Places You Should Never Be by Travis Worthington September 13, 2020 ยท Centerpointe Apostolic Church (Murfreesboro, TN) Kind: sermon Scripture: Judges 18:1, Judges 18:3-6, Joshua 19, Judges 1:34, Judges 5, Ephesians 3:20, Judges 18:20, Judges 18:30 Source: https://acts238.life/repository/sermons/travis-worthington--places-you-should-never-be Published by Acts 2:38 Life from the sermon transcript on that page. Free to copy and share with attribution. ------------------------------------------------------------ Um can I get a witness amen I if you've got your Bibles turn to Judges chapter 18. I'm so excited to be in church with y'all this morning and uh. So excited to be here at center point I believe I have a word from the Lord. And while you're doing that I want to give honor or honors dude. I'm so excited to be here at this great church this is a great church. Amen and uh I feel like this is the best place in town and y'all should say. Amen there should be a loud clap at that right there amen you should love. Your church and say you know this is the best place in town and I give honor to bishop. And uh sister de priest I love them and they are great great people and absolutely respect him. And he's always been such a tremendous uh man of God and when I. Was a young preacher he was always so kind to me and I'm very very thankful to be back standing? Here with you in this pulpit this morning and so I give honor to him and also to. Your great pastor and pastor's wife they are just amazing first-class people and oh man. They have spoiled us this weekend and man I just absolutely love them and. They are a hoot and uh they have uh we had a great time at dinner on friday night. And then last night uh boy I was texting with also a good dear friend of mine pastor wesley. And sister lindsay I said man you missed the discussion last night it. Was like medical talk gone bad at dinner and he was like you know and? So I I love him and he's a good friend of mine and I give honor to them. And love them and to also your junior your middle school youth uh pastors I absolutely love them had a great time with them on friday night. And this awesome youth group that you all have here at center point the kids were on fire. They were praying and man seeking God and just lots of great people. Here love the haze they they took us out yesterday and the andersons good friends of ours from a long time. And so thankful to be amongst friends and I feel at home here which. That's probably some trouble for y'all I'm just gonna be honest all right. Because I'm not your traditional uh buttoned-up preacher all right some of y'all. Are probably gonna think who is this guy? But I'm just gonna roll and be me all right and so y'all just kind of roll with me. And uh pastor will clean this up next week I promise. But you know we're just gonna have fun today and I believe church ought to be fun. Amen and uh and so I'm just going to kind of roll with. It but I feel like the Lord has a word for us this morning Judges chapter 18. Is where we're going to go Judges chapter 18 and verse 1 and I think? I'm reading out of the esv translation but all the translations will work Judges 18 and 1 says. And in those days there was no king in Israel and in those days the tribe of the people of Dan. Was seeking for itself an inheritance to dwell in for until then no inheritance among the tribes of Israel had fallen to them? If you skip to verse 3 they said when they were by the house of Micah. They recognized the voice of the young Levite and they turned aside and said to him. Who brought you here everybody say here what are you doing in this place? What is your business here and he said to them this is how Micah dealt with me? He has hired me and I have become his priest and they sent him inquire of. God please that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed. They're like hey give us so give us a give us the word. Is this going to work it's not going to work hey and the priest said to them go in peace the journey on which? You go is under the eye of the Lord I want to preach to. You today on this subject places you should never be turn to somebody and say places. You should never be amen amen and you may be seated. So a few years ago I was driving out to the campground in virginia and me. And my wife I'm so excited to have my lovely beautiful wife here with me. This morning and my family praise God for sunday school and all the parents say. Amen glory to God I think some people were shouting pastor just. Because sunday school is like he's a way maker can I get a witness for anybody. That has little kids right have a six-year-old and a three-year-old and just love them. But you know they're a Lot sometimes can I get a witness and. So so great to have my family here and I was driving out to the campground. And you know it was late I had had uh board meetings the next morning and. So as I'm driving out you know I put the the uh the directions in the gps. And man I am just jamming out and you know I'm just singing and uh. It's it's a few years ago so it's like the presence of the Lord. Is here and you know I'm just driving I got my thing on? I'm I've got the music beaten and all of a sudden it says. You have arrived to your destination I pull up and I look over. I'm like this is not the hotel because there is a farm and I. Look over to the right and there is a field. Now that's not uncommon in virginia but as I said they said there ain't. No hotel so I look behind me no hotel I look forward I said. Well maybe the gps office I go down a little bit and that nothing. There and I come to realize that I put instead of north west I should have put northeast. And that one letter put me in a place I didn't want to be put me in the wrong place put me