It's a wonderful song. It's a wonderful reminder
that we will follow, that our hearts cry out.
I will follow you. But I questioned this morning,
will we? Do we? That song talks so openly and
freely about following God, trusting God, that...
Hopefully, in life, when we have to follow people,
you know, I think of maybe when we're a kid and
we're going on a hike or a walk with your parents,
right? They're hoping that, you know, you're
going to follow them. I can think back of parts
of my life where it seemed maybe five different
times in my 41 years where the path was so clear.
It was just God saying, hey, jump into the footprint
right after I step. Don't go right, don't go
left, just follow me. I tell our leaders all
the time, staff, council, ministry leaders, that
especially staff, that part of your living on
staff, when you get a paycheck from the church,
it's we're paying you to be a leader. And if
you're out there by yourself and no one's following
you, we're not paying you to go for a walk. That
there is an understanding of following and leading.
Good followers have a leader we hold to a leader
that is Jesus and that song declares I will follow
and it's awesome But what about when we don't
what about we see God moving we see clearly and
we just Step on the brakes or we veer right or
we veer left Because where we see God going doesn't
make any sense to us or it makes sense We just
don't want to do it or if we're being honest
We're scared to do it. There is fear Doubt sets
in all of a sudden we're questioning is God the
person we want to follow and things start to
unravel And there are some Sundays. We just simply
need to be reminded of who we're called to be
and that's this Sunday That's today simple message
on not so simple of a text of what does it mean
to trust God. Trusting the God who holds the
water of life. Because when you look at the gems
you're not just looking at a ministry you're
looking at a movement of faith being formed in
real time. That these girls and these leaders
were preparing for today to have their gems Sunday.
We see young hearts learning to trust learning
to step out learning to follow Jesus in ways
that are very simple at times maybe not so simple
at other times but very profound that the spirit
is at work in our gems ministry we're reminded
that faith is not something we graduate from
but something we grow into we never graduate
God right we never get to throw our faith caps
in the air until we get to glory And there, biblically,
there's nothing that says we're going to have
a cap that we can throw up in the air. But we
will hopefully hear those words, well done, good
and faithful servant. That is the beauty of gems.
That is the foundation that they're building.
Girls gathering from our church, other churches
from our community, discovering what it means
to meet the Savior. First and foremost, who is
the Savior? Before you can follow, you need to
understand who He is and what He's calling. of
not only them, not only the leaders, but for
us. And so today, we're going to talk about stepping
out to trust our faithful God. Not just the gem's
theme, but the call of everybody that claims
Jesus. Because the life of faith has never been
about staying in the boat. The boat's comfortable.
We love the boat. But what we're going to see
in the Gospel text is when Jesus calls us outside
of the boat, to trust in Him alone, like we just
sang. So the question before the gems, before
us, before those online this morning is can you
walk on water? The question really becomes do
you trust the God who holds you and holds the
water? So let's break it down first in Deuteronomy,
the foundation beneath every step we take. So
we're going to be in Deuteronomy 7. 7 verse 9.
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God,
the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast
love with those who love him and keep his commandments
to a thousand generations. So right there we're
going to lay the foundation. A God who loves
you who is faithful and who keeps covenant. We
know what that means. We've talked and walked
that out. Covenant and contract, two different
things. Contract says, if you don't do your part,
I don't do my part. Covenant says that God will
keep His part even when we fall in ours. But
the word no there matters. God is not inviting
His people into this vague spirituality or emotional
guesswork, the highs and lows of our emotions.
He is calling us into certainty. And just that
word can bind all of us. Whether you're young
in faith, maybe you're here and you don't really
have a faith, the idea of having a certainty
about the person of God can be hard to really
walk that road, hard to understand. But what
we're going to learn today, what the gems have
showed us is what it means to step out into confidence
that God has us. We're confident in who He is.
The Lord your God is God. So another question
I have this morning is do you believe that? Do
you believe that in how you think about God?
Do you believe that in how you talk out God in
your life? Do you believe that in what you actually
believe about God? Do you trust He is sovereign?
He is unchanging. He is not reacting to your
life. He rules over it. That's his prerogative.
That's his point of view. And my guess is at
least half of us struggle with that because we
want to be the master of our own ship. We want
to be in the control of our own life. We want
to call all the shots. But guess what? We're
following the sovereign God. Meaning, you and
I aren't sovereign. We can't handle that anyway.
