How Do We GROW From Here? | Kelli Brownlee

Can y'all do me a favor before we get started with the word today? Can you just give the Lord a shout of praise? I just want you to open your mouth and praise the Lord this morning. Hallelujah. Open up your mouth. Tell him thank you. Come on. Just give him a little bit praise. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Open your mouth. Hallelujah. Some of y'all let the worship team do the work for you this morning. Open your mouth. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Oh, give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good, and his mercy endures to all generations. Hallelujah. My God, I feel the presence of God in this room, and I want to challenge you. We're going to talk a little bit about this today, but I want to challenge you. The word of God tells us, put on the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. That means it's a choice to take off those mourning and depressive and oppressive clothes and put on hope. Put on joy. Put on love. Put on the power of God. Hallelujah. And I want to tell you today, the spirit of the Lord is in this room to do incredible

things, and I believe he wants to move by his spirit. Amen? Amen. And this clock is wrong. Amen. So, I'm just going. I know I don't thank you. Praise God. Let's give it up for the production team. They are such a blessing. And let's give it up for this Allison Park Warrior staff doing an incredible job. Hallelujah. And I want to honor Pastor Mel. It was a blessing to see her this morning and the Leek family. How many of you have been praying for them? Yes. Yes. However you need to do it, put a Post-it by the door or pick a day of the week and just cover them in prayer and belief for God to continue to heal and comfort and rejuvenate them in Jesus' name. If I haven't met you before, it's such a privilege to be here today. My name is Kelly, and I did at one point work here, which I said in the first service, this was the best job I ever had. And I mean that. Even with Joe's spreadsheets, it was the best. I mean, I'm currently praying and asking God to send me a Joe at my church. So look what the Lord has done. But truly, I thank God because it has been... Next week, it'll be three years that we planted Story Collective Church. And I thank God for our pastor, Pastor Jeff, who challenged me and called out what he saw

in me. And I, like many of you, have been wrestling over these last few weeks and just some days, you know, I'm okay. And other days, just the sound of his name will cause me to weep. But I thank the Lord for the gift of Pastor Jeff Leek. Amen. Amen. Today, I want to share with you... That's my pastor. I used to call him my bishop. So that's Bishop Jeff Leek. He came to preach at Story Collective in September. And I had been sick. I'd been dealing with some blood pressure problems, and it was looking like I was going to have to have surgery. And Pastor Jeff came to preach at our church. And when he was there, he said, he said, Pastor Kelly, I don't think you're just having a physical situation. He said, I believe you're enduring some warfare, and it is, you're experiencing it in your body. And so a few days later, I took some time off away from work, and I went into a cabin in the woods. And I'm going to show you this picture of how it looked in the woods in just a moment. Oh, isn't that beautiful? And I would sit there and type on my computer and just pray and talk to the Lord. And I loved looking out at these trees where I was. And sometimes we can look at trees and we think that you determine the health and the beauty of a tree based on what you can see on the outside. But actually, what actually grounds and makes a tree healthy is the connected system underneath the ground that we are not able to see with our eyes.

And I'm going to read this passage of scripture to you today. And you'll see where I'm going in just a little bit. It's in Colossians, Colossians chapter two, verses six through seven, and it reads like this. This is the New Living Translation. And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue. Somebody say continue. Continue to follow him. Let your. Roots grow down into him and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth that you were taught and you will overflow with thankfulness. Yes, hallelujah. Now, what I have come to understand, a couple weeks ago when Pastor Joe reached out to me about preaching this particular Sunday, the Holy Spirit began to deal with me right away and I kept seeing this image of a group of trees. And the Lord often deals with me in pictures and so, because I'm a nerd, I went out and I got a book called The Hidden Life of Trees. I would absolutely recommend it. It is an excellent book. You know, some people read about aliens, I read about trees, you know? So I got this book and I just went on this deep dive and I tell you immediately, my spirit was stirred. And the author, he talks about how trees do not compete with one another,

