Episode Transcript
Welcome to the World Changers Church Gold Coast Podcast. Join us as we listen to today's message. I thought she was going to start preaching and just take it all the way there. You're like, oh, you have to wait until week three for Claire to come in and bring in what she's going to talk about.
And I'm going to explain very soon what that is. But we have the, there'll be a graphic over there up on the screens. We're talking about the next four weeks, Victory Over Darkness.
Today is the good news. Now, question, do you know the good news? Do you understand what the good news is?
Because I've met some Christians and they don't know what the good news is. I've met some Christians that are living out a life that is as far away from the good news as anything else. They're like, I'm not really living that out.
I'm not working it out because I don't know what the good news is. And then you meet everybody else in life who's not saved, who's not a Christian, who doesn't know what the good news is because they've never been taught it. They've never heard it.
They've never been to church. It's not been taught in schools. They haven't got a clue what the good news is.
The good news is victory over darkness, but I'm going to explain it and I'm going to explain it quickly. I hear people laughing already. I'm like, I've got 30 minutes.
Where's my timer? So the greatest victory in history has already been won. Yeah, we're not talking about the world wars that have gone on.
We're not talking about the Roman times, the Gaelic wars. We're not talking about anything like that. We're talking about the greatest victory in history has already been won.
That was Jesus Christ on a cross. Greatest victory. Yet we don't walk that victory out.
We live a life today based on the victories of the past and that's how our societies are formed. But actually we live a life today based on the teachings of Jesus. When we take a look at the Sermon on the Mount, there are societies that are based around that, but people don't take that into consideration.
People don't understand that. The greatest victory in history has already been won. Jesus was born.
Jesus was crucified. Jesus is risen. Listen to it again. Jesus was born, past tense. Jesus was crucified, past tense. Jesus is risen.
Right here, right now, we love and we serve a risen God. That is Jesus Christ. There is a simplicity of the good news. What else do we need to know?
Well, not everybody knows it. The world still wrestles with fear, doubt, and sin. But yet we sit here under the Word, knowing what the Word is.
Are we not called to go into the world to take that message? So why does this world still wrestle with fear, doubt and sin? What do we get to do to proclaim that message? Well, firstly, we have to understand what that message is.
So Jesus was born, heaven touched earth. All of a sudden, Jesus was that word that became flesh and he stepped into our brokenness to bring hope. Emmanuel, God with us.
Powerful words, Emmanuel, God with us. He is there, Jesus was made flesh. The word made flesh for you.
So Jesus was born, Jesus was crucified. Let me point this out to you. The nails didn't keep Jesus on a cross.
Love kept him on a cross. Love for you. Love for me. Love for the generation that was there that nailed him to the cross, but love for the generations that have came afterwards, which are you. Love for the generations which come after you, which is the children, the grandchildren that you have. That is love that was crucified on a cross for you, for me. Nails couldn't hold him. Death couldn't hold him.
Jesus was crucified. Jesus is risen. On the third day, He stepped out of the tomb in victory.
He stepped out of that tomb proclaiming victory over death. When He was on that cross, He said, it is finished. Sin was defeated.
Everything that holds us back, that shame, that guilt, that condemnation, that was bore with Jesus. That was defeated by Jesus. That is what we lay at the cross.
So many times we take things to the foot of the cross and we attempt to leave it there and we attempt to walk past, but we keep getting dragged back to the foot of the cross. And I sometimes think to myself, I thought the cross is significant because Jesus hung on there and Jesus died on there, but Jesus ain't there anymore. Because when he rose, he walked out of that tomb.
He walked out of death. He defeated it. So why are we standing there?
Why are we holding on to all this stuff that isn't ours? We have to set it down to realize and understand the good news that He has done for us. I can't take any more things on if I'm holding onto my past.
When I set my past on, I can pick up what God has promised me. I can pick up what He has given me. What He has blessed me with is what I can do.
The enemy is defeated. He wasn't defeated back then, that's it. Then he gets to gain power again.
That was done and dusted. He has no authority over you. There is nothing that he can do that can take you away from the love of God.
Because if God can give His Son for you and raise Him up so that you are connected back to Him, then He can do anything. All for you. All for me.
All for everybody that comes afterwards. We're doing a four-part series, like Claire said. Today, we look at the good news.
We have to know what that good news is. To understand what that good news is, to understand what Jesus has done on the cross for us. When we understand the good news, then we take a look at the relationship.
