love him and who are called according to his purpose.

That verse has become an anchor for me because when I look back on my life, um, there's no other explanation for how I'm standing here today except for that God was working uh good the entire time.

Even in the years I was running uh as far away from him as possible uh as I could.

I grew up in a broken home.

My dad served in the military for over 30 years, but he was and still is to this day an alcoholic.

He was not present.

My mom raised my brother and me on her own um long before she remarried.

Um I came into uh stepdad's situation when I was about 10.

Um, and he's actually a police officer, still serving to the state about 30 years.

He gave me a lot of discipline, work ethic, um, but we never really connected and I didn't actually ever feel uh wanted.

So by 12, I was smoking cannabis.

It was my escape, um, a way to feel numb instead of feeling the pain of not having a dad or a relationship with my stepdad that felt loving and really truly not knowing who it is uh that I was.

By high school, I was drinking to get drunk, not just to like drink alcohol, it was to experience that escape.

Um I started selling drugs alongside my friends in the skateboard, snowboard scene in high school, getting in fights, um, all kinds of trouble.

I was an intelligent child, but a rebellious one.

Um at 16, I was introduced introduced to um unfortunately cocaine.

I was kicked out of the house, living on my own by 17, so I've been on my own since that age.

Um eventually my choices caught up with me.

Um I broke into someone's home, uh, caused some real damage, and ended up facing uh jail time.

I served time, went on house arrest, completed probation, and somehow in the middle of that, all of that, um I worked through a three-year advanced diploma and finished my university degree.

But I was still wearing a mask, still using, still hiding.

Over the next several years, I chased every version of success I could find, the oil fields in Alberta.

Um, a relationship I ended up destroying through my own dishonesty, and eventually building my own barbershop from the ground up here in Kelowna.

From the outside, it looked like I made it.

Um on the inside, I was drowning.

Extortion case I had experienced, so I had to sell my house and leave.

Uh I've been involved in a DUI crash on my Harley Davidson, nearly lost my life.

My wrist is fused, lost three bones, broke my neck.

I helped uh alongside all of this, I actually developed a business that helped grow into millions that I had to walk away from because of my own addiction, relationships I damaged, including um choices I still carry grief over.

Um I was somehow, excuse me, I was somebody who looked successful and felt completely lost.

But here's the thing: even in those years, God was pursuing me.

I got baptized in 2022, but I wasn't fully surrendered.

I still thought I could manage my own life.

Um I went through a treatment program in 2024, relapsed, got asked to leave, and in the summer of 2025, in the middle of what should have been my absolute rock bottom, um, six months into a hard slide, I couldn't stop on my own.

I finally stopped fighting uh God and made Jesus my Lord and Savior.

More so Lord.

He was already my savior.

Not because I cleaned myself up first, but because I couldn't.

I went back into treatment and completed the Freedom Store program from July 2025 to October 2025.

I've been studying at KCC Foundations One, two, and one again, uh hopefully three soon time, sharing my story and serving uh other men walking the same road that I walked.

Um I really believe in the 12-step recovery program.

Uh I like to share my testimony there and just reach a hand uh to those that are struggling and invite them to KCC.

So we have some friends, uh I have some guests here today, and a number of you that are here today, um, I believe have come because of the relationships we've established.

Um physically, excuse me.

Physically, when I went back into treatment, I was about 155 pounds, so just over a year ago.

From the from that time last year, I've been in the gym five days a week.

I see Norm and Daniel at the gym every day at 5 a.m.

Um I've run a half marathon, I'm working on a full marathon for this year, and I have a competition I'm competing in in October in Toronto, which is pretty significant, and I'm very excited about that.

Um I'm building healthy relationships, I'm expecting a pardon in January, hallelujah for my mistakes I made at 18.

Thank you.

Which is opening doors I never thought possible.

Uh, I'd like to use another anchor verse, which is Joel 225 aloud.

God's promise is to restore the years the locusts have eaten.

So that's amen.

That's exactly what's happening in my life right now.

God isn't just forgiving my past, he's restoring um what the addiction has stolen.

Thank you.

Uh 2 Corinthians 5.17.

If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.

I'm not the same man who I was hiding behind the mask for 20 years.

I'm not perfect and I'm still healing, but I know who I am.

I'm a son of God and he's not finished with me yet.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

So if you're here today and you're still wearing a mask, still running and still numbing the pain, I want you to know God met me in my absolute moment, in my absolute worst moment, and He'll meet you in yours too.

Hallelujah.

Umily, and I'm going to share my testimony.

If I knew Jesus the way I do now, I wouldn't have made the mistakes then.

But if I didn't make the mistakes then, I wouldn't know Jesus the way I do now.

