Full Transcript for Vision

00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:00.879 And so vision, it doesn't just mean physical sight. 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:08.160 Uh the the word there is the Hebrew word chazon, and it doesn't just mean like physical sight, it doesn't mean the ability to see. 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:13.439 Uh vision mean it doesn't even mean a plan or uh a strategy. 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:20.240 Vision specifically means like a divine revelation, a sense of of God's dream. 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:37.759 And and so the the Bible is is telling us in that moment that that what life requires, what freedom requires, what our connection to God requires is that we would have some sort of internal witness that God has a plan for our life. 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:50.000 Just this morning I was out to breakfast with a friend of ours, and uh this young man he said, you know, how do you how are you able to worship God when you're still kind of confused or unsure about things? 00:05:50.079 --> 00:05:53.600 How can you worship God when you're in the middle of kind of the valley? 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:55.680 And uh and my answer was was simple. 00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:59.920 I said, You want to know how we're able to worship God when there are still unanswered questions? 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:05.920 It's because we know that suffering and sorrow and death are temporary. 00:06:06.560 --> 00:06:13.360 We know that suffering, as those who are covered in the blood of Jesus, we know the end of the story. 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:20.560 And that vision that is spelled out in Revelation chapter 21, that He will be our God and we will be His people. 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:28.000 The dwelling place of God will be with man, and He will wipe away the tears from their eyes, and uh and there will be no more death or sorrow or suffering. 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:29.600 Like that's the vision. 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:39.600 That's the the internal sort of conviction that we have, the dream of heaven, the revelation that we have, and that vision is able to give us life. 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:44.560 Where there is no vision, the people perish, Proverbs 29 says. 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:53.120 But this is the way that the New King James puts it, where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint. 00:06:53.759 --> 00:07:01.120 Now, the the word that's translated in the King James Version for perish is translated in the New King James as cast off restraint. 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:06.240 That word uh is the word para, which uh which means to loosen or uncover. 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:10.240 In fact, one of the ways it's translated is naked in the Bible. 00:07:10.480 --> 00:07:23.839 And so it doesn't, it's not just about life or death, it's about our connection and our covering, our connection to God and our our uh our position as those who are covered by Him. 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:29.920 And so, you know, if if we want to be secure, we've got to be covered by one that is able to keep us. 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:33.439 By the one, I should say, that is able to keep us. 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:40.160 And and the way that we remain covered is that we stay in the vision, we stay connected to the vision. 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:44.639 Like this has been my litmus test for and God, have I lost it? 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:45.839 Have I strayed? 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:48.319 Am I have I made myself your enemy? 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:53.279 Maybe you have never felt this way, but I I come back again and again, like today's really hard, God. 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:54.399 Are you judging me? 00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:55.199 Like, what's going on? 00:07:55.519 --> 00:07:56.720 You know, have I blown it? 00:07:56.800 --> 00:07:58.800 Is there something that I missed along the way? 00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:02.160 And I have to come back and judge myself based on this question. 00:08:02.319 --> 00:08:13.839 I go, have I, to the best of my ability, obeyed uh what I believed to be the will of God with the resources and information that were at my disposal? 00:08:14.480 --> 00:08:17.680 Have I done the right thing as far as I knew before God? 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:27.680 Because if so, it's not to say that I'm always gonna nail it, but it is to say that I can come before God boldly, knowing that I haven't held him at arm's length and said, No, I don't want your will. 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:31.040 No, I don't want to obey your word, I want to do things my own way. 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:39.919 And so if we stay connected to the vision, we can we can know that we will never be uh those who who cast off restraint. 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:47.120 That is to say, those who loosen our bond to God or who allow ourselves to be uncovered or exposed. 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:50.320 Where there is no vision, the people perish. 00:08:50.559 --> 00:09:07.039 So because it is maybe my my highest responsibility or aim here to make sure that we uh are a people who are constantly uh uh uh on a trajectory toward life, let's talk about vision today. 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:07.919 Can we do that? 00:09:08.559 --> 00:09:16.399 And so y'all know me well enough to know that it's it's not often that I just move away from scriptures and talk about my own stuff. 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:18.480 We're gonna do that a little bit today. 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:20.399 Please don't get mad at me. 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:21.360 I love the Bible. 00:09:21.519 --> 00:09:22.399 I love the Bible. 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:33.360 We are I'm gonna exposit some some more script I just did it for the last 10 minutes, but I I'm gonna do some more biblical exposition in the weeks ahead. 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:42.879 But I I want to talk about our vision here as a as a family, and so the maybe the first and most obvious thing that I could talk about is this. 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:47.679 What do you think about this? 00:09:48.399 --> 00:10:08.240 So, y'all need to know the last couple weeks, uh Trevor Hager has done just an

