What's up, everybody? Welcome to our first Young Adult Gathering of 2025. And I am so glad that you're here. And hey, you know what? It may be cold outside, but the fire is ablazing here with passion, with excitement. Like, man, I want to celebrate you guys. Everything that the team has told me about your generation is true. It's exceeding the expectations that I had because you guys are on fire for Jesus. You're on fire to coming together in the presence of God and believing that in His presence, things can happen. That in His presence, transformation can happen from the inside out, that miracles can break out, and that you can experience the miraculous in your own life. So man, I am so excited to be here. And if I haven't had a chance to meet you, my name is Sebastian, and I get to serve as our Next Gen Pastor here at Valley Creek. And really what that means is I have the privilege and the honor for dreaming with God and seeking God for your generation. You see, I have the honor and the privilege to dream with God about what it looks like to create environments where you can come and build godly community and relationships in your life, to create environments where you can experience the tangible presence of God in your life, and to create environments where you can experience the things of the kingdom in your life. And I have the privilege of seeking God for you – seeking God for your dreams, for your journey, for the things that are on your heart. And I get to declare truth in your life and over your life. Truth like, you're not who the world says you are; you are who God says you are. And in Jesus, you are a new creation. In Christ Jesus, the old is gone; the new has come. In Jesus, you're a beloved son and a beloved daughter in whom He is well pleased. In Jesus, you are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. In Jesus, you are a chosen people, a holy nation. You are a generation that has been set apart to stoke the embers of revival for the people around you. In Jesus' name, you're a generation that is going to be the one that walks in freedom from anxiety, depression, and fear in your life. You're a generation that can and will live with passion and say, "Apathy, you have no room in my mind. You have no room in my heart. You have no room in my life."

You are a generation that can and will stoke the embers of revival and create ablaze of the fire of God in your generation that is going to draw others unto Jesus so they can experience the same hope that you radiate with. You are that generation. I believe that for you. Man, I am excited to be here. I am so excited to be here. And if you're new, welcome. I'm so glad you're here. And if you haven't been here for a while, I am so excited that you're here with us tonight. And my hope for you is that you would experience all of that every single time we come together. Because at our Young Adult Gatherings, man, we gather to learn what it looks like to become a person of grace, to become a person of presence, and to become a person of kingdom. Every time we come together at a Young Adult Gathering, we are learning what it looks like to become a person of grace, a person of presence, and a person of kingdom. A person of grace, a person who receives the undeserved favor and supernatural empowerment of Jesus in their lives and is ready to release that into the world around them.A person of presence who is passionate about the presence of God and believes that you can experience the manifest presence of God every time we come together as a generation, that you believe that the miracles of God is not just something to hope for. It's something that you can actually experience as a normal Christian life, a person of kingdom, man, who lives by the values of the kingdom of God, who believes that on earth as it is in heaven, it's not just for some day, that it's for today, for the everyday of your life, who believes that, man, the kingdom inside you will become the kingdom around you. We come together at our Young Adult Gatherings to do that, to learn what it looks like to become a person of grace, a person of presence, and a person of kingdom. And it's a place where you can find people in your season of life that are going in the same direction as you are. It's a place where you can build godly community that can spur you on and encourage you to become more like Jesus, and it's a place where you can come together and be transformed by the manifest presence of God every time we come together.

And I don't know about you, but I am looking so forward to what God has in store for us in this new year, in this new season, because you guys have been leaning into every and any invitation that you've been given over this past run. Man, you've been given invitations, and you've leaned into it with your whole heart. You've engaged passionately every time we come together. You are excited to share what God is doing in your life. You build a culture of invitation, and you're bringing people in your life to experience what you get to be a part of. You guys have been doing that, and my hope as we move forward in this year is that we would continue to build upon that. Man, that is now our waterline, and I want to continue to build upon that so that more and more people can experience what we get to be a part of, so they too can experience the grace of Jesus, so they too can experience the presence of God, and so they too can be impacted by the kingdom of God in their lives. Does that sound good as we go on this year?

