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Amen. So good to be in the Lord's presence. We're going to just take a moment and take our needs to the Lord in prayer.

Scripture tells us we have not because we ask not. and the the the reoccurring kind of words that I just felt the Lord telling me in my mind today. I know each and every one of us are walking into this house with different needs, different challenges that we face, but I just want to remind you today that God can.

He can God can change your circumstances. He can encourage you today. He can turn your life around.

He can give you peace of mind in the middle of your storm. He can forgive you of your sins. He can heal your body.

He can heal your marriage. He can heal the relationships that you have in your life. God can.

>> Amen. The Lord can. And we have not because we do not go to him in prayer.

And I just want to take a few moments as we're here in the midst of this room and a body of believers with uh many uh warriors of faith. Let's put our faith together and believe that the Lord can not just transform our individual lives, but that God can transform our church. That he can make this a place where when we come together, we just see lives transformed every single week.

That is an amazing thing that the Lord can do. You believe that? >> He can.

He can. I want to continue to pray for Pastor Gan. Uh, his body.

Of course, he's he's lightheaded right now as we speak, and I know he doesn't want me to make anything about him, but I just continue to pray for him. The Lord needs to do a work in his body, and the Lord needs to give direction. He's got a an appointment on the 16th.

So, we want to continue to pray for that. Pray for Sister Janet, uh, Brother Webster, and of course for, [music] uh, think if you can for just a few moments about co-workers, uh, people in your family, people in your community, of course, people in our local church. Let's be intercessors, uh, by the uplifting of your hands.

Can we take our needs to the Lord? Every need. Amen.

Amen. Let's believe in faith that the Lord's going to work. God, thank you for the privilege to be able to come to you in prayer.

Thank you for this body of believers, Lord. I I pray Jesus that you minister to every single need. Lord, I pray Lord that because of what you can do for us and because Lord you give us the grace to call out your name.

I pray Jesus that you would do a mighty work amongst us. Lord change us, transform us Lord. Heal us.

Give us what we need as we walk out those back doors to live our lives. God work in this place today like only you can. Let the Holy Ghost do what only it can do, Lord.

Transform and change us. I pray, Jesus, that our flesh, our flesh would not get in the way of what you're trying to do, Lord. But the power of your spirit would work in this place.

Bring healing, Lord. Bring power and change us like only you can. You are good and you're faithful.

And we are grateful to be a part of this body, Lord. This body that you have called out. You've given us your name.

We're your people called by your name. We're grateful for that privilege today, Jesus. Continue to bless the remainder of this service.

We trust you and we love you, Lord. In Jesus name we pray. I'm grateful again for all of you to come out.

I'd like for you to in just a moment to to shake hands. Brother Lee's going to be coming to bring the word to us. So, open your hearts to what he's doing.

But before he comes, why don't you greet one another? Greet some folks and tell them you are glad they are here on this Wednesday night. Love you.

Amen. With all this fellowshipping going on, just as soon as it gets cooler weather, I think we need to have us a Oh, come on now. When the cooler weather gets here, I think we need to have us a cookout.

Come on. That's right. That's right.

That's right. Well, praise God. Praise God.

You may be seated. Um, I'd like to thank brother Bria for for asking me to speak tonight. And uh I I have sought the Lord and and I pray that I challenge you tonight.

Um you know, iron sharpens iron and we have to speak very plain. Sometimes the world doesn't sugarcoat it. We don't need to sugarcoat it.

What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong. And I pray that that with the help of the Lord, his word is anointed, but I need his anointing to be able to deliver what I have on my heart for his people. Because it's that relationship between you and God that ultimately matters when you stand before the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings and you hear those words, "Well done, thy good and faithful servant." Amen.

So, if you would, um, I'm going to read my scripture text and then we'll we'll just ask for the Lord to open up our hearts and our minds. We're going to start off with Ephesians chapter 6. Ephesians chapter 6, read verses 10-18.

It says, "Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God that ye may be able to withstand against the ws of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand. Stand therefore having your loins gird about with truth and having the breastplate of righteousness and your feet shaw with the preparation of the gospel of peace. Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked, and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God.

