Listen, who you listen to will determine what you do. What you think on will determine what you do. What you listen to will determine what you do. And John chapter eight, will you turn there with me?
John chapter eight verse 11. This morning, John chapter eight verse 11. I'm gonna set this up for you. There was a woman caught in the midst of adultery and she was brought before Jesus in the crowd.
And they were accusing her and condemning her for those things that she had done in her life. I don't know about you, but most people live with something that's rolled around in the back of their mind that the enemy has reminded them of, of something they've done in the past. Anybody know what I'm talking about? We call it condemnation.
How many of you have lived under some condemnation in your life? You've lived under some thoughts and some things that the enemy has brought back up of your past. Maybe some things that you have done before you became born against and things that you have done before you became safe. And maybe at night when you're laying on the pillow, you remember some of those things and you begin to feel that shame and that embarrassment.
How many have ever felt that? Well, this woman was brought publicly before Jesus and before the crowd and before the religious leaders because she was caught in the midst of adultery. She had lived with shame. She had lived with embarrassment.
And now she's brought before the people, although everybody had known who she was in the town, everybody known the things that she had done in the past and everybody knew what her lifestyle represented. And there she was publicly before Jesus and the religious leaders condemning her. And Jesus says to her in verse number 11 of chapter number eight of the book of John, he said, or who is it that condemns you? And she says, there is no man, Lord.
And Jesus said unto her, neither do I condemn thee. Now I want you to hear these words. He said, now go, that's action. Leave this place and go back to where you've come from.
But he's going to instruct her to do something differently than what she had been doing prior to this moment because at this moment she had encountered the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Come on church, can anybody give me a great, big praise? Can you give the Lord a great, big praise this morning? She encountered the living God that morning and he said to her, neither do I condemn thee.
Go, now go back on your way and sin no more. Say sin no more. He was warning against a return to a sinful choice, to a sinful nature. He extended at that very moment to her mercy and grace.
And Jesus was always the perfect balance of grace and truth. I'm of your thankful for that today. With forgiveness comes the expectation that we will not continue in the same path of rebelliousness when we come to Christ, those who know the love of God should naturally want to obey him. When we've been set free, when we've been redeemed from sin and death and rebelliousness, we should want to obey him because we understand the grace that has been extended to us.
This is a beautiful picture of someone who lived under condemnation but has tasted and seen that the Lord is good and no longer did she need to live under the guilt and the shame that she was living under because he did not condemn her. I'm glad today you're not condemned, but you have been set through free by the blood of the Lamb, Amen? Philippians chapter four verse eight, will you go there with me? So for those of us who have been saved by grace, for those of us who love Jesus Christ, we should naturally want to obey him, amen?
Philippians four verse eight says, finally, brother, and whatsoever things, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of a good report. If there be any virtue and if there be any praise, think on these things, church, it's really important what you think. And until you change this one thing that I'm gonna talk to you about this morning, until you change this one thing, nothing will change. Susan always says, until something changes, nothing will change.
Something has to change for transformation to come. In the very essence of the born again, experience has changed. It's transformation. It's going from being who we once were to who Christ has called us to be.
Philippians chapter two, will you turn there with me? Philippians chapter two, beginning in verse number five. Philippians two, beginning in verse number five. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.
Who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation and took upon himself the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men, verse eight. And being found in the fashion as a man, he humbled himself, say humbled himself. He humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also had highly exalted him, meaning Jesus, and given him a name which is above every name.
Amen. Some of you here today have been praying for change. You've been praying for something to change. You've been praying for something to turn.
You have been praying for restoration in a situation or a circumstance. You've been asking God to move in your family, to open doors, to fix situations, to turn things around. And some of you have been wondering, Lord, why doesn't it feel like anything's happening? I've been asking and I've been praying and I've been wanting and I've been desiring.
But the Lord has sent me here today to tell you until this one thing changes, nothing else is gonna change. You can change your appearance, you can change your job, you can change your church, you can change your friends, you can change your clothes, but if your mind stays the same, your life will stay the same. You can rebuke the devil all day long, but if you don't deal with the thinking that keeps inviting him back into your life, nothing will ever change. The Apostle Paul said it like this, let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ's church.
That's the very key. It's the mind of Christ because until your mind lines up with his mind, until your thoughts line up with his thoughts and until your attitude matches his spirit, nothing will change. Say that with me, nothing will change. This is an instruction.
