Life After Death - Week 3

What a beautiful day today. Because you know what is so interesting and so beautiful about God is his timing. He surprises us. He says, when you were in your mother's womb, I knew you and I had plans for you to bless you, not to curse you. To use you for purpose, for glory. And here we sit today and and first of all I want you to know that and I was sitting yesterday I prepared a message sitting with Caleb and we just talked about the last 27 years. Because as you know that I shared with a church in November, oh actually in July I think it was, that for the last five years I've been sensing that God is about to do a new chapter. And there is something that God has called us to and I can feel that the assignment has come to an end. It's a chapter. It's like a book. I don't know how many of you like to read. I love to read especially on vacation. My wife knows family never goes when I rent or yeah rent beach chairs because I go, don't tell me where I can put it. I'll pay you double. But I'm gonna put the chair where I want to put it. Don't tell me don't put it in the ocean. Otherwise I don't want your chair. I'm gonna find a chair that I can put it where I want it because I go nine o'clock in the mornings and I stay there until the sunset. I could read through 13 books. I read and I sleep. I sleep and I read. I get wet, I get dry. But what is so interesting about a book for those who read, I know for some of you and you love to read, others go like there's no pictures and too many words, too many words. I can't do this. But what is so interesting about books, first of all authors become famous for books. I met a very famous publisher of books and I said to him Chandler, I fished with him, tell me the books that I have to read and he says East of Eden by Steinberg. So I bought the book, it's this thick, thousands some pages. So I began to read and the way he writes is so beautiful and on page 900 I said to Marlise, I think a plot is developing because it's a story about nothing. But it was so beautiful. But what if you read you discover something, that there is this annoying thing between chapters, gray space. And when you get to the end of a chapter and there's gray space, did you know that our minds actually refuse to

read and ask the question, is the book worth reading? And many people will read two chapters when they come to gray space, they will go to the end of the book and read the last chapter to see if it's worth reading the rest. And so often, and especially in this book that I'm reading, it's called Chasing Slow, there is this annoying habit of this person that when you change the gray space, they give you more gray space. And then your mind goes like, more words. Has your mind ever told you, can't they just say pause for a week and then you come back with courage? Because it's words and words and words. And you know our lives, we've been here 27 years, yet the Father's house is a chapter that we, last year, sensed that this is what God is saying. And the Bible says, man plans and brainstorms many things and the purposes of God shall prevail. And then it didn't play out the way we wanted to play out. And I'm like, God, but I thought. And in our minds, as humans we are so, we take a Messiah kind of attitude to life. We cannot stand believing we're ready. Did it right and then it doesn't work then we go like what did I not hear it, right? But the bible says the purposes of god shall prevail sometimes You know god made adam and eve And he says you're the crown jewel of creation Then adam and eve made their choice and an exit as god says to moses. I'm, sorry. I ever made them I'm, just gonna kill them all And moses says no you can't do that because you have a plan for it all But now chandler He was not supposed to be I was sitting there talking to caleb and going caleb Remember you were five years old when you started to come to church with me and every friday You would come to the room and say daddy. Don't forget me tomorrow Because he would come to prayer to saturday services for sunday services always daddy. Don't forget daddy. Don't forget chloe It's not like caleb I brought her to one prayer meeting and in those days across the street

There was always a drama stage and every sunday there was a drama for those who remember and it was a bedroom Set up and I think we spoke on marriage and we started to pray Sweating and praying and then after prayer I go like where's chloe. She was like seven years old Couldn't find her. You know where I found her while we prayed she got On the stage in the bed fast asleep But yesterday I was talking to caleb and all of a sudden I hear the back door opens And malice was gonna go out and she came and I said hey Glad you back And the next thing chandler's standing in front of me and I go like wait wait I feel like john am I in the first heaven second heaven third heaven? Or did I eat poisonous food? I I don't understand what i'm seeing But I said to chandler what is so Profound I want you to see a picture in 2020 and many of you will remember this when chandler Came to the father's house. Let's see that picture for the very very first time Let me wait for that picture because it's so beautiful find it find it click it. Otherwise kick it But you've you've got to get that picture up for us and back then Look, he's a baby there He was I don't know why I had that blonde thing going I think I was in my first midlife crisis I think that's what was going on How old were you there? Uh, 2020. I was six years. I was 24 24 He was his dad's worship leader And you have written like two songs What was the song? That you that's before maverick city. That's before anything ever happened. What was the song that it's actually two It was so covet happened in march 2020 I came here. I was checking it in the back came here on january 16th, 2020