unbelievable um bringing together a team of people, and and uh, you know, I think about uh Nate Crespo and and uh and and Chris and Lisa Harden and many others that have given their time and their energy and their skills. 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:13.840 I saw Brady Reddick here a bunch of times uh that that that uh to come and to make this happen. 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:16.159 And and I'll tell you kind of where this came from. 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:25.279 So Trevor came to me, I don't know, uh a month or two ago, and he said, Hey, you know, my job is to be in charge of like media and production. 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:28.240 And he's on that camera right back there in the middle, I think. 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:33.120 And he's uh he said, I've got to be honest with you, this church looks bad on camera. 00:10:34.159 --> 00:10:38.639 And he said, I'm trying to make the cameras look good, and this building is not helping. 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:40.879 And and he said, So I want to change the stage. 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:56.879 And I and uh and so we we got together and we began to put our heads together, and uh I shared with him something that a mentor in leadership shared with me early on in ministry, and he said, Everything you do, from big to small, should serve the vision. 00:10:57.120 --> 00:11:00.399 And if it doesn't serve, everything you do should serve the vision. 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:02.960 And if it doesn't serve the vision, don't do it. 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:10.639 Like ask yourself, how can every part of what you do contribute to and move forward the vision? 00:11:10.879 --> 00:11:20.399 And so uh and so I said, you know, Trevor, the temptation will be for us to make our church look like a concert hall, and and we don't want that because that's not the vision. 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:51.360 In fact, one of the things that's that's interesting as I've studied church history is is that uh uh, you know, you can see, especially in in Europe, you can see that there was this sort of conviction that that began in the Catholic Church and you know has also moved into uh the Eastern Orthodox Church and then was carried on into the Church of England and the Anglican traditions, that uh there's this sort of shared theology of who God is and how we relate to him as that he is the king, he's the monarch, he's the most high king. 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:55.919 And when we gather together to worship him, it's like gaining audience before the king. 00:11:56.000 --> 00:12:01.279 And so you you know you do it very low and you come in like, oh, you know, great king, please have have mercy on me. 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:02.639 Thank you for letting me come to you. 00:12:02.720 --> 00:12:07.840 And and you can actually see that theology of worship in the buildings that they built. 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:12.399 They they built palaces to meet with God in, right? 00:12:12.559 --> 00:12:15.279 Palaces where his presence and his glory would dwell. 00:12:15.440

--> 00:12:17.440 Like that was their conviction. 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:31.600 But then uh uh the Puritans, when the Puritans began to uh to sort of gain influence, they had this conviction that he is the king, but he's not just the king, he's also our father. 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:39.759 And so the Puritans didn't meet in cathedrals or even chapels, the Puritans started to build what they called meeting houses. 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:47.200 And they started to build their churches to look not like palaces or castles, they began to build churches that look like homes. 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:54.080 And they said, because this is where children are gonna come to jump into the lap of our Father. 00:12:56.000 --> 00:13:06.639 And so when Trevor and I talked, we said, let's let's do everything we can to make this feel not like a concert hall or a cathedral. 00:13:06.799 --> 00:13:08.720 Let's make this feel like dad's house. 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:27.519 And we're gonna come together week after week, and we're going to uh appreciate our father, and we're gonna listen to the voice of our father as he gives us instruction and guidance and tells us stories, and we're gonna enjoy the presence and the love and the embrace of our father when we gather together. 00:13:27.679 --> 00:13:28.960 That's our heritage. 00:13:29.039 --> 00:13:41.200 And I want you to know that even our facilities are designed to preach the message, that God, who is the great king, can relate to you not like a subject, but like a son. 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:44.000 And that's the gospel. 00:13:44.080 --> 00:13:49.200 And and our our effort here has been to make sure that our facilities preach the gospel. 00:13:49.279 --> 00:14:00.240 It's why I preach from a kitchen table instead of a pulpit, you know, because this is this is who uh who we who we know God to be. 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:04.879 Jesus says, when you pray, pray like this, our Father. 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:14.879 Start from the revelation that you are beloved sons and daughters who have access to the presence of your Heavenly Father. 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:20.720 And uh so the first thing is this, and I think Trevor and his team have done a tremendous job. 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:25.759 I'm so, so excited uh about this, and uh, it feels great, doesn't it? 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:42.240 Now, I uh I also want to share, you know, we've been um in this last for this last year, we have not done a single like Friday night service. 00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:46.080 We have had Sunday mornings, and that's been it. 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:50.080 And uh and we did that as a sort of as a year of rest. 00:14:50.159 --> 00:15:04.320 You know, we were planting and planting and planting and and uh you know reaping and sowing for those first six years, and we felt like it was time to take a year where we uh maybe got acclimated to our pace. 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:13.039 But I've got to tell you, it's been the hardest year for me because I am not a manager, I'm a builder. 