Now, Pastor Kyle comes back next week and he's gonna bring the relationship. And we look at how we formed that relationship with Jesus. When we realise and understand the relationship that we have, we then move on to week three, which will be with Clare.
And that'll be about the repositioning When we're not walking in God's path, we're out of sync. We're walking our own path. He doesn't want us walking that, He wants us walking His.
We are repositioned back into His plan for our lives. Then we get to understand the identity that we have in Him. When we understand the identity, when we have the relationship and we know the good news, then we understand the authority that we have to rule over.
Not rule with, but to rule over. That's the four week series. I get to come back and I get to bring that authority that we're gonna be talking about.
But today we focus on the good news. It says, if we don't have a relationship, then we don't know his character. And if we don't know his character, then we will get deceived.
Hosea 4, 6. It says, my people are destroyed through lack of knowledge. We walk in grace, we stand in truth, and we fight from victory.
We fight from victory. The battle's won. It's done.
Which means all that hard work is done. What we're doing is we're just walking through. Some things will come up against us, but they're already defeated.
They just don't know it yet. It's easy to push them over. It's easy to push them back.
It's easy to keep on walking because Christ has gone in front of us and won everything. The world will come against us, we know that. The Bible tells us that it's not all gonna be singing and roses on top of the valleys.
We have our top of the mountains. We have the valleys to go through as well, but that's okay because Christ has gone there first. Here's a question though. Does everyone know that we carry that message of victory? Do we carry that message of victory? How do we carry that message of victory? Is that message of victory seen in the life that you walk out every day?
I was once challenged and I was thinking about this quite recently about, you know, wearing the old Christian memorabilia and you've got the cross on the front and you've got the nice scripture on the back and stuff. And again, like Pastor Kyle, I've got one of these faces that just looks like I'm gonna snap you in half. Whereas I'm probably looking at you thinking, I'll tell you what, how can I help that person?
I only pray for that person. I only buy that person a coffee. My face doesn't say it.
So when I'm wearing this Christian memorabilia, people are looking at me going, typical Christian. That's why I'm not in church. And I'm struggling, I'm thinking, oh, I cannot wear that when I look like this.
And I'm trying to portray that love of Christ every day, but it's a challenge, isn't it? How many Christians do you see walking through the life that aren't living out blessings? How many Christians do you see walking out the life that are broken?
How many Christians do you see that are on their knees and they don't know the authority that they have to be able to get off their knees and to carry on? That when you're on your knees, that's the time you're praying. On your knees, that's the time that you're giving everything over to God and you're gonna get up in His strength, not yours.
Zechariah 4, 6, not by strength, not by might, but by the Spirit, says the Lord. My favourite scripture, and I quote it all the time, I bring it in every sermon when I'm talking with people. It's something that I bring in because I'm big, I'm strong, I'm powerful, but I can't do it all myself.
Thankfully, Christ got on that cross because if I was asked to get on there, I probably wouldn't. I'd be too scared to get on there. For you, not a chance.
For my son, for my wife, you know, I'll tell you what, I'm going to have some fear. I'm going to have some doubt, but I'm sure it would maybe get on there. But I don't know until I'm put in that position.
But thankfully, I will never be put in that position because Christ done it first. Yeah. The king is alive.
The battle is won. Let's proclaim it. Let's proclaim it.
But it's simple to say that up here. It's easy to say that up here. When we get to walk it out every day, there's your challenge.
When we get the kids running about the place that are struggling with life or struggling with us, or you've got the dog doing something that it shouldn't be doing. My dog's chewing things again. You walk in, you just don't know what's gonna be chewy, but life comes at you.
Relationships break down, they fall apart. The world gets in the way of things and it feels like the devil's coming at us every time. And like, whoa, hold on a second.
Are we giving the devil too much credit in our life? Because sometimes it's just the world. It's a broken place.
Where's my strength come from? It comes from the Lord. So I know that I can walk it out.
If I keep telling myself the devil's attacking me again, the devil's attacking me again, the devil's attacking me, the devil's one person. He's one angel that was fallen. That's all he is.
He has got things out there. There are demons out there and that's all fine. And we sort of digress with that, but that is not enough to keep you back because our God loves everybody, died for everybody and is with everybody on the present.
So as the Holy Spirit speaks to me, now he speaks to you there. That's where I walk from. I don't give the devil authority in my life.
I give God the authority in my life. That's where I walk from and that's where I talk from. If it was just down to the victory that Jesus had won, we'd all be having all these victory dances and parties.
