275 ~ REKINDLED ~ LIMITELESS LOVE ~ PART 7

We welcome you to the VI Zion Sermon Podcast.

We are a church based out of Chennai, India.

We are thrilled that you tuned in today and hope that you will

be refreshed, revived and energized by what you hear.

Our desire is that you will live life with a renewed sense of

purpose that stems from a vibrant faith in Jesus.

The year 2025 is 1 where we will be positioned by God to possess

our promise. We start a new sermon series

called Rekindled where we look closer at our own lives and ask

the Holy Spirit to revive and restore things that have gone

dormant in the dry seasons of our souls.

We pray that this series will help you dive deeper into

yourself and see where you need more of God.

We looked over the past couple of weeks on how God wants to

rekindle our faith, right? We looked at how He's calling us

to have a fiery faith, a fertile faith, and a fragrant faith.

We looked at hope, how we need to be re established in our

hope. We saw how the hope needs to be

honest, healed and hearty. And this week we begin on love.

And both of us were laughing to ourselves, Oh my gosh, God is

going to test us in this, right? And when you say God, I want to

love more, He brings harder situations for us in which we

have to demonstrate love. But I got the easy part today.

I got limitless love and I was just thinking of, oh gosh,

limitless love. How do I preach on that?

And I just realized how limited love is that I have to offer.

And so I checked myself out of that bracket and found the only

one that we can talk about when it comes to limitless love is

our God. Amen.

None of us, the ones who love our spouses the most, love our

parents. We have the best parents.

We love them so much. It is limited.

There is a point, you know, parents tell us, tell us when

we're growing up, don't cross the limit with me.

That just demonstrates how limited our love is.

But God thanks be to God for his unlimited love towards us.

And for the next few weeks, we're going to be looking at how

God wants to rekindle this love. Today we're going to be looking

at the love that he has for us. Have you noticed how sometimes

we're trying to love people from a place where we have not fully

actually accepted how much God loves us?

And so today we're going to be looking at what this limitless

love looks like, what it means for each of us.

How do we actually accept this? How does it translate into a

being? And we're going to be looking at

our theme was for the year. The theme was for the year.

If you were not here at the beginning of the year, the theme

was positioned to possess the promise.

It was based out of Hebrews chapter 6 verses 11:50.

Hebrews 6 · chapter mention

It says God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and

the love you have shown him as you have helped His people and

continue to help them. We want each of you to show the

same diligence to the very end so that what you hope for may be

fully realized. We do not want you to become

lazy, but to imitate those who, through faith and patience,

inherit what has been promised. This was the baseline for what

we chose as the theme, and we've already looked at faith and

hope. Today we're going to look at

love and we're believing. It's not coincidence that Abby

would have picked this song. Fresh Wind.

We are believing that the next five months we'll all have a

second win for the year. Amen.

How many of you are tired after six months?

Well, I got so many things didn't happen.

I thought it would happen the first six months.

It hasn't. It's OK, we have a fresh wind

and this we're going to be calling on God to help us

actually root ourselves today in his love.

If you're trying to root ourselves in man's love, we will

be sorely disappointed. God is calling us to position

ourselves in his love. And so the passage for today is

Ephesians chapter 3, verse 17. I'm reading from the Amplified

Ephesians 3:17

Ephesians 317. It says may Christ through your

faith dwell in your hearts. May you be rooted deep in love

and found it securely on love. It's so interesting that our

Christian war, our lives, our salvation started off in love,

correct? We accepted God's love for us.

We said yes to Jesus, and it will ultimately culminate in

meeting the God of love face to face.

Everything in our life is held by this thread of love.

We cannot distance ourself and say, well, I felt God's love

back in 1983 when I was born, but after that, I don't know.

His love is what sustains us. It holds us.

It's so unconditional. He pursued us when we were still

sinners. He didn't need to love us.

We had nothing to offer Him. And yet His love has been, has

been what pulled us to Him and keeps us there.

And when you look at this Ephesians 317, the word for love

is agape. And we all know what agape.

It isn't filio, which is brotherly love.

It isn't Eros, which is romantic.

