Speaker 1: Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to
Speaker 1: the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so
Speaker 1: glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe
Speaker 1: God will transform your life. Do today's message.
Speaker 2: If we haven't met before, my name is Brie and
Speaker 2: I serve as one of the.
Speaker 3: Pastors here at TC. I love y'all, I love y'all, and.
Speaker 2: I am your substitute teacher for today.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: We have been in a sermon series with Pastor Tim
Speaker 2: Ross sharing with us the Missing Piece talking about the
Speaker 2: peace of God.
Speaker 3: And for week three, I'm gonna bring.
Speaker 2: The message and Tim will be back next week. But
Speaker 2: I'm not just your average substitute teacher, okay, because I
Speaker 2: know when you was in school, you had your favorite
Speaker 2: teacher and the sub you walked in you was like, dang,
Speaker 2: the substitute today. Okay, I'm not just a regular substitute.
Speaker 2: Been here for a long time, okay, fourteen years. I've
Speaker 2: been on staff here at Transformation Church. I am not
Speaker 2: new to this. I am true to this, okay. And
Speaker 2: I'm not your avereub that don't know what she's talking about,
Speaker 2: so she just kind of keep you busy until the
Speaker 2: next teacher come back. No, No, I have a word
Speaker 2: from God for you today, one that I truly believe
Speaker 2: has the potential to change your entire life because of
Speaker 2: it has done.
Speaker 3: That for me.
Speaker 2: I can't teach you anything that I haven't experienced. And
Speaker 2: one of the things that this is, this word today
Speaker 2: that I want to give you, it's one that God
Speaker 2: has shown.
Speaker 3: Me in my own life. And I'm really excited about this.
Speaker 2: If you don't know my story, I'm married to my husband, Aaron,
Speaker 2: who was up here jumping around a minute ago. We've
Speaker 2: been married for eleven years and I'm gonna tell y'all
Speaker 2: I've received every single one of them class because baby,
Speaker 2: we did the work to make it to eleven years Okay,
Speaker 2: happy and the love, in absolute love with one another.
Speaker 2: And we have experienced some really hardships in our life.
Speaker 3: And today I'm gona talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 2: But if you haven't heard our story, you can go
Speaker 2: to YouTube and hear our story where we talked about
Speaker 2: our marriage and how it was jacked up ten years ago.
Speaker 2: Especially my God, we didn't know if it was gonna
Speaker 2: make it. I had the Google divorce. Okay, we didn't know,
Speaker 2: but God did a miraculous work in our marriage. And
Speaker 2: two years ago we experienced a tragedy with the loss
Speaker 2: of our son who was two weeks old Ace and
Speaker 2: there are two. Those are the two I would say
Speaker 2: biggest hurdles that I've experienced in my adult life. That
Speaker 2: tragedy of not knowing if our marriage was gonna make it,
Speaker 2: and our marriage was absolutely enshambles at the time, and
Speaker 2: also experiencing what it's like to lose a child. Two
Speaker 2: heartbreaking situations.
Speaker 3: And the truth is, in those.
Speaker 2: Two situations, I had two very different responses. First, ten
Speaker 2: years ago, I was questioning God on every end, God,
Speaker 2: who are you? You told me to get married? Why
Speaker 2: would you allow me to go through this heartbreak?
Speaker 3: Lord?
Speaker 2: What is going on? I did not see God as
Speaker 2: good or real at all in that situation.
Speaker 3: But then I took a ten year journey. And when
Speaker 3: I started taking.
Speaker 2: That journey, I didn't know that two years ago, in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, we were gonna lose our son. And
Speaker 2: when we lost our son, there was such a different
Speaker 2: response and Aaron and I than ten years before when
Speaker 2: we experienced some hardship. And I believe that the word
Speaker 2: that I'm sharing with you today is the reason why
Speaker 2: when Ace passed away, there was nothing in us that
Speaker 2: wondered if God was good. Nothing in us wondered if
Speaker 2: God saw us. Nothing in us wondered if God knew
Speaker 2: what was going on in our lives.
Speaker 3: And it's because God.
Speaker 2: Has shown himself to me through even this story that
Speaker 2: I'm gonna share today, but through the words that.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna share today.
Speaker 2: And so my hope and prayer is that hearing this
Speaker 2: word today, that your roots will go down deeper and
Speaker 2: who God is. Because when your roots are deep, that
Speaker 2: the winds can come, the weather can change, you may
Speaker 2: sway from side to side, but you're not gonna break
Speaker 2: because you will be like a tree planted by the
Speaker 2: rivers of water that will bear fruit in every single
Speaker 2: season of your life. I believe that, and I believe
Speaker 2: that because I have experienced that. So I want you
Speaker 2: to go with me today to Genesis sixteen, and we're
Speaker 2: gonna look at a story here.
Speaker 3: One that is not told often.
Speaker 2: Actually, as a matter of fact, there's parts of this
Speaker 2: story that are told. But the part that I'm gonna
Speaker 2: lean into today is not normally the part of the
Speaker 2: story that we actually share in church a lot. Today,
Speaker 2: I want to talk to you about the story of Hagar. Now,
Speaker 2: if you know that name and you know this story,
Speaker 2: you know Hagar was in a story where she was
Speaker 2: not the main character.
Speaker 3: Hagar was a third character in a story that.
Speaker 2: Really was about God giving a promise to Abram and SARAHI.
Speaker 3: At the time, their name had not changed yet.
Speaker 2: And God came to Abram and said, I'm gonna make
Speaker 2: you a father of many nations. You're gonna have a child,
Speaker 2: you're gonna have a son, and you're gonna be a.
Speaker 3: Father of many nations.
Speaker 2: Well, Abram and his wife were very old and they
Speaker 2: waited ten years for God to make this promise a reality,
Speaker 2: and it didn't happen. So they did what we do.
Speaker 2: If God made us a promise, we don't see it happening,
Speaker 2: we immediately try to come up.
Speaker 3: With our own strategy to make it happen.
