Bethel Church Service | Hayley Braun Sermon | Worship with Martin Smith, Paul McClure

Happy Sunday, Bethl online community. We're so excited to be with you today. >> So fun. Love you guys. I've missed you. So good to see you all here joining us online. I miss being here. I was on the 6 p.m. all the time. Now I haven't seen some of your names and faces on the the chat in a while.

Can't see faces. We can't see faces. No, but there's little photos. A little the little photos. >> It's true. It's true. If you're on with us, tell us. I know sometimes I have friends who watch and they're like, "You know what? I watch, but I never comment. I never chat.

I never say anything, but I I wave to you. I see you." But if that's you, say hi. >> Yeah. Say hi to us. We love you guys. It's so uh nice to be with our online community. It's so fun to be able to be with you guys, to be with your families today, this morning, whenever you watch this back.

Um we're excited for today. We have um Martin Smith leading worship today. We've got the Mccclur's with him. Haley Bronn is bringing the word of God. We feel really expectant for what the Lord wants to do. Paula, what are you uh anything you're sensing for today? Anything we can get ready for? >> Yes.

First thing before I I share what I'm feeling for today, if let us know in the chat where you're joining us from. I'm seeing some of my friends from England, from Norway. So fun to see you all from the >> from the Amazon. I wonder if you're in Brazil.

Hello from Brazil. >> Colombian Amazon. Colombia and Amazon. >> New York. We love New York. >> We love New York. >> Send us back to the city. >> I am going to New York in 18 days. I'm speaking in the Brazilian church in New York. So, come hang out. >> It's good.

I'm in Ohio next weekend. >> No, we're traveling. >> We're traveling. Oh, I see someone in Massachusetts, Kentucky. >> Wow, guys. >> Someone is asking, "Where is Ruth and Steve?" >> Should we tell them? So Ruth is tell >> just welcomed their fourth baby. >> So >> she's beautiful. >> She is so precious. >> She's healthy.

If you're watching Moors, we love you. >> We love you so much. >> So much all of you. >> And all your babies. They are so cute. >> Like I don't know if I should name them all, but I see you. >> I We see all of them. >> We love you.

So precious. That's where they are. >> That's where they are with their baby. As they should. >> As they should. Okay. Um, this morning I just had Psalm 37 on my heart. And if you never done this, uh, read Psalm 37 and highlight the verbs on that on that psalm.

There's something so precious in here, but I wanted to read verse three that says, "Trust in the Lord and do good. Dwell in the land and feed on his faithfulness. Delight yourself also in the Lord and he shall give the desires of your heart." I love that we actually get to feed our souls on his faithfulness.

That's the way we stay fed on his on the testimonies of what we have experienced with the Lord. Our community has experienced with the Lord. I love that we always start our meetings with sharing testimonies of what the Lord has done because that starts always feeding our souls into what he's doing for that season.

So this morning, if you are joining us and you are contending for a miracle, you're believing for something for your family, I just want to highlight that verse to you. Delight yourself also in the Lord and he shall give you the desires of your heart. I love that the main verbs are trust, dwell, feed, delight, commit, trust, rest, and wait.

So, I really believe that this morning you're going to experience this measure of hope and faith being restored as you join this community, as you are joining us online, as you're joining us for this service. I really do believe the Lord is is bringing a new measure of hope to your soul in Jesus' name. >> Come on.

If that's you, if you're out there and you're receiving that prayer, um we just bless you. I just I think there's something so beautiful. I've been stuck in the Psalms recently. too. I keep finding myself in different psalms allowing the Lord just to speak to me in the midst of whatever it is that I'm walking through.

But I love that even just teaching us how do we go deeper with the Lord? How do we press in? How do we believe um to experience his goodness? >> Yes. >> His faithfulness, his delight, >> his his um >> I don't know, I think the gift of desires being fulfilled from the Lord.

And so um we're just praying with you. I'm looking on the chat. I know some of you are asking for different um prayer requests. I know some of you are asking for um covering in different ways. We just want to say we see you. We're praying for you.

We're praying for your families that you guys would experience um I I I love what you just read like trust in him and he will act. You know, the God that acts on your behalf, the God that comes through for you, the God that walks with you, the God who who um restores everything.

And so, um, we're just praying for you. We're we're excited for, um, what the Lord wants to do. Are you feeling anything else with that? >> Yes. Yes. So many people, uh, actually praying for other people online, like a prayer request, not for yourself, but for other people.

I think that that's so beautiful in the body of Christ, us coming together and praying for each other. So, I'm just going to encourage you. Write down on the chat, what is it that you need prayer for? Kath, I love you, Kathy. You're you're so amazing. one of our hosts.

Uh you are asking for prayers for a friend. And then Christian, you're asking for prayers. Uh Cynthia, uh asking for prayers for Mexico. There was someone else on the chat. I think her name was uh Patty. Patric Oh, Patty. Uh you are also praying for uh someone else.

I just declare right now healing in Jesus' name. Restoration. Uh sons and daughters coming home. >> Yes. In Jesus' name. And even as we shared um about the Moors baby, I just felt also to uh pray and believe for families that are waiting for babies. Um we declare babies in Jesus' name.

Um yeah, I I feel like there's a a mother uh not a mother, grandmother online. And as we shared, you're praying for your daughter. Um I just declare right now healing into that family. I just declare right now transformation into uh the dynamics of the family, but also into the body in Jesus' name.

And just yeah, we we believe for babies in Jesus' name. In Jesus name. >> Come on. I know. After we announced the Moors baby, I was like, "Oh my gosh, we need I I'm going to text him. I'm going to tell them I just >> Sorry. >> Never spill the beans moment.

It was a Steve moment. We learned from God forgive us." Um, he does that, too. >> I never share people's news. That's like my thing. I'm like, "No, no, they'll tell you." >> I would like to apologize. >> It was me. Steve has done that, too. >> We're not going to say the name.

We're not going to say anything else. That's on them. They can share pictures. >> Yes. Yes. Whenever they're ready. Whenever they're ready. >> They're probably watching like, "Oh my gosh." >> Oh my gosh. They told they told on us Steve has done that, too. So, we're going to be fine. >> Totally.

Totally love more and more. >> We love you guys. >> Um, one thing before we go into worship, as I was um driving up the hill to come up to College View this morning, I kept hearing um, but joy comes in the morning. And I don't know if some of you have been in a in a tough season where um it says in in Psalm 30:5, "For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime.

Weeping may tear for the night, but joy comes with the morning." And I felt like there was this um joy that was so tangibly available to us. The biblical joy, the joy of the Lord, the joy of the Lord is our strength. And I felt like there were people on this call who um you've been in this uh maybe tough season, like a weeping season where things have felt like there's been anguish or hardship.

And I I just I can sense the Lord's kindness, his delight, just saying, but joy comes with the morning. And I feel like there are some of you who it's been like a nighttime season and you can sense a shift coming. You can sense joy coming in. And and it's so tough when things have been really difficult.

Um, when it feels like joy comes, I sometimes I feel like, am I allowed to feel joyful in a moment when things are hard? Am I allowed to feel joy when we're in pain? Am I allowed to feel uh joy when I don't know like when it feels like there's grief or you're mourning and I feel like there's this tension in in between the the two things.

And I I love this where um even if we cry in the night, in the morning we can wake with joy. And so God, I just pray for anyone who's experiencing um that hardship, that weeping, that that tearing season where things have been really difficult. But God, when you bring joy, when you allow us to experience your radical joy, not just a happiness that is fleeting, but but a joy that fills us from the inside out, God, that there would be joy that comes in the morning.

That people would experience joy and there would even be like this deliverance, God, that you would rescue your people from whatever it is that they're walking through. that you would walk with them in the midst of it, but that they would have so much permission to experience the joy of the Lord that is their strength.

I feel it for so many people this morning. >> Yes. >> Even as we worship, I feel like so many are going to experience the joy of the Lord, a lifting off of the heaviness, a lifting off of things that have been um even just weighty on your shoulders, but knowing that actually he's bringing it so that you can experience the joy of the Lord >> in Jesus name.

In Jesus' name. Yeah. I just declare the joy of the Lord and his healing into your bodies and and just this um deep sense of how close he is to you in this season. In Jesus' name, we declare over uh you guys this morning as you worship, as you receive from Haley.

Just uh be ready to receive. It's going to be an incredible morning together. Absolutely. >> We love you guys. >> We bless you. >> We bless you. >> Good morning. Hey, good morning. >> Hey, good morning. >> Hey, why don't you stand up and find someone you don't know?

Find out their name, where they're from. We got a lot of visitors here from all over the world. Say hi to someone you don't know. >> You ready? >> What's up, brother? >> How are you, man? >> Good. How are you? How's your daughter? Good. Oh yeah, you guys are doing good.

Come on, baby. You're looking good. mess this up, bro. >> Good morning, everyone. Well, find your places. So, uh, last night I had a bunch of friends over, like 32 friends at my house last night, and 1 hour before they get there, the septic system fails. >> [laughter] >> We had the text I'm going to go to the bathroom before you get here.

But good news is it's going to be fixed that on Monday. So that's good. So we're just uh got to hold it for a while. So anyway, so glad you're here this morning. We're going to have a wonderful time. How many of you are leftovers from the conference?

Leftovers from the conference. Awesome. Let's give it up for our guests. Thank you for being here. ((applause)) Going to have a wonderful time. I believe the Lord is he's touching people today. We we just had a prayer time this morning. We were just like, "Lord, just just bring us the broken.

