It Runs In The Family || 12:30pm Sermon Message || Dr. Dharius Daniels

What's up, family? Welcome to the Darius Daniels YouTube channel. If you're here for the first time, I want to welcome you. See, I'm so grateful to have you on this platform, and I hope the message you're about to hear adds some value to you. And if you are here regularly, I want to thank you for your consistency and that you see this channel as a trusted source of spiritual nourishment to you. We are committed to biblically faithful, yet highly practical teaching. We believe in teaching Monday messages because we believe disciples have to do this thing in their daily lives. And so we're super grateful to have you as a partner. I want to extend an invitation to you. If you are anywhere near the Atlanta, Georgia area or in the tri-state area in the Northeast, you're in New York, you're in New Jersey, in Pennsylvania, maybe even Delaware. I want to invite you, if you're in the Atlanta area, on September the 13th to be a part of what we're calling Homecoming. It is our friends and family day. It's a day where our spiritual family are inviting the people that matter the most to them to worship with us. The service times are coming on the screen. I'm going to be speaking live at all of these services here in the Atlanta area, four services to choose from, and I'd love to see you in person at one of those services. And October the 4th in New Jersey at 930 a.m. in West Hampton and at 11 o'clock a.m. in Ewing, New Jersey, I'll be live and in person there as well. So Homecoming in Atlanta, September 13th. Homecoming in New Jersey, October the 4th. You're part of our YouTube fam. I'd love to see you in person. All right. Enjoy this message. It's a message I taught at our Atlanta location.

It's called It Runs in the Family. It's a message on spiritual family. Take care. So this is how we're going to roll out this series for the rest of our time together. But today we need to have a conversation on spiritual family and the role it plays in forming and shaping us for natural relationships. So let's go to Psalm 68 verse number 5, and here's what the writer says. A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families. I want to stop the reading of Scripture there and talk from this subject in our time together family. It runs in the family. It runs in the family. I want to use this introduction as an opportunity to pose two questions to two groups of people who are congregated in this crowd. The first question is directed toward individuals who are navigating a season of singleness. Singles, are you ready for your question? Okay, I got a little, it was almost like I don't know PD, wait. Here's a question. Are you the kind of person that the person you're looking for is looking for? Are you the kind of person that the person you're looking for is looking for? The second question is directed toward individuals who are in a season of life called coupling. You are married or you're dating. Are you ready for your question? Okay, singles are more lit. Okay, here it is. Are you becoming the kind of person that the person you are with would want if they became the kind of person you want them to be? Are you becoming the kind of person that the person you are with would want if they became the kind of person you want them to be? If you want them to be more spiritually mature, how would a more spiritually mature person feel about this version of you? If you want them to be more emotionally intelligent,

how would an emotionally intelligent partner handle this version of you? Therefore, it is my conviction that one of the wisest actions a person can take to improve relationally is to make a commitment to grow personally. We can only get better relationally if we commit to grow personally. A refusal to develop personally while praying fervently for someone relationally is basically asking God to act unjustly and send you a relational asset while you remain a relational liability. Yes, indeed. Asking God to send you someone while you refuse to change something that needs to be changed is asking God to bless you and curse them. It is asking God to add value to you and to take value from them. It is unjust, it is unfair, it is untenable, it is illogical, and it is unbiblical. Therefore, I am arguing, we need more than to improve relationally. We need to improve personally. Because personal growth reduces relational dysfunction. There is no such thing as a broken relationship. There are broken people who act out of their brokenness in broken ways, and those broken ways break relationships. So I'm arguing we need more than fervor for healthy relationships. We need formation for healthy relationships. And when I say formation, please don't misunderstand me. I am not suggesting we will ever grow out of imperfection, but we can grow out of immaturity. And many people subject their partners

to constant chaos in the name of I'm not perfect, when the truth of the matter is the problem isn't that you aren't perfect. The problem is you aren't formed. Because when we are formed, it reduces some of our relational dysfunction, it helps prevent relational idolatry, which is why for some singles, God has to supernaturally sabotage your relationships. Because when you get in a relationship with them, it shifts your relationship with him. When you are by yourself, you are present, you are praising, you are prayerful, and you are committed. But as soon as you run into somebody who knocks you off of your feet, they keep you off of your knees. And you are not as committed, you are not as dedicated, you are not as faithful, because your relationship with them shifts your relationship with him. And God says, I know what to do with the idol, I'll move it. I said all that to say, very simply, we can't get relationships right if we get formation wrong. Come on now. Because my formation determines how I function in relationships, and healthy relationships require formed people, requires empathy, and patience, and understanding, and forgiveness, and humility. Y'all aren't talking to me.