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:15.759 That's who God made me to be. 00:15:16.159 --> 00:15:24.240 And uh and I and I and I understand, like I should say to my staff, like, y'all buckle up, but we're going, you know. 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:26.000 It's yeah, I love I love you guys. 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:27.120 It's gonna be good. 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:31.440 Y'all make sure that you carb up, you know, because it's time to go. 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:40.639 We uh we have spent a year of of just maintaining, and uh glory to God today, it's over. 00:15:40.720 --> 00:15:43.360 It's time, like we're it's time to build again. 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:46.399 And uh and so here's where we're gonna start. 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:49.440 How many of you have ever come to an altar fellowship revival night? 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:50.960 Yeah, come on. 00:15:51.039 --> 00:15:53.279 Many of you came into the church because of these revival nights. 00:15:53.360 --> 00:15:55.679 We'd have guest speakers and worship leaders come in. 00:15:55.840 --> 00:16:00.159 We had some amazing nights, and I've got to tell you, man, I missed that. 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:12.000 I think we have in many ways spent this last year, I should say I have in many ways spent this last year kind of saying to you, get ready because God needs you, God is inviting you to be a disciple maker. 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:23.759 That if you you have been looking to others to disciple you, and it's time that you begin to look at who you might be able to disciple, who you might be able to pour into and teach them all that the Lord has done in your life. 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:25.519 And what an amazing opportunity. 00:16:25.759 --> 00:16:30.240 Because of that, we have kind of largely overlooked the community outside of this building. 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:36.559 And I and I I think that that is not a sustainable position to keep. 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:44.159 We have got to be people that fling our doors wide open and say, if you want to come and drink from the river of the goodness of the Lord, come on in, right? 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:45.440 From the highways and byways. 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:46.159 You're welcome. 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:48.080 And so uh and so this is what we're gonna do. 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:51.840 The first thing that we're gonna do is we are gonna relaunch our revival nights. 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:53.919 We're gonna do those every couple months. 00:16:54.240 --> 00:16:58.000 And uh I let me introduce you to the person who is in charge of those. 00:16:58.080 --> 00:17:00.080 Cameron, where are you at? 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:03.120 Bring your bring your luscious hair up here. 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:03.919 All right. 00:17:05.680 --> 00:17:14.160 Y'all give it up to one of our new staff members, Cameron Payne, a mighty and anointed man of God. 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:28.319 Also, one of our new worship pastors who is gonna be uh in charge of not just

obviously leading worship on Sundays, but in charge of administrating uh these revival nights and making sure that we have wild and unpredictable events. 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:35.279 And actually, this is what we've talked about, it is about like making it a secret to where you never know who's gonna show up or what's gonna happen. 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:41.279 Uh, we've got some things that are already in the works that are gonna be uh things you don't want to miss. 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:43.759 So I I am really looking forward to those. 00:17:43.839 --> 00:17:51.119 I think that's gonna be a lot of fun for it to just be a gift to the community every time for us to be able to come together on those evenings and really enjoy the presence of God. 00:17:51.279 --> 00:17:53.920 Cameron, will you uh we've got a microphone somewhere. 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:55.599 I think Pastor Chris, you may have it. 00:17:55.920 --> 00:18:01.119 You want to introduce yourself, tell us about your beautiful wife and kids and Yeah. 00:18:01.359 --> 00:18:02.640 Well, uh my name is Cameron. 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:08.400 I grew up in Minnesota and we've been here uh and the Lord moved us here two years ago, and it's been so good. 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:12.799 My uh beautiful wife and kids are down uh downstairs anyway. 00:18:16.240 --> 00:18:18.079 We're so excited to be here in this article. 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:33.359 It's like a joy of our life to be able to do so and just step in uh you know what I carry uh worship and open up to see just what the Lord does and be you know praise and ministers to him first and foremost. 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:34.000 Amen. 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:36.079 We're so excited to be here with y'all. 00:18:36.559 --> 00:18:36.720 Amen. 00:18:36.960 --> 00:18:37.680 Let's go, man. 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:39.359 So excited to have you, buddy. 00:18:39.519 --> 00:18:39.920 Love you. 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:46.720 If y'all see Cameron love on him, he's gonna be uh helping us dream and make these events as special and impactful as possible. 00:18:46.880 --> 00:18:48.000 Thank you so much, man. 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:49.039 Let's go. 00:18:49.279 --> 00:18:52.720 So uh revival nights are back on the calendar. 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:54.400 Those are gonna be happening again. 00:18:54.559 --> 00:18:55.359 Get ready. 00:18:55.519 --> 00:19:14.079 Uh next, so part of what is just overwhelming to me here is that somehow in the middle of you know, some city nobody'd ever heard of seven years ago, God has sent us some of the greatest musicians I've ever heard in my entire life. 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:16.720 So just some un, but we are so spoiled here. 00:19:16.799 --> 00:19:17.920 Y'all don't understand. 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:21.279 I uh yeah, we are we're blessed. 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:43.839 And uh and so part of what we have had in our heart to do for some time is to is to help capture the voices that God has given us here and also make this the kind

