WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:03.859 My name's Scott. I have a hard time. Thank you, 00:00:03.879 --> 00:00:08.359 sir. I have a hard time staying warm, so I usually 00:00:08.359 --> 00:00:11.500 stay pretty bundled up, but I'll put the hood 00:00:11.500 --> 00:00:14.740 down for you all. But it's good to see everybody 00:00:14.740 --> 00:00:17.320 today. I've been coming to the house here for 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:22.039 about three years and enjoy being here very much. 00:00:22.039 --> 00:00:24.179 And from time to time, about every week, eight 00:00:24.179 --> 00:00:27.440 weeks, get a chance to share. So I'm going to 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:31.859 go ahead and do that today. Do you like to clean? 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:38.820 Let's get a few answers. Who says yes? All right, 00:00:38.820 --> 00:00:43.039 I see some cleaners. Why do you like to clean 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:58.820 and what do you like to clean? We got a labeler, 00:00:58.840 --> 00:01:03.840 ladies and gentlemen. We need the labelers. My 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:07.599 wife loves labelers. My wife's got a basket and 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:14.959 a label for everything under the sun. Another 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:19.400 cleaner. I need another cleaner. Only when angry. 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:28.599 Yeah, your mother -in -law is? Awesome. We have 00:01:28.599 --> 00:01:32.459 some cleaners back here at this table. What do 00:01:32.459 --> 00:01:41.200 you like to clean? What was it? Papers? Awesome. 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:45.739 Very good. So we got some great helpers in here. 00:01:46.700 --> 00:01:51.379 Who hates to clean? I mean, hates it. Yeah, Shannon 00:01:51.379 --> 00:01:53.640 and I talked about that this week. We got a couple. 00:01:54.170 --> 00:01:57.209 It's a bit tricky when two people live together 00:01:57.209 --> 00:02:00.670 and neither one likes to clean, huh? But that 00:02:00.670 --> 00:02:06.310 happens. That happens. Show me. Where's one of 00:02:06.310 --> 00:02:08.490 my non -cleaners and what do you hate about it? 00:02:10.250 --> 00:02:13.270 I don't like to clean bathrooms. Bathrooms, yes. 00:02:13.590 --> 00:02:17.050 No one likes to usually pick. I mean, some people 00:02:17.050 --> 00:02:19.250 would, right? How many of you like to clean your 00:02:19.250 --> 00:02:22.969 bathroom? Anybody like to clean? Yes. Okay, I 00:02:22.969 --> 00:02:27.629 got one. I got a couple. Exactly. You like it 00:02:27.629 --> 00:02:31.889 to be clean. He likes to clean, so it works. 00:02:33.210 --> 00:02:35.810 All right. That's great. Thank you very much 00:02:35.810 --> 00:02:39.870 for that. I like to clean, but my abilities to 00:02:39.870 --> 00:02:42.629 clean are limited these days. So what I do is 00:02:42.629 --> 00:02:44.949 have people follow me around and I point to things. 00:02:46.789 --> 00:02:49.889 And I feel bad, but it's just the reality of 00:02:49.889 --> 00:02:53.849 the situation. So I had two people in my garage 00:02:53.849 --> 00:02:56.650 the other day, and I love my garage to be clean. 00:02:56.930 --> 00:02:59.949 So I was just pointing away and had people moving 00:02:59.949 --> 00:03:05.310 all over. And I enjoyed it. I had a good time. 00:03:06.909 --> 00:03:09.469 They were sweating because it was about 90 degrees 00:03:09.469 --> 00:03:12.550 in the garage, and most people don't like cleaning 00:03:12.550 --> 00:03:17.300 your garage, but I was having a great time. Now, 00:03:17.340 --> 00:03:19.919 sometimes we need a little bit of a reminder 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:23.960 to clean. We need a little bit of a push to clean. 