Reformation: How Are You Flowing?

Welcome back to The Gathering Tabernacle Podcast. Today's episode is a celebration of the churches 5-year anniversary. 5 = grace and we have learned how to receive God's grace by learning how to be obedient. By repenting when we messed up (because we have). The Lord however is faithful and forgiving with true repentance. We are here to be His living vessels. Disobedience carries consequences while obedience carries blessings. God's no means no while His yes means yes. Don't become stagnant or complacent with where you are at with the Lord. You may receive a Word from the Lord that you are uncomfortable with but trust Him in faith through your actions of obedience. When something looks impossible, know that all things are possible in Jesus Christ. 

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Sermon from 4-12-26 by Pastor Sarah Goostree

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Transcript

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Welcome to the Gathering Tabernacle Podcast. We're located in Rocky Comfort, Missouri. Our mission at TGT is to host the presence of the Lord, to see his glory fall like fire and free those who are in bondage. He came to set the captives free. On the podcast, we share our live sermons from lead pastors Dan and Sarah Gustree, teachings from special guests, and personal testimonies. Thank you for joining us today. If you would like to contact us, you can find us on Facebook or online at www.theGatheringTabernacle.com. Let's jump into today's episode.

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Every breath that we take is a gift from the Father. He's waiting on us to praise him and thank him like he ought to be praised, like he ought to be worshipped because he is good. I just want to invite you right now to get up here, to get somewhere and honor him and praise him and show him how grateful and thankful you are for what he has done for you. That we sit in this house and there is freedom. Maybe you just need to look undignified before the Lord today. Maybe you need to cry. Maybe you need to mess up your makeup. Maybe you need to just praise him and get loud and crazy like you've never been loud and crazy before because he's waiting on us to honor him and praise him and glorify him and Savior. And he has made a way for you and for us. And everything that we need, he has done for us. Gonna ask the girls and boys to play. And I don't know how you worship your Jesus. I don't know if you run, I don't know if you shout, I don't know if you fall on your face before the Lord, but me with him, because he has amazing things for us today. Don't be proud. Be humble before your Lord. He is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and evermore he will be, and he's waiting on us to honor him. What a great day to be in the house of the Lord. I was coming home from Texas, and Sarah called me and she said, Would you like to do the opening? And I thought no. I'd cried most of the way home and I thought I just don't have anything left to give to God. And he said, Stacy, you don't have to. Because you give that to me, and I've got all that you need. And when you are weak, I am strong. And I thought, thank you, Lord, that I'm learning how to not put trust in myself, but I learned how to lay it down and I put my trust in you. And I don't feel good. I thought, I think I'll just call Sarah and tell her I can't do it. I thought, well, that's not of Jesus, because Jesus says that I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength. And Satan was lying. And so I woke up this morning and I thought, I still just want to roll over and stay in my bed. You know, you know, I thought, no, I'm gonna get up and I'm gonna give the word that the Holy Spirit has given to me this morning. So I started praying about it, and I still didn't have anything. And I remember that when we first started at the chair revival, and we were getting ready, and it was that night, and we had done absolutely everything that we felt like the Lord had told us. I mean, one day it is so hot, we're out there with mops and soapy water and water hoses washing that tent because we knew that it was to be clean before we put it up. And and we're all at home praying, and it's like, I don't know, I don't remember exactly for sure, three or four hours before time. We had no idea who was gonna give the word because we were still praying, asking. And uh and I was walking around my kitchen island, and I'll never forget it, and Holy Spirit said, It's you. I never even thought that it was gonna be me. So I called them, called Anne Sarah. I said, I don't know, but I think that I'm supposed to do it. And they're like, Yeah, you know, I'm because they were probably praying like I was, because we didn't know, you know, we didn't know. You know, I had no idea. And so today I thought, Lord, what do I do? The first message that I ever preached was about Balak and the talking donkey. And uh so I started looking at it, and I thought, Lord, it's been uh over five years. Where have I grown from there to where I am now? Because you know, as we grow in the word, we see deeper, and it gives us more revelation, and we learn to look deeper and dig deeper. And so I started reading it, and I'm sitting at my house yesterday, and I'm sitting on the couch, and I'm just reading, and it was so sweet to me because I could see where God had moved us from where we were to where we are now, and I look out here and I see so many that have come and some that have been with us from the start, and it was, and some of the relationships that we have developed have been known, I didn't know their family, but praise the Lord, I do now. Because the Lord put us together and he put our families together, and he's built a church family, and I am so thankful, but we had no idea, and I thought, okay, Lord, if I might give the word it's okay, because I thought maybe it might just me and B Dan and Sarah and Mike and myself, and we'd been praying every night for weeks until I was real comfortable with them, and I thought, well I can tell them about the talking donkeys. And we had known that before we did that, every car that prayed in that came in the gate, that we prayed over every car as we greeted them at the gate before they came in. And uh the cars kept coming, and my heart started pounding a little bit because I thought I think there's gonna be more than the four of us. And uh I can I have that feeling today. It's been a long time since my heart has felt this nervous when I've stood in front of this house. But what an honor and a privilege to be called out by the Lord to serve him, however he says. So I just want to share with y'all just a little bit about Balak and Balaam and the donkey this morning. I see myself and I've been the donkey. And I've been Balaam. But Lord, I want to be able to be whatever you want me to be. It's not about what I want to be, how I want to serve, what I want to do. It's about obedience. And it says in the word that obedience is better than sacrifice. And when we do not walk in obedience, it costs us something. And so I just want to share just a minute because I know Pastor Sarah's got some amazing things to share today, and this is an exciting day. Five years that the Lord has grown this church, and he has placed us all in this place to serve together and grow his kingdom. And I am so thankful to be a part of this body with you and you and you and you and you, and we all have purpose here, and I praise the Lord that I get to be a part of it. So I uh just gonna paraphrase this a little bit. I'm not really sure how it's all gonna work out, but Balak had seen what the Israelites were doing, and man, they had moved into his territory. And I think about sometimes when we started this, this we