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Red Rocks Church. How you doing? You feel good? Hey, will you help me say hi to everybody? What's up? All the Denver locations. We love you so much. Austin, Texas, what's happening? We are so excited to be doing church with you today, Austin. I know right now in Austin, a whole bunch of you, like, right now in this building, you're sitting in overflows and lobbies and stairwells, and some of you have chairs, some of you are sitting on boxes. Austin, don't ever take that for granted. When you can't find a parking spot, when you can't find a seat, say thank you, Jesus, that you're doing miracles here in Austin. We love you guys. We're glad you're with us. Brussels, Belgium. Love you. All the men and women at our correctional facilities in both states and everybody joining online. We're so glad you're with us. I like to say this at the beginning of almost every I do because I know that we'll have people that are joining us for the first time. And honestly, you're gonna find out anyways. Cause you're gonna meet Doug here or Ethan and Batat in Austin, and you're gonna find out anyways. We're a bunch of messed up, imperfect, broken people. But, man, we love to get together like this and pursue a perfect God, praise a perfect God, be changed by a perfect God. And so no matter what you got going on in your life, that just means when you show up here, we're gonna do make sure that you know you're loved and valued. You're welcome here. Welcome home. Welcome to Red Rocks Church. High five. Somebody have a seat. Let's get this party going. Anybody make a New Year's resolution? Three of you. That's not true. See, a bunch of. You made them. Three of you kept them. The whoo down here is like, I'm still going to. How many of you were in church? We could be honest. How many of you. You made a New Year's resolution and it slipped. Let's be honest. It slipped. It's okay. We got a prayer team at every location. Gym was real full the first week of January. I was there yesterday. Not aligned for anything yesterday. A friend called me the other day, and he goes, man, I'm so glad 2025's over. I will not miss 2025. Anybody feel that way? I kind of have that feeling as well, but. And I'm really excited for 2026, but I just thought this is my first chance to get to talk to you guys in 2026. And before we go racing into 2026 for the rest of the year, I just want to take a moment and together we're going to thank God. Not yet. Don't make noise yet. We're going to go crazy here in a second and thank God for, for what he did for us as a church family in and through our church family in 2025. All right, so in 2025 our word of the year was more and we talked about it all year long. God, would you do more than we could ever ask or think or imagine? And I'm telling you, church he did in 2025 here and in Austin, 12,701 salvations. He did more church. 2,610 baptisms. And a bunch of you came from Austin and a bunch more of you that live here. We got to celebrate our 20 year anniversary at Red Rocks amphitheater. That was crazy. And as a church family supporting over 30 non for profits locally and organizations and people around the world in 2025, we got to give away over $2.4 million to help hurting people to reach lost people church. Can we go crazy thanking God for what he did in 2025? So I like to start off usually one of the first times I talk at the beginning of every year and tell you as a church family what we believe kind of our word of the year will be. So last year it was more. And so this year, man, we've been praying and talking and deliberating and praying and so the word of the year, if you haven't already heard it. All right, drumroll. Knee, knee, thigh, drumroll. The word of the year for 2026, Red Rocks Church is miracle. Somebody make some noise. I'm believing we're going to see some miracles in 2026 church. I'm not worried about those of us who have let our New Year's resolution slip because I'm not worried about what we can do in our power this year. I want to know what God can do in our lives, in our family, through our families, in our church family, through his miraculous power this year. That's what I'm believing for. And I'm just telling you right now, I'm believing that God's going to do some miracles in your life, in your family, in the lives of your loved ones, in our church, through our church. I'm just believing it. And if you're here today and you're going through something and it feels impossible, I just want to tell you you're in the right spot because you're going to be surrounded by people who are just going to. We're just going to decide. We're just going to get something in our heart and go, I've just decided. This is the year. I'm a lock arms with some other believers and we're going to believe for the impossible. In Jesus name, amen. All right, so we're starting this new series today called Miracle Mindset. And the tagline is let's believe for the impossible. So if you're. If you're in Denver, this is week one of the series Austin. For those of you that are watching in Austin today, I realize this is week two for you, but we're in this series. Go ahead and give me that wide shot. Yep. Miracle mindset. Let's believe for the impossible. Does that sound like something anybody in here might need? You know what I mean? Like, I haven't talked to anybody recently who either they