And so many things to be excited about. I am really excited about those family services starting. And what Abby shared, I think, is really important to acknowledge that for family services, for prayer room, I want to encourage us to all have this perspective. Those things are for our city.
They're not just for our community, OK? And so you'll hear us say things like, if you're part of a different community, we'll see you next Wednesday. In other words, we're being very clear that this is not just for every day, right? This is not just for Grove.
This is actually for our city that we're establishing something to actually be a blessing to everyone in our city, OK? Does that make sense? OK, good. Turning your Bibles to Numbers 13.
Numbers 13, we are done with our spiritual disciplines series. And Katie and I have been really feeling like the Lord has been highlighting something that we want to share with you. We believe that it's a now word for the body of Christ. And last week, we talked about how there's this discipline of reading the word.
And it's the Logos, it's the written word. And then there's these moments where God actually speaks. And there's a Reima word, which is this now word, where God deposits something in the midst of a season. And he says, I'm going to speak this word into this season.
And I believe right now that we are on the eve of something. How many of you remember Christmas Eve? And you know how there's this anticipation of something coming in the morning. And I believe that we're at a crossroads.
We're at the eve of something that there's a transitional season that we find ourselves in as the Western Church. And I believe as a community, we are in transition because we're moving on to something. We're moving into this new chapter, this new volume. We're going to be called Every Day.
And it's not just a name change. There's so much that's packed into that that we're going to talk about. It's not a branding strategy. It's not so that we can have some cool feel that's better than the brand that we had.
There's so much more that's packed into that. We're going to be unpacking that over the next couple months. But I believe that it's a new volume or a new chapter for our community. It's a new volume in this season.
These last two years and moving forward, there's actually a shift happening. And I don't want us to miss it. There's a shift that's happening right now that's a generational shift. And I believe that we have to be aware of what's happening so that we can respond rightly.
And it's not just something that's a shift for the church at large or our church community, but it's actually something personal. See, a lot of times what happens is what God does corporately, most of the time, mirrors something that is happening personally for us. And so as I'm sharing, I want to cast vision for it. As I'm speaking, even about the church, we can make it personal, right?
So as the apostles are writing letters to the churches, they're actually wanting it to be taken personally. And so as I'm sharing, please take that and take it as something that, whoa, what does this mean for me? Numbers 13, the backstory here is that Moses leads the nation of Israel out of slavery. And they've been in slavery for 400 years.
They get set free. They go through the Red Sea on dry ground. In other words, the Red Sea moved for them. Then they look back and all of those that were enslaving them, the Egyptian army gets crushed by the waters and they drown in the Red Sea.
And then they find themselves at Mount Sinai. And Moses, he is meeting with God and God is going, hey, I need to give you the plans for culture. I need to give you the plans for society. Because you don't know how to do culture.
You don't know how to do society. You don't know how to lead a nation because you are going to bring all the things that you learned from those that enslaved you and you're gonna put them into practice unless I teach you laws, unless I teach you the way to do culture. And so God is this generous gift giving God and he goes here's 613 laws so that you know how to do culture now. Rather than take a little bit of that, a little bit of that from the Egyptian government and then just infuse that into your lifestyle.
And he's going, no, it's gonna be my way and I want you to submit to my way. And then he says, I want you to prioritize something that's important and it's called my presence. And what he does is he takes all 1.2, 1.4 million people that are part of this nation that just walk through the Red Sea and he says, I'm gonna have you camp out and at the center of every single tribe, there's gonna be a tent and that's where my presence is gonna be. So I'm actually gonna be in the middle of where you're camping out in the wilderness.
And so they're at the base of Mount Sinai and then God says, all right, time to move and they go into a wilderness and the Lord says, as they're walking in the wilderness, the Lord gives an assignment to Moses and he says, it's time for you to actually step into the promised land. I want you to send scouts onto the land. And so maybe some of us don't know that God, when they were in Egypt, the Lord is saying, I'm promising you a land that I'm gonna give you. And this land is some good land.
It's gonna have a lot of cows in it and they're gonna, cows make milk, right? How many of you are whole milk drinkers? Raise your hand, whole milkers? Just be confident, almond milk?
