All right, good morning. Hey, my name is Pastor Bobby. Hey, we're going to be in 2 Kings chapter 19.
So if you have a Bible, go ahead and turn there. Hey, let me give a quick update on the Hopper family. You guys have been praying, and we're just so thankful for that. They are so thankful for that. Faith Ann had her surgery almost 10 days ago, and the surgery was successful.
It was a very serious surgery, though, and so they're still recovering. And so you guys can just continue to pray for that. The goal would be that Pastor Andrew would be back next week. But until then, you guys are stuck with me.
So, all right, Second Kings chapter 19. This is the third week we are looking At King Hezekiah's story and This is a very interesting scripture that we're gonna be in today. And I think if we have our hearts open. It's going to be a very powerful text that we're going to see today. What happens, what we're going to see, Pastor Daniel last week, he preached an awesome sermon, didn't he?
On fear. And What we're going to see, so last week. You know Hey, the king of Assyria comes. Hezekiah responds the wrong way. And in chapter 19, the unique thing about this week is it's the same story all over again.
You're gonna see it. It's like literally the same story as chapter 18. The whole thing happens again. And Hezekiah is going to actually get a redo. How many times in life have you been in a position where you said something, did something, where you're like, man, it would have been really nice to get a redo from that situation?
I've been on some. Email threads over the years where there's a lot of people on the email, and then one person on the email tries to respond to another person and doesn't realize that they responded to everybody on the email thread. And then as soon as they send it, they think, oh man. If I could just get that one back.
Sometimes in life we do want to get a redo. And what we're going to see today is that Hezekiah actually just gets a redo over this whole situation.
So in chapter 18. The Assyrians come, they surround Jerusalem. Hezekiah does exactly the opposite of what he should do. This week, they continue to surround Jerusalem. But God gives him another chance to respond the right way.
And In chapter 19, we're going to be about halfway. Through chapter 19, we're going to see that he actually responds the way that he should have responded the very first time. He simply just brings it to the Lord. in prayer. And so today we're going to be talking about what does effective prayer look like in the life of a believer?
And we're going to see two things. The two takeaways for today's passage that we're going to be able to draw out of this passage: number one, Prayer has a certain posture. We don't start with our words before God. We actually start with our posture before God. There is a right way to go to God in prayer.
The second thing that we're going to see today. Is that prayer has a pattern? Almost any prayer that we see in the Bible, Old Testament, New Testament, the pattern is almost always the same. And we're gonna get to see that today.
So, posture and pattern. But before we get there, we got to take a little bit of just a moment here.
Some of you maybe were not here last week, maybe you weren't here the week before, and we just got to catch up to where we're at in the story because understanding. The way that chapter 18 and 19 compares these stories is going to be essential for understanding Hezekiah's response. in chapter 19.
So, if we go back to the beginning of 18, I actually preached a sermon on this two weeks ago. We see at the beginning of 18, Hezekiah is introduced as this super faithful king. In the life of Judah. He was 25 years old. He was faithful.
He refused to serve the king of Assyria. Who all the other peoples around were serving him because he was a powerful king. He destroyed idols in the land, so he gets this super great start. as a king, but then The Assyrians begin to take down the fortified cities in Judah.
So he starts strong. But they begin to take over these cities, and it's real at that point. And they get pretty close to Jerusalem, and Hezekiah begins to freak out. That's what we see last week. He begins to freak out.
He begins to be fearful. and he responds in the wrong way. The Bible says he goes to the temple. Instead of praying, instead of doing something else, he does exactly what his father does. Two chapters before.
And his father was an evil king, he strips the temple of the gold. He does literally in fear. The opposite of what he should have done. It reminds me.
So, me and my sons ride dirt bikes. And if you've ever ridden a dirt bike or you've ever tried to teach somebody else to ride a dirt bike, the first couple times you get on are like the most dangerous times. And you got to teach somebody, hey. Right here in your right hand, this is the throttle. And this is the most dangerous thing on the dirt bike.
Because what happens is, if you accidentally grab that throttle just a little too hard. It sends you to the back of the bike. And the thing you should do is hit the brake and push the throttle forward. But in fear, the thing that you actually do, you grip a little bit tighter on the back of that bike, and what do you think happens? The bike only goes faster, and then eventually you're all the way at the back, and you just rip that throttle.
