Just give me Jesus. Y 'all have to forgive me
this morning if I cough a little bit. And if
I lose my voice, that's all right too. Because
I'd rather sing my voice out in worship than
to have it stick around with me a little while.
I'd rather wear my voice out every single service,
preaching or not preaching, just worshiping the
Lord. Give this youth group a hand clap of praise
because they have truly led us into the presence
of the Lord this morning. Guys, thank you so
much. I love you. You know that. I'm so proud
of you. Thank you so much. Come on, you're not
done. Give them another hand clap of praise.
Stand up here and sing in front of y 'all. Y
'all know that? Not a bad thing. It's just a
lot of pressure, a lot of stress. One thing I
can tell you is, number one, you guys can be
jealous of me because I get worshiped like that
every Wednesday night. And I am blessed because
of it. Amen? I'm looking forward to preaching
to you today, and I'm going to be in Mark chapter
6. Just two simple verses. Verse 5 and 6. And
I'm going to try my best not to cough in this
mic. Because I know y 'all don't want to hear
that. Just say amen when you got it today. Mark
chapter 6, verse 5. It says, now he could do
no mighty work there. except that he lay his
hands on a few sick people and healed them. And
he marveled because of their unbelief. Then he
went about the villages in a circuit teaching.
I want to preach to you on the thought today,
simply don't just show up. Don't just show up.
Father, I love you today. I thank you, God, for
the wonderful atmosphere that we all feel in
your house this morning. Father, I don't take
it for granted the opportunity that I have to
stand behind this sacred desk. So, God, I ask
that you would anoint me in this time. Father,
as I preach your word, that I feel like you've
burned in my heart. I pray, God, that you would
make it edifying to the body but ultimately glorifying
to you. And, Jesus, I will praise you and I will
thank you for everything always. In Jesus' name
I pray. Amen. You can be seated. As I was reflecting
over this past weekend and... Just thinking back
at all the wonderful things that God has done
in the student's life and that he'll continue
to do, I believe, in their life, it made me think
very specifically about Winterfest in itself,
right, but versus the normal Sunday and Wednesday
night services that we typically have all across
America. And Winterfest, so you know, is one
of the largest, if not the largest, youth gathering
in our denomination. They happen all across America
in different parts of America. But the Smoky
Mountain Winterfest that happens at the LeCotte
Center is the largest one. Over 11 ,000 students
gathered in that room to be together, to worship
together. They gather to worship with students
their own age, to hear sermons that ministers
preach specifically for them and their age group,
and to be in the presence of the Lord together.
And again, it's one of the largest gatherings
in the world, and it gives them an opportunity
in that setting to really press in and seek God
for everything that they're needing him to do
in their life, no matter if it's for them or
for family or whatever the case may be. It gives
them that opportunity in that setting. to kind
of be free and to really press in, to really
pursue God like they never have before. But then
I began to think about Sunday mornings. Obviously,
we have Wednesday nights as well on this campus.
We have Wednesday night services. I began to
think about the parallel between the two and
these youth services, of course. I've always
wondered why that... So many students go to Winterfest.
Like I said, 11 ,000 just at the LeConte Center,
not counting the ones that gathered in other
Winterfests across the country. But I've always
wondered in myself why Winterfest, all these
wonderful things happen in students' lives. I
begin to think about Winterfest compared to Wednesday
nights. And if I'm speaking on just a youth perspective,
what is the difference between a Winterfest and
a Wednesday night service and youth group? And
then I realized that it's not about Winterfest
in particular. It's about, it's not about where
they gather. It's not about the events that take
place at the gathering. It's not about the famous
worship bands that come from all over to worship,
the names that everybody knows. It's not about
the speakers that they may be familiar with because
they follow them on social media. It's simply
that the students go to Winterfest. With a faith
that God can and an expectation that God will.
So then I began to wonder, do we have that same
faith and expectations on Sunday morning and
Wednesday nights? Because we will gather on Sunday
mornings, won't we? We don't mind getting up
and coming to a gathering. We show up, we like
showing up and seeing people we haven't seen
all week long and share just stuff that happened
that week. We might even share sometimes the
way the enemy's been doing terrible things in
our lives. We want to share what's going wrong
sometimes, but we show up for that. Then we walk
into service like we have here this morning,
and we show up to hear some good worship music,
but sometimes we don't ever have any real intention
of actually worshiping. We may even share. Or
we may even sit there with our arms crossed while
the praise team sings about the goodness of God.
