Kairos | Derek Staaland

Good morning, listen, let's put it together for Cape Coral, Janesville online. Come on, you could do better than that. God behind bars. Welcome. We are so glad you are here. And thank you for being here. Listen, next week, Freedom Sunday. Don't forget this is we get to be in church. Isn't this amazing? We get to be here. We get to watch online to celebrate and believe for God to do the impossible. Well, listen, today, can we just make an agreement before we start? All right. Are you okay? I'm not gonna make you sign anything, but just make an agreement. All right. We're going to agree that either you are going to receive encouragement today or you are going to give encouragement today. Is that fair? Okay. This message is going to be encouraging because, listen, right now, I just want you to look around. Just make some awkward eye contact with people around you. Go ahead. It's all right. Everybody you just made awkward eye contact with. Can I tell you they're going through something? Now, see, in church, we like to fake, you know what I mean,

right? We walk in, we got big smiles on our face. Praise Jesus. I'm so glad I'm here. Everybody is going through something. Okay, everybody in this room. And here's what I felt like God was saying to me. People in this room, people watching online are being tempted to quit. And today, God has brought you here or had you tune in online because he wants to tell you it's not time to quit. I want to encourage you to keep going. That's what God's message is going to be for us today. All right. Now, if you know me, you know that I grew up in the 90s and I was a huge Chicago Bulls fan. Any Chicago Bulls fans in here? All right. We got a couple. The Chicago Bulls are not fun to watch now. But back then, when you win all the time, it's really fun to watch, right? And so I hardly ever missed a game. I watched almost every game. I love basketball. And they used to do this thing, this pregame ritual before every game. In fact, let's watch this. Let me just show you what this looks like. I like that.

Man, come on. Who's excited about that? I'm ready to go play basketball, right? Now, if you couldn't hear him say, what time is it? Game time. All right. So if you could type it online, what time is it? Game time, huh? I don't know how to spell huh, but just go ahead. We won't judge you on your spelling. But why did they do this? Why did they get together and do this little chant before every game? Because they wanted to say, listen, no matter what's going on in your life outside of basketball, right now is the moment. And we're going to focus in together as a team. We're going to encourage each other because something special is about to happen. Now, see, that's exciting to watch, but wouldn't it have been awkward if someone said, what time is it? And Scottie Pippen said, it's 730. Right? That doesn't make sense. In context, we know what they were doing. They were saying, hey, it's time to lock in. Can I tell you that I feel like God is asking us the same question today. What time is it in your life? Are you focused on the day-to-day distractions that are

going on? Or are you going to continue to focus and believe for me to do the impossible in your life? See, I love that. And again, I love the Bulls, but I love thinking of it in that context because literally they're saying, let's come together. Let's encourage each other because something special is about to happen. And that's what I feel like today is about. So now listen, when we talk about time, if you were to ask people what they don't have enough of, what do you think they would say? Time and money. In fact, we have this phrase now that says time is money. So maybe they're one in the same. I don't really know. But actually the National Institute of Health did a study a couple of years ago of two and a half million Americans, and they found that 80% report feeling they did not have enough time to do what they wanted or needed to do. Now, listen, I'm a little bit surprised, actually, that it's not higher than that. I don't know what kind of life these other 20% of the people lead, but we got to find out what's going on. But 80% of them said, I don't have enough time to do what I want or I need to do. And in fact, they started calling this the time poverty study. And here's how they define time poverty.

They say that time poverty means feeling that you have too many obligations. Can I get an amen from somebody here? Too many obligations and not enough time for essential activities. Now, they define essential activities as sleep, exercise, relationships, meals, health and rest. Those are important. But we're talking about spiritual things here. We're talking about essential things. What they're saying is time poverty is you are so wound up in the day to day activities that you don't have time to focus on the essentials. And see, God is here to pause us for a minute and reshift our thinking to say, I am here to do the impossible in your life, but I need you to walk in faith. See, time does not have power over us. We give time power, but time doesn't have power over us. In fact, many. Many of us, and listen, this is me included, I'm preaching to myself, by the way, this is not just telling you what to do, I'm talking to myself. Many of us feel like time is rushing at us and we're just trying to grab every experience that we can grab. In fact, we now have a phrase for this called FOMO, the fear of missing out, right? I gotta go grab this and I gotta grab this and time's just flying by me.

