WEBVTT 00:00:04.567 --> 00:00:05.248 So blessed. 00:00:05.248 --> 00:00:06.971 We're in Matthew, chapter 5. 00:00:06.971 --> 00:00:17.699 If you brought your Bibles, you can go ahead and open up there, and I'm going to go ahead and read through the first six verses and then we're going to camp out on verse 6 tonight. 00:00:17.699 --> 00:00:20.349 Okay, matthew, chapter 5. 00:00:20.349 --> 00:00:40.601 Starting in verse one, seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain and when he sat down, his disciples came to him and he opened his mouth and taught them, saying blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 00:00:40.601 --> 00:00:42.103 Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted of heaven. 00:00:42.103 --> 00:00:44.863 Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. 00:00:44.863 --> 00:00:48.966 Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. 00:00:48.966 --> 00:00:56.892 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. 00:00:56.892 --> 00:01:00.113 Heavenly Father, thank you so much for your word. 00:01:00.113 --> 00:01:01.935 Thank you for this evening. 00:01:01.935 --> 00:01:10.135 Lord, I just give you all the praise and all the glory right now we give you this time. 00:01:10.135 --> 00:01:12.661 I pray that you would move right through me, lord. 00:01:12.661 --> 00:01:21.569 I pray that your word would be heard tonight, nothing that I have to say, but only what you want us to hear through your word. 00:01:21.569 --> 00:01:23.590 Lord, we love you, we thank you. 00:01:23.590 --> 00:01:31.876 I thank you for everyone that's here and I just pray that you would just let your will be done tonight in Jesus' name, amen. 00:01:31.876 --> 00:01:39.563 So we're going to camp out in verse six. 00:01:39.563 --> 00:01:45.400 Like I said, the series is called Blessed and I'm going to repeat this verse several times Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied. 00:01:45.620 --> 00:01:57.209 This is the fifth week of this study on blessed, so I'm going to start off by asking you all at this point we should have some sort of an idea of what blessed means. 00:01:57.209 --> 00:01:59.611 Right, what does blessed mean? 00:01:59.611 --> 00:02:02.695 It's not rhetorical, you guys can answer. 00:02:02.695 --> 00:02:11.792 What does blessed mean In this context, in these verses that Jesus is speaking, what do you think blessed means? 00:02:11.792 --> 00:02:14.822 Anyone, it's not a trick question. 00:02:14.822 --> 00:02:18.770 Spiritually prosperous, that's good, that's good. 00:02:18.770 --> 00:02:23.884 Blessed, given grace, okay, it's good as well. 00:02:23.884 --> 00:02:26.289 Who said that? 00:02:26.289 --> 00:02:27.632 You nailed it. 00:02:27.632 --> 00:02:30.463 That's exactly what I was looking for Happy. 00:02:30.463 --> 00:02:36.018 I know it doesn't seem right, it doesn't necessarily fit right. 00:02:36.018 --> 00:02:36.780 And why is that? 00:02:36.780 --> 00:02:39.984 Why do we think that doesn't really fit well with us? 00:02:39.984 --> 00:02:46.112 Because I think we have a skewed view of what happiness is okay. 00:02:46.473 --> 00:02:50.905 In these verses, I believe Jesus is saying blessed are those. 00:02:50.905 --> 00:02:51.907 He means happy. 00:02:51.907 --> 00:02:55.533 Happy are those who are poor in spirit. 00:02:55.533 --> 00:02:59.943 Happy are those, but not just happy, truly happy. 00:02:59.943 --> 00:03:10.735 You see, there's a difference between happiness that this world tells us and happiness that can only be found in the gospel, through Jesus. 00:03:11.537 --> 00:03:22.129 Right Now, let me preface Happiness, it's not a bad thing, it's not when it's in its proper place. 00:03:22.129 --> 00:03:28.341 When happiness is in its proper place, it's a very good thing, right. 00:03:28.341 --> 00:03:34.812 But happiness, we have to understand, is just a byproduct, it's a bonus, right? 00:03:34.812 --> 00:03:42.993 Jesus is saying blessed are those or happy are those that hunger and thirst for righteousness. 