in a place. That was the wrong place and hear me today there are things and times in life where places. Can show and reveal where you are supposed to be places matter places? Are what sometimes you're willing to fight for places can show what is important to? You and as we turn to our text today let me introduce to. You our friends of the tribe of Dan they are the stars of the show. This morning see when I talk about Dan some of you may instantly think oh Dan like daniel. And the lion's den Dan not so much homie no no see you may be thinking Dan oh I I know a guy named Dan. No not Dan no no no this is the tribe of Dan daniel. Is is this tribe of Dan that is is there and when you consider the tribe of Dan I know? That you all are probably theological scholars and you know all about the 12 tribes. You probably studied them in your devotionals and everybody just say amen right. But maybe not so let me give you a little background on the tribe of Dan. See the tribe of Dan is is one of the tribes the children of Israel. Are promised this land and they are told that they have to conquer the land? That they have been given and uh often we can relate to that in the church as. God gives us promises but we still have to conquer what God has given us somebody say. Amen and joshua 19 gives us the background that they are one that. Is promised a piece of land and they are the last tribe to receive? Their land and the land they get is a good piece it's near the sea. It has good ground it has great soil. But there comes a problem with the promise the Bible says in Judges chapter 1 and verse 34. That the people fought and pressed him and they fought them and they. They realized that the amorites in this verse 34 pressed the people of Dan back to the hill country. And they did not allow them to come down to the plane in other words. They said hey you're not going to come and take our land you're going to fight. For this and they started to receive a little bit of pushback a little bit of conflict a little bit of adversity. And so they said oh we're going to step back and and we. Don't know what to do and and we see that there is somewhere somehow Dan of the tribe never possesses the promise of? God somehow somewhere we find that they decided that the price of the promise. Was too high to pay they decided that the cost was too much and? They give up on the promise of God hear me somebody I'm going somewhere and. So as they decide there's too much you find that if you study the tribe of Dan. It is mentioned ever so subtly in Judges chapter 5 in the song of deborah. She speaks about this tribe and as she speaks about it she describes the tribe in her song. And she said that instead of fighting they stayed in their boats I can't pinpoint. It but I can show it that at some point the tribe of Dan decided. I'm not going to fight this battle I am not going to go to. That place and in their spirit somewhere they said I'm no longer willing to fight and. I'm going to accept the defeat we're going to accept the loss and. We are going to willingly compromise the promise of God somewhere they found. That the cost and the price was too high. So much so that they give up on the promise of God they weighed the promise of. God versus the price of the fight and we no ever even see them get out of the boat. Now let me preach for a second people of God this morning center point. We have to understand that we cannot give up what God has given us. Can I get a witness somebody we can't decide that I'm going to put something aside? That God has promised us God has promises in your life and sometimes. There may be some adversity can I get a witness somebody sometimes it's going to take a little bit of umph. But hear me today we've got to have a made up mind that. I'm going to get what God's got for me I want it for. My family I want it for my future I want it for my ministry I want. It for my calling if you believe that clap your hands unto the Lord turn to somebody say. You got to get a made-up mind and when you get a made-up mind. It doesn't matter sometimes what you face it doesn't matter what the report may be the giant. You may face it does not matter what the report or the circumstances or. How it looks in the natural but I'm here today to tell you? That there are things that we've got to decide right. Now that I cannot compromise because I am called by God I'm fixing to preach to the families. I'm fixing to preach to the young people right. Now hear me today somebody we've got to get a made-up mind that I can't compromise. Some stuff just because I want the easy way I'm going to have to preach all by myself. Can I get a witness somebody hear me today you got to get a made-up mind? That you know what it doesn't matter if everybody else turns I'm not going to compromise. Can I get a witness somebody I got to get a made-up mind? That doesn't matter if my whole family doesn't serve God I'm gonna still serve. God it doesn't matter if my whole school doesn't serve God I'm gonna still serve. God it doesn't matter what's gonna happen as for me and my house. We shall serve the Lord it starts with a made-up mind honey it starts. Before you get to the battle it starts before you get to the circumstances. It starts right here right now you decide I'm going to give God. My all and my everything y'all ain't ready for me today I'm coming in hot those two cups of coffee sinking in y'all better buckle up. Now see I told him ain't ready for me I told them you got to get a maid of mine. You got to get a made up mind right here there may be promises. God gave me there may be things that God gave me in his word and. Sometimes it's going to cost me a little something to get them it's going to cost me a little something I might have to pay a little price