You can turn in your Bible's to Revelation 3, not 20. 20 is amazing, but we're going to stick in Revelation 3 tonight. Man, we had such a great time at the owner's night on Wednesday and had a blast. We ended our time with worship and prayer and the worship team up front started singing a chorus for they started singing, I need God, they need God, you are the answer.
They started singing that over us as we are a people that need the Lord and then we're thinking about the world and they need the Lord and He's the answer. And so I want as I'm starting to share this message, I want to encourage all of us. I want you to think if you've been following Jesus for a long time, I want you to listen to this message as a messenger. I want you to receive this message so that it can get multiplied through you.
I want you to hear it so that you can speak it. So if you're like, man, I've heard this verse before. I want you to think through the lens of, but there's people that I'm going to speak this over. And I want you to think that way.
I mean, we should all think that way because we are messengers of the good news of Jesus. It's like, how will they know unless somebody tells them, right? We've got beautiful, obviously all of your feet, amazing shoes. And you all have beautiful feet because you are messengers of good news everywhere you go.
So you've got now, after today, I want you to have this prophetic message for anybody because it's God's heart. It's a universal truth from God for the world. So this is just how God approaches humanity. And I want you to carry that as a messenger.
So Revelation 3, we see Jesus. He's got messages for seven of the churches that are in Asia Minor in the late first century. And John the Beloved is getting this wild vision where Jesus is just speaking to him, showing him things. And it's a really powerful book if you've not read the book of Revelation.
But in Revelation 3, Jesus has this letter, this message for a church in Laodicea. And Laodicea is kind of a well-to-do town. And this is just bonus content. This is not really the main direction of the message.
But Laodicea had a problem. And the problem was that they didn't have any springs of water, any clean water in their city. And so they had to lean on two adjacent cities next to their village or their city. And one was Colossi, which is where we get Colossians, the book of Colossians.
And then the other was another one. And the other one had some hot springs that had medicinal qualities. And you could create even like salve to heal bodies from these hot springs as a couple of miles away. And then Colossi had run off from mountains and snow because there's a mountainous region.
And so it would snow about nine months out of the year. And that would turn into streams and it went right into their city. But Laodicea had to pipe in from these two other cities with miles and miles and miles of pipe to get the water to their village or to their city. But the problem is the sun is baking down on these pipes.
And now by the time that it gets to Laodicea, it tastes bad and it smells and it's lukewarm. And so Jesus, when he's talking in Revelation 3, he's going, I wish you were hot or cold and cold isn't bad. Cold is refreshing. So I wish you were one of these others and you get how bad lukewarm water tastes.
So that's kind of the context for the church of Laodicea as he's talking about this. Now, we're not going to go there. That's not the main point of the message, but I thought it'd be bonus for us. Is that okay?
All right. Verse 14, Revelation 3, verse 14, into the angel of the church of Laodicea, right? The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation. I know your works, you are neither cold nor hot.
Would that you were either cold or hot? So because you are lukewarm and either hot or cold, spit you out of my mouth. For you say, I am rich. You say I have prospered and I need nothing because I'm like an American, but realizing, but not realizing that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked, I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by the fires so that you may be rich and white garments so that you may clothe yourself in the shame of your nakedness may not be seen and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.
Those who my love, I reprove and discipline. So be zealous, full of zeal and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I'll come into him and eat with him and he with me.
The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne as I also conquered and sat down with my father on his throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the spirit says to the churches. Jesus makes this decision that he's going to honor free will in the very beginning. God decides, you know what?
I don't want robots. I don't want them to manipulate people. I want them to be free because I want love to be real. I don't want it to be in some fabrication.
I don't want it plastic. I want the real thing. Jesus doesn't need us to love him. God doesn't need anything from us, but he desires us.
He wants us. He loves us. He knows what's best for us. So I think it's interesting that he stands at the door and knocks.