And persistence, and temperance, and a willing to get into your shoes, and see how you feel, and see how life is for you being connected with a person like me. And I got to love you enough to make some changes, even if I don't feel like I need to change, because I'm not grading myself in this relationship by myself, because I'm not in relationship with me, I'm in relationship with you. So I can't say how good I'm doing based on how I feel, I got to say how good we doing based on our input. I cannot get relationships right, get information wrong, because relationships require more than just prayerful people. They require more than just prudent people. They require more than just saved people. They require more than just moral people. They require a formed. I know you're right, but are you formed? I know you're saved, but are you formed? I know you deliver, that just says what you don't do. It doesn't say who you are. Did you hear what I just said? Well, pastor, I stopped lying. That doesn't mean, did you hear? That just means that you don't lie. It doesn't mean you know how to speak the truth in love. That's two different things.

You're moral, you don't lie, but it doesn't mean you're formed. I need formation. Look at the imagery. My God, I don't know what's happening. This ain't even in my notes. It's just this fresh bread right here. My God, yeah, yeah. It's the imagery that I see in the narrative of a pastor. A gentleman named Jeremiah, when he gets prophetic instruction, go down to the potter's house and there I'll show you my message. And he sees this potter that's got clay that's being molded. And the Bible says that the potter's shaping the clay and realizes the clay is marred. Watch this. And a novice potter would throw it away. But because God's not a novice, he's not unfamiliar with imperfections. What other people will remove, he just remakes. Hallelujah. And he looks at the rough edges and smooths those out. And the dents and smooths those out. He forms the clay into a vessel that's fit for the master's use. And we got some rough edges that need to be smoothed out. And we've got some perspectives

that need to be smoothed out. And some of you have a degree of bluntness and directness. It's quiet. That needs to be smoothed out. You got the truth part right. You gotta work on the love. It's gotta say that different. Form me, shape me, mold me, renew me, reform me, revive me. I don't just want to be right. I want to be formed. I don't just want to be saved. I want to be shaped. Shake me into your image and your likeness. I can't get relationships right if I get formation wrong. We can't get better relationally until I get better personally. Can't get formation right. Can't get relationships right if I get formation wrong. But listen to this. Here it says, go to the text. I can't get formation right if I get spiritual family wrong. Amen. Because God uses spiritual family to help me become formed. That my formation cannot happen in isolation. That there is a, come on here. That there's a community of people called spiritual family. That God uses to shape and mold us into who he's called us and created us to be.

Our text here is an example of what I'm articulating. Our text comes from the Psalms. And the book of Psalms is actually a collection of 150 ancient Hebrew songs. There are some prayers, there are some poems, there are some praise, there are some lament, and there are some reflections that give language to virtually every dimension of the human experience. It is one of my favorite books in the entire Bible because it is a book that gives you permission to seek deliverance from spiritual pretension. The vulnerability you see in Psalms, the honesty you see in Psalms, the realness you see in Psalms should give you permission to stop faking it before when you go in the presence of your father. This book right here, this book right here, this book right here, this is a real book right here. I can show you some of the stuff David said in this book, it will shock you. Y'all, I got Bible now, I got Bible, I got Bible, I got Bible, I got Bible, I got Bible. Give me Psalms 109, Psalms 109, verse nine. Psalms 109, verse nine. Somebody said read, that's my Pentecostal memory. Read, may stop, may. This is David. Y'all not, y'all not, y'all, y'all not. Give me verse eight, give me verse eight, give me verse eight, give me verse eight.

Give me verse 7. Give me verse 6. Appoint someone evil. Am I in the book? To oppose my enemy. Let an accuser stand at his right hand. It's quiet. Here it is. Look at verse 7. Verse 7, when he is tried, let him be found guilty. May his own prayers condemn him. Verse 8. Verse 8. May his days be few. May another take his place of leadership. Oh, David, not done. May his children be fatherless. And his wife a widow. This is not prescriptive. It is not prescribing something you should pray. Tell him, Jesus. Car wreck and Jesus. No. It's not prescribing something you should do. It is describing a man that is honest with his emotions before his God. It is a man whose heart was pure because it was empty. This is this book. It gives you permission to pursue a non-pretentious relationship with God where you're not tiptoeing around the tulip and God is like, when are we going to talk about the stuff we need to talk about?

