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I just believe God's gonna do something significant in this place today. Elbow the person next to you, say, wake up. God's got something for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's gonna be good. I am so glad that you're here. You could be anywhere on Father's Day, but I'm glad you're in God's house. You look like you've got confident trust in the Lord. If you're new to Social Dallas, we have a word every single year, and our word for this year is trust that we would have confident trust in the Lord. And that word comes straight out of scripture. Hebrews, chapter 10, verses 35 through 37. We declare it as a family every single Sunday to remind ourselves of our confident trust. How many of you got it memorized? Can I see your hand if you got it memorized? You telling the truth? One of these Sundays, I'm just gonna check. I'll be like, you come up here. You got time. You got time. The year is halfway over, so you got some time to get it in your heart, get it in your head. But come on, let's read it together. Remember, you don't go till I say, yeah, yeah, yeah. So. Remember, patient endurance is what you need now. Then you will receive all that he has promised the coming one will come and not delay. Amen. Amen. You believe the coming one is coming? I believe it. I believe it. Social Family, you're going to be blessed today by who's bringing the word of God. I need you to know as a church family that I was preaching before I started pastoring, been preaching a long time, and God has blessed me beyond my wildest dreams to just preach at places and to be a blessing to other people. But when we started Social Dallas five years ago, he told me, I'm going to use you to continue to preach the word of God, but I'm also going to raise up voices within the house that you're going to build. And I've watched him do that. What I love about the person that's bringing the word today is he's been faithful and consistent enough to be trusted with a microphone. So many people are like, give me a mic. I got a gift. But they can't be trusted. And what I love about Pastor Josh is that he can be trusted. I've watched him play the guitar on this stage before he was ever on staff. And he does what a father is supposed to do. He just shows up and. And is available. I have so much respect for him. I'm thankful for the gift he is to this house and to the gift that he is to me personally. So come on, Social Dallas, put your hands together and welcome Pastor Josh as he comes to bring the Word this Father's Day. Come on, y' all could do better than that. Let's go. Come on.
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Can we make some noise for Jesus in the room today? Come on. Like he's already done it. Like he's already moved. Like he's already solved the problem. Like the answer's already gone out before you. Come on. Like he's already on his way back to give the good news that what was once dead is now alive forevermore. I am excited to get to bring the Word this morning. And like Pastor Robert said, my name is Josh. I'm one of the pastors on staff here at Social Dallas, and can I say it is one of my greatest honors to serve all of you and in a pastoral capacity. I'm so grateful to get to serve this community, but I would be completely remiss if I did not take a moment to honor our lead pastors, Pastor Robert and Pastor Taylor Madu, for everything that they have done. I become overwhelmed when I begin to think about we're not done honoring. I want to let you know right now when I begin to think about all of the chains that have been left at that altar because of their yes, all of the marriages that have been brought back together because of their yes, all of the generational curses that have ended because of their yes. So would you help me in honoring our amazing lead Pastors Pastor Robert and Pastor Taylor Madu. Thank y' all so much. Love you guys so, so much. Gotta move on. I will get choked up. Love y' all so, so much. Turn with me if you will and remain standing. Turn with me if you will, to Deuteronomy, chapter 8, verse 1 through 3. I'm going to be reading out of the NIV version. If you don't have the NIV version, it will come up on the screen for you. And if you don't have a Bible in the house today, it tells me either you are new to our church or you might be new to church in general.