The front wheel comes off the ground, you're off the bike. It's actually called Whiskey Throttle. If you want to go home and look up YouTube videos of that, there's literally 10,000 out there of people doing the exact wrong thing. This is what happens in fear, right? You get fearful in life.
It starts to overwhelm you emotionally. In your feelings, instead of responding the right way, you do the opposite of what you should do. And we all know this. Does it ever fix the situation when you do the wrong thing? Never.
It oftentimes gets worse. That's what we see in Hezekiah's story. He strips the gold from the temple. It's a shameful act. He gives that to the king of Assyria.
You think. The king says, Hey man, no big deal, good, we're even now. Nope. He takes the gold and still threatens to destroy the people. At the end of chapter 18.
Then at the beginning of chapter 19, Hezekiah realizes: wait a minute. I've been exposed. The people have been exposed. I was supposed to stand in the gap. For the people, I was supposed to be the savior figure.
I did the wrong thing. And now We are just out of answers here.
So he begins to repent. He puts on the sackcloth. The ashes, like his spirit begins to change. He sends a message to the prophet Isaiah and says, Hey, we're in trouble. Like, we need God.
We need God to work in a huge way. Isaiah sends him back. A prophecy. And a promise from God. That says, hey, God is gonna step into this situation.
The king of Assyria is not going to destroy you. He's not even going to make it to Jerusalem. And we would think. Right there the story ends. All right.
He repented. You know, he did the wrong thing, then he repented, and this is all, this is what we expect in our life. All right, once I do the wrong thing. The right thing, story over, game over, it's good, we're good. You think the king of Assyria cares?
That Hezekiah repented.
So now In chapter 19. The king of Assyria, he doubles down on the original threat. He actually sends Hezekiah a letter. personally threatening to kill him. To destroy the city and to destroy the people.
And that's where we pick it up. In verse 10.
So everybody, everybody. We're up to speed now of what's happening.
So Hezekiah gets this letter. Look at verse 10. Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah. Do not let your God. in whom you trust deceive you.
By promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. Fear makes us Question the promises of God. Sin makes us question the promises of God. The world makes us question the promises of God. You really think God's going to show up?
After everything you've done. After everything in your life, You think God's going to show up and save you? Look at verse 11. Behold, You have heard. What the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, devoting them to destruction.
And you think? You think that God's going to deliver you?
So You see. How this whole thing is a redo of chapter 18. He got all these threats. In chapter 18. He repented, he did the right thing.
He went to the prophet.
Now he's getting at all of it again. A total reverse, a total redo. Same Hezekiah, same Assyria. Same fears, same problems. And We need to say something here about the way that the Bible's written.
Because a lot of times we think. We can end up missing the beauty. of what the Bible is doing here. Because we think the Bible's just a history book, right? It's all these facts, it's all this stuff from Hezekiah's life.
That's not the case. Hezekiah served for almost 25 years. We get three chapters from his life.
So The details the Bible chooses to include. The Bible is including those details for us. To learn something from this story. And what you're going to see. The Bible is holding up these two separate chapters, and it's comparing these chapters so you and I can learn something from them.
Because in the first chapter, it's like, hey, fear, here's the wrong response. In the second chapter, chapter 19, fear hears the right response. And so that brings us really to the kind of the key text, and this is the The text that's on the card that you got here today. That brings us To verse fourteen. Hezekiah, he received the letter.
from the hand of the messengers and read it.
So imagine like a scroll that he has in his hand. Like he has the death threat right here. This is what the king of Assyria is going to do. And what does it say that he does? Hezekiah went up to the house of the Lord.
And he spread it. before the Lord. He Doesn't Go to the temple this time. and strip it from the gold He goes to the temple and he just simply takes it and he just spreads it before the Lord. I don't know if he's on his knees.
I don't know if he's on his face. Whatever it is, it's like, God, here it is. Here's the problem. I'm at the end of self right here. There's nothing else I can do.
About this situation. You know, before It's so sad now. That we see him going to the temple to pray, and that being contrasted with he went to the temple. He had the chance to pray. And yet, he just viewed God as some resource to help manage his problems.
Well, he's got to the end of that logic here. God is God. God is not some resource to manage our problems. And He goes. And he lays it before the Lord.
What has changed? The situation hasn't changed. The Assyrians haven't changed. The threat hasn't changed. There's 250,000 soldiers surrounding this little small city of Jerusalem.