And verse 18, praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit, and watching there unto for all perseverance and supplication for all saints. Let's just ask the Lord to open up our hearts and our minds. God, we love you, Lord, and we thank you, Jesus, for your mercy, for your grace, for the privilege, God, to come before you tonight to break the bread of life.

God, we ask you, Lord, to help us to lay aside the preconceived thoughts and notions of man. And God, help us to get what you want us to have tonight, Lord. God, it's that relationship, Lord, that we have with you that ultimately matters, Lord.

That's the reason you you died on the cross and shed your blood for us, Lord. God, we ask you to help us, Jesus. And the church said, "Amen." Life is full of choices.

We make choices every day. Some are easy choices. Some are a little harder.

Depends on how long your list is. If you go to McDonald's, you ask for ice cream. You get a choice of chocolate or vanilla.

And if you're really feeling adventurous, you can get the swirl that's got got both of them together. But that's all you get to choose. So the choice is rather simple.

Now if you go to BaskinRobins, 31 flavors, all of a sudden that 30 second decision turns into a threeinut dissertation in an argument with yourself. Man, do I want moose tracks or do I vanilla cream and sherbet? Man, I ain't had that in a long time.

But you can only have one. That's the thing. You can only get one.

And And you can't can't mix your bowl. You just just have one bowl and you just choose one. So the debate starts in your mind.

What do I really want today? Life is full of choices. When it comes to eternity, there's only two choices.

There's two boxes that we have an opportunity to choose. One box is heaven, one box is hell. There's no other options.

There's no sitting on a fence post. There's no taking the middle road. No hedging your bets.

It's heaven or it's hell. If you halfheartedly choose number one for heaven, that's an automatic choice. for number two.

And not choosing is an automatic choice for number two. Ezekiel 22 and30 brings us to a realization. Ezekiel 22 and30.

And I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge and stand in the gap before me for the land that I should not destroy it. But I found none. Two boxes, only two.

God gives us free will to decide. He's not going to twist your arm. It's your choice.

It's his mercy and his grace that we need to cover in prayer for the incorrect vote we made yesterday because his mercies are new and fresh every day. So today we have an opportunity to make the right choice, choose the right box. We can't lean on yesterday.

Those mistakes are already passed. What we have to choose is today. We can't worry about that ice cream for tomorrow because we might not get that ice cream tomorrow.

But it's that choice today that we have to have to choose. 2 Chronicles 7:14, it's very familiar verse for for most of us. 2 Chronicles 7:14 it says, "If my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal heal their land." and back to Ezekiel.

And I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge and stand in the gap before me for the land that I should not destroy it. But I found none. Ephesians 6:12 and 13 says, "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all to stand." You know, we complicate the spirit world. Hollywood has not done us any favors about the spirit world. And and you can see I hate Halloween.

I I just hate it. All the ghosts, the ghouls, the goblins, the witchcraft. I I hate it.

It's perverted the spiritual world. Now, is there a spiritual world? Absolutely, there's a spiritual world.

That's why we're doing what we do because we know we're going to live in eternity. There is a spiritual world. what we feel, what we have, and and what we recognize today is only temporary.

A 100 years from now, for most of us, this flesh is going to be gone. You can look around the building here. We've been in a building program and and but there's some places I know uh we we've sprayed some weeds, but we didn't plant those weeds.

And if we'd let them grow, it would just grow up and overtake what's there. We have to maintain. We have to do things that we need to do.

So sometimes I don't I I think that we don't even think about a spiritual world because we can't see it, you can't feel it, you can't touch it, you can't smell it, you can't hear it. We have to accept that that spiritual world is there by faith. And faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

It doesn't mean it's not there. We just can't see it. It's like the the prophet and his servant Gahhesi and the army was camped around him and Gahhesi boy, he was sweating bullets.

He said, "Man, we're in trouble now. We're in we're we're we got this bad." The prophet said, "Lord, would you remove the scales off his eyes just so he could see, catch a glimpse of the army that we have around us. We have and are living in a spiritual world.