He's instructing us to let the mind of Christ be in you, church, this is an act of free will. This is up to us. This isn't something that just automatically happens. This is something that transforms over time.
This is something that comes through prayer. This is through something that comes through hearing the word of God. This is something that comes through worship. This is something that comes as we grow and draw closer to the heart of God that the mind of Christ would be in us.
Paul didn't say you had to work for it. He didn't say you had to earn it. His instruction was let it, let it, let the mind of Christ be in you. You know what that means?
It means the mind of Christ has already been waiting for you. All you've got to allow it to do is take over. Church, God can't feel what's empty. He can't renew what you refuse to release.
We keep asking God for change. We keep asking God to turn things. We keep asking God to do something in our homes or in our families. We keep laying things before Him day after day after day after day.
But God can't change it until we change our thinking. The Bible says trust in the Lord with all your heart. That's a change of thinking because so many times we trust in our own strength and our own will within our own capabilities to be able to do something or to make something happen. We trust in our income.
We trust in our bank accounts. We trust in other people that in our lives. But He wants us to trust in Him. He wants us to put our faith and our confidence and our hope in Him, the one who is able to change all things and the one who is able to make all things new.
But until we surrender our hearts and we surrender our minds and we surrender our thinking unto Him, nothing will change. That's why Romans 12 verse two says this. And you know, there are people that feel church buildings week after week after week that never experience transformation because they never fully yield their heart or mind or their thinking to the ways of Christ. Church, we've got to become doers of the word, amen?
As the Bible says, not just hearers, but doers of the word. Romans 12, two says it like this. Be transformed, be changed, be changed by the renewing of your mind. Transformation doesn't begin, hear me.
Transformation doesn't begin with a new job. That can be a new journey. It doesn't begin with a new car. That can be very nice.
It doesn't begin with a new relationship and those are great. It doesn't begin with just because you went to a new church. Transformation begins when we take on a new mindset. Week when we walk in a new life with Jesus Christ.
And let me tell you, when we walk in a new life with Christ with an old mindset, it just leads to frustration. Until I fix my mind, nothing will change. He's given us his word. He's given us his spirit.
He has showed us the way. The mind of Christ is a mind of humility. Verse six told us there, who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God. He was God, but yet he laid down his life for us.
He had glory, but he took on humanity. Can you imagine that? God had glory, Jesus had glory, but he took on humanity. He deserved a throne, but yet he chose a cross.
That's the mind of Christ. That's humility. That's surrender. That's servanthood.
Problem today isn't that we don't have power. It's that we don't have posture. Church, we want elevation without, we want elevation and promotion without submission. We want to be elevated and we want to be promoted, but we don't want to submit.
We don't want to take on the mind of Christ, but we want everything the word says that is good for us. We want anointing without accountability. We want resurrection without crucifixion. Who wouldn't want elevation and promotion?
Who would not want elevation and promotion in life? That comes with submission. Who wants anointing? It comes with accountability.
How many are thankful for the resurrection of Jesus Christ? But there would be no resurrection if there were not for a crucifixion. The resurrection came as a result of the crucifixion. The mind of Christ says this, I didn't come to be served, but I came to serve.
The mind of Christ says, I'm lonely. I don't exalt myself, but I'm humble. Come on church. You can't rise until you learn how to bow.
You can't be trusted until you can be broken and you can't be exalted until you can be emptied. Until you and I fix our thinking, until we fix the prideful nature in our lives, until we fix self-centered attitudes, until we fix the me first mentality that so many in our day and culture have, nothing will change. How many of you desire change? You need something to change.
You could pray in for it to change for that relationship, for that job, for that thing that you've been carrying in your heart and you just need something to, there's something going on in the home and the family. There's a sickness. Whatever that situation is, you've been praying for something to change and transform in your life. But until we start trusting and believing the Word of God and what it says, we've got to understand today, the enemy is a liar, the Bible says he's the father of lies.
He comes to lie to us, he comes to kill still and to destroy. He comes to bring destruction, but Jesus said, I have come that you might have life. Who will you listen to? Who will you trust?
Who will you believe? Because that will determine what you think and how you act and what you believe. Come on church. We've got to trust the Lord with our whole heart, with our soul, with our mind and our strength.
We've got to love him with everything that is within us. And we need to surrender to not my will, but thy will be done. The mind of Christ is a mind of obedience. It's a mind of obedience.
