CLOSING THE GAP FROM REVELATION TO EXPERIENCE

We talk about the gap between what God says is true and what we consistently experience, and why that space does not mean God failed or left us. We break down how revelation can arrive in a moment while transformation often comes through mind renewal, healed identity, and daily obedience. 
• defining “the gap” as revelation versus experience 
• Israel leaving Egypt but keeping a slave mindset 
• renewing the mind as the pathway to lasting change 
• why God’s answers can include waiting and growth 
• meditating on Scripture until truth sinks deep 
• speaking in agreement with God without denying facts 
• doing the Word as the difference-maker 
• inner healing and forgiveness that reshape identity 
• guarding what we watch and hear so it does not shape us 
• showing up, asking questions, and learning in community 

If you um miss Wednesday night, you're gonna have to come this Wednesday night and catch up.

Transcript

Why We Live In The Gap

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Um, there's many uh things that Pastor Brian talked about, living in the gap. The gap gets triggered, love in the gap, and graduating from the gap. And so I'm gonna try to continue on. This is not closing the gap, but this is a part of closing the gap. I gotta make sure I hold the microphone right. I know what God says, but my life has not caught up with it yet. Many believers live in the gap of what God revealed and what Christ finished, and what they are actually experiencing. We're not experiencing everything that is finished, but we're in the gap. Romans 4:17, as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations in the presence of him whom believes God, who gives life to the dead, and call those things which do not exist as though they were. Revelation is instant, but transformation is often progressive. We talked about some of this on Wednesday night. So if you um miss Wednesday night, you're gonna have to come this Wednesday night and catch up. Amen. God can show you something in one moment that your soul, mind, emotion, and habits and life may take time to fully walk in. We're not fully walking in where we should be today. Amen. The gap does not always mean failure. Sometimes it is the place where revelation becomes rooted reality. The scriptures teach us to speak the way God speaks. Amen. There is a gap, and we all have been in the gap, and some of us are still in the gap, not on purpose or not intentionally, but we're still, we still have a gap. Amen. The word says I am free, but I still struggle. The word says I'm healed, but my body hurts. The word says I'm love, but I still battle rejection. The word says I have peace, but my mind is still troubled. This is the gap between knowing the truth but not consistently experiencing it. Revelation versus experience. There is often a gap between revelation and manifestation. Revelation does not automatically mean experience. Hebrew 4 2. For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them. But the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. Amen. Might be here for a while. You

Israel Heard Truth But Stayed Slaves

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can hear the truth and still not experience it. Israel heard you're going into the promised land, but mentality, they mentality, they still live like slaves. They had a word that we're going to the promised land. And they were going to the promised land. But I thought about when I read that and I was writing it out. Can you just imagine when God tell you you're going to the promised land? And when Moses got to the water, I'm pretty sure most of them didn't know how to swim. I'm pretty sure panic set in, fear set in because they was afraid we can't cross that water because we don't know how to swim. You know, sometimes you get in situations in life you don't know how to get out of. But the word of God, He always sends you a leader. He always sends somebody to guide you to where you need to be. And he sends them through the Holy Spirit. But you I can just picture them when Moses hit that water. I cannot picture them how the water divided up and them having to walk through that water. Can you imagine what they seen in the water? Can you imagine the fish, the shark, the gaiters, the turtles, or whatever was in the water at that time? You can imagine going through that water just to get to where God tells you to be. Sometimes we go through a struggle trying to get to where we're supposed to be. Have you ever heard the expression that people have a poverty mentality, a poverty mindset? Well, you can give a man a million dollars, but if his mind has not been renewed, if he hadn't been taught how to manage that money, how to spend that money, he'll be broke in no time. And we hear that all the time with lottery winners. Some of them get that money in five years, they're broke because their minds hadn't been renewed, and nobody taught them how to handle money, how to manage that money. Amen. Ain't none of us gonna be like that. We get a million dollars, we're gonna know what to do with. Amen. Because we're being taught every Sunday, every Wednesday, how to handle God's finances, how to steward his finances. Amen. Revelation can enter your spirit long before transform for transforming your life. Bridging the gap starts by treating revelation as a response. Your mind, your emotion, your speech, your habit reacts to your experience. The children of Israel were physically out of Egypt, but Egypt was still inside of them. They still lived as those people enslaved. They still lived as the broken people. The children of Israel, they were physically, God brought them out physically, but their minds wasn't renewed. Even though they were being, Moses was teaching them, Moses was telling them what God said, but they still had that slave mentality that had not kicked in yet. The renewing hadn't kicked in yet. So believers are spiritually slaves, saved, but their minds, emotion, and experience still need healing. Paul in Romans 12 and 2, Paul says believers are transformed by the renewing of the mind, which means God changed us from the inside out, starting with how we think. Amen. And a lot of times we want to fix up the outside, change the outside. But if your mind's not renewed, your outside is gonna stay like it is. It's not gonna change. Your mind has to be renewed in order for your outside to change. So we must let the truth renew our minds and reshape our lives.

