6 AM Prayer | The Son Has Come | April 8

Hello. Hello. I want to take a moment and welcome everybody to prayer. Uh we are so glad that you are here. Want to greet everybody uh around the world. Uh TC nation, our family. Uh no matter what time it is, we're so glad that you're here. We want to take a moment and shout out everybody in our live prayer room here in Tulsa.

Uh we are grateful for you, for your family for deciding to jump in and make prayer a priority. My name is Charles and uh I get to serve on our team here. And I'm so grateful that we get to take the next few moments um and do something that is an absolute gift and that is talk to our God.

And uh if you're just joining, let us know where you're watching from. I know we have so many people that are joining us. Uh we got friends on Instagram, on YouTube, Tik Tok, everywhere. Uh I've got the stream up here. We got people from Chicago. We got people from Texas, Buffalo, New York is in the building.

Uh Roseville, New Jersey. So many amazing people that are jumping on to pray. Um and we're just grateful. We're grateful for um our church family and uh grateful for this opportunity uh to spend time in prayer. If you don't know a little bit about our church, our church has the mission and vision to represent God to the lost and found for transformation in Christ.

And what that means is is that we want to represent, we want to show God in a new way. So many people have spent a lot of their life um feeling like maybe they had a picture or an idea or an image of God that the truth is that it was not a 100% accurate to the Jesus and the God that we read about in scriptures and it's been borrowed uh fragments and little pieces of things they've heard and things that have happened.

Um but there's a true Jesus that loves you that has a plan for your life. Um that is an everpresent help in the time of need that the Bible says. Um, and that's the God that we're praying to today. A God who hears our prayers. A God who knows what we're going through.

And so, again, we're glad that you've jumped on. Uh, man, I'm seeing so many people. Again, it's so awesome. From St. Louis, from Delaware, Austin, Texas. Uh, so Maryland is in the building. Shout out to Maryland. Um, Georgia. So many people joining us in uh to pray. And uh we're going to take a moment um as we get into uh prayer today.

And I want to first ask you uh to put your prayer request in the chat. We're going to be taking a moment at the end of this time um to pray over specific prayer requests. And that's because we believe that prayer changes things. Um we're not just sending up communication into the air, but we believe that we're talking we're not just talking, but we're talking to somebody.

And we're not just talking to somebody. We're talking to someone who hears us and can answer us. And that's a powerful thing. There's a difference between somebody who just hears you. There's also a difference between somebody who hears you and has the answers you're looking for. Um, it's so funny in my house, we have little kiddos and uh, there will be many moments throughout the day where somebody will yell out and ask for something.

Um, and everybody in the house hears Jade or my girl Sunny um, yell, but usually it's mom or dad that actually has the answer that they're looking for. I want you to know that um when you pray that it's not just everybody around you who hears you, but God himself hears your prayers and he has the answers that you're looking for.

So, take a moment and put your prayer requests in the chat. Let us know what's going on in your life. There's no prayer that is too big. There is no prayer that is too small. U but we want to know uh what you're praying for, what you're believing for, um and how we can continue to pray for you and your family.

If you're in the live prayer room, I want to encourage you to lean in. Uh this is not a spectator sport. We are all about to pray together in a few moments. Uh a prayer leader here live in Tulsa is going to take over in the live prayer room here locally at the campus.

But I want to encourage you um maybe you need to take a different posture, maybe you need to stand up, maybe you need to take some time to focus in. Whatever it is for you to help you lean into this moment, I would encourage you to do it.

But we're about to pray um specifically for um some amazing things. But I want to encourage you uh before we do that, we're going to read a little bit of God's word because it's a beautiful thing to pray the scripture. You know, uh there's a lot uh that can be said, but I think it's important to realize that God has given us his word.

Um and sometimes we need to remind our soul of the truth of God's word as we begin to pray. And you need to know this. There's there's nothing that compares to prayer. There's nothing like it. I have a friend uh here at the church named Adrian and uh uh he sent me an article that was done by uh the Harvard uh it was a Harvard reviewed scientific article that had come out.

