Get Ready | Christine Caine

Thank God I had people that cared more about my longevity and fulfilling my purpose and so back then could I? Thank God there was no social media because I could have built my own brand on TikTok and I would have been invited everywhere and I wouldn't be here today and I'd probably be divorced and my kids would be off the rails. But God wanted to build it because he knew that the light that was on me would have destroyed me because the character that was in me couldn't sustain me. Okay I feel very excited to be home. I don't need that one, I just need this. Okay I before we sit down I'm loving all of our campuses. My heart was burning as Pastor Earl was talking about San Antonio because I was just there with my spiritual mother Joyce Meyer and we went past the Shoreline building and I'm like you know we prayed for it and I didn't even know I thought you owned it so that you're going to own it. Okay that's the point it's like there is no better location for that building than where we are and so San Antonio we're believing God with you and Antigua I love Guatemala and I've been to Antigua and I love it so much and you guys are like rabbits you just keep multiplying every time I come like it's like there you are Frisco I prophesied you so you know you're always my favorite and so I want you all to be seated and we are just going to dive straight in and the reason is because you know you all are growing so fast that we got to get this parking lot turned around so we don't play. Did you notice the worship team we just went in? We were in the seventh heaven before we even started and I love you because you're the real Christians of all of the services at Shoreline it really I have to say that the early morning 8.05am there is a special place in heaven your mansion is bigger than everybody else's and we don't even need to warm you up because you are warmed up pumped up fired up and ready to go and you know because of the fact and I love this like what a beautiful problem to have is a church when people are waiting to come into church and willing to walk I mean we wait for everything else when you have a football game or when you have a baseball game or you know we've got the playoffs happening in you know the basketball it is amazing how long people wait in line to get in and to get out and so it says something to the world when you are willing to do that for church I'm telling you it says something to the world so I have a new book called the faith to flourish and I'm not going to talk about it because I want to get into the world but only in this service will I be signing afterwards because we need to turn these parking lots around so the others I will pre-sign but this is the only one where I'll get to say hi and meet you and here is the here's the five second thing just like truly the Lord blessed this I've been

writing for many years I've never had a New York Times bestseller except for this one I'm not looking for applause what I'm saying is I believe God breathed on it because the message to the body of Christ is we have to remember again that we were created to flourish in the midst of adversity in the midst of pain in the midst of suffering in the midst of wars in the midst of injustice and in the midst of pain we need to understand that we were called to be fruitful to multiply that Jesus said that I came that you might have life and life more abundant he didn't say I came that the world's going to be a better place he said but you are going to be better and you're going to bring your light into a lost and a broken world so I think that's why the Lord has breathed on this message in that way but today we're kicking off a brand new series I'm a church girl so I'm just a teaching pastor for today is that okay I'm just part of the family and we are kicking off a brand new series and it is so the Lord in this timing for Shoreline truly because God wants you to possess the next phase of the land that he has got for you you know the word of God is full of the promises of God and all the promises of God are in Christ Jesus yes and amen but so many Christians live so far beneath the promise that God has for them and you know they're saved and going to heaven but their life on earth is not possessing the promise that God has for them and a lot of us in the narrative of this generation is well you know you can't flourish or you can't possess the promises of God in your life because of what happened to you because of where you were born because of where you were educated because of what that person said about you because of what that person did to you because of your own failures because of your own mistakes so many Christians live saved but certainly not going into possess the promises of God for their life and yet in the book of Deuteronomy the Lord said go in and possess that you might inherit you have You've got to go and proactively possess the promises of God for your life. Jesus died on a cross, shed his blood, so that you and I can have access to all of the promises that are in the word of God. But so many of us live so far beneath what God has for us because we don't understand that we have to partner with God to possess the promise that God has for us.

And so as I go to the Old Testament of the book of Joshua, there are so many parallels for us in 2026, and it is time on the kingdom calendar to understand that it's time to possess the promises of God. The truth of the matter is all of the Pentateuch, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, are leading towards this book. This is a pivotal book in scripture, and we're at a pivotal moment on the earth right now, and the body of Christ has got to remember again that we're called to possess the promises. So let me tell you something that I have not shared because it just happened in the last 12 hours. Many of you that know my story, that I was left in a hospital unnamed and unwanted when I was born, that I was the victim of childhood sexual abuse, that I grew up in the poorest zip code in my state, and so people like me normally don't end up doing what I'm doing in life. So many people, and particularly in the narrative of this generation, it's like, well, because of all those things that happened to you, Christine, you're a victim of the system, or you're a victim of what happened to you, therefore you can't really go in and possess the promises of God. But because 40 years ago, by the grace of God, I encountered a resurrected king,

