First Love - Pastor Will Roos

Let's go into the title there. First love.

Yeah. And so God first love, and it's

simple first love, it's some simple message.

It says God loved you first. God loved us first.

That's first love. He loved us first.

And so he didn't wait for us to read perfection, OK, He didn't

say, OK, first clean yourself up before I love you or first go

and get in a better place before I know he loved, he opened his

arms. And I just love the fact that

God can run into us. He can run into us.

That's the simple gospel message.

Love went first. I mean, and so you know, the

other day we just at the park and my youngest son, Josh, I

love to play football with him. And so we're there at the park

and he's got 2 left shoes on. So we, so he's at that age now

where he's getting his shoes, you know, the left and the right

and, you know, learning how to make his laces and all of that.

But we're in the park there and he's got the two left shoes.

But we played football and he ran like a champion.

And so sometimes in your life, you don't have to have

everything perfect. You don't have to do everything

right. You don't have to be this

perfect holy person. All that you need is just the

love, is the love of a dad, a Father, a heavenly Father.

Bottom line, the love of God. So he first loved us so that we

can live, so that we can love, so that we can move forward.

He first loved us. Amen.

So love went first, first love and he came to us.

He became one of us. And so he didn't wait for your

perfect performance. He did not wait for your perfect

good works for your perfect worship.

He came to us and he demonstrated that he crossed

that gap even before we knew there was a gap.

He crossed it before the Bible says before the time you're

ready, gave his life for us. And God said I loved you first.

That's the gospel. I loved you first, love went

first. And I believe God wants to do

something special in this house today, something special in your

family, in our community, but also for our nation.

The UKI really feel we are on the brink of a revival and this

revival in the UKI really believe in the Western.

I really believe it's going to be a love revival.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I really.

But it's going to take the love of God, a love of a father,

because I love my kids, my children, OK.

And and the love of the father is going to bring a revival in

the UK. So get ready for a revival, a

love revival. OK, yeah, OK.

It's going to come through revival.

Somebody shot revival. Yeah.

Revival. Get ready for revival.

Yeah. First love.

First love is about to hit the UK.

First love is about to hit the UK on fire.

Burning on fire is going to take passion where the Lord is not

just another hobby or just another sideline on a Were you

so passionately on fire that he's the everything.

He's the very essence of our lives.

Our everything is him. There is nothing that compares

to him and his goodness and his love.

He is so good. He's incredibly good.

Once you've had an encounter, I'm not talking about you've

heard about God or you've been in Church of heard about, you

know, many people. We've heard about the queen or

the king or we've heard about that celebrity.

Oh yeah, I've heard about, you know, Elon Musk.

OK, have you actually met Elon Musk?

Have you actually had a conversation with?

OK, now listen, this is where the church, we've been making

things so complicated about God, about religion, church and all

that. Listen, it's simple.

It is a relationship. When I get up in the morning, I

walk to the pond there by the ducks, and I talk to Jesus like

I'm standing to you, right? Yeah, I'm talking to Jesus.

He's my best friend. He's my buddy.

He is my, my everything. And I have a conversation with

the Lord. Simple, not churchy stuff, not

anything. Listen, I never even thought I'm

going to be. I was just studying sports

degree. I was on my way.

I was one AC champions. I was hanging out with

celebrities in Joe in South Africa, Eagle.

I know all of them. All of the celebs.

You just mentioned their names. They know where all of them.

I was hanging out with these guys.

That was my life until I had a conversation with Jesus.

Not about Jesus, not about church, not about religion.

To Jesus directly face to face. So I I have encountered Jesus

face to face. So when you speak directly to

Elon Musk or you can say I know him, not I read in the paper or

heard or saw on the news or heard about a church.

I have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ himself.

That's the difference. Come on somebody, the church

have complicated things hopeful and it's time for us, our

nation, the UK to come in a simple relationship with Jesus,

fall in love with Jesus just like the way I fall in love with

my wife. When I saw my wife on the stage

she was worshipping Jesus in church.

I'm like that's my wife and we fell in love and yeah, OK, I can

say I loved her first. OK, first love.

OK. I actually chased after her,

gave her my number. And I Can you believe it,

Michelle, she OK? She said she lost my number.

But then those days, OK, we don't have mobile phones.

I gave her my number on a piece of paper.

I'm like, OK, you just phone me. Months later, I'm like, Oh my

God, she's never phoned me, this woman.

And I laughed. I'm like, yeah, I really want

it. But I didn't know where it was

those days. We didn't have Facebook and all

the social media. We said, where do I find her?

Where do I find Michelle? It was I met her.

It was it was wallet. And now a year later, I was in

the gym I worked in, in Melville.

I was running this Belardus and Wellness studio as a gym

manager. And so early in the morning, I'm

like, OK, God, where do you want me to go to church?

Because there was a lovely big church.

I want to mention the name big church, but I'm like, well,

that's the big church. So that's where I'm going to

find a nice wife because I was looking to date somebody.

Now he's got, you know, I want to go to the big church.

But the Lord said, and I don't go to the big church, go to this

church in Northcliff. And I'm like, this is such a

small little church. How am I going to find you know?

And so in that small church when I walked in, there is Michelle

Alamo. There you are.

I've been looking for you. I've been looking for you.

Never phone me. And so, yeah, first love.

I loved her first. And so then we then I made sure

I'm inviting you on a date. So OK, we're going on a date.

Like you're not just giving you my number.

We're going on a date. So yeah, it's just start to fall

in love with Jesus. It's simple.

It's not a religious, it's a relationship.

That's what it is. I'm talking to the Lord all

throughout the day while I was here.

This is looking of the kids doing all things all throughout

the day. It's a relationship.

When you're in love with somebody, you think about it.

I phoned my wife. I don't have to like, oh, how do

I hear the voice of God? Listen, when Michelle, I know

it's her when the Lord talks to I know it's him.

When he talks and we talk, we have I just know it's because I

know him. I know Michelle.

So that sounds like, oh, this is now your wife, the pastor.

This is who I know. I know her voice.

I know the voice of the Lord. So the more time you spend with

the Lord, the more you know him. And so, yes, this morning, let's

just fall in love with Jesus. Let's fall in love with Jesus

all over again. Yes.

Come on, somebody. We get on fire.

We fall in love with Jesus. So what can I get ready?

Revival is about to break loose, break out in the UK.

I'm ready for this love revival. How many of you are ready for a

love revival? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's what it's going to be. It's not going to be religious

revival like we used to. This is going to be, We see it

on stats now, the highest. It's the Bible.

Sales are up. You just go on Amazon, it's the

highest, best seller. It's the Bible, OK?