We show up to be encouraged by the preacher because
of the terrible week we had. We need him to make
us feel better and to preach an uplifting sermon
and tell me that God's got me, but he better
not step on my toes. He better not preach anything
that's convicting to me, and he better not preach
to me the uncompromising gospel of Jesus Christ.
Because you see, I need to be comforted, not
changed. We show up to church to check a box.
We show up to church to be seen. And we show
up to church to feel better about ourselves.
But I need you to understand today that Jesus
did not die so you could attend church. Jesus
died so that we could encounter him. And we gather
together as a collection of believers to encounter
the presence. So sometimes I wonder, and this
morning I wonder, do we gather with a faith -filled
expectation? Now, in the story in Mark chapter
6, we see that Jesus returned home to Nazareth,
his hometown. And what happens there is, well,
the Bible says in verse 5 that he could do no
mighty works there. But the tragedy of Nazareth
wasn't that Jesus didn't show up. The tragedy
of Nazareth was that they were in the same room
with Jesus and still missed the miracles. And
I wonder how many people walk into church every
week all across America, Jesus in the room, his
power is present, his spirit is moving, but unbelief
keeps them sitting in the same seat and leaving
the very same way. I think time and time again
that's where we get. We get put in a place where,
We just get comfortable in our sitting. I was
talking to a friend of mine about the problem
with sitting too long. And when we sit too long,
we begin to stink. And when we begin to stink,
nothing good can come out of that. Amen? I don't
want to be stenched, ripped, ridden. I don't
want to stink. I don't want to sit too long that
it becomes just something I do. Especially when
we're talking about getting into the presence
and encountering Jesus. But too many times we
walk into churches and it's not, I'm not, please
know me, I'm not, my heart is not, I'm not against
you. I'm talking about church in general. All
across America we gather and we sit and we hear
a good sermon and we leave there thinking, man,
I feel better. But were you changed? Were you
transformed? Did you grow? Did you step into
something new? And the theme for Winterfest was
This Is Us. And the whole idea leading up to
Winterfest was how I, the students to let them
know they were unique, they were specific, they
were created, handcrafted on purpose the way
they are for a purpose. Amen. And we need to
think that in ourselves today. It's not just
for the students. It's for us too. We need to
understand that we walk in that door. It was
by design. It was on purpose. It's not by chance
when you look around this room and you see those
sitting to your left and to your right and in
the balcony. It's not by chance that we're all
sitting here today because there will never be
another collection of individuals exactly like
this in this room ever again. So you can't tell
me that we don't serve a God who has a plan.
You can't tell me that we don't serve a God who
has a purpose. You can't tell me we don't serve
a God who has a reason for each and every one
of you and why you're sitting here in this room
today. It's not because old Pastor Brian's preaching.
It's because the Spirit of the Lord is in this
place. And we came not only to sit in our seats
and just raise a hand every once in a while.
We came to encounter the powerful, miracle -working
power of Jesus Christ. He is the reason that
we gather today. He is the reason that we're
all here seeking him. Because why? things that
need to be done in our lives and in our family's
lives. Scott, if you're going to stay up here,
son, you just turn that thing up. I like it.
I like a piano back here. We need an organ. I'm
looking at you, Brent. We need an organ. Amen.
But why do we come? Do we come expecting, do
we come with a faith that expects God to move?
Or do we come just, we prayed and we hope, and
we hope he does, but do we expect him to? So
the first thing I want to talk about today is
that God moves where he is expected. In our text
this morning, we see that Jesus has come into
his hometown. He arrived there, and when the
Sabbath had come, he went into the synagogue
to teach. The Bible says that many were astonished
at his teaching. They would even say, where did
this man get these things? And what wisdom is
this which is given to him? What such mighty
works were performed by his hands? They were
blown away. They couldn't believe that this was
the carpenter that they knew from his hometown.
They couldn't believe that this was just the
simple son of Mary, the brother of James and
Judas and Simon. They couldn't believe that this
was the same Jesus. But Nazareth didn't get a
different Jesus. They had the same Jesus that
healed the blind, the same Jesus that cast out
demons, the same Jesus that raised the dead.
And the Bible says that he could do no mighty
works there. But not because his power had changed,
but because their expectation disappeared. They
looked at him and said, isn't this the carpenter?
We know his family. We were here where he was
raised, and we watched him grow up. They became
too familiar to believe, and familiarity produces
unbelief. The truth is that God is drawn to faith
-filled expectation. I need you to hear me this
morning. Faith -filled expectation sets the atmosphere.
