Preparing for a move of God- Ps Rob Urban

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Here we are today again and I just want to let a cat out of the bag what's going on.

You would probably have noticed that for some time now the content of the messages have

all been around relationships.

Have you noticed?

Yep.

And so there's been a reason for this.

We all know that at some time in God's time there is going to be a great outpouring of

the Holy Spirit on this land.

And we see the Church of Philadelphia, if you read carefully through and study what

is written in that chapter, you will see that that church is a church marked with revival,

an end time move of God that is coming.

The Church of Philadelphia is not restricted to just one congregation.

It's a kind of a fellowship that resemble the Church of Philadelphia.

They were marked with love.

They loved each other.

They fellowshiped with each other.

There was such a depth of unity amongst them.

And this is the church, that is the one that Jesus is coming back for, a church that is

truly honoring Jesus Himself, but not only the vertical relationship, because I believe

to me that can be the easier one to get right.

We also need to have our horizontal relationships in order as well, to the best that we can.

And so in these last few months, there have been, you know, I spoke about racism, how

it's not in God's Word, you know, how we treat one another, the absence of enmity, resolving

conflict without revenge being present, forgiveness, loving people.

You see, we can be praying and staying up through the nights, praying and believing

God for a move of the Spirit, and what a great thing it's going to be when this nation of

Australia is set alight by the Spirit of God, and there's going to be a day that this will

come.

But there's a lot more to it than praying.

God is looking for a people who will come together and believe together, to be in agreement

together, and the word in the Greek for agreement is symphony, that a symphony, every instrument

is different from the other.

And some people, you know, playing those instruments, they're playing in a different chord, but

that chord is in unison with what else someone else is playing.

And so within an orchestra, there is a harmony.

There are many sounds and many different kinds of instruments that are all coming together

and making one unified sound.

And I believe that when the body of Christ, it doesn't need to be a great number, but

they come together all making one sound, one sound before the Lord, and that sound is love,

it's unity, it's that oneness, it's the agreement, and it's the ability to resolve conflict because

conflict is going to arise at times.

The Book of Acts, if you were to read carefully, you will notice that the Book of Acts was

in revival, the churches, they were in revival, and within that, they had conflict.

You know, conflict was not absent in revival, but something that they had was so important

that they established before the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

And the thing was this, is that, you know, the Bible makes it very clear, stages that

we get right for God to move.

So, one of the things that they did, they were all assembled together in the upper room

in one accord.

They had first established, reestablished the leadership structure in the upper room.

They needed to find who was going to be the replacement for Judas, that came first.

In the process, as the leaders in the upper room took charge, took authority and started

leading, then the others that were there, they just came together because, you know,

where there is leadership, there is direction.

And you know, leadership today, I believe, in many areas and walks of life is being attacked

and despised, I'm not saying here, but you know, over and about in a terrible way, an

authority, that people in authority are being disrespected terribly.

But they didn't have that problem in the upper room.

They had things established.

They had the government established for the church to come, and then they had the people

together in one accord, and the Bible says that, and when they were in one accord, suddenly,

suddenly, there came a sound of a rushing mighty wind.

There we read where there was an outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

The question that is always asked is that, but God would have, or the statement, regardless

whether they did or didn't, God was going to pour out at Pentecost anyway.

Do we know that for sure?

You see, God needs people.

He needs us to do our bit.

He needs us to lay a foundation.

When we speak about the glory of God, the Hebrew word for the glory is kabod, and it

means the weightiness of God, and we are believing churches around the world for a visitation

of this weightiness of God, His glory, to come into houses of worship, and that we be

satellite and we go out into the marketplace, the highways and the byways, and begin to

spread this fire of the Holy Spirit as we go.

But do you know that there are biblical preparations before the kabod, the glory of God settles

in a place, if you were to read with Solomon the length that he went through, the detail

he went through in the temple, and when he had finished everything that the word had

shown him to do, then they had the priests and the worship, and then God must have looked

from heaven and go, you know what, these people are honoring my word, they're honoring those

that I've placed in authority, and they're loving each other, and they've come together,

and the glory of God rested in the temple, and it says that even the priests could not

stand while they were trying to minister.

What I'm saying is this, is that yes, what a wonderful thing to believe God for an outpouring

of His Spirit to see this land change, to see Christ be honored and glorified in Logan,

in Brisbane, Australia, and around the world, and to see people come to Christ, the people

that are broken and need healing receive what they need from God.

