Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Welcome to the World Changers Church Gold Coast podcast. Join us as we listen to today's message.
[00:00:07] Good morning.
[00:00:11] Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
[00:00:14] Glory, glory, glory be to God. How good was that worship? Wow, these lights are bright. Whoo.
[00:00:24] Hallelujah.
[00:00:27] Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Alrighty.
[00:00:31] Well, good morning.
[00:00:35] Glad you guys made it in. We looked outside our windows and doors this morning and the river out back is way up. We were like, ooh, what's going on here? It was full to the brim. So we just thank God for his goodness in this day. I thank you that you showed up and the house of the Lord this morning, and we're just going to break some bread together in his Word. Amen.
[00:01:05] So this morning, last week, I ministered on Church Hurt. Church Healed.
[00:01:12] And so this morning, the title of my message is Church Healed. Church Hurt.
[00:01:21] Church Healed. Church Hurt. We're flipping it. Okay. Last week I mentioned that I believe that God gave me a word on church. Hurt has became an idol for people that instead of looking at the church from the point of view and what the word says, they have given a title to church and put a new identity on church, which is hurt. And as I stated last week, I don't want to diminish the fact that things happen in church that are hurtful, that can be traumatic, that can be full of betrayal, and that can lead to hurt, bitterness, disappointment, distrust, et cetera.
But we're not to remain there. You know, I think if we had a show of hands this morning of how many of us have been hurt in church. I would probably predict that each and every one of us would raise our hands, including myself and the leadership team here as well. But we're not to remain there, as I said. So I'm not gonna really go over last week's message because I have a lot in today's message. So please take a look at the podcast. Listen to that podcast, because I do talk more about Church Hurt, okay. And then residing, going into a place of healing. But this morning, I want to talk about Church Healed Church Hurt, okay. And how that we can step into a place of not only healing, but in restoration. Amen, from Church Hurt.
[00:03:11] So, Father, we thank you, Lord, for this morning. We thank you, Father, for the abundance of rain. Lord, we just thank you for every good and perfect gift that comes from you. I thank you, Father, that your spirit is here, that we entered into a place of just worship and praise and surrender, Father. Lord, I know that we all have things that we encounter each and every day. And each and every week. But we lay those things down. We cast off every burden and we lay aside every weight, Father.
[00:03:49] For we know that when we cast aside every weight and when we cast our cares and anxieties onto you, Father, that it will result in us being free in you and liberated in you. So, Father, I thank you for this morning and I give you glory for it all. It's in Jesus name I pray. Amen and amen. So again this morning, I'm going to talk about moving from healing to are from hurt to healing and restoration and purpose. Amen. So my scripture I wanna start with comes from 1st Peter 5:10, and it says, and the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ after you have suffered a while, he himself will restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. Amen.
[00:04:53] So in this scripture, it says that God of all grace, of an unmerited favor, of all grace of all. Jesus has called us all into his eternal glory in Christ Jesus.
[00:05:08] And his promise is, no matter what you suffer or go through on this earth, then after a little while, he will restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.
[00:05:25] I love this here, that the result of restoration, the result of suffering. And then when you are restored, the result is you are strong, you are firm, and you are strengthened, and you are on a firm foundation. I shared last week some things that we have been through personally. And if we had not ever went through those things, we would not have seen the different aspects of who God promises to be and the moments we need him to be. We would have not experienced that. And the result of that is strengthened. We are not the same people.
[00:06:11] I call it the fiery furnace. We are not the same people that we are now that we were before that fiery furnace. Amen.
[00:06:20] You know something about things that we go through when we go to a place of healing and restoration. We realize, God, you were with me, God, you helped me. God, you and maybe your Christian people, maybe people inside the church helped to restore me. And. And I am strong now. I know that I can do all things through Christ because you surely have strengthened me.
[00:06:49] So part of this process from church hurt to church healing and restoration is we have to acknowledge the pain. We have to acknowledge, you know, we can't be void of reality. Claire and I had an epic conversation yesterday about the scripture that says, and when you know the truth, his truth will set us free.
[00:07:14] And she posed the question, when we know the truth, do you think part of that truth is our reality? And Our circumstances and possibly, you know, not being void of those things. You know, we have to encounter the truth and the reality of, you know what, I have been hurt. You know what, I do feel betrayed. You know what? That wasn't right.