High places. High places. When we quote that scripture, we we come across it pretty quick and we think government institutions.

Can I challenge today that the high places are right here between your ears? High places are anything that takes precedent over God in our lives. Anything.

It could be your family. It could be your job. It could be hobbies.

It could even be good and meaningful opportunities to work in the food line or a homeless shelter. Anything that takes and keeps you from putting him first is a high place. Busyiness does not equate with good choices.

You may be busy, but are you actually putting him first? Doing the needful thing at the needful time is very critical. We see that example in Luke chapter 10.

Jesus was going over to Mary and Marthus. And Martha, oh my goodness, man. The dishes are piled up in in in in the sink.

I don't have anything pulled out of the freezer. I can't put it in the microwave. I got company coming.

I got to mop. I got to I got I got to I I I got to She was busy. She was busy.

And then her busyiness, she gets upset because she gets upset with Mary. You know, they're living in the same house and she ain't even helping. And she goes to Jesus and she starts whining a little bit.

And what does God say? Oh, Martha. Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things, but one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.

Jesus was not condemning hard work or hospitality, but rather reminding Martha not to let worldly distractions put her away from what matters most. Most of us in this room are not going to go out and I pray that you're not going to go out and and uh do a heinous crime, you know, commit murder. Um I I I pray that.

But I think Satan also knows that he doesn't have to get us to do that. All he has to do is distract us. [snorts] Just distract us.

You know, I've I've got a new dog and uh when I walk her down the lane, she's got the end of the road in mind and I've got her on a tight leash, but if there's a distraction that comes up in front of her called a squirrel, oh, bets are off, buddy. She's off. She's gone.

Distractions. So, what happens in our lives? we get distracted.

Ephesians 3 verse 20, it says, "Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that workketh in us." Everybody say, "In us." In us. Very important. God is well able to do anything.

Pastor Bria said it. God is well able to do anything. But Matthew 7:es 7 and 11 it says, "Ask and it shall be given you.

Seek and you shall find. Knock and it shall be opened unto you. For everyone that askketh receiveth, and he that seeketh findeth, and to him that knockketh it shall be opened.

Or what man is there of you, whom if your son ask bread, he's going to give him a stone? Or if he asks a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your father which is in heaven give good things to them that what?

That ask him, that ask him. There's only two boxes to be checked. Only two.

You can only choose one. It's a total commitment living for God. You are either all in or you're not in at all.

There will be some that choose wisely. And yes, there'll be many that don't want the discipline in their life. They don't want to live a life of self-denial.

Going back to Matthew 7:13 and 14, it says, "Enter ye in at the straight gate. For wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadth to destruction, and many there be which go in there. Because straight is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadth unto life, and few be their find it." There is no room for those that will not deny the lust, the flesh, the pride of life, the lust of the eye.

There's no room for those that won't resist the devil. James 4:7 tells us, "Submit yourselves therefore to God." Resist the devil and he will flee from you. There's an order there.

There's an order. You have to submit yourself unto God and then resist the devil. You can't do it in your own strength.

You have to have God. God that's inside of you. There is no room for those that don't pray.

Back to Ezekiel 22. And I sought a man among them that should make up the hedge and stand in the gap before me for the land that I should not destroy it, but I found none. Give you a little bit of hope here.

2 Timothy 1:7 it says, "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and a sound mind, we can take control of what is happening in our lives. If we would submit ourselves to God and we ask, James 4 2 and three says, "You lust and you do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain.

You fight and war yet you do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive. Why?

Because you ask a miss that you may spend it on your pleasures. We ask a miss. That's why it's important when we pray What is the motive behind your prayer?

As humans, we have a tendency to justify what we want. We want to feel good about ourselves. And so, we justify those things.

And so, when we pray, we pray what's good for you, what's good for your family. But is that really what's good for you and for your family? Brother Gan has helped me in in praying and he ends prayers oftentimes the Lord's will and for my good.

