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Thank you so much. I'm excited to be here with you this morning. Social, are you excited to be here this morning? I would be absolutely remiss if I did not take a moment to honor our amazing senior pastors, Pastor Robert and Pastor Taylor Madu. Their. Their incredible faithfulness to the call of God in the midst of what is difficult and what is hard, what it's cost them personally and their family, they give it so willingly to the God who they constantly say has changed their life. And, man, you cannot help but admire their faith and their obedience to God. So truly, I honor our senior pastors. Would you help me love y'all so much and appreciate you and everything that you are to us and our family. Such a blessing. I'm excited, Social Dallas, because I feel like God truly has given me a word for us as a house this year. How many are excited you made it out of 2024 and into 2025? Come on. I know that there's people in the room that it got real dark for a minute there. You didn't know if you were going to cross over from 2024 into 2025. But guess what, devil? We're here today. Come on. Somebody needs to shout and make some noise because there's a God who's faithful. Even in the midst of our trials, in the midst of our suffering, in the midst of our pain, in the nos and in the yeses, in the highs, in the lows, there's a God that has carried us through all of that. We've crossed over from 2024 into 2025. Come on and make some noise for Jesus this year. He's been good. He's been good. I'm excited. I am so excited to see where God's takes us as a church. I'm so excited to see where the Lord leads. Pastor and Robert, the Pastor Robert and Pastor Taylor this year to. To direct us as a church. But I want to get into the Word. I've got a lot to say and I don't have a lot of time to say it in. Pull your Bibles up to Exodus, chapter 12, verses 1 through 11. For any of you who are new to the Bible, I'll give you a hint. It's a second book. If you find yourself in the middle, go, go back. You've gone too far. We're going to go to the second book of the Bible called Exodus, and it's going to be in chapter 12, verses 1 through 11. We're going to go through 11 scriptures this first Sunday in 2025. Can we do that as a church? I believe we can because we are the church that memorized the verse of the year. Remember that. That was just last year. Don't count yourself out. You can do this. We're going to go through 11 scriptures this morning. If you have it, can you say amen? If you need a minute, can you say hold up? We should be good. It's the second, second book of the Bible, so shouldn't need too much time to navigate there, but we're going to read it together. Now it says this that while the Israelites were still in the land of Egypt, the Lord gave the following instructions to Moses and Aaron from now on this month, what month will be the first month of the year for you? Announced to the whole community of Social Dallas. Announced to the whole community. He says of Israel that on the 10th day of this month, each family must choose a lamb or a young goat for a sacrifice. One animal for each household. If a family is too small to eat a whole animal, then let them share with another family in the neighborhood. Divide the animal according to the size of each family and how much they can eat. The animal you select must be one year old male. Either a sheep or a goat with no defects. Take special care of this chosen animal until the evening of the 14th day of the first month. Then the whole assembly of the community of Israel must slaughter their lamb or young goat. At twilight they are to take some of the blood and smear it on the sides and the top of their door frames of the houses where they eat the animal. That same night, they must roast the meat over a fire and eat it along with bitter salad greens and bread made without yeast. Do not eat any of the meat raw or boiled in water. The whole animal, including the head, legs and internal organs, must be roasted over fire. Do not leave any of it until the next morning. Burn whatever is not eaten before morning. These are your instructions for eating this meal, be fully dressed, wear your sandals and carry your walking stick in your hand. Eat the meal with urgency, for this is the Lord's Passover. I'm super excited to get into this word today, but I want to let you know that on the first Sunday of the year, you made it through 11 verses. Make some noise for yourself. Come on. If you're a verse a day kind of person, I just covered the next 11 days of your life. You do not have to come back for 11 days. I'm just kidding. Read the Bible, let me pray, and then I will let you guys be seated. Father, we thank you so much for your word and what you'll speak to us. Open our hearts, make it good soil, and let us receive your word today in Jesus name. And everybody said, you may be seated this morning. It's an exciting day, y'all. So much is going on. We got three services coming up next week. Some of you are inappropriately not excited about that. Three services just doesn't mean we wanted to add variety. It means that we are growing, y'all. The Bible says that many souls were added to the kingdom. We got three services coming up. We got 21 days of fasting coming up, y'all. So