My entire life had revolved around a man.

As a little girl, it was about getting my dad's attention and approval.

As a teenager, it became about getting the boys to notice me, to like me, to think I was enough.

I wanted so badly to be chosen that I abandoned myself along the way.

I spent years chasing attention, validation, distraction.

Fast forward to my early 20s, and I was introduced to substances.

What started out as partying quickly became a lifestyle filled with substance abuse, unhealthy relationships, lying and doing whatever I wanted whenever I wanted.

But it's an important part of what Jesus has redeemed.

One night I went out downtown expecting an ordinary night, but instead I was drugged and sexually assaulted.

In an instant, my life shattered and I fell apart and dropped out of school when I moved back home.

I was completely stripped down to nothing, empty, hurt, and betrayed.

I felt guilty, I felt responsible, and I felt dirty and empty, and I was really mad at God, questioning if he even existed.

In the middle of all of that darkness, God placed a woman named Jenny in my life.

And she loved Jesus in a way I never seen before.

She became a safe place for me to ask the questions I've been carrying for years.

And I remember asking her, How can God be real if he allows such awful things to happen?

She looked at me with so much compassion and said, in more or less words, God's ways are higher than ours, and we won't always understand them.

But our suffering does not mean God has abandoned us.

God has the ability to turn the deepest pain into something that brings healing and blessings to many people.

Genesis 50, 20, you intended to harm me, but God intended it for good.

That night I went home and experienced the Holy Spirit for the first time.

It was overwhelming and it was undeniable.

In that moment, I realized God was never the one who had abandoned me.

He had been pursuing me all along.

The anger I carried toward him was gone.

Now, I wish I could tell you that from that moment on I completely surrendered my life to Jesus, but unfortunately that wasn't my story.

I was half in and half out.

I'd watch sermons and I'd pray when life got hard, and I'd call myself a Christian, but Jesus wasn't truly Lord of my life.

I did what I'd always done, and I buried the pain, convinced myself I was okay, packed everything neatly into the darkest corners of my mind, and I tried to move on.

But buried pain doesn't disappear, it grows.

And eventually the cycle repeated itself.

Looking back, I can see I was trying to heal my wounds by searching for love instead of God.

Every romantic relationship I built apart from him was standing on an unstable foundation.

No matter how hard I tried, nothing could fill the emptiness I carried because the place in my heart that longed for love had always been made for him.

I kept searching anyway, believing that if I was loved enough, I'd finally feel whole.

Instead, I kept numbing my pain until eventually the life I was living caught up with me.

My body began screaming for help.

I became malnourished, physically sick, and spiritually empty.

I was hospitalized twice with severe pneumonia, and I was a shell of the person God created me to be.

Finally, I hit the end of myself.

I got down on my knees and I cried out to God and I begged Him to help me because I couldn't keep living that way.

And on my knees, everything started to make sense.

The sickness I thought was unfair was actually part of God's rescue.

The assault that I believed had ruined my life became the very thing God used to pull me out of a destructive path.

The pain forced me to ask questions, and those questions led me to.

Jesus.

He brought me to my knees so I could finally look up.

Psalm 34, 18.

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and he saves those who are crushed in spirit.

I've learned something since then.

Another quote from Jenny: I don't always understand God, but I can stand under him.

I've learned that trusting his heart is more important than understanding his hand.

And that's when I truly surrendered my life to Jesus.

Today I have peace about my past, not because it didn't hurt, and not because it was fair, but because I know God has redeemed every single part of it.

The woman I am today is completely unrecognizable from the woman I spent so many years trying to become.

Jesus didn't just change parts of my life, he changed everything.

Instead of being driven by scarcity, fear, and the need for approval, I am rooted in his abundance, his grace, and his unconditional love.

The life I live today is one I never thought was possible, and I know it's only because of him.

As I began walking with Jesus, he didn't just transform my heart, he also gave me a family.

He led me to Kelowna Christian Center.

And I honestly don't know where I would be without this church.

God has used this community to show me what his love looks like in action.

I found people who didn't judge my past but walked beside me, people who prayed for me, encouraged me, challenged me, and continually pointed me back to Jesus.

One of the greatest gifts God gave me through KCC was the Foundations Course.

That course completely transformed the way I understand God, His Word, and my identity in Christ.

It didn't just give me more knowledge about Jesus, it helped me build my life on Him.

And for that I will be forever grateful.

When I was asked to share my testimony today, my first thought was absolutely not.

But I remembered Mark 5.19 says, Go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you and how he has had mercy on you.

Thank you.

I don't have all the answers, but I know the one who does.

And in 2 Corinthians 5:17, therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.

2 Corinthians 5:17

The old has passed away, and behold, the new has come.