didn't want to be in their territory. Right? It's weird. I think about sometimes how we might be that way. People start moving into our territory. We've got these lines and we don't like it when people cross them, do we? I mean, sometimes we just don't like it. We we we've marked it off and it's ours. And I thought, Lord, if I've done that, I pray that you forgive me. But Balak, and and he was fearful because he was, he had seen them dominate and dominate and dominate because he knew that God was with them. And so when they came over in his territory, he thought, man, we can't survive. So he said, Hey, I know this dude. His name's Balaam, and he's a prophet. And I'm gonna call him up, I'm gonna send my messengers and I'm gonna give him some stuff, and I'm gonna have him come curse God's people. I want you to know that there are some people that want to talk about you, they want to speak some things over your life, but you don't have to receive those things because Jesus says he's our protector. So, so then these guys, these dudes, they come and they got all these big promises of what they can give Balaam. You know, if you'll just come and you'll do this, and Balaam's like, well, I'm gonna pray. Y'all can stay here tonight. I'm gonna pray for my people. I'm gonna pray to God and see if I'm supposed to go or not. So he prays, and God says, uh-uh. No, you're not gonna send a mind. Well, they get back to the to Balak and he said, Go back, take more stuff, take more stuff, take more stuff, make bigger promises of what you're gonna do, what I can do for him, if he'll just come do it, because this guy is scared. This is what fear will do to you. So they go back. Poor Balaam, I think my goodness, instead of him knowing that when God says no, he means no and he don't change his mind. Right? God says no, he means no and he don't change his mind. But he heard what they said. You know, we got more stuff. And so then Balaam he says, you know, it doesn't matter what you give me, I still can't do that. I didn't just read it for you real quick. It says, um, even if Balak were to give me his palace filled with silver and gold, I would be powerless to do anything against the will of the Lord my God. But stay here one more night and I'm gonna ask him again. And I just gotta ask you real quick how many times you just ask God again after he says no. He says no, you know he said no, but I'm gonna ask him again because I think he might have changed his mind. Okay? I read this and I got to give this word. I thought, well, that was odd, you know, that he would do that, but I see myself in that. But God saw Balaam's heart. God saw his heart, he saw the greed in his heart, and he let him go, even though it wasn't what he wanted him to do. And so I'm gonna tell you this morning if you're sitting in here and God's told you no, and you don't like that no, and you're still asking, thinking you're gonna get a different answer, the answer is still no, but he's not gonna make you be obedient to him. You get to choose what you do. So he's just go ahead and go, because he knew what was in his heart. He's like, man, he knows what's in his heart, and he can't stop and so he goes. But I think how good God is that he gave him a donkey. And always think about the donkey as being the donkey with four legs, and this this was a donkey with four legs because he spoke, and this is a miracle. But we have donkeys in our life, we have people that God sends us, and he said, your eyes are covered because you're going with what you want, your pride, your whatever you got that you're going with that you want, and you can't see clearly, you can't hear clearly because you're I see past that. I'm looking to the father. The father says, Don't go, there's danger there. That that donkey, man, he is the first time. I forget exactly how it goes. I want y'all to read this sometime and read it with Holy Spirit eyes because it's gonna show you a lot about who you are and what you do. Anyway, I gotta get through this quick, but man, the donkey tried his best. The donkey could see the angel of the Lord with a sword. Gonna kill you if you go through there. So he stops, he lays down, he tries to squeeze through places that he's not supposed to go and find, and he beats him. I want to know how many times that we feel like we've been beat up by our friends because we say, This is what I need to do, this is where I need to go, and they're saying, Stop! The bridge is out, the bridge is out. Everybody in here, these these are your people, these are your people, these are your people that you have a relationship with that say, stop, the bridge is out, don't go, don't go, and so he finally just lays down. And you know, when I was praying about this this morning three times, and it said, and then Balaam saw the angel. If that was the angel of the Lord, he would have told him to get up. Because it says before they people, you know, they tried to fall on the their faces before the angels, and I wonder if that was Jesus. Jesus in the Old Testament. I don't know, y'all study it, figure it out. There's some things in this, but I want you to know that disobedience always carries consequences, and God sees our heart. And in 2 Peter 2, 15 and 16, it says, They have wandered off the right road and they have followed the footsteps of Balaam, son of Boor, who loved to earn money by doing wrong. But Balaam was stopped from his mad course when his donkey rebuked him with a human voice. I want you to think about two things today, and I'm gonna turn this over to Pastor Sarah. I'm so excited to hear what the Lord has for you today. Sometimes we take for granted the people. The donkey said, Why do you beat me? I've been faithful to you. Ask. The donkey became such a part of taking care of Balaam that he couldn't see the faithfulness in his friend, the faithfulness in his body, the faithfulness in his brother and sister as they led him. Sometimes we can Balaam was a prophet. Balaam was a prophet. He would ask the Lord, what do I do? Right? But he truly wasn't willing to do what the Lord said. So sometimes we think that we get to we get to carry the word. We get to carry the word, and we don't think about the guy that's standing underneath us propping us up. And sometimes we get to carry the word, but sometimes we got to carry our brothers and sisters stuff when they can't carry for themselves. I want to thank y'all for this week for me, because I haven't been able to carry my load very good. And I I thank God for brothers and sisters that have lifted me up and picked me up and carried me. And that's what this body is about. And I pray as we grow stronger and stronger in Jesus Christ, when we look at this in five more years, man, we have got roots that are so deep together that nothing can separate us, and we are strong, and we are moving mountains and we are bringing people to the kingdom. We are growing the kingdom. God said, follow me, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. And I pray that as we grow stronger together, that we get more men, right? Let's grow this body, let's grow his body, let's serve the kingdom, let's be obedient, let's do what he says. And when he says no, he means no. God, thank you for your for your goodness. Thank you that you lead us, that you guide us. Father, I pray in the name of Jesus that we are an obedient people. We are obedient people. We do not go to the right, we do not go to the left, but we will follow you. We will listen to you. You will be our all in all. You are all that we need. You are the King of glory, and you will lead us, and you will guide us and you will protect us. You will heal us, you will save us, and you will keep us free if we will stay in who you are and what you have for us. I praise you and thank you as you bless this house in Jesus' name. Amen.

