Pastor Brodie Kalamen | Simple Prayer | January 11th, 2026

The good news is you don't have to wait until September.

I'm sure you could, but uh, it's actually starting January 21st, it's the first class.

And so uh I just cannot I cannot uh recommend it enough uh for those of you who are uh want want a challenge to your faith and a challenge to grow.

And uh I don't know, I know Pastor Brian's here, but is uh Bruce Mertz here today.

Bruce, raise your hand if you're here.

He this is one of the few times he's probably not in this place.

Um uh I just want to just acknowledge those two guys.

They've uh put a lot of effort into ensuring that uh our church is growing and maturing.

So thank you so much.

I want to honor them today.

Well, let's uh take a moment and jump in.

How many of you are ready to jump in?

Come on now.

Uh so we're talking about the living sacrifice, prayer and worship.

We start off with our we're still in our 21 days of prayer, day eight, day seven, day eight, um, depending on when you started.

And we've been meeting and in prayer Monday through Thursday here.

Friday, we encourage you to get together with some in your community or just go on your own, go for a prayer walk in uh throughout the day, uh, and just spend that time in prayer.

But I'd like to start with this one uh scripture, and then we're gonna launch from it to this morning.

First Corinthians chapter 2, verse 9 says this.

1 Corinthians 2:9

It's one of my favorite scriptures.

How many of you have a favorite scripture?

Like this is my this is my favorite one.

What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived, the things God has prepared for those who love Him.

This is a scripture of adventure.

How many of you know that God has things for you that you haven't seen yet?

Life isn't over, it's still going.

And for many of you may feel like it's over, you know, but it's not over for you.

God does his best things uh in us as we continue to rely on him and grow from day to day.

There's a place where we go, and what I want to focus on today is there's a place where we can go, where our mind uh can't go alone, but we in order to understand and conceive who God is.

And it is the part of our wonder that inhabits our worship, it's part of the experience through prayer, where God takes us past the natural into the supernatural.

And I want to establish here at the very beginning that I do believe that we're to connect to God with our mind.

We should be intelligent in our relationship with God.

Matthew 22, 37 says that Jesus said, This is one of the ways that we love the Lord our God, is that we love him with all of our heart, with all of our soul, and with all of our mind.

We don't leave our brain at the door when we come to church.

We come ready to engage, uh, we engage with our mind when we come to church.

And I love the fact that we've got this resurgence in our community of biblical literacy, of theology, and theology at its core is the disciplined pursuit of understanding God.

So it's where you take a disciplined pursuit of understanding God.

So going through a course, taking a session, 10 weeks to actually understand God is just the beginning of your journey.

How many of you have been a Christian for over 40 years?

You still have something to learn about God every day.

We're still learning.

Theology is at that place, and I believe that until you know God correctly, you won't uh know yourself the way you God intended you to be made.

Like the more you understand who God is, the more you understand who you are.

And if you don't understand God, you're gonna struggle with your own identity.

So get to know God, check in with God with your mind, check in and grow spiritually, grow mentally in terms of your grow intelligently in your understanding of who God is.

However, I also think about how many of us in this room, our prayer life, our worship experience is stifled because of our mind.

How many of us are limited to our connection with Jesus because we get lost up here?

Our brain is working, but we begin to conceptualize and lose connection because of our thoughts.

And so what ends up happening is we get into worship or we get into pray, prayer, and we start thinking about God and not necessarily connecting to God.

And I find myself even in worship drifting.

Am I the only one?

Drifts mentally, like thinking about God, getting lost.

What about God in this situation, in this situation in my life?

And I start to weave, and then I'm like, oh God, back to connection, back to worship.

And we must truly remember that faith begins where understanding ends.

When we stop talking to Jesus, something gets locked in our brain when we start questioning and it's limiting.

And so uh faith does not reject understanding, but it actually transcends our understanding.

So if you just go to God with just your own understanding of God, you'll never get to that place where you can truly know God because God transcends who he is, transcends our own ability to understand him ourselves.

How many of you are lost?

In other words, in other words, when we come to God with just our mind, we can only know him so much where we have to go to God with our heart.

And that makes so much more of a difference in our relationship to him.

So we limit ourselves by just going to God with our our brain.

Start saying, Did God really say that?

Well, how will God do that?

How will he make a way?

Doesn't look like there's a way.

How what's he going?

What uh when will he do it?

Where will he do it?

How like does he really expect me to obey all the time?