What Creates The Gap In Us

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So you may ask the question: what creates the gap? Wrong identity, wrong thinking, and wrong mindsets create a gap. Proverbs 23 and 7 said, For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he. What a person believes in their heart shapes what they consistently experience and express. This is why you cannot expect to live beyond the identity you have accepted. If you accept brokenness, if you accept poverty, if you accept being sick, well, you you can't change that until your mind is renewed. Proverbs 23 also shows that the inward thinking reveals and shape a person's posture and reminds us that the inner thinking matters. What you think inside matters. Going back to Romans 12 and 2, be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Your spirit may receive truth instantly, but your mind must be retrained. We must retrain our mind. Get that old thinking out of there and think with what the word of God says. Amen. Sometimes people think that they are worthless. They think they're nothing. When God says that you are righteous, when he says you are whole, you are healed. So we have to change the way we think in our mind. Your spirit may be anchored in peace, and yet your mind may still hold on to yesterday's pain. You still may be holding on to some stuff that you need to let go. This is why scripture calls us to renew thinking, hearing, and faithful obedience. Our lives gradually change when our minds are renewed. Renewing the mind is a Christian process of transforming how you think by replacing worldly patterns and lives with God's truth. So your thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs align with Christ. So time to process.

Progress Takes Time And Patience

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Mark 4.28. I probably ain't even given one time to put them up there good. Mark 4.28. First the blade, then the ear. That microwave. I asked for it today, I want it in the next minute. But sometimes God's answer is no. Sometimes God's answer is wait. Because he knows if he gave you exactly what you asked for every time you ask, it will harm you. And so he's not going to give you something that is going to cause you harm or that's going to pull you away from him. Amen. But other things unfold over time through maturity, patience, and steady growth. Not every breakthrough arrives fully formed. And that's what we're looking for: a fully formed breakthrough when I ask for it and when I need it. A seed contains a full tree, but the experience comes in stages. Revelation is the seed, experience is the harvest. Amen. Satan does not panic when the truth is heard because hearing alone does not bring transformation. What unsettles him is when truth moves beyond words and becomes a lived experience. That talking, that talking don't bother him. But it's when you begin to believe God's word, you begin to walk in God's word, you begin to change. Then that unsettles him. When revelation takes root root in a person's life, it shapes their actions and produces real changes. It is in that moment when truth is no longer just knowing, but fully live. It carries power.

Meditation That Turns Truth Real

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How do we close the gap? By staying before the word until it becomes a reality in your life. By having spiritual understanding, we'll close the gap. And so sometimes we don't we read scripture, sometimes we don't understand the scripture. Sometimes we we need to get in there, dig, and study to get understanding. Sometimes you need to show up to church when the pastor is teaching. Because there may be something that God showed him that he didn't show you to help you understand the word and fully walk it out. Amen. Joshua 18. This book of law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night. Then you may observe to do according that is written in it. Meditation is not a casual reading, it is an act of deliberate engagement with God's word. It involves chewing on the truth, speaking it out loud, imagining it and repeating it until it sinks deeply into the heart and shape the mind. We got to stay in that word. We got to read that word. We got to meditate on those scriptures. When you're looking for change or you come into a situation, there's a scripture in the Bible for that situation. But we ought to meditate on that. We got to read it. We got to say it out loud. We have to repeat it over and over until it gets down in us. Amen. Man, y'all so quiet today. I don't even hear an amen or uh-huh. This kind of meditation is what keeps God's word close enough to direct thoughts, strengthen your faith, and guide you. You may stay around revelation long enough for it to renew your inner world. And talking about revelation of the word, the unveiling, illuminating of divine truth. That's what we have to stay around in order for that revelation to rewrite your interworld. Let God's word stay in your mouth and mind consistently and leave it out as you do. You will walk in success. God has already prepared the way for you.

