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#OpenCommunication

“Okay. So I think, without a doubt, one of the greatest compliments your kid can pay you, and give you is I can talk with my mom and dad about anything. Yes. And I don't know that ours always felt that way. Like, we're we're like everybody else. We kinda learned as we went. And, you know, sometimes when we heard what they did, we overreacted. And so they didn't always feel comfortable doing that. I think we got... As we got older, we started endeavoring to correct that.”

#JesusForgives

“And if you think you aren't good enough still, or maybe you've had a long walk with Jesus and you're battling that, you're not. You are not good enough. You will never be good enough. Jesus was good enough. Jesus is good enough. All of that work you're trying to do to better your life and better yourself, all of that shame and trauma that you're holding onto, the things you hate about yourself, all of those things Jesus died for and wiped clean. The things you've asked for forgiveness, scripture says he casts them as far as the east is from the west. He forgets your sin when you ask for forgiveness.”

#StayInYourCalling

“Peter's problem wasn't that he didn't know his assignment and what God had given him. It was that he was distracted by someone else's. And I think this is where many of us get caught up. We become so consumed with what's happening in somebody else's life that we lose sight of what is happening in our very own. And we lose sight of what Jesus is asking of us. Comparison does that to us. It's dangerous. It takes our eyes off of the one that we are supposed to be following. And it doesn't just change how we feel, it changes how we see. It changes how we see things and situations and circumstances. It messes with our perspective.”

#RunYourOwnRace

“And one of the things I hate doing the most with running, and I've you've... I've told you this before, that one of the things I hate doing the most with running is I hate running on a treadmill. And one of the biggest reasons why I hate running on a treadmill is because I put forth a lot of and I end up in the exact same place I was when I saw it, which is exactly what the enemy will do in your life with comparison, is you'll put forth a lot of trying to keep up with somebody else's race so you were never meant to run-in the first place.”

#RenewYourMind

“it changed the way I treated my wife. I responded to circumstances when there was conflict there. As a result, it changed our marriage. We have a great marriage now, and it works across the board. So you have to replace those thoughts, and the thoughts you replace them with are the thoughts that come from God's word. Transformation only happens as you renew your mind with God's word, as you change the way you think. Your life changes as your thinking changes. Change your thinking, you change your life. Come on.”

#BattleForYourMind

“It's the thoughts of God. So when you see the knowledge of God, he's referring to what God says about you in his word. So then it exalts itself against what God says about you in his word, And we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. So if you notice here, Paul is really sounding like a soldier that's in battle. And he's calling our attention to the fact that we're in a battle. And he tells us very specifically what the battle is. It's the battle for our minds. That's where the battleground is. The battleground is the battleground of your mind.”

#ChurchIsNotAboutMe

“Get it out of you. You will enjoy church so much. You will have way less opportunity to get offended if you come in and say, hey, this wasn't about me. That song's not about me. Doesn't matter if I don't like that one. That person talked to me that way. It's not about me today. I'm here to bring pray. Come on. And honor to the king of kings and the lord of lords. That's why I'm here.”

#PriestsNotConsumers

“The New Testament church, the New Testament paints a pretty clear picture that when we come to church, we are priests, not consumers. Consumers show up to get what they want. Priests show up to see what they can give God and others. Consumers walk into church with their Google and Yelp reviews. I know none of you do that. But priests walk into church with their sacrifices. Consumers offer God what they feel like giving, which is often leftovers. But priests bring their best to God, which is what he asked.”

#BodyOfChrist

“So what does that mean for the body of Christ? Because if the if the if Jesus formed the church, do you believe that? Yes, sir. If you don't, go read Acts. He formed the church. He filled it with the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit, and he gave it a function. And I'm here to argue if it's the same filling, it's the same function. In other words, what was promised to them two thousand plus years ago is the same spirit that's promised to you and I today, whether you like it or not.”

#WillAndPowerBySpirit

“And then he gets involved in every aspect of your life. Philippians two thirteen, he is all the while at work within you. Why is he working in me? To cause me to both will and do of God's, a good pleasure. So he has to create within me the will, the desire to please God, and he also has to create the will or the the the the ability, the power to carry out what God is telling me to do. Amen? The will to forgive and then the power to forgive because how many know those are two different things? Yeah. The will to live right and then the power to live right. The will to get set free from drugs and alcohol, the power to get set free from those things. Amen? So that's what he does.”

