Jesus, move my heart. Jesus, move our hearts. In fact, will you just say that with me? And we say, Jesus, move my heart. Now let's say it for all of us. Jesus, move our hearts. Jesus, move our hearts. Move my heart. Search me, O God, and know my heart. See where there is offensive and anxious ways and lead me in the way of everlasting life. Create in me a pure heart. Oh God, my heart says of You, seek His face. So heart, move and seek His face in Jesus' name.

You see, we stand on the doorstep of Easter, and we look to Jesus, and we look to the cross. And so I just invite you today to just let your heart be moved to Jesus. Whatever you desire, whatever you need, whatever you want. It's found in Jesus, and it's found in the cross. If you will just let your heart be moved towards him. Maybe you're here and you just need some forgiveness today for where you've been and what you've done and what's going on in your life. Well, let your heart be moved to the cross because at the cross, He forgives all of your sins and gets rid of all of your wickedness. As far as the east is from the west, so far as He removed your transgressions from you. Maybe you're here today and you've been hurt by somebody else. You're carrying wounds and offenses and bitterness and you need that spirit of forgiveness. Well, let your heart be moved to the cross where the spirit of forgiveness was poured out when Jesus said, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. Maybe today you need some healing. Healing in your life, healing in your body, healing in your soul. Well, on the cross, not only did He forgive all of your sins, He healed all of your diseases, and by His stripes, you have been healed. Maybe today you need grace. Move to the cross where His grace is sufficient for you. Maybe you need provision. It's at the cross where He says, oh, my God will meet all of your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus. Maybe you need faith. He is the author and perfecter of your faith. Maybe you need hope. His name is the living hope. Maybe you need love. He has drawn you with an everlasting loving kindness. Maybe you need wisdom. Jesus has become for us the very wisdom of God. Maybe you're hungry. He is the bread of life. Maybe your soul is thirsty. He is for you springs of living water. Maybe you need to know which way to go. Well, He is the way, the truth, and the life. He is everything you need and everything you want. And the Scriptures tell us that He who did not spare His own son, how will He not along with Him give us all things? In other words, if He gave you Jesus, won't He give you everything else? Won't He give you everything else? So maybe you're in your own way. Just let your heart be moved to the cross. Just let your heart be moved to Jesus.

Because it's at the cross and it's at the name of Jesus where all your desires and all of your needs and all of your wants and all of your brokenness and all of your pain and all of your issues our resolved salvation, which means to be saved, to be healed, to be made whole, to be set free, to be delivered, and to have shalom, the comprehensive flourishing of the goodness of God upon every area of your life. So maybe just open up your hands like this and just say, Jesus, move my heart. Jesus, we give you freedom and permission to move our hearts towards you today. Thank you for your life. Thank you for the cross. Thank you for who you are. Thank you that you are here and you are real and you are good. And right now, by faith, we're receiving all that you did and all that you said and all that you are and all that you offer. In the name of Jesus, we pray. And everybody said, amen. Amen.

