Mind Your Business! John 20:20-22

Bro. Jesse Byrd preaches “Mind Your Business!” from John 20:20–22, reminding listeners to stay focused on the purpose God has given them and to be led by the peace and direction of the Holy Spirit.

Message preached on May 3, 2026.

Transcript

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Peter seed him says, Jesus Lord, and what shall this man do? Jesus says unto him, If I will that he terror until I go. What is that to thee? Follow without me. That's right. Father, we thank you again. I pray, Lord. We go off visible and screens and attraction this morning, God. Listen to the screen of my screen. Pray this morning that the seed of the Atlantic pray to the Holy Will Seed. Father, we pray this morning that the animals are in the same way. I pray all the morning. Amen. The title of my sermon this morning is Mind Your Dead. Amen. You know what I thought about it this morning is I was in my office. I said, I say it ain't 10 years. This is kind of a bad sermon to preach on the 10 year person. I'm trying to save it a little bit longer, but the title this morning is something that we all need to obey. Myself, most of all myself. I need to mind my business more. Everybody else does too. But, you know, and the good thing about our God this morning is that He teaches us these things that we must do. He teaches and instructs us on how to live a Christian life. So I think as humans, we have a lot of things in common this morning. Most of all, we definitely have a sin problem. Everybody born this morning, whether we're related or not, we all have one problem in common, that's sin. We all sin. We don't try to sin as Christians, but we all still sin as long as we leave the flesh. But one thing that we have this morning is we all have a nosy problem. We all are nosy. I know I've been around with some nosy people. I've been around with some people that all they worry about is what you got, what you're doing.

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And how much you got.

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Whatever you're doing, they don't care about nothing they got going on. They worry about you. They're going to ask you everything they want to know about you. They'll ask you where you work, how much money you make, how much food you got in the refrigerator, how much do you like deal. I know a lot of them, nosy people. I don't know, but you know, I don't think I'm at nosy, but I know a lot of nosy people. But it tells us that we tend to worry and try in everybody's business but ours. Think about it this morning. How many people woke up this morning? The first thing they do is to thank God for making it through another mind and thanking God for what they got. The first thing they do is start trying into other people's business. Word of God, whether they were worried about what they ate yesterday, word about how many hours he worked last week, worried about this new vehicle they bought. And we start complaining about what we don't have and start looking and pointing at what other people's got, and we get in their business won't realize it. We all the time walk God and fussing at God instead of saying, God, thank you. Many people have done that this morning. Many people this morning woke up and started blaming and questioning God instead of saying, God, thank you. That I have a bed, that I slept in, that I have a roof on my hand. All these things, but uh a lot of nosy people tend to forget our own matter with Jesus and worry about everybody else. The truth is, this morning, I've always heard, I'm in the business, and you won't you won't uh have time to worry about anybody else. Uh there was an old preacher uh that told illustration uh many years, I've heard it, my whole time been saved. Is that he told himself in the mornings when he got up, he looked in the mirror, he said, if I worry about keeping myself straight today, when I get myself straightened out, then I can worry about somebody else. He said, Every day he would come home, he looked in the mirror, he said, I didn't have time to worry about nobody else because it took me all day to worry about myself. That's the way we should be living. We look in the mirror this morning, we should be worried about what we got going on. That's how we can get closer to God. Not worrying about what he or she's done, but let's worry about brother Jesse from the time I get up to the time I lay down, and I have no time to worry about anybody else or what they got or what they're doing. So it tells us today that we look in our scripture and what Jesus tells Peter about this situation. The time is during the immediate aftermath of Jesus' resurrection on the shore of Galilee. And so many last instructions for Peter and the disciples to follow, but God, Jesus, was trying to give as many as he could before he ascended back to the Father. We must believe this morning that our God, our Lord, He knows how we're gonna die and when we're gonna die. You can take that to the bank because uh another saying we've heard our whole life, there are two things you can guarantee you're gonna do is pay taxes and die. That's true. Everybody's gonna pay taxes, everybody's gonna die. But the thing about it this morning is the God that we serve, the God that created us, is a God that knows when you're gonna die and how you're gonna die. God knows everything about you this morning. You've heard me preach it, you've heard me tell you over and over, and it's something that I hope speaks with you from the time now to the