Agape is a heavenly love. But interestingly, the word for

agape actually means love feast. In VBS, we do this one day where

everybody brings food. We all sit together and eat.

Correct. That's called, we call that a

love feast. What does this love feast look

like, Caleb? If you can, Alan, if you can

just put that picture of the feast that I you have it.

Yeah. Look at this, a love feast and

what is the implications of this for God and me or God and us?

Imagine you, each of you sitting at this table with God and all

these delicacies laid out and you decide to just eat 1 grape

or you decide just the skin of the chicken like one of my

children. They don't like the chicken,

they only like the skin of the chicken.

You just opt for that one bit, but he's saying the banquet is

yours. And many times when we come to

God. So the interesting thing about

this imagery is when we come to God, we're so content to just

get that snippet of His love and go back.

I experienced your love, Lord, when you help me pass that exam.

I experienced your love when I didn't get beat up for doing

something stupid. But when you sit at that table

long enough, you just realise the varied expressions of God's

love for us. And it's amazing because as I

was reading this, as I was reading this passage and trying

to understand Agape as a love feast, I realised why we as

humans are so suspicious of love.

So this past week our hospitality team discovered

there was a rat in the church, an unwelcome guest.

And so yesterday, Joyce and Shweta, they got some rat

poison. They made a feast for this rat.

They put peanut butter on the bread and in the middle of it

they put the poison right. So during worship is when the

Lord reminded me. He said This is why so many of

you are so suspicious of my love because the enemy packages love

very differently to us. He says, oh, you know what, I so

love you. You should try this particular

lifestyle habit. It'll keep you hooked.

It'll keep you numb also. And he lures us in with this

artificial feast, which is why when we have access to the real

thing, we're like no way. There must be a string attached.

If Jesus says he loves me, there must be hidden, hidden agenda.

Like all these insurance thing says offer document has hidden

things. Read the offer document

carefully. So we think God's love comes

with hidden agenda, but the Bible says there is no agenda.

Everything. He's the alpha, the Omega, He's

everything in between, no agendas.

Can you believe it? There is no hidden cake of

poison in the love that God offers you and me.

It's as is. Now, what is the implications of

this? If it is a love feast, it means

some theologians call His love multidimensional.

It means how I experience love and how Geshom experience love.

Completely different. Gary Chapman came up with five

love languages. It is nothing in comparison to

the love languages of our God. You just have multiple children

at home. Those of you who have more than

one, you will know how each child's love language is

different. You cannot communicate to the

next one as you do the first. Imagine God, the millions that

are image bearers. He's communicating his love

differently to us, and we are receiving it differently.

Multidimensional. And so today we're going to be

looking at one person in the Bible who God used as a living

parable to describe his love for his people, and that's the

prophet Hosea. His job was not easy.

Imagine God calls him and says, go marry a prostitute, marry

someone who's wayward so that I can tell my people just how much

I love them because they are wayward like her.

And he obeyed. And it's beautiful.

If you read Hozier, we're not going to read all the chapters.

I'm just going to pick a few chapters here and there.

But one to 14 is this explanation of God's immense

love. Just like Hosea keeps calling

this girl back home. He has a child with her.

She goes wayward. He calls her back.

Theologians say her second child may not have even been his, but

he still takes her back. They have this child and then a

third child is born. And each child is named to

indicate God's love towards his people, God's desire to be

reconciled. And God was using Hosea as an

example of saying, I am like that.

I will keep saying yes to you even if you say no to me.

And so we're going to be looking at Hosier today.

And as we get into the book of Hosier, you will notice

something. Our love is likened to that

woman's love. Let's not get too judgy and say,

oh, well, I'm glad I'm not like Hosier's wife.

We are like Hosier's wife. We're like that, you know,

distracted person who goes, oh, something shiny.

God's here. I go for the shiny thing.

Oh, something with a lot of money.

I go behind that. That's how I am.

And yet God never shifts. He stays, he stays.

Someone said this. God's love is the medium and

measure of a Christian's maturity and what we hope to

achieve over the next 3-4 weeks is this, that as I become more

aware of God's love towards me, the fruit of love which is born

in me, others will enjoy. What happens is if I'm not

rooted in the love of God, the the love that I'm producing will

be corrupt. The love that I'm producing will

be carnal. It will be decaying.