even if they are of another species, that they actually live in cooperation. And the interesting thing is that down below the surface, they live very interconnected lives. That they're, obviously, we know that one tree cannot be a complete forest. And so they live independently but interconnected. Through an underground system, they provide nutrients and support to one another and they thrive best when they are connected. The stronger trees can provide food and resources to the weaker trees and they can even send signals underground to one another that there is a threat on the horizon. Now, immediately, there is a clarity that this imagery provides us with. A tree by itself, again, is not a forest, but a forest is made up of individual trees that are deeply connected by their root system. See, what we see on the outside is not actually how we determine how healthy the tree is. A tree's strength and a tree's health is best determined by the health of its roots. A tall, beautiful tree can still fall prey to the winds of a storm or the infestation of insects if the roots are shallow. But a tree with deep interlocking roots can endure years of harsh weather, storms, and even drought. And in a moment like this that many of us find ourselves in, where many of us are grieving one of the most priceless

people that has ever imparted truth into our lives and that of Pastor Jeff Leak. Or maybe you are on the heels of a broken relationship. Maybe you have been praying for a very long time to be married and you are not yet married. Maybe you've been believing God for children and you do not yet have children. Maybe you have been believing God like me for every restaurant in America to serve Coke Zero. I don't know where we need to sign up, what petition needs to be passed around, but it's time and I'm tired. Maybe you've been believing God like me for an NBA team in Pittsburgh. What must we do? Come on, amen, praise God. Maybe you've been tired of praying the same prayer for years and you find yourself in a weary season. I wanna challenge you today that many of us find ourselves asking the question, what do I do now? And the Spirit of the Lord wants to challenge us today, this morning, how do we grow from here? This is what the Lord has for us today. And I wanna go back to this passage in Colossians and show you how crucial and timely it is for where we are right now. Now, to really understand how profound this passage in Colossians is, I wanna share a little background with you. The book of Colossians is actually a letter

written from the Apostle Paul and he's writing from jail. So he's not writing from a place of comfort. He is writing to a young church in a city in the area of Turkey called Colossae. And the Apostle Paul did not start this church. This church was started by a man named Epaphras. He had been ministered to by the Apostle Paul. He experienced. the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and he took it back to his hometown, Colossae, and began a church there. Now, what we see when we start the book of Colossians, or the letter of Colossians, is that this is a young church. This church used to be a prominent city. It was located on a major trade route, but larger cities around it had become more prosperous. And so it wasn't a famous church. It was most likely a struggling church. And this church began to experience pressure. Somebody say pressure. There were false teachers rising that were trying to convince these believers that Jesus is good, and Jesus is important, but Jesus isn't enough. And I don't know about you, but that sound like 2026, child. That's all kind of people trying to tell you that. Well, you know, Jesus is not the only way to God. The devil is a liar.

Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. And then the Bible also tells us that the path to get to God is a narrow path. That means we have some things that we have to follow in order to actively be following Jesus. In this young church, there were people rising up, not just within the church, but around them, teaching them that they needed Jesus and something else in order to be saved. There were also some teaching that spiritual enlightenment was only available to select people through secret knowledge and through mysticism. That still sounds like 2026. We got people that go to the grocery store and they rub on these crystals to determine the best meat or produce. Have y'all, did y'all know this? Oh yeah, there's people that practice witchcraft at the grocery store with crystals in their hand, determining how they buy the product or make a decision. Oh, which I think is wild. So you mean to tell me you'll follow a crystal, but you won't get on your knees and pray. So it seems to me like some of these problems have been around for a long time. And this church was being caught up in this. There were also others who held fast to Jewish rituals, saying that you had to be circumcised or you had to practice this particular celebration

or this festival on this day, or you couldn't be saved. And Paul writes to this church and says, enough, let me remind you of the truth you've been taught. Not only is Jesus good, not only is Jesus important, but Jesus is the center of your faith. Remind yourself who you belong to and root yourselves in him. The reason this is so important that Paul wrote this letter is because Colossae was actually in a earthquake zone. If you read any research about Colossae at this time, there had been a earthquake in the area and they were actually built on an area that it was not uncommon for them to experience earthquakes. It was a very unstable place. And so not only were there buildings that had fallen apart, there were cracks in many of the foundation, there was debris and rubble. And these people were looking at years and years of rebuilding ahead of them. And so Paul is not only speaking to their spiritual condition, he's speaking to their natural condition. He writes to them and says, Colossians 2, six and seven, and now, in the middle of your rebuilding, in the middle of your uncertain situation, in the middle of your pain, in the middle of your grief, in the middle of your trials, and now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. Let your roots grow down into him

and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught and you will overflow with thankfulness. Paul is aware of what they've endured. He's aware of the mental wrestling that they've been dealing with. He knows how daunting the rebuilding process is. And he's asking them the same question that we're being asked today. Are we going to rely on our own strength or are we going to rely on God? on the truth that we've been taught. Are we going to stop here or are we going to continue in faith? Brothers and sisters, we are at the same crossroad today. And this is what I wanna submit to you, that growing in Christ, after loss, disappointment or a season of pain, requires me to evaluate if what brought me this far is enough to sustain me for what's next. We have to evaluate our root system. We have to evaluate how deep our roots go down into Christ. We have to evaluate if our lives are actually built on him or if our lives have actually been built on our capabilities and our abilities. Can I challenge you this morning that the prayer life you had before this trial that you're walking through, it won't sustain you. It won't.