#SitAtHisFeet

“Like, when's the last time you and I just sat at his feet? We had no agenda. We had no fix my problems. You were the Christ, son of the most high god. All that peace you're looking for is found in him, just so you know. It's not found in all your problems getting solved because there'll be another one tomorrow. It's founded sitting at his feet. That's the peace. That's the presence of the power of Jesus still today.”

“Christian life doesn't begin with knowing. It begins with credo. believe. I believe no matter what I'm facing. I believe this whole Christian life. I believe that's why I practice. I believe even when my heart is breaking, I put it into practice because I know my creator is gonna be pleased. I believe even when all circumstances are hell against me, I put it into practice because I know my God is working on my behalf. The modern church, this no, believe, then I might, if I have time, put it into practice. The early church would be like, what are you talking about?”

#WhoShapesYourFaith

“Everyone is being discipled. Everyone is being discipled. No one is neutral. Everyone is being discipled by someone. The only question is is who is shaping your beliefs? Is it culture? Is it politics? Is it entertainment? Is it social media? Or is it god through his word? And cultural creeds are really, I believe, shaping a lot of Christians' lives right now. Amen.”

#LordMeansMaster

“``And so the very fact that we say I receive you as Jesus and make you the lord of my life, they can just assume they've made him lord. But how many know just because you say he's lord doesn't make him lord? Amen? you know what lord means, don't you? Means master. Yeah. In other words, he's the one who calls the shots. In other words, he's the one who tells you how to live. Amen? Amen. Ain't nobody gonna tell me how to live. I know we can tell. Yeah. How many know God wants to tell you how to live? Not so he can dominate your life. He wants to tell you how to live because he knows how to live. Amen? And he knows how for you for you to live. He knows how to make things work in your life.”

#ArmorOfGod

“``And if you were designing armor of a soldier, you'd probably ask, what are they going to face? God didn't randomly choose six random pieces of armor. He designed them because he already knew what the enemy was gonna bring. So when Satan lies and distorts and twists, we know God gives us truth. When shame whispers, you're not enough, give up. God gives us righteousness. When fear and worry come, God gives us peace that stands firm. When doubt and distractions come, God gives us faith. When your identity is questioned, God reminds you of your salvation. When you don't know what to say or believe, God gives you his word.”

#WearTheArmorDaily

“``But it got me thinking, why in the world is it in my closet all year when I literally wear it twenty five days out of all the rest of the year? And then God convicted my heart. He's like, do you do that with the armor of God? Is do you hang it in your closet and you only pull it out for a special occasion? Is it hanging in the back of your closet and you pull it out when you're in a storm and you try to see if it still fits? Do you do you put it on regularly or is that just the holidays? Is that just when you really need it? So I sat with that for a moment and I would like for you to as well.”

#HealedHeartGratitude

“Every day when I see the scar on my chest, I'm reminded not only of what I've been through, but of the God who carried me through it. Yeah. What once looked like a huge ordeal has become a daily reminder that he works all things together for my good. Yeah. Proverbs four twenty three says, above all else, guard your heart for everything you do flows from it. God repaired my physical heart. But through this experience, he strengthened my spiritual heart. For that, I will always be grateful and give him the glory. Yeah.”

#GraceForTheOne

“``He leaves the 99 for the one. He forgives seven times 70. That math does it. Math does it. He calls dead things alive. He calls the simple wise and the wise simple. He calls the sick well. He declares the lame can walk and the blind can see. He calls the sinner forgiven and the forgotten redeemed. He paid a debt that he didn't know because I owed a debt I couldn't pay. How many could thank god that he has a different value system because if he didn't, I wouldn't be here today. You wouldn't be here today. Amen? He has a different value system.”

#NeedJesusNow

“``I need Jesus in my life y'all, I need Jesus in my life and it's one of the greatest ways the devil keeps us trapped and in the same habitual sin patterns is by convincing us that we can do it ourselves. You know what changed me in my addiction? Was I stopped trying to fix it myself and I started saying, God, give me your strength. God, give me you father, I need your strength. I'm not enough, but you are. What would be the point of Jesus dying on the cross if we didn't use his strength to defeat sin? Come on.”

