Acts 16: Midnight Praise and Kingdom Breakthrough

In this episode of The Morning Charge, Joshua walks through Acts Chapter 16 and shows how the Holy Spirit still leads, redirects, and opens doors with purpose. From Timothy joining Paul and Silas, to the Macedonian call, to Lydia’s salvation, to the casting out of the spirit of divination, this chapter reveals what it looks like to follow God even when the path does not make sense.

This teaching also digs into the deeper meaning behind Paul and Silas worshiping at midnight while chained in prison, and how their praise made room for a miracle that changed an entire household. Joshua breaks down the difference between suffering for the gospel and shrinking back in fear, while reminding listeners that God can use painful places to bring freedom, salvation, and breakthrough.

If you have ever felt delayed, redirected, opposed, or misunderstood, this episode will remind you that the Spirit of Jesus still leads His people, and He is still working behind the scenes.

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Welcome to the Morning Charge. This is your moment to slow down, breathe, and get your spirit aligned before stepping into the day ahead. Life moves fast, responsibilities pile up, voices compete for your attention. But before the noise of the world takes over, this is where we come back to what actually matters. This is a place for honest conversations about faith, life, purpose, and everyday battles we all face. No pretending, no religious performance, just the truth. Because following Jesus was never meant to be complicated. It was meant to be real. So whether you're driving to work, you're getting the kids ready, or simply taking a quiet moment for yourself, you're in the right place. This is real talk, real Jesus, real life. This is the morning charge. Father, I thank you. Lord, for this study in Acts. Lord, I thank you, Lord, that you've taken us to Acts chapter 16 today. Father, as we read these words on these pages, Lord, don't let them just be words on a page where it's just a where it just becomes a story that we hear and we move on, God. But let these be words that are etched upon our hearts, Lord, so that we will be able to recall it when we need to. But Father, that our hands and our feet line up with the words that are being spoken. Holy Spirit, come and move. You have permission to move in this room today. Lord, we just thank you. We love you. Just for your goodness and just being a good, good father. In the name of Jesus. Amen and amen. All right. Here we go. So we're going to see Timothy coming on the scene this morning. Going to be joining Paul and Silas on their travels. And so let's let's let's see what's going on. And there's going to be some things come up I'm going to bring some clarification to, which means I need to pull up what I've jotted down here. There we go. Alright. So starting in verse 116, Paul and Silas came to the city of Derby and then went on to Lystra. We've seen them in these places before. This was the hometown of the believer named Timothy. His mother was a Jewish follower of Jesus. Alright. His mother was a converted Jewish follower of Jesus, but his father was not a Jew. His father was actually, he was actually Greek. Alright, which he's considered a Gentile. Alright. Timothy was well known and highly respected among all the believers of Lystra and Iconium. Paul recognized God's favor on Timothy's life and wanted him to accompany him in ministry, but Paul had Timothy circumcised first because of the significant Jewish community living in the region. And everyone knew that Timothy's father wasn't a Jew. Okay, now I know this sounds confusing because yesterday there was a big there was a big thing, right? 15, Acts 15. Didn't Paul just fight against the whole circumcision thing? What are we doing? Why, why? So why? Why is he even bothering? I mean, his dad is Greek. Yeah, his mom was Jewish, but I don't I don't understand. So let's bring some clarity to this because I was confused too until I started digging. All right. So Timothy has a Jewish mother, Greek father. He's well spoken by believers. And even though Paul has fought against the circumcision deal back in 15, chapter 15, we see that in Acts 15, circumcision was being required for salvation. All right. And Paul is like, listen here. This is not even a strategy for Gentiles. So let's just, this is not even, what are we doing here? That's that's false teaching. Let's get this out of here. But Acts 16, circumcision is being done for a mission strategy. So this has nothing to do with salvation for Timothy. This has everything to do for his mission strategy. What do I mean by this? See, Paul refused circumcision when it was demanded as a condition of righteousness. But he is willing to remove unnecessary offense if it helped the gospel move forward. Okay, this was using wisdom. Paul is using wisdom here. All right. So Timothy, yeah, let's look at this. Let's look at this real quick. Timothy's considered Jewish in his culture. Why? Okay, his dad's excuse you. Why? He's considered Jewish in the culture because Jewish identity passed through the mother and not the father. All right, so you you like I said, if you're going to read, you have to go back and study the culture. You have to go back and look at history, look where they're living, look what's going on. It's a lot. But that's why I say