Speaker 1: Welcome. Just hand away tagalog sermon podcast Your Daily does
Speaker 1: some inspiring, heartfelt tagalog sermons from different pastors and speakers
Speaker 1: all over the Philippines. We hope that this podcast finds
Speaker 1: you in good shape. And now here's your message. I
Speaker 1: believe that a person who is going places is driven
Speaker 1: by three things. They are driven by character, they are
Speaker 1: driven by purpose, and they are driven by expectancy. And
Speaker 1: when I say that VCF Victory Christian Fellowship is going places,
Speaker 1: it's not just a catchy sermon title. It's because we
Speaker 1: are going to be a church that is driven, that
Speaker 1: is compelled, that knows what we are about, and we
Speaker 1: are headed there with intentionality. The church is meant to
Speaker 1: be a living, breathing representation of Christ. Following Jesus is
Speaker 1: not just a casual commitment to claim Him as part
Speaker 1: of our lives. No, it should define us. It should
Speaker 1: refine us when people look into our lives. A relationship
Speaker 1: with Jesus Christ should produce character. Character is defined as
Speaker 1: the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual. What
Speaker 1: are the mental and moral qualities distinctive to Victory? What
Speaker 1: makes us different in one year from now, in three
Speaker 1: years in five years, in ten years, what will people
Speaker 1: say about victory Christian fellowship? What will be said of
Speaker 1: those who gather here in this building, in this local assembly,
Speaker 1: who are part of this local church. As I have
Speaker 1: prayed over the last few months and asked God to
Speaker 1: give us a clear direction, a clear vision, I believe
Speaker 1: that He has called to my attention five characteristics that
Speaker 1: will define our church as we go forward. Five characteristics
Speaker 1: that will set us apart. Five characteristics that will lead
Speaker 1: us down the path and drive us to the place
Speaker 1: where Jesus is leading us. The first of those characteristics
Speaker 1: is unconditional love. We will be a church driven by
Speaker 1: a culture of love, love for God and love for others.
Speaker 1: Matthew twenty two, thirty seven through thirty nine reads. Jesus replied,
Speaker 1: you must love the Lord your God with all your heart,
Speaker 1: all your soul, in all your mind. This is the
Speaker 1: first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important, love
Speaker 1: your neighbor as yourself. The first commandment is to love
Speaker 1: God with all our heart, and the second is equal.
Speaker 1: We like to list things, we like to prioritize. We
Speaker 1: live in a nation where we are fast paced and
Speaker 1: continually moving, and we like to put things in order.
Speaker 1: But the Word of God says these two things are
Speaker 1: not one greater than the other, but they are of
Speaker 1: equal importance. They go side by side, hand in hand.
Speaker 1: You can't have one without the other. Jesus said that
Speaker 1: if a man claims to love God but hates his brother,
Speaker 1: the love of the Father is not in him. And
Speaker 1: if a person claims to love God, then they have
Speaker 1: to love other people, because God loves people. Love for
Speaker 1: God and love for others go together. And this love,
Speaker 1: this word that is used, is sometime lost to us
Speaker 1: because we have one word for love, and we characterize
Speaker 1: it by a bunch of other descriptors. But in the
Speaker 1: Greek language, the word that is used here is agape love,
Speaker 1: which is an unconditional love. It is a love without end.
Speaker 1: It is a love without restriction. It is love without qualifications.
Speaker 1: It is a love that flew freely to the life
Speaker 1: of each and every person breathing air on this planet.
Speaker 1: It is a love described in First Corinthians thirteen, verses
Speaker 1: four through eight. I love this passage of scripture. I've
Speaker 1: mentioned it several times over the last few weeks. This
Speaker 1: passage of scripture has seemingly been reduced to a citation
Speaker 1: of scripture performed at marriage ceremonies. And while it's powerful
Speaker 1: advice for newly married couples, that is not the context
Speaker 1: in which that verse of scripture was written. It was
Speaker 1: written to a church, showing them how to love, how
Speaker 1: to live in love in a gape love, a love
Speaker 1: that never fails, a love that always protects. It always
Speaker 1: trust it always hopes, It always perseveres. It does not
Speaker 1: delight in evil, but rejoices with truth. It does not
Speaker 1: dishonor others. It is not selfish, it is not easily angered.
