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Okay. We'll pa practice it three more times. So we'll practice it three more times. We declare the see. Should we all sing melody on that part where it stops? We we declare the glory. Give him all the honor. Altogether worthy. Who are we talking about? Don't think like just on the part where like the instruments drop out and it's just drums. We declare the glory. That part. Okay. We don't know if I get there or not. Alright, Jesus the only. Oh. No. In the end pass away. Testing one two. Yeah, it's way better. One, the only one, Jesus, the only give all the glory to the one true living God. Jesus, the only one who is worthy. Only one. Jesus, the only give all the glory to the one true living God. Won't rest in every day wrong cross blue holy one Jesus the only one who is worthy one Jesus the only give all the glory To the one true living God, Jesus, the only one who is worthy, one Jesus, the only give all the glory to the one true living God. The tongue. Jesus is the shadow's face. The name of Jesus, every demon flee, all his children flee. In the name of Jesus, see the one true God rise above them all. And his name is Jesus, several ye will bow every tongue out in the name of Jesus the shackles fall through sickness in the name of Jesus every demon flee all his children free in the name of Jesus see the one true God rise above them all name is Jesus name Jesus and his name is Jesus and his name is Jesus and his name is See only the one who is worthy. One, only one Jesus, the only of all the glory. To the one true living guy. To this, the only one who is worthy. Only one. Jesus, the only give all the glory. To the one true living guy. Amen. Jesus the shackles fall for the sickness in the name of. Jesus every demon flee all his children free in the name of Jesus the one true God rise above them all beings us and his names she saw any of us while he comes on Jesus Jesus the only one who is worthy To the one true living God. Yeah, go. Yeah, and on the bridge. We won't do the spelling out Jesus part. Yeah. Bridge three and four. If you want to do an it just an instrument, let's do an instrumental right there at the end of bridge two before going into that last course, one D, what they're calling one D. That last course. So there's an instrumental right there at the bottom. I have to bridge through their instrumental. Play that instrumental instead of just jumping right back into it. Play that instrumental right there, which is the same thing we're playing. And then and then go on. I know it is yeah. What's the part that you're wanting Kale to do the kicking? The instrumental Kale Okay. No it's up to you. I mean I'm fine with doing it. Let's get the let Yeah. Yeah. Just do the beginning of the song. Let's get that intro, how we enter in exit. Yeah. Can bring it down. Can. Because we're pretty much up there for the most part, so Yeah. Only one. Yeah, I'll bring it down on that. I just do the intro again of this home. Just So as we adjusted the the piano on it. No, I okay. No, when we come down to the end of this talk first, and he just talked about doing I mean I like it. I just want to try it. Link try it. Just have that in mind. And then you're gonna be are you gonna glory and honor? Yeah, yeah. But then carry the upper we want to carry the upper part of course. All right, glory, honor, power. Still in. Jesus the only. Are you gonna do an intro, Abigail? You want me to just come in? You do that? I like yes.
Most worthy, worthy of price, exalted above all things, my God, you are my God. Your splendor in Majesty, your wonder fills everything, my God. You are my God. Holy is the Lord. Holy is the Lord Almighty. Seated on the throne. Seated on the
throne of glory. High and lifted up. Your presence fills the temple Possibly quoting Isaiah 6:1 land and worship you. Oh, we worship you. Creation points to the king the heavens can help proceed to you, to you all God holies alone. Holy aims the Lord Almighty, seated on the throne, seated on the throne of glory, high today. Your press fear was its empty when you wake up, ship you. Holy Holy Aim so well Holy Aids away and Almighty, seated on the throne. Seated on the
throne of glory, high and lifted up. Your precious name was the Possibly quoting Isaiah 6:1 temple we worship you. Hallelujah to the one when you came away. Hallelujah to the one when you die once again. Hallelujah to the holy name of our names. Lord being honor and power for everybody. Hallelujah to the world, came and begged away. Hallelujah to the world, body was the game. Hallelujah to the only name of all names. Forever glory and honor and power forever. Holy is the Lord. Holy is the Lord Almighty. Seated on the throne. Seated on the throne of glory. Highly love. Your presence feels we worship you how we worship you holy is the heavy holy is the almighty seated on the throne seated on the throne of glory I lifted up your presence feels the temple when we worship you how we worship you Hallelujah to the world we came and made away. Hallelujah to the world we died for. Hallelujah to the early days above all things. Look at me and dark and die. Hallelujah to the world who came and made a win. Hallelujah to the world we died again. Finally, choose the holy name of all names. Larry and the honor and tower for every honor, and power forever, glory, and water, and power forever, for I To the King of Kings and Lord who leads and reigns forever. Glory and praise. To the highest thing, the great land is king that stands and never ends along. Glory and praise. To the lame of God who conquered the feed and rose again along. Glory and praise to the one who else and days to come, he's gifted up all of you. Glory and praise. To the King of Kings and Lord of Lives and race for the heavens of both. Glory and presence. And it is to the eye, the grey light whose key to stands and never ends all the light. Peace to the Lamb of God who conquered the defeated death and wheels again all the earth. And to the one who has that is to come, for any lifted up all the way. Awesome is the Lord Almighty, the name of God for the praise now and forever now the heaven. How awesome is the room now and forever, but the earth is glory. How awesome is the Lord. Is that fine to end it like that? I wa I don't have any direction. I was just going. What do you think? So maybe we do it once and then go back to the chorus and end it? It's fine with me. My voice is gonna be tired by then anyways. I was wondering if we would go off of the course, holy is the Lord, mighty. Seated on the throne of glory, high and lifted up. Your presence fills the temple where we push all we worship you. What do you think about adding that right in there after the course? So we would do Before you go into Hallelujah of Glory and Honor Power. I don't know. Like instead of going to go straight to there. That we could do that, but it's like we it's hard to come back to the hallelujah after we do that. So we have an Okay. So either we do it how we did it, I'll just do the bridge one time, go straight to the chorus. Yeah. Or we could try what you're saying to to do after after we've done the the bridge back to the chorus and then go into it. Yeah. Yeah. I wanna if we would do that, I wanna try it. Hey, let's try this. Let's try this. On glory and honor power. When we come back