Where in my almond milk? Wow, yeah, there you go. Israel, this new land had both, whole milk and almond milk. Somebody say amen, right?
He's going, hey, it's flowing with milk which means that there's a lot of cattle and then it's flowing with honey which means there's really good fertile ground and vegetation, right? Because bees find flowers and that means that there's good soil. And so he's saying it's a land that's flowing with these two resources, in other words, it's good land that I'm giving you. And then he gives them this assignment.
He takes all of the commanders and he says, so every tribe, we're talking like hundreds of thousands of people in each tribe. And he goes, there's a commander over the army of each tribe and I want you to take. This is like the special ops guy, the leaders of each branch of the Israelite army. He says, I want you to pick the best of the best and I want you to have them be scouts.
And I want them to go and scout the promised land. I want them to go and spy out the promised land. And so they go for 40 days scouting the promised land. And this is what it says in verse 17, numbers 13, 17.
Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, go into the Negeb and go up into the hill country and see what the land is. Whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, whether they're few or many. Whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad. And whether the cities that they dwell in are camps or strongholds.
Whether the land is rich or poor, whether there are trees in it or not, be of good courage and bring some of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes. So he says, hey, go do the scouting trip. And so they're there 40 days and the scouts come back.
The commanders of the tribes of Israel come back and they have a report. Let's look and follow in verse 27 and it says this. And they told him, so this is their reporting, not only to Moses, they're reporting to the whole nation of Israel. And they're saying this, they told him, we came to the land which you sent us.
It flows with milk and honey. And this is it's fruit. They had brought literally a huge thing of grapes that they carried on a pole because it was so heavy between two people to show the fruit of the land. Verse 28, however the people who dwelled it, this is their report.
However, the people who dwell in the land are strong. The cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of a knock there, which are giants. So that's concerning.
The Amalekites, yep. The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Nogib. So now he starts listing all of the people groups that are occupying the land that God has promised them. And he says, the Amalekites dwell on the land of the Nogib.
The Hittites, the Jebusites and the Amorites dwell in the hill country and the Canaanites dwell by the sea along the Jordan. But Caleb quieted the people. He shushed the people before Moses and he said this, let us go up at once and occupy it. For we are well able to overcome it.
Then the men who had gone up with him said, we are not able to go up against the people. For they are stronger than we are. So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, the land through which we have gone to spy out is a land that devours its inhabitants. All the people we saw in it are great of great height.
And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anok, who came from the Nephilim. And we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers. And so we seemed to them. We seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers.
And so we seemed to them. Caleb quiets everyone and he says, the land is ours. And Caleb, filled with faith, says, oh, it's over. It's already one.
There's no doubt in my mind. This is our land. And you have to ask the question. The 10 commanders, so Joshua and Caleb agreed on this.
They were two of the commanders. There's 10 other commanders that are special ops guys. They're the top of the top. They're smart guys.
And they saw the same thing that Caleb and Joshua saw. Joshua and Caleb are not saying that there aren't giants in the land. But there's a different perspective and a different idea around the landscape of the future. Now, why is that?
How many of you have seen someone in your life, or maybe it's something that you're struggling with, that you're going through some hellish issue, some hellish circumstance. But when you look over at someone else, you start realizing that their hellish circumstance is way worse than yours. And they have a different response. That they're not offended.
They're not bitter. And they're not self-pity, whining and complaining and grumbling. And all of a sudden, there's something you have to face the fact that there's something that's off here, because how are they responding to that scenario? That way.
How is their perspective that when I look at the facts? See how many of you know? The enemy uses facts. The enemy uses exaggeration, but oftentimes, it's facts that he uses to discourage faith and create cynicism.
And we have a choice as the people of God in this hour. This is an hour where there's a transition. This is a crossroads. And there's two paths that we can go down.
We can go down the path of cynicism, or we can go down the path of faith. And when I look at what happens with the commanders, this is what they're doing. They are in comparison mode. They're in comparison mode.
And the church right now is in comparison mode. And we're looking at the world. And we're going, well, they're bigger. And we're outnumbered now.
See, there's a bad report in the land. There's a bad report even coming from the Christian circles. Well, it's less than 4% for Generation Z. And everybody's leaving the church.