Verse number eight said, he became, Jesus became obedience even unto death, even death on the cross. Jesus didn't have to die. He chose to obey. Thank God for that, amen?
He could have made another choice. He could have said, no, I'm not doing that. But he chose to be obedient. He didn't argue with the Father, but he said, not what I want.
Because remember in the garden, he said, Father, if there's any other way like this, pass from me, but then he said, not my what? But thy will be done. He didn't argue with the Father, but he said, thy will be done. Come on church, that's obedience.
Obedience will take you where comfort won't. Obedience won't lock blessing, that disobedience will block. Disobedience will block blessing in your life. Obedience will unlock blessing in your life.
Maybe the miracle you're praying for just might be on the other side of your obedience. It might be on the other side of your yes Lord. Not your no Lord. No, I don't think I can do that Lord.
I don't know if I can trust you with that Lord. I don't know if I can release that to you Lord. I don't know if I can give that to you Lord. I don't know if I can do that Lord.
Maybe, maybe, maybe just maybe your victory is on the other side of your surrender and your trust in saying, Father, whatever it is that you want from me, whatever it is that you desire from me, yes Lord, yes Lord. I will be obedient. I will do whatever it is that you require of me. I will do whatever it is that you ask of me.
Maybe just maybe the miracle of the thing you've been holding on to is on the other end of that obedience. The change you've been waiting for just might be just one simple act of obedience away. Maybe you've been telling God later. Have you ever told God later?
I don't want to do it now, but I'll do it later. Delayed trust is still mistrust, right? Delayed obedience is still disobedience. Maybe you've been telling God, um, maybe, maybe, maybe God.
Maybe some of you here have been saying, I don't think I want to do that. I don't think that's for me. Ask somebody else who got saying until we fix this one thing, until we fix an obedient heart, until we fix the willingness to trust him, until we fixed, until we fix letting his mind rule and rain in our hearts, nothing will change. The mind of Christ is a mind of focus.
Somebody say focus. Jesus didn't get distracted. Jesus didn't get distracted by the crowd. Jesus didn't get distracted by the haters.
Jesus didn't get distracted by the hypocrites. He had his eyes on the cross and beyond the cross. He saw the joy the Bible says that was set before him. And he was shot at 12 verse two says it like this, for the joy, someone say joy.
How many know the Bible says the joy, the Lord is our what? Strain, the joy, the Lord is our strength for the joy that was set before him. How could he have had joy going to the cross for the joy that was set before him? He endured the cross, despising shame because he saw the end from the beginning.
Amen. He knew the outcome from the beginning. He knew what his death would bring. He knew a death on the cross would bring to humanity and he was not willing to get sidetracked away from his call nor his mission.
And I thank God, even when he walked the earth and different situations and circumstances were brought to him. He didn't get distracted. He always stayed the course. He always finished what he was going to do.
We can be great starters, but not good finishers. Church we're always going to starting things, but we're not always good at finishing. Jesus was not just a good starter, but he was a good finisher because he obeyed and said, not my will, but thy will be done. I will trust you beyond the situation.
I will trust you beyond the circumstance. I will trust you beyond the pain. I will trust you beyond the suffering. I will trust you in spite of the torture.
I will trust you in spite of the shame. I will follow you regardless of what this pathway may take. Come on church for the glory that was set before him. How can we endure the things that we face in this life?
How can we, how can we endure the disappointment or the pain or the suffering that we may face in this life because we know the end of the story. We know that we will be with him in eternity. We know there'll be no more tears one day. We know there'll be no more pain one day.
We know there'll be no more sickness one day. Come on church. We know that we'll spend eternity with him and everything that's been broken now will be made well. Everything that's empty now will be made whole.
Come on. Only a God like him for the joy that is said before him. Jesus said it like this in John. He said, let not your hearts be troubled.
We live with such troubled hearts. Our society is so troubled today. Jesus said, let not your heart be troubled. And then he gives us the reason why it doesn't have to be troubled.
He said, believe in God. Believe also in me in my father's house or many mansions. If it were not so, he says, I would have told you. See, we can face what we're going through now because we have a hope and we have a future.
Amen. We have a hope and we have a future church. We're not hopeless. We're not without a future.
We have a great future ahead of us. And so we can go through whatever this life may be passing out. We can handle whatever difficulty, whatever hardship we may be facing, whatever the unknowing situation is that you're going through, whatever the thing is that you're facing. And you don't know how this thing is going to end.