Speak Faith Without Denying Reality

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Speaking in agreement with Revelation, 2 Corinthians 4 13. We have the same spirit of faith according as it is written. I believe and therefore I have spoken. We also believe and therefore speak. I believe and therefore I spoke. That means speaking in agreement is not just positive talking, it is the voice of faith. You're saying the same thing that the word says. Pastor Brown used homologuea. We say the same thing. We repeat what the word says. And the only way to know what the word says, you got to get in that word and study that word out. And we've already learned, we hear a lot of scriptures, a lot of things that's spoken from the pulpit. But not all of it line up with what the word says. And that's why we need to study the word. The Bible says study the word to show yourself approved. We need to study for ourselves. Amen. What you say, either align your heart with God's truth or pull your confession towards fear and doubt. We have to watch what we say out of this mouth. And sometimes we say anything comes flying out the mouth. And then we say, I don't know where that comes from. But the word says, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. So we're going to have to start guarding our mouth, watching what we say out of this mouth that we have. Your word begins to reform the distance between your situation and God's promises. Amen. Even though we know that God is not distant from us, but sometimes we can distance ourselves in our mind from God. Your mouth can either reinforce the gap or close the gap because words carry agreement. And just like when you when the pastor's up here speaking and you say amen, amen means you agreeing with what he just said. Amen. So sometimes we can agree with stuff that don't line up with what the word of God said. Amen. If you keep speaking only what the problem says, the gap becomes wider. And then that's saying, oh man, I'm so sick. Oh man, I don't know what to do. I'm so sick. I need to just get in this bed and just stay in here until I feel better. But even though your body hurts, you are supposed to constantly say, I am healed. I am healed by his strikes. We got to keep saying, I am healed. We can't keep saying I'm broke and then expect to have money in our wallet. We got to keep saying, I am prosperous. I am financially set. I am a good steward of what God has given me. So we got to keep saying these things out of our mind. We got to keep speaking in agreement. Does not deny reality. It does not deny that your purse may be empty. It does not deny that your body may hurt. But you got to still start speaking the word. It declares that God's word is greater than the reality you see right now or what you feel. We got to keep speaking it. We got to keep saying it. As they say, you gotta chew on it. You gotta regurgitate it. You know what a cow does when he eats grass? He chew on it, he regurgitate it, he chew on it some more till he gets it where he can digest it. And that's the same thing that we has to do with the word. Y'all that just popped in my mind. But the Lord wanted y'all to understand what I'm saying. Amen.

Do The Word Not Just Hear

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Walking what you know before you feel it. Amen. James 1 and 2. Be doers of the word and not hears only, deceiving yourself. This verse teaches that faith is not complete when you only hear the truth. Hearing the word is like seeing a map. But doing the word is actually taking the road it points to. You know, I can pull the GPS up on my um car, and but if I don't follow the GPS, then really no point me pulling it up. So if you're gonna read the word and not follow what the word is telling you, then what's the point? There's no point pulling out that Bible, reading that word if you're not gonna even do what the word says. And Pastor Brian was talking about um people reading the Bible. Um, you know, they start at the beginning of the year and they read the Bible. But if you're reading it and you're not getting anything out of it, you're not studying it, you're not trying to understand it. You're just reading it just to say, I read the Bible in a year. But the question is, what are you getting out of what you read? Are you getting understanding? Can you live it out? Can you walk it out? Can you even follow instructions of what the words say? Those are the things that we have to make sure we understand, make sure we follow what we're reading, make sure we do what the Holy Spirit is telling us to do. Amen. And if you don't understand it, ask somebody. There's so many pastors, we got plenty of them on Facebook. You can ask the question, you know, what does this mean? Help me understand this. Amen. James also warned if someone only listened and never asked, they may be fooling themselves about how much the message has changed it. Amen. He's about to get killed. Faith is not complete when it stays in your head. It becomes real when it shapes your choices. God's word is not just for listening, it is for doing. When you act on what God has said, experience awful followers' obedience. And what felt decent begins to come close. It begins to get real to you. Not everything changes before movement. Sometimes some things change while you're moving in faith. And we got to get past this. I want it right now. I want it instantly. I want God to do this right now. We got to get past when we come and pray. God, you you got to do it right now. Right now, if you don't do it right now, God, I don't know what's going to happen. We got to get past that because sometimes we got to wait. We got to be patient because God is working it out. But we have in our mind the way we want God to do it, the way we want God to work it out. Sometimes we want God to just get them. So-and-so did this to me, God. I need you to get them. And we're waiting for God to get them. But it doesn't work that way. We have to be patient and wait for God to work it out. Amen.