to the course after the first bridge. Okay. We've done the bridge multiple times. We come back. It's kind of soft right there. And then we go into holy. Uh holy is the Lord. The course. We kind of holy is the Lord. Then then start to build. What if when we come down to the we do that twice right there? We did it twice right there. And then from that point go on into the to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. And set it back to the bridge again. So it would be if presence fills the temple when we worship you. Oh, we worship you to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Can we try that? Can we try it? Yeah, let's try that. Let's try that. Let's play. Can we try that one? Yeah. And bit and let it we'll do it twice through that that course. Like we're doing it. Okay. Kind of soft at the beginning, and then the second time we're building it. Okay. Try it there. Course of Glory on our tower. And then will that take us into the bridge? Oh. of how awesome from that point. So but we're gonna start at the the last time through the bridge, glory, honor, power. Start the hallelujahs, do it once and go to that final quiet chorus. Then into how awesome. Yeah. Yeah. So s huh? Yeah, what like after the after we do the bridge, the hallelujah, hallelujah too. Well then we'll go to that last chorus. And from that chorus, instead of going back into the bridge, we're gonna go to the how awesome and try and see if that works. So start the course, yeah. Hallelujah to the one. Start right there. So I because I want to practice going from there to those choruses. Yeah. Yeah. Ready? Hallelujah to the one who came and made away. Hallelujah to the one who died and rose again. Hallelujah to the holy name above all names. Glory and dominate and hallway. Holy is the Lord. That's where we would hold it out. All right. And go back into the soft chorus. Okay. Right, because this would be this would be the first time we do the bridge. But it does repeat itself though. It does repeat itself, but that's what I was just saying. Let's just do the second one through. It does yes. The first time we do it, it repeats. Yeah. But that's why I just had said let's just start at the last one. Okay. Just so we don't have to take the time. Okay. Yeah, I think so. So the holy is the Lord. Going back to the course. Well, you're holding them. Holy is the Lord. Holy is the Lord. Hold the G or hold the A hold of A or the Hold the A or you wanna go back the lawn. Yeah. Hold the A. Okay, take it from there. So I'm gonna sing it one time. Even though we do double it. I'm just gonna sing it one time. Okay. Well we we will do a double, but we're gonna sing it one time. Okay. Yes. All right. Hallelujah to the One. Sorry. Hallelujah to the Lord. Hallelujah to the only name above all names, glory and honor empower forever. Holy is the Lord. Holy is the Lord Almighty. Seated on the throne. Seated on the throne of glory. High and lifted up. Your presence fills the temple and we worship you. Holy worship you only holy is the Lord. Holy is the Lord Almighty. Seated on the throne. Seated on the throne of glory. High lifted up. Your presence be in the gentle flame we will worship you how we worship you to the king of kings and Lord of Lord who lives and reigns forever glory and praise to the highest thing the great I am as keenest than ever as all Glory and praise to the Lamb of God who conquered soon defeated bear the rose again alone. Glory and pray to the one who answered is to come forever he is lifted up alone. Go to the chorus and praise awesome is the Lord. God almighty, the name above all names, you deserve the praise now and forever more the earth and heavens, how awesome attack it. Now I'm forever. The earth and heavens, how awesome is the Lord. You like that better? I think it works better. I think I like that better. Okay. Yeah. Works. Awesome. It's all good. So I'm gonna sing to you. Amen. We're gonna bless the Lord. Here we go.
The joy. Let's sing it together.
This is the day you made so I rejoice and be glad, rejoice and Possibly quoting Psalm 118:24 be glad in it, and this is where I believe. You are more than enough, more than enough for me. Declare, you are faithful to your promise, you are strong when I win. When I'm standing in your presence, I have everything I need. The joy of the Lord, the joy of the Lord is my strength. The joy of the Lord, the joy of the Lord is my strength. Lord my son bless his name. All that things within me say the joy of the Lord, the joy of the world is my strength. You are worthy of all, worthy of all our praise. You are faithful to your promise. You are strong when I am when I'm standing in your princess. I have everything I need. The joy of the Lord, the joy of the Lord is my strength. The joy of the Lord, the joy of the Lord is my strength. All my servants, that's his name, all that is within me slay, the joy of the blood, the joy of the leaves, my string. Yes and let it rise up like a river overflow Holy Spirit Let it rise up with the holy name over we say again holy rise. Like a big room all we holy speech Ling and Flip and we holy speed railing Yes come on Yes, thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Oh, come on, sing it! The joy of the Lord, the joy of the Lord is faster. The joy of the Lord, the joy of the Lord is my strength, and all my son, bless his name, all that things is within me, setting. Oh my son, bless his name, all that things within me, send all my soul, that sees name, all that things within me, say, the joy of the world, the joy of the Lord is my strength.
Hallelujah. It's more than a feeling. Hallelujah. True joy in our spirits, what God has done. I wish I could tell you, wish I could describe it. Yeah, but I can't contain it, can't keep it to myself. There are enough colors to fit the whole picture. Not enough words to ever say what I found. You wonderful and beautiful holies, merciful and powerful. We were talking about that's my king. We declare the glory. We keep him on the honor. He's altogether worthy. We're talking about that's my king. There's no one before you. Yes, we want to have you. We're talking about that's my key. I'm not letting the rocks cry without joining the chorus. The rhyming of notes to make the harmony. It's the song of the angels, two of the angels. Song of the earth in heaven symphony. Wonderful and beautiful. Yes, no, he is merciful and powerful. We talk him about as my king. We need to cover the glory. We keep him on the autumn. Altogether worth you! That's my key. There's no one before you. Yes, we will adopt you. Cause all I'm just wondering you're talking about? That's my key. You have a rough That's my key. That's my gun. That's my shape. I'll protect you. That's my key. The smile the smoke the defender That's my God That's my shell my protect That's my king That's my That's my defend Please I get it out that's my queen We think the glory Come on We give him all the honor He's altogether worthy And we talking about that's my key We need a glory And we give him all the honor He's all together It's a few that's my key There's no one before you see Winnipeg Cause all of the still He's talking about That's my key It's a bound That's my key Winning back That's my key It's a line in my spike Winning a man That's my key That's my king. That's my king of king. That's my king. What of love?