00:03:42.993 --> 00:03:46.647 But that's counter to what the world tells us. 00:03:46.728 --> 00:03:47.490 Happiness is? 00:03:47.490 --> 00:03:49.443 What does the world tell us? 00:03:49.443 --> 00:03:55.550 Happiness is Stuff circumstances, right. 00:03:55.550 --> 00:03:58.826 Getting what you want, that's good. 00:03:58.826 --> 00:04:05.265 Yeah, happiness, whatever feels right, whatever feels good to you, do it. 00:04:05.265 --> 00:04:15.206 Whatever makes you happy, it doesn't matter the cost, it doesn't matter if it puts you in debt, it doesn't matter if you have to slack on your responsibilities to achieve it. 00:04:15.206 --> 00:04:18.276 If it makes you happy, do it. 00:04:18.276 --> 00:04:25.853 That's what the world says and it couldn't be more contrary to the gospel and what Jesus is saying. 00:04:27.721 --> 00:04:33.233 When you put happiness in the place of righteousness, you will never achieve it. 00:04:33.233 --> 00:04:44.872 When you put happiness in the place of righteousness, you will never achieve it, because when we put happiness first, it leaves us completely unsatisfied. 00:04:44.872 --> 00:04:51.670 We're always wanting the next thing, and the world is really good at that, striving for just the next thing. 00:04:51.670 --> 00:04:55.524 And if we're not careful we, the church, do it as well. 00:04:55.524 --> 00:05:09.507 We find ourselves jumping from one spiritual high to the next, and we were never meant to just live off these spiritual highs searching and longing for happiness. 00:05:09.586 --> 00:05:26.355 The scripture does not say blessed are those who hunger and thirst for happiness although that's what we tend to do sometimes Blessed or happy are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness. 00:05:26.355 --> 00:05:28.466 It is a byproduct. 00:05:28.466 --> 00:05:36.733 Happiness comes after or while you are hungering and thirsting for righteousness. 00:05:36.733 --> 00:05:39.540 And we see this all throughout Scripture. 00:05:39.540 --> 00:05:44.872 Scripture never wants, not once does it say, pursue happiness. 00:05:44.872 --> 00:05:47.867 You won't find it. 00:05:47.867 --> 00:05:55.839 You won't find it in Scripture, but throughout Scripture it does tell us to pursue righteousness. 00:05:56.160 --> 00:05:59.684 In Matthew 6, verse 31 through 33,. 00:05:59.684 --> 00:06:02.887 If you have your Bibles and you want to turn there, go ahead. 00:06:02.887 --> 00:06:08.959 Some of you will know this verse. 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:18.673 Therefore, do not be anxious saying what shall we eat or what shall we drink or what shall we wear For the Gentiles. 00:06:18.673 --> 00:06:36.399 Seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all, but seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:46.184 So, again, it's not to pursue happiness or the things that the world tells you will make you happy. 00:06:46.184 --> 00:06:56.310 All of the things right, the clothes, the title position, platform, money Don't worry about those things. 00:06:56.310 --> 00:06:58.314 That's what the world worries about. 00:06:58.314 --> 00:07:13.029 Instead, seek first the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all of these things will be added to you Hunger and thirst for righteousness. 00:07:13.350 --> 00:07:19.839 What does it mean to hunger and thirst, to hunger and thirst, to truly hunger and thirst? 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:31.451 I believe Jesus used these words because everyone can relate with being hungry and thirsty, right when he was on the mountain speaking to the disciples and the crowds around him. 00:07:31.451 --> 00:07:33.617 They knew what it was like to hunger and thirst. 00:07:33.617 --> 00:07:36.733 They knew it then and we know it now as we're reading this scripture. 00:07:36.733 --> 00:07:40.783 We know what it is like to hunger and thirst, so we can relate. 