[00:07:45] But then when we encounter his truth, his truth will then set us free because we have been willing to reveal the truth of where we are currently. Amen. Does that make sense? I did a poor example of breaking that down. But we have to acknowledge the pain. We have to acknowledge this church hurt. So then we can allow the spirit of God to create in us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us.
[00:08:21] But then we need to walk in restoration.
[00:08:28] What does it look like inside a church when I have distrust? What does it look like rebuilding trust with leadership or with others? What does it look like being a part of a church community again?
[00:08:44] Restoration just is not about healing. It's about rebuilding trust. It's about reconciling relationships, and it's about stepping into the fullness of God's plan for your life.
[00:08:58] See, when we're in a place of hurt, I'm hurt. We're stuck there.
[00:09:06] You know, we may be still doing our purpose here on this earth, but when we are so overtaken by that hurt, it will stop us and it will stifle us, so to speak. We have to step beyond that and allow the healing to come in. Amen. And then the restoration to be restored to the body of Christ, to be restored to the plan of God, because people need you. You know, it's sad when people leave a church and they say, I've been hurt and I'm not going back to church. It's very sad because we are all a gift to the body of Christ. And that's just one less person in the body of Christ that could be encouraging others, that could be praying for others, that could be discerning, discipling others, that could be on the streets evangelizing others. Amen.
[00:10:01] So, number one, healing is a process.
[00:10:05] Healing is a process. Philippians 1:6 says this being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Jesus Christ, God has begun a good work in you. You know, healing can be a journey for some. You know, it's kind of like an onion peel. You take off the layers, you know, of it. It's a journey with God. It may be a journey with counselors, with people, trusted people that are gifted in trauma or counseling and healing, and the gift of healing as well. That you journey with as well. But we have to give our hearts to God. I think last week about when I was going through things and I was on the airplane back to the US just like, I'm done, I'm done and I'm crying on the plane like I'm just so done. And God, I said, I'm so hurt, God, you know, they've hurt me. My heart is just broken. And he said, Tina, your heart is. My heart is for him, not for them. And he says, I will restore you, I will heal you. Give me that. Give me that heart. And I had to work it out day by day by day, sometimes second by second, minute by minute. And then slowly over time, what I was feeling and that hurt and everything that came with it, it just slowly faded away. And then I stepped into the place of healing and then restoration with him. Amen.
[00:11:45] But we have to acknowledge that between the already and the not yet of our healing, you know, he has begun a good work in you and he will carry it on to completion.
[00:12:05] You know, sometimes the healing, like I said, is just a process, you know, and over time you go stronger and you grow stronger and you grow stronger and just the stuff just slowly, like I said, fades away because he comes in and I don't know how the spirit of God does it because it only comes by the spirit of God working on the inside of us. But it's the truth of his word, it's the truth of, you know, displaying it all to God. You know, I love King David in the Bible where King David just revealed everything to God. You know, he would say, my soul is so cast down, but you are the lifter of my head. You know, David, he went and he strengthen himself in the Lord at times, you know, we have to do that as people in the body of Christ. Amen.
[00:13:00] We have to trust God with the pace of our restoration and embrace the growth in our lives along the way. We need to celebrate the growth as well. There were times as we were journeying through Kyle can attest to that. We literally would go out. I remember one of the worst days ever. We booked in a really nice dinner on a rooftop and we went and we celebrated and we toasted to the fact that we will see God's goodness but on the inside. Do you remember that day? We did it several times, but on that day we didn't feel it. It was awful.
[00:13:45] It was awful.
[00:13:48] It was awful.
[00:13:50] I mean, we've shared it before, but we had an email that go out with 11 people of accusations strong accusations. Two people we didn't know. We had to Google them. Never met them in our life.
[00:14:03] It was like, who are you? And when we.
[00:14:08] Yeah, the email happened and all that that took place, we booked in dinner and we went out and we celebrated and we toasted to God's goodness that we will see. And, you know, we had a choice in that moment, because we all have choices. You know, the Bible says in Romans 12:17-18, it says, do not repay evil for evil.
[00:14:32] Well, actually, let me. Let me go to the scripture. Sorry, whoever's on there, let me go to the scripture first.
[00:14:38] Galatians 5:1. It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.
[00:14:45] Stand firm, then. And do not let yourselves be burdened again by yoke of slavery. In that moment, that act that Kyle and I did, we went out and celebrated God's goodness in our lives. That was us standing firm.