Speaker 2: So, instead of waiting on God, they decided to pull
Speaker 2: in an innocent bystander into the situation named Hagar. And
Speaker 2: Hagar was a maid servant to SARAHI. She was one
Speaker 2: that was forced into labor and obviously for into this
Speaker 2: situation and This was not an abnormal thing. It was
Speaker 2: very customary actually that if a wife could not get
Speaker 2: pregnant back in this day, what they would do was
Speaker 2: had their maid servant sleep with their husband get pregnant,
Speaker 2: and then the wife would raise that child. It would
Speaker 2: no longer be the maid servants instead. Now this child
Speaker 2: is a child of the husband and the wife. So
Speaker 2: Sarah and Abram couldn't wait, and so because they couldn't
Speaker 2: wait on God, they went ahead and decided to get
Speaker 2: Hagar pregnant. And what happens is once Hagar gets pregnant,
Speaker 2: she starts to treat SARAHI with some contempt.
Speaker 3: She's mad at her.
Speaker 2: Aka assist the wives in the house and they can't
Speaker 2: stand each other. Okay, so they get to fight in
Speaker 2: and cussing and fuss and I don't know if they
Speaker 2: cuss and fuss, but I'll just make that up.
Speaker 3: Anyways, they get to fight in one another.
Speaker 2: And what happens is Hagar has such a nervous system
Speaker 2: response that she decides instead of fights or freeze, that
Speaker 2: want to fleet and she runs away. And this is
Speaker 2: where we're going to pick up. In verse seven Genesis sixteen.
Speaker 2: Verse seven, Hagar is on the run because she is
Speaker 2: so upset about her situation.
Speaker 3: It says in verse seven.
Speaker 2: The Angel of the Lord found Hagar beside a spring
Speaker 2: of water in the wilderness along the road to Shirt.
Speaker 2: The angel said to her, Hagar, sarahis servant. Where have
Speaker 2: you come from and where are you going? I'm running
Speaker 2: away from my mistress, Sarah SARAHI, she replied. The Angel
Speaker 2: of the Lord said to her, return to your mistress, submit.
Speaker 3: To her authority.
Speaker 2: Then he added, I will give you more descendants than
Speaker 2: you can count. And the angel also said, you are
Speaker 2: now pregnant and will give birth to a son.
Speaker 3: You are to name him Ishmael, and Ishmael means.
Speaker 2: God hears, for the Lord has heard your cry of distress.
Speaker 2: The son of yours will be like a wild man,
Speaker 2: as untamed as a wild donkey. He will raise his
Speaker 2: fists against everyone, and everyone will be against him. Yes,
Speaker 2: he will live in open hostility against all his relatives. Thereafter,
Speaker 2: Hagar used another name to refer to the Lord who
Speaker 2: had spoken to her. She said, you are the God
Speaker 2: who sees me. She also said, have I truly seen
Speaker 2: the one who sees me? This story about Hagar is
Speaker 2: not one that we. Like I said, we usually focus
Speaker 2: on in scripture when we tell the story about Abram
Speaker 2: and SARAHI. But Hagar had a profound encounter with God.
Speaker 3: When she was running away from her situation, and what she.
Speaker 2: Found out is several things about God knowing her fully
Speaker 2: in a way that she didn't even know that he
Speaker 2: knew her. Now, this is a crazy thing because we're
Speaker 2: so used to living.
Speaker 3: Our lives compartmentalized.
Speaker 2: To think of a God that knows us fully almost
Speaker 2: doesn't make sense. So for me, there are several people
Speaker 2: who know different parts of who I am. My husband
Speaker 2: who calls me sweet sometimes and sometimes I'm not sweet,
Speaker 2: so he doesn't call me that as a nickname, and
Speaker 2: that's how I know I haven't been sweet. He knows
Speaker 2: me in a way that other people don't know me.
Speaker 2: He knows the way that I sleep, the way I snore.
Speaker 2: He knows different things about me around our house that
Speaker 2: other people will never have to be privy to. I
Speaker 2: come to this church, people call me Pastor bri here,
Speaker 2: which you know, I'm still working it out, but whatever,
Speaker 2: Pastor bri here, and basically you know me as a leader,
Speaker 2: as a teacher. You may not know parts of me
Speaker 2: that my husband knows about me. And honestly, sometimes because
Speaker 2: I'm not my husband's boss or pastor, he is not
Speaker 2: seeing me in the way that people here may see me.
Speaker 2: My family sees me in a totally different way. They
Speaker 2: see me because they know who I was from the
Speaker 2: day that I was born. When I was a little
Speaker 2: girl with the buck teeth and the glasses.
Speaker 3: I had to get glasses in first grade. Anybody else
Speaker 3: have to get glasses early?
Speaker 2: Anyways, I had to get glass not these these are fake, okay,
Speaker 2: see right here anyways, but I had to.
Speaker 3: Get glasses long time ago. My family knows me differently.
Speaker 2: And the beautiful thing was when I left my hometown
Speaker 2: in two thousand and seven, I moved to Tulsa. And
Speaker 2: when I moved to Tulsa, none of my family came.
Speaker 2: Well about two years ago my family joined me in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
Speaker 2: and I actually am really glad about that.
Speaker 3: Except one thing.
Speaker 2: So, my dad has a nickname for me that you
Speaker 2: didn't know I was gonna say this.
Speaker 3: My dad has a nickname for me. And the thing is,
Speaker 3: it's okay for dads to have nicknames.
Speaker 2: It's just when your dad starts working at the place
Speaker 2: that you're a boss set that you really don't.
Speaker 3: Want him saying that.
Speaker 2: Nickname just in the hallway, right, that's the part of
Speaker 2: me that I don't want nobody else knowing, so that
Speaker 2: my dad has for me. And I'm gonna tell you this,
Speaker 2: and y'all better keep it to yourselves.
Speaker 3: I ain't like if one did y'all come up to.
Speaker 2: Me and say, if you come up to me and
Speaker 2: say the nickname, We're done. The conversations over the nickname
Speaker 2: that my dad says to me is Buddha Bear.
Speaker 3: Okay, Buddha Bear.
Speaker 2: And daring you know, I love it a lot, except
Speaker 2: for when I'm walking down the hallway at work, being
Speaker 2: past to breath and I see my dad, because if
Speaker 2: you see my dad.
Speaker 3: To see my dad is to hear my dad. Okay,
Speaker 3: if you.
Speaker 2: Know anything about my dad, I got this.
Speaker 3: Volume from him, all right.
Speaker 2: So I see my dad sometimes in the hallway and
Speaker 2: before I even get close enough to him and say, hey,
Speaker 2: Buddha Bear, and I'm like, dread, I'm pastor bree here.
Speaker 2: Because there are parts of us sometimes that we want
Speaker 2: to keep to ourselves. And the truth is that people
Speaker 2: in our lives no matter how that person, how long
Speaker 2: that person has lived life with you.