The stats are showing people are flocking to churches because we

know there is a real God. It's real.

So how many of you are excited about this today?

Aven? OK, God's love is in this room.

Hallelujah. Now we're going to I'm going to

show you amazing verse. Are you ready for this verse?

And this is our text verse for today.

It's first John chapter 4 verse 19.

1 John 4:19

We love why the Bible says because he first love us.

Somebody say first love. OK, so first love, God moved

first love moved first and because God love move first, we

can move forward, we can learn, we can love.

So we just thank you Father, to our hearts to open speak to us.

Lord, stir faith, let your love change us from the inside out in

Jesus mighty name and we thank you, Amen.

Now, I remember when my kids, they were small and so they were

that stage where, you know, we're just learning to walk.

And so it's like tumble and then few steps.

They walk three steps and then they tumble, OK.

And sometimes when they fall, OK, it's bruises and head

injury, all these things. But it's a learning process,

learning to walk. And I love my kids.

And so they're walking and tumbling and fall.

And So what do we do as loving parents when our kids fall?

What do we do when our kids fall down?

OK, We don't stand at a distance with our arms crossed, OK.

And with the lecture, OK with a there's a clipboard and say, OK,

I'm going to deduct score points off.

OK, Now as loving parents, what we do when our kids fall, OK, we

run in. I I at the moment my kid falls.

I mean, I've so many seen them fall much as our bicycles

different places. I just run in the other night.

Was it my middle 1 cried out in the middle of the night.

OK, I don't get up and like try and check and give AI run to my

child. I pick up my child and I hold

him in my house. I comfort him straight away.

That's what a loving parent we do for our kids.

And so we rush and we move in and so I pick up, we pick them

up. OK, wipe off the tears, kiss the

scrape or the bruise or whatever.

OK, And we just love on me and I just say are you OK That easier?

Okay, wherever it is, if there's a middle of the night on

convenience, okay, the key is falling off the bike that

easier? You'll be okay.

I'm right here. I've got that.

That is how heaven treats us. That is a picture of our

heavenly Father that when we fall, make mistakes, when

something happened, our Father doesn't stand with his arms

crossed from a distance criticizing now I will fall when

we fell. Even you can see it all

throughout the Bible since day one.

In the beginning when mankind fell, all throughout the Bible,

God came running in. God came running to help, to

love, to comfort the Bible. He's not just standing there

waiting, watching you go for your struggle and struggling and

falling and God rush is in the Bible says in the book of John

three that God so loved the world that he gave his son.

Whoever believes in it shall not pray.

But I never lost him God. And then he says this, I did not

send my son now listen to this church to condemn the world.

I did not send my son to condemn the world, but so that the world

can be saved through him. Wow, that's a different story

that I've heard at some religious organization where God

says I have given my son not to condemn the world, but to save

the world. I love that John 3 verse 16,

John 3:16

very famous verse. And so love didn't wait from a

distance, Love run, love moved in, love comforted.

And I love what it says in Romans, you know, when Christ

died for us, Roman says even while we were Yitsenness, my

God, that is a loving God. Even while we were running in

the mud, while we were doing well.

Fun thing while I was in in the world, man in Pretoria, living

in the world in the hostel, private school for boy.

I mean watching rugby at Loftus first or hanging out, living for

myself, just doing my own thing, living wild.

He showed me he loved me even in my mess.

While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Not when you clean yourself up that I love.

Not when you're in a perfect place where you've had a perfect

week right in the middle of the mess.

Jesus stating and Jesus so, and Jesus gave himself for us in the

mess and he didn't stand from a distance shouting directions

across the gap. No, Jesus crossed the gap, he

cried, he became one of us. He came to us, he crossed it.

And when he came, he carried our issues, our problems, he took it

upon him. He said, there's this great

exchange and I love Remembrance day-to-day because we're

remembering Jesus. He took it.

He said, listen, let me just take your sickness, disease,

troubles, put it on me and I'll give you my blessing.

He took our sin and our guilt. He paid it, so we messed up.

OK, Stand before the judge, right?

You got to pay the bill. Jesus said, I'll take that, I'll

pay the bill, you're free. Hallelujah.

Somebody give God some praise. That's what he did.

God moved first so we can move forward.

God move first. Say that with me.

God move first so I can move forward.

Start again, God move first so I can move forward.

Hallelujah. And so the message is not climb

up to God. The message is God came down to

us. That's a simple gospel message.

Let that sink in. First love.

And so, yeah, what does that means on a Monday morning in

everyday life? It's we love because he first

loved us. So it's out of that place of his

love for us that we flung. OK, so he went first.

It's not something that we earned.

It's not something we perform to do.

It's he came, he loved us and we see that in the cross.

We see that in the entity tomb, how he made a way.

Love went first. Now let me just talk about value

for a moment because 1 Psalm 139 is verified.

The Bible says that we have been powerful, wonderfully,

wonderful, fearfully and wonderfully made.

I mean, OK, so that means that God has taken extra special care

with you, wonderful, fearfully and wonderfully mate.

I mean, and so you are not random, you're not an accident,

you're not some mistake or leftover parts, OK?

You are carefully your planned, known, OK, Known and seen.

And so you are. It's so beautiful because you

are wanted. You're genuinely wanted, OK?

You are wanted. Tell your neighbors that you are

wanted. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're wanted.

Yeah, you are wanted. Yeah.

And so, you know, God stands with his arms wide open and he's

like, you are wanted, OK. And so, yes, you are my prized

position. I mean, and so no matter what

you go through in life, no matter the difficulty, your

child or how many mistakes or how many disappointments or

doesn't matter what you face in life, okay, your value, it stays

the same. Your value doesn't change, OK,

You are always the apple of his eye.

You're always the one for him. He always loves you.

And so your value stays the same.

It doesn't go up or down. You know, I read about medical

researchers that they've tried to calculate the worth of a

human body. And so they try to calculate,

OK, so we talk about now the enzymes, the hormones, the body

organs, body part, you know, bones, muscles, and they sort of

OK, right. If kidney is 100,000, level is

250, a heart is maybe 500. And so they've come up with an

estimation. The medical research is that

it's about half 1,000,000 lbs. So an average size person is

about half £1,000,000 worth. So that's what they've worked

out on the human body, right? OK.

And so just imagine that, how does it feel to be half

£1,000,000 person? Yeah, half £1,000,000.

OK, for the heart, now it's illegal to pay for organs.

OK, these days we donate organs. It's.

So that's just an estimation, but it just shows you how much

the treasure that God has placed in you, OK, Because God, the

manufacturer sets the price. How much worth, how much value.