[00:15:02] We had to let go the weight of unforgiveness. We had to let go of the weight. As Romans 12:17 and 18 says, do not repay anyone evil for evil, if it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.
[00:15:21] We had a choice in that moment. Do we want to naturally repay and take all these actions, or are we gonna trust God and stand firm and know that he is the one that vindicates?
[00:15:38] And we clung to that scripture. We do not repay evil for evil, but we took the hurt to God and we worked it out with him, and he is faithful to his promises.
[00:15:56] We had to let go of unforgiveness. We had to let go of bitterness. Not just once, not just twice, repeatedly. We had to let go of resentment repeatedly.
[00:16:10] And freedom comes when we surrender all of that to God.
[00:16:15] You know, as I was preparing for this message, I went to Exodus 15:23-25, and this is the story of Moses.
[00:16:26] And, you know, they were on a journey and everything, and they came. There's so much in this scripture that's wonderful. I'd love to unpack it. But I want to highlight the scripture here. It says that Moses and all the children of Israel, they came to the oasis of Marah, and the water was too bitter to drink.
[00:16:50] So they called the place Marah, which was bitter.
[00:16:56] Then the people complained and turned against Moses. What are we going to drink? They demanded.
[00:17:02] So Moses cried out to the Lord for help.
[00:17:07] And the Lord showed him a piece of wood.
[00:17:11] Moses threw that wood into the bitter waters, and this made the water good to drink.
[00:17:19] Another version of the Bible says that it turned the bitter waters into sweet.
[00:17:25] So the revelation I got out of that is Jesus, there was so much bitter things on this earth, and Jesus hung to a piece of wood and gave his life.
[00:17:39] Isn't it amazing how in this analogy here, God said, throw in a piece of wood into that water and then it made it sweet?
[00:17:51] Jesus hung to a piece of water. Jesus himself, I mean, hung to a piece of wood and gave his life and made everything for mankind sweet. Amen.
[00:18:05] He turned the bitter things into sweet. And I can promise you this, because the Word promises it.
[00:18:13] I can promise you, according to the Word, all the bitter stuff, if you give it to Jesus, if you surrender to Jesus, if you put Jesus in it, I guarantee that he will make it all sweet. He will heal you, he will restore you, and he will make it good for you. Amen.
[00:18:39] Walking in freedom doesn't mean forgetting the hurt, but it's choosing not to let it control you. Amen.
[00:18:48] When healing starts within us, restoration then involves rebuilding trust with others.
[00:18:56] It requires humility, it requires communication, and it requires patience.
[00:19:05] So we have to be open in our communication. We have to share things. Sometimes if God leads you to share things without placing blame.
[00:19:17] Without placing blame.
[00:19:19] You know, sometimes church hurt can be misunderstandings and such, then we have to set boundaries. Set boundaries. You know, we are the ones that basically, you know, if you imagine a paddock, we open the door to the paddock of our lives.
[00:19:37] You know, if someone tries to put their trash in our paddock, we're not going to allow it. Right?
[00:19:44] So we have to set a healthy boundary of not allowing trash to come into our spiritual life or our natural life by saying no. Yes. You know, that's, you know, hey, I heard you say this, you know, I wanted to ask you, what did you mean by that? You know, this is communication.
[00:20:07] We have to set boundaries. And even we cannot let hurt people bring their hurt to us that then hurts us. That was a lot.
[00:20:18] We cannot allow other people's hurt to come and try to dump their hurt on us. Then, then allow it to hurt us. Proverbs 18:17 says this.
[00:20:31] This is a boundary thing. The first to speak in court or the first to speak sounds right until the cross examination begins. If someone is bringing their hurt to you, okay, where's the other person in the equation? Where are they at? Because there's not only one side or two sides. There could be three and four sides to the scripture story. Right?
[00:20:56] So the person that comes may always seem right, but what about the other person?
[00:21:01] I'm going to give You a story of Peter in John 21:15 and 17.
[00:21:09] So this is the story of Peter being restored by Jesus after Peter had denied Jesus. Okay, this is another great scripture. I don't have time to read all of it in detail, but John 21:15-17.
[00:21:31] Jules and I were talking about the scripture this morning, and it's just loaded with so much goodness.
[00:21:40] Okay, so John 21:15, it says, when they had eaten, Jesus said to Simon-Peter, Simon, son of God, do you love me more than these others do? With reasoning, intentional, spiritual devotion as one who loves the Father.