Speaker 3: Only knows a part of who you are.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter how deep your relationship is, how many
Speaker 2: of your secrets you have told, how long you and
Speaker 2: your best friend has been friends. I don't care if
Speaker 2: you are a twin. It doesn't matter. There are everybody
Speaker 2: in your life only knows a part of who you are,
Speaker 2: except for one person. God does not know just a
Speaker 2: part of who we are. God knows fully who we are.
Speaker 2: And this is what Haygard realized in the story is
Speaker 2: I don't have to be one way in front of
Speaker 2: God in another way someplace else. I don't gotta be
Speaker 2: one way in church and to go home and be
Speaker 2: something totally different. God knows fully who I am, so
Speaker 2: much so that God knows me better than I know myself.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I confuse my own self. Why do I do that?
Speaker 2: Paul said, There's things I want to do that I
Speaker 2: don't do. There's things I don't do that I.
Speaker 3: Want to do. I confuse myself.
Speaker 2: God is the only one because when something is creator,
Speaker 2: you have to go to the creator to find out.
Speaker 3: What's going on inside of it.
Speaker 2: And so oftentimes we try to go to ourselves, our therapists,
Speaker 2: our friends, whoever to learn more about ourselves, which is great,
Speaker 2: except for no one will ever fully know you the
Speaker 2: way that God does. So in verse seven we pick
Speaker 2: up and Hagar is running away from her home, and
Speaker 2: at this point she has decided she is done. She
Speaker 2: is pregnant, She is aware that she is pregnant at
Speaker 2: this time, and yet she decided she's done living in
Speaker 2: this house because it was not.
Speaker 3: A situation that was a good situation.
Speaker 2: Honestly, if you think about it, this is something that
Speaker 2: would absolutely cause you to have some type of trauma response,
Speaker 2: some type of nervous system response, because it wasn't a
Speaker 2: pleasant situation. And in verse seven it says, the Angel
Speaker 2: of the Lord found Hagar. Now what you have to
Speaker 2: do you know about this word found is it is
Speaker 2: not like God was scouring the earth looking for Hagar.
Speaker 3: Trying to find out where does she go? I can't
Speaker 3: can't place a finger on to where she goes.
Speaker 2: This is the same word that's used when they say
Speaker 2: Noah found favor with God. Noah wasn't searching for a favor.
Speaker 2: Noah encountered favor. So this Angel of the Lord was
Speaker 2: not looking for Hagar and couldn't find her, and then
Speaker 2: happened to stumble upon her and found her. Instead, God
Speaker 2: set up and encounter with Hagar while she was on
Speaker 2: the run.
Speaker 3: This is what I love about God.
Speaker 2: He knows you so much that he knows exactly where
Speaker 2: to set up an encounter. He knows exactly where you
Speaker 2: are gonna meet the end of your rope, because Hagar
Speaker 2: and at the end of her rope, and God's address
Speaker 2: is at the end of your rope. As soon as
Speaker 2: you are done and I am done striving and trying
Speaker 2: to make it work for myself, that's where an encounter
Speaker 2: has been set up.
Speaker 3: So the Angel of the Lord encounters Hagard, and not
Speaker 3: just in any place.
Speaker 2: The scripture says that Hagar was by a spring of
Speaker 2: water in the wilderness on the way to the Land
Speaker 2: of sure Now, this scripture is action packed, y'all, because
Speaker 2: God specializes and putting water in the middle of a wilderness.
Speaker 3: All you have to do is look at the story
Speaker 3: of the children of Israel.
Speaker 2: Four different times they encountered a thirst that only God
Speaker 2: could quench. Four different times on their journey to the
Speaker 2: promised Land. God made water out of a rock he
Speaker 2: made water out of.
Speaker 3: A bitter stream.
Speaker 2: God specializes and bringing water in the middle of the wilderness,
Speaker 2: and this is what happened with Hagar. While Hagar was
Speaker 2: on the run trying to get away from her situation,
Speaker 2: God stopped her not just anywhere, but he stopped her
Speaker 2: by a spring of water.
Speaker 3: It is the same situation.
Speaker 2: And knew the New Testament when the woman at the
Speaker 2: well met Jesus. And when she met Jesus, she not
Speaker 2: only ran into a well of water, she ran into
Speaker 2: living water. And this is what Hagar experience. On the
Speaker 2: one This is what I love about God. He doesn't
Speaker 2: wait until we fix ourselves up and get ourselves together
Speaker 2: in order to bring a spring of water. No, he
Speaker 2: does it in the middle of the wilderness and a
Speaker 2: place that doesn't make sense with this being her on
Speaker 2: the road to Sure. The crazy thing is Hagar was
Speaker 2: actually an Egyptian Egyptian slave, So what happened was in
Speaker 2: this story is Theologians believe that when Pharaoh gave some
Speaker 2: servants to Abram and SARAHI a few chapters ago, what
Speaker 2: happened was that Hagar was probably one of those servants.
Speaker 3: That was given to them.
Speaker 2: Well, the land of sure was a territory outside of Egypt,
Speaker 2: because the truth is Hagar was likely on her.
Speaker 3: Way back to her past.
Speaker 2: If you think about your own story, if I think
Speaker 2: about my own story, how many times do I run
Speaker 2: up against something that seems like it's insurmountable, too big
Speaker 2: for me to address, too big for me to overcome,
Speaker 2: and it makes me want to just go back to.
Speaker 3: Where I came from.
Speaker 2: Obviously, Hagar was not well respected in the land of
Speaker 2: Egypt because.
Speaker 3: She was sold to someone else.
Speaker 2: So it wasn't like she was going back to a
Speaker 2: place that was once good to her.
Speaker 3: It's not like she was going back to a place
Speaker 3: where she was once.
Speaker 2: Respected or seen as worthy or significant. She was obviously
Speaker 2: already a servant there, but a lower level servant to
Speaker 2: the point that they sold her to someone else with
Speaker 2: no care for her well being.
Speaker 3: And and just like.
Speaker 2: The children of Egypt who said, if you're gonna bring
Speaker 2: us out here in the wilderness and God tend us
Speaker 2: back to slavery, this is what Hagar did. Can I
Speaker 2: tell you that on your way backwards, God will set
Speaker 2: up an encounter for you to meet him.