time the world ends. God knows everything about you, he knows everything that's gonna happen to you. So we ask ourselves number one, what will you do? Peter has just been told over in verses 18 and 19. It says, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, when thou wast young, thou girdest thyself and walkest whether thou wouldest. But when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hand, and another shall guard thee and carry thee whether thou wouldest die. Then spoke he signifying by what death he should glorify God, and when he had spoken this, he said unto him, Follow me. You see, Peter had just been told by Jesus that when you are young, you'll pull up your lawns, you'll garb up your lawns, you'll grow your sleeve back, you'll work for me. When you are young, you'll walk beside me. When you are young, you do everything that you're supposed to do as a young Christian, you'll be on fire for God. But the question is, what's going to happen when you get old? What are you going to do when you get old? You see, I now have been saved for 16 years, going over 16 years. And myself, I can tell you this morning that myself, I have to pray sometimes that I get that fire back that what I had when I first got saved. Because when you first get saved, you are on fire for God. When you first get saved, you can't get enough of God. When you first get saved, you can't read enough about God. When you first get saved, you can't pray enough to God. Every time you get into a situation, you want to pray, you want to read, you want to talk about Jesus. But the older you get, that fire becomes a little less burning. You know, the Bible speaks of it. Jesus tells Peter that while you're young, you're going to do all these things. You're going to want to be on fire. You're going to do these things. But as you get older, the question is, how will you respond when you get tired? Now you come home from work, you get tired. You get tired, you don't like reading the Bible, you're going to take a shower eat and go to bed. You don't want to read your Bible like you was once you got saved because you figure now over the years you've become a little bit more smarter and you learn a little bit more about God. You're not as humble as you once was. That's what human flesh tells you. But Jesus was telling Peter that all these things is going to happen. But when you do get on, don't forget to follow me. This morning, as a Christian, we may be 20 years in serving God. We may be 50 years. We may be six months in serving God. Or today may be your first day accepting Christ and serving God. But there's the number one thing we got to do this morning is follow Jesus. Long as we follow Jesus, that light won't burn out. It may get dim. I know a lot of them Christians this morning. I know times I'm going to be a Christian. But the problem is this morning, we allow that to happen. That fire won't burn out because Jesus says in him is no darkness. It's always light. So as long as you're born again, as long as you're a Christian this morning, you're going to have a light burning in you. It may get dim. But everybody, just as David said, God restore me the joy of my salvation. As a Christian this morning, we've got to keep praying. God keep me humble. But now when you pray that prayer, you've got to be ready to reap the benefits that you pray for because God will humble you, God will chastise you. But I thank God this morning that when we pray that prayer, God keep me humble, God chastise me. I know that God is doing it out of love. When God takes away this time, He'll give back more turn from you can ever imagine. So we thank God this morning and realize that when we get old, we're still going to die. We're going to die when we get old. The Bible says Jesus told Peter that you were going to be killed. Now Peter was a disciple. Peter was, I think, was Jesus right and amen. Peter done a lot of things for Jesus as his disciple should have done everything right beside him. But now listen to what happened to Peter. In case you didn't know, Jesus told Peter you're going to die. The way Peter died, scholars believed that he was crucified. But the moment they were getting ready to crucify him, Peter said, I'm not worthy to be crucified like Jesus. If you're going to crucify me, if you're going to kill me, how about doing it upside down? Put my hand facing down. Because I'm unworthy to be like Jesus. We're talking about a Peter that had denied Jesus three times. We talk about it in Peter that had disobeyed and walked away from God and come back to God. We're talking about a Peter that was Jesus' right-hand man. But he still realized that even though I denied Jesus, you're going to kill me, but I'm not worthy to be crucified the way Jesus was. That's the way we should be this morning. There's going to be times when you denied Jesus. There's going to be times when you walk a different walk you wasn't supposed to walk. But when we do these things, we've got to be just like Peter to find our way back to God because God is the only way this morning. So it tells us this morning that we've got to understand that Peter had a testimony. Jesus told him that you were going to be morning, so now Peter turned his attention to somebody else. Now our scripture tells us that while Peter was in school, he looked around and said, What about John? What are you going to do with John? The disciple whom you love, what are you going to do with John? You told me that I'm going down. You told me that I'm going to do this. I got to do this. What about