Return To First Love (March 1, 2026)

A room full of praise can still hide a tired heart. We begin by naming God as fortress and healer, then move into a candid confession: it’s possible to hear God’s words and still miss His heart. Through a vivid dream of a diseased ear, a string of illnesses, and a quiet moment during soaking worship, we confront a tender truth—we hadn’t lost doctrine or service, we had drifted from first love. That realization opens a pathway back to intimacy that is practical, honest, and drenched in grace.

We unpack the difference between doing for God and being with God using Mary and Martha as a compass. Waiting, resting, and trusting are not escapes from responsibility; they are the engine of wise action. We explore how anxiety grows when agendas crowd out prayer, how leadership and family pressures chip at our footing, and how the enemy exploits small cracks when we rush ahead. Scripture anchors the journey: hearing with understanding, the whisper behind us that says this is the way, and the promise that even after missteps, God guides again.

The heartbeat of this message is the love lamp metaphor. When the flame runs low, it’s often exhaustion, not rebellion. We share clear signs that affection has dimmed—prayer turning into duty, worship going dull, irritation at correction—and map a gentle return: sit at His feet without an agenda, repent without shame, remember your first encounter with Jesus, remove hidden drains that siphon your anointing, and ask for fresh oil. God doesn’t snuff the ember; He trims the wick and breathes on the flame. By the end, we offer a simple, searching prayer and an invitation to respond, whether at the altar or in your seat. If your heart has cooled, this is your nudge home.

If this spoke to you, follow the show, share it with someone who needs fresh oil, and leave a short review telling us one step you’re taking to rekindle first love. Your words might be the whisper someone else needs.

Transcript

Praise, Promises, And Protection

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Hallelujah. We thank you, Jesus. We give you all the glory this morning, all the honor and all the praise. Father God, we thank you for who you are. We thank you for what you do. We thank you for all that you are doing. We thank you, Father, that you never ever change in this world that is constantly changing. Father, you never change. We thank you that you are beautiful for situations. We thank you, Father, that you would never leave us nor forsake us. We thank you, Father, that your word says that no weapon formed against us shall prosper. What beautiful promises you have laid out for us to partake of every day of our life. I thank you and I praise you, Lord, that you say that the enemy roams around like a lion, but yet you say that I am safe and secure in you. Father God, I thank you that you are a rampart. You are a fortress, Lord. That you are a safe place, Father. Psalms 91. He who dwells in the secret place shall abide under the Almighty. I will say of my Lord that surely he will deliver me from every perilous pestilence, and that he would hide me under his feathers. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Father, for that fortified city on the hill. I thank you, Lord, that you are my rampart. I thank you, Lord, that you are my refuge, that you are my stronghold. Father God, no matter what shifts, shakes, bends, or moves, Father God, we are safe and secure in you. Because you love us. You love us, Father. Your word says, Lord, that you would never leave us. Father, that your love never changes, that it is unconditional. What a beautiful promise to know that we are loved unconditional. No matter what we do, if we repent with a pure heart, we are forgiven. What beautiful promises He has given us. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I think of the promises to heal us. In Exodus, he says, I am the God who healeth you. No matter whether you're sick physically, spiritually, or mentally, he is the God that's going to heal you. Psalms 103. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is within me. Bless his holy name. Bless the Lord with all my soul and all that is within me. He says that he will load us daily with benefits. Daily. Oh my gosh, I stand in awe of the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. I thank you, Father, that you are the Alpha, the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. And here's the key to that. That I love my life not unto death. Because Father God, just as the song said, Come, Jesus, come. Lord Jesus, when you come, what a day that will be. What a day that will be. When Jesus comes and we see him face to face. And all of this in this world will pass and fade away. But we shall have eternal life with the King. Eternal life forever and ever and ever. And ever and ever. It's not temporary, it's forever. Amen. Amen. You may be seated. Hallelujah. Are you glad to be in the house of the Lord today? Amen. That was um my scripture last year. I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord. Well, Pastor Michael called last week and asked me if I would uh share the word this morning. I was so honored. And um as the week went on, come Wednesday, Tuesday