Here I Am - Jordan Gear

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Come on, we're right on step with him.

And so I'm gonna start reading in verse 7.

We're picking up where Saul has just had a radical encounter.

He's been persecuting the Lord, persecuting the early church, and then he gets wrecked by Jesus.

Jesus literally appears to him on the road to Damascus.

And it says, This the men who were traveling with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one.

Saul rose from the ground, speechless.

Or I'm sorry, Saul rose from the ground, and although his eyes were open, he saw nothing.

He was blind.

So they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus.

And for three days he was without sight, and neither ate nor drank.

Now there was a disciple at Damascus named Ananias.

And the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias, come on, I love this part.

And Ananias said, Here I am, Lord.

And the Lord said to him, Rise and go to the street called Stray.

And at the house of Judas, look for a man of Tarsus named Saul.

For behold, he is praying.

And he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias to come in and lay his hands on him, so that he might regain his sight.

So, Lord God, we just come to you this morning and we just present ourselves to you, Lord.

And we just say, Here we are, God, whatever you want to do in and through us, we say, have your way.

In the mighty name of Jesus we pray.

Amen.

Come on, let's give God a hand as you take a seat.

But uh, you know, there's there's a detail that I love about this story that I think speaks to uh something really special we have going on in our church.

Um you notice the description of Ananias.

This really touched my heart as I read it.

Is it could have said a million things.

God could have chosen a million different people.

He could have, it didn't say the and he called the apostle Peter.

It didn't say he called the apostle Thomas, it didn't say the bishop of Rome, it didn't say anything of great importance, just one simple word.

A disciple.

Come on, a simple man that you never hear of again in the Word of God.

He's never talked about again.

And yet, who does Jesus go to?

The simple man who's a disciple.

And he tells the simple man, he says, Go and lay hands on Saul.

And what is so beautifully presented in this is really the heartbeat of our church.

We believe in the gifts, we believe in position, we believe in authority, we believe that God's given apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds, teachers to the body, right?

But come on, that doesn't replace what their function is.

It says that we exist, me as a pastor exists to equip you, the saints, to do the work of the ministry.

And so, yes, we believe in pastors, but we believe that all believers are priests.

Amen.

And that no matter if you got saved right at the altar during worship today, or you've been walking with God for 40 years, you're a priest.

And God wants to use you mightily in the earth.

And you know, you know what just like gets me so excited about that is that is the exact intention we built our missions department out of.

I'm gonna be honest with you, you could go a lot of places, and what they call missions is vacation that you follow your pastor to a place to go watch him preach.

That's not what we're building here at Celebration Church.

We think you're too valuable than that to do that.

We think you have too many gifts on your life and too much anointing, and you hear the voice of God too much to relinquish you to a seat in a room.

And so that's what we did is almost all of our expeditions don't even have one pastor on them.

Because God wants to use you, and just as God chose Ananias, God rose up a right around 300 people from our church last year to go and preach the gospel.

You won't know many of their names, but I just want to celebrate those people.

So if you went on an expedition in the last year, I would love to just see you stand up and come on, church, can we show them some love?

Come on, I see people that went to the Middle East, I see people that went to Zimbabwe to backpacking in Angola to unreached tribes to some wild places this year.

And guess what we saw God do?

What these people, the Lord used these people to do is we saw 2,648 people give their lives to Jesus.

We saw revival in the nations, and nobody got credit for it but Jesus.

And this is exactly what's happening in Acts chapter 9, is we see Jesus getting the glory.

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And Ananias is just the vessel.

And so there's some things I want to say this morning that maybe come off harsh if you don't know my heart, or um is intense.

But guess what?

We serve a God that came to earth, got beat, crucified, stuck to a tree, stayed in a grave for three days, resurrected, and says he's coming back again, clothed in the blood of his enemies to rule and reign and judge everyone on earth.

Our faith is a little intense.

And if you just if you want to be a part of something that's all just fun, you picked the wrong faith.

There's some things that are intense, and I have to tell you the truth this morning.

I woke up with a broken heart, with a prophetic word from God to his church this morning, because if I'm honest with you, much of the church of America has forgotten the mission of God.

And we've created our own missions and we pat ourselves on the back when we complete our own mission.

And yet, all the while Jesus is waiting for his church to complete his mission.

And so, really simply, the first thing I want to say is there is a price to our inactivity.