Too many times we walk into a church, and I've
heard it talked about, and I'm going to turn
40 next month, a little telling on me a little
bit. But I was sharing with another young man
who's probably too young to know what I was talking
about, but I was sharing with him about the old
days. Some of you all know what I'm talking about.
Mom's not here, so I can tell this story. I was
hoping she'd be here, but she'd roll her eyes
and get mad at me. But I remember as a kid growing
up, walking into these churches, and my sister
can attest to this. We were little at the time.
Dad always sat on the end, which is where he
still sits to this day. Then it was Mama. and
then tucked underneath her arm was usually me
and Brandon because we got in trouble a lot,
and then my sister was at the end. But when the
Spirit of the Lord would start moving in these
services, some of you know ladies would... would
dance about in the Spirit, shaking bobby pins
from their hair, and men would take off off the
stage, run in the aisles, and who knows, they
might do a couple laps. We don't know. The Spirit
of God would move, and people were freely allowing
the Spirit of God to move. And I remember my
mom, sometimes she'd stand up, and if the Lord
would move on her, she'd maybe give a message
in tongue, and then maybe even start dancing
in the Spirit herself. And I'll never forget
the stone -cold look on her face as she just
dances in the Spirit. Mom, Dad's got his arm
up like this. Me and Brandon's got our arm up
like this because we don't know at any moment
she might fall out in the spirit and she might
be in our lap. We don't know. But I remember
those times of just the powerful move of God,
and I'm hearing way too much even now in the
day that we're living that that's a rare thing.
It doesn't happen anymore. And all these things,
what happened to those days? And if you ask in
my opinion, I'll give you my opinion. That's
because we as a church have become too dignified
to allow the Spirit of the Lord to move the way
he wants to. Because my Bible says he's the same
yesterday, today, and forever. So if that's true,
and I believe the Bible is true, then it isn't
God that's changed. It's us that have changed.
And I believe that if we walk into his sanctuary
on Sunday mornings, on Sunday nights, during
revival times, on Wednesday night services, if
we walk into the sanctuary with a faith -filled
expectation that God is going to move, I have
no doubt in my mind that he will meet us in the
expectation and in the middle of the faith to
perform that miracle and to perform that work
that you're seeking. You're already seeking the
move. You're already seeking the healing. He's
seeking the miracle. So why not walk in here
and expect God to be who you know him to be?
And that's an almighty miracle worker, deliverer.
He's a restorer. Amen. Why not walk in here expecting
that to happen? We come in seeking. We come in
praying. But do we expect it to happen? No, because
we've got our feelings hurt when it didn't happen.
That's an interesting place to be. Amen. But
I encourage you today, come expecting God to
move. The woman with the issue of blood, she
expected a healing. She said, if I can just touch
his clothes. As she's pushing through the crowd,
her determination is, if I can just. Touch his
clothes. She didn't say I might. She didn't say
I hope so. The Bible says she said, I shall be
healed. And we all know what happened. She got
her healing, and Jesus turns to her and says
what? Your faith. has made you well. It wasn't
just the act of her pushing through the crowd.
The Lord didn't look at her and say, you worked
hard, so I'm going to bless you. It was her faith
and her understanding and her expectation that
if I can just touch his clothes, I shall be healed.
Amen. I was talking to Ken about this morning,
the four men who let down the paralytic through
the roof. Everywhere Jesus went, he drew a crowd.
Did he not? especially once the word got out.
So here he is in this town, in this house, and
the Bible says they came from all over and crowded
the house. In my mind, there's just a crowd of
people all around it. Windows are open, doors
are open. They're just trying to hear and grab
anything they can grab from this man named Jesus.
And then these four boys show up carrying this
paralytic. So we got to get him in there, but
how do we get him in there? We can't even get
near the door. Some old boy said, well, we take
that roof off, we'll get him in there. And I
begin to think, what kind of faith does it take
to say to myself, if I tear that roof off, I
can get this guy down in there, and he will heal
him. If I can just get him down there. It wasn't
just the faith, though. It was the expectation.
If they didn't expect God to move, if they didn't
expect Jesus to heal, if they didn't expect him
to do what he did, they would have never even
tried. But the Bible says that Jesus saw their
faith. And he said to that paralytic, arise and
take up your bed and walk. And he was able to
perform that mighty miracle because of the faith
that he saw. In all of these stories, and we
could go on and on, Jesus responds to this faith.