of place that people who are, you know, maybe need a rest from trying to to climb the ladder in Nashville can come and reconnect with the presence of God and and remember what it's all about, right? 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:51.599 And uh, and so I've we built a recording studio up there last year, and it has mostly just been sitting around collecting dust. 00:19:52.079 --> 00:19:59.759 Uh until, I don't know, a month ago, I called this guy, Austin Adams, and I said, Hey man, you moved here to start a recording studio, didn't you? 00:19:59.839 --> 00:20:01.920 And he said, Yeah, but it's just it hadn't worked out. 00:20:02.079 --> 00:20:03.680 And I said, Well, let's fix that. 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:08.720 You want to come you want to come on as a worship uh pastor and and also run this recording studio? 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:12.079 Austin, come and uh introduce yourself and people. 00:20:12.480 --> 00:20:16.799 Tell them what you're doing and what you got in your heart, and uh and where you came from. 00:20:17.039 --> 00:20:22.720 Austin is uh, for better or worse, maybe one of the most uh experienced ministers on our team. 00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:32.240 And uh he's been a worship pastor and a senior pastor of a church, and uh and and probably unsurprisingly was pretty convinced he was totally done with ministry. 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:34.799 And uh and God said, No, no, no, you got more in the tank. 00:20:34.880 --> 00:20:35.759 And so here we are. 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:37.519 Yeah, he won't leave me alone, I'll tell you what. 00:20:37.839 --> 00:20:39.839 He's just he's he's persistent. 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:40.160 Yeah. 00:20:40.319 --> 00:20:41.599 Uh my name is Austin Adams. 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:43.599 I'm from another planet called Alaska. 00:20:43.839 --> 00:20:45.519 Uh moved here like two years ago. 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:50.720 It feels like a different country, but um, I just want to start by saying I've never been honored by a church like I've been honored here. 00:20:51.039 --> 00:21:02.240 And um, I've been I've worked at several churches and have had highs and had lows, and um I it's a joy to be here, and thank you so much for the culture of honor you've created here for our team. 00:21:02.480 --> 00:21:03.759 So I just appreciate you and that. 00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:05.440 Um yeah, moved on here. 00:21:05.519 --> 00:21:06.400 I've been in music for a long time. 00:21:06.480 --> 00:21:09.759 I've been a worship pastor, I've been a pastor, uh, a few other jobs in between. 00:21:10.079 --> 00:21:26.319 Um and had I've always had a passion to um not just sing songs on a Sunday, but to really create something uh compelling for the kingdom to usher in the beauty of heaven um and to mine out the gold in artists and creatives uh that I know I'm just waiting to be heard and be um to be shared into the world. 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:28.000 So we have a wealth of musicians here. 00:21:28.079 --> 00:21:30.799 We have so much talent in this room I know has been untapped. 00:21:31.039 --> 00:21:33.440 And so for this house, we want to record the sound of the altar. 00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:35.680 We want that to go out to the out into the world. 00:21:35.759 --> 00:21:38.559 And I also think there's musicians beyond these walls that are waiting to be heard. 00:21:38.640 --> 00:21:38.720 Yeah. 00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:42.799 That our our church can be a hub for that sound uh in the tri cities and the world beyond. 00:21:42.960 --> 00:21:44.400 So that's the goal. 00:21:44.880 --> 00:21:45.440 I love it. 00:21:45.759 --> 00:21:46.720 I love it, man. 00:21:46.880 --> 00:21:57.519 So uh Austin and Cameron, they were telling me that their goal is to meet and and build relationships with every single musician in the Tri Cities, and uh and I thought I I don't know why it's never crossed my mind before. 00:21:57.599 --> 00:21:58.960 We should go find musicians yet. 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:00.480 Them all here. 00:22:00.559 --> 00:22:00.640 Yeah. 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:01.920 And we're not going to quit. 00:22:02.319 --> 00:22:04.000 Cam and I are not going to rest until that happens. 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:04.720 Yeah, yeah. 00:22:05.200 --> 00:22:06.240 I'm excited, man. 00:22:06.400 --> 00:22:07.680 Well, welcome to the team, Austin. 00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:09.920 We've got high hopes and expectations for you, man. 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:10.640 We're so glad to have you. 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:11.359 Thank you so much. 00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:11.920 Awesome. 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:12.319 Love you. 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:16.880 So good. 00:22:17.359 --> 00:22:23.599 I uh have spent a lot of time around musicians, and I know that uh it's a dangerous game you're playing. 00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:31.920 You know, they're like they can be wild people, but man, I think God's got a grace on our team to help push them toward Jesus. 00:22:32.240 --> 00:22:32.880 Amen. 00:22:33.119 --> 00:22:43.599 So uh now uh part of what there's a there's a quote that if you've been at the church for any amount of time, you have heard me use before. 00:22:43.680 --> 00:22:52.640 It's a quote from Winston Churchill who said that one of the signs of a great society is the diligence with which we pass culture from one generation to the next. 00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:59.440 And I I want you, I'll I'll bring you into my internal world, my processing as a leader. 00:22:59.599 --> 00:23:06.960 You know, I I see all the kids, 300 kids a week on average, come to our kids' ministry, ages one to ten. 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:09.039 And what an amazing gift that is. 00:23:09.119 --> 00:23:10.240 But here's what I found out. 00:23:10.319 --> 00:23:17.119 I've raised now three boys, I guess my youngest is eight, but the other two are in high school and middle school, so they're out of kids' ministry. 00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:23.599 And here's what I have realized about little kids is that they want to listen to anyone other than 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parents. 