Like all these questions come to mind, and you start like processing and arguing internally with God, and God is just saying, just believe me, I can do it.

If I parted the Red Sea, I can make a way for you.

I can make a way for you.

Our brain can't keep up with how large and how great God is.

Isaiah had this problem, and he went in Isaiah chapter 66, verse 1.

Isaiah 66:1

He said, Finally, after writing 66, 65 chapters of his book, he's writing, he's writing, he's writing.

He gets to chapter 66, and he just throws up his hands in the air and he says, The heaven is his throne, and the earth is his footstool.

Who are we to understand them?

Try and get to God with this, and you'll be limited.

I might not be able to understand everything about God, but I do have the opportunity to experience God.

And David understood this.

King David, he wrote this.

He said, Better is one day in the house of the Lord than a thousand days anywhere else.

I'd rather be a doorkeeper to his house than sit with the wicked.

And he's saying this, he's saying, I would rather give up every one of my kingly privileges, every kingly privilege to be a doorkeeper in his house, because then I can experience him versus just purely knowing about him.

The experience is what's most important.

So the reality is that you can think all about God and the heart, your heart still be far from God.

And Solomon taught us in Proverbs, he says, you need to guard your heart because out of your heart everything in life flows out.

All your life flows out of your heart.

So connecting with God, your life isn't gonna flow out of here.

Your life, your true life, is gonna flow out of here.

So transformation that's here only won't impact a life if transformation hasn't happened here.

Relationships, you know relationships.

Well, we're married, I signed the document.

How far will that take you?

It's a it's a if it's a law, if it's legal, if it's logistical, if it's just cerebral, intellectual, yes, I need a spouse, that way I get like X amount off my income.

You know, it's a tax write-off.

You know, all these things, it's not gonna take you anywhere to truly understand the value of the relationship until it connects to here.

So our goal in prayer is to connect heart to heart, and it's where the head descends into the heart, and we have to learn to allow our head to sink into our heart, and we start thinking less about it and start connecting and experience more about God.

So in worship, I was kind of doing this thing.

I was going.

People are like, oh, that's kind of woo-y, woo-ey stuff, you know, like what's he doing?

And I was just like, I was like, God help me move from here to here, here to here.

People are like, what's he?

You gotta remember the cross side, but like here to here, God.

So if you start doing this, it's okay.

Just watch me, just here to here.

I need to drop it.

Sink in, sink into my heart.

This is what really matters, is that it sinks into here.

So I want to share with you about some simple practices that allow you to move from here to here.

One of them is first is simple prayer.

Simple.

Would everyone say simple?

Simple, simple prayers.

When we think about prayer, it's so funny, we initially think that we need to say something really impressive.

If I was to ask you to come up here and just pray for the service right now, people would freak out.

Why?

Because you think you've got to impress everyone in this room with your cool prayer.

And may and I've watched people over the years as a young kid growing up in church, I've watched people, their voice change.

Like it changes, their gestures change, their language changes.

I'm like, who's that guy up there?

Like, I talk to him every day, but when he prays, he even sounds different.

Because it's trying to be like impressive in our prayer, and it's more about impressing the people than it is about actually impressing God.

Simple prayers matter.

The language we use matters, but the heart is what matters most.

Matthew chapter 6, and this is awesome because the disciples went to Jesus and they said, Jesus, how do you pray?

Matthew 6 · chapter mention

And how many of you know you don't need Chat GPT?

You can just go to God.

Chat GPT will reference Matthew chapter 6, go to Jesus, and he says this, and when you pray, verse 5, don't be like hypocrites.

Matthew 6 · chapter mention

They love to pray, standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others.

And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like the pagans.

Yes, I love that.

They think they'll be heard because of their many words.

He's saying, don't pray with many words.

Don't babble on.

Be simple.

You know how hard it is for people to be simple?

It's tough.

Because something in us, our ego steps in.

He says this do not be like them.

Our father knows what you need before you even ask him.

In other words, you're praying, but really, God knows before you even pray what you need.

And so when you pray, you should pray this simple prayer.

Make it connect, make it connected to God.

Don't worry about it being impressive.

Connect with God, make it simple, let it come from your heart.

I love this example in James chapter 5, verse 16.

James 5:16

It's a powerful scripture.

It says the prayer of the righteous person is powerful and effective.

And people are like, yes, amen.

Powerful, effective prayer.