Speaker 3: And here's to stop you before you go backwards in
Speaker 3: your journey.
Speaker 2: The situation she was in with Abram and Sarah was
Speaker 2: not lovely. It was not pleasant, but it was not
Speaker 2: her past. And today, if you think about the things
Speaker 2: in your life that maybe you know what, this is
Speaker 2: not working the way I want to, you know what,
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna do it the old way that I've
Speaker 2: done it before.
Speaker 3: Find yourself in this story.
Speaker 2: Find yourself in this story because God wants to have
Speaker 2: an encounter with you.
Speaker 3: Now. As we keep going.
Speaker 2: In this scripture, the story gets better and better. So,
Speaker 2: Heygar has this encounter with this angel, and the angel
Speaker 2: in verse ed says to her two questions, where did
Speaker 2: did you come from?
Speaker 3: And where are you going? Now?
Speaker 2: When we talk about one of the things I love
Speaker 2: to study is psychology. Not a therapist, but I love
Speaker 2: the idea of psychology human behavior. And we talk a
Speaker 2: lot about trauma. We talk a lot about your history,
Speaker 2: your childhood, different things like that that was not made
Speaker 2: up in twenty twenty six. Okay, In this scripture, the
Speaker 2: angel is asking about her history.
Speaker 3: Where have you come from?
Speaker 2: Don't think that the angel is just asking about her
Speaker 2: coming from Sarah in Abram's house.
Speaker 3: He is asking what is your story?
Speaker 2: Because God is emotionally aware enough to ask us, what
Speaker 2: is your story? Tell me where you have come from.
Speaker 2: Tell me about your childhood. Tell me about the people
Speaker 2: that raised you.
Speaker 3: Who knew you and who did not know you.
Speaker 2: Tell me who celebrated you and who took advantage of you.
Speaker 3: Tell me your story.
Speaker 2: This is a question that's being presented to Hagar, where
Speaker 2: did you come from? And the second question attached to
Speaker 2: that is where are you going? Because God doesn't want
Speaker 2: to just know our history. He wants to know our hopes.
Speaker 2: He wants to know our dreams. He wants to know
Speaker 2: the desires because likely he placed them in your heart anyways.
Speaker 3: He wants to.
Speaker 2: Know where are you going, what's your intentions?
Speaker 3: Where are you headed?
Speaker 2: Because what I want to do is not only speak
Speaker 2: to who you are in the present. I want to
Speaker 2: speak and heal your past, but I also want to
Speaker 2: give you some guidance for where you're going in the future.
Speaker 2: This is the kind of God that we serve. And
Speaker 2: Hagar found out point number one that God already knows you.
Speaker 2: He's asking questions, but it's not really for him to
Speaker 2: get answers, to understand you or to know you. It's
Speaker 2: really for you to know yourself. When we are looking
Speaker 2: for peace in our life, one of the things that
Speaker 2: help gives us peace is understanding that God already knows us.
Speaker 2: So he goes on in this story and he's talking
Speaker 2: to Hagar and he says a couple different things to her.
Speaker 2: How you know how you know that Hagar has had
Speaker 2: this encounter with God is when the angel tells her
Speaker 2: what to name her son. He says, you're pregnant, now
Speaker 2: I want you to name him Ishmael.
Speaker 3: Point number two.
Speaker 2: Is God already hears you, because Ishmael means God hears.
Speaker 3: And he goes on to say, God hears your pain.
Speaker 2: How you know someone hears you well is how they
Speaker 2: respond to you.
Speaker 3: And people act like they hear you all the time.
Speaker 2: But have you ever been in a conversation before and
Speaker 2: someone's talking and you honestly miss everything that they said,
Speaker 2: and then it's like a pause, and you like, did
Speaker 2: you ask me something?
Speaker 3: Was that what they got of your question? We never
Speaker 3: have that encounter with God.
Speaker 2: God hears everything that we say, and how we know
Speaker 2: is how he responds to us. The Angel of the
Speaker 2: Lord is talking to Heygard. He asked her a question.
Speaker 2: She responds, and the angel responds to her with four
Speaker 2: different things. He gives her a promise. He says, you
Speaker 2: are pregnant with the son, name him Ishmael.
Speaker 3: He gives her a path forward.
Speaker 2: He says to her, you go back to your mistress,
Speaker 2: go back to Sarah and submit to her. He also
Speaker 2: gives her the pressure. He knows that when he has
Speaker 2: this child, he's going to be like a wild donkey.
Speaker 2: God does not.
Speaker 3: Ignore our reality in order to give us a blessing.
Speaker 2: This is not the kind of God we served. God
Speaker 2: that avoids real, tough conversations. That's not the kind of
Speaker 2: God we serve. That's Church people. I'll never forget when
Speaker 2: our son passed away and having conversations with the saints,
Speaker 2: and sometimes having conversations with the saints didn't make me
Speaker 2: feel no better, honestly, because I believe the conversation questioning
Speaker 2: whether or not they see my reality, because God says both.
Speaker 3: And can be the truth.
Speaker 2: The truth can be your actual reality as well as
Speaker 2: a greater reality. But God doesn't tell us a greater
Speaker 2: reality about his blessings and his provision and all the
Speaker 2: things he wants to do in our life. Without first
Speaker 2: addressing our reality. Don't let us church people make you
Speaker 2: think that God does not care about your actual reality.
Speaker 3: He's not saying for you, you too blessed to be stressed.
Speaker 3: He's not saying that to you.
Speaker 2: He's saying, that's a actually very stressful situation. I understand,
Speaker 2: and I have blessed you, and I have called you,
Speaker 2: and I'm more than enough for you, and you have
Speaker 2: what it takes to walk this out. And I see
Speaker 2: you and I hear you. That is the kind of
Speaker 2: God that we serve. And Hagar had no idea that
Speaker 2: God was this relational, had no idea that God was
Speaker 2: this intimate with her, had no idea that God cared
Speaker 2: about the details of her life, because no one in
Speaker 2: her life ever did, knowing in her life, ever cared
Speaker 2: about what her desires were, knowing in her life cared
Speaker 2: about the pain that she had experienced.
Speaker 3: And sometimes, when we haven't.
Speaker 2: Been witnessed by other people in our life, we think
Speaker 2: that God too does not hear us. But God heard Hagar,
Speaker 2: and he gave her a promise. You're gonna have a son,
Speaker 2: and you're going to be a mother to many nations.