Hallelujah, Lord. Yeah, thank you, Lord. Hallelujah, Lord. Glory. Glory, Lord. Thank you, Father, thank you, Lord Hallelujah. Hello. Yes, yes, it's only one, yes. Yes, pass away. That could prove death in one, yes, Jesus the only one who is worthy Only One Only One Jesus the only one of the glory to the one true living God Jesus the only one who is worthy One Jesus the only given of the glory to the one true living God Yes you are yes you are Don't you didn't know all you put on that cross? Only one She's the sea one who is one of the only one only one she's the sea when you give up the good thing. To the one true living eye. Jesus the only one who knows where we only want. Jesus the only devoted to the one true living God. Jesus, save goose for every sickness in the name of Jesus, every demon free, all these children free in the name of Jesus, the one true God gives all them all. Every knee will bow, every tongue will in the name of Jesus. She's up and see the shine the girls fall in the sea scone in the name of Jesus, every demon free, all his children free in the name of Jesus is the one true God rising above them all. Jesus in the name is Jesus and his name is Jesus and his name is Jesus and his name is Jesus is the only one who is worthy. Oh Jesus, he only give all the glorious to the one true living God. Jesus the only one who is worthy. One, only one Jesus the only give all the glory to the one true living God. Every tongue cross every move. Jesus had the shackles for all every sickness gone in the name of She was ever demonstraing the name of. She's lost in one true God price above them all in his name out. She's lost the name. Jesus name is. Yes, alone Jesus. I mean, yes, you are not your name alone. One who is worthy. Only one. Only one. Jesus, the only one of the glory. To the one true living God. Jesus the only one who is worthy. Only one Jesus the only give all the glory to the one true living God yes you are to living God living God glory the only one Jesus James Is the hope for the lost? Is the hope for your family restored? He is the hope for this nation. He is the hope for the world. When we are discouraged, we don't know what else to pray. We call out to Jesus, the only name, the only name by which we are saved, by which we are rescued. He is the only name. The name of Jesus. The name that heals, the name that restores, the name that can plug that gaping hole in your heart. His name is Jesus. One true living God. He's the one true living God. Yes, you are. The one true living God. He's the one true living God. The one true living God. He's the one true living God. The one true living God. And his name is Jesus. The one true living God. The one true living God. It's the one true living God. One true living God. Yes. It's worthy. That's what we declare today.
Jesus the only give all the glory to the one true living God Jesus the only one who is worthy one the only one Jesus the only give all the glory to the one true living God hallelujah hallelujah Lord Hallelujah. We give you all the glory, Lord. All the glory, Lord. Thank you, Father. Praise o God to you, Lord. Most worthy, worthy of praise, exalting above all things, my God, you are my God. Your splendor and majesty, your wonders fills everything, my God. You are my God. Holy is the Lord. Holy is the Lord Almighty, seated on the throne. Seated on the throne of glory, I lifted up. Your presence fills the temple that we worship you. Where we worship you creation point to you the king. Holy Israel Holy Airs of Lord Almighty Seated upon the throne Seated upon the
throne of glory High and lifted up He grabbed his veins the Possibly quoting Isaiah 6:1 temple and we were shifting We were shifting Holy A Seated up on the thread seated up on the throne of the ring high and leaves it up. Your friends will be severe. I'll continue the help and tiny words again. I'm not going to be able to all nest. Oh no, and cowl is a little bit more of a king. High and I've been to the I'm down in the sea high and to the earthly name but all names be honest and die for holy is the Lord Holy is the Lord Almighty seated on the throne He seated on the throne of glory high and lifted away Your presence be where we will shoot you. Where we will worship you. Holy holy is a whale. Hold the age of almighty. Seated up with the throne. He seated up on the throne of glory. Highly. Where we worship you. To the king of kings and lord of lies who leaves and reigns from the head of the highest name that could be I am whose kingdom stands and to the fair of God who called consent to feed me the And to the wall of needs to come from the mean is literally or off the bed. Lord will we have the so be so next year is all the prince now and forever be after How some base the witness No I have de having the face. How the so many so awesome is the Lord. Let's declare that one more time, can't we? Can we just sing how awesome is the Lord? wherever y'all find your way back into that bridge. Church, let's sing it together. So Lord the God Almighty declare a church and all the city to serve the now and the forehead from the now and forehead from the speaker one more time.
Let's say offering unto him the fruit of our living God of the pity the name of our name you deserve to save the praise by now and forever and for the rain of the information how the soul be so father we bless you today we honor you we honor you I was telling the team as we prayed before service. One thing that's really stirred in me this last few months, you know, there's things that are always true, but it's like the Lord just brings them fresh to you. And one of those is as we gather on a Sunday morning, if you're a believer here, that means you are a New Testament priest. In the Old Testament, the priests would go to their tabernacle. There was no seats in the tabernacle, the temple, and they would minister unto the Lord. And just the reality of New Testament believers, we gather on a Sunday morning. This is the gathering of the saints primarily, and that we would come and really minister unto the Lord. Now, Out of that overflow, God touches us, ministers to us. It's okay to receive. All those things are true. But am coming as a believer together with the saints on a Sunday morning in this corporate gathering to do what? To minister unto the Lord, especially in song. To come and to bring what? A sacrifice of praise. Even when I don't feel like it, even when things might not be going my way. Lord, you're not worthy because things are going great. You're worthy because you're worthy. Your name is above every other name. And I'm going to come and lift my hands up to you and lift my voice up to you. And I'm going to magnify your name because your name is above every other name. You are worthy no matter what. Amen. So, Father, we bless you today. We honor you. You are worthy. And we worship you as your sons and daughters. We worship you as our as your sons and daughters in Jesus' mighty name. Team, thank you for leading us this morning. Give somebody a high five if you would, as you're seated. Thank you for gathering with us. Our upper elementary will be in here with us today, parents, but we'll release our lower elementary. Again, upper elementary will be in here with us today. We've got some special speakers today. So our upper elementary will be with us. Lower elementary. We release you. Parents, if you've not checked them in. Look around. You see somebody you don't know, give them a high five. Say hello to them. Maybe the first time with us, just say hi. Introduce yourself. Just bless them today. Well, we're so glad that you're here with us. My name is Jonathan. If I've not had the opportunity to meet you and part of the pastoral team at Destiny Life Church, and you were in the nine o'clock gathering of Destiny Life, thank you for being here with us. Whether you are here for the first time or you uh are regular gatherer with us, or maybe you're joining us online today. Uh periodically throughout the year, we have so many people. uh here in the house that can really bring the word that are tremendous preachers of the gospel. And so we try throughout the year uh to have them come and share. One thing I'm grateful for, and you know, the feedback that we typically hear uh in the body is is people like that we have different speakers. Every week we have a different speakers just by nature of who we are and our team model of ministry and then uh others that share throughout the year. And so Uh today we have we call it Sun's Sunday. We need maybe a better name, I don't know, but oftentimes we'll do this three, four times a year. Uh sometimes in between series and various things like that. We'll have some guys share with us. So today we got two different speakers, actually. One here in the 9 a.m. and then another speaker in the 11 a.m. Very familiar to you guys. William Flynn's gonna come and minister the word here at 9. And then David Limerick is gonna minister the word at 11. And uh you might want to stick around and hear these guys, but it I'm just excited about the word today. So will you guys give William a great big hand? William, come and bring the word. Bless you, my friend, and uh we'll receive from you.