The second thing I want to point out is that
unbelief restricts what God wants to do. No doubt
Jesus... Went into Nazareth with the same intentions
that he had in other places he went. When he
visited and going into the synagogue on the Sabbath
day to teach, he had the same idea and the same
plans of what he was wanting to do. And as they
were offended at his teaching, not really understanding
who he was, the scripture says that now he could
do no mighty works there. I want you to pay attention
to this phrase because it doesn't say that he
would not do the mighty work. It said that he
could not do the mighty work. They unbelief that
they had limited God in that place. So when we
think about God's being limited in a place, it
makes you think back to me on why God doesn't
move in churches the way they do, the way that
he used to. Because we've limited him in the
places where there's no belief. The tragedy of
unbelief is not just doubt. The tragedy of unbelief
is that it prevents God from doing. what he wants
to do. Unbelief can cause us to sit in the presence
of miracles and still leave unchanged. In Numbers
13 through 14, we read about Israel at Kadesh
Barnea, and God had already promised Israel the
land. They saw the Red Sea departed. They saw
manna fall from heaven, but when the spies returned,
they spread unbelief. They said, we're not able
to go up against these people for they're stronger
than we. Where was their belief? They had already
seen works of God. They'd already seen God perform
miracles in them and in their situation, in their
journey, but yet they had no belief. In the Gospel
of Mark, we read about the disciples in a storm
and Jesus is in the boat with them. I mean, of
all places to have no belief, you're in the boat
with the Savior. And they wake him. Y 'all know
the story. They shake him and stir him and wake
him. Do you not care that we're going down with
this shit? And he stands up, rebukes the sea.
and then he looks at them and says, where's your
faith? Imagine being in the boat with the Savior
and him looking at you and asking, where's your
faith? You see, God can do things in our life.
God wants to do things in our life, what you're
praying for, what you're seeking for, what you're
asking deliverance from, what you're on your
knees and just crying out to him for. God wants
to do those things, but our own unbelief, whether
it be consciously or subconscious, prevents him
from performing that work. The storm wasn't the
problem, their unbelief was. We can go on and
on in stories throughout the Bible of unbelief.
Israel missed the promise because of unbelief.
The disciples panicked because of unbelief. Thomas
doubted because of unbelief. Nazareth missed
miracles because of unbelief. Trying to tell
you this morning is, I'm trying to tell you,
unbelief does not change who God is. It does
not change who he wants to be in your life. It
does not change the miracles he wants to perform.
Your unbelief does. You need to understand that
God is still healer. God is still deliverer.
God is still restorer. God is still redeemer.
God is still all those things that we know him
to be. But our unbelief prevents him from doing
the work in our life. So I need you to understand
this morning, don't let unbelief talk you out
of your miracle. Don't let unbelief talk you
out of your breakthrough. Don't let unbelief
talk you out of the promises of God. Because
the same Jesus that walked into Nazareth is walking
through this room right now. And I think it's
a great opportunity to put your hands together
and give God some praise for just being present
in our midst this morning. We praise you today,
God. Mark 9, 23 through 24 says, Jesus said to
him, if you can believe, all things are possible
to him who believes. Immediately, the father
of the child cried out and said with tears, Lord,
I believe, but help my unbelief. Sometimes it's
okay to ask for help for your unbelief. It's
hard sometimes when you're crying out to God
for things that you desperately need him to do
in your life and you feel like no one's listening.
You feel like your prayer goes in one ear and
out the other, so to speak, of God. You feel,
you look at your situation and you think, God,
you ain't moved yet. What's happening? Am I not
getting through? And sometimes we have a habit
or a response. We want to respond to that by
pushing even harder. Or pushing deeper. Or maybe
we just ask why. Maybe we're confused and we
don't see God working because he's working behind
the scenes. But we start questioning him and
we start asking him why. And we start not understanding,
well, this can't be true because he hasn't done
it for me. It's even worse when you see him do
it in somebody else's life. And you're thinking,
where's mine, Lord? Where's mine? Help my unbelief
today. Help my unbelief today. Third thing I
want to talk about is how faith -filled expectation
prepares the ground for miracles. Even Jesus
was amazed in our text. The Bible says that Jesus
marveled at their unbelief. And there's only
a few times in Scripture, there's only a few
things that amazes Jesus. One being great faith
and the other being unbelief. Imagine that, the
creator of the universe stood in that town, in
his hometown where he's from, and their unbelief
shocked him. They were so close to a miracle,
but their expectations were so low. Faith is
more than belief. It is an expectation. Expectation
prepares the heart the way soil is prepared for
the seed. You must prepare your heart before
you get there and ready to receive. You have
to make up your mind when you get up on Sunday
morning what you're going into the house of God
expecting to receive. I told the students before
we left the Wednesday night, before we left to
go to Winterfest, I said, I want you to go home
tonight. I want you to say your prayers and I
want you to ask God and seek him because I want
you to show up. ready to go, and I want you to
make your mind up before you get there. We can't
just walk into Sunday morning church on a Sunday
morning and hope God's going to move. Like it's
an afterthought, like it's secondhand. We have
to show up with an expectation. But make your
mind up before you walk through those doors.