The thing that has changed is Hezekiah's posture. His posture before the Lord. Is what we see has changed. And that brings us to the first. Part of effective prayer.
His posture now is one of total dependence on God. We see him repent in verse one. We see the sackcloth and ashes to just show where his heart is at. And then we see here in verse 14, he just takes it. And he just spreads it before the Lord.
And one of the things I want us to take from this Is that effective prayer does not start with our words before God? Effective prayer. It starts with our posture. before God. You see the posture of effective prayer.
Is when you stop, you stop trying to cover up. You stop trying to handle it on your own. You allow Whatever's going on. To be fully exposed for what it is. No matter how dark No matter how hard.
No matter whatever the reality of the situation is. you allow it to be fully exposed. And this is the beauty. This is the beauty of God's Word. Any other book That exists.
If the king, if the leader made a mistake, it would sanitize it. Right, there'd be a PR team, there'd be propaganda, here's how the situation went, and yet. The Bible is Even though Hezekiah is the man in this situation, the Bible is willing to show us the way that he's screwed up, the way that he's exposed, the way that the people are exposed. We're getting real truth about real life here in the Bible. No other book.
would give us this. You see, because everything in the world tells us: do not expose your true weakness. Ever. Don't ever let people see how dark The rabbit hole goes. In your heart.
Don't ever let people see. It's kind of ironic. I've been watching the news. Many of you watch the news. You got the war with Iran and all this stuff.
And I always watch the news from like a human psychology perspective. Like what the Bible would say about it. And you just think about all the opinions out there, right? I think there's more opinions around this situation than anything, right? You have the US, you have Iran, you have Israel.
You have Hamas, you have Hezbollah, you have Russia, you have China, you got Pakistan, you got the NATO country, you got the European countries. Everybody has an opinion, right? And as you watch it all, Do you ever get anyone saying, We screwed up. We messed up. Nope.
You always get Propaganda, which means we're going to put forward a picture of ourselves that we want to put forward. It's not necessarily the true picture. And the reason that works? It's because you and I going all the way back To Genesis, chapter 2 and chapter 3 have the exact same thing in our heart. Do not be exposed.
We would rather cover up than be exposed for who we truly are. Anything. to keep us from being exposed. I've shared this story before. I was on the swim team many, many years ago, get up on the starting block.
I'm just a young kid, realize I have a massive hole in the back of the Speedo. Maybe I would do better with that situation now. I don't know. But you better believe I was not letting anyone see that hole in my speedo.
So I jumped in the water and took one hand and covered it up and swam all the way across with just one arm. Because there's something inside of all of us that says, never be exposed for what is actually going on in your life. There's just some things we're going to just take to the grave. But this is the good news of this passage, and this is why I'm spending so much time showing you the comparison of these passages. Because look.
Him screwing up, doing it the wrong way, getting a second chance. Us Doing it, seeing how he's doing it the right way, it's an invitation. It's an invitation to bring your screw-ups. the deepest, darkest parts of your life. The places that you were more like Hezekiah in chapter 18, letting fear dominate your life.
The crazy stuff in your family you don't want anybody to know about. The darkest sinned in your past. It's an invitation to bring it to God in prayer. Here's the thing. When we are willing.
to be fully exposed. We are now in In the place to meet God on his terms. Don't move past that. I don't care what you think about it. There is one way to meet God on his terms, and this is the only way.
We have to be fully Exposed. To meet God on his terms. It's the opposite of what the world tells us to do. The world tells us to cover up. And the very thing the world tells us to do is the thing that will keep us from going to God in effective prayer.
And even, even as I say this, hey, being fully exposed is the only way that you can go to God with this posture. There is something inside of every single one of us, this religious voice, that says you have got to clean up before you go to God in prayer. You think about all the religions of the world. You think about Islam. Man, before I pray, I got to wash my face.
I got to wash my hands. I got to wash my. I have to make myself right before I can go to God. The Bible teaches us You don't clean. Yourself up.
To go to God. You go to God to be cleaned. There's a fundamental Difference. of those two ways of thinking. What does Jesus say?
If we confess our sins, he is faithful. And just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. You see, getting that. Understanding that. That gospel freedom.
That is the only way. That we are going to go to God with this sort of posture. Because the gospel is really horrific news before it's good news. Because when you repent of your sins You are acknowledging every single deep, dark thing in your life was the very reason that the Son of the Living God had to be crucified and murdered on your behalf. That's a lot of bad news that you have got to accept.
