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Taking The Church Outside The Walls
The Rock Family Worship Center
A Mother's Day Reflection
The sacrificial love of a mother reflects the deeper, nurturing love of Christ and points directly to Him through His finished work on the cross and resurrection. Just as a mother gives of herself to bring life, Jesus gave everything of Himself so we could become children of His finished work.
• The cross was the labor, the resurrection was the birth, and we are children of His finished work
• Jesus used the metaphor of childbirth to describe His coming suffering and resurrection
• A mother's pain during childbirth has purpose, just as Christ's suffering had divine purpose
• The resurrection wasn't just a comeback but the birth of a new creation
• We don't earn our place in God's family - we were born into it through Christ's finished work
• The phrase "it is finished" marks not just an end but a beginning of something new
• A child never asks to be born - a mother chooses to give life, just as Christ chose us
• Mothers comfort, teach, forgive, and never give up - reflecting Christ's character
• A mother's example is the first glimpse of Christ that children witness
• We are created in God's image with the same ability to love unconditionally
Leave here today with confidence not just in yourself, but in Christ, who gave everything to call you His own. Your prayers matter more than you know, and your presence in your children's lives is powerful.
Again, happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there. That's here today. Today we celebrate the love, the sacrifice, the strength of moms, but we're also going to take a deeper look. I always say that we're going to look in the surface and then we're not going to stop there. We're always going to go a little bit deeper. So we're going to take a deeper look at how that kind of love that a mother has and a mother gives reflects Jesus and actually points directly to Him. So, just like a mother gives of herself to bring life, Jesus gave everything of Himself on the cross. That's the number one thing we've got to look at. Think about it like this, and I love this the cross was the labor, the resurrection was the birth, and now you are a child of His finished work. So we've got the whole process laid out right there that we're going to go into. So this morning I hope you'll see how the love of Christ isn't just powerful, it's deeply personal, it's deeply nurturing and, most of all, it's complete, and what that means for every mom and every believer, not just moms. I know this is Mother's Day, so we're going to celebrate moms, but this is something that anybody can take out of this today and see the love of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1:I want to start in a specific verse this morning and kind of kick off from. There is John, chapter 16, verse 21 and 22. But let me, before we read it, let me give you just a little bit of background on it. This is when Jesus is talking to his disciples the night before. This is the night before he goes to the cross before his death. And he's talking to the disciples and there's a point in time where he really confuses them Because he tells them he said in just a little while you're not going to see me anymore. And then you're going to see me anymore, and then you're going to see me again. And the disciples are really confused if you go back and read this whole chapter here and they don't understand how are we going to see you now, but we're not going to see you later, but then we're going to see you again. So he begins to explain this and I'm going to read it and then I'm going to explain to you a little bit more into detail what he was saying Thank you, jesus. And what he was breaking down in here.
Speaker 1:So in verse 21, it says A woman, when she is in labor has sorrow because her hour has come, but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, the joy that a human being has been born into the world. Therefore, you now have sorrow, but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice and your joy no one will take away from you Again. Powerful verse right there, and I love the fact that he's illustrating to them during this time that was so difficult for His disciples, because he's telling them during this time I am not going to be here in a little while and you're going to miss me and there's going to be sorrow and there's going to be a lot of frustration, there's going to be a lot of sadness, but it's okay Because you're going to see me again and joy is going to be a lot of sadness, but it's okay Because you're going to see me again and joy is going to come again. So he uses the details of a childbirth, of a mother in labor and giving birth, to explain this to His disciples. Now remember I said the cross was the labor. Keep that in mind. The cross was the labor, just like childbirth. The pain Christ felt had a purpose, the pain that every one of you moms felt at some point. You probably felt like you could not endure it during that time, but there was some joy coming in, just a few minutes. Some of you may have had to endure it during that time, but there was some joy coming in just a few minutes. Some of you may that that you may have to endure it a little bit longer than somebody else did. I don't know how long your labor was, but there was joy coming at some point. And all of that misery, all of that pain, was going to go away when you seen that baby come out and the joy come with the birth of that child. Seeing that baby come out and the joy come with the birth of that child. Jesus used the language of childbirth to describe what he would soon endure the sorrow, the pain. And this is all in verse 21. The sorrow, the pain, just talking about a specific hour that had to come.
