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Adam Mesa is Lead Pastor of Patria Church and speaks to a congregation of 12,000 about how the gospel of Jesus Christ brings purpose to every life. Patria
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0:00 Well, praise God. As we kind of conclude this series in next month no. Starting next week, we jump into a new month and a new series leading up to conference and after conference. But as0:12 we conclude this series, looking at Moses, but also expounding on at the movies, I'd love for us to kinda read the passage that we shared today, is in Exodus chapter 4 verse 1 to 5. If you have it, I0:24 encourage you to turn there. You know, I got to see last week with pastor Aaron. If you were here, I thought he just delivered a phenomenal message, pastor Aaron, last week. And I encourage you if if you didn't listen to0:35 it, go back to our YouTube channel and allow it to to speak to you because I believe God will minister to you. Here we are today in Exodus chapter 4 verses 1 to 5. If you're ready, just 5 verses today. We'll0:47 stand for the honor of reading scripture. If you're new to Patriot, the reason why we stand is because reading God's word is the highest honor that we can do in our life, is to give God his full attention in the word.0:57 And so that's why we stand and we read the scriptures together. Here's what it says. Then Moses answered, but behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice. For they will1:09 say, the Lord did not appear to you. The Lord said to him, what is in your hand? He said, a staff. And he said, throw it on the ground. So he threw it on the ground, and it became1:21 a serpent, and Moses ran from it. But the Lord said to Moses, put out your hand and catch it by the tail. So, he put out his hand and caught it, and1:33 it became a staff in his hand. That they may believe that the Lord God, the God of their father, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob has appeared to1:45 you. Amen. You may be seated. I mean, that's just incredible. So, you have Moses in this passage, and if you've caught up with us over the past couple weeks, we've kinda shared out1:57 of chronological order, kind of the life of Moses. And we've shared about the life of Moses in the moments, you know, starting the first week talking about how God wrote with his finger the law and the 10 commandments,2:08 started authoring our story. And we visited moments, whether it be the children of Israel creating a golden calf to worship. And here we are in Moses' life, and we find ourselves.2:20 He's at the burning bush, which we shared about 2 weeks ago. And, there's a moment where God encourages Moses, it's time to go back to Egypt. You gotta tell Pharaoh to2:32 let my people go. Moses is 80 years old. By this time, for 40 years, he's been occupied as a shepherd, working for his father-in-law, caring for his father in2:43 law's estate essentially, as a Hebrew man. And so, spent 40 years as a prince of Egypt. The last year as his prince of Egypt, he murdered an Egyptian2:55 soldier. And then, he spends the next 40 years a simple shepherd. And he tells God at 80 years old as a shepherd, if I go to3:06 Egypt, what proof do I have? How do I prove to the Israelites that you're sending me? And, all God asks to Moses is he says3:18 this, look at what's in your hand. Now, if you and I are honest, this is absolutely unimpressive in every way. Like, if you walked into a3:30 room with me and you said, hey, we want you to do x y and z. And, I go, on whose authority? And, you and you point to the stick. On this authority. I'd be like, if you don't get3:41 your crazy butt up out of here right now, you're insane. You got a stick? We can all go to our backyard and find a stick. We we can all go to the top of a mountain and find a stick. What's so3:53 special about your stick? And then, God tells Moses, throw it on the ground. He throws it on the ground and immediately becomes a serpent.4:06 He says, pick the stick back up. He picks the stick back up, and immediately it's a staff again. What God did was God put his favor, and God put his power, and the4:18 spirit put its discipline to the stick. It turned the ordinary into something extraordinary. And, the beauty about God is4:29 God is not looking for you and I to stand in an extraordinary way or be an extraordinary person. It's willing to give God what we possess. It's a willingness4:41 to give God what's in our hand. And a lot of times, you may think it's nothing. It may just be a pen. It may just be a piece of paper. It may be a hammer. It may be a keyboard.4:53 It it may be a