#TurnArrowsOut

“``when we turn that, that's when our arrows turn from facing in to facing out. And when our arrows point outwards, something changes. Okay? Something we start to grow. We start to rest more like Jesus. We start to give more like Jesus. We start to serve more like Jesus. We start to lead more like Jesus, and it takes effort to keep those arrows out, the whole point is is the goal of following Jesus isn't, you know, isn't just becoming a better version of ourselves. It's actually thinking about ourselves way less. That's the whole point, is dying to ourselves.”

#JesusStandsForYou

“``So back to my question, why did Jesus stand? Here's my answer. He stood because advocates stand. He stood because faithfulness matters. He stood because love refuses to stay seated. The enemy knows your past, but Jesus knows your future. The accuser knows your failures, but Jesus knows his forgiveness. The world may throw stones, but heaven is already spoken. Please hear this. He stood because love doesn't stay seated when you're under attack. And the same Jesus, Stephen saw, he's not distant. He's not distracted. He's the same Jesus who stands for you.”

#CastDownStrongholds

“``And the Bible talks about mindsets. It just doesn't use the word. It talks about strongholds. And a stronghold is a negative mindset. A stronghold is a mindset that you've got that you've had for so long that it is literally a stronghold in your life. You see yourself this way. You think this way negatively about something, relationships, finances, whatever the case may be, And it is a stronghold that the enemy is using to keep you from living the life that God wants you to live. Amen? And the apostle Paul talks about casting down imaginations and every high thing that really the imaginations and the high things, the pretend pretensions are the things that make up the the stronghold. The thoughts, the reasoning, are what make up that stronghold in your life. And so he says you have to cast it down. Well, you can't cast it down if you don't know it's wrong, and you can't cast it down unless you've got something to replace it with. And what you replace it with is God's word. Amen?”

#PresenceInTheFire

“``Jesus didn't show up until there was a fire. So god doesn't always stop fires from starting, but he does step into them. God doesn't always keep us from the fire, but he promises us his presence in the fire. Amen? God didn't start fires, but he does show up in them. He will ultimately show up. That's when Jesus showed up as the fourth man in the fire. Number four, how I respond in the trial is of the difference maker.”

#SavedByFaithWellDone

“``And the beauty of the gospel is is that just by simply believing that Jesus did that for you and I, the bible says that we believe in our heart and we confess with our mouth, we now are saved. It's a beautiful thing that Jesus did for you and I. But he finished his mission. And as a man of God, I wanna be able to stand in front of Jesus that day. And I wanna hear the words that all of us wanna hear. Well done, my good and faithful servant. Not just, well, you're done.”

#ProtectYourHome

“Somebody says, well, do you ever get to where you don't have to do that? Yes. You do. You absolutely do get to a point where you don't have to cultivate the lives of your children anymore, and it's when you're six feet under. Everybody say cultivate Cultivate. And keep. And keep. You know what the word keep means? It means to protect and guard. If this generation is guilty of anything, we're guilty of not protecting our homes, our marriages, and our children. And one of the most invasive things has invaded our homes, our marriages, and our families is social media.”

#BuildOnTheRock

“And he says, let me tell you about two men. He said, I'll tell you what a wise man is like and what a fool's like. He says, a fool is a man who builds his house on the sand, and whenever the storms of life come and the and the rain beats vehemently against his house, and the wind blows, you know, against his house, you know, kinda like this week, you know, I guess. And whatever, it says, after that storm comes, that man's house falls, and great is the fall of it. But the wise man, he trusts God, and he builds his house upon the rock, the rock of God's word. Come on. The rock of truth.”

#BattleStartsWithin

“The battle isn't out there with everyone else. It starts here. First Peter two one, Peter says, therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. Peter starts with the heart. Not politics, not government, not persecution, which all of these would have been just as bad or worse than what we experience today. in the land, He starts with the soul, with our mind, our will, and our emotions. Why? Because compromise begins in here before it ever gets displayed out there.”

#FaithThatEndures

“Faith that doesn't just give up on a whim or faith that that doesn't just give up because it doesn't look like. Come on. We walk by faith, not by sight. Faith that doesn't just look at things and say, oh, forget it. It's never gonna happen. But faith that takes the promise of God and says, if God said it, I believe it. Come on. That settles it. It's gonna come to pass. I just need to stick with it until it does.”