00:23:23.839 --> 00:23:24.640 You know what I mean? 00:23:24.720 --> 00:23:26.480 Your kids all love me and hate you. 00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:30.400 That's like that's how and my kids, my kids love y'all and hate me. 00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:32.880 Like this is this is just how it works sometimes. 00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:44.880 And so there's this sort of gap where you know, people my age, people in our 30s and 40s, like we are, you know, looking at the kids and saying, all right, kids, don't you want to love the gospel and don't you want to worship God? 00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:46.960 And they're like, not if you're asking, old man. 00:23:47.119 --> 00:23:48.400 Like, you know. 00:23:49.519 --> 00:23:56.480 But my kids will look at, you know, some of the college students and the young adults in our community like they hung the moon. 00:23:56.640 --> 00:23:58.720 They're just the most incredible, awesome people. 00:23:58.960 --> 00:24:01.680 I want to be just, you're 21, I want to be just like you. 00:24:01.920 --> 00:24:18.319 And uh, and so I want to tell you something that the Lord has been speaking to us about recently is that we are gonna be relaunching, and I think many of you weren't even here when we had that before, so maybe for you, it's it's that we're gonna be launching a young adults ministry here at the Walter Fellowship. 00:24:19.440 --> 00:24:25.759 And uh we're gonna be doing this in uh in an interesting way. 00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:28.799 Um now, you guys have met Jacob Nelson. 00:24:28.880 --> 00:24:30.960 Jacob, you want to come up real quick? 00:24:31.200 --> 00:24:32.319 But you may not. 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:38.240 So Jacob is uh he he is himself a young adult, maybe you could tell. 00:24:38.480 --> 00:24:44.880 And uh and uh and also just an amazing worship leader, and so he is gonna be a core part of this. 00:24:44.960 --> 00:24:50.400 Um, but we have also brought on a young adult's pastor that you maybe haven't heard from before. 00:24:50.559 --> 00:24:52.559 This is now Pastor Daniel Keats. 00:24:52.799 --> 00:25:10.880 Daniel He's a Daniel and and uh his wife, Alexis, have been here for several years and are just uh wonderful. 00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:16.720 And so um, would you I don't know, introduce yourself, share a prophetic word, you know, do whatever you need to do, tell us what you're saying. 00:25:17.279 --> 00:25:17.759 Absolutely. 00:25:17.839 --> 00:25:24.880 Um it's been awesome getting to know uh quite a few of you and not enough of you over the past four years that Lex and I have been here. 00:25:24.960 --> 00:25:35.920 I remember two years ago I came up to this altar and I uh asked Pastor Matty, I was like, hey, I feel called to be a pastor, and then he gave me a bunch of advice, and I read some books, and then I was like, you know, never mind, no way. 00:25:36.799 --> 00:25:52.480 Um but over this past year, um, in this year of rest, I've done a lot of contemplating, me and my wife, and um we've realized that we have this passion and this calling, and we we notice this void um here in you know the family in worship at the altars. 00:25:52.799 --> 00:25:56.559 We have a group of individuals, these young adults, who feel like they don't belong. 00:25:56.799 --> 00:26:03.680 They feel like they don't have they have a script written out from zero to eighteen, and then it's out the door and figured out. 00:26:03.839 --> 00:26:10.400 And we have a millennial mostly church here, and there's a big gap between you know 18 years old and 28. 00:26:10.640 --> 00:26:27.200 Um but we are honored at the potential to open up our home to the young adults and give you guys a place to call home, come eat warm meals, get to know people who are in the next phase of life, and help you transition into being a fruitful member of this church and knowing where you belong here at the altar. 00:26:28.160 --> 00:26:35.039 Um I was talking with a friend this week, and uh he said, you know, just because you're you have sheep doesn't make you a shepherd. 00:26:35.440 --> 00:26:41.039 And uh he said, What makes a shepherd is someone who tends to those sheep, who cares for them, who guards them, who protects them. 00:26:41.359 --> 00:27:07.680 And so Lex and the staff that we're gonna build around us really want to focus on bringing you, young 18 to 24-year-olds, up into that next phase of life, and that you can feel like you belong here and that you have family and community, and then you can take the torch as when some of us pastors step down the next decade or two decades that we have passed on to good hands of faithful disciples who are apologetically, biblically literate, and know what their purpose is in the kingdom. 00:27:08.079 --> 00:27:12.880 Yes, and uh, I don't want you to think that I have like this great vision or amazing idea. 00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:19.440 You know, I I'm I'm nothing more than someone who's being a submissive vessel in this opportunity. 00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:24.480 And you know, Psalm 127, one says, Unless the Lord builds this house, those who labor labor in vain. 00:27:24.640 --> 00:27:26.480 And I don't want to labor in vain building this. 00:27:26.880 --> 00:27:30.559 It's gonna be all the church, this whole community is gonna be on board to build this. 00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:32.000 Um, but I'm so excited. 00:27:32.079 --> 00:27:38.000 Um, so those of you who are young adults, please, after service, come come get my number, come get Lex's number, come get to know us. 00:27:38.160 --> 00:27:42.240 I'm so excited for the opportunity to uh to build into your lives and pour into you. 00:27:42.799 --> 00:27:43.440 Yeah, amen. 00:27:43.519 --> 00:27:44.240 Thank you, man. 00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:45.279 So good. 00:27:45.680 --> 00:27:50.160 Well, hey, what one more one more time, Pastor Daniel, Mr. 00:27:50.400 --> 00:27:53.519 Lexis, uh, Pastor Jacob, we're so glad to have y'all. 00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:55.440 This is gonna be an exciting