exciting. And I know this one got you guys on your feet earlier. We are less than $10,000 away from meeting our $1.8 million goal. It is an exciting time. And as I was preparing for this message, I felt like God gave me a prophetic declaration for you and for me, for us as a house, that this year would be a year of fulfilled promises. That this year not only would be a year of fulfilled promises, but a year of promises that are long standing. Things that you've been praying on for a long time, things that were promised to you and prophesied to you, things that you have hoped and prayed for for a very long time. That this would be a year when you would see those promises come to pass. And I'm excited because this lines us up perfectly with the people of Israel. In Exodus chapter 12. They are a people who are camped out in Egypt, some might call it stalled, waiting for a promise to occur. And as we read in chapter 12, God is getting ready to deliver them from Egypt. But what I find is so pertinent to us today, along with this prophetic promise that God has given us this morning, is that he also includes instruction for the people of Israel and what he says to them in the beginning of this scripture. He says this. He says the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt. And I'm not only captivated by what God continues to say to them, but I'm also intrigued by the location in which he says it to them. See, there's so much more to the Bible than just what you can see on the surface. I want to let you know this morning that God is not just giving us a clue to Aaron, Aaron and Moses's geography. He's not just pinging our iPhones and letting us know what their location is. He's doing something more significant than that. He's not just letting us know the climate or the landscape or where they're found at that time in the world. He's actually giving us a clue to something that is for us today, I believe it is this is that Egypt for Israel represented bondage. Egypt for Israel represented oppression. Egypt for Israel represented affliction and a stalled out promise. It represented a place for them that they would rather leave than stay. But what's powerful about that phrasing this morning that God spoke spoke to Moses and Aaron in Egypt. He spoke to them in Egypt. He spoke to them where? Because if God is willing to speak to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, then that meant that God was willing to speak to them in their bondage. It meant that God was willing to speak to them in the midst of their slavery, that he was willing to speak to them in the midst of their affliction, that he was willing to speak to them in the midst of their mess. And I believe that the message for you this morning, because I feel that there's some people in the room that your heart is not tuned to receive a word from the Lord yet. Because you feel like you're still stuck in Egypt. Because I don't know what kind of year you faced last year. I don't know what kind of doors you had closed on your face. I don't know what promises didn't come through. But your heart is not ready to receive this word. But I want to encourage you, you do not have to be in a better place to hear from God. You can be in the midst of your Egypt. And what I'm telling you this morning is this, is that God will speak to you in the midst of your oppression. God will speak to you in the midst of your affliction. That God will speak to you in the midst of your bondage. He's not intimidated by the things that you're suffering through. He's not overcome by your affliction. He is not scared of your failures. He will find you right in the midst of where you are to make sure that you receive the word. And I want to encourage you this morning. Morning. Don't miss the message that God has for you because you feel like you're still in Egypt. I love it. Because the next thing that he says, what he says to Moses and Aaron, he says this, that this will be the first of the month for you. It's going to be what I would call a reset. Now, if you can imagine for the people of Israel, that they have lived for 430 years up to this point under the rule of Pharaoh, under the systems of Egypt and under the culture's calendar, they have found themselves under the authority of a people who would set their times, their days, their weeks, their months, their seasons. Think of it like this. That the Israelites had to go to bed whenever Pharaoh said to go to bed. They had to get up whenever Pharaoh said to get up. That they had to set their days and weeks by whatever Pharaoh said. And whenever the season switched was when Pharaoh felt that way. But it's such a show of force that God comes in and says, I don't care what the culture's calendar says. I'm resetting your year. I'm about to do something so significant in your life. Man, I feel this for you today. I feel it for me. I'm about to do something so transformational in your life that it's worth me hitting the reset button on your history. That I don't care what's been in the past. I don't care what's happened. I don't care what didn't happen. But from this moment forward, I'm gonna do something so significant in your life that I'm hitting the reset button on your calendar. But here's the reality of us as people. Some of you might be finding it hard to