Time is a resource I can't get back. Let me change your thinking a little bit and I want you to write this down or take a picture of this. Time does not move. We move through time. Now listen, I know it's Sunday morning, you might be watching online, I know it's science class, okay? But time does not move past us, we are moving through time. And we get to choose how we move through time. So think about Jesus. If you think about Jesus' life, Jesus was never in a hurry. Why? He knew, I don't wanna get caught up in the day-to-day, I am here for God's essential work. Let me show you a couple examples. His best friend, Lazarus, his sisters notified Jesus that he was sick and dying. And if you've read this story, you know that Jesus talked to his disciples and said, hey, we're just gonna hang out here for three days and let him die. Now this was his best friend. I don't know about you, but if I was dying and my best friend waited three days, we probably are not friends anymore, but of course I'm dead,

so I guess it doesn't matter, right? So Jesus is there saying, we're gonna wait three days. And the story goes on to say, when he comes and meets with Mary and Martha, they were angry. We told you he was sick, where were you? But Jesus knew there was something greater that he was gonna do. He wasn't in a hurry. In fact, there's other stories about Mary and Martha that you've read, where Jesus was at their house waiting for a meal, and Martha was preparing the meal. She's in the kitchen slaving over this amazing meal, and what does she do? She comes out and says, Jesus, tell Mary to get her lazy self back in the kitchen and help me. That may not be what it said, but that was the version, right? And what did Jesus say to her? Martha, you're distracted by so many things. Mary has chosen the one important thing, to sit at my feet. See, Jesus is never in a hurry. In fact, he backs this up in Matthew 6, where he says, don't worry about what you're gonna eat, what you're gonna drink, or what you're gonna wear. My father knows that you need it, and in fact, in verse 33, he says,

seek first the kingdom of God, and all these other things will be added unto you. See, time does not move. We are moving through time, and we get an opportunity to choose how are we going to do that. Are we gonna focus and be distracted like Martha, or are we gonna focus on the essentials like Jesus does? And the reason we have trouble with this is because here, we have one word for time. Everything, one word for time. It's time to eat, it's time to sleep, it's time to have a baby, it's time to get married, it's time to die, right? Everything is encompassed in this one word. But in the Bible, the Bible actually has two words for time. And the first word is chronos, and I would like you to just jot this down and take a picture of it. Chronos means the measurement of time. These are days, weeks, hours, morning, afternoon, whatever it is. This is the chronological, or the chronos time. The second word that the Bible uses for time is kairos. Now, you may not have ever heard this word, but when I explain to you what it is, you're gonna know what it is. Kairos is the second word, and look at this definition. Kairos time intersects chronos time, and it's a life-changing moment.

It's an appointed, opportune, or decisive time in which God acts, calls for a response, or fulfills his purpose. I'm gonna read that again, that last part. It's a decisive time in which God acts, calls for a response, or fulfills his purpose. Now, for you linear thinkers, we've got a little graph for you here, right? I've got something other for you for the creative people, but we've got a linear graph here. This is your chronos life, the line, the days, the weeks, the months, the years. That's your chronos life. And God has set aside these kairos moments to come and intersect your day-to-day life where your life will never be the same again. See, God has already set these up, and if you think back on your life, you know what I'm talking about. So for us, one of our kairos moments for me and Kari was we were back in the early 2000s, trying to pray. that Carrie could stay home and take care of our kids, and we got invited to a fundraiser. Now, first of all, I said to Carrie, listen, we have no money, and I don't like this organization. And Carrie came to me and said, get up off your blessed assurance, and I'm gonna get dressed, and we're going to dinner, okay?

Any wives, that's what you would say. Now, that's how I remember the story. It may not have been exactly that. So Carrie forced us to go to dinner. That's the way I tell the story, and that is true. She forced us to go. We're sitting at dinner, and one of the guys sitting there with us says, hey, what do you do for a living? So I start telling him, and he said, well, hey, I'm looking to hire somebody to help take over my territory, and I'll train you. That started that conversation, and now 24 years later, that's what I still do today. Yeah, you can thank Carrie and God for that. Another Kairos moment was here in this church, we went to a class, and the teacher there said, God not only cares about your life, but he cares about your finances. I went home, and I said to Carrie, listen, I want to believe him, but I don't believe that God cares about my finances. But I said, I am gonna find out. I took the next three years and read every scripture I could find on finances. God used that three years to transform our entire lives and my view on how he looks at finances. That moment was a Kairos moment for us that changed our life forever. But let me ask you a question.