you need to study things out for yourself. All right, if you didn't know that, this would be real confusing if you didn't really look at this. All right, so the Jews, so to the Jews, Timothy was a Jewish man who was uncircumcised, which would have immediately discredited him in any synagogue setting that they walked into and began to preach the gospel. Okay. So Paul knew, Paul knew what was up. All right. And you think about, think about Paul's history. Who does he go to first? Who does he always approach first in a new land? He goes after the who? The Jews. That's that's his first group of people that he's going to. So if Timothy had remained uncircumcised, he would not have been allowed inside certain settings to be able to preach the gospel. All right, Jewish communities would have, they would have dismissed him completely. Instantly. They would have pushed him aside. Ah, now can we see? Can we see what we're doing here? All right, so hopefully you guys understand that at this point, okay. Paul did everything, everything. And then, and then if you look, I mean, Paul says, He Paul says in uh 1 Corinthians 9, all right, 20 through 22, he says this. Paul says, To the Jews I become like a Jew to win the Jews. I have become all things to all people, so that by all means I might save some. Hello? I might save some. Paul was about the mission of the gospel at all costs. Okay, the mission of the gospel had to go forth, and so he made sure things were in order so that could happen. Okay. So that is why Timothy, that's why Paul had Timothy get circumcised. First, because of the significant Jewish community living in the region. All right, verse 4, let's keep going. They went out together. I just wanted to make sure to clarify, because yesterday was like, well, we got rid of that, and today we're still doing it. So what? So that's why. All right, they went out together as missionaries, traveling to different cities where they preached and informed the churches of the decrees of the Apostolic Council of Jerusalem for the non-Jewish converts to observe. All the churches were growing daily and were encouraged and strengthened in their faith. So all the healthy, healthy churches. All right. Now there's people still a part of these churches, and as you continue in all the books after Acts, Romans, 1st Corinthians, 2nd, you're gonna see you're gonna see Paul correcting when correction needs to come and making sure everybody's all on the same page, and we still see that today. Okay. Verse 6. The Holy Spirit had forbidden Paul and his partners to preach the word in the southwestern provinces of Turkey. So they ministered throughout the region of central and west central Turkey. When they got as far west as the borders of Mysia, they repeatedly attempted to go north into the province of Bithhnia. Help me, Jesus. Alright, so they so they're making their way up into Turkey. All right, and at some point they make their way even up into parts of to parts of Europe and Turkey. All right. But again, but again, see, I want you to understand this. When they got as far west as the borders of Mysia, they repeatedly attempted, all right, there's a key word here, they attempted to go north, but again, the spirit of Jesus would not allow them to enter. The Holy Spirit would not allow them to enter. Now, now we don't know how the Holy Spirit kept them from going there, but it could have been through a warning given by means of dreams or visions, all right, because that's how that was. Oh my gosh, what in the world is that? Thanks, Laurie. It could have been through dreams or visions because we know that's how the Lord is speaking to these guys, all right? But in any case, it's obvious the Holy Spirit was guiding his missionaries. These were ones that weren't afraid to stick close to the Holy Spirit. They were fasting, they were praying, they were traveling. When God said go, they would go. When he said stop, they would stop. If he said no, don't go north, no, they didn't go north. He is the Lord of the harvest who prepares, imparts gifts, he anoints, and sends out his servants to gather the nations to Jesus. There's a little footnote here. It says the book of Acts is best understood as the book of activities of the Holy Spirit. Come on, somebody. That's just really good. I had to read that. The book of Acts is like the book of activities. That means you have to be active. Means we have to be activated. Come on. Here he is designated the Spirit of Jesus. Did you hear that? The Spirit of Jesus, true and lasting fruit in ministry, comes through the work and the leading of the Spirit of Jesus. I thought that was interesting too, because that's how that translates out. But the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to enter. They stuck real close to him. They listened to his voice and his leading. Verse 8 So instead they went right on through the province of Mysia to the seaport of Troas. While staying there, Paul experienced a supernatural, ecstatic vision during the night. Lord had to lead him somewhere so he could have a vision. A man from Macedonia appeared before him in this vision, pleading with him, You must come across the sea to Macedonia and help us. Well, after Paul had this vision, we immediately prepared to cross over to Macedonia. There's a footnote for we. Apparently Luke now joins them, all right, and the team and going to Macedonia. This is the first