But um what they did is they studied the brains of people who were praying. And it was this crazy article that they that they wrote, but in short, I'll summarize it for you, that there was a part of the brain that was activated and connecting to other parts of the brain that was otherwise completely dormant.

And the studies that they showed, they studied thousands of people that they found that um anxiety levels that worry levels, they were completely different. and the mapping of someone's brain who prayed consistently looked like a completely different brain than those who didn't. And what is this saying, man?

It is my strong belief um that the more you search for truth, the more you're going to find God. Because Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." And what this uh scientific article was saying um was that there's something that happens not just on a spiritual level but at a neurological level to your brain when you pray.

And what I believe is is there's something that happens to the creation when it connects to the creator. Pastor Michael said it on Sunday that creation always responds to the creator. And I want you to know as we pray today that I'm believing something's going to respond in you to your creator. something um in your mind, something in your heart, something in your family, something in your future that something's going to respond as we pray to our God.

Um and it's important to know that the God um that you're praying to is not um distant, that he's not far off, that he's not um mad at you or frustrated at you. Uh but he's a God who's present and he's kind and he's patient. And I want to read you a scripture um that we actually read on this past Sunday.

It was Easter Sunday. And um man, if you had a good Easter, I pray that you um enjoyed it. I pray that you got to spend time with family. I pray that you got to um man, I know we had a beautiful, beautiful service here at TC. So many first time guests.

Um so many beautiful moments of worship. Uh but there was a scripture um uh that we read that is Hebrews chapter number four and in the 15th verse. And uh this morning I actually stole as I was walking out the house, I stole my wife's Bible. Uh it was actually my Bible technically, so you can't steal it if it was yours first, right?

But it was mine and then I gave it to her. I literally wrote her like a note and then I'm stealing it back. Hilarious. Um but it's the message paraphrase. So, uh, context on this Bible, there was a a Bible professor who was teaching the Bible and one of the biggest pieces of feedback he got from his students was, "Hey, uh, I don't know what this thing is saying and I don't understand it."

And so, what he did is he went through the original language and he created a paraphrase. So, there are Bibles that are a word for word. There are Bibles that are idea for idea. Um, and then there are Bibles that take the heart and the spirit of what the scripture was saying and summarize it in a way.

And it's a beautiful translation sometimes to get a different perspective and to illuminate a different part of the scripture. So I want to read this to you. Hebrews chapter number four starting in the 15th uh verse or I'll start up a little bit in verse number 14. It says this.

Now that we know what we have that being Jesus this great high priest with ready access to God. Let's not let it slip through our fingers. We do not have a high priest who is out of touch with our reality. He has been through weakness and testing, experienced it all.

All but the sin. So, let's walk right up to him and get what he is so ready to give. Take the mercy and accept the help. I love this uh you know other translation says for we don't have a high priest who cannot relate to us for he was tempted in every way yet without sin and what the scripture is saying um is a point that pastor Michael made on Sunday on Sunday Easter Sunday the theme of our service was here comes the sun and what he was saying is the beauty of our God is that he is a God who can relate to me and you.

If you study the history of humanity and world religion and even current religions, what you're going to find is that most people find um the god that they worship, they're trying to build and create a god that can't relate to them, that is far off, that is distant, um that uh is powerful in a way um that our god is, but also that is distant in a way that our god is not. and the God of Christianity, the God of the Israelites that they met in the desert, and the God uh that Paul speaks of in the New Testament.

And Jesus, the one that we celebrated on Easter Sunday, the book of Hebrews tells us that he is a God that can relate to me and to you. And so, if you feel overwhelmed today, the beautiful thing is you're praying to a God who has felt overwhelmed and understands how you feel.

If you feel like uh the pressure of your current situation is a lot to bear, you're praying to a God who knows how you feel. If you're praying and you feel like you don't have the answers that you're looking for and you're searching and you're desperate, you're praying to a God who knows how you feel.

And there's nothing like talking to somebody who knows how you feel. I have uh you know in my life different friends and uh if I'm honest with you uh depending on what I'm going through and a response I'm looking for I might text a different friend because different friends have different perspectives and they'll be able to relate in a different way.