What if I would have bullied Carrie into not going to dinner that night? Or what if we would have not gone to that class? Do you think that God would say, well, you screwed up, fail, I'm taking this Kairos moment away. God in his love has these moments set aside, and I believe that even if we wouldn't have gone to dinner, God would have allowed me to meet him in some other way. God would have allowed me to hear this teaching some other way because he loves you so much and has these Kairos moments set aside for you. He's not willing to give that up in your life. Can I just give you some people, just give you some peace right now. You can't miss the will of God. Yeah, let's give God a round of applause. And I'm gonna prove it to you here in a minute, but you can't miss the will of God because God already has these set aside. So some of you are so stressed out about getting the will of God, what am I gonna do? Listen, if you screw up, God's gonna still have that moment there for you waiting. And let me prove it to you, it says here in Isaiah 46, 10, it says, God declares the end from the beginning. And from ancient times that are not yet done, saying my counsel shall stand, I will do all my pleasure. So God says he declares the end from the beginning.

He also goes into Psalms 139 and he says, your eyes saw my substance. This is David speaking to God. Your eyes saw my substance being yet unformed. And in your book, they were all written. The days fashioned for me when there were none. So David says, listen, God, you went to the end of my life. You wrote every page of my life. And then you went back to the beginning and created me. And you gave me everything I need for life and godliness, as it says in 1 Peter. This is why I can tell you that you're not gonna miss the will of God. And God is not standing there with a stopwatch saying you have this much time to get here, go. And see, we feel like, oh, we didn't get there. And God says, sorry, it's gone. I'm not gonna let you walk through this Kairos moment anymore. And God in his love says, no, that's not the way I have it set up. We need to keep believing and have hope for these Kairos moments. Now, listen, I gave you a graph for you linear thinkers, but for you creative thinkers, let's look at this picture and walk through this. This is obviously a picture of a beach with a hotel. Now, some of you are thinking, God, this is my Kairos moment. We're going on beach vacation. I need you to lock in with me, okay?

Don't get lost in the picture here. All right, so this is what I want you to think about. Do you see the hotel off in the distance? And we are standing right here looking at the hotel. Now, is the hotel going to come closer to us? No, we need to move towards the hotel. Is that correct? Now, there's lots of different ways you can move there. You can maybe get in a boat, you can walk, you can run. We're just talking about walking right now, okay? God is saying, listen, if you're gonna get to the hotel or your Kairos moment, your job is to keep walking. Your job is to keep believing. Remember what he said to that father who was believing for their child to be born? He says, listen, if you believe, all things are possible to him who believe. He's saying, listen, if you just keep walking, keep believing, we are going to get to that Kairos moment. And I'm gonna give you this statement, it's gonna shock some of you, but nothing can stop you from getting to that Kairos moment except for you. Nothing can stop you except for you. Now listen, you're gonna run into obstacles. If we're walking to the hotel, maybe a storm comes, maybe there's a ravine in the beach that we need to walk around or get over somehow, you're gonna hit obstacles at some point. But what happens most of the time

is when we hit those obstacles, we choose to stop. And see, God's not angry, He's not saying, hey, you've only got an hour, you better get here, this isn't the amazing race. God is saying, I'm waiting patiently for you, but your job is to not give up. Your job is to keep walking. And see, this is perfectly illustrated in the story of the Israelites. Now we rip on the Israelites all the time, don't we? We judge them, oh, they were just terrible people. We do the same thing they did, didn't we? We don't believe sometimes in God, we disobey God. But what did God have? That He delivered them from Egypt to go to the promised land. Do you know how far of a journey it was from Egypt to the promised land, walking? 11 days. How long did it take them? 40 years. Not 40 days, by the way, 40 years. If God said, I'm taking away Kairos moments, He would have taken away the promised land. But no, in His patience, in His love, yes, He had to discipline them, yes, they learned all those things. And in fact, remember, God had to wait till an entire generation died because they walked in such disobedience,

and He allowed the next generation to come, but He didn't take the Kairos moment away. He was still there waiting as long as they kept moving. That's what I love about God. In His love, He knows we're going to mess up, but He says, I am waiting patiently for you. Do not give up. Do not stop believing. Walk in faith, that is your job. But here's my concern. Some of us are gonna get to the end of our lives, and God's gonna show us Kairos moments that we didn't get to. Because we gave up. Right now, it's not like He's taking them away, but time ran out. And I am telling you today, some of you are here, some of you are watching online, and God brought you here not as a mistake, but to encourage you, whatever you are considering giving up on, it's not time to give up. God is saying, this is your Kairos moment to encourage you to continue to move forward. Yeah, let's give God a round of applause for that. Now listen, this message has been stirring in my heart for a long time. If you're at the men's event, you heard me share some things about my son and we're believing for healing.