Speaker 1: It keeps no record of wrong love vi agape love,
Speaker 1: the love we're commanded to have of the world is
Speaker 1: not keeping a list of every time they've wronged us.
Speaker 1: It's not keeping a list and saying, well, they don't.
Speaker 1: They rejected us, they rejected my testimony. I've tried time
Speaker 1: and time again, and they've turned me away. The love
Speaker 1: the Father gives us is not keeping a list or
Speaker 1: a record of any of those things. That love tries
Speaker 1: again and again and again despite what people do to us.
Speaker 1: It's patient, it's kind, it's not envious, and it's never
Speaker 1: boastful and never proud Jesus said that we would be
Speaker 1: known by our love for one another. That what would
Speaker 1: set the church, his church, his gathering, his assembly of
Speaker 1: the believers, That what would set us apart from the
Speaker 1: rest of the world would be our love for one
Speaker 1: another and for everyone who is our neighbor. Love compels
Speaker 1: and drives, love pushes. It takes us out into the
Speaker 1: highways and the byeways to share the gospel message of
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. Because if we truly love as God loves,
Speaker 1: and if we truly believe that he is the son
Speaker 1: of God and that he's sitting at the right hand
Speaker 1: of the Father making intercession for us, if we truly
Speaker 1: believe that he came to this life, died on the
Speaker 1: cross for our sins to make a way for us
Speaker 1: to be forgiven. If we truly believe that, and we
Speaker 1: possess the love of God, then there should not be
Speaker 1: a force of hell that could keep us from stepping
Speaker 1: out and sharing that testimony with the world. There should
Speaker 1: not be a demon. They should quake when I come,
Speaker 1: The ground should rumble as I walk. The enemy should
Speaker 1: begin to shake, because I'm walking in the anointing and
Speaker 1: the calling and the power and the authority of God Almighty.
Speaker 1: I pray that the enemy begins to flee in terror
Speaker 1: as I walk out and begin to share the Gospel
Speaker 1: with the world. As I begin to take the Gospel
Speaker 1: Putnam County, as we go out into the highways and byeways,
Speaker 1: and we share with those who are bound in drug addiction,
Speaker 1: bound and alcohol addiction, bound in sinful lifestyles, bound in depression,
Speaker 1: bound in abusive cycles. God came to set them free.
Speaker 1: It is love that drives us to share. It is
Speaker 1: love that compels us. And if we want to be
Speaker 1: the church who Jesus called us to be, we must
Speaker 1: be a church that is driven by love, a church
Speaker 1: that is driven by love. I've heard so many people
Speaker 1: who have come to attend here over the last couple
Speaker 1: of years and how they shared their testimony. They walked
Speaker 1: through the door and something was different. People welcomed them.
Speaker 1: They didn't look down on them, but they welcomed them
Speaker 1: with loving arms. And I can tell you that that
Speaker 1: is the heart that we want to continue, that we
Speaker 1: want to go out from this place. That when people
Speaker 1: speak of victory Christian fellowship, the words we want to
Speaker 1: come off their mouth is that is a church of love.
Speaker 1: That is a church of love. The second characteristic that
Speaker 1: we must have is that we are unified in community.