We might think we can. We might act like we can.
Deep down inside of the Places we don't talk
about at parties, we probably think we are. We're
not. And it is easier to submit to that. The
faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast
love. The phrase steadfast love is the Hebrew
word... Someone said it over here. Hesed. One
out of 315. Good job. We had a whole sermon series
on it. Right? Say it gutterly. How do we say
it, Alex? Get it in the throat. Stop laughing.
Say it. Chesed, right? It gets really deep down
in your throat, right? Good Hebrew. It's covenant
love, loyal love, unbreakable love. It is the
kind of love that does not walk away when things
get hard. It's not the kind of love that depends
on our performance, praise the Lord. It is the
kind of love that holds on even when we don't.
And this is what GEMS, the program, was teaching
our girls this year. Through gems they are not
just learning the Bible stories, but they are
learning about the character of God through gems
They are learning that God's faithfulness is
not theoretical up in the clouds, but it's deeply
personal Not our strength not our courage not
our ability to hold on to God, but his unwavering
grip on us the Belgian confession One of the
confessions we have in the church, our confessions
help us understand scripture, right? The Heideberg
Catechism, the Belgian Confession, the Canons
of Dort. We hold these writings, not sacred,
but we hold these important in our life. We hold
them confessionally to help us understand God's
Word. Without God's Word, none of those texts
mean anything. But the Belgian Confession reminds
us that even after humanity fell into sin, God
pursues his people. He did not abandon them.
He didn't say, well, they screwed up, they're
done, over, let's start fresh. He did not wait
for them to figure it out. He moved toward them
in grace. So church, gems, hear this clearly
today. You don't step out just because you are
brave. You step out because God is faithful.
When we step out in our life, we are banking
on that relationship with God, not only being
there, but that he is holding us as we step out.
And this is the foundation that GEMS is laying
through the lives of all the young girls that
go through it. A foundation that will carry them,
hopefully, not just through childhood, not just
through that journey through junior high when
they get to eighth grade, but through every season
of life. That all of you, whether you're in second
grade through eighth grade, when you get older,
right, even a couple years maybe into high school,
we come back and we help with our GEMS program.
Or if God moves you away somewhere else in the
world, maybe you find a GEMS program there. And
we dive in and we invest in the next generation.
Every season of life, we want this to be not
only true, but we want to understand that God
is really faithful to us and will call us at
times to things that we are very, very, very,
very, very uncertain about. Maybe even scared
about. So let's dive into the book of Matthew.
We're going to be in Matthew 14 with this section
of my sermon is called The Voice That Calls Us
Out. We're going to be in Matthew 14 starting
with verse 22. But the boat by this time was
a long way from land, beaten by the waves, for
the waves was against them. And in the fourth
watch of the night he came to them walking on
the sea. When the disciples saw him walking on
the sea, they were terrified and said, It is
a ghost. And they cried out in fear. But immediately
Jesus spoke to them saying, Take heart. It is
I. Do not be afraid. Peter answered him Lord
if it is you command me to come to you on the
water and He said come so Peter got out of the
boat walked on the water and came to Jesus So
let's set the scene Middle fourth watch the night
early in the morning, right? How many fishermen
or fisherwomen do we have today that like to
do that? Wow, that's it. We got a fish more Jim.
There's you're one of only like two that did
it We love to eat the fish, but we don't like
to Never mind. So we are at fourth watch of the
night, right? The boat is way far out. Jesus
was just praying. It's dark. The wind's against
them. The waves are crashing, and I'm going to
offer just a little Pastor Jim point of view.
I would be terrified because the depths of the
ocean, even though we're talking about the Sea
of Galilee, not the ocean, but I'm sure there's
depth to it, absolutely terrifies me. yet I'm
fascinated about what could be under there I
don't like to go into bodies of water that I
cannot see the bottom of i .e. a pool or shallow
Caribbean that's it right other than that if
I can't see the bottom of it I will probably
stay on the land but it is dark the waves the
wind and waves are against them And Jesus, in
typical Jesus fashion, comes walking out to them
on the water. And instead of comfort, they feel
fear. It's a ghost, they said. I don't know if
they couldn't recognize him, I don't know, but
in the midst of their chaos, the boat being thrown
around by the winds and the waves, they seem
to maybe forget who Jesus was, or that Jesus
has got them, right? He's got their back. He's
the one that told them to go out. So they're
following their disciples commands. Yet fear
has a way of distorting reality. It takes what
is true and twists it to something that might
even be threatening in our life. Maybe you've
been there in life. That you feel good about
a certain aspect or relationship or season of
your life. Yet when the minute you allow fear
or trepidation or anxiety in there, everything
binds. Everything seems to twist out of whack.