I think that that is a wonderful thing, but I believe God is also at the same time with

prayer, believing and praying for revival, God saying, you know, I need my people to

get a foundation built here.

And that's where we've been, whether you've realized it or not, for months now, and that

is to build a culture of honor and respect for each other, to build this what we call

love, biblical love that we put each other, prefer others before ourself.

This is a very important thing, and this morning I'm going to pick up Romans chapter 12 from

Romans 12 · chapter mention

verse 9, and I know some of you guys have been saying, can you please continue along

these lines, turning the other cheek and all that sort of thing, and how important that

is.

It really, really is.

But as I read through these passages of Scripture, we will find that whether it's Apostle Paul,

Apostle Peter, or any of the others, they all keep this same thread throughout their

epistles, each and every one of them, and it is about each and every one of us doing

our part to build unity, to build an atmosphere of God in a congregation, wherever it may

be, in a home.

And it doesn't happen automatically, we need to be determined to see it happen and build

it in our lives.

And what we are seeing today, if you were to watch what is most popular on YouTube today,

not that I spend a lot of time there at all, but if you have a look at what is popular,

it is this, is that how you can be better, you can have more, you can be greater, that

you are like a God yourself, and you this and you that, and what is happening today

in the modern preaching, in the modern church, is the opposite of what the apostles were

preaching.

You see, when they came and planted churches, their message was simply salvation and establishing

the church, the structure of the church, but one thing that was common through all of them

was this, is that number one, the flesh, our old nature must die, so that the new nature

in us, Christ himself can live, and then as we have laid down and in the process of laying

down our old ways, our old attitudes, all of those old things, and start to discover

who lives inside of us and allow that new nature to start living, what happens there

is that, is why they were so successful, is from that new creation, there is a new way

of living, a way of love, forgiveness, of kindness, and all these things that we need

today because the devil does not need another move of God, let me tell you, and he is going

to do anything that he can to stop it, and I see one of the strategies that he has today

is to create friction in marriages, break marriages, to break families up, this is what

he is doing, to cause division in houses of God, and so if you reverse what he is doing,

we then see what the apostles preached, and that was that everyone lived from our new

nature and not from our old, is that making sense?

And so, you know, there is such a pursuit today, I will read this, I just feel to say

this, a modern day pursuit to want to be a prophet or an apostle, or a modern day pursuit

to want to move in all the gifts of the Spirit and to move in the power of God, and I want

to see miracles, and I want to experience this, and I want to travel the world and preach,

and I want to, I want to, I want to, you see it is no longer I that lives, but it is Christ

that lives in me, and unless we get what I am about to teach today, unless we get this

in biblical order, none of the other things are going to happen, and so God does not then

ordain things past our disobedience, in other words what I am saying, we can say well I

am not going to do that, I just want to go for the glory, I want to go for the power,

I want to go through, you know, I want to be a star in lights and all these sort of

things around the world, and what good is it to anybody, even if they did climb their

own way up that ladder, to one day discover that it was worth nothing?

It's this here what I have been on and will be on today is one of the most powerful lessons

we can ever, ever digest and learn and take in and live is simply this, let me read from

Romans chapter 12 from verse 9, are you with me this morning?

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Amen.

Let love be without hypocrisy, abhor what is evil and cling to what is good, and so

he says let love be without hypocrisy, you know the word hypocrisy was a word that they

used in the Greek language that was a play actor, so if a person, I mean I won't say

any names but just think of a very popular actor in the movies today, you got that person?

Well we call them an actor, in the time when this was written they would have been called

a hypocrite, and I'll tell you why, because a hypocrite was a person that play acted a

role that they really were not, and that same word is used now on the flip side as it's

saying don't, let love be without play acting, don't have an exterior to play act something

that you're really not yet inside, does that make sense?

And this is a very important part of this passage of scripture, you know you could imagine

at the Logie Awards and they call this person up and they say to the, this award goes to

the best hypocrite and come on and get your Logie, but it's saying let love be without

hypocrisy, abhor, despise what is evil, cling to what is good, be kindly affectionate to

one another with brotherly love, in honour giving preference to one another, not lagging

in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord, rejoicing in hope, patient, patient,

patient, patient, is anyone here at times struggle with patience?