Speaker 1: That we are a unified community, we will be a
Speaker 1: church of community and unity. We are all part of
Speaker 1: one body, one fellowship, one Lord and savior, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: How many of you know that you can possess community
Speaker 1: without unity. You can be part of a group of
Speaker 1: people and there be discord. You can be part of
Speaker 1: a group and there be fighting and bickering. How many
Speaker 1: of you know you can be part of a family
Speaker 1: and there be bickering and fighting. If you don't know that,
Speaker 1: come watch my kids for a few hours. I promise
Speaker 1: you you'll see it played out. One Corinthians twelve twelve
Speaker 1: through thirteen says the human body has many parts, but
Speaker 1: the many parts make up one whole body. So it
Speaker 1: is with the body of Christ. Some of us are Jews,
Speaker 1: some are gentile, some are slaves, and some are free.
Speaker 1: But we have all been baptized into one body by
Speaker 1: one spirit, and we all share the same spirit. I'm
Speaker 1: here this morning to tell you that Heaven will not
Speaker 1: be divided when we get there, neither should our church be.
Speaker 1: In Revelation seven nine, the Apostle John says, after this,
Speaker 1: I looked, and there before me was a great multitude
Speaker 1: that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people,
Speaker 1: and language, standing before the throne and before the lamb.
Speaker 1: They were wearing white robes, and we're holding palm branches
Speaker 1: in their hands. Will not be divided by nation. We
Speaker 1: will not be divided by color. We will not be
Speaker 1: divided by denomination, not by income level, not by possessions. No,
Speaker 1: we will all be clothed in white. We will all
Speaker 1: stand before the throne of God, and we will all
Speaker 1: give him glory. We will stand before the throne united
Speaker 1: in the sun, Jesus of Nazareth. The belief that one
Speaker 1: person is better than another is the same hate filled
Speaker 1: belief that fueled World War II and led a nation
Speaker 1: to attempt to assassinate a race of people. And you say, well, Pastor,
Speaker 1: I've never wanted to kill anyone. Pastor, I've never wanted
Speaker 1: anyone to die. But Jesus said that if you hate
Speaker 1: your brother, if you have in your heart, you've already
Speaker 1: committed murder in your heart. We are going to see
Speaker 1: people amongst us who have different views, different opinions, come
Speaker 1: from different backgrounds, whatever our differences are, whether they're political, mental,
Speaker 1: or physical. When we get together, the only thing that
Speaker 1: matters is that we believe. We were all created by
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, and that God breathed life into humanity. And
Speaker 1: if God breathed life into humanity, whether or not that
Speaker 1: person serves the Lord, whether or not that person agrees
Speaker 1: with you, whether or not that person is like you,
Speaker 1: there is a piece of God inside of them. And
Speaker 1: if you don't live accordingly and honor that piece of
Speaker 1: God that is inside of them accordingly, then you are
Speaker 1: dishonoring the father God came to bring unity. We are
Speaker 1: all unified by Jesus Christ. Whether we believe now which
Speaker 1: makes us family, because the scripture tells us that we
Speaker 1: are adopted as sons and daughters of the Most High,
Speaker 1: or we are someone who is going to believe. Every
Speaker 1: person deserves the love of God, every person deserves the
Speaker 1: heart of God, and every person deserves to belong. We
Speaker 1: will not look down on one another for our differences,
Speaker 1: but rather we will rejoice in them, because it is
Speaker 1: our differences that gives us our strength. Because you can
Speaker 1: join any group across this nation and you will find differences.
Speaker 1: And the way they segregate and push those things out
Speaker 1: and like to pull everybody in that looks the same
Speaker 1: as them. But the Church was meant not to look alike,
Speaker 1: but for each person to be uniquely and beautifully different,
Speaker 1: so that we can fulfill the call and the purpose
Speaker 1: that God has given us, which brings me to the
Speaker 1: third characteristic. Because we will be a unified community, and
Speaker 1: we will operate and unconditional love, but we will also
Speaker 1: be intentional in discipleship. We will be a church that
Speaker 1: proclaims the gospel, teaching God's word, leading ourselves and others
Speaker 1: to obey God's decrees, training up every remember to find
Speaker 1: their calling within the body of Christ, and sending out
Speaker 1: those who were called to reach our city, our county,
Speaker 1: our country, and our world. And Matthew twenty eight, Jesus said, therefore,
Speaker 1: go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in
Speaker 1: the name of the Father and the Son and the
Speaker 1: Holy spirits. We were commanded to go and make disciples,
Speaker 1: to go and lead people to a committed relationship with Jesus.