Thank you. For years it was on this side, so thankful for this opportunity and um thankful for the body of Christ that we have the privilege to serve with. Have the body of Christ we get the privilege to serve with. We um I believe six years that we have been here and most of you I'm familiar with, if you don't know me, I uh am Saint Darla's husband. I have been waiting. Yes. Thank you. I owe you cookies or whatever you like. Um I I have had the privilege of 31 years. Also uh six children, thankfully to say all of them and their spouses are serving the Lord. That is a blessing. Man, that's not anything we did just in ourselves, but just the faithfulness of God to the generations. And I'm I'm thankful. And you can make that go away now. I will get distracted. I am dead too, I will tell you. Whoever came up with that, Teddy, Sterling, man, I owe you. That's that was so good. So, so good. I want to go to
Psalm 24. Um I've had uh about six months. The Lord has been kind of walking me through some things. Uh for the last three months, I've been in a study, personal study, in uh the life of David, uh those surrounding David, uh Saul contrasting. uh Saul's life with David's life and I've got about three months worth of material here. So oh one guy his his wife uh complained about him being a long-winded preacher and she said well you're gonna have to come up with a system try a cert put the cert in your mouth that's gonna last about 15 minutes keep one unwrapped in your pocket pop that one in there that's another 15 minutes 30 minutes and when that cert is gone you're done Well, he accidentally got a button. I don't have any certs or any buttons, but and hopefully uh with the Lord's help, I'm gonna try to condense these things that the Lord has been talking to me about and just let you in on uh some of that conversation. Uh the Charles Dickens started out his uh the story or his book, The Tale of Two Cities. He was contrasting, and most you you literary individuals will know where I'm going with this, but he was contrasting. Of France and the rebellion or the revolution that took place in France. And he was contrasting that with things he was beginning to see in England. And as that began to progress in his mind, he said that it was the best of times and it was the worst of times. And we we definitely can see that through all points of society. And there's things going on in our world right now in Christendom that we can say, man, it is the best of times. We have the ability to prog uh to broadcast the gospel all over the known world. We have the I've got a little bit of a ring up here, if you can. Take that out. Um, we we've been able to broadcast the gospel. We can we can be in 24 hours to 36 hours, we can be in any point in the world to walk in and share the gospel and to present the gospel. It's the best of times. But then there's also stuff in the church, especially in the West, that it is the worst of times. We're sitting here scratching our heads saying, How do we not learn over the years and watching and just picking up the Bible? If you want to see a uh study in human history of failure and success and revival and failure and success, just read through the Old Testament. And I look at that and boy, I can become sanctimonious until I start looking at my own life. And I've been raised in church all of my life, uh like literally all of my life. I missed, I was counting up this morning on the way in, how many times that I could remember that I missed church? I think it was five. And uh up until I was 18 years old. One of those, you had to be nearly dead. So one of those was I was in the hospital with appendicitis that qualified. Okay, I was nearly dead. The second time I had chicken pox. The pastor made us, made my mom keep us home to keep from spreading that. And the other two times was when I was traveling on a mission trip, and I I dare say if my mom knew I missed church that night or was going to, she would have been upset. So it's not that you're always in church all the time, but that was my background. That's where the love for the gospel, the love for the things of God come from was the influences that was, that was transpiring in my life, being raised in the house of God. And in the middle of all that, all this up and down and failure and backslide and struggling and falling into sin and stepping out of it and repenting. And so it's just human nature. And so, and even in our own lives, it can be the best of times. It can actually be the worst of times. And so I want to uh title this The Pursuit of God in
Psalm 24:1: The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein, for he hath founded it upon the seas, he hath established it upon the floods.
Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord, or who shall stand in his holy place Possibly quoting Psalm 24:3–6? He that hath clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn sworn deceitfully, he shall receive the blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation. This is my text. This is a generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob, Selah. When I begin to look at this text, this text historically is uh written by David as he has gone and officially got the Ark of the Covenant the proper way with the priest according to the law of God. And he's bringing that back into Jerusalem. And he begins to, as you if you read on down to verse number 10, he's uh the famous chapters, uh verses: Lift up your head, O ye saints, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, the king of glory. will come in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord of hosts. He is the King of Glory. What we sung about. But as that was transpiring, and it was really uh just just a historical Bible nerd nut uh note for a second, that they were standing on the outside, coming in with the ark, and they're standing on the inside, and this was a this was going back and forth. So you could imagine how glorious this was. But what is interesting is eighty years goes by. And they do not have the presence of God. The people of God, with this ark that was the symbol of the presence of God, the anointing of God, it would go before them in battle. It was a place where that they every year, as their sins would come up to be pushed back, the priests would go in and sprinkle the blood on the mercy seat of this. This is a very, very integral part of their worship. And they was happy to go 80 something years without it. Eli's sons lose it. If you if you read through the uh the the the book of first Samuel and the first part of that, but what's interesting is there's about 40 years or so between Samuel coming on the scene and Judges ending, every man did that which was right in his own eye. So you say, well, this is worldly, these are sinful people, these are the people of God. And if we're not careful, we can begin to fall right back into that same mindset. We we're we enjoy the grace of God. They did not. We enjoy salvation on this side of the cross. They were looking forward to that. If anything, we have all this blessing. And you know what? We can fall right back in here. And we are influencing the next generation. And that's really the, that's really what God has had on my heart. God has really been stirring me. So if this preaching is just for me, y'all say, man, point at me, say, Yeah, you need to do better, and we'll we'll be great. And I'll just stand up here and preach, preach to myself. But the one of the things that God is stirring me, especially as a man and my family, and now I'm looking at have a grandchild and I have one on the way, is what kind of influence am I leaving behind? And that is not just what kind of influence am I leaving behind in financial things? That's important. And do I am I storing up uh uh some money back for them so that when I'm gone, they'll they'll have a splurge and be able to start their life out. All those things are important. But more importantly is what am I, what kind of spiritual heritage am I passing on to my child, children and my grandchildren? That literally is at the end of the day, is the most important thing because that influence is going to live forever. Do you realize that whether you're in this house saved or lost, cold, complacent, or on fire for God, you are influencing the society and the people around you? One man said that when we go to the grave, That is not the end. When the world is done with us and we are done with the world, that is not the end because our influence lives on and has immortality. Our influence, our influence, good, bad, ugly, whatever it is, it continues on. Another