[00:22:01] And remember, Peter had denied Jesus previously. So Peter said to him, yes, Lord, you know that I love you, that I have deep, instinctive personal affection for you. As for a close friend. And then Jesus said to him, feed my sheep.
[00:22:21] Again, Jesus said to him, the second time, Simon, son of John, or Peter, son of John, do you love me? With reasoning, intentional spiritual devotion. As one who loves the Father, Peter said to him, yes, Lord, you know that I love you, that I have a deep, instinctive personal affection for you as a close friend. He said to him, again, shepherd, or tend to my sheep.
[00:22:52] Then a third time, he said to Peter, Simon, son of John, do you love me? With a deep, instinctive personal affection for me. As for a close friend, Peter's response. In that moment, Peter was grieved. He was sad and hurt.
[00:23:10] Jesus hurt Peter. In that moment, Peter was church hurt by Jesus.
[00:23:18] Jesus church hurt somebody just by asking him, do you love me?
[00:23:25] Wow.
[00:23:28] And he asked the third time, do you love me? And he said to him, lord, you know everything.
[00:23:36] I believe he dealt with his hurt probably in that moment. And then he responded, you know everything.
[00:23:44] You know that I love you. I have a deep, instinctive personal affection for you. As for a close friend, Jesus said to him, again, feed my sheep.
[00:24:00] This fulfills the law to love the Father with all of your heart and soul and to love others as you love yourself.
[00:24:12] So Jesus in that moment, had restored Peter back to his purpose, back to his purpose. After denying him, Jesus did not condemn Peter. He didn't focus on the fact of, you know what, Peter, you denied me three times. Three. Yes, you denied me three times.
[00:24:41] And you know what? How could you do that to me? How could you deny me? Not only once, not only twice. You deny me three times, Peter. Jesus didn't do all that. He then asked him three times, do you love me? In that moment, Peter got a little hurt, but I believe he got over it because Jesus was in the equation literally so much in that But Jesus gently reaffirmed his purpose.
[00:25:11] Restoration will mirror Christ's response to our own failures.
[00:25:18] You know, I spoke last week that we have a new mercy each and every day. Every single one of us here, even the person that may have hurt you has a new mercy each and every day as well.
[00:25:36] And you know what? Who they were two years ago may not be who they are now.
[00:25:42] But Peter goes on to Jesus and he asks Jesus, I'll highlight this, I won't read it. But he basically says, well, what about that person? And Jesus is like, nah, Peter, no, no. Basically, just focus on yourself.
[00:25:58] Restoration. In Galatians, it says that when a person is being restored, we should gently and humbly restore them back looking at ourselves so that we do not fall into the same temptation.
[00:26:16] When other people are being restored, say from church, hurt or whatever it is, we are not to even look at them. We are to look at our own selves, which is then to look at Jesus, or we may be tempted to be hurt as well.
[00:26:38] He is a good, good God. He is a loving father. We all have a new mercy each and every day. And I thank him for that. You know, I'm not the same person that I was over 20 years ago. And I've done things, I've made mistakes, I've said things, I've failed. I've not followed through on things, you know. But you know what?
[00:27:01] My heart is not intentional as a leader for any of that stuff. And Jesus said it best. Father, forgive them. They know not what they do. It's hard. It's hard to fathom. Wait, they don't know. Sometimes they just don't know.
[00:27:18] That's why we as a church, the Bible says that we can provoke each other to good works. It's not condemn each other to good works. We can provoke each other to good works.
[00:27:31] I'm going to talk about that in a moment.
[00:27:34] I wanted to share with you where I work at. It's a ministry and we get letters from prisoners. Prisoners will watch the broadcast and they'll write in to the ministry that I work for. And it's really cool when we get a letter from an inmate. And some of the letters is like, can you send me a Bible? That was a couple weeks ago. Can you send me a Bible? Didn't say he was saved. I watched the broadcast. I just want to learn a little bit more. One is like, you know, Pastor Creflo has transformed my life. And I get out in March. I'm not the same person. And when I leave, I'm coming to the conference. Where do you have a church for me? And I'm going, ooh, son.
[00:28:16] But anyway, I thought, you know what? And so I wrote this beautiful letter back to him about the new mercies that he is a new creation in Christ Jesus, that wherever he goes, that he will be a blessing to the body of Christ and that his testimony should be shared amongst all people that he comes in contact with. Because I believe he has been transformed from the inside out. Amen.
[00:28:43] And you know what? This is why we are not to judge each other.