And then all of a sudden what happens? I don't
know if God's really in this. I don't know if
this is really God's plan for me. Maybe I don't
have... All of a sudden the domino effect that
Satan pushes starts to take hold. We know this
feeling. Because fear tells all of us, not just
to the gems, but to all of us, stay where it's
safe. Don't take the risk. Don't step out. Then
Jesus speaks Take heart it is I do not be afraid
that phrase it is I echoes God's covenant name
I am Jesus is not just offering reassurance.
He is revealing to them again his identity now
Put yourself in the boat. I don't care any one
of the 12 your pick you're in the boat. You see
this What's the first thing that you should be
astonished by? Anybody? You're in the boat. You're
seeing Jesus do this. Yeah, go ahead. What are
you astonished by? He's walking on water. 1 ,000%.
That is the only right answer, right? That he
is walking on water. Like, that should blow all
of our minds. Whether you are more into the sciences,
analytics, you're like, that can't happen and
here's why, push up your glasses. Or you're just
freaked out and go, holy cow. Like, what is he
doing? How is he doing that? Or like me, maybe
I can do it. I would totally be a Peter. You
don't need to say amen. We all understand that.
Here I am. I am God. You can trust me. Is that
not some of the most reassuring aspects of Jesus?
But what's the hard part about being able to
really believe that? I can trust in God, right?
But what if I don't trust easy? What if my trust
has been broken? What if I've been burned by
Christian people or the church or whatever? And
so I don't trust easy. How can you say that I
trust the Lord? Well, let me punk you out a little
bit this morning stop putting people on the same
place as God or the other way around stop bringing
God down to the same people that are in your
life because there's one key difference all the
people in your life your pastor the elders gems
gem program cadets everybody all sinners in need
of a Savior guess who's sinless the Savior and
That's who we're talking about. We're talking
about Jesus So Peter again in typical Peter fashion
Lord if it is you You ever catch that? If it
is you, does not show me like super devotion.
How do I know? Let's put this in maybe with your
spouse. If your spouse ever says to you, if you
really love me, then you will... Give me some
endings of that sentence. Be careful, don't incriminate
yourself. If you love me, you will... Mike, go
ahead. I know already 19 things came into your
brain. What? Oh, way to keep it safe. Good job.
Mow the lawn. Yeah. And we all know you have
sons. You make them do it. You haven't mowed
a lawn in years. But understand, right, if you
love me, you will... Someone go a little deeper
than lawn, please. What? Stop snoring. How is
that above or below mowing the lawn? Father,
we pray for the van der Meijens right now. We
pray for Brad. We pray for his deviated septum.
What was over here? If you love me, someone said
a good one. Follow, right? So if your spouse
says that, if you love me, then follow me. How
are you really taking that, Marilyn? Everybody
look at her. You said it. That's sometimes easy,
sometimes hard, right? There was a time on our
trip out West to be about a year and a half ago
When how many people know what a ridge back is
on when you're coming up to a mountain right
Wendy? What's a ridge back? Yes, when you go
up a ridge back good all right That's exactly
what it is. It's when you go up, and there's
really nothing on the sides It's like this land
bridge right and there's a pretty famous one
in southern Utah that I really wanted to go on
regardless of if my wife said she didn't want
to. And so the boys and I, we kind of, you know,
we were at dinner and we asked about it like,
oh yeah, as long as you're in daylight, right,
as long as, you know, it hadn't rained, then
you are good to go. Okay? Yeah, it might have
just rained, but it was still gonna be, it was
still gonna be light. We never asked how long
it actually takes to get there and that was the
error in the story And they're not here today
So I'll blame Jack and so understand that we
start on this what I thought was gonna be immediate
Ridgeback It was not hour and a half later son
has now gone down. We finally get to the Ridgeback
My wife through is not speaking to me. Okay at
this point. She is so upset I thank God the kids
are playing one fell asleep in the back. I am
praying Lord please just get us through this.
