Pastor Brodie Kalamen | Make Room For God's Grace | February 1st, 2026

So good.

So good.

It's uh Sundays like this where you hope that you're wearing clean socks because you end up down and shoes off, and I just uh remember a time in my life where the presence of God came and just overwhelmed me to the point that I was just like laying on the floor, and I was telling my kids about this the other day.

It was like someone was sitting on my back, like I wasn't in pain.

It was a very light person, but it was it felt like someone was on my back, and I just couldn't get up, but someone came by and removed my shoes, and I was like, that's not very nice to do.

Like, make sure you're wearing clean shoes or clean socks.

It's uh you never know what'll happen in church.

Well, what what a great opportunity to uh be in the presence of God today.

That's great.

Uh thank you for all of our teams that are serving with us.

You know that uh many uh most of everyone who serves on a Sunday here, they're servant leaders.

And uh we are a servant-run church, we are a servant uh-run church, but we're staff-led, but uh, there are so many people who serve in the church, and uh they come prepared in their heart to be able to offer worship and service to you and to all uh the ministry needs on a Sunday.

And I just felt like when I was sitting today, would you just give them a round of applause today for Amen?

There are people that are just pulling in the same direction together, and we can't do what we do on our own.

We do it uh with the support of each and every one of you.

So I know that some of them are making waffles or pancakes upstairs today for the teens.

And I know that some of you thought maybe you just sneak out and join in, but uh we have a we have a way of censoring the group up there.

So today I'd like to begin with a passage out of 2 Samuel chapter 9.

2 Samuel 9 · chapter mention

I'm gonna read it uh for us today, and then we're just gonna pray and begin.

It said David asked, this is King David, uh, David asked, Is there anyone still left of the house of Saul to whom I can show kindness for Jonathan's sake?

And then there was a servant of Saul's household named Zeba.

They summoned him to appear before David and the king and said to him, Are you Zeba?

He said, At your service.

The king asked, Is there still no one?

Is there no one still alive from the house of Saul to whom I can show God's kindness?

And Ziba answered the king, There is still a son of Jonathan.

He is lame in both feet.

Where is he?

the king asked.

And Ziba answered, He's at the house of Makir, son of Amel in Lodabar.

So King David had him brought from Lodabar from the house of Makir, son of Amiel.

When Mephibosheth, son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he bowed down to pay him honor.

David said, Mephibosheth, at your service, he replied, Don't be afraid, David said to him.

I will restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul.

You will always eat at my table.

Mephibosheth bowed and said, What is your servant that you should notice a dead dog like me?

Such a beautiful picture of healing, such a beautiful picture of grace and restoration.

I believe that that combination really epitomizes the heart of the Father for us.

God would see each of us healed.

He would see each of us filled with his grace, see each of us fully restored.

And this morning we launch a new series called Make Room.

I'd like us to focus today by opening up our hearts, opening space for God's grace.

Would you make room?

Just say, make room, make room.

Father, as we make room for you today, Father, we open up our heart to you today.

We open up our eyes and our mind to you today.

Father, we we create space, margin, room for you to come and minister to your church.

Minister to each and every one of us, Lord.

And may we see you, Lord, in a fresh way.

May we see you in a new way, Father today.

May we leave here different, changed because of your presence today in this place.

Amen.

I don't know how you walked in here today.

Uh, I don't pretend to know how you walk in.

I always take the position at first that everyone who's coming in is coming in full of God, full of worship, full of a with a full heart.

But the reality is many people come to church carrying a past, carrying a history, carrying habits and hang-ups, and they're carrying things that are slowing them down from actually like running the the race that God has put in front of you.

And so when you come into church, my my uh expectation is that if you come in empty, you leave filled.

If you come in weighted, you leave free, flying.

When you come in with a little bit of despair, you leave with joy.

You come in grieving, you walk out with joy.

There's the heart, you come in anxious, you walk out with peace.

We come into the house of God, not to stay the same.

We come into his house to be transformed, renewed in our mind, reformed in our heart, a reformed heart, a reformed mindset that takes us into the into our week, takes us into living our life.

So I grew up uh with a deep love for the Old Testament.

How many of you are Old Testament like you list, love the Old Testament?

At first, I love the Old Testament because I love the stories of the New Old Testament, I love the adventure of the Old Testament.

And it wasn't until later that I realized that the purpose of the Old Testament was to showcase the character and the nature of God.