see yourself in the scripture this morning, but I would submit to you that some of us, we've let culture's calendar seep into our thinking. Culture's calendar that says you're too old. Culture's calendar that says it's been too long. Mr. Right or Mrs. Right is not out there anymore. Just go start looking for Mr. Or Mrs. Right now. That you're too far gone. You're way too far past the age of being able to chase the dreams and the visions that God's put in your heart. That you've prayed too long, long for your lost loved one. That you've prayed too long for that person, that son or daughter or that mom or dad. To come home, that the time is too far past. And maybe this, that you're too young. Maybe culture's calendar is telling you that you're too young to make a difference, that you're too young to be in your middle school and make a difference. You're too young to be in your high school or your college and make a difference. Maybe culture's calendar has dictated to you what your year should look like. But we are in the midst of the presence of a God who says, I exist above these things. I am not moved by culture's calendar. I am not predicating my miracles based on your calendar year, I can reset the calendar whenever I want. We have a God who says that it doesn't matter where you've been, what you've been through, I will mark your days. The Bible says that he holds our days in his hands. He can do whatever he chooses with those days. Does anybody in the room believe today that God can reset your calendar, that he can mark your year whenever he wants? I think it's so poignant that we happen to be in January, but I want to give you a word of encouragement. You can be in February, and God will still reset your year. You can be in March, and God will still reset your year. You can be in December 2025, and God will still reset your year. It's never too late for God to say, hey, I'm about to do something so powerful and so new. But if we're gonna be a people that says yes to God's timing, if we're gonna be a people that says yes to God's counter calendar, if we're going to be a people that says yes to God's promise, then we also have to be a people that says yes to God's process. And as we read in chapter 12, not only did the Lord give them a process, but he gave them instruction on, believe it or not, how to make a meal. Shout out to the Bible for having us covered on all bases, including being a cookbook. Amen. But he gives them specific instructions on how to make a meal. I want to look at it together. We're going to bring it up. Verse 9. It says, do not eat any of the meat raw or boiled with water. The whole animal, including the head, legs, and internal organs, must be roasted over fire. It's so interesting that he mentions to them not to boil the animal in water because if you can imagine the process of what it would take, you'd have to get a pot. You'd have to get the water into the pot. You'd have to get the water up to boil. Then you'd have to get the lamb into the pot, and then you would have to make sure that it was the right temperature or color. I really actually don't know how they made sure that the meat was thoroughly cooked. I'm concerned about that part. But maybe they had digital thermometers back then. I don't know. But the thing that God is telling them is that the amount of time that I've given you for your obedience does not allow for the slow method. Because if this is, and I believe it is going to be a year when we see our promises come to pass, then we have to be a people that are marked by quick obedience. We have to be a people that are marked by the fact that when God says God, we go. When God says stay, we stay. Can I tell you that some of you need to stay? Can I tell you that some of us in modern Christianity were so tuned to move at the moment's discomfort that the moment something rubs up against us, whether it's a person or a sermon or a system or a parking lot, we start looking for the exit. This isn't comfortable for me. Me. We need to tune ourselves to stay when he says stay. We need to tune ourselves to give when he says to give. I love everything that Pastor Robert was saying today because I believe it's so invitational. People do get so weird when you talk about money in church because you don't quite understand it. But the truth is there's an aspect to the relationship with God, with our divine creator, that says it's not about the money, but it's my trust. It's about giving it to you and saying that you're higher. I'm not my own resource. You are. We need to be a people that are marked by quick obedience this year. And here's what I'm not saying. I'm not saying to rush it. I'm not saying instant gratification. I'm not saying just do the thing as fast as you can so that you can can get to the other side of your miracle. I'm not saying force the hand of God by trying to do something too early. Because on the other end of the spectrum, what God says to the Israelites is this. Don't eat it raw. See, so many of us in the room today, we will try to forcibly ingest something that hasn't been through the proper process because we believe this. If I do enough of this, maybe I can make God, make this a little faster. Because maybe if I serve enough, I can make God do this a little bit faster. Maybe if I give 11 or 