evening, maybe, sure as anything, don't you know? That old devil, I got sick. So I went to the doctor, got all antibiotic, and praise the Lord, he's faithful. Amen. Amen. And so when he asked me to speak, I was like, oh, I don't even know what I'll share on Lord. And he says, I want you to share what I'm doing in your life. See, he told me many years ago, Cheyenne, that the breakthroughs that I have will bring great breakthrough to the body of Christ. Because his word says in Revelation, we overcome by the blood of the Lamb, the word of our testimony. Amen. So this morning, with word and deed, I'm going to share with you a um a journey that I've been on with the Lord for the last few weeks. And so I better turn that down. There we go. And so a few weeks ago, now you know I'm prophetic. God shows me things in the prophetic. I have prophetic dreams. It's just who I am. And, you know, he designed each one of us different. Each one of our designs causes to fit together as a body of Christ. Amen. So giftings that He's given me, I share with the body of Christ. And giftings that He's given with you, you can share as well. Because we don't covet them. Amen. So I had this dream. This is when my journey began. I had a baby in my dream. And this baby wasn't extremely healthy, had tons of hair, but it wasn't real healthy. And so my sister Joy in the dream was holding the baby. And she takes her finger and she goes into the baby's ear and she brings out this really dark brown black gunk. And the Spirit of the Lord said, This ear has a disease. I was like, I wake right up. I come right up out of that slumber. And I began, he began to speak to me. And he said, Holly, your ears have become corroded. You're not hearing what the Spirit of the Lord is saying to you. He said, You're hearing, but you're not listening. How many can agree with that? God speaks stuff to you. You know, I know better. I know better, right? So I do it my way, and then everything caves in, and I dig myself out of that hole, and he's still speaking. I'm hearing, I'm not listening. And down in another rabbit hole I go. So I'll give you an example. Do I think God makes you sick? Absolutely, positively not. But I think that when we open doors that we're not supposed to, when we go places we're not supposed to, when we speak things we're not supposed to, the enemy gets a crack and he comes in. So we'll start off with October. October, I was praying. I thought I was praying the will of God, but I I really believe that I was praying more my heart, not the Father's heart. And so the end of October, I got sick. Because, see, I think I opened the door to the enemy. Because I wasn't being directed by God, I was being directed by Holly. And I got sick. Come November, end of November, I got COVID. The end of January, I had the flu. Wednesday this week, sure as anything, I get sick. Strep throat. So see, when we open doors to places we're not supposed to go, things are gonna happen. Things are gonna, I'm not saying God's doing it, but I'm saying that you're opening the door for the enemy to have havoc with your life. Amen. So that's why we need to have wisdom. Seek his counsel. Just don't fly off of the cuff and do whatever you think God's telling you to do. Take time to pray about that. Seek his face. But see, in my spirit man, not my spirit man, maybe my flesh man, I sped up to here with stuff. You ever get there? And I'm like, I'm taking care of this. I'm gonna take the devil by the throat and I'm gonna put him down, he's gonna be under my feet. Amen. I just love him. And so this past weekend, not this weekend, weekend before last, I went to a conference. I didn't even want to go. Did you ever be there? I didn't even want to go. Some of the girls are like from Caddis, they were going. And the Holy Spirit spoke to my heart, and he says that it would be good for your social status to be there. So I'm like, I'll go. Well, sure enough, somebody pays my way. God's good, amen. So we go. Friday night is really interesting, different teaching than I ever set under. It truly was a teaching. It wasn't the spirit moving, it wasn't a great anointing, it was a teaching. The meat of the word. And on Saturday morning, they had soaking. And so I love to soak. I soaked for five years every Saturday of my life at one point in time. Great transformation, great changing. If you don't know what soaking is, it's sitting in the presence of God, listening to praise and worship music, and you're just journaling and you're just allowing God to be who He is in you. It's like um we'll say a cucumber and a pickle. You know, that that cucumber sets in that brine long enough, it's gonna become a pickle. Amen. And so it's it's a transformation during that time. And so um I go in and I sit down and I'm in the presence of the Lord, and he says, Go get your notebook. I'm like, oh my gosh, it's curved up front. I don't want to walk in front of all these people. And he's just like, you hearing but not listening? Okay, God, I want it. So I go get my notebook, I sit down and I begin to write. And he says to me he says to me that let me tell you what, this is hard for me. I'm being honest this morning, I'm being real and I'm being vulnerable. But he says to me, My daughter, you've left your