In tribulation, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer, distributing to the

needs of the saints given to hospitality, bless those who persecute, you bless and do

not curse, it looks like we've done a circle and we're back again, so this word is bless

those who persecute, you ever been persecuted?

And we can push rewind right now and rewind to that time and just think how did I manage

that?

Did I bless them and what's this word bless?

It actually means to speak well of, it doesn't say to agree with them, it doesn't say that

you have to ignore what they're doing, it's saying that we got to be careful not to fall

into the trap of insult for insult, slander for slander and if we cannot say or think

of anything good to say, it's best to say nothing at all.

I remember reading in a book from Kenneth E. Hagen and he was speaking on about our

words and he was at a funeral service and he was asked to share or he was there and

somebody shared something about the eulogy and apparently the person that had passed

away, nobody liked him.

Apparently he was a mean, mean-spirited person that really caused grief into so many people's

lives and when this minister got up to say something, he thought, I wonder what he is

going to say and you know what he said?

I always liked his smile and he had nice teeth.

Now I bet you that many people were sitting there, I know what I really would like to

say.

Many times when you've done funeral services you'll know what I'm saying is true that leading

up to it, it's just like, oh dad, he was, and family just like, oh, I'm glad that I

won't have to put up with him and some horrible things that are being said and those same

people stand up on the podium to give their eulogy about the same person I heard two days

before and say, he was such a wonderful man.

Bless those who persecute you, bless and do not curse them.

Rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep.

Be of the same mind toward one another.

Do not set your mind on high things but associate with the humble.

Do not be wise in your own opinion.

This one to me is one of the big ones, one of the main players in what I believe they're

trying to bring out here, are bringing out in this scripture, being wise in one's own

opinion.

The short answer to explain that is idolatry, that a person can be so wrapped in their opinion

that against what the word of God might say, they will stick to their opinion and it causes

a lot of trouble.

I heard it said once and I've said it from this pulpit before, opinions are like armpits,

they all stink.

What is true is that our opinions need to be laid down at the cross of Calvary and we

pick up the truth of God's word, God's heart and God's mind.

You see, the word of God is so central to unity and if there are a husband and a wife

or two people that are in disagreement, disagreeing over something, one will bring their case

and say this, that and the other and the other will bring their case and this, that and the

other.

See, it's not about what their story is and what they want, it's like okay, are you guys

prepared to come to the centre of God's word and this is what God's word says.

It's not what the left and the right are wanting, it's like can we come into agreement with

God's word and if we can come into agreement with God's word, that means that both parties

have to give something, have to come to the table and go okay, yes, I can surrender that,

I can see where I'm wrong and the other one can say, yeah, I didn't realise that and come

together because opinions can be some of the greatest strongholds formed in the minds of

people and they can be so damaging and so the word of God is so central to unity.

It says in verse 17, repay no one evil for evil.

Have we ever done that before?

You don't need to say anything or raise your hand, probably wise not to but repay no one

evil for evil, in other words, if someone did you wrong, we don't devise a plan to pay

them back, turn the other cheek is to get on with life without revenge and so repay

no one evil for evil and that verse there is actually meaning that a person sits down

and literally devises a plan of response to get them back, it's premeditated and nobody

wins.

If there is an argument or if there is division say in a marriage and nobody wants to shift,

how is that going to be resolved?

How is it going to be resolved?

The only way it can be resolved is to find what is central to unity and that is God's

word.

God, usually you find that at least one party has shifted from God's ways, sometimes both

and you get them back to that central point, that's when we see things happen.

He says have regard for good things in the sight of all men, in other words, let them

see your character.

Now this verse 18 is a deep verse of scripture, deep passage, it says if it is possible as

much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.

Now I've seen it happen and I've thought it myself in the middle of a crisis and used

this as an exit clause for being accountable to do my part to see something resolved.

So this is how this can be played out.

Well this is too tough and the Bible says if it is possible, it's not possible, so adios

amigo.

And that's not what this scripture is saying.

Have a listen to this because the power word here is the word depends.

If it is possible as much as depends on who?

No, you.

Don't blame me.

You, us, it's not speaking about the person who may be persecuting you.

God's saying this depends on you, this depends on me.

But what does that word depend actually mean?

It is very poorly translated in my opinion, but that word depends means this, out from

and to.

So out from and to.