and mav the moment that mav The thing happened with mav was in march of 2020 And the only song that was out before then was uh, dearest father Closest friend Most beautiful Most beautiful Most beautiful There's nothing Oh The other song that was out was Burned for you Only for you You can take my life As a sacrifice I wanna burn for you Only feel I want to be and then COVID happened so that's all we shouldn't think of anymore. What was interesting though he had a whole chapter of being his father's worship leader and then at the end of the service there's another picture that was so beautiful if we can get that picture up the other one and in that moment I had such a strong impression in my heart and I said to him God's about to change the chapter and I began to speak to him I said that I sense God is gonna elevate and expose your life to what you could never imagine but never let anybody sell the anointing of God on you don't market the anointing it is not yours because without the anointing people hear anointed music and they celebrate gifting but can I tell you something you find real out real quickly when the anointing and the grace of God is not on you you at your best are annoying and you do exactly what you always have done and people go like what is wrong now remember saying a whole bunch of things to you but you were in the gray space

because I didn't call your dad and say listen fire him he's got a bigger thing because you see gray space requires faith not certainty but we as people hate gray space we demand to know the story but what if I tell you that the books we love to read are the books we have read of authors that writes brilliant stories and with God your story is being written my story is being written and then maverick started and one of the things I said to you God is going to connect you to people that you've always admired from a distance and then maverick started and Marlise and I in that moment God knitted our hearts together and we stayed connected and but we it was not like we called each other every week but there was this thing this this vested pray for you and the next thing you with Justin Bieber like what the what the heck and I'm like okay wait God I don't where where's Justin and my story I don't know why him you see God writes your story for his glory not for your fame so then maverick started now you're everywhere in the world so tell me the songs that you are most famous you Africa you are Asia you are you are everywhere you tour then I you call me from South Africa I go like what the heck why don't you take me with I would have protected you give me what are the songs and maverick that you go like uh it was so I'm glad you're doing it like this I'm gonna do it a little different than I did at first oh yeah so March happened and COVID I think the world shut down like March 12th March 14th we had a maverick city what we did was writing camps and at this camp we still did it against our rules but at this camp is when we recorded songs like promises and Naomi did story I tell oh that's the story I tell and then all throughout that year during COVID it felt it felt like dang we were building up and doing all this stuff and now the world is shutting down but God had prepared us for that specific time and uh at the top of 2021 uh I had moved to I was a southern part of Georgia and my apartment I had just moved into this apartment and it caught on fire I left the city and I came back and didn't have anything I lost everything like uh in a fire and then where I went to record this song wait so when things caught fire did anybody Somebody from your dad just called you and say, see sign of God, you should have not left. No, they didn't. But but I'm just checking internally there internally if I'm being honest, I'm being really honest. There was a voice internally because this whole season I did not know what I was doing. I didn't ever want to be an artist. My whole thing was I just wanted to be in church.

My dad's a pastor. She wanted to be a worship leader and I was taking certain moves of faith. I had just quit this job at this church that I loved and I moved to a new city. My apartment caught on fire three days after I moved into I lost everything. And the week after it caught on fire, I was headed to record. I'll never be more than I am right now. So I'm gonna sing a song. But if you look in the gyro video, when Naomi gets to the if he dresses, I'm on the piano, like bawling my eyes out because all I had at the time was my suitcase. I had lost everything and I had just invested all this money into my apartment. The insurance people were supposed to come two days after the fire. So so this song gyro kind of where we when we collab with Mav and everything really just kind of popped off was a real testimony. And I think not to just songwriters or creatives or worship leaders, but to anybody who God has assigned a task when you are anointed, when you are anointed for something, the way God gets it through you is he gets it to you first. And a lot of us try to avoid the process. Like, how are you going to sell something, somebody that you have not taken fruit of first? So that's where Java came from. I'll never be more than I wasn't holding you up. So there's nothing I can do. It doesn't take a trophy to make you. Maybe going through a storm, but I won't go down. I hear your voice carry on the wind to call me up. You would cross an ocean so I wouldn't drown. You've never been closer than you are right now. Come on. We say, we say, Ja, you are enough. You are, you are Ja. I will be, yes, I will be. Cause you are Ja, you are. And I'm already loved, I'm already told. You gotta know, you gotta know, I know who I am. I know what you want. I'm already loved more than I could imagine. Come on. Is that it? That's enough. Let's sing. If he drank, if he drank silver lily, with a million splinters, how much more would he hold it? How much more? If he watched it, if he watched it so, every step of the way,