I may have to pray. Some prayers I may have to fast a little bit. But let me tell you something it's worth it every single time let. It be said of center point apostolic church that we are not going to give up or compromise. My family matters too much my kids matter too much my grandkids matter too much behave yourself back tomorrow sorry. My wife's here I have to okay she's gonna be my barometer if I get out of the line babe gotcha. Okay so here's the issue Dan the tribe of Dan they are catch. This you gotta catch this cause this builds. So let me let me let me drop it like it's hot right. Here Dan is given land everybody say give and land okay. So we know that God gave them something. But when it came time to fight they encountered some resistance and the amazing thing. Is they said okay we're out and deborah expands and expounds that it wasn't just? That they'd fight in the planes that when they got to the boat. They wouldn't even get out of the boat the tribe of Dan settles and. It shows what is important the question that we ponder with and wrestle with. This morning is what's important to you see one day gonna have to show. It one day you gotta make the call you gotta decide am I gonna fight. I'm gonna walk away and what will you do when it's them the crowd the applause of. My peers or him what will you do when your turn is up. See there really is no excuse for the tribe of Dan and any excuse. That they had it should have been thrown out the window. But the problem was is they didn't have faith um I could preach on. That right there this is where one of my old one of my saints would say drive by slow pastor. Okay I think I will right here sometimes you got to have faith to make. It through perhaps if you are considering quitting it's a faith issue I got a word. For somebody today what you need is a renewal of a fresh faith. This morning that you're fighting battles you say you know what I don't know. If I'm some of you may have thought you know what I don't know. If I'm going to make it to the end of the year I. Don't know if I don't know if church is for me I don't know what's going on? And God if this is real how could this if you're real how could. This be happening I'm here they tell you you've got to get a fresh faith. This morning because it wasn't that the tribe couldn't defeat their enemy it's. That they wouldn't it had nothing to do with size see one of the famous Danites claim to fame. You may have known him samson Danite you would think that the tribe. Is somebody that is is on the outlier? But no it has nothing to do with size it has nothing to. Do with circumstances or location or resources but it has everything to do with the fact? That they refused to get into battle they preferred hills and boats to battles. They preferred convenience to fighting for what God gave them and they become content in a situation. That God intended for them to conquer and we find that they would. Not demonstrate faith or trust in the ability of God I'm here to remind somebody. Today that the scripture of ephesians chapter 3 and verse 20 says God. Is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power? That works in us so we find that try that damn damn the tribe of Dan in Judges 18 in. Our text now we have arrived at this place and if you just read Judges 18 1. And don't understand the story you think oh poor drive of dean they're like. They're like the little stray cat right you're like oh come here buddy those poor guys. They don't have a land don't you feel sorry from there we go ah. That's a weakest aw I never heard right there come on everybody say oh right. There we go it's like a children's church I feel like gotta get. Here we need some action songs quick get the praise team back out. Here okay watch the tribe of Dan in Judges 18 in our text opens. It Dan is searching for an inheritance a place to dwell even though. God had given them the place and they gave it up hear me. Today we've got to understand that we have got to be intentional about getting. What God has given us and it's worth the fight and nothing is worth giving? It away and so we find that Dan the tribe of Dan in Judges chapter 18 catch. This they send 600 valiant men how valiant were they they weren't willing to fight. What God gave them yet the Bible declares and describes them with the adjective as valiant? And they go look for a place that they could conquer and as. They're searching what's fascinating is they search and go to the farthest north place away from where. God has given them God gave them a place over here and somehow. They march all the way across the land and end up in this place. That that far from where God gave them and I hear me say. That's usually what happens when people give up on God is they go the farthest away possible um where's. My organ up in here can't get no help right preach by myself right. Here just stay on pastor I'll just keep on let me help you out for a second pastor right ain't. That the truth is that it's normally when people that give up on something. They go the farthest way possible to a place they should never be where. God intended them to be here yeah we say oh I'm going to go. There I'm going to go find somewhere else I'm going to go date. That girl I'm going to I'm going to go be with that guy. I'm going to go to that college I'm going to go do something. So far I'm going to take the job that's going to take me out of church hear me. Today somebody I'm just going to keep on preaching by myself up in. Here hear me that you got to be careful when you find yourself in a place. That's far away from where God intended you and why is it. Because they find a place that's easy and convenient and didn't cost much and. They find it and they rename it they rename it says this