And everybody would be looking at the Christians going, wow, I want what they've got because they are living it out. They are doing great. That is fantastic.
I'm coming to church next Sunday and I'm gonna give my life to Christ and I'm gonna walk this out because they've got it sorted. Romans 12.2 tells us to renew our mind every day. Because we come against challenges, we come against the world.
And that's okay. I'm not living a perfect life because I'm stood up here. I'm living a better life because I'm obedient.
Because I make choices. Romans 12.2 again says, the test and approve is perfect well. I wanna test and approve what God has placed for me to make sure that it's from Him, not from the world.
That's what I'm looking to do, to make sure that I am hearing Him at all stages of life, not just at some stages of life. That means I give everything over to Him and I follow what He wants me to do, not what I want to do. You see, the good news of the gospel is simple, but it's not easy.
It's a statement you don't hear very often, is it? You walk into church, Jesus loves you, fantastic, woohoo, off you go. What does that mean?
For a lot of my life, I felt unlovable. How can I accept somebody like Jesus loving me? For a lot of my life, I ran away and I lied. I cheated through everything.
Not because I was trying to run away from God, I didn't know him. But because I was trying to impress life and I didn't even know what life was, I was broken. I was scared.
Running away from everything because I didn't know the good news. I didn't trust the good news. And when somebody said to me, Jesus loves you, yeah, whatever.
I didn't know how to accept love. I didn't know how to give love. Too many times in church, it's Christianese.
Can we just quote some stuff from the Bible? There you go, right, good, you're off, I'm gonna pray for you. We walk away, we forget to pray for them.
If I can feel unlovable stood here at times in my life, then I'm sure each and every person here and even listening at some stage in our life has felt unlovable. How can I understand what Jesus has done for me if I can't love myself? Good news of the gospel is simple, but it's not easy.
Two things I'm gonna throw at you quickly that make it not simple. Number one, religion. Religion doesn't make it simple.
Man-made doctrines and people taking the Bible out of context. Remember context. If you take the text out of context, you're left with a con.
People are creating some theology based over here because they haven't taken the context. They just want to make something up to make themselves look good instead of making God look good. Religion gets in the way.
It makes it very hard for people to walk through a door to believe, accept and receive Jesus as their Lord and Saviour. Because all of a sudden they think of wrath. They think of punishment.
They think of rules. It's not my God. There are rules, of course there are. But those rules that we have within the Word of God are stuff that enhances our life, not takes away from our life.
You can't wear that, you can't do that, you can't say that, you can't pray like that. You have to do this, you have to do that. If it's from the word of God, I'll listen.
If it's not from the word of God, you ain't got me. But I have to know the word of God to understand the truth of the word of God. If I don't understand the truth, then I'm easily deceived.
Life gets in the way. And often what happens to us during life that can make us feel unworthy, shameful and unlovable. How can God love me knowing the things that I've done?
If you're honest with yourself, how many times have you asked that question before in the past? I've asked it quite a few. One of the things that kept me away from God, how can God love me with the things that I've done, the choices that I've made?
When Jesus got on that cross over 2000 years ago, He didn't get on the cross for the people then, He got on the cross for you now. There is no shame, there's no guilt, there's no condemnation within your life. That is enough to keep God from loving you.
He just wants you. He wants that personal relationship with you through Jesus. That's why he was there.
So all that stuff that we carry isn't good news. When we listen to life, we listen to the wrong things because it's all about me. It's all about I.
It takes you away from God. When we come in alignment with God, we see love. We see a Father who loves us enough, John 3, 16, that sends His only Son, that sent His only Son.
Let's listen to the language for you and for me and for everybody else. I was scared of everything. But everything that I was scared of was a learned behavior.
The people that I had in my life weren't teaching me love. That's my parents. They didn't show me love.
They didn't show me something that I could copy, that I could replicate. that I can go, I tell you what, I know how to be a good husband to my wife. I know how to be a good father to my son because I've learned that from my dad and my mother.
I didn't learn that. Some people do, don't get me wrong, that's good. But everything we have is learned behavior.
That's why it's important to be around people that lift you up in Christ, not drag you down in the world. Imposter syndrome is a big one. Anybody ever suffer imposter syndrome?
Yep, hey, I've got it. Imposter syndrome, feeling fake. I'm stood here now and I'm like, what have I got to tell you that you can't hear from somebody else?