But then you realize, well, how do you make a right, how is a person righteous?

Is it because anything that they've done?

No, it's because of everything that Jesus did.

So all the things that made you impressive are all reflected on the fact that Jesus did something for you, and he's the one who made you righteous.

Therefore, your prayers of a righteous person are effective and powerful.

You don't have to be James.

Just be submitted to the righteousness of God.

Allow his righteousness to make you right.

And you will be righteous.

And so James says, tell you what, think of Elijah.

And in verse 17, the verse following, it says, Elijah.

And when we think of Elijah, we're like, the prophet Elijah?

He was a powerful guy.

He was impressive.

And he says, James says this, Elijah was a human being.

Even as we are.

He prayed earnestly, it would not rain.

It didn't rain on the land for three and a half years.

Again, he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, the earth produced its crops.

And I want to say, wow, that was a good, like, how many of you know that when God answers your prayer that it would not rain, that's pretty powerful.

How many of you would like a record of how he prayed that prayer?

Well, just so happens the Bible has a record of what he prayed.

1 Kings 18, 36, 37.

This is what Elijah prayed.

At the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed, Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant, and have done all these things at your command.

This is his prayer.

Answer me, Lord.

Answer me.

So the people will know that you, Lord, are God, and that you're turning their hearts back again.

You're you are turning their hearts back again.

So Elijah prays a prayer that is two sentences.

How many of you love two-sentence prayers?

Yes.

And his prayer was this repetitive, answer me.

Answer me.

Answer me.

I love repetitive prayers.

Thank you, Lord.

Answer me.

Less of me, more of you.

Less of me, more of you.

Lord, I need you.

Lord, I need you.

Lord, I need you.

When I repeat prayers, it slowly disconnects from here and goes to here.

And I start to like just pray these prayers and almost becomes like a subconscious thing.

Lord, I want to pray these simple prayers.

And perhaps you're like, Well, that was one person, Brody.

That was Elijah.

He was earthly.

Well, then let's go to heaven.

How many of you think heaven has good prayers?

Who's going to argue with heavenly prayers?

The angels, Revelations chapter 4, verse 8 says this.

Revelation 4:8

Day and night they never stop saying, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come.

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty.

Day and night, night and day, day and night, night and day.

What are they saying?

The same prayer.

Right now they're saying it.

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty.

It even got more simple than Elijah's prayer that was two sentences and moved to one.

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come.

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come.

How many of you know a simple prayer?

What is your simple prayer?

Lord, I need you.

Lord, I need you more today than yesterday.

Lord, I need you.

More today than yesterday.

Lord, I need you.

Lord, I need you.

Like that's the power of the prayer to keep it simple.

And it moves from here and it moves to here because you start connecting with that prayer.

The second type of prayer is continual prayer.

I love the fact that I had praying family.

And I they were always praying.

Sometimes my grandpa, the older he got, I didn't know if he was praying or sleeping, but he said he was praying.

Head was down, Bible was open, and I couldn't see his eyes as a kid.

I'd try and like look, but he'd be like, I'm praying.

Always praying.

So holy grandpa.

But when there's something on your mind, I would hear people praying.

And I've been had the privilege of being with a lot of people who have made a lot of difference in the world.

And oftentimes when they're dealing with difficult things, it doesn't have to be a prayer meeting.

They're just constantly praying.

Praying.

Thank you, Father.

And the Bible says that it's a part of like that practice of singing praise in your heart and making a melody in your heart and singing songs and spiritual songs and just generating that engine of continuous prayer.

Get filled with it.

Ephesians chapter 5, verse 18 to 21 says this.

Ephesians 5:18–21

It says, Don't drink too much wine.

That cheapens your life.

But drink the Spirit of God.

Amen.

Huge draughts of him.

Sing him.

This is the message translation, by the way.

Sing hymns instead of drinking songs.

Sing songs from your heart to Christ.

Sing praise over everything.

Any excuse for a song to God the Father in the name of our Master Jesus Christ.

The scripture says this: don't get drunk with wine, it leads to excess, but be filled with the Holy Spirit so that you're so filled that everywhere you're going, you're just bubbling over.

Thank you, Lord.

You're so good.

Love you, Jesus.

I love you, Lord.

Thank you for your goodness in my life.

Thank you for the grace.

Thank you for your mercy.

Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord.

You're with me today.

There's no weapon formed against me that'll prosper.

I'm never alone.

