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We're going to be walking, just taking a little journey through the scripture. I'm going to begin at the beginning. What a great place to start. Genesis chapter 1, verses 1 and 2. I will say this. As after I walked off the platform, I did get on Church Center app, and it is remarkably easy to sign up for small groups. So there you go. Just Church Center app, download that. The Bible Center Church. Small groups. Bang. There you go. You're right, Julie. Alright. Genesis 1. What? You've been saying you've been you've been saying you're right for years. Yeah, I know that for sure. All right. Genesis 1, verses 1 and 2. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And now the earth was formless and emptied. Darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters. I talk about this all the time, but it just I it's just so beautiful to me. And I just try to wrap my brain around that, that the ruach of God, the breath of God, the Spirit of God was controlling this chaos. And it really kind of brought me back this week as I was studying it. Really brought me back to what I was speaking of a couple weeks ago when I was talking about preparing for the presence of the Holy Spirit, right? Preparing for Pentecost. And we were talking about that. And I was like, I think a lot of times we do ourselves a disservice because we pray for a gift or we pray for a fruit or we pray for this thing. When the truth be told, what we should really be praying for is what? The Holy Spirit. Amen. Pray for the Holy Spirit. If you want a particular gift or if you want fruit in your life, then pray for the Holy Spirit to come and be actively engaged and involved in your life. When we feel, when we look at this word, the um the tohu v of ohu, uh formless wasteland, confusion, chaos. You know, raise your hand if you've ever had that time in your life where you just felt empty. Right? You just felt like, you know, there's emptiness. And what do we need to do in those situations? Pray to what? For what? The Holy Spirit. Pray for the Holy Spirit in our lives. When we have those times of confusion or chaos, we know those things are not of God. Amen? We know confusion is not of God, we know chaos is not of God. And so when we find ourselves in that situation, we are to pray for the Holy Spirit. I think it's so important that we understand the importance of the Holy Spirit as an active participant in our lives. Because when we don't, and when I don't, I often speak to myself. I say this all the time. I got a mirror. I'm gonna need to put a mirror right back on the back of this sanctuary because every sermon I preach and every message I preach is to myself. Um but I when I have chaos or confusion or emptiness or fear or doubt in my life, that is my opportunity to then invite the Holy Spirit to come into that place. I love how it says God breathed that same ruach, that same breath. The Spirit of God is breathed into our lungs. And it gave us life. The Lord gave us life. And still today He's inviting us, He's encouraging us to walk in the authority of the Holy Spirit to receive his Holy Spirit. I, you know, I've talked about this before. You know, I grew up and went to a church and we really didn't talk about the Holy Spirit. I really didn't uh I wasn't able to understand uh the things of the Spirit and walking in the authority and power that the Spirit has for me and for my life, and he wants that for each and every one of us. And so I encourage you to dive into this Bible, dive into the Word of God and read everything you can about the Holy Spirit, amen? Because I just simply didn't know. I had no idea what what else was out there, and and I jokingly said this, but I walked around this earth two-thirds full, right? I knew who God was, I believed in Jesus, but I had no idea of the of the Holy Spirit and what the Holy Spirit wants to be in my life. All throughout the scripture, when you dive into the scripture, and I'm gonna say a few things, and there's so many, just many, many more things in the in the word of God talking about the Holy Spirit, but just a few examples of what he does in our lives is he emboldens. It's in the word, he emboldens, he calms, he teaches, he gives discernment, he clothes, he pursues. Aren't you glad? Isn't it nice to be pursued? Do you remember when you were pursued? Do you do you remember when you were pursued? Okay, she reminds me all the time. All right, but it's nice to be pursued, and the Holy Spirit pursues us. He leads us, he gives wisdom and counsel and knowledge, he empowers, helps, provides truth, comforts, gives hope, gives peace, gives freedom, gives fellowship. He renews and he rejuvenates. That's just a few of the things that the that the Holy Spirit wants to be in our lives, to do those things and to help us. I need those things in my life, and I want those things in my life. John chapter 20, beginning in verse 19, says this on the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them. Peace be with you. And after he said this, he showed his showed them his hands and his side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord. And again Jesus said, Peace be with you, as the Father has sent me, I am sending you. And with that he breathed on them and said, Receive the Holy Spirit. I think that