The Question That’s Ruining Your Relationships

Can you welcome the presence of God today? Come on. The Bible says that he inhabits the praises of his people. That means when we lift our voice, when we sing his praises, that his presence is in the house today. He is here. He is among us. He is with us. We welcome you today, King Jesus. Come on. If you've carried something in today that feels heavy, if you're bearing a weight that feels like it's too much to bear, would you just give it to God today in his presence? He's greater than your greatest concern. He's bigger than your biggest problem today. He is able and more than able to meet every single need that we have today. Aren't you grateful for the presence of a good God? Well welcome today to church here in Yorktown and Newport News in Virginia Beach. We welcome those of you joining us online from all over the world and of course the men at the Indian Creek Correctional Center joining us on Friday night. We love you guys. It is a great day to be in church. Come on. Can you welcome each other with a little bit of excitement today? Happy Valentine's Day weekend. You look good. You look well loved. Yes you do. Yes you do. Yes you do. Hey, tonight is a special night.

We're calling it student night for all of our middle school and high school students. And I just wanted to make sure. I just wanted to make sure that if you are a middle schooler or a high schooler, if you're a parent of a middle schooler or a high schooler, if you have a middle schooler or a high schooler that lives next door to you or down the street from you, you're going to want to have them here in the house tonight. And God's going to move in a big kind of way. We're so expectant. But today, today we're continuing our series, a series about relationships. We're talking about the messy, the difficult, the frustrating, the hard to handle issues that so many of us face in our relationships. We're calling the series, The Elephant in the Room. The Elephant in the Room. Today's part three. So why don't you take your seat. We got work to do. We got to get after it today. A lot, a lot of good things coming your way. And I should tell you that next week, next week we'll conclude the series and I thought it might be fun if I could convince Tabitha, my wife, to join me to teach part four of next week. And it's going to, it's going to, it's going to cost me a new pair of shoes because every time Tabitha gets on the stage, we have a little deal that if she, if she comes on stage, she can buy a new pair of shoes. And so, so it's going to cost me that. But I just, I just thought for 29 years, Tabitha has lived with this elephant in the room. And so, so she's probably got something good to say. Next week will be the most practical week of the series. So you don't, you don't want to miss, you don't want to miss next Sunday as we, as we wrap up the elephant in the room.

And of course, I'm trying to teach you in this series that if you'll learn to, if you'll, if you'll learn to address the elephant in the room, God's way, then you'll, you'll actually be able to start to experience God's best in your relationships. And God has a good plan, I believe a good plan for all of your relationships. Today I want to expose an ugly elephant, one that lurks in the dark, one that tries to hide around in the, in the, in the background. And it's one that shows up honestly, in practically every relationship you and I have, it's probably in your marriage, it's probably in your parenting, it's definitely in your friendships. And this elephant often poses as a question, but one that you don't often speak out loud. It is a question that you think, but rarely say. And for most people, this elephant in the room is the driving force for even being in the relationship you're in, in the first place. And I want to call this elephant in the room. What about me? What about me? What about my needs? What about my wants? What about my desires? What about my feelings? What about my hopes and my dreams and my plans and my schedule? What about, what about me? And I'll be honest, I'll tell you, I even have a hard time saying those words, what about me? If you could see Tabitha, my wife's face right now, or see one of my three kids face right now, when I'm saying those words, you would understand. This is very difficult for me to say, what about me, because in the Hodges household, what about me is a banned phrase.

Like you cannot speak those words together, what about, what about, what about me? I've got three kids, they're all big and awesome now, but when they were little, let me tell you something about them, at times, they were all selfish little devils, all right, at times. And so there would be times in the Hodges house where something would happen and one of them wouldn't get what they wanted, or one of them would feel overlooked, or one of them wouldn't get their way, and they would often say, but what about me? And it happened so frequently, like it happened so often, we had to ban the phrase, like this was a phrase you cannot use in our house, what about me? In fact, we actually attached a little punishment to the phrase just to like drive home the point, and it was all in good fun, but if you ever said, what about me? You had to give me five kisses, that's the way it worked in our house when our kids were little. If you ever said, what about me? You had to give me five kisses, and it was just a way to drive home this little principle, so much so that now my kids are all in their 20s and I guarantee you, I guarantee you, none of them say, what about me?