vehicle that you drive for work, but whatever it is, it's what's in your hand. And God tells Moses, throw it down and give it to me. And for5:05 Moses, as a shepherd's staff, this is what would have led the sheep. This is what he would have used to guide the sheep. But also, this is what he would have used for his strength. There's a story in the Bible where God5:16 and the people in Joshua are fighting, and God tells Moses to lift his staff in the air. And as long as his staff is in the air, they'll win the battle. And at his old age, he would get so tired5:29 that Aaron, his brother-in-law, and Hur had to come to his sides and lift his arm up so that they can maintain the win of the battle. It wasn't because the staff was extraordinary, but it was the5:41 obedience to do what God asks Amen. That was. It was his obedience with this staff that he allowed God to do some incredible things.5:53 The question we have today is what are you holding onto strength? What do we hold on to lead? What do we had to guide? Because a lot of times we will rely on this. But it's what God wants to6:04 touch in your life. It's what God wants to use in your life. If you're taking notes, the first thing I wanna encourage you with is that we need to take a look at the object that we have in our hand. The things God6:16 has entrusted you with. The things God has allowed you to walk with. You see, Moses had questions for God. What if they don't believe me? What if they don't listen to6:28 me? And God doesn't give Moses a lecture. He just asks 1 question, what's in your hand? And God wants to work with what you already carry, not with what you wish you had,6:40 not what you saw somebody else with, but what's already in your hand. That's what God wants to use. I think so many times, even as a pastor and a preacher, I think, well,6:52 I wish I could communicate like that. Or what I especially get jealous of if I met if I meet pastors who can also sing too, it infuriates me. Because I think to myself, I could be the worship7:03 team and the pastor. What a great opportunity that would be. But again, that's not what I have in my hand. Amen. In in my hand, I have what God's given me. And on top of what God's given me, he's given me severe7:15 ADHD, which I have to deal with every second of the day to stay attentive to anyone's word, but that's in my hand. There's times I'd look with people, they didn't have ADHD, and I'd say, well, I wish I I wish I had that.7:27 They seem like they could pay attention. But also, there's uniqueness that I have. And there's uniqueness that you have. I can learn a new trait in 48 hours having ADHD.7:39 Someone who don't have ADHD, it'd take them 2 years. But I also, 2 days later, won't have the discipline to keep doing it. It's what it is. So we all got something we're working through. But, we7:51 have what's in our hand. In the bible, David had a sling. There was a woman in the bible, a widow, had just a jar of oil. A little boy in the New Testament had 5 loaves and 2 fishes. That's right.8:03 And, Moses had a stick. And so many times, the question isn't do you have enough? The question is, will you surrender what you already have? Amen. It's so easy to live8:15 in insecurity. It's so easy to live in doubt. It's so easy to question our own self or question God. Why did you make me this way? Why do I struggle with this? Why do I have this? Why don't I have that?8:27 Or we could be like Moses and be like, I got a stick. What can you do with that, God? This is the season I'm in. I I have a stick. Lord, is this enough? It's enough if we surrender it.8:38 It's enough if we allow him to touch it. It's enough if we allow him to breathe on it. You know, it makes me think of, you know, pastor Diego. He he founded our church8:50 in 19 94. And a couple years ago, 7 about 8 years ago now, we started this transition together. And since last January, I've been pastoring the church. And believe it or not, me and9:02 my dad, we'd have regular conversations. Some of the conversations he and I would have would be like, dad, when you step out as the senior pastor, what what what is a fear of yours?9:14 Is there a fear of yours? And he would say, yeah. I think, you know, he said, I I've I've been in full time ministry for 40 years. He said, all I've ever known was pastoring this church for 30 years.9:26 He said, I kinda have an insecurity that, like, maybe I won't be needed as much anymore. Or or or or or maybe I'm past my prime, and so I won't have the energy to do the9:38 things that I used to enjoy. He said, or, you know, what will happen is I'm good with another man leading the church that that I founded, but