Church at the Grove - Social Circle Campus
Church at the Grove - Social Circle Campus
Engage with Intentionality
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Well, awesome. Good morning and uh welcome again. Uh thank you guys so much for being here. Uh and uh happy Mother's Day to all the moms in the room. Uh hopefully you feel special uh this day as you do, hopefully every day, um, but today in particular. And uh let me just acknowledge in the room as well that I know that for some people today's a day of celebrating and honoring moms. I know for others in the room it's a difficult day. Um maybe this is the first year you have uh been here on earth without your mom. Um for other people, maybe they're struggling to become moms, and so we recognize that there's a lot of emotions in the room this morning, but we just want to say we're glad you're here and that the Lord wants to meet you wherever you're at uh this morning. But again, happy Mother's Day. Before we jump into the message this morning, just a real quick kind of uh blurb and opportunity that's coming your way. Um, this upcoming Saturday, we have our Covenant Family Membership Gathering, and this is a class gathering that we do probably four times or so a year, and it's an opportunity for you. If you're new to Church at the Grove, or maybe you've been attending for uh like a while, months, maybe even years, but you've never kind of taken your next step and becoming part of the family here at Church at the Grove. This is the gathering for you. And so we would love for you to come and be a part of that. We'll have food, we'll have dinner, uh, we'll have child care for you if that's needed. And uh if you need to sign up for that, you can just tap or scan that little car uh uh tag on the chair in front of you, and you can sign up on there for that, and it's gonna be a really great time uh together. So, like I said, today is Mother's Day, and uh for me, Mother's Day is an important holiday for sure. Um, it's something that definitely needs to be recognized and honored. Moms play a huge role in our lives. Um, but Mother's Day is one of those holidays, unlike Christmas or Easter or some of the other huge major holidays in our calendar. Mother's Day is one of those days that seems to sneak up on me every single year. And I find myself, you know, Wednesday or Thursday of the week of Mother's Day, going, oh no, what am I supposed to do for Mother's Day? Um and that's when I'm starting to frantically search Amazon or try to figure out what I need to do. Um and every year, like I have these great intentions. I I want to plan something for Mother's Day. I want the kids to make something that will be meaningful. I want to ride a card that didn't sound like a Hallmark robot wrote it. I want to do everything early so that I'm not panic buying flowers at the local gas station the night before. I want Mother's Day to be important. And I've got really great intentions, but oftentimes I lack the follow-through in that. I mean, nothing says I'm intentional like signing a card in the parking lot of the family dollar before you hand it to the person, right? And if I've learned anything, love is shown in our intentionality. It's not just our intentions, but it's actually our follow-through. And if love doesn't have follow-through, then it doesn't really mean a whole lot. And we can chalk it up to forgetfulness or being too busy or trying to manage too much and having too much on our plate or maybe misplaced priorities, but it's hard to show love if you aren't living with intentionality and follow-through. And see, for many moms, especially in the room this morning, you have this superpower. You have the superpower where you have you tend to be more intentional than men, not knocking men this morning. Um but listen, I I can barely get out the door with all of our kids having shoes on. And yet moms are carrying the ever, never-ending weight of this mental list that they're having to check off. The family schedules, the snacks, the forms that need to be completed with the school system. And many men I know are deeply involved in the details of life, but it seems that mom and women in particular are the more intentional party in the family. Now, I know I'm picking on husbands this morning and men, um and it's easy, low-hanging fruit on Mother's Day. But in all honesty, the the real issue and the real problem isn't men, the problem is people. Um we all drift into unintentional living at home, at work, with our friends, and oftentimes with God too. We all struggle with really good intentions, but we oftentimes lack the follow-through. I was going to reach out to that person, but I needed to apologize. I know I need to apologize, however. I was going to deal with that habit in my life, but this came up instead. I was gonna get back into the habit of reading scripture, but I just got to be too busy and too overwhelmed with life circumstances. And being unintentional, it doesn't make you evil. It makes you maybe busy, tired, distracted, or just living on autopilot. And that's one thing to do with tasks and daily chores, but it's a totally different thing to do that in our relationships with the people that are closest to you. When you have good intentions, but you don't actually have patterns of living out love in those relationships. And so this is what I want us to talk about this morning as we continue in our series Rules of Engagement, and we talk about this big idea that you can't drift into love, you have to walk it out. You can't drift into love, you have to walk it out. And so with that, let me pray for us. Lord Jesus, we thank