or somebody they love isn't going through something. And so I just know that, like, if we could take care of some of these things on our own, we already would have. If I. If I could set myself free from that addiction, from that temptation, from that issue, this is a whole bunch of our stories. If I could set. If I could experience freedom from that, I already would have. I need God's power to get involved. I need some miraculous power to get involved. We're doing this series and go ahead and put up that slide of all of the first point there. So I want to break down our title, Miracle Mindset. And I want to talk about the subtitle, let's Believe for Some Miracles. I want to talk about that today. Because like I said, I am believing that this is going to be the year that our story is going to be. At the end of this year, we're going to look back and go, yeah, yeah, we went through some stuff and there were some hurdles and we had some things we didn't see coming. But let me tell you about the miracles God did in our life. Let me tell you about the miracles he did in my life. Let me tell you about the miracles he did through our church, through our church family. Like, I'm believing that's gonna be our story church. And so we're gonna break down this title and the subtitle today. Cause I wanna make sure that for the rest of the year, we're all operating kind of, you know, from the same foundation. And so first off, I want to start with that word miracle. And so anytime for the rest of the year, you hear Us talking about that word miracle. What we mean is we're talking about something. A miracle is when God does what we can't. And you see the verse there? Psalm 77:14 says this. You are the God who performs miracles. Excuse me, you are the God who performs miracles. You display your power among the peoples Church. Miracles are what God does. And I just want to make sure as we start this series that every single one of you listening or watching, I don't care where you're watching or listening from, that you understand. Miracles are what God does. And this applies to you. Miracles is what. It's what God does. And the problem, the reason I say I just want you to make sure you know it applies to you is because sometimes we get. We get stuck on this and we hear that phrase, you know, that somebody found a miracle, saw a miracle, experienced a miracle. We hear the word miracle. And for a bunch of us, if we're not careful, we go, yeah, maybe for them, but that's not my story, right? And I just want you to know that miracles is what our God does. And this applies to you. God shows us all throughout the Bible. There's nothing, there's nothing too small or too big for him to get involved with when people decide to come to him and pray. Miracles are what happens. It's all through the Bible. Because people prayed. Food fell from heaven. I'd like to have seen that. Because people prayed. Water sprung out of a rock because people prayed. Blind people see, lame people walk, deaf people hear, dead people rise. Lives are changed in all forms and fashions in all kinds of ways in the present and for all of eternity. All. When we come to God and we talk to him about what's going on, miracles are what happens. And it's available to every single one of us. It's available to you. And so I want to ask you today, do you need a miracle? Maybe for some of you, it feels heavy. Maybe you've got a diagnosis. Someone you love has a diagnosis. Like, man, we need a miracle. Maybe it's a financial thing and you're like, what I feel like we're facing, it just feels impossible. Maybe it's a relationship thing. Maybe it's a marriage, a marriage gone wrong. Maybe it's the fact that you want to be married. Like Brian said a couple weeks ago, you'd like for 2026 to be the year that God brings you a date so you can get that process going, and that would be a miracle. Maybe for some it's things like anxiety and depression, things you feel like it's just impossible to ever experience freedom from. Maybe for you it's, I need guidance. Well, that too, is a miracle, because again, it's God doing what we can't. It's the God of the universe speaking through His Holy Spirit, through His Word, through other people, however he decides to do it. So speaking to us about our lives. And maybe you go. The miracle I need right now is I need the God of the universe to give me some guidance on what's next. What's next in life, in my career after school, do I stay or do I go? I need wisdom. I need guidance. For some, a miracle would be I need the Holy Spirit to help me establish, like, a real, authentic relationship with God. I want to be able to hear his voice. I want to feel like he's with me as I'm walking through this world. Like they're all. They're all miracles because those are all things that God does for us that we can't do for ourselves. And I'm just believing that that's gonna happen for you this year. I wanna share a story. I was thinking I could bore you guys to death. I could talk for two, three hours if I thought you'd stay and just tell you miracle after miracle after miracle after miracle that we've experienced in the now 21 years as a church family called Red Rocks. And I picked a story that it's not too heavy. And you'll see why I chose to tell this story. It's kind of fun and it's personal to me and Jill, and you'll see why here in just a second. But in our first