Why don't you go ahead and grab your seat, whatever campus you're at. And let me once again welcome you to Valley Creek. I am so glad you are here with us today. I hope you and your family had a great spring break. Across our region, the spring breaks were scattered over a bunch of different weeks. And I hope you had a time to rest, some shalom, some selah, some rest, some peace, some flourishing, because you have a good life. No, let me strike that. You have a great life in Jesus' name. And I hope you had a chance to take a breath. And here we are. We are on the precipice of Easter, which is next week. I don't know how it's already Easter this year is flying by. We've spent much of this year in a conversation on fueling the fire together. Just talking about the fire of God, His presence, His power, and His purity among us. And we're going to pick that up the week after Easter. In fact, let me just tell you, here's what these next four weeks look like. Today, we're preparing for Easter. Next week is Easter, self-explanatory. The week after that, we'll get back into fueling the fire, and we're going to have water baptisms for anybody that wants to do that. And then the week after that, we're going to talk about being baptized in the Spirit, and then we're going to kind of take fuel the fire all the way to Memorial Day. And all I want us to do today is just prepare our hearts for Easter and that which is coming. See, today is Palm Sunday. Today is the week before the cross when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, a humble servant king, to lay down His life for humanity. And as He began to ride into the city, the people noticed Him and they cut off palm branches and they took off their cloaks and they laid it on the ground and they prepared a way for Jesus to come and they just said Hosanna in the highest blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord and they worshipped Him and they honored Him and they welcomed Him in humility and what I love about that is it is a great reminder that Jesus still comes where he's wanted and he's welcomed. He still rides into the lives of people who will humble themselves and prepare the way for the Lord. He rides into homes and families and work and school and churches and cities of people who will take themselves off, lay it down and say, we have prepared the way for the Lord. Come, Lord Jesus, come to this life, to this home, to this family, to this business, to this school, to this church, to this city, to this nation, to this world. Come, humble king. We welcome you with praise. And He rode into Jerusalem to celebrate Passover, the ancient Jewish festival where the Jews would remember, the Israelites, what they would do is they would celebrate to remember that God set them free from 400 years of Egyptian slavery. They took a lamb and God told them to kill it and take blood and put it on the doorposts of their house. And death passed over and God defeated Pharaoh, the king of darkness, set them free and took them to the promised land, which was a prophetic picture of what Jesus was going to come to do. And as He was preparing to have that meal with His disciples, He took off His outer garment and He got down on His knees and He washed the feet of His disciples. He washed the betraying, sinful, broken, dirty feet of His disciples. And when He is done, He looked at them and He said, now that I, your Lord and teacher, have washed your feet, you must wash one another's feet. And He goes on to give maybe the second greatest discourse of all time, second only maybe to the Sermon on the Mount. And you can read it in John 13 through 17. And He talks to them about being servants.

And He talks to them about becoming people of love. And He talks to them about the coming Holy Spirit, the counselor, the comforter, the guide who would be with them forever. And He talks to them about life abiding in Christ. And He talks to them about pursuing unity with one another above all things that we would show the world that He is God. And He talks to them about finding once and for all union with God forever. This profound discourse. And when He was done, He took the bread and He broke it and He said, this is my body which is broken for you. As often as you do this, do this in remembrance of me. And then He took the cup, and He said, this is the cup of the new covenant, my blood which is going to be poured out for you. as often as you do this, do this in remembrance of me. And He reminds us that we're not supposed to remember ourselves. We're not supposed to remember our pain. We're not supposed to remember our sin. We're not supposed to remember our brokenness. We're not supposed to remember our achievements and our significance and our success and where we've been and what we've done and what's been done to us. No, we're supposed to remember Him and who He is and what He has done and what He offers and then He was betrayed, and He was arrested, and He was accused, and He was condemned. And then they beat him, and they whipped him. They mocked him. They scorned him. They spit on him. They persecuted him, and He did not say a word. And then they nailed Him to a cross. And for hours, He hung on that cross, dying a sinner's death. Slowly but surely, one breath at a time, God made him, who knew no sin, to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. And He breathed His last breath, He gave up His spirit, and He died. and it seemed like all hope was gone. But then three days later, Jesus rose again from the grave and for the next 40 days, He appeared to different people and engaged with them to show them that He was alive. And every person that had an encounter with the resurrected Jesus, everything about their life changed. The moment they encountered Jesus, Hope was restored, fire was lit, and mission was ignited. In fact, do you remember the story of the two guys on the road to Emmaus? We've looked at this spring together. And after the resurrected Jesus appears to them, they say, were not our hearts burning within us? The fire was lit. While He talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us, they got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the eleven and those with them saying, It is true, the Lord has risen. The resurrected Jesus appears to them, sets their heart on fire, and the first thing they do is go on mission to tell everyone else that Jesus is alive. And you see this pattern over and over and over again with the people who have an encounter with the resurrected Jesus. Mary encounters Jesus. First thing she does is go and tell the disciples. the disciples have an encounter with Jesus. First thing they do is go and tell Doubting Thomas that Jesus is alive. You see this pattern over and over and over again. People who have encountered the resurrected Jesus can't help but go tell other people of who He is and what He has done. In fact, the primary thing that the resurrected Jesus speaks to humanity about, the primary thing that we see recorded, The red words of Jesus in your Bible after He has resurrected from the grave is about mission. Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you, and surely I will be with you always. As the Father has sent me, so now I send you. Go and feed my sheep. but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you will be my witnesses to Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. It's like the primary thing the resurrected Jesus is telling His people is, hey, I'm alive, go tell everyone else about who I am and what I have done, that the kingdom of heaven is here and available to any and everyone who wants it. The resurrected Jesus sets a fire in your soul and the evidence of that fire is missional living. Mission is the natural and normative response to the fire of God inside of you. Why? Because that fire is not for you and it's not for me, it's for them. It's for a lost, lonely, broken, cold, dying world. And we have the light, we have the warmth, we have the comfort, we have the power, we have the authority, and our job is to spread it, is to share it. This is why Jesus says things like, let your light, your fire shine before men that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven. Don't hide it under a bowl. No, don't put it in a closet. Don't pack it away. No, he's lit a fire in your soul so that other people may praise Him as well. Or how about when it says, you are children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved, dark, warp, lonely, lost generation in which you shine like stars. Why do you shine? Because the fire of God is within you and you are to hold out the Word of life, Jesus, who He is and what He has done. Or how about this part of the passage that all of our leaders are memorizing this semester? Paul says, this is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven and of which I, Paul, have become a servant. Can I just tell you something? When you hear the gospel, you become a servant of it. In the Bible, the word hear always means to believe and obey. We think hear just means hearing with your physical ears. No, when the Bible says you've heard something, it means you believe it, you obey it. So when you have heard the gospel, when you believe it, when you obey it, you become a servant of it. It now is shaping and molding and forming your life and you now are the ambassador, the representative. You are a minister of reconciliation. God has now entrusted you with His gospel, with His name, with His kingdom, with His Word. And He says, now take that fire that I've lit inside of you and go spread it with humanity.

See, mission is a really, really big deal to God. So it has to be a really, really big deal to us. In fact, in Luke chapter 15, Jesus tells three great parables of lost things. He's hanging out with sinners and tax collectors, people who are trying to figure out who God is. They're not living right, but they've got this divine stirring. They know there's something more. They're hungry, they're thirsty, and something in the fire of Jesus is attracting them in. And while he's hanging out with them, the Pharisees, the religious leaders, they're offended by who Jesus is hanging out with. So He just tells them three little stories, about three lost things. He says, there was a shepherd who had a hundred sheep. And one of those sheep wandered off, and that shepherd left the 99 behind to go get the one. And when He found it, he rejoiced, picked it up, put it on his shoulders and brought it back and called all his friends to come and rejoice with him that he found his lost sheep. He then went on to say there was a woman who had 10 coins and she lost one of them in her house. And when she realized it was gone, she lit a lamp and searched the whole house until she found that coin. And when she found it, she called all her friends and say, come rejoice with me. I have found what I've treasured. And it is no longer lost. And then He tells a story about a father who lost two sons. One to the world and one to religion. And the father left his home, left his life, left his routine to go out and bring his sons home. And when they came back home, he threw a great party. And He tells us that story as a way to remind us that all of God came for all of us. All of God came for all of you. See the shepherd represents God the son. The woman with the lamp, the fire represents God the spirit. And the father represents God the father. So God the son, God the spirit, God the father. All of God came for all of you. Which means all of God came for all of them. And if we've now been sent like Jesus has been sent, that means now all of us have to go for all of them. See, for the shepherd to go get his sheep, what did he have to do? He had to leave behind that which he loved, the 99 sheep, to go get the one that was lost. For the woman to get her one lost coin, what did she have to do? She had to leave behind that which she treasured, her coins, to go find the one that was lost. And for the father to go get his sons and bring them home, He had to leave his life, his home, and his routine. And if you and I are gonna live on mission and be the people God has called us to be, then we're gonna have to leave things we love, things we treasure, and the life and the routine that we've built to go get those lost things to bring them back home. In fact, do you know that when you and I live on mission, we actually bring joy to God?