You're gonna see hear a sound playing.

I'm gonna come back to that, but I want you to pay attention to that.

Is there's a price to our inactivity.

And what we've done with our faith is we've made it a thing that serves ourselves.

That if, oh, if I don't obey God or I don't give or I don't do this, then I won't be blessed and I'll have a hard time.

So let me get back to church and let me get back on track so that then I can be blessed.

Can I just tell you that's a very small price to pay?

A lot of you are sitting in your seat and you think the disobedience in your life to what God has asked you to do only affects you.

But what we see in this story is there was a high price to be paid if Ananias was not falling through on what God asked him to do.

You see, there's a whole lot on the line because I don't know if you know who the apostle Paul is, but he's the one that wrote almost the entire New Testament.

He planted churches across an entire region.

He set off so much revival everywhere he went.

They tried to kill him multiple times and couldn't kill him.

They shipwrecked him and he got bit by snakes and he shook them off and preached some more.

He was so crazy and radical for the Lord that there was a point that he was in Asia Minor and he said, I don't even know where else to preach because everybody's heard.

This guy, this is a high price to pay that Jesus put his name on Ananias.

Think about it.

He didn't say somebody's gonna come pray for you.

He said, Ananias is gonna come pray for you.

That is wild, y'all.

That is wild that Jesus would stake the New Testament early church on one random guy that's just called a disciple.

And this sound that you hear playing is set to 50 beats per minute.

And and what every single time that you hear this sound, I want you to just listen.

Someone is passing away that doesn't have Jesus.

And if I just had it set to lost people, it we couldn't even keep up with it.

This is just the people that live in the regions of the world that there's no one there to tell them about Jesus.

That's a soul.

Every time we hear that click, this matters.

And there is a price to our inactivity as the church.

So every soul that we just heard take away.

Jesus died for, he paid for, he made a way for, and then he just gave us the simple duty to go and tell them.

And most of us sit back and have nothing to do about it.

And and I don't say this to guilt you, but I pray that there's a revel, deep held revelation in your heart this morning about the mission of God.

You can't have our faith without the mission of God.

You see, the mission of God came first in Matthew chapter 28.

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He says, Go and make disciples.

Acts 2, he forms his church.

You were meant to be the solution to the lost, dying, broken world that we live in today.

You know, I think of this story every time I start talking about the unreached.

Is it's about 3.4 billion people.

Billion people that aren't just lost, but they will live their entire life without one person telling them about Jesus.

They live in a region that's less than 3% Christian.

They won't, they most likely won't even meet someone that knows their Heavenly Father.

And I say all this to zoom in on the people, not the numbers.

Because you we can slap, we can slap a bunch of orphans up on the screen and superimpose flames over them and try to get you emotional and guilt you into doing something.

But the reality is, is these are real people and they're waiting.

They're waiting for the good news.

I I say this all the time, but I am completely unimpressive.

I have not really much to offer in a lot of ways.

But I'm telling you, every time that I just say yes and I go, I see God do things that blow my mind.

And I watch people just like me, completely unimpressive, that just feel the burden, respond to the call, and they see Jesus pour out glory in the nations every single time.

And so I think of this man in Cambodia every single time I start talking about the unreached.

And we were going to Cambodia, it's a place that's 0.03% born-again Christian.

And uh, you know, every single person I talked to for the 10 days I was there had never even heard about Jesus.

Completely new concept.

And as I was preparing to go, I had someone meaning well tell me, hey, that's that's uh amazing you're going.

But actually, I was a missionary there for seven years.

And in seven years I only saw 12 people come to the Lord.

And so I just want to set your expectation that even if you just sow seeds and nobody gets saved, that's okay.

God will use it.

Don't get discouraged.

And immediately there was something in my spirit that said, Jordan, do not receive that word.

So I just said, Okay, thank you so much.

Thank you for serving God.

And I moved on.

But let me tell you, when we we got into Cambodia, and this is true of anywhere I've ever been, it doesn't matter how Muslim it is, it doesn't matter how illegal it is to preach the gospel, it doesn't matter how remote it is, there are people waiting.

There are people that are broken, there are people that are terrorized by demons, there are people that can't sleep through the night, there are people that are traumatized, there are people that are seeking God, and what they have is not fulfilling that desire.

And so, really simply, we walked into this man's house.

He's never heard of Jesus, he's never even met an American before.

