Sunday Evening Worship Service

Just remain standing. Go back to your seats. Grab your Bibles, get your tablets, however you get into the word of the Lord. We're going to go right into Mark chapter number three tonight. A great spirit that's been here all day. A great spirit, great word that we heard today. I believe the Lord's trying to speak to us, do something in us in this brand new year. And I just believe if we are sensitive to his voice and leading, we're going to see some amazing things this year in Jesus' name. Mark chapter number three, we're going to begin reading at verse number one. The same account is found in Matthew chapter number 12. And so I'll pull some of the information and details that Matthew gives us, but for the most part, we're going to stay right here in Mark chapter number three and begin reading at verse number one. And he, Jesus, entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there which had a withered hand. Someone say withered. And they watched Jesus whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him. And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, stand forth. And he saith unto him, Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath days, or to do evil, to save life or to kill? But they held their peace. And he looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts. He saith unto the man, "Stretch forth thine hand." And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored whole as the other. And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him. Tonight, I won't preach long, but I want to preach to your faith. I pray that you would respond in faith tonight. Withered hands and stubborn hearts. Withered hands in stubborn hearts. Now, I want you to do this as Jesus said. Stretch forth your hand right now and stretch forth your other hand. And I want you to invite him to speak to you tonight. Father, we're so thankful for your spirit that is here. Lord, we thank you for the glory that we have felt from the very verse, very first note, the very first prayer this morning until now. But Lord, we pray that you would speak yet again. Lord, I pray that you would touch me, your servant, as frail and as weak as I am. Help me to clearly communicate your word and let the gift of faith be in operation here tonight in Jesus' name. And everyone said, "Amen." Now clap your hands unto the Lord and you can be seated here tonight. Withered hands and stubborn hearts. If you go back into Mark chapter number two and if you read Matthew chapter number 12, you'll see that this whole event that we just read has some context to it. So allow me to give you some context to what's happening here. Now, have you ever noticed a c-orker, maybe a fellow student, report someone for breaking a rule? Don't have to raise your hands right now. Maybe you're sitting next to a coworker or somebody, but they hurriedly go to the manager, to the teacher, insisting that action be taken. Doesn't the rule book say this shouldn't be allowed? What they often overlook is the individual behind the offense and the context surrounding it. For them, the letter of the law takes precedence over the spirit of the law. There's a difference. And this is precisely the attitude that we encounter between the religious people of Jesus's day and Jesus himself in Matthew 12 and Mark 3. Now, earlier, as I said, Jesus and his disciples were walking through the grain fields on the Sabbath day. Now, just to kind of give you some biblical history here, the Sabbath, which runs from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday, is a gracious gift from God to his people. As a part of their covenant rest, and there are commands, this day of rest is rooted in creation itself. God worked for six days and rested on the seventh, not because he was tired, but he was showing the precedent of rest and he commanded his people to do the same. And Moses refers to it in the law as the Sabbath of the Lord your God, linking it directly to Israel's redemption from Egypt. So the Sabbath is meant to be a day of rest, relief, and renewal. a day designed for life and not for fear. Yet, when we get to the New Testament, in the time of Christ, the Sabbath had become obscured by human tradition. And the Pharisees turned a gift into a burden, transforming rest into anxiety and devotion into dread. And so, as the disciples walked through the grain fields, they picked heads of grain to eat. They were not harvesting or working in the field. They were just simply hungry. The law itself in Deuteronomy chapter 23 allowed a person to pluck grain by hand from a neighbor's field. However, the Pharisees objected at this moment. In their view, plucking was equivalent to reaping and reaping was considered work and that is forbidden. And so in their minds, it was settled. These are law and rule breakers. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. GET THEM JESUS. But he does not criticize his disciples. Instead, he rebukes those who accuse them. He directs them to scripture and reminds them of David, Israel's second king, who was on the run for his life from King Saul. and he went to the tabernacle and he asked for a piece of bread and they gave him the bread of the presence in the tabernacle that was only for the priests. God did not condemn David for his actions because he was in need. So the need was what surpassed the law. Mercy was important, but life took precedent over the religious ritual. Does that make sense? So even though yes, here's the rule, here's the law, you can't eat the bread of presence, David, because that's for the priests, but he was in need. And back in Matthew 12, Jesus said, don't you realize I desire mercy more than sacrifice? I want you to understand that sometimes the need goes beyond the ritual. >> Sometimes the tradition needs to TAKE BACK SEAT to the pressing need at hand. He said, "I want you to understand something about what happened with David's day and what's happening here right now is that something greater than the temple is here and that the son of man is lord of the Sabbath." SO WHAT HE'S SAYING IS, I am the lawgiver. I'm the one who instituted the tabernacle. I'm the one who instituted the Sabbath. So therefore, the Sabbath serves me. So I can do I since I am the lawgiver and I am the law creator, I can do with that law whatever I want. I desire mercy then more than I deser than I than I deserve that I want sacrifice just because yes there's a law in place the rule needs to be broken for the moment because David's in need and here on the Sabbath day here in the synagogue there is a need as well and so Jesus proves his point they're angry they don't think he should be doing this they think he should be get him get Isn't that scary to think that that happens in church? Get them, God. Get them. Here's here's the rules. Here's the handbook. They're breaking the rules. And God's like, "Uh, whose book is it? You're trying to tell me something that I didn't write. Get them, Jesus. Don't you know they're breaking the rules? We like, you know, sometimes we would rather have rules than relationship. Some people like the letter more than the spirit. And what they want is for somebody to tell them exactly what to do void of relationship. So if I'm keeping the rules, as long as I'm keeping the rules, I don't have to pray. Oh, I'm going to go ahead and preach now. I'm I'm I'm doing ABC all the way through X, but I'm not going to have compassion for my neighbor. We've tithed mint and grain. He says, "Don't you know I I want you to have mercy?" All right. You're not going to help me preach on Sunday night, are you? You see, sometimes we fall in love with rules more than we fall in love with the rule maker. I I TAUGHT ABOUT IT WEDNESDAY. HE WANTS us to keep the commands, but the commands are based upon the covenant. AND THE COVENANT'S ALWAYS GREATER THAN THE COMMANDS. Because if you break the commands, the covenant's NOT GOING TO BE BROKEN. WHY? BECAUSE I DIDN'T CREATE THE COVENANT. He created the covenant. And he's INVITED ME INTO THE COVENANT. AND IF I COME SHORT OF THE COVENANT, THE COVENANT'S NOT BROKEN BECAUSE HE'S THE COVENANT KEEPER. >> I'M telling you, YOU GOT TO HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE RULER MORE THAN YOU HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE RULE BOOK. >> Somebody say, "Amen." So Jesus comes into the synagogue which is like a local temple for them where they would come and study the law and hear somebody teach from the law. People would be gathered there, the scribes, the priests, uh the Pharisees, the common man would come to a local synagogue and learn. And so as we get into Mark 3 and the continuation of Matthew 12 and the same story, it says that there is a man with a withered hand. And the term in in the original language withered refers to something that is dried up and shriveled and lifeless. The man's condition was not due as it seems to a recent injury. Instead, it had a long history. He had lived with this brokenness for a significant amount of time. Now, I I just kind of think weird. How many times had he come to the synagogue with that withered hand and left with that withered hand? How many weeks, how many months, how many years had he walked in with brokenness and walked out still broken? And Jesus walks into the synagogue in the context of arguing with those who want to keep the rules more than they want to love the ruler. And he looks around at them and he sees that here is a man with a withered hand. But also in this room is a people with stubborn hearts. How many times had he walked in with this condition and left in the same condition? How many times had he heard great teaching? How many times had he had he had he heard and and partaken of great prayers and yet he's still