you. We thank you for being in a room like this on a day like Mother's Day and the opportunity to honor and celebrate our moms in the room. But Lord, we also know that so often all of us, not just with our moms, but so often with us in all of our relationships, we fall short of truly living lives that are full of love. We've got great intentions, but oftentimes we lack the follow-through. And so, Lord, this morning, Lord, would you help us to be able to hear your voice? Would you speak to us through your word? And would you help us to learn how we can walk in love, even starting today, to be people that are your ambassadors here in this community and beyond. And so, Holy Spirit, now, would you come now and speak to us? Open our ears and hearts to hear from you. And it's in your name we pray. Amen. And so jumping into the passage, we're going to be in Ephesians chapter 5 this morning. If you want to go ahead and turn there, you can. It will be on the screen behind us as well. But it kind of set this up. If you're new or maybe you haven't been here in the last couple of weeks, we've been doing this series called Rules of Engagement, and we've been walking through the book of Ephesians, really the latter part of Ephesians. The first three chapters of Ephesians, Paul is laying out this theological argument, and he's telling us, hey, this is who you were before you met Christ. Then you've met Christ, you've encountered his grace, his love, and his mercy, and you were once dead, but now you have been made alive together with him. And so he's given us this new identity that we've been adopted as sons and daughters of the king. And now, out of that new identity, he's giving us rules to live by. He's saying, hey, this isn't a way for you to earn God's approval or earn God's favor. This is just how you operate now. There's a new operating system that you've been given as a result of being changed by Jesus. And so that's what we've been really focusing on in chapters four, five, and six is this new way of life. This life that is shaped by a different operating system. He's not just handing us relationship hacks, but he's showing us what Jesus looks like in the real world. What Jesus should look like in your home and in your work, in your friendships, and in your church. And he starts off this morning talking about walking. Walking is not a movement, it's a pattern, it's a direction in life to remove us from autopilot, not just to have good intentions, but to actually have follow-through with those intentions. And this is what he says, starting in verse 1 of chapter 5. He says, Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children, and walk in love as Christ also loves, loved us, and gave himself for us. A sacrificial and fragrant offering to God. And so we see that Paul right here is saying, Therefore, so anytime the word therefore is there, you want to ask what it's there for, all right? And so, therefore is there because of everything that he's already laid out. Remember, we talked about the theological argument that he has already made. Paul is not just giving some random advice, but it's the next logical step in his argument. Because Christ has given you this new identity, because you are now a child of the king, because you are his son and his daughter, you now have this new identity to live out of. And so he says, be imitators of God, dearly loved children, and walk in love. Paul is continually, and I cannot stress this enough, if you've been with us throughout this series, I think I've said this every single week, that everything flows out of identity. If we don't know who we are in Christ, then we will never be able to live the life that Christ has called us to live. And so we've got to be people that are firmly founded. We just sing that song, firmly pushed on the foundation of Christ and the identity that we have in him. And so he calls us dearly loved children. And because we are his children, we take on his DNA. I wish this really wasn't so, but it it is the reality of what is, right? That our kids take on our personality traits, good or bad, they they take on our traits. I can sometimes look at my kids and I can just be like, whoa, that is scary. Because some of the same things that I would struggle with, they would struggle with. Some of the things they would say, I would say, and I would love to tell you that that was more good than bad, but oftentimes it's a lot more bad than it is good. Children take on the traits of their father, and Paul is saying that we are children of God, and so as a result, we imitate him in the way that we walk through life. And so this is what the Father in heaven is called to the Father in heaven is love, and so Paul commands us to walk in love. That's what he's telling us to do here because we have been changed with Christ, because we are his sons and daughters, we are now called to walk in love. The word walk is a way of life. It's not just talking about a physical movement, but rather it's our conduct and behavior which should support an entire life change in Christ. The word walk isn't just talking about a singular action, but a comprehensive pattern of how believers are called to conduct themselves. So Paul is telling us to walk in love. He isn't talking about us having loving intentions, but to having loving patterns in our lives. Again, not just good thoughts, but actually actions that are put into place. So love is not only a feeling, but it is something that you choose to do. Love is something that you practice, that you actually live out. And he gives us this beautiful picture. He says that we are to be people that