Speaker 1: We were never called to believe and go to church.
Speaker 1: We were never called to get together and sing a
Speaker 1: few songs and clap and pat each other on the
Speaker 1: back and tell each other what a good little Christian
Speaker 1: we've been this week. We were called to something more,
Speaker 1: to something deeper. We were called up as an army.
Speaker 1: We were called up to lay war, to lay sieged
Speaker 1: to the strongholds of the enemy. How does the scripture go?
Speaker 1: The Kingdom of Heaven is taken by violence, and the
Speaker 1: violence take it by force. The Kingdom of God is
Speaker 1: pressed forward. When we have a heart and a zeal
Speaker 1: to go and make disciples, we have to do it intentionally.
Speaker 1: It cannot be accidental. Intentional means to do something on purpose.
Speaker 1: We're not going to leave discipleship to chance. We're not
Speaker 1: gonna leave people's salvation to chance. We're not gonna leave
Speaker 1: people's walk with the Father to chance. No, we're going
Speaker 1: to pursue it intentionally, sharing the gospel, leading them to
Speaker 1: obey God's commands. We should live our lives in such
Speaker 1: a way that others take notice and want to know
Speaker 1: about the God we serve. But we are not going
Speaker 1: to just go to church and use the cop out. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm living my life and others will notice because brother
Speaker 1: or sister, if they haven't noticed yet, if they haven't
Speaker 1: noticed yet. If people don't stop you and ask you
Speaker 1: and want to know what's different about you, then it's
Speaker 1: time to pause and evaluate within ourselves. I'm talking as
Speaker 1: much to myself as everyone else this morning. It's easy
Speaker 1: to go through the motions when you've had a long day,
Speaker 1: when things have been difficult for a long season in
Speaker 1: your life. It's easy to just go through the motions.
Speaker 1: It's easy when things are going our way to just
Speaker 1: revel in the excitement and the joy and forget to
Speaker 1: stop and give God the glory for that which He
Speaker 1: has blessed us with. Oh, we put on our Christian hat,
Speaker 1: just like the Pharisees put on their robe. We know
Speaker 1: all the right things to say. We know when to
Speaker 1: pray and when to give God glory. We have a
Speaker 1: form of godliness, but we deny the power of Him
Speaker 1: who created the earth and the heavens and life itself.
Speaker 1: We have become like people who praise God with our lips,
Speaker 1: but whose hearts are far from him. To intentionally disciple
Speaker 1: means that each and every person is being discipled, just
Speaker 1: as they are discipling, And to disciple means to take
Speaker 1: someone by the hand and say let me show you
Speaker 1: the way, let me show you the way. Walk with
Speaker 1: me today. We don't like to do that. We don't
Speaker 1: like to invite people into deep intimate relationship. And if
Speaker 1: the truth is known, it's because we don't want them
Speaker 1: to see the other side of us. Because we all
Speaker 1: talk about how Facebook has caused degradation of society and
Speaker 1: how everyone wants to put out a highlight reel and
Speaker 1: put out the best image of themself and no one
Speaker 1: ever sees the bad anymore. But that was going on
Speaker 1: a long time before Facebook, and it was going on
Speaker 1: right here in the church because we stopped letting people
Speaker 1: into our lives. We stopped welcoming them to do life
Speaker 1: with us because we didn't want them to see us
Speaker 1: yell and scream at our wives, because we didn't want
Speaker 1: them to see us share our fist at the person
Speaker 1: down the road and tell them that they're number one
Speaker 1: when they cut us off. We didn't want people to
Speaker 1: see that we don't have a prayer time, we don't
Speaker 1: open our Bible and study it. We don't want people
Speaker 1: to see that our Bible collects dust in our house
Speaker 1: and we're living off the same food that we were
Speaker 1: fed twenty years ago in a sermon in a move
Speaker 1: of God and the Altars, when God impacted our life
Speaker 1: and spoke to us. We're living off that same dry,
Speaker 1: stale word that we got twenty years ago, rather than
Speaker 1: looking for something fresh and something new in the presence
Speaker 1: of God. We have to have a hunger, We have
Speaker 1: to have a desire for the things of God, because
Speaker 1: it has to start with me first. I have to
Speaker 1: want to go deeper in my relationship with God. If
Speaker 1: you have no desire to get any closer to God,
Speaker 1: then it's time to reevaluate, because it should drive us,
Speaker 1: and then we should look to lead others to spend
Speaker 1: time with others to invest in their lives. One Corinthians
Speaker 1: twelve eighteen says, but our bodies have many parts, and
Speaker 1: God has put each part just where He wants it.