Thank you, church, for listening and giving me the opportunity to share my testimony and all glory to God.

It's a little tough to go after your best friend.

Okay.

Hello, everyone.

Hello, church.

My name is Cassie, and uh I'm honored to be sharing my testimony with all of you today.

Growing up, God was always somewhere in the background for me.

Christmas, Easter, and a few youth group church nights along the way.

It was always sort of a drag to church energy, and I had a dad who would always roll his eyes at the mention of the Lord.

I always knew something was there, but I never really knew the depth of his love or what it meant to have God as a father.

My uncle was a pastor, and my cousins, who are still some of my closest friends today, have followed Jesus for their whole lives.

Every time I was around them growing up, I always just felt so loved and accepted and safe.

And what I did not know then was that God was trying to reach out to me through them.

When I became pregnant with my first daughter at 18 years old, just before graduating high school, it was a difficult time for me and my parents to say the least.

But I knew in my heart that I was supposed to be her mother.

And I know now that was God speaking to me again.

She just graduated this year and is one of the biggest blessings of my life.

And the years that followed her birth were extremely hard.

Obviously, being a teenager, I became a young single mom within the first year after she was born, and with that came something I carried for over a decade, even after meeting and marrying my husband.

And that was hyper-independence.

I didn't ask for help, especially not from a man.

Multiple negative experiences with men in my life from childhood to early adulthood had completely warped my view of what a man and a father was supposed to be.

And because God was a man, I couldn't ask him for help or give him credit for anything good in my life.

I prayed to the universe.

I watched psychics and tarot card reader videos on YouTube looking for answers.

I was living entirely by the world's definition of my worth, my career, my accomplishments, and how hard I could work at basically everything in my life.

Jeremiah chapter 29, verse 11 says, For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 29:11

Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope in a future.

Last summer, my friends Emily and Tori invited me to come to KCC for service, as they'd also been invited by a friend as well.

The moment worship started, the three of us broke down in tears.

I hadn't felt anything like that in a really, really long time, and I knew it was the Holy Spirit.

In that moment, I gave my life to Jesus.

What I began to learn from reading the Bible in service on Sundays here and in the KCC Foundation Foundation's classes, excuse me, I began to dismantle everything I thought I knew about God.

He wasn't the controlling, withholding authority figure that I'd imagined all those years.

He's a father, a loving, pursuing, and patient father who had been with me the entire time.

One of the biggest shifts I've had recently was when Pastor Brian spoke about servanthood in Foundations class.

He said that serving others in order to be recognized and seen is what drains us.

But serving out of love and obedience to the Father is what gives us sort of like true life.

And the way that he explained that honestly hit me right in the chest.

I had this massive realization that I had been doing everything for my family while also working full-time in my business and had been feeling resentful because of it, exhausted and depleted for years.

I would say things like, I'm just a mom, like it wasn't enough.

No matter how many incredible things that I did accomplish outside of that, I still felt like it wasn't enough for me to feel worthy.

What I see now with full clarity is that God has called me to this life of mine.

He blessed me with my children and my husband on purpose.

And raising our kids to know him and love him is the most important thing that we will ever do.

I'm no longer serving to feel seen or feel worthy.

I'm serving to become more like him.

I learn more each day that God sees all of me and the way he sees me is more than enough.

Matthew chapter 20, verse 26 to 28 says, Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve.

Matthew 20:26–28

After exhausting myself for years trying to create change and living in major hyper-independence, here is what I know now to be true.

If you truly want to make an impact and be of real service to others, it starts with the Lord.

The closer we draw to God and the more we commit our hearts to him, the better equipped we are to serve without becoming resentful and burnt out.

Not through striving or hustle, but just by living for him and choosing to become closer to him every single day.

The way I have felt myself change over the last year has been nothing short of miraculous.

I would have never created this new environment inside of me and outside of me on my own.

John chapter 15, verse 4 says, Remain in me as I remain in you.

John 15:4

No branch can bear fruit by itself.

It must remain in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

Since coming to KCC, many family members and friends have begun to attend.

My kids and my husband come as well.

They're here as well in the front second row.

And uh my daughter Grace and I are actually getting baptized today at the church picnic, so we're really excited.

People that I know in my life that I work with and that I'm friends with, they just tell me that I move differently, I speak differently, and that my energy has really shifted.

And I know that that's God working inside of me.

I used to search in answers for answers in astrology and self-help books.

You should see my bookshelf, it is crazy.

Because I was terrified of the unknown and just had to feel some semblance of control.

But now I can sit in the uncertainty and tell the Lord with my whole heart, I trust you.