And so the Heavenly Father put value on you, He put worth on

you. And so your heavenly Father put

value on you. And, and I just love it because

your creator, he's signed you, he's put his name, he's signed

you, you carry his name. He's put his signature on your

life. I mean, that is his glory.

It's just to think about that just settles it.

I mean, OK, my maker, he, he sets my value, that settles the

value. My maker, I belong to God.

And so I just came to tell somebody here today that you are

extremely valuable. You're worth.

You're so valuable to God. You're worth.

And that's what it says in Ephesians, that you are God's

workmanship. And now the word for workmanship

means that you are God's masterpiece.

Now, you do realize that the masterpiece is not mass

produced. You don't just come off an

assembly line. You're not just that project,

OK? You're not just average or just

ordinary, OK? You are one-of-a-kind.

You are unique. You're an original, OK?

Yeah, You custom made one-of-a-kind, a masterpiece.

You've been signed off by the artist.

And it's more than Picasso. It's God Almighty, the creator

of everything. Now maybe life, I've put labels

on you. Maybe life said that you're good

or just average or not good enough, or maybe mistakes try to

define you. Many people have rejected you or

overlooked you. But heaven comes with a better

word. Heaven says you are a

masterpiece. Oh glory to God, I feel the

annoying thing in this place. Now let me just give you a

simple picture. OK at home I I mean, I enjoy

playing OK, I grew up playing rugby.

But now since I've been you know, in the UK, probably over

to football now we call it soccer in South Arabia.

Now football OK, so I've got a football at home.

My kids now play football. Sometimes I've thrown in a rugby

ball anyways, so now I've got this football at home.

Now it's same size as what they would play in the pros.

So it's about what, 20 bucks a football?

OK, if I take that football and I take it to a professional

footballer, let's say I take it to Ronaldo.

Ronaldo, can you sign my football?

And Ronaldo puts his signature on that football.

All of a sudden that football is not 20 lbs anymore, but it's 2

million. OK, what is all of a sudden I

can sell it for a fortune sign, football, sign letter sign

places. What changed?

Not the football, the owner. So in Christ, we belong to God.

You are God's prized position. The Bible says that you are

God's chosen people. God has placed his signature on

your life. That makes you valuable.

Somebody shout Hallelujah. Yes.

Glory be to God. Yeah.

So you're worth. Your value is not performance

based. You're worth.

Your value is not based on what you can do, on your

qualifications, on your job, on your achievements.

OK, now your value, your worth is based on who you belong to.

Yeah, I belong to God. Yeah, it's who you belong to.

And so he signed his signature on your wife when he formed you.

He claimed you when he gave you Jesus.

And now we can say with peace in our hearts, oh, we belong to

God. God is how I belong to God.

And that value settled with settle and think about a watch

shop because was it that the lexicon of one of the shopping

malls, one of the shops there Now it looks very simple, very

plain. I mean that one shops 50,000 lbs

OK, some of the shops you got 50 thousand 70,000 lbs for a for a

watch. OK, now look very until the

jeweler open the back. I'm like oh OK.

Now all of a sudden when the jeweler shows me the watch and I

look at and I say, OK craftsmanship.

I see the make, I see the model and I look at that, I look at

that watch and I'm like my God, this is a this is a Rolex.

No one. That's 70,000 OK, £70,000 for a

watch. Now, when I looked at it at

first I looked at it, it looked from the outside, very plain,

very simple. The same when people look at

you, sometimes they just look at the outside and they just look.

You look orderly, you look simple.

God looks deeper. God looks on the inside.

God looks at the heart and He sees His image in your heart.

He sees His signature, His Rolex signature in your heart, in your

life, His Christ, His presence in your life.

And he calls you a masterpiece. That settles your value.

That settles your work. Somebody give God some praise in

this place. Yeah, that's right.

Because that is who you are. You are a masterpiece.

You are not second hand. You are not just.

You are one-of-a-kind, original with heaven's signature on your

life. So just receive this word today.

Wow, you are loved. You are loved.

You are wanted. You are so valuable.

You are so loved. I just love that song.

Oh, how he loves us. This is so awesome And majesty.

You know, his love, it changes everything, the love of God.

It doesn't go up or down. God's love is constant, the same

everlasting. Regardless of you know, we've

had a good week or a bad week, God still loves us.

It doesn't go up and down. It's God's nothing.

Which wings He's eternal loving you in my child.

OK, when my kids are and I've got sons, OK, they kid naughty

at home. Listen, if they naughty at home,

OK, I still love those guys, my little ones.

I'm like, come to daddy, you've been really naughty now, OK,

you're going to clean up your room now.

But I love the our heavenly Father treats us the same way he

loves us. It's like, oh, I had a rough

week. God, I just did this to the dog

and that and look, I was like, I still love you.

Yeah, that's our Father, you see, and that's it.

Because listen, you, we, because he love us first.

He's not changed his mind. We can move forward first.

You can get back up, not because you'd never fall, but because

his love wash us. It's his love.

The gospel is not try harder. Oh, you really need to try now.

Really harder. No, the gospel is simple.

It's looked at Jesus because he made the first move.

Jesus become your next step. So you are left so that you can

now live. And now let's make this

practical tomorrow morning. It's how simple open the word

and so speak the word and you speak it out loud.

You just because when you look at the word, first look at the

the mirror. The Bible talks about the word

as a mirror. Before you look at any other

mirror, before we go into the bathroom mirror, first look at

that, the Scripture mirror. And so then while you're making

coffee, getting the kids ready, just speak the word out loud and

you just say thank you, God, that I am fearfully and

wonderfully, mate. Thank you, Lord, that I am a

masterpiece. Thank you, Lord, that you've

chosen me. I belong.

I'm loved that simple. I just giving you illustration

of my morning. I'll just just say those few

words. God, you move first.

So now I can have a blessed day today out of that love

relationship. I'm telling you when you speak

like that, you start your day like that, something shifts.

All of a sudden the pressure falls off because I know what it

is. I've managed over 100 people in

some Monica Trust in Bristol. I know what it is to manage

people. I know what it is to have the

CQC inspectors come in. I know I've managed a very

affluent retirement village and that's how I start in the car

before I go to work. I speak those words and all of a

sudden the problems that feel so permanent, it shifts people's

opinions. All of a sudden, it loses its

grip. Yeah.

Because I've just been declaring the word.

I've just been speaking what the word of God says.

And so all of a sudden, you stop trying to get approval and you

walk from a place that you carry approval.

Can you say, I mean, somebody? Yeah.

And so just grab hold of this word today.

Set it deep in your heart that you were loved even before you

improved. OK.