instance in Acts of the Gospel actually going to Europe at this point. Luke likely left the group later as he is not included in the team starting in verse 40. All right, but the portions of Acts appear to be Luke's missionary travel journal. Okay, that's just a fun fact for you to pass along there. But we, all right, Luke is joining them now, immediately prepared to cross over to Macedonia, convinced that God himself was calling us to go and preach the wonderful news of the gospel to them. Once again, I mean, Paul is one, he gets a vision, and there's a man from there saying, You must come help us. The Lord can speak to us in these ways still today, by the way. What are we missing? Because we're not taking time to really sit at his feet and listen. We're ready to hurry off to whatever's next. Because there's so many important things we got to get to. Important. Things I used to really call important. That's another story another time. All right, here we go. Verse 11. Now from Troaz we sailed a straight course to the island of Samothrace. And the next day to Neapolis. Not Minneapolis. Neapolis. Finally, we reached Philippi, a major city in the Roman colony of Macedonia, and we remained there for a number of days. Alright, so now they have gone to the capital city of this place. The Aramaic could have said, in a matter of days, we were well known in this city. The Aramaic says we were there over certain holy days, but regardless, they were there for a number of days. When the Sabbath day came, verse 13, we went outside the gates of the city to the nearby river, for there appeared to be a house of prayer and worship there. Although the Greek text is what's implied here, the Aramaic says, We saw it was we saw it was a house or a place of prayer there. Sitting on the riverbank, we struck up a conversation with some of the women who had gathered there. One of them was Lydia, a businesswoman from the city of Thyatara. Thyatarah, goodness help us, who was a dealer of exquisite purple cloth and a Jewish convert. And what you need to know about purple, it's amazing that it lists that color. Purple cloth or purple dye on cloth was an extremely rare commodity, and it was seen mostly among the wealthy. So it was very, it's very rare to see somebody standing there with it. But she was a dealer of this color, purple cloth. While Paul shared the good news with her, God opened her heart to receive Paul's message. She devoted herself to the Lord, and we baptized her and her entire family. Afterwards, she urged us to stay in her home, saying, Since I am now a believer in the Lord, come and stay in my house. So we were persuaded to stay there. When God sends you somewhere, he has a plan. If the Lord's giving you dreams or visions about something, you better find your way to that place or talking to that someone because there's a plan in the midst of this. All right. We have still haven't seen the whole plan unfold. Let's keep going. One day, this is verse 16. One day as we were going to the house of prayer, we encountered a young slave girl who had an evil spirit of divination, the spirit of Python. All right, in the religious context of Greek mythology, uh mythology, she was an oracle. All right. I'm going to dive into this. I'm going to get through this part about the Python spirit, but I want us to be able to understand this. And so I am going to go over here and I'm going to, I'm going to kind of break this down a little bit for you, okay? But anyway, there was a girl that had the spirit of Python. She had earned great profits for her owners by being a fortune teller. She kept following us, shouting, These men are servants of the great high God, and they're telling us how to be saved. Day after day, she continued to do this. I mean, this wasn't just one day. This was day after day after day until Paul, greatly annoyed, the word says, turned and said to the spirit indwelling her, I command you in the name of Jesus, the anointed one, to come out of her now. And at that very moment the spirit came out of her. When her owners realized that their potential of making profit had vanished, they forcefully seized Paul and Silas and dragged them off to the city square to face the authorities. When they appeared before the Roman soldiers and magistrates, the slave owners leveled accusations against them, saying, These Jews are troublemakers. They're throwing our city into confusion. They're pushing their Jewish religion down our throats. It's wrong and unlawful for them to promote these Jewish ways, for we are Romans living in a Roman colony. A great crowd gathered, and all the people joined in to come against them. The Roman officials ordered that Paul and Silas be stripped of their garments and beaten with rods on their bare backs. Goodness gracious. Got some trouble here. Now we're gonna find out some other things coming up. Okay, now they're they're they're throwing them under the bus as being Jews. So get them in there. They're preaching this thing. They've never heard the gospel before, they've never heard any of this. But okay, before I go much further, let's go ahead and break down the python spirit. Alright, let's let's go ahead and do that. I was gonna move on and come back to it, but I think we'll we'll just deal with it while we're here, instead of doing recap notes like I usually do. Alright, so as we see here, there's a slave girl who had the spirit of