year, man, we were, like, broke. Church wasn't able to pay us anything for a while, and there was no health insurance. And so we're all working side jobs and. And on paper, every single month. If you look at our life on paper, you go, it doesn't make sense. What you owe is more than you bring in. Just never worked out on paper. But every single month, it worked out because we do serve a miracle working God. So we got in this situation where we needed a car. I had a. I don't know if you guys are familiar with this amazing vehicle. I had a Volkswagen Passat. Some of you are like, I've never heard of that. There's a reason they stopped making those for sure. Maybe they still do. I don't know. But this car was in the shop every time we blinked. And some of you know this. In fact, I talked to someone in the church last week that this is their story. We just put the car in the shop and it's gonna cost more than the car's worth to get fixed. You ever have that happen? And so that was our situation. So someone loaned us a Nissan Xterra. Me and Andy Bernard, if you know, you know we're driving our Nissan Xterras. Well, this one that this guy loaned me was a two wheel drive, rear wheel drive car. Now Austin, that might be fine for you guys. It's not fine here. It's an accident waiting to happen. The snow, the ice, don't even dare go up in the mountains. I, and I didn't know, I'm new to Denver. So all of a sudden the person needs their car back. We don't know what we're going to do. I know first world problems, but still it felt, felt like a problem. Well, Jill and I went to something and we felt like God had asked us to give above and beyond our tithe to something. And I was thinking about it today, I was like, you know, God knows all and sees all. And so I think he like, you know, sees our thoughts and our motives and all this stuff. And I think as he looked down at wife and gave us this opportunity to give above and beyond our tithe when we desperately need a car, I think she would have looked at my wife and in her heart she was going, thank you God for this opportunity. Of course I would. Why wouldn't I? And if he could see into my soul, I'd be going, are you kidding me? Do you not see us? We're broke. How am I going to get us a car? Like so anyways we do it? Jill goes, well, how you feel? I'm like, see, I'm in a tricky spot with these things when they pop up. Because I had just asked her to leave all of her friends and family and move across the country to start a church. And I'm a pastor so I can't sometimes say what I really think. And so she goes, how you feeling? I'm like, feel great. Praise God, you know, another opportunity to give. She goes, what's wrong, babe? I go, I'm just like, I'm freaking out over this car thing. And we don't make any money and we like, it never works out. I don't know how it's going to get fixed. My wife goes, well, let's just pray. Again, the pastor thing. So in the moment, put me on a polygraph test. I don't know how much I thought praying was going to help. But again, she moved across the country. Start the church, be a pastor. So you got to say, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's pray about that. I remember where we were standing in the kitchen when we prayed, held hands. My wife prayed that God would take care of this in a way we can't. And church, you can't make this stuff up. I'm in the back of the theme park in Heritage Square. And it's funny, in my notes, I put standing in the auditorium. Auditorium's a bit generous for what that room was. It was about 2,000 square feet of bug infested nothingness. But it was our auditorium. So I'm standing in the auditorium, and these two guys walk in, and I go, what's up, fellas? And you can't make this up. The guy goes, he just got right into it. He goes, hey, God woke me up last night. Like he was blaming me for it. He's like, God woke me up last night, middle of the night. I know that. I know that. I know. He told me what to do. Woke me up middle of the night, told me, I'm supposed to buy you a car. I said, what? He said, yeah, I called him. He prayed about it, said he was gonna pay for half of it. So you want to take a trip to a car lot? I'm not even kidding, guys. I'm like, all right, I'm going to kiss you right now. I drove home that day in a slightly used silver Jeep Commander. I thought it was the coolest car on the planet, had leather seats, the air conditioning worked, and had four wheel drive. I pull up into the house, and I was like, yo, babe, man of faith here with our miracle. I said, can you believe it? And she goes, yeah, we prayed. I know. Here's why I chose that story, because I was telling all my friends about that when it happened. Obviously, when that happens, you tell all your friends. And they kept one at a time going, bro, I need some stuff too. Will you pray for me to. And every time one of my friends said, will you pray for me? You know what I said? And it was like, half joking, half not. I go, oh, you don't want me to pray for you? You want Jill to pray for you? And I probably said that to our leadership team and to people on staff. Again, half joking, half. Not 100 times in the last 21 years. We really need to pray for a. And I'll go, yeah, we do. You don't want me to pray. You want Jill to pray. Because somewhere in here. Somewhere in here. Real talk. I don't Feel like I'm quite good enough for God to do miracles for sometimes. But I look at her and I go, I see why he'd do a miracle for her. I mean, you look up fruits of the Spirit in the dictionary and it's her picture just smiling at you. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, self control. It's her you want to talk about consistency in God's word and in his presence, it's her like I've never seen before. So I look at her life and I go, of course he'd want to do a miracle for her. And I say this because I know that's how a bunch of you feel. You want to clap because we're doing a series called Miracle Mindset. And when I say, do you need a miracle? You go, yeah, I do. And if you, if all of us took a polygraph test tonight, I wonder how many of us would actually believe that we're worthy of God doing a miracle for us. That's where we struggle. That's what we deal with. And so I want to talk about that for a second church. God only does miracles in the lives of broken people, because what other kinds are there? And I think God goes way out of his way to show us this all through his Word. And we could look at any of your favorite Bible characters and you'd end up, if you dug into it with that lens, you'd end up at the same thing. You'd go, wow, wait a sec. He does miracles in and through real imperfect people, right? Moses, if you haven't been in church or you don't know the stories, Moses got angry and murdered someone. And then he ran from the law and his calling for 40 years. And God looked at Moses and went, you're a great candidate for some miracles. Because, see, I still forgive sins and I still redeem and renew lives, and I still restore and I still change. And so he starts talking to him through a burning bush. And then he sends him to the most powerful man on the planet, Pharaoh. And he says, just go tell him to let the nation of Israel out of a 400 year stint of slavery. And I wish I could hear the whole conversation because I can't help but think Moses is like, well, are you sending me with an army or what? And God's like, nah, take a stick. And he does. And he goes to Pharaoh and he sees the ten plagues of Egypt in miraculous fashion. And then they let him go. And then they get down and he takes his stick and God parts the Red Sea. Miraculously and they all go through it. Like, talk about someone who saw miracles. He had a really bad past, had done some really bad things. God's not looking for perfect. See, look at King David, right? Killed Goliath with the slingshot in a miraculous way, became king, won battle after battle after battle in this, like, miraculous fashion. God says, you're a man after my own heart. Through the miraculous power of the Holy Spirit, God spoke through him. And he ends up writing many of the psalms that are in our Bible today that have been changing people's lives for thousands of years. Miracles. Dude saw miracles. One night, he gave in to lust, and he cheated on his wife, and then he got the girl pregnant, and he was afraid that the husband was gonna find out and that he was gonna get caught. And so then he had the husband murdered. But God said, you know what? I can do something with your life if you let me. I know you've made some mistakes. I know there's been some hard times. I know you have some regrets. But I still forgive and I still redeem, and I still renew and I still restore, and I still change lives, and I still do miracles in and through broken people. And we could go all the way through the Bible. The apostle Paul, the apostle Peter, same thing like Paul spent the first part of his life trying to stomp out Christianity, like, eradicate it from this planet. He got paperwork from the officials so that he could go rip kids out of their houses and away from their parents if he heard they believed in Jesus, and rip women out of houses and men and have them beaten and arrested and eventually executed. And God says, yeah, let's do some miracles in and through his life. Let's have him start churches all over the known world and then write about half the New Testament of the Bible. The Apostle Peter denies even knowing who Jesus was on the night he was going to be beaten nearly to death at the whipping post and then taken to the cross. But yet Jesus goes and gets him after the resurrection and says, you're the perfect candidate for some miracles. I know you got a past. I know you got some problems. I know you've got some temptations. I know you got struggles up here. I know you've had doubts. You're the perfect candidate for some miracles. And. And he gives him the Holy Spirit, and he preaches the very first message about the resurrected Jesus in a church service. He starts the church. And now 2.3 billion people believe in that resurrected Jesus around the world today, because God still uses broken people and does miracles in and through their lives. And so I just want to make sure that you understand that miracles, that's what our God does. And this applies to you. And that's really Good news. Hebrews 4:16. Let us then approach God's throne. Here's why. Here it is. Approach God's throne of grace. That's why. With confidence, so that you may receive mercy and find help in your time of need. God says, I know everything about you. In fact, I believe God wants to say to somebody right now, and he knows what you're going through, and you've been thinking, I need a miracle. And he knows. And you've been thinking, but God wouldn't