broken? And yet when Jesus walks into the room and he sees the man with the withered hand, it is the religious people who are there waiting to see if they can catch Jesus in something so they could accuse him. And so Jesus looks around angry at their hard hearts, their stubborn hearts. And he sees the man with the withered hand and he says, "You stand here. Me, you talking to me?" "Yeah, you with the withered hand. Come here and stand here." And immediately he gets up and walks next to Jesus. Now, Matthew and Mark record this situation. Jesus says this. He says, "Is it permissible to heal on the Sabbath day? Is it okay to heal a man on the Sabbath day?" And then he gives them a little story. He said, "If one of you had a sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath day, wouldn't you pull it out? You wouldn't leave it there." Then he posed a question that highlighted their hypocrisy. How much more valuable is a man than a sheep? They knew the answer to his rhetorical question. YOU'D HELP THE sheep before you help the man. And he says the proof is he's been coming with this wound for years and nobody's prayed for his healing. Nobody's done anything to change this man. BUT LET ME SHOW YOU WHAT I'M ABOUT TO DO. I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU THAT I CAN SURPASS the rule book AND DO SOMETHING GREATER than you can even imagine. Now look here, WITHERED MAN. I WANT YOU TO STRETCH forth your hand. >> And that's where I got to stop just one more moment before I get to my Sunday punch. He does not tell him to stretch forth his good hand. He does not say, "Show me your good hand." He says, He doesn't say this. He doesn't say, "Give me what still works." He doesn't say do what you can. He says stretch OUT THAT DRIED UP, LIFELESS, withered hand. What do you mean? CAN'T YOU SEE THAT IT'S BROKEN? CAN'T YOU see that it's withered? CAN'T YOU SEE THAT THE MUSCLES AND THE BONES DON'T WORK? I'VE GOT THE THOUGHT IN MY MIND, BUT IT'S NOT SENDING THE SIGNAL TO MY HAND. BUT JESUS DOES NOT SAY, "STRETCH FORTH YOUR STRONG HAND." HE DOES NOT SAY, "STRETCH FORTH YOUR USEFUL HAND." HE DOES NOT SAY PRESENTS YOUR GOOD HAND. HE SAYS, "GIVE ME THE BROKEN, WITHERED, and the useless hand." So, I've come to tell somebody here tonight. Yes, it's Sunday night. Yes, it's the second Sunday of the year. But I've come to tell somebody, HE DOESN'T WANT THE GOOD PARTS OF YOU. HE WANTS THE BROKEN PARTS of you. HE WANTS YOU TO STRETCH FORTH WHAT'S BROKEN IN YOUR LIFE. COME ON, SOMEBODY. I'M WONDERING IF SOMEBODY WILL SAY TO YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW WHAT? I'VE BEEN COMING HERE FOR YEARS. I'VE BEEN COMING HERE FOR WEEKS WITH THIS SITUATION, BUT I'M COMING TO TELL SOMEBODY TONIGHT, YOU CAN LEAVE HERE CHANGED. YOU CAN LEAVE HERE HEALED. WHY? BECAUSE YOU HEARD THE VOICE OF THE LORD SAY, "STRETCH FORTH YOUR HANDS. Um uh uh it doesn't work. It it it it's it's it's withered. It's broken. It's wounded. Jesus wanted to heal what the man was willing to reveal. Jesus I'm gonna say it again. Jesus was wanting to heal what he was willing to reveal. He cannot heal what you aren't honest about. We can imagine that there's more than withered hands in the world today. In every church, there are withered marriages that once had warmth and now they're cold and rigid. There are withered finances that feel beyond repair. Situations where every effort seems to fail and every month seems heavier than the last. There are withered minds worn down by anxiety, fear, worry, and constant pressure, unable to rest when the body lies down. Then there's WITHERED HOPE, THE QUIET RESIGNATION that says nothing will ever really change. But I've come to tell somebody here tonight on the second SUNDAY OF 2026 THAT YOU CAN stretch forth a thing that's withered in your life. Whether it's your marriage, WHETHER IT'S YOUR FAMILY, WHETHER IT'S YOUR FINANCES, WHETHER IT'S YOUR HEALTH, WHETHER IT'S YOUR MIND, HE WILL HEAL WHAT YOU'RE WILLING TO REVEAL UNTO HIM. BUT WHAT YOU'VE GOT TO DO IS OBEY THE WORD TONIGHT AND STRETCH FORTH. COME ON, SOMEBODY. IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE PERFECT. IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE WHOLE. HE WANTS THE WITHERED, BROKEN, DRIED UP THINGS IN YOUR LIFE. NO. Show me your good hand. Show me Show me your good hand. That's not what he asked for. I want to see your brokenness. I want to see what's dried up. I want to see that has no life in it. That's what I want. You're going to have to expose what's broken to him. The command required faith because the man had to attempt what had never worked. How can he use a How can he stretch forth a hand he can't use? Faith. Faith. Now, could you imagine too what he's got to be thinking about when Jesus tells him to stretch forth his withered hand? What will pe what will people think if I try and nothing happens? What if I look foolish? What if this