Bring us bring us the hopeless. Bring us the sick. Bring us the sinner." Like the church needs to be full of people who need restoration, reconciliation, and hope. And I believe that this is a day that the Lord wants to touch the broken, the the the oppressed, the sick, the sinner, the Lord wants to touch people today.

And I just believe that when we begin to worship the Lord, I begin I just believe the Lord's just moving powerfully among us. And even without a prayer that people are getting healed, hopes filling their lives. God's going to heal marriages today. So Lord, we just thank you for what you're doing here.

Lord, we just give you thanks, Lord. We thank you that we enter your gates with thanksgiving. We enter your courts with praise. God, we enter your courts remembering the works you've done. ((music playing)) And we we we enter your courts, God, remembering the character you have, the way you love us.

And we thank you for the way you love us. Amen. ((music playing)) All right, I got them all warmed up. Don't mess this up now. >> ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) >> And we can see the God you're still moving a mighty ((music playing)) river through the nation. And you'll never return to Jesus. ((music playing)) Flame ((music playing)) wide. You heavenly gates.

Prepare the way ((music playing)) of the reason. ((music playing)) >> ((music playing)) >> Did you feel the mountains tremble? Did you hear ((music playing)) the oions roar? When the people rose to sing, all Jesus Christ the risen. ((music playing)) Everybody shout. Come on. Everybody shout. ((music playing)) Did you feel the ((music playing)) people [singing] tremble? Did you hear the Savior's roar ((music playing)) when the Lord began to sing of ((music playing)) Jesus Christ the saving one?

And we can see that God ((music playing)) will a mighty river through the nations and ((music playing)) young return to Jesus on the gates fail. ((music playing)) in my way. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) Open up the doors. ((music playing)) Yeah. Heat. ((music playing)) Oh, ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) so do ((music playing)) you feel the darkness trim? All the saints ((music playing)) join in one song and all the streams flow as one ((music playing)) river to wash away.

Let's sing that again. Do you feel? Do ((music playing)) you feel the darkness trim when all the saints join in one ((music playing)) song and all the streams flow as one river to wash ((music playing)) away our broken? ((music playing)) Now here we see that God of Jubilee is ((music playing)) coming. When young and old return to ((music playing)) Jesus [singing] ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) Heat.

Heat. Heat. ((music playing)) Heat. Heat. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) Heat. ((music playing)) Heat. >> ((music playing)) ((music playing)) >> Heat. Heat. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) Dance to dance upon your ((music playing)) ((music playing)) Well, Revelation 22, it talks ((music playing)) about the river. River ((music playing)) that flows from the throne of God. And everywhere this river flows, it brings life, salvation, healing ((music playing)) for the nations. Amen. Sometimes the only way out of trouble is to jump in the river. >> Yeah.

Sometimes we've got to dance our way out of trouble. We're going to dance ((music playing)) in the river. Yeah. We're going to dance in the river. Yeah. ((music playing)) We're going to dance in the river. Yeah. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. ((music playing)) We're going to dance in the river. Hey.

We're going ((music playing)) to dance in the river. Are you ready? We're going ((music playing)) to see the river. Hey, 2. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) >> ((music playing)) >> Heat. Heat. ((music playing)) >> ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) >> There's a ((music playing)) great song that the people of God have been singing down the ages. ((music playing)) It's a simple song. It has four words to it. Simply says, "Great are you, Lord.

In all the times that the Israelites were in battle, the enemies were around them." ((music playing)) They always sang, "He is good. His love endures forever." It always ((music playing)) comes back to this, doesn't it? The people of God sing it. Greater Lord. Come on. In all the [music and singing] earth will shout your praise.

Our hearts will cry. ((music playing)) These bones will sing. Great. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) >> Sometimes you got to sing your way out of trouble. All ((music playing)) the earth will shout your praise. Our hearts will cry. These balls will sing. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) Heat. Heat. Heat. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) Heat. Heat. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) Heat. Heat. Heat. ((music playing)) It all your face. ((music playing)) These will ((music playing)) ((music playing)) Yeah.

((music playing)) Heat. ((music playing)) Heat. ((music playing)) Heat. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) We pour out our praise to you, holy ((music playing)) God. Great are you, Lord. Yes, you are. >> Yes, you are. ((music playing)) >> Great. Are you ((music playing)) >> ((music playing)) >> Whether we're in the joy or the pain, we can sing. Yeah. Great. ((music playing)) Rich and poor, young and old, you ((music playing)) sing it.

Yes, you are. Where are you? ((music playing)) >> It's your breath in our lungs. So we pour [singing] out our praise. Pour out ((music playing)) our praise. It's your breath in our lungs. So we pour ((music playing)) out our praise to you all. We go for our praise. You are the love of my life.

((music playing)) You are the strength of my heart. Jesus, ((music playing)) my song in the night, and I'll never stop. I'll never stop loving you. You are the love of my life. You are the strength of my heart. Jesus, ((music playing)) my song in the night, and I'll never stop. I'll never stop. Love you.

((music playing)) How could ((music playing)) I forget when you called my name? I'm grateful ((music playing)) that you found me. How beautiful the day you held me [music and singing] in your arms. I'm happy that you saved me. ((music playing)) I'm happy that you saved me. ((music playing)) You are [singing] the love of my life. You are the strength ((music playing)) of my heart.

Jesus, [singing] my song in the night. ((music playing)) And I'll never [singing] stop. I'll never stop loving ((music playing)) you. ((music playing)) How could [music and singing] I forget the first time that I felt the tender ((music playing)) love of Jesus? And when I saw your face, the fire in your eyes, I knew ((music playing)) this was forever. >> ((music playing)) >> And I love you forever.

You ((music playing)) are the love of my life. You are ((music playing)) the strength of my heart. Jesus, ((music playing)) my song in the night, and I'll ((music playing)) never stop. I'll never stop. Come on, sing ((music playing)) with him. You are the love of my life. [music and singing] You are the strength of my ((music playing)) heart. Jesus, my ((music playing)) song in the night.

And I'll never stop. ((music playing)) I'll never stop loving you. ((music playing)) Never stop loving you. ((music playing)) Never stop loving you. Ever ((music playing)) stop [singing] loving me. Jesus. ((music playing)) Jesus. All [singing] my heart to ((music playing)) Jesus savior forever ((music playing)) I belong to J. Let's sing that again. Jesus Jesus ((music playing)) Jesus. All ((music playing)) my heart to Jesus. Savior ((music playing)) forever. ((music playing)) I belong to Jesus.

((music playing)) Jesus. Jesus. ((music playing)) Jesus. >> ((music playing)) >> Heat. Heat. ((music playing)) Yeah. Heat. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) Yeah. Heat. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) Heat. Heat. Heat. ((music playing)) Heat. Heat. Heat. ((music playing)) Heat. Heat. Heat. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) Jesus my son. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) Yes. I'll never stop. ((music playing)) >> ((music playing)) >> You [music and singing] are the love of my life. You are ((music playing)) the strength of my heart. Jesus, my song in ((music playing)) the night. And I'll never stop.

I'll never stop loving ((music playing)) you. I'll never ((music playing)) stop loving you. I'll never stop loving you. ((music playing)) Come on, tell him today. I'll never [singing] stop, love. No matter ((music playing)) what comes my way, I'll never [singing] stop cuz you've never ((music playing)) stopped. You never stop loving me. ((music playing)) How many are thankful for his love today?

Oh, you never ((music playing)) stop. You never [singing] stopped love. Reveal your heart today, ((music playing)) King Jesus. Oh, you've never stopped. ((music playing)) You never stop. ((music playing)) Come on. The Bible says we love him because he loved us first. Our love to him is just our grateful ((music playing)) response to the love he's lavished upon us.

Come on, respond today in love. Respond today in [music and singing] adoration. Heat. Heat. ((music playing)) Heat. Heat. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) Heat. Heat. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) Jesus. ((music playing)) Heat. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) Yeah. ((music playing)) Heat. ((music playing)) Heat. ((music playing)) Heat. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) >> ((music playing)) >> belong to Jesus. ((music playing)) I belong to Jesus. ((music playing)) Heat. Heat. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) Oh, I belong to Jesus. ((music playing)) Yes, I belong to you. Come on. That's a revelation today. Sing it.

Oh, I belong ((music playing)) to Jesus. Yes, I belong. Did ((music playing)) you call? Sing that over your family today. Yes, I belong ((music playing)) to Jes. You [singing] reign above it all. I belong. I [music and singing] always have a will. I belong to Jesus. ((music playing)) Yes, I belong. Come on, sing. You are the love. You are the love of my life.

((music playing)) You are the strength [singing] of my heart. Jesus, my song in the night, and I'll ((music playing)) never stop. >> Come on. Would you raise your hand? Sing it one more time. You are You are the love [music and singing] of my life. >> You are the strength ((music playing)) of my heart. Jesus, my song in the night.

And I'll never stop. I'll never stop loving you. >> ((music playing)) >> singing Jesus. ((music playing)) Jesus. Jesus ((music playing)) friend forever. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) We're singing Jesus. [singing] Jesus. [singing] Jesus ((music playing)) friend forever. What a friend I am. Closer than a brother. I have felt your touch more in than lovers. Jesus. ((music playing)) Jesus. ((music playing)) Jesus friend forever. ((music playing)) And what [music and singing] a hope I found. more faithful ((music playing)) than a mother.