divination, it said. Alright, in the Greek phrase pneuma pythonia, or pneuma pythona, it literally means the spirit of Python. Alright, and that's gonna matter. Alright, in Greek mythology, let's look at this. Greek mythology, the god Apollo was said to have unalived a serpent named Python at Delphi. After unaliving it, Apollo established the famous oracle of Delphi. The priestess who gave prophetic utterances there was called the Pythia. Python became associated with divination, fortune telling, and prophetic spirits. This would be false prophets, by the way. False prophetic spirit. So when Luke is writing to us the spirit of Python that we see here, everyone in the Roman world knew exactly what this meant. They already knew what he's talking about. All right, a spirit of supernatural divination connected to the occult prophetic system of Delphi. All right, the girl wasn't just she wasn't just mentally unstable. Okay, she literally was demon-possessed. All right, with this, with this pagan spirit. And so the fascinating thing about this is the girl was shouting, these men are servants of the most high. They're servant, and they're telling us how to be saved. She was shouting a truthful statement. They were servants of the great high God, and they were telling us how to be saved. But the source that information was coming from was demonic. See, I want us to understand something. The enemy can speak truth. There's some things we got to think about here. The enemy can speak, so that that was a truthful statement. It was the source that it was coming out of. You know, the enemy can promote God's servants and lift them up. The enemy can use all the right language to say all the right things, but the source it's flowing out of, that well is corrupt. There's nothing good inside of there. So this said it was happening day after day, day after day, day after day. Paul got extremely annoyed, it said. He was very irritated because the gospel cannot be validated by a demonic endorsement. And it was being validated by the enemy. See, it was being validated. Paul did not want the church's authority to be linked to the Delphi system, which is exactly where this spirit came from. So he doesn't hold back. He cast that thing out. He says, Come out of her now. Day after day after day, he noticed the pattern. He picked up on it. He sensed the spirit. That you know, that's it's important for us to sense the spirits that are operating around us. This doesn't remember, y'all know me. This doesn't mean we go out looking for spiritual warfare everywhere that we go. I'm always there's lurking behind the bushes. No, but we are always aware of our surroundings. We don't find the enemy in everyone, in everything. But when something like this, when it pops up, you use discernment to know, hmm, that's not right. Why didn't Paul deal with it on the first day? Perhaps he was allowing the Holy Spirit to lead him and guide him in this. See, he he let it go on for a little bit, and then all of a sudden, the Holy Spirit spoke to him and he dealt with this thing. It was that discernment on the inside of him. In Deuteronomy 18, we see where God forbids divination and fortune telling. Or if we just want to go back and see where this shows up and where these spirits have seen operating before, Deuteronomy is a place. 1 Samuel 28, we see where Saul and the medium of indoor. All right, so we see another fortune telling spirit operating there. Leviticus 19 and 31 do not turn to mediums or familiar spirits. So we see those linked together there in that place. Isaiah 8 and 19 should not appeal. People inquire of their God, don't be so easily dismayed. The old testament was calling these familiar spirits and divination spirits and the soothsaying spirits, if you will. Right here, we call it out as the Python spirit. It's listed as what it is. So when Paul casts this thing out, what happened? The girl lost her power. Well, then her owners lost the prophet. Remember? Her owners. The slave owners leveled accusation, so she was as a slave. Paul and Silas are now being treated inappropriately as Jews. So the spirit of Python, what I see here in this story, if we break it down and we really look at the words, I see it as linked and directly tied to the economic systems of the land. So if we want to know what is going on with our economy or the world economy or your bank account, might want to be discerning exactly what is operating here. See, this python spirit was very profitable and now it's been broken. Spiritual deception often has that financial backing too. And can I tell you, sometimes, sometimes, sometimes people get bought. People get bought. And you see, we see that Python spirit even operating in churches today. So many pastors and so many leaders are under the are under this pressure to continue to perform so that money keeps rolling in. Now I'm a firm believer. You should tithe and you should give. We should be generous people. We should be the most generous of anybody in this world. But what I'm saying is there's there's a lot of there's a lot of throwing a whole bunch of this and then saying, well, now I need you to do this. And the pastor becomes like puppets on a string. Oh, well, you know how much we give, and you know how much the mortgage is on that building for your church. You might want to think twice about what I'm telling you. That's a that's a demonic spirit at work