is just beautiful. That same breath of God, that same ruach of God that was breathed into us to give us life here in this situation. When we look and we see the hands, the the nails in his hands, when we see the piercing of his side, when we see him being broken and beaten, when we see all of those things and we accept that into our lives, then it says here that Jesus breathes that same ruach of God, that same life giving force is breathed upon us. And he wants it to be in each and every one of our lives. He wants that force so, so badly. I know I look around the church and I look around and I see so many of you that I I know uh I know everyone in here, I think, uh on some level, but I also know uh your hurts. I know the things in your life that have hurt you. I know the things in our lives when we've hurt other people. I know all of those situations, and and I look at you, and then I also see so many of you who have walked through just uh incredibly, incredibly difficult situations and incredibly difficult things. And and when I see you, I I see people who don't have that woeist me attitude. I mean, I can have that. I can th I I can throw a pity party, let me just tell you, for myself. One day that Julie and I were talking, and I was just complaining about something, and I was going on and on about it, and and I was just like feeling bad for myself and all this stuff, and she and she always says stuff like this. She's like, Well, if it's financial, she's like, Well, can we afford it? I'm like, Yes, we can afford it. She's like, Well, or you know, health and different things like that. She goes, Well, are you dying? I'm like, No. And she's like, Well, and I'm like, Well, can I just have a pity party for a minute? Just like one minute? And she was like, Okay, one minute. That's literally what she said. Then we have to move on. But we we have we can have this woeist me attitude, but I know people, and I look around and I see you, and you don't have that woe to me attitude. You have that walking in the authority and power of the Holy Spirit. It's not woest me, it's walking with strength through tough things. And I I was processing this week on just some people that I know, and and I don't say any of these names to embarrass anyone, but it's just the truth. It's the truth, and I think it's our testimony, and we should look to these folks and look to these people who walk through tough stuff with disgrace and authority and power because they know who he is, and they know who is in charge, and I know he and they know who is in control. Troy, I I see you, my friend, and I watch you, and I look at you, and the stuff that you've been through in your life uh just in these last couple years, and you would never even know you're walking through anything because you walk through it with power and strength and authority and knowing who your savior is and who your healer is and who your physician is and who the Lord is. And so I honor you for that. I I I mean, I could just sit here and go just around the room with people. You know, Ruth, you I've I've watched you and Don, and I've I've watched Joe Hudson and Joni and just just different different people who they just what you know they're going through it. Amen. You know it's hard stuff, but they walk through it be with grace because they know that they know who the Lord is. And I'm just so thankful. I I uh I used this in the first service, Pastor Julia, but I remember just a few weeks ago when we went to uh Dr. Samuel's uh service and and we were walking through, and we there were so many people there. We barely made it uh through the line before they were ready to start the service. And uh Pastor Julia just made it uh to Sister Samuel, and she got up there and she said to Sister Samuel, I'm praying for you. I'm gonna say, Yeah, and I'm so sorry. And she said, Don't pray for me. Don't be sorry for me. We've lived a great life. We had many years of marriage and we've done many things, and we know who our Lord is and we know who our Savior is, and I know where he is right now, so don't don't worry about me. And it was just like, okay. Isn't that the right attitude? That's walking in the authority of and power of Jesus and having the Holy Spirit in your life. And and I honor them. I love the Samuel family, they are amazing, amazing people. And I just uh I'm still praying for her, even though she said not to. When they attended church here, I used to always say this, and I would try to give examples of things. And I was like, I know people, you know, if we all sin and we all fall short, and I'm like, except probably for sister Samuel. I think she's like the only one that's not. I love I love her. She's an amazing woman. All right, let's keep on going here. But he wants us to not only walk in his authority, but to live. Amen. It's not simply about a short walk, it's about living a life in the authority of the Holy Spirit. Ephesians chapter 1, beginning in verse 16, says this. I have not stopped giving thanks for you. Praise the Lord for people who don't stop giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I am so thankful that I am surrounded by people who love me, who are who pray for me. And I just honor them and I thank them. I love that he's saying this here. I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for