Speaker 1: You see, when we disciple, when we lead others to
Speaker 1: a deeper relationship with Jesus, we help them find their
Speaker 1: purpose and their calling in the Kingdom of God. We
Speaker 1: are leading them to become part of the community. We
Speaker 1: spend so much time in this life and in this
Speaker 1: culture as a nation desiring everybody else's talents and gifts.
Speaker 1: The person with straight hair wants curly here. The person
Speaker 1: with curly hair wants straight here. The person who's tall
Speaker 1: wants to be short. The person who's short wants to
Speaker 1: be tall. The person who's outspoken wants to be funny.
Speaker 1: The person who's funny wants to be outspoken. The person
Speaker 1: who's wise wants to be well liked. The person who's
Speaker 1: well liked wants to be wise. We spend all of
Speaker 1: our time looking at everybody else around us, looking at
Speaker 1: what they are, what they've done with their life, and
Speaker 1: we want to be them, rather than being happy with
Speaker 1: who we are. Because if I believe that God is
Speaker 1: inside of each and every person, that He breathed life
Speaker 1: into them, and I love that piece of them, then
Speaker 1: I have to believe that there's a peace of God
Speaker 1: inside of me and that God designed me intentionally. And
Speaker 1: what I would propose to you this morning is that
Speaker 1: the reason why we struggle to love people, why we
Speaker 1: struggle to love others, is because we don't love ourselves
Speaker 1: because we're not happy with who we are. We're not
Speaker 1: happy with who God created me to be, because I've
Speaker 1: spent my whole life wishing to be someone else. So
Speaker 1: rather than walking in the calling, walking in the anointing,
Speaker 1: walking in the strength and in the weaknesses, that God
Speaker 1: created me to be, that he knit me together in
Speaker 1: my mother's womb, and that he was intentional when he
Speaker 1: did it. I was not an accident, but I was
Speaker 1: on purpose. If I believe that, then I have to
Speaker 1: begin to walk a walk of joy, a walk of peace,
Speaker 1: and I begin to walk a walk that is driven
Speaker 1: because I know who I am. I know who I
Speaker 1: am in Jesus. God created each and every one of
Speaker 1: us specifically. It is time to stop wishing that we
Speaker 1: were someone or something else and instead rejoice in who
Speaker 1: God has made us to be. He's called us to
Speaker 1: be a church of unconditional love, to be a church
Speaker 1: of unified community, to be a church of intentional discipleship.