John? So it says, secondly, there's no need of looking elsewhere. Look straight to Jesus. So it says, Peter asked this man, ask, what shall this man do? Jesus told him that if I want John to live forever, till I go back, John will live forever. If I want John to die, if I target John dragons around for 24 years, it's up to this mind and John's business. So it tells this one that God has a will for all of his people. All his followers, Jesus tells us that we have our own personal will between us and God. So when you get saved, you can't compare yourself to the man or woman set beside you. Just because they grow faster, maybe they're a little bit smarter. We can't look at somebody else and say, I'm jealous of what they got. As a Christian this morning, we've got to understand that God has his own personal will for you. Everybody has a calling. Everybody don't get saved and become preachers. Everybody don't get saved and become doorbreakers. Everybody don't get saved and become ushers in the church. When you get saved, God has our own calling, personal calling for you this morning. That calling may be a single. That calling may be a preacher. But if it ain't whatever God's calling is to be, I'm going to be thankful and happy for it. How many of us this morning is thankful for what God has called you to be? We should be thanking God this morning because God has a calling for us. So it tells us Jesus has a design plan for us and his will for each individual. Jesus had just told Peter what his will for him was. So this morning, as you think about it, if God gives me nighties, I can't be mad because God gave me rebuck.

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Amen.

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If God gives me unnamed, not popular shoes, I can't be mad because you've got popular shoes on. You see what I'm saying? When God gives, I should be thankful for what God has given me. Maybe my house ain't big as the next man's. But thank God I got the house. Because God has a plan. Maybe my vehicle isn't brand news. But thank God I have a vehicle to ride in. So we should be looking this morning and thanking God for what He gave me. Because I'm not worried about people I'm going to tell you this morning what that does. I focus should be on personal obedience and to avoid comparisons in the Christian life. We must stay on our own course. The Bible says that we got our own lane to run in this morning. Once we get in somebody else's lane, we start enduring their problems. I don't want any more problems than what God has given me, so I've got to stay in my own lane this morning. When you stay in your own way, you can't bother nobody else because you worry about you making it to heaven. Jesus said, put your hands on the cloud, don't look back. So that means you move forward. That means I'm moving forward in my own lane, worried about me getting to heaven. Now I'm praying for you, but what God has given you doesn't bother me. You understand? So I'm praying for now a humblest, a humble heartless one of a bird for you this morning, using the laws. I'm not trying to keep Jesus to myself. What I'm telling you this morning as a Christian, I shouldn't be worried about what God has given you because God may give you more. But if it does, if God cuts me off today, I thank God right now for what he's done. Still can't thank him of love. So it tells this morning that our focus should be on obeying God. We've got to understand this morning that in Galatians 6.14 it says, but God forbid that I should glory accept me on the cross of my Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I into the world. That means this morning that there's nothing you can do, nothing you should be boasted about of you going to heaven other than the cross, Jesus Christ. There ain't nothing you can do. I don't care how good you can read, don't care how smart you are this morning. You didn't do anything toward heaven. What Jesus did on the cross of Calvary is what brought your ticket to heaven this morning. So nothing I should boast about. It doesn't matter what will accomplish the Lamb Girl, what you're building at, or turn into a megachurch. It's nothing that we've done. It's all about what God has done. It doesn't matter how many good deeds I do. I can't work my way, can't give my way, earn my way to heaven. So it doesn't matter this morning. We should never take credit for what we've done. The Bible says that Paul said you should give God the glory. Because God is who we own, who we give the praise to this morning. Everybody has to give an account for what they do. And it tells in the Bible that it says that we, when we live to please God ourselves, we then can be obedient and not surrender to the works of the world. You see, there's plenty of things being taught this morning about different ways to get to heaven. Many of ways being taught about the Bible not being true. Some things in the Bible are true, some not. That's not true. The Bible says you've got to believe from the first word to the last word. So all these things the world is given this morning, we've got to stay locked in with Jesus so we don't fall into the devil's trap. The moment you give in to the devil one time, it starts becoming more and more. So it says this morning, the third of the week, God will correct you. Now Jesus asked Peter, What is that to you? You see, Peter just found out he was going to die. Peter just found out all these things that were going on. So he looks around and he asks Jesus about John. Now Jesus responds, what