those of us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age, but also in the one to come. And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way. I love that it says Paul has not stopped giving thanks and praying for them. It makes me think, like, what was he praying for? And he just spells it all out to know him better. That's the key, amen. If you want to know how to pray for me, pray that I just continue to get to know him better more and more. I remember a few years ago, I stood right in front of you. At first I did my Sunday school class, and then I did it right in here. I said, pray that I have that I gain a passion and a desire to learn his word. And you have prayed that. And I believe with all of my heart that that has come to the fruit has been in my life, that I have a passion for his word like I've never had before. And I pray, if you want to know how to pray for me, pray that I just continue to know him better. And that's getting in his word, that's praying, that's talking to him and just getting to know him better and better and better. He also prayed that our hearts may be enlightened so we know the hope to which we are called. That hope, amen, is in Jesus. I need to know him better. I need to know who Jesus is more and more and more. And that hope that we can have only when we know who he is. Right? Everything else just falls in comparison. It pales in comparison in our lives when we truly know who he is, and we truly know who we are in him. That's important too, to know who you are in him. That our hearts may be enlightened so we know the hope to which we are called. That we might have his incomparably great power. Amen. Nothing compares to the power that we have when we have the Holy Spirit active in our lives, the same power that raised Christ from the dead and seated him at the right hand of God. And I love this last part. It wasn't it really wasn't even something I was thinking about much when I was preparing for this message, but then it just kind of jumped off the page at me as I was finishing up in the last couple of verses. It said, And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way. You know, it took me a little bit to try to wrap my really my head around everything that it was trying to tell me here, but it you know, it's so important for us to recognize and understand that all things are under his feet. Those little, those daily little nuances and and and nasty things that come up against us, you know, those things, guess what? They're under his feet. When people try to throw stones at me, guess what? It's under his feet. I don't even need to worry about it, it's under his feet. Are your family members all that nonsense? It's under they're not under your feet. That's not what I mean. But when people try to hurt your family members, people that you love, that's under his feet. It's taken care of, it's done. You don't have to worry about it. We we get so wrapped up. This scripture is so telling me that Jesus won. And I'm on his team and he's on my team. So I don't need to worry about all of those little things. Just let him fight the fight. Walk in the authority of Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit means a couple different things here, also. When we come into this world and we come up against stuff and stuff comes up against us, when the world shows hate, the Holy Spirit brings love. And a lot of times in our flesh, our response is also to come back at somebody or to come back and do it. But guess what? When we have the Holy Spirit in our lives, we don't come back with hate. We don't come back with anger, we come back with love. We don't come back with hate, we come back with love. We don't come back with anger, we come back with kindness. And that's the fruit of having the Holy Spirit in your life. When the world shows its evil self, the Holy Spirit brings goodness. And when the world brings fear, the Holy Spirit brings peace. And when the world causes doubt, the Holy Spirit reminds us of his faithfulness. Amen. And that's how we walk this out. That's how we make him involved in our lives, and we know the fruit when he's there, because this is how we respond in those situations. Ephesians chapter 2, beginning in verse 1, says, As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins. Amen. How do I know? How do how do I what is it keeping me? Have you ever asked yourself those questions? You know, what is keeping me from really truly walking this out in the way that God's calling me to walk? You know, and I think it's it's it's just evident right here in in Ephesians. It says, As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and the ruler of the kingdom of the air. The spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient, all of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions. It is by grace that you are saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus. Amen. If you want to know what's keeping you from walking this out with authority and power in the Holy Spirit, what's keeping the Holy Spirit from being actively engaged in your life? It's spelled out right here. It's because we're dead in our transgressions. We walk this earth full of sin in tra in the transgressions of our lives. We follow the ways of the world. We all do it. We all see the things of the