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First, we're gonna watch a little video of the past five years. And some of you, like Stacy said, had been here from the beginning, and some of you may be new, but you're all part of this church. And now this church is gonna, the Lord kept giving me the word conduit today, and a conduit is something that flows, and we are to flow into this world. But when I was watching this video and I looked back and I laughed and I cried, but each one of you, whether you were here or not, you were praying for a move of God. You were praying for God to change someone's lives. And he started five years ago here with your prayers. Hallelujah. Give the Lord some praise, right? Is that not something to be completely excited about what he has done? The Lord. We've only been vessels used in the process. In that video, you know, I saw my children were here. You know, and I'm standing on a promise that the Lord gives. What the Lord has started, He will finish. You know, people have come and people have gone, but He's not done. And if you believe He's done, then we need to talk. Because the Lord gave a vision. The host, the presence of the Lord, to see His glory fall like fire, free those who were in bondage. He came to set the captives free. You know, when you saw those pictures, you saw that. You saw what he did. I mean, there were marriages healed. We saw demons come out. We saw things that my eyes couldn't believe I saw. I had to literally ask, was that true? Did he really walk? Did she really see? Yes, the Lord still does that. He heals, he delivers, he sets free, he makes us whole because he has not changed. Whether we change or not, he does not. You know. So let's pray. Father, I love you, for you are worthy of all things. Lord, may my lips be your words be free in the mighty name of Jesus. Hallelujah. So five years I was thinking, you know, and when I was making that little five-year flyer, I thought of Buzz, light years, you know, five years and beyond. Jesus and to infinity. Limitless. Have you made Jesus limitless? Or have you put a limit on what he can do? Five means grace. This church is built on grace. If you were here from any part of the time, you would know we've not always known anything, but God did. We've done things wrong. We've messed up, we've repented, we've cried, we've shouted, we've wanted to run. But grace has abound because we're still here. God is exalted, Jesus is king, and Satan is defeated. And that's how we live our life here at the gathering. So I kept hearing the word conduit, and I'm like, well, I kind of know what that is. A pipe. Water can go through it all the way. And I thought, okay, Lord, we're gonna have to do some research. So it gave me a title, How Are You Flowing? So a conduit, a channel, a pipe, a vessel, donation. And where this is open on each end, it needs to be connected on both ends. So God is our source, and we're the destination is the world. We're the vessel God flows through. This church is a conduit. Each one of you is a conduit. How are you flowing? In the process of the gathering, sometimes I haven't flown well. So I asked the Lord, you know, I can I think I can think of like a well system, and you know, we had a lot of chicken houses, and we had this big old well house, and there's all these valves, and I usually didn't touch them because if they were working, why touch something, right? But one day when we our very first flock of chickens, the water came in a quarter of the house, and then the three-quarter came in the other way. But there was a valve in the middle, and when you turn the valve off, at first they have water, and they have water down there, but then I have no water here. Well, when you don't know nothing, you don't know nothing, right? But after a few days, the chickens started to know something. They didn't have no water. And being young and dumb, which I was 19, I still think I'm doing great. But there were some plugs, and I finished last. And that's what we got to do in this church. We're never stop, we're never happy with where he has us. We don't become stagnant, we don't become something that's not moving because God is always flowing. So I thought, well, we got the heart. So, Cameron, will you put the heart up there? Oh my! Well, that's above my pay grade. That looks pretty complicated. People like Ashley, smart people, they can look at that and like Ashley would be so excited to trace it to know how it all flows because her mind works well. Mine, it works different, different, not wrong. I gotta find glasses. Here we go. So we talk about the natural heart. I thought, well, I can relate it to the well system because I can get that. So there's like a big pump in the ground, you know, our well. And then water comes up and it comes to my faucet, and I turn it on and it fills my cup. It's kind of how I think about, you know, the heart working. Your body's the same. You got the pump, the lines, the arteries, you know, the water's the blood. So guard your in Proverbs 423, guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. Are you guarding your heart? We all know the heart pumps and it never stops. There are always things going on. So in the heart, it pulls in here and then it pumps it back through the body to your brain, your heart, your eyes, your fingers. Pretty simple, right? When we look at it like that. Your spiritual heart is a lot the same way. The words you use, the choices you make, everything that flows out of you creates life or death. When the heart pumps, it goes through pipes called the arteries. It's like water lines running around your property. You got one big line, and then it goes off into smaller lines to your faucet over here, your well over here, all your different lines get water eventually. All systems are a go when all valves are open. When everything is flowing. Cameron, will you put the flowing picture up there? Look at that. There's power, there's truth, the ministry's going, there's love, we're witnessing, there's salvation, the church is rocking, everything's good, there's prosperity, there's no sickness, there's no death. Woo! We're flowing on full-blown power. Hmm. How are we flowing? If God asks you, like he did Abram in Genesis 12, 1 through 3, the Lord said to Abram, Leave your native country, your relatives, your father's family, and go to the land that I showed you. I will make into you a great nation. Bless those who bless you, and I'll curse those who treat you with contempt. All the families on the earth will be blessed through you. How are you flowing? Would you go? If he spoke to you this day, which he can, and said, Pack your bags. I have need of you in Florida. I have need of you in Africa. Are we flowing so well? All systems go. Would we go? It's kind of like when he said, This is gonna be a church. My systems weren't on go. I wasn't so sure. You can say it's easy, but you haven't walked in my shoes. We're blessed to be a blessing. God called Abram and he just obeyed. We did that from the beginning. He said, have a tent, we did. He said they'll come, they did. We weren't sure. But all we knew is we couldn't be the same as we were before. We couldn't remain plugged up in a religious system that was killing us. We didn't know all the truth. We didn't know how to do it, but we said, yes, Lord, we will go. So my foreign country was this shop. When Dan was building it, I was a little fussy. I didn't understand it. I just knew my tax paper said Dan's shop, God's vision. I won't lie, scared me to death. Some of my best friends were pastors watch can be evil. People can be evil, not the church. They can hurt you. It's not their intention. So it can plug you up. But when you're running on clear pipes, you're close to God, you're reading your Bible. Hallelujah! Everything is great. There's peace in the morning, there's joy in the afternoon. We