And sometimes there's nothing like a friend who uh will be frustrated with you at the right moments but also will encourage you at the right moments. And it's funny. I have certain friends that I know they're going to immediately go into encouragement. And sometimes that's what I need.

I need the friend that's going to say, "Hey, we're not going to stay here. We're gonna move forward." I text that friend uh yesterday or maybe on Monday. I texted and I'm like, "Hey, checking in. Frustrated about this." And the text I got back was, "Hey, you know, you know how we deal with this?"

And boom, immediately reminded me of who I was and how we decide to think. Um, and then there are other moments where I text friends and they're like, "Oh, absolutely. Let me tell you about this." And they just double down on the frustration. But what I'm saying is is this morning we're about to pray and we're going to pray to a God who gets us.

He gets what we're going through. He gets our pain, our suffering, and uh that's what we're going to pray for. So, I want to encourage you again around the world, TC Nation, uh here locally in Tulsa, the live prayer room. We're about to pray right now to our God.

And as we pray, I want to pray through a couple of ideas that Pastor Michael talked about on Sunday. Um, and the first thing is is we've got to acknowledge and learn how to deal with the reality of silence that can happen um when we're on our way to Sunday.

Uh the Easter story is that God Jesus specifically, he died on Friday. Friday, they call Saturday silent Saturday. Um, then it's resurrection Sunday. And you know, many times we're ready to get to the moment of Sunday, but we got to go through the death and the silence of Friday and Saturday.

And today, I want to take a moment that if there's any area of your life that feels like it's either dead um or maybe that it's silent. Um, we're going to pray to a God that hears us in those moments. So, would you pray with me around the world, locally here in Tulsa?

Let's go to our God in prayer. Lord God, first of all, um we want to stop and just say thank you for who you are. Thank you for your love. Thank you for your kindness. Thank you for your grace. Thank you for your mercy. Thank you for your everlasting love, for your steadfast um uh uh presence that is in our life.

That God, you've never left us by oursel. That you've never left us to our own uh dealings and doings, Lord God, but you've always met us right where we are. That it's your kindness that leads us to repentance. that it's your mercies that are new every morning, that it is your love that continues to pick us back up and see us where we are and give us another chance.

And so this morning, um Lord God, it may sound cliche, but before we ask you for anything, God, we thank you for everything. We thank you for every opportunity in our life. We thank you for every friendship in our life. We thank you for every um uh person in our life, Lord God.

That is a reminder and a testament of your kindness to us, Lord. the grace that you've extended to us. God, we thank you for providing for us in a way that maybe we dreamed about in another season. God, we thank you for the jobs that we have, for the opportunities we've been given.

Lord God, we just take a moment and we position our hearts and our minds and we focus our heart and minds um on gratitude, on on on your grace, on your mercy, Lord God. And so we thank you, Lord Jesus, that you are with us, Lord God. And so right now as we begin to pray, Lord Jesus, we first begin to pray in a way Lord God um that is acknowledging who you are in our life that you are the high priest that we have access to.

You are the one who can relate to us Lord God. And right now firstly um we're praying for any area in our life that feels like a Friday or a Saturday, a moment that feels like it's dead or a moment that feels like it's silent. I pray for everyone who is watching or listening or under the sound of my voice right now, God.

And we just bring all those areas to you, God. Areas in our life where a relationship might feel dead, where a dream might feel dead, where um a purpose might feel dead, where um finances might feel dead, Lord, any area of our life that maybe even we've hoped upon and put our faith upon or put dreams about, Lord God, that it feels disappointing because it feels like it's dead.

It feels like it's not working. It feels like it's not there in a way that we dreamed it would be. Lord God, I can't imagine how the disciples felt spending three years with this teacher and with this savior only to see their dreams in front of them seemingly die, Lord God.

And there are people who are listening or watching or seeing this right now, Lord God, that feel a similar way that they they've walked with an idea. They've walked with a vision. They've walked with a dream and it feels like it's dead. Lord God, Lord, I thank you that you are a God.