Awesome man, and my hope is as we start this new year that every single time we come together, you will know that this is a place where you belong, a place that you are known, and a place where you activate your faith and grow. That's what we're going to do every single time we come together, and I'm believing for all of that and so much more, because we are in a very exciting season. Like, we're in a new chapter of the story of Valley Creek, an invitation from God to create a future that doesn't exist, and if you've been with us on the weekends, then you know that God is inviting us in this season to create five things in five years, to create things like a prayer center, a training center in Valley Creek College, things like the Argyle campus, the university campus, and a seven-continent strategy. Like, God is inviting us to create a future that doesn't yet exist, and we are in an amazing season in this part of our lives. And what I want to do is take some time to just talk about the university campus. Like, the university campus is an amazing invitation from the Lord for all of us. He is inviting us to create a university campus.

Like, I don't know if you can catch this. We are creating this for you and all of the yous that are to come. Like, we are creating this for you and all of the yous that are to come, and my guess is some of you guys in this room attend UNT, TWU, or NCTC, or maybe you don't attend currently, but maybe you're an alumni of one of those institutions, or maybe you recently graduated from that season of your life, or maybe you're not so much in that season of your life, and you're dreaming about what the next season of your life may look like, and it really doesn't matter what camp you fall in. Like, we're all a part of this together, and we get to create this future together. Because I don't know if you know this, we have two acres right across the street from the UNT Welcome Center. Like, two acres of property right across the street from the University Welcome Center, right there on the crosshairs of Eagle and Avenue A. It is such a location, and God gave us that property a few years ago, and He's telling us it is now time to go and create a university campus in this time and in this place.

Man, a university campus in a worldly institution has lost sight of Jesus, a worldly institution that's more focused on the things of the world and the things of the kingdom, and if you would just go stand there on that property on any given day where classes are in session, and you would just look out, you would see hundreds, if not thousands, of college students and young adults who are just searching for hope in their lives. They're walking around trying to find the hope of Jesus, and they may not quite know it yet, but man, we are called by God to go create a harbor of hope in that place so that they too can experience the hope of Jesus for themselves. So, man, I am so grateful that God gave us that invitation, because, man, this is a generation that the world has all but given up on, but we're saying no. We're saying we are not giving up on this generation. We are going to go, and we are going to reach you, and we're going to invest in you, and we're going to develop you, and we're going to go put a harbor of hope in that location in Jesus' name so everybody can experience the hope of Jesus.

My question is, can you see it? Like, can you see it? Like, for you in this time, in this place, in this season of your life as a young adult generation, can you see a thriving university campus? Can you see a thriving campus where young adults are passionately pursuing the presence of God, where lives are being transformed by God from the inside out, where a godly community is being built, where the miraculous is something that's just normative in the everyday life that we live, a campus that is changing the culture of a worldly institution from the inside out, a campus that is changing the culture of a worldly institution from the inside out? Can you see it? Like, can you see the future that God is inviting us to create with Him? You see, the future doesn't just happen. The future never actually just happens. It's not a coincidence. It doesn't just appear. Like, we, somebody, we have to go and create the future so that it can actually become a reality, and we have so many young adults that are a part of our church and that are being invited in this season, being called up in this season to say, you know what, I am willing to give my life for something bigger than myself.

I am willing to lay down my preferences, my opinions, and my resources for the good of others and the glory of God to go create a future so that others can experience the hope of Jesus that I get to experience in my life. And it is time for us and for you as a generation to go and serve that entire university area, an entire university area with college students and young adults who are just searching for hope in their lives because you were created to create. And that's what I want you to hear tonight. Like, you were created to create. Like, turn to somebody next to you and say, "You were created to create." All right, turn to the other person this time with some emphasis. Say, you were created to create. Oh, that's so good. Like, come on. You were created in the image and likeness of God, which means you were created to create.