Before you accept the second half of that, which is the good news. If you're covering, if you're hiding, if you're, man, no one can see this, you can never go to God for forgiveness. The only way to go to God is to say, God. The very thing that I've done is the thing that puts you on the cross. And here's the Good news of it.
Jesus was willing to take that shame. He was willing to take our darkness Brokenness, all the times we did not serve and submit to God, He was willing to take all of that on Himself. And say, I see it. I love you so much that I'm willing literally to give my life for you. The freedom that you get from that Is the only thing that will allow you to go to God with this sort of posture.
What does Psalm 51 17 say? A broken and contrite heart O God, you will not despise. We don't Clean ourselves up and go to God. We go to God with that. A broken and contrite heart.
means I'm humbled. I don't have an answer. I can't do it on my own. We just simply Take this posture before God. And the reason that I'm really Hanging out here on this concept before we talk about.
The actual pattern of prayer. Because if we miss this. If we miss this part, I don't care what words you say to God. None of it's going to matter. Because this is the only posture that God accepts.
One that's broken and contrite. God, here it is. I got no answers. I got no strength for this situation. I have no solution.
I can't get out of it. Here you go. Just lay it before the Lord. That brings us to the second part, the pattern of effective prayer. Almost any time we see prayer in the Bible.
Go study this later on this week. You think about Jesus teaching us to pray, other prayers, and the Psalms, they almost always contain these three elements that we're going to see here. And the first one is this. Declaring who God is. We don't start with self.
When we pray. I know that's hard. And I'm not saying that as if I get it right all the time. I do exactly what you guys do. Go to God with my need.
But that is not how to pray. The way that you pray is you go to God first. And remind your heart who God is. Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, and he said this. O Lord, the God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth, you.
You have made heaven and earth. Grab the picture. The Assyrians are outside the city. There's all these problems out there. There's all these worries.
And he is at a place saying, God, this is who you are. He doesn't start with the problems. He doesn't start with himself, he starts with God. Do you think God needs a reminder of who he is? To himself.
No. It's a reminder for us. of who God is. And the only way that we will ever pray the Bible is that we read the Bible. This is praying the Bible back to God.
This is learning from God and then praying that back to Him. To remind ourselves. of who God is. Because sometimes When we're racked with fear, you lose logic when you are fearful. And we're trying to figure out how can I make God bigger in my life?
Sometimes it's just a perspective change. How many of you over the last two weeks saw the story of the astronauts going around the moon and coming back? One of the things that was kind of viral on social media is one of the astronauts, he said, man. I'm not religious, but the whole experience of being on this other side and seeing the earth over here, he's like, it was sort of a, it just kind of changed me. And it was kind of funny.
He said, when they got back, he invited the Navy chaplain to come in. He said, I'm not religious. But the whole experience, and when the chaplain came in, he had like a little cross on his chest, and the guy said he just started crying. Because something about the perspective of the whole thing. That's what this is.
Sometimes, when you're in the fear and you're in the problems, and they may be serious and they may be real, you need God just to be bigger. Bigger than the problems. And the problems may be huge. But sometimes we just need God to be bigger. I remember years ago You know, I don't like to fly.
I feel like Liking to fly. Half the people like to fly and sit on the plane and just sleep like psychopaths. And then the other half of people realize we're flying 600 miles an hour through the air. This is a unique experience going on here.
So, I don't have a lot of needs when I fly. I don't got to be in first class and get the snacks, but I need to generally be able to see out to see what's going on out there. Because this this is a big deal, what's going on. And I was traveling with Pastor Jeremy Dager and We were in the back row, and so we would get on the plane, and it's one of those back rows where. There's not even a row next to you.
It's just the bathroom. Like, you can reach over and touch the bathroom door.
So, all you see is people going and out of the bathroom the whole time. And it's such a bad back row to our left, there's no window. Like just like a wall So you can't see out, you can't, you know, there's no perspect, I mean. I I started freaking out a little bit, seriously. I told Jeremy, I was like, hey man, I can't do this.
And he was looking at me like, what are you talking about? I was like, I can't do this. I cannot sit here on this. I will not do this. And so there was an old lady sitting three rows ahead of us, and I went up and got on my knees and begged her.
to move seats with me. Because I was just so overwhelmed with fear, I just couldn't do it. I wasn't going to be able to manage. And she was so sweet, she went to the back row, she switched seats, and she just slept the whole flight. No big deal.