And people are leaving the church in droves. And I don't know. We have to reach the next generation. And there's all of this concern.
And there's a bad report because the church is feeling like the reports are negative. And the facts are against us. And the Lord is standing from a different perspective. And he's going, will you see what I see?
Like Gideon. And he had 300 in his army. And he's looking into the distance. And his aid is going, this is not a good idea.
There's a sea of an army in front of us. And we're 300. And Gideon said, look again. And I believe that there's a call for us as a people to look again at the horizon.
To look again as we're in the fork in the road. God is saying, I'm giving new vision. And I want you to see the land. I want you to see ahead.
I want you to see in the future with a different perspective. The spies, they reported that they're stronger than us, that we're weaker. There's a bad report even that phrase where it says, the land that devours its inhabitants. There's theologians that believe that what they're trying to communicate with that is that there's some type of sickness that's spreading in the land.
That there's health risks. That there's some type of pandemic that's hitting the promised land. When they're looking at the giants, I want to say this. I just felt as I was prepping this week, I felt like the Lord had brought conviction on my heart.
And for us as a leadership team to just repent. And I felt this conviction around, God has actually given us power and authority over all sickness and disease. And we just want to apologize and repent that as church leadership, we didn't actually stand our ground on the word of God and say, COVID has nothing on the blood. I believe that God has actually given us authority and power to heal every sickness.
And I don't care what the TV says. I don't care how many cases. I don't care how many hospital beds are filled. God is actually calling us.
He's going, I don't care what the variant is. I don't care how many variants there's going to be. I want you to actually stand up in your authority. And I want you to take on Mustard's faith and actually start hitting it again.
You don't see something change, hit it again. Hit it again, hit it again. There's a bounce back in our spirit that God's deposited in us. And we actually have to step into our identity.
And the enemy has tried to lull us to sleep. And there's a crossroads moment for us. And even as we're worshiping, I'm going, yes, this is the word of the Lord. This is what the Lord is saying.
He's saying, wake up. He's saying, wake up to who you are in me. Wake up to what I already purchased. Wake up to my perspective.
See Joshua and Caleb were found sitting with the Lord before they went to scout out the land. Joshua says in Exodus that Joshua, Moses left the tent where they were meeting with God, like the presence of God was in the tent. And Joshua was found staying back, spending long hours with the Lord. How did he have that perspective?
When he looked at the same giants that the other commanders looked at. How does he have that perspective? How does he have that picture, that view? Are you seeing what I'm seeing, Joshua?
Are you seeing that this is a whole people full of glides? We were just slaves in Israel a year ago. We weren't an army, Joshua. Who do you think we are?
And do you know the defining difference? When Joshua looked at the land, do you know the defining difference for him as a commander? What it was? He knew who was with him.
He knew there was somebody with him. He knew that no matter where he went, that there was the presence of the one that had created the pillar of fire that created the cloud by day, the pillar of fire by now. The one that removed the Red Sea in front of them. The one that sent plagues on those that were enslaving them, he knew someone.
And because he knew someone, he actually had a different perspective. And he had confidence that no matter what we face, it's always over. It's over, it's like, it's done, it's finished. See, we've gotten caught into comparing ourselves and we see ourselves like grasshoppers, individually and as a body.
And I want us all to acknowledge when you see yourself as small, when you see yourself as weak, when you see yourself and you look at yourself in the mirror and all you see is insecurity, all you see is things that you hate, all you see is things that you dislike, that's how you're gonna act. You're gonna act like all those insecurities. You're gonna actually self-fulfill the prophecy that all the commanders self-fulfilled. We see ourselves as grasshoppers.
And do you know, look at that phrase right after that. We seem to do ourselves like grasshoppers. And so we seem to them. Do you see that?
We saw ourselves this way. And because we saw ourselves this way, when they looked at us, they agreed we're like grasshoppers. I remember there being times where we were at warmups, where it's right before basketball game in high school. And our biggest guy was like 6-3-6-4, you know, in basketball.
So it's like 6-3-6-4 center. And I remember coming up against teams where their point guard was 6-4. And their shooting guard was 6-6. And their tallest guy was 6-10, you know.