There's no far, no place I can go where your arm can't reach out to me.

Thank you, Lord.

Like you just start.

It comes out of here, not out of here.

It's coming out of your spirit, man.

It's bubbling out continual prayer.

And that's where we went from last week's verse in Thessalonians, where it says, be joyful always, pray without ceasing, give thanks continually, so that it's the will of God in your life to just like pray and pray and keep on praying and keep finding that place of prayer.

Smith Wigglesworth said, I don't often spend more than a half an hour praying.

He says, but I often don't go half an hour without praying.

I don't take it half an hour, it doesn't go by where I don't send up a prayer.

It's a heart, it's a spirit.

Again, King David followed the same model.

He was the house of David, the the house of David, where there was 24 7 prayer.

He said, In my house, in the house of David, the preparation for the temple of God, he says, it will be filled with prayer.

24 7, it will continually occur.

And he was going back to Leviticus where it says.

In chapter 6, verse 13, it says, the fire must be kept burning on the altar continuously.

It must not go out.

In other words, there's this practice of continuous prayer.

And it's not about our work, it's about just staying in the spirit of prayer, staying in that place of prayer.

And it becomes like breathing.

No one ever has to tell you, okay, inhale everyone.

Just a reminder.

Inhale right now.

You better do it.

It's been 15 seconds.

Or exhale, okay.

Now everyone just remember to exhale.

It doesn't happen.

It's like it's like breath in us.

In him we live and breathe and have our being.

It's just like it's a life, a habitation of prayer and worship that drives us to the presence of God and allows us to connect with him, not just from here, but from here also.

Connecting with God through continuous prayer.

So we keep it simple.

Simple prayer.

Don't think about impressing others.

Just go to God.

You love you know what my favorite prayers are?

The prayers of children.

They're just basic prayers.

God, I thank you for my pony and my like the.

Then they they kind of go off a little bit, you know, praying for things.

But they're like, they're just like in this relationship with God.

They're praying simple prayer.

Pray continuously.

Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it for the glory of God.

It's coming out of you.

And it's at home, it's at work, it's while you're eating, it's while you're drinking, it's while you're connecting with family, it's while you're doing dishes and maybe doing laundry, mowing the lawn, or shoveling the driveway, or delivering paper.

It doesn't matter what, where you are, you're continuously connecting with God.

One more area where we connect with God with our heart versus our mind is where we move into spirit-led prayer.

1 Corinthians 12 helps us understand that the Spirit of God gave gifts to every believer, and they're not just for our benefit, but they're actually there to God gives us gifts by his spirit to build up the body of Christ, and it makes you a better servant of the body of Christ.

That God gives you gifts to serve one another.

And they're intended to make you better.

And so we believe in the gifts of the Holy Spirit here at the church.

Believe in the gifts that are in this place.

And so, in order to receive those gifts, number one, we must believe.

Believe that God has given them to us.

And then the next place is we need to desire those gifts.

Urge and eagerly desire the gifts.

Eagerly desire to have those gifts.

And that comes to a point where we hunger and we we just pursue them and we chase after them and we long after those gifts.

And we say, we want God to we want God to fill us and give us not just one, but all of them.

Just give just release those gifts into our church and release them into us personally.

And sometimes in that place we have to put aside our Canadian spirit.

You know how it is?

And so let's not just ask God, but we need to actually chase after God.

So spirit-led prayer is where we actually submit to His Spirit and say, Lord, you've given us good things, and so I'm gonna chase after it, I'm gonna receive it for myself.

In First Corinthians, there are nine different gifts wisdom, knowledge, faith, healing, miracles, prophecy, the discerning of spirit, speaking in tongues, the interpretation of tongues.

And each is a beautiful gift, and each is a wonderful gift when it's active in the church.

I love it when I hear people talking prophetically and so bringing life to a situation and praying for people and believing for miracles and discerning situations and the spirit in situations.

One of the gifts I practice is the gift of speaking in tongues.

How many speaking in tongues people have we gotten here today?

That's right.

I love speaking in tongues.

It's an ability to speak in a language that we don't understand.

And that's why there's a public interpretation of tongues when it's done in public.

And I speak in tongues when I'm in prayer, when I'm in worship.

This morning I did.

I brought from here and I went to here.

And I began to speak in my spiritual language, in my heavenly tongue.

And it's not a requirement to get close to God, but it's one of the ways that the Spirit helps us to pray.

Paul said, I wish that you all would pray in tongues.