he said, but at the same time, like, what if I don't get to preach9:50 anymore? I love sharing God's word, and we would walk through all those insecurities. Now, I've been on staff here for close to 14 years, and 1 of the things I know that's always been 1 of pastor Diego's dreams10:01 that just never seemed to kinda take foot was he always wanted to, like, kinda father young young men. He wanted to pour specifically into young pastors that that10:13 lead churches. And we would over the years, I would as my pastor, I'd be like, hey, let me let me put some fillers out. Let me see if and so for close to, like, 13 years, just like nothing took off the ground.10:26 Nothing took off. And so, a friend of mine who leads this this kind of movement, who he brings in some of the most influential Christian leaders, businessmen, and pastors, and he brings them10:38 into 1 room for 3 days. And they just pour into each other, and they spend time together. I mean, they're from Atlanta to Florida to Texas to to Midwest to to to Canada and all these other places. And10:50 he said, hey, do you think that your dad would wanna share? And I think I said, yeah. Absolutely. My dad would would wanna share. This just happened this past weekend. So what happened was there were some moments I wanna11:01 share with you. I I got I got a picture of it. I don't know if I if I gotta walk over here to to share it. Do you guys have it side by side by chance? Or if not, give me the other picture. So, the the first thing was11:13 I interviewed pastor Diego in the room about 30 years of ministry. We talked about his cancer journey, but what happened was is pastor Diego started talking about his recent restoration with his11:25 father. 1 of the things pastor Diego said was he said, I don't know why I'm 64 years old, and I still get around my dad, and I turn into a little boy that just wants to be approved. He's in his11:37 eighties. He said, I don't know why I'd do that, but I've just had to give that over to God. And so, what happened was, as we started talking authentically, the next moment, which is the next picture is, we had a moment11:48 during worship, if you all can give me the the next picture, guys. The next moment. The next poem is there's guys at the altar leaning down who we said, if you want to be delivered from12:00 father wounds, come up and we're gonna believe God that he can break those chains. And so, a bunch of men who pastor churches, who lead businesses, they came up and12:12 they received prayer. Why do I say that? Because this moment and what was shared is only something a man with gray hair could earn. This is something only a man with 40 years of12:24 ministry and 30 years of leading a trial. I could Man, these guys love me, but I'm their age. I ain't seen enough. I ain't done enough. I I ain't lived enough. I'm not I'm not shepherded long enough to be able to12:36 pastor that moment. But a man who a year ago thought, I wonder what if anyone would ever still listen to me. I I wonder if anyone would still let me speak into their life. I've had a dream to pour into young men, and he12:47 sit with 60 of some of the most influential Christian leader men in America. And I was talking to my dad, and I said, you had what12:59 none of us had in the room, you had age. And so many times, we think to ourselves, I don't got nothing that's impressive. I don't have anything. I'm past my expiration date, or13:11 going to college is too beyond me, or practicing a new trade is beyond me, or moving into a new season is beyond me, or walking towards a healthy marriage, I think that's beyond me, or having kids that love the Lord,13:23 that might be beyond me. I'll tell you this, it's not. Nothing is too beyond that God can't touch if we're willing to lay it like Moses did. God said, Moses, take the staff13:34 out of your hand and lay it on the holy ground. It's amazing how in our own selves we can get to a moment where we question what God can do, but I just think of this past week,13:46 and I was so honored as a son to say, wow. 40 years of ministry, God is answering a prayer that a man has had since he was 20 years old. That God is letting him see at13:58 64 years old. I was thinking to myself, what else are we leaving on the table that God can do because we're not willing to step out and allow God to touch it? We're not willing to lay14:10 it at the foot of Christ. Oswald Chambers said this, God can achieve his purpose either through the absence of a power, of the human power, or the abandonment of the reliance on it. In14:23 other words, God can do something with or without us. But he could do something with