Yeah. You were valued before you

perform. You were chosen before you chose

him. Come on.

That's first love. He chose you long before you

chose him. Yeah, that's first love.

That's why your future is bright.

Your future is bright not because you do everything

perfectly. Your future is bright because

his love is perfect. Because his love is eternal.

Because his love is stable. That's why your future is

bright, because of his love, OK? Not because you will never

stumble, never make a mistake, but because His love, God is

love. Because His love has already

made provision. He's already got that covered.

So God moved first so that we can move forward.

Now let me just talk briefly about Jesus, the greatest gift,

OK? Because love gifts.

Oh, come on, guys. Listen, I love my wife.

So what do I do? I give her stuff.

It's just I'm like, OK, lovey, you want to go to which mall

today, right. Do you want a credit card?

You want this? It's like, where's my wallet?

Because I love her. I'm going to buy something nice.

No, that was looking at all. But he's like, OK, come on now,

guys. That's true.

Because when you love Becks, OK? Like Becks.

What do you want? Because, you see, The thing is,

when you genuinely love somebody, James, you give to

Julia. Listen, when you love somebody,

you give to them. You take somebody on a date,

you're going to pay the ball. Why?

Now? Come.

Let's go to Switzer. Come on.

Yeah, guys, He's nice. You, you do it.

Come on. I can.

We'll carry on. This is how you treat Ellie.

Come. I love you.

So what do we do, guys? When we love one another?

We give. That's love.

And that shows us the character of our God.

Yeah, that's real genuine love. I'm not talking about fight

love. Real genuine love.

The Bible says God so loved. What did he do?

God so loved us, the world. God so loved the world that he

gave. Yeah.

Yeah, Brian, you got it. He gave his only begotten Son.

OK? So God did not give £1,000,000

to buy us, OK? He did not give, He gave his.

He didn't give a system or a formula.

He didn't. He gave a person, He gave his

son. OK, that's real genuine love.

And so the Scripture calls it God's indescribable gift.

So that's the greatest gift, it's Jesus, it's the highest,

it's the most incredible gift is his son that he gave the

greatest gift that changes every part of life.

Now think about a family inheritance, right?

Inheritance is not something that you work for.

So my son's birthday is coming up now in November 1st born

Peter. So I give him a birthday gift,

not because he has been a good boy or his work.

I give him a because it's his birthday.

The same with an inheritance. An inheritance is something that

somebody places in your hands. They give it to you because

you're family, not because you earned it, not because you work

for it, because you are family, OK.

And so that is what the Father did with Jesus.

He came in Jesus. We receive forgiveness, a brand

new stock, new mercies every morning, a brand new heart, a

brand new life. We receive that in Jesus.

Not because we performed, not because you did a good work to a

charity or attended or this or that, a good work, none of that.

It's because He loves you. That's why I gave you Hama Saba.

That's why he doesn't. Because I love you.

Not because you go to a church or not, because you do a big

work of charity. None of that.

He loves you. A father that loves his child.

I'll give you a present. Now, what's very important is

that it needs to be received, OK?

He needs to receive and unwrap the gift.

That's the only thing. So we don't work for it.

We don't. But if I sit there and I look at

my son and he's not unwrapping, he's not receiving the gift.

You see, what we need to do is we need to receive it.

And this matters. And the reason this matters, if

we do not receive and unwrap the gift, the world will try and

sell you a fake, the world will try and sell you something for

like a copy, and the world will try and push you to prove your

value, to perform for more likes.

OK, but your value, your worth does not come from the boss, the

crowd, people. Your worth, your value comes

from your owner. That's where your where your

value comes from. I mean, and so it's very freeing

when you live a life and you realize that it's a very free

life to live when you realize you don't have to impress

people. It's very free when you come to

a place you don't have to impress people.

Because The thing is, it takes a lot of energy to compete and

compare and keep up with the Joneses.

It takes a lot of energy, a lot of you know, with it.

Because The thing is, it's working hard.

It's like running on a treadmill now.

I like exercises, but running on a treadmill, it's hard work, but

you're not getting anywhere. It's like going nowhere slowly,

you know, running on the treadmill.

Now, I'm not against exercise. I love exercise and treadmills.

I used to have a bike. I like one of those bike

treadmills now, especially in the winter.

But now hard work on a treadmill, not going anywhere.

That's how it takes energy. As soon as you prove yourself to

one person, prove myself to this person, then oh, I need to

impress another person. There's someone else that I need

to impress. Oh, I've proved myself to this

person. Oh, now I need to impress this

person. I need to be.

And so just take the pressure off and get off the treadmill,

breathe and relax. You don't need to impress

anyone. Oh, that's, that's treater.

It's you can live. Oh, that's you can enjoy your

life every day in God's love. You don't need to perform.

You can enjoy your everyday life.

OK. And especially in these times

that we are living in, I mean, this culture that we are living

in, I mean, it's just designer brand names, labels everywhere.

Wherever you look, there's a designer label.

Oh, another designer label. Oh, designer shoes.

Oh, fancy sunglasses. OK, I've got the right bag, the

right car, the right the latest iPhone mobile device.

And it's all these fancy and it can make you feel good for a

moment. But sometimes we'd wear so many

other name brands that we forget our own.

Yeah. We start looking to design the

labels to tell us what will you matter?

Our badly. OK.

Very quiet in this Presbyterian Church.

Are you with me? Are you receiving OK?

OK, listen, there's nothing wrong with designer labels, OK?

Please, I just want you to understand there is nothing

wrong with designer labels with dress good, look good.

And all of us. OK, enjoy them, but don't let

the things set your value. Oh, I'm wearing a designer Jean

now. Now my value is really oh, why

is my designer Jean now my values?

OK, so don't let things set you because I'm wearing the fancy

sunglasses. Oh, I love that.

I'm like yeah, no, but don't let that tell you who you are

because The thing is your name. Now thank God for the different

names in the Nike and the Adidas and what?

But your name is unique. I'm like, we've got to make my

own sweater, you know, with our name, Will's name or something,

you know, But yeah, your name is unique.

Your name in God is unique. And OK, it's it's in fact, it's

actually greater than the name that stitched on the shirt that

the Tommy, you know, it's your name in God is greater than the

label and all respect you that made labels and all of that.

That's fine. But yes, the difference between

you and the brown is that God has breathed his life into you.

You are carrying the image of God.

God's image, God's Spirit is in you.

You are a son and a daughter of the most high goal.

Sallelujah. Repeat your cow.

The name between Nas and the brand name.

And we thank God for the kids running around with Ronaldo

shirts and football shirts and and all these things.

Yeah, it's fun. But never forget your name is

unique. Yes, there's a Ronaldo, but

there's a Nas. Come on now.