Sometimes we just need For our problems to get smaller. And for the vision that we have of God just to get bigger. Just to see God for who He actually is. Above the cherubim, the creator of heaven and earth, the alpha and the omega. The one that could do anything with snapping his fingers.
Isaiah 26, 3, you keep him in perfect peace whose mind... It stayed on you. Because he trusts in you. You want to be at peace? No matter the fear, no matter the situation, your mind.
has to be on who God is. If you just start with the problems. And just first bring the problems, your mind, your perspective is not even going to change. You're just going to be more overwhelmed by the problems. You're going to be just praying, reminding yourself of the problem.
You need God first. You need a bigger vision of God. The second thing he does, he just asks God to move. Very simply, very straightforward. It's funny, most of the prayers in the Bible are not very long.
We think to be these prayer warriors, we got to pray for our, it's like, man, pretty simple prayer. God I'm going to remind me and you who you are. Second thing I'm gonna do. I'm going to tell you what's going on, and I'm just going to ask you to move in my life. When we get this whole picture, right, of him going to the temple and just laying it down before the Lord, I think this whole thing reads differently.
Look. Incline your ear, O Lord. It's almost like he's got the letter. He's like, God, incline your ear to this. Open your eyes.
And C. He's got the letter here. God, open your eyes. See what's going on. Look what's going on.
Hear the words of the king of Assyria. He has sent these to mock you, O God. Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria, they have did, they have done what they said they've done. They have destroyed all these cities. And they have cast their gods into the fire.
They weren't even gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed. He just simply He just brings it before the Lord and says, God, look. You see it. Here's what it is.
No hiding, no covering up.
However bad this is, it's probably my fault. I've done the wrong thing. God, here it is. See, prayer moves the hand that moves the world. Cannot miss that.
He's truly laying the problems before God. He's laying the fear And how exposed he is, how exposed the people are. He doesn't think, he doesn't process, he doesn't ruminate, he just. begs God to act. God please Please just do it, God.
And here's the thing. If you ask once and nothing changes, God has no problem with you just coming and asking again. And then asking again. And then asking again. Jesus tells a parable to make that point, Luke 18:1.
He told them a parable to the effect that they ought to always pray and not lose heart. He paints this picture of this persistent widow and a judge. And she just keeps going. And going. And asking again, and asking again.
God has no issue with that. Why do our kids do this? For my wife, it takes about five asks for her to finally give in. Um I'm a little tougher, so maybe like 10. But after 10, I'm like, dude, have it.
You have it all. Yeah, but the whole kingdom. I'm so tired of you asking. Just take it. Do whatever you want with your life.
God tells us we can come to Him in the same way. Just ask. And then ask again. And then he has no problem. Ask again.
The third thing we see in Hezekiah's prayer. Is that we have got to pray. in line with God's glory. Don't miss this. If you want your prayers to be heard.
So now O Lord our God, save us, please. That all The kingdoms of the earth may know that you, O Lord, are God. Alone. Do we want people to know God? More then have our problem solved.
The problem is not that people don't pray. A lot of times people do messages on prayer and it's like the big problem is that people don't pray. Everybody prays. You have atheists in the foxhole that are praying, right? People pray.
The problem is, not that we don't Pray, we don't Pray effectively. Because our prayers are primarily about us. It's not about you. Your life is not about you. This world is not about you.
It's about God. And if you want to pray effectively, You've got to be in alignment with that reality. You see, there is an unstoppable. Force. Moving in the world.
Nothing. Nothing can stop it. The world and everything in it exists for God's glory. And so if your prayers are not in alignment with that. They're not going to be effective.
God is concerned about God, make no mistake. God has no problem with us being wrapped up in that reality. and getting pulled along with what he's doing in the world. But you are mistaken if you think it's about you. And if your prayers are primarily focused on you, Don't expect them to be heard.
Because what God is concerned with is what God is doing in the world. Colossians 1:16, this beautiful passage about Jesus. For by him all things were created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible. Whether thrones or dominions or rules or authorities All things. were created through him.
and for him. You just gotta catch that. If you are here, if you exist, you were created through him. And for him. Does God exist to serve you, or do you exist to serve God?
Because when you finally line up your prayers with that reality, the effectiveness. of your prayers are going to be changed. This is one of the most effective prayers in the entire Bible. Look at verse 34. This is the result of the whole situation.