Speaker 1: And as I come to a close, some of you
Speaker 1: may remember back to the beginning of this message and say, well, Pastor,
Speaker 1: you said you had five. Come back next week. We
Speaker 1: got two more. Just a little teaser for you, We
Speaker 1: got two more. But this morning I wanted to focus
Speaker 1: on these three and give them adequate attention and allow
Speaker 1: them to sink into our spirits over the week. Every
Speaker 1: value on this list, every characteristic directs our tension, our
Speaker 1: attention from ourselves to others. It takes our focus off
Speaker 1: me and mine and my wants and begins to ask
Speaker 1: what everyone else needs. We live in a society today
Speaker 1: of what I call church hoppers. We go from church
Speaker 1: to church, from place to place, looking to be fed.
Speaker 1: We go and we say, well, I didn't like the
Speaker 1: worship here, I didn't like the preaching there. Well, I'm
Speaker 1: just not being fed. How many of us know someone
Speaker 1: who said that we move from place to place because
Speaker 1: we're always focused on our selves because we're not walking
Speaker 1: in the love of God, because the love of God
Speaker 1: is not selfish. The love of God doesn't ask what
Speaker 1: do I get? Love of God asks what can I give?
Speaker 1: John F. Kennedy, on his inaugural speech, looked at the
Speaker 1: nation and said, ask not what your country can do
Speaker 1: for you, but rather what you can do for your country.
Speaker 1: And I say to you that those are some of
Speaker 1: the most powerful words, not because they sparked national pride,
Speaker 1: but because they are biblical, because we should ask not
Speaker 1: what the church can do for you, Rather we should
Speaker 1: ask what we can do for the church. How do
Speaker 1: I fit? What can I give? What role do I play?
Speaker 1: Is this where God has called me to be? Is
Speaker 1: this what God has called me to do? Do I
Speaker 1: believe with all my heart that God has placed me
Speaker 1: in Victory Christian Fellowship for such a time as this?
Speaker 1: Do I believe that God has called me here? And
Speaker 1: if I believe that, then it has to be for
Speaker 1: some other reason than simply for me to be fed.
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. I want you to be fed.
Speaker 1: I want you to be equipped. I want you to
Speaker 1: be trained up and ready to go so that when
Speaker 1: you walk out those doors. I want Victory Christian Fellowship
Speaker 1: to be a force to be reckoned with. I want
Speaker 1: the enemy to quake. But the only way that happens
Speaker 1: is when we redirect our attention to Him and to
Speaker 1: everyone else around us. Do we live our lives in
Speaker 1: the love of Jesus? Do we simply go to church
Speaker 1: or are we part of the church? And do we
Speaker 1: intentionally lead others to a committed relationship with Jesus? Or
Speaker 1: have we just been going through life expecting others to
Speaker 1: somehow know it? Because the answer to those questions defines
Speaker 1: our response. Because if we ask those questions and we
Speaker 1: are honest with ourselves, and we find ourselves to be lacking.
Speaker 1: The answer is not to go out and work harder.
Speaker 1: The answer is not seven steps to a better you,
Speaker 1: not eleven steps to a deeper walk with Jesus. No,
Speaker 1: the answer is Jesus. The answer is the King of
Speaker 1: kings and the Lord of lords. And when we recognize
Speaker 1: that something is out of line in our life, then
Speaker 1: the scriptures tell us that we need to confess those
Speaker 1: things to him. Confess those things to one another if
Speaker 1: you're comfortable with him, and trust that he is faithful
Speaker 1: to forgive you, faithful to forgive us. We're not perfect.
Speaker 1: There's not a person sitting in this room right now
Speaker 1: that's perfect. Every one of us make mistakes. Every one
Speaker 1: of us mess up. Even people who are going places
Speaker 1: have their share of mistakes alone. The way, The question
Speaker 1: is do we let the mistakes become our identity and
Speaker 1: transplant our character or does our character usurp the mistakes
Speaker 1: and define us? Does our character change who we are?
Speaker 1: Does our character alter our step when we step out
Speaker 1: of line? Does our character change our course? Does our
Speaker 1: character define our direction? I believe with all of my
Speaker 1: heart that God is going to use this church to
Speaker 1: impact this community. I'll go a step further. I believe
Speaker 1: with all my heart that this church is going to
Speaker 1: be instrumental in the outpouring of God's spirit in this county.