and in encountering Jesus and being washed anew by his word, and through a lot of work, it didn't just happen overnight. I wish I could tell you that there was an altar call. Someone prayed for me, spat on me, I fell over, got back up, and went, whoo, I'm healed. That's not what happened. But by partnering, by being committed to renewing my mind, by being planted in the house of God, we can, 40 years, 40 years. I'm, by God's grace, being able to sit here and say 30 years married, with a background like mine, I don't even know if you know what a miracle that would be, by God's grace, two daughters that love the Lord, that are serving the Lord, and God bless you, and thank you for you being partnering with us at A21 right from the beginning, and who would think that a girl left in a hospital, unnamed and unwanted, and abused and adopted, would be running a global anti-trafficking organisation, and can I just say what you're giving, in the last two weeks alone, just 14 days, this is verifiable fact, just in Dallas, now we have 10 officers around the world, have rescued thousands of people, but just in Dallas in the last 14 days, there have been 10 victims of human trafficking

identified and that are now, we are representing in the legal system, that's what you're giving, has gone towards, right here in this city, right here, but the issue is, that for a long time, I didn't know who my biological mother and father were, and through a whole series of events, and again, this is, obviously, this has just happened, and we found my biological mother, who's still alive, she's 83, in Australia, and my best friend in Australia for decades, yesterday, went and visited her, which is huge, and obviously, I'm not at liberty to say a lot of things, and there's a lot that I need to process, but I'll tell you this much, and this is why I'm saying this as we kick off into Joshua, you're gonna have to listen fast today, that this woman, thank God, thank God, that she had the courage to have me, I mean, go back to 1966, but the fear, and the terror, and the shame, and in the 30 minutes that my friend was with this 83-year-old hero, amazingly courageous woman, that gave birth to me, she would have said the word shame, my friend said at least 200 times, just had her hand over her face, and just kept saying, shame, shame, bowed by the guilt, and the shame, I'm 60 this year, 60 years, this woman has carried shame, her daughter, me, because I encountered Jesus, now this woman is so courageous,

now if she was in a life-giving environment, where she understood the truth of the word of God, she would have walked into here, and be celebrated that she had the courage to give birth, she would have had shame off her for 60 years, now the story's not finished yet, and I'm believing God for miracles, even a start yesterday, was that she could hear, your daughter, thanks God for you, your daughter wants to thank you for giving her life, your daughter has a daughter, and another daughter, and has a husband, but what I'm trying to say to you, is if you don't possess the promises. God, you can end up living bound on this earth when Jesus Christ wants you free on this earth. And in one generation, we were able to change the narrative to the point that my children don't even know what shame is because when Nick and I got married, we drew a bloodline in the sand and we said, you know what, with us, shame stops. With us, abuse stops. With us, addictions. It stops with us. So you can make a decision as we go through this series together, whether you want to live in the freedom that Jesus has for you, or whether you are going to see from one generation to the next,

bondage, take reign in your home. Because here is the deal, the freer you get and the more of the promises of God you possess for your life, the greater impact that has in your sphere of influence. I'm trying to break this down into real time for you so that you understand we all live this. So Joshua is not, we're just going to celebrate a hero. We're going to say, this could be our story because we're new covenant believers and all the promises of God are in Christ Jesus. Yes and amen. I don't have, I'm not like a special Navy seal in the Christian church. It's just that I've made a decision that I'm going to believe the promises of God. Is it easy? No, but I'm going to tell you, if I teach you nothing else, the 10 points I'm going to give you today in 22 minutes and 43 seconds, so you better take notes, are going to be the things that if you apply these in your life, then whatever area you need to go and possess right now, the promise of God in that area of your life, you will see greater deliverance, greater freedom, and it's not just going to impact you, it's going to impact the generations that are going to come after you.