And we said, really simply, we've come to bring you good news that Jesus came to set the captives free.

And his response was, Awesome, can you pray for me?

I'm very sick and I can't get up and walk.

So we were like, sure.

Wow, this is easier than we thought, you know.

Thought it was gonna take seven years, but here we are.

And we laid hands on this man and he recovered instantaneously.

I'm not talking about the 30-minute prayer where you go through every healing scripture and oh, you gotta convince God to heal him.

No, it was very simple.

Be healed in Jesus' name.

And he looked around, he's like, I can breathe different, my heart feels different.

By the end of the week, he was walking miles to revival meetings and to testify what Jesus did in his life.

And that's an amazing testimony, but the this is the part of the story I will never forget.

Is we we do a follow-up meeting with him where we're gonna disciple him a little more into what all this means.

He's starting from scratch.

And I start to talk with him, and he goes, actually, I had this one question I've been thinking about all night.

This is so amazing.

So, this whole story you told me about Jesus, how long ago did that happen?

Was that like 10 years ago?

Was that a hundred years ago?

And I had to look this man in the face and tell him, no, it happened 2,000 years ago.

And this man's response was, what took you so long?

And everywhere I go, I see people that have been bound for generations under demonic gods that do nothing but steal, kill, and destroy their life.

And they're waiting for a way out, and there's just no one going to them.

And so that takes me to our second point.

This is was our heart's cry this weekend at our missions conference.

But it's our lamb has conquered.

Let us follow him.

You know, this this phrase comes from the book of Revelation where it talks about how the lion has overcome, that he's the only one worthy to break the seal.

But then when they see him, he's a slain lamb.

And and it goes on to say in Revelation 14 that these are the people that follow the lamb everywhere they go.

And I've just had more than ever the revelation this year that no matter where I go, no matter how far it is, no matter how remote it is, no matter how Muslim it is, no matter fill in the blank, how dark it is, no matter how demonic it is, he's there.

When I walk into that yurt and that shepherd that has a fourth grade education and is bound by alcoholism, he's there.

When I walk into that home of the witch doctor that's supposed to be this big scary man, he's there.

And this is the reality of the Great Commission is there the battle's already been won.

And yet we sit in our churches and we act like victims that just endure.

But I believe that we're entering an hour of the church, and I need you to hear this.

We're entering an hour of the church of Jesus' victorious church that is going to shine bright everywhere they go.

And it's time that we get out of this victimhood Christianity where all we do is sit in our churches and we self-assess over our temptations and our problems and our shortcomings, you're gonna drive yourself mad because this is not what our faith was created to do.

And when we sit back and we stay focused on ourselves, you eat yourself alive, and then you wonder why you never move forward.

I'm here to tell you I am a very imperfect person, but I can tell you just as I tried to start to pursue Jesus, it just began to fall off.

There's just too much on the line, there's too much on the line, church, for you to be obsessed with yourself.

And meanwhile, Jesus is waiting on his church to step up and set the captives free.

I say this all the time, so I haven't got in trouble yet.

But I'm telling you, I walk into these places and I see these genuine people, the kindest people you will ever meet, just longing for God, and yet they're going to the pagoda, and they're making sacrifices to a demon because no one's told them about a better way, and it pisses me off because I look at these demonic spirits, these false gods that are ruling and reigning, but the word of God says they've already been disarmed.

Has Jesus conquered or not?

And so what that means is it's time for his church to take ground.

Our church was never meant to be a building, but it was meant to be a kingdom, people on mission.

I can't take it anymore, church.

I can't take passive Christianity anymore.

Self-obsessed, self-help Christianity.

Can I help you?

Die.

Just die so Christ can live through you.

You'll have the best life ever.

Seventeen steps to have a good marriage.

How about love her like Christ loves the church?

Deny yourself, pick up your cross and deny yourself.

Y'all, we've overcomplicated it, and it's because we're not doing anything.

We're inactive.

So then we go inward.

I'm telling you, it's not avoidance, but there's glory when you just follow in the footsteps of Jesus and preach the gospel.

Man, I just start to believe it more when I see it come to life in front of me.

You know why?

Oh man, I tell teams this all the time.

Jordan's being a little unhinged this morning.

But I'm gonna tell you what I tell our teams.

If the first thing you tell me when you get off the field is, oh man, that warfare was intense.