want to do that for me. God wouldn't want to hear from me. Now's not the time to ask him for anything. Not after the way I've been living, not after I didn't do what I said I would, not after I did again what I said I wouldn't. And God's going, son, daughter, I know. I see you. I love you. If you've put your faith in Jesus, you're perfect in my sight. Miracles are what I think God would say. Miracles are what I do. And that applies to you. Could you let something happen in here and in here today where you start to go, I'm just going to start to do what he said. He said I can approach him with confidence and believe that he would do a miracle for someone like me. Amen. All right, so miracle. Let's go back to the. There we go. So miracle when God does what we can't. Mindset. Very deep definition here. Where we set our mind. I know. Brilliant, isn't it? Mindset, where we set our mind. But this is actually crazy important. Colossians 3. 2 says this. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. That's why we're doing the 21 days of prayer and Fasting church. And if you're new and you didn't know about it, I'm going to tell you a little bit about it. If you're in Denver, it starts this Monday on the 12th. All right, if you're watching from Austin, you need to hear this more than anybody because you're a week into your fast, and nobody wants to quit a fast more than somebody who's a weekend. The reason we're doing this is because we're going to get real serious about setting our minds on God and the things above and taking our focus off of things that we're dealing with, Earth. And so if you would put that Put that graphic up about the fast. And so I know Ryan explained this at the beginning of the year, but just in case you're joining us here in Denver for the first time or in Austin for the first time, there's four different ways that you can jump into this thing. Soul fast, selective food fast, partial food fast food, and complete food fast. That first one, that soul fast, that's. I'm just going to cut something out of my life that my flesh craves. See, when we fast and pray, we're starving our flesh from something it wants so that we can feed our spirit something it needs. So we're taking something out of our life. So maybe for you, that's. That's Instagram or. Or social media or. Or select or a screen that's not absolutely essential in your life. You'll know, ask God, is there something in my life that you'd like for me to cut out so that I can spend some time setting my mind on you? God. Me and Jill were at dinner the other night with BZ and Kelly. I didn't ask him if I could tell this. So we'll see if I get in trouble. Bz, let me know how bad this goes. We're at dinner the other night with BZ and Kelly, and we're talking about the fast, and Kelly was talking about some things that she was going to fast, and she has a whole list of things she was going to fast. And. And one of them she said, was online shopping. And BZ goes, what? And she goes, that's it. I'm not gonna be on social media. I'm not buying anything online for 21 days. I thought BZ was gonna faint in the spirit. He's like, the miracles are already happening in this fast. Just something that you feel like is like, man, I'll cut something out of my life so I can spend a little bit more of my focus setting my mind on him. Then that second one is the selective food fast. You know, a lot of people will say, you know, I'm going to take away sugar or alcohol or meat, or I'm only going to eat certain foods or. And for 21 days, I'm going to choose certain things that I would normally that my flesh craves. I'm going to say no to. And then we'll go spend some time with God instead. It's partial food fast. That's cutting out food entirely for a part of a day. So a lot of times people go, I'm going to fast breakfast and then go spend some time with God or I'm a fast lunch and go spend some time with God or I'm going to fast all food from sun up to sundown and multiple times go spend time with God. And then the last one is the complete food fast. And Ryan said it and I'll repeat it. If you're just starting, that is in my opinion, not the place you want to start. But it's very doable. But if that's what you want to do, I would consider maybe asking a doctor or a nutritionalist or doing some research and make sure you're doing it in a healthy way. But the goal is we're going to take something out of our life for 21 days and we're going to get real serious about replacing it with the presence of God. Now church, if you fast breakfast and don't spend any more time with God, it's not a spiritual fast, that's a diet, alright? And you may need that, that's great. But it's just not what we're talking about. So for me, I just want to get real practical here. For me, when I do stuff like this. Would you put that slide up? I'm going to figure out what I'm going to fast and then I'm going to figure out how I'm going to replace it. And for me, I always start when I do a fast. I always start with getting a journal. You can go to wherever you want and get fancy leather bound journals and spend all the money you want. You can go to Target and get one for 99 cents. Our creative team made this one and it is awesome. I think you can get it in the lobby for about 10 bucks. But whatever works for you. If you get this one every single day, it's got a prayer and a verse and something for