Your word says that you are close to the brokenhearted. That Lord, if we feel brokenhearted because something's died, Lord God, that you're near to us, Lord Jesus. So right now, I pray Lord Jesus that that anybody who feels like um unseen or or overlooked, Lord God, that you see the things that they have, you see the dreams that they have, you see the visions that they have, Lord God.

You see the hopes, Lord God, and the purpose and the ideas, Lord God, that are deep on the inside of them. Even if they've never shared them outside of any any other circumstance or situation, Lord God, you see them. So God, I thank you, Lord God, that you are close to us when we feel like those things in our life are dying.

And God, I thank you that you are close to us when um it feels like we can't hear you. When it feels like it's silent, when it feels like there's no answers, when it feels like we don't know which way to turn, God, I thank you that even in the silence, you are still in control.

That God, we can trust you even when it's quiet. We can trust you even when we don't see it working out. We can trust you when we don't see movement. We can trust you when we don't see it working out exactly how we want it to, God. So, I just thank you right now, Lord God, we just begin to pray.

Come on, right wherever you are, whether you're here in Tulsa, online, come on, let's pray that we have a God that we can trust in the middle of the silence. That just because we don't see what he's doing doesn't mean he's not doing something, God. Right now, we choose to put our trust in what we cannot see, Lord God.

For that is what our faith is, Lord God. That faith is the evidence and the hope of the things that we cannot see, Lord God. If we could see it, it wouldn't be hope, Lord God. If we could see it, we wouldn't need our faith, Lord Jesus. But there is an element of this walk with you that is based in faith.

For your word says that we walk by faith and not by sight, Lord God. So there's going to be moments, there's going to be areas, there's going to be days, there's going to be weeks, there's going to be years where it feels like we can't see what you're doing, Lord God.

But we choose not to hold on to what we see and what we feel, but we hold on to what is even more real. And that is you. The person who was here before all of this was created. the person that was here before we were going through the situation, the person that gave us the dream that we feel like isn't going how we wanted it to go.

God, we choose to put our faith, hope, and trust in you. For you are a present God, that you are a powerful God. That you are a God who knows what he's doing. God, I thank you that you are omnisient, Lord God, all knowing, Lord God, that you're omnipresent, Lord God.

You are everywhere at all times, Lord God. So right now we remind ourselves of who you are. I remember uh in uh it was some form of of Bible school and I say Bible school, Sunday school, that's what the word I was looking for. But I remember as I got older I remember a teacher one time talking me talking to me about God being omnisient and what that means is God is all knowing.

And you know it's such a wild idea. I have a son who's seven years old and and yesterday I this is a beautiful thing. I always find myself in conversations with him and I'm like why am I explaining this to a seven-year-old? But you know this is this is how it goes.

And so yesterday we explaining uh dimensions uh and he asked me what those were and so you know the way my brain is wired I can't give him like a kitty answer. So I immediately went into like the actual explanation of like well there's like three dimensions and let me So I was explaining I was looking at our house and I was like look at our house right now.

So there's one dimension and that our house goes up into the sky. There's another dimension that it goes this way and it's really close to the other house but there's another dimension that like you know behind that wall there's more. And so he's like oh okay. Okay. So, I'm asking to but I'm going through and explaining all these different details to him.

And uh and there's something about growing in knowledge or talking to someone who has more knowledge than you that even when you come to the end of your understanding, you're able to accept it because you know the person you spend all your time with, they understand how it works.

And as long as they understand how it works, I'll be all right. There was a moment where Arlo, I was like, "So, do you get And he was like kind of, you know, but you know, I I hear what you're saying. And I think partly he was just done.

He's like, "Dad, you can stop talking. I don't really care." Uh, but the other part of it is is that he knows like, man, I don't even really need to know this right now because I know you know. And you know, our relationship with God is like that.

There are some stuff that maybe you want to know, uh, that maybe we desire to go a certain way. Um, and God does not fault you for asking. He doesn't fault you for wanting to know that. As a matter of fact, he says you can come boldly before the throne of grace.

But the truth is, you're going to have to reconcile a moment in your walk with Jesus where you realize, you know what, I don't fully understand why it's quiet. I don't fully understand why I haven't gotten the answer. I don't fully understand why this relationship isn't working out.