how much more? How much more? It's more than you ask, think or imagine. According to his power working in us. It's more than you know. One more time. It's more than you ask, think or imagine. According to his power working in us. How much more? Cause it's more than you know. It's Ja, you are enough. Even when it doesn't look like it. Ja, you are enough. And I will be content in every circumstance. Cause you are Ja, you are enough. Now what is so interesting during that time, oh take your seat, during that time. Chandler was in a gray space and then he moved and I'm like, oh, he's moved into a next thing. And I remember my family's gray space in South Africa. My father's got a big ministry and he wanted us to be part of this legacy, but I didn't fit. Remember, I speak Afrikaans and then I fell in love with a woman whose family is English. I could understand what they said, but I couldn't speak back. And then my dad said, I said to my dad, I don't fit. He says, why don't you start a church, but you can't start it preaching Afrikaans because then you're going to lure people from our church to your church. I was so angry. I'm like, are you kidding me? But didn't understand it was not my dad is what God was saying, where I'm sending you, they are speaking English. So I had to preach in English. I'm reading. If you ever had somebody that can't speak it, tenses are so messed up. There's a woman that came to me afterwards. She says, you've got the most beautiful German accent. So I had to go for elocution lessons to speak. We planted a church and Eric and Kim was part of that church. And all of a sudden we came to a gray space and know that God is calling us to something.

And now I've got to convince the family. I'm not part of the legacy. And to my Lisa's mom and dad that I'm taking your daughter to America and I have no job there. Be careful of Pentecostal people because we read a scripture and we take it because I read a scripture. God says, pack your bags and get ready to go. When she got back from work, the whole house was packed up in boxes. She says, are you selling drugs? What is happening? Well, I read this morning, God says, pack your bags and get ready to go. We sold everything and came to Washington DC. It failed. And 11 weeks later, we had to go back to nothing. And I said to her during that time of there's not a God in heaven, my life would be easy because God, why is God punishing us for obedience? But 18 months later, we went back to that church. I preached like I used to preach and people would come now every time I preach, people leave. And I go like, why are you leaving? They say, we just can't be here. I go like, I'm preaching, I'm giving. And then I realize it's not what you think you can do is where God is. That enables people to hear God, but we are credited to people. So we came here, six suitcases, and we started this beautiful chapter with a father's house. And so 27 years later, we know that it's time our assignment is done. And this is not new news. I shared that with you last year. And then in November, it didn't work like I thought it would work. The board was so wise in their discernment and the board, I'm so deeply thankful to the

board and to you, gave us a hundred days sabbatical. But that hundred days was one of such wrestling, because I hear a voice that go like, have you lost your mind? They may not like you the same, but they don't hate you. Why leave? Where are you going to go? Who's going to support you? You can't go to another church. What are you going to do? But yet I know I'm going to be part of it, but I cannot lead it. But I'm in gray space and every single person that I run into, every past that goes like, so what you're gonna do next? Why did that happen? And I go, and can I tell you the truth? It is okay for us to be human, but when you demand certainty and I fabricate certainty, I'm a liar to the story. Because God is so gracious, that's why faith pleases him. He owes no one an explanation. He didn't say to the disciples, let me show you everything that you're gonna experience, so that you feel it's worth following me. He just says, put your nets down and follow me. And then, last night I sat there, and next Sunday you've got to be back, because there is a beautiful announcement of the next season that we're excited to share with you. But last night as I sat there, Chandler, you know, I'm in the gray space, and I've always said to Marlies, whenever we come to our moment of handing over, I said, I don't know how we're gonna get Chandler, remember? I said, I want to be part of it, because he was part of that moment, and then like an angel he appeared, and I thought, somebody made me a weed cookie, I don't know, I've got ganja in me, I don't know, what the heck. But yet, you called me from Africa, and you say, hey pups, Maverick City is exploding, but I think my season, God is moving me. So tell me, now you're back in gray space, which makes no sense, because you're still a baby, you're 31, right? So what happened? The crazy thing that I didn't even realize until he started talking first service, is that what he's talking about.