Sorry, I'm just looking because I see I'm whispering to you there. I'm not good enough to do what God's called me to do. I feel like an imposter, I feel like a fraud because I get back off the stage after I bring a message like this and I have to go back into the world and sometimes I'm gonna lose my temper.
Sometimes I'm gonna say the wrong thing. Sometimes I'm not gonna love my son or my wife the way that I should do. Sometimes I'm gonna say that I'm gonna pray for you and I forget.
I'm not perfect, I'm far from it. And sometimes standing up here, I feel like an imposter. There's things that I have to walk through.
There's a journey that I have to go through. Being up here and being able to deliver the message is one thing, but being a Christian, being saved, knowing what God has called me to do is a different thing. You see, here at the minute, it only means that I've been willing to follow His Word.
It means that I've been willing to obey His Word. It means that I've been willing to forgive. That's a struggle.
A lot of Christians say, I've got nobody to forgive. No, I've forgiven that person. Deep in your heart, you know you haven't. All of a sudden it pops up and you're like, wow, I've been walking out on forgiveness for ages.
Only just recently, and I mean the past 48 hours. Part of my story, when I was 16, I was saved and I ran away from God because a minister turned around and said, forget about him, he's a waste of time. Oh, wow, a minister, cheers reverend.
I don't like you. I don't like you Christians, I'm off. And I went into the world for 25 years and I've been telling that story and I've been quite sorta, you know, I don't like him.
Bang, God's just happy. And he says, look him up, forgive him. I don't need to phone him and say, excuse me, reverend, if he's still alive, I'm not too sure actually.
But I need to forgive you for something. I just know in my heart, I'm like, wow, I've carried that about. I've carried that story.
I've told that story and that's held me back. What happens if that's really affected somebody else and they haven't been able to forgive based on what I've been saying? Wow.
But I can't live there. So I don't. but it's just little revelations at a time.
So I've been willing to forgive, but I've also been willing to find out how to love. When I first came back to church, they're talking about God. I'm like, woohoo, got you.
I'm happy with that. Gaia, the universe, all this agnostic stuff, spiritual stuff. I've got you.
I understand God. I'm like, right, up there. Good, right.
Let's go for it. Then the pastor's bringing in Jesus. And I'm like, I'm not interested in that.
Why have I got to go to Jesus to get to there? Scrap that. Don't want it.
I want to go straight here. So I'm having a debate with the pastor. And he turned around and he said to me, he said, look, what you need to do is find out who Jesus is.
Fall in love with Jesus and you will have a revelation of the Father. That's love. When I try to understand God in my own sense, in my own way, when I try to listen to the world explain what God is, all of a sudden I become wrapped up in everybody's lovey-dovey. When I found Jesus, I realised and understood who I serve.
That was a revelation. There is good news coming through you. But let's deep dive a little bit.
We look at Genesis. We're gonna go the whole way back. We're gonna go to the fall.
The fall equals darkness. Let's really unpack what the good news is. So way back when, Garden of Eden, sin entered in.
Now, it's a quick story. Very quick story, then I'm gonna take you through it. Adam and Eve, a bit of fruit.
Eve took it first, Adam stood there. He took it afterwards. He watched, he didn't stop.
Whatever you wanna go into the depth of theology, what doesn't matter, they still ate from the tree of good and evil. Okay? They done that, sin came in.
All of a sudden, imagine what it's like. They have been walking with God every day. The cool of the day, it says, they've been walking with God.
They're there, they're connected. He tells them, do not eat from there because there will be death. Death is a separation.
All of a sudden there's darkness now between the two bits of light. Death came in. So if we look at Genesis 3, 22 to 23, and it said, Just stop in there for a sec.
Just imagine the download that they must have had in their head to really understand. You know, look and you're like, whoa, you're naked. Whoa, I'm naked. That's just a simple thing.
What about everything else that comes into the context of understanding good and evil? There was no comprehension before. Now evil has entered in.
That must have just blown their minds. It blows my mind trying to think of it, but he must not be allowed to reach out his hand and also take from the tree of life. And he can live forever.
So the Lord God banished him from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he'd been taken. And here already, we're seeing the story of redemption. Adam and Eve banished from the garden of Eden to become flesh, to die. If they'd eaten from the tree of life, they never would have died.
Jesus could never have entered in. To take them out of the garden Eden was saving grace. Not nice at the time, but it gets them out of the way because they're not going to take life and live forever where they can never be saved.