But it goes deeper.

It means out of the depths of the source and extending to impact its object.

Let me say that again.

As much as, sorry, if it is possible, as much as depends upon you, live peaceably with all

men, depends, that word depends, out from and to.

I'm going to explain it.

It means out of the depths of the source and extending to its impact on the object.

Here it is.

So what it's saying out from, where is it coming out from?

Well it's actually saying out from the depths of the source.

This here is connected to Romans 12 chapter 1 where it says, I beseech you therefore brethren

by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable

to God which is your reasonable service.

And do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind

that you may prove what is that good, acceptable and perfect will of God.

In other words, Apostle Paul is saying this is the transformation that took place in your

life and now that you have Christ in you, your hope of glory, you have something that

resides inside of you that when you and I come into a place of conflict from that source

that lives within us, that resource if you like, from that person, it needs to come out

from us and to impact the target that is persecuting you.

That's what that word means.

That's why it's saying, you know, I get their interpretation as much as depends upon you

and what it is saying is simply this, our responsibility is to know that when we are

being persecuted or being mistreated that we need to stop looking at us, I'm hurt, I'm

offended, I'm this, I'm sad, no, it's look at who is within you.

Greater is he that is in you than he that is of the world and that greatness extends

further than probably what we think.

There is an inner ability if you are truly saved, true Christian, that inner ability

that lives in you has an ability to transform relationships and we carry this around with

us every day.

So what happens is if somebody is giving you a hard time, it's decision time to say am

I going to respond to this from my old nature or am I going to respond from within because

this depends upon me because I'm aware, we are aware that there is a source, there is

a person who lives in us that needs to impact the other party that is causing this problem.

Is that making sense?

Very, very important.

Beloved, do not avenge yourself.

Who's ever thought, oh man, I'll get them back, I'll give them a knuckle sandwich.

Have you ever thought of that?

I see some women shaking their heads and going whoa.

Go ladies, husbands, behave yourself.

Do not avenge yourself.

That is a work of the flesh to avenge ourself.

Have I ever experienced that?

I'm not going to tell you but I think you can work it out.

But it says, but rather give place to wrath.

Now this doesn't mean that you lay yourself in harm's way.

That we don't, in an environment of abuse, it doesn't mean that you have to stay there.

That you have to, because you're a Christian that you have to cop it and because you know

you're suffering for Jesus that means that you have to stay and continually be abused

over and over.

That is not turning the other cheek.

That's not what it is.

It says here but rather give place to wrath.

That is actually meaning that don't avenge yourself.

But it doesn't mean that we can't position ourself to be able to handle it from the person

who lives within and not from the one that lives from without, the old nature.

For it is written, vengeance is mine and I will repay says the Lord.

So who is the one that is saying that he will take care of it?

God himself.

Have you ever noticed that I, as a mechanic and I did mobile work for quite a number of

years and some of the hardest jobs to fix were jobs that people tried to do themselves

and you've got to go and fix what they didn't fix or broke or whatever.

And I tell you what happens a lot is that you start to fix it and they're giving you

all the commentaries as to what you were doing wrong.

And I would tell them, look I didn't call you, you called me to fix your car.

So they'd lean over the bonnet and go, oh look, would you just, just don't touch it.

Just give me some space to move and I'll fix it.

But I can't have you sticking your hand in there and as I'm doing things telling me that

doesn't belong there, that should be there and you know, I'm the tradesman.

I remember one guy, I upset him.

He'd be leaning over the bonnet because he eventually just thought, okay I'll keep out

of your way.

And every time I did something he'd be going like this.

And I put this tools down, I said listen Skippy, if you don't get away from here.

I mean they can really annoy you.

You're just trying to do the job and you're kind of like doing a mate's rates because

well, he's not my mate, but you know, they, everyone wants everything for nothing.

Not everyone, but most.

So always sticking their hands in and interfering with what the tradesperson is trying to do.

The same as with us when we're trying to avenge ourself.

Leave it to the tradesperson that knows how to fix it.

Take your hands off it and don't avenge yourself.

Just go, okay, I've tried, it's not working, step back and say God, I can't fix this, but

you can.

I'm not going to avenge myself, but I'm going to leave it to you.

I'm going to leave it to the tradesman to fix this thing.

I'm not going to stick my hands in and try and help God in the process.