What you experience of me won't be the real thing, but God is

asking me to be rooted in him so that the fruit that I produce,

it's the medium and the measure. No one's going to see where your

roots are. They're only going to taste your

fruit. God knows where the roots are.

And God is calling us to root ourselves deeply in Him.

The problem with the people of Israel at Hozier's time was

their rooting was not in God's love.

Any person came. The Assyrians, the Egyptians,

they ran behind them. They worshipped the sun and moon

gods. They, they whatever tickled

their fancy, they went behind it.

And here was a God was waiting saying, I'm here for you.

Will you come back? And so today as we look at

Hosea, Hosea Chapter 11 verses one to four, God is describing

Hosea 11 · chapter mention

to the people his great love for them.

OK, when Israel was a child I loved him, and out of Egypt I

called my son. But the more they were called,

the more they went away from me. They sacrificed to the balls,

and they burnt incense to images.

It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by the arms.

But they did not realize it was I who healed them.

I LED them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love to

them. I was like 1 who lifts a little

cheek child to the cheek and I bent down to feed them.

As we I re read this I want each of you to put yourself in Israel

shoes. How many of you can say that God

called you from darkness to light?

Amen that was an act of love. How many of you can say that He

called you out of an Egypt of your soul into freedom?

Amen. That was an act of love.

It says I taught Ephraim to walk.

We didn't know how to do the new life in Christ.

Did he teach you to do the new life in Christ?

That was an act of love. It says I let them by the arms.

They did not realise it was IO healed them.

How many of you experienced emotional healing, physical

healing, Yes, spiritual healing. That was God's love towards you.

I let them with cords of human kindness.

When you've experienced the smile of a stranger, the act of

goodness in the supermarket from some random person, that was

God's love. And it says over there to them,

I was like one who lives a little child to the cheek and

bent down to feed them. Have your needs been met?

Amen. Has he fed you with His word?

Has his spirit fallen on you like a drought stricken land on

which rain falls? He has loved you and he

continues to love you. This is the evidence of that.

God is telling them you can't see it, but I've been so loving

and I wonder if we need that reminder.

Maybe you're feeling like like Andrea rightly said, so many of

us feeling like God. You've forgotten me God.

You're answering others prayers. What about me God?

What about my healing God? When will mine come?

But he's saying, lift your head up, look around you, Amen.

And so today I want us to look when you think of that table, if

we can have that picture of that feast up.

Because for anyone who's not listening too much to me, if you

can just visualise yourself at that table with Jesus, I think

we're good, right? If you can picture you and

Jesus, I don't want you to picture others at the table with

you. It's you and him alone.

Because I believe when we sit with a multi dimensional God, we

don't just see God my saviour, we are seeing different aspects

of him at this table. What does that look like?

Hosea? When we look at the book of

Hosea, we cup see a couple of things which feel like

contradictions in the physical world.

The first thing is you see God as father and friend.

Both father and friend when we were growing up my father was

our father for the better part of our 18 years but he is now a

good friend of us. But growing up I remember my

brother and I would joke around with him but suddenly we'll

cross this line with him and he'll say don't pull me down to

your friends level. He'll say not happen to anyone

else just my dad. OK and my granddad used to

advise him saying ma play meaning son-in-law.

Don't get too close to the kids. They'll cross a line with you

and make you their level. And so multiple times my brother

and I have got jacked with my dad.

We'll we'll say something stupid and he'll say, whoa, you crossed

the line, buddy. And the beautiful thing with our

God is he's both father and friend.

Both these roles require our obedience.

Look at this verse from Hosea 110.

He says, Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like

the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered.

And in the place where it was said to them, You are not my

people, it shall be said to them, children of the living

God. No longer was he this God

looking down from on high. He was saying, I'm your father,

I'm your friend. And these two are not mutually

exclusive. You don't have to look at Jesus

as your father and forget that he's your friend.

He's beckoning you into deeper friendship.