00:07:40.783 --> 00:07:59.983 We know what it means to be hungry, to be thirsty Maybe not as much as those on the other side of the world say impoverished countries and things like that but we all can relate to this right and I believe that's exactly why Jesus used this to hunger and thirst. 00:08:02.012 --> 00:08:08.194 Now I remember when I first started dating my wife, about 11 and a half 12 years ago. 00:08:08.194 --> 00:08:12.262 It was absolutely electric. 00:08:12.262 --> 00:08:15.173 It was exciting, it was amazing. 00:08:15.173 --> 00:08:23.901 We met at a ministry school in Fort Myers, florida, and we both had quite a bit of responsibilities on our plate, some of mine. 00:08:23.901 --> 00:08:46.841 I was the stateside coordinator, and so I drove a bus with about 20 to 25 college-age students all over the United States, with an evangelist, a world-renowned speaker, who would just go around and we would do programs for schools, churches, big events, and it would require me to be gone for days and even weeks at a time. 00:08:46.841 --> 00:08:50.178 Now, mind you, this is when I just started dating my wife. 00:08:50.178 --> 00:08:53.133 That makes things a little difficult. 00:08:53.133 --> 00:08:56.759 However, it was so new and it was so fresh. 00:08:57.923 --> 00:09:03.240 I remember waking up every morning and she was the first thing on my mind. 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:06.432 All the way till I went to bed she was on my mind. 00:09:06.432 --> 00:09:09.118 If I had any free time, she was on my mind. 00:09:09.118 --> 00:09:11.062 How could I get to be with her? 00:09:11.062 --> 00:09:18.803 What little section of the day could I make time to be with her, to get to know her, to hear her? 00:09:18.803 --> 00:09:25.062 I hungered for her attention, I thirsted for time with her. 00:09:25.062 --> 00:09:31.712 I was hungry, I was thirsty, I was hungry, I was thirsty. 00:09:31.732 --> 00:09:37.999 Scripture says it even better than I do In Psalm chapter 41, or, excuse me, 42, verse 1,. 00:09:37.999 --> 00:09:42.562 As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, o God. 00:09:42.562 --> 00:09:47.106 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. 00:09:47.106 --> 00:09:51.312 When shall I come and appear before God? 00:09:51.312 --> 00:09:58.318 My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long where is your God? 00:09:58.318 --> 00:10:01.571 These things I remember as I pour out my soul. 00:10:01.571 --> 00:10:07.918 These things I remember as I pour out my soul to hunger and thirst. 00:10:07.918 --> 00:10:12.283 This is what it means to hunger and thirst. 00:10:12.283 --> 00:10:16.312 David says it best as a deer pants for water. 00:10:16.312 --> 00:10:20.339 So my soul longs for you. 00:10:21.682 --> 00:10:25.371 You guys know what it's like to hunger and thirst in the physical realm. 00:10:25.371 --> 00:10:27.855 This is the spiritual. 00:10:27.855 --> 00:10:31.461 My soul longs for you, lord. 00:10:31.461 --> 00:10:34.966 What do you hunger and thirst for? 00:10:34.966 --> 00:10:38.533 What do you hunger and thirst for? 00:10:38.533 --> 00:10:42.263 You see, I believe it's about appetites. 00:10:42.263 --> 00:10:46.054 It's about appetites, hungering and thirsting. 00:10:46.054 --> 00:10:52.384 It only goes well with talking about appetites, right, and I believe we have two appetites. 00:10:52.384 --> 00:10:56.880 There's the appetite of our flesh and the appetite of our spirit. 00:10:56.880 --> 00:11:03.241 And I know it's been said that what you feed grows and what you starve dies. 00:11:03.241 --> 00:11:09.422 Which appetite is getting stronger while the other malnourished? 00:11:09.422 --> 00:11:12.740 Which appetite is getting stronger while the other malnourished? 00:11:12.740 --> 00:11:14.230 Which appetite is getting stronger while the other malnourished? 00:11:14.730 --> 00:11:19.482 As Christians, as believers, what appetite are you feeding? 00:11:19.482 --> 00:11:29.322 What appetite are you feeding In a physical sense, to get stronger, to get more fit, to get healthier? 