That has to be one of the most humble things that God could do. When I know that God has the keys to every single human heart on the planet, in all of history, he has the keys and he could just unlock and go, well, I know exactly what makes him take and I'm going to make them love me. But instead, he says, in all of his glory, in all of his greatness, in all of his beauty, he goes, but I'm just going to go to the door and I'm going to stand here in humility and I'm just going to wait and faithfully knock. Will they open the door?
He gives every single human free choice and it's so humble. It's so humble and it's so beautiful. And he's such a gentleman. He's such a gentleman.
Many of us are probably like, man, I just wish he would barge in through the door. I wish he would just be a little bit more aggressive. It's like I want him to just fix me. But he's a gentleman and he waits.
As I've been reflecting on this, I think it's important to name this is how the Lord, how he speaks and how he interacts with us. He just welcomes us to come close. And he says this like the way that he knocks, he says things like, come up here, write in Revelation 4. For some of us that are, you're like, wow, I'm such a bored Christian.
I've been pursuing God for a while. I kind of know all this stuff. I don't even know why I'm here. I should have left after worship and you're like, whatever.
I believe the Lord has something special for you that you would respond to the come up here and realize that you don't know as much as you think you know and that you are just on the edge, just on the shores of glory, of knowing him and his beauty. And I just want to encourage you, it is profound that when you think about Revelation 4, what's happening right after this is that there's another door, but it's a door in heaven. But that door in heaven is open. And Jesus has to stand at our doors that are closed.
The humility of God to go full access, but you're not going to give me full access. And I'll just knock and wait for you to open. And Jesus is going, here you go, come on up here. And he's beckoning us.
Come, I want to show you. I want to show you the throne room. I want to show you my greatness. I want to show you my beauty.
I want to show you what all the cherubim are going crazy about. What all the angels are singing about, what they're shouting about. I want to show you. And I just want to speak that over.
Many of us throughout the room, I just believe it's a declaration for you that there is more for you. And in 2025, there's an invitation that the Lord has given you. He's saying, come up. I want to show you.
I want us to begin to believe again for encountering God. Not because we need it to be okay. Not because we need some type of encounter or some dream or vision to really be okay in God. And then we really know we're on fire.
No, but faith to believe for. I just want everything that he has. I just want to know him. I want to encounter him.
Man, I feel that. I remember 10, 15 years ago, having that like, I know there's more. Man, Lord, give me a dream tonight. And I just, I want to believe again.
And he's saying, he's beckoning us. He's saying, come, he'll say things like, come by and eat. Like I say, 55. You don't have money.
You don't have any bread. You have without price here. Here's the sustenance that I have for you. He'll say things like, come to me and I'll give you rest.
He'll stand at the door and say, I'm going to give you rest. Come on. Come close. He'll say things like your first name.
That's when you know, like when do you know that God is trying to get your attention? Sometimes he'll say my first name. It's like when my kids, they, if you're a parent, you know this, your kids will say dad or mom and they'll say it like five times and you won't hear them, right? And they'll just say dad, dad, dad, dad.
And it's like, I didn't, I'm not hearing you at all. And then they say your first name, dad, dad, dad. And then they just get frustrated and they say, hey, Josh, and I'll be like, excuse me. You know, no, it's not offensive.
It's just, gives me attention. But I think the Lord, the Lord, he knows your name and there's something about him calling us by name. It's like when he's in the garden and he says, Mary, and that moment is so dramatic. He says her name and I just, when I hear that, I just go, and I think that sometimes when the Lord says, hey, Joshua, he speaks with me, he doesn't say, Joshua, and I just want us to become sensitive to his knocking.
There's, he'll do that in little moments. And I want you to go like your antenna is up. God's knocking. God's here.
And he wants to say something. James 4 says, draw near, draw near and I'll draw near to you. He says things like, hey, let the little children come to me. This is another just prophetic thing for some of us in the room.