I don't fully understand why I haven't found my person yet. I don't fully understand why um um I feel this way. But what I do know is there's someone who does understand. And my hope is not in my understanding. It's in the fact that he has all understanding.

That he has all knowledge, all wisdom, all power, all authority. So I don't live my life according to what I know. I live my life according to who I know. And the fact that I know Jesus, the fact that I know the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, I can have peace and rest in my soul.

The truth is, some of us, the reason we're stressed, the reason we're anxious is we're trying to know stuff we'll never know. We're trying to control stuff you can never control. And the quicker you realize that, the quicker we realize that the human limitation of knowledge and time is not a curse, but a blessing, the quicker you will be able to enjoy the knowledge you do have and the time you do have.

Something that Pastor Michael said on Sunday that was so beautiful is that God's gift of time is his kindness to us. What is that? That God doesn't need time. God created time not for himself but for our sake. But what it is is it's a reminder of his grace and mercy.

That no matter how bad your day is, your day is only bad for 24 hours until it's a fresh start. That no matter how tough um the night is, that the night is only 12 hours and you get the morning and it's a fresh start of his reminder of his grace and his love and his mercy.

So, I want to remind you and encourage you this morning that you have a God that can relate to you. But he's not just a God that can relate to you. He's a God that can answer your prayers. And I just want to encourage somebody this morning as we're praying.

We're about to move into a time of prayer request. And again, you can put those in the chat. But as you do, um I want you to know that uh our God is a God who can relate to you, but also he has the power to help you.

You know, it's one thing uh to talk to someone who can relate. Um it's another thing to talk to somebody who can help. Uh and you know, if you find yourself in financial trouble, you can talk to a friend who's like, "Man, yeah, I've been broke before. That sucks, man.

I don't I don't I don't like that. That's tough. And that's bad." It's another thing to talk to a friend who's like, "Oh, yeah. I've been broke before. I'm not broke no more. And do you need any money or can I give you some advice?" That's a different that's a different type of help.

So our God can relate to us in the fact that he knows, oh man, it it's tough and man, I understand how that must feel. But also, he said, "So, do you want peace? Do you want joy? Do you want hope? Do you want restoration? Because I also have that."

So, right now, I want to take a moment um and we're going to begin praying for some prayer requests for some people who have some real things that they're going through, some real questions and comments and concerns. And I want to encourage you to put those um in the chat to let us know what you're going through.

And I'm just taking a moment and looking here at at people um that are believing and praying. And again, we've got so many friends around the world. Um I see one friend in here that um man, first of all, I just want to shout you out. Um it says that they have been clean and sober for over a year.

Um and they're praying for God's restoration and continued u power in that. First off, I just want to say I'm so proud of you, friend. such a beautiful thing, such a big deal. And right now, um, I just want to go together, um, again online and locally here in the prayer room, uh, the live prayer room here in Tulsa.

Let's begin to pray together. So, God, we thank you so much, um, for who you are. God, I thank you for everybody who is here in this prayer um, moment, Lord God. And I pray for those who are watching this in a moment, maybe are watching this back.

And right now, I thank you for my friend who is celebrating their sobriety, Lord Jesus. And I pray right now that you would continue to empower their spirit as they submit to your will and they walk in your way. Lord God, I thank you that their life will become a picture of your grace and mercy.

That their life will become a picture, Lord God, of how you restore, of how you heal, how you would keep them. Lord God, I thank you, Lord God, that their sobriety would be a testimony that they could use to encourage others. I pray that you would put their life on display to the right people, Lord God. that that people who knew them in a previous state would come to meet them.

Lord God, and see who they are. Lord God, right now I pray for my friend who's believing for restoration in their marriage. Lord God, I thank you that God, you are are a God who can restore. That you can bring things back together, Lord God. So I pray for marriages right now.

Marriages that feel like there's tension. Marriages that feel like there's pressure. Marriages that feel like there's miscommunication. I pray right now, Lord Jesus, that you would align marriages that marriage, Lord God, is a picture of, Lord, who you are and what you did for us, Lord God. That Lord, your word says that the church, Lord God, is the bride of Christ and that Christ is the bridegroom, Lord God, that is coming to restore and redeem.