And there's one choice that you have in that moment. Do you see yourself like a grasshopper? Or do you go, oh, they don't know what's coming. See, they think that their height is going to, it's like game over in their perspective, but they don't know.
They don't know that we're going to press them, all game. And they're going to wish they weren't so tall, because we're so scrappy. See, there's a scrappiness that's coming on the body. There's a scrappiness that goes, I don't care how tall you are.
I don't care what the news says. I don't care how many variants come. I don't care what the shaking looks like. But I've got to tell you this, the shaking isn't going to stop.
How many of you know that when we look at our culture, a lot of us are going, man, I wonder when we're going to get back to normal. And you see that now this is one headline that's probably true, a new normal. And we've got to face it. The new normal is shakings.
We are in a transition time. And we have transitioned as a culture. And as we look at the world, Jesus prophesied that there would be shakings. And I'm wanting to just call us to the reality.
It's not going to stop. And they're going to get closer together. The trimmers underneath the surface, they're just going to start happening more and more and more. And if we see ourselves with a grasshopper perspective, if we see ourselves through insecurity, see ourselves through defeat, see ourselves through, I don't have what it takes.
I'm not good enough. I don't have the ability. I don't have the strength. Listen, God has given us all everything we need for life and godliness.
You have it all. The strength inside of you is stronger. The wisdom inside of you shames the wisdom of the world. Even your foolishness by the power of the Holy Spirit is wiser than the wisdom of man.
But we have in our mindset, well, they have so many more followers. They have so much more money. They have so much more influence. They have all the media.
They have this. They have that. And there's this constant reasons of facts of why. Why we should think small.
And God's going, there's a new day. This is a new volume. And I'm rewiring all of us to think differently. And I believe that there's a new language that God is dropping for the church.
I believe there's a new language for us to gather around. Because evangelicalism doesn't cut it. Listen, even the phrase Christian, what does it mean? What does little Christ follower mean right now?
Listen, there's a way. There's a following of Jesus. Oh, are you a Christian? I am a follower of Jesus.
And I follow the leader. And he's my leader. God has given us a new language. I don't know what it is yet.
But there's a new breed that's rising. And the new breed is a breed of faith. A breed that doesn't have the mindset of look at the giants. But it says, look at what I've been meditating on and who's with me.
Look at who's with me. It's like David. He's been hanging out in the wilderness, in the fields with the sheep. Love songs, singing love songs to the Lord.
And he comes up out of the field and all of his brothers, his older brothers that have been training for battle are sitting on the sidelines, looking at the enemy, shaking in their boots. And who comes out of the fields and grabs a couple rocks? The one that was with him. The one that knew who was with him.
And do you know what he was offended by? He was offended by what the enemy said about his God. Because he knew him. And he said, how dare you speak about the one that I love?
The one that I know? Do you know him? Do you spend time with him? Do you just show up to services, to have your conscience tickled?
Or do you want more? If you're just figuring things out with Jesus, Jesus loves you so much. I'm speaking to church people right now. I'm speaking to the people that know so much.
But then when the storm comes, you're like me this month. And sickness hits my house and I don't stand in faith, believing that I'm gonna see healing in my wife's body, in my children's body. And I don't even hit it again and again and again and in faith. I just kind of roll over and let it happen.
God's calling us to stand in our identity and meet him. And when the storm comes, we're unshakeable. And we're not shifting sands because there's a look up in our spirit, because we know who we're with. It's a crossroads.
Faith is based on reality and facts. And cynicism is based on reality and facts. I have all the reasons in the world to not believe. As I look at the the devastations of stories in the room of the fallen world that we live in, you have all the reason to doubt.
Look at all these facts, look at all these circumstances that I've seen that I've lived through. And then the Lord's going, but you're a son or daughter of faith. And you don't live by what you've experienced or what you see, but you live from a different reality. Faith and cynicism are different realities.
Doubting and unbelief is something that we've just treated as like, okay, and we've like coddled unbelief. And the Lord is going, this is who you are, this is what I say about you and look at who's with you. Rise up, I turn into your Bible, it's Hebrews 12. Which reality will we align ourselves with?