man said that we had to wait till judgment before we, the end of all things before we were judged, because that was the length that the influence could potentially run, good or bad. And so when we begin to look around at our own spiritual life and how I show up to church, this is just the gathering of the saints. So much of our lives are built around. Well, go, as I just told you, go to church, go to church, go to church. What is church? It's all about church. It's all about Christian living. It's all about walking out daily, right? It's all about how I show up every single day. The influence, how is that going to be judged? Is really, I guess maybe it's because I'm 51 that that's becoming more and more important. How I respond, how I act, what I leave behind in influence is. Important. I don't want to I don't want to be misunderstood here and I don't want I don't want you to think that I'm making a concession for sin. But one of one of the things that I've always seemed to do, especially as I've gotten older and really started understanding scripture and how to read the Bible, how to study it, is is going in and really looking at the text and actually placing human experience. In the text. You have to be careful. You have to be careful. I'm not I'm not saying that that you you you need to balance that. But there are these people, sometimes we can read the Bible in a vacuum and think that they, boy, it was just great, grand, holy fire fallen. Everything was going great and wonderful, and it was not. Pardon me. Thank you, I will. Y'all heard that. We think that that's the case, right? That every it if you just read it in a vacuum, they were scared. They dealt with fear. They struggled just like you struggled. All the all the experiences that you are experiencing emotion, they actually experience those things as well. And so how how does that influence of the youth group that Saul grew up in? How does that affect the way he lives out his Christian experience or his his Christian experience, but his experience? Again, he's responsible for his own sins. But what he saw lived out in front of him, how did that affect him? Just food for thought. I'm not making a new doctrine here. I'm not trying to step outside of scripture. I just want you to think about the text. What that, because it does have an impact. I was impacted greatly. I got in trouble as a kid. Some neighbors came and complained to my mom because I, five years old, four years old, somewhere in there, I was baptizing kids in the drainage ditch. Well, where did I get that from? Because I watched quite often on Sunday morning people being baptized, people getting saved. I mean, we played church because that's what we were exposed to. And that experience is there, that influence was there. I could sit there as a small child and tell whether back in where I came from, we had times where there weren't no preaching. Okay. And that as a kid, you look forward to what John, even though you look forward to those services where there weren't no preaching. Because that means that the Lord come by and that, you know, anyway, it was a whole different. It was a it was a different time. You you you the preacher could get off the hook and anyway. But we would what I would we would watch that. I can tell you I that when when the actual sometimes it was cooked up, I hate to say, and other times it was the Spirit of the Lord moving there. And I could tell when the real Spirit of the Lord would move in, there's a little lady by the name of Sister Ross. Walked in on a walker. She was a church thermometer. And you would begin to see when the Spirit of the Lord would start worship, would the people begin to worship and the Spirit of the Lord would start moving, Sister Ross, she'd see them hands start to. I mean she started, she started responding to that. And I knew, okay, boy, we're gonna get out early tonight. It's gonna be, it's gonna be one, it's gonna be one of them Pentecostal services. But those individuals, there was people who ministered to me, who influenced my life, who spoke into my life at critical times that set me on the trajectory that that I am on. So here Saul has those same individuals in his life, and he's growed up in a time. There's that Arkansas slipping out in there. He's growed up in a time when he's growing, he grew up in a time. I'll correct my English. He grew up in a time when there, every man was doing that which was right in his own eyes. And they were in the church. The priest were the ones who lost the art. They decide they're gonna run out there. We we're just gonna pick up where we left off. We've been doing what we want to do. We've kind of been living how we want to live. We've been left foot in to we're in the worldliness and right foot out, and you know, just doing the hokey pokey on, and then they they step out of that and they go, We're gonna go out because the enemy's coming. We always do this, and they went out. And they lost the Ark of the Covenant to the Philistines. And there's some real interesting reading as to how it comes back, but it sets for a long time and it's David, not Saul. There's your first clue as to how Saul's life began to go off track. Because he never sought the presence of God. He never sought the presence of God. He wanted God, he wanted God to work out all of his problems. He wanted God to fix, fight all of his battles. He wanted God to make him look good. As a matter of fact, when the kingdom is being rent from him, He's like unconcerned about that, unconcerned about the this heritage that has been given him, unconcerned about the future of even his children and what that might look like. Because in that day, if you when you lost the kingship, your whole family, your whole lineage was wiped out, unconcerned about all of it. Isn't that how sin kind of gets us? We just get so caught up in ourselves that we don't think about anything else. And here he's he's unconcerned about that. His most, his primary concern. When Samuel told him that God has taken the kingdom from you, is come out here and worship with me. Worship with me. That was a s in that time when the get when the when the priest or the judge or the prophet would come and worship with the king, it was a sign of approval. He wanted the people to think that God approved of him. He didn't really care if God approved him. Saul was known for seeking the hand of God. The difference between Saul and David is David sought the face of God. As you're uh even as he's coming into his kingdom, now this this wasn't in his rulership of e of uh Israel. This the text that I read to you was not his first day in the kingdom. He had he had some work to do. He had to unite the kingdom. He had some battles. He had to actually conquer so that they could actually be in Jerusalem where they brought the Ark of the Covenant home, the city of God. So those things were important to David, but it started as a pursuit in his heart. I love the pursuit that we have here with our youth. Driving the Word of God into their heart, putting the Word of God in their heart. I I don't know how my parents were disabled. I won't go into their story. It's quite amazing, but I don't know how in the world they kept me in private school. But that was something that was critical to my mom and dad was Christian education. And I remember I rem my memorized before I could even read. I memorize
Psalms 1. Our teacher in kindergarten walked us through. It's the very first
chapter. Five years old. A five-year-old can memorize 10 or 12. Trust me. They memorize game codes. They memorize all that stuff. They they can memorize those scripture. And I can still quote those, those verses and chapters that I memorized as a kid, the word of God being placed in my heart. What was they doing? They was trying to, they was trying to set a trajectory for my life. They were trying to influence me. And that's what, that's what David's, I don't, and we don't really even know who was the real instrumental person in his life. We have a little tiny snapshot of his mom. His dad, they had no relationship whatsoever. Who was his influence? I don't know. But something inside of him, there was something that God began to work inside of him, even as a child. And I will tell you this as a young person, you're here and you feel like, man, I don't really have moms or dads who care about the things of God. It doesn't matter. God will come to you. I said the Holy Spirit will come to you as an individual. He'll begin to work. He'll begin to work in you. Real quickly, let me walk through my points, and I will be done. The first thing,