Because they don't wanna have to give five kisses, I'm telling you, that's the way it works. And so this little phrase, what about me, became so off-putting in our house, we just decided that there's no way we're gonna have that phrase be reflective of our relationships. And while that might be true in our little family unit, the reality is that most of us say, what about me? Say, what about me all the time in our relationships? And of course, I don't mean literally, I don't mean you walk around like a three-year-old stomping your feet and having a pity party and demanding your way and saying, what about me? I mean, we say it in a different way. We don't say it with our lips, but we say it with our expectations. Or we say it with our attitudes. Or we say it with our motivations. We've actually been taught to believe that satisfying, fulfilling, healthy relationships exist to meet our needs. And so what happens is when the relationship doesn't satisfy you or when the relationship doesn't fulfill you or when the relationship doesn't meet your needs, when your spouse or your kids or your parents or your friends or your neighbors or the person you're dating, when they don't perform like you expect them to and when they don't do for you what you want them to,

you find yourself feeling unfulfilled. You find yourself feeling unsatisfied in the relationship. And that really is the same as saying, what about me? The crazy thing is, if you think about it, what about me is why most relationships start and it's also why most of them end. They start because they somehow satisfy you and they somehow fulfill you and so you start a relationship with them. And then they end because whatever it was they were doing to satisfy you and fulfill you stops satisfying you and fulfilling you and now you're like, well, you're not really satisfying me and fulfilling me, so now the relationship is going to end. And at the end of the day, it's all about what about me? So I want to submit to you today that maybe, consider this, maybe relationships aren't supposed to be all about having your needs met. That maybe relationships aren't all about being understood and knowing what I need. Maybe the most fulfilling relationships actually begin with a very different premise rather than what can you do for me in this relationship, it's what can I do for you in this relationship? Maybe the way to expose the elephant in the room and to drive him out is to stop asking what about me and start asking what about you? Maybe the secret. to successful relationships is found in actually meeting the needs of someone else.

Maybe, maybe. Now, before I get too far into this message, I wanna just stop here and give a disclaimer because I don't want anybody to hear what I just said and take that teaching and misapply it in an unhealthy place. The message today really is designed intentionally to be applied within healthy relationships. So this message cannot be applied to needy, unhealthy, dependent, manipulative, or abusive relationships. So this is not me saying, well, hey, I'm gonna continue in an unhealthy, abusive relationship because God wants me to continue to meet somebody else's needs. Meanwhile, I'm hurting, I'm suffering, I'm being taken advantage of. That's just not what this sermon is about. And you need to know this, that's not what your heavenly father is about either. That your heavenly father desires for you to have a relationship that brings peace and health, satisfaction and prosperity. God wants to fulfill his good plan in your life through godly relationships. You need to know that. Godly relationships aren't formed with a what's in it for me mentality. So today, here's what I wanna do. I wanna teach you first the theological framework

for this big idea that relationships really aren't about you getting your needs met in the first place. And I can tell there's already a fair amount of tension around that big idea and I'm game for it. So I'm gonna teach you the theological premise around that. And then we're gonna do the hard work in a very practical way. And I'm gonna send you home today with some homework, with three areas of your life that probably need to change so that you can drive out this elephant called what about me? So let's start with the theological framework. Y'all ready for this, everybody? You ready? I know some of you are like, I don't know if I'm ready cause I really like having my needs met in a relationship. I think God's gonna open the eyes of your heart today to show you that really there's something deeper and more meaningful in a relationship than what maybe you've ever experienced before in your life. Let's start at the beginning when God created man and let's ask this question. Why did God create man in the first place? Man and God, outside of the Holy Trinity, man and God are the first relationship we see. Why did God create relationship, the man in the first place? At the very beginning of time as we know it, this is what the Bible says. It says, then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground

and breathed into his nostrils, the breath of life. And the man became a living being. So from the dirt, God made man, which actually explains a lot about men. Am I right? Come on, this is explains why we often don't smell very good. This would explain why we don't do very good making our bed or folding laundry very neatly. Because we were made from dirt. So cut us some slack, all right? So God makes man, but why? Why did God make man? Maybe you've never thought about that. Let me tell you, God made man for himself. That's why God made man. Now, again, don't misunderstand what I'm saying. God didn't make man because God needed something. God needs nothing. God has no needs that he himself cannot meet. You need to know that about God. He is just that awesome, all right? So God has no needs. He didn't make man because God had a need, but God made man for himself. Man comes on the scene. He enters into a relationship with God for the pleasure of God, for the pleasure of God. I'll show you. The Bible says this, for in him, all things were created,