are so happy. We just want to talk to Jesus, talk to people, everybody about Jesus. We are flowing free. But in Genesis 12, 10 through 13, at that time a severe famine struck the land of Canaan, forcing Abram to go down into Egypt, where he lived as a foreigner. As he was approaching the border of Egypt, Abram said to his wife, Sarai, you are very beautiful. I receive that. Hallelujah. My name is Sarah. When the Egyptians see you, they will say, This is his wife, let us kill him. Then we can have her. So please tell them you are my sister, for they will spare my life and treat me well because of their interest in you. I thought that's funny, Lord. And it's kind of like in the heart, all of a sudden something's running in there and it pricks the spot of you. It pricks your heart. And in the natural, you're like, you know, man, there's things that happen. Everything looks fine, but under the surface, in the spirit, you've created a little habit. Maybe you're watching a little porn on the side. Maybe you're texting or flirting with a coworker. Maybe you're gossiping a little. Or maybe you're just believing a few lies of the devil. Not all. I still stand on the word, but you know, I'm not feeling so good today. And maybe if uh we ever do that, you're starting to get plugged up. Nothing big. I can cover it up at church. I'll put on my pretty pants and my praying shirt. I'm looking good. Nobody knows I'm dying, or when I'm at home I have anxiety, or um, you know, when I'm around my friends I do what they do. But nobody knows, right? All darkness will come to light. Genesis 15, 2. And in this verse, I'll read it and then I'll explain it. But Abram replied, O sovereign God, what good are all your blessings when I don't even have a son? That's what stood out to me most. Since you've given me no children, Eliezer of Damascus, a servant in my household, will inherit my wealth. And yes, I know the rest of it gets most of us. You promised me, Lord, this church would be millions. You promised me, Lord, we'd have this and that, and we'd be on TV, and there'd be thousands upon saved, and we would travel and we would do great things. Lord, you've spoken it. But I don't see it. It's the enemy's attack. The voices that are heard, even when God has spoken truth. How are you flowing? Sounded like a little doubt and fear to me. But inside of you, where your spirit is, what is happening? Are you starting to believe the lies of the enemy? Are you starting to think, hey, my kids are never coming home? My brother can't be saved. He's mean. The sickness won't go away. I have hate. I have unforgiveness. The stuff is getting sticky and it's sticking to the inside of you. For people that have had heart issues, it's called plaque. And it starts to stick to you and it starts to constrict the blood flow. So you go from a gushing, a gushing water to like you're just barely flowing out. A little bit. We're not no fire hoe. We're just a little, a little bit of stuff coming out. I mean, it's because we're layered with bitterness, bitterness, and doubt and sin. And then we become like, well, I don't need to pray. I mean, they pray at church, but I don't need to go. I'll pray here. True, you can. And the Bible, I mean, it used to sound good, but now it's kind of boring. I don't know. You ever just, I don't know, I don't care, I don't wanna forget it? No. It's called a rebellious spirit. It's not of God. But you're plugging up. He's giving you all the warnings. Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo! The warnings are going off. Your heart's about to explode. The heart attack is coming. You're plugging up. Genesis 16, 1 through 4. Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not been able to bear children for him, but she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar. Hmm. So Sarai said to Abram, The Lord has prevented me from having children, even though he said we will be amid have many nations. Go and sleep with my servant. Perhaps I can have children through her. And Abram agreed with Sarai's proposal. Really? Be careful what you offer your husband. That isn't in God's plan. Hagar, the Egyptian servant, and gave her to Abram as a wife. This happened ten years after Abram had settled in the land of Canaan. So Abram had relations with Hagar and she became pregnant. But when Hagar knew she was pregnant, she treated the mistress Sarai with contempt. Huh. When it's not your plan, content's coming. When we separate from God and do it ourselves, things are gonna explode and not go as they planned. The heart attack had exploded. God's plan was not going as he thought. God's plan always goes as thought. We take it upon ourselves to change it. But I thought, okay, we've had a heart attack. Now what do they do in the real world when you have a heart attack? I mean, like a major or what's it called? A widowmaker. What do they do? They crack you, they take you to the ER. They crack you open, and you're gonna get a transplant. You're gonna get a new heart, you're gonna get a new vibe, you're gonna get something new. In Genesis 17, 1 through 6, when Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, I am El Shaddai, God Almighty. Serve me faithfully and live a blameless life. I make a covenant with you by which I guarantee to give you countless descendants. This church is guaranteed countless descendants by what Jesus Christ did. All this He's repenting. Then God said to him, This is my covenant with you. I will make you a father of multiple nations. What more? I'm changing your name, I will no longer call you Abram. Instead, you will be called Abraham, for you will be a father of many nations. And I read this this morning. I went into Dan and I'm like, he changed his name. He changed his name. Not that it was bad, but I'm thinking, okay, when I get renewed, when I repent, when I'm laying down, and I'm like, Lord, I don't know, but I'm submitting, I'm submitting up to you. And then when I rise, it's like I'm a new creation. The all things passed away. All things are made. That's how I think he felt. I can receive the word of the Lord. I can receive the promises that are given to me. I think that's how Abram felt. Abraham felt, the more I'm changing your name, I will no longer call you Abram. Instead, you'll be called Abraham for a father of many nations. I will make you extremely fruitful, and your descendants will become many nations, kings among them. You're kings among a nation that was prophesied all them years ago. Kings and priests to be conduit to this world, to this nation, not to just sit in the church, to be what he's called us to be. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. He repented. So simple. God's plan. Okay. Works out great, right? There's no heart attacks in that plan. When the conduit or the pipe or the artery is clear and it's clean and it's flowing, we can go anywhere. You can speak to anybody when you're flowing and you're not plugged up. I don't care if it's a homeless beggar. Donald Trump, I do not care. The word of the Lord prevails with each and every person. If you're flowing freely, you don't walk in the flesh, and you're not afraid of anybody. That's what he's looking for. Flowing free conduits. Each one of you is a conduit and he's waiting. He's waiting. And he needs you. He needs you. So this is hard on me. And I don't know the next verse if it's because I'm a mama and I just had my grandbaby this weekend. But I thought, how God must have felt. So when you're free-flowing, you'll do anything, right? Oh yes, God, I'll do anything. You'll go over there, oh yes, God. You'll give a million dollars? What, God? Huh? I picked a big number. You'll give a thousand dollars? Okay. You'll tell them you're sorry when you did nothing? You'll go to the prison for the person on death row who molested us. If you're free-flowing, you will. So Genesis 23, 1 through 12, sometime later, God tested, and I looked it up. He's proven Abraham's faithfulness. God called. Yes, he replied, here I am. What do you say when God calls? I'm busy. Beep, beep, beep. Call back later. Mailbox full. Take your son, your only son, yes, Isaac, whom you love so much, and go to the land of Moriah. Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you. What's he asked you to sacrifice? What's the most precious thing to you that he needs? Is it your money? Is it your children? Is it your job? Is it your pride? Is it your bitterness? The next morning Abram Ham got up early. He sat on his donkey and he took two of his servants with him, along with his son Isaac. He chopped the wood he was preparing for the burnt offering. He set out for the place God had told him about. Have you set out for the place God has told you about? God has given each one of you on the third day of the journey. Abraham looked up and saw the place in a distance. And he said to his servants, basically, stay here with the donkeys. Abram told the servants, the boy and I will travel farther. We will worship like we did this morning. We worshiped in honor. We worshiped in praise. We worshiped in belief and what this word of God says. And when you do that, when you know truth, then we will come right back. He confessed what was going to happen. He knew what God had said previously. God doesn't lie, God doesn't change his mind. God's word never goes void. God told him, I'll make you a father of many nations. And Isaac was the pipeline. Can you lay your child down? Are you willing to lay down your marriage? Are you willing to lay down your addiction? Are you willing to lay down everything you know that God has given you to produce fruit? So I even placed the wood for the burn offering on Isaac's shoulders. You know, I thought about little Conrad. And I thought, can you imagine placing the wood on your new grandbaby or on your wife? Knowing what it's called for you in advance. You have to be prepared for what the Lord has, and you have to be willing to submit. Resist the lies of the devil, and he will flee. So he had the fire and the knife. And the two of them walked together. Isaac turned to Abraham and he said, Father. Yes, my son, Abraham said, We have the fire in the wood. The boy said. And Dan would say, They're coming. They're coming. The Lord has prepared it. But where is the sheep for the burnt offering? God will provide a sheep for the burnt offering. You must be confessing. God will provide when there's no lack. God will provide when they don't come. God has not changed his mind. And they both walked up together making confessions. And he doesn't change his mind. He doesn't dry up. He doesn't wither away. He gets brighter and brighter and brighter. And when you're flowing faster and faster, you're brighter, you're brighter, you're receiving. You can receive more. The things moving the spoon. And then it's supernaturally people are hidden, deliverance that for me humble. The things we can do, and then you can win the women, you can let them and then the women and the sacrifice will be provided. He always provides a way when there's no way. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. That's the God I serve. When it doesn't look possible, it's always possible in Jesus Christ. When we believe in God, and we don't surrender to the enemy, the world, the lies, our friends, whoever doesn't believe it the way you do, then we don't know. Then we don't know what you said, then we don't know the report of the Lord. Then we don't know. And that's okay. But for me and my household, we will serve the Lord no matter what you say. Put up that picture of the pipes and three. God is the source. There's obedience and trust and faith and repentance, and we are flowing well. But just like Abraham, sometime in the middle, we get partially blocked. People lie to us, people don't do what they say, people spit on us, the enemy lies, we agree with the flesh, we start to get plugged up, we get jealous, we get envious. Well, she gets to speak all the time. And before we know it, we're corroded old pipes that can't run, can't do no nothing. We believe everything the world says the people around us, and we're just plugged up. How to survive after a heart attack. Well, Holy Spirit is my plan. He leads me and guides me. So I thought, Holy Spirit, what's your plan? If I've been plugged up. Because a heart attack doesn't mean you're dead. It just means we're restarting. He said, Well, you need a good diet, because that's what they tell you. You know, you need to eat better, quit eating that stuff. Probably true. But I'm going to feed on the word of the Lord. Find them healing their whole body, the word of the Lord. What are you feeding on? It'll tell you how you're flowing. Netflix, I'm not down in TV. Secular music, you know. What are you feeding on? How do you speak? Because out of your heart flows what's inside of you. We need to exercise. Put faith in action. That's exercising in the word. Take what this says. You know, if you're not doing it, do you really believe it? Can you pray for the sick? Because the conduit is not the source. My job is to speak the word of God, to love and to tell Him what it says. And then I can walk away. I'm not the power source. Get over yourself. If you get over yourself, you can start doing what the word of the Lord says. Okay, we're exercising. And then they would probably give you some meds in the real world. Okay. But Holy Spirit says, when you confess what the word of the Lord says, when you confess by his stripes I am healed. When you confess, there is no lack in my God. He'll make me the head and not the tail. I'll be the beginning and not the end. He is the provider of all things. There's no lack in my God. When you start hinting and letting all the junk and the run out and be gone and forgot, then you are free to flow. Woo! And maybe you should go about you see your doctor if you have a heart attack. Yeah, that's probably what they're gonna say. But have you ever thought about going to your church? Well, we pray, we fellowship, we're gonna have food, which you're all invited to for after, and you're gonna get to know some of us, and you realize we're kind of goofy, and some of us are funny, and you know, we're not we're not scary, or you know, it's not like going to the principal's office. We are nice people, we love you, you know, and when you you fellowship and we play games and you see the pastor Dane lose the games because Pastor Sarah's a much better you know athlete, um, you'll see competitiveness. But you get to see who we are, that's why we gather, that's what the church is for. It's to build us up and to go flow. Build you up so you can go flow, right? Yes, hallelujah. But we must never forget we have to abide. Everything remind everything runs around abiding in God, in Jesus the word. John 15, 4. Remain in me and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce the fruit if it is severed from the vine. And you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me. How you Cameron, we put that picture of the three pipes back up there. When the Lord looks down, he sees this first one. That's what he's looking for. And it's okay if we get to some of the others, but it's not okay to stay there. It's not okay to stay plugged up, it's not okay to have demonic in you. There's nothing wrong with it, but in this church, we're not gonna allow it to stay because the word of the Lord said, No, I've defeated that. I've conquered hell, death, and the grave, I've defeated Satan, I've healed sickness, I've done absolutely everything. It's all been paid for for you to flow freely. Hallelujah. So um, there's two bodies of water in Israel, and we've been blessed enough to go. And you have the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea, and I can remember being on a boat on the Sea