12%, I can make God do this a little faster. But here's the truth about obedience. Obedience is no more and no less exactly what God says. And in this year, if we are going to be a people of quick obedience, we can't try to outrun God. We can't try to pull God along and say, you're not moving fast enough for me. And we can't drag our feet. We can't boil the meat. We have to allow God to take his time in our process. And I've been in that place before. I'm not judging. I've been in those moments where God says to do this. And I go, God, are you sure? Are you sure? Can you just. Can you wet the fleece again? That's an Old Testament little throw back there. But can you just show me one more time? Can you have my old friend Jeremy from California? Can you have him just shoot me a text, say, God wants you to do this? I've been in that moment where I've tried to drag my feet so heavily because God is moving at a pace that is not comfortable for me. But this year, we have to be in a space where if God sets a pace, I'm gonna follow that step for step. I'm gonna follow it. I'm gonna match it pace for pace. Before we came here, we've been in Dallas since January of 2020. We had a moment with our family where we sat down and we prayed, and we were just seeking God for direction. And it was so powerful because it was myself and my wife and our two daughters. And we had this moment of prayer. And our youngest daughter, Emma, she said this thing that was so cute, but also struck so deep. And she said this. She said, God, we won't rush you and we won't hush you. And it was like, dang, that's cute. But then also was like, dang, that's bars also, right? She said something so powerful that I think aligns with our posture for this year, that we have to be so submitted and so in a place we have to frame our year in such a way that we say, God, we will not rush your hand. We will not hush your voice. We will not try to hit the brakes. God, if you're running, I'm running with you. If you're going, I'm going with you. If you're staying, I'm staying with you. Whatever you Say, lord, I'll do it. It's interesting because God tells them to take a moment before their exodus and have this meal. But to be honest, man, if I'm an Israelite and I've been stuck in Egypt for 430 years, not the whole 400, but you know. You know what I'm saying. If I have been stuck in that place for such a long time, I'm like, can we just pick up Chick Fil A on the way? Not today. It's closed. If you've made that mistake. I have. Can we just pick something up on the way? Can we just hit. I'll even do Taco Bell. Don't hate on Taco Bell. You love it. I'll do whatever it takes just to get out of this place as quickly as possible. But you know what's so powerful? Something that is not even in my notes is this. Is that God finishes off that statement with saying this. This. Don't take anything with you. Don't take anything with you. I'll give you two reasons why I believe that he said that. Number one is you're not staying here. I love leftovers, especially around Thanksgiving. We make an abundance of food for a family of four so that we can feast on those leftovers for days and weeks after. But if I'm at an Airbnb and it's my last night there, I don't take leftovers because I'm not staying there. And I think this morning for you, you have to understand that God is trying to instill this. This urgency in you, that he's trying to instill this message in you, that if you've been planning for leftovers, you need to leave those behind. And the second reason is because of this. I'll provide for you on the way. I'll provide for you on the way. Your way. Guess what? That meal that you tried to prepare for yourself, that snack that you tried to have along the way, you don't need that. Because guess what? Every single step that you take, I'll be your provision. I'll be your provider. I'll be your shelter. I'll be your comfort. I'll be your resource. This morning, God is saying, leave everything behind because you're not staying here. You're getting up out of this place, place of bondage. You're giving up out of this place of slavery, man. I don't know what you've been in bondage to. I don't know what has you captured and captivated. Whether it's your doubt or your anxiety. Your concern for a loved one, your fear of not having enough. But this morning, I believe that God is telling you, you're not staying there. You're not staying today. I love the scripture. It says, today, if you hear the Lord and don't harden your heart, if you'll hear this word today, I want to encourage you that God is getting you up and getting you ready to move out. Amen. So he tells them, don't rush me and don't slow me down. Stay right with me. And here's the hope in that. In that scripture, he tells them not only how to make the meal, but he also tells them what to eat while they're wearing the meal. So get this. God has a restaurant, and there's also a dress code in that restaurant. He tells them to wear these things. He says, put your belt on, get your sandals on, and get your staff in hand. Now, that might not sound weird to you, but keep in mind this is nighttime. Imagine eating this roasted lamb and salad and bread, sitting at the table across from your family member, and you all have your shoes on and you have a staff while you're