WEBVTT 00:00:00.479 --> 00:00:05.280 Glad for us all to be together today and to open God's way. 00:00:06.080 --> 00:00:12.240 And it's pretty amazing to get to think about as on my way this morning coming to church. 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:16.239 I was thinking that uh we are six months old. 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:19.039 Just six months ago. 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:34.640 I'm going to the hospital for the birth of thinking back to uh my first child at six months old. 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:41.920 Just getting about the six month old. 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:50.719 I was thinking about um all the Lord has done in us, and the last few weeks we've gone through this series fearless. 00:00:51.119 --> 00:01:02.560 We've been talking about us and where we can have a fearless life, and that's been an amazing time, and many of you have shared with me how that's encouraged you and ministered to you at different times. 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:14.879 And today I'm gonna bring us back to the sort of center of the road, so to speak, today, as we talk about the blueprint church. 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:36.000 Now, the last time I preached on this passage um was March 21st of last year when I get to preach at a friend's church, was preaching on this passage we're going to look at today, and I was thinking back to that time in March of last year, and a lot has changed in the life of Multiply since that point. 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:41.519 March of 2021, Emily Mah had just been here in Frankfurt for a few months. 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:52.719 Um, when I went to go preach this message at a friend's church, it was Emily Ma and Liberty, and a couple others were planning to move to Frankfurt, but Multiply was very much just a twinkle in our eye. 00:01:59.840 --> 00:02:13.039 Obviously, I grew up in Kentucky, but we were in South Carolina at the time, a part of an amazing church, and the Lord made in our heart for us to move to Frankfurt to begin a work to reach the people of Frankfurt and Kentucky State University. 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:15.280 A lot of that's come to fruition. 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:18.639 I got to have an amazing experience last Saturday. 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:23.680 Um on Saturday, it was uh Kentucky State's first home football game. 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:35.919 Got to pray with the team before the game on Saturday, and I got to be on the sideline with the team, ministering them just to get to know them during their first home game uh here in Frankfurt. 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:44.960 And there's a foundation that has been laid that we're gonna look at. 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:50.000 Now, you think about blueprints, you think about the originals. 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:55.919 Where do we where do we even go to when we were talking about starting a church? 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:03.919 When you think about the blueprints of the originals, there's something that's very valuable about an original. 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:17.840 Um, actually, last year in January, the original 1952 Topps Mickey Mail baseball card sold for a record five point two million dollars. 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:23.520 It was the first annual set the company ever produced. 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:26.080 Listen to this. 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:44.400 The original Cotex of Lester by Leonardo da Vinci, a collection of writings of his from 1510, the original, sold to Bill Gates for thirty point eight million dollars. 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:48.560 And that was in 1994, that was 20 years ago. 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:58.960 There's something there's something the beginnings in the prototype. 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:31.439 But for us, we're six months old as a brand new church, and also when you think about the fact that we should probably be looking at what's the true design of what the church should be, what the church should look like. 00:04:31.680 --> 00:04:47.120 And it's got some implications because we probably wouldn't think about what did Jesus want his church to look like, and then think about how did the church, how did it start 2,000 years ago, and then how's it going now? 00:04:50.399 --> 00:04:52.639 And then what does Jesus have to say about it? 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:59.040 You know, it's kind of important because I was thinking about it with a little bit of a little bit of a time table. 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:06.800 So say like me, you may be like me and you grew up in church, or maybe you didn't, and that's okay, but you're here right now, whatever age that you're. 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:24.720 But just imagine if you're me and that you have been in church growing up, and that you know, maybe I live to the right age of 75, and I go to church that entire time, just for Sunday mornings, you know, to and from church, maybe do a Bible study here and there. 