And this is not just for our individual lives you're about to discover. It was never just about Joshua, it was about you and all these people. So Shoreline, this is not just about you. It's about you and all these people. Why we're talking about campuses is because the inheritance and the promises of God are not just for us. I know we live in a very individualistic world, but they're for us and all the people. And so I want us to go to the book of Joshua chapter one, verse 18. So Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua. Judges, Ruth, can anyone do all 66 books? We don't have time, we've got 21 minutes. This is the word of the Lord. After the death of Moses, the Lord's servant, the Lord spoke to Joshua, son of Nun, Moses' assistant. Moses, my servant, is dead. Now you and all the people prepare to cross over the Jordan to the land that I'm giving the Israelites. I'm giving you every place where the sole of your foot treads, just as I promised Moses. Your territory will be from the wilderness and Lebanon to the great river, the Euphrates River, all the land of the Hittites and west to the Mediterranean Sea. No one will be able to stand against you

as long as you live. I will be with you just as I was with Moses. I will not leave you or abandon you. Be strong and courageous, for you will distribute the land I swore to their fathers to give them as an inheritance. Above all, be strong and very courageous to observe carefully the whole instruction my servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or left so that you will have success wherever you go. This book of instruction must not depart from your mouth. You are to meditate on it day and night so that you may carefully observe everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in whatever you do. Haven't I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged for the Lord your God is with you. Let's just pause there now. So I want you to see where this starts. We're kicking off this whole series. After the death of Moses, the Lord's servant. I could have spent my whole session just on this. First few words of the book of Joshua. After the death of Moses, the Lord's servant. Of all things, the Lord could have called Moses. He says the Lord's servant. I'm just going back, just flip back one page in your Bible to Deuteronomy chapter 34,

and you will see in verse 10, it says, no prophet has arisen again in Israel like Moses whom the Lord knew face to face. He was unparalleled for all the signs and wonders the Lord sent him to do against the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land. Unparalleled, he saw God face to face. He was unparalleled in the signs and wonders, and in verse 12, for all the mighty acts of God. of power and terrifying deeds that Moses performed in the land, in the sight of all of Israel. So look at the words that the scripture uses. He saw God face to face, signs and wonders unparalleled. Unparalleled. And the miracles and the power unparalleled. Flip the page from Deuteronomy to Joshua, Moses, my servant. Man, it's powerful. Highest, highest label you can ever be given. Doesn't say Moses, the dude that did everything that was amazing. Signs, wonders, miracles, crusades. Saw a Red Sea part, saw all the plagues with Pharaoh, did all the, no, no, no. Moses, my servant, here is the reward that God gives you for being obedient to do everything he's called you to do. Moses, my servant. Then he goes on. Moses, my servant. The Lord spoke to Joshua, son of Nun.

How does he relate to him? Moses' assistant. This is the man that he has chosen to lead the children of Israel into the promised land. 430 years of slavery, 40 years of wilderness wanderings. This is who he chooses to go in and possess the promise. He says, Moses, my servant, is dead. Joshua, Moses' assistant. See, many of us, we wanna possess the promises of God, but you will never even ultimately become the servant of God unless you're willing to be an assistant of man. So if you go all the way through and you have a look, Joshua turns up on the pages of Scripture, 40 years old, and he has been serving Moses from his youth, and you could go through and through and see him, lingering in the tabernacle in Exodus 33. He's there when Moses brings down the 10 commandments. He is there when there's 12 spies chosen to go and spy in the land, and he's only one of two with a positive report. He is there constantly in the background. No one can see him. He's lingering, but during that whole time, he's hearing God talk face-to-face with Moses. He's seeing how Moses analyzes leadership problems with the people. He's seeing how he processes things, what it costs to carry the weight of leadership. He's learning to understand, and what is he? Moses' assistant.

Because God's always preparing you for the thing that he's prepared for you, but most of us are not prepared to be anyone's assistant, and then we can't get promoted to what? Servant. There's nothing higher than servant. Do you know when Joshua is given the title servant? Not until the end of the book of Joshua. If you go to Joshua 24, verse 29, after he has done everything that God has told him to do. Think of all of taking the promised land. We're now in the very last chapter, and in 24, verse 29, after these things, after these things, after he had done everything I told him to do, 24 chapters of possessing the promised land. You'll get there at the end of the series. Then it says, the Lord's servant, Joshua, died at the age of 110. He didn't even become the title of servant until he finished and did everything God had called him to do. The interesting thing is, Moses signs one, does miracle, flip the page. Moses, my servant is dead. 24 chapters of Joshua that we're about to cover in this series so that he can finally get the title servant. Isn't it interesting, in our generation, we think serving is so far beneath us