[singing] It would break ((music playing)) my heart to ever [music and singing] lose each other. Jesus. ((music playing)) Jesus. ((music playing)) Jesus. ((music playing)) Friend forever. I see ((music playing)) Jesus. Jesus ((music playing)) so beautiful. Jesus ((music playing)) forever. ((music playing)) Come on Jesus. Heat. Heat. Heat. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) Heat. Heat. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) Heat. Heat. ((music playing)) >> ((music playing)) >> Heat. ((music playing)) Heat. >> ((music playing)) ((music playing)) >> Heat. ((music playing)) Heat. ((music playing)) >> ((music playing)) >> I remember the day when you came to find me.

I was 8 years old. ((music playing)) But I knew I just knew. I knew I had a [music and singing] friend in Jesus. Oh, what would I do without you, Jesus? ((music playing)) What would ((music playing)) I do without you, [singing] Jesus? I'd be lost. ((music playing)) I'd be lost. I'd be so lost [singing] without you, Jesus. ((music playing)) singing ((music playing)) Gus forever.

((music playing)) >> ((music playing)) ((music playing)) >> And what do I have to [singing] give to the ((music playing)) well that never dries? What do I have to give to the ((music playing)) everlasting life? But my heart ((music playing)) here's my heart. >> ((music playing)) >> And what do I have to ((music playing)) give to the bright and morning star? What do I have to ((music playing)) give to an allconsuming fire?

But my heart. Oh, here's my ((music playing)) heart. Come on, sing with me. Take my life. Take my ((music playing)) life open wide. Take my song, [singing] my delight. Take this humble offering. This is all [music and singing] I have to bring. Take my world fully surrendered. ((music playing)) Take my will and my agenda. Take this humble offering.

This is ((music playing)) all [singing] I have to bring. I give ((music playing)) you my heart today. Let's see what we have to give. And what do I have to give ((music playing)) to the father on the throne? And what do I have ((music playing)) to give to the son who gave it all but my heart?

We give it to you ((music playing)) today, Jesus. You have my heart. Come on, make this your perfect. Take my life. Take my life ((music playing)) open. Take my soul, my delight. Take this ((music playing)) home off for me. This is all I have to bring. Take my ((music playing)) will for me. Surrender. Take my will and my agenda.

Take this home ((music playing)) for me. This is all I had to prove. You can have ((music playing)) it all. You can have it [singing] all. Come on, sing the cry. The cry of my heart, the ache [music and singing] of my soul is to pour out my love at the feet of you, [music and singing] Lord. the air that I breathe.

You're the song ((music playing)) that I sing. I break open the jaw at the feet. ((music playing)) Oh, come on, break it open. The cry of my heart, the ache ((music playing)) of my soul is to pour out my love at the feet of you, ((music playing)) Lord. The air that I breathe, you're the song [singing] that I sing.

I break open ((music playing)) the jaw at the feet of you, Lord. We break it open cuz he's worthy. He's worthy. ((music playing)) He's worthy of everything. Oh, you have my heart. ((music playing)) You always have. You always will. ((music playing)) You have my heart. Come on, sing the cry of my heart. ((music playing)) My heart of my soul is my ((music playing)) you.

((music playing)) You're the song that I sing. I wake up in the dark ((music playing)) at the you. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) >> ((music playing)) ((music playing)) >> Heat. Heat. ((music playing)) Heat. Heat. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) >> ((music playing)) >> You're the air that I bring. You're the song that I sing. I break open the jaw at the feet of you, Lord. You're the cry ((music playing)) of my heart.

The ache of my soul is too ((music playing)) poor. My love at the feet of you, Lord. You're the air that I breathe. ((music playing)) You're the song I sing. I break open ((music playing)) the fear of you, Lord. ((music playing)) >> ((music playing)) >> You're the ache of my heart. You're the ((music playing)) ache of my heart. You're the ((music playing)) ache of my heart.

Can you hear? The world is groaning ((music playing)) for the King Jesus. All creation groans and waste for the coming of ((music playing)) the king. There's an ache in our hearts. There's an ache in our hearts. ((music playing)) In my heart burns for you. And my heart ((music playing)) burns for you. Come on. And my heart it burns.

((music playing)) It burns. Jesus is my heart for you. Yeah. ((music playing)) Heat. ((music playing)) Heat. Heat. Heat. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) Heat. Heat. ((music playing)) >> ((music playing)) ((music playing)) >> Heat. Heat. ((music playing)) >> ((music playing)) >> My heart. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) Jesus. ((music playing)) Heat. Heat. Heat. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) >> ((music playing)) >> How great ((music playing)) is our God? Sing with me. How great ((music playing)) is our God and oh we see [singing] how great how great ((music playing)) is our God.

Do you think we can prophesy that today? Come on. ((music playing)) How great is our [music and singing] God? Sing with me. How great is ((music playing)) our God and oh see how great how great is our God ((music playing)) name above all names. Yes, you are ((music playing)) named. ((music playing)) ((music playing)) Yes, you ((music playing)) are the name of ((music playing)) the world. ((music playing)) >> ((music playing)) >> This is a song and how great sing is our great is our God.

((music playing)) And how great ((music playing)) is our sing how great ((music playing)) is our ((music playing)) how great is our God? How great is our God? ((music playing)) Yeah. ((music playing)) Heat. ((music playing)) How great is ((music playing)) ((music playing)) we? ((music playing)) >> ((music playing)) >> Wow. I think we should give another shout of praise. Lift your ((cheering)) voices. ((music playing)) You know, it's kind of been on my my heart throughout the ((music playing)) the day that the Lord was going to increase our capacity to host him. the the the actual presence of the Lord.

And at first service I was I was remembering right back here uh during worship a woman was healed of esophagus cancer. I remember a gentleman sat in the back. He was visiting. ((music playing)) He was an athlete. He um sold all of his sporting equipment because he had such a serious injury to his shoulder.

He came into the meeting late, grabbed his seat in the back, and ((music playing)) then somebody spilled hot coffee all over his shoulder and his back, and he turned to express himself to them ((music playing)) and let them know how he felt about their carelessness. And he saw there was no one there and realized God just healed his shoulder.

((cheering)) >> ((applause)) >> I I remember the gentleman sitting right over here that he got really frustrated during the sermon because the Bible became so blurry and he couldn't read it and he couldn't figure out what was happening. When he got home, he took off his glasses and found out that his eyes were healed.

The stories go on and on. They're not testimonies of the great faith or gift of an individual. They are the testimony of the goodness of God and how he expresses himself wherever he is welcomed. >> It's wonderful here. But it's also wonderful here. It's also wonderful in our home >> business that we we learn to be ((music playing)) the landing place of the dove, the landing place of the spirit of God.

So, we're going to pray real simply. ((music playing)) I want you to pray that the Lord would increase the capacity of the person on your right and left. increase their capacity to host him because I believe that God wants to display himself overwhelmingly so ((music playing)) through the lives of people around you right now.

So lift your voices, just pray. Just pray for one another. ((music playing)) Increase the capacity, the awareness. David once asked God to enlarge his heart. So pray that God enlarge our hearts. Enlarge our hearts. Enlarge our hearts to recognize you. Father, we ((music playing)) ask for there to be an increase of the display of the presence of the Holy ((music playing)) Spirit in our personal lives, in our families.

I pray for that. I pray ((music playing)) that our neighborhoods, our workplaces would experience transformation because we host you well. ((music playing)) I ask all of this for the glory of the name Jesus. Everybody said, "Amen." Amen. Amen. All right. Why don't you hug a half a dozen people or so? Bless one another really good.

Thank you. >> Thank you. I could sing my heart burns for you. I've never told you this, but it's actually all >> tag. >> Oh, good morning again, church. Hey, junior hires, this is your cue. You get to rise and exit and head over to the dining room if you want to join the other junior hires. uh this morning.

We would welcome you to do that. The uh if this is your first time and you're in junior high, I don't know what the chances are of that. What are the chances that there's junior highers here for the first time? I don't know. But if you go out this hall and across down that hall, you'll find the the dining room in the back hallway.

It's not a scary journey. It sounds ominous when I say the back hallway. It's actually not. All right, junior highs. And then anybody in the room with a seat open next to you, would you raise a hand and just kind of help our ushers signal some open seats?

There's some folks around the sides in the back. We'd welcome you to look for a hand up. Plenty of room. I see lots of hands up. Plenty of room this morning. All right. Thank you. Very good. Well, welcome everybody. Good morning again. So glad you're here. We love You can You can put your hands down for seats.

I think people are finding their spots. Um because this is the moment where we have our first time guest raise their hands and give us a wave. Anybody first- time guests here today, first Sunday at Bethl Church, give us a wave. Yes, proudly wave. Hi, good to see you.

We're so glad you're here. Our ushers are handing out cards that are just for our first time guests. So, make sure somebody in your family keeps a hand up. That's it. Yes. Okay. And first timers, we're so glad you're here. If you want to join our uh team in the south lobby after service, then our we've got teams there to prophesy over you, pray for you.

If you're here to stay, we want to make sure you know how to get connected and plugged in. So, first- time guests, welcome. So, good to have you. I've got a couple of announcements for you today. The first one, and we've been reminding you of this weekly, and it's showing up all over the place, probably in your email and everything, but we've got our business meeting coming up this week on the 25th.