Speaker 1:So see, the cross was more than just a tragic execution, and sometimes we seem to look at it like that. We just look at what he done on the cross was more than just a tragic execution, and sometimes we seem to look at it like that we just look at what he done on the cross and we say he did it to forgive us of our sins. And I say so many times it was so much more than just that. So it was more than just a tragic execution, it was a divine labor. Look at it in terms of the childbirth, just like he explained it. It was a divine labor. Look at it in terms of the childbirth, just like he explained it. It was a divine labor.
Speaker 1:The painful, costly and very messy situation and work that he went through was for the redeeming of humanity. There was a purpose in the pain, there was a purpose in the stuff that he went through. And just as a mother gives her body and blood to bring forth life, christ gave His body and shed His blood to bring forth eternal life. So many similarities, and I've never, ever looked at it like this before. But so many similarities in there. But Jesus didn't just die in our place, he carried us. He bore our shame, he bore our guilt, our sin, all as His own. The cross was more than just the forgiveness of sin. There was so much more to it. But motherhood begins in labor. Salvation begins at the cross. Both are acts of sacrificial love, and we've got to start seeing the similarities in those two to truly understand what the cross meant.
Speaker 1:The second part of that comment that I made earlier was that the resurrection was the birth. The resurrection itself was the birth. The resurrection itself was the birth. This shows us that love number one, that love defeated death. Love defeated death because the grave could no longer hold him. He was no longer going to stay there. He died. Everybody seen that he died. Everybody seen the pain and the misery and everything that he died. Everybody's seen the pain and the misery and everything that he had to go through in the process of death, but he was not going to stay there. Okay, the tomb, just like a mother's womb, was not the end. It was the place where something new was about to emerge.
Speaker 1:I want you to look at Colossians 1 and 18. And I think I've read this verse many times. But I want you to look at Colossians 1 and 18. And I think I've read this verse many times. But I want you to look at something in here. Jesus calls Himself the firstborn from among the dead and he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead so powerful right there, we've got to catch that, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things there We've got to catch that the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he may have preeminent. So Jesus calls Himself the firstborn from among the dead, indicating this is important here he's indicating that something entirely new has begun at the resurrection.
Speaker 1:We look at the resurrection and we see an end to life. We look at somebody's physical funeral when we do funerals and we look at it as an end to life. But, just like jesus was demonstrating right here, something was emerging. It was not just an end, but it was a beginning. The resurrection was about to come and that's why, when we do a funeral, I don't call it funeral anymore. I don't even like that word anymore. I call it a home going, and I know I didn't. People's been doing that for a long time, but we're also used to calling it a funeral and we cry, we mourn, we grieve and there's nothing wrong with that. But when can we start seeing that? Okay, something took place here and, yes, the end of life, physical life, occurred, but it's the beginning of a supernatural life that has begun. Now that that has ended, jesus demonstrated that and there was a reason that he was showing that, because we were to come now and be a reflection of how His life was. So we've got to start seeing ourselves as even at the point of death.
Speaker 1:He says those who believe will never die. And to some people that verse makes absolutely no sense when you look at it in the natural, because we see death every day, we see people go every day. So it don't make no sense until you start looking at it. That the end of a natural, but the beginning of something spiritual, and what really matters the most is the spiritual anyway, because that's for eternity. So in this verse Paul reminds us that Jesus is not just the head of the church. He's the beginning of something entirely new. When it says he's the beginning of something entirely new, when it says he's the firstborn from the dead, it means he's the first to rise into a whole new kind of life. Nobody's ever done this before Never to die again. Think about that just a minute, because if we are to reflect what he demonstrated, that's why he says those who believe will never die, will never taste death. We are thinking too much oftentimes in the physical, but he demonstrated right here exactly what he was meaning. His resurrection wasn't just a comeback, it was the birth of a new creation and because of that, we who believe in Him are now part of this new family born through His finished work. His resurrection was the birth of redemption. I'm trying to beat this range, so I'm going a little quick, but I'm going to slow down because I want you to hear some of this right here His resurrection was the birth of redemption.
Speaker 1:What if we looked at the phrase and you hear me say this so often, probably every sermon that I preach somewhere in my phrase I use the term it is finished, because I believe I teach the finished work. Theology, that's what I believe in and I believe that's what we should focus on. So everything I teach, it always comes back to the finished work of Christ. But what if we took that phrase and thought about it a little bit different? What if we changed our mindset on this, had a mindset shift on the way we look at the phrase it is finished? What if we stop saying it is not stop saying it, but stop looking at it as being it is finished, it's done, it's complete, but started looking and saying it has now begun? Because when you really think about it, that's what Jesus done on the cross.