walk in love, and he gives us the example of Jesus. Walk in love as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God. And so Paul doesn't say, hey, love is this vague term that you get to define. He's saying that Jesus is the greatest personification of love. And it's shown in the word gave, that he gave himself, that biblical love moves towards people, it initiates, it sacrifices, it lays something down. This is a love that costs us something. It's not just the unwanted leftovers, but it cost us something. I was at a conference a couple of weeks ago. It's a discipleship conference, and one of the guys that was speaking, he kind of laid out this way of life. It was all on discipleship, and so he's talking about how Jesus discipled his disciples and how he, you know, he's like, I imagine what it would have been like for Jesus to be your mentor and your leader. And, you know, Jesus, you know, comes in and he chooses you, and you were kind of a rejected person from society, he chooses you, and he lets you walk with him every single day of his life for three years. You get to eat meals with him, and that you get to see him do miracles and these incredible teachings, and then towards the end, he he gets down on his hands and knees and he washes your feet and he shares a meal with you and he breaks the bread, and then he eventually goes to the cross. He said, Imagine what it would have felt like if Jesus was the person that was investing and pouring into you. He was discipling you. And then the guy said, Now imagine what it would feel like if people are discipled by you. Do those two things coincide? That thought has stayed with me for the last couple of weeks. And as I get to this idea, I think, are you loving with leftovers? Or am I loving with intentionality? Are you loving with just what's leftovers? Leftover love says, you can have what's left of my attention. You can have what's left of my patience, you can have what's left of my intention, of my energy. But intentional love says, because Christ gave himself for me, I'm going to choose to give and not just react. Walking in love looks like serving without being asked, putting your phone down and being fully present, being the first one to apologize, laying down your preferences for the good of others, choosing to be inconvenienced, giving without keeping score. In other words, love is hard. Love is not easy. Love is not just some emotion that we feel, but love that the scriptures are talking about here looks a lot like Christ. It's when he moves towards us, he takes the initiative, he sacrifices, and he does so with consistency. When we walk in love, it not only impacts our horizontal relationships with others, but the scripture says right here that it is a fragrant offering to God. So that when you choose to love, especially when you choose to love in such a way where it costs you, you are a fragrant offering to the Lord. That God receives that as worship. Now I know when we say the word worship, we oftentimes think about coming into a room like this and singing songs, and that is indeed worship, but that is not, that's a small, small piece of worship. Some of the most spiritual things that you could potentially do today is not to sing another song in a church service, but to actually go out and intentionally love the people that you come in contact with. This is what we're called to be, people that walk in love. And then Paul goes on to say that the opposite, the antithesis of love is selfishness. That it's when we turn our eyes inward and we start to focus on our selfish pleasure rather than on the good of those that are around us. And we see this in sexual immorality, in greed and impurity, as he says in the next several verses. Sexual immorality is this whole idea of trying to feed the flesh and trying to make myself feel good for a moment. This idea of greed is trying to accumulate as much wealth as we possibly can so that I can live a comfortable, happy life and have all that I need. And these things are the antithesis of God. They're not congruent with people being dearly loved, children of God that are supposed to be walking in love. If we're walking in love, then we resist those things because walking in love means that we live a sacrificial life for the good of others. But it doesn't stop there. The message gets even more difficult. If you jump down to verse 8, it says this. For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light. For the fruit of light consists of all goodness, righteousness, and truth, testing what is pleasing to the Lord. Don't participate in the fruitless works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what is done in secret. Everything exposed by the light is made visible, for what makes everything visible is light. Therefore it is said, get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. So he tells us to walk in love. That's our motivation behind everything that we do. But then he also tells us to walk in light, to walk as children of light. This is our integrity. Paul is telling us that the motive is to love, but then the thing that can still happen, even when our motive is to love, we can still destroy relationships if we're living in the dark. And so he calls us to be children of light. This phrase is about a person to whom God's truth has been revealed and their life is lived in accordance with the truth. It's someone that is walking in the truth. They were once in darkness. They were once hidden. They once had a secret life, but now their life has been brought into the light. This is transformation in its truest sense. And this doesn't mean that you