The last time I was here, six years ago, I was in that space, and I didn't even have the language that I did now, I don't even, I didn't even, the good thing about God is you don't have to know, there's a scripture in Psalm which says, God despises the legs of a man, because what he's talking about is, art, when we rely on our own knowledge, and our own strength, and I look back six years ago, and I did not know, I did, but I felt it, and I remember when you prayed on me, I didn't know, Papa and Ma from, I didn't know anything, I just knew when I saw them, I was like, there's something happening, and when you prayed on me, I felt it, but I still didn't know, and now, when I came here in February last year, me and Hannah came here, and we just hung out, and I knew what God was saying about leaving, and it's one thing to leave something that's bad, you know, and it's one thing to leave something that is negative, and hurting you, and painful, but when God told me my time was up with Maverick, it was at the end of the biggest Christian tour ever in history, we toured with Kirk Franklin, it was the last show, and God was like, yeah, it's done, it's time for you to move on, and that's a different level of faith required, when the thing you're leaving is actually good, and it's actually feeding you, and it's actually fruit, and for some of us, it's actually your resource, it's actually the thing God has been using it to, for financial, but when I came in February, I had no idea what God was doing, and now I'm here again, where are we, April, that was February last year, now I'm here in April, and when I announced that I was leaving Maverick City in October last year, I had no idea what the journey was supposed to be, no idea, I was stepping into the unknown, and now, I'm in April of 2026, and God has such in a way, as of like a month, as of a month ago, God has such a way, entered me into the next thing, with so much ease, which is grace, so when you do it, you know, we have that song, wait on the Lord, wait on the Lord, He will renew your strength, wait I say, so when you do it, and you wait on Him, you don't have to rely on you, but the scary part is, you don't know, and now I'm in a season, grace space, we're now the grace space, and I'm starting to turn the page, and I'm starting to see what the thing God has been writing now, and the song that that comes to my mind is, and I get very emotional. I'm trying not to cry this service, but. I've come a long way. I've seen how you work. There's so much goodness and grace. Much more than I deserve. Because I know who I am. But I can't stay where I'm at. We've come this far by faith, and I just can't turn back. We've come this far by faith. Don't forget how far faith has brought you now. Yes, we've come this far by faith. My faith hasn't failed me now. We've come this far by faith, and I just can't turn back. Because you're not done with me, yeah. You're not done with me, yeah. There's so much more to the story. You're not done with me, yeah. You're not done with me, yeah.

This is good news. You're not done with me, yeah. You're not done with me, yeah. No, no. There's so much more to the story. Come on. You're not done with me. One more time. You're not done with me, yeah. No, no, no. You're not done with me, yeah. There's so much more to the story. You're not done with me, yeah. Who am I to deny what the Lord can do? I will follow you everywhere that you lead. Who am I to deny that you are more than able? You are more than able. I don't understand, but I will trust you, Lord, you are. You are more than able. You are more than able. Who am I to deny what the Lord can do? Can you imagine with all of the faith in the room what the Lord can do? What the Lord can do. It's going to happen. Just let the Word make it through. He's going to move. He's going to move. And anything is possible. Anything is possible.

Anything is possible. Who am I to deny what the Lord can do? One more time, one more time, declare it. Anything is possible. He can split the sea for Moses. Anything is possible. He can raise Lazarus. Anything is possible. Who am I to deny what the Lord can do? Now, church, it's not my story, just Chanta's story. It's your story. It's the kingdom of God's story. Because this is not our book. And you just reading it before we arrived when Charles Finney came into the city and churches involved from the city There was a season where we had a chapter with the people and we are not the chapter Together as a community partnering with the work of God But there came a moment when God said to Moses Well done, let me see you What the rest of the story is gonna be But I need a Joshua now And you know what? I've often thought I go like dang Moses got a short end of the stick He had to be in the desert for 45 years with complaining people He deserves to be in the promised land, but when you understand scripture Moses represented the law and God wanted to tell the people the law Obeying the law cannot get you to the promise Joshua Was the bloodline of Jesus?