I believe that the Lord wants to bring healing to many of us in 2025 to those places when we're young, when we're young children and we experienced wounding, we experienced trauma, and the Lord is going, hey, I've been knocking on that thing for a while. Would you let me into that place? Would you let me into that space? Let the little children come to me.
Let the little Josh from six years old, when that happened and this happened, when he was nine, would you come? You can come up here and you can sit on my, we can process this thing together. Would you open that place up to me? I'm knocking.
The Lord is beckoning you to come as a young child to get healed. You can go therapy, you can go to a Christian counseling, you can forgive, you can do all of that work, replacing lies with truth, but I just want you to know that when he starts knocking on something, it's because he wants to bring healing to it. He's not just a ruthless shepherd. He's a good shepherd.
And that's why he's doing that. That's why he's highlighting that. So he's beckoning, he's inviting, he's knocking, he's pursuing, he's calling out to us, he's reaching out, he's saying, hey, come away, come away, and he's drawing us and how he does it is he does it through his spirit and he does it through his word and he does it through his people. He does it through your friend that you're kind of like, yeah, we're acquaintances, we're friends and he loves Jesus.
I love Jesus and then he says something that really gets under my skin, you know, or he says something that's really provoking in a good way. And all of a sudden this guy that you're just an acquaintance with that loves Jesus, he turns into the little pinky finger of Jesus, right? Because he's part of the body of Christ and he starts poking and it sounds like this and he starts poking at something because he's part of the body. And all of a sudden the Lord starts knocking through a brother or through a sister, but if you're in isolation, you don't get to experience that invitation from God through the body.
You don't get provoked, you don't get challenged, you don't get sharpened. And the Lord's going, man, would you come out of isolation because I want to knock on some things so that you can be transformed so you can grow, right? So through the body, through the word, you're reading the word and all of a sudden something sticks out and you're like, oh man, I should just move on because that, I just want to verse for the day Lord, right? And then he starts speaking to you about something else and you're like, oh, that really is starting to hurt.
Wish you wouldn't, right? He does it through his spirit. We're worshiped DNA. He starts knocking on our hearts through his spirit.
We were at worship DNA last night. It was basically like a worship retreat for our worship community. It was amazing. It was so crap.
And we got out of here at about 11 o'clock, start going to the parking lot and Pastor Katie, I was driving, but somehow she left the lights on, right? And car battery died, you know? And I don't know what she was thinking. And so we're trying to jump the car, it's taking a little bit, freezing, and finally get the car jumped and start driving.
And sleet's coming down and having trouble seeing him like, man, we got to, I got to use the window washer fluid. And then she also forgot to wipe the snow off of the window washer, you know, like, where it'll get stuck in the snow if you don't wipe the snow off of it. She forgot to wipe that off too. And so then I was like, okay, I'll clear it off.
Don't worry, babe. And so I get out, you know, pull the car over and I scrub it off and I'm just like looking at her. No, I'm just kidding. And then, I get in and I try it and the window washer fluid is out.
And I don't know how many times she drove into the garage and saw the purple window washer fluid canister there for weeks. It was there and didn't, she didn't refill it. So if you're not catching, you're like, you make her do all this. It would be more funny if she was sitting here.
But it's like, oh, wow, like you make her do all of that. I'm just talking about my failures. Okay, guys, I'm just like, I left the lights on. I didn't do the, yeah, okay.
Now it's well past our time to get a treat and that's a problem because after prayer room on Wednesday nights, we always go past McDonald's and get a McFlurry or something like that. And it's so horrible because we have all of our kids at 1030 at night every Wednesday and it's like schools in the morning and they're like ice cream and we're like, yeah, I want some ice cream too. And we do it every week. It's horrible.
So now they're conditioned to expect ice cream late at night. It's horrible. So we're driving, it's past 11 and I'm like, babe, I think it's closed. We can't go to Mcdonald's.
So we're like, okay, what are we going to do? Well, we need window washer fluid and there's a holiday gas station. So I go to holiday gas. I'll get somewhere soon.
