Why Sit Here Until We Die

I would like to give honor. I I thank God for the teams that are standing behind me and the teams that are standing in front of me that are making what we are experiencing such a an excellent experience. And those that are in the production room from sound to media to worship praise team, musicians, production team to every department of this church that helps facilitate what we do. I say thank you. And this hand clap is just for you. We honor you today. We honor you today. As you remain standing, I want to quickly go into the word of the Lord. I do believe the Lord has a has a a word for us as a body. This is a call to individuals today. This is a call to you as a an individual. So it does not matter how young you are or old you are. The call today is it is not biased. It is it is without reservation but it it is one that when I am finished preaching you must answer you must answer a call. You must embrace the moment where you are. 2 Kings chapter 7 verse number three. We'll read just six short verses. And there were four lepous men at the entering in of the gate. And they said one to another, "Why sit we here until we die? If we say we will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore, come and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we shall live, and if they kill us, we shall but die. And they arose up in the twilight to go into the camp of the Syrians. And when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there. For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians, to hear the noise of chariots, and the noise of horses, even the noise of a great host. And they said one to another, "Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us, the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians to come upon us." Wherefore they arose, and fled in the twilight, left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life. When these lepers, somebody say these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent and did eat and drink and carried them silver and gold and raignment and went and hid it and came again and entered into another tent and carried them also and went and hid it. And then they said one to another, we we do not well. This is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace. And if we tar till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us. Now therefore, come that we may go and tell the king's household. It's happened recently in Sunday school lessons and in the message that I preach in 11. They just kind of seem to intertwine and today will be no exception.

I want to minister from a title that I will take directly from the question posed by four lepous men. Why sit we here until we die? Why sit we here until we die? If you're going to help me today, would you pray one one more prayer before I before I begin to preach this message? Would you pray for your pastor? Pray for this great congregation. Father, it's in the mighty name of Jesus. God, I bear the burden of this hour. I bear the burden of this message. God, I cannot do this alone. I cannot I cannot convey what the spirit would have the church to hear and what individuals will have to embrace and where they are and where you are calling them unto. I pray God that by your spirit you would allow me to convey the heart of this scripture and encourage and equip someone to step out and respond to your grace, respond to your mercy. In Jesus name we pray. Everybody say amen. You may be seated. I know you've stood for a while. Second Kings chapter 7 is is it a portion it's a portion of scripture you may have you may have not ever read unless you have been reading your Bible through the year or you quite possibly have heard a a sermon or a message preached from second Kings chapter 7. But today I would I would like if for your consideration to to give you a a little bit of background of the context of the story that I just read. For we read in 2 Kings chapter 7 as it opens, we see a city that is suffering from a devastating famine. Samaria that is. And the Syrian army has surrounded that city. Food was scarce. Feel fear no doubt filled the streets. Desperation had moved from house to house. As we can only imagine would take place when food and famine had become common place in the city that once flourished. Inside this city, people were starving. outside of the city, the enemy, the enemy army encamped about them. And at the entrance of this city sat at the gate, four lepous men. And we must understand and take into context as well why they were at the gate. It was at and under the s under the law in Leviticus that people with leprosy were considered ceremonial unclean. For Leviticus 13 teaches that a person with leprosy was to live apart from the community. They could not freely dwell among people as though they had not contracted anything or had anything. Their condition separated them from normal life. Their condition ostracized them from family. Their their situation caused them to not be able to have a normaly in life such as going to church or engaging with the community or even going into the city. They were at the gate because they were not permitted to live in the city because of their condition. Very important that we that we understand the seriousness of leprosy.