When are we going to talk about you're mad? When are we going to talk about you're frustrated? When are we going to talk about you're discouraged? When are we going to talk about you're carrying an attitude? When are you going to talk about you're mad with me but you're scared to say it? We can fix it if you'll face it. I'll heal it if you'll stop hiding it. I'll adjust it if you'll expose it. If you'll put it on the altar, I'll consume it. That's this book. The book of Psalms. And although the Psalms are a collection of ancient Hebrew wisdom with a number of different contributors, the most notable contributor to the book of Psalms is a gentleman named David. And here in Psalm 68, this is a Psalm of David. It is actually a song that David wrote and it is a song that David wrote after incidents in 2 Samuel chapter 5, where he has two significant military victories, and in 2 Samuel 6, where as a result of those victories, he brings an instrument, it's another message, called the Ark of the Covenant, back to Jerusalem. Now that's another message. He didn't fight for the Ark. The Ark didn't require a battle. The Philistines knew that the Ark wasn't for them. After they put it in his temple in Dagon, fell face down wherever the Ark was. Come on. So he didn't have to fight. He fought to claim and to reclaim or to push out the Jebusites from Jerusalem. So he didn't fight for the presence. His fight was to remove the thing that was in the way of the place that the presence need to occupy.

He didn't have a presence of God problem. He had a placement problem, and the fight wasn't to get in the presence. The fight was to remove the stuff that was in the way of the presence being in its proper place. So after these military conquests, he writes a song. He literally reclaims a city and has a city named after him, the City of David. But when he writes the song, he didn't write the song about himself. He writes the song about his Savior. It's in verse one, let God arise and his enemies be scattered. It is like what David wrote reveals a revelation that he had. Are y'all ready for this? It's like David understood even though I am getting the credit, God deserves the glory. I give it, although I am getting credit for the victory, God is the reason I'm responsible for winning this battle. It is David recognizing I did the work, but God gave me the strength. And we can learn a lesson from this legend named David, because we should celebrate that we got to walk through a door, but don't forget that he opened it. We should celebrate we made a connection, but don't forget he orchestrated the introduction. We need to celebrate that we took advantage of an opportunity, but don't forget he arranged the timing. We need to celebrate that we closed the deal, but don't forget he sent you the favor. We need to celebrate that we planted seeds, but don't you forget that he sent the rain. We need to celebrate what we did,

but don't you forget what he hid. Amen. This is why at this church, we will always be unapologetic, unrestrained, unrestricted, and passionate in our praise, because we are aware of what David said in Psalm 127, except the Lord builds the house, they that labor, labor in vain. And I want somebody who realized that you got the victory, but God helped you win the battle to give him some glory because you get the credit, but he deserves the glory. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Psalm 68 is a celebration of victory. And tucked away in this text, situated in this song is one sentence that's short, but significant. David says, this warrior King who dwells among us, cares for us, takes the lonely and sets them in family. I'm like, now, David, I'm confused. Cause I don't understand how we go from, let God arise and his enemies be scattered, to he is a father to the fatherless, a defender of widows and one who takes the lonely

and sets them in the family. But maybe David's doing some reflection after his victory. And his reflection brings him to the conclusion that even though I won this fight, I didn't win this fight by myself. I won this fight because God gave me a family. Pastor, what do you mean here? You see, you see, this is interesting. The word he uses for family is a Hebrew word that can mean house, it can mean household, it could mean home, or it could mean place of belonging. So David here is describing something broader than God reconnecting people with relatives. He is describing God taking people who are isolated, displaced, unprotected, and disconnected and integrating them into a covenant community called spiritual family. This is why he says in verse five, he is a father to the fatherless. And one of the ways he is a father to the fatherless is not just by God fathering them directly, but God putting them in spiritual family because what spiritual family does is it supplements or substitutes what you were not able to get in natural family. So if you do not have a natural sister, God will send you a spiritual sister. If you don't have a natural brother, God will send you a spiritual brother. If you don't have a natural father,

God will use spiritual family to give you spiritual fathers. And what spiritual family does is it supplements or substitutes what family, are y'all ready for this? What's unwilling to give, unable to give, or even if you got all of that, what natural family was not assigned to give. So spiritual family isn't just something you need if you have a bad natural family. Spiritual, are you hearing what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, if you have, if you did not have the best natural family experiences, then spiritual family shows up for you in a different way. But everybody needs spiritual family, even if you had an amazing family, because there are things that spiritual family is supposed to do that natural family wasn't assigned to do. Natural family gave David his foundation. And if he did not have that foundation in natural family, he could not show up the way he showed up in his ministry assignment. He's a shepherd king and he would not be a shepherd king if it were not for the natural family he was born into. Because as a shepherd, he tended to his father's sheep. Yeah, if he wasn't born into the family he was born into, we don't get Psalms 23. Because when he writes, the Lord is my shepherd, he is writing in reflection of his time, tending to his father's sheep.