because we live in such an individualistic age that there is no way we wanna be servant because I wanna be the man or I wanna be the woman. And God has called me and God has anointed me and I want my own thing. And yet, in Scripture, Joshua wasn't even given the privilege of possessing the promised land until he had been Moses' assistant for decades. That is the thing that qualified him to do what God had called him to do. It's so interesting to me, so many people say, Christine, I want to do what you do, but I'm not willing to do what you did to do what you do. And I see that in a whole generation. Oh, I want to have the influence, the impact, but you know what, Chris, I want to prosper in business, but I don't wanna tithe. I want to have a big ministry, but I don't want to serve. in the kids ministry. Oh, I want to be a music superstar, but I don't want to serve in the choir. Oh, no, no, I want to do what you do, but I don't want to do what you did to do what you did. Joshua, my servant. Moses, my servant. There is no higher place to go in the kingdom than to be called by the God of the universe, my servant. So antithetical to the spirit of the age. But if we're going to do what God has called us to do, we have to understand, I could keep you here all day

to say where I am and where I came. I served driving 14-year-olds to youth groups. I served in our schools. I never held a microphone on a stage in church for seven years. People would say to me, Christine, you should go to a church that really recognizes the anointing and the gift on your life. You are being so, so suppressed, but thank God that I had leadership over me that understood that the gift that was on me was going to destroy me because the character that was in me could not sustain me. So the reason that I'm standing before you at 60 is because somebody had the foresight when I was 22, as gifted as I am now, as talented as I am now, but maybe, but I certainly didn't have the character I had now. Thank God I had people that cared more about my longevity and fulfilling my purpose. And so back then, could I? Thank God there was no social media because I could have built my own brand on TikTok and I would have been invited everywhere and I wouldn't be here today and I'd probably be divorced and my kids would be off the rails. But God wanted to build it because he knew that the light that was on me would have destroyed me because the character that was in me couldn't sustain me. So many of us are not willing to serve in church because we think, well, why should they get the light?

What, they're just using me to build their thing. What are you even talking about? Where is this thinking gotten in? You know, it doesn't matter. Ultimately, and I've lived through this, how crazy they might have been, I did it unto the Lord. And I'm here today because I gave unto the Lord. I served unto the Lord. God was building me and God is not a man that he should lie. And every one of the promises of God is in Christ Jesus, yes and amen. And I'm still fulfilling everything God has called me to do because his promises are yes and amen and they were never determined on man. So even when man fell, it did not impact my destiny. Moses, a servant. And so as we have a spirit that is telling us to pull back, it's only the enemy that's winning because we're formed through serving. We're developed through serving. We're developed through giving. You wanna build a spiritual muscle, pastor takes an offering and says, we need to buy a building in San Antonio. We've got so many dreams and visions of what God wants us to do. And you're like, okay, when I get that pay rise, then I'll start doing it. When I get that, you know, those dividends pay off, then I'll start doing it.

And God's saying, no, no, now, begin serving now, begin giving now, begin tithing now. Moses, my servant. The interesting thing is the only reason that God could promote Joshua is because Joshua was already ready to get ready. He said, Moses, get ready. He said, Joshua, get ready. You can't get ready if you're not already ready to get ready. And so we go, what do you mean by that? Well, he was already ready because he'd already been serving. Because he didn't wait, wait, when one day God's gonna pick me to go and lead people into the promised land. That's when I'm gonna get ready. When I get the position, when I get the title, when I get the accolades, when I get the followers, when I get the likes, when I get the shares, when I get the approval of man, then I'll get ready. Wow, man, yeah. But it was Joshua's lingering in the tabernacle that was getting him ready. You know who's getting ready right now? The people that are out there where I don't even know where they are serving our kids. The people in the rain this morning that came and moved the cones for me as we drove into, oh no, no, see, they were getting ready.

Nobody else even knew they were awake. Pouring rain, they're not even in raincoats, and they're moving the cones, and I'm thinking, oh, you're getting ready. I wonder what God's gonna do for you in the future because you're already getting ready before you get ready. And sometimes we're like, oh, if people don't see me, I'm trying to go viral. Listen, no virus is good. I have no. understanding why a generation wants to go viral. I'm like, honey, viruses are not good. But I wonder how you're getting ready to get ready. See, if you're getting ready to give a million, are you getting ready by giving a dollar? So most of us, God can't call us into that because we're not even ready to get ready. And so the fact is, he says, you and all, now you and all these people prepare to cross over. I want you to hear this. You and all these people, it's never just about you. Because we always think as long as I get my big break, as long as I get, it's like, no, no, it's you and all these people. Why are we talking about San Antonio? Why are we talking about different pop-up services? And we started Frisco and there's so many other things we need to do around this region and the regions of the world.