of Galilee and floating there, and I I wasn't where I am now, but I can just remember the peace. It felt like life. I can I can't explain it, but it was something that still, and that's been since 17, that I can still feel that feeling. And we went to the Dead Sea, too. It's dead. When we walked around, you couldn't hardly pick your feet up for the monk. It's like it tried to pull you down, it's almost like it tried to kill you. Makes more sense now. Both of these waters they receive from the Jordan River. The Sea of Galilee receives water, releases water. The Dead Sea receives water, keeps everything. There's no outlets, nothing's flowing out of it. Everything eventually dies. How you flow in. Both receive, but only one releases. The difference between life and death is not what comes in, it's what goes out. It doesn't matter what comes in this church, it matters what goes out. Some believers are like the Sea of Galilee. They receive, they release, they flow, they're happy, and I'm sure we love all those people some days. Others are like the Dead Sea. They're always receiving, they're never releasing. You're stagnant. How are you flowing? Are you a river or are you a reservoir? Are you just storing up everything for yourself and getting to heaven? Or are you releasing heaven on earth? Do you have a blockage? If you do, it's alright. We're gonna take care of that. Crystal had a blockage a while ago. And because she knows what the Lord does, she came and asked. She repented and it all left, and now she's free in the name of Jesus. If you're backing up, you got a blockage. It's my stepmom. Cancer, cancer on the back of her head, gone in Jesus' name. Hallelujah. That's the God I serve. But the day that that cancer, that 10-pound tumor that was in her stomach, my daddy calls and he's like, Sarah, something's not right. She's not responding. It had ruptured and went outside her body and she'd gone septic. The backup sewage was starting to kill. At first it was hidden in the bowels and nobody knew it. She just had a little pressure. She just had a little yum, and she didn't feel so good. But I'm telling you, when you stay blocked up for years or days or months, eventually it's going to explode. Stuff's gonna go places. So as we put on the altar music, how are you flowing? Is your marriage erect? Are your kids crazy? Are you addicted to something? And it isn't always just a drug. You can be addicted to exercise. You can be addicted to Facebook. You could be addicted to the word of God, but not using it. Those were the Pharisees. I mean, sometimes we have no motivation. I mean, sometimes I don't want to come to church. Sometimes I don't want to return your call. Sometimes I'm having a bad day. I refuse to be defeated because of what my king has done for me and each of you. He has said you are a condemnate, you will flow freely. Don't wait. The altars are open. They're always open here. Don't wait till you explode. Don't wait till you're about to sign the divorce papers. Don't wait till you can't pay your bills. Don't wait till the sickness is so loud that you can no longer hear the word of the Lord. Don't wait till you can't pray no more. Don't wait till you can't receive no more. Don't wait because He is freeing. All you have to do is repent and come back, and you are free if you confess and believe in your heart, you shall be saved. He is faithful when we confess to cleanse us and to forgive us. What are we waiting for? If you're not flowing freely, you have a little blockage, you have a little yuck, and you don't want to remain that way. Then my best suggestion for you is to tell Satan he's a defeated foe. Rise up out of your chair, go to the altar, talk to the Lord, get up. Victorious. Get up and be victorious. Not to be thrown. You're not stagnant. You're not where the enemy says you are. You are a free-flowing vessel of Jesus Christ. And he needs you. He's waiting. He needs you. Hallelujah. Today is the day the Lord has made. Today is the day the Lord has made. He wants you to flow. He needs you to flow. You know why He needs you to flow? You know why? Do you know why you need to be able to feel the Lord? Because when you're flowing, I promise you, you can feel it. When you're flowing, you can feel the Holy Spirit. He has a feeling. He has an ability that when you're flowing freely, you feel it. We could say it's not about a feeling, but if the God that rose creation lives inside of me and He can raise the dead, and He can heal the sick, and He can cleanse the leopard and He can cast out the demons, I'm telling you there ought to be a feeling! Hallelujah! Lord, we love you. Lord, we praise you. This house will be a condiment. Conduit. We'll add condiments too. Maybe each one of you is a condiment. You're adding to us. We add together. You know, like you're making a hodgepodge, we got a little ketchup, we got a little mustard. My old days it would have been a little brown sugar, sage, all these things. We add them together. And what does it produce? His name, his church, needs each and every one of you to go out there with us and flow. Hallelujah. Anyone needs prayer? Maddie's praying today. You had struggles, you had blockages, you have something like it don't feel right. She's got a cool hat. Something looks off. You don't know. You know that pain in your side that comes every once in a while. That doubt, that fear, that anxiety, oh, they won't be saved. They'll never know. My brother will never receive me. I can't go there. I can't do that. It's a force. But as Maddie knows, as she wrote that book, when you step, the chains break. When you move, hell trembles because you're moving to the King. The King of Kings, Lord of Lords, is here today. And he's here this day to love you right where you are. There may be somebody here who doesn't know who Jesus is. So she's talking about this guy like she likes him. I do, I love him. He's my savior and he's my Lord. He changed my life. Before him, I walked really good in the world's eyes. I looked pretty good, but the day I got saved, people said there's no way that couldn't have happened. You're too good of a procluse. The enemy will come and he will try to attack, but the word of the Lord prevails. Do not be afraid to be able to flow freely. So if you don't know Jesus, today is your day. He's bought you. There's not one thing you have to do other than accept the free gift of life. A free gift of life that will change your life. He'll take you from death to life. He'll make you an heir. He'll make you a child. Is there anybody here who needs to make Jesus their Lord? Is there anybody here who wants the day to be a changing day? For me, I didn't even know. I just knew something was off. I could never kick it. I could never fully say I'm going to heaven. There was always that little bit of doubt. Till the day I said, Here I am, Lord. And from that day forward, I've never had a doubt. Amen. Hallelujah. So the self of Sam, you know, we go to doctors. You can't look inside. I get that. But you can look inside. Because the magnifying glass is the word of God. Are you putting that on your body? Are you looking at yourself? Are you willing to say, you know, I talk about people sometimes we look at things down here at a laser view and I just can't figure it out. The Lord says, get up higher and look down at all the evidence to see if you why you're not freely flowing. And if you are freely flowing, smash the gas. Lori saw in a vision on December 31st. We ain't seen nothing yet. The conduits need to flow so the king can get glory. Hallelujah.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:43