I want you to just think about this with me for a second. When you live on mission and you bring people to him, you actually change the atmosphere, the environment, the emotional reality that is taking place in heaven. You say, where do you get that from? Well, in that story in Luke 15, when Jesus says, I tell you that in the same way, there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 righteous persons who do not need to repent. When you bring one person to Jesus, God, the most joyous being in the universe, rejoices. Somehow, when we live on mission, we bring joy to the most joyous being in the universe. Somehow, we bring joy to the one in whom presence is fullness of joy. Somehow we bring joy to the one who the Lord, the joy of the Lord is our strength. Somehow we bring joy to the one who restores to us the joy of salvation. Somehow we bring joy to the one whose fruit of His spirit is joy. We often pray your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven because heaven influences earth. There are very few things where earth influences heaven. This is one of them. Where what we do and how we live actually releases joy, celebration, a party in heaven because we went and found that which He loves, that which He treasures, and His sons and daughters of which He is willing to do whatever it takes to bring them home. And sometimes we actually have to just even stop and ask ourselves, like, what is our motive for being on mission? Like, if you've been in church for a while, you kind of know, sometimes we feel guilty, like, oh, I should do it, but I don't really wanna do it. What would people think? Like, what's your motive of even trying to bring people to Jesus anyways? Well, I think sometimes a really bad motive for us is we just think, well, it would be great if people got saved, they'd just stop sinning so much and the world would just be a better place. Like, everybody should just be a Christian. Okay. You go a little deeper and then sometimes I think, hey, I wanna see this person get saved because it'll make my life better. If my wife gets saved, my life gets better. If my husband gets saved, my life gets better. If my parents, if my children, if my boss, if my coworkers, if my coach, oh, do you know how great my life would be? A little deeper than that is I want them to get saved because their life will be great. and they can have an abundant life, an eternal life, a full life. But you know what's even deeper than that is? I wanna live on mission so I can bring joy to him. I wanna live on mission because I wanna make heaven rejoice. Remember, God isn't in heaven. Heaven is in God. In him, all things hold together. So heaven isn't this place where God resides. No, heaven is actually contained in God. So when all of heaven rejoices, that means God is rejoicing. I wanna live on mission because I can actually bring joy to the most joyous being in the universe. That's a little different, isn't it? And this is why it says, the disciples say, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard. When you've experienced and encountered the resurrected Jesus, when your soul is on fire, You can't help but share it, but spread it, but offer it, but pass it on to those around you.