time. 00:27:55.519 --> 00:27:59.359 If you are between the ages of 18 and 24, will you raise your hand? 00:27:59.599 --> 00:28:00.240 Look at them. 00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:00.640 Look at them. 00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:02.319 Oh my gosh, there's a lot of them. 00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:02.960 Let's go. 00:28:03.119 --> 00:28:04.079 All right, well, get ready. 00:28:04.160 --> 00:28:10.079 Y'all, you guys are gonna about to have some great times, make some great memories, and uh and be a part of something special. 00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:20.559 I think, you know, uh I think it we are in error often because we we convince people that uh that that ministry is is reserved for later. 00:28:20.799 --> 00:28:24.240 And and if you assume that posture, you'll find that later never comes. 00:28:25.119 --> 00:28:27.119 It's it's always one degree away. 00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:35.200 It's always, you know, once I get married, once I have kids, once we buy a house, once I can get settled into my career, and it just never really comes. 00:28:35.359 --> 00:28:46.319 And uh, and so my hope, and as Pastor Daniel and I have been talking, uh, you know, our plan has been to see our 18 to 24-year-olds really begin to take uh the reins of this ministry in a beautiful way. 00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:53.279 They really begin to step into leadership positions as burden bearers and pillars in this house in a way that you really can. 00:28:53.599 --> 00:28:59.440 Uh, and so we are looking forward to receiving from you and the gifts and anointings God has put on your life. 00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:00.400 All right? 00:29:01.279 --> 00:29:02.319 Are we having fun? 00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:15.440 All right, next, I should tell you one of the uh one of the more difficult things for me this last year has been realizing that uh I think that we have been a less healthy church because we haven't had Wednesday nights. 00:29:16.240 --> 00:29:26.960 And uh and and I mean, you know, we have our Sunday morning service, but it's Sunday morning there may be a hundred people in the room that have never been here before, you know, a hundred people in the room that are just checking it out or just passing through. 00:29:27.119 --> 00:29:36.799 And uh, and I think Wednesday nights, for the years that we had Wednesday nights were an opportunity for me to sit down and uh and just share my heart, handle family business, right? 00:29:36.880 --> 00:29:52.160 And and to note without cameras, without uh worrying about a broadcast or anything like that, to really just get to sit and have heart-to-heart family discussions uh that were, I think, so profound and formative for the culture that the Lord had has called us to build here. 00:29:52.240 --> 00:30:02.079 And so we are going to be uh in January relaunching Wednesday night services at the altar fellowship. 00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:04.160 And uh we're looking forward to those. 00:30:04.240 --> 00:30:11.680 We'll have Q ⁇ A's and pizza parties, and you'll just never

know what might what might happen when we get together on uh on Wednesday nights. 00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:16.880 I think also this will give us an opportunity for more people to get involved in the work of the ministry. 00:30:16.960 --> 00:30:19.119 I'm excited to have more people preaching and teaching. 00:30:19.359 --> 00:30:21.279 Excited to have more people leading worship. 00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:30.160 I want more of you to be able to bring your gifts to the people of God here at the church, and I think Wednesday nights will give us more opportunities, more chances for that to happen. 00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:31.599 So I'm really looking forward to that. 00:30:31.759 --> 00:30:36.319 Part of that is that we are on those Wednesday nights going to have some kids' ministry. 00:30:36.400 --> 00:30:43.599 And so you have heard us sort of asking you to volunteer to minister to our kids, to be a part of the kids team. 00:30:43.920 --> 00:30:56.640 And uh because of that, because our kids' ministry has grown so tremendously, and because we're adding Wednesday nights back, we also needed to add somebody to our kids' team that knew what they were doing. 00:30:56.720 --> 00:31:00.400 And so uh so we brought Miss Kirsten Turner. 00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:02.079 Come into the stamp, Kirsten. 00:31:13.440 --> 00:31:21.119 So, Kirsten, introduce yourself, tell us about your your role, how people can get involved, and and where you came from to get here. 00:31:21.759 --> 00:31:23.519 Well, my name is Kirsten Turner. 00:31:23.599 --> 00:31:27.279 Um, and my husband, Josh, and I, and our two girls, Eloise and Maddie. 00:31:27.359 --> 00:31:29.839 We've been here for a little over four years now. 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:41.519 Um Josh knew Pastor Maddie back in Mobile, and so we've we're following along with what God was doing here, and you know, the Lord gave us the call, and so here we are. 00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:43.920 Um, and it's been just such a tremendous journey. 00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:46.079 But being here is such a joy and an honor. 00:31:46.240 --> 00:32:03.599 Um, I've been serving for quite a while with um the altar kids and running alongside Pastor Anna, helping with scheduling and some behind the scenes things, and so just so excited to step into that role even further to take on some more responsibilities behind the scenes. 00:32:03.680 --> 00:32:13.279 But it's just it is such a joy um to get to know all of our families and to serve our kids and to run alongside Pastor Anna and our um entire staff in church. 00:32:13.359 --> 00:32:14.400 So thank you so much. 00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:16.240 Thank you. 00:32:16.559 --> 00:32:17.519 So good. 00:32:18.319 --> 00:32:19.039 Come on. 00:32:19.279 --> 00:32:23.839 So uh, all right, lastly, and I am gonna wrap this up shortly. 00:32:24.079 --> 00:32:31.920 Lastly in Isaiah 56, uh, God says, My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations. 00:32:32.720 --> 00:32:38.160 And if we are a house that does

worship really, really well, but doesn't know how to pray, we're in trouble. 00:32:39.599 --> 00:32:55.440 If if we are a church that does outreach really, really well and young adults ministry really well, and we've got the best preachers and you know prophetic voices in the nation, but we don't know how to pray, we are in serious trouble because the house that God is building is a house of prayer for all nations. 00:32:55.680 --> 00:33:01.920 And uh, and so uh just recently Mama Fred and I were talking and she said, Y'all need to pray more. 00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:03.759 And I said, You yeah, you're right. 00:33:04.079 --> 00:33:13.599 And uh and if you know, if you know Miss Fred at all, you know um she she doesn't just talk the talk, she walks the walk. 00:33:13.680 --> 00:33:14.160 She will pray. 00:33:14.559 --> 00:33:18.720 If you ask her to put you on her prayer list, she will pray for you, you know. 00:33:18.960 --> 00:33:23.279 And uh, and so we got to talk in and and uh and I talked with our newest elder, Mr. 00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:29.519 Michael Turley, about uh about helping to pull this together. 