So God, I thank you that you would empower marriages in the name of Jesus. God, we thank you for marriages, Lord God. Lord, we thank you that um there's someone right here praying for their cousin, Lord God, who had a stroke and is in the hospital right now.

We send your healing virtue to that hospital. I pray for anybody in a hospital right now that is dealing with a sickness or a diagnosis or pain, Lord Jesus. And I thank you that right now, Lord God, your healing power would restore. Your healing power would um revive. your healing power would Lord God do something that um even would astound doctors.

And right now, God, I just thank you for the doctors, Lord God, that Lord, um, who have been gifted with your ability, Lord God, the wisdom to know a proper diagnosis, the wisdom to know what modern medicines and what treatments to do. Lord God, I thank you even as believers, Lord God.

Uh, we're not praying against doctors, Lord God. We're praying that you would speak through doctors, that you would use their wisdom, that you would use their schooling, that you would use their knowledge. God, I thank you you would use them, Lord God, to help us move forward. And you are a healer that stands above any situation and any person, Lord God.

So we thank you for that in the name of Jesus. We pray for people who are praying for restoration to move forward, Lord God. Even as a church, that forward is the the word of the year. God, I thank you that we are moving forward in our life.

I pray people would move forward in their finances. I pray specifically right now who anyone who feels under financial pressure, God, I thank you that you would help them to move forward in peace, forward, Lord God, in stewardship, forward in understanding who you are and how you would cause us to use our finances, Lord God, to honor you, Lord God, to to be a blessing to others, to be a blessing to our friends and our family members, Lord God.

Come on, right where where you are, we are praying prayer requests. put your prayer request in the chat and in just a moment in the live prayer room um one of our leaders there, Becca, she's going to take over and continue and you're going to continue to pray.

This thing is just getting started. We're going to continue to pray and we want to pray over your prayer request. Maybe you're here live in Tulsa and you've joined us, man, there's somebody in that room that wants to pray with you and I want to encourage you. Don't feel embarrassed or worried or man, you can go up to somebody and ask them, "Hey, can you pray for me?"

But we're continuing to pray. Um Lord God, somebody's praying for healing in their body. Lord God, um somebody's praying for things that they there's addiction that's ran in their family line and they're praying for the power to step up and break that addiction. I thank you even earlier as we prayed for someone who had who's been walking in sobriety.

God, I thank you that you have the power to give someone, your word says you give us the both the power and the desire. So right now I pray for anybody who's in an addiction that you would give them the power to break that addiction. And Lord that you can do that in a supernatural way and you can do that in a sequential way.

And what I mean by that God is you would renew their habits just as you renew their mind. That Lord you give them the power to be in their right environments that speak to not their their vices but their values, who they want to become and how they want to grow and what they want to do.

Lord God, Lord, we're closing it up here, Lord God. But we pray for a rapid recovery. There's someone who had a surgery and we're praying that they would recover in a way. Lord God, that is a testimony. God, we thank you for it. Lord, we pray for restoration in the relationships between siblings.

God, I pray right now for any strained relationships within families, Lord God. People who feel like they're distant from family members and people that they love. Lord, whether there's been um an offense, unforgiveness, division, God, I pray that you would restore the family right now in the name of Jesus.

You would restore the family in the name of Jesus. God, right now, I pray for anybody who's here right now that just needs to feel your presence. God, sometimes the truth is um we don't know how to even fix our situation. It feels like there's so many things that have stacked upon each other that it feels like God, I don't even know where to start, what to do, what to ask for.

God, I pray for your presence, for a sense of your love, for a sense of your peace, for a sense of your grace. Right now, um, as we're praying around the world, um, we're going to come to a time where this online moment in prayer is going to come to an end.

But again, here live in Tulsa. We have people who are gathered in one of our rooms that are going to continue to pray. And I want to encourage you if you are here with us in Tulsa, don't head out. Um we've got some powerful prayer that's about to go forward with our team there.