Which reality will we align ourselves with in this season? You know the the weathered Christians who've maybe been pursuing God for a decade or, I don't even care, maybe it's a weathered Christian that's been following Jesus and they're in their 20s, they've felt like, man, I've got a long history of the Lord or 30s, 50s, 60s, whatever it looks like. And the weathered Christian that looks at your zeal in your passion and goes, oh man, you'll, man, you're so passionate as a 30 something or a 40 something or a young person. And they'll minimize your passion for Jesus.
You and I are going to turn into the weathered cynic, the weathered Christian cynic. And we will turn into that type of person that minimizes extravagance during seasons like this. Listen, this is the season where the failed expectations make your heart hard. This is the season where all of the worries of life makes your love grow cold.
Jesus said that the love of many will grow cold. This is an hour where it's a little cold and I'm telling you it's our time to get red hot. I feel it, it's a prayer in my heart, make me red hot and wake me up. I feel it on my own life.
Listen, I am not preaching at you. I'm preaching myself into getting woken up. I'm preaching myself into waking up. We're in the same boat.
I'm pleading with you. Join me in the prayer to wake up. Our souls are sleeping, we're getting into slumbers. And the Lord's saying, I'm beckoning you.
I just, Hebrews 12, therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and sin which clings so closely. Let us run with endurance, the race that is set out before us. Look into Jesus, the author and the perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and seated at the right hand of the throne of God. He's saying, hey, there's a great cloud of witnesses, right?
Look at Hebrews 11, verse 13. I think this is so interesting. Hebrews 11, verse 13, the writer of Hebrews, he's talking about all these greats of the faith. He's saying, these are the legends.
These are like the OGs of faith. Verse 13, he says, these all, all of these legends of faith, they died, not having received the things promised. Hold up. What?
So the heroes of faith died not seeing what they had faith to see. They had seen those things and greeted them from afar and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. You are a stranger and you're an exile. There's an allegiance battle.
Who will you have allegiance to in this hour? Will you have an allegiance to a man, to a program, to different groups, different parties? Where is your allegiance? Is your allegiance to your children?
Is your allegiance to your spouse? The biggest idol in America isn't TV. It isn't social media. It isn't even power.
It's family. Man, that is so strong and that's really intense. I know. But we, more than half of the church, believes that God's command is for us to put family as the priority, where it's like family is an idol in America, in the church.
I don't know why I'm saying this right now. This is not planned, but I need to say it. Listen, listen, when you are in the day where you have to choose between denying your faith to get food for your kid that hasn't eaten in a week, then you need to choose. Do I choose him or do I choose my child?
And if your love isn't rooted and grounded, you're going to choose man and those that you love over the one that laid it all for you down, laid everything out for you and purchased you for him. I'm talking, this is not just like radical, this is not radical talk. This is the gospel. This is the Bible.
We've been so conditioned by culture, God is actually calling us into love extravagance before him. And it doesn't make sense to the mind because we go, but I can't see him. That's hard in that moment, that I'm going to choose him. But our Chinese brothers and sisters, our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters, they've tasted what the gospel really costs.
And as the American church, we need to humble ourselves and go really low and go, look at my brothers and sisters. They've tasted something that I haven't tasted. They see something about him that I haven't seen. Lord provoke my heart.
I don't feel the hunger, but I need the hunger to come to the surface. Lord make me hungry again, to know you, to know you in this way. I don't know you the way that they know you, that they would lay down their lives, even the lives of the ones that they would lay their lives down for you first. Lord, you take the first place.
I don't get it, but you are the main thing. You are the first commandment. The second follows, but you're the first. These legends of faith, they didn't see the promise.
And a lot of times when we talk faith, we talk about our circumstances, right? So we're always thinking about, how can I make my circumstance better? I'm gonna have faith to have my circumstance get better, because we live in America, and there's comfort. We think that I'm gonna have faith, so the bad thing that's making me miserable doesn't happen anymore, and that my boss will get saved because I can't stand him as an unbeliever, right?