We we saw a a glimpse into what it was like six years ago when COVID hit North America and literally the world and how we responded and how individuals responded where mask mandates were made and where we had to stay six feet apart and we could not at one point only so many could gather once we were allowed to gather. And there were there were things that we embraced. And there are some things that are still in place today from the time of quarantine and the kind that that that that era of time that it seems like it was a long time ago, but it really was not. These four lepous men found themselves near the city, but outside the city. They could they could witness life coming and going in and out of the city but they could not fully participate because of their condition. They knew what it was like to be near normaly and near humanity or they could see the blessings going by them while they could only have a feeling of exclusion. and everyone else was happy and everyone else was fulfilled and everyone else had a life. But here our sentence in life was and will be to sit at this gate until this disease takes our life. They were at the gate. Somebody say the gate. There's no doubt in my mind society had labeled them. They were at the gate because their bodies bore the results and the condition that people feared. They saw perhaps missing ears or missing eyes, missing limbs, missing feet or or or diseased feet or limbs. that they they were just not suitable uh in humanity to live among because uh they were diseased. They were at the gate because of their past. They were there because of their pain and they were there there because of the diagnosis. And you know those things have a way of creating distance between them and everybody else. But I'm not I'm not so concerned today and I don't preach and come to preach about the disease of the flesh. But perhaps I'm preaching to individuals under the sound of my voice that you know how that feels. And you may not have leprosy, but but you know what it feels like to sit at the gate. You've been close, but you seem far away. And you may be with an opportunity uh that you prayed for, but but the heavens today seem brass. Uh you have a desire, but the doors of your life just seem to not have opened yet. Uh you have a calling, but you feel stuck. Today on this Sunday morning, uh you are watching others move forward. Uh but it seems like you'll never move uh into progression or forward motion. Uh maybe you you're contemplating and you say, "Will I graduate? Or will I start that business? Uh will I be able to buy a vehicle? Or will I be able to build a home or will I ever heal from this pain? And will I ever step into what God has for me?" And today on this Sunday, you feel you are sitting just outside the gate.

You can see what you're looking for, but you have not entered in. You can imagine it when you lay down at night. Uh, but you can't touch it. You prayed about it, but it seems uh this is beyond my reach. But hear me clearly on this Sunday morning. Being at the gate is not the same as being forgotten by God. The gate may be where people have put you. It may be where circumstances uh have placed you. It may be where you have put yourself. But it does not have to be where you stay. The gate may represent your rejection, but it can also mean the place of your greatest revelation. At the gate, it may it may be your season of waiting, but it can also be a place uh where you can decide, I cannot keep sitting where I'm at. Uh you've got to get this in the Holy Ghost. Uh they had every reason to give up at the gate. These four men, it looked impossible. Yes, they were diseased with leprosy, but something got a hold of these four men. The Bible would say, "If we say we will enter into the city, then the famine's in the city. We're going to die there. But if I sit here, if I stay here, I'm going to die here also." I want you to think about the options. If they entered the city, there was famine. If they remained at the gate, they would starve. If they went towards Syria, they might get killed. And when I started looking at that last night, every direction seemed dangerous. Every possibility seemed uncertain. There was no win. It was lose lose. Every choice involve risk. We can die here by ourselves. We can fall in their hands and they kill us. And that's where we find ourselves too many times. Uh we're not sitting where we are because we're lazy. We're sitting there because our options they feel a little frightening. They feel a little uncertain. What if I do this then this could happen? What if I do this then that would happen? If I apply myself here, what if I get rejected again? If I call unto God, what if he doesn't answer my prayer the way I want him to answer my prayer? What if I leave the familiar and discover I wasn't ready for that? But the lepers have taught me something over the last 24 hours. You do not need perfect conditions to make a move. You don't need for the stars to line up in your life to be in order for you to make the first step. They didn't have all the answers. Uh they didn't know what was going to happen next. Uh but they did have something in their spirit. I will not die where I'm at. I will not go down and be known as the leper who did nothing. They didn't know if they would get mercy or death. They didn't have a detailed map. They didn't have a five-year plan. They didn't know what was going to take place when they got there. They didn't have resources. They didn't have the influence.