Every level that we go in in Christ requires that we start again at one. You say, how can you say that? Well, have y'all ever played Donkey Kong? Okay, wait, let me see. I don't know the younger games, the games that y'all play. What y'all play, Super Mario something? Legends of Zelda. Okay, I like that. Now I know Legends of Zelda. Every, oh, excuse me, legend. Every level starts back at the beginning. Do you notice that? Every level that you grow in Christ is going to go back to a beginning stage where you have to evaluate, am I actually following Jesus or have I started following myself? And I'm challenging you today. In order for us to overcome what we are going through, we must evaluate the strength of our root system. Now I wanna submit this to you. Pain does require a pause and we don't like this. Pain is vulnerable and you cannot skip over grief. If you try to skip over grief, let me tell you, it'll be three years down the line and you will blow up at somebody on your job because they ate your peanut butter jelly sandwich in the refrigerator and you will be thinking in your mind, why am I so angry? And you are angry because you didn't grieve

what happened three years ago. You can't skip over grief. You can't skip over disappointment. You can't skip over loss. But I'm challenging you today that in your pause, don't get stuck there. Don't get lost, don't get consumed by the pain that you are feeling. Pain has the potential to push you deeper into reliance on the presence of God. But pain also has the potential to form you into a person that God never intended for you to be. You might say, well, how do you know that? Have you ever read the book of Ruth? Naomi, she lost her husband. She lost her sons. Famine pushed her out to another land. And so when the famine was gone and she was able to return to Judah, the women were excited. The Bible says that they said, oh, is that our Naomi coming back to us? And you know what Naomi said? Now, mind you, Naomi means pleasant. Naomi said to them, don't call me Naomi, call me Mara, which means bitter because the Lord has dealt bitterly with me. That is becoming your pain to the fact that you actually change your name, change what you believe,

change what you express and what you declare, all centered around your pain. And that is not God's will for you. Listen, I've lost two children. I lost my father and my mother-in-law two months apart from each other in the same year to the same day. I'm acquainted with grief, but I am not the worst thing that has happened to me. You are not the worst thing that has happened to you. You are more than an overcomer through him who loves you. And I wanna challenge you today, feel the pain, pause for the pain, but don't get stuck there. The pain is not all that you are. God still has a purpose and a plan for you. God still has a purpose and a plan for this church. God will still have his way and his will shall be done. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. And we must remind ourselves of the truth that we were taught. Pastor Jeff used to stand up here and, come on. Now, what would it look like if we, you know, well, I'm just gonna give up. I don't know what I'm gonna do without him. You know what?

I was crying one day and I had talked to somebody on the phone who was also a leader under Pastor Jeff and they said, you know, I don't even, I don't know how to lead without Pastor Jeff. And I got ready to say the same thing. You know what the Holy Spirit said to me? Yes, you do. And I said, no, sir, I don't. He said, yes, you do. He said, go look back at your notes. Go look back at your journal. Go look back at all the things that you've learned. It's in you because the same Holy Spirit that was in him is the same Holy Spirit that resides in you. You do know how to move on. You do know how to keep going through the power of God, through the power of the Holy Spirit. And you can cry, you better. You can take your pause, but we are not going to get stuck here. We're going to continue to move forward in what the Lord has for us. So the question today is, how do we grow from here? And in Pastor Jeff Leak form, I have come up with an acronym that we can all remember. And the word is HELP. The H stands for an absolute dependence on the Holy Spirit. When I was growing up, they didn't say Holy Spirit. They said, Holy Ghost. You need a dependence on the Holy Ghost.