eating that meal. But here's the message. They were eating that meal with expectation. They were coming to that meal expecting and understanding that I'm not going to stay here, that my deliverance is at hand. But they came ready for when God would say to move. And I want to ask you this morning, are you in a place? Are you conditioned? Are you wearing the right clothes when you show up to church on a Sunday? This morning, did you walk in with your belt on? Did you walk in with your sandals on? Did you walk in with your staff in hand? And I'm not talking about what you're wearing right now. You all look amazing. First Sunday of the year, right? What I'm saying is, spiritually, are you properly clothed for the work of redemption and deliverance that God is about to do in your life? How do you show up to prayer? Are you showing up to prayer with that same level of expectation that I'm not just throwing empty words up to a God who doesn't care, but I'm speaking to the creator of heaven and earth, who knows my name, who knows my circumstance, who knows my heart, who is intimately familiar with the way that I feel? How do you show up when you read the Word? Do you try to really just ingest that verse? A day like an apple a day keeps the dentist away. Is that your vibe when you're reading the Word? Or do you come expect that you are digging into the living Word of God, the living and active Word of God, which is able to separate spirit from soul and bone from marrow. The same living Word of God that spoke creation, that spoke existence. Are you approaching with that expectancy that God is still able to pierce through my circumstance and speak to me in this day? It's so interesting because one thing I often do when I begin to study is I start to look deeper into the meaning of Hebrew words because we have these words in English. But oftentimes there is such a more powerful meaning that is hidden in the Hebrew. And as I begin to look up the word Passover, because he ends that verse talking about getting ready, being prepared, having your sanctuary with it is the Lord's Passover. It's the Lord's Passover. It's whose Passover? It's the Lord's Passover. So I thought there has to be something so significant here in this word. There has to be something so mind blowing in the Word. And you won't believe what this word means. It means Passover. Yes. I was just as shocked as you. I was looking for some big revelatory, mountain sized word that was going to change the way that I viewed what was going on in this moment. I was looking for a move that bus type of reveal for what the definition of this word was. But I quickly came to understand this, that the power of the Passover does not lie in the phrase or the words, but it lies in the action. And I felt like when I came to that understanding, the Holy Spirit said this to me. It's so important that I pass over. Because if I pass over, then you are under. See, the power of Passover is not only in the meal. It's not only in painting the door frame. It's in this that I stay under. I position myself in a place to where God is the highest. I position myself in a place where God is the absolute. He's the truth. The pitfall of mankind is that we often put ourselves at the same level with God. But if I'm at the same level with him, he cannot pass over me, does it? Can I tell you what it looks like to put yourself at the same level with God? It's to say, God, either you're going to do this or I'm gonna do it. It's to pray a prayer that says, God, I believe you, but then also keep your hand on the exit at the same time. In order to allow God to pass me over, I have to submit myself in such a way I have to humble myself before God Almighty, I have to put myself in a posture that says, you are high and I am low. You are my source and I am not. You are God and I am not. Your ways are higher than mine. I have to be okay with the fact that God has called me to submit and to obey to him, even when I don't understand it. Can I be honest with you about what putting yourself under looks like? Obedience doesn't make sense to people who do not obey. You have friends, you have family. Maybe you have those that you would call a significant effort other, and they don't understand why you tithe. It makes no sense. I had a friend sit down with a financial advisor, and the financial advisor said, what is this? What is this large chunk of money that goes out every single, single month? This is a Mercedes Benz payment. And my friend said, it's the tithe. He said, well, if you would cut that out, man, you could get so much further ahead in your finances. He said, no, I can't do that because I don't work based off of this system. I'm a believer, and I trust God for my future. Obedience and submitting yourself under the authority of God does not make sense to those who do not obey the gospel's foolishness, to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it's the power of God. In order to submit yourself, you're gonna have to be content to look foolish. In order to submit yourself, you're gonna have to be okay. When someone says, man, that don't make no sense. Stop praying for a husband, go find one. Stop believing for a wife. Go to the local hotspot, go to the club, do something. Stop believing God and make it happen. And that is the mantra