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And if that's the case, we have an amazing space for you that we would love for you to head right outside the doors that you came in called the connect area, and there's a team standing by that wants to meet you. They want to get you plugged in, and they want to get you a Bible. Okay? Amen. And that should be just enough time for all the people who were struggling to find Deuteronomy 8. Come on. So it's coming up on the screen. I'm going to read it. It says, be careful to follow every command I am giving you today. Somebody say today, I want to encourage you that there is something special that comes when you obey the Lord, not tomorrow or next week, but when you obey him today. So be careful to follow every command I'm giving you today so that you may live and increase and enter and possess the land the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors. Remember? Somebody say, remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these 40 years to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known. To teach you that man does not live on bread alone. I want to tell you this morning that the breadsticks from your favorite Italian restaurant are not enough to sustain you. Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. I want to speak today from this text using this title. Holding patterns. Look at your neighbor and say, holding patterns. Let's pray. Father, teach us what we do not know, give us what we need and make us into what you have called us to be in the name of your only begotten son, Jesus. And everyone said, Amen. You can be seated. High five somebody on the way down. Church is a team sport. Come on. Social fam. As I read this text this week, I could not help but pick up on the question that is hanging in the air of the text. And it's this. What do you do when it's not the destination that is in question, but the time of arrival is to be decided? What do you do with the space in between the time that a promise is given and the date of delivery? What do we do when we as believers very well know that the promises of God are yes and. But you said that really fast and oftentimes the progression between when we receive a promise and when the amen comes feels a lot longer. I'm talking about what do we do with the. And the space between the yes and the Amen is what I am referring to today as the holding pattern. Because I feel that more often than not, the space between point A, the promise, and point B, the realization of that promise, is the space that we as believers tend to occupy. Let me give you a simple example so that we are all on the same page. We have a future home that we are going to. We just talked about it. 10110 Technology Blvd. It's gonna be incredible. You should be celebrating, y'.
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We have a home that we're going to, but we can't go there yet. But church still has to happen every single Sunday. But we also can't go back anymore. But we also can't go forward because it's not fully prepared for us. So what do we do in the meantime? That's a holding pattern. See, the destination has not changed. The promise has not disappeared. We're just living in the space between what has been secured and. And what has been fully realized. Anyone in the room or online who works in the aviation industry would know the term holding pattern. But you don't have to be a pilot or in that industry to have experienced a holding pattern. It goes something like this. You're sitting in your economy window seat. Where's my window seat? People at in the room today. Come on, window seat. You feel the plane begin to descend, and you are relieved because you have had a cramp for the last two hours, because you've suffered in silence, Because God forbid you inconvenience two complete strangers who you will never see again to get up and stretch your legs. Amen. That's the decent thing to do. Then suddenly, the descent stops. The plane levels off. You hear that familiar chime, and then all of a sudden, the voice of the captain comes over the intercom and he says, this is your captain speaking. We've been placed in a holding pattern right outside of the DFW airport. We don't expect to be here long, but we'll keep you updated. And immediately the mood in the airplane shifts because holding patterns are frustrating. Delays are frustrating because we've come too far to go back. But we also cannot get to our destination because we know where we want to go. But the destination is not yet prepared. You left in Egypt behind, but you haven't yet entered the promised land. The destination is still there. The promise is still real. But for right now, your arrival is. Has been delayed. And just as an exercise, as I was prepping for this message, I tried to find the longest holding pattern on record. And turns out that they actually don't track things like that. There is no record for the longest holding pattern. So I went looking somewhere else, and I think I found the longest holding pattern, but not in aviation. I found it in scripture. There is a group of people who spent 40 years circling the same wilderness between where they had been and where God was taking them. The Israelites spent 40 years in a holding pattern. And what's remarkable was the wilderness was never meant to be their destination. But can you imagine being in a place so long you give up on the promised land? The wilderness was never meant to be a destination. But many of us in the room today have made the wilderness our destination. We've lost hope in the promised land, and we've settled for the present land. But the reality is, nobody puts wander in circles on their vision board. Nobody gathers the family around the table and says, y', all, if we are lucky and God is faithful, one day we will wander in the wilderness for 40 years. Nobody does that. But here's the reality is just because something is temporary doesn't mean it's meaningless. Too often we treat transitional seasons like wasted time. Too many times we take the broken pieces of what was once whole and we discard it. But we forget that we serve a God who wastes nothing. He gathers up every single piece in baskets to be redistributed somewhere else down the line. God wastes