But it has been a long journey of believing for healing for him. He's had some major knee issues, and the doctors literally cannot figure out. We've been to 10 different doctors over nine months. And if you have something that you think would help, I really appreciate it, but we don't, we've tried it. Trust me, we have tried it. And we've been to 10 different doctors over nine months. We have tried it, okay? But listen, I was hoping that a few months ago when I found out I was gonna speak today that I could stand before you today and say, we had our Kairos moment and God has healed my son. But that has not happened yet. It hasn't happened yet, but listen, I told him we are not going to give up. He came to me the other day, he plays basketball. He came and sat down and he said, dad, I'm exhausted physically and emotionally. This pain is so deep. And if you're a parent in the house, you know how painful it is to watch your children walk through difficult times. But as Caleb lays in bed and I look at him and I tell him, listen, we are not going to give up. There's no way we are not gonna walk in faith. I don't know what God's doing. I was hoping that I could stand here today and tell you let's give God praise and glory

that he healed him, but it hasn't happened yet. But just like the song that Sam and the team were singing earlier, I sought the Lord and he heard and he answered. I felt like God was speaking to me as we were singing that saying, listen, I answered your prayer, it's coming. I answered your prayer, even though it's not here yet, I answered your prayer, it's coming. And the same is happening for you today. I don't know what you're going through. And a lot of times we try to compare what we're going through, the difficult times. Well, Derek, you've been believing for healing for nine months. I've been believing for healing for 30 years. I don't know what you're going through, but we don't wanna. Compare what we want to talk about is what God is telling us to do, which is stay in faith and keep walking. One more step, one more step, one more step. Now these Kairos moments are one of two things that are gonna happen to you. There's two types of Kairos moments that we have. The first one is what I'm gonna call marked by a moment. These are moments that you can think back on your life, and everybody in here has one, where you can think back on your life and say, yes, that was a moment where I was marked by God,

and my life was never the same. In Mark 1 15, when Jesus came and he began his ministry, it says, the time has come. That word time is Kairos moment. What it's saying is, is when Jesus stepped on the scene to begin his ministry, that was a Kairos moment. Nothing will ever be the same. In John five, it also talks about a Kairos moment in the pool of Bethesda. If you've read this story, we can go through and read it now in verse four. It says, for an angel went down at a certain time, at a Kairos moment, into the pool, and stirred up the waters. Then whoever stepped in first after the stirring was made well of whatever disease he had. So the beginning of the story is the angel comes down and periodically stirs up the water in a Kairos moment. And you would agree, if you were that one person that jumped in the pool and got healed, you are marked by that moment. But the story goes on to say, Jesus comes to the pool of Bethesda and meets this man face to face. And if you read the story, you can hear the discouragement in this man's voice. In fact, Jesus says, hey, do you want to be made well? And he doesn't even answer him. He says, listen, there's nobody here to put me into the pool.

I don't even know how much faith this guy had. I don't even know if he knew who Jesus was at that moment. But Jesus came and said, young man, this is your Kairos moment. Stand up and walk out and be healed in Jesus' name. See, there's two Kairos moments in this story, and this is all throughout scripture. If you look for them, now that you know what it is, you're gonna see them all throughout scripture. People who were marked by a moment. The second type of Kairos moment is called a meeting with God, a meeting with God. So the first one is marked by a moment. The second one is a meeting with God. Now, what do I mean by that? So Kairos is in Greek, that's in the New Testament. But in Hebrew, in the Old Testament, the same word is moed. Okay, moed, that's the Hebrew word for a Kairos moment. And it means all the same things, but it adds one extra thing. This word moed means tabernacle of meeting. So I want you to think about this. Every time the priests went into the tabernacle to pray to God, that was a Kairos moment that they were walking into. Their lives will never be the same. And you can think through your life, and one of the examples in our lives was I was having a prayer time.