00:11:29.322 --> 00:11:32.532 You're not going to do it by the Krispy Kreme diet. 00:11:32.532 --> 00:11:34.417 I'm sorry, it's just not going to happen. 00:11:34.417 --> 00:11:36.981 You're not going to get more fit. 00:11:36.981 --> 00:11:43.222 You're not going to get more healthy by chowing down on artificial products, on trash, on garbage. 00:11:43.222 --> 00:11:44.472 It's just not going to happen. 00:11:44.933 --> 00:11:46.197 You've got to change your diet. 00:11:46.197 --> 00:11:55.375 You've got to eat things that will sustain you, things that are good, things full of nutrients right, and it's the same thing. 00:11:55.375 --> 00:11:59.081 Celery, celery is good. 00:11:59.081 --> 00:12:01.565 Beef now we're talking. 00:12:01.565 --> 00:12:09.033 Now we're talking Red meat all right, we don't need to go off on that rabbit trail but things with sustenance, right. 00:12:09.114 --> 00:12:15.610 With nutrition, not only do you have to eat the right things, you have to eat often. 00:12:15.610 --> 00:12:20.772 Do you feed your physical body once a week? 00:12:20.772 --> 00:12:24.927 Do you live off of one meal a week? 00:12:24.927 --> 00:12:27.826 Some of you see where I'm going with this. 00:12:27.826 --> 00:12:33.808 We have to eat three meals a day, every day of the week, if we're going to be healthy and strong, right? 00:12:33.808 --> 00:12:42.803 Why on earth do we, as Christians, only feed our spirit once a week and that's church on Sunday. 00:12:42.803 --> 00:12:48.470 Not all of you I can't say that as a blanket statement, but the church as a whole. 00:12:48.470 --> 00:12:51.868 Right, like there's a lot of us that do that. 00:12:51.868 --> 00:13:02.909 We come to church on Sunday, we worship, we pray, we listen to the pastor and if it's here, man, our pastors give a great sermon. 00:13:02.909 --> 00:13:09.947 It's amazing, it's good, but they'll tell you themselves it's not meant to last you the whole week. 00:13:10.989 --> 00:13:12.331 You got to get it for yourself. 00:13:12.331 --> 00:13:14.062 You got to get in the word. 00:13:14.062 --> 00:13:14.787 You got to spend time in prayer. 00:13:14.787 --> 00:13:15.229 You got to get hungry. 00:13:15.229 --> 00:13:15.991 You got to get in the word. 00:13:15.991 --> 00:13:16.716 You got to spend time in prayer. 00:13:16.716 --> 00:13:17.580 You got to get hungry. 00:13:17.580 --> 00:13:23.448 You got to get hungry and thirsty for the word for righteousness. 00:13:23.448 --> 00:13:25.854 Are you with me? 00:13:25.854 --> 00:13:28.123 Is this okay? 00:13:28.123 --> 00:13:29.506 Keep going. 00:13:29.506 --> 00:13:30.890 All right, we're going to keep going. 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:37.568 So we figured out, or have an understanding of what blessed is. 00:13:37.568 --> 00:13:42.167 We discussed what it means to hunger and thirst, to truly hunger and thirst. 00:13:42.167 --> 00:13:44.493 Now I want to talk about righteousness. 00:13:44.493 --> 00:13:45.134 It's only right. 00:13:45.134 --> 00:13:48.110 How do we hunger and thirst for something that we don't even know what it is? 00:13:48.110 --> 00:13:50.700 What is righteousness? 00:13:50.700 --> 00:13:53.806 What is righteousness? 00:13:53.806 --> 00:13:54.767 I know these are. 00:13:54.767 --> 00:14:03.412 These are kind of questions, so you don't have to yell it out, because I'm going to give you the answer anyway, but if you want to, what is righteousness? 00:14:03.412 --> 00:14:07.100 Was that? 00:14:07.100 --> 00:14:09.708 You, let's go. 00:14:09.708 --> 00:14:10.792 That's beautiful. 00:14:10.792 --> 00:14:13.259 You jumped ahead of me, but that was good. 00:14:13.259 --> 00:14:13.681 It was really good. 00:14:13.681 --> 00:14:15.145 That's my fault, because I asked the question. 00:14:15.145 --> 00:14:16.802 I just wasn't expecting the right answer right away. 00:14:16.802 --> 00:14:17.403 That was beautiful. 00:14:18.528 --> 00:14:35.840 So Webster's dictionary defines righteousness as acting in accord with divine moral law, free from guilt or sin, morally right or justifiable, arising from an outraged sense of justice or morality. 