you to focus on. And so I like how practical it is. But, but I always start with a journal because I want to write down what I'm praying for and as time goes on I want to come back and write down the results and how God miraculously got involved. I'm going to tell you about one of my old journals that I just read recently here in a sec. But these are, it's really, it's fun to be able to come back to this and go, man, look what I was going through at this point in life. And then look what God did. And so I would challenge you to get a journal as we start. For me, I like to throw on a song and spend a little chunk of the time just worshiping God. I'M going to come up with some sort of Bible reading plan for myself over those 21 days. Every day there's going to be prayer, and every day I'm going to focus on a few of his promises. And I want to give you a little bit of a cheat sheet. So if you have your phone, take a screenshot of this next one. These are just six of the promises that I find myself leaning on all the time. Especially when I'm praying and believing for God to do something that to me, feels impossible. And I'm waiting for him to do what only he can do. And so sometimes what I like to do is. And this helps me, and it'll help you. I want. Because I want to try to take my mind off of my worry and put my mind back onto my God. And so I'm just going to remind myself. And you go read these verses on your time. I'm just going to remind myself I know that what I'm believing for feels impossible. But my God loves me, man, and he's with me right now, even on the days I don't feel it. And he's working in my life on the days I can't see it. And he has a plan for my life. That's his promise. And for my God, nothing is impossible. This thing we're facing, it feels impossible. Nothing is impossible for my God. And my God still does miracles and God. And guess what? That applies to me in Jesus name. And we're gonna start believing for the impossible. So that's a very practical way to help you start doing that. And when we do, listen, listen. Here's God's promise. Isaiah 26:3. You keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you because he trusts you. Church miracles are God's responsibility. Mindset is ours. We get to choose. Do I keep focusing on the problem? Do I keep talking about the problem? Do I keep letting my mind go over the problem again and again and again and again? Or do I on purpose go, uh, I get to control what I focus on. And the thing that I'm worried about, it is very real, but so is my God. And so I've decided this year I'm gonna have a miracle mindset. I'm gonna take my mind off this. I'm gonna put it on my God. Miracles are his responsibility, but church mindset is ours. All right, number three, miracle. When God does what we can't mindset, we're gonna set our mind on him on purpose. Because. And here's the subtitle, the Goal is, is we can look at each other and go, hey, here's what I'm going through. Someone else can go, I'll tell you what I've been dealing with. We'll tell you what we're going to do together. Then let's believe for the impossible. That's what we're going to do in 2026. Matthew 19:26, Jesus said this. Jesus looked at them and said, with man, this is impossible, but with God, all things are possible. And that tagline, let's believe for miracles was very strategic. I don't know that I ever got above a C in any English class, but even I know that LET S stands for let. That's it. Ryan said it already in this series. Miracles is a team sport, Church. We are not going on this journey by ourselves. Let us start believing together for some miracles. You believe for me, I'll believe for you. You pray for me, I'll pray for you. That's what we're supposed to do. Galatians 6:2. Carry each other's burdens, and in this way, you will fulfill the law of Christ. Just got together with my small group this week, and me and seven other guys do what we do twice a month. Every time we go around the circle and we get very real about what's going on in our life and. And then we go, ma', am, would you guys pray with me? Would you pray for my son? Would you pray for my daughter? Would you pray for my wife? Would you pray for our marriage? Would you pray for this thing I'm going through? Would you pray? That's what we do, Church. We carry each other's burdens by going to fight for and with each other through prayer. James 5:16. Pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective, and we're going to get uber practical today. So everybody at every location, get your phone out, turn it on. Who am I kidding? Your phones are all on. Let it see your face so you can use it. We're going to get extremely practical through this series with this whole, let us pray together and believe for the impossible. And the creative team has done an amazing job of making this very, very doable. So put that first picture up, if you would. If you're watching online, you can scan that QR code. If you're in a building with a chair in front of you with a tap plate, tap that tap plate right now with your phone, every one of you, please. And as you do so, here's what you should be experiencing. Go ahead and play that video. This is amazing. Look. Oh, that's me and Doug on a moped on that phone. That's fantastic. Right? So it's gonna take you straight to the 21 days of prayer and fasting. Boom. Hit that button. This is your one