For the Lord's will and for my good. Sometimes we might have to go through a rough spot for our good. If we pray that way, we'll look at obstacles differently because they're there to help mold us.

They're there to help us realize that our dependence is upon God. In in John 14 and 13 and he's he's he's talking to his disciples. says, "And whatsoever you shall ask in my name, that will I do that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it." If God gets the glory out of it, it's not me. It's not It's not because I prayed for someone and they got healed. It's because God used my prayer to dispatch angels that spirit world.

Remember, we need the Holy Ghost to pray within us. When we pray in our flesh, often times we will pray a miss in our flesh. The flesh does not know what to pray for.

In John 14:15 and 20, it says, "If you love me, keep my commandments, and I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another comforter, that he may abide with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him, but ye know him, for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you." Everybody say, "In you." Amen. Amen. I will not leave you comfortless.

I will come unto you. He's speaking of the promise of the Holy Ghost. Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more, but ye shall see me because I live.

Ye shall live also. And that day you shall know that I am in my father and ye in me and I in you. Why does that matter?

Let's go Romans 8:26. He says, "Likewise, the spirit also helps us in our weaknesses. Our flesh gets tired, but our spirit, the spirit also helps us in our weaknesses, for we do not know what we should pray for as we ought.

But the spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered." M spirit of almighty God, creator of all the universe, dwelling inside of you. How do you know he's there? Because you speak in tongues when you get the Holy Ghost.

That beautiful language. When you come, you repent of your sins. You're baptized in the name of Jesus.

And you start praising God. You're identifying with the resurrection of Jesus Christ as you submit. We talked about submit to God and you yield yourself and you begin speaking in that heavenly language as God gives the utterance.

It's not a learned language. Nobody can teach you to speak in tongues. It's as God gives the utterance as they did on the on the day of of Pentecost.

It's a new beginning. It's a new beginning. It's we have power.

Mark 16-17. Mark 16-1 17. And said, "These signs shall follow them that believe.

In my name shall they cast out devils. They shall speak with new tongues." Do we believe this or not? Do we believe it or not?

Two boxes. Got to check one. Heaven or hell.

We have to believe. We have to believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. I've prayed, brother.

I have prayed and I have prayed and I prayed and I still don't have the answer. Let me tell you how it works in the spirit world. Let's go to Daniel chapter 10.

And here Daniel, [snorts] he's a captive. He's prayed. Oh, he's done a little bit more than prayed.

Now, for 21 days, he fasted. He was serious with God. He was showing God he was serious.

God sent dispatched an angel and it took him 21 days to get there. Really? H how how does that happen?

Well, there's a spiritual battle going on. And the angel came to Daniel and he said, then he said unto me, Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that thou did set thine heart to understand and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I come, I am come for thy words. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and 20 days.

But lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to me, and I remained there with the kings of Persia. Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days. And yet the vision is for many days.

There is a spiritual battle. We cannot give up on our prayers. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

You are displaying faith when you pray to God. You show gratitude and thankfulness more. When you start thanking him for answering that prayer, putting your faith, I thank you for touching mama's cancer.

I thank you for doing those things. You are exemplifying that faith. Daniel fasted and prayed three times a day for 21 days.

How bad do we want a move of God in our life? Do we want the Holy Ghost to move in our life every day? Do we want to be led by the spirit every day?

Do we want salvation for our family, for our loved ones, for our co-workers? Well, they say on judgment day when the Lord asked them about salvation that there was not a man standing in the gap. I brought these up.

We've had them here all along. Some of you may know what these are. Some of you may not.

They've been on each side of the platform here. These are names and list of prodigals. names and list of prodals.

They're going to be spending eternity somewhere. And I sought for a man to stand in the gap that I might not destroy the land. [snorts] Do we call their names?

Do we ask God for anything about them? Or are we comfortable Are we comfortable with the way that we're living? Are we comfortable?

We live in nice houses. We we drive nice cars. We have nice clothes.

You know, we're frustrated. Do we set the air conditioner on 76 or 74? Really?