#WiseChoicesMatter

“``Your future is created by the choices you make, and the Bible instructs us in so many places about making wise choices. God doesn't want us making stupid choices. How many of you ever told your kids, that is stupid. Don't do that. Come on. You didn't call them stupid, but you said that's not a wise choice. Let's say it that way. Okay. That's that sounds better, doesn't it? That's not a wise choice, son. That's not a wise choice, daughter. Right?”

#ProtectTheLittleOnes

“If anyone causes one of these little ones, those who believe in me to stumble listen. This is Jesus. This is not John Neal. It is better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and drowned in the depths of the sea. What is he saying? He's literally letting us know that it would be better for you and I to be dead than to be helping another brother or sister fall into sin. That's how serious the sin issue is.”

#WeAreTheAggressors

“``That's not what this verse is saying at all. It's the opposite. How many know gates are stationary? Gates don't go to war. Gates don't fight. Gates are used as a defense to keep an aggressor out. Who's the aggressor? Here's the deal. What we want, the abundant life, is on the other side of whatever it is the enemy is using to hold us back right now. It's like the Israelites going into the promised land. There's giants there, and everybody's got a giant or two or 10 in their lives. Are you hearing me? We are the aggressors.”

#PurposeInTheProcess

“That he took Jesus from his rightful throne in heaven, gave him, birthed him, blessed him, actually took him, placed him in Mary, blessed him with miracles, signs, and wonders. Look here. Broke him on a cross because of your sin and mine. This is the gospel. But then gave him to be the savior of the world. In our lives, this is how God works. Maybe instead of asking God, what's my purpose? Maybe a better question is what spot am I in with this system, and what is it that God's trying to do in my life in this moment?”

#BecomeAGiver

“Here's why I'm telling you this, because you are never more like god than when you give. We're supposed to be like him. Our god is a giving god. You are never more like god than when you give. God wants you to be a giver so you break that spirit of selfishness from your life. Amen? And the cool thing is that that god promises that whatever you give, he wants you to be a giver. But watch this. He promises that whatever you give, he'll bless and multiply back to you in return.”

#HereForEachOther

“Eager. Everybody say eager. Eager. Now watch. Why? What are we eager for? Great worship. Pastor's preaching. No. Eager to encourage and urge each other onward as we anticipate that day dawning. In other words, we're not coming to church just for us. We're coming to church for each other. We're coming here to see who's here. And if you do need encouragement, to encourage you, if you did do need someone to love on you a little bit, we'd love on you. If you do need prayer, you got somebody who's praying for you so you walk out of here on Sunday ready to face the rest of the week. Amen? Amen. We're here for one another. Everybody say we're here for one another. We're here for one another. But you know if we're if we're gonna be here for one another, how many know we gotta be here? Yeah.”

#WisdomOverImpress

“``Amen? You know what wisdom would do? Wisdom abides with prudence. Wisdom abides with common sense. Common sense says, I can't afford this. Common sense says, there's no way this works in our budget and gives us any freedom, any liberty in case something goes wrong, and you can always count on something going wrong. So why why wisdom says, let's buy the lesser or let's fix what we got and forget about impressing, come on, Tom, Dick, and Harry. Amen? Amen.”

#savedByGrace

“You know, baptism does not save you. And I think some people think that, you know, if you don't get baptized, you're not going to heaven. The thief hanging on the cross looked at Jesus and asked him to forgive him, and Jesus looked at him and said, this day, you'll be with me in paradise. He never got baptized. You know why? Because baptism does not save you. You are saved by grace through faith that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God. Just a gift you just receive. Amen? But you when you receive Jesus,”

#NotAppointedToWrath

“For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath, but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. He died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. So I've had people ask me, are we gonna go through the great tribulation? Okay. This is not my opinion. I'm not just giving you my best guess. I'm gonna tell you from what Paul just said there in that passage. The answer to that question is, no. We are not.”