I want to kick a hole in the wall.

You could have stayed home and experienced warfare.

That's the testimony of your lips.

I don't know about you, but when I go into the nations, you know what my testimony is?

Even the demons flee at his name.

I've seen crippled walk, blind eyes open, deaf ears open.

I've seen bones snap into the socket.

I've seen imams get singed.

I've seen witch doctors preach the gospel.

Come on, we serve a victorious land that's already conquered.

And all we gotta do is follow him.

He's already there winning every battle.

But our God is a God who always has looked for a people to partner with.

But that's not how our God operates.

He's a communal God, he's a God that wants to raise up and partner with the people.

And it's time that we stop prioritizing all of the wrong things.

The greatest injustice, I need you to hear this.

The greatest injustice, and this might sting for a second.

The greatest injustice in the earth is not poverty, it's not hunger, it's not sex trafficking, it's that there's 3.4 billion people that have never heard about the gospel.

In the church, this is crazy.

I want you to hear this.

The global church has seven times the resources to complete the Great Commission.

And yet we talk about it like it's an impossible task.

Man, if you reached one person every year for the rest of your life, and that person that you reach reached one person then every year of their life.

Do you know the Great Commission would be done in about five years?

That's multiplication.

And yet we sit in our church and we add another service and we call it revival.

This is not what we're doing at Celebration Church.

Can I just agree with the heart of our pastors that we're believing something greater than people in seats?

We're believing for something greater than just a brand that people get to know, Celebration Church.

We are believing that the kingdom of God is going to be established in Jacksonville, Florida, and that we're going to see revival across our city.

That's going to shake neighborhoods, that's going to change whole neighborhoods, and it's going to flow out to the nations, and that we're going to see in every corner of the earth someone from Jacksonville, Florida preaching the gospel.

This is what revival is.

In every place.

But it's going to take all of us to reach all of them.

If we're going to reach all the earth, like he said, it's going to take all of his church.

And it's time for you to stop passing it off to someone else.

You have a role in the Great Commission.

Doesn't mean you're everyone in here is going to go on a missions trip.

That's not what I'm saying.

What I'm saying is if you are in Jesus' ecclesia, his ruling people on earth, you have a role in the mission of God.

If you're not a missionary, you should be making missionaries.

If you are not a missionary, you should be praying for missionaries.

If you are not a missionary, you should be giving to missionaries.

I'm just telling you how the New Testament church operated.

It was not an option.

You have a part to play, and it's going to take all of us.

And so this brings me to my last point for today.

Is when we look at this encounter where Jesus had already won the battle with Saul.

The guy that was persecuting the church has already encountered the risen Savior, and he's already doing what he told him to do.

All Ananias had to do was walk through the door and say, Be healed.

So come on, we this is where we're at.

But what I want you to see, what his response was.

When God speaks to Ananias, he says, Ananias, what does he say?

Here I am.

This is the pattern of scripture.

And this leads me to say, availability comes before assignment.

And so many of you have been sitting in your seat saying, God, I want you to use me.

Tell me what you want me to do, and I'll do it.

But then you're 0% available.

You fill your life up with everything else.

You don't spend time with God.

You don't listen to his voice.

You have your own mission that you relentlessly are pursuing.

And then you wonder why God doesn't get you involved in his.

He says, Here I am, Lord.

And he says, I'm going to send you to deliver my people out of Egypt.

Come on, he speaks to the prophet Isaiah.

And he says to him, I want you to see this.

He encounters God.

He gets wrecked.

And then he says, The Lord doesn't say, Isaiah, I want you to go and do this.

The Lord says, Who shall I send?

And Isaiah speaks up and says, Here I am, Lord.

Send me.

Do you see the posture?

You already have to have a yes in your mouth if you want God to ask you to do something.

And I'm here to tell you, today's the day to shut off all the reasons why you've said no to God.

Come on, why you've told him that he can't use you in your neighborhood.

Why you're not qualified, what sin you have in your life, all the reasons you've given yourself to disqualify yourself.

Yeah, God's just looking for you to be available.

And so I'm going to invite the worship team to join me because I want to really simply give you guys an opportunity.

As we we talk every year about missions and we say three things.

We recognize, come on, it's not all of our role to go, but we all have a part to play.

And so we always give you the opportunity to participate in giving, praying, or going.

But as I was praying about this service, I heard the Lord say to me, there's actually four options.