first love. I'm like, there's no way, there's no way, and he says, Do you know how you're supposed to love? I said, I love with the love of Christ. He says, No, you love through bowels of compassion, deep gut, intestinal rooted love. That's how you're to love the body. I'm thinking, uh-oh. I'm going behind the woodshed right now. I'm in trouble. I'm in trouble. And so the things he says just amazes you. And we're having a conversation, just like me and Alyssa would have. It's just that that easy. He says, Holly, because he knows me by name, and he knows you by name, he knows every hair on your head, he loves you unconditionally. Amen. And he says, Holly, he says, you have allowed the cares of this world to come in and knock me out of first place with you. I won't tell you. You've been sick for four months, barely getting better, and back at it again. I understand that happens. You know, you're just not as strong as you were in the Lord, even though that's a time you should be pressing in, but the enemy just pushes you away. Anyone agree with that? He said, or the way he said it to me is kind of comical. Now you know, girl, I don't know why he talks to me like that. She talked to you like that. I mean, he's he's my father, he's my my go-to. He says, now you know, girl, that when you're being persecuted, you are in the very best company. Because you know why? The world persecuted him. Amen. So when persecution comes at you, we need to be like, yeah, I'm in the best company there is, Jesus Christ. But we don't do that, we allow it to knock us down and knock us down and knock us down, and we get back up, but every time we're knocked down, it's a little bit of us don't get all pulled back together. Amen. You agree with that. So we continue to have this conversation, and he continues to tell me that how much he loves me, that his heart is for me, and that he realizes that life happens. Life happens. So recently I was asked this question: how does your being with Jesus affect your doing with Jesus? Think about that. How does your being with Jesus affect your doing? Now, I am not a quick responder, it's I'm just not made that way. I am a processor. And so I have to process. I have to know all the nuts and bolts, I have to know how the whole thing's put together. I just can't get the knowing without the knowledge. Amen. So I had to know in my knower what that meant. So immediately I think, oh, it's a Mary and Martha syndrome. How is your being affecting your doing? And so Mary, Martha, she had a mindset of being disciplined. Do do do do do do do do do. Mary had a mindset of the kingdom. Agreed? Mary is kingdom-minded, Martha is disciplined. So we have to have a balance. We can't be at his feet 24-7 per se and be doing everything that needs done. Now, I pray, Holy Spirit, teach me how to wait, how to rest, and how to trust you in everything, the confidence in him. Do you have confidence in him in every area of your life? That's what we have to have. That's not a maybe or a hopeful. That is what you have to have is confidence in the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. That no matter what the situation looks like, he has it right here in the hollow of his hand. Okay. Okay, so I'm like, teach me, Holy Spirit, how to wait, how to rest, and how to trust you. When I'm in a waiting, I can still be doing. Amen. And when I'm in a resting, I can still be doing. And when I'm trusting, I can still be doing as long as I'm spending that time at his feet, carrying him in my heart, reading the word, having times of worship. And so Pastor Michael said last week, any of you ever said help? Help? Well, right in my notes from Saturday, I wrote, help. Life is hard. Help. I send out an SOS. God, it's hard. Is life hard? Sometimes life is hard. Amen. It's not all butterflies and sprinkles and rainbows. I wished it was. But this is what I know. If that's how life was, we would never grow. We would be a stagnant people. Because life, hard times, the valley, that's what makes us enjoy the mountaintop. Amen. So thank you, Mike. Thank you so much. So what I'm asking you this morning are, are you hearing to listen? Are you hearing to listen what the Spirit of the Lord is saying to you? Are you hearing to listen so that you can understand what the Spirit of the Lord is saying in this hour? Do you get all that spirit, all of that diseased out of your ears? Listen, he is speaking to us 24-7. But we are so busy on our own agendas that we don't catch it. That's why we need to have that time at his feet. See, if I spend time at his feet, then I am in a good place to say, Dave, this is what the Spirit of the Lord is saying today. Okay? But if I ain't spending time at his feet, how is there anything in me to pour out to you? All I'm doing is trying to survive today. Amen. There is a spiritual difference between hearing and listening. Jesus says in Matthew 15, he who has ear to hear, listen with understanding. Not your understanding, but his understanding. Trust in the Lord with all of your heart. Lean not into your own understanding. That's what gets you in trouble. Your understanding. Take it before the Lord. Lay it at his feet. Give it to him. You weren't designed to carry so much burdens. Amen. It tells us in