You cannot walk through any trial or tribulation and come out with the strength that God designed for you in your own ability. You must learn to rely on the Holy Spirit. And for many of us, this is the answer. Lord, how do I get over this divorce? Lord, how do I get over the disappointment on my job? Lord, how do I get over the disappointment of not having kids? Lean on the Holy Spirit. You can't get over it on your own. He's inviting you in to partake of his strength. The Bible actually tells us in John 14 that he is a comforter, that he will guide us into all truth. If you don't have the answer for your business, if you don't have the answer for your family, if you don't have the answer for the cycle of addiction that you are going through, I'm telling you right now, the answer is in the Holy Ghost. And you need to rely and depend on him. Hallelujah. Galatians 5 actually says that if we walk in the Spirit, we will not gratify the desires of our flesh. Lord, teach us how to walk in the Spirit. You need a habit of daily surrender and repentance. You need a habit of prayer that includes learning to wait for God to speak back to you. You need a habit of reading God's word because how can you experience the sustaining power

that resides in his word if you don't know it? How can you create a root system based on God's truth instead of the unstable lies that you've been believing if you aren't actively studying and feasting on God's word? We need absolute dependence on the person of the Holy Spirit. Second, we grow by committing to an expression of faith. Faith has a sound. Last week, Evangelist Greg Hubbard reminded us that if faith responders, our language should be different and set apart. Proverbs says that the power of life and death is in our tongue and those who indulge, or another translation says, those who talk a lot will eat its fruit. Now, I don't know about y'all, but if I take inventory of my words, if I take inventory of the things I'm speaking over myself and speaking over my life, the question is, What atmosphere am I creating? Just like they created an atmosphere this morning for us to experience the presence of God, what atmosphere are you creating in your home? What atmosphere are you creating over your children? What atmosphere are you creating over your health challenge? What atmosphere? Speak life, not death. You should have an expression of your faith. Faith has a sound.

Y'all know how this is true? Have y'all ever been to a Pirates game? Take me out to the ball game. You would think the Pirates been winning for the last 20 years. Sweet Caroline, let's go, Bucks. $20 worth of nachos, we go for it. For them to lose again. That's faith. But you know, then we come to church and Sarah and the team just be up here, Christ is my firm foundation. And we be like, oh God. God, I don't know if you're gonna do it again. I don't know if you're gonna show up. Of course he's gonna show up. The same God that showed up the last time is the same God that's gonna show up for you today. We ought to be coming in here, screaming and yelling these songs by faith. They're not just lyrics on a screen. They are nutrients and resources to our root system. We should be declaring and expressing our faith. The L is for leadership. Y'all know that, well, let me say it like this. Self-control is a fruit of the spirit. We tend to skip over that one. That means that like, you know, when you go to eat something and instead of ordering a triple patty burger,

you order a salad. Self-control. Or you leave in here and you've been singing and waving your hands. And then you walk out there and someone with a Big Mac truck cuts you off. And the words that come up don't necessarily feel Holy Spirit filled, but self-control takes hold of you. And you don't say what you intended to say. That is self-leadership. That is when you have disciplined yourself enough and allowed the Holy Spirit to cultivate within you a level of respect for what comes out of your mouth, for what you put in your body, for the people that you surround yourself. That we need to recommit ourselves to self-leadership. You know what else you need to commit yourself to? The leaders that have been appointed in this house. Reminding, this is what the word says, that Paul wrote to the people at Colossae and said, I'm reminding you of what you've been taught. In other words, you need to commit yourself to what Epaphras is teaching you. Commit yourself to the leaders here. Commit yourself to every prayer meeting and to everything that they're challenging you to do because they're leading by the leading of the Holy Spirit. Lastly, our help is when we recommit to our peers, to our community.

Acts 2 42 through 47 says this, all the believers, somebody say all. All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship and to sharing in meals, including the Lord's Supper and to prayer. A deep sense of awe came over them all. And the apostles performed many miracles, signs and wonders. And all, somebody say all. All the believers met together in one place and shared everything they had. They sold their property and possessions and shared the money with those in need. They worshiped together at the temple each day. They met in homes for the Lord's Supper and shared their meals with great joy and generosity, all the while praising God and enjoying the goodwill of the people. And each day the Lord added to their fellowship those who were being saved. Listen, we need to recommit ourselves like the trees to being interlocked in community with one another. Your brother and sister can't help you if they don't know you have a need. Oh boy. Listen, some of y'all are one simple step away from your prayer being answered. You wanna know what it is? You need to ask for help. You need to say out loud, I have a need.