And yet he's a father who's so embracing of you, who's so

loving, so forgiving. More so than earthly fathers, a

father disciplines, he embraces. Many times the earthly fathers

will only discipline and then go to work.

We don't enjoy the embrace, but this God disciplines and

embraces you. A friend confides in you.

He loves you at all times. He's an unconditional friend.

Second thing that we see in the book of Hosea is that he is both

punisher and restorer. Couple of months back I preached

about how God never causes harm to us.

He doesn't cause suffering. I've had to eat those words up

because he's sovereign even over destruction.

He is sovereign even over suffering and he says I bring

destruction. I will harm you.

It says in Hosea and that was a shocker for me.

Look at this verse Hosea 2 verse 13.

Hosea 2:13

I will punish her for the feast days of the bars when she burnt

offerings to them and adorned herself with her ring and

jewellery and went after her lovers and forgot me, declares

the Lord. He is the punisher, but he's

also the restorer. Look at Hosea, chapter 2, verse

Hosea 2:15

15, just two verses down. He says, And there I will give

her her vineyards, and make the valley of Achor a door of hope,

and there she shall answer, as in the days of her youth, as at

the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

His punishment is always for restoration.

He always draws us back even through discipline.

So he's punisher and restorer. The next thing about him.

He's both husband and master this for feminists in the room.

You might get so offended when we say master in the context of

a marriage, but this is not what is taught, not even talking in

human terms. Let's look at Hosea chapter 2

Hosea 2:16–17

verses 16 to 17. It says in that day, declares

the Lord, you will call me my husband and no longer will you

call me my Baal, for I will remove the names of the balls

from her mouth and they shall be remembered by name no more.

And I will betroth you to me forever.

I will betroth you to me in righteousness and injustice and

steadfast love and in mercy. I will betroth you to me in

faithfulness and you shall know the Lord the truth is this for

Israel, for all of us, the chosen ones.

He is our master. You look at the when Jesus is

talking in the New Testament, he's very clearly saying the

person who's a servant is working there.

He doesn't know when the master will return.

Who is he talking about? Us and our returning Jesus.

So there's a clear demarcation. We serve at his pleasure, but

he's calling us into this intimate relationship of being a

spouse. I was listening to this podcast

recently where this person was talking about how she lost her

husband just as they had set up a business.

They were doing so well. She was bringing up three kids

alone. She had told her husband many

times he was sick. So she kept saying, teach me how

to run the business. I don't know how to do it after

you're gone. He didn't have time to teach

her. He passed away.

After his death, she was left with this business not knowing

what to do. And so the person was

interviewing said, what did you do?

She said, I started calling on him as my husband.

Jesus, you said, you're my husband, man.

Will you help me run this business?

She said the lack that she had had completely got covered up

and God would wake her up with instructions on how to do

things, how to run the business, how to manage home.

He is both husband and master. Master servant has a kind of

formality to it. But husband, spouse is such an

intimacy. It's an intimacy by knowledge.

You know the person, you know them inside out.

You know what they love you, what they don't love before you

do it. You know this is going to

probably displease the person and God is calling us so Master

holds to account. But her husband is intimately

close and knowledgeable and God is calling us to experience him

at this feast like this. He's then the judge and

Redeemer. The judges of the world don't

redeem a situation. You go to court, they give you a

verdict and they send you off. You're either in jail or you're

out free with, you know, your acquittal or whatever.

But when our God sits at the judges table, he judges us

correctly, righteously, but he redeems us henceforth.

Hosea Chapter 7 verses 12 to 14. It says, as they go, I will

Hosea 7:12–14

spread over them my net. I will bring them down like

birds of the heavens. I will discipline them according

to the report made to their congregation.

Woe to them, for they have strayed from me, destruction to

them, for they have rebelled against me.

I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.

They do not cry to me from the heart.

They wail upon their beds for grain and wine.

They gash themselves. They rebel against me.

As you see the story evolve. Hosea's wife, Goma goes back to

one of her lovers and God says go redeem her back.

Go and redeem her. And that's the picture of what

our God does for us. You may have strayed, you may

have wandered off. He has redeemed you with his

blood. You are bought back at a high

price. He is a judge.

You know, many times we talk about God as this loving father.