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:32.720 Over my lifetime, I will have spent 487 days just going to church. 00:05:32.959 --> 00:05:37.360 That's over 11,000 hours of just being at church. 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:38.639 That's a lot of time. 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:45.920 Over a year of your life, spending in what's so-called church, and that's if you don't even do more than that, right? 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:46.800 Over in the back. 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:54.480 So if we're gonna spend that amount of time, if we're gonna maybe we should think about, hey, what should we be doing here? 00:05:56.480 --> 00:05:59.040 What should the blueprints be? 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:02.560 And I want to center this back on the early church. 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:14.319 Jesus has been crucified and the right hand of the Father Heaven, and then to his disciples. 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:28.480 Jesus ministers for three years, then he sends them 50 scholars, three people who are following Jesus very faithfully on top of his 12 disciples that you've heard of, his famous 12 apostles. 00:06:28.879 --> 00:06:43.040 And Jesus tells you when you empower witnesses in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria to the ends of the earth. 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:52.319 Jesus makes this promise to them that in his head to heaven, that he the Holy Spirit. 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:19.600 And then we see Peter, the apostle, stand up at the day of Pentecost. 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:22.879 The Holy Spirit descends on them in Jerusalem. 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:39.519 There are tons of people who are there, and Peter stands up and gives a sermon like he's 3,000 people are saved and baptized that day. 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:41.600 Verse 32. 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:53.759 A deep sense of awe came over them all. 00:07:54.000 --> 00:08:01.920 And the apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders, and all the believers met together they had. 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:48.399 Easy to remember. 00:08:54.720 --> 00:08:59.919 They started in one place or in homes, and what did they do while they were there? 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:08.720 They were hanging out, getting to know each other, fellowshipping is a good Bible room, sharing meals, praying, teaching one another. 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:11.360 They started these little home groups. 00:09:13.759 --> 00:09:15.200 They were praying for people. 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:59.039 By the time we left Charleston those five years to come to Frankfurt, we were like great, great, great grandparent group leaders. 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:12.720 But we're seeing way back when thinking about what God could do here in Frankfurt, believing that God could do something just like that. 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:14.960 And more. 00:10:17.519 --> 00:10:28.480 Today, after the service out in the four-year, there's gonna be several sets of small group leaders who are out there to receive you and talk to you about homes right now in our community. 00:10:29.039 --> 00:10:31.360 We're meeting, talking, having meals. 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:33.759 We've got one group that's going over Zoom. 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:51.840 They wouldn't have that back in the early church, but we have people in Emma and I's living room made decisions to follow Jesus and be baptized. 00:10:54.559 --> 00:11:05.360 And what's so exciting, as we're already beginning to see that happen right now through the beginning work, a little six-month-old baby that Multiply Church is. 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:08.159 And I'm believing for so much more. 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:10.960 Believing for so much more. 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:12.879 We're sort of moving together. 00:11:15.360 --> 00:11:17.840 The second thing, this is a big bottle word. 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:22.879 We're manifesting miracles through the power of God. 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:26.320 They were seeing the miraculous happen. 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:38.000 A few weeks ago, my friend Omer, who you all know, who's a part of our church, older guy, got baptized a few weeks ago. 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:46.960 He came to me and asked me if I would pray for his older brother, who's older than him, who was going in for surgery that week after he was baptized. 00:11:47.200 --> 00:12:00.080 And so we stopped and we prayed in the foyer, and we prayed, I prayed over his brother, and the surgery that was gonna happen, they were going into his neck, some type of issue that he was having with his neck. 