Amen. Amen. You're loved. God loves you. No greater love than one to lay down his life for his children. We thank you, Lord. We praise you, Lord. You know, he's the name above all names, above anything that's going on in your life. He's the name above all names. And I was praying about that there a while ago, about the name above all names. I thought, he's the name above diagnosis. Right? Yeah, that that pretty much puts everything into uh into Neil. He's the name above diagnosis. He's the name, you know. You know, he's the name above diagnosis. And I thought, hey man, what I see. I'm moved by what Christ did. I don't identify with my past, I identify with his past. You know, I went out there this morning to to to take care of my mama and everything, and and and and she was having such a terrible day, but you know, I'm just sitting there, I'm like, Satan, you are so defeated. You are so defeated. I'm not moved by how my mama is reacting. I'm moved by the word of God. And you critical, lying, judgmental, rebellious, stinking spirit, you get out of my mama right now, and it's done because we stand on. You know, I think before, like, like maybe I've doubted. You think we don't have doubt, but maybe I've doubted. So I left my mom there. She was still having a little bit of issues, but I thought, you're not gonna keep me from going and sharing the word of God. You know, I spoke the word over what's going on in my mama's life. I spoke the word over my mama, and you've called me to go here today. So I'm gonna be there right now. I'll go check on her here in a little bit. But I'm telling you, the word is above anything. The word is above any emotion, the word above is any any thought. The word is above all of that stuff, you know. You know, I don't know. Um, a lot of times, you know, you know, nothing wrong with cuddling, but but but don't cuddle, cuddle the spirit, don't cuddle the demonic spirit. Speak against the the demonic spirit. Well, well, mama, I'm sorry you're having such a bad day. And I am sorry she had a bad day, you know, but but but no, no, we're not gonna put up with this. We're not gonna put up your life, you know. Don't be rude. Uh, you know, uh used to, you know, you know, you can like pay back for your raising, you know. It's like, carry down your goose tree, I'm gonna blister your butt till you can't sit down, you know. But but I didn't tell her that. Quit your crying, boy, you know. But no, you know, mama, I love you. And the Lord died for you, and your mama, you're a new creation in Christ, and the old things are gone, behold, all things have become new. And just speak life, speak life over your situation. I don't know any life, man. If if we just had a book that told us what the life was, you know, and he'd give us a book that's full of life. And when Christ is in you, you're you're full of life, no matter what. No matter what. I remember there, it's been a little while ago, uh Sister Stacy was having some issues, and Pastor Sarah's like, you know what, you're gonna live and not die, and declare the wonderful works of the Lord. And and and sometimes you don't wanna feel like you just wanna die, but but no, you're you're not gonna you're promised at least 70 or 80 good years, right? And 120 on some, but you're you're promised that many. So if you're under 70 or 80 today, you're like, you know what, I'm gonna live and not die. I'm not moved by what I see. I'm not moved by what's going on in my life. I'm moved by what you did. I'm moved by what you did. And we serve this mighty Savior. Oh, shut, no, no, no. We serve this mighty Savior that's above all that. What are they doing up there? They're standing, they're speaking word over these people. And word is life. They're speaking life over these people. And we'd love to anyone else, anyone else need life? A lot of more people to pray. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. You sent your word and healed him. Man, I don't know what to pray. I was up at a little deal yesterday and I was standing in line waiting to pay out. I heard this lady say, I didn't take my wake-up medicine this morning. And I thought, I was like, they have wake-up medicine? I've never heard of wake-up medicine. You ever heard of wake-up medicine? So wake-up medicine, well, I have, you know, ADD and and uh, you know, if I don't take my wake-up medicine of a morning and this and that, and I said, Wake up medicine. I was like, you know, I know a guy, and he defeated ADD. And he would like to heal you from that right now. Amen. Would you like to be healed from that right now? Absolutely. Amen. So we spoke the word. It's just that simple as speaking the word over someone to be healed. It's just, you know, it's not no magic potions of words, you know, but power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit. So so demonstrating the word. And that's what I'm excited about that the body of Christ. I'm excited about the church, is they are demonstrating the word. They are getting out and praying for people. You guys, you're the body. You're getting out, laying hands on the sick, you're getting out and praying for people. It's fabulous, it's glorious. Amen. Amen. ADGD is a diagnosis that's been defeated. Amen. Hallelujah. We praise you, Father. We honor you, Lord. Praise you, Lord. Our louder years are going to be better than our former. Amen. We praise you, Lord. Praise you, Lord. As they finished up praying here, we blessed to go down to Faith Life in Branson Friday night. And uh Jesse Duplantis was down there. And uh has anyone heard of Jesse Duplantis? Heard of Jesse Duplantis? Yeah, oh yeah. I've heard of Jesse Duplantis, you know? Well, he's that prosperity preacher. So someone said that I was leaving and they asked Pastor Sarah, well, where'd Pastor Dan go? Well, he went down to Branson and where'd he go to? We went down there. Isn't he that prosperity preacher? She's like, Well, do you have a is your is your preacher or do you serve a poverty God? You know, you know, when I think about that, and I was asking, you know, I I really wasn't raised around uh prosperity. I was raised around poverty, you know. I really wasn't raised around prosperity, but I was asking uh Josh and Corlin and some of them. I'm like, so so do the prosperity, you know, you know, when I was down there, I didn't hear I'm Jesse Deplantis and I'm a prosperity preacher. You know, I never heard that. I'm like, do they do they label their cells, you know? And uh you know, hopefully by the end of the day we'll all be in poverty. I mean, hopefully we'll have enough food to eat, no clothes on our backs, no, no nothing in that. I'm here to I'm here to proclaim poverty to the world today. And I think I think you know, you know, our minds messed up because I heard that stuff growing up about prosperity. But but but I'm telling you, if you're here, you believe in prosperity. You come here, you got clothes on your backs. Amen. We're gonna have a fabulous meal here in just a minute. I mean, I mean, uh, you know, you got a car, some of you got two or three, some of you got ten cars. You got does anyone here not have more than one change of clothes? Amen. You know, if you have you know, if we got right down to it, probably. I bet you have over a hundred changes of clothes. You think, oh no, I don't have a hundred changes of clothes. Go home and count your shirts in your closet. It don't take a very big path to put a hundred shirts. How do I know that? Because I went through and started counting ours one day. Mine. I started counting mine. Yeah, because I stay out of Pastor Sarah's conduit because uh that's not a place that I want to be. But uh anyway. Well, exciting. It's like I said, we're gonna have a fun rest of the day. Uh next Saturday at 7.30, we'll be having our men. And then on uh uh July 6th through the 10th, we'll be having our first uh encounter youth camp. I encourage you to get get signed up for that. If you want to be helping for that, then then uh let us know, and uh we're getting kind of the details done. But but be inviting kids uh ages 8 through 18. Uh it's gonna be a fabulous week. And then on the uh 10th through the 