We forget to say he's a righteous judge and we can call

on him. We can experience him at the

table to be both the judge and the Redeemer.

I was reading about the prison fellowships founder Chuck Olson.

Chuck Olson was part of the Watergate scandal, right?

With President Nixon. Yeah.

And this man was he was accused of something.

He went into jail. And in jail he met Jesus and

eventually he turned it around to actually start the prison

fellowship where he has made encountered Jesus in so many

people's lives. He goes into prisons, prisoners

meet Jesus and they're turned around.

Many of them continue to stay in prison, but their lives are

radically different. And the interesting thing that

he said is my eyes and mind and heart were opened as I began.

This is written by Chuck's closest friend and confidant.

He said he watched Chuck closely, and this is what he

said. My eyes and mind and heart were

opened as I began to understand the significance of Chuck's

story and message, which was all about God's love embracing a

broken world in the person of Jesus Christ.

This man would go with Chuck into prisons and watch Chuck hug

sweaty inmates. He would watch them speak life

over them. He would watch them pray over

them. In the worst, they would have

come into the worst crimes, but Chuck had been there, so he knew

what it was like. Initially this man said it just

felt like a lot of humbug. But as I worked with him and he

wrote this after Chuck Colson's time when he died, he wrote

this, he said there was nothing except the evidence of God's

love. So Chuck experienced the

righteousness of God. He was convicted, he was in

jail, but he also experienced redemption.

We will experience the boats. If you're feeling you're under

the hand of God, I want to encourage you.

It is not a dead end. He never leaves us in a pit.

He redeems our story, and finally He is the Lion and the

Lamb. Hosea chapter 5, verses 14 to

Hosea 5:14–15

15. For I will be like a lion to

Ephraim, and like a young lion to the House of Judah.

I even I, will tear and go away. I will carry off, and no one

shall rescue. I will return again to my place

until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in

their distress earnestly seek me.

Coming down to Hosea. 6 verses one to three.

Come, let us return to the Lord, for He has told us that He may

heal us. He has struck us down.

He will bind us up after 2 days. He will revive us on the third

day. He will raise us up that we may

live before Him. Let us know, Let us press on to

know the Lord. He's going out to sure as the

dawn. He will come to us as the

showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.

God is the lion and the Lamb. I don't know if you've ever read

the books by CS Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia, but

there's this one line that always impacts me.

It's about the Beaver talking about Aslan, the Lion.

Aslan is Jesus, and he says Aslan is not safe, but he's

good. The lion is ferocious.

The Lion of Judah. He rolls over those who are

trapped in the clutches of the enemy.

He will rescue everyone of us who are caught in the mouths of

the enemy and bring us back. But when he brings us back like

a lamb, he tends to our wounds. Isn't that amazing?

The Lion and the Lamb, He's both.

Now, why am I saying this to you?

Why did I tell you? He's father and friend.

Master Husband, because when I sit at this table of the feast,

not this fake feast, but the real feast, the agape feast that

He has laid out before me, I am experiencing all these elements

of who Goddess. I cannot be content with just

one element of Jesus. I want him to be my Master.

I want him to be my husband. I want him to be my friend.

I want him to be my Redeemer. I want him to be my judge.

I want Him to judge things that need judging.

I need all of this. And so I want to go back to the

first verse that we looked at, Ephesians chapter 3, verses 17

Ephesians 3:17–19

to 19. I want you to highlight it if

possible in your Bible. So we keep going back to it over

the next month. Ephesians 317 to 19.

I'm reading it from NIV now. It said so that Christ may dwell

in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you being rooted

and established in love may have power together with all the

Lord's people to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is

the love of Christ and to know this love that surpasses

knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all the

fullness of God. I want to just go back to that

quickly. Three things that I want to

leave with you before you go. OK, you've sat at this feast.

But the problem is many times we aren't rooted in the right

things. I was just I, I do quick

evaluations of my life every month or so.

So I just kind of see where I'm at.

And I was just looking at 7 years of a church plant.

And I can honestly say sometimes my roots have gone into the

wrong things. The root of bitterness sometimes

creeps up. The root of exhaustion sometimes

creeps up. You're not rooted in love.