live this perfect life and that you never do anything wrong. It just means that we don't hide anymore. That we don't have to, we can walk in the light. It doesn't mean that we have to manage our appearance and appear to be better than we really are, but we can just be honest about the truth of who we are: the good, the bad, and the ugly. When we live in darkness, our relationships will always be hindered. We can never truly love others well when we're hiding a piece of ourselves. Darkness creates distance, darkness creates suspicion, darkness creates double lives. We will live in the dark. When we live in the dark, we aren't known. And if we aren't fully known, then we can't be fully loved. Light is different. Light brings clarity, it builds trust. It's where healing can happen. The relationships can't feel loved by a version of you that's not real. And so Paul goes on to say that the fruit of light is goodness. It's not just this vague moral quality, but it's this in active benevolence. It carries this picture of generosity, that it's righteousness, that your standard is shaped by God's word, and your life is ordered by his truth. That it's a life that is marked by truth. It's not just this intellectual pursuit, but it's a commitment to honesty that undergirds goodness and righteousness. Is your life producing goodness and righteousness and truth around the people closest to you? Because eventually your private life affects your relational atmosphere, exposing the fruitless works of darkness, Paul tells us to do. He's telling us to bring things into the light because if things are kept in the dark, they continue to grow in a bad way. Darkness grows by staying hidden. And when light is introduced, it interrupts the cycle. It's the natural human response for us to hide, right? Even from the very beginning in the Garden of Eden, when Adam and Eve take the fruit off the tree and they take a bite and they immediately feel sin and shame for the very first time. What's their first reaction? Hide. They try to make clothes for themselves. They hide in the bushes, in the trees, away from God because they're ashamed because of who they are and what they have done. This is what darkness looks like. Darkness can be avoiding hard conversations just to keep the peace. It can be emotional shutdown where you just say, I'm fine, but you're really not fine. It can be secret habits, the things you watch, spending money in a secretive way, flirtatious behavior, uses of substances. It can be half-truths and selective honesty and image management. And none of these things, when we walk in the darkness and we have this lifestyle and we're not walking in the truth, we cannot be the people of love that God has called us to be. Anything that stays hidden doesn't stay small. It goes larger and larger until it consumes our lives. Probably a year ago, six months to a year ago, we got this smell in our house. Now, you know, we don't claim to run the tightest household ship, and we're not the OCD type that has everything in order, and our kids are all over the place, and we can't half the time find things because they've moved them and they're outside somewhere. I mean, like we we our life is a little bit like a zoo. And so we one day I'm in the kitchen and I kind of smell something. And I'm like, what is that smell? And so I'm kind of like sniffing around the house trying to figure out. I know it's coming from somewhere in the back of the house, which is where all three of the kids' rooms are. And I I've kind of traced it down. I can't really tell exactly where it's coming from. And so I'm just like, hey, hey guys, like I need you to all clean your rooms really good. I need you to make sure you throw the trash away, all that kind of stuff. And so they do that, and the smell got a little bit better, but I didn't really notice it anymore. And then we went out of town for a few days, and we came home and we walked in the door, and it it smelled like something had died in our house. Um, and I'm going, what in the world? Like this was unmistakable. Like you could you could definitely smell it as soon as you walked in the door. And so we go back to the kids' rooms again and we're searching around things and come to find out that one of our children who will remain nameless had taken a wet towel from the bathroom and they had then spilt something on their floor, a some type of liquid substance, and they had cleaned up the floor with that towel, and then they had gotten that towel and they had thrown it into the back of their closet, and then they had piled, when I told them to clean the room, they piled a lot more clothes on top of that towel, and it just eventually, over time, it sat there and it mildewed and it molded and it grew and it grew and it grew and it smelled and it smelled and it smelled. Kids are so much fun. But when you live in the dark, it's the same way that things grow. And they they spread and they stink up the whole house, but it's not just stinking up the whole house. It's not just about what's in our closets, it's about what's in our souls. Paul is telling us to bring things to the light, to get honest, to stop hiding. But honesty alone is not the finish line. You can confess something on Sunday and you can drift right back into the same pattern on Monday morning. And so Paul is telling us that not only is our motive love, but we are also called to walk in light, which is our integrity. But if we're going to truly live this out, then we've got to be people that have wisdom, the wisdom of the Spirit, and that's where he goes next. He tells us now to walk carefully or wisely. This is