You can give, you can pray, you can go, or you can disobey.

Let the people choose what they want to do.

And so I'm not guilting you into anything, but I'm giving you the opportunity to be obedient to your Lord, to serve his mission so that we can see his kingdom advanced in the earth.

And I just got to say this why it why am I leaning into you so much this morning?

It's just because I think I believe in you more than you.

Because I know, man, if I could just get you to get this, and we could just get you on that plane and get you a little bit convinced about who you are in Christ.

Oh, I'm telling you, we're gonna see miracles, we're gonna see salvation, we're gonna see revival, we're gonna see deliverance on the four corners of the earth.

I'm telling you, this year I got videos of witch doctors getting saved.

I saw teammates with axes chopping down spirit houses in Southeast Asia.

I'm telling you, we had someone, this is one of my favorite testimonies.

There was someone uh in Thailand that went to a pagoda to get healing.

And our team, our team was walking by and saw it, and so the guy's in line to the monk to try to get healed that he's been going to for like five years.

Guy's crippled.

And uh our team rolls up and says, Oh, we can heal you.

All you have to do is let's pray in Jesus' name.

This is in the temple, the scary place where all the demons are.

And they say, Get up and walk.

This man gets up and walk, and now he's one of their best disciples serving God in the church.

And so I'm coming at you this morning because I just believe in you.

Because the word of God says that the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead is on the inside of you.

And man, if I could just get you to believe that, you're gonna shake the nations, and we're gonna see Jesus receive the glory he deserves in every place.

And so this is about to be the most unhype altar call you've ever had in your life.

I'm not gonna convince you, I'm not gonna beg you, but some of you in this room, I felt specifically to highlight go this morning.

We don't typically do this, but I really feel this.

Is there some of you that you're in the room and you felt the burden and you heard about the lost, you heard about the unreached, and you know God's calling you to go.

You you're you don't know the details, but you're saying, God, I'm available this morning.

Wherever you want to send me, I'm gonna go and preach the gospel this year.

If that's you, I want you to get up out of your seat and come down here down front.

Right now.

Come on, Jesus is gonna use you powerfully in the nations.

Don't disqualify yourself.

Oh, I'm telling you, there's somebody that looks like you that went on every expedition this year.

I don't care if you're a grandma, I don't care if you're 14 years old, God will use you if you're available.

And so we're making room right now for you to say, here I am, here I am, Lord.

I want you to use me.

Oh, I'm telling you, God's gonna release some Ananiases this year.

Nobody may know your name.

Oh, but you're gonna reach that Paul.

I'm telling you, man, if we just reach 20 poles this year, we're gonna change the nations, we're gonna shake them up and we're gonna turn them upside down.

Yes, there's room.

There's room for you.

There's still more coming.

We're gonna wait for you.

God wants to use you.

You're gonna preach the gospel because you can do it.

You can do it.

I just want to tell you in the in the right now, don't do something you're not called to do to go.

But if you're called and you're sitting there right now and you've disqualified yourself, I'm telling you, you can do it.

It may take some discipleship, some work over the next year, but you can do it.

I believe in you.

Come on.

Thank you, Lord.

There's a few of you that you know coming down here means letting go of something.

It's worth it.

That sin pattern in your life that's dominated you.

It's okay, let it go.

God wants to use you.

Thank you, Jesus.

And so I just, yeah.

Yes.

And this is what I'm gonna pray, really simple.

It's not gonna be hype, we're not gonna build in nothing.

This is gonna be just a simple act of obedience.

I really felt this is right now, right where you're at, in your own words, just begin to cry out to God for him to use you.

And this is what I heard the Lord saying: He's gonna impart into you his burden.

You're gonna have his heart for the nations right now in this moment as you cry out.

Oh, come on, if you don't know what to say, just begin to speak out.

God, use me.

God, see me, use me, pick me.

I'm available, God, wherever, however, whatever price I gotta pay, I want to do it for your glory.

No matter how long the flight is, God.

Oh Lord, right now we just say you're worthy, you're worthy of every cost.

Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Lord.

And this is the thing that is so awesome about God is he doesn't just send you with the word, but he sends you with his holy spirit.

And so just begin to ask him right there.

He said that he freely gives to those who ask.

Ask him for more of his holy spirit, even now, right where you're at.

I see the Lord just pouring it out over you.

There's more for you.