nothing. Not the waiting, not the wandering, not the wilderness. Everything in God's hands has purpose. And what we just read in Deuteronomy is Moses explaining those 40 years of wandering in the desert. In fact, Deuteronomy is Moses final sermon to the Israelites before they enter the Promised land. It is his last pastoral plea to them before they see the promise come to pass. And can I tell you that Moses concern is not that they will forget Egypt. Moses concern is that they will forget the wilderness. They are standing on the edge of everything they have hoped for. The land is finally within reach. But Moses knows something about the human heart. The thrill of receiving a promise can forget, can cause you to forget the lessons that prepared you to receive the promise. Why? Not because they didn't learn. But because excitement has a way of making people forget things they should remember. And that's exactly what God is having Moses do is he's telling Israel about stepping into a land flowing with milk and honey. He's telling them about a promise that is about to be fulfilled that has taken generations to make happen. But before anything happens, before they cross over, before they step one foot into the Promised Land, Moses says this one thing. Remember. Remember what God taught you. Remember how God provided for you. Remember how much you need Him. Remember his word. This is vital for you to understand. The greatest threat to Israel's faithfulness to God in the Promised Land would not be adversity. It was prosperity. It was not hardship, it was success. And isn't that true for us as well? Because if you're any kind of old time believer, you know that when you get into the veil valley of the shadow of darkness, that you don't have to be afraid. For he is with you. His rod and his staff will comfort you. You know that when you get times of despair to lift your eyes to the hills from where your help comes from, you know that in low moments that he is your source, your supply, your strong tower that you can run into and you are safe. It is not the low moments that are a threat to our faith in God. It's often mountaintops moments. It's often the moments when we are riding high and we no longer are seeking God in a place of desperation. It's when we have all that we need, when we have all that we want. We soon become in this amnesiac state and, and our soul forgets what God has done for us. We forget who he is to us. We forget how dependent we have always been upon Him. And this is why Moses needs the Israelites to understand the purpose of the wilderness. If you're in a wilderness season today, if you are in a holding pattern, it is so important, important that you know that God does not have you in that place because he wants you to become an expert at being there. God did not have the Israelites in the wilderness because he wanted them to become experts at living in the wilderness. The trial that you are facing, the same thing that you keep battling, the test that you feel like you have taken and taken over again, is not so that you can live excellent in the place that you currently find yourself. It's so that you can thrive when you enter the promised land. But it's so interesting because what Moses is really doing is he is preparing the Israelites to succeed. And it's interesting because we spend a lot of our time and attention failure. How do I recover from failure? How do I recover from disappointment? How do I bounce back from heartbreak? How do I get through a crisis? And those are important questions. But Moses is leaning into something different. He's asking a different set of questions. He's saying, how do you handle blessing? How do you handle success? How do you handle the fulfillment of a promise? Moses is asking a question that we all need to look internally and ask ourselves. Because what do you do when you go from a season of crushing loneliness and you finally meet that person that you want to be with? But now you're not the only one that you need to think about what do you do when prayer for a child is finally answered, but now you have a 24, 7, 7 day a week weak task of a person, a human relying upon you. I, I feel that, bro, it is Father's Day. I, I feel that. What do you do when the business is finally booming, but the success you've prayed for starts to compete with the family you've been called to lead? What do you do when promotion comes? What do you do when the breakthrough comes? What do you do when blessing comes? And Moses understands that this is Israel's greatest challenge. Not getting into the land, but remaining faithful once they get there. Because the burden of blessing can reveal weaknesses that the season of struggle never exposed. Be careful, he says in Deuteronomy 8. He says, Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today so that you may live and increase, that you may enter and possess. Notice the language. That God does not just want them to live in the land. He doesn't just want them to occupy an empty house. He wants them to furnish it. He wants them to fill it. He wants them to expand it. I'm talking to somebody in the room today from this text saying, you recognize that you have simply been living and not increasing. You recognize that you have been going from day to day, from week to week, from paycheck to paycheck, crisis to crisis. You have been living but not increasing. Increase does not specifically only mean possessions. We all know somebody with a lot of possessions who is the walking dead. Moses is not talking about increasing in stuff. Moses is talking about spiritual growth, growth in trust. Come on, somebody. Is it the year of trust? Growth in obedience, growth in dependence upon God. Moses is talking about the kind of growth that, that will allow you to possess a blessing without the blessing possessing you. And God's desire for his people has always been more than just survival. He doesn't want you to just get the job. He wants you to excel at the job. He doesn't just want you to get married. He wants you to go 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years down the line. He doesn't just want you to have a baby. He wants you to be a faith father. He wants you to be a mother. He wants you to train up a child in the way that they should