what he says in verse 15. He says, Pay careful attention then to how you walk, not as unwise people, but as wise, making the most of the time, because the days are evil. So don't be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is, and don't get drunk with wine which leads to reckless living, but be filled by the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music with your hearts to the Lord, giving thanks always to e for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another in the fear of Christ. We'll come back next week and hit that second half of that. But did you catch what he says at the very beginning? He says, pay careful attention to how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise. And then to live intentionally because of that. It requires us to have intention, he says, because the days are evil. Paul's reminding us that the days are evil, that we had unli we don't have unlimited time or unlimited energy or unlimited opportunities to repair and apologize and encourage and to be present. This isn't a call to just hustle and to be work harder, but it's a call for us to steward the days wisely. We can't just go through the motions because we're always going to drift and move away from being intentional, not towards it. Going back to the conference I said that I was at, we had to rent this car, and so we rented this new Tesla car, Model Y. And um and we got in the car and it had like the full autopilot self-driving mode on there, which I was super interested in trying out, especially when you're in a new city, you have no idea where you're going and stuff. And so we just plugged in the address to our hotel, we left the airport, and I'm telling you, this car, when we pushed the button, it backed out of the parking place, it drove through the parking garage, took us all the way to our hotel, and I did not touch the wheel one time. It was incredible. I would love to have that car. If anybody is wanting to bless a pastor, you can do that. Love to have that. But as we were doing it, I was thinking to myself, man, this is how so many of us operate in life. Where it's great that a car can drive for you if we don't drive our lives. We just kind of drift. We just kind of go through the motions. We don't actually do what matters most. And wisdom is when we're asking that question, what matters most right now? The days are evil, the days are short. I mean, some of you could tell stories. I mean, we talk about Mother's Day and this being an emotional day for some. I mean, some people wish that they still had their mom because their mom has passed away, and they wish that they could say something. They wish they could have that other conversation. For some, there's kids that are out of the house, and maybe you're not connected with them, maybe you're not super close with them, and you just wish that you would have taken more advantage of the time that you did have with them. The days are short, and the older I get, the more I recognize this, that we are not promised tomorrow. And so Paul is telling us, hey, our motive is love. We're called to walk in integrity, but then he's also telling us that the days are evil, so we have to walk wisely. And he tells us to not be drunk with wine, but to be filled with the Spirit. He's saying that everyone is filled with something, and what fills you ultimately will spill out of you. It's out of the overflow of the mouth that the heart out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. So what fills you will spill out of you. This is the power source for us. And so he's saying, hey, don't be drunk with wine. Don't be consumed with the things of this world that are going to make you drift into being an unintentional person, but instead be filled with the Spirit so that you can walk in a way that is worthy, so that you can have the wisdom of the Spirit to live an intentional life in the ordinary. Paul is giving us this picture where love is our motive. Love is the undergird. Love is the foundation of everything that we do. He's giving us this idea that light is our integrity, where we bring things into the light. We'll never be the people that are of love if we aren't living lives of integrity. And then to make all of this flow together, he says, hey, wisdom has to be our daily pattern. When we walk in love, you stop treating people as obstacles and you start treating them as neighbors. When you walk in light, you stop hiding and you start healing. When you walk in wisdom, you stop drifting and start choosing to make the most use of your time. For our relationships to thrive, we can't just have good intentions, but we have to actually be intentional. We can't just expect to drift into godly relationships. We can't just drift into being people of love, but we have to consciously and proactively be men and women that walk in love, walk as children of light, and walk wisely because the days are evil. And so, some of you this morning, the reason your relationships aren't going the way that you want them to go is because you're maybe not walking in love. You're so focused on yourself that you aren't able to live a life of love. Your life is not marked by generosity and self-sacrifice and this willingness to give, but rather it's marked by just your selfish desires and what you can get, what will make you comfortable, what will make you the most happy. Some of you don't feel like you have deep relationships of love because you're unwilling to come out of the darkness and to walk in light. You've convinced yourself that if you come out of hiding and if people truly know who you are and the mess that you are, that