We're going to continue to believe that God's going to restore and heal. Um, but as we close out uh this moment online, I want to pray specifically um that maybe you are in this moment and you haven't received Jesus. On Sunday, we talked about uh the sun. And he said, you know, uh at night there is another light that God has given us and it's the moon.

And really the call on Sunday from the sermon was two uh twofold. It was to reflect the sun or to receive the sun. And maybe you're watching this and you're a follower of Jesus. I want to remind you, we are not the source of light, but we are a reflection of the light.

And the truth is, we want our lights to shine bright. And maybe this is just a reminder and an encouragement that we we can reflect God today. And I want to make that practical. How are you going to reflect God today? Maybe it's in an encouraging comment. Maybe it's in kindness.

Maybe it's just in seeing somebody. the people that we don't normally see. God always reminds me of this. People that are in the service industry that we're just going and we're getting stuff for. We're checking out at a place and we're just getting our things. Stopping and seeing them.

Hey, how are you doing? How's your day going? How's your shift been, man? Thank you so much. That kindness, you have no idea what that could do. But I want to pray specifically for people who um you need to receive the sun today. You need to know today that um there is a gift of grace waiting for you and all you have to do is receive it.

Um you know Easter that we just celebrated is the celebration of the gospel. The word gospel means good news and friends in short let me summarize uh the headline for you. The headline is you're a bad person. You can try to be a good person your whole life and it can't make up for how much of a bad person you are.

But the ask of Jesus is not to be a good person. The ask of Jesus is to be a dependent person. A person who realizes you can't do it on your own. And you need somebody to save you from yourself and save you from this broken world. And that's what Jesus does.

So right now in this moment, if you want to receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior, I'm going to ask you to pray this prayer with me around the world here locally in Tulsa. If you want to receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior, I want you to say this with me.

Everybody say, "Dear God, thank you for loving me. Dear Jesus, thank you for laying down your life to save mine. I admit I am a sinner. I pray that you would save me, that you would change me, that you would transform me, make me new. It's in Jesus name I pray."

Amen. Amen. Amen. Hey, listen. If you just prayed that prayer, we're so proud of you. You can text the word save to 828282 and our team's going to send you some resources. Uh we have some new content that we want to help you um to continue to move forward in your walk with Jesus.

And again, I want to thank everybody for joining us online. We're here every single Wednesday at 6:00 a.m. No matter where you are in the world, you can set your alarm clock. We're going to be here praying, encouraging you. And some of you, you need to make this a habit.

If you want to jumpstart uh your day, jumpst start your spirit. This is a beautiful habit to add to your life uh to continue to move forward. But uh we're closing here online, but we are not stopping at all here locally in Tulsa. I'm going to go ahead and take a moment and pass it to Becca who's going to continue to lead us in prayer as we move forward in God.

So Becca, you can go ahead and take it over. As we close out here live in Tulsa, I just want to say thank you to everybody who is watching, everyone who's joined us. Um, and we're so grateful for you. You need to know as a church, we're here to support you, here to help you on your walk with Jesus.

And again, we like to say we're not a perfect church, but we are a progressing church. We're a church that is here moving on mission, on purpose, and that is to see people come to know the God who has changed all of our lives. And so if you don't have a home church, if you don't have a church that you're plugged into and a part of, if you live here locally in Tulsa, I would encourage you to come join us on Sunday mornings 10:00 a.m.

We're out here uh at 101st and Memorial uh right around 104th, 105th and Memorial behind Chick-fil-A. Um and if you're not here locally in Tulsa, join us Sunday mornings at 10:00 a.m. Central Standard Time. Uh every single Sunday, we're here and you're going to experience beautiful worship. you know, experience a powerful and encouraging message.

Um, and the beautiful thing is you can experience the community that we have. We have tribes that meet locally here in Sulsa, but also around the world. Um, and we say that because you need people. You need people in your life that you can call, that can relate to you, that can encourage you, that can pray for you.

But again, we're so grateful. Thank you so much for joining us here live in prayer. And uh, like we always say, and my encouragement would be to you today, go out and live a transformed life. We love you so much, friend. and we'll see you next time.