You would all be able to do that.

And when I speak in tongues, I'm surrendering my brain to God.

And I'm surrendering my soul because prayer and worship is not just a mental-mind exercise, it's a soul exercise.

It's saying, I'm gonna surrender to you.

So Romans 8 says it this way.

It says in verse 26, it says, In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness.

So, how many of you have been at the end of prayer and you don't know where to go?

You're like, I just don't know what else to pray.

But I know there needs to be a solution.

I know it's in your will, Father, but I don't know what to pray.

And so you begin to pray by the Spirit.

You come to your end, he helps us in our weakness.

The Spirit helps us.

We don't know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us through what?

Wordless groans.

And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of God, of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God's people in accordance with the will of God.

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.

So when I go to prayer by the Spirit, I begin to pray in the Spirit, using that spiritual language, praying in that spiritual tongue.

And it be it's like it's not to my own benefit, but it does something to my spirit, and it charges my own spiritual tank.

And I go to God and I know, I know that those things, all things work together for good, that is doing something for my good.

At times, even when we don't know what to pray, his spirit manages and takes care of us with sighs and groans.

And the spirit intercedes for us before God.

So in the spirit, spiritual led, so we're simple in our prayer, we're continuous in our prayer, there's continuity in our prayer, and then we're spirit-led, and so we've got this external side of the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

But then the external is matched by an internal uh confirmation.

So we've got external gifts, but then we have internal gifts that have fruits that the Holy Spirit gives to us, and the fruits of the Spirit is there are nine spiritual gifts that the Holy Spirit gives us, there are nine spiritual fruits that come out of the external operation of those gifts.

Love, amen, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, self-control.

Powerful, powerful fruits of the spirit.

So some of you might get up tomorrow morning and you might be looking at your day and you might be facing maybe a job that you're going to go into where it's a tense situation and you're not feeling at peace.

So you go into it with the spiritual, with you wake up and you say, I'm going to practice the spirit-led prayer.

And you go into it with spirit-led prayer.

And the result of that prayer is that you go into that office that day and there's peace that's in your heart.

You might be facing tomorrow morning, you wake up and you're like, Man, my dreams, my future, everything is small, everything is getting crushed, everything's difficult.

And the Lord comes in and you go to prayer and you walk out, and it's his faithfulness that comes into your spirit.

The fruit of the spirit of faithfulness comes in and he's challenged you, and he just says, Come on, you can do it one more day, one more time, you can keep going.

Come on, let's go, let's go, let's go.

And he's faithful to you in that moment.

Marriage.

Perhaps you're waking up, you're like, I don't know, I don't feel the love.

Where's the love?

And you go to prayer, and God, the Spirit, the Holy Spirit deposits as a fruit of the Spirit, the internal fruit, and you walk into it with a deeper love, a love that you couldn't create on your own.

You couldn't create up here, God deposits in here.

There's power in prayer.

There's power in that place of prayer.

Can I invite Michael?

You can just come up and I'm just gonna take a moment here.

How many of you need this kind of experience with God today?

This spiritual, the spiritual walkthrough, spiritual moment with God.

Wouldn't you just stand with me in this at this time?

Wow.

I started with the scripture here.

I just want to reference it again at the end here, pulling one more piece in.

First Corinthians 2, verse 9 says this what no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, what no human mind has conceived, the things God has prepared for those who love Him.

1 Corinthians 2:9

These are the things, verse 10.

These are the things God has revealed to us by His Spirit.

Goes into the places where your mind can't go.

Your mind is finite, your mind can only understand the finite.

But God is infinite, and by approaching God, we don't go to God with just this, we go to God with this as our heart as well.

Let's just take a moment and just practice this here this morning.

Father, we close our eyes and we just take a moment to connect with you with our heart at this point.

Thank you, Father.

Thank you, Father.

Just throw up a simple prayer, just put a simple prayer in your heart and just begin to be continuous in it.

Less of me, more of you, Lord.

Less of me.

Would you fill me?

Fill me.

Fill me with your spirit.

Fill me with your heart.

Fill me with your thoughts.

Fill me with your way.

Let me let me know your way, your will.

Thank you, Father.

Just fill your heart with gratitude right now.

Father, we thank you.

Not by our might, not by our power, but by your spirit, Lord.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

Father, we just move from our head to our heart today, the greatest distance.

Let us sink, Lord, into that place of connection with you that's deeper, richer, fulfilling.