Why are we in Guatemala? I want you to see what happens here because he says to them that you have to get ready. And then in verse 12 to 15, Joshua said to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, remember what Moses the Lord's servant commanded you when he said, the Lord your God will give you rest. And he will give you this land. Your wives, dependents and livestock may remain in the land Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan, but your best soldiers must cross over in battle formation ahead of your brothers and help them until the Lord gives your brothers rest as he has given you and they too possess the land that God is giving them. What am I saying here? He said to them, don't get too comfortable because you still got to help everyone else. You see, there are still so many more areas in Dallas that need to know the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. There's still so many lost people. There's still more lost people in Guatemala. There's still more lost people in Nicaragua. There's still more lost people all around the world. And so I know we're comfortable here. I know we've got a building here. I know that we've got our nice kids program here. I know that we've got beautiful lights and beautiful, but you can't get too comfortable.

Not until your brothers have possessed their aspect of the land. So as soon as he said to Joshua, before you go in, don't get too comfortable when you take your bit of the promised land because you have got to go and help everyone else get their bit of the promised land as well. So why are we talking about multiple campuses? Why are we talking about expanding? Because the Lord's like, oh no, no, we have still got a lot of spiritual land to possess here. And so you can't just get, every time I give you your little consignment of land, don't get too comfortable because you got to go and help somebody else get their land. So you might have to go and maybe you and your family have to go and serve in another area. Maybe you have to go and start building in another area. Don't get too comfortable because it was never about just you possessing your little consignment of land. It was never, ever about him. And then he says, as you give this land, Moses, my servant is dead. Now you and all these people prepare to cross over to the Jordan, to the land I am giving the Israelites. We're only up to verse two, good luck. To the land I am giving. I wonder whether this would have triggered Joshua because he would remember he heard that phrase before in Numbers 13 verse two, when the Lord said to Moses,

I am giving you this land. I'm giving it to you. Now go and select 12 leaders, each one from one of the tribes in Israel. I want you to go and select one of them. Same phrase, I'm giving you this land. And he's having this deja vu going, I stood here 38 years ago. I've already been here. We were supposed to go in 38 years ago. What's my point today? If God, if you won't allow God to use you, he'll raise up somebody else. Too much of this generation has been, well, God couldn't do it without you. And no, no, no, God will fulfill his covenant with or without us. I just need you to know. He's going to fulfill his covenant with or without us. The issue is shoreline. Are you gonna say, God, use me. Here I am, send me. We're not gonna wait for 38 more years for another generation to arise or to go in and possess the promises. God, use me. God, send me. A whole generation had to die. Another generation arose. God had used the same words 38 years before.

I'm giving it to you. He's saying to you, shoreline, I'm giving it to you. It's up to you whether you go in and possess it. And if you don't, all my covenant will be fulfilled with or without you. But I'm inviting you in. Gone is the day where we're begging everyone, gee, we're doing God a favor. He's like, oh, I'm inviting you in to my awesome adventure. Will you do it? Will you step into the fullness of what God has? He goes on, in my notes over here, he says, will you do it with me? And the only way you could do it, he says, every place that you place the sole of your foot, I will give you every bit of territory that you choose to take, shall I? Do you realize every place where the Israelites did not put their feet, the Canaanites got? Go and read it. They only took the land that they went in to possess. You get a choice, but a lot of us, we're just like, no, I'm too comfortable here to get up and put my foot there. The degree to which you're willing to put your foot there is the degree to which God will give you the land, and if you don't put your foot there, the Canaanites will get it. And so it's your choice. The choice is to take that next step,

but most of us are like, I'm comfortable here. I'm good here. Me and my family, we're good here, and the Lord's saying, take the next step. You've gotta go and, why are we putting campuses? Why are we growing? Because it's like, you put your sole of your foot there, I'll give you that land. He didn't say, Joshua, I'm gonna drop it like fairy dust out of the sky. He said, no, no, wherever you put your foot. So is it God's sovereignty, or is it my free will and working with God? Both. Both. God will give us what we're prepared to go in and get. He says, you put your sole of your foot there, and I will give you. We can't take what God hasn't given. A lot of people out there trying to take what God hasn't given. It's never worked well. But if God's given it, you can take it. You can take it. If God's given it, you can take it. And then he goes on, and I can go on. He says, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. He didn't say, I'm gonna do the same thing with you as I did with Moses. God can only anoint you, not a fake version of you.