In my mind, those doors are the entrance into
the sanctuary. That's the entrance into the holy
place. That's the entrance into the reverent.
place where we come to encounter an almighty,
powerful spirit of the Lord. And I want to do
everything I can to be as prepared as I can to
enter into his presence. It's that important
to me. And I don't know about you, but I need
him to move in my life. I need him to hear me
when I pray. I need him to deliver me when I
need to be delivered. I need him to restore when
I need to be restored. But most people wait until
they feel something. But can I tell you, miracles
don't start with feelings. They start with a
faith -filled expectation. Expectation changes
the atmosphere. When people walk into the house
of God expecting nothing, guess what? You'll
usually receive nothing. But when people walk
in believing God is about to move, you better
believe God is about to move. to move. Imagine
if we had all 200 of you sitting in this room
today, that when you walk through those doors,
you walked in with the mindset of God is about
to move. I'm excited. I'm pumped up. I'm ready
to go. I want to get into his presence because
God is about to move. I need him to move in my
life and God is about to move. I need him to
perform miracles in my life and God is about
to move. Imagine if we walked into his church
with an understanding of God. is about to move.
We'd be excited like Ken is on Sunday morning.
I got here early. Ken was already in the sanctuary
praying. Imagine if we all got to the house of
God with that expectation on our heart. God,
you're going to move. I know you're going to
move. You're going to do it. Today is your day.
God, perform the work and move all across this
room. Father, we love you today and I thank you.
When we enter in with an idea and the thought
already made up our mind, God is about to move,
something begins to shift in the room. Because
faith -filled expectation prepares the atmosphere
for miracles. Blind Bartimaeus on the roadside,
when he heard Jesus was passing by, he cried
out, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me. And
the immediate response was hush, hush. What'd
they do? They tried to hush him. They tried to
tell him be quiet. That outcry don't belong here.
But he had already made up in his mind, I expect.
a deliverance. I expect a healing. So the Bible
says he cried out even more, Jesus, son of David,
have mercy on me. And Jesus said, I hear your
faith. Call him unto me. He walks unto Jesus
and Jesus says, what could I have to do for you?
And he said that I would receive my sight. And
Jesus gave him back his sight and his deliverance
was made. His healing took place and it happened
immediately. Ken, that's the difference in a
miracle and a healing. Healing takes time, but
miracles are instantaneous. I don't know about
you, but I need some miracles in my life. I need
God to move right now. I need God to move right
now. I need God to move right now. It's not a
healing. It's an expectation of a miracle in
this place and in our lives. All giving praise.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Oh, we praise you all
across this room today, God. You are a miracle
working God. You are the healer. You are the
deliverer. You are the redeemer. And God, we
came expecting that today. In Jesus' name. In
Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. expectation had
risen in his heart, and he would not take no
for an answer. Expectation is like the difference
in a waiting room and an emergency room. In a
waiting room, we all sit quietly and patiently.
We're on our phones, scrolling. Maybe we just
talk to family, but we're waiting our turn. But
when the emergency doors come flying open, You
see everybody spring into action. There's doctors
flying here, there are nurses flying here, there
are stretchers are rolled all across the hospital
and things come alive. Why? Because urgency changes
the atmosphere. And when expectation arises in
a church service, the atmosphere changes. People
don't sit back like spectators anymore. They
begin to worship like they believe God's listening.
They begin to pray like they believe heaven is
responding. They begin to lean in like they believe
this could. be the moment that God moves. Miracles
rarely happen in rooms full of spectators, but
they happen in rooms filled with people who expect
God to move. The same service can have two different
outcomes. One person sits there thinking it's
just another church service. The other person
sits there thinking today could be my day for
my miracle. And I came to tell you today, I need
you to be the type that says today could be my
day for the miracle. Amen. Because why? Because
God still heals today. He still saves today.