Okay. And pull in, kill two birds with one stone, get an ice cream stickers bar, which is the best ice cream treat at gas stations. And if you haven't tried it, that's the only one you should be buying. And so grab that, the only guy in the store and get the washer fluid and I'm pretty much checked out.
And then the Holy Spirit. Oh my gosh. He just kind of said something. He said something in the effect of, hey, and I know exactly what he meant.
It's like, hey, it's just you two in here and it's 11 o'clock and you didn't do the washer fluid and the battery card, the car battery died and all of these things are just because I, and it's like, yes, it's my fault, right? All of that stuff. But then he uses it for his kingdom. And so I'm there and I'm like, ah, no, I'm good Lord.
Right? And he's just like, no, but then you want their ice cream. You know, it's really late. I'm tired.
And then, but there's a yes in my heart. And I begin to speak God's heart over him and just say, hey, I just want you to know there's been this thing and this thing and this thing and this is all pointed to this moment where I'm standing here and I believe it's because God sees you and he loves you and he knows you. And I just began to declare the heart of God over him as we're in this holiday gas station. And he's just shaking his head.
He's kind of like, what is it? And I'm like, is this not good? Is this a, are you mad? And he's like, you wouldn't believe it.
But since I've been working here, there's been three different people that have said the exact same thing to me that you just said. And I'm just, it's like Superman lays her eyes with like, like the Lord is just like, yes, God's doing it. And, and as I'm interacting with him, I'm just going, that's the way that the Lord does things. He does things with the little nudges and the little whispers.
And what this means is that there's three other people that before me got a little like, hey, and they said yes to him. And as a people, can you imagine if there was all of the people in this room, all the people in this community, there just start to be yeses. We hear him and it's, it's always a yes for me. Can you imagine what would happen to our city if our answer to the Lord when he starts knocking was always, yes, Lord, it's always a yes.
Whatever it is, Lord, it's a yes. And I'm just talking to the believers and I want to talk to the people in the room where you're going, I don't even know what I think about God, I don't even know why I'm here. That worship was crazy. I've gone to Catholic church.
I've got a Lutheran church. But what was that? And you're trying to figure out what is this? But the Lord, I want you to know, he says these things and he's, he's calling you.
He's drawing you. And he's saying, follow me. He said it to some of the outcasts in culture. And he, he pinpointed them and he's like, yep, you're disqualified, you're messed up.
You don't have it all together. That'll do. You're on my team. He says, you get to be in the inner circle.
You get to be close to me. Come and follow me. It doesn't look like to church. It doesn't look like just being a good person.
It looks like nearness to God. He wants you to be close. He wants you to be near. He has this thing where he'll invite himself over.
It's like the story of Zacchaeus. He's like, hey, I'm eating at your house tonight. And then he shows up. So he's like walking on the way to Zacchaeus house.
But then he does this weird thing for all of us. And he stands at the doorstep and waits to be let in. He's like, hey, I'm coming over. But then he's a gentleman and waits.
He invites himself over. But it's the question. We have a choice. Do we want him over?
Or are we good to just go on? He's waiting till he's wanted. And oftentimes I think what happens is we will distract ourselves because we don't like what he's telegraphing. Because Jesus, this is how Jesus does it.
He'll say, come to me or like an invitation. And then he'll start dishing out warnings of what he's going to do if you say yes to him. Oh no. He'll say things like, come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden, I'm going to start giving you rest.
And you're like, but I'm a workaholic and I don't want to rest. And he's like, well, if you will invite me in, then it's rest. But I don't want to. Right?
Or he says, come to me. I'm going to give you a new yoke and you're going to work differently. You're like, but I like how I work. I don't like that.
This is how I do it. And he says, but if you want, I know it's best for you though. Right? If you let him in, he starts changing things.
He starts putting his hands on things. He starts cooking things up and you start eating together and he starts cooking. And you're like, oh, that's spicy. I don't like that.