Right? He's in desperate need of God. He declares who God is. God, I got a big ass. Read the letter yourself.
Don't do it for myself. Do it for you, God. And the Bible says this in verse 34, for I. We'll defend this city to save it. What does it say?
Get this in your brain for my own sake. Why is God doing it? Why is God answering it? God is answering it for God. God would love that we get pooled along with that reality.
But we are not the center of the reality. God is going to do it for his sake and for the sake of my servant David. And that night, the angel of the Lord went out and struck down, you talk about effective. 185,000. in the camp of the Assyrians.
And when people arose early in the morning, These were all dead bodies. God did in one night. What you and I could not do in 10,000 lifetimes. And so As we get towards the close here today, I think the question is like, hey, what? What if the result?
that we want so badly in our life. For God to move, for God to answer a prayer, for God to do something. What if that is right on the other side of trusting God in prayer? Of really trusting God the way that Hezekiah does here. And what we're going to do with the application today, I want everybody to grab these.
It's going to be a tool for us today. You're not turning these in. There's nothing this is just between you and God today We're going to use this as a tool. You know, we could do applications in lots of different ways. But today's application is going to be a physical application of this passage.
Well, we're going to simply try to do what Hezekiah did here. If the Spirit of God is moving you in that. The application is this, bring what's on your heart. And spread it before the Lord in prayer. Why not today?
Like whatever's going on in your life, like why not why don't we just do this? You know, I think we can come to church and kind of overcomplicate things sometimes. Today the Bible is teaching us. That if we go to God with this sort of posture and declare who God is and give Him an ask and do it for His glory. Why won't we just do that today?
You know, some of you I'll give three kind of short little different types of application, then I'll pray and we'll close.
Some of you today, I mean, you may work on staff at the church or be an elder or. be a community group leader or whatever. And Maybe in this message you realized. Man. I've made this whole thing about me.
I'm using God as some sort of tool or resource in my life. And that's not the sort of posture that we need to have before God. And so the only thing to do It's just come and repent of that today. Because it's easy when God begins to bless us. to make life just about those things.
And not about God himself.
Some of you are here today. The Bible talks about in 2 Timothy 3:16 that the word of God, it's God-breathed. And it's useful to teach us and to reprove us and to train us. And so some of us just need to take the reality of this text. teaching us the posture of prayer.
teaching us how to pray and just take it with us today. God, that's how I'm gonna pray this week. That's how I'm going to pray over the next month. That's good. That's why we're here.
That's why we teach the Bible to learn to be changed. But I would guess some of you are here today. You don't need to just take this and learn from it. You maybe just need to come. And just open your hands today at the end of the service and just get on your face before God.
Because you might have something in your life. Cancer. Sickness. Wayward child. addiction A dark part of your past that you will never feel like you can get past.
And maybe the answer today is just come and get in this posture before God. Today. Why not? That's my question as we end. Like why not?
We don't We don't come to church to Have fun. Right? We don't come here to check a box. We don't come here to do a religious thing. If this text is about Our posture before God.
and God's power to work in our life. If you have anything going on today. Or even standing in the gap for somebody else, why not come here? As these services end today, and just get on your face before God and open your hands and say, God, I need you. I'm done with self.
I'm done with trying to solve this. I'm done with ruminating about this. I'm done with anxiety. I'm just going to come forward, God. I have nothing to offer but my open hands to you.
That's the only posture I have, God. A contrite spirit.
So, here's what we're going to do. I'm going to pray for us. Then the band's gonna come out. They're gonna give us just a couple minutes. I mean, this could be the most powerful time of our entire week.
If we would just say, God, what? What? What do you want to do in my life? The Holy Spirit could just blow the roof off this place. Who cares what other people think?
Like who cares? Like, if God needs to do something in your life today, just come down front, open your hands, and say, God, do it, I need you. I need you, God. Lord, I just thank you, God, that we get to be here. Jesus, you yourself tell us where two or three are gathered, you will be here with us.
And so, God, I just believe with. The amount of people here, God, there's so many. Things to worry about in this life, God. There's so many problems, there's sickness, there's God, if someone today as we begin to worship just needs to get up and Put our body. Put our body in this posture.
God, maybe you want us on our face. Maybe you want us on our knees, God. Lord, I pray that you would give us the courage to do it if that's what we need to do. Today, and I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.
Mm-hmm.
