Why did Jesus teach prayer to begin with worship? /// Prayer: Part 2

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If you're using this teaching for a Home Groups setting, we've included discussion prompts to help guide your conversation:

1. What would change in your prayer life if you began with adoration before bringing God your needs?

2. Think about the idea that many of us treat prayer like a spiritual 911 call. Where do you see that pattern in your own life?

3. Look up Matthew 6:9 to 10 and notice the order Jesus gives. Why do you think He starts with the Father’s name, Kingdom, and will before daily needs?

4. When your soul starts spiraling toward worry, resentment, or fear, what would it practically look like to pray, “Father, lift my eyes”?

5. Consider the phrase, “healthy prayer doesn’t just ask for God’s activity. It yields to God’s authority.” What is one area where you may be asking for help while still white-knuckling control? 

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Welcome to the Plum Creek Church Podcast. We're so thankful that you're listening along with us in this way. Now, if you're a returning listener, welcome back. But if you're new or newish, we'd love to become part of your listening rotation. So be sure to subscribe and follow to be notified when new episodes are available. Now, before we get into the message, we want to remind you of one thing. We really believe that if Jesus is right about God, about life, about the soul, then it only makes sense to rearrange our lives around what he says is true. Because when you choose to follow Jesus like that, it really does change everything, including the lives around you. Okay. Let's posture our hearts for what God has in store, this message.

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So, greetings to those of you that are worshiping with us online. Thank you for joining us today. This series that we're in is an important one. Some of you know that five years ago, I really felt like the Lord has spoken to me about really needing to create some very clear pathways for us to walk on together to what I mean, because the bottom line is if we're not becoming more like Jesus, what's this all about anyway, right? So we're trying to get very intentional about that. And this is starting last week and now heading into together this season where we're gonna focus in together on what it means to pray like Jesus did. What does that look like? And and so this is so important. My heart for this series that it wouldn't just be a series you listen to, but a season where you lean in. And so let's lean in together as we understand what it looks like to just grow in our understanding of prayer. Um, we don't want to just be people that talk about prayer, we want to be people that pray. And so we want to walk through that together. So that's why Tommy said you're not gonna get the full uh benefit and opportunity unless you grab one of these. So on your way out, grab one that staff's done a great job. We each took a different uh week, a topic, and wrote five devotions for that. So this is a way for you to really kind of uh up the game and let it linger longer than just the weekend. And then um, as Tommy said too, on Tuesdays, we're gonna gather together because have you ever heard someone that they're just a really good prayer? Have you heard that? This can be intimidating, right? When someone says, Hey, do you mind praying out loud? And you're like, oh dear God. Right? Friends, look at me. It's a practice, it's a practice. And the more you pray, the better you'll get at it. And so we're gonna practice on Tuesday nights together. So come, please come. We're gonna practice what I talk about this week on Tuesday, and we're gonna grow. So if you ever thought to yourself, I need to, I know I should pray. Raise your hand if you know you should pray. But sometimes we're like, I don't know what to pray. Raise your hand. Some of you, I get it. Sometimes I'm that way too. So, like, we can pray for a little bit of time, but if we're praying for a long, what are we gonna pray about? We're gonna be talking about that together over these next six weeks. So grab that guide, come to the prayer practice sessions, 45 minutes, six to seven. Let's pack it out. Exactly what it sounds like. We're just gonna come and practice together. So before we jump in, Tommy did such a great job helping kick off this series last week, and it's important for me to just jump back to it just for a second because Tommy unpacked this acronym using the word pray for us to be reminded of how Jesus prayed when he was in in uh when he was here. So we read these things in scripture. So very simply, Jesus prioritized prayer, Jesus responded to the circumstances around him by praying, Jesus asked in prayer, and then Jesus yielded in prayer. We see that happening in scripture. What a great way, and I want you to remember that, because in just a minute, I'm gonna reference it back again. Prayer wasn't a side habit for him, this wasn't just a spiritual accessory. When you really follow Jesus' life, we see it was not an accessory, it was a necessity. And here's just what I think. If it was for him, it should be for me. It should be for us. And so we need to learn in our expression, we need to learn to practice praying. We need to get better at this. So, if we're honest, for a lot of people, when someone says, you know, you should, I I got up at three in the morning