So I want my circumstance to change, and so I'm gonna believe in faith. And we look at the heroes of the faith, and all of a sudden they're believing for something beyond. Beyond what they feel, beyond their happiness, beyond their white picket fence, beyond getting married, beyond having kids, beyond having multiple kids, beyond getting an nicer car, beyond all of the things, and they had a different perspective. And there was this thing that they carried, it was called mustard seed faith.
Mustard seeds in the nation of Israel. Some of you have heard this before, if you've been around for a while. Jesus talks about the mustard seed, and he says, if you have faith like a mustard seed, you'll see mountains move. Whoa, Lord, I need to teach me about mustard seeds, right?
It's like, I wanna see, I wanna like throw a mountain somewhere. That'd be amazing. And what he's actually painting this picture of, if you were one of his disciples, or if you were somebody that lived in Israel in that time, you would know what he's talking about. Because if you look at the hills of Israel, they had mustard trees that were growing on these rocky hills and mountains.
And what was happening is these mustard seeds, though they were small, their primary trait was that they were persistent and resilient. And they just kept on pushing. And over time, as they kept on in persistence pushing, they would push over boulders that were on the mountains. They were literally moving the mountain as those little seeds just continued to grow and persist.
And Jesus is saying, this is the type of faith that I'm asking about. When I return, am I going to have faith? Am I going to see faith in the earth? And he's questioning going, will there be faith?
And then he gives parables and he shares parables. And the parables are all about what? Persistence, somebody at the door, knocking. Their friend is sleeping and they want food and they keep on knocking and they keep on being persistent.
Then he talks about the persistent widow who doesn't have justice and she keeps on hitting the judge again and again and again, tiring him out. It's persistent faith. God's calling us into persistent faith in Hebrews. It says, let us run the race that is set before us.
I think that we have to wake up. It's like a bride, sleeping beauty. The alarm is going off. Will she wake?
She's rubbing her eyes. Oh, I'm so tired. This is what the church is doing. I'm so tired and I'm, man, like quarantine was, it was so nice.
I realized like I don't. Like it was so restful actually for me. And we just got really close as a family and it was just so restful. And man, I don't like that alarm that's sounding in my ear.
I'm comfortable. It kind of feels cold in my room. Kind of feels cold outside. It's so warm under the covers.
I'm so comfortable. But the alarm just keeps on going off. And all of a sudden she's like, oh my gosh, okay, I guess I'll get up. And the church walks over the window and she looks out the window at the landscape and she sees into the land of what's happening.
And she goes, man, I'm so tired. I'm so tired and that seems like a lot. Seems like so much. And it just seems overwhelming.
And the Holy Spirit is like throwing the alarm across the room like, dee dee dee dee. And he's like, wake up, wake up. Wake up, you're the answer outside the window, outside the four walls, outside the pew, outside the worship service, outside what's comfortable, outside Netflix on weeknights. You're the answer.
And God's saying, this is the enduring faith that I'm imparting in you, bride. Wake up, sleeping, bride. You're a beauty to me, which you know what I feel about you. Because if you knew what I feel about you and you knew who is with you when you're leaving the house and you knew who you were representing and you knew the need and you actually looked at it and you saw the zakias in the trees, longing to know me and you saw the white fields that are in front of you, you would get out of your bed and you would take steps, one after the other.
And know that I am going to take the land. And I'm not saying, I'm not saying take the land in a physical way. I'm not saying taking over culture. What I'm saying is actually taking ground as you walk in life, you're actually just becoming love.
I'm saying, I'm saying becoming like him. Jesus didn't take over a nation. Jesus didn't overtake the government. He didn't start a revolution.
Jesus walked and did what the father said he should do. And he was present to what are you doing? What are you saying? I'm going to obey and I'm going to be your representative.
I'm actually going to be the image of you. You are an image carrier, an image bearer. Groundhog day, it's the same thing. Groundhog comes up, pops, head out.
Oh, it's still going to be winter. I'm going to go back down. God is calling us out. He's calling us in to believing in faith.
Out of doubting. I see that mustard seed faith thing. Shakings are coming. The bride has been sleeping.
And we are all waking up. And I'm not just talking about the church. I'm not just talking about the big seed church. And all of the evangelical churches.
I'm talking about me. I'm talking about you. I'm talking about us. I can't do anything about them.