the book of Revelation Let him who has ear hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying today. For those who listen with ears to hear, they will be fruitful in the kingdom of God. Do you want to be fruitful? Amen. You know, he ain't talking about my physical ears. He's talking about my spirit, my heart. You know, when we are spiritually hearing, we receive the word. You receive in the word today. We read the scriptures. Amen. We sense a spirit of conviction. You feel the nudging of the Holy Spirit. You know what God is saying, but yet you stay in a passive condition. Guys, I've been there. I got the t-shirt, have a milkshake, and a bag of popcorn go with it. Amen. When you are listening, you pause. Thank you, God, for that word of revelation. Thank you, Father, for giving me that direction. Thank you, Father, for helping me with this situation. You receive it. Amen. And you let correction come. God doesn't correct what he doesn't love. Amen. And then you know what? You obey. You're obedient. You do what the Spirit of the Lord tells you to do. Isaiah 30, 21. Your ears shall hear a word behind you. This is the way to walk. Walk in it. Have you ever heard that? The Spirit of the Lord say, This is the way to go, Tina. This is the way. But we have to be obedient to that. To walk in it. To walk in the way of it. That's what he was doing to me that Saturday morning. The Spirit of the Lord came right up behind me and spoke to me. This is the way to go, Holly. Walk in it. There are seasons when decision making feels very, very hard. Anyone agree with that? You know, motherhood, choices as mothers. I'm to babies, to adult children, is hard. You know, you need to pray about with like with my adult daughter. I pray about counsel I give her. I don't just run off my mouth because let me tell you what, that go fly. I know, I know how to bring things around. I come around the corner. Amen. I'll come directly at her. With our babies. Like with the baby. I seek counsel. How how what does this baby need? How can I show him love? When I pray for him, God, what should I pray for him? You know, God bless him. Bless every day of his sweet life. Guide him and lead him, direct him. When Rommy was in his mama's room over 12 years ago, she was prophesied that he would be a man of valor, a man that could not lie. We have ministry responsibilities. If any of you think ministry is a cakewalk, you need to step back and take another look. That's what I've wanted my whole life. I admit, that is exactly what I wanted. But I want to tell you what, there's a lot of bumps, a lot of hiccups, a lot of twists, a lot of turns. Marriage tension. Things come at us. Been married for 35 years. And the enemy finds a whole new tactic, a whole new way to come in and try to divide and destroy your marriage. Thank God you're steadfast. Amen. How many can how many agree with that? That happens. You know, he he slips and he slimes and he looks and he hunts and he quivers around and schemes and taxes and bingo. I say, God, what is going on? What is going on? See, this is what the devil does. My daughter showed me this illustration. When you are steadfast and you are standing firm in Jesus Christ, that's what that looks like. It don't move, it don't budge, it don't sway. You are firm standing on the word of Christ. Okay. The enemy hits. And the enemy hits. And the enemy hits. And the enemy hits. And the next thing you know, you aren't standing firm no more. Doesn't mean that you're not still connected, but you're not firm. He is coming with schemes and tactics that is separating. Do you believe that? How many of us has the enemy came and caused us to lose our stand in Christ? We are a quiet bunch. How about leadership pressure? Holy cannoli. That's a whole nother ball game. Amen. My gosh, you have confrontations. You have to have meetings with people that you don't want to have. You have to say things that you don't want to say. You know, God, cover me with your blood. Guide me, lead me, direct me, protect me. Lord, prepare the way for me. The last thing I want to do as a pastor is ever hurt somebody. So what happens? Instead of being firm in Christ, you get shaky. So in Isaiah 30, the people made some wrong choices and they trusted what looked strong instead of trusting God. Yet after the correction, the Lord did not abandon them. He promised to guide us. Amen. Amen. So here's what happens after the Lord brings us to that point, like he did me, took me behind the woodshed. We come to a time and a place where we quiet our souls. We lay down striving. How many of us strive? You're just striving to get to point A to point B. You're striving. You return to your rest, and you begin to hear clarity from the Lord. You begin to hear what the Lord is saying. The noise, the chaos begins to fade away. The anxiety. How many of you deal with that anxiety in the name of Jesus? I bind it right now in the powerful name of Jesus, and I throw it into the very pits of hell by the authority of Jesus Christ. That anxiety level begins to lower. You ever get anxiety so bad you can't turn your head? Your clavicles feel like somebody's. How about your shoulders? Gosh, you got the weight of the world on you. God says, no, come into my presence. Set at