and I prayed for an hour, right? Have you ever heard someone say that? You're like, Whew, three o'clock. The only reason I get up at three is to go to the bathroom, right? So, but usually what happens is I can't go back to sleep and then it turns into a prayer session, right? But when someone says they get up and pray for an hour, if you I mean, you've heard people say this before, and and I love that some folks are that they're prayer warriors, right? Sometimes you think like, what are you praying about for an hour? Have you ever thought that before? Like, what do you and I want to unpack a few things? Not that the uh the intention is to get you to pray for an hour. I just want you to pray. Whatever margin of prayer you've done in the past, I want you to just just do a little bit more, just understand it a little bit better. And so we're gonna talk about that because I know what you're saying, Doug. I pray for 90 seconds as best as anybody, right? I got 90 seconds down. I can do that. Listen, I could give you three minutes if life gets really nutty. If something crazy goes down and I my back is against the wall, I'll pray for three minutes, no problem. Or you might say, I got the prayer before meal. Anyone got that one down? So we know we got or praying on I-25 when you think you're gonna die. Someone's got that one down, right? But if we're gonna pray for just a little bit longer than normal, well, what is it? What is it that we would pray for? And so again, this is not just a series telling you to pray more, it's a series to help you understand what it looks like. How do we pray like Jesus did? What are some things that we can do to up our game in this way? How do I pray? What do I do in prayer? What shapes a real prayer moment? And what are some of the different uh movements that I can be walking through? And I want to start uh this week with the first one. So each week in this series, we're gonna give us like a different aspect of prayer, a posture in prayer, ways to meet with God in prayer. And uh, by the time that we're done with this series and we've walked through this guide and we've practiced our prayers on Tuesday together, here's my prayer. My prayer would be that it's not just a 911 call anymore. That prayer would be more than that to us, that we would understand this a little bit better. Um, so and that leads us right to where we went today. Remember Tommy's acronym, pray, right? We saw Jesus pray in a unique way. There's this thing that happens in an interaction between Jesus and his disciples that's super compelling to me. And it's found in Luke chapter 11, verse 1, where his disciples come to him and just ask of him this request, Lord, teach us to pray. Now I've been thinking about that over the last couple of weeks. Think of all the things that the disciples have seen Jesus do. Like, you talk about a drop the mic kind of preacher guy, he's got that down. And you talk about a guy who has hard interactions with the Pharisees, does that with ease. We see him doing miracles where people are healed. We see him have control over nature. We see him having control over the demonic in someone's life. We the disciples have even seen him raise somebody from the dead, right? So, of all the things that you would ask Jesus to do, why is it, I'm guessing, that it was because it was so compelling when they saw that Jesus prayed differently than they had heard about praying before. Why didn't they say, Can you give me a master class on raising somebody from the dead? Instead, they said, Lord, would you please teach us to pray like you do? Because there's something so different about the way that you do that. And so when we get to peek into this conversation that Jesus had, um we have an opportunity to learn a little bit more as well. There was something about the way that Jesus prayed that made them realize he says his prayers different than I do. And we want to learn to pray like that. Now we know how to throw up a quick prayer, God, I promise that's the last time, or thank you for our food students. Lord help me with my finals, right? That's coming. We'll be praying those prayers, and you should, before you take your final, pray that prayer. And for all of us that live in Colorado, maybe it'd be good if we just collectively prayed together for the Rockies to be better. That doesn't seem like anything short of a needed miracle, right? Uh, and you know, here's the deal praise God for the fact that He does like our desperate prayers, he wants to hear from you. And when life is challenging and something comes up that you know you feel unsettled about, he wants to hear your prayers. He's not irritated by that two or three in the morning prayer, but he wants it to be more than that. And if we're honest, all too often our prayers really reflect a 911 call. And that's really the extent of it. Uh something goes wrong, and we get a bad report from the doctor, or we hear of someone that's sick that we care about, a kid is struggling, a diagnosis, an unexpected bill, marriage stuff, decisions, work things, it just goes on and on. And suddenly we pray real well. God, I need you. Please jump in, intervene. I need your help here. And again, I believe with all my heart he welcomes that, but it needs to be more. It needs to be a little more than that. And so he gives us a pattern for a life of prayer. And one of the first things that he does is he shows us where prayer should begin. And I need you to see this