you if you step out of the way and you say, God, use me. I don't rely on these things. We14:35 we we could take a staff. Without God's touch, this is just a stick. Without God's favor, this is just this I can give this to anyone, and they could throw it on the ground and be like, where's the14:47 snake? Or they could lift it up in the air and be like, why can't I win a battle? Or they could go in front of an ocean and put it in the ocean and say, doesn't it split? Well, because you're relying on the14:58 stick. Moses wasn't relying on the stick. Amen. He was relying on God. And, when he was relying on God, God could use this stick. And so, I want15:10 you to see 0.2. Great. What what can happen is there can become an obsession with power. If not treated correctly, we could look at someone's gifting. We could look15:22 at what God is doing in someone's life. We can look at Moses, and we could look at the stick, and we could say, if I just go and steal that stick from Moses, I can do what he can do. Or15:35 or or if I just level up like that person, I can do what they do. Or if or if I just get in the room, or I just get the opportunity, I can do what I'm comparing in someone else. But the reality is, if you and I are15:46 children of God, the power is not in the stick. The power is in the hand of God. And, the hand of God touched this stick when Moses had it. That's the beauty of Zechariah 4 615:58 like I shared. Then he said to me, this is the word of the Lord of Zerubbabel, not by might nor by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of hosts. Which means you can't force it. You16:10 can't prod it In anyone else's hands, this is just a stick. But in God's hands, is so much more in God touching it. That's like the difference between16:22 2 types of swords right here. Don't worry. This is dull. It's a it's a it's for show. But, I got 2 swords right here. I got a rubber sword, and I got a physical sword. Now, if all of a sudden passed you16:34 this rubber sword, and I was like, let's duel, you'd be like, hold on. We gotta talk about this for a second. Because what I have is ineffective, and what you have is effective. And a16:46 lot of times, we have to get in the mindset of not comparing or desiring the things that are tools, but desiring the 1 who can bless your tools. The 1 who can sharpen your16:57 tools. The word The Bible says that the word of God is sharper than any 2 edged sword. It can cut through anything. So, God's hand can push through anything, can favor anywhere. And a lot17:09 of times, we just think, if I just get my hands on anything, then I can do it. But, you can't with something like this. In the same way, without God's touch, this becomes something that's17:21 effective. This becomes and we can live in deception thinking that there's no difference between these 2 swords. We could live in deception to just say, hey, if I just get the right thing and the17:33 right tool, I can do something great for it. But is it surrendered to God? Yes. Is it sharpened by God? Yes. Have you given it in a sacrifice to the Lord? Have you said, Lord, these are your17:44 gifts? These are your tools? Or we have have allowed the enemy to say, yeah, just just get the thing that you need, and you'll be alright. You'll be able to get in there. You'll be able to handle it. When when I was17:54 younger, my oldest brother Nathan, we in, like, probably 9 19 95 or 6, we we we moved somewhere, and I I was, you know, I18:06 was very young. And what happened was is because my 2 older brothers were older and closer, my parents said, hey, you guys are gonna share a room, and then Adam's gonna have his own room. And I'm the youngest. And I'm18:18 younger than Nathan by 5 years. So, Nathan didn't like that. So, first, Nathan asked and he says, hey, can I get your room? And, I said, no. I want my own room.18:31 And, then, he comes back. And, you remember those little metal impression toys that you can put your hand in, or you put your face in, and then it imprints on the other side? It's like a dull nail, and you can imprint.18:42 So, he comes to me and he says, if if you give me your room, I'll give you this toy. And I go, oh, deal. And18:53 so, take I trade a whole bedroom. At like 6 6 or 7 years old, I trade a whole he's like 13 or 14. I trade a whole bedroom19:05 so that he could He gives me this little metal toy, and at the time, I think I came up. I think I won. Man, I I I was like, you you got nothing. You got19:17 an empty room. I didn't know because I was young. I didn't know you get to fill the room with things that you like. Because our previous house, we all 3 shared a room. So, I didn't