things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities, all things have been created through him, and say these words with me, everybody, and for him. Come on, every voice, and for him. We were created for God. Do you see it? For God. Why are you on earth? Why did God even put me on the earth? For him, that's why. For his pleasure. That's why. I'll show you one more verse and I'm gonna go old school with this one. I'm gonna take it back to the King Jimmy version, all right? This is the version I memorized in Country Backwoods Southern Baptist Sunday School, all right? So I like the language of it. The Bible says it like this. It says, thou art worthy, oh Lord, to receive glory and honor and power for thou has created all things. And look at this, and for thy pleasure. Come on, can you put your King James hat on and say that little phrase with me? For thy pleasure. For thy pleasure, they are created. They are created and they were created.

This is amazing, amazing scripture. The whole concept of relationship at the beginning of time, the very first relationship we see between God and man wasn't about man's needs. God wasn't creating man because man had a need to be fulfilled. It wasn't about what the man wanted. It wasn't about what the man could get. It was about God. And man was created for God, for his pleasure. Man was created for God. Now, look at me, everybody. Because what we do, and we honestly do this in all of our relationships, is we flip the script. And what God intends, we turn upside down. And so we enter into a relationship with God for what God can do for us. Most of our prayers, what are they about? What God can do for me. Like right now, in this very moment, some of you are very disappointed with God. You wouldn't say it that way. I know you wouldn't say, oh God, I'm very disappointed in you right now. I know you wouldn't say that, but you feel it. Because you had an expectation that God would do something for you, meet some need of yours, give some gift to you,

that God would do something for you as if God exists for us. But God doesn't exist for you. You exist for God. Okay. Now that we've cleared that up. Anytime you ask, what about me in a relationship? Anytime, anytime. It turns the relationship on its head and you'll end up disappointed. And that explains for many of you today, your relationship with God. And it explains with many of you today, your relationship with somebody else. Because unbeknownst to you, you didn't even realize it was happening. You thought this was the way it was supposed to be. The elephant in the room showed up and said, what about me? But if you'll come, listen, if you'll come to God saying, God, I am made for you, I am made for your pleasure, I am here for whatever purpose you have designed for my life, you will discover the most fulfilling, satisfying relationship you've ever known. Because now you have turned it right side up. God, I'm for you, whatever you desire. You see how it works, everybody. So God makes man and God makes man for his, pleasure. Now let's keep building this theological principle.

Because the man was made for God. But then God says, hey, there's a problem. It's actually not good for the man to be alone. And so God decides to make a woman. Now I'm teaching you this theological principle. So dial it in with me. At creation, this is what the Bible says. It says, the Lord God said, it's not good for the man to be alone. I'm gonna make a helper suitable, say the words with me, everybody, suitable for him. There was a lot less female voices in that verse that I intended for there to be a helper suitable for him. Both man and woman, don't miss this. Both Adam and Eve were created for God. Don't miss that. The scriptures we read earlier made that very clear that all of mankind, man and woman, were made for God's pleasure. We were made first and foremost to be in relationship with God. But the Bible gets very specific to say, hey, God made a woman to be in relationship with the man. The Bible actually says to help the man, because how many of you know men need some help? It's true. Hello, we need some help. And God knew that. And the woman was made to help the man. So here's the theological principle, don't miss it.

Man was made for God, the woman was made for the man. Now don't take that out of context and misapply the principle, okay? But the principle is this, it's not about me. It was never intended to be about me. The point is though, the woman was not made to be in a relationship with a man because she had needs to be fulfilled. There's something deeper in a relationship than fulfilling my needs. In a relationship, I'm to think about the needs of others. Man was made to pleasure God, woman was made to help the man. Do you see it? Do you see it? This is going very differently than I anticipated it to go in my mind. I actually didn't give in my spirit the weight that I feel in the moment. I didn't anticipate it. You're put out by this idea, aren't you? You want your needs met, don't you? You wanna be able to say, what about me in a relationship? I get it, I get it, I know, I know. But let me show you what happens in a relationship when you aren't demanding your way, when you don't enter the relationship for yourself. Let me show you the possibility. Because the Bible actually describes for us