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:37.491 From an outraged sense of justice or morality. 00:14:37.491 --> 00:14:41.624 It's pretty good, it's got its place. 00:14:41.624 --> 00:14:50.501 The Hebrew word for righteousness is oh man, I don't even know why I'm trying Tz'dek, tz'dik. 00:14:50.501 --> 00:14:51.283 What is it, pastor Neil? 00:14:51.283 --> 00:14:52.504 Thank you. 00:14:52.504 --> 00:14:59.195 Commonly translated as justice, straightness, honesty, the path of truth. 00:14:59.195 --> 00:15:12.149 In the Greek again, I'm no Greek scholar dikeasuni, or something like that, also meaning justice, equity, well-ordering, so a legal term. 00:15:12.149 --> 00:15:19.049 Right, it sounds like this is some sort of legal term or at least some sort of attachment which has its place with righteousness. 00:15:19.049 --> 00:15:22.418 It does, but I don't believe it's the only thing. 00:15:22.418 --> 00:15:23.681 I believe it's that. 00:15:24.341 --> 00:15:33.091 And, like you said, right standing with God, right relationship with God. 00:15:33.091 --> 00:15:45.232 To hunger and thirst for righteousness is to hunger and thirst for right standing or right relationship with God. 00:15:45.232 --> 00:16:04.395 A right relationship or right standing with God in the life of the believer looks like a desire to be free from sin and its power. 00:16:04.395 --> 00:16:13.989 That is the only way we stand a chance through Jesus Christ, through his perfect life, through his death and resurrection. 00:16:13.989 --> 00:16:14.809 We know this. 00:16:14.809 --> 00:16:27.432 God no longer sees you, no longer sees me as a sinner, but a forgiven sinner, made whole, made righteous through Jesus Christ. 00:16:27.432 --> 00:16:38.846 It's only by faith, it's only by grace, it's only through Jesus Christ that we now can walk in that righteousness and have that right standing. 00:16:38.846 --> 00:16:57.023 So it is the pursuing of righteousness, it is the pursuing of right standing, right relationship with God by a desire to get rid of sin and its power. 00:16:57.023 --> 00:17:09.460 So we basically just tore up and broke up that entire scripture, one section at a time. 00:17:10.326 --> 00:17:16.239 Now I want to just give you some practical application points that we can take and use as believers. 00:17:16.239 --> 00:17:22.917 Now I have three points and I'm sure there's plenty more and you can discuss that at your tables. 00:17:22.917 --> 00:17:27.269 But what I feel like the Lord has put on my heart to share with you this evening. 00:17:27.269 --> 00:17:32.526 But first I want to share a quote, and this is by Dr Martin Lloyd Jones. 00:17:32.526 --> 00:17:32.865 He says. 00:17:33.587 --> 00:17:37.935 It is amazing how we make time to do the things we truly want to do. 00:17:37.935 --> 00:17:47.558 If you and I are truly hungering and thirsting for righteousness, a good deal of time every day will be spent considering it. 00:17:47.558 --> 00:17:56.953 If you and I are truly hungering and thirsting for righteousness, a good deal of time every day will be spent considering it. 00:17:56.953 --> 00:18:00.655 How much time do you spend a day considering righteousness? 00:18:00.655 --> 00:18:05.491 This is kind of a heavy topic. 00:18:05.491 --> 00:18:15.939 At the same time, it's extremely liberating for the Christian, for the life of a believer, understanding that we don't have to do this alone. 00:18:15.939 --> 00:18:18.008 We don't have to strive. 00:18:18.008 --> 00:18:20.512 It's not by anything that you can do. 00:18:20.512 --> 00:18:22.396 Christ did it for you. 00:18:22.396 --> 00:18:25.490 It's done and we can lean on that. 00:18:25.490 --> 00:18:28.307 And that's what's liberating about this whole thing. 00:18:28.307 --> 00:18:29.750 It's beautiful. 00:18:29.750 --> 00:18:39.917 So some practical applications that we can use as believers, to pursue righteousness, to hunger and thirst for righteousness. 