know19:29 that when you get a room, you can customize your own room. So, here he is. I'm with this little metal toy, and he's in there. I mean, he's putting posters up. He's set He's putting new sheets up.19:41 And I'm like And I'm walking past, and I'm like playing Put my hand, putting it on my face. And he sets his room up and like an hour later, I see his room and, you know, like any kid, I'm already bored with the19:53 metal toy. And so, I go back and I say, no, I I'm bored. I wanna trade it back. And he goes, you can't trade it back. And I look at my mom and dad. I said, mom, he they tricked me. He20:05 says, and my parents who me and my parents, we didn't live in a strict household, but we did live in a in a household that teaches you that, like, your yes is your yes, and your no is your no. And so, my parents, they20:15 go, well, you agreed to it. So, it's yours. And, I remember walking away so deceived because he20:26 convinced me that this shiny toy was worth more than having my own room. And, what happens a lot of times is what the enemy will do is he will make things shine, he will20:38 make things glitz, he will make things look so impressive, he will make gifts look so impressive, He will make promotions look so accept so amazing. He will make all And then, what we'll do is we'll say, man,20:50 I'll trade anything. I'll trade space with God. I'll space favor with God. I'll trade a touch from God because this thing looks fun, and this thing looks21:02 shiny. But, all those things, they get old. And, they get dated. And, they get tiring. And then there's a point where we need to be able to go to God and say, God, I know I21:14 traded the wrong things, but I'm here to make you my priority. Yes. That's the beauty about God is he's always available for you and I to come and say, I may have had my priorities out of whack. I may have lived in21:26 insecurity. I may have said yes to something too soon, but Lord, would you forgive me? And God says that he forgets, immediately forgets your transgressions. When you and I ask the Lord to forgive us,21:37 he immediately forgives, and he immediately gives us his hand. What we have to do is recognize that we desperately need God's spirit, and we desperately need a touch of God. We have21:49 to remain focused. That it's not about the glitz. It's not about the glamour, but it's about the spirit of God moving. A. W. Tozer said it like this, it challenges all of us. It challenges me. He22:01 says, if the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on, and no 1 would know the difference. In other words, he said, we are so reliant on22:13 things that the spirit of God isn't always active in, that if he was there or not, would we even know? Would we know the spirit of God is in our marriage? Would we know the spirit of God is in our22:25 household? Would we know the spirit of God is in our worship? Would we know the spirit of God as in we read scripture? Or is it just another day? Another day watching TV in house, another day cooking22:36 dinner, another day hanging out with friends, another day watching football, or is it in all things we do, it's worship to God? Amen. That God is in the kitchen, God is in the living room, The22:48 spirit of God is in your car as you drive. He's in your workplace, in your break room, and he's in here. But I would just pray we'd get to a place that we don't automate our relationship with God. We don't23:00 automate the things of God, but instead we say, Lord, I want a sharp sword. Yes. I wanna be able to cut through the things that I need to cut through. I wanna be able to recognize if my sword is rubber or not. I wanna be23:12 able to know if my walk with you is effective or if it's not. And the only way we can do this by allowing the third point as we begin to close, we can allow we can see God do that when we do this, when we23:24 allow the outpouring of God's spirit over our life. Allow God to pour his spirit and his presence on you. Second Corinthians 4 7 says, we have this treasure23:36 in jars of clay to show that this is all surpassing power is from God and not us. You see, I wanna show you this today. I got this got this little23:47 jar. I think 1 of the first questions is if let's just say you had something I wanted to barter with, and I said, hey. You know, hey, I I I would like what you have. Would you23:59 would you like to trade it? First question is, your first instinct would be, that thing's ugly. I don't want to trade anything. Let's just say you had something of value. You had24:11 a handbag, a necklace, you know, a wallet that was really nice material or a car, and I was like, hey, you wanna trade my jar for what you have? You'd be like,24:24 no. Like, come on. It's You'd be like, no. And, if I kept pushing and I was like, you really want this? You really want this? Eventually, you'd be like,24:35 what's in the jar? What's in the jar? And, what if I answered you and I said, oh, only 2000 diamonds? You'd be like, oh, well, hold on. Let me hold24:47 on. Hold on. You want my purse? 