stop shop for our entire 21 days of prayer and fasting. You'll see those little circles scrolling in the middle. That's other people who have already put prayer requests on the app that you can scroll down, dig into the fast, why to fast, how to fast, the different types of fasting, all kinds of stuff. And one of the things I want you to see on there, and this is going to pause here in a second. See where it says underneath the little circles? Prayer request and praise report. Get this, just in the last week we didn't even like really dig into it here in Denver, but just in the last week, over 3,000 people in our church have hit that prayer request button and put in prayers. And when you go to this page, you can scroll through all those little circles and you can just start praying for people in our church and you know exactly how to pray for them. So I want to challenge you. Submit a prayer request and then when God starts to do something and you start to see his provision, would you get back on here and hit that praise report button and share a praise report? It'll build your faith, it'll build somebody else's faith. Now, I did this this morning and imagine, imagine if for you in your life, when's the first, you know, think about in your day, when's the first time you pick up your phone for a bunch of us, like before we take our second breath after waking up, Usually when I pick up my phone, the first thing I do is check emails and get a slight bit of anxiety over all the things I don't know how I'm going to get done. Then if I'm slipping, the next thing I'll do is hit Instagram real quick. I've never once looked at Instagram, put my phone down and felt better about myself. Just haven't. Imagine this. Imagine if starting tomorrow morning, you pick up your phone and instead of checking emails or doom scrolling, you went to the app and you just started scrolling through people in our church and you hit, you hit the button and you can actually pray for them through the app. You can let them know that you prayed for them through the app. You can check out your own prayer requests and see who's praying for you. And I just want you to know that if you use this, our staff at every single location, we're going to get printouts of everyone's prayers every single week. Our entire staff's going to be praying for you and church. Why wouldn't you want to submit a prayer request on this app and have 20 other thousand people a part of this church family praying for you and then you get the opportunity to get on there and pray for others? I'm telling you, church, we're not just talking about this stuff. We have worked real hard to make this real possible. We're going to believe together for some miracles in 2026. We're going to pray, we're going to fast, and we're going to believe. And I can't wait. I can't wait for the stories. Church, God doesn't mess around. He says, you take me serious. Here's what he says. If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray, they'll seek my face and turn from their wicked ways. I'll hear. I'll hear them from heaven. I'll forgive their sin and I'll heal their land. He says, you get serious about this prayer thing and I'll turn things around for you. That's what's available to us. That's why we're going to focus this in 2026. Not what can we do in our power, but what can the God of the universe, through his miraculous power, do in and through our lives this year? And one of the reasons I wanted to take an entire message block and talk about this in very practical ways is because I've just seen it. In fact, the reason I'm standing here on this stage, a part of Red Rocks Church with you today, is because A little over 21 years ago, I got real desperate and started praying and fasting. And I couldn't get this idea out of my head that I wanted to be a part of starting a church. And so I went to my pastor. I said, what do you think? I think. I think God's telling me to start a church. What do you think? And he laughed. I'll never forget. He said, he goes, what are you gonna teach at church? And I was like, I hadn't, like, put together any messages or anything yet. I just kind of thought it'd be a good thing to do. He goes, fires don't last on kindling alone. Eventually you gotta have some logs to put on a fire. What are you gonna teach at church? He thought he was helping me. In his defense, he did. I Was like, yeah, I'm gonna. I'm gonna go back to my office that's in that coat closet you guys gave me and cry for a while. But good talk. Then I called. I called another pastor that I really respected. He lived in a different state, and he'd come and talk to us a bunch when I was an intern, and. And he would come through town and speak at the church. And I called him and said, hey, man, I'm really thinking about maybe starting a church, and maybe Denver's the spot. And I. What do you think? Again, he's trying to help me. He goes, what are you gonna do it? What are you gonna do at your church that all the other churches there aren't already doing? And again, I was like. I didn't really think about that. I don't know. The programming of the other churches, I guess. Good talk. I'm gonna go cry. I couldn't find anyone who thought it was a good idea, to be honest. And so I got real serious about fasting and praying. I got a journal, and I sat in our church, and that church had a real auditorium, and I. I