00:18:40.278 --> 00:18:46.277 Number one make time to get in the word and the word to get into you. 00:18:46.277 --> 00:18:50.596 It's not enough to just read scripture, to read words on a page. 00:18:50.596 --> 00:18:57.730 You've got to let it get into you, let it convict you, let it speak to you. 00:18:57.730 --> 00:19:03.810 Number one make time to get in the word and the word to get into you. 00:19:03.810 --> 00:19:11.921 Number two you've got to get around others that are hungry and thirsting for righteousness. 00:19:11.921 --> 00:19:17.457 Have you ever tried to do a diet or a new workout plan or anything of the sort on your own? 00:19:17.457 --> 00:19:19.130 It's kind of difficult. 00:19:19.130 --> 00:19:21.032 It can be done, but it's not fun. 00:19:21.032 --> 00:19:34.537 It's so much better to do life with someone, and there are so many amazing people in this church, in this room, that are hungering and thirsting for righteousness. 00:19:34.537 --> 00:19:36.128 We've got to do this together. 00:19:36.128 --> 00:19:37.634 We were never meant to do it alone. 00:19:37.634 --> 00:19:40.646 You were never meant to do it alone, christian. 00:19:40.646 --> 00:19:54.665 We've got to get together alone, christian. 00:19:54.665 --> 00:19:55.207 We've got to get together. 00:19:55.207 --> 00:19:56.388 Number three pretty simple Pray, pray. 00:19:56.409 --> 00:20:00.838 Ask the Lord to reveal to you the appetites that you're feeding, that you should be starving. 00:20:00.838 --> 00:20:06.356 Ask the Lord to give you a true hunger and thirst for righteousness. 00:20:06.356 --> 00:20:20.548 And once you've prayed, listen, yield, take a moment, take a moment and just listen and then obey. 00:20:20.548 --> 00:20:23.471 Obedience is key. 00:20:23.471 --> 00:20:29.138 It's not enough to just pray and sit there and listen and read scripture. 00:20:29.138 --> 00:20:34.595 We have to obey when the Lord does reveal those things, because he will. 00:20:34.595 --> 00:20:38.194 The spirit will reveal those things to you if you ask him. 00:20:38.194 --> 00:20:42.555 We then have to be obedient and act on it. 00:20:42.555 --> 00:20:46.494 We have to be obedient and act on it. 00:20:46.494 --> 00:20:48.565 We have to be obedient and act on it. 00:20:49.105 --> 00:20:52.756 Well, church, that's all I've got for you tonight. 00:20:52.756 --> 00:21:05.750 So we're going to take the next 30 minutes and answer these questions that are on the table there in front of you, with your group, and don't be afraid to get into it, don't be afraid to go deep. 00:21:05.750 --> 00:21:09.493 Some of you have been coming since we started this and you're really getting to know each other. 00:21:09.493 --> 00:21:10.215 That's awesome. 00:21:10.215 --> 00:21:10.826 That's amazing. 00:21:10.826 --> 00:21:15.516 If this is your first night and your first time, it's up to you. 00:21:15.516 --> 00:21:21.614 All right, but I'm going to pray and then we'll dive into the discussion questions. 00:21:21.653 --> 00:21:22.976 Heavenly Father, thank you so much. 00:21:22.976 --> 00:21:24.819 Thank you for this time. 00:21:24.819 --> 00:21:27.086 Thank you for your word, lord. 00:21:27.086 --> 00:21:32.875 I just pray right now, god, that you would give us hearts that hunger and thirst after your own. 00:21:32.875 --> 00:21:45.384 That you would give us a mind, a mindset of hungering and thirsting after righteousness. 00:21:45.384 --> 00:21:50.876 That, lord, we would be obedient when you reveal the things in our lives that we've been pursuing, that we shouldn't. 00:21:50.876 --> 00:21:53.867 And, lord, we're so grateful for you, we're so grateful for you. 00:21:53.867 --> 00:21:59.567 It says in your word that when we do hunger and thirst for righteousness, we'll be satisfied. 00:21:59.567 --> 00:22:03.193 And so, lord, we look forward to that. 00:22:03.193 --> 00:22:04.635 We love you and we thank you. 00:22:04.635 --> 00:22:07.400 I pray that this time would be centered and focused on you. 00:22:07.400 --> 00:22:11.993 We give you all the praise and all the glory in Jesus' name, amen.