Speaker 2: Who would have ever thought that Hagar, if you just
Speaker 2: looked at the way that she was raised, the place.
Speaker 3: In society, and you have to.
Speaker 2: Remember, this was not a time where there was advocacy
Speaker 2: for people that were marginalized. There was no me too movement.
Speaker 2: There was nobody going around trying to look out for
Speaker 2: the minorities. That was not the case if you were
Speaker 2: in the lower level of social status, that's where you stayed.
Speaker 2: But God look down from heaven, and when he saw Heygar,
Speaker 2: he didn't see what everybody else saw in her.
Speaker 3: He didn't see that she was lower than anything else.
Speaker 2: His thoughts outnumbered the grains of sand when it came
Speaker 2: to Hagar, she was his masterpiece, beautifully and wonderfully made.
Speaker 2: When we know that God sees and hears us like that,
Speaker 2: it changes how we show up in the world. It
Speaker 2: changes who we care about hearing us when we know
Speaker 2: we are heard by God. If I know I'm heard
Speaker 2: by God, I don't have to get anyone else's attention.
Speaker 2: I have his undivided attention. And Hagar learned this about God.
Speaker 2: He spoke to her pain, her path, her promise, and
Speaker 2: her pressure.
Speaker 3: Then we go on to verse thirteen.
Speaker 2: And here Hagar, after having this encounter with God and
Speaker 2: the Angel of the Lord speaking back to her. She
Speaker 2: then comes up with a name for God, and this
Speaker 2: was the first time in scripture that someone ever gave
Speaker 2: God a name from an experience with him. Hagar, the
Speaker 2: person in the story that seems like she's the third
Speaker 2: most important character in this whole story. She had an
Speaker 2: encounter with God that changed her view of him, and
Speaker 2: she named him a name that meant the God who
Speaker 2: sees me. This name, you know, I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 2: how I thought it was said, and I'm gonna tell
Speaker 2: you how it's really said. The name is Roy, and
Speaker 2: I thought it was like a roller, your cousin, you know, everybody, every.
Speaker 3: Black person know it at least an elworyal le roy.
Speaker 2: You already know that, okay, But it's actually pronounced l
Speaker 2: roe and it means the God who sees me. Earlier
Speaker 2: today while praying some of the names of God, this
Speaker 2: is what you need to know that God is. He's
Speaker 2: a god that you never He never loses track of you.
Speaker 2: He never loses.
Speaker 3: Track of you. Not he knows. He knows you so well.
Speaker 3: He knows a number of hairs on your head.
Speaker 2: Every time one of them fall out, he minus one.
Speaker 2: This is the kind of God that we serve, a
Speaker 2: God that we can never get. There's no such thing
Speaker 2: as periphial vision for God, there's no such thing as
Speaker 2: him needed to go get go see an optrometrist, and
Speaker 2: go get some contacts of glasses. He sees every single
Speaker 2: detail in our lives. And for somebody that might feel like,
Speaker 2: oh shoot, I don't know if I want God see
Speaker 2: you and everything, honestly, but the only way that you can.
Speaker 3: Embrace that and find peace in that is to know.
Speaker 2: He sees the invisible parts of you. He sees the
Speaker 2: parts of you that you don't even see yourself see.
Speaker 2: Our God loves to see the invisible. Not only did
Speaker 2: he see Hagar and her invisible situation, he saw Hannah
Speaker 2: and hers, and he saw Leah in hers and blind
Speaker 2: barn Maas even though he couldn't see Jesus, Jesus saw
Speaker 2: him and zach kids although he was shorter than everybody
Speaker 2: else and had to get up in that tree to
Speaker 2: see Jesus, Jesus saw him. The people that feel the
Speaker 2: most invisible in their lives and in this world, God
Speaker 2: sees every ounce of their life. He sees the injustice
Speaker 2: that was done to you. He sees how they betrayed you,
Speaker 2: he sees how they hurt you.
Speaker 3: He sees your successes that you even.
Speaker 2: Try to keep on the hush because you don't know
Speaker 2: if anybody's going to be excited for you. He sees
Speaker 2: every part of your life, and Hagar, after having this
Speaker 2: encounter with God, realize that not only does God hear.
Speaker 3: Me, he sees me.
Speaker 2: I think that there's some comfort in knowing that I'm
Speaker 2: being witnessed by God, and knowing that there's not a
Speaker 2: part of my story that I'm ever introducing to Him,
Speaker 2: and knowing that when I pray to him, I'm not
Speaker 2: initiating a conversation. He'd already been knocking at the door.
Speaker 3: Of my heart.
Speaker 2: There's a scripture in Psalms that says, my heart has
Speaker 2: heard you say come, and I am coming to talk
Speaker 2: to you. You're never starting a conversation with God and
Speaker 2: your prayers. You're never initiating a relationship with him. The
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit drew you into a relationship with him long
Speaker 2: time ago, and you know why, because God knows you
Speaker 2: so well, he knows when to set up and.
Speaker 3: Encounter with him.
Speaker 2: Scripture tells us that before we were ever ever in
Speaker 2: our mother's womb, he knew us. Now, sometimes we make
Speaker 2: God out to be just a really good human so
Speaker 2: sometimes we think that he is having the same experience.
Speaker 3: As we have.
Speaker 2: When a child is born, that's when we are first introduced.
Speaker 3: To that child.
Speaker 2: Oh No, when it comes to God, the earth was
Speaker 2: groaning for our existence. It wasn't just by happenstance that
Speaker 2: your mama and your daddy got.
Speaker 3: Together and you ended up being here.
Speaker 2: God knew from the beginning of time, the exact day,
Speaker 2: the exact hour, minute, and second that you would enter
Speaker 2: this earth, and what kind of impact and calling he
Speaker 2: places inside of you.
Speaker 3: That's how much God knows you.
Speaker 2: If you know you're known and heard and seen by
Speaker 2: a god like that, how would you show up every day?
Speaker 3: How would you go after the things that he called
Speaker 3: you to do?
Speaker 2: How would you have courage to live the life that
Speaker 2: he's called you to live? How would you stop caring
Speaker 2: about the people who don't hear you, or see you,
Speaker 2: or know you or understand you. Because I am fully
Speaker 2: understood by the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
Speaker 3: Even the parts of me.
Speaker 2: That I don't understand he understands. He says, I know
Speaker 2: you don't know why you got that habit.