You don't know how it's going to play out. You don't know how it's going to work, but you're going to trust him. Why? Because you have the mind of Christ, you're going to believe that in spite of all things.
And because of all things, he will get the glory and he will get the honor. Amen. For the joy that was set before him, he endured the cross, despising the shame that had come upon him. He kept his focus.
Can I encourage you today to keep your focus? The scripture says, look unto Jesus, the author and the finisher of what our faith and without faith, the Bible says it is impossible to please God. They might have thought they beat him that day, but they did not break him and they did not break his focus. They thought they could have killed him.
They crucified him, but they couldn't cancel his calling. Listen, that's where some of us lose the battle. It's not in our spirit, but it's in our focus. The spirit is willing.
The Bible says, but the flesh, how many of you've ever faced a battle between your spirit and your flesh? The Bible says that the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. We're too easily distracted. And especially in this day that we live by opinions, distracted by opinions, distracted by fear, distracted by offenses, distracted by comparisons.
We live in a culture in a world in society where everybody has such a powerful opinion and fear is running rampant. It's so many are offended and everybody's comparing this thing and that thing and the other thing and myself with them and them with me comparisons everywhere. If the devil can't destroy you, he'll distract you. He'll distract you because a distracted believer.
Hear me. You got to hear this. A distracted believer is just as ineffective as a defeated one. A distracted believer as ineffective as a defeated one until our focus is fixed.
Our faith won't grow. And until we fix our priorities, our priorities, how many have priorities? You have some priorities in life? How many of you are not going to respond to anything I say this morning?
You're just going to sit there like a bump on. We all have priorities, don't we? We all have things in life that we hold on to or we work toward. We have things that we focus on.
Some of us become hyper focused on things. I was focused a little bit yesterday on a number of things. One of the things I was focused on was the scoreboard. Right?
How many watching your favorite team? Well, you Penn State fans, I feel for you. Honestly, I can't get any worse, can it? And actually we were cheering for you guys yesterday.
First of my life, James, I ever cheered for your team. And I wanted them to be the Indiana so bad. My focus, my focus at many times yesterday was on the scoreboard. My wife, I know my wife gets sick of me saying, oh, H, that happens in my family a lot.
We could just be sitting around the house and I might say, oh, H, see, even in the midst of truth, the devil will speak. That's what I've been trying to tell you all more, even in the middle of truth. Satan will. But we become focused.
I want you to think about the things that you do focus on in life and none of those things are in of themselves are bad. They could be really good things, but in their rightful place. Come on, we've got to keep things in their proper place. And until we can fix what takes priority in our life and what takes priority in our life is what we will think of the most as much as I enjoy sports.
If there is something else going on or there's something more important or there's something I can do with my family, I will thank God for recordings. I will record the game and I will watch it at a time or a date that I have opportunity to watch it, right? But I will not, even though I enjoy it, even though I really like being a part of it and watching it and the thrill that you get from it, it's not my priority. My priority is other things.
My priority is my home and my family and my relationships and the kingdom, my priority is far above an athletic event, although I enjoy that. But I put it in its rightful place. Come on. Some people's priority is food.
It's obvious. If you look at society today, one of the biggest industries in society today, I'm just speaking truth to you is how to lose weight, right? That's like a huge industry today. Why?
Because we overindulge. It's just true. We obviously think in yesterday, you know, weekends are kind of my cheat days on a weekend. And I said to my wife the other day, I said, I've got to choose between a pie shop, donut and colstone ice cream and popcorn and donuts and ice cream and popcorn.
Oh my priorities. Do you want to be able to fit into that outfit or donuts and ice cream and popcorn? Oh my and sometimes donuts and ice cream and popcorn went over, don't they? And sometimes we take authority and we we we rain it in and we say, no, we're not going to let that happen today.
I'm talking about a lot of stuff you guys don't like, right? You really much rather me just talking about the blessing of God and how he just wants to bless your socks off and give you every single thing you want in your life. And you know, you want to hear we're putting in a Starbucks next week in the back of the church and no, see, this is this is this is yeah, we're not this is something this is something that we've got to understand. Nothing will change into something changes.
And just a few short weeks ago, something changed in our country, something changed in our world and Christianity and the word of God has been spoken more in the last month or so than it has been maybe in the history of this world. Hearts have been changed. Hearts are changing. People are coming to Christ.
But listen, it's more than just coming to church. It's more than just showing up once a week. It's more than doing just that one good thing. It's taking on the mind of Christ so that we can be like him.
