Press Into Divine Purpose [PART 2] | Mark Pugh | Sunday 19th October

[00:00:03] Speaker A: Last week I spoke on taking hold of that for which Christ Jesus has taken hold of you. And I asked you what your that was. I asked you how are you going to keep pressing on to take hold of that in your life. We talked and explored about God's specific calling on each of our lives. That there's not a super spiritual group that are called and everyone else isn't, but all of us have been called by Jesus. There's a unique purpose and a unique assignment, a divine assignment that has your name written on it. But here's what I've been thinking about this week and that is that we have become masters at avoiding God's call without ever actually saying the word no. We're far too sophisticated to say no. We're too spiritual. We would never look at God in the eye and say I'm not doing that God. We would never dream of saying I'm not going to do what you're asking me to do. Instead, we have developed a vocabulary, an entire vocabulary of avoidance. We, we've perfected the art of the holy dodge the spiritual sidestep the righteous run around. We have created a whole ecosystem in churches across the nation of being able to say no to God without actually using the word no. So this morning, for part two of taking hold of that, for which Christ Jesus has taken hold of you, I want to entitle this how to say no to God without actually saying no. And I want to expose the most common ways that you and I say no to God without using that simple two letter word. And I warn you, it's going to get uncomfortable. It's going to be uncomfortable because it's personal. Because I'm not just preaching to you, I'm preaching to me. And it will feel personal for all of us. But the Lord is not here to make us feel bad. The Lord is here to liberate us and to set us free into laying hold and pressing on to the that for which Christ Jesus has taken hold of us. I don't believe the church in the UK needs any more resource than we have or any more people than we have to fulfill the purposes of God. We just need a church that stops saying no. So here we go. Three creative ways that you might be able to say no. And the first one is incognito. I want to take you to a story in the Old Testament that is found in 1 Samuel. That is a fascinating story. It's probably one of the most awkward moments in scripture. Turn with me with you to 1 Samuel, chapter 10 verses 20 to 22. The words are on your screen as well. It says, so Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel before the Lord, and the tribe of Benjamin was chosen by lot. This was the process of the nation deciding how the first king was going to be appointed. Then he brought each family of the tribe of Benjamin before the Lord, and the family of the matrites was chosen. And finally, Saul, son of Kish, was chosen from among them. But when they looked for him, he had disappeared. Imagine a few years ago, King Charles disappearing on his coronation. Everything set? The crown is ready, the cameras are rolling, the soldiers are in place, but he is missing. That's what happened here. So they asked the Lord, where is he? And the Lord replied, he is hiding among the baggage. Israel is about to get their first king, and here he is hiding. That doesn't feel a very good start. Saul is missing in action. Can you imagine what that must have felt like to the community, to the sense of validation of the choice of God? That here was a man who was intentionally hiding under the suitcases and the bags of the community. Now, Saul, we know, was a man who stood head and shoulders above everyone else in his community. He was chosen by God not because he was head and shoulders above the others, but he was chosen by God because God saw, saw a destiny on his life. This was Saul's that. And by the way, Saul's that is no better than your that. There's a that that Christ has taken hold of all of our lives. And the key thing is that we don't find purpose in pitting one against the other as more important or less important. What's important is knowing our that and living in obedience to it. The rewards of heaven will not be given according to those who had the most Facebook followers or those who had the most known ministry or those who did the most spectacular things on earth. That's not how the rewards of God will take place in eternity. The rewards of God will simply ask, what have you done with the assignment I've given you? If the assignment that God has given you is an assignment to clean after others, and that's the obedience of your life, you will be rewarded the same as Reinhard Bonnke, who served the Lord in reaching millions of people across the continent of Africa. It's not about the accolades of this world. It's about the obedience to your eternal divine calling. And Saul, this was his calling. Didn't make him more important than others, but this was his calling to be king. And here he was, head and shoulders above the rest but crouching down under the luggage, hoping nobody would find him, we do the same. When God calls, we hide. We hide among the baggage of our lives. We bury ourselves in our clutter. We suddenly become extremely busy with things that didn't matter yesterday but. But were absolutely critical today. God says, I'm calling you to lead that ministry. And we say, but I've just remembered I promised to clean my garage. God says, I want you to reconcile with that person that you've fallen out with. And we say, but I'm washing my hair. Some of you will say that God says, I'm