is that to you? So our question this morning is, if I'm born again, what is it to me about my neighbor? What does it concern me about my neighbor, what God is doing in their life? There shouldn't be no concern at all. God tells us this morning that it's none of our business to worry about the neighbor, what God is doing for them. As long as we are living right with God, God's going to make a way. No matter. We may struggle. Everybody's not going to be rich, everybody's not going to be poor. Everybody's not going to be pretty, everybody's not going to be never. But whatever the situation is, we should be thankful this morning because God has a specific wheel and plan for me this morning. You've got to tell yourself this morning that God has a specific plan for you this morning. Even though you may be struggling. He tries to make you see other people not having problems. He tries to make you see that everything is going good in their life and you're struggling. But the devil don't know this morning that what I have, what you have this morning, there ain't nothing no greater this morning than having Jesus Christ in your heart. So the devil can do anything he wants to do and show me anything he wants to show. But what I have in my heart, what you have in your heart this morning, the devil can't do anything about it. He can't steal our joy this morning. So it tells us that Jesus told him that jealousy causes Christians to fall into sin. In James 3 and 16 it says, for where anything is strife is, there's confusion in every evil world. Now this morning, as I said, there's a lot of confusion going on in our houses. There's a lot of confusion going on in our government. There's a lot of confusion going on in this world, and God says it comes back down to jealousy. That where there's jealousy in the house, we have confusion. As I said many times before, how many of you have family members that won't talk to you anymore because they become jealous? How many churches have split over members being jealous? How many preachers have looked down the road and seen preachers doing God giving them more things than we got, we become jealous and stop preaching. Jealousy will cause confusion this morning. So if we're living in a world full of confusion, we've got to look in the mirror and say, God, am I jealous? Am I jealous? If I am jealous, that's where the confusion comes in at. Because I want more. I want more than what my neighbors got. I want better clothes than what my neighbors got. We become jealous, and jealous cause problems. Churches split because of jealousy. This side get mad because this side have better chairs, have better Bibles, all these things. Jealousy would cause anything to split. So Jesus was telling Peter, don't be jealous about what's going to happen to John. You run your way. I've always told myself, told my children, that when we get saved, you've got to live in your own role. You've got to hold your own world. Not what your daddy done, not what your pastor done, not what your wife, your mama done. You've got to hold your own world. That means you've got to make it to get to Jesus. Not about the role of Silas, not about this role here, not the role of Ireland. But in order to make it to what Jesus is, we've got to hold our own role. That means we've got to roll our sleeves up. We've got to pull our pants up. We've got to be the ones to get out and work for Jesus while we're young, because then we get old, we're going to get tired. You've got to get all you can get right now while you've got good health. I think if I thought about it this morning, many people as we are in the hospital bed or a nursing home this morning wishing they would have done more for God while they had more time, more strength, and the city. This morning, we may be sick, we may be hurting, but you're still in good enough health to do things to glorify God. As long as you have a breath in your body, as long as you have a voice in your body, you should be thanking God daily, no matter what situation you're in, you should be thanking God. Because God is the one that gives it. So it says that when we have jealousy, it leads to big problems. It makes us selfish. In order to know a person that they jealous, watch how selfish they is. They get selfish, they don't care about what you got, they don't care about what they got, they want what you got. They want everything to revolve around them. That's what jealousy does. It makes us selfish. I could easily look down the road at these preachers and become jealous. That they preach in a bigger church. They've got a church right on the side of the highway. We're going to all these things. But my friend, I pray to God this morning that I never become jealous because I don't ever want to be selfish. I want to thank God this morning for being able to preach at Lambert Grove Baptist Church. I thank God for the dirt road this morning. I thank God this morning that we have what we have here at Lambda Grove because God has been good to us, and I will take nothing away from what God has done for us here at Lamb of Grove. So there's no need to be looking down the road, becoming jealous. Because if you start looking down the road, the devil's going to make you jealous. So it says it also creates disunity in the church. It makes us bitter, it hinders our spiritual growth. It causes us to neglect God's plan for you and to start doubting. So when you start looking down the road, you start looking at your neighbor, you see what they got, they start making you doubt what God has