So, for members of Bethl Church, we need you to mark your calendar. Please come at 6, check in, and then our meeting will start at 6:30 with some important kind of annual updates and business review and all the things. So members, this is a big day for us.

We'll see you there on Wednesday. And then many of you know this, but I want to reiterate that uh over the last several weeks, our leadership team has been doing deep dives across our organization to um really understand how we found ourselves in certain situations. We want to let you know that our leadership team has been spending lots of time evaluating policies and culture with the help of um outside voices that are really really helping us to make sure that we're covering our bases.

And we are going to have some updates for you uh regularly about some of the things being evaluated and progress in certain areas. Um, we want to make sure that you know to check our website for really important updates that we're going to be giving regularly as to what's being evaluated and new safeguards put in place to help keep our congregation safe and cover us in um our biblical theology, all of those things.

You're going to be seeing updates like that on our website. So, be checking that regularly. We want you to be able to follow along in the weeks and months ahead. Okay? All right. Bless you, Bethl Church. Uh, do we have church news today, guys? No, >> that was it.

That was your church news. That was it. So, why don't you stand up? Miss Jamila is coming to take our tithes and offerings. >> Yes, it's my birthday. >> Wait a second. It is the queen's birthday. >> Look at her in her royal purple robe. [laughter] This is Queen Jamila, everyone.

And she is here to take tithes and offerings. >> Thank you. >> Happy birthday, friend. >> Thank you. I won't take them personally. They'll go to Bethl Church. [laughter] So, make your checks out to uh Bethl Church. Oh, what a gift we get to give. It's an extension of worship together, right?

So, we're going to read um offering me uh declaration number one and say it with gusto. Okay? And we'll do it. Yeah, there it is. As we receive today's offering, we are believing the Lord for jobs and better jobs, raises and bonuses, benefits, sales and commissions, favorable settlements, estates and inheritances, interest and income, rebates and returns, checks in the mail, gifts and surprises, finding money, debts paid off, expenses decrease, blessing and increase.

Thank you, Lord, for meeting all of my financial needs that I may have more than enough to give into the kingdom of God and promote the gospel of Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. Yeah, we have different ways that you can give. You can scan the QR code again. You can write your checks out to Bethl Church.

Um you can also give online. There's a link in the chat uh if you'd like to participate. And now I have the awesome immense privilege of welcoming up our speaker, Miss Haley Braun. [cheering and applause] I love you. Hello. Hello. You can be seated. Good to see you all. I think the last time I was up here for preaching was in early January.

So, it's wonderful to see your faces. And the last time I was up here, I got to make an announcement about equip classes and I get to do it again. And so in our effort to sync up our equip classes, I think we counted uh that that we had nearly a thousand people on campus during the week in our various classes and disciplehip, which is just so exciting.

And we're launching another round of equip classes. Uh those will be coming live on the website in just a couple days. They will be starting in two weeks on March 8th. And the various classes will be uh happening on Sundays, Tuesdays, and then Wednesdays. And there'll be different classes, some theology classes, uh, one on our core values, we've got Tomrandle's Ways of the Kingdom.

We even have a pre-marriage class. And just a heads up for those of you, pre-marriage doesn't have to mean that you're just about to get married. It could it could just be we're dating and uh, we're wanting to actually grow in some skills and tools to figure out how to build healthy to see if this is something we want to continue or should move forward.

And so that'll all be on the website. Um, and that'll be starting March 8th. Can you say March 8th? >> March 8th. >> March 8th. Hallelujah. Well, why don't we pray? I'm going to take this out of my pocket. Here we go. I had it in case I forgot my announcement, but I remembered it.

Yeah. Jesus, we thank you, Lord. We thank you that the God that is everywhere, he's looking for the welcome of his people to come and rest and dwell with them. And so, Lord, we say as a people, we welcome you, Lord. as we've worshiped, as we've uh sung praises, as we've magnified your name, Lord, as we've looked at your love and and as we've declared your goodness, Lord Jesus, we personally say, Lord, we want you here.

We want to experience you. We we say, "King of glory, come in." And we just welcome you and invite you today, Jesus. And Holy Spirit, we pray that the spirit of wisdom and revelation would open the eyes of our hearts. That we might uh come into greater knowledge of who you are, Jesus.

That we might come to comprehend as Ephesians 3 says, how high, how wide, how deep is the love of God. That we might be rooted and grounded in your truth. And so we just invite you, Jesus. We w we welcome you God in Jesus name. >> Amen. >> Amen.

Well, this morning, um, as I was, for me when I'm preaching, I'm always asking the Lord like, is there something you're highlighting or speaking to? And often for me, it's as I'm doing my daily reading with the Lord that he'll begin to highlight different things and be speaking to me and I'll be doing studies and he'll kind of highlight something that maybe I read a few months ago.

But this one, he popped it up in my in my heart. I felt like kind of like a bubbling fountain of the Holy Spirit and and just led me to preach on Psalm 23 this morning. And so if you want to open to Psalm 23, um I I uh didn't imagine and probably because it's such a well-known passage.

But what I'm going to do is I'm going to pick on my husband a little bit. And I'm going to have him I'm going to run down to him and I'm going to have him read uh verses 1 through three. And then Tilly sitting behind him. I'm going to pick on you Tilly and I'm going to have you read verses four and five.

And then uh Melissa Deont, I'm going to have you end with verse five. Is that all right? >> The Lord is my shepherd. that I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil and my cup overflows. >> Surely goodness and loving kindness will follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

In the Methodist church, we would say, "Thanks be to God for his word." Amen. Thanks be to God for his word. As I was preparing this message, I felt like I could just sit on verse one. The Lord is my shepherd. And as I was reading that, three things immediately stood out to me.

The first one is the Lord. That's a great statement. And that could preach for an hour for the next uh the next 365 days. the Lord. The declaration that we're all here because we have one Lord, one God, one King, that we are following one leadership, and that he is my Lord.

In all things, in all circumstances, I am not the Lord. I am not the leader. I am under the servantthood of him. The next one is my. The Lord is my. He is our Lord. He is the Lord over the church. He is the Lord over this world.

He is the Lord in heaven. He was before the foundations of the earth sacrificed for my sin that I might become one with God. But he is my Lord and he is my shepherd. Will you put your hand in your heart and say, "He is my shepherd." On any given Sunday, in any given moment, we would all be walking through these doors from different experiences in life.

You know, some of us walk in, we're excited. Yay, it's Sunday. We're happy to be in church. Some of us are like, I'm believing for breakthrough today. Others are weary and wondering, I should have stayed in bed. I wonder why I'm here. Some of you don't even know what you're thinking.

I know for me, sometimes when I come home from work and my husband says to me, Haley, how was your day? I'm like, I don't I don't even know. And I don't think I want to find out. I think I just want to chop the vegetables and once we put the kids to sleep and I've done mom and wife and all those things, then I will feel.

Anyone ever like that? >> Yes. Okay. That is and and ultimately we're going through an experience together as well as having ex experiences in our individual life. And even if we're going through the exact same thing at the exact same time every moment of the day, all of us would be processing it differently.

Every single person in this room has come with a process, with a journey. And the comfort is that the Lord that is our Lord is also my Lord. >> That he's not just shephering the whole, but he's shephering me. and that he has an individualized plan and purpose and fathering for my specific needs, wants, desires, questions.

He is my shepherd. As I started reading this passage, I started thinking about the I am statements that Jesus makes in the New Testament. And so, the Lord is my shepherd. Charles Spurgeon says this. He says, "In order for us to truly say, the Lord is my shepherd, I must first feel myself to be a sheep in nature.

For we cannot know that God is our shepherd unless we ourselves feel like we have the nature of a sheep." Jesus in John 10 verse 11, he makes one of the I am statements. He says, "I am the good shepherd. I when the Lord encountered me six years ago, one of the greatest freedoms I found was realizing I am not leading me.

I am not shephering me. The Lord is shephering me. Amen. You're quiet. Are you with me? >> He is my shepherd. I started looking uh about facts about sheep on the internet and I want to tell you we got two corners right in this ring of sheep. We got some people that really think sheep are not great animals.

They say lots of hard things. I want to say lots of pastors, I think they're trying to make make a really strong statement of how good the shepherd is. But these sheep, they're struggling in these people's perception. They are not smart. I've heard words like dumb even said on the internet.

I didn't say it. The internet said dumb sheep. Then there's another camp that are like the sheep advocates. Okay, so we have the sheep accusers and the sheep advocates. And these people feel the need to tell us how the sheep are actually not as dumb as we think. though maybe they're also not as smart as they would like to think.

And so I found out some facts about sheep. And one fact I found out is that sheep, and this is true for both the accusers and those that are act activists for these sheep. One thing is true is that sheep do not have great homing instincts. If a sheep gets lost, it does not know where home is.

Now, I want to tell you recently I discovered that there was a family of ground squirrels that made a home under my house. [snorts] Oh, sad. All of you in reading know what I'm talking about. And uh I so sorry I have a hard time uh annihilating these creatures.

It's tough for me. I love animals and I have a soft heart for all sorts of creatures. So my poor husband is having to trap these creatures and rehome them. Not at your home. Oh no, Dan's already going, "Not at my home." No. Out in the fields and the pastures far away from any suburbia, right?

Some of you are like, "Just kill the creatures." I know. I'm so sorry. He might have sneakily taken out some lives without me knowing, but I la. But what we found is if you don't take the ground squirrels far enough, they come back home. It's not my home.