#FillMeWithFaith

“And the greatest palm reading we need is being reminded of the truths that we have in you, that the power of our faith, God, is not dependent upon us. It's dependent upon you. And so we choose to have faith in you. We choose holy spirit to allow you to fill us with faith because faith is the one that always chooses what we need over what we want. Fill us with faith so we can respond and obey every bit of your word, even the parts we don't like, god. Fill us with faith to make room for you in our life, to allow you into every space. Fill us with faith, god, so we can stay close even when it's hard.”

“Prayer is not just a 911 emergency call for help. There's more to prayer than that. Some view prayer as a last resort. I mean, man, I I yeah. I've I've tried everything else. I guess we I guess we need to pray. Come on. How many know if that's your attitude, your attitude needs to change because in prayer instead of prayer being your last resort, many you know it ought to be your first response?”

#LeaveChangedByWorship

“What if you remember that verse, the essence of it, and you purpose that you are never going to go out of here the way you came in here? Amen? You may have come through those doors, discouraged, and defeated, but we're gonna praise the lord, and we're gonna lift him up to the preaching of the word. And by the time it's all said and done, you may not have your need met yet, but you are stirred in your faith as far as knowing god is gonna meet it. Come on. He's gonna meet you right where you're at.”

#PreachPower

“There's potential power in the preaching of god's word. The dynamics, the power is released when what is preached is heard and received with an open heart and then applied in the person's life. And when it's applied in your life, power, holy spirit power. Come on. Energizes the word of god to bring about even the impossible in your life. And then get this in Jeremiah chapter one verse 12. God says, I watch over my word to make sure that it's fulfilled.”

#TemptationLetsHimIn

“How does the enemy make entrance into our life? Because he's so big and so bad? No. Because he's not big and bad. He's defeated. Amen? All he needs to do is deceive you and get you to yield to a temptation. And if he can get you to yield to a temptation, he can make an entrance into your life, into some area of your life. So the desire phase segues into the distraction,”

#MindsetShapesYou

“mindset is defined as a set of beliefs that shape how you see yourself and how you see the world around you. It's all about how you see yourself, which is so very, very important that you see yourself well. You know, if you don't see yourself right, I promise you, you're gonna have a low self esteem, and you're probably gonna be, you know, a little difficult to be around, moody, or whatever. Anyway, you get that. But it's a set of beliefs that shape how you see yourself, but also the world around you, the people who are around you.”

#RespondWithGrace

“And so here's the enemy on one side saying, hey. Don't let her talk to you like that. That that that was very dishonoring. And then you got the holy spirit on the inside of you who's saying, hey. Wait just a moment. She hasn't had the best day, and maybe she shouldn't have said it that way. But what she really needs right now is a soft answer. Come on. Come on. And a little love and a little encouragement in the moment.”

#EternalPrizeNotTrophy

“And the apostle Paul goes on and he says this, all athletes are disciplined in their training. Boy, they are. They do it to win a prize that's gonna fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize. We are doing this. We are winning for a prize that is never gonna fade away. Why? Because it's the souls of men and women.”

#ServeDontSwerve

“``The second one is your are you serving? I love what Ed Young says. If you're not serving, you're swerving. Why do we ask you to serve here just so we can get a lot of things done? No. Although serving does that when all of us do our part. We serve because Jesus himself said, I'd come not to be served but to serve. You wanna be like Jesus? Serve. Get connected. Serve on a regular basis.”

#FocusOnJesus

“``Lord, forgive us sometimes for not having a reverence and an awe of you or or maybe we have expectations when we walk in this place of what it should look like and what it should feel like and through the whole time, we can just lose focus of the main thing. So, lord, I just ask that you would redirect our hearts this evening and that our focus would be you. You you are the main thing, Lord. Your your name simply possesses all the power that we would ever need. And so when we don't know what to say or maybe when our words come up short or they're inadequate, we can simply speak the name of Jesus. And that has the power that has the power to save, and that has the power to transform. And so, Lord, help us this evening. Cast those things off at your feet and just to walk with you, spend some time with you. It's in your name we pray.”

#ExcellenceIsStewardship

“``We live in this Christian culture that a lot of times just thinks grace covers everything to the point where just sloppy in what we do, sloppy in what we what we say, and then we just blame the grace of God. Grace does not excuse sloppy living. Grace empowers growth. And living a life of excellence, being built different is not perfection, but it is stewardship. Excellence is stewardship.”

