Turning Our Hearts: Worship, Confession, and Renewal

``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. [00:24:23] (65 seconds)  #FocusOnJesus

But if you're like me and and John tells us this too in first John, there are times and there are moments in my life frequently that I pick back up these things, pick back up these sins, these habits in my life, and we what happens over time is these things just begin to kinda stick to us a little bit, and we begin to be comfortable with them. We begin to justify some of these. And so for me, this is always, and I think Daniel teaches us this too. It's an incredible opportunity for us to ask the Holy Spirit who lives in us to say, Lord, reveal those things to my heart. What are these what are these sins? What are these habits in my life that you need to show me that maybe I've just gotten really used to and comfortable with? Right? Because we know that sin is the separator. [00:32:38] (58 seconds)  #RevealMyHeart

Daniel had set his heart. He had set his face to the Lord. He had set his heart to understand, and the angel says, it's because of your words that I have come. I just wanna remind you. K? And this is all the time, but but I think it's heightened in these moments of fasting. Your words matter to God. K? What what you say, they matter to God. And the angel came because of what? Because of Daniel's words. And so just a reminder, as you're praying, be very specific in what you're saying. [00:35:53] (47 seconds)  #AdvanceTheKingdom

passion to go into all the world and to preach the gospel, to love those people around us, to serve those people around us like crazy, just help us to be the salt and the light of this world. Help us to partner with other churches. Help us to partner with other believers and to advance forcefully the kingdom of god. [01:14:24] (25 seconds)  #SpiritualWarfare

I'm not gonna go into this a lot, but I if you read 13, the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty one days. K? This is the angels saying this. And behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, the angel, came to help me for I had been left alone there with the king of Persia. Michael was battling the prince of Persia in the unseen realm. When you fast and pray, there's an there's a battle in the unseen realm. K? So don't be discouraged when you're fasting praying and maybe you don't see anything in the physical, know that there is something happening in the supernatural. [00:36:43] (48 seconds)  #ObedienceRewards

It's kind of a golf clap, but that's okay. I'll take that. I mean, that's that's pretty incredible. I mean, I just I'm just a firm believer that when we when we make time for God, that he just shows up in a big way. And probably every single one of us, including myself, at some point in these three days, you have you have fought the urge to stay home. Am I honest enough to say that? Like, you just yeah. I was like, me? Especially on nights like tonight. And so I I just believe and I know that God is just a rewarder, of our obedience. And so my prayer, my hope for you is that God just just blesses your face off, after this time of fasting. [00:27:21] (48 seconds)  #WorshipFirst

Evening, I think as we close out this time of prayer and fasting that for us, I wanna challenge us tonight to push past the music, push past the people that are singing, push past push past me, push past yourself, and just remind ourselves really why we're here this evening, right? And that's to worship. That looks different for every single person in this place. I'm not trying to put a stamp on how you worship but I do know who we worship and why we worship. That's that's really why we've come this evening is to gather and to worship him. [00:21:58] (47 seconds)  #EndOfTheFast

Scripture is is very clear of what happens when people come together in one accord. We read in the New Testament in Acts chapter two that when a group of people came together in one accord, in one prayer, in unity, the power of the Holy Spirit came. Right? And it and it filled their hearts and it filled their lives. And one of the incredible things it did is it empowered them for ministry. [00:39:20] (35 seconds)  #ConfessAndRepent