this relational bliss that's happening now. When God has created man for his pleasure and woman to help the man, there's something special that's happening in relationship. And it's what happens next in the Bible. And it's really cool. And if you've never read this scripture, you're, I think, gonna appreciate it because now the man and the woman, they're both in relationship with God and now they're both in relationship with each other. And this is what the Bible says. You're gonna love this. The Bible says, the man and his wife were both naked and felt no shame. Giddy up, somebody. Naked and unashamed. Hashtag relationship goals. Why are you not more fired up about naked and unashamed? Let me ask you a question. When was the last time you were naked and not ashamed? Exactly. Be about four years old. This is the picture. The Bible's getting, like, Adam and Eve were experiencing that same unashamed feeling that your three-year-old feels when he gets out of the bathtub and runs around the house naked. Woo-hoo, woo-hoo!

That's what they were feeling in their marriage. How awesome is that? Adam and Eve, with God, were experiencing true relational bliss, complete satisfaction. This is the way relationships were intended by God. God creates man for himself. God creates woman to help the man. Nobody's saying, what about me? Nobody's saying, what about my needs? Nobody's demanding their way. Nobody's crying because their needs aren't being met. They're just naked and having the time of their life. Until chapter three of Genesis. Now, in chapter three of Genesis, the story gets twisted. And you probably know what happens. Adam and Eve, they sin against God. And now, relationships change. So when sin enters, relationships change. Now, it's God, what can you do for me? And now, it's Adam and Eve, what can you do for me? What about me? It had always been, what about you? It had always been, I'm in relationship for you. But when sin entered the story, it became, what about me? What can you do for me? And that's the day, what about me, became the basis of every relationship. And we've been living like it ever since.

You see it? And we wonder, why are we so often left feeling unfulfilled and unsatisfied in our relationships? Why are we so often left feeling lonely and left out in our relationships? And the answer is simple. Look, look everybody, the answer is simple. Because according to the creation story, fulfillment in your relationships comes not by making relationships about me, but actually making relationships about others. It's right there at the beginning of the story. And this explains so many challenges in your relationships and in mine. It explains so much that we've violated God's intended purpose for relationships. That the elephant in the room, what about me, should have never entered in a healthy relational environment. Listen, you will actually experience more satisfaction and more fulfillment from your relationship when you stop saying, what about me? And you start saying, what about you? When you stop saying, meet my needs, and you start asking, how can I meet yours? When you stop saying, satisfy me, fulfill me, entertain me, human me, humor me, and you start saying, hey, let me satisfy you, fulfill you, entertain you, humor you,

when you turn it back to the way God originally intended for it to be. And I'll prove this to you. You don't have to actually look very far to know what I'm actually saying is true. All you have to do is look at any parent or grandparent, I'm a pops now, so I can talk about this with authority, any parent or grandparent relationship with a new baby. Oh yeah, you know this is true. If you just take a step back from all the expectations you have of all the relationships in your life, and just look at any parent or grandparent relationship with a new baby, because here's what happens. A new baby enters into a family, and that baby can do nothing to meet your needs. That baby can do nothing to satisfy or fulfill you. Not at all. Actually, you have to do everything to meet that baby's needs, right? Little Belle is nine months old, okay? And let me tell you something about a nine month old. Um, she can do nothing to meet pops needs. If pops is thirsty, she can't go get me a drink. If pops is hungry, Belle can't go get me a snack. You follow me? Like there's no need I have that I can look at baby Belle and say, what about pops? That doesn't work that way. Doesn't work that way.

You know that on the days where pops and Gigi get to babysit Belle, do you know the night before we barely sleep? It's true. It's true. Like barely sleep the night before we get to babysit. Not because we wake up the next morning saying, oh my gosh, we get to go see Belle today and she's gonna meet our needs. No, no, no. It's because we get to go see Belle today and we get to meet her needs, and that's fulfilling. And that's satisfying. You see it? You see it? And this is the way God intended it to be. The purity of what I just described to you is actually what God intends in your marriage. The purity of what I just described to you is actually what God intends in your friendships. That level of purity, not about me, it's about you. And when I serve you, I get relationally satisfied and fulfilled, it's actually the way God intended. Okay, can I push on this for just a minute more before we get to our application? If you would begin to approach your relationship with God like this, just approach your relationship with God first and foremost, saying, God, what can I do for you?