I said follow me and now I am not at all convinced
that we are going to make it as because of said
rain that happened mere hours before as we're
going in our Jeep every once in a while it would
slip and go this way or slip and go this way
and I felt every movement of that in every part
of my body. Three hours later. If we would have
just gone the regular way, we would have been
home in 40 minutes. Three hour and, cherry on
top, no cell reception. So guess when you don't
have cell reception, what doesn't work on your
phone? Jay, what doesn't work on your phone if
you don't have cell reception? Maps. Yeah, he
didn't need your help, Claire. He understood.
He's in seventh grade, right? Maps, right? GPS,
nothing. When you look on there, it's just your
car, black. Okay, so we finally make it out every
tension in my body Finally melts Carrie's still
not talking to me, right? Good night, babe. I
love you. I think her words were sure and we
went to sleep All right, so that understanding
of follow right I knew I was gonna need to earn
back some of that trust or just not make any
more decisions that trip and let her take control
but What is faith when it comes to following
Jesus? That he knows where he's going. Lord,
if it is you, command me to come to you on the
water. Now, I love the grace. Maybe you haven't
thought about it this way, but this hit me this
week. The grace of Jesus in this moment. Because
if I'm Jesus, I've been walking with them. Now,
granted, Matthew's not really written out chronologically,
but we're already in chapter 14. We have seen
a bunch of stuff right now. A bunch of reasons
why these guys should trust Jesus hook, line,
and sinker, right? No pun intended. But understand
that if I'm Jesus, I would have been very upset.
Peter, if it is you, if to me, Jesus, boat would
have sank, right? It would have been Titanic
in a very early age, right? That boat would have
sank. I don't know who would have made it. Good
thing I'm not. What does Jesus say? Come. He
doesn't call Peter out yet, but he says, come.
And Peter steps out. Church, this is important.
Peter does not step out randomly. Because a lot
of us would think that Peter's just like, OK,
here we go, splash. He steps out because Jesus
called him. Because that's where faith comes
in. Faith is not reckless. Faith is not impulsive.
Faith is responsive. We have faith because of
what Jesus done has done in our life That is
how the Holy Spirit regenerates us that we in
what however way we can understand it Jesus is
sacrificed on the cross for us he rose again
that we may have new life and This is what gems
model so beautifully because in gems girls are
being taught to listen for the voice of Jesus
Especially in a world where there are millions
of voices the minute you go on that app right
or the minute you step foot in school or whatever
In GEMS they're learning that faith is not just
about proving something, it's about trusting
someone. So let me ask, where is Jesus saying
come in your life? And are you willing to step
out? Because the invitation that Jesus gave Peter
is the same invitation he's gonna give all of
us today and tomorrow and every day that ends
in Y. And through GEMS we are seeing that even
the youngest among us can hear the call and respond.
with courage. Because that's faith. Even when
things don't go well. Even when our faith falls.
Jesus' faith never does. For generations upon
generations, he is faithful. But when faith falters,
something happens. Matthew 14 verse 30 and 31.
But when he saw the wind, he being Peter here,
saw the wind, he was afraid and began to sink.
He cried out, Lord save me. Jesus immediately
reached out, took his hand, took his hand and
took hold of him saying to him, oh you of little
faith, why did you doubt? Put yourself in Peter's
shoes. Lord, if it's you, let me come out onto
the water to you. Jesus says come. You start
walking on the water. You start doing the impossible.
You start doing things that you never thought
you'd be asked or called to do. Because when
Jesus calls you what? We need to trust that he
will sustain you. Jesus will never call you and
say, oh, by the way, you're on your own. No,
I am with you forever to the very end of the
age. But what did Peter see? He saw the wind,
the waves, the chaos of the moment, and things
shifted. His focus moves from Jesus to the storm.
He begins to sink. And this is where the story
becomes painfully familiar for me and my guess
is for all of us. When we start with faith we
step out with confidence. We trust God with boldness
Call it a camp. I a service high ministry high
whatever it is. We think we can take on the world
for Jesus But then life happens Reality sets
in sinful depraved Reality sets in the winds
pick up the people start talking, right? The
people at your job maybe start making fun of
you kids, it just doesn't happen in school when
you step out in your faith, also as you adult.