because this could be a game changer for your prayer life. It doesn't begin with panic, it doesn't begin with pressure, and it does not become, it does not start with the list of things that we feel we need to pray over. Instead, it begins with adoration. Adoration. Now that's kind of an old school word. You know the word adore, right? Oh, that's such an adorable little kitten or whatever. Not a kitten, puppy. You don't say that about kittens around here. What is adoration? What is adoration? Adoration is this uh intentional act of getting your eyes off of your stuff and getting your eyes on the Lord, focusing on who he is, his character and his beauty, his goodness, the worth of God. That means to adore him. So when the disciples said, Lord, teach us to pray, what Jesus said first is deeply revealing because he didn't start where most of us start. Instead, this is what he said. In Matthew chapter 6, verse 9, he says, Pray like this. Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy, may your kingdom come soon, may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. So I want you to take away today this. Before there's an ask, there's adoration. Before there's an ask, there's adoration. What does that mean? Before what we need, we confess, we protect, there's worship. Before we ask, there's adoration. And that's what I want us to reflect on today. He's giving us an order, and the order matters. I need you to see the progression of this. And as we continue through the series, you're gonna see how it all starts to fit together. So he gives us this order. He starts with our Father, his name. It starts with his holiness, it starts with his kingdom and his will. In other words, Jesus is teaching us that the strongest prayers don't start with panic, they start with proper perspective. We need proper perspective. And that matters because some of us, we've been living in a constant state of panic mode for as long as we can remember, and that's huge. Because life's gonna bring challenges, right? Raise your hand if it brings some challenges. You've seen it, I've seen it, we've all seen it. Those of you that didn't raise your hand, I wish I had your life. You ever wake up in the middle of the night and one thought becomes 12 thoughts? Me too. Finances and children, grandchildren, the weird pain in your side that all of a sudden you're convinced is a tumor, right? That's what happens at two or three in the morning. The text you didn't get back, the email, the stock market, blockades for oil tinkers. Those are the things that just go through our minds in the middle of that's real life. And what happens is that's why Jesus' words are so important. What happens is life is gonna cause your soul and my soul to spiral. And we need to stop the spin. How do we stop the spin? If we're not careful, we bring that spinning energy into our prayer. We don't begin with, Father, in heaven, holy is your name. We kick it off with, God, I don't know if I can do it anymore, right? Like, I need your help. If you don't come through, the whole thing's gonna blow up on me, right? That's where we start. And Jesus says there's a better place to start, and that raises a really practical question that I want to unpack with you now. What does that sound like? What does that look like? Because adoration, again, is one of those church words. Sounds awesome, but I don't know how to do that. What does adoration actually sound like in the life of a real person? Because Jesus gives us this pattern in Matthew 6, and then there are many places throughout scripture. Today I want to go to a beautiful Psalm, and I want you to write it down, put it in your phone. I want you to remember this, Psalm 103. Because I want you to go back to Psalm 103 later this week, and I want you to let David's words become your words. So if you have your phone or your Bible, let's go to Psalm 103. Jesus says, this is where prayer begins. David says, here's what it sounds like when a real person actually does this. I just want to read the first five verses. The whole chapter is amazing. But let me just read these first five verses. Take a deep breath with me. David says, Let all that I am praise the Lord. With my whole heart, I will praise his holy name. Let all that I am praise the Lord. May I never forget the good things he does for me. He forgives all my sins, he heals all my diseases, he redeems me from death and crowns me with love and tender mercies. He fills my life with good things. My youth is renewed. Like the eagle. David's doing something here. He's giving us an example of what it lies what it looks like to pause before we get to our list of things that we need God's help with and do something just a little bit different first. It's not formal, it's not polished. This is a man, and this is what I need you to hear me say. He's speaking something into his own soul. Why is that so important? I don't want you to misunderstand what adoration is about. Um, your God does not need a pep rally, he's God. And in case you forgot, everyone look at me, we need to be reminded, he's still on the throne. He's the big guy. This is not about uh now. I think it's important for us to be thankful and to thank God, but there's something about this adoration that's not about God needing to hear you say this, it's about you needing to hear you say this. It changes something in me when I do this when I begin to pray. He's speaking into his own souls, and that must be that, in my