Yes, they were known in the city for who they were. They sure didn't have the public support. All they had was a realization. If I sit here, I'm going to die. Also, and there comes a moment in our lives when staying still becomes more dangerous than moving. There comes a moment when fear of failure must be confronted by the greater fear of never trying. Don't you let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. I believe Babe Ruth said that. Don't you let the fear of doing something keep you from just staying in a life of mediocrity. Uh there comes a moment when you realize that God did not just give you that dream for you just to protect it with excuses. Uh you got to get up with what God put in you and say I've got a purpose. Uh I've got a plan. There comes a moment when you say I may not know how it will end but I cannot remain where I am. I can't remain Some dreams die not because we're in they were impossible. They die because they were never pursued. I know what I felt in prayer last night and again this morning. Some callings go unanswered, not because God stopped speaking, but because fear became louder than your faith. Too many people spend years sitting at a gate waiting for a guarantee that God never intended to promise you. God often gives direction before he gives detail. Okay, I'm gonna go back to Wednesday night. God told Abraham, "Take up Isaac, sacrifice him unto me." He didn't tell him how it was all going to end. He didn't tell him there was going to be a ram in the bush. He didn't tell. No, no, no, no. It was bigger than Abraham and Isaac. It was bigger than what he could see, what God was trying to get. Abraham, do I have your heart? Abraham, do I have everything, even the blessing that I've given unto you? God often times will say, "Get up." And we want him to tell us how it's all going to work out. Faith is not having every answer. Faith is obeying God with the answer in the word you currently have. These men had to make a decision. I got to move. This is the turning point in the whole story when I read it. Now therefore come, let us fall into the host of the Syrians. That phrase stood out. Now therefore come. That was a that was a moment of precise decision. Now. Now. Somebody say now. Now. Let's go. I don't know which one said it. We don't even know their name. But one of them had a now in their spirit. It didn't take all four of them to get unified. It just took one to say, "Now, let's get going, boys. We've been in this situation way too long. We've suffered in silence and we've suffered right here at this gate. We got to come. We got to do something." It is the sound of men who refuse to die at a gate.

Yes, it's the sound of people, individuals that no doubt looked at the deterioration on their body, but greater than that, their soul. It was men who looked and could have looked one more time at what they had lost instead of what they still had and could have conditioned their response accordingly. But they did not look at what they had lost. And they did not look how long they had sat there. And they did not calculate a a better way or an alternate route or they didn't do anything of that of that of that caliber. Not according to scripture. But here are four men that had a determined spirit that said, "We may be rejected when we get there, but we're going to be guilty of going. We may not. They may kill us on arrival." Or in other words, well, I may be afraid, but I'm still going. I may not have much to offer, but I'm going to keep going. I refuse to stay where I am. You may not know what's ahead, sir. You may not know what's ahead, ma'am, but you better get going. You better pick yourself up. You better say, "Now, therefore, come." They didn't wait for leprosy to get healed before they moved. They didn't wait for the famine to end before they moved. They didn't wait to get in. I hope y'all are getting this today. They didn't wait till the enemy disappeared. They didn't wait till they seen their horses in chariots going in the distance. But I got a word for somebody this morning. Stop waiting to become perfect before you obey that still small voice that God's calling you into. Pastor, you don't know what I'm still struggling with. You don't know my weaknesses. You don't know what I go to bed struggling with. The the things from my past that that I lay my head on my pillow and I don't even know how I'm alive today. The mental anguish and the mental battle that I feel and all of the all of the painful things that you have to replay from years gone by. the abuse, the hurt, the mistakes. You may have all of those and still move because recovery is just that you don't recover without intentional movement. You may not have the money you want. You may not have the connection. You may not have the education. You may not have the confidence. Uh but you can still take your next step in God that has placed in front of you. Uh you may be a struggler today. You may be weak today, but did you take another step? You may not be where you wanted to be, but are you taking another step? You may have not accomplished in your life everything you thought you could ac or or is this what you're doing? You're just sitting here. I'm just going to sit here. I'm going to suck my thumb and I'm going to die right here. The devil is a lie. I've been sitting too long. I've got to get you up out of your seat. I've got to stay in the Holy Ghost. Get back up. Get back up.