The Bible says in Romans chapter 8, verse 28, and we know that in all things God works for good for the those uh for the good of those who love him and have been called according to his purpose.

Romans 8:28

Paul really means it when he says all things.

What I see now is that God can use your mistakes, your failures, your successes, and even your pain for good.

Maybe you see that good as making your life easier or better all the time.

But Paul goes on to say that God has actually predestined us to be conformed in the image of his son.

God's definition of good isn't always comfort.

It's about becoming more like Jesus.

Maybe the situation you're walking through right now is meant to make you more like him.

What if the suffering you're experiencing is meant to make you more compassionate?

What if waiting for answers to a desperate prayer is meant to make you more patient?

And what if the grace you receive from God is meant to make you more gracious towards others?

When you choose to be with God and bring that part of your life to him, he can use even that interpretive for good.

You just have to let him.

Thank you.

One, they didn't collaborate on their notes, but they ended up with the same scripture, which I thought was really, really interesting.

Uh the one about the new creation is I'm really proud of you guys.

I've been, Bruce and I, and the teachers have been with them for the last well year, uh, and they've taken foundations 101, 201, and soon to be 301, but they've taken them multiple times.

Uh and what we see is when a new, when God says you're a new creation, we've watched three people in real time show evidence of God working in their life.

We've seen a change in attitude, a change in in language, a change in family life, a change in relationships because they submitted, and I love how Nick said it.

It was that he was already my savior, but they changed and they said, He's my Lord.

It's not just about, yeah, he's your savior.

You can go to church, you can do the things that you need to do, he can be your savior, but Lord comes with a different weight.

Lord comes, hey, there's a cost to this that means I have to I have to actually examine me and God, what do you want for me so I can operate in all that you've called me to do, and I will obey you without fail, with every ounce of strength that I have to do what you've called me.

And what we've watched is three people walk through discipleship and have life change.

There's the weight to that testimony, church.

There's a weight to that testimony, and even I'm sitting here and I'm I'm emotional just hearing the stories again, actually, and it's it's just as powerful because the Holy Spirit is just wanting us to realize that the that the things that you're going through, the struggles that you have, the weight that you're carrying, the the pressure on your mind, the pressure on your heart, the pressure on your job can be taken care of by the Holy Spirit.

That you can walk a different path, even though you may feel stuck in the one that you're in.

And this this testimony isn't just for those that like don't know Jesus or are this is for us that are Christians for a long time, as well as those that are maybe here for the first time.

Where are you sitting in your heart?

Can you stand with me?

So I want to end just a little bit different this morning.

I'm gonna have some of the prayer team members come forward.

Just make your way up to the front.

And I feel like the the there's just people in the room this morning.

And we're just we're gonna end early today, but I want a time for if you're feeling this morning like, hey, my life is a little out of control, and I need a change, a shift, whether or not you know Jesus or you don't know Jesus.

This is an opportunity for us just to respond as a church, to feel the the weight of the faith that's built because of testimonies.

We see evidence in people of what God has done.

So can you just close your eyes?

This is what it says in James 1.22.

It says, be it says to be doers of the word and not hearers only.

So if you're in this room, I'm gonna just if you don't know Jesus, and you're struggling and you just don't know what's going on, just as the church's eyes are closed, I just want to make uh just some space here.

If you don't know Jesus, and the testimonies of these have stirred something in you and you want to give your life to Christ this morning, I just want to create an opportunity for that.

So that's what I want you to just do if their eyes are closed.

If that's you and you want to give your life to Jesus this morning, just raise your hand so I can see it.

So, church, just as we sit here just for a minute, I just want to go through this.

Just say this with me for those that raised their hands this morning.

Say, Jesus, I know that I'm a sinner and I can't save myself.

I believe you died on the cross for me, and that you rose again from the dead.

Right now I turn away from my old life, and I give you my whole life.

Come into my heart, be my savior, be my Lord, make me new from this day forward.

Thank you for forgiving me.

Thank you for saving me in Jesus' name.

So just as we we close, if this is you and you're just feeling if that was you and you gave your life to Jesus this morning, we're so excited for you.

We want you, yeah.

Let's just give them a hand.

But I've asked these three just to be made uh available on the front if you want prayer.

And this is you, and you're just feeling like, man, I want a shift in my life, I want to change, I want to have, I want to be that new creation, even if we're believers, I want that new move, I want the Holy Spirit just to change my life, to have that relationship with him.

If that's you, this is the time where we make that opportunity to come and just share and come and get prayed for, amen.

So, just if that's you, we're just gonna close the service.

I'm gonna have the team just lead us in one final song.

We're just gonna do a little bit, we're gonna pray, and then we're just gonna move on.

Amen, church.

Amen.

Let's just worship.