He still restores today. He still breaks chains
today. You can have your breakthrough today.
He brings families back together today. He can
do all these things today. And when a church
begins to expect God to move, the atmosphere
shifts from routine into revival. And I don't
know about you, but I want to see a revival in
our church today. Young men and women, it's going
to be through you. Can I just tell you today,
it's going to be through you. It's not going
to be because of things happened in the past.
It's going to be something new and fresh and
on fire with an expectation. Hallelujah. In the
Gospel of John 5, the Bible tells us about a
man at the pool of Bethesda. The man had been
crippled for 38 years. 38 years of pain, 38 years
of limitation, 38 years of watching over people
get their miracle. The Bible says there was belief
that when the waters were stirred, the first
person in would be healed. So every day, people
gathered around the pool waiting, watching, and
hoping. But see, this man had a problem. He had
an expectation, but it was misplaced. Jesus asked
him, wilt thou be made whole? And the man didn't
say yes. Instead, he said, sir, I have no man.
When the water is troubled, to put me into the
pool. You need to notice what happened. The miracle
was standing right in front of him, but he was
still looking at the water. The expectation was
tied to the method instead of the Messiah. And
people need to do the same thing today. It's
not if the song is right. It's not if the preacher
is right. It's not if the atmosphere is right.
The truth is the miracle is not in the water.
The miracle is in Jesus. Hallelujah. Give him
praise all across this room today. So you need
to stop waiting on the water to be stirred. You
need to stop waiting on someone else's help.
You need to stop sitting here waiting on the
water to be right and start looking to Jesus
who is standing right there with you. Why? Because
the expectation shifts our focus from systems
to the Savior. And that is where miracles happen.
Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Y 'all can stand.
I'm going to close. Oh, hallelujah. Thank you,
Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. I came in today with
expectation. I walk into this church every morning,
and I don't say it just to say it. I say it because
I mean it. I'm excited to get to come into this
church every Sunday and every Wednesday. Lately,
Monday through Friday, Saturday, it don't matter.
I get excited to come in the house of God. But
it's one thing to be excited about the Sunday.
It's one thing to be excited to be in the God's
house and to be in his presence, but it's a whole
nother to have to come with an expectation that
God is going to move. And I pray right now that
we... We get our desire back and our expectation
to want God to move. In our text it says Jesus
marveled at their unbelief. Not because he lacked
power. Not because he didn't want to move. But
because the people who were closest to him were
the ones who expected the least from him. And
I wonder this morning how many people are sitting
in this room. With the same Jesus present. The
same Jesus who heals. The same Jesus who saves.
And the same Jesus who restores lives. But unbelief
has whispered in your ear so long that you've
stopped expecting anything from him. Maybe life's
been hard. Maybe prayers have gone unanswered.
Maybe you've been disappointed before. And slowly
your faith didn't disappear, but your expectation
did. You still believe God can, you're just not
sure if he will. But I came to tell you something
this morning, that God has not changed. It sounds
cliche to say, but there's no more truth than
that. God has not changed. His power has not
changed. His promises have not changed. The same
Jesus who walked through Nazareth is walking
through this room right now. And the difference
between those who leave the same and those who
leave changed is often one or two things, faith
and expectation. We have to believe today could
be the day. Today could be the day that chains
break. Today could be the day that healing comes.
And today could be the day that God restores
what the enemy tried to destroy. And I want anyone
who... who wants those things to happen in their
life to make your way to this altar right now.
Not because the altar is special. I want you
to come with your faith, and I want you to come
with an expectation. Because I believe that in
this day and time right now, in this place right
now, God is ready and willing to move in your
lives and our lives like he never has before.
The things that we've been seeking, the things
that we've been praying for, the things that
we've been asking God to do, he's waiting on
someone to say, I have the faith, and I came
to receive. I have the faith, I have the expectation,
and I've came to receive. Father, I thank you
today. I praise you all across this church today,
Lord, for your spirit and the power and your
Holy Ghost that's moved in this room. God, I
thank you for your presence, and I ask, God,
that you would draw hearts near to you today.
Father, I ask that you would draw us unto you
and change us, Lord. Help us to walk down to
this altar with the faith that we can stand firm
and with the expectation that you're going to
move. God, we know who you are. You are and we
believe who you are. And we thank you today in
Jesus' name. Amen and amen.