Opening | IF:One Night (with ASL)

If 2026! We're here! It's so good to be with you! We're going to have the most unbelievable night! How many of you are new to If Gathering? Look at that! How many of you are old school and have been around? We see y'all! It's so good to be here! So these are my good friends and they're going to be hosting us all night. So Gloria, Jumana is here, and Annie Downs is here. And it's going to be an incredible night. And here's what I know, is that God keeps doing amazing things in our midst. And He has done it again and again with If Gathering. And I just want everyone in this room to know that through that camera, there are 99% of the people that are watching this thing. And we are with you, we have already prayed for you, we love you, and we are grateful for you. And for all of you at and If Local, gosh, it is such a big family. And I hope it feels like you're just in the room with us. That the Holy Spirit is moving in your spaces, in your living room, in your dorm room, in your church, wherever you are. But our hearts are with you, because we know you're out there, and we're so grateful. Ginny, would you like to see a map of our If Locals? Let's see it! Throw up a map! That's crazy! Look at that! Look at that! It's incredible. It's amazing. Let me tell you some of the places. Tell me. Australia, look, down in Australia. Beautiful. Nassau, Bahamas, excellent weather for an If Gathering. I mean, we should all be there. Yes, yes. Let's be there next time. So we're all the way over here in India. Italy.

Don't mind if I do. I hope they're having pizza. Italy! Invite us next time. Yeah, we'll come from there. We'll be there. Kathmandu, Nepal, Kigali, Rwanda, Taipei City, Taiwan, and then all over North America and Central America. It's just incredible, Ginny. It's really special. Just look at Africa and look at Europe. I know. It's been magic. I mean, for all the years that you've done If, every year we have hoped for a map. I've been hoping for a map for a decade. You've been dreaming. There it is. All for you, Annie. This is my dream. Thank you so much. What a dream. It's just amazing to think about all the women who are gathered in all sorts of different places joining us, and we get to worship together tonight. True. And the best part about it is that you can be a part of inviting someone even right now in this moment. My family is in Nigeria. They're supposed to be asleep, but I said, Mom, you're not sleeping. You're going to wake up and you're watching a baby girl. What time is it? What time is it?

Six hours from now. What time is it now? It's late. It's late, girl. It's late, but Mom's watching because she wants to be a part of what God is doing. Hello, Sade. How are you? But I want you guys to know that so much is going to happen tonight. God is going to move in such a miraculous way, and you get to be a part of that here in the room, but also you can text friends and say, Hey, I want you to be a part of the move of God. So it's not too late to invite some people. Here's the three ways you can do it. You can text the link. It's live.ifonenight.com. And if you're in the room, there's one other thing that you could do. You could tap the band now. So if you see on your seats, there's a band. It's wrapped around your seat. You can tap it. Go ahead and look at it. Do a little bend. Do a little bend. Okay. Bend and snap. Look for it. Look for it. You see it. Okay. And then you can also tag and follow at if gathering.

There's again, a lot is going to happen tonight. We want you to buckle in. We want you to buckle in. We want you to buckle in. We want you to buckle in. We want you to buckle in. We want you to buckle in. We want you to buckle in. women from all over the world tune in. So we want to see your photos. If you have any photos, tag us and let's see how God is moving in your own neighborhood. Listen, we are people that believe that God uses every one of you. If you go back to when I started if gathering now, over a decade ago, the dream was that if God is real, then how are we going to live like it? Yeah. As a team, by the way, God is real. Amen. And what I dream of is our generation getting to heaven totally out of breath and the great cloud of witnesses leaning forward and being like, giving us five, cheering, like, hey, 2026, y'all caused trouble to hell. That's what we want. And so our prayer is that there is a movement of God, not through this stage, through your lives. We believe in you, in your churches, in your neighborhoods, in your workplaces, in your classrooms. We believe in you, and our prayer is that this night catalyzes you. If you're here as a guest and you don't have a relationship with Jesus, you're going to love Him. You're going to love Him. You really will. And if you're here and you've walked with Jesus for a long time, our prayer is that tonight things get really clear for you. That you know where to go and what to do for His glory and for the good of people on earth right now.

So this is what I want you to begin with. Imagine, where has God placed you? And what could God do with you in that place? Because we can cause some good trouble together. But first up, one of our dearest friends is in the house and is going to kick us off. So y'all give it up with me for Jada Edwards!