my feet. Let me raise that off of you in the name of Jesus. And then you begin to hear what the spirit is speaking. See, we were not called to be wanderers. We are called by the Spirit to be led by the Spirit. Amen. So that word that came up behind me, it was brought intimately. It wasn't harsh. It was brought not for a public applaud. It was not loud to validate me. But it was whispered ever so gently. Ever so gently. The voice behind you tells you that you are not alone. Anybody in here feel alone today? You're not alone. Lord Jesus is right there beside you. Right here. It tells you that you are being shepherd. Shepherd. Shepherded. Shepherded. That he is, you know, what's he tell us to do? Come and lay down beside the still waters. Let me wash you. Do you know that when we go to the meadows, that's the word of God. Even when you cannot see ahead, God sees you. In Genesis 16, three, Hagard responded to God by giving him the name Al Rai E-L-R-O-I. That's the God who sees me. She didn't call him this because he saw all of her faults. No, she called him this because he saw her loneliness and her pain. The God who sees you. So in the midst of my time with the Lord that Saturday morning, he tells me, Holly, once again, he wants to make sure he knows he's talking to me. Holly, your love lamp is low. I'm just like, first time I have ever heard that in my whole life. Your love lamp is low. I'm like, Lord, what in the world does that mean? He said, your lamp is turned down. Does it mean that your flames went out? It's just low. How many in here this morning is your love lamp low? Amen. That's not a bad thing. That happens because of life. You know, maybe you pray, but it just feels like routine. Anybody in the house? Your service, your doing replaces your intimacy. Your work for him is more than your setting with him. You become doll to his presence. He spoke to me at the beginning of this year. He says, I'm not going to have you dancing in and out of my presence. That's serious. When the Spirit of the Lord says stuff to you like that is that's shaking. I didn't even know I danced in out of his presence. But he set me straight. Amen. You don't know him. You know him, but you have stopped marveling over who he is. You've uh allowed other things to sit on that shelf with him. He tells me that, and that totally breaks my heart. He said, I'm warning you. I'm warning you. You are leaving your first love. He's warning us. He told me this word that he gave me, I am to share. He's warning, warning us. You are leaving your first love. Revelation 2. Jesus tells the church, you have less left your first love. Now listen, they didn't lose their doctoring. They didn't lose or abandon their works. They didn't even quit serving. They had drifted in their affection and their love for their God. That's sad. To me that's sad. You know where you are in your walk. I know where I am in my walk. I would have never dreamed in a million years that I had stepped away from my first love. Never. But thank you, Jesus, for shaking me up. Thank you, Jesus, for coming behind me with the word and getting me back on track with the king. You know, the love lamp doesn't dim because of rebellion. It's an emotional exhaustion. Anybody? This is hard. It's a disappointment in people. You know, maybe I disappoint you too. I don't know. But when people disappoint you, they say they're gonna do stuff and they don't do it. You have confidence and believed in them, and it don't happen, that pushes you back. And this is what happens. That hurt. Instead of saying anything about it, we push it down the pipe. And we push it down the pipe, and we push it down the pipe, and we push it down the pipe. You know what's gonna happen if you keep pushing it down the pipe? There's gonna be an explosion, and it ain't gonna be good. Sometimes as an intercessor can burn outward oil while the inward oil means refilled. Because you know what? You know how to play the game, you know how to smile, you know how to walk the walk, talk to talk, you know, and all the time you've walked away from your first love. I pray if that's you today, I pray if that's you today, that you will make that right with the Lord. Because I'm telling you, the spirit of truth is what brings freedom. Signs that your limp is low. Prayer feels like an obligation. How many? You know, I gotta be at church at 8. I gotta be at church at 9.30 this morning because if not, I ain't gonna get in the prayer room. Oh my gosh, I've missed it. I gotta sit out here today. Dave's gonna be here, and this is my fault. He should be here at 8:30, but he can't get here because it's a quarter of eight because you know me, I drag my feet. I can't get this hair to do what it's supposed to do. One eyebrow's higher than another. Every Sunday, something. It's oh, forgot to paint my fingernails. I better do that real quick. It's me. And I'm sorry, Dave. I'm gonna do better. I've made a public announcement of it. I'm gonna do better. Amen. It's when worship feels heavy. You ever have that time of worship and you're just standing there? Nothing's happening. Where's the spirit? Where are you at, God? Believe me, he didn't go nowhere. It's your heart posture. Ain't got nothing to do with him. He's here. Okay. Oh, you