opinion, is one of the most important insights into this whole message. He's not talking about prayer, he's coaching his own soul into it. He's not waiting until it feels worshipful or the environment just feels right. He's speaking something into his own heart and his own mind. He's saying, soul, look up. He's saying, Heart, remember. He's saying, All that I am, praise the Lord. And that matters because we as humans don't naturally drift towards worship. That's not the way we're normally gonna go. We drift towards worry, the greatest distractions. Have you ever tried to pray? And all that happens is every possible thing that you could possibly think about in the history of possibilities is going through your mind at like a million miles an hour. Why? Well, the enemy doesn't want you praying either, right? And again, this is what we've been saying all throughout the last several years as we're working on this spiritual formation, becoming more like Jesus. You just need to hear me say it again, it's practice. And when we practice, we get better at it. You're not going to become a better prayer by not praying, I promise. But when you will engage in this and you will do this the way Jesus said, it's going to change your life. Sometimes the most spiritual thing that we can do is tell our own souls where it should be focused. And I'm not just teaching you something, I'm giving you something this week. Because I want you this week to go home and do what we're talking about. So now I want to unpack three things, three prayer prompts that you can use this week before you start praying over your list of things that you need God to help with. Three prayer prompts that we can engage with, that you can start with this adoration before you jump into everything else. So three prayer prompts come right out of Psalm 103 that can help guide your soul when you don't know where to begin. Prayer prompt number one. Father, lift my eyes. Can we say that together? Father, lift my eyes. Why so important? Adoration recenters my attention to where it should be. That's where it starts. Adoration refocuses. I love the way David does this. He's coaching himself, remember? He's speaking to himself, he's speaking to his mind, his heart, his soul, and he says this in verse 1 of Psalm 103 Let all that I am praise the Lord. With my whole heart, he says, I will praise his holy name. Let all that I am praise the Lord. In other words, David is gathering himself in this moment. He's slowing the spin of life down, and he's trying to get his mind refocused where it needs to be. He's not just opening his mouth, he's gathering his mind, his heart, his soul, his attention, and his affection. He's kicking it off by saying to himself the same thing that we need to say to ourselves life can wreck my soul. So in this moment, I'm gonna hit pause and I'm gonna start by getting my focus right. And that's a word that most of us uh need because all too often we're praying with a fragmented soul. What do I mean by that? Part of us is praying, no doubt. Part of you is praying, but most of you is worrying. Part of you prays, but most of you worries. That's the same for me too. So David says, Let all that I am praise the Lord. And I love it that David kind of shows it just like we are, because by the time he gets to verse two, he's like, Oh, wait, I better say it again because I think I need to remind myself again. Let all, he says it twice, let all that I am praise the Lord. Sometimes once isn't enough, right? So we got to say it a few times. That's powerful. And and be reminded, that's not him saying, let the spiritual part of me praise the Lord. He's not saying, let the Sunday version, when I'm at church for an hour, that part of me praise the Lord. He's saying, Let all of me, let all of me praise the Lord. All that I am, and this is part of what adoration does for us. It lifts our eyes and it recenters our attention where it should be. It reminds me, and this is why this is so important part of my prayer too, um, when we adore the Lord, the first thing that it does for me personally is it reminds me that before I'm a man, before I'm a husband, before I'm a dad, before I'm papa, before I'm a pastor, before I'm a leader, before I'm uh in a state of panic, before my worry, I am first a child standing in the presence of my heavenly father. That's where it has to start. Now, when I start there, it changes the way I pray. Because my focus isn't on me, my focus is on him. That's why Jesus starts with this. Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. We don't start with my problems here on earth. We rather start with our Father who is in heaven. He's lifting our eyes. And if you're anything like me, this is vital because my focus gets misaligned way too fast. And this is part of the way that we get it back. Before I ask, there's adoration. Father, lift my eyes. Now remember, I said there's a progression to these three prayer prompts that I want you to pray this week. Once adoration begins to lift my eyes, it starts doing something else. It starts waking up my memory, it starts waking me up. And uh, because David doesn't just tell his soul to praise, he also tells his soul to remember. So the second prayer prompt is this Father, remind my soul. Let's say that together. Father, remind my soul. Why is that important? Because adoration helps me remember who God is, helps me remember who he is. David prays in uh Psalm 103, verse 2 May I never forget the