The waves rise, the pressure builds, and suddenly
what do we do? We take our eyes off the cross,
we take our eyes off of Jesus into the world
around us, and we start thinking something very,
very hard in our life of faith. Can Jesus actually
do this? Is God really real? What happens? We
begin to sink and like Peter we cry out, Lord
save me. Three words, no filter, no performance,
just absolute and utter dependence on Jesus.
I love how Matthew writes, immediately Jesus
reached out his hand. Not after a lecture, not
after disappointment, right? Not having, you
know, getting beat with the grace stick for the
millionth time in my life. but immediately. And
this is what we want every girl in GEMS to know,
and this is what we want every one of you to
know. That when we struggle in life, when we
doubt, when we feel overwhelmed, Jesus isn't
distant. We all need to learn, from GEMS to adulthood,
that Jesus is near and His grace is immediate.
And again, we don't believe in a grace that we
get more of when we do stuff. Nope. We don't
earn grace. And this is what we need to remember
as well. Because even as adults, we are not beyond
these sinking moments. I look out, and I know
some of you are sinking right now. You are in
seasons of life, maybe seasons of ministry, whatever
it looks like, and you feel like you are sinking.
But the good news today and every day is that
even when your faith wavers, our Savior's does
not. As the Canon of Dort, another one of our
confessions remind us that God preserves His
people. Your salvation is not held together by
you. Your faith and salvation is not held together
by me. It's held together by Him. So faith is
not a perfection. Faith is this. When you begin
to sink, you look back to Jesus. So many times
we get overwhelmed but what we believe is making
us sink or the weight that's pushing us down
or that Relationship that seems broken or that
relationship that needs to be well defined or
that kid at school that keeps making fun of us
Or whatever it is. We start looking and give
credence to those things Jesus says look at me.
I am all that you need but We need to believe
that and that can be very hard And in GEMS, that
kind of faith is being nurtured every other Wednesday
through the school year. And I'm sure throughout
the summer when those relationships continue
to evolve, it can't just be in our GEMS program.
It has to be in our council room. It has to be
in our Bible studies, our support ministries.
Every brick that may get built up over the next
year, it has to be in there as well. Because
the ultimate question is, do you trust? Jemzes,
girls everywhere meeting the Savior. Fantastic.
Love it. But when we meet Him, do we trust Him?
And clarity comes after we trust. Matthew 14.
And when they got into the boat, the winds ceased,
and those in the boat worshiped Him saying, truly
you are the Son of God. Some of us, we can find
so much comfort in these verses, right? Oh, man,
then he steps into the boat everything calm the
wind ceases all of the things He is the son of
God. He made it through. He made he made made
us made it through with us again, right? There
is a calm after the storm. Praise be to God We
could sit there and the sermon can be done and
that's fantastic. Guess what? It's not Because
how many times do we have to be in this place?
Now it gets raw right now. It gets personal Because
that is quite the statement truly. You are the
son of God Where did we just hear that two weeks
ago? For lunch and a conversation with Pastor
Jim we heard this come from an unlikely place.
I just made a lot easier So it's gonna be a value
meal Where did we hear this? What the soldier
at the cross? You hear a version of this with
the guy hanging on the cross. People that were
one minute dead to themselves, the next minute
making a profession of faith. Why is that hard?
Why is Jim getting mad? What's coming? This sermon
now seems like it's taking a turn and it should
because we've been in church most of our lives
for a lot of us. Yet this is still a place that
we come to week in and week out. When will we
get it? When can we just walk it? When can we
speak it? When do we why do we need all this
grace? Here's even better news Because Jesus
knows we're gonna need it. He knows you're going
to need it time and time again That's why it's
not a pitcher of water grace that will one day
run out. Grace upon grace, mercy new every morning.
But in this account, they confess. Probably for
the third or fourth time already. They see more
clearly. And here's the pattern. Clarity comes
after we trust. You have to trust. Right? Even
when I do premarital with couples, and there's
a question, one of the questions in the assessments,
is there anything that can be done in life, that
will make me waver in my commitment to my spouse.
You want to set up a couple that's going through
pre -marital, getting ready, maybe in their 20s?