Is Nas born again? You are safe.

You're the child of God. OK, Look at your value.

You carry the signature of God higher than the Rolex, and I

thank God for the 50,000. But you guys got more.

Yeah. So whether he's now a designer

or a discount, whether he's now Gucci or Goodwill, your value

stays the same. Whether I wear the label now to

do it or not, it stays the same. Whether I live in this much

small flat or in a brand new house, it stays the same.

OK, you cannot get more valuable because of something that you

brand new car, you cannot get more valuable.

The highest is a child of God. The highest child of God is the

highest value. Your value is priced on one

thing, that you belong to God the Father, the highest value

that you belong to the father. So yes, we thank God for the big

house. We thank God for the driving the

nice car. We thank God for that.

Yeah, get the big house, drive the nice car, all of the good

listen. And that may increase your bank

account. Your bank account may go a bit

bigger and yes, it may increase your net worth, but not yourself

worth. Whoa, yeah, yeah, increase it to

network, but not yourself worth. Yeah, God is the one that sets

your value. It's in the heart.

God is the one is Jesus in your heart.

When you're a child of God, that sets the value.

When God breathed his life into you, that sets us.

But The thing is, the enemy works overtime to devalue us.

And he used a trick. And I want to show you something

very powerful. If you get this today, it's

going to really bless you. It's the free piece.

You'll never forget this, the free piece.

Remember the free piece, the first one, performance,

possessions and popularity. Because that's what he pulled

off on Jesus. Listen, the signed devil still

signed tricks. And you know what happened in

Luke 4 in the wilderness? The enemy came to Jesus and this

is what he said to you, because he pulled this.

He's tried this same trick. The performance, the possessions

and popularity. The first thing that the devil

said to Jesus, turn these stones into bread.

Perform. Prove yourself through a

miracle. Jesus said man shall not live by

bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth

of God. So in other words, I don't have

to perform to know who I am. I don't need performance.

I don't have to prove to feel good about myself to know who I

am. I don't need performance to

prove who I am. That's, that's, that's number

one. OK #2 the enemy showed him the

kingdoms of the world. He said right thou, and it's

yours. Now.

Jesus refused and said no, because I don't need stuff to

know my worth. I don't need possessions to

prove that I'm worth my value. I don't need possessions to

prove my worth or mother. And then finally, this is what

the enemy said. He said, all right, if you are

the Son of God, jump off this temple because you said that

your angels will catch you. The enemy was trying to get

Jesus to show off in front of the people to get the the crowd

cheered the crowd a mate and to cheer him popularity.

But Jesus refused and he said I don't need the applause of

people to feel secure. I don't need the applause and

the approval of people to know who I am and to feel secure.

I know who I am. I don't need those three things.

I don't need performance. I don't need possessions.

I don't need popularity to feel valuable.

I don't need those three things to tell me who I am.

I know who I am. I am the son of a living God.

I am the son of God. Oh Jesus, I know who I am.

I don't need those things to prove who I am.

A lot of people, they live in these days proving foreman's

mode, proving they cannot feel happy about themselves unless

they have proved to people that that I'm important, prove,

perform. OK, now why could Jesus say no

to all those three things? Because his identity was

settled. He knows this is who I am.

I don't need to perform. I don't need stuff.

I don't need the the crowd to chir.

I know who I am and how the father spoke that over him in

Matthew 3. Remember that?

And when did the father speak that over him?

Yeah, but before his ministry even started, the father said,

this is my son, my beloved son in who I am well pleased he's

not done anything yet. We're talking about first love.

Come on, somebody's going to get this today.

It's going to drop now in the moment.

We're talking about first love. The Father loved him first

before he did anything, before he did a public miracle, before

Jesus went about doing good, healing the sea, cleansing the

labours, rising, before he did anything, The Father already

said, I love you my son Umanuel, pleased.

Before Jesus did anything, first love, first love, He loved you

first. Jesus did not work for approval.

Jesus did not work for love to receive.

He had the love right in the beginning.

His Father said your love. The Father did not say that

after his monastery and said well done Jesus, you've healed

so many people, you've done so many miracles, You've done this,

you've healed this. Well done.

Right at the start, first love, love moved first.

From the place of first love, Jesus flowed his ministry.

The miracles flock. We follow the same pattern.

From a place of first love. Our Father loved us first.

Out of that place we flow, we love.

That's what the Bible verse said.

What we read, we love. Why?

Because He first. You're getting this church.

That's our pattern. So when the enemy whispers, it

says prove yourself, impress others, impress, work to get

approval. You can smile and say, listen,

my worth is not for sale. No, it's not.

It's not for sale. It was settled on the cross.

That's where it was done. So your worth, your value, it

doesn't change. The love of God for you never

changes. If you've had a good week or a

bad week, God's love never changes.

Oh God, I feel so bad. I've really been the bad boy.

God's like me, still love you. There's nothing, nothing,

nothing that can change His love for you.

Nothing, nothing. Grab that hole of that today.

Come on, it's not performance driven.

Oh, this week God loves me. That week God and he loves you.

Oh, somebody's getting this. Your worth, your value.

It doesn't change. It's not dependent upon your

background. Do you know my background?

What I've done? It doesn't depend on that.

I never knew I'm going to be a part of being started church.

I'm shocked. I'm still, I'm still shocked.

I don't even know what I'm doing there.

Look, God, this can only be God, not me.

I've been this good boy. I've not gone to Bible school,

theology, study sports. This can only be God, this God's

first love. It's the way God is.

So your value, it doesn't change based on your background or your

performance or what you can do or your qualifications, your

behaviour. OK, your worth is only it's

because you're a child of the most high God.

Now let me give you 1 simple picture.

If I take who's got a £20 note? Anybody's got a note you or

something because I've it's already been offering time

right? We probably do you have a note

here because I just want to give you like a demonstration of

something because if I take a note, yeah, thank you.

Now if I take a note, so this note £5 note, if I crumble it

like that, does it change its value because I've crumbled it?

Does the IT becomes less worth like for all of a sudden the 5

lbs changes to 2 lbs? No, it's still it's still it's

still the same. It's still it doesn't lose value

the same. If I take this 5 lbs and let's

say I drop it on the floor and so I come and and let's say

somebody steps on, does that change the value drop the value

of the 5 LB drop? OK, this is not the stock

market. This is OK.

So what happened? So if you feel that maybe in

life has crumbled you or someone's rejected you or hurt

you or dropped you or somebody's betrayed you, that doesn't

change your value. Somebody's getting this.