good things he does for me. Why do you think he says that? This is deeply theological. You have to go to seminary to know this. So I'll get to share it with you. Ready? It's because we forget. How deep is that? That is incredible. Help my soul remember why? Because Doug forgets, and so do you. We need to pause every once in a while and just be reminded of the good things that God has done. And you see what happens when my eyes get off my stuff first and get on him, and then my heart starts to reconnect with the reality of what he has done in the past. Do you see what's happening? I can now become walking into his presence with a different kind of heart, a different kind of mind, and my soul focused in a different kind of way. That's such a powerful line. I don't think forgetting is amnesia. I think instead it's a response to the complexities of life that get us distracted from the reality of who he is and what he's done. So let me try and explain. We know his he is faithful. But if we don't start with this in our prayer, see, our souls act like we're alone. We know that God is good. We know that. But emotionally, we act like he's disappeared. You know, we know that he has carried us before, but I have to remind my soul of that because I am so quickly in a place where my heart is living like all of this stuff is on me. I have to figure it out. That's what forgetting looks like. I've had mornings where I I mean I have I've barely even opened my eyes yet, and my heart and my mind are on this frenzied pace of the chaos of things that I conversations that I need to have that haven't happened yet. Before my feet hit the floor, I'm worrying about decisions that need to be made and people that I'm working with or future outcomes, and it's like my soul's already acting like God forgot me. Before I even get out of bed. And that's why David says, May I never forget. And then he gets so specific, and you need to too. So maybe it's just praying. Psalm 103. Use his word. Some of you like, I don't know what to pray, so pray Psalm 103. Practice and watch what happens. So let me give you some examples of what David says. How important is this to be reminded? This is for somebody here today. It's for you because you have a hard time being in God's presence because you're ashamed of what you've done in your past. The enemy works his way in, it's like, you can't do that. Think back to all the bad stuff you've done. And all of a sudden you come with this disposition of shame. David says, Don't do that. He forgives all my sins. You see, if you've asked for forgiveness, you don't come in shame, you come redeemed. He says, He redeems me from death. He crowns me with love and tender mercies. By the way, scriptures say those mercies are new what? Every morning. He fills my life with good things. How about this? Because sometimes we think he's this cosmic cop up there, ready to bump us on the head when we do something wrong, right? David says, Well, we need to remember that he's tender, he's compassionate, he's merciful. How about this? He's slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. Do you see what happens when we remind ourselves of these truths of who our God is? All of a sudden we can walk into his presence in such a different frame of mind. We become experts on what's missing and we just focus on what didn't happen, what hurts, what needs to be fixed still, and what feels late. I've been praying about this forever, what makes no sense. We can be so good at noticing what's wrong and become blind to the very truth of the good things he's already done. So David says, May I never forget. So adoration is how our souls remember. Adoration is how our soul stops the spiral, and adoration is how our souls lift their eyes. And maybe, friends, maybe the reason that some of us are in this place where we feel so rushed, so anxious, so spiritually shallow in our prayers is not because we're not praying enough. Hear me say that. Not because you're not praying enough, but perhaps it's because we've started in the wrong place. This could change you. This could change your time with the Lord if we would learn to do this well. Because adoration is not God needing compliments. Remember, that's not it at all. This is about recalibrating, Doug, and it's about you recalibrating yourself. Adoration is for me. It reminds my soul who God is. So before there's an ask, there's this adoration. And here's what's so exciting to me. Once our eyes are lifted, our souls start remembering something else starts to happen. And this is for all of us, because here's how we do it we white knuckle all the stuff that we're trying to deal with in our lives. We white knuckle it. We hold on tight and we think this is mine to handle. I've got to get this figured out. Real adoration doesn't just make you feel better, it prepares you to trust deeper. So the third prayer prompt is this Father, loosen my grip. How about we do that? If you have your hands free, just raise them up, make two fists, because this is how we live life. Father, loosen my grip. That might be the very way you pray this week. You start with your fists clenched and you stop to pray this prayer prompt. Father, will you please just help me to release this white-knuckle grip of all of the things that I'm holding on to? When I hold life as it as if it depends all on me, I'll eventually break under the weight. How about you? And you know what's so silly about that? That weight you were