You need to allow your brothers and sisters in Christ to come around you and support you and lift you up. It's not a shame to admit that you're weak. You know what's a shame? Is when you have so many people around you that can help you and support you and you won't open your mouth up and ask for help. None of us have to go through this on our own. It was never the Lord's idea that we live this life by ourselves. I wanna close with a picture of one of the oldest trees in the world. I believe the pronunciation is Old Chico and it don't look like such a much. It's in Sweden. And when you look at the upper part of the tree, the branches don't seem like they reach out very long. It's a pretty tree, but the upper part is younger and has experienced some passing away and some changing, even though it's beautiful. But what's amazing about this tree is that if you look around it, it has a root system that goes on and on and on because the base of the tree is over 9,500 years old. So the strength isn't found in what we're able to see at the top. The strength is in the root system that it has been created. And one of the ways that this root system has been created is through a process called layering.

And when the heavy weather comes, when the storm comes, when the ice comes, when the snow comes, this Old Chico has learned how to allow the snow to cause it to bend. And so instead of the branches breaking, it bends and that bending causes it to reach down into the soil and it regenerates. And so instead of the storm breaking it, the storm actually activates it to reach down into the soil and live and live and live and live and live for over 9,000 years. This is what the Lord is inviting us into today. The Lord is inviting us to evaluate our root system. How dependent are you on the Holy Spirit? And I wanna challenge you. One thing about our pastor Jeff, he did not mind telling you he was dependent on the Holy Spirit. I remember one time he said that instead of watching a presidential debate, that he turned the TV off and he spoke in tongues for the entire time that the debate was happening. He said, I just decided I'm just gonna pray. I don't know what to do. I don't have the answers. So I'm gonna seek the Holy Spirit. How dependent are you on the Holy Spirit to walk you through your pain? What's your expression of faith look like?

When's the last time you woke up telling the Lord, thank you for who he is in your life and all that he's provided in your life instead of complaining or the first phrase out of your mouth being, I'm so tired. When is the last time you checked your self-control, your self-leadership, your discipline? And lastly, how connected are you here? How connected are you? Do you walk in the back door and walk out the back door? Do you give $10 here and there, kingdom builders? Okay, okay, okay. Or are you all in? I'm gonna ask us to stand this morning. There's a few things that I feel led to mention. I'm gonna also ask that any of the prayer leaders that are in this service that you'll come up at this time. First, I wanna say to you this morning, if you are not actively following Jesus, today's your day. The Lord does not desire for you to figure things out all by yourself. He does not desire for you to figure things out all on your own. He is the best friend you could ever have. all by yourself. He does not desire for you to be a sinner. And can I just challenge you, you can't save yourself. He does not desire for you to be a sinner. You can't earn salvation.

But the Bible says that if we confess with our mouth and we believe in our heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, the Bible says we'll be saved. And some of you, it's just, you're that close to being saved. You just need to make a confession out loud. I believe Jesus Christ is Lord and I wanna follow him. And if that's you today, I wanna challenge you. We have a wonderful pastor, Nick, back there. He has a fantastic mustache. He will help you and get you started on the best relationship you could ever have. Don't leave this place. If you're not sure, if you're like, I don't know if I'm actually following Jesus, I don't know if I died today, if I would go to heaven or hell, please go talk to Nick. Please go talk to Nick. He's right there in the back. But I also wanna challenge those of us in this room today that if you will just admit, you know what, Pastor Kelly, my root system is not what it needs to be. It is a little shallow. I've been building my life on things that cannot sustain me. I've gone back to old habits. I've been drinking too much. I've been watching things I shouldn't. I've been in places I know I should not be in. I know I need to tighten up my root system.

I'm gonna challenge you to come today. And nobody's here to judge you. We're here to help you. We're here to love you. There's also a female in this service. And this is strange to me, but I'm gonna say it in faith. You have an eating disorder that somehow you have been hiding. And I think you're married. You're in a relationship. The Lord wants to free you from that today. He wants to heal you completely. And I know it feels like, oh, it couldn't possibly be that he wants to heal me because I've been doing this so long. The Lord said today, today, today, today. Because you've been relying on how that makes you feel a little bit more secure about yourself. And the Lord said, I want your identity to be in me. In me. I want you to be reminded you are fearfully and wonderfully made. I made you, you're beautiful. He wants to restore that root system today. Today's your day, don't miss it. I'm also challenging those of you that have just been kind of standing on the sidelines and you have not plugged into community. You have not said, I wanna be all in. Today's your day.