Like, in the very beginning of the Bible, God tells us who He is. In the very beginning of the Bible, it says, "In the beginning, God created." So, in the very beginning of the Bible, God tells us who He is, and He is a creator. So, when God tells us that at the very beginning, He wants us to know that everything that exists exists only because He decided to create it. And if we know that God is love and that God is good, then creativity is an act of love. If God is love and God is good, then creativity is an act of love. And creating things that do not exist is literally an act of love. And if He made you in His image and His likeness, then that means you are what? You are a creator. And you've been called by God to create a future that doesn't exist. And if you've ever wondered, like, why do we do this? Like, why do we come together on the third Tuesday of the month when it's like 35 degrees outside and drizzly? Like, why do we do this? Like, why do we invest the time and the resources to do the things that we do?

Because we want to create a future that doesn't exist. Like, we want to create a future that doesn't exist. And you have a unique invitation to create a university campus. So, what do you want to see created in your life and in your generation? Like, what does God want to do in you and through you? The question that we want to ask is, like, what do you want to see? Can you see it? And that's what we want to focus some of our time on today. See, because what we want to do is we've invited a few of our young adult staffers to share with you what's on their heart, to share with you the things that they are wanting to see created in the name of Jesus, the things that they are declaring, let there be so they can be so. So, they want to share their heart with you. They want to, man, build your faith and inspire you because these are some of the things that they're dreaming about, some of the things that they want to see come to pass. So, I'm excited to hear from them, and I hope you are too. So, let's go ahead and do that.

Well, hey, if we haven't gotten to meet each other, my name's Caleb. I've been here for, like, forever. I'm just so excited. Like, I'm so excited to be a part of this. I'm so excited to be a part of this church, this family. Like, Pastor Sebastian, I want to say, I'm with you heart and soul. Like, I am excited to go and create the future. And so, like, as I was dreaming, like, can I see it? I can see something that's just so much bigger than myself. Like, I started thinking about, like, what do I see? What do I see? I was thinking about, what am I going to experience? But then I realized it's so much bigger than just Caleb. And it's so much bigger than us. It's so much bigger than what's in the room. Like, it's five years of creating the future. And by the end of five years, like, half of us aren't going to be young adults, and every one of us is going to be beyond college age. And so, it's like, but imagine, like, the generations to come. Like, I can see the eight-year-old who's going to be at the university campus one day. Like, I can see the middle schooler who's going to be a part of Valley Creek College one day. Like, be a part of the university campus. Like, I can see the high school students right now. Literally, they're flocking in.

Like, if you didn't know, if you're not here on a Wednesday night, we have high school students who are swarming in, like, because of God moving in their life. I see God preparing the university campus to go and be launched. Because, like, literally, by the end of the five years, they're all going to be in the university. Like, I can just see generations to come. Literally, I was here at Valley Creek. We were praying during worship, and I just remembered I'm here because of young adults investing in me. They saw a future for me that I couldn't actually see for myself. There was a young adult who said, "Caleb, you're a leader." I was definitely not a leader at the time. And, like, they said I was a leader, and I started leading because of that. I was definitely not equipped to do it, but because they saw something in me, I got to go and be a part of something bigger than myself. There was a young adult who said, "Caleb, you're supposed to do VCLA." And I was like, "No way. Like, I am going to go off to college. I'm going to get as far away from here as possible." But they saw something. They could see it for me, and I couldn't see it for myself. And there was a young adult who said, "Caleb, you're going to be on staff one day."I was like, "No way. I'm never going to work at a church." And they saw something in me that I couldn't see in myself. And so, really, it was, like, generations to come. But, man, I can see something that is just so much greater than myself. It was all literally young adults. We're all young adults. I think we don't give ourselves credit, like, how much influence we have over the generations to come. Like, how much this room can literally do. Like, what we can speak into existence by just believing in someone else. And so, I can see something that is just so much greater than us, so much greater than our generation. Like, can you see the eight-year-old? Can you see, like, the high schooler who's going to be a part of the university campus? Like, that we get to go and create that so that by the time they graduate, they have this healthy, thriving campus that they get to be a part of. Like, I was thinking about it, that early church in the book of Acts, like Acts 2. Jesus was 30 years old. So, all of his disciples were probably young adults. Like, literally, the 12 guys who followed him around were probably young adults. And so, the Acts 2 church, the one that literally created the whole movement that we're a part of today, was created by young adults.