Allows us, Lord, to bypass obstacles and bypass uh just the trap of the enemy that would pull us out of relationship with you because of our finite understanding of you.

And we pray, as Paul prayed for the church in Ephesus, that our hearts would be filled with the knowledge of you, that we would have revelation understanding, revelatory understanding, revelatory knowledge of you, Father, this morning.

Thank you, Father.

Thank you, Father.

We don't just sit passive, Lord.

We're active in our approach to you.

We're active in our energy towards you.

We don't just sit and wait for you.

We say yes to you.

Yes to you, Lord.

Yes to you, Lord.

Yes to you, Lord.

Yes, Lord, more, Lord.

I remember for years it was more, Lord, more, Lord, more, Lord.

In my life, that was the prayer that was continuous in my heart.

More of you, Lord, more of you, Lord.

Father, would you honor these prayers?

Would you honor this time?

Would you honor the people and their pursuit of you?

Would you help us, Father, to be led by your spirit in our prayer time?

Led by your spirit, Father, by your gifts.

Led but with your gifts, Lord, so that we may internally receive, Lord, those fruits of the Spirit.

I pray over our church love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, self-control.

Father, fill each and everyone in Jesus' name with your gifts today.

You said where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

There is freedom.

So we pray, Lord, today that prayer of liberty, that prayer of freedom.

Lord, thank you for freedom.

Thank you for freedom in my life.

Thank you for freedom in my relationship.

Thank you for freedom in that you've set me free, Lord, to be who you've called me to be.

Thank you, Father.

Hallelujah.

If you're here today and with every eye closed or head bowed, if you're here today and you've never walked this walk with God, you've never entered into this type of relationship with God.

Perhaps you've only known God from a cerebral level.

You've you've only approached Him with your brain.

And you want to move to your heart.

And you will truly want to have that relationship and that heart-to-heart connection with him.

I'm going to pray with you.

And the congregation is going to pray along with you.

But if you're in this room today, just between you and I, just raise your hand really nice and tall.

You want to have that deeper relationship.

I see those hands.

Yeah, I see those hands.

I see that hand.

Anyone else?

I see that hand.

I see that hand.

That's right.

I see those hands.

I see them.

Come on now.

Anyone else?

I see that hand.

Yeah.

Come on.

Father, we thank you.

We thank you for your love for us.

We thank you for your care for us.

And for those who've never made a decision to follow Christ, the invitation is here today.

And I'm going to walk you through that prayer.

Let's just pray this together.

Father, thank you for your Son Jesus.

I accept today the gift of salvation.

I believe that you died on the cross for my sins.

And I confess today that I've gone my own way and that I have sinned.

I've walked from you.

And today I confess you as my Lord.

Fill me with your spirit.

Fill me with your life.

Fill me, Lord, so that I can have that relationship with you.

In Jesus' name.

Amen.

And for those of you who've who've prayed that prayer, praise the Lord.

Praise the Lord.

Amen.

Amen.

And for those of you today, I just pray for, and just in closing, I just pray over each one who just and acknowledge their need of God.

I pray today, Father, for uh just a double portion to rest upon them.

Lord, take them on the fast track.

Lord, may there be a simplicity in their relationship, just uh a running to the throne room of grace, that they would have that confidence in their heart, that they don't need to impress anyone, including you.

But Father, that they can go into your throne and receive from you everything that you have prepared for them.

And Father, today, may their prayer be continuous, may it just be even subconscious, may they catch themselves in a moment just praying prayers and singing melodies and lifting up their heart before you.

And may there be, Lord, this internal relationship that is superior to the natural.

It is supernatural.

In Jesus' name, in Jesus' name, led by the Spirit of God, led by the hand of Jesus, taking us into deeper and deeper places, moving us into the places of deeper maturity in our faith.

We pray this in Jesus' name, and may there be the benefit of the fruits of the Spirit and the gifts of the Spirit alive in the church, serving us, serving our city, and blessing our neighbors and blessing those around us, that we would bleed, Lord, that that spiritual that spiritual blessing into every space and place in Jesus' name.

I pray, amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

I just want to say God bless you today.

Thank you for being with us.

We have prayer people at the front, and we're just going to continue and just uh having the keys up here and just a place of prayer.

If you would like prayer, come to the front.

We will pray with you, and we will uh we will stand by faith with you to take where God is taking you.

God bless you today.

Have a great Sunday afternoon.