2 man, hold on. They're real diamonds? They're not like lab grown. Right? No. They're real diamonds. 2000 of them. You'd be like, oh, wow. Yeah. Okay.24:59 I'll take that. Now, mind you, you wouldn't care how the jar looked at that point. You wouldn't care. Like, if I were like, do you want me to polish this jar up? You're like, no.25:12 All I'm gonna do is use what's on the inside of it. I'm not worried about what's on the outside of it. I don't care if it's chipped. I don't care if it's dinged. I don't care if it needs a new paint job. The reality is25:24 what's inside of it is more valuable than the way that it looks. And the apostle Paul says in second Corinthians, what we just read, is he said, you and I are like jars of clay. Because if you and I weren't like jars25:36 of clay, we would be consumed with our appearance, and we would think that would give value to God. That that would make us believable about God's presence. That that would give us more favor. And he says this, no. No.25:47 No. God has poured out his spirit inside of you so that you and I could be jars of clay that may be impressive on the outside, that may have some scars, and we may have some bruises, and we may have some25:58 broken relationships, and we may have some hurts, and we may have some pasts, we may have a testimony, but what is inside of it, the spirit of God is far more26:10 valuable than what's on the inside than what's on the outside. So, someone may look at you 1 day and say, you don't look impressive. Someone may look at you and say, why? I hear this all the time. I'm out in the city,26:21 and they're like, I thought you'd be taller, Adam. I'm like, well, I'm not. You look different than what I've seen on stage. I'm like, it doesn't matter. Maybe I could've be taller. Maybe26:33 I could be smarter. Maybe I could not have ADHD. Maybe pastor Diego could not have any more gray hair anymore. Maybe maybe he's this, maybe he's that, maybe I'm this, maybe that. But guess what? Really doesn't matter26:44 what's on the outside. It really doesn't matter how good your jar looks. You can put you can pelt paint on it. You can paint your nails. You can get new teeth. You you you you26:56 can you can get a new head of hair. You can redo your whole body, but guess what? It still deteriorates at some point. It steals a jar at some point.27:08 And we may wanna care, and it's okay to say, oh, I wanna polish myself up, and I wanna look good and presentable, but the reality is at the end of the day is that God wants us to focus far more than what we fill this27:18 life up with. What you fill this body up with, the presence of God, the word of God, the worship of God, the obedience to God, far more than the appearance. That's what second Corinthians all27:30 about. Because it's easy to experience life and feel like you get beat up, feel like you get scarred and chipped, but what Paul says is he says, focus on your inside. Your value is in the very27:42 God who's created the heavens and the earth lives inside of you. The very power of God that raised Jesus Christ from the dead lives in you. When you and I receive Jesus, we receive27:54 all of God. And so, our weakness, our bodies, it isn't a liability. It's a platform for God's strength. The cracks in your clay are28:06 proof the power is not yours. Zechariah 4 6 once again says, not by might, not by power, but by my spirit. And, we know that God, being the28:18 author of our story, has written our story. And, we know a couple weeks ago that Jesus is the stronger man that can break your chains. And, now, the spirit of God empowers you and I to live in28:30 the fullness of God. So, I wanna encourage you today, don't just lean on the prop that you use. You know, a lot of us, we could look at all these movies that we watch,28:41 and Spider Man, and Marvel movies, and Iron Man, and Thor, and be like, oh, if I had a hammer, if I had webs, if I had this, if I had that, I I I could do so much more. But the reality is28:53 everything that you have, God has given you. It's not about going and creating something new. It's about reevaluating, saying, Lord, what I have is yours. I lay it down.29:06 I lay it down for you, and I allow God to use what's in my hand and say, God, this belongs