only proves that I'm really beyond help? What if I reach out and nothing changes? What if? What if? What if? What if? What if I asked for prayer? One more time. What if I go to that altar with my spouse? One more time. What if I bring my checkbook? One more time. What if I bring my doctor's report? ONE MORE TIME. WHAT IF? What if? What if? YOU WILL NEVER KNOW WHERE YOUR HEALING IS UNTIL YOU'RE WILLING TO STRETCH FORTH THE THING THAT I wish somebody was hearing me. Willing to stretch forth what is withered in your life. WHATEVER LITTLE ABILITY HE HAD, WHATEVER SMALL MEASURE OF movement remained, he used it. HE DIDN'T WAIT UNTIL HE FELT STRONG. HE DIDN'T WAIT UNTIL HE FELT CONFIDENT. HE RESPONDED TO THE WORD WITH WHAT LITTLE HE HAD. And that's how obedience works. I'll do it when the right song comes on. I'll do it when camp meetings here. I'll do it when Strong Tower happens or NYC. and you're always putting off. And Jesus goes, "Uh, I'm here right now. You've been coming to this synagogue all of these years, and I haven't been here, and the and the and the greater than the temple is in the room right now. The greater than the Sabbath is here right now. Are you going to wait until some other time? Are you going to wait until the temperature changes? Are you going to wait until the light turns green? Or are you GOING TO SAY, "LORD, I'VE BEEN DEALING WITH THIS WITHERED PART OF MY LIFE FOR YEARS. I'VE BEEN DEALING WITH THIS HABIT FOR MONTHS. I'VE BEEN DEALING WITH THIS ANGER. I'VE BEEN DEALING WITH THIS RESENTMENT. I'VE BEEN DEAL COME ON, SOMEBODY. I'VE BEEN DEALING WITH THIS JEALOUSY AND ENVY. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M GOING TO DO TONIGHT? I'M NOT GOING TO WAIT UNTIL THE KEYBOARD STARTS PLAYING. I'M NOT GOING TO WAIT UNTIL HE CALLS THE ALTAR CALL. TODAY'S THE DAY WHERE I STRETCH FORTH MY HAND. TODAY'S THE DAY WHERE I STRETCH FORTH AND GET Why wait when he's here right now? Why put off when he can do it right now? You only have to stretch it out. All you have to do is try one more time. Because here's where this story meets us where we're living tonight. A withered marriage must still be brought to him. A withered faith must still be brought to him. A withered heart and a withered mind must be still brought to him. Come on. You got to get to the place in your life when you say, "I don't even know how to fix this anymore." Good. Then stretch forth that thing towards Jesus. Stretch forth that thing toward him and faith AND SAY, "LORD, I'VE COME to the end of my rope. I have no more I HAVE NO MORE STRENGTH. I HAVE NO MORE ENERGY FOR THIS. I'VE got a little bit of faith." And he says, "GOOD. STRETCH FORTH THAT THING RIGHT NOW AND LET ME MAKE IT WHOLE. LET ME HEAL IT. LET ME RESTORE YOU. I'm almost done. Get ready. Musicians, get ready. I didn't come to preach along. But here's the tragedy of the story is that there's withered hands and then there's stubborn hearts. And Jesus wants to heal both. He didn't come just to heal the man with the withered hand. He came to heal everybody. He walked in here to go, "Who wants it? Who wants the healing tonight? Who wants the healing today? Who want who wants deliverance today? Who can who can I work for today?" And then there are then there's some people who sit there like like the Pharisees and go, "Is he going to do something different today?" Uh, don't you know it's a Sunday night and we don't do this until Sunday? Don't you know it's just January? We don't get all riled up until June or July around here. Or, oh, here they come again. What's wrong with them now? Oh, what what's wrong with their marriage now? Uh, how about they want to be in the house of the Lord and this is where healing takes place. And if you want to sit back there with your stubborn withered heart or you can come down here and pray with them and help them get their miracle or you can walk out of here and say, "Hey, how can we counsel with you? How can WE HELP YOU? HOW CAN WE WORK?" Come on. >> Come on. He wants to heal THE WITHERED HAND. BUT HE ALSO WANTS TO HEAL THE STUBBORN HEART. HE WANTS TO HEAL THE STUBBORN RELIGIOUS HEART WHO IS SO STUCK IN THEIR TRADITION, WHO IS SO STUCK IN THEIR RITUAL THAT THEY WON'T ALLOW JESUS to uh I don't like all them lights. And I'm not sure about all the, you know, I would go up there if they would just sing All in his hands tonight. You know, if I would just if they would just, you know, if they would just, you know, I don't know, turn it up, turn it down, you know, if it were just a little colder in here. If it was just a little warmer in here, that Come on, somebody. We got to have the right That's right. It's Sunday night in January. Let's see here. No, we can't do that on Sunday nights. We got to do that when when we got we got we got to do that when the camp evangelist shows up. Or I I'm going to get my marriage fixed when we have marriage retreat in a couple of weeks. Or