Like, can you see it? Like, literally, could you see, like, us, just like the Acts 2 church, if 12 of them created this, or, I mean, like, 11 of them created this, that we're a part of? Like, imagine what this room can create. Like, imagine with the influence that we have, with the abilities that we've been given, with the time. Like, we're probably more flexible in our time than we'll ever be in our life. Like, so we have some time on our hands. Like, imagine what we could create if Acts 2, if, like, the disciples created a movement that we are a part of 2,000 years later. Imagine what we could create. Like, we can create a campus that's going to be around until Jesus comes back. Like, literally, think about it. We could literally go and launch a campus that's going to be around until Jesus comes back. I can see, like, literally, students who are going to walk by and just feel the presence of God in that place because we're filled with the Holy Spirit. Like, I could see. I was looking, "Oh, it's not up there, the green." But, like, I could see the green. Valley Creek Green is so much closer to UNT Green than almost anything else. I could see, like. Literally, people walking down the street and seeing that and thinking it's a UNT building and walking inside and getting to experience the hope of Jesus.

Because, like, we are a part of it because we said yes. And so, man, I can see it. It's just so much bigger than us. Like, I'm willing. I just want to say, like, I'm with you guys heart and soul. Like, I want my life to count. I know that maybe one day I won't be at the university campus, but I want to create a future for someone else who can. Like, can you see it is so much bigger than ourselves? It's so much bigger, so much greater. Like, it's going to literally be around for generations to come. And so, Valley Creek Young Adults, I just want to ask you, like, can you see it? Can you see something that's bigger than yourself? Because, man, I can see it. I'm so excited for it.

Hi, I'm Karrie. Actually, before I get to share a little bit, I would love to ask all of you guys a question. Just personally, I just kind of want to know if you'll go ahead and raise your hand if you have ever gone to UNT, TWU, or NCTC. Go ahead and raise your hand just really high. Oh, my gosh. Okay. All right. Go ahead and put them down. Thank you. I wish I had a really cool answer about, like, telling you why I asked that question. But I think I just, we kind of wanted to know the demographic in the room. And so, tonight, I kind of want to do something a little bit different than I've ever done before. And I would love to get to share my story with you guys. So, that's cool. Like a lot of you in this room, I was a student. I graduated from the University of North Texas. Go Mean Green. Love that place. And so, man, whenever I was an undergrad, my first couple of years at UNT, I was like, in it, you know? I was, like, fully, fully in it. If you had asked me at that point in my life, I would have told you that I don't believe in God.

If you had pressed, I actually probably would have told you that if I did believe in God, I would say that He wasn't very good. And if you would have asked further, I would have told you that, okay, maybe He is, but, like, I have too many questions, and I don't know who to ask. And I have so many more doubts, and I don't know who to express them to. I felt all of that way. And so, instead of going and seeking answers with the people of God, I went further into the world. I got to a point in my life where, man, I was entrenched in the world. I was thinking the world's thoughts. I was speaking the world's words, and I was living this life of, like, pretty insane selfishness. That was until my senior year of college, whenever I was invited to Valley Creek. And, spoiler, it changed my life. Man, when I first arrived here at this Harbor of Hope at the Denton campus, I was a 21-year-old college kid that was very lost and very lonely and very broken.