I'm not going to stall the restoration process by engaging myself in the middle between the

person and God trying to tell God how we think he should do it.

You see, when we give something to God, we give it to him.

And you know, you give it to God and you step back and say, wow, that's a relief because

now it's in the hands of someone that knows what they're doing.

But if we're going in and fiddling with what God's doing, it'll never work.

And you know what, you want to know what a problem can be with that is that I, and I

speak out of experience, unfortunately, is that we can prolong the process.

And then in our prayer, say God, why are you taking so long?

It's like he's saying, well, get out of my way.

Go fishing or something.

That's not a bad idea.

But there are times that we have to do some things.

There are times when we give it to God, we've got to give it to him and give him space,

let him know, let him do what he knows to do.

And if he needs your help, I'm sure he knows where to find you or me.

But we've got to give God that space.

In times of prayer, Lord, you've got to do something.

You've got to fix this.

You know, God doesn't have to do anything.

See, as much as depends upon us, sometimes human nature can go from being, you know,

loving people and being diligent, fervent in prayer and someone steps in our toes and

next thing you know, straight to the avenging.

Have I ever done that?

Yes, I have.

And most of us would probably say me too.

There is a process.

We've got to deal with opinions, idolatry of what we've established, how we expect things

to be, how I expect my life to be and handing it all over to God and let him orchestrate

our future and not tell him how we want our future to be.

And then it's talking about as much as depends upon you, the inner source that we have, the

mightiness of God, we are expected to like to diffuse this in the atmosphere that we

are in.

And that's it.

That's where it stops because God says, vengeance is mine.

And listen to this as we come to a close.

The Lord says, I will repay, says the Lord.

Therefore because of this, if your enemy is hungry, feed him.

Now that is a test.

When it says your enemy, we need to make sure that that person, our enemy, is not a good

person that we've offended because you ever notice some people create crisis and then

they place themselves as the victim in their own crisis and they say you're the enemy

and you didn't do anything.

And then they use scripture to try and nail you down and we need to be careful we don't

do that.

Very, very careful.

Where it says your enemy, it's in the context that a person is coming against you, not you

against them.

So the enemy there is, let's say, a person that is causing tribulation in your life,

tests and trials in your life.

So in other words, as hard as they can make it for you, if you see that they are lacking

food, feed them.

I remember sharing a story about this years ago when we did quite a few food parcels at

one time and some people just so appreciate the help that you give and this one person

was on the phone demanding in the office of the other church building we were in and I

want this and I want that and I want it now and so we went around and delivered this food

parcel.

They opened it and looked through it, don't like that, don't like that, don't like that,

don't like that.

I don't know, is there anyone here that was with me that day?

You saw a side of me that I don't think I sinned but I was very clear on what I was

doing.

I picked up the box.

I saw I got the box, I said that's okay and I put it all back in and I walked out.

He said where are you going?

I said I'm going to give it to somebody who appreciates this.

Uh huh, you with me?

And guess what?

I get into the car and the Lord says give it back to them.

You got to be kidding me.

And I thought yep, I'll just go to the hardware and get a packet of rat sack and mix it in

there and just.

Yeah they were really mean, really, really mean.

And the Lord said no I want you to go back and give them that food.

That food is not a conditional gift.

They're hungry, feed them.

That's what was happening inside of here.

Very different to what was happening up here about 12 inches higher.

About a week or two later, I can't be sure on the time that same person rang back and

asked for another food parcel.

So we delivered it.

Totally different person and apologized.

I'm really sorry for my behavior.

Will you pray for me?

Now I can't remember if that person got saved that day but they did later down the track.

How are we ever going to change the world when we have this entitlement to avenge ourselves?

Because that's what I was doing.

This person needed to see something different.

Something different to what they were used to.

And I showed him the old me and God was saying I want you to draw from within you and diffuse

to them the greatest source that lives in you and that is the kindness of God.

The love of God.

Okay you can say whatever you like about me but I've come here, this is what I see now,

is to give you a gift from God.

He loves you.

What you do with it, what you like and don't like in there is totally up to you but here's

your gift.

See you later.

Now wouldn't that leave a better impression than the first?

Oh I'm just, I learned so much out of this.

If he is thirsty, give him a drink.

This is the test to see that there's no enmity left in us.

No revenge.

No bitterness.

No like, you know what?