That kind of like messes with me in here, in my stomach, in my core. He starts messing with you. He starts changing you from the inside out. He starts getting his hands on stuff.
He's like, hey, that was the way I wanted it. And he's like, but I have a way. And it's true. And I know it's going to bring you life.
Right? So he starts handing out warnings. Right? He starts going, hey, if you follow me, I'm going to make you a fisher of men.
You're like, no, please, no. He's like, but guess what? You're not going to do it in your own strength. I'm going to do it in you.
And you're like, no. All of you that just like would prefer not to. But he's going, no, listen, it's exciting and it's fun. And so the Lord is giving warnings.
He's going, if you want to follow me, you will be a fisher of men. If you want me to come in and dine with you, I will give you rest. And he's warning because it's just who he is. And he says, if you draw near, then I'm going to draw near to you.
And then it's going to create holiness in you. And you're going to get more consecrated and you're going to get more pure and you're going to get more set apart. And that's what we want as as children. But it does cost us something.
And the cost is yes. The cost is surrender. He says, it's like Hebrews 12, you invite the father into your life and then he starts fathering you home. No, no, no.
He starts fathering you. And what fathers do is they discipline those that they love. So he starts bringing correction to wrong ideas. He starts addressing things that he's like, hey, this is off and this isn't good for you and it's hurting you.
And he starts fathering you. That's what we need. I need fathered. You need fathered.
It's the fatherless generation and the fathers of America are they're not at war. And it's the most fatherless generation where there hasn't been a war that's like a widespread war. And we're talking, we all need fathers, even if we had a healthy father, we need a father, we need fathered right now. And I need the Lord to knock on all of those places.
And I need him to start disciplining me because he loves me, because he cares so deeply about me that he's like, I'm willing to address this because I know who you are. I see so much in you that I'm going to kind of put my finger on that. It's going to hurt a little bit, but it's good. He's just start asking the questions, man, why is he so persistent?
He just doesn't quit on it. He's been knocking on this thing for like four or five years. And I wish you would stop. And it's this reoccurring thing.
You get away and you get out of all of the noise and then you start hearing his knocking. How many of you know you remove all the noise and then there's all of a sudden like, oh, you hear him. And he's been saying that the whole time, but there's been so many distractions because you at some point the knocking started getting a little bit annoying. And so you started going, but I've got a phone and I've got entertainment and I've got food and I've got socializing and work and worry and the news and sports and fantasy football and hobbies and interests.
And now I'm busy enough that I won't hear his knocking. It's not vulnerable to go to somebody's house that's just you know that they're going to open the door. But God is such the God of invitation and so humble that he's like, I'm going to knock even if you don't open the door and its humility and its love and its faithfulness and it's steadfast. I just wish he would stop knocking and I just have to break it to you.
He's not going to stop knocking. He's not going to stop because he loves you. You're going, man, not that door though. He's like, I know what's good for you.
We start going, man, we start going through all of our disqualifications. He shouldn't be at that door because I'm broke. You know, and the Lord's like, but I've got a banquet and everybody that is invited to the banquet. There's poor and then there's the random guy that gets invited, that everybody keeps on forgetting his name and it's like, you're like, man, why can nobody remember my name?
And it's like, I have to reintroduce myself 10 times. And the Lord's like, that's the guy. That's the one that I want at my feast. That's the one that I want at my banquet.
I want the one I want the prostitutes. I want the sinners. I want those that feel like they're prostituting themselves all the time. Those are the ones they get in.
They get direct access. Those are the ones that I'm going. I'm here and you're going, no, I'm disqualified. No, the poor, the ones that are down and out, the ones that are bored, the ones that don't have it all together, the ones that are overwhelmed with anxiety and sensuality and have problems with your family and problems with your marriage and problems with your health.
And the Lord is going, I want the weary. I want the sick. I want the widows. I want the poor.