Inner Healing Restores Identity

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Allowing God to heal the inner places means inviting Him into part of us that still carries pain. We still have some pain in us that needs to be removed. We still have some fear. We still have some disappointment. We still have some shame. Confession about who we are. We have to be patient. We have to know who we are. So when we still carry that pain, that leftover pain from the past. And I can tell you how I know we have leftover pain because a situation can arise and your mind goes right back to that pain. Your mind goes right back to what that person did to you. And you know, you start to get angry, you start to get mad all over again. Just thinking about it, just remembering what they did. Your mind, you always start to get angry, you get mad because of what they done to you. But you know, we say, Oh, I forgive them, but I'll never forget what they did to me. Forgive and move on. And I had to explain to an uncle, he he called me and he said, I can tell you still got something against them, people. I can still You still feel some kind of way because I don't see y'all talking and socialize. And I had to tell him I ain't being rude, I ain't being disrespectful. But if you can show me in the word where he says I gotta forgive them and be their best friend, then I'll change my mind. The word doesn't tell us that. The word tells us to love them, it tells us to forgive them. It doesn't tell them we have, it doesn't say we have to be their best friend, right? The question is, who do you think you are in Christ? Do you know who you are in Christ? That's a question we have to ask ourselves. Do we know who we are in Christ? Do we know what we carry? Do we know the power that we have inside of us? Our deepest gap aren't just lacking of understanding. They are unhealed wounds shaping how God, how we see God. When we have unhealed wounds, when we have brokenness, it shapes how we see the father. If you got a mean and angry father, you got a cussing father, a drunk father, it changes how we see the father. Because we're looking at our natural father and we're defining our heavenly father just like we do our natural father. But the heavenly father is a loving, caring, providing. He's everything that you need. Amen. And sometimes when we have those types of fathers, we also carry unforgiveness because we can't forgive them for what they said or what they did or how they treated us. But we have to forgive them for the things that they've done. And to me, in order to see our Heavenly Father, see the kind of person that He is, the kind of Father that He is. He's loving, He's caring, He's providing, He's everything that you need Him to be. Healing only begins when we stop hiding those places and let God speak truth into those places. We need to hear the truth. You cannot pour revelation into wounds that are still defining you because pain can distort how truth is received. If trauma is still leading the conversation inside of you, even a clear word from God can still feel distance or heard. Heard hard to trust. Amen. This is why inner healing matters. God is not only giving information, but he is also restoring identity. So the heart becomes ready to receive what he said. Once he restores your identity, once he restores your heart, it becomes easy to receive the words that God is giving you. And as God healed those inner places, the gap begins to close. Because your life is no longer being driven by brokenness, by hurt, by pain. Once you are healed, those gaps begin to close. Amen. Revelation starts the land differently when identity is being restored. Because you are no longer hearing God's God through the filter of wounds. And I believe we have to learn how not to hear through the filter of wounds, pains, hurt, brokenness, poverty. If we're hearing through those wounds, then we don't recognize who God truly is because there is a gap. A wound will put a gap between you and God if you don't have that wound healed. Amen. And God can heal each and every wound, each and every hurt, each and every pain. He can heal them. Amen. Truth does not more than inform you, it frees you and it helps you walk in agreement with who God says you are. And that to me, that's important. We need to know who God says we are. And as the pastor always said, start with the book of John to learn who he is and to learn who you are in him. Amen.