Speaker 3: I do. I know why you. You don't know how
Speaker 3: you why you can't just stop running your mouth. I
Speaker 3: know why you can't break that addiction. I know. And
Speaker 3: when we know that, it changes our relationship to God.
Speaker 2: Instead of running to and fro trying to figure out
Speaker 2: answers about our lives and trying to find peace in
Speaker 2: other kind of ways, we go to the ultimate source,
Speaker 2: who fully knows us, fully hears us, and fully sees us.
Speaker 2: The only reason that God fully knows us, hears us,
Speaker 2: and seize us is because of point number four.
Speaker 3: God already loves you.
Speaker 2: God loves you, and love has been such an unconditional,
Speaker 2: a conditional thing in our lives with the humans in
Speaker 2: our lives, that we sometimes sum that up to how
Speaker 2: God loves us. I think that I love my husband unconditionally.
Speaker 3: I think I do.
Speaker 2: But the truth is there are certain things that he
Speaker 2: does that when he does it, it just makes me swoon.
Speaker 2: It just makes me fall more in love with him.
Speaker 2: And oh how beautiful that is in a human to
Speaker 2: human relationship. But that is not our relationship with God.
Speaker 2: God cannot love you anymore than he already loves you
Speaker 2: right now. There is nothing that you can do or say,
Speaker 2: no performance that you can put on that will make
Speaker 2: him swoo over you more than he already swoons over
Speaker 2: you right now. Scripture tells us that he sings songs
Speaker 2: over us.
Speaker 3: You are God's dream come true. You are the apple
Speaker 3: of his eye.
Speaker 2: And I know because most of us in our lives
Speaker 2: never felt like we were anybody else's apple of their
Speaker 2: eye or anyone else's dream come true, not outside of
Speaker 2: performing well that sometimes it's hard for us to receive that.
Speaker 2: That's how God sees us. How you know that you
Speaker 2: are loved by someone is how much they are willing
Speaker 2: to pursue you. In this story of Hagar, Hagar didn't
Speaker 2: run to God. She wasn't trying to have this encounter
Speaker 2: with God. She was just trying to get away from
Speaker 2: her situation. And in her trying to get away from
Speaker 2: this situation, she found out that there was a god,
Speaker 2: God that had been pursuing.
Speaker 3: Her all along.
Speaker 2: And because he had been pursuing her all along, she
Speaker 2: ran smack dab in the middle of his love and
Speaker 2: found out that he was a God who all ready
Speaker 2: loves her. This is the beautiful thing about God is
Speaker 2: there's nothing you can do to decrease his love for you.
Speaker 2: There's nothing you can do to increase his love for you.
Speaker 2: And I know because of the human relationships that we have.
Speaker 2: It's almost hard to even think because a lot of
Speaker 2: times we think, oh, God loves us because he has
Speaker 2: to love us, but he don't really like me. He
Speaker 2: don't really like me because I keep making decisions that
Speaker 2: I shouldn't make it. And because we see God partially
Speaker 2: only at just the parts of who he is. You know,
Speaker 2: he's king, you know he's judged, you know he's Lord,
Speaker 2: but you don't understand he's also father and friend. So
Speaker 2: although he does care about fairness and righteousness, he also
Speaker 2: cares about you. He also has compassion towards you. Because
Speaker 2: God is never in heaven thinking why did they do that?
Speaker 3: I don't understand.
Speaker 2: He understands why we make every decision that we make
Speaker 2: in our life, and because of that, he loves us.
Speaker 2: That's why his grace covers a multitude of our sins.
Speaker 2: Hagard realize that God already loved her, and I think
Speaker 2: about the scriptures from Genesis to Revelation, we see that
Speaker 2: God has been passionately pursuing us from the beginning of time.
Speaker 2: In Genesis, he's passionately pursuing Adam and Eve, finding them
Speaker 2: in the garden where are you? But in Revelations he says,
Speaker 2: I stand at the door of your heart knocking, and
Speaker 2: if you invite me in, I will come sit at
Speaker 2: your table like a friend. This is the kind of
Speaker 2: God that we serve. And when we know this about God,
Speaker 2: it changes how much peace we behold in our lives.
Speaker 2: I can live a peaceful life. You can live a
Speaker 2: peaceful life because I know I'm never unknown, I'm never unheard,
Speaker 2: I'm never unseen, and I'm never unloved. This reality is
Speaker 2: true enough that when our son passed away two years ago,
Speaker 2: there was parts of the situation that, honestly was just
Speaker 2: I don't even know how our nervous system even was
Speaker 2: able to contain all the stuff that was happening, honestly,
Speaker 2: but I would remind myself over and over again how
Speaker 2: much God loved us and saw us and hurt us,
Speaker 2: and over and over again, I'd have to remind myself
Speaker 2: of that, because when you're going through something really hard,
Speaker 2: naturally you start to feel alone. And in this situation,
Speaker 2: there was one day. You know, I'm gonna ask you,
Speaker 2: Ki if you can hear me that. There was one
Speaker 2: day that I was at Aces Incubator in Nick You,
Speaker 2: and when I was preparing for this talk, I was like, God,
Speaker 2: was there's something in that experience that I could share today.
Speaker 2: And a lot of times we would sitting nick You.
Speaker 2: We were only there for two weeks. Ace only lived
Speaker 2: two weeks, and for two weeks we would sit in
Speaker 2: Nick You and there's nothing you can do. Our son
Speaker 2: was on paralytic medication, and that meant that he his
Speaker 2: body wasn't moving, his eyes weren't opening. He was alive,
Speaker 2: but he was on a breathing machine. So we couldn't
Speaker 2: really interact with him. We would just you know, sing
Speaker 2: to him or read books to him, or talk to
Speaker 2: him so he would.
Speaker 3: Know our voice.
Speaker 2: And it gave me insight on how God feels about me.
Speaker 2: And on this day, I was sitting in Nick You,
Speaker 2: sitting by Aces incubator, and I wrote this in my
Speaker 2: journal and I wanted to read it to you because
Speaker 2: it blessed.
Speaker 3: Me reading it again.
Speaker 2: Honestly, what I learned about the love of God is
Speaker 2: that it really has nothing to do with you at all.
Speaker 2: God is love. He can't act outside of love. And
Speaker 2: when I know that God loves me in that kind
Speaker 2: of way, I show up differently in my everyday life.