And if you look at each and every story, you actually see the outline of God in the Old Testament as God was preparing the people for Jesus' arrival.

We need to read these events of the story as the seeing the story of God.

It's the foundation of the arrival of Jesus.

So this is one of the most beautiful stories in views of God's grace that we see in the whole Bible.

Uh, we see it sandwiched between many great stories of David.

We see it sandwiched between, you know, the David taking on Goliath and David on the run, and David is the hero and the champion.

We see it as David as the covenanted uh person after God's own heart.

But we can let it get this one chapter, this one portion of this story get dismissed.

And so I'm gonna take a moment, just set the text and give it some context.

Um, King David was written about more than any other character in the Bible.

In fact, there's more about King David that's written than any ancient historical figure.

In fact, many of you may have even seen that uh David is still being written about today.

In modern forum, they had an animated series that uh went to the box office, and it was number two in the box office behind Avatar.

It was uh$83 million, I think, on its launch.

It's just a wild story that people are continuing to tell the story of David because the story of David is a story that resonates with every heart.

There's a whole lot about him.

He's uh very complex as a character.

He was a man after God's own heart, but he wasn't perfect.

And that's probably what I love about him the most, is the fact that even though you see his great victories and his great accomplishments and his great strengths, you also get a glimpse to see his failure.

You get to see his massive losses, his weaknesses.

And he wasn't perfect, but through the process we see him, through his story, we see him being perfected.

And I think that reminds me of everyone's story.

None of us are perfect.

Is there anyone perfect in the room today?

How many of you are being perfected day by day?

How many of you are hoping to be better today than you were yesterday?

Because of God's grace over your life, we can all get better through Him.

So he was a warrior, he was also a poet, he was a song, a song uh minstrel, he played the harp, and yet he also was really good with a sling, apparently.

You may feel uh, but he was uh a man that God chose.

And how many of you know that sometimes uh the ones that God chooses, the people God chooses, it aren't the ones that man would choose.

And sometimes the ones man would choose aren't the ones that God would choose.

And the fact is, like David is a great story of that God calls the unqualified, he qualifies those who he calls.

So sometimes you may be in a room and be like, I don't know, God, you're giving me this vision of something, but I don't feel qualified to get to this destination.

But God, because of his call on your life, will qualify you.

If God gives you a vision, he will give you the provision for that vision.

The purpose of our purpose and is to be obedient and to lean into it and not shirk away from it, and to say yes to God.

Every time God says go, you say, Yes.

I don't know how I'm gonna get there, but I'm gonna go.

So you may feel in that place, but God has anointed you.

God has appointed each and every one of us with a purpose and a call.

Now, David is anointed to be king over Israel.

He's anointed, but the moment that he was anointed didn't actually mean he became king.

You can be anointed, but not in the place, in the appointed place at that immediate time.

God actually takes you on a journey to to teach you, to instruct you, to prepare you for that moment of time.

I think a lot of our culture today, we get a vision from God, uh, we get a dream from God, and we think that we got we should be there like right now.

But the reality is God takes those people who he gives a vision to, and he takes them on a journey of preparation.

And he tests you and he qualifies you, and you struggle.

You know that with every vision, the enemy's gonna have an opposition against you.

And so you've got to learn how to throw back, you've got to know how to punch back, you've got to know how to fight, you've got to know how to fight for the vision, and make sure that that you're leaning into God the whole way.

From the day he was anointed, it's years before he actually becomes king.

And like us, that reality of that call, that stirring is there and is evident, but we need to hold on to it.

He goes from Jesse's home, his dad's home, where he was uh where he was uh picked on by his brothers, bullied by his brothers, forgotten by his dad.

One of seven brothers, and he was taken from there to the battlefield where he actually cut off the head of a giant.

You know the story?

Saul uh is looking for a champion and he finds David, and David goes on the field and takes out Goliath and takes off his head, and you know, just does it in a miraculous form, and he becomes the champion of Israel.

And through Saul's dark season of mental torment, he he calls on David to come, play the harp for him, get him into a place of worship, and the evil spirits leave uh leave Saul.

It's it like David is demonstrating his connection, his relationship with God.

And so to understand that portion that we read, to understand 2 Samuel chapter 9, you need to really understand David's story.

2 Samuel 9 · chapter mention

When he killed Goliath, one of the prizes he got was to be married to the king's daughter, Michael.

It's a girl's name.

And Michael is uh an interesting girl to be married to.