They think it's their home. And so ground squirrels have homing instincts. Cats, homing instincts. Pigeons, homing instincts. There's even a scripture in the Bible that talks about donkeys finding their way home. Sheep not so much. And when sheep get lost, they don't know how to find food. They don't know how to find water.

And they become vulnerable. But the shepherd knows where home is. For the camp of the activists of the sheep, they came to tell me that sheep though have an uncanny ability to recognize faces. Sheep. They did a study. I don't know who is studying these sheep and putting different people pictures of celebrities in front of these sheep, but somehow someone did a study to to try to protect the sheep's reputation and tell us that sheep have this amazing ability to recognize.

I think I read up to 50 faces. So, while we don't know how to find home, a face that we look at long enough, we will recognize when we're lost. The Lord is my shepherd. Psalm 34:10 says that young lions suffer and want hunger, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing because this shepherd leads us to green pastures.

This shepherd leads us to food. This shepherd leads us to what we need. And the beautiful thing for me is that though he is my shepherd leading me to food, the interesting thing is that Jesus makes this declaration in in uh John 6:35, another I am statement. I am the bread of life and whoever comes to me will never go hungry and whoever believes in me will never go thirsty.

This shepherd doesn't just lead me to food. He is my food and he is my water. John 7:37-39 Jesus says this. And on the last day of the feasts, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the scripture has said, out of his heart will flow >> rivers of living water.

The shepherd that leads me becomes my food. And the one that I believe in will not just quench my thirst, but will make a river flow from the inward being of myself. >> This is exciting stuff. [snorts] Philip Keller wrote a book, The Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23 and it says this about sheep.

Because they are timid, they will not lie down if they are afraid. Because they are social animals, they will not lie down if there is friction among the sheep. If flies or parasites trouble them, they will not lie down. Finally, if sheep are anxious about food or hungry, they will not lie down.

Rest comes because the shepherd has dealt with fear, friction, flies, and famine. [snorts] He makes me lie down. And when I'm under the lordship of the good shepherd, he deals with fear, friction, flies, and famine. Even in this moment, you know, when we are walking through life's circumstances, often times we will look to people to find agreement, to try to find comfort. will look to lose to bring tension out of our lives so that we can find comfort.

And I don't know about you, but sometimes when I go to people, I'm hoping they'll agree with me and then I realize they're having a very different experience and all of a sudden what felt like tension now starts feeling like friction. But we have a shepherd that can meet us in the very nuance of our need and come and bring alignment and hope and comfort to the most the most uh complex circumstances that he is not shaken or concerned by what you are facing.

He is a good shepherd. He leads me. He leads me to paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Hallelujah. We are led. Hip hip hooray. I am being led. I preached a message on the fear of the Lord a few months ago. I come to find that people don't always remember everything you say.

So, I'm going to say some things again. >> [snorts] >> I've sat under the same teachings for years and years and somehow I find that this Holy Spirit that has been given to me, the spirit of Jesus that he illuminates and brings revelation to things that I've heard before and he makes it come alive for me.

And in Psalm 25, it's I mean even David writing Psalm 23, right? This is a shepherd knowing sheep. And again, David's writing in Psalm 25 and he's talking about the fear of the Lord and being instructed in God's ways. Verse 9 and 10 says this, "The humble uh he leads the humble in justice.

He teaches the humble his way. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth. To those who comply with his covenant and his testimonies. For the sake of your name, Lord, forgive my wrongdoing, for it is great. Who is the person who fears the Lord? He will instruct him.

He, God, will instruct the person that fears the Lord in the way that God chooses. In this passage, when I studied it a few months ago, it it [snorts] talked about the paths of the Lord, right? His pods are righteousness. I just want to tell you there's so many scriptures about the paths and the way of the Lord directly connected to the commandments of God.

That those who live under the authority of God in the understanding that he is both righteous, holy and blameless, he is also loving, kind and comforting. But these pods uh were an imagery of people, you know, in those days they would pack up their wagons and they would either take their wagons to the market or from the market.

But they would put goods, special things, not bads, you know, goods. Goods in the wagon. You can chuckle. It's okay. They would put things there that they thought was good that they would want to trade or bring home. And in the first service, I began to think, you know, uh we used to read this book called The Mouse Family Picnic at home.

I loved it. Was my favorite one. And it's kind of like my dad's kind of picnic. Everything gets packed in the car and on the way it's bumpy. The road is bumpy and the everything the beach ball falls out, the towels fall out and the picnic falls out and the mice get to their little picnic and they have no picnic and they have to figure out what to do and they make a plan.

But it made me think of this that the the pods of the Lord in those days if you filled your wagon with things and there was no path established, right? You're just going through rough terrain. your things are falling out. Your I was thinking like maybe it's a watermelon, maybe it's a butternut squash, you like stopping, picking up your watermelon, putting it in.

But what happens if it was grain? Could you imagine a sack of grain getting bounced around and starting to fly out your wagon? You can't just pick it up and put it in. This is something. You've planted, you've watered, you've chased pests away, you've you've pulled up weeds, you've harvested from sun up to sun down, worked hard, and all your wheat and bread was the sustaining uh food for people in those days.

And there it's falling out your wagon. But after a while, people will begin to establish a well-worn area, right? The rocks are getting trampled. The grass is getting removed and all of a sudden the path is getting smoother and over time the rain comes and the wagons as they run through the wet mud, they begin to put ruts in the ground.

And now these paws are not just smooth, but they actually have the perfect place for your wagon wheels to run through without any bumps or lumps or bruises. And what the the psalm writer David here is saying is he's saying the paths of God, these established ruts. They're not just simply smooth.

They actually are established grooves for your wheels to lock themselves in and find a smooth terrain to get you where you need to go. These paths are mercy and truth. The world wants to pick my logic, my own reason struggles to hold mercy and truth on the same path.

But could you imagine if you just have truth on one side, your wagon's doing this. And if you just have mercy on one side and no truth, you're doing this. You ain't taking nothing nowhere. But the pause of the Lord, you see, human beings, we struggle with tension.

Is the Lord terrifying and loving? Is he a lion and a lamb? Is he my Lord and my friend? Which one is it, Lord? Yes. >> Do I receive grace as a free gift or my salvation through fear and trembling? Yes. Is he a raging fire that consumes that which that which is is uh impure in my life?

And is the fire the momentum that drives me? Yes. He disciplines me and comforts me. He leads me and shepherds me. The paths of the Lord. You see, I remember um >> a circumstance in my life. I'm just trying to think how to share this because it's it's tender for me. you know, when my my my little girl was, you know, diagnosed with Down syndrome and processing like what's her life going to be like and how hard is she going to have to fight for things and you're dealing with doctor's reports and IEPs and all these things where people are telling you what your child is not, right?

And inside you have a faith and a hope and a belief of great things because the Lord has spoken. that I remember in some some of that season I would go to sleep at night and I wouldn't want to think about it but my brain would go to was it a cleanse that I did a year before I got pregnant or was it something that I was it a lack of faith that I had or and and then sometimes people even start saying things about you know curses or you know generational things and and you start trying to and it's like the disciples saying to Jesus is this is this man's condition because of a sin of his or a sin of his parents and Jesus doesn't answer.

And it's those places you see, it's not because we want to go there. It's because we're trying to find peace. We're feeling pain and discomfort and in tension. We want to pick one or the other because it feels more comforting to know an answer than to live in discomfort.

[snorts] But those who trust in the Lord, those who walk by the spirit recognize that it isn't one or the other. It's both and it's in the container of the man who is peace. >> The wisdom of God is not one or the other. It is mercy and truth is the pause of our life and he leads us where we need to go.

[snorts] Proverbs 3:5. Could Could I get a Kleenex? Is that okay? I'll go one in my pocket. You know why? Because I'm always ready for this moment. >> [laughter] >> Proverbs [snorts] 3:5, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge he is the shepherd.

He is my shepherd. He is my Lord. And he will make my paths straight." Have a preach this. What does that word for trust mean? Throw yourself. Take all of your weight and throw yourself on the Lord. But here's the thing. The the Psalms writer David in this m proverbs writer probably Solomon Jan Dan can tell me someone very wise full of God wrote Proverbs 3.

And the Proverbs writer understood that many of us in this room would say I trust God. I believe God. But the problem is sometimes we do these sneaky leans. To throw yourself on God is 100%. It's not 9010. It's not 8020. You see, sometimes in life, we throw ourselves on God and then we things get challenging or shaky and we do a sneaky lean on plan B.

We do a sneaky lean on our spouse. We do a sneaky lean on our bank account. We do a sneaky lean on making an ulterior direction even after God has spoken. We do a sneaky lean. And And I I like the word sneaky lean, as you can tell.

I like it because sometimes we see the Lord in his authority and and we condemn ourselves in the lean, but actually he just goes, "Well, sneaky lean." Well, you see, with my kids, if I had to have a sit down with them, for every time that they didn't do what I asked him to do, they would be tired children.

There's times where like the shoes get flung off at the front door and we sneakily in. Sneaky lean right there. What? Where did those shoes go? Oh, sorry, Mom. In the basket. Sit down on the couch and I'm on an apple core. What? Wow. Apple core just appeared here.

Huh? No. What are we going to do about that? These moments sometimes we we think it's like we we wait for the Lord to come with a voice of conviction. And sometimes we just need to have such a current relationship that we hear his voice going, "Whoa, sneaky lean. >> Whoa, whoa, whoa.