Whatever this person may have done to me is totally irrelevant because restoration is

the primary objective here between them and me and whatever means God is going to use

to accomplish this, I'm going to be open to it in Jesus name.

So if they're thirsty, you know, avenging themselves, well I hope your tongue swells

up and you almost choke.

Well that's a good Christian.

I'm avenging myself.

I'll give them some water.

Now you may meet some people that are not hungry and are not thirsty but you may know

that they have a need.

I know a person very well that their ex-wife, it wasn't a good separation.

She was in need and who was the first person to help her?

The ex-husband.

And bestowed gifts upon her so lavishly.

And it wasn't to get back together again.

It was a statement to say, you know what?

It didn't work.

But I don't hate you.

I have no revenge towards you.

I just want to bless you.

How many of us can do that?

You see that is a true test of forgiveness.

A true test.

And it finishes, do not be overcome by evil.

But overcome evil with good.

How are we ever going to change this world if we don't do this?

How are we ever going to do it?

Like that guy at the food parcel, he must have had a couple of weeks just thinking,

I shouldn't have done that.

I believe God was on his case.

And he turned around.

We've seen many cases like that just through the food distribution alone.

People go through things, they go through hardship.

Sometimes you will be the only Jesus that they'll ever see in their life.

We've got to make sure that they see clearly who Jesus is in us.

No judgment.

No criticism.

A hand up and a hand out.

We dig into our own pockets and help those that are in need.

Person said to me one day, I've never had God ask me to do that.

I said, he shouldn't have to.

I said, how do you know that?

Because I was in your position once too.

About being generous, God is extremely generous.

Folks, can you see it?

When we develop this culture, the kingdom culture of God in an assembly, it becomes

so tight, the devil can't get in anywhere.

Because one would think to the other, brother, you must be having a hard day.

I'm not going to take offense.

In fact, come on, let's go out for lunch.

It's bothering you rather than taking offense.

How good and pleasant it is when brethren dwell together in unity.

It is like it talks about the oil that runs down the beard of Aaron over the clothing.

And it says it is like the dew at Mount Hermon.

You know, Mount Hermon, where they grew these grapes, it didn't rain much there at all.

Yet they produced such a bumper crop.

So where did the water come from?

It was the dew fall.

The dew fall was that heavy, it kept the plants going in such arid country.

So why is unity like dew fall?

What's the connection?

Unity being together, building an atmosphere, a culture of unity.

Why is that like dew fall and why is it so important?

Do you know that dew, if you have a stormy night or a windy night or the weather is not

settled, you'll go to your car in the morning and there won't be any dew on your car.

Have you ever noticed that?

But when the elements are right and it's a calm night, a clear night, there'll be heavy

dew on your car.

And the same thing is, this is what this is saying.

It is like the dew of hermony, unity, dwelling together.

When we get this, this calmness, this, the absence of strife and the absence of turmoil,

the dew from heaven will fall on a people.

And the Holy Spirit knows what to do, but He wants us to cultivate an atmosphere of

peace and unity in every marriage, in every relationship, in every gathering that we go

to.

And as much as depends upon us, knowing what we do have, we need to diffuse that source

from within to where it needs to go.

In Jesus' name, amen.

Now if you're here today and you have not yet truly made Christ as your personal Lord

and Savior, or you had at some time and you've wandered away, I want to give you an opportunity

this morning to make your peace with God again.

Is there anybody here this morning that you know that this is what I need?

It's what you need.

Can we all just stand as I close?

If you're able, if you're not able to stand, please just feel comfortable to sit.

So I'm going to lead you in a prayer of salvation.

And I ask that you would truly consider what I'm saying now, and that is to surrender your

life to Jesus.

Give your life to Him today and live for Him.

If you are going through crisis and relationship problems and you know, Jesus is a good way

in your life to get the first steps rolling.

I tell you, it's where it all starts, with Him.

And so I'm going to pray a prayer, a short prayer, that if you really, I'm going to say

want this, it's what we all need.

Would you follow me in prayer?

In Jesus' name.

Are you ready?

If we can bow our heads and close our eyes before the Lord, would you repeat after me,

Father God, I come to you in the name of Jesus.

I believe in my heart and I confess with my mouth that you, Jesus, are the Son of God

and you died for me.

I ask you to forgive me all of the things I've done wrong in my life and receive me

into your family.

Amen.

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