You have to read the story.

Like she was she was a little hard, I think, to live with.

But um, but David really falls in love with his brother-in-law, Jonathan.

He just starts to love his brother-in-law.

It's a great example of what a healthy and good relationship can be between men, and uh it's a great example of that, but um he he guards this relationship with his his brother-in-law, Jonathan.

And David begins to fight for Saul, and he begins to win victories and championships, and and he comes back and people are singing.

David is slaying like his tens of thousands, and Saul is slaying his thousands.

And it starts to like stir up envy and resentment in Saul against David, and all of a sudden the champion becomes the fugitive.

And David goes on the run, and he begins running to find places of solitude, and it goes from the golden boy to a fugitive, and he's living in caves and ditches and finding his like merry group, you know, his 300 men that start to follow him, that are are qualified as discontent, in debt, and just discouraged.

That's his group of 300.

While all the while still carrying the call of God on his life that he's gonna be king.

How many of you know comparison will kill your contentment?

And Saul, as he began to compare, it just stirred up something in him, an offense against David.

He's building his kingdom, David, with this rabble group.

He has opportunity at one point to kill Saul.

In fact, he cuts off a piece of Saul's garment, takes his water jug, and later apologizes to Saul, feeling that you should never touch the Lord's anointed, but he had the opportunity to expediate his purpose.

You could be king, you're anointed to be king.

All it would take is a quick little slice.

You're next in line, David.

But instead, he waited on the Lord to actually bring this to pass.

And David is becoming this legend in Israel, not because of uh the anointing of Samuel, but because of the curse of Saul.

Saul's just chasing after him like a madman, looking for him, finding him, to try and find him.

And David's renown gets greater and greater.

In fact, it says that the house of Saul got weaker and weaker, and the house of David grew stronger and stronger.

How many of you know that you can love your hater, can hate on you, but actually be benefiting you at the same time?

As people watched him, they saw the vision that was there, and Saul's house grew weaker and weaker, and David's house grew stronger and stronger, and instead of taking the crown when David, when he heard David heard of Jonathan and Saul's death, it was naturally appointed to him by the people of Israel.

And it was quite customary that once he officially became king, it became customary that even though it was a time of peace, when a new king was appointed, uh, the new household took power, uh, everyone connected to an old household would be put to death and executed.

And so one day when David asks this question, is there anyone left of the house of Saul?

You must question like what was his intent.

And when it was surprising to everyone, was he says, I want to know if there's anyone from the house of Saul left that I can show kindness to.

It really shifted the mood in the environment.

It's bizarre because Saul was out to hurt and harm David, but David was out to bless Jonathan and bless his lineage.

So Ziba says there's this son, this grandson, living in the land of Lodabar.

Now, Lodabar is not just a physical place.

Would you just say Lodabar?

Lodabar.

I just love that.

Lodabar.

It sounds like you're gonna open some big like Lodabar.

And he says, go to Lodabar and find this person that's staying there, this relative of Jonathan, of Saul.

Now, Lodabar, as I was saying, is not just a physical place, it's a figurative place.

It means a place of no bread.

How many of you know that you can be trapped in a place where you're just like constantly stirred but never satisfied?

That's Lodabar.

Lodabar is a place where there is no satisfaction.

You're hungry but never fulfilled.

You're thirsty but never quenched.

And you're in that place and it feels just empty.

And the fact is that David, uh, David is looking for the ancestors for uh from Saul.

He finds them in Lodabar, the place of no bread, where David is come from and was born in Bethlehem, the house of bread.

And David is a symbol of a Christ type.

And Christ comes.

And how many of you know that you could be living in a place with nothing and come to Christ and He's got everything?

And Christ is available to each and every one of us.

And David is saying, I'm looking for someone, where is he?

He's in the place of no bread.

And David's like, Well, I've got more than enough.

Lodabar also means a pastureless place, a place where there's no pasture, a place where nothing is growing, a place that life is in reverse, a place with no momentum.

Everything is flat, and in fact, it's sinking backwards.

Nothing takes root, and yet David's song is The Lord is my shepherd.

I shall not want.

He leads me to what?

Green pastures, still waters.

He he restores my soul.

A rich, a lively, an expansive, a blessed place.

And I'm feeling like there's so many people who are living in this place of Lodabar when there's this a place of blessing.

And an oasis for you and for everyone's soul.

And that's why we come to a church to realize and connect with this truth that it's not about how you feel, it's about how who God is and allowing God to fill your heart.