perhaps let me tell you tonight that it is your moment that Jesus has come into this place and SAID, "HEY, I'LL I'LL HEAL THE WITHERED HAND, BUT I'LL ALSO I'll also HEAL THE RIGID HEART, BUT ALL YOU'VE GOT TO DO IS BRING IT TO ME BECAUSE HE WILL RE HE WILL HEAL WHAT WE ARE willing to reveal." Stand to your feet tonight. Stretch forth your hand. I can't use it. I didn't ask it if he can use it. But I've I've I've tried that before. I didn't ask how many times you've done this. I'm telling you, stretch forth your hand. You mean the good hand? No, not the good hand. the broken hand. The one I want I want to heal what's broken in you. The sick have no need for a physician. He didn't come to heal the whole. He came to heal the broken. And let me just go ahead and tell everybody in here, we are all broken. Whether you are so stubborn and so hard-hearted that you think that you've got it all together. Let me just go ahead and tell you you have a heart issue and he he came to heal that tonight. But he also came to heal those who don't have it all together and they know they don't have it all together. But he cannot heal what you're not willing to reveal. And are you telling me that I want to have to get outside of my pride? Brother Nate, are you trying to tell me that if I step out and go to the altar again that he might heal me? Yes. Are you telling me, brother Nate, that if I don't care what people think about me and don't worry what people say, you know what? I guarantee they're not thinking about you anyway. They're thinking about themselves. When the devil's on your shoulder going, "Yeah, you know, they're going to think about you if you go up there." I got news for the devil. They are thinking about themselves and not you. You know what they're thinking right now? They're thinking, "What if I go up there? What do they think about me?" That's what they're thinking. They're thinking just like you. But wonder, I wonder if somebody would say, "You know, I don't care what it looks like. I don't care what people think. I I don't care if I look foolish. I I don't care if somebody thinks I I don't have it all together. That's fine because I don't because I'm going to run to Jesus tonight and I'm going to stretch forth." Come on. I want you to lift up your hands right now. We got some coming. Come on. I wonder if somebody says, you know, I'm bringing my marriage. I'm bringing I'm I'm I'm bringing my finances. I'm bringing my health. I'm I'm bringing my I'm bringing my my withered hope. I'm I'm I'm bringing I'm bringing my frailty, my brokenness in my life. Come on. Doesn't have to be perfect, but somebody need to stretch forth your hand. Not just sp not just physically, but spiritually reaching forth, stretching forth. Come on. Maybe disappointment and frustration. It's all kind. I don't know what you're dealing with, but you need to stretch forth your hand right now toward him that he wants to heal that thing. Come on. Maybe it's an anger issue. Maybe it's a lust issue. Maybe it's an envy issue. Whatever it is, you need to stretch forth that thing. Maybe it's some kind of disappointment. Maybe it's some kind of grief. Come on. What you got to do is stretch forth your hand right now. Stretch forth your spirit right now. Because I've seen cancer healed and I've seen disappointment. Come on. Be made complete. I I've seen things happen. I've seen the dead raised to life. I' I've seen families put back together. I've seen marriages put back together. But you're going to have to stretch forth your hand. Come on. Will you come? Come on. Will you come as they begin to sing? Would you lift up your heart? Would you lift up your voice? He will heal what you're willing to reveal. >> Come on. Stretch forth your hand. Stretch forth your spirit. Lift up your voice. >> Oh yeah. That's it. >> Come on. I'm not leaving here the same way that I came in. >> I'm not leaving here the same way that I came in. Heal my withered hand. Heal my stubborn heart. Heal me, oh God. Heal me, oh God. Heal me, oh God. >> Come on. Would you lay your hands on somebody and pray with somebody? If it's not you, pray with somebody. Tell me. >> He wants to do it. He wants to do it. I see that finally free. He can do it. >> He can do he can do it. I see cancers disappear. I see you. Don't you tell me he can do it. Don't you tell me deep. I see my resurrection. I see every soul. Don't you tell me he will do it. >> Don't you tell me. >> I see families reunited. I see. I see. Don't you tell me he can do it. Don't you tell me he can do it. I see trouble souls with I see that exp. Don't you tell me he can do it. Don't you tell me he can't do it. Revival the salvation. Don't you tell me he can't do it. Don't you tell me he can do it. Glory fill the nation like the world has never seen. Don't you tell me he can do it. Cuz I know that he can do it. I believe you're the wonder God. You're the