[00:28:48] Because, you know, you know, we can't judge. We can't judge what a person does, whether we see it or whether we don't do it. We have Jesus. We all have Jesus. Amen. I want to get on a tangent of that, but Galatians 6:1-2, it says, if someone is caught in sin or wrongdoing, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently.
[00:29:18] We all have the spirit of gentleness.
[00:29:22] That's the fruit of the Spirit. And watch yourselves, or you may also be tempted. Carry each other's burdens. In a way, you will fulfill the law of Christ.
[00:29:36] Now, this here doesn't say, take on their burden.
[00:29:40] Do not take on their burden. Carry it. If I had, say, a lounge here, and I needed this lounge to be moved, I would ask someone to help me carry it. We would lift it and we would share the load until it goes to the destination.
[00:29:58] So when a person has a burden, we are to help them basically come alongside for a moment, help them carry it until they are to that place of promise in Christ Jesus according to the Word. So if it's church hurt, I'm here to help you carry this burden, but I'm not gonna take it from you. I'm gonna help you carry it until you're to that place of healing and restoration. Amen. I learned long ago as a leader, I was taking on people's burdens. And I would cry and not. And I would be a mess, and I would just cry and I would wail before the Lord because I was taking their burden. And God says, their burden is not for you to take. It's for you to pray. It's for you to fight in the spirit for them. It's for you to declare for them. It's for you to impart the word to them and lead them to that place of healing and restoration. Lead them to Jesus. Amen.
[00:31:09] And I had to learn. I learned the hard way, really, because God doesn't want any of us to have burdens that are overtaking us. Amen.
[00:31:21] But Galatians 6:1 says, Watch yourselves, or you may also be tempted.
[00:31:28] And then the last scripture I have comes from. It's about provoking each other into good works.
[00:31:36] Hebrews 10:24 says this.
[00:31:40] Let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. In another version, says, provoke one another to good works or acts of.
[00:32:01] So in this, provoke means to inspire each other to act in the ways that reflects the truth of God's word and God's love and purpose. We are to encourage believers to live out their faith. Amen.
[00:32:17] Speak words of truth, speak words of scripture. You know, a lot of times I'll ask people when I hear things, and I'm just like, I don't know. And I repeat it back to them. So what I hear you saying is this. And they're like, no, no, no, no, no, that's not what I'm saying. And I'm like, okay, what are you saying?
Well, da, da, da, da, da. So what I'm hearing you say is this. Well, no, no, no, no, no. That's not what I'm saying. That's active listening. Sometimes when you repeat it back to a person, they're like, whoa, wait a minute. And then they start to be like, oh, wait a minute, wait a minute. And then, you know, you can say, well, why do you feel this? Why are you thinking this? Or what led you to this place? And I think sometimes provoking one another isn't always. Well, you know, the Bible says this. Well, you know, this and this.
Sometimes it's just listening to them and then asking them questions of. To try to understand where they're coming from, and then loving them gently. You know, it's not. Well, the Bible says this. Well, have you thought about this? What is your perspective of this? Because it could be, you know, that they've never been discipled. It could be that they've, you know, haven't ever read the Word. I don't know. But every person is different. And wherever they are in life, you know, we have each other. We have the spirit of God. We have the Word of God. Amen.
[00:33:51] And Hebrews 10:25. So Hebrews 10:24 says, Let us provoke one another to good works and acts of love. It says, let us not give up meeting together.
[00:34:04] Let us not neglect our meeting together, which is coming to church, coming to Bible study, going to connect group Going to worship nights, we need to meet together.
[00:34:16] And it says, as some people do, some people neglect meeting together but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near. So especially now, we do not need to neglect meeting together, going to church. Because let me tell you, church should be a place of healing. We should be resounding from the rooftops and social media. Because on social media right now it's glorifying church hurt. It's idolizing church hurt. We need to be positioning ourselves as world changers. And let me tell you, Kyle and I in leadership, we're holding each other accountable. We want a safe place. We want a judgment, free space. When we say we're going to do it, we want to follow through and do it.
[00:35:12] We want to disciple others. We want to walk with others, we want to love others. We want to serve the community. And we may not always be perfect and we may not always know. But one thing I can guarantee, if you come to any of the leadership here and say, you know what, I need you, I need help, I need you to walk with me, I guarantee you someone, or probably two people will be right there in your corner every single of the way. Amen.