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:07.120 And Omer came to me the next Sunday, and he said, You're never gonna believe this. 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:09.600 I said, What happened? 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:15.120 He said, The doctors went in to do the surgery, and when they went in, nothing was wrong. 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:17.440 Amen. 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:21.519 The blockage, whatever it was, is completely gone. 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:30.639 And Omer, just being baptized, went to be with his brother that day and prayed over his brother. 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:36.080 Sat there on the sur for the surgery praying for him. 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:40.080 And believing the Lord can do whatever he wants to do. 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:52.320 It's just the beginning of what we want to what God what we what God wants to do in and through us. 00:12:53.279 --> 00:12:56.480 There's been all kinds of small little miracles that happen along the way. 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:02.879 People in our small group, people in our church praying for jobs. 00:13:04.879 --> 00:13:08.639 One person praying it, playing it, praying that their boss would take another job and they did. 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:14.000 The kind of miracles. 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:27.919 But when you're meeting together, when you're in relationship with other believers, we can pray together and ask the Lord to do powerful work in your life. 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:33.919 But it takes building in relationship of the power of God. 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:41.039 A third thing they did, this is the M's, meals and money. 00:13:42.159 --> 00:13:43.840 Meals and money sharing. 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:46.799 Boy, I'm so glad they shared meals. 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:50.799 Because now we have some great taco nights at small group. 00:13:54.480 --> 00:13:56.399 Sharing meals together. 00:13:57.840 --> 00:14:02.639 And even to the point where they were pulling money together to give to those who had need. 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:10.080 And you all know our heart, you know my heart, for us to be a generous church. 00:14:12.159 --> 00:14:14.720 And God's doing that this year, he did it last year. 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:16.960 Praise the Lord. 00:14:17.039 --> 00:14:19.120 Is this our little baby church? 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:21.759 We were able to invest in the community. 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:31.200 By way of finances and materials for different projects, last year, over fifty thousand dollars that we were able to invest in Frankfurt and Franklin County. 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:34.320 Praise the Lord! Praise God! Praise God. 00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:45.200 I don't know how that and the Lord's church. 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:52.320 You see that heart continue this year in our partnerships with the different local nonprofits. 00:14:52.720 --> 00:14:56.480 And I'm believing big for God to do even more through that. 00:14:57.840 --> 00:15:02.720 Sharing, giving, and generosity. 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:08.720 And the fourth in was though they were multiplying new disciples. 00:15:15.279 --> 00:15:16.480 Healthy things grow. 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:28.480 And what started as a seed for them was growing daily. 00:15:40.960 --> 00:15:56.399 But I found out since then that here in Franklin County that um thirteen point six percent of people go to church regularly here in Franklin County. 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:02.240 Which is not what you would expect, right? 00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:05.919 Kind of Bible belt feel kind of thing. 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:07.759 There's a church on every corner. 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:15.039 What it shows me is that God wants to do so much more. 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:28.080 There are people who maybe known Jesus, but they've fallen away or got disconnected from the church for whatever reason, something bad happened or hurt. 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:35.279 Somebody did something to hurt Zoom around the way and have disconnected. 00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:48.639 Or maybe they've just grown up and passing a church is the same thing as passing, you know, a business or a nursing home that is irrelevant to them. 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:56.720 But we know what God really wants to see and what the true blueprint is. 00:16:58.399 --> 00:17:10.880 The true blueprint is that God wants to prove a fresh wind, a fresh fire through the work of the church. 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:20.400 For us as a local church, that we will be a place that is multiplying disciples of Jesus. 