Speaker 1:This is what I'm talking about a lot of times when I say it's not changing the fact of what he said. He said it is finished and if you look up those words they actually mean complete. That means everything that he was here to do had come to an end. I always say we can stop there or we can go a little bit further, and I believe that jesus could have said it is finished, but now it has just begun. Now I'm not adding words to the bible. I said I believe he could have said that, because that's what the finished work actually done.
Speaker 1:It was finished with what he completed, but it actually began a new process that was made for every single one of us and I'm not saying every single one of you who's a born again Christian, I'm saying every single person in humanity. He began a process right now that was for everybody. It was never meant to be just an end, but it was set up to be a very beginning. The pain that he experienced on that Friday was only a setup. It was only giving way to the joy that was coming on Sunday. It was all a setup. From His death came your new birth. Without His death, there is no new birth for us. Without what he experienced on the cross, there is no new birth for any of us. So look what it says in John, chapter 1, verse 12 and 13. But as many as received Him we cannot forget that as many as received Him.
Speaker 1:Now we can go back and talk about a lot of stuff in this verse, but the main thing I want you to see right here is because we talk about the finished work so often and I believe sometimes people can misinterpret what we're saying and they can take it as everything is done and we don't have nothing else to do. We're just sitting here waiting on heaven. Everybody's born again, everybody's saved, everybody's going to heaven, and that is not what we're saying. Jesus died for everybody when he went to the cross. He went to the cross for salvation, so we could be made whole, so that we could be healed, so that we could have righteousness, so that we could be redeemed, so that we could have righteousness, so that we could be redeemed. He did that for all, according to the Word of God. Adam died, adam sinned for all. Jesus did what he did for all. So everybody has the opportunity for salvation. Everybody has the opportunity for redemption, for righteousness, for righteousness for all of these things that some people are thinking we're getting one day. He's given it to us already, but this verse says it. But as many as received Him, as many you could change this around and say as many as have awakened to what he's already done to them.
Speaker 1:He gave the right to become children of god to those who believe in his name verse 13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of flesh, nor of the will of man, but of of the will of man, but of God. This is a very powerful verse here as well. And just as the mother claims her child, when that child is born, you claim that child. It just comes from your body. That child is yours. You claim it. God claims you. He claims every one of us. Think about this. I was sitting there last night and I was putting some of this down and looking and studying on it and this thing hit me and I said you know, a child never asks to be born. Obviously they can't. So a child never asked to be born.
Speaker 1:A mother chooses to give life. Now we know there's mothers who, for certain reasons, they choose not to give life. So it is a choice of that mother. When she finds out she's pregnant, it is the choice of that mother to when she finds out she's pregnant, it is the choice of that mother to give life to that child that is inside her. And this is so important because the child never asked for it. The mother chooses to give it anyway.
Speaker 1:We didn't choose Jesus. We didn't choose life in Jesus. He chose to give us life. He didn't ask us, he didn't say would you like to receive this? He chose to give life to every single person. Now, in turn, we turn back around and we decide to receive what he's given us, just like a child. We've seen children that can rebel. That mother gives them life and then, as they get older, they rebel and they say you're not my mama, you're not my parents. We see that, okay, but the mother chose to give life to that child. Jesus chose to give life to us. It was something that you know. I joke about it all the time and we say you know, hey, so-and-so found Jesus. No, he didn't. Jesus found him a long time ago. He chose him Before the foundation of the world. He made a choice. You are not a random resort of grace. You are chosen, a chosen child of divine labor and resurrection life. Can you begin to look at yourself that way and not just see it as? I made a decision one day to choose Him. But can you really look and say everything that he done on that cross was the fact that he was choosing me. It was more than a choice I made. He was choosing me that day.
Speaker 1:And you don't have to earn this. You don't have to earn the love. You were born into it. You don't have to try to do things to be more faithful.