Psalms 24 and 6, the face of God that David sought. This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. See, look, this is the generation. He declares that. I believe that's a verse that we can still declare today. This is the generation. We can make that determination. The ones coming up, my children coming up, is one that can make that same declaration. We are going to make the choice. Some things we don't have a choice in. But this you have a choice in. And this is a passion and a pursuit. The face of God that David sought, he he said that this would be, I will be part of the generation. I'm going to lead the generation. That seeks your face. The second thing will be the heart of God that David pursued. The face of God that he sought, the heart of God that he pursued. Do you know that this might mess with you just a little bit, but it is it is the Bible. Samuel said to Saul in
1 Samuel 13 and thirteen, Thou hast done foolishly. Thou hast not kept the commandments of the Lord thy God, which he commanded thee. For now would the Lord have established the kingdom upon Israel forever. He he Samuel or Saul could have had this. Like I said, it it don't let it mess with you. But he could have had this. And he made some decisions that took that away from him. Because this is what God was looking for. And
verse number 14, but now the kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought him a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee. God is looking for men and women who have a passion. To seek his heart. What is the difference in seeking his face and seeking his heart? When you seek his when you seek the heart of God, at its core, the Hebrew fate phrase implies a man chosen according to God's own choice, desire, design, rather than human matrix or external appearance. While Israel chose Saul based on his tall stature. The k and kingly looks, God chose David based upon his inner character. Being a person after God's heart means your life, your life's compass is calibrated to God's will, valuing what he values, loving what he loves, caring about his priorities. That that's the difference. That's the difference. Seeking his face puts you in proximity. It puts you in not just proximity, but it puts you in direction with his heart. When I'm looking at David in the face, I'm also facing his heart. Well oftentimes we we we get upset and angry with God. And I want you to hear me here for a second because our hearts, our hearts are pursuing the wrong thing. We're glancing at him. There's a difference between glancing at something and gazing at something. If you spend if you get married and you spend any part of your marriage gay glancing at your wife, you're going to be in trouble. There comes a point where it's full face. You're gazing upon that individual. There's there is that's love. You you won't ever learn to love anything or appreciate anything if it's just at a glance. But it's whenever we begin to focus on that thing, we begin to look at that, we begin to let it consume us. When you look, uh when you look, I'll tell you like the first time I looked at Darla, I looked into her eyes. Over. I I went to I went to Bible school, man, I was a free man. Okay, just it was it I okay, there's gonna be lots of girls. This is kinda like a glorified youth camp. Everything's gonna be great. And I mean here she comes. I come walking out of serv first service Sunday night. Come walking around the corner and she had just come out of the restroom. We're like this. Over. Only girl I ever dated in school married my college sweetheart. I mean, it was done. It was those blue eyes, it just got is over. That would not have happened at a glance. That would not have happened. So is our love for God. How do I gaze on him? By gazing into his word. How do I want to know his heart? By by making this. I believe it's Proverbs said, How sh how can
a young man cleanse his ways Possibly quoting Psalm 119:9? What by putting the word of God into his heart? By living by those principles. But see, when we're looking at his hand, do for me, God, that's where we get, that's where we become can become very bitter. That's where because he didn't meet my expectation. You know, when whenever Darla tells me something that I don't want to hear, if my back's to her, I receive that differently than when I'm looking at her face. If if you're on the phone, I hate I hate the error. She's a texter. I'm not. If if you text me, it might be three days later before I respond. I I just literally hate it. I'd rather pick up the phone. Actually, I'd rather just drive over and have a face-to-face conversation. Because now we both know. You've seen my face, I've seen yours. There's there's nothing. So many keyboard warriors hiding behind the keyboard, just pounding away. They'd never say that face to face. They wouldn't even think about it. I don't know. I got way off course there. Step off my soapbox. Oh, that's but that's where bitterness comes from. God, you didn't do what I wanted you to do. You didn't handle this the way that I thought you should. Did you spend time face to face? Because that's where you would know it's heart. No, we we we we dream up what God's will is, and then we actually impose that on the image of God that we created in our minds. And then from that, we judge God. I've done it. I've done it. And then that's where the bitterness comes from. And I want to tell you: if you want that to change, tear down that idol, because that's exactly what it is. That is an idol that we created in our minds, tear that down, and then go back to the Word of God. And back to prayer and say, God, I want to see you. I want to see you. I want to, I want to know you. I want to know you. The heart of God, the face of God that David sought, the heart of God that David pursued, the hand of God that David enjoyed. I don't have time to go through this. I'm going to bring this to a close. I think the the most notable thing is that if you have if you if you seek the face of God with your whole heart, if you pursue the heart of God, you get his hand. When when you get the head and the heart, you get everything else. Instead of going at it backwards. Give me your hand, do for me. Santa Claus in the sky. How about how about looking into his face? Making that the pursuit. And then, God, what is your heart? What is your what is your heart? We we spend so much time, this this elusive word called the will of God. I don't know, maybe where you come from, that wasn't a big deal, but man, in Bible school, everything was the will of God this, the will of God that. I told Darla, we're going to Africa, we're going here. Everything, you're just just driven by all these different things. You want to know where the will of God is? For you to be conformed in the image of Jesus Christ. That is the will of God. And he loves you so much, and he loves me so much that he will take his hands and he'll break apart the things, he'll bust up foundations, he'll tear down little idols, he'll destroy all these different things because he loves you so much that he wants to conform you or make you. into the image of his son. That's the goal. And and you're you're needing deliverance, you're needing comfort and help. Those things are all found in his hands. But you're not going to get his hands exclusively. They're actually found in leaning into. John was a very interesting disciple. Well, everybody else was out, man, and and you know it's kind of interesting because he was a man's man. He he would get there really quick. I mean, he he's one of the sons of thunder. But he also would lean into Christ. And when you'd see him, you'd find him leaning on his breast, leaning on his bosom. What was what was he doing? At some point, he would need the hand of God. But he was seeking the heart and the face of God. Are we going to be the generation? I believe we are. I believe there's young people in here, uh, in here right now. God is stirring. I mean, you've you're you're you'll you'll sell sandwiches, you'll do whatever, barter, whatever you gotta do to go on mission trips. Seeking, seeking to do the work of God. That that passion. I I love when the young people come back from youth camp. And you see them lined up across here on the front, and they're just like, let's go. And that's, you know, they kind of that kind of fades a little bit, but the then you begin to hear of this one doing something, this one standing up in school, this one over here, and you know that that same, the fire kind of fizzled just a little bit, but the fruit was there. Seek God, his righteousness. All the other things will be added. Thank you for your time.