I want the prostitutes. I want all of them. I want all of the people that feel like they've got rebellion on the interior of their souls. I want all of those that are going.
I don't have enough time. I have so much shame. There's so much isolation that I'm in. I'm so lonely.
I have so much pain that's I'm dealt with and I don't even know where to begin. And the Lord's like, yes, yes, yes, you're the one. I'm at your door. And I'm knocking and I love you.
And it's okay that it feels overwhelming. It's okay that it keeps on getting annoying, that I'm here, but I'm here because I see you. I'm here because I know you. The Lord is willing to just be patient.
He's such a gentleman. He's the God of love. And he's not silent. He's just knocking.
And he's ready to come in. And he prepared table before you in the presence of your enemies. And usually the response to someone that is like him, just listen, someone like this guy, the Lord, trust me. You want him.
You want him at the table. You want him behind every door. All of the doors that feel off limits in your life. All of the places that you go, oh, no, no, please, no.
That is really hard for me. Those places trust me. You want him in that place, in that space. When the enemy comes to your door, it's going to sound like accusation and it's going to get really overwhelming, really fast.
And it pushes you away from the Lord. Okay. He's going to try to bring up every single problem in your life and how you're messed up in all of these different ways so that you quit before you start. Okay.
But the Lord, he's so gracious. He usually is just like, I'm just going to start with this, this one. Okay. He doesn't want to overwhelm you.
He knows what you can handle. And he's beckoning us forward. He's beckoning us close today. So usually when there's somebody like him that comes to the door of our lives, the right response is, come on in.
Okay. The right response is, I'm so glad you're here. The right response is, I know we've been waiting for a long time together on this one. The right response is, okay, here I am.
All of me, I want you to be full of yourself with me. You don't want him partially. You don't want him to completely restrain parts of himself because you'll be quickly offended by the fullness of who he is. You just want him to feel like you open the door and you just, some of us, we just need to lay out on the table and be like, all right, it's time for surgery.
Great physician. I'll let you, because I can't figure it out. Would you just speak to me? The Lord wants to speak.
He wants to touch those places. Would you say yes to him? Would you have a yes in your heart? Would you have this anything?
Yes. No matter what it is. Yes. Let's all stand.
I want to respond to the Lord. I need God. They need God. Wherever you're at in your relationship with God, I want you to know that he's knocking on the door of your life.
The 230 service, I was reminded of a phrase from the book of Hosea. I want to close here. Hosea 11, 4, it says this. It says the Lord talking.
He says, I led them with cords of kindness, loving kindness. I led them with bands of love. And I became to them as one who eases the yoke of their jaws. And I bent down to them.
It's this picture of an animal that has a yoke. And the Lord just drawing them with his loving kindness, removing these things that have been hindering them. And he gets down close and he feeds us. I believe the Lord wants to restore.
I believe the Lord wants to come close. What if 2025 as a year wasn't a year where you just continued to plug your ears and ignore the knocking? What if you led him in to that place and that space, that part of your life, that has felt off limits? 2026, he's still going to be knocking on that thing.
So we might as well just let him in. This year is the year that it could be a feast. This year is the year where in that area in that place, he could set a table before you in the presence of your enemies. And by the end of the year, you could have your cup overflowing.
I want to encourage you to have a yes in your heart. When you sign up for Jesus, it's like I'm convincing you to do what you've already signed up for. Isn't that funny? When you said yes to Jesus and surrendered your life to God if you're a follower of Jesus, you basically said, he's going to be the Lord of my life.
And it's all his. That's what you said when you follow Jesus. So I don't need to convince you to be a follower of Jesus. But I kind of do.
Because I think I look all around the room and go, yeah, I guess I've been not wanting him to touch that place. Right? We're all in process. We all have places.
We all have spaces where we go. Just close your eyes with me. God, I thank you for being so humble that you would stand at the door and knock. All throughout the room, I want us to just begin to ask the police spirit, Lord, what is one area in my life where you've been trying to get my attention, where you want to actually be together in this area, in this space?