world, and there's some good things. We think that's great things, but then we follow the ways of the world and not the ways of the word. And we're called to get in the word, make change. We walk in disobedience, we gratify the cravings of our flesh, we follow our own desires and thoughts. When you really make it plain, plainly speaking, it's it's simply telling us that we cannot walk in the authority and power of the Holy Ghost while simultaneously walking in unrepented sin. If we want to get right with the Lord, we have to get right with him if we want to do this right. If we want to walk in all power and authority, the same power that raised Christ from the dead, then we have to be willing to sacrifice and repent and get right with him. That's where it starts. Isaiah chapter 59, verse 2 says, But your iniquities have separated you from God. Your sins have hidden his face from you so that he will not hear. You know what I find interesting about that is that he hasn't hidden his face from you. We hide it. The sin is what separates us. He's not going anywhere. He hasn't moved, he hasn't, he hasn't. I think a lot of times we can think when we're going through rough, difficult things, that the Lord retreats from us and we don't know where he is. And the fact of the matter is he's not. He has not gone anywhere. The truth is that we have our own sin, the our own transgressions, the ways of the world, our disobedience, the cravings of our flesh, and we follow our own desires and thoughts, and because of those things, then we can't see him because that's what separates us from him. Amen. It's our sin. Romans 8 13 says, For if you live according to the flesh, you will die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. Amen. So I have gotten away, and you you may or may not have noticed over these last uh months that I I really don't do point one, point two, point three. Right? I don't know if you've noticed that or not. Uh I just have gotten away from that. I just I I'm to a point where I just want to dive into the word. I just want to break down the word, I want to study the word, and I just want to reveal the truths that the Holy Spirit uh gives me uh when I preach. But here's guess what? Here's a one, two, three. I got a one, two, three today. Haven't done this in a long time. But what's it but it's simple. What's number one? What do you have to do? If you want to live this right, you want to walk this out right, the first thing you have to do is get right with the Lord, because we can't do it right with unrepentant sin. Luke chapter 9, beginning in verse 23, says, And then he said to them all, Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it. What good is it when for someone to gain the whole world and yet lose or forfeit their very self? Every single day. First Corinthians 15, 31. I protest, brothers, by my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day. What does that mean? It's a lifestyle. Amen. We're gonna we're gonna come up against stuff, there's gonna be stuff in our in our lives every single day, and every single day that we have the opportunity. We serve such a gracious God that every single day we have the opportunity to get right with Him. And isn't that so true in our own lives and in just our normal uh relationships that when we when we have something that comes up in our life and we don't deal with it, and then it just continues and then it grows and it grows, and what's that then that becomes bitterness, it can becomes frustrations, it becomes bigger than it needs to be. And the same thing happens in our relationship with the Lord. He gives us the opportunity to come to him every single day and get right. And guess what? He says, We're good because he's faithful and he's just to forgive us of our sins. But we do the same thing in the natural as we do in the spirit in our relationship with him, as we just I don't know if it's stubbornness, if it's a lack of humility, I don't know what it is, that we just we find it difficult to even go to the the greatest father ever, amen. And he and we know that we know that he's willing, but I have to do it every day. Die daily, repent, and then walk. And how is it that I walk? I walk knowing who I am, knowing who he is, and knowing that he's already one. Right? I I I have lived too long of my life walking unsure and uncertain about who I am. I've walked too long not walking the authority that he gives me. And I'm over it, I'm done with it, I'm tired of it, I'm tired of uh of uh being tired, I'm tired of being wore out, I'm tired because that's not the life that he wants me to lead. Hosea chapter 2 says that they were destroyed by their own lack of knowledge, right? That's what destroys us when we don't know who we are, when we don't know who he is, when we don't know the things of God, that's what destroys us. Their own lack of knowledge is what destroyed them. Them. We have to study the word. We have to talk to God. We have to communicate with Him. Pray. That's how you get to know people, right? Isn't it? When you talk to them, you gain relationship with them. It's the same thing. Talking to God. Knowing. I find it this is I thought this was as cool when I was studying this week. David, when he went to fight Goliath, David didn't go hoping to win. David went knowing he already won. The victory