And there's people in third world countries that don't even have or know what an air conditioner is. We're comfortable. God, help us, wake us, shake us.

We need God. We have a lost and dying world in Rock Hill, in Lancaster, in Clover, in Chester, in Fort Mill. We have a lost and dying world.

Are we standing in the gap? Are we standing in the gap? Matthew 16 and 19.

Somebody might say says, "Well, you know, God's all knowing. He's all powerful. He's omniscient.

He's everywhere. Why should I have to ask? Why should I have to ask?

He knows anyway." Oh, he does. But see, there's that thing that's called free will. See, and God doesn't override free will.

And see, we find in Matthew right here. Look at this. And Jesus is handing the keys.

It says, "I will give unto thee the keys to the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

That's up to you. That's up to me. I bind that depression.

I bind that oppression. I bind that spirit of fear. I bind that.

We can walk and we can pray and we can bind those things in our famil family's lives that are tormenting them. We have to take authority. We have to assume our rightful place.

It's us. God has given it to us. And if we want to lose faith, if we want to lose healing, we loose those things.

We want to loose laughter and encouragement and joy, we get to loose those things. But brother Bria said, "We don't ask. We don't ask.

We have the keys. Why don't we use them? Why don't we use them?

It's up to us. God does not like lacadasical or lukewarm Christians. We're so comfortable with life.

My my son, I can pick on my son. He's not here. Some of you met him.

Some of you haven't. There'd be a crisis in his life. Am I right or wrong, babe?

When he says, "Oh, it'll be all right, Mom." What do you mean it's gonna be all right? Whatever will be will be. That's not of God.

We have to take control over our circumstances. We cannot just sit back and say, "Okay, you want a new car? You want to sit down?

I'm going to pray at the altar. Lord, if it's your will, you're going to have a new car drive up there and somebody's going to get out and come and give me the keys. How many of you think that's actually going to happen?

Can it happen? Yeah, God can do anything. He can, but faith without works is dead.

So, if you get up, you go get a job. Ah. Ah.

Yeah. And you start putting some works with that faith. Next thing you know, five years down the road, you got a thing paid for.

Oh, it's not whatever will be will be. God has ordained steps for your life. We as humans oftenimes run down rabbit holes because we take wrong turns out of selfish desires because we don't want to live the life of self-denial.

We have to pick up our cross every day and walk the walk every day. Two boxes. Two boxes.

Neuroscience and psychology. I I was I I come across this and it was it was interesting to me. Neuroscience and psychology confirms that prayer has a measurable powerful impact on the human brain and behavior.

Well, I am just the way I am. Well, why don't you pray before God and change? You know, you this is science.

It's not me. It's science. Neuroscience and psychology confirms that prayer has a measurable and powerful impact on the human brain and behavior.

While it cannot be quantified like gravity, science shows that prayer functions as a highly effective tool for psychological resilience and physiological healing. What do you think's going on in the spirit when you're praying? You're binding things and you're loosing things when you start praying.

See, and that's what science can't measure. Science can't me. They can measure the outcome because they can see, oh, he ain't limping no more.

Oh, I've got a testimony. I'm going on eight years cancer free with no metastasis. Glory to God.

That's an answer to prayer. Science can't measure what it took and what happened in the spirit world to make that happen. But they can measure the results.

We can measure the results. Matthew 19 and 26 says, "But Jesus beheld them and said unto them, with men this is impossible, but with God all things," everybody say, "all things." All things are possible. But you've got to give it voice.

Brother Ess did an awesome job talking about memorials, but he he talked about God has set patterns in place. Okay, let's go back and look in the beginning in Genesis. God spoke the power of the tongue.

God spoke, "Let there be." And it was boom. Let there be and it was the only thing God got his hands dirty with was working with you and me. That's it.

He spoke everything else. Patterns are set up. The keys are ours.

Whatsoever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven. Whatsoever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Patterns.