12th, Pastor Chris McDonald will be here, Pastor Chris and Pastor Sue will be here. So just an exciting week to to go past the 4th of July there, and we can't wait. And and uh, you know, as as I was thinking about um uh you know Jesse Duplantis and this and that, and then we got down there and it's it's his heaven tour. Uh he actually went to heaven and the Lord's released him to share it, and it's very powerful, and but they're not they're not releasing it out like on YouTube yet. I assume they will sometime, but they're not yet. But but uh, you know, I thought it was interesting, you know, because because prosperity preachers, all they want is your money, right? You know, that's what that's the way we've been taught. All they want's my money. Dang people, all they want's my money. And uh, and he got down there and he said, you know, we're gonna do this and I'm gonna share my testimony, and then uh we're gonna take some questions and answers. And he said, he said, well, if we have time, we'll take up an offering. If we don't have time, if it don't fit in, you know, it's not that big a deal. And I thought, you know, that's that's a pretty good saying there. And then and then what really impressed me was when when he went to give, when he went to don't take away from your your church. And I thought, never heard that before, but that that's a big deal. You know, don't take away from your church. Don't don't take out of your tithe and give it here and then not give your tithe to your church. And I thought, wow, that catch you too. I mean, Josh and Andrew are there with me, and Jeannie and Raven were also down there, but I thought, you know, you know, that's big. You know? Don't take away from your church. And they said this. This is this is on the funny side. I'm the jokester of the family. Maybe not. It sounded good. Yeah. Well, I don't know about you men and husbands, but I think my my jokes are funnier than Pastor Sarah. Don't think my jokes are that funny, but but and that's funny, like one of our kids, you know how your kids are. One of them thinks, well, dad's jokes are funnier than mom's, but he said, he said, uh, he said this. He said, money won't make you happy. That it'll make you comfortable while you're miserable. Isn't that pretty good? Yeah, money won't money won't make and then you think about that, it's like, oh, I know some comfortable people that are miserable. Right? Yeah, money won't make you happy, but it'll make you comfortable when you're miserable. I thought, that's a word from heaven. Huh. To say. But first I'm going to read Malachi 3, 10 through 12. Bring all, say all. Bring all the ties into the storehouse, so there will be enough food in my temple. If you do, says the Lord of heaven's armies, I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won't have enough room to take it in. Try it. Put me to the test. Your crops will be abundant, for I will guard them from insects and disease. Your grapes will not fall from the vine before they are ripe, says the Lord of heaven's armies. All the nations will call you blessed, for your land will be such a delight, says the Lord of Heaven's armies. All right. Oh, you got her put up there. Look at you go. Cameron. Alright, you got that declaration up there? So I've got this declaration there. This is declaration according to Dan. Alright, so we're going to say this together. I'll say the say it and then you repeat after me. I'm bringing my tithe into the storehouse. So there is provision and support in God's house. Blessings. I don't have room enough to contain. I know when I do, God rebukes the devourer for my sake. So he will not destroy. So he will not destroy what the Lord is doing in and through my life. Or keep me from doing what the Lord has called me to do. All nations will call me blessed. Amen. So let's hold up our giving today. Oh. Father, we thank you. Father, we praise you, Lord, that we're bringing all our tithes into the storehouse, Lord. We thank you, Lord, that tithing is a devil rebuking tool, and the devourer will not control us. It will control our control our finances, our thoughts, our actions, our ways, our health. The devil is defeated, Lord, and you are glorious, and we give you all the honor and the glory and the praise in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. All right, Miss Lori.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:47

I'd like to call Sarah and Stacey. Could you come up? We just want to honor both of you women for for your sacrifices that you guys have made. Starting with prayer. Dedication. Perseverance. Consistency. The love that has poured out of you women. That has brought forth your congregation into new levels of intimacy with the Lord because of your obedience. We've gone and been blessed. We thank you for your service. We thank you for your ministry. We thank you for your love. We thank you for not giving up when it was too hard. And you couldn't see what God was doing. We honor you and we love you. And we just asked God to bless you more abundantly each and every day. And meet your every neighborhood the ones you don't speak about. The heartache that you carry. And we all love you so very much.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:17

Mike and Dan, you were supposed to be up there too. I I didn't communicate very good. I asked Lori to speak over them, but the Lord woke me up in the middle of the night last night and said, you need to honor their obedience. I can tell you that my family wouldn't be where we're at without these two families. We wouldn't be serving the Lord the way we're serving the Lord without these two families. Their obedience to say yes. Their obedience to say, I will put that tent up. Their obedience to say, I'll open up my shop, I'll start a church. That's obedience that they're so blessed for. The fruit that they're seeing, we are the fruit. We are the fruit that they get to see every day. And so I just want to honor Pastor Dan, Mike, Stacey, and Sarah for their obedience. And everybody's obedience that stood behind them. We are going to change this nation. We are going to change this nation. So as we celebrate five years, this is just the beginning, guys. This is just the beginning. So I just want to honor them. And that's why the Lord woke me up from this morning and said, Go buy Sarah and Stacy flowers. Because they're obedience. Because the Lord sees your obedience. He sees who you guys are. He sees you didn't even know what was going on really. You said that clear at the first. You said, I'm just along for the ride. But Mike stepped up and and Ben who God's called him to be. And Dan wasn't really called. He didn't know he was called to be a pastor when he did that. I don't know that for sure, but he stepped up into the calling that God's called him to be. And we all have to step up into the calling that God's calling us to be. So I encourage you today just give them a hug and just say thank you. Thank you. Because what they've done for this community and for this region that hasn't even been seen yet. They have they see so much bigger than what any of us are seeing yet. And so just thank them for the vision that God gave them and their obedience to it.

unknown 1:20:38

Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:42

Thank you. Thank you guys, because the church is the body. It takes all of us as the body, but but uh maybe I'm joking. See, that's my kind of humor. Yeah. But I'm gonna bless the food. Food be blessed. We are blessed to have it. Amen. Father, we thank you and we praise you, Lord. Lord, and and we are truly blessed to have this food, Lord. Lord, after being in foreign countries, Lord, and in places we never dreamed we'd be, Lord. But Lord, it is a true blessing to have this food, Lord. It's a true blessing to gather together with fun and fellowship, Lord. And we honor you in Jesus' name. Amen.