of the generation of this time, is, I did it myself. I made it happen on my own. But we, as believers, we don't live life that. Why is Passover important? Why is this moment where I submit myself to God, where I paint my door frame, where I put myself in a house? Why is it important? Moses gives further instructions to the Israelites. He says this. Brush the hyssop across the top and sides of the door frames of your house, and no one may go out through the door until that morning. Too many of us are too willing to simply paint the door frame and walk away from the house. Too many of us are okay with the illusion that we are under the blood, but we live a lifestyle that says completely opposite. See, I believe that the Israelites were keen to something, and I Don't think it hit them right away, but I think that as they begin to do what Moses said and they begin to paint their door frame with every single stroke that they made, that the image was getting clearer, that I'm not just painting my door, but that I'm beginning to frame out some. Something. I'm beginning to frame out what's going to be in this house, not just what it looks like on the outside, because we miss that. We think it's just about painting the door. It's not just about painting the door. It's about staying inside. So as they're framing this door, they're framing their hope. They're framing their family, they're framing their children. Children. They're framing their. Their future promises. They're framing their understanding of what life will look like. When I say this frame your year, I want to clarify. What I mean is not this. It's not to get your vision board out. It's not just to. To set goals. It's not just to have New Year's resolutions. Those things are good. And I'm not saying not to do that. What I'm saying is don't do any of that. Before you begin to frame your year with obedience, before you begin to frame your year with prayer, before you begin to frame your year with 21 days of prayer and fasting, before you begin to frame your year with reading the word of God, I'm telling you today that God will come through, that he will do what he said he will do. But there's a posture that we have to be in this year. There's a way in which we have to position ourselves to come into line, to see our promises come to pass. And that posture is obedience. It's so powerful because the Israelites caught hold of the image that I'm not just painting my door frame. I'm not just framing my year in whatever way that I want. I'm framing it so that I can stay under it. I'm covering the high spot of my home. In other words, I'm making the blood of Jesus the highest thing in my house. For as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. That I am making the blood of Jesus the highest authority in my life, that there isn't anything higher. It doesn't matter what the stock system says. It doesn't matter who's the president. It doesn't matter what the college says. But I am making the blood of Jesus the highest voice. The Bible says that the blood speaks a better word. And this Morning. I am encouraging you. Frame your year with the blood of Jesus that speaks a better word, that says, you're not too old. It's not over. You're not too far gone. There's still time. I can do it. He can still do whatever he promised you that he would do. I think of Abraham and Sarah. Sarah was barren. They chuckled to themselves and laughed. And they both questioned God and said, we're too old for this. And God said, said, nope, because I said so. I think of David, who was just a boy. He was a shepherd. And some would say, you're too young. In fact, he went to the battlefield and his brothers mocked him and said, what are you doing here, boy? And God said, no, that's a king. You're not too late. It's not too far gone. The promises of God will come to pass in your life. Life. But we have to find ourselves in this posture of letting God pass over us. Because here's the important thing. The Israelites, they have this moment of Passover, but two chapters later, they have their crossover. You have to have your moment of Passover in order to have your crossover. You have to have this moment where you humbly submit yourself, where you sit inside of a house and you go, okay, I guess I'm going to eat lamb right now. I'm going to do whatever you say. I'm going to tithe, I'm going to give, I'm going to serve. I'm going to reorganize my calendar based off whatever you say. I'm not too busy. I'm not unskilled. If you say go, I'm going. Because once you put yourself into that position to be passed over, then God will see you and he will cross you over. And you can't talk about the Passover without talking about Jesus. He is our ultimate Passover lamb. He was the last sacrifice needed to cleanse us. But what's so powerful about. About Jesus? It's the night before he goes to the cross. What is he doing? He's eating the Passover with his friends. The night before the cross is declared over you and I, Jesus has a Passover with his friends. He had his Passover, and God gave us the crossover. Stand with me this morning. I believe that this is going to be a miracle year. I believe that so many of you in the room that your heart has resonated with this. I believe that God has spoken directly to you, that it hit you in the heart. I