is the tribe of Dan. It's funny how often christians will label something to make them feel better about. What decision they've made when they know it's bad oh? But pass this guy be the will of God have you seen how. He looks even though the guy don't attend church ain't been to the altered I. Don't know if I've ever seen him with his hand do you think? That's the will of God oh but pastor he said he listens to christian music on. His spotify yo that's the browner what I know I'm all up in. Your business now you liked me a few minutes ago. But watch isn't it interesting how people relabel what they tried to have taken as convenient. And as they do such they are now far from the place that. God wanted them to be because they no longer wanted to pay the price and follow the will of. God so they compromised it and renamed it and they make themselves feel like they've done right. Because they found a place that was easy and convenient in a place hear me say. When we desire the easy things it's when we will accept anything it's. When convenience becomes appealing that compromise becomes the option and that's where we find. That the tribe of Dan is is that they are in a place. That's showing what they believe see in a place priorities are revealed causes. Are revealed beliefs are revealed and we enter into a conversation in Judges 18? If you could get ready throw that up back on the screen for me. My great av people here's what I know is what we find in. Our text they come to a man who's a Levite and he is in the house of Micah someone. Who has backslidden and worshiping false gods and there is a guy that? They recognize his voice because they're in a foreign land they're in a place far far away hashtag cool star wars reference. Some of you all might have got that right. But watch this they're in a place far far far away way away from where. They should have been and they hear somebody and they hear a twang. They hear an accent anybody know sometimes you you got somebody had an accent. Now y'all are from tennessee quit get the car ready babe I'm about to go. How many all think you got an accent can I get a witness honest people? If they didn't raise their hand you need to pray for them alter call. You better hope that they're coming down to the front their soul they may be in a place far far away right. Can I get a witness okay how about this you ever hear somebody from boston where's where's brother hank hayes right? My favorite yeah okay right there's my my new englander who loves doing. You hear somebody say ah park the car cape cod right here you go. You ain't from around here huh where are you from the accent in which the Levites spoke caught the attention of the 600 valiant men. See the tribe of Israel all spoke the same language they had the same accent. They had the same heritage they said the words the same way and all of a sudden somebody said whoa hold up we've heard everybody else around. Here saying park the car and all of a sudden you're talking like us and interestingly enough the men decide whoa. What are you doing they recognize that this man is not just an israelite? But he's a Levite and a Levite should be in the house of. God a Levite should be taking care of the matters of God the Levite should be focused on. God he shouldn't be in a land far away he's in a place. He should not be and we find that they say whoa whoa who brought. You here what are you doing in this place why are you here and. They were confused that why the man was living in a foreign land. Because if the Levite had been in this rightful spiritual role the Levite pastor probably would have set those 600 men straight. And he should have said no no you all need to turn back around. You need to go back and fight for what God gave you you. Don't need to stay here in this place of Micah in fact you need to go home? And begin to take what God has given you and and he should have began to correct them. But because he wasn't living right all of a sudden he began to join in. You got to be careful on who you allow to give you advice in. Your life because sometimes they're giving you advice that they think is right. Because they ain't living right can I get a witness somebody and sometimes you'll say oh man. This one time I'm gonna I'm just gonna drop this right here one time I had had a guy. Who comes to me and says pastor I know God's told me to? Do this and he said someone came and and told me this while I? Was praying right as soon as I was done praying in the altar? They said they confirmed this word and it was. So crazy I was like dude that's way off and I said can I just a second. Who confirmed the word and he said the name I said hold up whoa? You're telling me that this guy is now going to give you the spiritual counsel. That you are packing up and rolling out and going to an entirely different place. You don't see anything wrong with that no pastor not at all I thought. My my my how easy it is to listen to people who tell us. What we want to hear I'd rather have somebody tell me what I? Don't want to hear and save me and make me help me to be right than to have someone lie to me? And say yeah keep going towards destruction you need a true teller in. Your life somebody say amen and so as the words of Micah Micah should have gave him. This turning of a council and oh the story would be different. But no unfortunately not Micah says no no you can go forward in fact go onward with. Your journey and the 600 valiant men instead they wanted a place that. Was easy it does not cost them and they move beyond the battlefield? That God intended them and what encouraged them even more wasn't their motivation. It was listening to the wrong voice beware of the voices that encourage. You to go in the wrong direction hear me today