00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:41.279 And uh, and so we not only are launching Wednesday night services, but prior to those, on Wednesday late afternoon, evening, I don't know what time they're gonna be even yet, probably about five o'clock on Wednesdays. 00:33:41.359 --> 00:33:46.960 We are gonna have an intercessory prayer gathering where anybody that wants to can can come and join us. 00:33:47.039 --> 00:33:51.599 You'll get some instruction and training on what intercessory prayer even means and how to do it. 00:33:51.680 --> 00:34:04.640 Uh, and then also you'll have the opportunity to lift up not just leaders in this church, leaders in the city, leaders in the nation, uh, to pray that God would hit particular topics to intercede for God, to bring healing to marriages, to bring healing. 00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:13.119 You know, we we got together at men's prayer and we hit a couple things a few weeks ago that were specific points of prayer that we are gonna lift up together and agree together on. 00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:21.280 And I just want to make sure that that's not something that only the men do and it's only every Sunday, but that becomes a part of the DNA and the fabric of who we are as a people. 00:34:21.440 --> 00:34:22.719 And so, Michael, would you come up? 00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:30.159 I just want to make sure for those who don't know you, which can't be many people in here, would you come introduce yourself and share your heart? 00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:52.639 You know what brought me Can you hear me? 00:34:54.400 --> 00:35:05.119 So about six years ago, what really began to connect me with Pastor Maddie was I began to have a series of dreams about him and Pastor Ian. 00:35:06.079 --> 00:35:11.199 And through those series of dreams it brought my wife and I to the altar fellowship. 00:35:13.199 --> 00:35:16.400 Now one day I get a text

message from Pastor Maddie. 00:35:16.480 --> 00:35:19.039 He said, Be in my office at noon tomorrow. 00:35:20.639 --> 00:35:26.719 Well, coming from the past of who I used to be, that really terrified me because I really thought something bad was gonna happen. 00:35:27.679 --> 00:35:36.000 And he took me back into his office with four other women and put us on a conference call with Prophet Teresa Bone down in Mobile, Alabama. 00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:39.920 And those other four people aren't in this house anymore. 00:35:41.360 --> 00:35:42.480 It breaks my heart. 00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:49.039 But I knew in that moment that he gave me his permission to be like eyes and ears for him and for this house. 00:35:49.360 --> 00:35:57.519 And one of the greatest ways that he discipled me over the past six years in that is he didn't respond to most of my messages. 00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:04.639 And I don't say that in disrespect, but what has happened in the past six years is Yahweh gave me a gift to dream. 00:36:04.719 --> 00:36:13.519 I've dreamed all of my life, but since walking in freedom, those dreams have been activated, and 90% of all of my dreams are about people in this room. 00:36:13.599 --> 00:36:16.880 Like, how many of y'all have come to me because I had a dream about you? 00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:19.280 I've come to you because I had a dream about you. 00:36:21.440 --> 00:36:32.480 You know, the something beautiful happens in the Word of God when the Lord will actually bring a prophet to work alongside of an apostle to establish something in the kingdom. 00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:41.599 But in that, there's like this fear, okay, Michael, like what does that even mean for me? 00:36:42.320 --> 00:36:47.119 Well, the Lord says to equip the saints and to find the treasure people. 00:36:48.719 --> 00:36:50.159 It's not harder to find dirt. 00:36:50.239 --> 00:36:51.920 We know what that looks like, right? 00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:58.800 And so I'm grateful that the Lord has given me a gift to dream and a gift to love. 00:36:59.119 --> 00:37:16.880 And really it's only possible because in the beginning we leased a church where we had to set up and break down kids' church every single week, and that just created a space to be shoulder to shoulder alongside of people to actually do something and to create a relationship where we can love one another. 00:37:17.519 --> 00:37:34.719 And if we can get close enough to one another without being offended and not just trying to wipe our hands with people, then the spirit of the Lord is gonna whisper sweet secrets about one another that maybe I could go to my brother Jill one day and be like, you know what, there is more, and he's gonna show you this week. 00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:38.719 Because that's the heart of the father. 00:37:39.119 --> 00:37:39.440 Yes, sir. 00:37:39.679 --> 00:37:47.599 And in the new covenant, the gift of prophecy is to reveal the heart of the father for his people. 00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:53.039 And so that's my desire for what I offer friendship for everybody in this place. 00:37:53.119 --> 00:38:02.880 Like let's find the treasure in one another, because if we can find the treasure, if we can hear the voice of God, if we can see what he's doing in the earth, everything changes. 00:38:03.360 --> 00:38:03.760 Yes, sir. 00:38:04.159 --> 00:38:04.639 That's right. 00:38:05.119 --> 00:38:06.239 That's awesome, Michael. 00:38:06.320 --> 00:38:07.599 Thank you so much, sir. 00:38:13.519 --> 00:38:25.840 Now, you'll some of you will remember months ago I I said uh that the ministry God will breathe on most powerfully here will not be what happens on this stage. 00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:29.280 It will be what happens around your tables and in your homes. 00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:36.559 And I added that the coming revival will not happen in stadiums or arenas, it'll happen in living rooms and around dinner tables. 00:38:36.719 --> 00:38:42.639 And the revivalists God will use will not be known by titles like pastor or prophet or evangelist. 00:38:42.719 --> 00:38:48.480 They'll be known by titles like mom, dad, brother, friend. 00:38:49.760 --> 00:38:57.920 Everything we are doing today and in the days ahead is not to better serve my ministry, it's to better serve your ministry. 00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:06.480 Your ministry to your family, to your community, and most importantly, your ministry to God Himself. 00:39:08.079 --> 00:39:14.079 And uh and so over these last, over this last month or so, I've been asking God, what's the vision? 00:39:14.400 --> 00:39:15.199 What's the vision? 