#BeWineNotMilk

“You know, if you let milk hang around for very long, even after its expiration, Maybe it's in the fridge or whatever you keep it. What happens with milk over time is it doesn't get better. It gets bitter. Right? Don't be the milk. So what he said was, instead be wine. Instead be the wine. I'm not saying you drink any one of these things. It's up to you. It's your life. Milk gets bitter, but what what happens with a good wine? Gets better.”

#NoOneIsSelfMade

“``You don't have to look very far and just look, you know, very intentionally for that matter to discover that nothing of great value is ever achieved achieved alone. Nothing. And yet, we live in a culture that celebrates individual achievement. That's what we call it. You know? We applaud the solo artist. We applaud the solo the the so called self made millionaire, you know, the founder of a company, you know, who built, you know, built it up from scratch. And we love to talk about those individuals. But when you take a closer look even at those individuals, you you discover that what they accomplished would never have been possible without without a team.”

#theologyIsTeam

“``But really, theology is just simply the study of god. And one of the things you discover as you study who god is and how he works is that teaming is a part of the very nature of god. Let me say it again. Teaming is a very part of the nature of god. It actually reflects the essence of who he is. Think about it. Father, son, and holy spirit teaming, working together in perfect harmony. How many of you can see that? That's not a stretch. I mean, that's just an absolute reality.”

#SynchronizedStrength

“``Sync your strength. The title of my message today is simply synchronized strength. Synchronized strength. I couldn't think of a better title, better start of this series than for us to learn together together what it means to synchronize our strength together. As you heard me say, it wasn't just that there was one strong guy on the boat. That would have been cool. But what made them winners and what put them above the rest to bring home the gold was all of them sinking their strength together in unity together to achieve something that they never could have achieved on their own.”

#PeaceBeyondCircumstances

“And he wants us to know that they're not at all the same, that there's just this absolutely massive difference between the two. And here it is. The world's peace is circumstantial. It's based on a lot of ifs. You know, as long as this is all right and as long as that goes right and as long as we don't have a problem here and we don't have a problem there, we can be at peace. We can know peace. That's the peace that the world has to offer. But the peace that Jesus gives us is a peace that's based on a relationship with God and knowing that he's always with you, absolutely, and also knowing that he's for you and that he's always working on your behalf.”

#FaithToHope

“And so Mary's journey to hope was faith.She went from fear, she chose faith, and it led her to hope. The common denominator in all of these hope guides is that something changed in their life when they decided to walk in the direction of hope.Zach was silenced to leave disappointment. Elizabeth chose courage to leave inadequacy.Joseph chose obedience to leave inconvenience. And Mary chose faith to overcome fear.”

#TrustGodInSetbacks

“``Be confident that God is working in the setback for your good. There's a verse in the New Testament. We quote a lot. We even sing it a lot. And we act like we believe it, but I don't know if we do. I know this. While we may say we believe it, I don't think we know it. And those are very different things.”

#ForgivenessIsAntidote

“``Forgiveness is not optional forgiveness is something that we are commanded to do by god it's a part of his plan for our life and our families forgiveness is forgiveness is actually a gift from god that he's given us to help us heal our human heart we are built to heal and forgiveness is the antidote an antidote is something that counteracts what's attacking it blocks it prevents and so forgiveness does that in our life and in our families it counteracts and it blocks and prevents what the enemy tries to do with unforgiveness.”

#DoYourPartForUnity

“You can pray all day long for unity. But if you're not willing to do your part and I'm not willing to do my part, I can't try to fight fair. And I'm going to show you that I can't try to fight fair and believe God for unity. I've got to do my part and I've got to learn to fight right and trust him to do his part of helping bring the unity to my family.”

#DivinePullVsWorldPull

“God, I can live the way you want me to live or I can live the way the world pulls me, which is what this series is about. And the pull of the world is so diabolically and different than the way God pulls us.”

#LiveByGodsWord

“So if all of a sudden what I believe is different than what the Bible believes, if Jesus is Lord of my life, if he's really, Lord of my life, come on, then I forsake what I believe and I embrace what his word says. Amen. And this now becomes what I believe. And I'm going to live by my life by, because that is truth. Come on. Not what I think is truth. Not what I feel is truth, but what God's word said is truth in my life. Amen.”