And so as we stand on the precipice of Easter, next week is Easter, we all know it. You'll see all the signs everywhere, all the things, all the dresses, all the stuff, all the things, right? Okay, but just stop for a second and ask yourself this question. As we stand on the precipice of Easter, there is something about the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus that creates a divine stirring within humanity at this time every year. The blood of Jesus speaks is what Hebrews tells us. And the blood of Jesus is the loudest voice in the universe. It is constantly inviting people to come back home. So people are stirred and moved differently at Easter than the rest of the year. And what Easter reminds you and I is we should be living on mission all year and it helps us kind of practice our missional gears and get going because people are more open and receptive to a holiday. Holiday, holy day. It is a holy day that something in the spiritual realm is moving and drawing people towards Jesus. So what if, what if, the way we prepared for Easter as a church, what if the way that we brought joy to God this Easter, what if the way that we worshipped and honored Him is just if every one of us invites one person to Easter next week? Not like 50 people, not like five people, not like, just one. Just one. In fact, when you came in, you got one of these invite cards. Will you just pull it out with me for a second? Here's what I wanna ask you to do. Would you just consider by faith writing down the name of one person that you think God's putting on your heart to invite? You might be here and you might be like, bro, this is all new to me. I don't know anybody. Well, listen, I'm believing that you have access to people that no one else in this room has access to. And what if for such a time as this, God has put you in the life of that person, that coworker, that friend, that spouse, that teammate, that parent, that neighbor, like what just one person's name. And you don't actually have to hand them this. I just want by faith for you to see an actual name, a soul, a spirit, somebody that if you invite God, there is a sense of, or if you invite them to God, there is a sense of rejoicing in heaven because by faith you were willing to share your fire. What if every one of us actually just invites one person? That's all, just one person. And what this really does is it's a practice for how we should be living our life as a, we can't help but tell about what we have seen and heard. And here's how you do it. Some of you are like, I don't know how to do it. Here's how you do it. You just say, Hey, what are you doing for Easter? And when they say nothing or they ramble or whatever, I didn't even know Easter was going to whatever you say hey would you come to church with me for Easter there'll be a few worship songs and we can sit together and then there'll be about a 30 minute message on the seven statements of the cross the final words of Jesus and why they have any bearing on our life today and I just really think you would enjoy it or you say to somebody hey what are you doing next Sunday and they're like oh nothing be like hey would you would you come to church with me? It's Easter and God's really been moving. And I don't know how to explain it, but there's this stirring that's been happening in my soul and God's been changing my life. And I, I think you'd really enjoy it. Would you just, would you come with me? Or how about this? Hey, we've been friends for a long time, haven't we? Can I ask you for a favor? If you've been friends with them for a long time, they're going to say yes already. Would you come to church with me for Easter? Here's why. God's moving, and I think you would really enjoy it, and I think He has something great for you. And I know that divorce has been really, really hard, and I know that brokenness with your child has been really, really hard, and I know that sickness has been really, really hard, and I know you can't stand your job in this season. I know this season of singleness or empty nesting has been really, really hard. I know how much you're struggling with this decision that you need to make, and we keep talking about it, and I'm just believing that God has something great for you. Would you come, not for you, but would you come for me? And you say, well, what if they say no, but what if they say yes? And you say, well, what if they come here and they don't meet with God, but what if they do come here and they do meet with God? Like, what if we just think about it slightly different? And this isn't about getting people to church. Who cares about that? You've been here long enough to hear me say lots of things about that nonsense. This is about helping people discover the good news that the kingdom of heaven is available through the life, death, and burial and resurrection of Jesus and only Jesus. This is a spiritual reality, which is why it says the God of this age has blinded the mind of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel. In other words, Satan has blinded the minds of the world and they can't see. But God has put a fire in your soul. And what does fire do? It brings light. And when you walk into their life with some energy, with some enthusiasm, with some confidence, with some spirit, and you walk in and you offer that light, their eyes open and they begin to see, maybe foggy, maybe cloudy, maybe veiled, but they start to see Jesus. and it opens up and it will change their life.