somebody doctrine matters the word of. God matters what you believe matters what you do matters hear me today somebody voices. That say oh it doesn't matter how you're baptized the devil is a liar. If people say oh you don't got to go to church anymore just stay home and watch on facebook the devil. Is a liar that's why the Bible says forsake not the assembling of themselves you've got to be careful? When people decide I want something convenient and easy and I ain't willing to fight for. It hear me today you better tune them out. Because if you're not careful they'll start to sway your decision and you'll end up in places. That you should never be for what you believe is what you stand for and. I'm almost done see when I was in Israel what's interesting is I heard a story about a rabbi the name of the rabbi. Was rabbi Akiva and I was standing in Caesarea and we were going and? They said at this spot right here is where this rabbi made an amazing declaration of. What he believed see there started to become riots and the government started to? Come against the people no I'm not talking about 2020 this happened years ago oh. Come on that's a good joke all right tough crowd tough crowd right I might have got more laughs than. That at home maybe not my church don't laugh at my jokes either. So watch this as as as they're there the rabbi they decided that. You can no longer teach from the torah and if you do it. Is punishable by death and the rabbi's reaction was not surprising the great scholar? Who supported him and he began to gather together the people on the appointed time and? He opened up and he started to read and it was not long. After that the rabbi was charged and convicted and when the rabbi was brought forth out. For a public execution good thing brother west isn't here the way they did. This is they took a little bit of a weapon and it filleted the skin right off like a fish. So you literally bled to death and as the man was out there. They began to take this knife and start on his arm peeling the skin off and. It was not long after that it was the hour to recite the shema and as the executioners flayed. His skin with iron combs the rabbi with his last words deciding that. He's going to show what he loved and what he stood for and. What he believed it's beginning to say here oh Israel the Lord our? God is one and with his last word of dying breath his last word of. What he stood for and what he believed and the price he was willing to pay with? His very own life was here oh Israel the Lord our God is one. That's the type of belief that's the type of battle that's the type of stan. That says even if it cost me my everything even if it cost me. My all I'm willing to understand what I believe matters see your beliefs will keep. You fighting the fight but when you look to other places things can. Look easy and idols can become appealing see if you compare the rabbi. Now as a one God apostolic when I heard that story I about started dancing I. Was like hero Israel the Lord our God is one love the Lord? Your heart right I was about to shout right there what a testimony. But then I compared that to the Levite and the Levite you see drops. This little nugget in at the end see the levi is supposed to lead. He's supposed to show the way and he said to them this is. How Micah dealt with me he's hired me and I've become his priest the Levite? Was hired he was a sellout to whatever was needed and he knew the words of? God but he was so wholly ignorant of the true teachings of God. That was void in his heart he knew the word. But not the relationship when was the last time that you've really fallen into a time of worship with the Lord where. You can connect with him from the heart. Because the heart will keep you in a place where God intends and. It is in this moment that the tribe of Dan inquires of God says tell us where to go. And also watch this come with us come on and the priest is like. Why can I be a priest for a house one promotion I can be a priest? For a tribe I'm seeing a bigger house I'm seeing that tesla can I get a witness somebody. I'm seeing some I'm about to go though he was thinking God had done blessed me. Today and he said come with us come be our priest we need a priest. We hey we're up here in this far away land anyways catch you somebody in fact let's all stand the man the Levite in the moment in which. He is in a place not only the tribe should have never been. But bishop the Levite should have never been and you find that oh misery loves company. And so does backslidden and in this moment the priest sells out. Because if you'll sell your soul for something little you'll sell it for a whole Lot. So he steals the idols of Micah and he goes with the 600 men and verse 20 of Judges 18 says. And the priest's heart was glad and he took the ephod and tariff him and the graven image. And went in the midst of the people of the tribe of Dan. He was so gleeful and so happy at getting God. So cheap so much so that he steals the ephod and the terraphm the graven image right. Now I pause to say this is that in our hearts we've got to love the Lord with all. Our heart all our soul all our strength all our mind everything that. Is within us and when we understand that I cannot compromise the promises? That God has given us it begins to help you understand your decision of just skipping church. Is one small step to a place you should never be deciding oh? Maybe I'll go next week or maybe maybe I'll just catch it later oh. You know when you begin to compromise the things of God oh pastor I'll tied next week pastor I'll drop. That offering that mission's offering next month when you begin to decide oh. Don't you know I've got vacation coming up I know I should give? This to God but doesn't Jesus