done for you. You see, many people this morning, probably 90% of the people around me that I know may have a better way of vision than I have as far as physical things. But this morning, as a child of God, if they don't have Jesus, I don't care how much money they got, I don't care how many bills they got. If they don't have Jesus this morning, they can't compare to what I have. They can't compare to what you have this morning. So we have Jesus on our side, we focus on walking that walk, walking straight forward, moving forward with God. Then we don't start looking in the mirror and start saying, What if for God? Many times we fall in that track, we say, What if God would give this? What if God gave that? But if God gave you everything you wanted in life, you would never have to pray for God to give you what you need. You would always be living on the outside, looking in. Many preachers this morning, if we get what we want. And all we need, we wouldn't be preaching God's word. We'd be tickling the ears this morning. But I pray to God this morning that I always keep asking God to keep me humble, that I may preach a gospel that would step on your toes this morning. When I prepared the sermon, I knew that it would step on your toes because it stepped on mine. That I need to mind my business, you need to mind your business, and keep walking that walk straight forward to God this morning. So it tells us that when we take our eyes off Jesus and what he's done for you, the devil makes you straight. Because when you start straying away, it's because you're not looking at God. The moment, just like it was with Peter, Peter, once again, Peter, Jesus told Peter to walk to him on the water. Jesus, Peter got out of the boat and he started walking good while he was looking at Jesus. But the moment he looked down or took his eyes off Jesus, he started crying, God, I'm seeking. Why are you seeking? Because you took your eyes off Jesus. Many of us this morning is seeking because we started good looking at Jesus. We started obeying Jesus. We were doing everything to follow Jesus, and everything was going good. I was making my way to Jesus. But that moment I looked around and saw the devil was offered him, offering her what the devil was offered me, I stopped looking at Jesus, and guess what? I started falling into that quicksand of that water. Then we had to cry out to Jesus. When you see Jesus told Peter, He came to rescue me. This morning, you may be seeking, you may be took your eyes off Jesus. But Jesus will come to you and rescue you this morning. If you cry out to Jesus this morning, God will find you. But we've got to find Jesus, we've got to call on him. Then it says that we must follow him. Jesus told Peter, you. He didn't say go back into your family, it didn't say go back into your brother. He said, You follow me. This morning, when we make that altar call, when we have that invitation, God is not worried about you bringing so and so forth, but God is worried about you. Because when you stand before God in heaven, God doesn't say, Let's read your family history. God doesn't say, let's read your job history. God doesn't say let's read your bank account, let's reach your neighborhood account. He said, You must give an account. So when Jesus told Peter, you must follow me, he was talking to Peter. That when we start following him, that means we're going to die ourselves. So it says that we must follow him and nothing else. Jesus told Peter and Andrew, who was fishermen, to follow him, they left their net to meet him. Jesus told Matthew, who was a tax cleaner, to follow me, that means he left the money behind, left the booth behind it, business behind it, and started following Jesus. Immediately, you see, when we delay, we become in trouble. You're going to go off on a red light and the truck delays you big ways across the intersection, you've troll. Somebody's with a T-board. But if you shoot the gas and get across, you're good. This morning, the longer we delay, the more time we give the devil to hit us. Stop delaying this morning and get your way to Jesus this morning. It says that we must come now. When Jesus calls, we delay with excuses that follow. Over in Luke 9 and verse 57, it says, and it came to pass that as they went in the way, a certain man said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee. Wherever thou goest, I'm going to follow thee. And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes and birds on their have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head. And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first, let me go bury my dead father. Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bear the dead, but go and preach thy kingdom. And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee, but let me first go to bed in the farewell, which are at my home at my house. And Jesus said unto him, No man has to put his hand to the fire, look back. See, God hit it dead on the head. He was the devil on the head right there. Stop making excuses. One tried to say, Let me go bury my dead father. Jesus said, Let the dead bury the dead. Then another said, Let me go back and talk with those that are still living. He says, Follow me. So it tells us one that we've got to understand that the third one, nothing against the dead, nothing but Christ come first, and the fourth one says, He wanted to go back and did for our well, but Jesus says, Follow me. This morning we're going to have excuses. I made them, you've made them, maybe you've made them for Sundays