Beholding Christ Changes What You Become

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The real process, 2 Corinthians 3:18. But we all with unveiled face, beholding as in the mirror the glory of the Lord, but being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord. Amen. This scripture teaches that transformation is not just about trying hard, it is about beholding Christ. You may say, What is beholding Christ? Because I remember last week when the pastor was talking about it. I was like, I gotta go look that up and get a better understanding of what he is saying. The scripture teaches that transformation is not about trying harder, it is about beholding Christ. It means fixing your attention on Jesus with faith. It's seeing who he is in the scriptures, recognizing his glory, his character, his love, and his power. That is what beholding Christ is. And as you keep turning your attention to him with unveiled face, which means coming to him openly without hiding, without the old veil of unbelief or spiritual blindness. Amen. Paul is saying that when a person turns to the Lord, the barrier is removed. And they can see God clearly in Christ. The Holy Spirit in you, what you repeat and look at begins to shape who you become. And that's why it says, watch your ear gate, your eye gate, and you're speaking what comes out of your mouth. Because if I can tell you from experience, what you watching, and I'll use this example. When there was this show um came out, and it just went away. When the show um came out, I binge watched it because I wanted to watch the whole show. Everybody said how good it was. Well, I been binge watched the show, but you know, I began to dream about that show. It begins to be in my mind because that's what I did. For a whole week I watched Empire, that's the name of it. For a whole week I watched it, and I began to dream about that. When I went to sleep, I started dreaming about the show. I started thinking about it when I was awake. And I was like, this can't be in my spirit. I gotta get this out of my spirit because it was constantly. I watched it from Monday through Friday. Every night I went to sleep, I was dreaming about what I watched on the TV. And so that stuff begins to get in your spirit. That's why we have to watch your ear gate and your eye gate and what you say out of your mouth because that stuff will begin to get in you. And you notice you'll begin, you're talking about it, you're laughing about it, you get with your friend and you tell them about what you've seen. And you know, we we can't do that. We have to get that out of our mind. And I thought about I don't ain't even in the word like that. I'm in this TV every day. I'm watching this show and wasn't even reading my word because I was so into what was on that TV. And you know, we we have to watch that. We have to remember that we have to stay in our word, we have to keep our word before us. I'm not the only one that done that. I know some more people that have. Okay. The Holy Spirit in you, what you repeatedly look at, what you hear all the time, what's in your ear all the time, what's coming out of your mouth, what are you watching all the time? That stuff begins to breathe on the inside of you, and you begin to think about that stuff all the time. Amen. So the real process is this through Christ, God removed the veil that once kept us from truly seeing him. Amen. And as we continue to behold his glory in the gospel, we are progressively transforming, moving from one degree of glory to another. So when I behold Jesus, I am not just learning about him, I am being changed from glory to glory. Amen. The Holy Spirit uses what I keep my eyes on to shape my thinking, my desires, my life until I begin to reflect Christ more and more. So if you keep your eyes on Christ, you begin to read, you begin to study. And I'm not talking walk around every day with the Bible in your face like this, reading the word. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about getting a scripture, studying that scripture, chewing on that scripture, speaking that scripture, studying that scripture until it gets on the inside of you. That you will be able to repeat it. When something happened, you'll be able to repeat that word, repeat what God said back to him. That's what I'm talking about. Amen. Paul is saying that when a person turns to the Lord, the barrier is removed and they can see God clearly. When we when a person turns to the Lord, when you give him your all, you give him everything, you just lay it on the line before God, and the barrier is broken. Amen. As we continue to behold his glory in the gospel, we are progressively changing. So when I behold Jesus, I am not just learning about it, I am being changed by him. The scripture used what I keep in my eyes to shape my thinking. And when you think about that, the Holy Spirit used what I keep in my eyes to shape my thinking. So, what are you keeping before you? The more you behold Christ, the more the revelation becomes natural, the more truth becomes instinct, and the more heaven can become a lived reality. Amen.