See, here's what you have to understand. Once you have met Jesus, you now live on this side of the cross. You live in the resurrection. The hope of glory is inside of you. The fire of God is within you. You've been filled with the spirit. You have a new identity, a new relationship, a new purpose. You live in the resurrection. Your friends, your neighbors, your coworkers, the city, they live on this side of the cross. They're lost, lonely, and broken. They're lost. They don't know who they are, where they are, or where they're going, how they got there, and what their life is about. They're lonely. They're without God and without hope in this world, and they are broken. Satan has stolen, killed, and destroyed every area of their life. They are on this side of the cross. You are on this side of the cross, and Jesus has now asked you to go and get them and bring them through the door, through the way, through the narrow gate that leads to an ever-widening life. He's made you ministers of reconciliation. He's made you ambassadors of the message of the gospel of Jesus. And so, I don't know. I think we as a church, I think we're on the edge of a missional awakening. I think the whole point of fire and all the deepening that we've been done over these last few years is not about us. It's really about what God's purpose is in this earth. I think we're on this missional awakening edge where we're gonna wake up and be hope carriers and ordinary people living with the spirit of invitation and regular people going into their daily life with confidence and boldness to basically say, like, I'm gonna tell you about Jesus. And if you're not interested in that and you reject me, you insult me, that's okay. The Bible says I get a blessing when that happens and I bring joy to God because I'm living on mission with him. And I believe I'm here for such a time as this and it's not to enjoy my own life and it's not for the lust of the eyes, the cravings of the flesh and the pride of life. Like I'm a part of something that matters, a movement of hope. God has given me breath and lungs and life. So in Jesus' name, may a missional awakening take place in our church. Because if you just look at the people you surround yourself with every day in your daily life, they are hurting, they are broken. They are lost. I was sitting at one of my kids' games this week and I was sitting there and I was listening to all the parents and I honestly, I just got emotional. They're teary. Because I just saw the pain in all these people and the conversations and the things they were talking about and yelling about and fighting about. And I was like, they need Jesus. And so he's given them you so they can find Jesus. Because for some reason, God has decided the best way to see His kingdom come and His will be done is through you and me. So, one person. One person. That's fair, right? Just one. Just one. Faith and humility and action. This is fueling your fire. In fact, what it's actually doing is taking a coal out of your fire and offering it to someone else so the fire can get larger. One person. and so here's what I want us to do as we kind of take the rest of our time together. I just want us to take a few minutes and I just want us to pray. I just want us to pray. I want us to pray for what God wants to do. Jesus says, pray, ask, seek, knock. Jesus says, pray for the lost, pray for the harvest, intercede for those who can't pray for himself and He says that His house will be called a house of prayer. I am His house, you are His house and we are His house and so one of the greatest ways to honor Jesus as we go into the cross is being men and women of obedience, men and women of faith who live like we're actually on the other side of the cross, like His death, burial, and resurrection has actually changed us and made us a new creation with a desire to now align with His will and His heart and so He says, my house will be called a house of prayer. Then let's let His house be a house of prayer and for the next few minutes, here's what I'm gonna invite you in a second, I'm gonna invite you to stand up. You can find two or three people, you can stay by yourself, you can come down to the front, you can go out into the aisles, whatever campus you're at, I really don't care. We're gonna pray through six things together. They're gonna go fast, but here's what I'm gonna actually ask you to do. Pray with your mouth. Don't pray in your heart, don't pray in your mind. Pray with your mouth as a sign of faith that your tongue has the power of life and death, that God has given you the ability to say, let there be in Jesus' name. All you're doing is saying to God, you're talking to God about the desires in your heart and this life you're living together and all mission always starts with prayer. So I'm gonna invite you to pray like their life depends on it because it does. I want you to pray like you wish someone would have prayed for you before you came through the cross and now are living in the light of resurrection. Okay, if you've never done this before, this is a perfect time to by faith, just talk to God. I'm gonna lead you through it. So whatever campus you're at, stand up. You can spread out into the aisles. Let's go to the first one for me. You can come down to the front if you want. You can get in two or three. I'm not gonna drive it. I'm gonna read you the thing, and I'm gonna make it super clear, and I'm gonna invite you to buy faith, to raise your voice, to raise your heart.