I think what stops most people going into their spiritual promised land is because they are so different to the person that either raised them up or mentored them or has done something successful before them. And because you are unlike the person that's gone before you, you think God can't use you. But you needed a particular set of leadership skills to bring people out of Egypt, and you needed a different set of leadership skills to possess the promised land. You are not like the person that raised you up. You are not like someone else that's done something successful. We've got so many people out there trying to duplicate what someone else has done. And the thing that we forget is the Lord promises one thing. He says, as I was with Moses, so I will be. The greatest gift in the scripture, if you really understood this, is that God promises that His presence will be with us. He didn't say, I'm gonna do with you what I did with Moses. He said, but I'm gonna be with you like I was with Moses. For me to go in and do what God's called me to do, I need the presence of God. You see, the interesting thing is that I wonder how much we long for God's presence, or do we long more for the approval and the accolades of man? You know, in Exodus 33, Moses said to the Lord,

if your presence doesn't go with us, I don't wanna go. You see, I can deal, I personally, I can deal with the disapproval of people, but I couldn't bear the absence of the presence of God. Not for anything. He says, I'll be with you. And so many of us are so scared to go in and possess, because we're not like, we're not good enough, we're not this, we're not that, and He says, I didn't ask you to be that. I promised you I'd be with you. I promised you my presence. And we need a generation if we're gonna possess our spiritual promised land, church. We need the presence. We saw this in our women's conference at Cultivate. But there's something happening on the earth where the people of God are remembering again, I need the presence of God. Moses, ultimately, the Lord didn't give a litany of all the things that he achieved and he had done, but his presence was with him. And he said, Joshua, I'm not saying it's gonna be easy, but I'm saying I'm gonna be with you. And all you need is me. I know now you got lots of lights and really cool graphics, but you need me. That's all you need. You're not gonna be like anybody else. So my time's up.

But, Shoreline, our greatest days, and I'm not hyping, I'm just saying, literally, are ahead of us, but God's not gonna drop it out of the sky. We need a generation that say, I'm willing to seek the highest office in the Kingdom of God, which is servant, servant, Moses, no one like him, unparalleled, the Bible uses the word unparalleled. And then the highest honor, Moses, my servant is dead. If all of us aspire to be servants of the Most High God, that there's nothing else to rise to, then nothing's too much serving, moving cones, I was here at 7.30 in the morning, in the rain, wasn't doing it for me, servant of the Most High God, servant of the Most High God. As we plant more campuses, and is it inconvenient to get in a car and drive and serve and build and run small groups, yes, but I'm a servant of the Most High God, and it's not just about me, it's about me and all the people. So I wonder if you're in, as we go in to possess the next part of our spiritual inheritance, yes, the Lord's given us this, because it was never just about this plot of land. You and all these people, don't get too comfortable, you got to go and help your brothers and sisters get their part of the parcel as well. And every place you put your foot, so the question to Shoreline is, are you willing to step your foot on the next place? Right now it doesn't look like we've got the money, but we've got the presence, doesn't look like we've got the people, but we've got the presence, and I'm going to carry that presence in Jesus' name. If you want to be one of those people, I just want you to stand to your feet, I'm going to pray and then I'm handing over to Pastor Lord, because our time's up. Lord, this is a holy moment, we don't even have time to try to work this, it's not by might nor by power, but by your Spirit. So Lord, I pray that you would speak to every person distinctly, uniquely. Lord, this morning, I'm just so mindful, you said, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

So my prayer for every person in Shoreline is that they would know, Lord, as they are obedient to do the thing that you've called them to do, that your presence will be with them. Where they feel inadequate, not good enough, not skilled enough, your presence is enough. Your presence makes a way where there is no way, your presence gives us grace to be able to bear what we could not bear in the natural, your presence. And that this church would be defined by the fact that there are carriers of the presence. More than the excellence, more than the beautiful graphics, the people say that the glory of the Lord is on that house. They carry the presence, they carry the presence. And my prayer, Father, is that Shoreline would possess every single part of the spiritual promised land that you have for them. That we wouldn't settle, that we wouldn't fall short. Because God, we understand it's a privilege. Of course you could do it without us, it's your covenant, it's your promise, you're faithful to your word. We don't want to be in that place where 38 years later, it's like, oh, you could have got it back then. And that's what we say in 2026, Father, here we are, send us, in Jesus' name, amen, amen, amen.