Catch Up To What God Finished

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Some of you may be discouraged because your experience has not caught up with your revelation. With what you know to be true. And some of our friends, I know what the word says, I know what the truth is. Then I gotta figure out how am I gonna get the truth to become real, to become my reality. Am I gonna be able to walk it out? Because I know what the word says, I know what he told me, but how am I gonna walk it out? By staying in that word, by chewing on that word, by studying that word, and begin to walk that word out. So let the Holy Spirit fill me with the truth so I can begin to walk it out. And we all have some things in our lives that we know that God done told us. The things that we know that we're supposed to do, but we're not leaving it. We're not walking it out. I can use um the prophetic word. We've got prophetic words over and over again, but we don't see ourselves walking that word out. And so we got to learn how to get that truth to become our reality. And a lot of people get um words they get prophesied over, and they think the next day, this is who I supposed to be. This is who I supposed to be. A lot of people we go get cars, we don't made up cars, we want to put our name on them, and you know, we we property this, we reven this, we pastored this, and we're not walking out what we're supposed to be walking out. It's a process, it don't happen overnight. It's the same way with some life situations. You didn't get in those life situations overnight. You got in those situations over time, and so therefore, we think, oh, I just got saved, I just gave my life to the Lord, and boom, it's gone. It don't work that way. We get disappointed because it don't work that way, but it's a process. I didn't get into this trouble overnight. I walked through it. Maybe year after year, maybe time after time. I walked into this trouble. And I can say, you already knew that you was walking into that trouble, but you didn't have the word to get you out. You had what somebody told you. You had what you've been preached, but you didn't get in that word and study that word for yourself to be able to walk it out. And that's what I'm saying. We got to learn how to walk things out. We got to learn how to take that word and live that word. And I don't think nobody in here can say, I'm right where I supposed to be. I'm living what's been prophesied over me. I'm living what the word says. None of us have arrived yet. We still got work to do. We still got a process to go through to get where we're supposed to be. Amen. But we can't do it if we don't hear the word, we don't read the word, we don't teach the word. We can't do it sitting at home. A lot of times we sit at home and we watch TV ministry. But that TV ministry, it helps you, it builds you, it may change you. But when you come out, as the words say, assemble yourself together. We come out together, we learn together, we walk together. Those are the things I believe that we have to do to get where we're supposed to be. I like listening to other people experience. I like to listen to how God brought them through because that gives me hope. That lets me know that if God brought him through it or her through it, then he can bring me through it. Amen. But the gap is not proof that he abandoned you. And sometimes we thank God abandoned us because we're not getting where what we want or we're not where we want to be. Sometimes we thank God abandoned us. But the gap is where identity is being rebuilt. Amen. The gap is also where heaven is teaching your soul how to agree with what your spirit already knows. Our spirit knows all things, and we got to catch up because we're falling behind. We have got to catch up. Our spirit knows all things. And the word says we know all things, but we know all things through the spirit. Amen. Because sometimes you can be trying to do something and you don't know how to do it, and you'll say, Now, Holy Spirit, I need you to help me do this. And all of a sudden, you get it done. And then somebody said, Well, how did you do that? Well, how did you manage to do that? You've done it through the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit says you know all things. There's stuff down on the inside of you that needs to come out. There's words down on the inside of you that needs to come out. We're around people all the time. And most of the time, we're not encouraging, we're not building them up. But that is what the word calls us to do: to build people, to use that word that's down on the inside. Don't just save it for yourself. Share it. Share it with somebody, share the word, share what you have learned with someone. Amen. God is not trying to give you a new truth, He is trying to bring you into the experience of what He has already finished through Christ. He finished everything through Christ. And what we have to do, we got to catch up. We got to catch up with where we're supposed to be and not keep falling behind, not keep lagging behind. And one of the things is showing up. Showing up to the church, showing up on Wednesday night. If you don't understand something, show up and ask questions. There's nothing wrong with asking the question. We think we don't ask questions because we think it's a dumb question. We don't ask questions because we think somebody's gonna laugh at it. We think somebody's gonna make fun of us. No, if you have a question, show up and ask the question because that's how you learn. You learn by asking questions, you learn by listening, you learn by sitting under the word. Amen.

Prayer And Closing Blessing

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That concludes my message. So let's pray. Father God, we just thank you for today. We thank you, Father, for everything that you're doing. We thank you for renewing our minds. We thank you, Lord, for teaching us how to live and how to walk out your word. Father God, we give you praise and we give you honor today because you are awesome, God. You're loving, caring, kind, and compassionate, God. You're everything that we need you to do. And Father God, we just praise you for being our Lord and Savior, giving you honor and thanks in Jesus' name. Amen.