That just start with, I would have a fresh encounter with the cross, that the cross would be the power of God for you this Easter. Come on, for about one minute, can you just pray for this? Raise your voice. Come on, send it, church, whatever campus you're at. Jesus, we just pray that we would not take for granted the cross of Jesus Christ, but it would be the power of salvation for us that we would have a fresh encounter, that the spirit of wisdom and revelation would be poured out on us, that we would clearly see Jesus, who He is and what He has done, that that power would be alive in us in Jesus' name. Second thing we wanna pray is just pray that I would boldly live on mission this week. Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, whom shall I send? Here I am, send me. Come on, pray for a boldness that you would say, here I am, Jesus, send me. there's something about the power of giving jesus permission to send you just send me jesus send me jesus come on say that just send me jesus come on send me jesus send me jesus to whoever wherever whenever give me the courage and the faith and the boldness to step out of myself to get out of my own self-consciousness to be sent here i am lord send me third thing we want to pray is just that they would come and be open. That the they, all the they's that we invite would come and be open. Look at this. Nazareth, can anything good come from there? It's like saying your friends are gonna say, church, can anything good come from church? Jesus, can anything good come from Jesus? Nathanael asked, come and see, said Philip. When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said, if they will come, what will He say? Come on, pray for them. Pray that they would come. Pray that they would be open. Pray that they would hear, that they would experience. The eyes would be open, their ears would be loose, their heart would be soft. We pray that people's hearts would be open and available. They would come, they would rearrange their life. And when they're here, they would be cut to the heart, that they would have eyes to see and ears to hear and a heart to respond to the good news of Jesus. Fourth thing is just that they would have an encounter with Jesus. That when they're here, they don't have a good church service or a good message. No, they met with the living, resurrected Jesus that changes everything. Come on, raise your voice, send it by faith. Pray for that person that needs it in Jesus' name. Jesus, we just ask that every person that comes that doesn't know you, that they would have an encounter, a personal encounter with the resurrected Jesus and that they would taste and see that you are, come on, that He is, yes, because He is. May that be their experience. Fifth thing, that we would be a movement of hope. This is what we are. This is what we do. The hope of God's kingdom kept spreading and multiplying everywhere. Come on, pray for us, our services, our people, our serve teams, our leaders, that we would move as a people of hope this week. Thank You. Jesus, we just received the commission to be a movement of hope for the city and beyond. So we pray for our services, our teams, our leaders, our culture, our environment. We pray for divine encounters from the parking lot to the person we sit next to in the seats, that there would be a kindness among us, that there would be a fire that burns in this place that people would walk in because we've invited them here because we are Your outreach strategy and they would be touched and transformed by the hope of Jesus. Come on, church, you're doing great. One more, just that Jesus would be lifted up because when He is lifted up, He draws all men unto himself. So come on, just pray that Jesus would be lifted up, that the name of Jesus would be lifted high, that the face of Jesus would be revealed, that people would see and experience and know Jesus and only Jesus, that Jesus would draw people unto himself. Jesus, Yours is the name. Yours is the kingdom. Yours is the power. Yours is the authority. So we lift You up in unity with one voice, one church, one heart, one people, one faith, one Lord. May the cross of Jesus be lifted high. May the resurrection of Jesus be released. May the name of Jesus be the name above all names. At the name of Jesus, may every tongue confess and every knee bow that Jesus is Lord. Jesus, may You be lifted up. May You be lifted up. May You be lifted up. May You be lifted high. His house will be called a house of prayer. This house is a house of prayer. Your house is a house of prayer. And You bring great joy to the God of heaven when You talk to Him like He is here, like He is real, like He is good, like You're living in the resurrection. And You bring great joy to Him when you are willing to be sent to do that which He has called and created you to do. So as we sing this last song, can you let this last song just be a prayer from your heart? A prayer from your heart to be sent, to be a part of God's kingdom coming and His will being done through each and every one of us. Jesus, I commission this church. I commission every individual, every family, every student, every young adult, every super adult, every middle age adult. I pray, God, that we this week would live how You invite us to live every week of the year, sharing the fire that's within us to the world around us. Here we are, Jesus. Send us.