went straight in. I did the complete food fast. No one told me, maybe start slow. And I remember, I. I read this journal fairly often. And one of the entries on there. So funny, it's. It was day three of a complete food fast, and. And it said, you shouldn't fast and play Halo at the same time. It makes you dizzy. I was so dizzy, I couldn't only walk on day three, but I had played two hours of Halo the night before. So I was like, maybe those two don't go together. But as I. As I. As I get that journal off the bookshelf in my office every now and then and read it, I can almost quote what most of the pages say. I've done that so many times. And there's a page in there where I wrote, God, I feel like you're speaking to me today. And what I thought I was getting from God was. I thought he was. This is what I remember writing this down. He said, they didn't call you, and they don't know the plans I have for you. I'm calling you, and I know the plans I have for you. And I was writing all kinds of fears and things I was scared to death of and all my insecurities and all the reasons why I didn't think it could work. And at the end of that journal, at the end of that fast, in huge letters diagonally across one of the pages, I Said, thank you, God. I believe I've heard you speak and I wrote in huge all caps, Denver is the deal. I want that for you, church. I want you to take this thing serious. I want you to know that the God of the universe sees you right now and he wants to communicate with you. He wants to lead, he wants to guide, he wants to tell you what's next. He wants to do miracles in and through your life. And I say let's just get real serious about taking him up on that offer. Let's go pray, let's go fast, and let's go believe for the impossible. In Jesus name, Amen. Would you stand up with me, God? I thank you for everything that you have done and are doing in our. In our lives, in our families, in our church family. I pray God, that you would light a fire inside of us right now. Those of us who have felt so overwhelmed and worried and nervous and anxious about what is going to happen next or how am I going to get through this or how's this going to turn out, I pray, God, that you would give us that peace that you talk about in Philippians 4 right now, supernatural peace that passes all understanding as we are reminded that you're with us and you're working and you have a plan and we're going to do our best to set our mind on you so that you can begin to do something new in and through our lives with everyone's eyes closed. I want to ask two questions. The first one's this. You are someone you love is going through something right now. And honestly, sometimes it can feel impossible and you don't know how it's going to work out. But what you do know is if it's going to work out, God's going to need to get involved. If that's you, just raise your hand. We're just going to pray together. Yeah, a bunch of us. Second question is this. We're talking about getting real serious, communicating with God for 21 days. And truth be told, you're going. Wait a second. I need to start at the beginning of this deal. I need to ask Jesus to forgive me of my sins. I want to put my faith in Jesus. And in case you didn't know, 2,000 years ago, he died on a cross to pay the price for our sins so that we could be forgiven today. And today you go, man, that's what I need. First. I need to ask Jesus to forgive me of my sins. I want his spirit to be in my life. I want to make sure I'm on my way to heaven forever. And, like, I just know it. I can feel it. Like this is my moment. If that's you right now, put your hand up. I want to ask Jesus for a brand new start. We're going to pray for you. Amen. I see those hands. I see him. I see him. Yep, see him. Praise God. God, you know everything that's going on in every one of our lives right now. You know what we've been through, you know what we're facing, and most importantly, you know where you want to take us this week, next week, next year, and for the rest of our lives. So, God, I pray for every single person that's going through it that you would do miracles. I pray for miracle healings, physical miracle healings. People getting set free from anxiety and depression in miraculous fashion. Marriages being mended in miraculous fashion. Relationships being restored, addictions being broken in miraculous fashion in Jesus name. And I thank you for everyone who just said they want to put their faith in you and God, I pray that they would sense your presence in a very real and authentic way today as we worship in Jesus name. And everybody said amen. All right, church, here's what we're going to do. The band's going to sing two songs. So no matter what building you're at, we have staff members all across the front of every single one of our locations during these two songs. Let's not talk about doing this stuff together. Let's do this stuff together. If you need some prayer, if you need God to do something in your life, in the life of someone you love, come to the front during these two songs and get prayed for. Because miracles, like Ryan said, miracles. This thing's a team sport. God put us together in a church family for a reason. So we're gonna fight with each other, we're gonna fight for each other, and we're gonna do so in prayer. And it starts right now. In Jesus name. I love you, church. Let's worship.