go. See, the holding pattern is the place where you not only learn to live, but you learn to live and increase. But Moses isn't finished there. He says that you may enter and possess. I love this because it's two different words there. When we Talk about enter and possess. Because there is a difference between entering and possessing. Anybody can enter, not everybody will possess. You can enter a gym with a membership card. But possessing health takes discipline. It takes self denial. It takes consistency. It takes getting up when you don't want to and pulling the weight when you're tired of pulling the weight. It takes looking at yourself in the mirror and saying, we're gonna do this thing no matter what. Anybody can enter a promised land when the walls of Jericho fall, but possessing the land means obedience when nobody's watching. Not because I can post it on Instagram to signal virtue, signal and let people know that I'm a good Christian. It means entertaining the people that I don't want to entertain. It means making space for people that I don't want to make space for. It means feeding the people that I might be nervous about going to feed. It means being the hands and feet of Jesus outside of what I'm comfortable with. I will tell you this social fam. We can enter our future home, 1010 Technology Blvd. In a day. But taking possession of the 75220 for the glory of God is an entirely different thing. It's gonna take us showing up and growing up. It's gonna take us getting out of our comfort zone and saying, you know what? It's not just about me. It's about we. It's not just about God gave me something to bless me, but God gave me a blessing to be a blessing so that he can reach those who are in dark need of him. If we want to possess the the land, we have to align ourselves with the word of God. If we take possession of the land, it means we will reach people. It means we will serve families. It means we will see addictions broken. It means we will see marriages restored. It means we will see people find Jesus. Because possession is the real challenge, not entry. Don't sell yourself short on entry. Don't sell yourself short on just getting in the door. Possess the thing that God has for you. Possession requires stewardship, maturity, and character. And that's what the wilderness was producing. God wasn't just preparing Israel to cross a border. He was preparing them to carry an inheritance. Because God's promise can arrive in a moment. But becoming the kind of person that can steward a promise of God often takes time. That's why the holding pattern matters. Because the holding pattern of where God teaches you how to possess what he's promised. Because God loves you far too much to give you something that you are not ready to Sustain. So before he ever lets the Israelites step one foot into the promised land, he spends 40 years with them, teaching them how to live in it. So Moses begins instructing the Israelites on how they should enter the land. But notice that Moses first words to them about entering the land are not tactical. They're not logistical. They're internal. He says this, remember. Somebody say, remember this word, or some form of it will echo throughout Moses final address to the Israelites. And it's fascinating because Moses is standing on the edge of the promised land. He can see it from where he's at, and yet he's not concerned with where they're going. He's concerned with what they are carrying when they enter. Deuteronomy 8:2 says, Remember how the Lord your God led you. Remember how the Lord your God led you. You know what that phrase tells us? That the holding pattern is where God builds your history with him. It's where your prayers get answered. It's where provision shows up. It's where he proves himself to you over and over and over again. The holding pattern is not a place of forgetting. It's a place of remembrance. The holding patterns build memory. And what's powerful is Moses isn't calling them to remember why they were in the wilderness. He's not asking them to relive their failures. Think about it. He could have reminded them of their rebellion. He could have reminded them of their unbelief. He could have reminded them of their complaining. But instead he says, remember how the Lord led you. In other words, don't just remember your mistakes. Remember God's faithfulness. If you're in a holding pattern today, then I want to remind you that you need to remember the times that you did not think you would make it through. And yet. But God, somehow the day broke and I got up another time. You need to remember the moments that you felt like you were in the desert and somehow a river popped up and you were all of a sudden no longer thirsty. You need to remember the time that you were knocking and knocking and no door would open you. And then all of a sudden, when you thought there was no more time, a door opened and someone was waiting for you on the other side. You need to remember how faithful God has been to you. You need to remember how much he has loved you. How he never left you. How he never forsake you. How he didn't call you garbage. He actually loved you so much that he gave his only son for you. You need to remember when your strength, Ra and His strength came in. Moses is not trying to draw their attention back to failure. He's trying to draw their attention to God's formation. He's reminding them that every battle taught them something. He's reminding them that every trial showed them something not about themselves, but about who God is. I can only remember what I have walked through. I can only remember what I have lived. I cannot borrow somebody else's testimony. I can't live off of somebody else's history with God. At some point or another, me, myself has to look up to the clouds and see that God is faithful to me. I have to recognize for myself the character of the God that I serve. I can't take it from you. I can't take it from my mom. I have to realize within myself that he is faithful, that he is good, that he is trust, and that he is true. At some point or another in the holding pattern, I have to recognize who's walking with me. And Moses doesn't leave us in the dark or the Israel's guessing about what God was teaching them. He tells us this in Deuteronomy 8.