believe that your heart's. While this message was going on, not because of me, but because God was telling you this message is for you. But there's a moment where you have to reconcile your past disobedience. You have to repent, and you have to bring it into obedience. So this morning I want to pray with you. If you would bow your heads. Firstly, I want to pray for anybody who hears this message. Message and says, I'm not 100% sure that I am under the blood of Jesus. I am not 100% sure that my salvation is set in Christ. I want to pray for anyone in this room that says, I don't know if I am, but I want to be. And if that's you this morning, nobody's looking around, would you slip up your hand and say, I want to set the blood of Jesus over my life. I want this salvation, I want this future, I want this. This hope. I want this heaven that people are talking about. I'm tired of walking it out on my own. And I need God. I need Jesus to guide me. Come on. There's hands going up all over the room. The Bible says today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your heart. This is the moment. This first Sunday of the year. There's no better moment for obedience than right now to say, no matter what happened before, but from today on, I'm moving forward in you. You can put your hands down. We're going to pray this prayer together. And then I want to pray for another group of people. Come on, everybody together, especially those that raise your hand, say, father, forgive me for the life that I lived apart from you, for the life that I lived in disobedience. I come under your blood today. I come under the name of Jesus and I submit myself to you. I give you my life. From here forward. I'm living for you and not me. In Jesus name. And everybody said, come on. Amen. Celebrate those who gave their life to Jesus. I want to pray. I want to pray for one more group of people this morning because I believe that there's a prophetic movement that we can have this morning. As the children of Israel, as they ate this meal with their belt on, with their sandals on, with their staff in hand, I believe that there is an action that we can take, take to let the nor the Lord know that I'm coming with expectancy and I'm coming in obedience. I want to invite you if you know that, hey, this year I want to do this differently. I want to live differently. I want to match the pace of God. I don't want to slow him Down. And I don't want to speak him up. I don't want to rush him, and I don't want to hush him. I want to let the voice of God in my life do what it's meant to do. This year. I want to invite you to come. Come to the altar right now. I believe that there's a prophetic movement in you stepping out and saying, I'm ready for the crossover. I'm ready to get out of bondage. I'm ready to get out of this slavery. I'm ready to believe again, God. I'm ready to reject culture's calendar that says I'm too old. I want to invite you to come up and declare with your presence, with your walk, with your stance, God, I'm ready for you to do in me whatever you desire to do. My life is yours. My obedience is yours. Tell me to go where you will. Tell me to stay where you will. My heart is yours, and I am surrendered to you today. Come on, keep coming forward. Make room for the. Come on. Yeah, make some noise for those people that are coming forward. See, I believe this, that even though this is a simple act, even though this is a simple moment of you coming forward and saying, God, I'm here. I don't know what this means, but I'm here. I don't know how this changes things, but I'm here. I believe that what you're doing, the steps that you just took, speaks so much loud than your not knowing because it says, God, I'm willing to step into the mystery. I'm willing to let you take the lead and do what you will. And I think so many of us in the room, we've come to that place where we've said, God, I've tried it all. I've done it all. I'm at the end of my rope, and it hasn't worked. I'm ready for you to take over. Lead me, guide me, show. Show me, and I will go the way that you say. Father, we thank you so much for every single person, Lord, who has stepped forward this morning. God, this offering, Lord God, this sacrifice, to come forward and say, lord, do with me what you will, Father, I pray that you would begin to speak to them in new ways, Lord God, that you would speak to them with a clarity, Lord God, that you would show them in your word, Lord, exactly where, what you want them to do, that you would make your voice so clear when you're saying to stay or to go or to move or to give, that you wouldn't let them wander, Lord God, that you wouldn't let them linger, Lord, but that you would guide them every single step of the way. That they would find themselves, Lord God, ready and prepared for their exodus. That they would find themselves ready and prepared, Lord God, for their deliverance. That this year, Lord God, these people who stood up and said me, God, that they will see your goodness in the land of the living, Lord God, that they will declare your good works, Lord God, that they shall live and not die, Lord God, and declare your glory. Father, we thank you so much for your hand and your ability to do it. Lord, we bless your name in Jesus, mighty name. And everybody said.