I tried to go away a couple times a year, every year, and I was praying, and I felt like God said to me, Derek, I want you to get out of debt. And you know, you read the story of Sarah when he said, I'm gonna let you have a baby, and you're 90 years old, and she laughed. That's how I was. I was like, God, that's really great. That's such a great idea, I'm so happy for you. How are you gonna do that? And I felt like God said to me, listen, if I'm gonna use your testimony of finances, I need you to be out of debt. I need you to tell people what I've done in their finances, in your finances, to encourage them to what I wanna do in their finances. So I said, God, listen, all right, I'll walk in faith. And can I tell you, this was the size of my faith for that. I'm gonna be honest with you. Getting out of debt, paying off your home, your car, that's a big deal. Four years later, God had us completely out of debt because of what he did. That was a Kairos moment for me. That meeting with him was a Kairos moment where our finances and our life are never gonna be the same. And the New Testament backs this up. Look at what it says in Ephesians 6, 18. It says, praying always.

That phrase, praying always, is Kairos. So in your Kairos moments, with all prayer and supplication in the spirit, be watchful to do this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints. Acts 3, 19 says the same thing. Repent, therefore, and be converted that your sins may be blotted out so that times of refreshing, that word is Kairos moments. How many people need a time of refreshing from God? That's what he's saying here. A time of refreshing from God will come as you meet with him. That is a Kairos moment. Now, there's a story in Genesis that talks about a man, Jacob, and was marked by a moment as he was meeting with God. Let me read this story. Now it's eight verses, so hang with me as we talk about this. So Genesis 32 says he arose that night, talking about Jacob, and took his two wives, his two female servants, and 11 sons, and crossed over the fjord of Jabok. He took them and sent them over the brook and sent over what he had. Then Jacob was left alone. That's the key part here. Jacob was left alone, and a man who was God

wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. Now I want you to think about this. If you're camping out, how many people like camping, by the way? I'm really sorry for you. Somebody's even clapping, good for you. You will not find me camping, not even glamping, but Jacob's out there under the stars by himself, and a man shows up and starts wrestling with him. Now if you've been in church for a while, you've heard this story, can we just acknowledge that that's really a strange scenario? You're by yourself, and someone shows up and starts wrestling with you. And they're not just playing around, they're wrestling all night long. Okay, so that's the story that we're looking at here. So God comes and wrestles with him until the break of the day. Now when God saw he did not prevail against him, God touched the socket of his hip, and the socket of Jacob's hip was out of joint as he wrestled with him. And God said, let me go for the day breaks. Now this is the part of the story I want you to think about. But Jacob said, I will not let you go until you bless me. Some of you today have been feeling like you've been wrestling with God for a long time, and you feel like I'm just gonna give up.

I was here, a few weeks ago, I prayed this exact same prayer. I said, God, I am not going to let you go until you heal my son. I am gonna continue to fight, we're not gonna give up. And Jacob says here, I will not let you go unless you bless me. And so God said, what is your name? And he said, Jacob. Now the name Jacob means deceiver. Jacob's whole life was based around deception. He deceived his brother, his father, people deceived him. Everything in his life was based around deception. And God said, your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed. Then Jacob asked, tell me your name, I pray. And God says, why is it that you asked me for my name? And he blessed him there. So I want you to think about this. Jacob is wrestling with God. He says, I will not let you go until you bless me. Jacob in his darkest time, has his name changed from Jacob to Israel. The word Israel means God prevails. Now I'm not encouraging you to change your name to Israel today, but I'm here to tell you, God prevails in your situation. God prevails no matter what you're going through. And he is here telling Jacob, listen,

now your name is Israel. Every time someone comes and says your name, they're gonna be saying God prevails. That's the encouragement to hold on to. But here's Jacob wrestling all night long. He's saying, I will not let you go. But what if God was holding on to him just as much? What if God says, listen, I know what you're going through. I know what your life has been, and I'm holding on to you as well. Because in his darkest night, he got his name changed and he was blessed. And then it says that he walked with a limp. Now here's what's so interesting. God blesses him and changes his name, but for the rest of his life, he walks with a limp. He was marked by that moment. And every step he took for the rest of his life, he was reminded that God prevails. Some of you may be walking with a limp. I feel like we are. And my son is literally walking with a limp in the pain that he is in. But we are using this saying, God, you prevail. We are more than a conqueror through what you have done, God. And we are not going to give up. My encouragement to you today is to be like Jacob. Say, listen, God, I am not going to let you go until you bless me.