What's What are you searching for? What are you looking for? Trust in me. And those who throw their weight on the lawn, he Lord, he leads them. As I was thinking about God's goodness, I just want to write a quote and then have a question that popped up in my heart.

A man named Clark says that to display the glory of God's grace because right he leads us on the paths of righteousness for his name's sake because when he leads us he begins to display the glory of his grace through our frail lives built up by him and Clark says this to display the glory of God's grace is not on an account of any merit in me God's motives of conduct towards the children of men are derived from the perfections and goodness of his own nature.

I say that again. God's motives and conducts towards us is not derived from my merit but from the perfections and goodness of his nature. >> So I wrote this question. How far does the shepherd go? How far does the goodness and the conduct and the perfections of your nature go Lord?

How far does it reach? Because this feels pretty amazing. This feels pretty wonderful. Oh God, you are and I want to I want to go to this place in in John 10 where I talked about Jesus saying, "I am the good shepherd." In verse six, he says, "I am the door that the sheep come through."

So the shepherd isn't just leading me. He is the door. He is the way. He is the bread. He is the water. And he will become the light. And we'll hit shadow in a second. But he is not just leading me. He is becoming the very sustenance I need.

He is the well-worn path laying down his life, making a way where there was no way, stretching himself in the middle of tension and say, "I stand in the gap and intercede. Come and join me." How far does it go? How long is a piece of string? It goes until it goes until it goes until it goes because the love of God has no end. >> The love and the affections of the Lord, there is no there's no place where that shepherd would not come and reach for his people and offer himself as the way.

Early in my marriage, I'm sorry babe, I'm telling on you. I tell on you often. It's what happens when you're married to a preacher. I was a preacher's child. My dad told illustration centers. I was like, "Didn't quite happen like that. So, uh, I'll let him tell his story one day.

But early in our marriage, we've been married for a few months. You know, we were 23, 22 when we got married. And, uh, in love and wanting to be awesome, wanting to have a wonderful marriage, lived in the light of God and love each other and never have any problems, no disagreements, 100% communicating with absolute ease and effortlessness because we have done we have done pre-marriage class. >> [laughter] >> And we learned the pillars and the foundations and we are going to do better than everyone else.

And and then quickly in in conflict and miscommunication, we started realizing my family talks or anytime conflict, happiness, it just talks talks about everything and wants to talk about talking. And then Ryan gets nervous when we talk. He likes talking about nice things, but when we talk about hard things, he becomes like a little bit afraid that fire is going to come out of my mouth and he will cease to exist.

And so he would uh he would want to think before he talked. And I felt punished when he withdrew because I felt like talking is what I needed and silence is what he needed. And so we were talking about how to talk. And uh and I remember it was probably like the third time a few months into marriage and he had he had shut down and I'd probably talked too much.

So I'll tell that part of the story. And he shut down and I remember him coming back to me and apologizing and I'm saying, "Hey, I feel punished when you pull back. I need you to share." And he's saying, "Babe, I'm so sorry. I want to talk. I want to share.

I just felt afraid." All that stuff. And then he said to me, he said this, "Can I have just one more time? Can I have grace one more time? I looked at him. I said, "Ryan Brawn, you're going to need a thousand more times because this isn't a one time.

This isn't baseball. This isn't three strikes and you're out." Like, "Hey, if you don't, this is us learning how to communicate as people in covenant." And I I I will continue by the grace of God to work with you so long as we're coming together and talking this through.

We will continue to work this out until we become shaped into who God makes us to be, into Christ likeness. And I want to tell you that sometimes we sit in rooms and we're dealing with things and maybe we've stood up for the altar call. Maybe we've received the prayer.

Maybe we've come up and confessed and then someone says, "Hey, stand up." If you're feeling X, Y, or Z, and you think, "I've stood up 10 times. Maybe I'll just work a little harder before I stand up again. Maybe I'll just think a little more. Maybe I'll just go try and fix it in my own strength.

And you know, there's two words in the Greek for knowing in the Bible. Well, I'm sure there's more, but two ones that stand out. Ginosco and epigenosco. Ginosco is I know it. Epigenosco is I've experienced and so I know. And the Lord doesn't just want us to know him as a shepherd, as someone that we can trust, but he wants us to epigenosco, to engage and enter in to the kind of God that stays present even when we're faithless, that remains faithful. >> Sometimes we have more faith in our ability to have faith.

Sometimes we we are putting our faith in our ability to have faith to to receive what God has, but we forget that he has a gift of faith for those who ask. It's like that father that says, "I believe. Help me in my unbelief." >> That is the journey of the Christian, right?

That we have measure of belief, but we have a measure of unbelief. And our good shepherd is leading us along his paths cuz his rod and his staff, it comforts me. Are we doing all right? Do you know one of the most comforting things about the Lord is for me is that he is both victory and broken.

Revelation five that they look at the scroll and the seals and they say, "Who can open it?" And they see the lion of the tribe of Judah first who has overcome. And then a few verses later they see a lamb that was slain. This victorious lion is also a slain lamb.

Daniel, I don't know if you're ready, but I'd love if you'd come up and play keys for me. If you want to open to Hebrews 9 10:19 the passion translation of this this section comments on the rod and staff comforts me. It says this. It says your authority is my strength.

Your authority is my peace and the comfort of your love takes away my fear. Growing up in a South African context, in a system sometimes where maybe I felt like authority only existed to pull me out of class in the moment when I had made a mistake to read my rights to ((music playing)) me, to tell me what the punishment would be for something that I'd done wrong.

And I have distinct memories as a six-year-old of whistling on my way back to the pool. You know, we used to wear these uniforms and they would check all of our hair and make sure the our clips all had to be brown and our hair ties like they couldn't be a different color and you would get written up and uh and I remember my dad was an avid whistler to this day.

He whistles a tune, nobody knows what it is. But I tell you what, if he whistles it, I I literally look, where's my dad? If I hear [whistles] I literally like my father is somewhere. and he would whistle all the time. And so I was at six, first grade, I was in first grade and we went to the pool and got changed in the locker room.

And I'm walking back and I'm with another young lady and I'm trying to ((music playing)) whistle. I'm in my little line in my little uniform and I can't whistle, right? So I'm trying to whistle and all of a sudden that moment my authority rushes in and just starts yelling, "Who is whistling? who is doing that?

And I'm trying to, you know, I put my hand up. My friend didn't even put her hand up. I remember thinking, "You're supposed to love Jesus. You're not telling the truth." I was confused. I remember getting a black dot next to my name. No one asked questions. No one asked why.

They just, "It's not appropriate. ((music playing)) You messed it up." And I used to think God's authority was like that out of the blue, out of nowhere. Wow. I thought it was okay. black dot for me. No way to redeem it. Just stays. But this king, Hebrews 10. Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we ((music playing)) have confidence to enter the holy place ((music playing)) by the blood of Jesus, [snorts] not my ability ((music playing)) to know all the rules, not my ability to get it all right.

Though I will try with the best of my heart serving the Lord, I have confidence not because of my merit but ((music playing)) because his blood was poured out. And then this verse, I want you to look at the tension right here by the new and living way. This is the picture of a resurrected ((music playing)) sacrifice, a resurrected offering.

Death could not hold him. The grave had no authority over him. He had the He He experienced resurrection power and became our resurrection. He was and is the resurrection. He is the new and living way. You got to imagine these people in Hebrews, they're bringing sacrifices to the Lord and they have to kill that sacrifice and it is dead as dead as dead.

And the next time they sin, they have to make another one. every time. Another one. ((music playing)) It's the same thought of you trust in the Lord with all your heart and you lean not in your own understanding. When we lean, we begin to live a life of perpetual sacrifice, having to feel like we're giving up something over and over again.

But those that have been sprinkled by the blood of Jesus and have stepped in can step into a life of obedience, single, single focus. So, we've entered in by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way. I want you to look at this. Which he inaugurated for us through the shout it out >> veil that is through his.

((music playing)) You got to think of this imagery right now. The veil was >> torn. There is a living, victorious, glorious, magnificent, all powerful, roaring king, the new and living resurrected, all powerful, ascended way. Who has been torn? Who has been broken? who was who was willing to be brokenness so that I could be whole.

This imagery is both victory and broken. And I want to tell you, sometimes as humans, we want the victory, but we're not willing to gaze on the broken. And if we will not look at Jesus's brokenness, we will struggle to look at our own. His authority becomes my peace because he bore on himself the punishment that belonged to me.

[crying] In Luke 24, the disciples are walking on the road to Emmas. They're walking with Jesus and their hearts are burning, but their eyes are closed. And they're burning as he's going through the scriptures of the prophets and how he fulfilled it. And he's he's talking about himself. These are the same people that experienced them speaking the words of life.

Where will we go in the greatest offense? Where will we go? And they're experiencing the same burning, but they aren't seeing the same way. But it's when he broke the bread. What happened? Their eyes were opened. It was their willingness to see the broken Christ that allowed them to see the exalted Christ, the resurrected ((music playing)) Christ, the beauty of Christ.

Jesus breaks the bread at the table and he says, "Do this in remembrance." When I'm willing to remember, what is remembrance? Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is what God has done. When I'm willing to turn my attention to the Lord that is my shepherd and begin to remember what he has done, I enter in.

Okay. The word here for rod is shabet. In Genesis 49:10, they say, "The scepter, the ((music playing)) shabbet, shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet." The staff of the Lord is both the governing authority and the guiding rod of discipline. Hebrews 12:10 says that the discipline of the Lord leads to peaceful righteousness.