So all throughout the room, just begin to whisper with the Lord, Lord, what's the door that's been closed to you? What's the place in my life that you've been knocking? And I want you, in your imagination, maybe it's your whole life and you're like, man, God, it's not just one part of my life. It's like my whole life has been closed off to you.
And I want to come back home. You want to surrender your whole life to Jesus and let him come into your life. Or maybe it's just a specific part of your life. Maybe it's your relationships.
Maybe it's a dating relationship. Maybe it's health. Or maybe it's financial. Or maybe it's job.
Or there's pain or trauma. Or there's sexuality. The Lord is wanting to just highlight one of these areas. If you could name that door something, what would it be?
What would it be named? And with your imagination, as your eyes are closed, I want you to make a conscious choice in your imagination. Before the Lord, he's on the other side of the door. And I want you to, in your imagination, make a conscious choice to say, yes, Lord, you can commit.
I want you to open up the door in your imagination to the Lord. You can let him in in your imagination. So you have your eyes closed. I want you to watch what the Lord says or does as the door opens in your imagination.
The door opens. Great. When you just reveal Jesus' heart as the door opens. What does he do?
Lord, we're so thankful for your embrace. You would love me even in this space, even in this area. You're going to love me. It feels so good to not be alone behind the door.
To have somebody with you in it. You can just begin to ask the Lord, Lord, is there any lie that you want to uproot? This whisper, I'll throw out the room. I'm not going to answer these questions for you though.
All the spirits wants to speak to you right now. Lord, is there any lie that's been keeping this thing closed? This lie, you can just agree with him and just say something like, I don't like that lie. I disagree with that.
It's not true. If you've already disengaged, I want to encourage you. Just lock in. You can still engage.
It's not too late. It's not too late. There's some of us that have already disengaged. I'm not even looking around the room, but I'm just sensing it.
The Lord's going, hey, I'm not finished. I'm not finished. Don't disengage. The next question that I feel like the Lord is inviting us to ask about this space, this area.
If you've been disengaged because you didn't even have an area that was highlighted. I want you to just think and make a choice in your mind. This is the area in my life that I'm going to invite God into. I'm just trying to scoop you back in.
We can all be here together. You just make a choice. This is the area that I want him to have access to in my life. In that place, I want you to ask the Lord, part of what?
What do you want me to know? I'll just throw the room. I'll just whisper that to the Lord. You just whisper that to him until you feel like you hear something.
This pause is in between asking. Now that we're here, what do you want me to know? What do you want me to know about them? How about me?
I want me to know about you. I want you to ask questions resonating with you. You can just ask that question. What do you want me to know about them?
Just a choice. As he's speaking, as he's saying things. He just wrote one thing. That's amazing.
And you just make a choice to go. I agree with you, Lord. I agree with you. I say yes.
You can just all throw out the room. I just want you to whatever you want to say to the Lord. Just let's take 30 seconds a minute. I just want you and him to dialogue.
Whatever you want to say to him, just all throw out the room. Just whisper with the Lord. What do you want to say to him? You are so grateful that you've been so persistent, and that you've been so humble and so present, and that you never leave me or forsake me.
Lord, when we're a mess, you're not afraid of the mess. You're not afraid of the dirt. So Lord, we thank you that you are the Lord that has all the keys, and yet you want invited in. And we just say that we need God.
We know they need God. We love you, Lord. God, I thank you. If you want to stand with me again, God, I thank you for all the messengers in the room.
Thank you for all of the sons and daughters that get to bring Father God everywhere they go in our city. God, I ask that you would multiply our stories, gaining access into the deepest parts of our hearts and our lives, and changing us, transforming us. Lord, we ask that you would take even the testimony of what you did in these little moments, and that you would multiply them, multiply it in our city. In Jesus' name, so I commission out all of these messengers that have good news.
Amen.