I can't do anything about the church. I can't do anything about the Christians that are on Fox News. All that I can do is stop looking at the logs in everybody's eye. And I'm talking to me when I'm singing in worship.
My prayer is wake me up. Listen, it can be your prayer too. That could be your prayer if you wanted it to be. Wake me up.
I know there's more. I know that I haven't tasted. I know that I haven't seen fully. I know that I'm on the shores.
I'm just on the edge. I know that you have something up your sleeve. Worship team, if you guys have come to the front, it's not what I'm not casting vision for, is faith that's not based on anything. I'm talking about faith that's based on a different reality that we can see in the Bible.
So you look at words and you look at the facts of a different reality and you go, I'm going to base my faith on what was said. And so we have to remember, hope and faith is like a North Star for us as the people. As the people of God, our North Star is like, I'm going to step in faith. I'm going to move in faith.
And faith endures, but faith has to start with what? Joy. Listen, joy, joy, joy, joy is the key to faith. So when I look to the future and when the heroes of the faith look to the future, do you know what they had?
They had joy as they looked at a different kingdom that was coming and they're going, man, I'm excited. I'm excited. I have joy in my heart. When I'm praying for somebody to experience healing, I don't want to be thinking so much about the sickness and be intimidated by the giant of the sickness.
I actually want to be consumed with joy of like, man, Jesus, you're so excited to heal this person. You purchased for it. I'm just going to make the withdrawal. It's already in my bank account.
And this is going to be so fun to bless them with the healing. And I'm so excited for them to have that face, that facial expression where they just have so much joy because they just were like, what? And they had this awe on their face. They got healed and then they're jumping up and down.
And we have to anchor ourselves that there's a joy on the other side that we're having faith for. I believe that right now there is an opportunity and that some of us have been waiting for an opportunity. Some of us have been looking for an excuse to hope again. Some of us have been waiting and waiting and waiting for something to trigger us into getting back on the horse, getting back into faith, getting back into belief, getting back into devotion and faithfulness and going, I am not content with where I'm at and I'm actually gonna charge.
I'm gonna go, I'm gonna run. I'm actually going to believe again and hope again and have faith again. I'm gonna believe for this thing to be healed. I'm gonna believe for the dead to be raised.
I'm gonna believe for those that are pressed to get set free. I'm gonna believe for the protocol. I'm gonna believe whatever you're saying I wanna believe it. And there's this opportunity that we've been waiting for and going, what is it gonna take to wake me up?
What is it gonna take? What is he gonna have to do to shake me to wake up? I know I need woken up. I know I need to have some alarm.
Some start to start knocking on my door. He's knocking tonight. And he's saying, if you want to, you can wake up. If you want to, you can wake up.
It's a new day. And he's going, I just felt this so clearly. I believe this is the word of the Lord. He's going, get in your blocks.
He's saying, get in your blocks, just like sprinters, they get in their blocks, right? He's saying, hey, get in your blocks. On your marks, get set. I just feel from heaven.
The Lord's saying, on your marks, get set. On your marks, get set. On your marks, get set. There's about to be an explosion of faith.
Are you ready? It's what your destiny is. If you want to respond tonight, I want to call you to the altar, let's all stand. I want to go into worship.
God is saying, on your marks, get ready. Let's go. There's a bounce back in our sphere. You can just come to the front if you want to respond.
You can come all the way to the front. Thank you, Lord. Oh Lord, we thank you for the call to get back in the blocks. To hope again, the persevering, unending faith.
Lord, you're calling us out of apathy, out of doubt, out of unbelief. You're calling us into the tent that Joshua tasted. Lord, he's tasted and he saw that you're good. He saw the land and said that it's ours.
Came up, saw the land and said that it's ours, Lord. We look into tomorrow and we say that tomorrow's yours. Tomorrow's yours in my life. Lord, call me into the secret place.
Awake in my heart to faith. I want to see you the way that you see me. The way that I want to see you the way that Jesus saw you. Oh, don't even wait for me to pray for you.
You just pray. You just tell them what you want. You tell them what's in your heart. You just tell them what's in your heart.
Don't wait for me to pray.