It doesn't change your value. If you now feel life, life has

trembled on you, stepped on you, crumbled, OK, you're worth your

value is still the same. That never changes.

Amen. Come on, let's put our hands

together, OK, So I want you to understand that regardless of

what happens in life, the difficult God's signature, God's

image is still in and upon your life.

His image, okay? And he, when he paid the price,

did not pay £1,000,000. When God love us like, right,

this is the mistake, this is the fault.

Now somebody's going to have to pay for this because sin is

expensive. And now it's actually did not

cost him 1000 million pounds. In fact, it's actually cost him

his own son. So he's like, right, I'm going

to accept my son with his blood, and his blood still stands.

He paid the price for all of us. Hallelujah, Praise God, thank

you, Jesus. OK.

And so how do we live this out every day?

It's very simple. You just step off the trade

mode, step off the performance proving mode, OK.

Because you are not working for love.

You're not working for, you're not auditioning for love.

The role is already yours. You're already approved.

OK. And so calm your heart and say,

OK, so I flow from approval, from value, not for approval or

for value. And so, church, you are loved

already. Yeah, you're already, you're

proved already valued, already first love went first.

And so this week you will see how love, the love of God

touches and changes, how you walk, how you think, how you see

yourself, the love of God when you catch this revelation

because he loved us first. So we can move forward.

Now let's talk about first love, what it does.

And this is amazing for guilt and shine.

You know the heavy feelings because it says very clearly and

I want to read that to you. I've quoted it many times, but I

want you to actually see this. It says John 3 and then after

the 16 comes verse 17. Let me show you right.

So there it is. It says that for God did not

send his son into the world soon condemn the world, but to save

the world through him. So Jesus didn't show up with a

clipboard pointing fingers and he's standing there with his

clipboard and he's reviewing all of your mistakes.

Jesus did not show up reviewing all of the failures.

He did not point. No, Jesus came to save.

Jesus came to rescue to save the to rescue.

So Jesus came to pull us out, not to push us down, OK, to

bring us peace, not to keep you in proving much.

Now think about a lifeguard. When a lifeguard is on, dude,

and there's somebody going down, let's say it's in the sea, OK,

Margaret, or Durban or someone or at the coast somewhere.

And So what happens is the the person's going under the water.

The lifeguard does not stand on the pier and stand and scream

and shout, oh, why did you swim in that water?

Why did you swim in the ocean current and throw out a lecture

and throw out a manual on cut waters, ocean currents.

Now, if a person goes down a lifeguard, the first thing is he

dives in, he swams as fast as he can, reaches out, pulls you out

and gets you back to safety. That is a picture of our Savior.

Jesus comes, He reaches out to his people.

He says, come, let me pull you out, not to push you down, but

to save you, to rescue you. Not to point a finger, not to

condemn you, but to save you, to rescue us.

Come on. Jesus is a very present help in

the time of trouble. It is the best prayer that you

can pray. I've been in times I've been in

rough waters in my life. I nearly died many times the

first thing I had to help. And Jesus has always been

faithful to help me. It's the best prayer you can

pray, help you just it's just remember that prayer.

He's a very present help in a time of trouble.

He's not distant. He's closer than you think you

are. When you cry out, you'll never,

ever let you down. Never.

Never. Were you in trouble?

I was on my bicycle and I was crossing the road and I saw the

car and he hit me like this. I cried out.

Jesus. I flew right over the car all

the way. Everything happens, Loma.

I should have died in Sunnyside in Pretoria that day.

The devil said I'm going to destroy you.

I'm going to kill you even before you have a wife and

children. He wanted to kill me and Take Me

Out. I screamed to you and he helped

me the one time in Margaret as well.

I was nearly drowning. I was in the back and this

picture God showed it to me. My friend Kharad Feniger was

right next to me. We went under the I gave my last

breath. I realized I'm way too far deep

and I cannot stand the the current sucked us completely in

and I I went and then I thought I'm dead.

I'm gone. A hand came through like this.

My God, I just cried out to the Lord.

I said, Jesus, if this is it that I'm coming to heaven, I, I

knew I was so, but I had, it was not my time yet.

And that lifesaver, that guy, he just grabbed me.

He saved my life. And Jesus said to me, that's how

I will save you. What's coming in this world?

We're living in the AI world. We are living in the end times.

Things are going to get worse in the world.

But for the church, this is the ark.

This is the ark, Noah's ark. Now, let me just tell you this

one thing about the ark, because no one preached for hundreds,

120 people kept on, kept talking.

He said, listen, there's going to come a day when the door is

going to close and the whole world's going to be thrust with

water. Everything, the door of the ark

is still open right now, but there's going to come a time

when that door closes. So right now, each and every one

of us, it's not about joining a church or a religion or it's

about getting right of Jesus. And so if I die right now and I

stand in front of God, I'm going to heaven because I've received

Jesus. And so Jesus is yet to save.

He's our savior and to bring peace into our lives.

And I love Romans 8 because Romans 8 says very much the same

thing. It says there is therefore no

condemnation. Come on, Romans 8, no

condemnation. That doesn't mean less or half

condemnation. It means no condemnation.

Yeah, Yeah, that's no condemnation.

I'm like, wow. I mean, that's standing before

the judge and I I owe the penalty.

I've got to pay this. Jesus.

The judge declares it in your favour.

Case closed. I pay the price because, Jesus,

you, I took it. And the advocate says, you know

what? I'll pay the ball, I'll take it,

Jesus. That's exactly what so all we do

is we say thank you Jesus, I am free because you pay the bill.

And so very few verses later in Romans chapter 8, that same

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verse, it says this God is for us.

Always remember that. Always remember that God is for

us. He's not against us.

That's a lie from the pet of hell.

God is for us. He's backing you in your family,

in your work, in your career, everywhere.

He's there. Let's make this.

Let's open that door. Let's connect you with this.

But he's for you. He's got a prosperous future for

you. He's for you, not against you.

Nothing. Nothing can separate you from

God's love. Nothing.

Come on. There is nothing.

Not the good, the bad. Actually nothing.

Not the good performance. Bad before.

Nothing. No height, no dead, no past, no

prison, no future. Nothing.

No Angel, no demon. No demon.

Hell can separate you from God's love.

Come on, somebody Hallelujah. Yeah.

So, yes, the waves, the difficulties, the challenges.

The critics might talk. When the waves rise, God's grip

gears get stronger. When that wing gets loud, these

problems get louder. And so heaven is for you.

Tell your neighbor heaven is for you.

Yeah, Heaven is for you. Heaven is for you.

It's it's for you. Heaven is for you.

He didn't come to condemn you. He did not come to point the

finger. God, No.