asking you to step into. Into that uncomfortable conversation. And we suddenly remember that we planned to order the spice rack in alphabetical order. We find anything to do that allows us to hide under the baggage of our lives. The clutter is our hiding space. We fill our calendars so full that there's no room for God's assignment. We pack our schedules so tight that we can claim with complete honesty, I just don't have time for the that that God has called me to. We hide behind our to do lists, our streaming subscriptions, our social media scrolling, our recreational outrage, anything to specifically avoid the thing that God is asking us to do. Henry Newon, famous Christian author, wrote, in solitude, I get rid of my scaffolding. No friends to talk with, no telephone calls to make, no meetings to attend, no music to entertain, no books to distract. Just me. Naked, vulnerable, weak, sinful, deprived, broken. Nothing. Such a place terrifies us. So we keep the scaffolding, we maintain the baggage, and we stay hidden. But here is the truth. God found Saul and he will find you. And when they brought Saul out from among the baggage, he became exactly who God had created him to be. He stood head and shoulders above them all. And the same is true for you. You can hide, but God knows where you are and he knows what he's calling you to is better than the baggage that you're hiding behind. He knows that the best thing you can do in your life is to lay a hold and press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus has taken hold of you. It's so possible in all of our lives that we get so distracted from the that and the purpose of God. It's important that we know our that here in Rediscover. We believe our that is to see communities all over this area, all over the region, discovering the opportunities to find Christ as their Savior. I was sharing with the staff team on Monday that I believe that so often the language that we use about the NHS in this country. We talk about a postcode lottery as to whether you can get a doctor's appointment or not. We talk about there being limited opportunities in some parts of the country and more in others that there is a postcode lottery regarding those who have access to the gospel of Jesus. And I believe God has called rediscover to be catalytic to help eradicate the postcode lottery of people being able to discover the gospel of Jesus Christ. And God has called all of us to be part of the that to grab ahold of the purposes of God and come on church now. We've been hiding behind our baggage, we've been holding onto our problems, we've been using our past as our reason why we can't have a future. And we've been hidden. And I want you to hear really clearly this morning there is a that for which Christ Jesus has laid hold of you. Stop hiding. So people say no to God by hiding by becoming incognito. The second way that they say no to God without using the word no is inadequacy. They believe that they are unable to be the people that God has called them to be. I want to take you to Moses. Excuses. In the Old Testament, Moses is standing at the burning bush where God is revealing himself. And God has just given Moses the most incredible that the that for Moses was gone. Egypt, go and confront Pharaoh and bring my people out of captivity. That was the that for Moses. And Moses responds with what I call the inadequacy shuffle. Watch as we look at these verses. How many times Moses basically tells God, you've got the wrong guy. Exodus 3:11 Moses says, who am I that I should go? Exodus 3:13. Who shall I say sent me? Exodus 4:1. What if they don't believe me? Exodus 4:10. I'm not eloquent, I'm slow of speech. And probably the most honest response of all of them. Exodus 4:13. Please send someone else. Five objections, five variations of the same theme which basically said I am inadequate, I am not qualified. Now let me be clear. Moses humility was genuine. His self assessment was probably accurate. But here is what we miss. Every single one of Moses objections was actually an insult to God. Think about it. When we respond to God's calling by listing the reasons why we can't do it, we're essentially saying, God, you don't know what you're doing. We say, God, you have miscalculated the situation. We say, God, you have made a mistake. There are better choices than me and we actually think that we're trying to help God out by pointing out just what you may have missed. God, we think we're being humble, but God hears that we're calling him incompetent. John Maxwell, a famous author on issues of leadership, he put it this way. God doesn't call the qualified, he qualifies the called. I think in the Church today we have turned inadequacy into a spiritual gift. We've made it a badge of honour. We have used, used our sense of disqualification as some accolade in our lives. We say things like, I'm not a public speaker. Neither was Moses. We say, I don't have a theology degree. Neither did any of Jesus disciples. We say, I'm too broken. Show me someone in Scripture who wasn't. We say, I've made too many mistakes. Why don't you Google about King David? Some say I'm too young. Why don't you ask Jeremiah about that one? Some say I'm too old. Why don't you go and explore about Abraham and Sarah and have a word with them? Because by focusing on your inadequacy, you are making it about you. And it is not about you. It's about the God who calls you. It's about the God who takes the foolish things of this world, the weak things of this world, and he uses them for