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He says, Remember the Lord God led you all the way in the wilderness these 40 years to humble you. Holding patterns build humility. Moses expands on this in verse three. He says, he humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known. See, this is interesting because God could have chosen a thousand different ways to humble the Israelites, and yet he chooses hunger. If you're not familiar with the story, manna is this supernatural bread that would come down from heaven every single morning. They would wake up and it would be outside their tents waiting for them. They didn't plant it, they didn't manufacture it, they didn't earn it. God provided it every single day. And that's exactly why manna humbled them. Because manna was a direct assault on self sufficiency. Manna directly came to attack the idea Manna came to directly attack this American concept that I can pull myself up by my bootstraps and I can get myself where I need to go. Manna came to directly attack the idea that God if you're not gonna do it, I guess I gotta do it myself. God allowed them to be in a position where he said, said, if it ain't through me, then it ain't going to be through nobody. If I'm not your source, then you don't have a source. If I'm not your supply, then guess what? You're Going without supplies. So sometimes holding patterns are God's way of stripping every false source of security until we are forced to recognize that he was the one sustaining us all along. But their response to manna is where we begin to understand another lesson about the holding pattern. He continues in 8, 2. And he says and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. Holding patterns reveal the heart. I want to say it another way. Holding patterns reveal the patterns you've been holding. Because the wilderness wasn't designed to discourage them. It wasn't designed to harm them. It wasn't designed to tease them. It was designed to reveal something to them. Understand this. God was not needing to test to figure out what was in the Israelites hearts. He already knew. But he needed the Israelites to know what was in the Israelite's heart. It's easy to think you're dependent on God when everything is going according to plan. But can I ask us in the room today, when you get hungry, what comes out? When you feel lonely, where do you go? When you find yourself in desperation, how many plan B's do you have? Holding patterns don't create those things. It simply reveals those things. Numbers 11 tells us that whenever things got difficult, the Israelites started to long for Egypt. It says this, we remember. This is the Israelites talking to Moses. We remember the fear we ate in Egypt at no cost. Also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic. They lost me at onions. But think about that. These people have spent 400 years in the land of Egypt and the vast majority of them under hard slavery. But they're not remembering the slavery. They're not remembering the oppression, the whips or the change. What they're remembering is the menu. But here's what I think is really going on. For Israel, Egypt became more than just a location. Egypt became a mindset. It represented a life that was predictable. A life that was familiar. A life where they knew what tomorrow would look like. A life where provision came from sources they could see. Egypt offered certainty. Manna required trust. And isn't that the tension for all of us? Because Egypt offers options. If food didn't come from one place, maybe it could come from another. If one system failed, there was another system to lean on. There were alternatives, backups, contingency plans on contingency plans. But for them and for us, those options come at a cost. The fish came with slavery. The garlic came with bondage. The certainty came with chains. And that's what made Manna so offensive Manna left them with no options but God. No backup plan, no substitute source, no visible system to trust just God. Every morning they woke up, they were forced to trust that he would provide again. And the last thing that Moses reminds the Israelites that the wilderness taught them was this man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Holding patterns build dependency. Deuteronomy 8, 10, 14 says this. When you have eaten and satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. Moses is reminding them to thank God for every good gift comes from above.