never even meant to carry on your own. But that's how we do it. And this is why adoration is so important. Jesus says, May in this this progression matters. Now we've done this focus, we've got our heart connected to what he's done. And then we get to this uh Matthew chapter 6, verse 10, when Jesus is teaching his disciples, and he says, May your kingdom come soon. May your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Don't miss this. It starts with his name, it starts with his holiness, and then it moves immediately to God's kingdom and God's will. Because once you're reminded of who he is and you're reminded of what he's done, it's a lot easier to say, Okay. Not Doug's will, because that's usually what I pray, right? I pray Doug's will be done. Deep breath. I trust you. I know who you are, I know how you've been faithful. I have ideas of how I'd like for this to go down. But Father, not my will, your will be done. Do you see how it gets easier to pray that prayer when we're reminded of all these other things that are part of this adoration? Because once I've really remembered that He forgives, He heals, He redeems, He crowns me with love and tender mercies, He fills my life with good things, it flows very naturally then. And it's going to be easier for you and I to say, your kingdom, your will. Not because we understand everything, and not because somehow supernaturally I've just turned into a person that loves uncertainty. That's not it. But because I've remembered who I'm talking to. Every once in a while I need to remind myself of this, and I'm sure you do too, that when I take those moments to pray, I'm not talking to a stranger. I'm not talking to a tyrant. I'm not talking to a distant force out there in the stratosphere somewhere. I'm talking to my heavenly father. And that changes everything. Because if we're honest, a lot of us want God's help, but we still want a white knuckle control. And some of us came in asking God to take the pressure away, and he might be inviting us first to release the control that we've been holding on to. You see, Jesus is teaching us something deeper. Prayer is not exclusively just God, here's what I need, but prayer is also these moments where I'm reminded who he is and that I belong to him. Prayer is not just what we need. You see, that's the move, and that's what adoration is preparing us for. Because a healthy prayer doesn't just ask God to um to move for his activity to get going. Rather, it's about yielding to his authority. And I think that's why Jesus teaches us to start with adoration. If I start with my problems, my emotions will take over my prayer. But friends, if I start with adoration, my heart is recentered and my focus is on him as I'm walking into this moment of prayer. So this week, I'm double dog daring you, masking you. Please do this. Um, as a matter of fact, uh, right before the service, our team put together uh a lock screen for you. If you go to Plum Creek's Instagram page, you can download it and it will remind you of these three prayer prompts throughout the course of this week. I already just put it on my phone. I'm gonna show it to you real quick here. I think I can. I already got it on. Put it on your phone too. Go to our Instagram page and download that and put it on there. Father, lift my eyes. Father, remind my soul. Father, loosen my grip. If we prayed those three things and just paused in between each one to be reminded of what we've talked about today, you're gonna walk into your prayer times completely different. Author Eugene Peterson uh said this, but prayer, I love this, he classifies it as mature prayer, is dominated by a sense of God, not our problems, but God. Prayer rescues us from a preoccupation with ourselves and pulls us, listen to his words, pulls us into adoration of and pilgrimage to God. So prayer does, and so I believe if you will give this a try, your prayer times are gonna start to look different this week when we start with adoration. They're gonna be less frantic and they're gonna be more formed. That's the word that we've been talking about a lot, being formed by him. It's gonna be less rushed and more rooted in the truth of who he is, it's going to be less transactional. God, would you please do? And it's gonna be more relational. That sounds pretty good to me. I actually believe that's the way prayer is supposed to be. And so, if you would take the first few minutes this week when you pause to pray and start walking through these prayer prompts again, go back to Psalm 103. If you don't know what to say, just say what David did. Practice this and watch what happens to your soul. Not because your problems are gonna instantly disappear, but more importantly, what will happen is our souls get re-centered on the very presence of our Heavenly Father that's right there with us. So sometimes the best thing that we can do is not just learn a truth, right? You guys are equipped better this week to head into the week ahead and to pray in a different kind of way.

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Thanks again for listening. Our prayer is that this message encouraged and challenged you in your journey to follow Jesus. If you'd like to learn more about our church, please check us out online at plumcreek.church or if you find yourself within driving distance of Castle Rock, Colorado, we would be honored to see you in person on a weekend. So until next time, race and peace in the name of Jesus.