there. That's not a partnering together in the community coming together to do what God wants to do in a land. That is somebody with an agenda. There's a spirit that's operating there. And that's just a way where you can see that. Okay, where you can see that begin to operate. All right. Other ways you can see this operating today, of course, is the obvious. I mean, you know, the psychic culture, all that kind of palm reading, all those things, all right, obviously, blatantly out in the open. Not don't do that. Okay, we're not going to have that done. We're not going to have that read. A truth that is spoken from a corrupt source, remember? There was truth that was coming, so it's saying all the right things, even affirming the work of the Lord in the land, but there was another operation here. And sometimes, sometimes we see pride operating, we see manipulation that's operating. The enemy has another plan to suck somebody in. Discernment matters, y'all. We have to make sure to have discernment. Oh, our chat got quiet on me. Y'all still here? The other thing. Notice the text says that Paul was greatly annoyed. There's that inward spiritual agitation that's going on. You know, it's almost like Paul was just like, you know, that's correct, but some something's not right. Something's off. You're all tapping echoes. Good. Y'all keep tapping it out. That's fine. I'm just picking on y'all. That's just having spiritual maturity when you allow, when you allow your discernment to be sharp on the inside of you. So that's kind of the that's the long and short of the python spirit. It comes to choke out something in the land. And notice it's it's it's it's false prophecies. All right. If this if this girl was a fortune teller, that is false prophecy. All right. That once again, that could be truth of seeing into something coming from a demonic angle and pulling all kinds of demonic things out and throwing them at your life, giving life to those things. So you have to be careful what words you receive. Be careful what words somebody tells you. Okay. When you bring when someone brings correction to you, it should be a trusted source of a voice that is able to speak into your life. Okay. Don't listen to every voice. Be careful. Make sure nobody's prophalying out there. Because there's some words you don't need to receive. There's been some words that people have spoken over before. I'm like, mmm. Okay. That's when you kind of say, Lord, we just kind of we cancel, and that's null and void in the name of Jesus. And then you just continue to walk your walk out with him. Remember, there's power in your words to cancel the assignment of the enemy if it's coming from somebody else. So now we see all of this playing out. We see Paul and Silas being stripped of their garments and beaten with rods on their bare backs. So that leads us now to verse 23 as we continue. After they were severely beaten, they were thrown into prison. And the jailer was commanded to guard them securely. So the jailer placed them in the innermost cell of the prison and had their feet bound and chained. Once again, they were placed in stocks. Ain't no getting out. They're still going to be there. Paul and Silas, undaunted, prayed in the middle of the night and sang songs of praise to God while all the other prisoners listened to their worship. They got all the other prisoners listening in. Suddenly, I bet you could go ahead and guess. Even if you've never read this before, you probably guess what's going to happen. Suddenly, a great earthquake shook the foundations of the prison. And all at once every prison door flung open and the chains of all the prisoners came loose. Startled, the jailer awoke and saw every cell door standing open. Assuming that all the prisoners had escaped, he drew his sword and was about to unalive himself when Paul shouted in the darkness, Stop! Don't hurt yourself. We're all still here. All of us, we're all still here. Verse 29. The jailer called for a light, and when he saw they were all still in their cells, he rushed in and fell trembling at their feet. Then he led Paul and Silas outside and asked, What must I do to be saved? What must I do to be saved? Hello, Amanda. Can now text text safely now. Good to see you, friend, officially. Well, what must I do to be saved? They answered, believe in the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved. You and all of your family. The implication here was you and anyone in your household who believes shall be saved. Then they prophesied the word of the Lord over him and his family, or they spoke the word of the Lord over him. Even though the hour was late, he washed their wounds. Then he and all his family were baptized. He took Paul and Silas into his home and set them at his table, and he fed them. The jailer and all his family were filled with joy and their newfound faith in God. Well, all because in verse 9, Paul had that vision during the night. Literally, even those that have been in other religions and different things. They say when they heard about this man Jesus, I've heard so many testaments of people who are in other countries say when people would begin to describe Jesus, they were saying, That's the man that's been visiting me in my dreams. That's the man that has been visiting me in my nighttime hours. Visions I've been having of this man, that man that you describe. Could it be this man's man's spirit was