That was until I came into this room, like, literally the very room that we are in, and I encountered the presence of God and worship. And then I received the hope of Jesus, and He changed my life. He met me exactly where I was at. My entire life changed, like, right there on the spot. Like, when I close my eyes, I can see it. And so, I kind of just want to ask, like, man, can you see it for yourself in your own life? Like, that moment, whatever that moment was for you, the moment when, like, everything changed, can you see it? And if you haven't had that moment, I actually wasn't supposed to do that. I would love to talk to you after. Come find me after. But, like, I mean, like, for you, for that moment for you, like, can you see it? For me, that moment changed everything in my life, and then in, like, the weirdest and very best turn of events, about over a year later, just over a year later, I would actually join staff here at Valley Creek. I would go move to a town that I had never heard of, and I would go launch a brand-new campus in the way of a missional move just because I'm pretty sure that God told me to.

So, I just wanted to go try it out. And so, man, when I hear the phrase, when I hear the words missional move, it means everything to me. It means everything to me because I gave my life to it. And then when I hear the words Valley Creek University Campus, that means everything to me because I didn't live it, and I needed it. And so, man, like, can you see it? Can you see lots of 21-year-old Carries, maybe 18-year-old Yous, 20-year-old Yous? Like, can you see them walking around? Man, six years ago, when I came into this harbor of hope, my life changed. Like, can you see it? Can you see a harbor of hope literally across from the UNT Welcome Center, where literally thousands of students walk by every single day, and they can actually just go into the university campus? Like, can you see it?Can you see a place where they don't have to wander around aimlessly for years because there's literally a Harbor of Hope in their backyard? Like, can you see it? A place where they can come in, and they can get their questions answered, and they can express those doubts in a safe environment with people that love them and want the best for them in their lives. Like, can you see it? I don't know. I can see it. I don't know if you can tell, but I can see it. Man, I love UNT so, so deeply, but, man, there is like just a kingdom of darkness. It's a dark place in there right now, but, man, when I see it, I see the kingdom of heaven pushing through. Like, I literally see the presence of God resting on that place, in that building, in those students, and in you who are going to go do this. So, that being said, like, man, a missional move, this UNT, this university campus. I'm going to speak real boldly. I'm going to take a page after Pastor John this weekend. It literally doesn't happen without you, and I say you in the way. I say you as in us.

You, as in you and I. You, as in young adults of Valley Creek. University campus does not happen without the young adults of Valley Creek. And so, man, I hope that you hear my heart for that, but then mostly, like, I'm actually not here to share with you about how I gave the last five years of my life to missional move, and it's changed my life, and it's bigger and better than you could ever even dream. I'd love to tell you about it, but that's actually kind of not even what I'm speaking out of today. I'm here to speak to you as a 21-year-old, lost, lonely, and broken college student who really, really needed the hope of Jesus. So, man, can you see it? You were created to create the future. Can you see what a missional move, what the breakthrough in your life is when you go do that? Can you see what it will do? Can you see what a university campus is going to do in the lives of thousands of college students? You were created to create the future. You were created to do it with God. So, can you see it?

Man, I just speak over this room. There's already another Karrie right in this room right now. Like, genuinely, come on, guys. God is doing something powerful and mighty through our church, and here's what I wanted to say that was on my heart. This is not so much just going to be about creativity. This is a journey for us as a group of young adults to discover. Will we become people of love? Like, really, I think this room actually is probably perhaps the most creative room that we could gather at Valley Creek. I think you guys have some of the most creative talents and arts and abilities and skills and potential. The question is, do we really want to become people of love? And so, as I asked the Lord, I was like, "Okay, you know, what do you want to show me? What can I see?" And it's amazing. If you don't know how to see things, just ask the Holy Spirit. Take some time. Actually, go to UNT and actually ask the Holy Spirit, "What do you want me to see?" So, can I just share with you? Some of them are very specific and weird, but can I just share with you?