You want to ask that question to a couple that's
been married five years? You want to ask that
question to a couple married 10 years, 15 years,
20 years, 30 years, 40 years? If you're the Zichterman,
somewhere in the 60s or 70 years, fantastic.
You want to get that conversation uncomfortable?
Ask that question. Because that is tried and
weathered and tested commitment over and over
and over again. And that's between two sinners.
Yet we have that tested and tried and weathered
relationship with the Son of God. Because we
want answers first. We want guarantees first.
We want to control our level of the relationship
first. God, if I do this, you better do that.
That's not how it works with the sovereign God.
In this relationship, the follower never trumps
the leader. That's blasphemy, right? When we
think we know more than God, we're saying we
are God. Spoiler alert, we never will be. We
never should be. The conviction we should never
want to be. And this is something that Gems is
helping cultivate the life in our church. Because
what we see in this ministry is that the reminder
that we don't have to have everything figured
out. Trust and obey. There is no other way. And
our lives are like, trust and obey when we get
our way. That's not how it works. That's a terrible
hymn. This is a wonderful hymn. To be happy in
Jesus. To trust and obey. So let's step out together.
What does this look like for us today? Well,
let me start with the girls and gems. This is
me to you. This is kind of fun. Whenever I say
a word, they're all writing it down. We may adopt
this for just every Sunday because I think it's
really cool. So gems, what does this mean? Trust
God at school. Right? Whatever school system
you're in, trusting God has you even in the midst
of your classes and tests and all of those things.
Standing up for what is right. Standing up for
the little one, the one that might be getting
made fun of, that we stand up for that. That's
justice in the world of gems. That we can pray
with boldness. All of you, can you say, Father,
help? One, two, three. Greatest prayer you could
ever pray. Pray it with boldness. And if you
need help, ask your leaders. Ask me, ask your
parents. Go to God's Word. He will teach you
how to pray. And for gems, it's okay to live
differently. It's okay to understand that you
want to be everywhere meeting the Savior. Live
that out as best you can, knowing you're never
going to do it perfectly, but God's grace is
always there. And for the rest of us, we all
could be probably like that, but for you this
morning, what does it mean to take steps in obedience
today? Letting go of control and all of you type
A's hate that I said that but it's so true There's
grace even for the type A's and he spoiler alert.
It's probably not gonna come the way you wish
it was directed in your life Stop being type
A over Jesus Trusting God and uncertainty and
loving people Sacrificially and for us as a church.
We are not called to stay comfortable. We're
called to step out What I love is that through
gems we are not we are this is not just something
that we're preaching just for today But it's
something we're seeing in every aspect of the
church We need to step out in faith if your mind
goes to one or two or three things in that good
Live in that space step out in faith We are seeing
young lives shaped we're seeing faith take root.
We're seeing courage grow God is reminding all
of us, not just through gems, what it looks like
to trust Him in everything. Because ultimately,
what we get from this passage, what I want you
to take with you today, is Jesus didn't just
walk on water, but He walked to the cross carrying
it on His shoulders. He stepped into our brokenness.
He took our sin. He made a way for us to be held
forever and ever. So, in our life, when we cry,
Lord, save me. Guess what? He already has. The
Heideberg Catechism reminds us that we are not
our own, but we belong to our faithful Savior,
Jesus Christ. And that is the same Savior that
the girls in gems are coming to know. That is
the same Savior that the girls in our gems are
getting point to every other Wednesday. And so
here's the invitation this morning. Not just
for our gems, but for all of us. The question
is not, can you walk on water? I tricked you
in the beginning of the sermon. Who are will
you trust the one who holds the water? When you
hear him saying to you come What step is in front
of you? It may feel small or you may feel small
or afraid or unsure But the same God who was
faithful in Deuteronomy the same Jesus who stood
on the water is still faithful in your life in
2026 We are being reminded that this truth of
this truth in a fresh and powerful way My last
point for you today. You don't. You don't. You
don't step out just because you are strong. You
step out because he is faithful and the one who
calls you is already standing on the water. That's
what I think Peter missed. They were astonished.
They thought he was a ghost. They all their mind.
He's already standing on the water. So why did
Peter need to be afraid? Jesus wasn't sinking,
yet he started to. That sometimes this road of
faith will be hard and doubt will set in. But
remember, the one who calls you out is already
there. Thanks be to God. Let's pray.