And I speak this for my my own life.

I had to re evaluate and I know my routing and establishing has

not been many times in God's love and so the first thing I

want you to do is keep a constant check on your routing.

Where are you rooted? What is the evidence of bad

routing? You're spouting poison.

You know the fruit you're bearing is not good.

The state of a root is seen in the fruit.

If the fruit is not good, you need to recheck where you're

rooted. It's very interesting when our

roots are not in his love, our identity gets shaky.

Because when I'm not rooted in how loved I am, I'm thinking how

hated I am, how God, you've probably forgotten about me.

You know, you don't even Remember Me.

I go down this road, my identity gets hit, my purpose gets hit,

my pursuits change. Everything stems out of where my

roots are. So while your, your seeds of

faith are in this fertile soil. If the roots are not love,

there's a problem. So keep constantly checking

where your roots are. Sometimes you know, another sign

of for me when I know my roots are off is when I'm trying to

earn God's favour or if I go to open heavens, God will check box

me. God has given me this enormous

grace of saying, I know how exhausted you are.

In fact, this Friday I had that moment.

I had this moment of God. If I just go, I've done what I

need to do, but the body was not willing at all, and I had to

give myself the grace of God. Even here, the Spirit of God can

meet me on this bed. And that night, Geshan came back

from prayer. He prayed over me as I slept.

And I just want to encourage you, if you're trying to earn

his favorite means, the roots are in the wrong place.

You are already loved. You are already cherished.

You were bought at a high price. You're redeemed.

Rest in that love. The second thing that you need

to do is keep a constant check of what you're grasping onto.

Go back to that verse. It says, I pray that you will be

rooted and established in love, that you may have power together

with all the Lord's whole people to grasp how wide and long and

high and deep. Many times my hands are busy

grasping other things that I am not, allowing the Holy Spirit's

power to help me grasp just how loved I am.

How many of you agree with that? If I'm grasping onto things, how

will I be able to grasp onto the love that God gives me and shows

me even in the absence of those things?

If I'm grasping onto relationships so tightly, how

will I grasp onto that one relationship that changes

everything? So it's so important that I come

to this place of checking. What am I grasping onto?

What am I holding onto so tightly when I look at the

multidimensional love of God, that feast that he has for me?

Am I grasping onto these elements of who God is or am I

grasping onto the things that I can physically see and touch?

This past week, one of our friends they're going through a

season of ill health and she was one of my friend was just

sharing with me how God met them at this hospital and see she

didn't know I was going through a bit of my own ill health.

She didn't know I was a bit discouraged myself, but she was

just sharing with me how they've gone to this Hindu hospital and

two nurses pray over her prophecy over her speak life

into her loudly Hindu hospital. These two women boldly declaring

of faith over her. All the things that they see God

is going to do into her life and you won't believe.

For me, what it was doing, it was stirring up faith in me,

saying see how I love my people, that I would meet them in this

place where they don't expect to meet me.

And I'm encouraging them from the mouths of people that I'm

blessing around the city. He has people around the world

for us just to bless us. But will you be that kind of

person to someone else? It is important what we grasp.

Had I missed that moment when that friend shared that with me,

I would have lost the ability to understand the depths of God's

love for His people. When she was sharing it with me,

I had goosebumps everywhere because she told me.

They did this for about 2025. They made one of the ward people

stand outside and keep God. They were going to pray over

her. Let no one come in.

This is our God. He's so mindful of you.

He will locate you in the midst of billion and tell you I love

you. I'm watching out for you.

You are not forgotten. That is our God.

Will you grasp the depths of His love, the depths there?

There's no measurement to how much He loves us.

Finally, will you keep a constant check at which feast

you are sitting at? Many of you are sitting at this

fast food with a bit of poison added when He has a feast

waiting for you. He's saying if you would just

throw this in the dustbin where it belongs.

And if you come to me and sit at this feast, you will experience

the magnificence of my presence and what I have to offer you.

But you need to keep checking whose feast you are at.

Pastor Louis Giglio talks about have you got the enemy at your

table? Many times when I'm sitting and

wallowing in self pity and and constant feelings of just oh I'm

not enough, I can't do this. The one at your table is not

God. You're hosting someone else.