Get yourself taken. It may be one step today. It may be another step tomorrow. But I refuse to stay and die in the gate. I refuse to be known as the man who died in the gate. [panting] Oh, this got me going. The lepers moved with leprosy. [panting] Y'all go. I'm gonna say that again. back in the cheap seat. The lepers moved with leprosy. Well, if God if you'll heal me, then God, if you'll do this, God, if you When are we going to quit putting God on trial and say whether he does or not, I'm not staying I'm not staying in this gate having a pity party over what happened or what didn't. I may come to the sanctuary bombed and maimed, but I can tell you one thing. I may not have what I once had, but I refuse to stay at a gate and die a cruel, lepous life. We're carrying too much baggage through life. Sitting at a gate. We're sitting at a gate. These lepers moved with leprosy. Brother Daniel, they moved and were sick. Where's Sister Pat? You came to church and declared he's a healer. But you still got cancer as we know it. You still got cancer in your body. But I don't know the moment where God's going to reach his hand and heal you or through the process heal you. I don't know. I I don't understand the ways of God, but I can tell you what these lepers did. They moved while they were still excluded. Nobody wanted to be around. They they moved. They were hungry and they moved. They moved while it was still uncertainty. They didn't have a if you do these you do these steps, you're going to be all right. No. But I can tell you what happened when they begin to move. God begin to move. And that's where the enemy will try to play mind games with you. If you do this, what if I do this and I fall? What if I do this and I fail? What if I try this? What if I commit? What if I do? What if I and the fear of failure has kept us we it has kept us paralyzed. It's kept us immobilized. We're breathing but not functioning. We're living, if you call that a life. We're breathing, but are we are we living? We're we're we're existing, but is that really [panting] when are we going to get to the point like they did where we rise from self-pity? We rise from discouragement. We rise from a memory of rejection. We say, "I can't do this no more." We rise We rise from the the gate of failure. We rise from settling. We rise from that voice I've come to call in the Holy Ghost. Nothing will ever change. that voice that keeps telling you, I don't know if I can go to that church. I don't know if I can I don't know if I can try. You're never gonna change. This is the way things have always been. This is the way. This is the way my life that this is my lot in life. You got to rise up on this Sunday from the comfort of the familiar misery.

Some of your misery you have become so familiar with that you cannot envision anything can be different. You can't imagine life being any different. You cannot imagine your circumstances being any different. Sometimes that place that hurts us becomes familiar enough that we are so afraid to leave it. It's easier to stay here. This is where I was hurt. At least I know my surroundings. The gate was painful. You know why it was painful? It was familiar. You know why the Syrian camp was a little made them a little fearful? That that Syrian camp was uncertain but it held possibilities. It held the possibility what might happen or what if. Many people today I I I see it happening. Many people choose familiar pain over unfamiliar purpose. They choose what's familiar. They they they choose the mundane. They choose the familiar. They choose the predictable. But God's getting ready to break the box. God's getting ready to break us to a whole new level of living where we lose our comfort with the familiar. And we say, "God, I know it's unfamiliar and it's uncertain, but you got a purpose over my life. You got a call on my life. There's destiny over my life. There's future in front of me. Oh, they could have stayed in what they know would happen tomorrow and what God was going to show them. They knew if they were there tomorrow, more than likely they're going to die or the famine would continue. But purpose requires you to walk away from what is predictable. There's a calling going forth. There's something calling unto you. Are you going to die in the predictable? Are you going to die? Are you going to die where you are in that same frame of mind and those thoughts? God did not call you to merely to survive at a gate. He called you to rise and move toward what he has prepared. He's got a city waiting on you. He's got provisions waiting on you. But let me break this down. God works when faith moves. God I said God works when faith moves. When the lepers arrived at the Syrian camp, they discovered something to me that was astonishing. I'm sure it was to them. For the Lord had made the host of Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host. Let me remind you, it was just four lepous men. The Syrians heard an army even though no human army was on the horizon. God caused the enemy to hear what was not even physically there. God turned that sound of four weak, hungry, rejected, lepous men into the sound of an army. You mean to tell me, pastor, my one move has a has an effect around me further than what I can see and further than what I know. When those those four lepers men took one step, I believe God be to activate the sounds of chariots. And every time they took a step, that army heard the sound of horsesh.