00:17:20.559 --> 00:17:21.440 You know what? 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:26.640 We're talking about starting a church and the beginnings of a church. 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:31.039 You know, if we make disciples of Jesus, we'll make a church. 00:17:34.720 --> 00:18:01.599 You know, if we encourage others and have people in our lives that we want to share and love and encourage, and we'll be disconnected from God, if we'll make that leap, take that step to make one person at a time followers of Jesus, of ourselves and others, eventually we'll have a church. 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:03.759 And we do. 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:06.400 And God's going to continue to grow it. 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:14.640 A disciple, somewhere is a fully devoted follower of Jesus. 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:23.359 And when they begin to walk in there following of Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit. 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:31.680 And when that happens, when the Holy Spirit enters into you because you've given your life to Jesus, there's some benefits that come. 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:36.960 One is that you have eternity in heaven with God. 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:51.599 Another that here on earth is that's talked about in Corinthians and Romans that each of us have a gift from the Holy Spirit. 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:55.119 At least one gift, a millennial gifts that are in the scripture. 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:56.400 I want to share some with you now. 00:18:56.480 --> 00:18:57.599 I can't go through all of this. 00:18:57.680 --> 00:19:01.039 This is like a sermon series for I don't know, two years from now. 00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:06.720 But these are some of the gifts that God gives to us as we follow Him. 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:21.200 Leadership to encourage and help the building of the kingdom of God, administration, teaching, knowledge, wisdom, prophecy, display of apostleship, service, and helps. 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:31.759 Different gifts have to be lived out and shown the benefit in relationship with somebody else. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:04.160 Messiah, and he asked them, this is Matthew chapter 16. 00:22:08.319 --> 00:22:15.359 Verse 13, when Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi and asked his disciples, Who do people say that the Son of Man is? 00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:16.799 Speaking of himself. 00:22:17.119 --> 00:22:24.960 Well, they replied, Some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, others say Jeremiah or one of the other prophets. 00:22:25.599 --> 00:22:30.240 And then he asked them, But who do you say that I am? 00:22:31.599 --> 00:22:33.440 And look who pipes up. 00:22:35.039 --> 00:22:41.039 Simon Peter answered, You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God. 00:22:41.119 --> 00:22:42.240 And look at what Jesus told him. 00:22:42.400 --> 00:22:49.279 Jesus replied in verse 17, You are blessed, Simon, son of John, because my Father in heaven has revealed this to you. 00:22:49.519 --> 00:22:52.720 You did not learn this from any human being. 00:22:53.119 --> 00:23:05.279 Now I say to you that you are Peter, which means rock, and upon this rock I will build my church, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it. 00:23:05.519 --> 00:23:14.880 And I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven, and whatever forbidden on earth will be forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven. 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:18.799 Jesus looks at Peter and he says, Peter, you're the rock. 00:23:20.960 --> 00:23:29.440 On which at some point later, you're gonna kick start this thing on the day of Pentecost. 00:23:29.519 --> 00:23:31.759 You're gonna preach, and 3,000 people are gonna come to know you. 00:23:31.920 --> 00:23:36.160 You're gonna be the rock on which I build whose church? 00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:38.079 His church. 00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:42.880 Jesus gives the blueprint. 00:23:46.720 --> 00:23:48.720 And then he gives them the keys. 00:23:49.519 --> 00:23:51.440 Anyone got a set of keys on him? 00:23:51.839 --> 00:23:54.160 Anybody got set of keys on you can throw it to me? 00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:00.960 This looks like a nice car key. 00:24:01.039 --> 00:24:02.640 This may be, I maybe should keep this. 00:24:03.279 --> 00:24:04.240 Oh, even better. 00:24:04.480 --> 00:24:05.440 Even better. 00:24:06.240 --> 00:24:07.119 Mini Man. 00:24:11.359 --> 00:24:15.440 I imagine this is pretty important stuff on this key ring of yours. 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:17.759 You probably do want this back. 00:24:18.799 --> 00:24:27.599 The other day I was going up to my house, and I came up to the front door, and I was trying to unlock my front door. 00:24:29.039 --> 00:24:32.720 And I unlock it and trying to open it up. 