There had to be a redemptive story to bring the connection back together. To live there forever was to live with that separation. God can't look on sin.
God looks on you through the lens and the eyes of Jesus, the blood covered. So the Old Testament summary really, man without God is destined for disaster. Falling into sin, rebellion and destruction and history proves that when humanity rejects God, the result is chaos, oppression and judgment.
Anybody disagree? Are we all cool with that? Yeah?
Chaos, oppression, and judgment as a result of humanity rejecting God. So Judges 21 to 25, oh no, Judges 21, 25, sorry. In those days, there was no king in Israel.
Everyone did what was right in their own eyes. Your result here was moral corruption and national downfall. Proverbs 14, 12 said, there is a way that seems right to a man but its end is the way to death.
Seems right to me, but I'm not all-knowing. I don't have it all sorted. I can't predict the future.
But when you take a look at that, Psalms 32, eight says, I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. I will counsel you with my loving eye on you. And then Proverbs 3, five to six says, trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.
In all your ways, submit to him and he will make your path straight. He will do all that. I've just got to follow him because when I'm not doing it, I'm wrong. There is destruction down that path because I'm wrong. there is life down this path because he is right.
Genesis 6, 5, the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. See, before the flood, man without God led to worldwide corruption, experience, ruin, exile, and judgment, and it proved that life without God leads to disaster. So what's the stop to it?
Don't we fast forward to the cross. Jesus from there to the cross, he was already talked about, he was already prophesied. He was already that person that was gonna come in, that was gonna save our lives, that was gonna reconnect us back.
All the way through the Old Testament, you will see Jesus, a kind of Jesus, you will see him. And he came to give us a victory over sin, victory over death, so that we're connected back to the Father and we live eternally. And that is heaven.
We will fail in this mortal body that we have, but when we pass, we go to heaven. That is where we live forever, reconnected back with the Father. We look at Colossians 2.15 and it says, Jesus defeated the power of darkness.
Jesus defeated those spiritual forces of evil. Now there's a challenging thought process that in the Western world, we don't really believe in evil. We don't believe in the devil.
We don't believe in demons. I've been to churches that have been African led or Persian led, people from Iran. These people, they understand and they know the absolute concept of darkness.
of the evil one. It's there, it's talked about, it's not shied away from, it's real. Which means that that darkness is real, then there has to be light.
So the acceptance of Jesus is something simple for them. And when they pray, they know they're going to battle. They know what they're coming up against when it comes to the world and the enemies that they will see in the spiritual.
But also in the Western world, it's like, it's a little bit too dark for me. I'm just going to stay away from that. And everything's all rosy and rose tinted glasses over here.
And we ignore what's going on here. Which means that there's a lack of trust in what the Bible says. It shows us that there's fear of the unknown.
It shows us that we're not standing on authority and taking charge over that because we doubt. And if we're doubting, then we doubt God's strength. We doubt God's power. We doubt God's authority.
And that's where we gotta come back to what the good news is. That's where we come back to understanding the relationship with Jesus, why he did what he did. That's why we look at that reposition that you're back in that path of what God's called you to do.
And that's why we look at the authority that we take over that. That's where we stand. John 16, 33 said, I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace.
In this world you will have trouble, but take heart, I have overcome the world. He secured victory over sin and death. It's not yours to go out and get victory for, he's done it.
It's yours to stand in it. The battle that you have is from victory. Not walking out there on knowing if you're going to win this fight or you're not.
It's already been won for you. You're just walking out there in victory. Through his sacrifice, he broke the power of sin, fulfilled the law and made a way for humanity to be reconciled back to God.
The shame, the guilt that once held you captive has been removed. It's not there anymore. It's like something we just keep picking up every now and again.
Oh, no, I'll set that down off a walk. I forgot who I am. Hold on a second. I'm gonna pick that back up and I'm gonna go walk with it for a little bit more.
Nope, I'm good. I've got my authority. I'm back.
Let's go again. Now I'll tell you what, actually, I've forgotten about that, right? Yeah, that seems to be the life that we go through sometimes, isn't it?
How do we continually walk in His victory is understanding who He is and what He has done. He has overcome the world for you. Walk in His victory, not in your victory.
John 4, 4 says, little children, you are from God. You are from God and have overcome them. For he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
And the world is Satan. And the world is evil. But if God's in you, then you're greater than all of that because he is greater than all of that.
Romans 8, 37 says, no, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. See, we're gonna face challenges and we're gonna try to, sorry, and challenges and believers are ultimately victorious through Christ. That's where we claim our victory from.