wonder God. All the miracles I see too good to not believe. You're the wonder healing. >> Here's what I want you to do. Come on. I want you to pray with somebody. Find somebody to pray with. Maybe somebody around you. Look around. Come on. Come on. Maybe get out of your seat. Come on. Maybe you have to walk across the front here. Find somebody. We got some people who are reaching. Come on. There are some who are reaching right now. We're going to pray for each other. Come on. We're going to pray for each other in this new year. We're going to pray with each other. We're going to support one another. Come on. We're going to make it. Come on. You're going to make it. Come on. Stretch it. Stretch it forth. I'll help you stretch it forth. Come on. I'll help you stretch it forth. Come on. I'll help it. I'll help you. Come on. You don't have enough strength. I'll help you. Come on. Come on. Sometimes it takes four four friends who will carry somebody to Jesus. Sometimes it takes four friends to tear the roof off and get somebody to Jesus. Sometimes you know they can't get there without a little help. We're going to pray with each other right now before they sing again. We're going to pray. I want you to >> >> lay your hands and I want you to open up your mouth and I want you to pray because he's wanting to heal what you're willing to reveal. Lord, here it is. Here it is. It's this thing. Here it is, Lord. Here it is. This thing. It's this health problem, Lord. It's this financial problem. Come on. It's this heart problem. Come on. It's this marital problem. It's this family problem. Come on. It's this pride problem. I'm stretching it forth to you right now because I know healing is here. Because I know the Lord of the temple is here and the Lord of the Sabbath is here. And I'm not going to wait until next year. And I'm not going to wait until next month. I'm not going to give you an excuse, God, because I know you want to do it right here, right now. Come on. Come on, in the name of Jesus. Come on, in the name of Jesus. If you need healing in your body, tell somebody. If you need hope in your marriage, tell somebody. Come on, pray for each other. That's why we're here. Your brothers and sisters not here to judge you. They're here to pray with you. They're here to just to support you. Come on. Whatever it is, it's that prayer that hasn't been answered yet. It's that prayer that hasn't been answered yet. Stretch it forth. Stretch it forth. It's weak. Come on. There's little strength here. Come on. It's hard. But I'm going to reveal what he can heal tonight. I want to leave here knowing that I'm changed. I want to leave here knowing that he's heard me. I want to leave here knowing that I've I've been vulnerable to him. Oh yes. Oh yes. I see cancer disappear. I see broken body. >> >> Don't you tell me you can see I see meal health restore. Don't you tell me he can do it. Don't you tell me he can't do it. I see families reunited. I see. Don't you tell me he can't do it. Don't you tell me he can't do it. I've seen trust in revival and salvation the streets. Don't you tell me he can't do it. Don't you tell me he can't do it. We'll see through the nations like the world has never seen. Don't you tell me he can do it cuz I know. >> Would you lift up your hands and let this be your prayer? >> I believe the wonder. >> I believe I believe >> the wonder. >> He's the one working God. miracles I've seen. Oh, >> just too good to not believe. >> He's been too good working because you love all the males I've seen. Too good to not believe. >> I wonder if we could do this together as we're closing our final prayer. I wonder if you lift up your hands as a as an act of faith. And with that, I want you to stretch forth that thing. Whatever it is, stretch forth that thing. And I want you to put that thing on your lips right now. Let your voice you move into your mouth and your and your lips. And I want you to lift that thing and say, "This year 2026, I believe that he is going to make whole what is withered." And I want this to be your prayer. Come on. I want this to be your prayer. From withered to whole. from withered to whole. Right now, either today or tomorrow or by the end of this year, I am declaring from withered to whole. This year, from my health, to my family, to my finances, to my spirit. Come on, from withered to whole. This is the year that I stretch forth and see him do something in my life in Jesus name. Now, would you clap your hands unto the Lord? Oh, yes. I believe it. I believe it. Come on, say it. I believe it. From withered to whole this year in Jesus' name. Greet somebody around you. Wednesday night, be back here 7:30. We're going to continue. First John, we're going to look at God's truth. Wednesday night, bring your booklet. Invite somebody, reach out to somebody this week and we will see you Wednesday night. Be blessed in the name of the Lord.