Speaker 2: So this day, this was July sixteenth, twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: and I was sitting in Nick You, and this would
Speaker 2: have been have been five days before our son passed away.
Speaker 3: And this is what I wrote. It says, I'm sitting
Speaker 3: here with Asa nick You.
Speaker 2: It is the oddest and most natural thing to just
Speaker 2: sit and admire him. He's not doing anything, not even
Speaker 2: breathing on his own, and yet I absolutely adore him.
Speaker 2: He's the apple of my eye. He is my dream
Speaker 2: come true. And then to God, I said, that's how
Speaker 2: you feel about me? Huh, doing nothing at all?
Speaker 3: You swoon over me. How would I live day to
Speaker 3: day if I really believe that? What changes in me?
Speaker 2: What do I allow myself? And what do I not allow?
Speaker 2: If I believe that you love me? This kind of way,
Speaker 2: that sums up in my mind how God feels about you,
Speaker 2: not just us, you individually.
Speaker 3: The way that God loves you.
Speaker 2: Is almost inconceivable. We almost can't even fathom it in
Speaker 2: our minds. But if I knew that every day, all day,
Speaker 2: the eyes of Heaven were on me, hearing not only
Speaker 2: the words that I say, but my thoughts are far off,
Speaker 2: hearing not only my thoughts, but bottling my tears.
Speaker 3: Every single day.
Speaker 2: The things that I can consider countless or worthless, he
Speaker 2: bottles them as a treasure. This is how God feels
Speaker 2: about you. If we believe that, if we live like that,
Speaker 2: we will.
Speaker 3: Live in more peace.
Speaker 2: Because when we talk about the missing peace, it has
Speaker 2: to do with the fact that God knows you, hears you,
Speaker 2: sees you, and loves you. This is the kind of
Speaker 2: God that we serve. What I love about the story
Speaker 2: of Hagard is that this is essentially a foreshadowing of
Speaker 2: the Gospel. Jesus came to to earth, came to you
Speaker 2: and to me to encounter us, to have an encounter
Speaker 2: with us, because he heard our pain and he saw
Speaker 2: us from far off. And when he came, he did
Speaker 2: not come to just do miracles, signs and wonders. He
Speaker 2: did not just come to have arguments with the Pharisees.
Speaker 2: He did not just come so that he can have
Speaker 2: a group of disciples that followed him. Jesus came to
Speaker 2: this earth in order to show you and me how
Speaker 2: much God loves us, how much he hears us, sees us,
Speaker 2: and knows us. This is the kind of God that
Speaker 2: we served, so hegar story is not onto itself, it
Speaker 2: is a part of a greater story of how when
Speaker 2: we were in the wilderness of sin, there was a
Speaker 2: spring of water. And in that spring of water, it
Speaker 2: wasn't just any old spring of water, it was a
Speaker 2: living water.
Speaker 3: And when the living.
Speaker 2: Water encountered us, he let us know. I want to
Speaker 2: know all about your story. Don't think because you're a
Speaker 2: new creator in Christ that you do not have to
Speaker 2: share your story and where.
Speaker 3: I want to know all of it.
Speaker 2: And you know why, because we overcome by the blood
Speaker 2: of the Lamb and the words of our testimony. I
Speaker 2: want to know all about your story. But I also
Speaker 2: want to know where do you want to go in life?
Speaker 2: What do you want to do? Because I called you
Speaker 2: to those things. That's not something you came up with
Speaker 2: on your own. I put that desire in your heart.
Speaker 2: And because of that, I'm not only going to just
Speaker 2: check your reality.
Speaker 3: I want to give you a promise. The thing that
Speaker 3: you think you are. You are more than that. Well,
Speaker 3: for the beginning of time.
Speaker 2: I knew who you were, and I called you into
Speaker 2: this earth, and the earth was groaning for your existence.
Speaker 2: And that's the wasn't the only one that came for
Speaker 2: such a time as this. You came for such a
Speaker 2: time as this. You are supposed to be here on
Speaker 2: this earth right now, doing the things of God. You
Speaker 2: have my full attention. God says, you have my full attention.
Speaker 2: Not one second of your life did I miss out on.
Speaker 2: I've seen it all, and I know you better than
Speaker 2: you know yourself. So what is God asking from us today?
Speaker 2: And Proverbs, it says the Scripture, it says, my child,
Speaker 2: pay attention to me. I've been paying you attention. I've
Speaker 2: been paying you attention. But you've been looking everywhere else
Speaker 2: for your worthiness. You've been looking everywhere else for your peace.
Speaker 3: You've been looking everywhere else to fit in and to belong.
Speaker 3: But today, pay.
Speaker 2: Attention to the one who's paying attention to you.
Speaker 3: Heyguard says, I.
Speaker 2: Have seen the one who has already seen me. Today
Speaker 2: God is asking us to open our eyes and set
Speaker 2: our attention on him. When you set your attention on God,
Speaker 2: what you'll notice is he's already been paying attention to you.
Speaker 2: Let's pray God today, we're really really grateful to serve
Speaker 2: a God like you, Really grateful to know that you
Speaker 2: are a God who knows us, hears us, sees us,
Speaker 2: and loves us. And because of that we can find
Speaker 2: peace for everyday life. To know that there's not one
Speaker 2: second that you've missed out on our life. To know
Speaker 2: that even the things that we whisper to ourself, you
Speaker 2: hear to so that the moments where we may be
Speaker 2: thought you didn't see us, you already saw us. There's
Speaker 2: been times, honestly that we thought, like a child playing
Speaker 2: hide and go seek, that when we don't see you,
Speaker 2: you don't see us.
Speaker 3: But the truth is you've always seen us.
Speaker 2: Every single day of our life was already written out.
Speaker 2: You already know us, and you already love us. Today, God,
Speaker 2: and whatever wilderness we may be in, maybe it's a
Speaker 2: wilderness in our relationships, Maybe it's a wilderness and our finances,
Speaker 2: Maybe it's a wilderness and our bodies and our health,
Speaker 2: would you set up an encounter with us today, just
Speaker 2: like you met Hagar where she was at Would you
Speaker 2: do that same thing for us today. God, help us
Speaker 2: to embrace your love in a way that changes how
Speaker 2: we show up every day.
Speaker 3: Send the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do something a little different today. I've asked
Speaker 2: the worship team to come up. Typically, what we do
Speaker 2: at the end of service is you'll come up to
Speaker 2: the altar and have an encounter with God and we'll
Speaker 2: have our altar.