his glory to confront the strong and the powerful and the mighty. Do you know, 18 months ago I was appointed to be the General Superintendent of Elim? That means I oversee 500 churches. It means I oversee. I'm the spiritual lead for over 700 ministers across the country. And the first time I applied to Elim ministry, I was turned down. I went for an interview and they said, no, no, no, you haven't got what it takes. How did that happen? I sometimes now meet with our trainee ministers and I tell them that story. I say, I think it's a bit like people who fail their first driving test. The best drivers are the ones who pass second time. Oh, that divided the room. All right. [00:17:17] Speaker B: You show off who passed first time. [00:17:25] Speaker A: Listen, we've all got our stories of disqualification. We've all got our stories of people who have not seen things in us that God has seen. Maybe there are people in churches over the years that have not seen something in you that maybe they should have. Maybe they missed something prophetically. But I want you to know, no matter what you've said over your own life, or no matter what other people have said over your life, the voice that matters is the voice of God. It's his that that matters. And I look around this room and there is not a single person here. Listen to me. There is not a single person in this room for which Christ has not. [00:18:14] Speaker B: Given you a that everybody. [00:18:20] Speaker A: So the inadequacy shuffle. Let's stop it. Let's recognize that no matter how inadequate we feel that God's strength is made perfect in our weakness and it gives him all the glory. It enables us to know that it's all about Him. God said to Moses who gave human beings their mouths. Oh, I wouldn't have liked to have been there when God was. It sounds like God's really having a wag finger at Moses here. Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Now go. I will help you speak and I will teach you what to say. I've had regular moments of deep seated. [00:19:20] Speaker B: Inadequacy in my life. There have been so many moments on my journey where I thought God has made the wrong choice. [00:19:33] Speaker A: And I still feel them. I still, every time God gives me an assignment, I still feel there must be something better to do this. Every time. I still, as I travel the country, my diary is booked up to 2027. As I go and receive invitations to places, I still think I can think of better preachers to come and speak. I still, whenever God stirs my heart about something new of a new that that he's placed into my hands, I still think there must be better people to do this. It doesn't go. But I tell you what does compensate is an understanding that it is not about me and my inadequacy. It's about Him. His power, his glory, his ability, his strength and his purposes. That's what it's about. So you learn which voice to listen to. The deep seated inadequacy of my life or the prophetic possibilities of the voice of God. And I believe that every assignment God has ever given me, I've said yes to. Oh, I've battled with my inadequacies. But I believe that God has stirred my heart with a sense of faith and hope that he can do it. And I believe he can do it in you. I believe there's no one in this place that God cannot grab ahold of and cause you to know that. That the possibilities he places in your life are greater than you ever dreamed possible. I long, as I travel around the nation, I long to see churches rise up and say we're all going to take hold of our that for which Christ Jesus has taken hold of us. We're going to kick inadequacy. We're going to remove our excuses, we're going to stop hiding, and we're just going to emerge as the people of God. You know, I believe if everyone in this room would grab a hold of their that there would be a move of God in this city and this region. And that means that if we're not experiencing a move of God in this city and region, it's because not everybody in this room is grabbing a hold of their vat. I believe that the spirit of the Lord is stirring our hearts today to say, trust me. God said to Moses, I made your mouth. I know what it can and cannot do, and I'm telling you to go. God isn't asking you and I to be adequate. He's asking you to be available. There's a big difference between inadequacy and availability. The third way we say no to God without saying no is around the theme of inconvenient. Let's look at an issue that emerged in Luke, chapter 9, verses 57 to 62. [00:22:50] Speaker B: Let me just read this to you. [00:22:53] Speaker A: Luke 9. Just realized I didn't put this on the screen. It is. Is it? I did put it on the screen. He said to another person, come, follow me. The man agreed, okay, all good. The man agreed to follow Jesus. But. Ah, see the but. There's too many big buts in church. Does my butt look big in this? The man agreed. But he said, lord, first let me return home and bury my father. But Jesus told him, let the spiritually dead bury their own dead. Your duty is to go and preach about the kingdom of God. I hear lots of people talk about Jesus being compassionate and kind and loving. He seems unreasonable to me here until you look into what's going on. First of all, this man was saying, I want to follow you. I'll follow you anywhere and everywhere. Wherever you lead me, I will go to those places. But first let me bury my, my father. That sounds like a very reasonable request. If you came to me and I said, hey, listen, we've got a job to do. Will you help? And you