Thank you, William. That was really good. Why don't you stand with me? Let's just take a minute to do that. Jim, could I call the team up? I'm gonna kind of call it audible. We got a little time here. Can I call the team up? I'm gonna take an opportunity to to uh just respond to the message. I'm gonna take an opportunity to right here in this corporate gathering. To take an opportunity, just seek the heart of God. I'm gonna just have the team play play. And why don't just right there in your seat, why don't you just close your eyes right there in your seat? And just ask the Lord. My heart was stirred in that. William, it's so easy. You know, we think of um the exuberance of youth. You think about the exuberance of a young person, whether it be youth camp or missions trip, all the things that he mentioned. But you know, I there's a scripture I'm always challenged by. It's Daniel. He records, he says, I was reading in the book of Jeremiah, or I was reading the prophet Jeremiah. He talks about how his heart was stirred in that. I can't remember the exact scripture reference where he says that. Daniel was 80 years old when he wrote that. You know, sometimes I know when I first really got born again, it's like God, you just, you know, we would call it on fire for God. I'm on fire for God. But didn't I ask myself, Five years later, 10 years later, 30 years later, 40 years later. Am I just going through the motions? Do I just go through the motions, or is my heart stirred to? I'm not just talking about feelings. I'm talking about a genuine pursuit of God. A genuine pursuit of his heart and his face and not just his hand. And you're talking, William, I got this image, as this happened to me probably four or five times in my life. I'm going through a drive-thru and I'll reach out and grab the Whatever it is that the person is handing me, and that person will say, Jonathan. And I'll realize I didn't even look at the person who was handing me. And it's like, you know, some student I knew or something like that. You know, somebody that would recognize me that I haven't seen. But I wasn't looking at their face. I was just in the drive-thru, just grabbing the thing to just get on with life and get. How many times does God have to do that? Jonathan. Don't just reach out for the thing. So let's just turn this this next few moments here. Let's just turn this into a place of worship. Just calling out to God. Guys, I'll just, y'all just lead us. Just sing and whatever. I don't want it to be corporate worship in the sense that we're going to have to follow along the song the song necessarily, but just sing and just let's just create an atmosphere of worship, could we? And just right there in your seats this morning, you might want to come to the altar. Just say, Lord, my desire is to seek your face, not your hand. That's you just come on.
Mighty wanna pray teams. Why don't you come? Just be available if you need prayer today. You deserve the praise. Now I am forever more the earth and heavens are all how awesome again and how awesome is a Lord. The name above all names you deserve the praise now. I am forever more. Just take a couple moments. Just you may just want to bring your heart this morning. Lord, there's Aries. I've been sick in your hand. My desires are seek your heart today. The name above all names. You deserve the praise. How am for some earning to the King of Kings the Lords, lives and rains, for gave a more name and glory and praise To the highest name, the great I am, whose keener stands never ends aligning. Glory and praise to the lamb of God conquered sin, defeated death, and rose again, aligning. Glory and pray. To the one who asked it is to come for heaven who lifted up. God almighty, the name above all men you deserve the praise life forever for the earth and the heavens of one. Awesome. How some means of Lord Gods the privilege now and for every good love we have awesome be sure.
House God almighty the name above all names you send the prince now and more than heavens You know one thing that I am uh Real, really aware of in my own life is I really like uh routine. I really like, you know, I think even in being a destiny life, just the patience in building, the patience in life, the patience in stewardship. Uh, I just like the routine of that. I like the mundaness of life in the sense that I think, you know, I grew up. William mentioned this. I grew up in uh similar to him in Pentecost of just, you know, we didn't think we had a good service unless the preacher didn't preach, which was kind of backwards, but that's a whole story for another day. But just this idea of this um exuberance. We kind of live from spiritual high to spiritual high. And uh man, we need times of real refreshing the presence of the Lord. I'm certainly not against that, but I think the older I've gotten, the more I've realized. The consistency of faithfulness in building, whether that's building wealth or spiritual building or whatever it is, the consistency of that. So I love routine, but here's what I don't love. So easy for routine to slide over into a rut. I love routine, I don't want to rut. And I one thing I really love about Destiny Life, I look out over this crowd here and I see so many people and families representative, representing Many, many years of faithfulness to Christ. Many years of faithfulness to Christ. But here's my caution to us. Okay, I'm including myself in this. My caution is that we don't slide out of the routine of faithfulness and consistency into a rut of just going through the motions. No, we we need, as a body, we need it personally, but as a body, We need times of refreshing from the Lord. We need times of the Lord really manifesting Himself in our hearts. That begins in individuals, that begins in families. And what does it do? It permeates into the house. I'm praying that over my own life. I need, and I pray consistently, Lord, I need a spiritual renewal. Would you refresh my heart? Would you refresh my mind? Would you refresh my life? Like I'm not under no illusion that I've arrived at some sort of spiritual pinnacle that I don't need God consistently to manifest Himself. In my life. And that's my prayer, really over the house. Lord, would you bring just a refreshing and a spiritual renewal? And would you shake the things that need to be shaken? I know that is a very dangerous prayer. Would you help me? Would you help us to be consistent, to be faithful in the mundane, to be to be faithful, but to not be in a rut? Not business as usual, not same old, same old. Well, what are you doing? What are you doing? And can we join it? So I want to pray that. And if you say, Jonathan, I want to be included in that prayer. That's my heart. Could you just lift your hands to him? I do that a lot just as a sign of surrender to him. It's not positioning your hands are not important. It's really our heart, but Father, I pray over this body of believers today that we call destiny life. Lord, I pray that your word, as we heard today, not seeking your hand, but really seek in your heart. Lord, would you let that get deep within our being today? Lord, calling out to you, Father, for just a spiritual renewal. Lord, in the midst of consistency and faithfulness and routine, which we acknowledge as your kingdom, Lord, don't let us be in a rut. Don't let us just go business as usual. I pray just a breath and a wind of your spirit. Would blow over this house, would blow over every individual, every family in the name of Jesus. That Lord, when we gather on Sundays corporately, that we would just sense a move of your spirit. When we gather as families in homes, that we would sense a move of your spirit. When we're spending time with you alone as individuals, we just sense a move of your spirit. I thank you, Father, for just a fresh wind of grace, a fresh wind of a manifestation of your spirit would blow over us. Do Lord what only you can do. Help us. We're calling out to you this morning, saying, help us. We need you. We acknowledge you. Lord, not business as usual, but just a freshness, a freshness, a freshness. A freshness, a freshness, a freshness in the name of Jesus. Do what only you could do. Do what only you can do. That's our prayer, Lord. That's our prayer. We're not trying to make it happen, but Lord, we'll be intentional to press into you. We'll be disciplined to press into you. We'll acknowledge you. We'll take that step towards you. I thank you for it. I thank you for it. I bless you for it. I bless you for it. If you believe that, say a good amen. May the Lord just continue to do that and stir that in you as we leave today.