00:03:24.460 --> 00:03:27.060 And sometimes you get a few reminders, but then 00:03:27.060 --> 00:03:30.340 it gets more serious. When you're growing up 00:03:30.340 --> 00:03:34.740 and you hear your middle name, that's when you 00:03:34.740 --> 00:03:37.240 know you've ignored the cleaning for a little 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:40.879 too long. My mom's here today and she might say, 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:42.860 you know, Scott, would you please clean up your 00:03:42.860 --> 00:03:47.229 room? Scott, your room still needs clean. Scott, 00:03:47.250 --> 00:03:50.289 I've asked you a couple times now. Scott Thomas 00:03:50.289 --> 00:03:55.110 McConnell. You're not going to do anything else 00:03:55.110 --> 00:04:00.349 until you get that room clean. Yes, amen. And 00:04:00.349 --> 00:04:02.830 it worked, Mom. I kind of like to clean now. 00:04:03.370 --> 00:04:08.969 So it worked pretty good. Sometimes we might 00:04:08.969 --> 00:04:12.229 clean one area but not another one. You might 00:04:12.229 --> 00:04:16.279 have a junk drawer. Everything else looks clean, 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:19.240 but then there's one spot where everything goes 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:25.000 that you're not sure where to put it. You might 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:28.899 have maybe a really clean car, but then a messy 00:04:28.899 --> 00:04:32.660 closet. Sometimes different ones of us, you might 00:04:32.660 --> 00:04:36.699 even have a room that's the messy room that you 00:04:36.699 --> 00:04:41.040 keep the door closed when people come over. Or 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:43.439 a closet when people come in and see the living 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:46.800 room. it looks one way, but if they were to open 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:50.480 up a closet, they would see something else. Everything 00:04:50.480 --> 00:05:08.620 that had gone in there. Drink break. Now, one 00:05:08.620 --> 00:05:15.199 TV show I like to watch is a show where... It's 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:17.920 not just casual cleaning, but things get out 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:21.959 of control in someone's life when it comes to 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:26.300 that. It gets to the point where clutter starts 00:05:26.300 --> 00:05:29.459 to take over, collections start to take over, 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:34.240 and then trash starts to build up until it's 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:36.579 something that person can no longer control. 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:40.300 And I want to read a couple words to you about 00:05:40.300 --> 00:05:45.459 it. It can lead to shame. It can lead to isolation. 00:05:47.139 --> 00:05:49.939 It can lead to deception where people try to 00:05:49.939 --> 00:05:54.439 hide whatever it is they have going on. And it 00:05:54.439 --> 00:05:58.519 can lead to denial where people don't want to 00:05:58.519 --> 00:06:02.639 admit what that problem is. And it can become, 00:06:02.939 --> 00:06:06.680 start to become harmful and interrupt the relationships 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:10.100 they have around them. At that point, it's more 00:06:10.100 --> 00:06:12.699 than a messy closet. It's more than a messy room. 00:06:13.339 --> 00:06:15.899 Sometimes messes get out of control and they 00:06:15.899 --> 00:06:20.639 can start to damage things in our lives. If we 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:25.139 think of our spiritual lives as a backpack, a 00:06:25.139 --> 00:06:29.139 desk, a car, a house, sometimes there's a spot 00:06:29.139 --> 00:06:32.160 in our spiritual life where things start to build 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:36.540 up. They start to get cluttered. And when something 00:06:36.540 --> 00:06:38.800 really builds up, it might even start to stink. 