Speaker 3: Workers come up a little bit later.
Speaker 2: But what I'm gonna ask you to do for a second,
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna ask you to hold in your seat
Speaker 2: for one minute and allow God to encounter you right
Speaker 2: where you are. Haygard didn't go looking for God and
Speaker 2: found him. He found her where she was already at.
Speaker 2: And today I'm asking the worship team to sing a song.
Speaker 3: You can sing with him if you want to.
Speaker 2: But more than anything, what I'm asking you to do
Speaker 2: is where do you need from What do you need
Speaker 2: from God?
Speaker 3: Today?
Speaker 2: Do you need to feel like you are known, heard, seen,
Speaker 2: or loved? And today can you have that encounter with
Speaker 2: Him right where you are?
Speaker 3: Because our God sees you, he hears you, he knows you.
Speaker 2: And my God, with every ounce of his being, he
Speaker 2: loves you. So before we run out of here into
Speaker 2: our everyday lives where we go around striving.
Speaker 3: Trying to be heard and seen and loved and known.
Speaker 2: Maybe today before we leave, we allow God to encounter
Speaker 2: us right where we are.
Speaker 3: Amen.
Speaker 2: God has given us this thing that's called our imagination.
Speaker 2: We use that imagination for his glory.
Speaker 3: We have encounters with Him.
Speaker 2: Then maybe we wouldn't have if we didn't use those
Speaker 2: faculties in that kind of way. So today, with your
Speaker 2: hands open, I want you to imagine God hand in
Speaker 2: hand with you. You know how you'll maybe grab your
Speaker 2: grandmother's hand and she squeezes it in a way to
Speaker 2: let you know I'm here, baby, I love you, I
Speaker 2: see you, I know you. Today, with your hands open,
Speaker 2: when you receive the love of God.
Speaker 3: He says that he's a father to the fatherless. He
Speaker 3: knows that you weren't loved by your father the way.
Speaker 2: That you should have been. He said that he is
Speaker 2: a mother to the motherless, and maybe today you're carrying
Speaker 2: some mother wounds. He said that he is a friend
Speaker 2: of sinners. Today, maybe friendship has hurt your heart, maybe
Speaker 2: you have felt betrayal or rejection.
Speaker 3: He is the lover of your soul.
Speaker 2: And honestly that may feel a little even awkward at first,
Speaker 2: but it means that he loves every ounce of who
Speaker 2: you are.
Speaker 3: Today. Would you receive that love?
Speaker 1: God?
Speaker 2: Today, we receive your love. We receive your love. You
Speaker 2: bottle every one of our tears. You give us peace
Speaker 2: that not only calms our mind, but calms our nervous system.
Speaker 2: You give us healing that binds up the wound, the traumas,
Speaker 2: the wounds that we had from a long time ago.
Speaker 2: You don't stand on the other side of our miss
Speaker 2: and ask us to clean it up. You stand shoulder
Speaker 2: to shoulder with us and say, let me help.
Speaker 3: Today. God, we are.
Speaker 2: Asking you to open up our eyes to see you
Speaker 2: the way you see us, To open up our ears
Speaker 2: to hear you the way that you hear us. God,
Speaker 2: open up our minds to know you in a new way.
Speaker 3: And open our hearts.
Speaker 2: To love you back. When we say I love you God,
Speaker 2: essentially what we're saying is I love you too, God,
Speaker 2: because we love you because you first loved us. And
Speaker 2: we don't want this to be just some church experience,
Speaker 2: but one that follows us to work. And when we
Speaker 2: think we got to get the boss to see us
Speaker 2: to get a promotion. We know promotions come from You.
Speaker 3: And God. When we go home and we're with our
Speaker 3: families and we're trying.
Speaker 2: To be seen or understood by our spouse or our kids,
Speaker 2: or our friends, or our siblings, our parents, that we
Speaker 2: can lean back in confidence knowing that we are fully
Speaker 2: known by You. Let this understanding bring us peace that
Speaker 2: passes all understanding. We love you so much. We love
Speaker 2: you too.
Speaker 3: In the name of Jesus, we pray Amen.
Speaker 2: Amen. You may be in this room right now or
Speaker 2: even watching online, and we've been talking about this God
Speaker 2: that loves you from head to toe and you may
Speaker 2: be wondering who is this God and how do I
Speaker 2: get a relationship with him? Well, today I love for
Speaker 2: you to take a next step, and that is to
Speaker 2: receive this free gift of salvation. This God who loves
Speaker 2: you so endlessly, so unconditionally, came to this earth, died
Speaker 2: on the cross, not just for the sins of the world,
Speaker 2: but for you.
Speaker 3: If it was just you on this earth, he would
Speaker 3: have done that.
Speaker 2: If today you want to receive this gift of salvation,
Speaker 2: I'm going to ask you a prayer, to pray a
Speaker 2: prayer after me. All you have to do is believe
Speaker 2: in your heart and confess with your mouth. And so
Speaker 2: if that's you today, and I'm going to ask all
Speaker 2: of our church online and in the room to pray
Speaker 2: this prayer together and say, Dear God, I admit I've
Speaker 2: made mistakes.
Speaker 3: I admit I need a savior I lead.
Speaker 2: I ask that you change my heart, change my motives,
Speaker 2: change my mind, and transform me.
Speaker 3: Today. I believe.
Speaker 2: That you know me, that you hear me, that you
Speaker 2: see me, and that you love me. Today I am
Speaker 2: saved in the name of Jesus. We pray, and everybody
Speaker 2: says a man and a man. If you pray that
Speaker 2: prayer today, either in this room or online, we want
Speaker 2: you to text Saved to A two A two A two,
Speaker 2: and we want to get you some more information about
Speaker 2: how to walk out this life of salvation.
Speaker 3: Don't do it on your own.
Speaker 2: And also if you're heading out of here today, there's
Speaker 2: a booth in the back that you can also get
Speaker 2: some more information the next steps. And I believe we
Speaker 2: might even have some free bibles back there for you,
Speaker 2: So we go back there and get that information. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna ask our all to workers to come up here
Speaker 2: to the front.
Speaker 3: Maybe today you want prayer about anything at all.
Speaker 2: Maybe something that we talked about today, or anything else
Speaker 2: that's going on in your life. You can come up
Speaker 2: here to receive prayer. We love you so much.
Speaker 3: Go out and live a transformed life.