said, I'd love to help, but I've got to bury my father. I would say, go and bury your father. So am I more compassionate than Jesus? Not at all. So what's going on? Well, a lot of biblical scholars, they have concluded and largely agree that this man's father hadn't yet died. He was still alive. He wasn't even ill. That Basically, this man was saying, hey, let me enjoy my relationship with my father. Let me receive his inheritance, let me bury him. Let me work through a whole series of plans that I had for my life, and then I'll follow you. No, you won't, because they'll be your mother, and then there'll be your brothers, and then your sisters, and then there'll be your career, and then there'll be your children. You see this? But can you hear heaven playing music? No disrespect, I hope it's going to sound better than that. The man agreed. But see, this inconvenient issue is an issue that I cannot remove from my life. And your life, the call of Jesus will always be inconvenient to our plans. There were three people in this story, and they all wanted to follow Jesus. And each one had different reasons why they said they wouldn't. But this man, I think his reply was the most striking. Basically, I think a lot of the church in the west is saying, I'll say yes eventually. Let me tell you why that's not good enough. [00:26:44] Speaker B: Because there's an urgency to the hour. [00:26:50] Speaker A: There is an urgency to the things of God. We get one life to live. And as someone who's now approaching my mid-50s, I cannot believe how quickly the last 20 years are gone. And they say that time goes quicker as you get older. You understand and I understand that when we get older, we don't feel any older. Apart from the aches and the pains. It was our pastoral workers. Roger. Stand a second, Roger. Roger was 70 last week. Doesn't he look good for it? Who'd have thought he was 70? I said to him, whatever moisturizer he's using, he should rebrand it and sell it because he'd make a fortune. But one of the things he was saying was, he doesn't feel any older. You don't. Some of you in your 70s, 80s and 90s, you know that you don't feel older. Your mind is still buzzing. And those of you who are much younger, it will go quickly. And the inconvenience of the call of God, the inconvenience to pick up our cross and follow him is an inconvenience that never becomes convenient. It never changes. If you've ever said, yes, God, that call that you've put on my life, to get involved in some activity, some ministry, to share my faith, to start that charity, to reach my community, to get involved in kids, work that God, yeah, I will do it eventually. Maybe when the kids are older, maybe After I retire, maybe when things calm down, maybe when I'm more financially stable. But here is the truth. God's timing is different to yours. Martin Luther King said the time is always right to do what is right. We are waiting for convenient when God is offering us significant. Think about it. If Mary had waited for convenient time to give birth to the Savior of the world, if the disciples had waited for the convenient time for the gospel to be spread around the nations, if Esther had waited for a convenient time for to approach the king so her people wouldn't be destroyed, none of those things would have ever happened. Convenience never comes. Life doesn't calm down. Your schedule will not magically clear. There will always be someone to bury, someone to say goodbye to. Some reason to wait for the call of God. Just get over it doesn't fit in your calendar. Your calendar must bend to the call of God. So we've looked at three ways of saying no to God without saying no. We hide in the clutter, in our incognito ways. We hide behind our inadequacy and we hide in our calendars and the inconvenience. But let's look at what's really going on beneath these. Because I don't believe any of us want to really miss the purposes of God. I don't believe any of us really want to miss the that. What's really happening? Why do we avoid God's call? Is it really because we're too busy, too unqualified? Or is it because we're afraid? Maybe afraid of failure, Maybe afraid of what people will think of us? Maybe afraid of losing control, Maybe afraid of what it will cost us. Afraid that if we say yes to God's that we'll have to say no to our this and there is a this and a that in our lives. And you can't have this and that. It's this or that. What if you're not hiding because you're weak? What if you're hiding because you know deep down that if you said yes, everything would change? Last week we talked about laying hold. [00:31:51] Speaker B: Of that for which Christ Jesus has. [00:31:54] Speaker A: Taken hold of you. You're that you know what it is. Or if you don't, there might be a whisper. And how that develops in our life is that there is a whisper of relationship. Because God is a relational God and he whispers into our soul. See, over the assignments that I've had in my life, very few of them have had written in lights what God is saying. Most of them have been quiet, whispered questions. I remember Sitting in a Daniel Bedingfield concert, a famous singer that was a Christian, but he had a massive secular following. And I sat in a concert with thousands of others, and the others seemed to be mostly female and teenagers, so I was a little bit, you know, out of sync with the audience. But I went because I loved his music and because I knew he loved Jesus. And he sang all these songs, and they were these. The audience was screaming all