[00:35:44] But we cannot give up meeting together when we are isolated. You know, you look at the two disciples. Claire and I were talking about this yesterday too. Peter and then Judas. Peter denied Jesus. Judas betrayed Jesus. Peter was restored because he went to Jesus.
[00:36:09] Judas. What did he do? Go hide in a cave?
[00:36:13] He went and hid in a cave. We do not need to be Christians. A church that when something happens that we go and hide in a cave. Because when we isolate ourselves, we're stuck in it.
[00:36:31] Healing and growth happens in a supportive and grace filled church community.
[00:36:39] Isolation allows hurt to fester while fellowship fosters restoration. Amen.
[00:36:48] And the most beautiful thing of all is that we are all God's handiwork.
[00:36:55] We are all created in Christ Jesus to do good works, to do good works here on this earth which God has prepared for us in advance. We are called to use our gifts. We are called to use our set talents. And we are called to serve others, to glorify God. Amen.
[00:37:21] Restoration leads to purpose. And your healing equips you to help others see when you are healed and when you are restored, you can then share your testimony to all that you come in contact with that will bring God the glory. That's why I love our women's praise and testimony nights. We have so many women that sharing and I had someone yesterday or this past week. Say to me, I love the women's testimony nights because I'm hearing things that other women have been through. And then I look at them, like, what? I don't even see that on you. You're not even that person. What? You could have just this and you could have just that, but you're sharing this and you're free and you're glorifying God. Whoa.
[00:38:13] And that's what happens. We overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony. And if we are stuck in this church hurt, where's the testimony? It's not there yet. Because you gotta heal.
[00:38:30] And I know some of you, this may be hard to hear. Oh, I can only imagine, years ago, if I heard this, I'd be like, you don't know what I'm going through.
[00:38:42] You don't know who betrayed. You don't know he left. You don't know. You don't know. But you know what Jesus knows. Jesus knows. And one thing that I know is the kingdom of God needs you. The kingdom of God needs you. Gift. And that there is healing, that there is restoration, there is life, there is freedom in Christ Jesus. That is what I know. And I know that all things are possible through Christ Jesus to those who believe. Amen.
[00:39:17] So, Father, I thank you. I thank you, Father, for your grace.
[00:39:22] I thank you, Father, for your healing power.
[00:39:26] I thank you, Lord, that there is healing. That there is healing. That yokes are being destroyed, Father. That burdens are being lifted, that the idol of church heard is being demolished. That, Father, one of the biggest restorations is in the body of Christ. That churches are a place of healing, that churches heal, that churches restore.
[00:39:56] And, Father, I thank you, Lord. I thank you, Lord, that there is nothing too hard for you, Father. Father, I thank you. Let us be people that strengthen others, Father. Let us be agents of healing and grace to those that we come in contact with.
[00:40:19] Teach us to restore others, Father, gently, to carry burdens with love and to reflect your heart in all that we do. Father, I thank you that you will give further revelation of this message. These messages of church hurt, church healed and church healed church hurt.
[00:40:43] And Father, most of all, I thank you for your healing power.
[00:40:47] I thank you for your promise of restoration of what has been broken. I thank you, Father, that we can trust you to surrender our hurts, our disappointments and our fears to you. I thank you, Holy Spirit, the great teacher, the great counselor, the great intercessor, that you teach us to forgive, to rebuild trust, and to walk in the freedom you have given us. I thank you, Father, that our stories will be used for your glory and let us be vessels of healing to one another.
[00:41:28] Father, I thank you. I thank you for your precious son, Jesus. It's in the mighty name of Jesus. I pray Amen and Amen before I hand it over to Pastor Kyle. Maybe after announcements and such, I'll let him determine. Maybe, maybe we'll have a time of prayer together.
[00:41:55] But I've had on my heart beyond these two messages to do a four week discipleship. Don't know when. I've got to talk to leadership to slot it in because we got Alpha and other discipleship courses coming up as well. But would anyone be interested in a four week discipleship group on Church Hurt, Church Healed and Church Healed Church Hurt? Anybody? If you would be interested, raise your hand. Okay.
[00:42:28] We've got a few people. Great. Thank you for the hands there. Thank you so much. So what we'll do, this is because our leadership are accountable to each other. I'll speak with leadership, but it's heavy on my heart and then we will let you guys know when we'll do this discipleship. Amen. But God bless you is my prayer. And know that you are so loved and you are so valued. And I'm going to turn this over to Pastor Kyle.
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