You can be seated for just a moment. We want to continue to worship the Lord with our giving today. And if you give it by check or cash, you guys know how to do that. You just make it out to Destiny Life. There's an envelope in the seat back in front of you. If you text to give, you can give that way. That's the way that uh that we do it. Alicia and I and It's very convenient. My right, your left, there's a book at the end of every row, a little black book. If you take that and pass it across, that helps us to just pasture you better and more effectively. If you could do that, that'd be great. And if you're new with us this morning, the seat back in front of you, there's a little gray card that says welcome. We'd love for you to fill that out. Just say hello to you. And there's a couple other steps. If this is the body of believers that the Lord is. uh placed you in every uh month the first Sunday night of the month. I actually don't every time you say that, that's not the next one, right? We we won't have one in September, but in October, first Sunday night of the month, we have a meal called Meet the Family Dinner. I would encourage you if you've been a part of DLC for a little while and you've never been to one, come. It's just an overview of kind of who we are and just an introduction of this body, this congregation, and we love to meet you, you know, some of our pastoral team will be there and it's a smaller group so we can really get to know people as family. So we'd love for you to be a part of that. I mean fill that card out that welcome card as you exit the Building today, there's two buckets. Black buckets have DLC on them. You can drop them in there. That's where you can put your tithe and offering as well. Let me pray over the the uh the offering today. Father, thank you for your provision over every family, over every family. I thank you for jobs. Thank you for the opportunity you've given us to produce out of our labor. I thank you for that. Lord, there may be some here that are in need of a job or a better job. I thank you for guiding and directing their steps to a job or a better job. Guide and put them where you desire. Lord, thank you for business owners, part of this house here. Thank you for new services, new clients. Thank you for your favor over them in the name of Jesus. Thank you for faithful stewards. All that all of us are stewards, managers of your stuff. We don't own anything. Lord, we just manage what you've entrusted to our care. Help us to grow in that area. Be faithful in that. Thank you for it. We bless you for it. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen.
Well, check out a few things happening in and around the body of Destiny Live. Guys, go ahead and roll that announcement video, would you? I'll get out of the way. What's up, DLC fam? My name is Teddy, and we are so glad that you're here with us today. Let's take a quick look at what we have coming up this week. The Groups Fair is next Sunday. If you've been looking for a way to get connected and find community here at Destiny Life, this is a great opportunity to see what groups are available this fall. Groups Fair will be happening in both campuses in the lobby after each service. So make sure you stop in and check them out. Christ College's Apostolic Church class begins September 14th. If you're interested in growing in your understanding of the Apostolic Church and going deeper in your faith, this is a great opportunity to jump in. Head to Christcollege.us for more information and to get signed up. The CCS Golf Tournament Fundraiser is coming up Saturday, October 3rd. It'll be a four-man scramble with a 9 a.m. shotgun start. So grab your team, come out for a great morning in golf, and help support Claymore Christian School. Well, that's all the announcements that we got for you this week. If you have a prayer need, please let us know. We would love to be in prayer with you. That being said, have a good week, DLC. All right. Next Sunday, Groups Fair. Don't miss that. And uh two weeks from tomorrow night, we'll kick off Christ College, the Apostolic Church. I actually teach that class. I don't know how much I like that name because I don't know that it fully articulates. What it is, but we're going to talk about the church. What is the church? How do we build the church? How do we grow the church? What's biblically about that? How do we become an apostolic people? How you know, and a lot of it be, you know, how does DLC? How do we function around here? So if you got questions like that, that'd be a great class for you to participate in. So why don't you stand with me? If you're a golfer, even if you're not a golfer, I gotta be honest with you. Every time you go to a golf scrambler, you see scrambl scrambler, golf scramble, you see people like me. I'm not a golfer, but I'm gonna play and I'm gonna participate and I'm gonna have fun. I'm gonna hit some brilliant shots. And I'm gonna hit some horrendous shots. That's why it's a scramble, but it's going to a good cause. So grab a couple of folks and uh sign your team up and uh be a good time. Father, thank you for the opportunity to gather today with brothers and sisters. Thank you for your word. Thank you for William. Let's stretch our hands toward William. Could we, Father, all that he's poured out today? Pray that you would just refresh him. Thank you for the entire Flynn household. Thank you for what you've done and what you're doing. In them. We bless William. We bless Darla. We bless all the children. The name of Jesus. Lord, all that was poured out today, would you pour it back into him and into them, overflowing? Lord, thank you that as we're dismissed from this building, we're not dismissed from your presence today. And we thank you for the opportunity to walk out of these doors and be ministers of reconciliation. We've been reconciled to you, and now you've given unto us the ministry of reconciliation. So we thank you for that. We bless you for it. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you. You're dismissed. Prayer teams, you might come and hang up here. If you need prayer, please feel free to come. And uh and get prayer. God bless you. You're dismissed. Have a wonderful day. Try to stay cool out there. That's possible.