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:42.319 It just wasn't unlocking, and I'm like moving the thing, and I'm standing there, and I'm keep doing the keys and I'm turning the knob and I'm trying to, and I'm like, what is going on right now? 00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:45.039 I got places to be, things to do. 00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:47.519 Like, I'm turning the key right now. 00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:48.640 This is not working. 00:24:48.799 --> 00:24:50.000 What is going on? 00:24:50.319 --> 00:24:55.680 And I was just me, and I'm like, I don't even know what I what I need to do right now. 00:24:55.759 --> 00:24:58.240 I'm like turning the key, pushing the thing. 00:24:59.599 --> 00:25:02.319 Well, we live in a hundred-year-old house. 00:25:02.480 --> 00:25:03.759 I don't know if you know this. 00:25:03.920 --> 00:25:07.039 As of September, we've just gone through a very hot summer. 00:25:07.519 --> 00:25:09.279 The house is swollen. 00:25:09.920 --> 00:25:15.680 And so I turned the knob and I'm like, the the door seems unlocked. 00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:18.480 And so I just pooped and the door pops open. 00:25:18.559 --> 00:25:20.000 It wasn't even locked. 00:25:20.319 --> 00:25:23.200 The house is just swollen up and the door stuck. 00:25:25.440 --> 00:25:27.440 The door wasn't unlocked the whole time. 00:25:28.880 --> 00:25:30.480 Boy, I felt like an idiot. 00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:38.000 Jesus gives us the blueprints. 00:25:39.200 --> 00:25:41.519 And then he's already given us the keys. 00:25:42.559 --> 00:25:44.799 The door is already unlocked. 00:25:48.319 --> 00:25:52.799 Jesus says that the gates of hell will not prevail. 00:25:53.279 --> 00:26:02.240 It will not conquer the building of his church, not our church, not for its church, not your church, but the church of Jesus. 00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:05.359 And he's already given us the keys. 00:26:06.960 --> 00:26:09.279 And he's told us what to do with it. 00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:17.920 And he's told us to take the blueprint. 00:26:20.400 --> 00:26:27.359 To start, to see new disciples be multiplied, to love and care for each other. 00:26:28.400 --> 00:26:31.359 And the gates of hell will not stop it. 00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:36.880 The gates of hell will not prevail. 00:26:43.599 --> 00:26:46.880 Jesus is handing you the keys. 00:26:49.680 --> 00:26:53.680 And saying, take this blueprint and move forward with it. 00:26:53.920 --> 00:26:57.119 Can you imagine this for a minute with me for just a minute? 00:26:57.680 --> 00:26:59.599 Imagine what it's going to be like. 00:27:00.319 --> 00:27:12.799 When we have a small group in every neighborhood in Frankfurt, and Franklin County, and some in Shelby County, and some in Anderson County, some in Owen County. 00:27:14.400 --> 00:27:16.880 Maybe some in Scott County, I don't know. 00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:22.160 Can you imagine with me for a minute what it'd be like? 00:27:23.920 --> 00:27:27.039 We see outposts of the work of God. 00:27:28.640 --> 00:27:39.599 People loving and caring and sharing one another, encouraging each other and building each other up and strengthen them in the way of the Lord. 00:27:40.079 --> 00:27:41.279 All over this community. 00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:42.799 I think about that. 00:27:43.200 --> 00:27:45.119 I think about what God could do. 00:27:47.279 --> 00:27:57.839 Not just for the sake of growth, but because less of 13% of people are experiencing what God truly has for them. 00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:05.279 God's handed you the keys. 00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:22.400 There are many in our community, and maybe you today, who are literally trying everything else. 00:28:27.519 --> 00:28:59.359 Trying other avenues, other ways of thinking, trying to get fulfilled through a career, through a job, through success, through putting money in the bank, having a boat, a big house, through relationships, all kinds of different things to try to satisfy and to fill up a place in their heart. 00:29:01.680 --> 00:29:05.519 Where God is the only one who fits. 00:29:09.200 --> 00:29:19.680 God is the only one who fits to truly satisfy, to truly bring life and fulfillment and salvation. 00:29:21.119 --> 00:29:22.240 God wants to use us. 00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:23.359 He wants to use you. 00:29:23.599 --> 00:29:28.000 He wants to use me to see that happen with more people. 00:29:29.599 --> 00:29:38.000 Maybe for you today, you've been coming to multiply for a little while, but you haven't taken the step to get into a small group, a community like that. 00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:39.519 You're nervous. 00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:42.000 What is this at people's houses? 00:29:43.279 --> 00:29:44.240 When do they do this? 00:29:44.319 --> 00:29:45.359 Like, what about my kids? 00:29:45.440 --> 00:29:47.200 We got all that figured out. 00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:54.000 And there's a bunch of people who are already going to these small groups in our church, and we want you to be a part of them as well. 00:29:55.680 --> 00:29:58.240 At the end of their service, there's going to be small group leaders out there. 