night, we love you, Daniel. We love you, Daniel. And there was a. There was a real sense of, like, people loved this guy singing. And then in the middle. In the middle of his set, he just began to sing this song. Creating me a clean heart, O Lord, and renew a right spirit within me. People didn't know what was going on. They were still shouting, we love you, Daniel. But the presence of God fell in that room. And I'm sitting there surrounded by thousands of young people, and I'm thinking, I don't think any of these know the. [00:33:42] Speaker B: Offer of Jesus into their lives. [00:33:47] Speaker A: And while I'm sat there with that thought, I felt the Holy Spirit drop a question, whispered. It was a noisy environment. I felt him drop a quiet question. And he said, mark, do you believe you could see a thousand young people saved in one day? It wasn't a prophetic word. It wasn't in lights. It was just a whisper. God asks good questions. He takes Ezekiel to a valley of dry bones, and he just asks Ezekiel questions. Do you believe these bones can live? See, I think God's dream for his church is that we stop believing. Like his questions are, like the 1% question. When 99% of the church won't say yes, they won't know the answer. He wants his questions to be the 100% question, where all of us respond whatever the question is with a yes. And I'm in that concert. Do you believe you could see a thousand people saved in a day? A thousand young people? I'm like, God, of course you can do anything. That was all the conversation was. And that question did not leave me. And I began to share it with some others. And that's a good thing to do, to share it with other people. The enemy wants you in your inadequacy, to hide the idea in the baggage of your life. But I began to share it. It's risky when you share the idea. It then becomes something that other people can hold you accountable to. What have you done with that question? Some of the people I asked the question and shared the question with, some of them said, there's no way that could happen. Others said, that's an interesting idea. Other people said, wow, you should follow that up now. My convenience would have loved to have gone with those who said, that will never happen. Oh, I've spoke to some people and they've ruled it out. We must make sure that we build in our lives people of faith, people of discernment, and people of insight. And, you know, over the years, I think when I look at my life, I think I have just been able to be a person of faith to help other people unlock the things in their life. When I look at Lynn and I see she shared that word. Earlier on, Lynn planted a church down in Plimpton in Plymouth. A lady that maybe a few years ago would have hidden under the bags and said, I'm not sure I can do that. And God spoke to her, but all we did was say, yes, Glynn, go for it. I love the Crediton team. The church planting Crediton. They made the news this week. They got into the local press. There's a new church being launched. They can't go back now. They've got the entire community looking with expectation. They can't go back. And that's the thing we don't share, because we know it will be a point of no return. But that's exactly what we need. We need a point of no return in our lives. As I began to share that, began to think of the logistics. What do we do to make this happen? It was the same question when I felt God whisper to me, do you believe 100 churches could be planted around the Southwest? God, of course you can plant whatever you want. You can do whatever you want. You spoke the world into being. You can plant 100 churches. No, Mark, I'm asking you, do you believe that Rediscover could be catalytic in planting 100 churches to eliminate the postcode lottery around the Southwest of people accessing the gospel, God, I know you can do that, but how would we partner with you on that? What needs to change? What do we need to do different? Why is it not happening already? And you begin to look at all of those questions, all of those limiting issues, and we concluded that it wasn't because we don't have 100 buildings or we don't have lots of money. It was because we don't have 100 teams of people who are ready and trained and equipped to go out and to do it. So then we said, let's start the Church Planting Academy to train people up to do that, to empower people, equip them and to release them and send them. Now, that academy continues to touch the lives of people here, people in other churches across the Southwest and other churches around the nation. Because the same question has come to me with my elim role of seeing a thousand churches planted across the uk so the same conclusion. We need to raise up more people who will say yes. It may be your yes is planting churches. It may be your yes is something very different. But it will not usually come with a powerful prophetic word. It will usually come with a whispered question. And that whispered question will cause you to want to dive in the bags. It'll cause you to want to give your excuses, and it'll cause you to feel deeply, deeply challenged about its convenience. But church, I want to encourage you the best, the most righteous, the most beautiful, and the most liberating words that will come out of your mouth. [00:39:36] Speaker B: Actually, let me make it easier and take that s off the end of the word words. [00:39:42] Speaker A: The most liberating, beautiful, fulfilling word you will ever be able to come out of your mouth and say to God. [00:39:51] Speaker B: Consists of three characters and it simply says, yes. [00:40:00] Speaker A: Saul came out from among the baggage and became king. Moses stopped making his excuses and he led a nation to freedom. The disciples left their nets immediately and they changed the world. None of them were perfect. None of them had it all figured out. None of them felt qualified. But. But they said yes. And so can you, Paul, write into the church in Philippians? Philippi says, in Philippians 3, I press on to take hold of that for. [00:40:30] Speaker B: Which Christ Jesus took hold of me. The world and the kingdom doesn't need your excuses. It needs your yes. Let's pray together. [00:40:54] Speaker A: There is no one in this room. [00:40:56] Speaker B: That I have not been speaking to today. [00:40:58] Speaker A: It may feel like I've understood your predicament perfectly and I've written this message especially for you. [00:41:08] Speaker B: That's the work of the Spirit. [00:41:11] Speaker A: But there's no one in this room that should think, I hope the person. [00:41:14] Speaker B: Next to me is listening to this. [00:41:15] Speaker A: Well, I hope all of us have. [00:41:20] Speaker B: Heard this, because there is a destiny on your life that requires a yes. [00:41:39] Speaker A: I'm going to ask you to do three things privately and one thing publicly. [00:41:45] Speaker B: Let me take you through the three private things. The first, if you have hidden. [00:41:54] Speaker A: Among. [00:41:55] Speaker B: Your issues, your brokenness and your baggage, going to ask you to come to the God of all mercy and say, God, I'm sorry I've been hiding. Please forgive me. [00:42:13] Speaker A: And just like that, he's merciful. Just like that, he forgives. [00:42:22] Speaker B: Because Jesus gave his life on the cross to deal with our failure. [00:42:30] Speaker A: The second private response, personal response, is around your inadequacy. I'm not ignoring that you may have issues. [00:42:47] Speaker B: We've all got issues. [00:42:50] Speaker A: And I'm not saying that you don't. [00:42:52] Speaker B: Need to get help for those things. [00:42:55] Speaker A: I'm not saying that you don't need to go on courses like freedom in Christ and get help and prayer and counsel to overcome those things. God wants us to find freedoms. But I am saying when you've put it all on your adequacy or inadequacy and made a decision entirely upon how. [00:43:19] Speaker B: How you perceive yourself when God is inviting you to perceive Him. [00:43:26] Speaker A: I'm going. [00:43:27] Speaker B: To ask you personally to repent. [00:43:31] Speaker A: If. [00:43:31] Speaker B: Your response has been like that of Moses. Forgive us, Lord. Wash us from our excuses, I pray. And then thirdly, third private response is around our inconvenience. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the most beautiful reality. We're the object of his love. He's so kind, so merciful. He loves you more than you will ever know or comprehend, and he wants you to trust him with everything. And if you've been making excuses because of its inconvenience, I invite you to come before him and say, lord, here's my diary. Here are my plans. I give them to you to do as you will. You might have had more creative ways of saying no. Just felt a little check in my spirit that there are some. Your no is based on offense because others in church have hurt you or because you've stepped out in the past and others have beat you down. I don't know what the circumstances are, but I need you to hear these words from God. He is sorry that you experienced that. And he asks that you will not let those incidents of the past determine the destiny of your future. Lord, I pray your healing will come to every heart and mind where that applies now. And I encourage you to let them go. Those who hurt you, those who offended you, those who made a mistake, let them go. As God has been merciful to you, be merciful to them. And now the public response. It's a yes. [00:46:22] Speaker A: A yes with no. [00:46:23] Speaker B: Buts, a yes despite your excuses, a yes despite your inadequacies, a yes despite your brokenness. [00:46:33] Speaker A: But it's a yes to say God, I'm pressing on to take hold of that for which you have taken hold of me. [00:46:40] Speaker B: And I'm going to ask if you want to say yes to Jesus, that. [00:46:43] Speaker A: You jump to your feet and you lift your hands and say, God, you. [00:46:47] Speaker B: Have a yes from me so right across this room. Come on. Just let those yeses rise. Just let those yeses rise. [00:46:57] Speaker A: No matter how old you are, how young you are, let God see your yes. Let this yes be your yes from your heart. May it be a sincere cry from within you. Lord, you have my yes. [00:47:11] Speaker B: You have my yes. Now in this holy moment. [00:47:25] Speaker A: I thank. [00:47:25] Speaker B: You for every that over every life in this place. [00:47:33] Speaker A: Some of the vats in this room. [00:47:35] Speaker B: Will make headlines in the future. [00:47:41] Speaker A: Others no one will ever know about. [00:47:45] Speaker B: Except you. But it will be there yes to your that over their life. [00:47:58] Speaker A: So I pray now the power of the Holy Spirit will come upon you. I pray that the Holy Spirit, because he's not calling you to do this in your own strength, he's calling you in his power and his might. [00:48:09] Speaker B: May his spirit overshadow you, fill you, strengthen you, prepare you, heal you and lead you in the name of Jesus.