crying out? The Holy Spirit dropped this in a dream to Paul, and they obeyed. They tried to go somewhere else. Can I tell you that God will always order your steps? He will always order your steps. Are you listening? We plan our ways. They were planning their ways. God ordered their steps. And then they followed the Holy Spirit. Now listen, they followed the Holy Spirit. It said that they followed. They were repeatedly attempting to go north, but the spirit of Jesus would not allow them to enter. So instead, they went right on through the province of Mysia to the seaport of Troas. And while they were staying there is when Paul had his vision. See, here's the deal. The Holy Spirit didn't, he stopped them from going, would not allow them to go. So instead they went right on through. So they went, they kept following the Lord. See, God didn't, God didn't, he didn't speak to Paul about Macedonia through the dream until after we hear that Jesus wouldn't allow them to do them. So they went a different way instead. And once they were obedient and didn't go to the place God said, don't go, when they continued to go to the other place, that is when the Lord began to give them instructions. Somebody needs to hear today, when the Lord says no to this, you keep going this way. You may not have all the details, but God is waiting for you to get to that place. So then He can speak to you clearly about what to do. Sometimes you got to get to the next place before you know where you're going. Inside, outside, upside down kingdom. Thanks, Amanda, for that, by the way. Sorry. A minute to win it with the Holy Spirit. Thanks for this one. Oh my goodness. Could it be that we you have to get to the place that God said before He gives you any more details? Jesus. And then look, the jailer and his family were filled with joy in their newfound, their newfound faith in God. Him and all of his family was baptized. There was a miracle that came out of the persecution, out of the painful place that Paul and Silas had to go in the midst of all of that. God will work your pain into something amazing. Especially if your pain comes through pushing through with what he's asked you to do. Being faithful with the call that God has placed on your life, just like he did with them. Are you being faithful with God has placed on your life? Are you being faithful with what he's given you to do? Have you? Are you being faithful? And they they they followed God so well that even after they were severely beaten and thrown into jail, that says they prayed in the middle of the night and they sang songs of praise to God. And then God moved. They prayed and they sang songs to God. And then God moved. Come on. At daybreak, this is verse 35. At daybreak, the magistrates sent officers to the prison with orders to tell the jail jailer, let those two men go. The jailer informed Paul and Silas, the magistrates have sent orders to release you, so you're free to go now. But Paul told the officers, look, they had us beaten in public without a fair trial. And we are Roman citizens. We're Roman citizens. Paul didn't notify them that he and Silas were Romans prior to their beatings when they could have escaped persecution in that moment. That's why I was telling you to hang on a minute, because they're not, they're not, no. They're Romans. Instead, they endured the brutal beating. And in doing that, they led that jailer and his entire household to Christ. It's as if Paul knew we've got to endure the beating to go forth to the promise in this land. Jesus endured a beating for you and me for the promise to be fulfilled in us. There's a depiction of that here in this. These are true followers of Jesus. Because they knew there was something greater that was going to come out of it. But now Paul is like, okay, do you think we're just going to quietly walk away after they threw us in prison and violated all of our rights? Absolutely not. You go back and tell the magistrates that they need to come down here themselves and escort us out. Well, when the officers went back and reported what Paul and Silas had told them, magistrates were frightened, especially upon hearing that they had beaten two Roman citizens without due process. So they went to the prison and apologized to Paul and Silas, begging them repeatedly, saying, Please leave our city. Please leave our city. Like, what is going on? They're not even Jewish, and they're in here. What is going on? I'm so confused. So Paul and Silas left the prison. They went back to Lydia's house now, where they met with the believers and comforted and encouraged them before departing. And now we see a church is now birthed in the region. The Lord did what he needed to do there in that place. What a mighty call these guys had on their lives. It's just amazing. That's today's morning charge. Before you move on with your day, take a moment and let what you've heard settle into your heart. Faith isn't just something we talk about, it's something we live out in the ordinary moments of everyday life. Wherever today takes you, remember this. You don't walk into it alone. God is already ahead of you, working in ways you may not even see yet. Stand firm, walk in wisdom, lead with love, and don't forget who you belong to. Until next time, keep your heart anchored, keep your faith strong, and keep living out real talk, real Jesus, real life. We'll see you on the next morning charge.