So it's that place that's past your list.

And thirdly, it's a place where there's no communication.

It's one thing to suffer, it's another thing to suffer with in silence, with no communication.

It's silent suffering.

And I feel like a lot of people are just in that place of hurt, in a place of pain.

They're silent because they can't even explain it.

It's a place of trauma, place that's unexplainable, where I've dealt with things from my past, and I'm connected to the things that I don't even understand.

So I don't even want to talk about them.

And it's related to a place like where someone has let you down, or or or just life has let you down, and that silence is actually a symptom of shame.

It's a piece of shame.

It's a place of shame.

Now Mephibosheth is living in this place.

Mephibosheth is the son of Jonathan, the grandson of Saul.

He's living in Lodabar.

And you have to understand what Mephibosheth actually means, the son of Shane.

Living in the place of Shane.

You're like, well, why would he be living there?

Well, the thing was, Mephibosheth was set to be the king over Israel.

He had royalty in his DNA.

But when everything changed, when everything changed when he heard that his dad and his grandpa died, things changed.

All of a sudden he was living in a place of Lodabar, a pastureless, silent, oppressed place with no bread.

2 Samuel 4:4 tells of his story.

2 Samuel 4:4

It says, Jonathan, the son of Saul, had a son who was lame in both feet.

He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel.

His nurse picked him up and went to run, but as she hurried to leave, he fell and he became disabled.

His name was Mephiboshev.

So we see a son of shame living in a place of shame, a place of no bread, a place that's pastureless, a place with no communication.

He's hiding out because he knows that David, the new king, is gonna come out to find him because he's part of that lineage.

And he can't even run away, can't even walk away.

He needs someone else there.

And I want you to glimpse like this five-year-old.

Something happened to him.

And I think there are people in this room that the reason why you may feel yourself in that place, similar to Mephibosheth, is that something happened to you.

Someone may have dropped you on your journey.

You've been carrying the effect of that from that day till today.

And so now we have an issue of a five-year-old issue in a grown man's body, living with that residue, living with that suffering in the inside.

And he's been hiding out, and I'm sure he's gone over the blame game.

How many of you love the blame game?

It was if only my grandpa would have done things different.

If only my dad would have been different.

If only the nurse wouldn't have dropped me.

If only, if only, if only.

He just had a you know false sense of security in his title and his in his in his position.

All these things you need to know that you can actually get out of Lodobar.

You're not meant to live in Lodobar.

Say, I'm not meant to live in Lodabar.

So this place of Lodabar is a place that all of us know.

You're called out of that place, but you can't get out on your own.

Your legs aren't working.

You can't run, you can't walk.

The only way you get out is someone needs to carry you out.

I don't know how much you will it, or how much you can desire it, or how much you want to pay for it, or how much you want to find a creative way to get out of the place, you cannot get out of that place unless someone calls you out of it.

So when Samuel, chapter 9, verse 5 says in 2 Samuel, so King David had him brought, would you say the word brought?

Brought, had him brought out from Lodabar, from the house of Makir, son of Emil.

And what that's and I'm sure what Mephibosheth was thinking is, oh man, the kings come.

The kings come and found me.

And oh man, this is my last moment here.

And I'm gonna die, and everyone who's connected with me, and everything that I've got is gonna be gone.

I'm dead.

And I don't know if you're picking this up yet, but this is actually the story of the gospel.

In a very, very unique place in scripture, it's the good news because I'm a fibbishath, and sin paralyzed my life.

The wages of sin is actually death, but in my darkest place, at my darkest time, Jesus, knowing I was a sinner, came and was sent to die for me so that I could live in him.

And what a powerful word! He pulls me out of Lodabar, He pulls me out of that place of pain, out of that place of shame, out of that pastureless place, out of that place where I'm silent and carrying internal trauma.

And I know that many of us are living in that place at one point in time or another, but the gospel reminds us that at one point we were enemies of God.

And at just the right time, Jesus came and he acted on behalf of his covenant with us to rescue us and to save us and to protect us and to pull us out of darkness and out of a dark place.

He says, You got you deserve justice, you deserve punishment, you deserve death, but instead I'm going to do something kind for you and good for you and bless you.

So Mephibosheth is thrown into the presence of King David, and it's a beautiful picture here.

He says, the first thing Mephibosheth says is he says, My servant.

I'm my I am the servant to you, King.

And the king says back, don't be afraid.