Speaker 1:He gave us a measure of faith. Some people say I'm praying that I can get more faith. I'm praying for faith to come. He gave us a measure of faith. These things that we want. I just want to faith to come. He gave us a measure of faith, these things that we want. I just want to be more righteous. He gave us the gift of righteousness. I'm saying this because I want you to think for a minute that all the things that we are seeking and all the things that we're going after, he's already given to us. And all the things that we're going after, he's already given to us All the striving, the performing, the spiritual trying that we go through all the time. It ended right here at the cross. There's no more effort that we have to put in as far as striving and performing to be a child of God or to be a certain way, to be a good Christian, and all the identity, the rest and the confidence.
Speaker 1:It began at the resurrection. My identity did not shift the day I come to an altar. My identity shifted at the resurrection when he rose again and he gave life and he brought back life not just to himself, but he brought back life to humanity. That was the time that my identity shifted and you might say well, I wasn't even born yet. Exactly, he gave it for all of humanity.
Speaker 1:When I come to an altar or something like this, what am I doing? I'm awakening to the fact of something that happened over 2,000 years ago. He's not doing it right now. When I come to the altar, I'm not coming up here asking for something and God Jesus is jumping up in heaven saying I've got to get it done and running around trying to do something. He's sitting there when we pray and he's saying it's done. They are awakening to it. Their minds are opening up to it, their eyes, they're being enlightened. They're seeing something that they've never seen in themselves before, although it's always been there, they've never seen it before. That's the enlightening. That's when our eyes open up. That's when we come out of darkness and we go into light. That's when all the things that we used to say the scales, come off. That's when we see ourselves in the way that he created us to be and we no longer see ourselves the way the world has called us, what they called us or what they've turned us into. So we're not working toward God's acceptance. We were born into it by the finished work of Christ. Now, why do I say all this? What does all this mean?
Speaker 1:On Mother's Day, being a mom is a lot like what Jesus did for us. It takes a lot out of you. People don't always notice what you had to endure, and it can sometimes feel lonely and really hard, but it's full of love. It's always worth it, no matter what. And just as a father honored the son's suffering and sacrifice, he also sees and honors your daily sacrifices as a mom. You don't have to be a perfect mom. That's a lie that many women tell themselves. I've got to be a perfect mother. That's a lie. What really matters is not what you do, but that you're an example of what Christ has already done. That's what really matters.
Speaker 1:As a mother, as a grandmother, spiritual mother, mentor, you serve not to earn love, but to express the love that you've already been given by Christ, that love that's already been created and established, the love that you've already received from Christ. Can you be an example of that love? And even when you feel empty and there's been many times, I know you don't have to tell it, but there's a lot of people in here there's been times where you went through some stuff. As a mom, you felt empty, you felt lost, you felt pain. But just remember, the Spirit that raised Christ from the dead is alive in us, giving grace upon grace, what the Word says. So you're not just a mother, you are a daughter of the King, loved and secured by the finished work of Christ.
Speaker 1:A whole different way of looking at ourselves. Let this be the day that you decide to just rest, no longer working, no longer striving, struggling, but let this be the day that you decide just to rest in the One who birthed you by grace. Let Mother's Day remind us of this truth that Christ didn't simply die for you. He actually labored for you. He didn't rise just to prove a point. He rose to give you birth. And now you don't earn your place in God's family. We don't do something good to try to get into it.
Speaker 1:We were actually born into that family because of what happened on the cross and during the resurrection. We're born into that family because of what happened on the cross and during the resurrection. We're born into it. Your child didn't have to come. When you had that child, they didn't have to do anything to earn the right to call you mother. That was just the process. That's just natural. They were born into it. They was a child, they was a son, they was a daughter, simply because they was born into that role. They never had to earn it. So why do we think we have to earn being a child of the Father? We were born into that role. You know, if we stop sometimes and stop being so spiritual and just use common sense and looked at it through the same kind of lens and looked at the Father as the same and that's why I'm using this example and looked at what? Father as the same, and that's why I'm using this example and looked at what he did. The same way we look at childbirth, it would make a lot more sense to us.
Speaker 1:The cross was the labor. I said this a while ago. I want to remind you the cross was the labor. The resurrection was the birth, and you are the child of the finished work. As we wrap up today, I told you I might not even have said it today, but I knew I was going to be short. I didn't know the rain was going to be coming like this, but it's a struggle on this tin roof when it's raining like this, and I can already feel my voice going. As we wrap up today, though, I want you to take this with you. I want you to really pay attention. If you take nothing else with you, I want you to take this with you today.