00:06:40.519 --> 00:06:42.420 Do you ever find there's a part of your life 00:06:42.420 --> 00:06:46.259 that starts to stink? People know that they should 00:06:46.259 --> 00:06:49.379 probably stay away from it or you keep it hidden 00:06:49.379 --> 00:06:54.680 altogether. It starts to cause isolation. You 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:59.420 start to push people away. You might start to 00:06:59.420 --> 00:07:03.199 feel shame about that. That's where we're going 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:05.620 today. We're shifting a little bit from that 00:07:05.620 --> 00:07:09.079 casual cleaning that might need picked up to 00:07:09.079 --> 00:07:12.389 that place where, things start to interfere in 00:07:12.389 --> 00:07:15.870 our lives and that figurative sense where things 00:07:15.870 --> 00:07:18.670 build up. And I think about that show that I 00:07:18.670 --> 00:07:22.730 like to watch. And on that show that I like to 00:07:22.730 --> 00:07:25.149 watch, when things start to get unmanageable, 00:07:25.250 --> 00:07:29.550 there comes a crisis point. Sometimes it's families 00:07:29.550 --> 00:07:32.949 saying, I can't stand it anymore. You have to 00:07:32.949 --> 00:07:38.279 make a change or I might not stick around. Or 00:07:38.279 --> 00:07:40.959 it might be the city comes in or some type of 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:44.139 official or landlord and says, if you don't make 00:07:44.139 --> 00:07:48.699 some changes, if you don't make some changes, 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:53.240 then you might not be able to stay. Someone else 00:07:53.240 --> 00:07:56.579 might come in and clean this mess out for you. 00:07:57.160 --> 00:08:00.980 And so the steps that usually happen are that 00:08:00.980 --> 00:08:04.459 that person has to open up their home, let their 00:08:04.459 --> 00:08:10.050 mess be seen. have it be confronted, no longer 00:08:10.050 --> 00:08:13.430 be able to be in denial, and then they have to 00:08:13.430 --> 00:08:17.670 receive help taking care of that. There's places 00:08:17.670 --> 00:08:21.209 in our lives where we have to receive help to 00:08:21.209 --> 00:08:24.810 be able to get it cleaned up. We can't handle 00:08:24.810 --> 00:08:28.930 it by ourselves. Have you ever had an area that 00:08:28.930 --> 00:08:33.129 you've been planning to clean up for days, then 00:08:33.129 --> 00:08:38.460 weeks, then months? Then years. How many of us 00:08:38.460 --> 00:08:42.080 have a garage or some area, a closet in our room 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:45.679 that has been on our list for a very long time? 00:08:46.980 --> 00:08:49.539 And the reality is that if someone else doesn't 00:08:49.539 --> 00:08:52.080 step in and help us out with it, it probably 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:56.759 won't get done. And so sometimes we need that 00:08:56.759 --> 00:08:59.019 place. Why are you shaking your head, Tashiana? 00:09:01.220 --> 00:09:06.250 We argue. You can't say argue. My wife is Tashiana. 00:09:07.049 --> 00:09:12.269 We talk a lot about the basement, the closets 00:09:12.269 --> 00:09:22.409 in the different areas. Those places where we 00:09:22.409 --> 00:09:24.350 might need to hear our middle name to know what 00:09:24.350 --> 00:09:30.169 change needs to happen. Scott Thomas McConnell, 00:09:30.450 --> 00:09:35.330 that needs cleaned up. What's somebody up? Chris, 00:09:35.389 --> 00:09:38.169 do you mind sharing your middle name? Christopher 00:09:38.169 --> 00:09:42.629 Michael. Yeah, right. Christopher Michael Olson. 00:09:44.070 --> 00:09:48.429 Now, I got a little bit ahead of myself. We're 00:09:48.429 --> 00:09:50.570 going to look at the passage now today that we're 00:09:50.570 --> 00:09:53.370 looking at. It comes from James. And I'm going 00:09:53.370 --> 00:10:00.340 to warn you that in this passage, James. is trying 00:10:00.340 --> 00:10:02.360 to get their attention to let them know some 00:10:02.360 --> 00:10:06.200 things need cleaned up. Before this passage, 00:10:06.259 --> 00:10:09.399 a lot of the places, James is saying, my dear 00:10:09.399 --> 00:10:12.879 brothers and sisters, you need to know this. 00:10:12.899 --> 00:10:17.000 Or my dear brothers and sisters, you might need 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:20.139 to make some changes in this area. But in this 00:10:20.139 --> 00:10:23.419 passage, it gets a little bit different. He uses 00:10:23.419 --> 00:10:26.950 their middle name. He comes in and confronts 00:10:26.950 --> 00:10:28.830 them to let them know that this isn't something 00:10:28.830 --> 00:10:31.950 that can be put aside for another day, another 00:10:31.950 --> 00:10:35.450 week, another year to be dealt with. So I'm going 00:10:35.450 --> 00:10:37.929 to have my friend Kenneth come up and read that 00:10:37.929 --> 00:10:42.950 passage to you. It's in James chapter 4, verses 00:10:42.950 --> 00:10:46.950 1 through 10. I should have given you a little 00:10:46.950 --> 00:10:48.789 more heads up to look at that, but you just have 00:10:48.789 --> 00:10:57.929 to listen really closely. What causes fights 00:10:57.929 --> 00:11:00.950 and quarrels among you? Don't they come from 00:11:00.950 --> 00:11:04.009 your desires that battle within you? You desire 00:11:04.009 --> 00:11:07.549 but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you 00:11:07.549 --> 00:11:10.149 cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and 00:11:10.149 --> 00:11:13.429 fight. You do not have because you do not ask 00:11:13.429 --> 00:11:16.889 God. When you ask, you do not receive because 00:11:16.889 --> 00:11:20.009 you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend 00:11:20.009 --> 00:11:23.330 what you get on your pleasures. You adulterous 00:11:23.330 --> 00:11:26.149 people. Don't you know that friendship with the 00:11:26.149 --> 00:11:29.970 world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone 00:11:29.970 --> 00:11:32.830 who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes 00:11:32.830 --> 00:11:36.649 an enemy of God. Or do you think Scripture says, 00:11:36.710 --> 00:11:40.450 without reason, that he as jealously longs for 00:11:40.450 --> 00:11:44.409 the spirit he has caused to dwell in us? But 00:11:44.409 --> 00:11:47.570 he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture 00:11:47.570 --> 00:11:51.490 says, God opposes the proud, but shows favor 00:11:51.490 --> 00:11:54.779 to the humble. Submit yourselves then to God. 00:11:55.159 --> 00:11:58.159 Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Come 00:11:58.159 --> 00:12:01.419 near to God and he will come near to you. Wash 00:12:01.419 --> 00:12:04.259 your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, 00:12:04.419 --> 00:12:07.559 you double -minded. Grieve and mourn and wail. 00:12:07.820 --> 00:12:10.980 Change your laughter to mourning and your joy 00:12:10.980 --> 00:12:14.259 to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord and 00:12:14.259 --> 00:12:20.179 he will lift you up. Well, that was kind of mean. 00:12:23.820 --> 00:12:29.980 You couldn't have read a happier passage? Thank 00:12:29.980 --> 00:12:33.419 you very much for reading that. See, that's part 00:12:33.419 --> 00:12:38.100 of why I set that up for you. Because in this 00:12:38.100 --> 00:12:40.960 passage, he's calling them murderers and adulterers. 00:12:41.419 --> 00:12:44.980 Not because they've killed. Not because they've 00:12:44.980 --> 00:12:48.649 literally committed adultery. But because in 00:12:48.649 --> 00:12:50.789 their spirits, in their hearts, things have gotten 00:12:50.789 --> 00:12:53.490 to a place that are unmanageable and a change 00:12:53.490 --> 00:13:01.669 needs to happen. In verses 7 through 10, he says, 00:13:01.710 --> 00:13:05.629 Submit yourselves then to God. Resist the devil 00:13:05.629 --> 00:13:09.009 and he will flee from you. Come near to God and 00:13:09.009 --> 00:13:12.409 he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you 00:13:12.409 --> 00:13:16.509 sinners, and purify your hearts, you double -minded. 00:13:17.769 --> 00:13:22.330 Grieve, mourn, and wail. Change your laughter 00:13:22.330 --> 00:13:25.769 to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves 00:13:25.769 --> 00:13:35.590 before the Lord and He will lift you up. Sometimes 00:13:35.590 --> 00:13:40.570 we have to take a moment to get serious about 00:13:40.570 --> 00:13:46.710 something happening in our life. That needs to 00:13:46.710 --> 00:13:56.129 be dealt with. Because God cares. He doesn't 00:13:56.129 --> 00:13:58.629 want you to live with a mess in your life that's 00:13:58.629 --> 00:14:03.149 causing you isolation. He doesn't want you to 00:14:03.149 --> 00:14:05.129 live with something in your life that's causing 00:14:05.129 --> 00:14:10.309 separation between you and him. Or you and others. 