talk about more, you talk about God more, then you spend time with him. You know, he's great, he's wonderful, my gosh, he's fantastic. He's God, he's king. I can do all this mouth stuff, but I don't do none of this knee stuff. Amen. Here's another big one. When your love lamp is low. Corrective criticism irritates you instead of tenderizing you. When we was at the conference a couple weeks ago, oh my gosh, these girls cracked me up. I said, it's Pastor Holly, Table Talk Ministries, she's our tenderizer. I got the biggest kick out of it. Because that is what I do. I tenderise. I'm tender. You know, I bring I try to bring things in love, but I am now the tenderizer. So if you need tenderized, I'll come and give you a little bit of Jesus. I don't know. It struck me so fun. Pastor Holly Daisy, Tabletop Ministry is the tenderiser. You become more critical than compassionate. And I think that's where I personally walked away from my first love. Because I want to be firmly planted, stand firm. But the enemy had knocked me off my game. Amen. So here's the irony of it. How do I get my flame burning? How do I become red hot for Jesus again? How do I burn with such a burn that there's a trail of smoke behind me? That's who I am. But the cares of this world knock you off your game. First of all, you simply just sit at his feet without an agenda. Wait upon the Lord, rest in the Lord, and have confidence in the Lord. Repent. Gently. Not ashamed. Just honesty, Lord, has my heart grown cold? At these doors, but in the spirit, there are two angels who stands nearly to the top of the ceiling, and they stand with swords like this. But when there's a season of repentance. Their swords are like this. And I'm here to tell you those swords are held up today. Repentance? Oh my gosh, that's a bad word. Isn't that the worst word ever? I need to repent? Well what would people think? I've been in gross sin. No. No, that is not what that means. That means that you have fallen away from your first love. There's no shame in that. I could feel that shame today. But I'm I'm walking in what God has called me to do. Amen? Revisit your first encounter. Remember when you couldn't wait to be alone with him? Go back to the very first day you asked him in your heart. Oh my gosh, what a day that was. What a day that was. I'll never forget. The pastor, of course, it was the Super Bowl that Sunday night. And I go to the pastor and I told him, I said, I want to ask Jesus into my heart. And he says, That's okay, we'll do that. And I grab a hold of the man's tie. I'm serious. I want to ask Jesus into my heart. And I probably to halftime wheels at the older with me. But God, but God, he left the 99 to come get the one. Amen. That's the kind of God we serve. To return to your first love, you need to remove hidden drains in your life. The ones that consume your anointing oil. You have to remove those drains. And you have to say, God, you put in my life who you want in my life. You might not like that. You might have to give up friends. You're going to go places you didn't want to go be good that you don't particularly want to go. That your spirit wants to draw you back. The dirty devil wants to draw you back. And you ask for fresh oil. And the spirit, he will delightly fill you with fresh oil, a fresh anointing, a new beginning. The beautiful truth, Jesus doesn't extend. How do you say this word? It means to put out a fire. Oh, and I'm on. Nice. To dim your light, God's going to trim your wick. Amen. Brother Pastor Mike will tell me today. He's like, Holly, I couldn't even get to these wicks. He said, I'd take a knife and dig them out. Because it had burned down to almost gone. Now I got a new one in my car, but I've got to bring it in. But that's what God will do. He'll dig all that old yucky debris out from around them wicks and he'll trend them and they'll burn bright and beautiful for him. He corrects us because he longs for each one of us to have a closeness with him. Listen, if you are aware that your wick needs trimmed and that possibly your love lamp is low, and if you say, Father God, forgive me, it's already covered with his amazing grace. Amen. I want to pray real quick. Jesus, if and and if this is you this morning, if you feel that you have left your first love, if you've drifted from him, no matter what the circumstance, God already knows because he knows you. So, Father, we lift up the posture of our hearts this morning. And I thank you, Lord, that if I have grown cool, rekindle it, remove what has become dull, and cause my affections to be restored with joy of setting at your feet. Let my devotions be fueled by your love, not by obligation. Fill my lamp again with fresh oil in the mighty name of Jesus. Hallelujah, Father. We give you the glory, the honor, and all the praise. Pastor Michael, could you play that song, please? We're gonna play that song, come to the altar. Now remember, there's no shame in repentance. It is actually a ladder to go higher in God. And so we're gonna play this song this morning. And if you want to bow your heart at the altars, you're more than welcome. If you want to bow your heart in your seat, but whatever you do, don't stay the way you were when you came through those doors this morning.