to you. My life is for your glory. Amen. And it's not based off your strength, but by the power of29:18 the living God that lives inside of you. Let's pray today. God, we just pray, Lord, today as we come and gather for your word, Lord, that we fully surrender to you, God. I pray29:29 that as we're in this place, Lord, we would live in obedience, Lord, to not compare, not to look at what's in someone's left hand or right hand or in someone's else's possessions, not at look at other things that people29:41 may be good at or qualified for, but would we look internally, Lord, to say, God, whatever it is that I have is fully yours. Whatever it is that you need, Lord, I surrender it in this place to you today,29:53 Father God. Today, Lord, we all look to the heavens. We look to you, Lord. We surrender to your spirit, Father God. Would you use us today, God? Could we lay all things at your altar, Lord, so that you30:05 could touch it, so that you could bless it? And I pray if there's anyone in this room that has never confessed Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and savior, 1 day we will all stand before God.30:18 The Bible encourages through the gospels that 1 day, we'll stand before God, and those that will receive the fullness of the relationship with God will be the ones that believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross and30:29 rose 3 days later. I know there are individuals in this room, the cafe courtyard online, who are thinking to themselves, I do not have a relationship with God. Well, the first step is a relationship with Jesus, to30:41 believe that he died on the cross and he rose for you. It starts with faith to say, God, I fully surrender to you. And the way that you surrender is say, Jesus, I receive your mercy that you died for me and you rose30:53 for me. So if you're here in this place and you're ready to take a step of faith towards Christ today and trust Jesus as your Lord and savior, would you repeat this along with me? Would you say, dear Lord Jesus In this31:04 place In I confess you I confess you. As my Lord As Lord. And my savior. Believe in my heart I believe in my heart. That you rose from the grave. And from this day31:16 forward, I choose to follow you for the rest of my days. In Jesus' name. Amen. Hey, I'm gonna do 1 thing just so we can celebrate with you. If you're31:28 here today and you said that prayer for the first time or the last time, then I wanna encourage you on the count of 3, would you raise your hand if you say, you know what? Today was the day that I made the decision to31:38 follow Jesus. All I ask is you raise your hand so that we can welcome you into the family of God. Patria means family. But more than family, it's family that has received Jesus as their savior. So, we wanna welcome31:50 you to the family today. If that was you on the count of 3, would you raise your hand? 1, 2, 1, 2, 3. Would you raise your hand up high if you gave your Hey, congratulations. Welcome to the family. I see all that. Hey, I32:00 see you too, my friends right there. Just know that you may be raising your hand, and this may feel like a first decision, but there's a lot of people that love you and have prayed for this moment for you. There's a32:11 grandmother. There's an uncle. There's a brother. There's a sister. There's a coworker that specifically had you on their mind. And so, all of heaven is rejoicing from that decision today. Hey, as we leave here in just a32:23 few moments, if you need any prayer at all, our elders, deacons, and prayer team will be up here. They love to come alongside you. You have prayer for something big coming up, you have something you're going through, you32:33 have someone you want to pray for, then come on up here and ask our elders, deacon, and prayer team for prayer. We're always more than happy to come and walk alongside you in your journey of faith. I'll bless us out 132:44 more time, and we'll either see you on this Wednesday, we still have 1 more Wednesday before the following Wednesday we don't have. So you can come back this Wednesday or next week. And God, we honor you, Lord. We32:55 thank you, Lord. I pray for every person, Lord. Would you bless every person, Lord? Would you make your face to shine upon every single person, Father God? I pray you anoint their thoughts. I pray you anoint their hands,33:06 and you anoint their feet. That everywhere that they go, Lord, your spirit would follow, Father God. Would they be filled with your presence every single day. In Jesus' name, amen and amen. God bless you, family. We'll33:16 see you soon.
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