Acts 9:31 says, "And the church was built up in the peace of God, in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the spirit, and it multiplied." ((music playing)) To multiply in our lives to see God do the work he wants to do, he will build us in peace, ((music playing)) we have to engage in the authority of his rod and his staff, knowing that it both leads, disciplines, and comforts.

((music playing)) The authority of God is not there to misunderstand me, but to guide me into true comfort and strength. These people that live with Jesus as their shepherd, the next p next part of the passage and we're going to wrap up here. These people, they eat. ((music playing)) Bill, did you close worship today with saying that ((music playing)) they were going to bless your house today? different.

Can I share it? Is that okay? First service, Bill uh was just talking about how he's he has given his house to the Lord at his home and he was talking about how this is the house of God, but ((music playing)) a hunger and desire for that resting glory in our own homes and that he was going to go home and ((music playing)) uh just commit his house to the Lord and say, "Lord, this is your house.

Make me a guest here." ((music playing)) For those that live with the Lord as their shepherd, the spirit has been given right to dwell within us and make us the house of God, the temple of the spirit. And actually, when we truly submit under his lordship, he becomes the host of our home.

And as the host, hosts prepare tables. He sets a table in the presence of those we love, those that don't like us, and those that oppose us. And when God becomes the host of our home, when we say, "Lord, you become the master, the boss, the leader. Lord, make me a guest in my own house.

Make this your house, Lord." What happens is he takes ownership of preparing a table. And at the Lord's table, we eat no matter the circumstance. At the Lord's table, he is the bread of life. He is the wine poured out. He is the food that sustains. For the people that have the Lord as their shepherd, they're anointed with the Holy Spirit ((music playing)) and their cup overflows.

Paul says, "I can rejoice. I can in in abounding or a basting. I can rejoice." Why? Because the joy of the Lord has become my strength. ((music playing)) People that have given their all, their yes to the good ((music playing)) shepherd, goodness and mercy follows them. >> What a picture. The shepherd is leading us and we're following like little lambs.

You know, I think they do this and we're following and then as he's leading, mercy follows. As I follow, he comes after me. Well, where are you, Lord? Are you here or you there? Well, I'm both your shield and your rear guard. I both lead and I protect.

I take you and I cover. I feed you and I nourish you. I am all around. Why? Because my name is a strong tower. It's not just simply a word. It becomes a place that the righteous can run into the refuge and they become safe. It's this idea that God's name is not simply two-dimensional.

But when we enter into the reality of the spirit with us, in us, around us, we begin to realize the name of the Lord is far more mighty than a declaration. It is my covering. Those who are led by the shepherd, they dwell. He dwells, they dwell, we dwell.

David said in Psalm 27:4, ((music playing)) "One thing I ask and one thing I seek, that I may dwell in ((music playing)) your house and gaze upon your beauty." Psalm 84, "Better is one day in the courts of the Lord than a thousand. He is the shepherd. He is the ((music playing)) door. He is the way.

He is the bread. He is the vine ((music playing)) that I dwell in, abide in. He is the resurrection. And yay, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, ((music playing)) if there is a shadow, that means there's a light. If you're in a shadow, it means there is a light.

And he says, I am ((music playing)) the light of the world. And when the enemy or life or our choices casts a shadow, we can trust that those who trust the good shepherd ((music playing)) will step in through the shadow into the light. Would you stand with me? ((music playing)) I wrote this. We are a people of God's presence who pursues the one thing and the one thing pursues us.

[snorts] I want to pray today. I want to um pray for the precious and wonderful shepherd to meet us where we are. the precious and wonderful shepherd for the Lord to illuminate to us in every circumstance that we face where he is and how he is leading. We don't have good homing instincts, but we got good facial recognition.

[laughter] We know what his face looks like. We know what his voice sounds like. John 10, Jesus says, "My ((music playing)) sheep know my voice. How do we become attuned to his voice? We listen. That man's voice over there, Ryan Brawn. I recognize it when I'm in another room with the door closed that when I hear it come in the house.

Why? Because I've heard it ((music playing)) over and over again. I recognize today I felt like some people in this room, you might uh feel like um you've done some sneaky leans. You might feel like, "Oh, there's a sneaky lean here." And you might be like, "Lord, I'm saying I surrender to you, good shepherd.

I give it all to you, good shepherd." I also feel right now the wind of the spirit coming and coming to blow through the cobwebs and the remnant of things that want to rest on us that are not the yoke of the Lord. They're the yoke of another.

And he says, "Those who are weary and heavy laden, you can come to me and give me rest." ((music playing)) Why? Because I am both broken and victorious. I understand your brokenness and I know how to be the victory. I understand the journey and I am the destination. I am the path ((music playing)) and the end.

I also felt like today there was a sense of consecration in the room. I felt this this feeling that some people are are feeling the stirring. Say, ((music playing)) Lord, I'm saying yes no matter what the cost. You are my shepherd. I almost felt like it was this confirmation for some of you like yes.

This is the cry of my heart. This is the cry of my spirit. God, you are my shepherd. You are the Lord. You are mine and you are leading me. And I felt like some of you just may you might feel this burning to like I just want to kneel before the Lord.

The the front is open as we pray today. It's not something I need you to respond to. I just want to open it if you would like to, if it's stirring in you. And I want to pray ((music playing)) today. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Would you mind just praying with me in the spirit? >> ((music playing)) >> Thank you, Holy Spirit.

Right now, if you're just like, I am just I am I am saying no sneaky lean for me. I'm saying, Lord, I'm I'm I'm turning. I'm I'm saying, Lord, I I want full weight on you or that that wind. You feel that ((music playing)) wind of the spirit to come and blow through uh your your life to take off weight.

Would you just raise your hands or put them out in front of you? Thank you, God. ((music playing)) saved. Oh, we welcome you, Lord Jesus. Oh, don't be shy right now. Just receive from the Lord. God, we welcome you, Lord Jesus. We thank you, Lord, that you are a good shepherd, Lord God.

We repent, Lord, of any place where we have leaned on our own understanding, Lord. Any place where we have leaned on things that are not putting our full weight on you, God. God, we repent, Lord Jesus, where where we've said your presence is enough, but then our actions have asked the question, Lord Jesus, and we God, we say we are turning, Lord, we say you are the shepherd, God.

You are the priority, Lord. You are the way, you are the door, and you are the leader. God, I thank you, Lord, for the joy of our salvation. The joy of our salvation is not dependent Lord on our merit but on your perfectness and your goodness towards us Lord ((music playing)) God.

Lord I thank you Lord that first John 4:18 says that there is no fear in love for f for perfect love casts out all fear. that those who fear, they fear because of punishment. But perfect love, it brings discipline and adjustments and and it leads us along the paths of righteousness for your name's sake.

((music playing)) My heart and flesh cry out to you, the living God. Your spirit's water to my soul. I've tasted [snorts and singing] and I've seen. Come on again to me. I will draw near to you, ((music playing)) Jesus. We cry out, "Lord, you are our shepherd. Lord Jesus, right now, I just I hear the Lord."

Some of you like the fear of of punishment, the fear of like what happened to me as a little girl. It like resonates ((music playing)) in your being. This fear of the Lord that is going to it's a it's a demonic fear. It's not a holy fear of the Lord.

It's not a fear that is full of love that is leading and guiding. It's a a place of like you're wanting to pull back in shame. And I I see the Lord right now coming to pour out his love into your heart and remind you that I am a good father.

I am a good shepherd. And yes, I bring adjustment and correction, but it is for your good and for the good of the body and for the good of the fold. Lord, I thank you, Lord Jesus, that you're a shepherd that that you, God, you bring peace to fear and friction and famine.

God, you bring peace, Lord Jesus. And Lord, we consecrate ourselves. If if you're able, just put your hands out ((music playing)) in front of you and we're just going to just as a body together. Lord, we consecrate ourselves to you. We set ourselves apart. Oh, holy God. Holy Spirit of ((music playing)) God, would you pour out the oil, Lord?

Would you pour out oil that heals, Lord? Oil, God, that that sustains, Lord. Oil, God, that gives us longevity ((music playing)) with you, Lord. The oil of intimacy. the oil God that that that lifts up our head that we can see you king of glory. Thank you Jesus. ((music playing)) My heart and flesh cry out to you the living God.

Your spirit water [singing] to ((music playing)) my soul. Thank you Jesus. We've tasted and [singing] we've seen. Come on again to [singing] me. I will draw near to you ((music playing)) and my heart burns for you. Come Holy Spirit. And my heart burns. It burns for you. Only you Jesus. Yes. My heart burns for you.

Huh? and ((music playing)) my [singing] heart burns for you. You just put your hands on your neighbors right now. We're just going to pray for one another. Just pray. ((music playing)) Just pray for the comfort, the leadership, the guidance, the peace of God. The peace that passes all understanding. ((music playing)) The comfort of your love, it brings me peace.

The comfort of your love, it brings me strength. Your authority, God, your authority, your leadership is my strength and my peace. You are my song in the night, Lord. And you are the mercy in the morning. You are the bread. You are the water. You are the way.

You are the door. You are the light. You are the resurrection. You are the promise, Lord Jesus, ((music playing)) our beloved. And we need you, God. We need you, Lord. We need your shephering, Lord. And we welcome it. We declare the Lord is my shepherd. ((music playing)) Come, Holy Spirit. Come Holy Spirit.