in a row, for second Sundays in a row, I did it for months in a row. Every time I felt the Holy Spirit, I made an excuse. Let me do this, let me get this done. Let me take care of this, then I'll get saved. Let me fix my problems, then I'll get saved. Jesus said, Stop making excuses for following me. Because God knows. God knows you're not in the perfect situation you're in. God knows that you are struggling this morning. God knows you have an addiction. God knows you have a line problem. God knows that you are nosing this morning. God knows everything. God didn't say stop being nosed and then follow me. He said, follow me. That means bring your sins to him and let him fix you. Maybe it'll take years, maybe it'll take months. But the moment you bring your sin to God, God, the descendants of the other hand of God, it is with your own hands. So he tells us this morning that we've got nothing to say. And Jesus simply told him, stop worrying about him. Stop worrying about you. This morning, as we close out, God is telling you this morning, stop worrying about your neighbors, stop worrying about who's sitting in front of you, stop worrying about who's going to tell you. Worry about you this morning. Have you been minding your business? If you really answered this question this morning, in closing, have you obeyed the call? Jesus is calling. Jesus said he's seeking for a man or a woman to stand in the gap. That means accept him and stand in the gap. Are you obeying the call this morning? You see, your journey God has with you is special this morning. Don't think God has saved you or will save you and leave you in the mud. God has a special journey for you this morning. You're going to go through trials and tribulations. You're going to have marriage problems, you're going to have a family problem, you're going to have a job problem, you're going to have financial problems, you're going to have a health problem. God is willing to take you. Somebody that was on their way to hell and give them paradise this morning. Just as the people on the cross. This man was on his way to hell. He said, Today thou shalt be on him in paradise. This morning, you can make that same reservation this morning. But you've got to be willing to call on Jesus. So we ask ourselves, have we drifted in others' lane? Are we minding other people's business? Have you asked God to help you? Because when we become so deep in jealousy, we can't get out of it. We've got to ask God to help us. So when we mind our business, when we do give an invitation, I can't worry about what so-and-so is coming up to get prayed for. I think it holds a lot of people back this morning because I'm worried about what they're going to think about coming up for. My friend, this morning, I don't care what nobody thinks about me because I'm worried about myself. I don't care if you think I need prayer. You may think, man, my wife's in a marriage, whatever you want to think is fine. I'm not worried about your thoughts. I'm worried about myself. The Bible says he told Peter, follow me. You follow me. So this morning, the only thing that matters is following Jesus. No matter what others have been called to do, Jesus asked Peter, what is it to you? You follow me. So this morning the question is, what is it to you? And the answer is what Jesus says, follow him. So we ask ourselves, are we following Christ? We must make sure that so many things that Satan is offering this morning. Do you have the real thing this morning? There's so many imitations of Jesus going around that it's not even real. But the only real true living God that we serve this morning is Jesus Christ. Do you serve the true living God, which is Jesus? You see, many of us are serving money, many of us serve our jobs. Many of us say we're serving God, but not the real God. Are you serving the real God this morning? There's only one true God, and Jesus says, I am the way, the truth, and the light. No way comes to the Father but by me. This morning, are you obeying the call? Let's find our business. Let's worry about ourselves. Am I living right this morning? Have I accepted Christ? Am I doing what God has called me to do? Am I obeying what God is telling me to do? In order to get right this morning, you've got to accept Jesus. Jesus gets you right this morning. Just trust. No matter what you want to do, God gets you right. Just trust Jesus this morning. Let's pray. Father, we thank you again for the scripture. God, we thank you this morning for chastising us. We thank you this morning for keeping us home. God, we thank you this morning for sometimes uh letting God's word cut us like a two-legged soldier. We may need to hear the good things and the bad things. And God, I pray this morning. Let me take this scripture on and take this sermon on you. We may need to mind our business. Stop crying, and everybody's been working by ourselves while we live it right. And mindfully things, please, God, and all day in God. This morning, God, I pray that if anyone is uh filling the Holy Spirit, draw them to come down and accept Christ as safety, maybe we dedicate their life. Or maybe just come down and say, God, forgive me. I've been running in other people's veins, and I need to get back to my own helping. God, forgive me for the jealous heart I have. Forgive me for the jealous spirit I've had. God, I pray this morning that we all strive to be like Christ. That we do all things pleasing at this point. Father, we thank you, we love you. We ask this in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.