I will surely show you kindness.

For the sake of your for father Jonathan, I will restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table.

Mephibosheth bowed down and said, What is your servant that you should notice a dead dog like me?

Not even a dog, a dead one.

The grief, the trauma, the shame that he must have carried was immense.

And I want to share with you today that even though David exemplified this grace, God has given us through Jesus Christ even a greater grace towards us who believe.

That where sin abounds, God's grace abounds even much more.

To take care of every dark place and every dark thought and every traumatic moment, God can rescue us from our lodabar and move us to a place of blessing.

So what is grace that was demonstrated through David as Christ to me, Mephibosheth?

He says this grace is security.

First words he says is, don't be afraid.

The experience is rather the opposite.

That God loves you so much that he sent his son for you.

And he says the first thing is you don't need to be afraid.

I've got a relationship with you, I've got a life for you.

The enemy comes to rob, kill, steal, and destroy from you, but I come to give you life.

And when you have me, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

So you don't stand before me condemned, but by grace, my goodness towards you, you are secure.

Don't be afraid.

Let's celebrate God for that.

I just think we should just give the Lord a round of applause for that.

That's so powerful.

God's grace towards us, His kindness towards us, it leads us to security.

God's grace is kind.

David said, I will surely show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan.

And I think there's a world that's so polarizing today that we have either friend or foe.

We have enemies or we have advocates.

And you're either left or right.

And Jesus, where did he stand in the middle?

Because there's a third way.

That God loves to make enemies, his friends.

He loves to bring people close and not push people away.

And so when we walk in through life with a spirit of kindness, the way Christ would demonstrate kindness towards us, we can then demonstrate kindness towards others.

And we walk in love with one another, sharing and caring with one another.

And I do believe that this church, KCC, is carrying the presence of God in that spirit of kindness.

God's grace is kind, God's grace is secure, God's grace restores.

David says, I will restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul.

The whole time he's living in a barren land, a pastureless land, in silence, hiding from the one who actually is there to offer him everything.

Restore back it all to him.

And I know that when you look at your past, you say, somebody let you down, somebody dropped you.

But there's a king who wants to restore you.

Amen.

There's a king that wants to bring everything back to you and has everything intended for you.

David didn't bring him back to kill him.

David brought him back to restore him, to restore his influence, to restore his dignity, to restore his finance, to restore his health, to restore his confidence, his identity, his courage again.

The grace of God.

When you make room for God and you make room for his grace in your life, and you don't oppose it, the Bible says that God, that when you oppose, God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to those who are humble.

That when you open your heart to his grace, the kindness of God comes in.

The security of God floods in, and the goodness of God, the restoration of God floods into each and every life.

Lastly, David says that grace is sonship.

He says this, you will always eat at the king's table.

And this table is really a picture of family.

It's a picture where everyone sits equal.

And just because you you disagree with people at the table, like I'm sure David looked at Mephibosheth, and I sure I'm sure that there were moments he saw like flashes of Saul, flashes of the one who was chasing him through the desert, flashes of the one who was like pursuing him and pushing him into caves and into ditches and making him live in obscurity.

I'm sure he saw that, but at that moment at that table, it became clear that God treats us and brings us to the table, even though we at one point were enemies of him.

Mephibosheth was carried day after day to the table.

And how many of you know that when you come to the table, you may be carried to the table, but once you sit at the table, no one sees the the legs, no one sees your injury, no one sees your shame.

All of a sudden you become like one of the others.

And David at that moment recognized Mephibosheth and how to restore Mephibosheth.

And he says, Every one of your deficiencies, I'm gonna do my best to cover.

Every one of your failures, every one of your uh your past mistakes or your past uh experiences are going to be covered, and everything you are trying to hide, I'm going to cover for you.

He says, I'm gonna get you out.

And so today we make room for God's grace.

We make room for opportunity to receive from him the goodness of God.

Would you just stand with me for a moment?

We're just gonna take a moment before the Lord here today.

The story sandwiched in the book that is so quickly brushed over because of all of the other great exploits of David.

We just reminded of the fact that we can all we can all uh demonstrate grace and make room in grace for others.

Because grace has been given to us.

But if you're here today and you've never experienced the grace of God towards you, then I want you to know today that God has tremendous grace for you.

His kindness is towards you.

He does not want you to live in a pastureless place, he doesn't want you to live in a place with no bread.

He doesn't want you to live in silence and in shame.