Amen. We're so distracted today that we become ineffective because we're distracted until we can fix that being distracted until we can fix our focus, our faith won't grow until we can fix these priorities in our life. The peace of God will just come and go. Perfect peace.
The Bible says have they whose minds are fixed that remain that stay on the Lord. Until we fix this wondering and worrying and fear and anxiety, all of those things will continue to rule and reign in our minds and in our lives. Listen, church until nothing changes. Nothing will change.
The mind of Christ is a mind of victory. Amen. The mind of Christ is a mind of victory. I came here to tell somebody today that when you humble yourself like Jesus, when you obey like Jesus, when you focus like Jesus, God will lift you up.
Amen. Plippians two nine says, wherefore God hath all God have also highly exalted Jesus. God highly exalted him and had given him a name which was above every name. Listen, when we start thinking like Christ, we'll start living like Christ.
You can't live like Christ until you think like Christ. When you begin to think like Christ, you will start to live like Christ. Amen. And when we start thinking like Christ, we'll start walking in victory for the joy that is set before us.
Amen. Oh, you don't, you don't wait for things to change. You become the change. So many people get just caught in this trap of just waiting for something to change, waiting for something to happen.
Your Bible says that faith without works is what? Dead. We've got to put into practice that which we believe. We don't just wait for peace to show up.
Listen, we should be carrying peace with us. Peace should be a hallmark of who we are as children of the most high. God, we don't just wait for breakthrough to happen in our lives. We should be walking in breakthrough.
Amen. Why? Because that same mind that was in Christ now lives and dwells in you and me. Come on, come on.
We need the mind of Christ. Like, like we've, if we've ever needed it, we certainly needed in this day and this hour that we live today. You can't have a kingdom life with a carnal mind. Church, you can't have a kingdom life with a carnal mind.
You can't have a Christ like victory with a worldly attitude. And you can't see change on the outside until there's change on the inside. Because until there's change on the inside, there won't be true change on the outside. Yeah, we may put on the right smile.
We might put on the right face. We might say the right things at some right moments. But if it doesn't really change on the inside, there'll be a time that's what's really on the inside will come out on the outside. How many know what I'm talking about?
You can only suppress it on the inside for so long as soon or later. It's going to manifest on the outside. So the true change just doesn't come in our outward appearance. The true change in our hearts and minds and lives should come on the inside until that happens until we fix our mind.
Six are out of two, six are focused, fix our obedience. Nothing will change. But church, I'm here today to tell you that moment that you surrender, that very moment that you yield, that very moment that you let the mind of Christ take over everything in your life begins to shift. Peace replaces confusion, joy replaces depression, faith replaces fear.
How many like that? And victory replaces defeat. Come on, somebody, because until you fix this, nothing, nothing will change. But once you fix this, everything, everything will change.
Come on, worship team, we make your way back to the platform. I'm here today to encourage you. I'm here today to challenge you. I'm here today to speak a life into you.
I'm here today to challenge you to change the way that you've been thinking, change the way that you've been processing. Think the way that Jesus thinks. Talk the way that he talked, walk the way that he walked, live the way that he lived. True transformation in the life of a believer will transform the lives and the families and the neighborhoods and the culture that you're in.
So I want to encourage you today to be an agent of change. Be changing the modern culture that we live in today. Don't rail like others rail. Don't act like others act.
Don't think like others think. Don't do like others do. Let's live our life in such a way that we'll be pleasing and honoring in God. Let's do what Matthew says.
Let's seek first the kingdom of God. Not maybe not. Not yet. Let's truly seek first the kingdom of God.
This is a loss in hurting world. It's looking for truth. It's looking for authenticity. And until we as the church of the Lord Jesus Christ rise up and seek God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, the world will continue to look at us as hypocrites.
The world will continue to look at us as being powerless, but we're not powerless because we have been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. Amen. And we have the spirit of the living God that lives inside of us every single day. We don't have to pray Holy Spirit come.
At the moment we accepted Jesus Christ of our Lord and Savior. He promised to be with us. He's with us. We don't have to do some ritual to summon him.
He is with us. And he said, I've given you power. Giving you power to go out into transform hearts and lives and homes and family. Be that agent of change.
Be that light in the midst of a dark world. Speak hope into hopeless situations. Speak life into death. Encourage those who are lonely and lift up those who are broken and let them know that greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
But until we will change who we listen to and what we're believing and what we're thinking, we cannot be that agent of change. He said we're the light of the world. We're the salt of the earth. Church, we're to bring light wherever we go.