He is saying, as I was to my daddy's sheep, so the Lord has been to me. So family was foundational, family was consequential, but family gave you your beginning, but they are not always assigned to your becoming. Family gave you your history, but spiritual family is necessary for your destiny. Even if Jesse was a perfect father, he was going to be limited in his ability to help David when David stepped into a season where he's running a kingdom. Jesse had sheep, but he does not have experience running a kingdom. He doesn't know what it means to oversee a military. He doesn't know what it means to carry the stress of a staff. He doesn't know what it means to have an entire country's well-being depended and predicated upon your decisions. He doesn't know what it means to make the kind of decisions that David has to make. And God not only knows how to give you relationships that shape you in your past, he knows how to send relationships that'll get you ready for your future. And I need, I feel, wait a minute now. I feel like God's getting ready to shift somebody's circle. Hallelujah. I'm talking to somebody that's been in a season of relational frustration.

There is appreciation for who is in your life now, but you realize your next level is going to require somebody that cannot not just speak to you in your present, but point me to my future. David didn't just have natural family. He had spiritual family. Yeah. Doesn't mean that natural family's wrong. It doesn't mean that they're unwilling. There are some areas where they're unassigned. It's not they calling. They're not anointed for it. They're not called to it. They don't have the experience for it. And we see this in David's life, who at best had a complicated relationship with his family, at best. In 1 Samuel 15, there's a kingmaker. They called him judges in those days, spiritual and civil leaders. One named Samuel, book of 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel is written about his ministry. Samuel's called by God in 1 Samuel 15 to select and appoint the next king of Israel. So God tells Samuel, my next king is a son of a man named Jesse. So Samuel get on 285 and go down to Jesse's house. He fight through all that traffic

and he gets to Jesse's house and he say, Jesse, one of your boys is a king. Now Jesse's got seven sons. You know what Jesse does? He only calls six of them. And Samuel see the first one and say, no, he not it. Second one, that ain't it. Third, fourth, fifth, sixth, that ain't it. And Samuel, he's probably confused now. He said, now I've sat through all this traffic on 285, God, you told me to come down here and you told me this is one, the king was one of Jesse's sons. I don't understand, cause he's not. And so he asked Jesse, these all your kids? Jesse say, no, I got one more, but I know he not it. He got a king in his house and he can't even see it. What do you do when the ones that you want to see you can't see you? What do you do when the ones who know you the best see you the least? Why does it take a stranger to see what's in me? Samuel said, everybody sit down. He said, we're not leaving until he get here. They call for David. The Bible calls him, King James calls him Ruddy, R-U-D-D-Y, a little weird. And God said, that's the one. That's the man. Six of his brothers get an audience with Samuel first.

Six of his brothers get exposed to the opportunity first. Six of his brothers audition first. Six of his brothers apply first. Six of his brothers interview first. But when God has something for you, it doesn't matter who gets there first. He'll hold it in place until you get there. Do I have anybody whose testimony is, he may not come when you want him, but he is always on time. So go ahead and apply first and go ahead and DM first and go ahead and pull up on them first. But if God has my name on this opportunity, it does not matter who gets there first. His own dad couldn't even see what he was called to. This is why I encourage parents to make this a part of your prayer. I created this thing a while ago. I just need to release it. It's called 31 Prayers for Parents. Parents, we should be praying for prophetic insight that I don't want a Samuel from outside my house to be able to see something in my children that I can't see if my heart is open. Father, show me what you want to do with this one so I can point him in that direction. Now, when I deal with familyology, I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna talk about David a little bit, because this is one of the reasons, guys,

I believe he subjected himself to abusive behavior from Saul. So you mean to tell me you can sling a rock and kill a giant but then you're gonna let Saul throw a spear at you two times? You got one time with me. Yeah, we're gonna talk from the other side of the door. Why does he subject himself to that? Because Saul saw him. Because when he was a musician, the Bible says Saul loved him greatly and made David his armor bearer. So he subjected himself to toxicity and abuse and jealousy from somebody outside the house, because that one outside the house still gave him more than what he got in it. I'm almost done. Y'all good? All right. Complicated relationship with his dad and even his brothers. Now, if you read David's narrative, you'll see something called mighty men, and his mighty men are talked about way more than his brothers, because his mighty men were more like family than his own brothers were. Whoa. There's an eclipse of conversation about David's brothers. It's like they just disappear. What happened to his brothers? And then there's consistent conversation about his mighty men.