Speaker 1:Whether you're a mom, whether you've lost a mom, or whether you're walking a hard road right now on this Mother's Day, because you're the mom who's lost a child Still a mom you are loved, and Jesus has got you. No matter what, the Holy Spirit is living on the inside of you, and he's got you. He went through the labor of the cross. He rose again so that you could be born into a new family, in the family of God. You're the child of His finished work. So leave here today with confidence. Leave here today with confidence not just in yourself, but in Christ, who gave everything to call you His own.
Speaker 1:Think about your sacrifices that you've made as a mom. Think about the prayers that you prayed that nobody else knows about. Nobody else has ever heard. That's the prayers of a mother to God, and you've done it over and over again. They matter more than you know. A mother's prayers matter more than you know. A mother's prayers matter more than you will ever realize. And think about it like this as a mother, you comfort.
Speaker 1:Think about your child. You may have an adult child now, but that child was a baby at one time. And now you may have grandchildren, but you comfort like him, you teach like him. You teach like Him. You forgive like Him. Over and over again, no matter what the circumstances are, you're able to do those things and even when things seem overwhelming, you never give up. You've never given up on your child. I've been through things in my life with my son, but I've never given up on your child. I've been through things in my life with my son, but I've never given up on him. You will never give up.
Speaker 1:Your calling as a mom is sacred. Your presence in their life is powerful and it's your love and your example. And somebody needs to hear this. It's your love and it's your example that points your child to Christ. All the Sunday school in the world ain't going to do what you can do. All the revivals in the world ain't going to have the impact that you can have. It's your example. It's them watching you when you think that they're not. It's them listening to you when you think that they're not. It's them listening to you when you think that they don't hear what you're saying. It's your example. That's going to be the first little piece of Christ that they ever see and they ever witness.
Speaker 1:So today we honor our moms that we have here, not just for your role as a mom, but for the kind of love you show. It's a love that goes deep, it truly cares, it gives so much of itself, and all of this, what I want you to see today is just like Jesus, and I begin to see myself as a reflection. We say it so often when we talk about the finished work. We talk about what our purpose is here on this earth and we say that we're creating the image and the likeness of God himself, that we're creating the image and the likeness of God Himself, that we're here to be ambassadors, that we're here to reflect who he was. I think this is a perfect day Mother's Day and Father's Day coming up it's a perfect opportunity for us to take the time just to actually sit and reflect on how much we are like Jesus.
Speaker 1:There's people that don't like to hear that, and I know that. There's people that says you know, you don't ever compare yourself to Jesus. God Himself said I've created you after the image and the likeness, but don't get mad about me comparing. Get mad about God comparing. Get mad because God said I'm going to make you just like us. And what that really means is it's talking about spiritual. He made us in the image and the likeness. He made us with the same characteristics. He made us with the ability to love unconditionally, just like he does. That's why your mistakes don't matter, he loves you anyway. What you've been through don't matter, he loves you anyway. Well, you don't know how many times I've turned my back on Him. He does and he loves you anyway.
Speaker 1:Think about your own child. Would you ever, could they do anything that you would ever disown them? No, you may not like them sometimes, but you would never disown them. But yet we stand in the church pulpits all the time and tell people that he disowns us, that we're separated from Him because of what we do. I don't worship a Father who disowns me. He may not be happy with decisions I make sometimes. He may not be happy with decisions I make sometimes. He may not be happy with everything that I do, but he will never disown me, he will never leave me, he will never forsake me.
Speaker 1:And the ability for me to do that with my own child is not just because I'm special. It's because I'm created after Him with the same love characteristic. That's what gives me the ability to do that. That's the only thing that gives me the ability to do that. Without Christ, without truly knowing Him and understanding Him, I don't know that I could do that. We see people every day in this world who kicks their children out, who disowns them. So when I'm saying this, I know you're probably thinking I've seen that before. I don't know that he's telling the truth. No, I'm telling the truth that if you've got the love of Christ, that won't happen. You'll never stop crying, you'll never stop loving. There will always be something there. Why? Because I'm a reflection of Him. That's what he's called me to be. Sometimes, see, I almost want to start this thing over. I won't do that. The day of reflection. Then we begin to see ourself like it. I'm going to go ahead and close it down, because if I don't, I'm going to start repeating myself. I'm going to start saying some of this again and then I'm going to start preaching.