We're to bring flavor wherever we go. We're to share the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ, for it is the power of salvation. Amen. It'll change hearts.
It'll change homes. It'll change lives. I stand before you as someone that changed. I stand before you as someone because of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
My whole existence changed. I once was dead, but now I'm alive. I know how God takes broken things and makes them new. I have tasted and I have seen that the Lord is good.
The question is, who are you choosing to believe? What are you choosing to believe? What are you choosing to think? Because those things will all dictate as the how you think, act and live.
Jesus said, I have come that you might have life and have it more abundantly. How many like that in that good? Not just have life, but to have it more abundantly. Well, church, there's so much more to this life.
There's so much more to walking in a godly life, living in a in a surrendered life towards no longer I that live it, but Christ that now live it than me. It's no longer I got to rely on my own strength. I got to rely on my own ability. I got to figure this thing out.
I got to make a way. No, I know I can go to him. The one who wasn't is and is the calm. The one who knows everything there is to know about everything.
The one who was yesterday, today and forever. The great I am. The everlasting to everlasting. The Prince of peace, the mighty God, the everlasting father, the rose of Sharon, the Lily of the Valley, the bright morning star, Jehovah Alpha, Jehovah to Sid canoe.
I know I can go to the one who is who was and will be. And he knows the beginning from the end. Come on, church. What do you say I'm with me this morning?
I want to pray over you this morning. It begins with a moment of surrender. It begins with a moment of saying, God, I'm going to trust you. I'm going to believe.
I'm going to believe that you are who you say you are. I'm going to trust that you are who you say you are. And I'm going to live my life. I'm going to live my life the way that your word says I should live my life.
I'm going to follow hard after you. We follow hard after a lot of stuff in this life. And as I said earlier, I'm not preaching to get stuff or things, you know, in and of themselves that they can be good. There's some stuff that's bad.
You know that. There's some things in your life that you do better off getting rid of in your life. But not everything in this life is bad. Not everything is evil.
Not everything is horrible. There's a lot of good things in life too, in there. How many glad for that? But we got to set our priorities straight.
Matthew said like this, we got to see first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. And then he gave us this promise. He declared it to us. He said, listen, and when you seek first the kingdom of God and his righteous, everything that you have need us, they need up.
Everything that you have need of, he will what? He will provide. Why? Because he is a provider.
I'm glad today he's your provision father in the mighty name of Jesus. We thank you for this day. We thank you for this moment and this opportunity that you have given us to come into this place. Lord, if there any gathered in this house today that maybe have never surrendered their heart to you, they've never said, Lord, I'm a sinner and I need a Savior that never said, Lord, forgive me of my sin.
Lord, if there be any here today that have never been in that position, never said that or something like that, I pray today would be the day. I pray today that not one heart or life that entered into this building will finish out the hours of this day without making the decision to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Because your word says that when we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, we shall be saved. Father, I pray that there's not one at the sound of my voice this morning that would perish, but I pray they would have everlasting life.
Father, I pray over every home and family this morning. You know this life isn't always easy and you know there are a lot of disappointments. You face them when you walk here, but I lift up every home and every family today, every dad and every mom and every grandma and every grandpa, every aunt and every uncle, every young person, Lord, wherever they may be today, it may be in a state of frustration, a state of confusion, they may be in a place of wandering, they may be in a place of fear, worry, anxiety. But I pray today, Father, that we would fix our mind on you because your word is absolute truth.
And you said when we fix our mind on you, we will walk in perfect peace. You said perfect peace have they whose minds are stayed on you. So I pray, Father, today we'll fix our minds on you. That may our hearts be fixed on you, may our priorities be fixed on you, may our focus be fixed on you.
God help us to stop believing the lie of the enemy and start believing the truth of your word. Father, you love us and you're here today to encourage us to strengthen us, to bring salvation to our homes and into our families. You're here to set our feet in a straight and narrow in the righteous path. God help us to hear your voice today.
Help us to know your voice today. Help us to believe your word today. Help us not to walk in fear and doubt, but help us to trust today that if you be for us, who can be against us? Help us to hold on to week to say, as the Apostle Paul said, I have fought the good fight of faith.
Help us Lord, let your strength be made manifest in us today as we give you the glory and the honor and the praise. Help us to fix the way we think today in Jesus name. Amen.