Like, this is what. It's like practicing listening to the Holy Spirit because He really highlighted us becoming people of love. And so, you know what He highlighted? He highlighted things like, "There are people in this room that have identified themselves as introverts their entire lives, and by creating the future for someone else, you're actually going to invite dozens of people to come and experience the hope of Jesus at the university campus." He literally showed me that someone in this room is going to baptize, not like two people, but like 20 people that have never declared, Jesus is Lord, and I actually want to follow Him, and you've never baptized anyone in your life, but you're going to because you're creating a future that doesn't exist. And God's going to do something in you just as much as He wants to do something through you. And so, man, every time I kept praying about this, and then I literally just saw the Holy Spirit be like, "We're going to become the kind of people that it's not going to require. We're going to be sitting in the university union." So, I'm a former UNT alumni as well.

We're going to be like, "This is literally the picture the Holy Spirit gave me. We're going to be sitting in the university union, and we will no longer be the kinds of people that have to wait for this really radical word from the Holy Spirit to go sit by that one student that's sitting by themselves." We won't have to wait for that. We'll just go do it naturally and effortlessly because we've been becoming the kind of people that just notice lost, lonely, and broken people, and we're just becoming the kind of people that walk up and say, "Hi, my name is Eric. What's your name?" And it was so simple pictures like that, but it's because I really believe that the Holy Spirit wants us to become people of love, and He cares so much about who we're becoming, not just who we're going to reach, all the stories we're going to see. He cares so much about you and me and who we're going to become, the kinds of dads we're going to become as we create a future for other people, the kind of moms and husbands and wives we're going to become as we create the future for others.

So, here's my question. Can you see us? Can you see you and us saying, "I'm not there yet, but I want to go on a journey of becoming a person of love. Can you see us?"I'm so grateful for these guys. I mean, they're sharing their heart, and those are the things that they see. They see something that's bigger than ourselves that we can give our lives to. They see those young adults, those college students who are just searching for hope, and they see us, seeing you becoming a people of love. That's what they can see. My question for you is, what do you see? Like, can you see those things? Like the future that God has before you, the future that he's inviting you to create with Him for the good of others in the glory of God. Like, can you see it? Do you have the eyes to see those things for yourself? See, there's a story in the Bible that I think represents and illustrates the invitation that we have before us, and it's the story of Joshua leading the people of God into the promised land. And in this part of the story, Joshua is a next-generation leader. He was a next-generation leader under Moses, and he is tasked with moving the people of God into the promised land. He's standing on the shore of the Jordan River, and he's having this conversation, this dialogue with God. He's like, "God, what do I do next?"And God says, "Hey, all right, Joshua, here's what I want you to do. I want you to choose 12 people, one from each tribe, so the leaders who are carrying the ark of God to set foot into the water, and as they do that, the waters will part, and you can cross through. So, this story is really unique, because in the previous story, in the previous generation, like, Moses led the people to the shore of the Red Sea and God parted the waters, and then they walked through. But in this story, it was the leaders. It was the next-generation leaders that were required to set foot in the river before the waters parted. See, they didn't have the luxury of sitting back and waiting back. He's like, "No, no, no, you are the next-generation leaders. You're the ones that are going to go and set foot in this river to create the movement, to create the future that doesn't yet exist, so that the people, my people, can go into the promised land." You see, the generation before them, the generation of Moses, saw a miracle before their eyes. But the generation of Joshua, the next-generation leaders, they got to be a part of the miracle.

They got to be a part of the miracle by actually taking a step into the water. So, man, my generation has gotten to see a lot of miracles. Your generation gets to be a part of miracles. Can you see that? Like, can you see that being a reality in your life? Like, what if you become those leaders that set foot in the water, that set foot on that land, and say, "You know what? I'm taking the initiative. I'm going first to create a future that doesn't exist so that the millions of people that are coming behind me can set foot into freedom, can set foot into their promised land with God." What if you became those people? What if, as a generation, you take hold of your created calling by faith and use the power and authority of your words to declare, "Let there be, and it will be so, and it will be good." What if you take the authority that God has given you with your words? Your words have the power to create. Your words have the power to call things forth that are not as though they are. And declare out loud, "Let there be, in Jesus' name."