And we will face challenges. We will come up against wrong things, but he has gone before us. He knows what comes next.
He knows what you do next. Even as we're sat here now and we're sort of reflecting on what I'm saying, potentially you're getting challenged in your heart with what I'm saying, but He knows the next sin you commit. Everybody knows that He knows all. But He also knows that next love and kindness that you give, that next time you whisper His name, that next time that you proclaim His love.
He knows the joys and the fruits of the Spirit that you possess. He knows it all. Romans 8, 11 says, This is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
There's your source of victory. That gift that was given. Jesus went away, He's gone back and He said to the right hand, but He gave that gift.
He gave that helper. He gave that advocate. He gave you the Holy Spirit who will teach you, who will guide you, who will challenge you, who will do everything for you, will give you all wisdom. That is your gift.
That's where you walk from. The authority given is given to you. The same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead now lives within us, empowering us to overcome sin and live a victorious life.
You have that ability, but do you walk in it? You have that ability. Have you forgotten how to walk in it?
1 John 5, 4 says, for everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world. True faith in Jesus is the key to overcoming the world.
True faith in Jesus. And we'll hear next week the relationship that you need. I sound like a broken record continually all the time, but it's really, really important to get the emphasis of the good news and what it is for you and that victory that you have, that you walk in, that when you leave here today, you're challenged to go and do better.
You're challenged to go and be better. You're challenged to think better, to know better. The currency of operating in victory in the kingdom of God here on earth is our heart posture.
Love. Without a relationship with God, which is your abiding love, you're a sounding gong, which is knowledge. Without positioning in your new identity in Christ, you're operating out of flesh.
It doesn't work. And without a relationship and identity in Christ, authority can't be exercised here on earth. You can't make it up.
The Bible says it. So I believe it. Do you believe what the Bible says? Do you know what the Bible says? Do you trust what the Bible says?
Gonna go into Waymaker, yeah. We're gonna go into just a little bit of worship and it's just gonna be soft worship on there. I've just been thinking how I end this one and the choices that I have is that I'm gonna ask three questions.
And those three questions, sorry Jules, I want you to respond to. And again, it's up to you. We're going to go into ministry, we're going to go into prayer, intentionally into prayer.
First question, do you believe that the finished work of the cross has been done? If that is something you're struggling with, if that is something maybe you're not saved in here today and you're struggling with, but you want prayer with that, or if you want to give your life, your heart to Jesus, accept Him as your Lord and Saviour. I'm not gonna ask for a show of hands.
I'm gonna ask you to be bold. And I'm gonna ask you to come to the front. We're in a battle now.
From victory, remember, but it's a battle. And sometimes that battle is ourselves. We battle ourselves.
But the finished work of the cross is the good news. And the second question is, do you believe that you can actively walk in that victory and have authority over it? If you're struggling today with understanding that victory, if you're struggling today with walking in that victory and you want prayer, then come to the front.
And the third question is, do you believe that He has overcome for you and given you the power to keep overcoming? authority, keeps coming back, authority, then come to the front because we want to partner with you and we want to pray with you. If you're struggling with anything right now in your lives, we want to partner with you.
We want to stand with you in prayer. If that is you right here, right now, and we're going to start praying, the band are going to start playing Waymaker. then just come to the front. We've got our ministers here that will pray with you, that will stand with you in prayer.
This isn't a place where we get to hide. This is a place where we get to step up and be bold. This isn't a place of judgment.
This is a place of love. Because the more you understand your power and authority, the better you are for the kingdom of God. So please, if you need prayer, come to the front.
Lean in and listen to what God has to say just as we go back into a little bit of worship with this. We're going to close the service off here. Please feel free just to sit and just to be still.
You wanna go outside and grab a coffee and you wanna fellowship with people, then go for it, get out. But don't feel that you have to rush away from a posture of worship, of prayer. And if you do want prayer, then come and see somebody afterwards.
Do not leave here without having prayer. Don't leave here without speaking to somebody. But thank you very much for listening today.
And I just pray that God is speaking in ways to your life that He hasn't spoke before. I just pray that there is fresh revelation that is coming upon you today as you learn more about the news of Jesus Christ. And as we go forward for the next three weeks after this, that there is a transformation of love within your hearts.
Thank you very much. Thank you for tuning in to today's message. To connect or find out more, you can reach us online at worldchangers.life.
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