God, how can I serve you? God, how can I worship you? God, how can I praise you? Not what about me, not what I want. not the way I feel comfortable, not the style I prefer, not, listen, listen, if you could, instead of bringing all of your 15 needs to God first, if you could come to God first and bring all the 15 qualities about God you love and just worship Him, praise Him, thank Him for it, if you could do that, your relationship with God would be turned right side up because you put God back in His rightful place. He's King, we're made for Him, we're made for His pleasure, it's fulfilling. The Apostle Paul said it like this over in the New Testament we've looked at this verse a few times in this series already. Paul said, do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility, consider one another as more important than yourselves, more important. Do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. This is the secret sauce to relationships. This is the way you do relationships. It's not about me anymore, kick that elephant out of the room, expose the elephant, it's not about me, it's about you, it's about others, it's about God. One of my favorite researchers and social scientists

is named Shanti Felden. She's done this incredible research on men and women and relationships, we've referenced some of her work and other messages. This is how she states this principle I'm trying to teach you. She says, relational satisfaction grows when we intentionally serve the needs of others rather than seeking to satisfy our own. That's right, that's the principle. That's how you kick the elephant out of the room, it's not about me, it's not about me, it's all about you. So what do we do? If the elephant of the room, what about me has snuck in, what do we do? What do we do? I think there are three changes that we can make today. Today, we can put this message out to the world and we can put this message into practice today to start kicking the elephant in the room out of whatever relational room he or she is in. Here's the first one. Here's the first one. If you got the elephant, what about me in the room, you need to, number one, change your words. Change your words. I would submit to you today that your words matter more than you think. Do they matter more than you think? And most of us communicate in a way that we need.

So my communication style, the words I use, the way I say them, the tone I use when I say them, it's usually about me. I cater my words toward me, not toward your needs. The words I use, I say them in the way I want to say them. And hopefully you get it. Hopefully. But it might be time to change our words. The Apostle Paul says it like this. This is a powerful, powerful scripture I'm about to show you. So buckle up. The Bible says this. Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths. Okay, let me stop there for just a minute. Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths. But only what is helpful for building others up, how? According to their needs. That it may benefit, who? Those who listen. So here's what the Bible's saying to you and me today. It's saying there's a filter for our words. And the filter is this. It's not about me. That's the filter. It's not about me. The words I use must meet your needs or else I don't say them. That's the filter for my words.

The words I use must benefit you. Oh my goodness. I just want you to just do a little inventory and think about, just think about the last conversation that you had with your spouse. Or think about the last argument you had with your boyfriend or your girlfriend. Or think about the last text you sent to your. or think about the last email you sent to your employees. Did you choose the words you wanted to say? Or did you choose the words they needed to hear? That's the filter. I'm to speak in ways that benefit you. So my words, my tone, my timing, timing's a big one. Husbands, timing's a big one. My words, my tone, and my timing have to benefit you. And notice the Bible gives us this additional filter. Hurtful words stay in, don't let them out. Hurtful words stay in, helpful words come out. That, I don't know what they charged you to get in here today, that was worth it though. I'm gonna tell you that straight up. That's, that filter right there. Hurtful words stay in, helpful words. Maybe it's time to change your words. Here's number two. If you've let the elephant of what about me in the room, it's time to change your prayers.

To change your prayers. Yeah, I don't know if you're like me, but when it comes to relationships, most of us pray something like this. We pray, God, change them, fix them, show them, convict them, punish them. Hello, that's how we pray. Bless me and change them. It might be time to change our prayers. Because when I go to God and I'm praying, change them. I think God's looking back and he wants to say something like this. Hey buddy, that's the wrong prayer. Have you looked in the mirror recently? No God, change them. Have you looked in the, you are more jacked up than they are. Have you looked in the mirror recently? So the next time you're frustrated with your spouse, you're upset by your friend, you're disappointed by your boss. And you're like, God, change them. God, convict them. God, give them a mild case of diarrhea right now in Jesus' name. Don't act like y'all ain't never prayed that prayer. Just a mild case, not severe. I never pray for severe. What about instead changing your prayer to be more like the psalmist prayer? Who said this, search me, oh God,