What if you are that generation that God is waiting to rise up so that you can accept that invitation to not just watch a miracle happen in front of you, but to be a part of the revival that's about to happen in the name of Jesus? What if you were that people? What if you were that generation that is waiting and just to declare, "Let there be, so it can be so."? Like, God is waiting for somebody to rise up. He is waiting for a generation to say, "Send me. I will go create a future that doesn't exist for the good of others and the glory of God." I'm getting choked up. I'm so excited. Like, come on, it's time to move forward. It's time to create. It's time for this generation of young adults to declare, "Let there be, and it will be so, and it will be very good." So, here's what I want to invite us to do. The worship team is going to come back up, and they're going to get set, and as they're doing that, I want to invite you to close your eyes with me. I want to invite you to close your eyes. I want you to take a deep breath.

Take one more. I want you to picture yourself on the property of the university campus, right across the street from the Welcome Center. What's it like? What can you see? What do you sense around you? As you're standing there on that property, can you picture the thousands of students that are walking by? They're walking up and down Eagle Drive. They're walking on Avenue A. What are they like? Can you see their faces?What are they searching for? Can you hear the conversations they're having? What are the questions they're asking? What are the things that they're talking about? Can you picture the professors and administrators going in and out of the buildings? Like, what are they hoping for? What is the desire of their hearts for that institution? What did they want to see come to pass? Like, can you see it? And really, a better question is, can you see them? Can you see them? I want to invite you. You can open your eyes now. So, what did you see?

See, now that we've seen the future that God has invited us to create, we now get to step into the authority to declare, "Let there be, so it will be so. Your words have power. Your words have authority to create a future. So, we're going to step into that tonight as a generation of young adults, and we're going to declare, "Let there be, so it can be so." So, what are those things that you saw as you were picturing that? As you were picturing yourself on the property of the university campus, seeing the faces of the thousands of young adults who were searching for the hope of Jesus. What do you want to declare let there be, so it can be so in their life, in their reality, in their circumstances? What do you want to declare let there be, for that institution? What culture do we want to see be a reality at the University of North Texas, at TWU and at NCTC? What do we want to see the culture of the young adults that we're reaching going to be like? What are those things that you want to see created in your generation?

I want you to think back to those things, and then in a moment, what I'm going to invite you to do is to stand up and get in groups of three to four to five. And in a moment, we're going to, by faith, declare out loud those things that we want to say, "Let there be." And we're going to believe by faith that as we do, we're creating a future that doesn't yet exist. We're calling things into existence, the things that are not as though they are. We're believing that on earth as it is in heaven is for the here and the now, not just for the then and the there, so we're believing for all of that. This is an atmosphere of faith, and that's our invitation for tonight. Your words have power. The Holy Spirit's already stirring in you those things that you want to declare out loud. So, in a moment, we're going to get in groups of threes or fours, and we're going to do that. And we're going to declare out loud, "Let there be," and then you're going to finish that statement, and then once you do that for a few minutes and you feel like you've declared out the things that you want to see created in the future, I want you to take a moment and then ask the Holy Spirit, and ask the Holy Spirit, "Show me more." Show me more things that we want to create as a generation.

Show me more things that we want to see in the future ahead of us. Come on, let your words take back the ground that the world is taking. Let's reclaim that in the name of Jesus. The best way to create the future that you desire is to create a future for somebody else, and that starts with our words. That starts with our declarations, so let's go ahead and stand up, get in groups of threes or fours, and let's declare out loud, "Let there be," and then the worship team is going to help us respond in a moment.