I am gonna continue to fight. I'm gonna continue to battle. I'm gonna continue to walk in faith. Because what does Hebrews say? Faith is the substance of things hoped for. Whatever you are hoping for, God has placed that in your heart. And he is saying, don't give up on what you've hoped for. Because that's how you walk in faith. Now you might be asking, Derek, this has been super encouraging, I appreciate it, but how do I get to these Kairos moments? There's three steps that we're gonna talk about and then we're gonna pray. Step number one is to humble yourself before God. It says in 1 Peter 5, 6, therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in your Kairos moment. I want you to think about this. God says, listen, humble yourself under the mighty hand of God that in due time or in your Kairos moment, I will exalt you. The first obstacle to finding your Kairos moment is pride. Because see, when we walk in pride, it's not that God doesn't like us, but he says, listen, if you're walking in pride, I cannot bless you because I can't allow you to take the credit. I need to be glorified for what goes on. And so you need to humble yourself.

And when you do in due time, your Kairos moment is coming. So some of you may be walking in pride. Some of you may be so angry. You might be saying, God, I don't need you anymore. I don't need you in my marriage. I don't need you in my finances. We're done. My first encouragement to you is to humble yourself under the mighty hand of God and say, God, listen, I cannot do this without you. The second step after you humble yourself is do not give up or do not grow weary. Galatians 6, 9 says, let us not grow weary in doing good for in the proper time, that word is Kairos, in the Kairos moment, you will reap a harvest if you don't give up. Now, some of us love this verse, but we don't like the last statement. See, some of us want us to read, let us do not grow weary in doing good for at the proper time, we will reap a harvest. Yes, we will reap a harvest. But the rest of the verse says, if you don't give up. Remember what I said earlier, the only people, the only one that can stop you from getting to your Kairos moment is you. And all God is saying is take one more step of faith, take one more step of faith, stop sitting there, stop turning around and walking the other way, the Kairos moment is this way, take one more step.

And finally, after we humble ourselves and we don't give up, the final step is to come boldly to the throne of God. It says in Hebrews 4, 16, let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in our Kairos moment. Folks, I'm telling you, some of you are so close to that Kairos moment, God is so excited, he's cheering you on, but you've stopped walking, you've stopped believing. And you came today, you came online and watched online for God to encourage you to say, humble yourself before me, do not give up and come boldly to me and ask me for what you are hoping for. So here's how we're gonna finish today. We said earlier, we made an agreement, remember that you were either gonna receive encouragement or give encouragement to someone today. And listen, I'm telling you today, this has been a discouraging journey for me and my family. It's been a discouraging journey, we have gone up and down believing for healing for our son, we've gone up and down with this. But I am standing in faith today and I'm asking you to do the same for whatever you're walking through. So here's what I'm gonna ask you to do. Everyone's eyes open, if you are believing for a Kairos moment, will you just raise your hand and keep it up? Just raise your hand, yep, hands up all over,

just keep it up just for a moment, okay? Now listen, these are people that are saying, I need encouragement. So if you don't have your hand raised and you look around and someone has their hand up, will you just place your hand on their shoulder while we pray? Because listen to me, today is a moment that God wants to change your life. If you were here last week, there was a testimony from Brock and I met him at the service earlier. He's testified that last year, there was a service where he came and God spoke to him directly about his identity and he said, my life will never be the same. Today is the day for you that you're gonna testify the same thing, let's pray. Father, we look at every one of the hands that are raised here. And God, we speak life, we speak strength, we speak hope and we speak faith into them. God, we thank you so much that you have Kairos moments for everyone that has their hand raised. You have already created them for us. And God, I pray that you would infuse strength into every one of them that have their hand raised right now. God, we believe you for amazing testimonies of healing, financial breakthrough, marriages that are saved, relationships that are saved.

Father, we thank you and praise you for the testimonies that are coming out of this place from today, from this moment, Holy Spirit, from what you are doing. According to Hebrews, I speak over you that you do not lose your bold and courageous confidence because you are destined for a great reward. And God, we speak that over everyone right now in Jesus' name, amen. Can we give God a huge round of applause for what he's gonna do? Now listen, here's my encouragement to you. As you walk out the door, God has planted a seed in your heart. And as you walk out the door, the enemy is going to try to steal that seed of hope and faith in you. We've already determined, I'm not going to let that happen. Take one more step of faith, one more step of hope, continue to believe God for the impossible. Lisa?