00:14:12.070 --> 00:14:18.250 It's not for his benefit. It's not to make him 00:14:18.250 --> 00:14:21.990 feel good. It's because he cares and is concerned 00:14:21.990 --> 00:14:27.830 about us. When my mom would use my middle name, 00:14:27.990 --> 00:14:32.029 she wants to make sure that I'm taking care of 00:14:32.029 --> 00:14:35.330 what God has given me. She doesn't want me to 00:14:35.330 --> 00:14:40.730 live in a mess, does she? God doesn't want us 00:14:40.730 --> 00:14:44.659 to live in a mess. He doesn't want us to have 00:14:44.659 --> 00:14:48.639 a place in our life that stinks, where things 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:54.259 are building up. The good news is that James 00:14:54.259 --> 00:14:59.519 does not say, you fix this. This is on you. You 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:05.100 clean it up. He says, come before God humbly. 00:15:05.539 --> 00:15:11.059 Come before God seriously, and he will lift you 00:15:11.059 --> 00:15:17.519 up. He has enough grace to take care of this. 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:22.840 The goal isn't for it to be just a you thing. 00:15:23.500 --> 00:15:27.080 Part of why I like that show that I was talking 00:15:27.080 --> 00:15:30.799 about is that it's not a thing where they go 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:33.879 in to make that person feel bad and then leave 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:37.399 them and say, okay, now you fix it. Fix this 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:40.220 mess that's going on in your house. They come 00:15:40.220 --> 00:15:44.360 in trained with a... psychologist, with a cleaning 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:47.960 team, with an organizer to say, we're going to 00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:51.419 help you get this straight. We're going to help 00:15:51.419 --> 00:15:55.320 you get this right. And that's what the Holy 00:15:55.320 --> 00:16:07.080 Spirit does. That's how God works in us. Let 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:09.490 me look through my notes here for a moment. I 00:16:09.490 --> 00:16:11.429 want to make sure I'm not skipping anything out 00:16:11.429 --> 00:16:24.029 on you, but I do want to wrap up. Okay. I'm leaving 00:16:24.029 --> 00:16:27.509 some things out, but I feel like you guys get 00:16:27.509 --> 00:16:39.590 it. We're going to go old school today. We're 00:16:39.590 --> 00:16:41.649 going to go a little bit old school. And how 00:16:41.649 --> 00:16:44.269 many of you grew up in a church where there was 00:16:44.269 --> 00:16:49.710 an altar? Yep. There's a church where there's 00:16:49.710 --> 00:16:52.370 an altar and sometimes there was an altar call. 00:16:53.049 --> 00:16:55.789 Some of us might have heard of an altar call. 00:16:56.009 --> 00:16:59.830 And that's where the person preaching gave you 00:16:59.830 --> 00:17:04.089 an opportunity to come and pray. And oftentimes 00:17:04.089 --> 00:17:07.359 for someone to come and pray with you. and I 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:12.460 want to offer that opportunity today. And, Connie, 00:17:12.619 --> 00:17:15.980 if you would come up and come over to this side. 00:17:19.779 --> 00:17:24.319 And, Gary, if you'd come over to this side. And, 00:17:24.380 --> 00:17:28.319 Mom, once Gary finds a spot that he likes, can 00:17:28.319 --> 00:17:31.579 you pull that chair over for him to be able to 00:17:31.579 --> 00:17:36.619 have a seat? And these are two people that I 00:17:36.619 --> 00:17:38.700 have a lot of respect for and two people that 00:17:38.700 --> 00:17:44.680 love to pray. And pray for people. And Pastor 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:49.960 Jen. Where's Pastor Jen? Oh, she stepped out. 00:17:50.180 --> 00:17:55.720 Oh, OK. That's OK. Myself and Pastor Jen, too, 00:17:55.940 --> 00:18:01.059 will be available. And so. What are we trying 00:18:01.059 --> 00:18:04.259 to do here? What we're trying to do is take a 