and know my heart, test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you and lead me along the path of everlasting life. Change your prayers, change your prayers. Now don't get me wrong, I love to pray for my wife. I love to pray for my kids. I love to pray for my friends. I love to pray for my staff. I love to pray for you. But if all I ever do is pray, change you and never change me, then the elephant has entered the room because I'm making it about me. Y'all getting that? You might have to change your words. You might have to change your prayers. Here's the third application point. If the elephant, what about me, has entered the room, you probably gotta change your expectations. Your expectations. Here's the reality, there are a lot of us who have expected something from the relationships in our lives that really only God can do. We're expecting someone to satisfy us, someone to fulfill us, someone to make us happy, someone to make us content, someone to meet our needs. And that's not even possible for someone. Like don't expect your spouse to be your savior. And don't expect your kids to be your God. And don't expect your friends to be your everything.

You let God be God and let people be people. You gotta change your expectations. And can I remind you something about people? You probably don't need me to tell you this, but just so you remember, people are messed up. And people disappoint. And people say things sometimes that aren't nice. And people sometimes are selfish. And sometimes people speak before they think. And that doesn't make them right, but it does. to make them humans. And so if you're always saying, what about me? You'll always be disappointed and you'll always be unfulfilled because others can't meet all of your needs. But what if, just imagine this y'all, what if you begin to find your fulfillment in your relationship with God, one who can meet all your needs? What if you start to look to God to be satisfied and fulfilled and content? And then you look to the people around you to just simply love them. What if that became your new expectation of relationships? I'm just gonna love people. In fact, I think that's what God's calling us to do in our relationships. I think God's calling us to receive the love of God so that we can show the love of God to others. The Bible says it like this, I love it.

The Bible says, God showed how much he loved us. By sending his one and only son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. Now this is real love. Not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. And here comes the application. It says, dear friends, since God loved us that much, loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. Not because of what they can do for me. No, no, no. I don't love you because of what you can do for me. Can I tell you the secret to this? I love you because of what God has already done for me. And God has already done enough. Even if he doesn't do anything else, he's done enough already to help me love you more. And so the posture I take in my relationships isn't anymore, what about me? What about me? What about my needs? No, no, no, no, no. I'm going to change my expectations. I'm gonna change what I expect from you. And I'm gonna get so filled with the love of God, from God, that I'm gonna overflow that love to you. And when I do that, listen, it'll no longer be, what about me? That, that elephant has to go. And the next time it shows up in your relationship,

just say to somebody else, I think I owe you five kisses. Okay. I know, I know that the moment you leave from here, something's gonna happen. And immediately the enemy is gonna whisper, but what about you? And you're gonna wanna demand your way. And I'm gonna ask the Holy Spirit to speak deeply to your heart so that you leave from here saying, what about others? Come on, bow your heads, close your eyes. Let this word just take a seat in your heart today. We receive your word today, Holy Spirit. Thank you for speaking to us. And I pray right now over every single relationship, maybe some marriages today who have been so infected with this what about me mentality. Maybe some friendships today that are broken apart or estranged because what about me? Maybe some sons and daughters coming back to moms and dads today, because they see once and for all, it's not about me. So God, we find our fulfillment, our contentment, our satisfaction. We find it in your love today. And we ask that you would fill us with your love so that we can now love others. Heads bowed, eyes closed, just one more moment. If you've never said yes to a relationship with Jesus Christ,

those last verses I read, summed up the gospel in a pretty powerful way. God loves you first. He loves you so much, he sent his son, Jesus. And Jesus wants to pay the price for your sin and fill you with his love. And if you've never received that free gift of salvation today, I wanna lead you in a simple prayer. And I'm gonna invite you to pray this prayer silently with me right where you sit, wherever you are. And if you would say, pastor, that's me. I wanna give my heart and life to Jesus and receive his forgiveness and salvation today. If you'd say, that's me, include me in that prayer. Would you just boldly just shoot your hand high in the air and just leave it up for just a moment? I just wanna know who I'm praying for today. God bless you. God bless you, it's amazing. Pray this now, really mean it. Say, Jesus, I wanna know you. I want my sin forgiven by you. And I'm gonna live my life for you. Receive your love today. And I make you my Lord and my Savior. It's in Jesus' name we pray, amen. Amen, come on, everybody. Can you thank God for his word today? Amen.