was already won, and that's how he's calling us to walk out our lives. We've got to stop walking our lives hoping things work out, hoping this, hoping that, thinking maybe this or maybe that. But we need to walk our lives knowing who's in charge. And when we do that and we recognize that the battle's already won, that the fight's over, it's done with. Right? I love what Billy Graham says. I read the last page. We win. And that's how we should walk out this life. We know the last page. We know the last line of the Bible. We win. And so we should walk accordingly in our lives. Repent, walk knowing him, and who we are, and walk in strength. Second Timothy chapter 1, verse 6 says, For this reason I remind you to fan the flame, the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of hands. For the Spirit gave us not, does not make us timid, but gives us power, love, and self-discipline. Do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me as a pris uh me, his prisoner. Rather, join with me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God. Fan the flame. Amen. Fan the flame in your life. Pray. Laying on of hands. Is there anything better than when you just you really need prayer and someone just comes and prays for you? Amen. I'm not saying there's there's times I come to the altar and I just wanted to be me and God. Amen. But there's other times when I just need someone to pray for me. And there's just something powerful about that when someone lays on hands and prays for you. It says, Do not be ashamed. Amen. Don't be ashamed of your testimony. Don't be ashamed of who you are because you are powerful in the name of Jesus. And I love this part. Join those who have gone before us with power. I'm so thankful that we have a church of heritage, a church of history. I know Pastor Riggs shared about some of that last week. And we are blessed. We're blessed to be in a church with heritage. And we can really think on those the people that have gone before us. For me, it's Brother Van. Amen. I wish I had more years with Brother Van. I wish I had more years with Walter Dorsey. I wish I had more years with those powerful men of God who just walked in the power and presence of the Holy Spirit. Amen. We shouldn't take that for granted. I'm thankful that we still have Pastor Rick. There are great men and women of our church that we can look to and join with in power. Fear will keep us from doing so many things. It'll keep us from going, it'll keep us from doing the things that God is calling us to do. And the enemy knows that. And that's why he continues to sow those seeds in our lives, those seeds of fear and of doubt. But we know a better way, amen. We know a better way. You guys are so quiet today, it's almost scary. I love what it says in Acts chapter 4. When Peter and John stood up to the authorities, it's just a couple, very short scripture, but it says, when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus. I love that. I think that is so powerful because we should be the people when we walk around the community uh around our communities, that people should recognize us. They should see, they should know that there's something different. You can look at me and think of me as unschooled and ordinary. That's fine. That doesn't bother me at all. But I pray that when you see me, that you see and you can perceive. I love there's a one version that says, they perceived these men had been with Jesus. And I and I hope when I walk around our community and people see me that they can perceive. Amen. He's unschooled and he's ordinary, but I perceive he's been with Jesus. That's so much more important to me than anything else. When we're doing it right, people should know. I believe with all of my heart that the Lord wants to do something amazing through you. Every one of us, God has a purpose and a plan for each and every one of our lives, and God wants to use us in a great and mighty way. I believe he wants to do something collectively with our church. I believe he wants to do something amazing with the church. I'm so thankful that I'm friends with people, uh, pastors all over our community who pray for me and I pray for them. They text me, I text them, we call each other, we have coffee and lunch, we bounce things off one another. I'm so thankful for that. I believe that God wants to do a mighty work in our city. I truly believe that with all of uh all of my heart. But it starts with me. It starts with me searching my own heart. It starts with me getting right with the Lord. It starts with me being prepared to do the things that he's calling me to do. It's individual. I love that God is corporate and he loves the church, but I also am so thankful that he loves me as an individual and he has things for me to do and things that only I can do, that he's calling me to do. And so I have to search myself and get myself ready to do the things that he's calling me to do. I love uh this scripture in Psalms. I'm starting to sound like Ron Tolson on my daily bread. Every every single scripture he's like, I love that scripture, I love that scripture, I love that scripture. I think I've said that like 50 times today. But I do love this scripture in Psalm 139, verse 23 and 24, it says, Search me God and know my heart. Test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting. That