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if you're not careful, you will forget failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, and when your herds and flocks grow up and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt and out of the land of slavery. There's a terrible slippage that happens when we forget the Lord. It starts with being ungrateful. And being ungrateful leads to forgetting that it was God who gave it in the first place. And we forget. And when we forget that it was God who gave it in the first place, we begin to make idols of other things. The wilderness wasn't ultimately about manna. It wasn't ultimately about hunger. It wasn't even ultimately about the promised land. God was teaching his people something far deeper. That man does not live on bread alone. That life is not found in food or in drink. Life is found in him. That his presence is more necessary than his provision. Because God knew there was a danger waiting for the Israelites just on the other side of the Jordan. One day they would eat and be satisfied. One day they would build houses and settle down. One day their silver and gold would increase. And one day they would finally have everything they'd ever prayed for. And Moses offers them this. Be careful. Why? Because the danger was never in delay. It was never in the distance. It was never in the wilderness. The danger was that they would enter the Promised Land and leave God in the wilderness. The wilderness made them dependent. The Promised Land had the potential to make them forgetful. That was Moses concern. And you can imagine the tension of the Israelites listening to this message from Moses, the man who has led, led them out of Egypt and through the wilderness. Wandering in a place for years and years, you can feel the tension of the text. But Moses, this is everything we've ever longed for. But the goal was never to simply get Israel into the Promised Land. The goal was to get Israel into the Promised Land without losing their dependence on Him. Because what is the promise without the promiser, except for a prison, what is a gift without the giver? It just becomes an idol. The blessing without the blesser becomes bondage. Stand with me, if you will, today. The truth that we've unfolded here in the text is perhaps why God allows some of us to stay in holding patterns longer than we would like. Because he's not just preparing us for the promise, he's teaching us that he is better than the promise. Because if all we ever long for is God's hand, then we will surely miss his heart. If all we ever want is what he can give us, then we will miss out on the greatest gift that he has for us Himself. And I believe that as a church, that we are coming into a time where we are going to see promises come to pass, where we are going to see suddenly moments where things that had been long awaited all of a sudden sprung up. But after reading the text, I'm telling you I want to be more cautious about how I approach the promise. Because I don't want to be a person that gets what I've been longing for, what I've been praying for, what I've been weeping for. And the moment that I get it, I forget the God that delivered it to me. I think God is raising up Joshua's in this house, people who are not there for what God can give them, but simply love his presence, that want to obey his word, that want to see him change Dallas, that want to see him transform their schools and their workplaces and their families. But it starts with remembering. I want to pray for us in the room this morning. And if this word pinged in your heart this morning and you know that man, I might be in danger of forgetting. I might be forgetting already. Or I don't want to forget. Would you just lift your hand? I want to pray with you this morning. This is my hand lifted too. Bow your heads. Father, we thank you that you will help us to remember. God, to not forget you. Lord, you are worth more than anything you could give us. God, just being with you, God, just knowing that you saved us, that you made space for us, God, if you never did another thing, God, that is more than enough just to be with you. Lord, this one thing I ask and this one thing that I seek, that I could dwell in Your house, Lord, all the days of my life.
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make us a people that just loves you. God that just loves your face. Help us to remember and never to forget in Jesus name. Come on. Everybody said, I want to pray for one more group of people. Never want to miss the opportunity for people to say yes to Jesus. If you're in the room today. And you know, man, I haven't even taken my first step toward what God has for me because I've not yet asked Jesus to be the Lord and Savior of my life. We want to give you opportunity for that this morning. And the good news is you're not alone. You are surrounded by people who have made that wonderful decision to give their life to Jesus. So I'm going to ask that every head be bowed and every eye be closed if you're in the room today. And you know, man, I need Jesus. I really need him. I need him to guide me and to lead me. Today is the day. I am obeying now. Not tomorrow, not next week, but today. I am obeying his voice. Would you slip up your hand high enough and long enough that I could see it? Come on. There's hands going up all over the room, y'.
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You can put your hand down. And we're gonna pray this prayer together. Everybody, come on. Say, jesus, I need you, Jesus, I can't be without you. I want what you have for me. I want to go your way. I acknowledge that I am a sinner. And I need your saving grace. Thank you for the work of the cross. Thank you for what you did for me. I receive it. God save me from this day forward. Today it's you and me moving forward. Till I see you face to face in Jesus mighty name. Come on. And everybody said,
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come on. Can we give God some praise? Can we thank Pastor Josh for that word today? Somebody make this declaration. Say, lord, help me remember. That is the fight of your life to remember the things that you should remember and forget the things that you should forget. And I pray you leave here remembering God's faithfulness that he will give you. Watch this. Your daily bread. I know we want that monthly bread plan, but God says no. I love you too much to not have you be dependent on me. I'm gonna give you your daily bread. Cause I love you. Can we thank God for all those who responded to Jesus today? I want to say welcome to the family. Welcome to the family.