This is the house. You belong here. This is a house of miracles. This is a house of faith. Don't leave this place the way you came in. So as we start to sing this song, do not wait for me to come back out. Just come up. We've got prayer warriors that are gonna pray with you. Today is your day of salvation and change. I'll be right back in just a few moments. ♪ Oh Lord, see I will build, oh I will build my life ♪ ♪ Upon your love, it is a firm foundation ♪ ♪ And I will put my trust in you alone ♪ ♪ And I will not be shaken, Lord ♪ ♪ And I will build my life upon your love ♪ ♪ Oh Lord, see I will build, oh I will build my life upon you alone ♪ ♪ And I will put my trust in you alone, Lord ♪ ♪ And I will not be shaken, Lord ♪ ♪ And I will build my life upon your love, Jesus, your love ♪ ♪ For my firm foundation, and I will put my trust in you alone ♪ ♪ And I will not be shaken, and I will build my life upon you, Lord ♪ ♪ And I will build my life upon your love, Jesus, your love ♪ ♪ It is a firm foundation, and I, I'm gonna put my trust in you alone, Lord ♪ Come on, people of God, raise your hands, surrender to the Lord this morning. I will build my life, hey, upon your love, hey, and it's a firm foundation, hey, hallelujah. Come on, one more time, I will build my life upon your love, hey, it is a firm foundation, and I'm gonna put my trust in you, Lord, oh, holy, hallelujah, and holy there is, come on, the Lord's not through in this room. Open up my eyes in wonder and show me who you are, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, holy, there is no one like you, there is none beside you. Open up my eyes in wonder, show me who you are and fill me with your heart and lead me in your love.

I will build my life, and I will build my life upon your love, it is a firm foundation, and I will put my trust in you, Lord. One more time, let's sing that as a family. I wanna do something a little different than we've done to close the other services. If you'll do me a favor, if you're in the rows, just reach across the rows and reach to the person next to you. If you don't mind holding their hand today, we do have a hand sanitizer out there, so y'all will be just fine, okay? But all across the aisles, I want us to hold hands this morning. And I recognize for the introverts, this is a challenge. Y'all gonna be just fine, okay? All across the aisles, please, let's not leave anybody disconnected. Worship team, if you'll even just connect each other, put a hand on his shoulder, something. Listen, this is how we get through this. And you might say, Pastor Kelly, what's this? Whatever your this is, this is how we get through this. You do not have to do this on your own. If you are weak, there are people in this room that have been following Jesus through highs and lows, through mountains and valleys, and they will walk with you. There are people in this room that have gone through things and the Lord has redeemed them from sin patterns that you wouldn't even believe. And I want to challenge you, do not allow the enemy to lie to you that it doesn't get any better than this. The devil is a liar. Every promise that the Lord has over your life, it is yes and amen. And just because it might look like it's taking longer than you thought does not mean he's forgotten about you and it doesn't mean it won't happen. And I'm challenging you today. Dig in. Let your roots grow down into him. Do not give up. Do not pull up those roots too soon. And I pray even now, Lord, for every brother and sister in Christ in this room. Father, by the power of your spirit. Father, I pray that we would be strengthened and edified. and built up through the power of the Holy Spirit. Father, I pray for every person that is even afraid to ask for the infilling of the Holy Spirit. I'm

sensing that in the room. Father, I come against fear in the name of Jesus. Perfect love casts out all fear and I pray that even as they are at home praying on their knees or even as they are walking through their kitchen that you would fill them to overflow in the name of Jesus. Father, we thank you that the Holy Spirit is a free gift available to all of us and I declare the comfort and the peace and the strength and the fortitude that comes from being in partnership over the Holy Spirit in this room over every man, every woman, every boy, every girl from the front to the back. The power of the Lord be released upon you. Father, I come against every physical sickness in the name of Jesus. You are a trespasser and we release the healing power and virtue of Jesus in this room. And Father, for every marriage that looks like it is on its last leg, we declare restoration now in Jesus name. We declare forgiveness and redemption by the power of your blood. And Father, we will be careful to honor you, to praise you, and to give you all the glory. In Jesus name, amen and amen. Hallelujah. Come on, let's give Him one more shout of praise. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Love you all so much. The Lord bless you and I'll see you next time. God bless. you