Grace is what will so it's got nothing to do and I want you to know Nobody gets a short stick When you are faithful in the story That's the joy of it all It's not that you are remembered because scripture says to him was faithful and we're not done But we are done with the part we had in this and now Chandler last night We're sitting there and I go like, oh my gosh, I can't imagine Because I'm in a gray space you're in a gray space and me on the same day But you turning a chapter and I have turned a chapter and I see what God has done in the last couple of months and it's Undeniable that God is clear with what he is doing and I Don't know what our story is next. What are you gonna do? I go. I don't know every time I ask God He's talking about healing our being Before establishing our partnership and you don't he mess us up You didn't mess us up, it's the expectations we place on ourselves It's our own insecurities that wears you out Hey you become Remember when you came? Oh, there's such a beautiful story when you came to I'm crying for like Oprah And when when you came to to our house last year with Hannah that we just hung out in and I said Let's go to my prayer room that serious stuff and he followed me to my prayer room. There's a piano He probably thought oh shoot He's gonna rebuke me or something and and he's behind the piano and I sat there and he says must I play my new songs? I go like no, I don't want to hear your new songs. I want you to sing Lamentations You know what a lament? He said I don't know lamentations. I just said that you're groaning before God And knowing that God is not upset. I said I don't so you play I'll sing and I say God Is there any wine for the crushed grape Is there any oil that the crushed olive can receive

And it sounds so pitiful, right But not realizing that God has got a crush to Just joined you From he knows if he doesn't bring you to your end. Why would you find the other and then? You began to tell us of this new beautiful thing and this wine something This offering thing. I started singing And I hadn't sang in a while so if you go back and watch the first service I was fumbling over the words letting realize but I just felt like it was the right song. So I got the lyrics It's that's beautiful, but nobody knows it so you can make it up. No, I think something way to you the verse In the crushing In the pressing You were making In the soul Now surrender You are breaking So I yield to you and to you When I trust you, I don't need to understand So make me a lesson, make me an offerin' Make me whatever you want me to be Cause I came here with nothing, but all you have given me So Jesus, bring new water out of me Oh Jesus, bring new water out of me Cause where there is new water, there is new power Where there is freedom, the Spirit is here I lay down my old flames to carry your new fire Today, I gotta lay it down Cause where there is new water, there is new power Where there is freedom, the Spirit is here I lay down my old flames to carry your new fire Today, this is my prayer So make me a lesson, make me an offerin' Make me whatever you want me to be Cause I came here with nothing, but all you have given me

Jesus, bring new water out of me I wrote my own prayer. There was a time I heard the voice telling me it was time to leave Maverick. I didn't do this last service, but I just thought about it. I had my own prayer song. It's like, I'm living, breathing proof that things can change And that the saving gift of grace, it really stays With all the twists and turns, all my mistakes How I made it over, you were the only way Cause the truth is, I'm not perfect, I don't always get it right But I'd rather walk by faith, and not by my foolish side So lead me on, lead me on, lead me on Please lead me on, cause it's not me I'm leaning on Lead me on, oh Jesus, keep leading me Cause I'm no good on my own And I don't know where else to go Take me back to where I belong And throw a party when I'm home I'm really walking by faith now I'm really walking by faith now And I don't know what's ahead of me But I'm really walking by faith now Cause if he said it, he would do it Yes, if he said it, he would do it Oh, if he said it, he would do it If he said it, he would do it I'm afraid and I don't know But I'm trusting the one who does ♪ Lead me on, lead me on, lead me on, please lead me on, it's not me I'm leaning on, lead me on, oh Jesus, keep leading me on ♪ Last time.

♪ Make me a vessel, make me an offering, make me whatever you want me to be, cause I came here with nothing but all you have given me, come on sing. Jesus, bring new life out of me. Make that your prayer. Jesus, bring new life out of me. This is my prayer. Jesus, bring new life out of me. So church, let me say this. You and I are standing at this. Can I tell you how many times I've heard people say, somebody says there's a scandal at the father's house. I go like, a blank page is not a scandal. Not knowing is not a scandal. And you don't need to cry tears for us cause we are still in Rochester, we are still this part of this. It's not, and I owe you nothing but love and you owe me nothing but love, but Jesus is the head of the church. He is the king of it all. He has signed shepherds. And when there's movement, it's not because Pastor Marlis and I said, we don't like these people anymore, let's go find another. We ain't finding nothing, we don't know. But when people see this and they don't know, many go like, uncertain, something's going on, and they eject. And you know what, the enemy is so, so smart. When there's uncertainty, rumors stick like truth. And he makes sure that the rumors get to those who supports the church financially first. Because when we're uncertain, we want to create certainty by holding back. And I want to say this, if God has called you to be planted in the next chapter in the story, trust the writer. Be part of where it's going. Don't let anybody talk you out of it. Don't let anybody convince you. And if you're not planted, can I tell you, get planted. Ask God where you need to be because that's where you will be fruitful. Because you know what the beautiful thing about the story in Nehemiah is? There was an annoying chapter, two pages that he mentions every name of people who built a brick to the wall.