Speaker 1: It is going to be instrumental, and that outpouring of
Speaker 1: God's Spirit is going to only be for this church.
Speaker 1: We will spread across this county. But it starts with me,
Speaker 1: It starts with you, It starts with our desires, with
Speaker 1: our hearts. Are we surrendered to God? Are we submitted
Speaker 1: to Him? Do I want to be all that I
Speaker 1: can be for Jesus? Do I want to accomplish all
Speaker 1: that I can accomplish for Him? Or am I satisfied?
Speaker 1: Am I content? Desiring nothing new from the Father? If
Speaker 1: you would say, Pastor, I'm in wholehearted agreement with the
Speaker 1: three characteristics that you've spoken, and I want to be
Speaker 1: an instrumental part of living every day in those characteristics
Speaker 1: in this church, please do not take this lightly. You
Speaker 1: want to live in unconditional love, to live in unified community,
Speaker 1: and to intentionally disciple people around you. Would you just
Speaker 1: stand all across this room and say, I'm willing. I'm willing.
Speaker 1: This is a commitment that you're making to God, saying
Speaker 1: I am willing considerate marriage. Valves that we will love,
Speaker 1: we will we will live in unified community, and we
Speaker 1: will intentionally disciple all across this room. Can we lift
Speaker 1: our hands if you're standing, Lord, right now, we surrender
Speaker 1: our hearts to you. We surrender our lives. Lord. I
Speaker 1: open myself up to you, as the others in this
Speaker 1: room begin to open theirselves up to you as well. Lord,
Speaker 1: and I pray that you would search my heart. Lord,
Speaker 1: if I have fallen short of any of these things. Lord,
Speaker 1: I pray that you would bring it into submission right
Speaker 1: now in the mighty name of Jesus. Lord, I pray
Speaker 1: that as I go from this place this morning, Lord,
Speaker 1: as we go out this week, Lord, I pray, let
Speaker 1: these characteristics begin not only to define our church, but Lord,
Speaker 1: let them define my life. That people will be compelled
Speaker 1: by the Gospel of Jesus that is living in me. Lord,
Speaker 1: I pray send a revival to this county. Lord. We
Speaker 1: pray that you would use us, use us, Lord, to
Speaker 1: minister to those who are hurting, those who are lost,
Speaker 1: those who are without hope. God, that we would be
Speaker 1: a light on a hill sharing your gospel with the world. Lord,
Speaker 1: we recognize this morning that if we just repeat these
Speaker 1: words and don't submit them to you, that that's all
Speaker 1: they are. But Lord, if you will come alongside and
Speaker 1: root these words in our heart, write the scriptures on
Speaker 1: our souls, then Lord, we should leave this place different
Speaker 1: and changed, and Lord, we should become world changers. Lord,
Speaker 1: I pray, let it be said of Victory Christian Fellowship
Speaker 1: that we turn the world upside down for the glory
Speaker 1: of God. Praise God. Let it be said of us
Speaker 1: that we are a church of love. Let it be
Speaker 1: said of us that we are a church of community.
Speaker 1: Let it be said of us that we are a
Speaker 1: church of intentional discipleship. Let it be said of us, Lord,
Speaker 1: that as for us and our house, we will follow
Speaker 1: the Lord God Almighty. Let it be said of us God,
Speaker 1: that we will stand with boldness and proclaim the Gospel
Speaker 1: of Jesus to the corners of this county. Let it
Speaker 1: be said of us that we are a people who
Speaker 1: have a heart for God, just as David had a
Speaker 1: heart for You. Lord, I pray, let it define us
Speaker 1: this morning we surrender to you. It's in your mighty
Speaker 1: name that we pray. Jesus, Amen, thank you for listening.
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