Thank you, Lord Jesus. >> ((music playing)) >> If you do not know the Lord as your shepherd, if you do not know the Lord as your savior, if you have not come to know the ((music playing)) power of being free from fear and guilt of sin, if you do not have Jesus's blood washing over you, that you have ((music playing)) confidence to come to him and say, "God is my father."

I would invite you today. I want to pray for you. If that is you, would you just raise your hand? I want to pray a prayer of salvation for you today. Thank you. Is there anyone in this room? If you're online, just say, "I need Jesus. I need Jesus."

((music playing)) I'm going to pray. Church, will we pray together? For those that are online, I see that I see a hand there. I'm not sure if you're praying, but I see online. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Let's just pray for these people. Lord God, we thank you. Let's say together.

Jesus, we confess that we need a savior, that you are the savior. You are Christ, the son of the living God, crucified before the foundations of the world. And for the forgiveness of my sin, Jesus, I ask today, you would be my savior, my Lord, my Messiah, my leader, my shepherd.

Come into my life, Lord God. and Holy Spirit come and fill me ((music playing)) that I can know the love of the father. I receive you Jesus. ((music playing)) I turn from my sin. I repent of my sin and I receive your punishment as my peace in Jesus name. Amen. ((music playing)) Amen. Can we give the Lord a hand?

((applause)) >> ((music playing)) >> Well, I think I think Haley preached ((music playing)) that for me today. Here's what we're going to do. We're have there's uh people still praying. If you want to still pray up on the altar, you can. If you need to come and pray, you can. Ministry team, you can come forward and begin to and begin to pray.

We'll put them kind of in the periphery. If you need prayer today for anything, we want to we want to pray for you. But especially today before before we go, if you heard that message and you're like, I I am a sheep and I am not ((music playing)) lying down in green pastures and I need someone to pray with me today.

We'd like to pray with you today. ((music playing)) If you have to make your way out, be blessed as you go and make your way out. Um want to let ((music playing)) you know that uh Martin who led worship today, he'll be speaking tonight. So if you want to come and ((music playing)) be a part of that, you can.

But um today, let's just let's take a moment. The altars are here. The presence of the Lord is here. Let's take a moment and if you ((music playing)) want to come meet with the good shepherd, >> you guys be blessed as you go today. If you need prayer specifically for something, the min. >> Hello online community.

We're just in this beautiful place um experiencing the presence of God. And we just pray wherever you are right now, if you're in that tender space, if you're responding to what we were praying for, whether you um you can feel consecration, whether you feel like you need to actually um allow yourself to allow the Father to shepherd you, whatever that looks like, that you would just lean in in this moment, >> that you would lean on the Lord, that you would come before him knowing that he so deeply wants to touch you, that he so deeply wants to comfort you.

Yeah. I just feel to encourage you right now. If you are encountering the Lord in this moment, don't um let any thoughts of like this is silly. Oh, I shouldn't do this. But I actually feel like some of you, you're supposed to lay down on the floor. Um if you are at home, if you're if you're not driving, [laughter] but just lay down on the floor and just continue to receive.

You don't have to get out of this place. Um just a few years ago I had this deep encounter with the Lord and a friend of mine uh would come in to my ear and say all the time like stay in it stay in it don't rush out of it and I stay in it for seven days and I just stay in that encounter that place of encounter with the Lord and I just felt to tell you that this morning is stay in this place if you're encountering the Lord if you feel that he's uh consecrating your heart again consecrating the season to the Lord Um, don't rush out of this place.

Just keep receiving from him this morning. Yes. And I I I feel this invitation into a deeper place. Um, even if you have walked away from the Lord and you ended up watching this service and you're just like, Lord, are you how can I go back after everything?

How can I go back after everything? I just feel this invitation. You're saying it's time to come home. It's time to come home. Yes. Yes, Lord. Yeah. We just declare that this morning in Jesus name. It's time to come home into his arms, into his love, into his peace.

Yeah. We quiet all lies into your heart right now into your mind. We just say the peace of the Lord right now in Jesus name >> may cover you from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet in Jesus name. The peace the peace of the Lord in Jesus name.

Thank you God. I saw a picture of some of you even lying down whether you're in your kitchen or your living room or or in your secret place with the Lord even in your closet. And I saw people laying down as he closed your eyes. It was as if you saw the green pastures.

It's as if you saw the still waters. I even feel like some people are going to hear like the the the water um as it I don't know. I'm imagining um like a little waterfall or a little like river bank where you can hear the the trickling of the water hitting the rocks.

And I feel like so many of you are going to experience the Lord um in these beautiful ways just even recanting on Psalm 23. everything that Haley just preached, just walking through what the Lord wants to do in and through you. And so God, we just thank you for what you're doing.

Some of you, um, you might be, um, in that place right now. You don't have to tell us. You can if you want to, but if you're with him, stay with him. >> Yes. >> If you're with him and you're encountering his love, his goodness, his mercy, his truth, whatever it is, we just um encourage you to stay in the midst of that. >> That his presence is here, his presence is for you. >> Yes.

Yes. >> Oh, God. We just thank you. >> Thank you, Jesus. Yeah. I just pray that what you're experiencing right now is not going to end in this moment. It's not going to end on this Sunday. I pray that it's going to go off throughout your week and [snorts] you're going to continue to experience his love.

I saw someone writing on the chat like, "I need to watch this message multiple times." I want to encourage you if you feel like the Lord is inviting you into this place. Go for it. Watch it as many times as you as you need. even worship today. Um Haley was preaching at Twio.

So she wasn't here for worship. I wonder if she knew that they were singing that same song, My Heart Burns for You, which I really felt the Lord in it during worship and then she went back into I felt like throughout all the service this morning. We were just invited to this place of our hearts burning for the Lord and reminding ourselves why we do what we do, why we why we stay locked eyes on him. no distractions of this world, no lies, nothing can take us from locking eyes with him.

So, just I just want to encourage you, just keep carrying that throughout this week. Just keep carrying this word of um I'm just locking my eyes with you, Lord. And my heart is burning for you. My heart is burning for you in Jesus name. So good, Pa. Even as you were praying that, I was I was thinking and and wondering if there were people um I've been trying to do this thing where when I read my Bible, I hide my phone so I don't see it.

And I know sometimes I can hear the little vibration when I get a not notification. And it's so easy to feel like any little thing can distract you. Any little thing when you're in a moment reading your word, when you're when you're sitting with with the father, whatever that looks like.

And I'd encourage you um even if distraction comes, >> even if it tries to catch your attention, what does it look like to um walk away? What does it look like to turn your phone upside down? What does it look like to not allow yourself to give into the temptation of um everything that's calling for you, but to actually sit before him, lock eyes with him, allow your heart to burn for him, to sit in the midst of what could feel actually really uncomfortable >> because all the things of this world are coming at us and yet we would choose to just sit before him.

I don't know if that speaks to anyone um watching right now. I know that distraction comes in so many different ways. It's so easy to be distracted. It's so easy to feel the weight of everything else that needs my attention. >> And yet, there are moments where we get to just look at him, to lock eyes, to to let every other thing fall to the wayside and say, "God, I prioritize you.

I'm going to wait." Even if it's two minutes, but to know that >> there's always going to be something trying to get my attention, and there are moments where I get to give it to the Lord. Nothing else gets to steal it. >> Yes. It's is that thing that Bill talks about like we only get to give this sacrifice of worship in this life in eternity.

It's going to be so easy to focus our eyes on him. There's going to be no distractions. Uh but in this life we get to choose to worship him to consecrate our lives to him to say Lord I choose you again and again and again in the midst of distractions in the midst of so many options of YouTube and Instagram and you're just scrolling and time passes and it's so easy for your attention to be retained in that because there's so much new information but can you actually keep your eyes on the Lord?

Keep your eyes on his word. Um and just this beautiful invitation this morning of just keeping our eyes on him and just staying >> trusting him in the midst of everything. >> Yes. Yes. >> It's an active trust. It's not just sitting back sometimes. It's an active trust.

So good. >> So good. So good. Psalm 23 was my grandma Antoneta's main psalm. She was >> mine too. My grandma's favorite song. >> Look at us. Uh yeah. She would read it every day and just say it out loud. It's a It's a thing in our family.

Psalm 23 is my grandma's psalm. So, this message today just spoke. So, >> we'd encourage you to linger in it. Take time. I love that Haley referenced the Passion translation. Read it in different translations. Allow the Lord to speak to you in the different ways. Upper Room has an incredible version of uh this song.

It's called the Shepherd and it's actually the Passion Translation version of Psalm 23 and song. And um I >> I didn't know that. I if you listen or if you listen to it and you read it in the Passion translation, it's like verbatim, word for word, line by line, verse by verse.

So, um I've been just trying to even sing the Psalms more and just um allow it to really get in deep with me. So, anyways, um guys, we we love you so much. We have a um we have ministry rooms available for you on Zoom. Our hosts will put those links in the chat.

We'd love to pray for you if you um need prayer for anything. If you need healing in your body, if you need a prophetic word, our teams would just love to pray, to cover you, to bless you, to stand beside you, um, whatever that looks like. But we just love you so much and we're believing for the Lord to move in incredible ways. >> Keep encountering him.

Stay in it. Stay in it. Yeah. Stay in this place. Just encountering the Lord, not just today, but throughout this week. We love you guys. Happy Sunday.