He wants you to sit at his table, be secure in his presence.

Amen.

He wants you to be restored, he wants you to have that full restoration.

He wants to make you a son and make you a daughter.

Would you just bow your head with me?

Father, we just thank you today for your presence.

We know today, Father, that the grace is amazing.

Your amazing grace towards us.

That there is no way, Father, we could get out by ourselves.

But because of you, there is a way.

Because of you, Father, we have a way back to the table.

And Father, today I just want to address in the spirit here, in this place here, Lord, the spirit of shame, of silence, of hiddenness, father, where people have tried to cover and tried to live in that place of lodabar, live in that place hiding out so that no one else can see what they're going through, Father.

Today, Lord, as we open up our heart to you, Father, we usher in the Spirit of God.

We bless, Lord, every wounded heart, every traumatized heart, every heart that's been living in shame, in pain, with grief or trauma, everyone that's been hurt, everyone that's been blame, that's been thinking of the blame game, who's been looking back at their past and and acknowledging the points that their life and and their experience, things were dropped, people had dropped them, uh, situations have been dropped on them that they didn't they didn't ask for or intend.

Father, and today we say that Lodabar is no more.

In Jesus' name, in your presence, Father, there is freedom where your grace abounds, your grace is here and it abounds for the weak.

It abounds for those who are in need.

And Father, you are our provision, you are our provider, you are our hope, you are our help, you are the one who lifts us up, Lord, when we can't get up on our own.

You are more than enough for us.

In our weakness, you are made strong.

Your grace makes us strong.

In our poverty, Father, you make us rich in spirit, in emotions, in health, in future.

Thank you, Father.

None of us in this room need to live in that low-to-bar place.

We thank you, Father, for your spirit.

We thank you for your love towards us, your your care towards us.

We thank you, Father, that you rescued us and you didn't give us justice, you gave us grace.

Thank you, Father.

If you're here today and you've never experienced Christ's grace over your life, and maybe the first time where you and maybe you haven't even made a decision to welcome him into your heart.

It says, those there's no condemnation for those who are in Christ.

And you haven't, you're not in Christ, you're outside of Christ, and you want to be welcomed in.

The door is open.

The day of salvation is now.

He's calling out to each and every one of us.

If that's you today, it requires an acceptance and a recognition that you need someone to carry you out of Lodabar.

You need someone to carry you out.

And you need to believe that Jesus Christ paid the penalty for your sin and made a way to bring you to the table.

And we confess him as our Lord, confess him as our King, confess him as our Savior.

And the scripture says if you confess your sins, he's faithful and just to forgive you every sin and make you righteous.

And if anyone's in this room today and you've never made that decision, would you just raise your hand and we're gonna pray together as a church?

Anyone in this room, I don't want to go a moment without giving that opportunity for anyone in this room to come to Christ for the first time.

Just raise your hand nice and tall.

Amen.

Amen.

And for those in the room today who just want that fresh touch of grace, that fresh touch of thank you, Father, for taking me out.

I started to think back.

I started to go back on my own.

I started to go back in my heart, go back in my head.

But Father, today, may this be a reminder of your goodness and your kindness and open up your heart to make room for God's grace today.

Make us full of your grace, full of your goodness, full of your favor in our life.

If you want just a fresh expression and feeling of that, just raise your hand.

We're gonna pray.

Just raise your hand.

If that's you today, just raise your hand, Father.

Just pray, we pray, Lord, for that fresh, fresh outpouring of the Spirit of grace to fill every heart.

Lord, thank you to move us, Lord, in our minds, move us in our heart, Lord, to that place of blessing, that place of help and that place of covering.

We thank you, Lord, for the for the grace that is there, and we lean into your perfection.

We lean into your strength, into your ability today, and we receive it, Father, today, with grateful, grateful, grateful hearts.

Amazing grace, amazing grace.

Saved by faith, saved through our faith, saved because of the grace of God towards us.

It's not by our work, our ability, but by what you did for us, and we honor you today in Jesus' name, amen.

Let's give them a round of applause today.

Amen.

So I want to bless you before you go.

We've got, I know we've got room for the newcomers.

We got lunch downstairs.

May the Lord bless you and keep you, may his face shine upon you and be gracious to you, lifting up his countenance over you and providing you with his peace and his grace today.

Amen.

God bless you.

If you'd like prayer, come to the front.

We'd be happy to pray with you with our prayer team.

Enjoy your Sunday.