Speaker 1:It is a finished work. He did it for a purpose. He went through the for a purpose. He went through the pain with purpose. He completed everything that needed to be completed. But it was not just the completion of something, it was the beginning of something. Can we see that? See, sometimes we just stop at the end of it. We stop at completion, we stop at finished work. We're not stopping at finished work, we're going on saying what does the finished work mean? What does the finished work mean for me? What does it now, when I'm living on this earth? What does it give me the ability, the authority to do on this earth? What's the difference in somebody who believes in the finished work and somebody who don't. Is one going to heaven and one's not? No, that's not what I'm saying. But one will experience it sooner. One will be able to walk in peace and walk in joy and be able to sustain things here on this earth, because we're bringing heaven down now. We're not waiting on it. We believe that we have the ability to experience it now.
Speaker 1:Salvation Everybody in this room believes you can experience salvation. Hopefully everybody in this room believes that they have Salvation. Part of that definition is also healing. Now we believe that we can say something and that gives us access to heaven. But do we believe that we can also say something that gives us access to healing? It gives us access to manifestation of things. That's what I mean by we're not stopping. We're not stopping at salvation. We're not just going to say it's done, I've said my prayer and I'm going to heaven. We're going further than that. I'm glad you're going to heaven, but experience it here, right now.
Speaker 1:Peace, love that we just talked about the things he went to the cross for. He didn't go to the cross just so we could have it in heaven. He went to the cross so that we could experience it on earth and actually have these things manifest in our life Right now. I don't want to wait, and we don't have a lot of people here, but I'm going to say this it don't take a lot of people, all it takes is a handful of people to understand it, to receive it, to believe it and to begin to walk it out. I'm telling you, I truly believe there's people walking through things physically in their life right now and I'm talking about pain in the body and different things like that that they don't have to. There is an answer. I'm not against doctors, I'm not against doctors, I'm not against hospitals, but I'm just dumb enough to believe there's another answer too, and I believe that we can step into that. I believe that we can receive it the same way we received heaven, because I believe most people believe, when they said that prayer, that it opened up access to heaven. Study that definition of salvation out a little bit more, and it gives you access to so much more as well, and we believe that as well. Healing, healing, righteousness, peace, joy, healing, righteousness, peace, joy, forgiveness all of these things that we struggle with. He went to the cross, so we don't have to. He gave us access to every one of these. Right now you can stand up. Might be the earliest I've ever done it. I'm sorry, janet, you'll just have to listen to it on. I know it was raining hard.
Speaker 1:Father God, we thank you for this day. We thank you for every one of these mothers that's in this room, father. We thank you for who they are. We thank you for the reflection that they show each and every day, not just to their children, but to the people around them, to other kids around them, to other adults around them. They're a reflection of you, father. We thank you that you've created us that way. We thank you that you went to the cross and you've done more than just forgive us of our sin, but you gave us access to everything.
Speaker 1:So we thank you, father, for the life that we live, the example that we are, the ambassadorship that you've given us, and I pray, father, that as each person walks out of here and goes into this new week, that you give us opportunities to be an example to people, to speak into people's lives in a way that we've never had the opportunity before, and that, father, the fear leaves, because you're not a, you didn't give us a spirit of fear. So, even if something comes up and something arises in us and we want to speak about it, but the fear always held us back. Father, I pray now that you'll just give us the words to say that you'll give us the words to say that You'll give us the words to speak to people to just bring peace to their life. Father, more than anything, we just thank you that you have done everything that you can do so that we can have heaven right now. We don't have to wait until one day. We have access to everything right now. We don't have to wait until one day. We have access to everything right now, and we thank you that every person in this room right now is grabbing on to that. We're no longer waiting, we're no longer looking at everything just from a futurist mindset, but we're saying right now the work is finished, something new has begun and it has started in each one of us and we are awakening everything to be completed.
Speaker 1:Father, we just thank you for everything. We pray over this new building, father, that's going to be going up on this property. We thank you for that land. We thank you that we was able to purchase that land, father, but we are expecting more than that. We thank you. You was able to purchase that land, father, but we are expecting more than that. We thank you. You gave us a vision and I thank you for the provision coming. I don't know when, I don't know how, but I thank you that you have provided the provision for us to do the work, for us to build this building and start doing the things that you called us to do in this community. Father, we just thank you for everything and we'll be careful to always give you the praise, the honor and the glory. Everything in the mighty name of Jesus, amen.