ministers to me so much because I so appreciate that he is an individual God who loves me and he wants me to get right. And my responsibility is to then look inside myself and search out my own self, right? And get right with him. You know, it's easy for us to look around and point at everybody, and we can we can figure out what they're doing wrong and they're doing wrong and they're doing wrong and what's in there and what's that and what's going on with their lives, but it's more difficult sometimes for us to search ourselves and to look in ourselves. And how vulnerable is it to say to God, you search me. You search me, God, and remove those things. Help me, bring them to my mind so that I can get rid of them out of my life so I can do the things that you're calling me to do. We have to get right, we have to walk knowing, and we have to walk in strength. And I'm gonna do something that I don't normally do. I've done it a couple times, but I'm gonna do it today because I want every single person to have the opportunity. So the musicians don't have to play right now, the singers don't have to sing right now, you can hit play. I pray that you guys also in the back that all the all the people that do the cameras and the and the sound and and the computer stuff that I know nothing of, all of you also have the opportunity to right now to be ministered to and to minister. And so I'm gonna ask, this is my favorite song ever in the world. It is my favorite song. I have listened, I will go up against anyone and say that I have listened to this song and allowed it to minister to me to anyone on the in the world. And part of it's just because of who wrote it and sings it, but part of it's just because it ministers to me. And very, very, very often when I'm preparing my messages, I just have this playing in the background in my headphones or wherever I'm at, and just I listen to it on repeat for over and over and over. And somehow the Lord doesn't allow me to be distracted from what I'm trying to study, but it settles me. It settles me in my spirit. So I'm gonna ask them to play this song, and I just want to encourage you, it's a couple minutes long. I know this is different, it's not something that we normally do, but I just want to give you the opportunity to truly look inward and truly become vulnerable and truly allow the Lord to speak to you and to take out whatever those things are in your life that you need to get rid of so that you can walk in the authority and power of the Holy Spirit and be right with Him, and then we'll have a few moments of prayer and then we're gonna go and change the world. Amen. Amen. Go ahead. If you want to stay in your seats, you can. Or if you want to come, we have an open altar always. If you want to come to this altar, I'm going to the altar, and we're just gonna spend some time.

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Where can I run from you? Where can I flee? Dear me from easy. Where can I run from you? Where can I flee your presence all around? Search me, you can touch me, it's just that you are all I need. You are all I need nothing else matter. You're the one for all each nothing else matters to me. You're the one standing free for all each my heart and search my mind, take away anything you find, and that's not you. That's not love that's my prayer my heart, heal my mind, take away, that's not search me, search me, you'll God no heart, touch me, you'll mind, I just thought, you're all I search me, you'll give no heart, touch me in your act, you're all alive, you're all alive nothing else matters to me. You're the one who set me free for all eternity, you're all nothing else matters to me. You're the one who set me free for all eternity, and you have given me the spirit of fear, but of love, power and the sound mind, and you have given me the spirit of fear, but of love, power in the sound mind.

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Lord God, we thank you that we can just come into this place, Lord, and we can just rest with you. Lord, I pray God that you would uh search us, search us out, search our hearts, Lord, and help us bring to our minds our remembrance, Lord, any of those things that we need to remove so that we can just be who you're calling us to be. We love you, God, we honor you, Lord, and we thank you, God, for your precious gift of the Holy Spirit. We give you all the glory and all the praise. I pray now, may the Lord bless you, may the Lord keep you, may you make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. May the Lord turn his face towards you and give you peace. And Lord, the the last part's my favorite part, Lord, that you would place, I place the name of Jesus on each and every person that is here today, Lord. The name above all names, Lord. And I pray, God, for the power and authority of the Holy Spirit to come upon each and every one of us, Lord, that we walk in in the manner that you're calling us to walk with our shoulders back and our head high, knowing who we are in you. And we give you all the glory, and it's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. God bless you. Thank you. I know that was a little different than we generally do, but I pray, Lord, that as we leave this place, I pray that you go in the power and authority of Jesus Christ.