Every time they took another step, they heard the sound of a great host. Uh, but all that was coming was four lepous men who just had their minds made up to get up and move. Can you hear me today, church? Don't you ever underestimate what God can do with your steps. Your steps may feel small, but they can turn into sound in the in the ears of the enemy. When you Oh, God. I want to get this out the way. I feel it. When God breathes on your movement, just a When God breathes on your movement, your little becomes loud. [panting] Maybe you went maybe you went a half a day without doing something you've always done. I hear the sound of loud chariots. Maybe you've went a week without doing something. You've been struggling with a vice or an addiction and you you're on day number seven. It's just a little step to some. But if you'll just keep walking, there's a sound that the enemy's hearing. That drug will not have the final say. That alcohol will not have the final voice. You just keep walking. You just keep going. You just keep moving. Uh that rejection, that pain, uh that negativity, uh you just keep walking. You keep believing. You keep going. Before long, you're going to get where you were planning to go. You just got to simply start with a move. I don't want to get too carnal in here, but I'm about to Some of y'all need to bust a move. Some of you have been just sitting too quiet. Some of you have been sitting at your gates of despondency and wondering why things hadn't changed. When's the last time you just said, "God, I'm ready to bust a move. I'm ready to get up from where I'm at. I I'm ready to let my faith send a message to God and send a message to hell. I will not stay here. I will not stay the same person that I am. I I I can't do it. You may not understand. You may not agree. Those lepers did not defeat the Syrian army through military power. They did not fight that enemy with swords. They did not arrive on the scene armed with bows and shields and arrows. They didn't come with a good reputation either. Matter of fact, their reputation would have fought against them. They simply were men who determined within themselves, I'm going to move in faith. And God took and handled what they could not handle. What are you trying to say, pastor? You've got one obligation. You know what you got? You got one obligation. Obedience. That's all you got to do. Obey. God is responsible for outcomes. We are responsible for obedience. We move, God moves. We God, we I got scripture. We draw nigh to God, he draws nigh to me. I draw God near to God, he draw nice to me. Why is it we want God to do everything, but we don't want to move in obedience? The only thing I'm challenging you with is I come to a close. You're responsible to take the next step.

God's going to be the one opening the way. You're the you're you're responsibility is just to say yes to the next step. God's responsible for the provision. God's responsible for for what he's going to do. You don't have to manufacture a miracle with the miracle worker on your style. You just have to be willing to move when God says move. And what those men come in agreement to understand what I feared the most and where I feared the most held provisions. Oh, the place they feared to go, the place they feared to release, the place that had become their habitation, the place, the gate where they had stood and where they had knelt, where they had laid. And it it became their identity. It became where they were known for and known by. the place and the thing they feared to do was the very thing God had to show and reveal to them that if you'll take a step I'll step in and do what you can't do because after they made that step the enemy begin to flee. When they when they began to make their step, they come to the camp. Nobody was there. But what they did, they realized where I'm My God, we've been in a famine and there's food to eat. When we got here, silver, I forgot. I forgot the glimmer of silver. I forgot what it looked like. There was gold. There was silver. There was clothes. I I started reading this. There were resources that they had not worked for, they had not prepared for, they didn't even expect because they did not know what was on the other side of their next step. If you only knew what was on the other side of your next step, what would keep you from getting out of your seat today and saying, "God, I'm willing." The place that they thought would have killed them became the place that sustained them. The place that they were fearful of that they didn't know what would happen when they get when they got there. The direction they chose to go in which they feared contain the provision that they needed. What you're trying to say, pastor, I'm going to just make it plain. Sometimes the places you're afraid to approach is where God has already made provision. Sometime the conversations you're avoiding is what's connected to your healing. Sometimes those things that God's calling you into and you're scared to touch, you're scared to God's saying that next step is what's going to release. I believe the lepers were they would have been satisfied with crumbs, but they found the abundance of what only God can produce when men and women are obedient. I I'm sure, Brother John, that they were just hoping that when we get there, people will look beyond what we look like. They'll they'll look beyond the scars of my life and the the past that I'm not proud to talk about and those things that you know what what those men were scared of, God took care of.

I'm telling you in the Holy Ghost, God is sending people in this room, into this house, and into that room next door that have been scared to walk in because of what they thought people would say or think. But when they walk in the doors, their fears just suddenly melt. Their fears just melt away. And they realize, "Wow, this is really what I've been looking for. What I'm looking for is here. I've just let fear live rentree here and play mind games with me to tell me I'm not good enough. I'm not worthy enough. I don't belong. Don't let fear convince you that there is nothing on the other side of obedience. Don't let fear whisper to you those things to try to convince you from taking that next step. Your breakthrough is bigger than you. I'm I'm gonna close here. Last point, the lepers ate. The lepers gathered resources for themselves. Go read it for yourself in verse eight. They were all hungry. They had all been sitting on the outside of the gate. Yes, they had suffered. Yes, they did need food. There is no shame in receiving what God provides for you. But here is the important realization that I got to get into you today. Then they said one to another, we do not well. This day is a day of good tidings and we hold our peace. In other words, this is too good to keep to ourselves. They realized that the city was still starving while they were standing in abundance. They were in the middle of a famine and they had the key to what the city needed right in their provisions and went right in their possession. They realized, they come to their senses after they had witnessed the gold, the silver, the food, the the the the clothes. They came to realize my blessing, our discovery was not just for our survival, but it was for the city survival. Oh my God. God did not save you. God did not put his spirit inside of you just to save you. There is a city, there is a family, there is a community in and around you that's waiting on you to tell them, "Come, come see a man. Come drink from a whale. Come experience the lifegiving power of Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Ghost. We've got it. But are we going to tell the world about it? Are we going to sit with our blessings? Are we going to realize our blessings were not just made for us, but it was given to us for kingdom influence? How many more people are we going to come in contact with? How many more souls is God going to come into our presence? And you feel that nudge. Tell them where you come from. Tell them what you've been through. Oh, I don't want Tell them about the good news. Tell him about Jesus. How many more times does that have to happen? We were once sinners saved by grace. We once all sat at the gate. We once sat lonely. We once sat with a sentence of death.