And so many times thank God for marriage.

When one of us is in the doldrums, the other one

immediately identifies and say, hey, we are so blessed.

We were not where we were back then.

Let's remember that. Pick each other up.

You're not married. Have friends that hold you to

account. Don't be friends with the other

ones who pull you in the pit and cry with you.

You need the friends who will say I'm here, I'm waiting to

pull you out. God's got this.

Check which table you are at. Check if you're at the love

feast or at the poison table. Check yourself out at the wrong

table. So even as we close, even as we

close, if I could just ask us all to close our eyes.

If you don't know Jesus, I first want to offer this to those of

you who have not said yes to Jesus.

God is love, simple. There's nothing to complicate

it. He is love.

He loves you deeply, unconditionally.

He does not bother about what your past looks like.

He beckons to you and says I know it all and yet I want you.

And if you are saying, I have not said yet yes to Jesus, He's

the God of others in my life, but not of me.

I just want you to slip up your hands.

Everyone close your eyes. I just want to know who you are

so I can pray for you. If you can say I want Jesus,

even if you're one who wants to recommit to him and say, God, I

turned my back on you, I'm coming back home, Amen.

I just want to say this prayer. I want you to softly say it.

It's between you and Jesus. Dear Jesus, thank you for loving

me. Thank you for accepting me as I

am. I accept that you are Lord and

Saviour. Forgive me for every sin.

Wash me clean. Thank you Lord, that I am now a

son or daughter of the Most High God.

I pledge to live my life to please you.

God, I'm yours. Can we just give a clap offering

for the people who put their hands up?

You are part of the family of God.

You are so loved. It says the heavens rejoice when

one person says yes. If you're someone who wants to

rededicate your life. He said, I've I've turned my

back on Jesus. I want to come back home to him.

He's waiting. You know what to do already.

He's waiting. If we can all just stand, I want

to just pronounce this blessing on you.

From Hosea 14 verses 4 to 8. He closes this book on this high

Hosea 14:4–8

note where he says, I love you so much and I want to bless you

with something lasting. And I believe God wants to do

that for us. God wants to do that for us.

Hosea chapter 14, verses 4 to 8. It says, The Lord says, Then I

Hosea 14:4–8

will heal you of your faithlessness.

My love will know no bounds, for my anger will be gone forever.

I will be to Israel like a refreshing dew from heaven.

Israel will blossom like the Lily.

It will send roots deep into the soil like the Cedars in Lebanon.

Its branches will spread out like beautiful olive trees, as

fragrant as the Cedars of Lebanon.

My people will again live under my shade.

They will flourish like green and blossom like grapevines.

They will be as fragrant as the wines of Lebanon.

O Israel, stay away from idols. I am the one who answers your

prayers and cares for you. I am like a tree that is always

green. All your fruit comes from me.

I want you to replace the word Israel with your name when you

go home today, highlighted Hosea 14, four to 8.

And I want you to believe it. He is a dew to your dryness

today. Feeling spiritually dry, feeling

financially dry, relationally dry.

He is the dew. You and your children are going

to be established in the land and under your shade.

Many will come and be refreshed. And God, we're believing this

for our church, that you will make us flourish like grain, You

will make us blossom like grapevines, and that what is

brought out of us through the crushing will bless many.

And God, we're believing that each of us here will start to

bear so much fruit, so much fruit that many will taste it

and many will know that we are yours.

By your fruit you will be known, Jesus said.

And if that is your desire, can you just say, Lord Jesus, I want

that. I want that.

Even as we close, we're just going to ask God to root us back

in love. God, we just pray that every

bitter root be removed from our lives.

Uproot everything that is not of you so that our roots are pure.

Roots are in love. God, I pray for anyone who has

been at the wrong feast table. The enemy has tricked them into

things, Forgive them. I pray that you would restore

them to you. Bring them back to your table.

Bring them back. Father, I pray for those of us

who have been grasping the wrong things that will relinquish that

hold and hold on to you. Jesus, we pray all of this in

your mighty name, Amen. Amen.

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