You don't hear a conversation about Eliab, you hear a conversation about Joab, because it's a complicated relationship with his brothers. One day he's literally bringing food to his brothers who were in the military, and then he sees this like enemy named Goliath who's insulting Israel and threatening them. So he like, who this? Y'all don't hear that? So as he starts inquiring, listen to what his own brother says. His own brother says this. He says, Eliab, David's older brother, heard him speaking with the men he burned with. anger at him and asked, why have you come down here? And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? You ain't doing nothing. I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is. You only came down here to watch the battle. That's his own brother. I'm not gonna bother this, but this is 1 Samuel 17. It's after 1 Samuel 16, because I'm wondering why are you calling him conceited? It's probably not his actions, it's probably his oil, because he got anointed in 1 Samuel 16. So the brother's projecting. If you was this oily, you would be arrogant. So now, let me go to this side. So now you're assuming I'm arrogant because I'm this oily.

It's what we call, it's what we call, listen to me. Every person, you're just gonna have to learn to let people live in this space. It's called assumption of motive fallacy. It's terrible, but it's assumption of motive fallacy. And this is when someone arrogantly assumes they know your motives when they can't see your heart. You just trying to be seen. No, you would be seen trying to be seen if you were, you're making an assumption about my motives. They just trying to compete with me. They don't know you're there. Let me go to this side. They are not thinking about you, trust me. You up at night thinking about them, thinking they thinking about you, they not thinking about you. They not thinking about you. So his family relationships are interesting. But even though Jesse couldn't see the king in him, Samuel could. And even though Eliab wasn't a brother to him, Jonathan was. Abathar, the priest helped him with his discernment. Nathan is the one that confronted him and corrected him. You see David's formation being the consequence of contribution of a number of significant and strategic relationships that God had put in David's life. And if David needed these relationships for formation for his destiny,

you and I need relationships for the formation of ours. And many people are choosing people they can go out with and ignoring people you can go up with. Now, some of y'all too young for this. I'm gonna drop you off and come back and pick you up, but I'm a movement by myself. But I'm a force. When we're together. My circle determines my shaping. Now, let me ask you something. Let's play target. You'll chase a man. Yeah, that's what I said. Yes. Yeah, that's what I mean. Chase a man, run one down. I mean, put yourself all in the right position. Just, girl, he work at Home Depot. Where you going? To buy some shelves. You got on stilettos to get some shelves. Chase a man. You'll chase a woman. You'll become a chameleon. You'll become someone. That's a whole nother message there. You'll become someone different to get them and then change back to your original colors once you have them. Chase a man.

Chase a woman. We just had to put both of these messages up on YouTube because it's two different messages. It's just not the same. I'm way off my notes. I don't know what I'm talking about right now. This is not what I've been preaching all day. Oh, Lord. Spiritual family, we'll chase, but then we won't even be open to relationships that we actually need. They may even be challenging, but they help conform us. We're intentional when it comes to engagement in natural relationships, which you're doing. But not as intentional with spiritual ones. I was talking to a brother yesterday here at Outpour, after Outpour, and you know, sometimes you're carrying so much stuff and you have no choice but to carry it, you don't even know how much you're carrying, because you just got to carry it. And as his brother was sharing with me all of the things he was dealing with and carrying, I grabbed his hand and I said, brother, that's a lot. I said, who are you talking to? It's a lot. You can't carry this by yourself. You need more than somebody's going to take you to get some white henny. My cousin told me about that. I don't. Brother, this too much. Who's your circle that's helping you carry what you're carrying? And a circle is like an umbrella. You don't need it all the time, but when you need it, do you know where to find it? And may God send you, show you, give you a circle. It needs to be safe. You can't be shaped where you're not safe. You got to discern the difference between sheep, wolves, and goats. Sheep and wolves, sheeps and goats, sheep and goats can be underdeveloped. We all are. They can be immature. We all are. They can be imperfect. Wolves are unsafe. You got to know the difference. They got to be specific, customized for your calling. I got grace for who I'm called to connect with. Did you hear what I said? You need to know you got some issues. I got some issues. We all have issues, but your circle, your spiritual family has oil for your issue. Did you hear what I just said? They were built for where you're broken. You need to be settled. Here's what helped that. When you look at David's relationship, when I tell you this is a completely different message. Some of y'all stayed over to hear the old one, and