We just ask right now, fill us with your Holy Spirit, God.

Lord, we recognize that when your spirit came upon the apostles, they couldn't help but go.

And so we just say, Come, Lord, fill us to overflow.

To overflow.

Thank you, Jesus.

Just there's one more group I want to pray, I want to pray for.

And this isn't for shame, this is this is to mark it in the ground, for this is the day when everything changed for you.

That when you you switched from being inactive to being active, is that the reason it was hard for you to come down is you're still struggling with some sin patterns in your life.

If that was you down here, I just want you to hold up your hand.

It's not for shame, but it's so that we can pray for you.

Where you were disqualifying yourself because of sin.

Yeah, team, if we could just lay hands on those people that just have their hands up, just hold them up so we can see you.

We want to pray for you.

And this is what I know is the blood of Jesus, if it's good enough to redeem the nations, it's good enough to set you free in a moment.

And so, right now, in the name of Jesus, I come against every stronghold and I break its power in Jesus' name.

The authority in the blood of Jesus right now, I shatter it in Jesus' name.

That thing that you haven't been able to shake, I break that cycle in the name of Jesus.

And Lord God, I thank you, Lord, that there you're gonna be walking in what you paid for, a righteous son and daughter of the king.

And right now I just evict shame from this altar.

That lying spirit that's tried to convince you you're not good enough, and I send it to the pit of hell where it came from, and I speak the truth of the gospel that you are a new creation, the old has passed away and the new has come, that you are an ambassador of the kingdom, that you are a royal priesthood, that you are anointed, that you are called, that you're appointed, and that God is gonna use you mightily in the nations.

Thank you, Lord.

Hey Justin, if we could just come pray for him right here.

Thank you, brother.

Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Lord.

I hear the Lord saying that this is your exodus.

You're coming out of what was, and you're stepping into what he has for you.

And so right now, I break the power of the enemy off of you in Jesus' name.

Every weight, every sin that easily entangled you, we cast it aside right now.

Thank you, Lord.

And we ask right now that you fill them with your Holy Spirit to overflow the yoke of Jesus, the burden that's light.

Thank you, Lord.

You're lifting the heavy burden all across this altar.

Come off them in Jesus' name.

Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Jesus.

We thank you, Lord, that we're gonna be a clean people that represent you well.

Thank you, Jesus.

And so, church, this is this is what I want to invite you to do.

Is this the role of the church?

You're like, oh, he's praying for these people down here.

But this is our job, is to send.

And so, if you're not going, I just want you to lay your hands out right now towards everybody that said yes.

That your assignments to send, and so we're gonna send them right now in prayer, and then as the Lord leads, as you the Lord leads you to sow, I encourage you to do so.

And so, Father, in the name of Jesus, we anoint each and every person right here.

We thank you, Lord, that they're gonna preach your gospel of the kingdom.

And as they do it, they won't just talk about it, but they'll see the kingdom of God.

They'll see the kingdom of God break into every place.

In the Middle East, Central Asia, in the Caribbean, South America, in Africa, in the Far East Asia, in the what people want to call the dead continent of Europe, we're gonna see revival fire poured out through each and every person down here, God.

Thank you, Lord, for just the power of the Holy Spirit.

And I just bless them right now in the mighty name of Jesus.

I thank you, Lord, that everything they need will be supplied according to your riches in Christ Jesus.

Thank you, Lord.

You chose them, you called them, and their answer is yes.

Come on, church, let's give them a hand.

Let's give the Lord a hand for what he's doing this morning.

Thank you, Lord.

Just tarry just for another moment.

The Lord's moving, he's releasing mantles and burdens.

Just another moment.

You are the solution.

And I just feel led to say this.

I repent of the pastors that minimized you, whatever religious upbringing you had, that they made you feel less than that God couldn't use you.

I repent on their behalf, and I want to tell you, God wants to use you.

He looks at you with joy in his heart.

He chose you, he anointed you.

And I'm telling you that that lie from the pit of hell, we come out of agreement with it.

You are valuable to the kingdom of God.

And it's a privilege, us as your church to steward you.

And it's not our goal to control you, but it's to raise you up and release you into what God has for you.

Thank you, Lord.

And so we just give you all the honor and all the glory, Jesus, and we thank you, Lord, that we're gonna see in our day the things that you prophesied about in your scriptures come to pass in the name of Jesus.