No condemnation. That means no pointing, no

condemnation. No condemnation.

Now, another place the enemy works over time, he works with

mirrors. Now, when I talk about mirrors,

where the enemy, the devil works with mirrors, I'm not talking

about the mirror in your house on the bathroom wall, OK?

I'm talking about the mirror in your head.

Now the mirror in your head, OK. Because how you see yourself is

it matters yourself. Image.

Yeah. God's got my back.

I thank God for that. Now the way you see yourself

matters. Yourself image of yourself, it

can either lift you up or limit you.

If you see yourself negative disadvantage, OK, not

attractive. You see yourself.

It holds you back the way you see yourself.

OK, so I want to talk to you about this because this is very

important. Now think about the funhouse.

We go to this fun house. You see these mirrors at the

fair and you stand in front of the mirror.

And so one mirror it's makes it looks, you look super tall.

So I take the case and we'll stand in front of these mirrors

and it bends you. And so some mirrors, they, they

stretch your arms and my son's like, dad, look at look how I

look. And then they stretch the arms

out like that. And some mirrors, they, they,

they shrink your head and they twist your, your nose and, and,

and, and your mouth features. When you see those mirrors, you

know what I'm talking about, OK, where they actually they, that

your body goes out of proportion big and small.

And OK, look, we all know those mirror images.

They are not true. But the problem is in real life,

we don't always notice when we look at the wrong mirror.

That is the problem. When the image gets distorted,

it gets pinned and twisted. And so the scripture says that

God has made us in the image of God with his image.

OK, now the wrong distortion, the wrong picture of the wrong

mirror, that will keep us limited.

It will hold us back. When we see the wrong picture in

the mirror, look in the mirror. Oh, it's the wrong picture.

OK, but God has gifted us, He's equipped us for our purpose.

Now what? The enemy wants to try and trick

us, put the wrong mirror up to try and distort and bend the

real image so that you do not see who you really are, that you

do not understand who the real true you, who you are.

And so the enemy puts up fake mirrors and he puts up mirrors

with distorted so that you live. And when if you, if you look at

the, the wrong mirror with the wrong picture, you're going to

make wrong choices with a distorted image.

Because now if you look at the real mirror, where's the real

mirror? The word yeah, that it says in,

in the book of James chapter 1, it says there the, the mirror,

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it talks about the, the, the word of God, That's the real

mirror. Yeah, James chapter one, verse

23. So what do we need to do?

Just switch mirrors, OK? And so just keep the word of God

in front of you, because if the wrong mirror comes and his wrong

mirror says, OK, you're average. Go to the right mirror, the word

of God and says, well, I'm a masterpiece.

OK, I'm I'm I'm fearfully and wonderfully mind also if the the

wrong mirror comes and says, no, you, you can't, then you the

right mirror says, yes, I can do all things through Christ who

strengthens me. And so if the wrong mirror says,

oh, you made a mistake, you blew it again, you just go right

mirror says there is there now no condemnation in Christ Jesus.

So you just swap switch mirrors and you just put the right

mirror in front of you and you keep on answering.

And so the right mirror, it lines up with the word of God.

It lines let truth because there's lies and truths in this

world. I mean, even in the mainstream

news media, we've seen it this way.

I want me to know, but we've seen how some of these

mainstream medias are so corrupt, full of lies.

It's not even news anymore. Like I can remember and Holden

that, you know, where I come from, you can't even watch the

news anymore. I'm like, my God, what's now

truth and what's a lie? What have they edited?

What have they done? You know, and I said that it's

let the truth lead you. So how do we walk this out

today? Just keep the true mirror in

front of your face. And so read a verse before you

read the news. And it's very important.

I'm like, let me just first read the, the, the, the verse before

I read the news. And so, yes, speak the word

before you check the text because 2 minutes of scriptures,

just like in the morning, I'm going to talk about hours.

I'm sorry, 2 minutes of scriptures in the morning will

do more for your heart, OK, than than than anything in the world

in the news. 2 minutes. Let's send the scriptures.

It will do more for you than 20 minutes of scrolling.

And nothing against scrolling. I mean, I've not been on

Facebook and all this I'm not again.

But I'm just saying, have you had your time in the Word?

Because when you've had your time in the Word, you'll feel

full, not empty. You'll feel settled.

OK, you settle. I've had the time settled.

OK, so I'm not working for approval, OK, I'm approved.

Loved not looking for love, OK. And so I just love the fact that

in God's love you're safe. No condemnation, no every.

When I spent time with the Lord is the most fulfilling time more

than anything with anybody. When I woke up in the morning

before my kids and my wife, I I just go speak to the Lord.

It's very fulfilling. It's safe.

No condemnation. Say that with me.

No condemnation, just salvation. Yeah, and the presence of God.

And so Jesus, he told this amazing, it gives us this

awesome story. It's one of my favorite stories

about the loving Father because it really for me as a loving

dad, it really hits me for my children.

And Jesus shared this and he said, listen, let me tell you

about the Father and I'll just, I'll just keep it very brief.

Let me tell you about the loving Father that there is no

condemnation. And this really.

He said remember and look firstly by the prodigal son

coming home and he's begging for a job as a servant now when he

was a long way off. The Bible says when the father

saw him, he ran. Now that to me the father ran,

he was running, he took off. When the father saw the son, he

ran towards him. Not a walk, his Sprint.

He bolted. He ran towards his son, hugged

him, kissed him, called for a robe, the family ring, put on

new shoes, put a tight seat at the table and throw a party fan.

It is a picture of our loving Father and laughing Heavenly

Father. That was a loving father.

He is not waiting to shame you. His wife is running to save you.

Oh yes, worry to God, our loving father.

Are you getting this? Just loving father running

towards his son to save you. You know, I shot this video clip

the other day about the soldier and he was being deployed after

long military service of about long two years.

And this soldier, he walked through the airport and said it

was amazing because as those glass doors opened, his family

was waiting. But this grandma, she forgot the

cane. She took off this guy when she

saw her son, when she saw her guy, she took off.

She bolted, she ran and she stopped sobbing and crying,

laughing at the same time at the airport, the entire terminal

started clapping. This video went viral.

I mean, grandma just sobbing, happy tears running.

He dropped his gear, his military gear, he ran, he

bolted. And I just thought to myself, my

God, that is a little glimpse of how heaven treats us, how heaven

sees us with a warm welcome, happy, loving, running towards

us. That's a reunion.

Come on, somebody give God some praise.

I feel the praises of God in this Christ, Heaven's welcome.

And that is how the Father loves you.

He loves you just as you are. He runs you.

My dad, I mean, he's retired now in Greece somewhere, enjoying

his life. He was working for Formula One.