I'm sorry. You're like, I need to hear that again. Well, this not it. I'm following the Holy Ghost. All of David's circle were settled in their own identity. Samuel knew he was a kingmaker. He wasn't trying to be one. And some of you got, you calling it a circle, but they competing. You got oil to be king. Let me go to this side. I'm about to drop the young people off. I'm coming back to get you. Smiling in your face. The whole time trying to take your place. Backstab. Oh, this the old, backstabbers. Gotta be settled in there. I'm just telling you. Because if not, they're unconsciously competing. Samuel's like, I'm not the king. I'm a kingmaker. I don't want to be a king. I'm a kingmaker. Joab's like, I'm not your successor. I'm your soldier. When you done, I'm done. I'm not here to take your spot. I'm here to be your strength. They gotta be safe. They gotta be specifically customized for you. They gotta be settled in their own identity. And number four, they must be serving. Because if not, it's gonna be a parasitic partnership. Where they're good people, but still all they do is take. It's a good, are you hearing what I'm saying? But when you're in need, when you need encouragement, and when you need support, when you need assistance, they serve.

When the event planner quit, this is when your doorbell rang. And your friends are there saying, girl, come on, let's hang this, let's hang this decor. Come on. Do you have that? Because if you don't have that, when you get over here on this side, you're gonna need that for this. Y'all not talking to me. I said, you're gonna need that for this. First Sunday of September, when you deal with family dynamics, you're gonna need that. You're gonna need that for this. So here's a reflective question for you. Holy Spirit, now that you're done speaking to me through the sermon, what do I need to do? What you've accomplished, amazing. Where you are, amazing. The question is, do you have any prophetic sense of where God's about to take you? You think he through? He's just now getting you to a place of usability. Are you hearing what I'm saying? I mean, you just, he's worked through the emotional stuff and the spiritual stuff and the practice. And now you're just in the, you think he's done?

There's a palace you're gonna need some people for. And some of you, God has to send this. You gotta pray this in. Others of you, you got to lean in who are already there. You gotta lean in. You there, but your own emotional, you got your own emotional issues. Won't let you believe people when they actually tell you something they mean. When they say, call me if you need me. So many people have not meant it. When somebody that actually means it, say it. You don't take advantage of it because you assume. When some of you got to get on that phone, say, what you doing? I'm coming over there. I need my circle. I think about my life. I think about my natural father, Timothy Daniels. No one would have, no other male contribution has made more contribution in my life. But then I think about Henry Hankins in Jackson, Mississippi. I think about my friends, E. Earl Jenkins from Kilmichael, Mississippi. I didn't know what a financial advisor was, 20 something years old. He said, what you doing with your money? Introduce me to his. Every significant shift I had to make in my life,

the anxiousness, the insecurity, all the things, I had to have a safe place. Say, man, I'm going to Atlanta. I don't know why God sent me there. I feel like I'm risking everything. I'm scared. And one time Bishop E.L. Jenkins looked, well, on the face, it was on the phone. He said to me, he said, Darius, with your gifts, if you keep your life clean, you will never have to worry about feeding your family. That wasn't my bishop. It was a friend. It's my circle. Now, some of you are that to everybody. Who's that to you? We're getting ready to pray that in right now, though. Hey, well, first of all, I want to thank you for finishing. So many people, well, actually, most people get about 21 minutes in and then they stop. I wish I knew how to preach a 21 minute message, but I don't. But I'm grateful for you. And I hope it added value to you. One request, if it did, would you just send this out to someone else? And if you just happen to be a person that's really passionate about growing deeper in your development and your discipleship, you should consider being a part of a community that I lead called Real Life Seminary. And if you want to know more about it, just go to the website right here on the screen. It is, I believe, the seminary to help people with real life. And I think it'll add tremendous value to you. And for those of you who give, who sow back into this ministry each week, I want to thank you for that. Ways to Give are coming on the screens. We love you. We'll see you next time. Take care.