00:18:04.259 --> 00:18:09.680 moment to respond to what God wants to do in 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:12.200 our lives by taking a moment to come forward 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:16.200 and ask someone to pray with us. And I want to 00:18:16.200 --> 00:18:20.599 offer that opportunity. It's not something that 00:18:20.599 --> 00:18:23.640 you have to do for God to work in your life, 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:28.339 but it's a special way to say, God, I want you 00:18:28.339 --> 00:18:31.819 to do something. I want you to help me address 00:18:31.819 --> 00:18:35.819 something. It could be a place where there is 00:18:35.819 --> 00:18:42.619 selfishness or jealousy in our lives that needs 00:18:42.619 --> 00:18:47.240 cleaned up. It could be a habit. It could be 00:18:47.240 --> 00:18:52.559 a relationship. It could be a lot of places, 00:18:52.599 --> 00:18:56.259 a lot of things. You say, well, what if I come 00:18:56.259 --> 00:19:00.359 up, Scott? Do I need to pour my heart out or 00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:08.000 share personal information? No. No. You can say 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:13.740 a word. You can say two words. But you can give 00:19:13.740 --> 00:19:15.960 some, enough for that person to be able to pray 00:19:15.960 --> 00:19:21.180 with you. I would like God to help me clean up 00:19:21.180 --> 00:19:25.180 my language. I would like God to help me deal 00:19:25.180 --> 00:19:28.700 with some anger. That I've had for a while that 00:19:28.700 --> 00:19:33.099 I think he wants to deal with. So that's the 00:19:33.099 --> 00:19:38.759 idea. I'm going to give I'm going to set my timer 00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:42.880 after I pray here a moment. And we'll give we'll 00:19:42.880 --> 00:19:47.019 give 60 seconds. A prayer time. And if you'd 00:19:47.019 --> 00:19:49.940 like to come up during that time to receive prayer, 00:19:50.059 --> 00:19:53.319 you can do that. And if that's not something 00:19:53.319 --> 00:19:55.759 that folks are looking for or feeling today. 00:19:56.490 --> 00:19:58.509 Then we'll go ahead and do communion and close 00:19:58.509 --> 00:20:01.769 up the service. It won't be a long, drawn -out 00:20:01.769 --> 00:20:05.809 thing. We won't pressure anybody, but that'll 00:20:05.809 --> 00:20:08.390 just be the opportunity. Now, once somebody comes 00:20:08.390 --> 00:20:11.190 up, if you decide you'd like to come up as well, 00:20:11.349 --> 00:20:13.529 you're welcome to do that. It's not like the 00:20:13.529 --> 00:20:17.190 60 -second timer closes off and you can't come 00:20:17.190 --> 00:20:19.990 up for prayer anymore. But I want to help you 00:20:19.990 --> 00:20:22.269 understand that it's not something that's going 00:20:22.269 --> 00:20:25.920 to drag out. We're not going to lock the doors 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:32.940 until everybody comes up. I'm going to go ahead 00:20:32.940 --> 00:20:40.119 and pray. And then I'll open that up. Father, 00:20:40.220 --> 00:20:48.259 I thank you for today. I thank you that you care 00:20:48.259 --> 00:20:52.309 enough about us. That you don't want us to just 00:20:52.309 --> 00:20:55.109 be stuck where we are. And especially when we 00:20:55.109 --> 00:21:00.750 have places in our lives. That are causing us 00:21:00.750 --> 00:21:04.490 to feel isolated or separated. That are coming 00:21:04.490 --> 00:21:11.509 between us and you. Us and other people. That 00:21:11.509 --> 00:21:16.009 you love us enough to say our middle name. And 00:21:16.009 --> 00:21:21.009 say, hey, let's do something about that. And 00:21:21.009 --> 00:21:23.329 one way, God, that you give us a chance to do 00:21:23.329 --> 00:21:27.690 that is to ask for prayer. To support and show 00:21:27.690 --> 00:21:32.990 love to each other on a Sunday morning. So I 00:21:32.990 --> 00:21:37.069 pray that you would help us to be obedient. Not 00:21:37.069 --> 00:21:41.809 to feel pressure, not to feel guilt. But to be 00:21:41.809 --> 00:21:46.529 willing to be obedient as you lead. In Jesus 00:21:46.529 --> 00:21:48.410 name. Amen.