they would want nothing to do with you. But let me tell you, there is always freedom in light. Others of us, we aren't walking wisely. We aren't making the most use of our time. We're consumed with just the non-important pressures of life. And you're missing out on intentionally investing in what really matters. We did a whole series on this back in January, but our screens will oftentimes rob us of our time and steal the meaning from our relationships. And so Mother's Day is a great day for us to come together and to just commit ourselves to the Lord once again to become people that walk in love. Being people that are initiating love in our lives, that we can be intentional about living out sacrificial love. If you're a son or a daughter or a husband in the room, man, live this out today on Mother's Day, but don't stop with Mother's Day. Live this out tomorrow and the next week and the next week and the next week. Let us be people that practice sacrificial love. And so maybe what's the question for you? What is one concrete sacrificial way that you can love this week? Maybe for some it's stepping into the light. Maybe you need to have an honest conversation or a confession that brings something that's in the darkness currently into the light. Maybe for others of us, it's choosing wisdom where we are intentionally, our relational decisions where we are marked by slower responses. We're putting our phone down. We've got planned time. We apologize earlier. We have a spirit first morning. Which walk do you need to implement in your life right now? Again, it's not about good intentions, but it's actually living it out in action. And so, what is it that the Holy Spirit is calling you to be about this morning? And the beautiful thing is that we're not alone in this. That Jesus himself modeled this way of life better than anyone else. He was someone that walked in love. Did he initiate love? Absolutely. He left heaven, a place where he was worshipped for all of eternity, where the angels kept singing, Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come. And he decided to leave that and to come down to earth to rescue a people that had rebelled against him. Who made the first move? He made the first move. He displayed this all throughout his life and ministry, where he willingly sacrificed himself and loved. And then he literally, quite literally, sacrificed himself on the cross, showing what true love looks like. He was someone that walked in the truth and exposed the works of the enemy. He exposed the darkness that surrounded him and he brought things into the light. He was someone that walked wisely. He only had three years of ministry, but yet we're still talking about him today because he walked in a manner that was worthy. He was walking in a way that was wise because the days were evil. And so this morning we don't try and strive and try to formulate a plan by ourselves, but instead we come to a place and just say, we want to be more like Jesus in this. Give me a heart of love. Let me walk in love. Let me walk in integrity. Let me walk wisely for the days that I have here. And so, Lord Jesus, we thank you that you are the perfect example of what this message is. That you were someone that walked in a manner that was full of love, full of integrity, full of wisdom. And Lord, I know that we just so often fall short. I fall short of this. Lord, so often I gravitate towards just trying to make it through the day. And I don't drift into love, but instead, Lord, I just live a life that so often comes up short from loving the people around me. Where I buy into the lie that my life is about my happiness and my comfort and and what can make me feel the best instead of the good of those that are around me. Lord, so often we we don't walk in the light, and we believe the lies of the enemy, that it's safer in the darkness. So often, Lord, we don't make the best use of our time. We don't walk wisely, and as a result, we don't live with the purpose that you've called us to. So just in this moment, before we kind of talk a little bit more about just what the Holy Spirit's saying to us, can you just have a moment of confession with the Lord? Or we're sorry. Just confess that to him. God's ear is inclined to those that confess. And so, Lord Jesus, we do repent. We do turn from that. And Lord, we we just ask as humbly as we possibly can, Lord, that you would just empower us in such a way to be people that walk in love, walk in light, and walk full of wisdom. Lord, let us not let our intentions manipulate our actions. But Lord, let us actually live this out truly. And so right now, just across this room, Holy Spirit, would you just speak to each heart? And Lord, would you give them not just a good idea, but Lord, would you give them a God idea that they can actually live out this week? Maybe it's connected to the message, maybe it has something nothing to do with the message, that you just want to speak to them right now. Lord, would you do that? Give us ears to hear right now in this moment, Lord. And so, Lord Jesus, we just give this time to you as we respond to you. As we just declare, who else? Who else is worthy? Who else is worthy to walk in such a way as you called us to walk, Lord? You set the perfect example for us and you get all the honor, you get all the glory. And so, Lord Jesus, would you come in this moment? There'll be people up here that will be willing to pray for you. You can pray at your seat or come forward or do whatever you feel like the Lord's leading you to do in this moment. But Holy Spirit, would you come now and work? And it's in your name we pray. Amen.