He earned his money. But now what's amazing is he my

dad when he's, he runs to me. He asked my son, how are you?

That's our loving Father, that's our God, the God that we serve.

He reaches out to us, our parents, they run towards US,

open arms, big, no lecture, love, compassion.

And yes, maybe some of our earthly fathers or that they've

not modelled that to us, but our heavenly Father is perfect.

He is love. And so yes, a warm loving

welcome home. Now let me bring this message to

the close. Let's talk about where first

love is taking us. And we see this amazing picture

in Second Samuel Chapter 9. There's a man by the name of

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Mephibosheth. Now remember, he was the

grandson of King Saul, so that means he was born into royalty.

So if he's now Mephibosheth in royalty and the Bible says that

he lived in a place called Lodobar, that's a rough place

when you go look at the that was in the slums.

And now think about this, this royalty from the palace living

in the slums just getting by a royal Prince from the palace.

Now he's living in this loader board just getting by.

Now remember what happened to him that when he was 5 the

tragedy hit, he was just five years old that and panicked the

nurse picked him up, ran and dropped him and he injured his

legs and he grew up crippled. And so I ended up in Loader Bar,

this terrible place in Loudabad, rough place in Loudabad.

Now just think this Prince, and maybe you feel like that you are

living in a place called Loudabad.

You feel like you are in a tight place, in a difficult, lonely

place, in a hard place, in a place that you did not plan to

be. Maybe you feel like you're

living in Loudabad, but your location or your situation does

not change your value. Where you are does not change

who you are. It doesn't change your work.

It doesn't change your value, OK, does it doesn't cancel your

calling. You are still a child of the

living God. You still carry royal blood in

you, royalty in you. And so Yuri is a royal Prince,

is living in amongst the slums. And so one day David, King

David, he asked, is there anyone, still anyone that I can

from Saul's family that I can show kindness?

That's God's heart to you. Restoration is his idea.

Is there still anyone I can show kindness to you?

That's God's heart for you. Is there still?

The king is looking for you. The king knows where you are.

He knows exactly what you're going through.

The difficulty. The challenge is the king knows

how to find you in Lodobar. He knows how to find you in that

location, a difficulty. He knows your name.

And King Davidson. He's meant to go and get him.

Go get my Faber chef. And they carried him to the

palace. They brought him to the palace.

Now I'm a fibber chef. Pal says he's like nervous.

I feel I'm I feel so small. I feel some even he called

himself a dead dog. I'm just a civil.

David said, no, I did not bring you into this place to punish

you. I brought you to this palace to

bless you. From today, you are going to sit

at my table. You're going to sit at my and

eat from my like my own son. And in one moment, my fibber

chef, he went from hiding to honour, from eating leftovers to

the King's palace, the King's table, from being rejected, to

restore. In one moment, that is first

love. Somebody shout Hallelujah.

That's what first love wants to do for you.

You may say, but I am broken. I was dropped.

OK, maybe somebody dropped you. Somebody's hurt you, somebody's

opinion. Maybe someone that should have

protected you did not protect you.

OK, maybe you have been dropped, but they did not stop your

destiny. You have had losses, but you

didn't lose your value. You didn't lose your worth.

You are still you are a son and you are a daughter of of God and

as we close first Love Is All throughout the Bible and John 15

says you did not choose me but I choose you OK God is saying

first love you did not perform yourself into the palace.

You did not work or you did not perform through good work into

the palace. I brought you into the palace.

That's the word of God. I brought you near the last

verse for today. The Bible says, but now in

Christ Jesus, you who once were thought of have been Lord near

by the blood of Christ first love always wants, Amen.

Let's all stand together now, stay in this holy moment because

in the Book of Revelation, I want to share this with you

because Jesus was sharing this with his people.

And Jesus was talking in the Book of Revelation to his

church, to his people. He was talking about first love.

And Jesus said that you have forsaken the love that you had

at first. Now maybe that's you today.

There was a time that you used to burn bright, that you just

wake up in the morning and like, I love you Jesus, but life

happened. Somebody hurt you, somebody

dropped you, OK. And the fighter cooled down.

Maybe there's been a storm, a difficult, a challenge in the

family. You're still a child of God, but

it's not like you used to be. You used to be on fire for

Jesus. Jesus used to be everything.

But something else is script in. Something else has taken his

place, and he's not first anymore.

Maybe something else has become more important than Jesus.

And so you're just going through the motions and you feel stuck.

But listen, I want you to see Jesus's heart in the Book of

Revelation. It's not pointing fingers in a

condemning way. He's inviting you.

That's what I want you to see, the heart of Jesus.

When he says you have left your first love, it's not condemning.

It's an invitation to come closer.

It's an invitation to say, Jesus, you are my passion, you

are my love, you are my first love.

Jesus, you are my everything. So it's not condemnation.

He's calling you close. So love went first so that you

can move forward. So today maybe if you have

become lukewarm and your fire is dumb, it's not like it used to

be and you have drifted and you say, I want to come back to my

first love, my passion, because that's the word of the Lord

today. And we say, yes, Lord, yes,

still child of God, but I want a fiery touch from heaven.

I want the heart to be a blaze on fire.

If that is you, I want you to lift your hand right where you

are right now. There is something powerful

about saying yes out loud. Hands up, God sees every hand.

Now I want you to put put your hand on your heart.

Repeat after me. Say, Father, I come back to my

first love. Thank you Lord, that you moved

first towards me. I repent for drifting and

growing cold. Wash me, restore me, light the

fire in my heart again. Jesus, be my first love, fill me

with your Holy Spirit, give me a fresh passion, fresh fire for

your word, for your presence. From this day I return to you,

my first love, loving you, seeking you, serving you in

Jesus name. Now let me pray over you.

Just raise your hands to heaven. Father in the name of Jesus.

Lord, I break every life condemnation, every lie of guilt

and shame. Set hearts ablaze.

Rekindle first love, joy in the morning, fresh fire be released

right now. Heal every wound, every hurt,

and every heart. Maybe it's in the family, maybe

in the marriage, maybe in the children, maybe it's church

hurt. Heal every wound.

Let the oil of the Holy Spirit flow right now.

Lord, I pray that you would set every heart on fire, set this

house on fire again, that Jesus is blazing in our hearts like

never before, our first love, our everything, that Jesus is

more important than anything else in this world.

In Jesus name, if you receive that, give God some prize.

Now just repeat this out loud after me.

Say God move first, so I move forward.

My heart is on fire again. No condemnation, just salvation.

Nothing can separate me from God's love.

Jesus is my first love. Now give God your best praise.

Come on, somebody.