Why would God mention them? Because probably a whole bunch of people that were lazy, but they ain't getting their names as part of the story. But it's not for our glory, it's for His. So I want to say, for those who always knew that there's provision in this house, some of that provision is not here. And you may be the new wine of provision for this house. You may be, then I can see in our staff. I can see in our board. I can see an impartment of anointing and grace and a rising to lead. I see it in the volunteers. I see it in you. And it's in this season that God says, do you trust the writer? Because this is how I do it. But I don't convince you of the story. I say, come, be part of what is still being written. So I want to say to you today, Jesus is at the center of it all. What joy, and we will celebrate next week. But to be here with you today, I cannot tell you what a. It's a moment of God affirmation, as I said, because I didn't expect you. I thought. It was a ghost because God is whispering in my heart, in your heart, but in mine, I can say, in my Lisa's. We were in a place of knowing when we prayed over your gray space. And here we sit, and I can look at your life, and I say, God, the beauty of it all, is we trust you with all of our stories. Would you say that? Can I? Oh, you can do whatever. Mom, can you come over here? Church, can we just pray for our pastors? Elders, I don't know if the elders, whatever elders, please, if you're close to mom, pop,

I don't really know who it is, but if you know you're close and you know you had a heartache, just come up and surround them in prayer. I think what you did for me and all of the things God has done in my life, it is a harvest of yours. And that prayer you prayed, and I think at the time, I've had a lot of people pray over me because they saw what was coming, but yours was the only one that really stuck, and God really did that. I told them at the beginning of the service, I don't do the whole spiritual father thing. I have a great dad, but you are the only person outside of him I call dad, and I want to, as a son to you, just pray over you guys this next season, not from a place of superiority, but because what you prayed and did for me and my family, and how God used that to, even in times where I didn't understand, but as a post, a cloud in a fire in the wilderness, how God used that moment, and you guys, I just pray that we can do that. So if you can just stand, stretch your hands, or just pray with me. Father, I thank you for Pierre and Marlies, I thank you for the work that you have done in them, I thank you for the work you've done through them, I thank you for the lives and the souls and the people and the families that you have healed, the people that you have mended, the people that you have redeemed, the people that you have brought back to you through their work, through their assignment, through what you've given them, I thank you for them, I thank you for their hearts, I thank you for their mind, and Father, I thank you that Proverbs says that those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed. That is the promise of those who pour out and pour out and pour out, that they will not leave empty, that they will not leave their lives empty, that they will not leave their lives tired, but you will refresh them. You yourself would spend time and refresh them, so I thank you for these times of refreshing. I thank you for this season that will be healing to their souls, that will be healing to their minds, that will be healing to their lives, and I even thank you and just pray for the next thing, whatever the next assignment and the next thing that you're doing in them and the next thing that you will put their hands to, I thank you that there is a, there is a people, a generation yet waiting that because they're still alive, there is still

work to do, that because they're still alive, there are still people to reach, and however the vehicle you use it, whatever the vessel you do it through, I thank you that they will be full of joy. I thank you that they will be full of joy, that they will be their house, Caleb, Chloe, will be full of joy, that nothing will come near that house to separate, to divide. I thank you that you are standing as a hedge over their family. You have protected them, you have guarded them, and I thank you that nothing will change about that. So as a family, as people who have benefited from their sacrifice, as people who have benefited from the hours of prayer, the hours of study, the hours of laying on the floor crying out, we just stand in agreement with whatever you do next, and we just say it is so. We say amen, it is so, that the works of God will be done in their lives, and nothing will hinder. In the name of Jesus we pray, amen, amen, amen. One more time, can you give it up for your pastors, man? Oh my God, if you can take your seat for two minutes. We still gonna be here next week, okay? We're gonna be here next week, but next week is an important week, and we're still gonna be part of the community, we're gonna tell you what we see and what the board has affirmed, and we're gonna receive an offering and announcements, but as your pastor today, I wanna ask you, be the new one. Wine of support to this house Because the enemy is trying to Bring it down to where it's full But where the support has Some of that has been paralyzed because the blank page demands answers But may god call you faithfully to stand in the not knowing And now it's time

That he wants to empower your life with more for the faithfulness of the next