We sat at the gate waiting for our last breath to go meet our eternal reward. Something got a hold of us one day. God found you in a place. God put you in a condition. God spoke to you in his infinite wisdom and he said, "You need to get up and you need to take a step." What's that step? You need to take a step of repentance. What is repentance? Repentance is a turning from sin. Repentance is a turning from a way of life. A repentance is turning from godlessness unto godliness. Repentance is saying, "Yes, I am a sinner. I acknowledge my sin. It is ever before me." But Jesus did not die to leave us in our sins. Jesus did not pay the supreme sacrifice so that I die in my sins. But he gave me a promise. If I will obey him through repentance, if I could be waterbaptized in the name of Jesus, the death of Jesus is our emblem of repentance. The burial of Jesus is when we get buried in the name of Jesus for the remission of sins. All of those sins I repented over. All of those sins I said I'm sorry for. God washes those away with the waters of baptism. We're buried with him in baptism. The things we could not have a clear and clean conscience over those things that we went to bed every night struggling with, wrestling with, trying to deal and walk through life miserable continuously. One trip to the watery grave can change everything. When you are buried in Jesus name, I've got a promise. You shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. That's Jesus Christ coming to live inside of you by his spirit. The same spirit that raised Christ from the dead desires and wants to live inside of you. He wants you to be filled with his spirit. How does that happen? How does that take place, pastor? How can I experience that? It's as simply as doing this, taking a step It's not hard, but are you willing? Yes, it's going to cost you your will for his will. Your desires for his desires, his way for your way. But if we're all honest, the reason we sit at the gate quite possibly is because of our own way. Why not give Jesus a chance? Why not give Jesus an opportunity to change some things in your life? You've not seen anything yet for what God has prepared. You have eye not seen, ear has not heard, neither have it entered into the heart of man what he has prepared. The dream you pursue today, the path you begin to walk may be very well connected to the deliverance of people that you've not met yet, people you come in contact with. The lepers became evangelists of abundance. The the lepers became a voice of he can. As you stand to your feet this morning, I look at the lepers as just rejected men carrying a message to a starving city. I'm looking at hungry men with a word, I've got food that you know not of. I'm looking at hopeless men announcing, "I found water. I found bread.

I found hope. I found the miracle worker. Yes, I was outside the city. Yes, I was unworthy. Yes. Oh, I was undone. But today, I come carrying an answer that we all need today. He loves you. He cares for you. He died for you. And he wants a relationship with you today. If you're here today and you're uncertain of your tomorrow, I want to try you. I want to challenge you. Will you take one step toward Jesus? Why sit we here till we die? Why stay the same way and it's been the way it's always? Why not just say, "I'm stepping out. I'm stepping out of my seat. I I know I'm scared. I don't know what to say. That's okay. Just take a step and God will put words in your mouth. I don't know what to do. Just take a step. God will begin to speak into your mouth. God will begin to speak into your heart. You'll begin to say things you never dreamed you would say. You'll begin to say, "I'm sorry. God, forgive me. God, I love you. God, I desire a change in my life. Oh God, don't let the voices of yesterday call you and say stay at the gate. Don't let the voices of yester year convince you that your best days are not yet ahead. And as they begin to sing, I want you to begin to move. Why don't you begin to pray right now?