understand these are things I've heard as a pastor and. Now that I'm older and middle aged I have glasses I like to pull. My glasses down that's the only good thing I found about them and. Look over them go really um and watch this in this moment that the man takes an idol which. He knows the ten commandments he is a Levite he was a minister. He was called he has grown up seeing the things of God he knows. What is right he knows what is wrong? But his conscience has become so seared that he has compromised everything and deceived himself. He has literally talked himself in to calamity and talked himself into deception. He has deceived himself so much he is. Now believing the lie and it does not matter if he knows that. He knows that he's wrong he's not going to believe it or accept. It and this Levite on family sunday at center point who was the man the Levite in Judges 18. And 30 says in the children's dance set up a graven image and Jonathan the son of Gershom the son of manasseh. He and his sons were the priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of captivity in the land. Do you know who the Levite was it was Moses's great grandson the Levite the Levite? Who should have been in the temple it was the Levite who should have known the way oh just a few generations just a few wrong decisions? And all of a sudden it didn't happen overnight. But the man who all of a sudden was a grandson to the great unshakeable deliverer of Israel from bondage the man of the Levite the grandson. Who decided that it's okay to set up an idol it was the grandson? Who God decided hey I'm trying to bring this guy back he decides to sell out? And to use God so cheaply it is the grandson that sets up an idol in the land of Dan. That splits the kingdom after Solomon when jeroboam goes I wondered how did jeroboam get to the tribe of Dan. Because Dan isn't Dan Dan was over by the sea and it was in. That moment that the nation of Israel split. Because at that time after Solomon people were looking for an easy convenient place to worship. And they said oh we've already found a people and a tribe and they've got graven images let's set up a worship place. Here so people don't have to go all the way to Jerusalem be careful. When people start to find convenient alternatives to the house of God and begin to justify. How their worship can be new or changed oh how sad it is to think? That just a few generations later somewhere somehow a man is living in a place. He should have never been and endorsed a decision of a tribe that eventually sets up. For devastation with every head bowed and every eye closed the decision didn't happen overnight. It was a process don't want to do that don't feel like doing. That I want it easier but the reality of the Levite is that. He never got it for himself young people be careful when that's all. You do is live the walk of God. Because mama and daddy have brought you to church. Because one day when you're on a campus somewhere in a workplace somewhere and you've got to make the stand. If you never get it for yourself you'll slowly start to say oh I. Can go to these places and you'll end up in a place you should never be? Because he never got it for himself he knew the law he knew the word. But he never knew the cost and he never had the relationship right. Now with every head bowed and every eye closed I wonder if you could lift. Your hands and I wonder if you would just begin to submit and say. God not my will but thy will be done I wonder if you. Are in this place today if you will come find a place at the altar and? You will begin to commit and consecrate yourself to say God I give. It my all that Lord I'm not going to decide that I'm going to compromise or. I'm going to give in or I'm going to give up. But I wonder if there's some people today at center point that will make a decision. And begin to decide Lord I'm going to kill I'm going to know. You for myself I want to know you God I want to have a walk with. God I want to know God who you are I don't just want to know. Your word God but I want to know the author and the finisher of. My faith hear me today somebody I wonder if you'd get out of. Your pew I wonder if you'll get down and come down to the front and I wonder. If you'll come find a place where you can create an altar and begin to say. God the Levite grew up in church he knew the word he knew the torah. He knew the ways he knew the laws he had it all. But yet at some place some way somehow he gave it up I wonder. If right now there'd be a commitment of consecration in this place where. You would begin to say oh God oh Lord help me today that. God it's not just what my mom did families I wonder if you'll join together begin to pray with somebody right. Now and say Lord help me today that my decisions don't just impact me. But there's future that's depending on me there's my family and my generations. After that are depending on what I do that God I will give. You my all here oh Israel the Lord our God is one Lord hear me. Today what you believe matters Acts 2 38 matters oh I refuse to give up and give in oh. Yes God that's it would you lift your hands and just begin to pray. If you're in your in your pew just begin to take a moment and connect with. God maybe you can kneel at your pew maybe you can find a place where. You can say God search my heart God search my ways God let a true teller speak to. My life oh Jesus take me there oh God take me to a place take me to a place in which I know. You oh Jesus oh yes cup yes God yes God yes God in the name of. Jesus right now I pray God that you would touch Lord I pray in the name of. Jesus right now father that you begin to move Lord God bring us to a place. God of consecration that I give you my all I give you my everything.