You got some obstacles. Patterns. We can make it happen to us.

we can make it happen for us. As you get the spirit of God that's inside of you and you start praying and you get to a place where you earnestly start praying and you feel the uncction of the Holy Ghost, don't stop. Move into the spirit and allow the spirit to start working through you and you will begin to see things change in your life that you've never imagined before in your life.

But you've got to get to that place and allow that spirit to speak through you. Don't shy away from it. Allow it to happen.

The groanings of intercession give birth to babies in the spirit. We need that. We've been talking revival.

We've been talking about growth. We've been talking about souls. It's going to happen through us.

Acts chapter 10, we know the story. Cornelius, a good man, man. A good man.

He was a centurion. Highly esteemed in his class. Highly esteemed.

But he lacked something. His whole household, they honored God. They gave alms.

They they they they could do everything they could do. But they still lacked something. In verse four, and when he looked on him, he was afraid.

An angel had come and talked to Kaneas and said, and he was afraid and said, "What is it, Lord?" And he said unto him, "Thy prayers and thine arms are come up for a memorial before God." Can we say that we have a memorial before God? Or do we quit praying before that time comes? Do we quit praying before the angels get through battling it up there in the air and your answer comes?

Said, "Well, it must not be that important." He's quit praying about it. It must not be that important. If you want something pretty bad, you're going to stay after it.

You're [clears throat] going to stick with it. You're going to do what you can to get it happen. When you want that new fishing pole, guess what?

You're gonna make that happen. You know, you you're going to sit there and conjure up in your mind and scheme and think how you can do that. And man, if I just get I can get $5 back at Walmart and and and I can do that four times and then I'll have $20 and she won't know anything about it.

I go get my fishing pole. So, Uhhuh. You want it?

Do we do that with the things of God? The things are going to stand for eternity. the things that we need to have happen in our lives, in our church's life.

We've got to we've got to have a memorial before God. Verse 18, praying always with all prayer and supplication. In the spirit.

Everybody say, in the spirit and watching there unto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. Let's all stand. I don't think I'm sitting among people tonight.

When God asks for a man, ask for a woman. I don't think he's going to say that there are none. Why?

Because this is Wednesday night. You have a desire in your heart or else you wouldn't be here. There's other things to do on Wednesday night.

I got to get up early on Thursday morning. I got things to do. I got grass to cut.

I got life distractions. But yet, here you are. Here you are.

Musicians, if you will come. If we can understand where we're at, we're on the precipice of a revival in Egypt. The plague of darkness did not fall on the Israelites, but it was so dark on the Egyptians, they couldn't work.

I would pray that the spirit of the Lord would be in us. The Bible tells us that we are to be salt and light. And as the world gets darker, it's up to us, up to us to let the light of Jesus shine through us.

But the only way that we can do that is to spend time before him and get refilled because this world pulls it out of you. It's just like the heat that we've had for the last three or four days. You go out and spend 30 minutes, you go, "Oh man, I'm I'm so tired." Because the heat pulls it out of you.

The world will pull the spirit out of you. How do you get rejuvenated? How do you get recharged?

You spend time with the master. You spend time with Jesus. It's the lifeline.

It's the lifeline that we've got to have. Yes, you can have everything all the way from the top, the helmet of salvation, all the way down your feet shaw with the gospel of peace and the breastplate and you can have all that stuff. But if you don't pray and he doesn't tell you how to use that, what good is it?

What good is it? Open up your spirit. Open up your heart.

I would like to have everyone come down if you would. It It's It's not a proclamation of faith. I just want everybody just come down.

This is an altar. This is an altar. This is where we lay sins down.

This is where we lay troubles down. This is where we lay someone that that needs God. We put them right there.

We got a got a jar here. God is interested in each and every one of our prayers. You are individually important to God.

And God is a God of details. If he knows the very hairs on your head, what makes you think he's not concerned about where you're at? We need to make prayer, our relationship with God a priority.

We don't have long left. Church, you've got two boxes. heaven or hell.

And it's your choice. And I feel confident that when God looks at the church Rock Hill, he's going to say, "I've got someone standing in the gap." And I want that to be me. I want that to be me.

Go ahead, brother.