00:29:58.319 --> 00:30:01.200 I would love to encourage you, talk to, talk to you. 00:30:01.359 --> 00:30:03.119 You can see them face to face. 00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:07.920 So it's not just completely intimidating of who am I walking into this house with? 00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:11.119 Where is this going to be and what's going to happen? 00:30:11.599 --> 00:30:16.480 But if you go and talk to them, you're going to see that they love and care. 00:30:19.440 --> 00:30:26.319 And I know that God wants to do so much more in your life. 00:30:28.000 --> 00:30:34.880 If you take some steps of faith, I'm believing. 00:30:36.319 --> 00:30:41.119 Will you believe with me about the small groups that are going to be started on K-State's campus? 00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:45.119 For those students. 00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:49.599 Come on, Lord. 00:30:50.640 --> 00:30:54.799 Will you believe with me for the small groups that are going to be started with young life? 00:30:54.960 --> 00:30:59.519 For teenagers, high school students, middle school students across our community? 00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:01.680 Can you believe that with me? 00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:04.160 Can we believe together? 00:31:06.880 --> 00:31:08.480 Small group's not the savior. 00:31:09.680 --> 00:31:10.559 Jesus is. 00:31:13.039 --> 00:31:15.519 And following his model, his blueprint. 00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:17.519 We're going to see him work powerfully. 00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:20.799 Will you pray with me now, Father? 00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:22.720 We're believing in faith. 00:31:23.920 --> 00:31:24.799 God, today. 00:31:27.440 --> 00:31:32.880 Lord, that among us, God, you want so much more for us. 00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:39.440 God, you want us to be able to see you to do miraculous things. 00:31:39.680 --> 00:31:49.359 We want to see you, God, do things that are an encouragement and building others up. 00:31:50.799 --> 00:32:06.319 And Father, I know that we want to see you, God, to fill our hearts, to fill our souls, Lord, on this side of heaven and for eternity. 00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:10.640 So Father, I pray right now across the room. 00:32:11.680 --> 00:32:21.039 For anybody who hasn't taken that step, that leap, to get into a small group, community, that Father, today would be the day that they take that step. 00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:28.000 Father, I pray for anybody in the room who maybe has lost it along the way. 00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:32.079 And God, that you would just put a passion back in their heart. 00:32:33.039 --> 00:32:40.000 Lord, to be a part of a community that's loving and sharing, just like in Acts. 00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:43.759 And seeing that happen with other people and multiplying that out. 00:32:45.599 --> 00:32:47.440 Reignite a passion there. 00:32:49.279 --> 00:33:01.119 Father, I pray across the room right now for anybody who does not yet have you, Jesus, as Lord and Savior of their life. 00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:13.759 Not just as a side thing or a check the box, but that they are truly submitted to you, Jesus, giving their life and commitment to you. 00:33:14.960 --> 00:33:23.519 So that you would work powerfully in and through them, that you would save them for eternity, that they would be alive with you. 00:33:23.759 --> 00:33:33.599 Today, God, all across the room, I pray for anybody who's not taken that step to believe you, Jesus, the Son of God, the Savior of this world. 00:33:34.799 --> 00:33:44.960 That right now, Lord, that they would proclaim in belief, in commitment to you, Jesus, that they would pray to you, God, something like this, Jesus, save me. 00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:51.920 I do believe that you're the Son of God, and that you died for my sins. 00:33:56.559 --> 00:33:57.759 Forgive me. 00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:06.160 Wash me as white as snow so that I can be with you one day. 00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:12.159 I commit my life to you. 00:34:15.519 --> 00:34:19.039 Jesus as you have given your life freely for me. 00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:23.679 Thank you for saving me. 00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:27.360 In Jesus' name. 00:34:27.679 --> 00:34:28.320 Amen. 00:34:28.960 --> 00:34:38.079 Hey, if you prayed that for the first time and truly meant it, I'm just celebrating with you. 00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:44.400 I'd love to encourage you, talk to you about it, talk to you about the next steps that are involved with that. 00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:47.920 Mainly to celebrate new life in you. 00:34:48.639 --> 00:34:52.320 Jesus forgiving you and saving you for eternity. 00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:57.440 Would you stand to your feet now as we respond in worship and singing?