00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:20.559 And and we've talked a lot about that today, and I'm way over my time, but I've been asking God, what is the vision? 00:39:20.719 --> 00:39:25.840 And and every time I asked that question, he would bring me back to a poem I read 20 years ago. 00:39:26.400 --> 00:39:32.639 When I was early, you know, just fresh into the ministry and had no idea what I had signed up for. 00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:44.159 I uh I read this poem and and God brought this uh across my uh my desk uh so to speak in uh uh in a book that I was reading at the time. 00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:47.920 And the the poem starts with the same question what's the vision? 00:39:48.079 --> 00:39:58.960 I want to read this over us as a uh as a signpost, a stake in the ground of who we are as we begin to discover who we are becoming. 00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:00.719 Here's the the poem. 00:40:01.199 --> 00:40:04.800 So this guy comes up to me and says, What's the vision? 00:40:04.960 --> 00:40:06.239 What's the big idea? 00:40:06.559 --> 00:40:12.960 I open my mouth and words come out like this the vision, the vision is Jesus. 00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:16.960 Obsessively, dangerously, undeniably Jesus. 00:40:17.199 --> 00:40:19.760 The vision is an army of young people. 00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:24.880 You see bones, I see an army, and they are free from materialism. 00:40:25.039 -->

00:40:27.440 They laugh at nine to five little prisons. 00:40:27.519 --> 00:40:32.320 They could eat caviar on Monday and crusts on Tuesday, they wouldn't even notice. 00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:36.639 They know the meaning of the matrix, the way the West was won. 00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:38.960 They are mobile like the wind. 00:40:39.119 --> 00:40:42.159 They belong to the nations, they need no passport. 00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:46.880 People write their addresses in pencil and wonder at their strange existence. 00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:51.360 They are free, yet they are slaves of the hurting and dirty and dying. 00:40:51.519 --> 00:40:52.800 What is the vision? 00:40:53.119 --> 00:40:56.960 The vision is holiness that hurts the eyes. 00:40:57.440 --> 00:41:00.480 It makes children laugh and adults angry. 00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:05.840 It gave up the game of minimum integrity long ago to reach for the stars. 00:41:06.079 --> 00:41:09.280 It scorns the good and strains for the best. 00:41:09.440 --> 00:41:11.679 It is dangerously pure. 00:41:12.320 --> 00:41:17.440 Light flickers from every secret motive, every private conversation. 00:41:17.679 --> 00:41:22.719 It loves people away from their suicide leaps, their Satan games. 00:41:23.039 --> 00:41:26.559 This is an army that will lay down its life for the cause. 00:41:26.880 --> 00:41:36.079 A million times a day, its soldiers choose to lose that they might one day win the great well-done of faithful sons and daughters. 00:41:36.320 --> 00:41:41.199 Such heroes are as radical on Monday morning as they are on Sunday night. 00:41:41.280 --> 00:41:48.320 They don't need fame from names, instead, they grin quietly upwards and hear the crowds chanting again and again. 00:41:48.559 --> 00:42:00.400 Come on! And this is the sound of the underground, the whisper of history in the making, foundations shaking, revolutionaries dreaming once again. 00:42:00.719 --> 00:42:05.760 Mystery is scheming in whispers, conspiracy is breathing. 00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:08.559 This is the sound of the underground. 00:42:08.800 --> 00:42:12.320 And the army is discipled. 00:42:12.639 --> 00:42:15.599 Young people who beat their bodies into submission. 00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:18.960 Every soldier would take a bullet for his comrade at arms. 00:42:19.119 --> 00:42:24.320 The tattoo on their back boasts: for me to live is Christ and to die is gain. 00:42:25.119 --> 00:42:28.880 Sacrifice fuels the fire of victory in their upward eyes. 00:42:29.119 --> 00:42:32.159 Winners, martyrs, who can stop them? 00:42:32.400 --> 00:42:34.320 Can hormones hold them back? 00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:36.000 Can failure succeed? 00:42:36.159 --> 00:42:38.960 Can fear scare them or death kill them? 00:42:39.119 --> 00:42:49.920 And the generation prays like a dying man with groans beyond talking, with warrior cries, sulfuric tears, and with great barrow loads of laughter. 00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:55.199 Waiting, watching, 24-7-365. 00:42:55.599 --> 00:43:06.960 Whatever it takes, they will give, breaking the rules, shaking mediocrity from its cozy little hide, laying down their rights and their precious little wrongs, laughing at labels, fasting essentials. 00:43:07.119 --> 00:43:09.440 The advertisers cannot mold them. 00:43:09.679 --> 00:43:11.280 Hollywood cannot hold them. 00:43:11.599 --> 00:43:17.840 Peer pressure is powerless to shake their resolve at late-night parties before the cockerel cries. 00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:22.480 They are incredibly cool, dangerously attractive inside. 00:43:22.639 --> 00:43:25.280 On the outside, they hardly care. 00:43:25.599 --> 00:43:30.159 They wear clothes like costumes to communicate and celebrate, but never to hide. 00:43:30.480 --> 00:43:33.280 Would they surrender their image or their popularity? 00:43:34.079 --> 00:43:41.920 They would lay down their very lives, swap seats with the man on death row, guilty as hell, a throne for an electric chair. 00:43:42.159 --> 00:43:51.840 With blood and sweat and many tears, with sleepless nights and fruitless days, they pray as if it all depends on God, and they live as if it all depends on them. 00:43:52.559 --> 00:43:55.199 Their DNA chooses Jesus. 00:43:55.760 --> 00:43:58.400 He breathes out and they breathe in. 00:43:58.639 --> 00:44:00.400 Their subconscious sings. 00:44:00.559 --> 00:44:02.719 They had a blood transfusion with Jesus. 00:44:02.880 --> 00:44:06.559 Their words make demons scream in shopping centers. 00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:08.480 Don't you hear them coming? 00:44:09.360 --> 00:44:10.880 Herald the weirdos. 00:44:11.840 --> 00:44:13.679 Summon the losers and the freaks. 00:44:13.920 --> 00:44:17.519 Here come the frightened and forgotten with fire in their eyes. 00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:20.559 They walk tall and trees applaud. 00:44:20.880 --> 00:44:22.559 Skyscrapers bow. 00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:26.559 Mountains are dwarfed by these children of another dimension. 00:44:26.880 --> 00:44:32.400 Their prayers summon the hounds of heaven and invoke the ancient dream of Eden. 00:44:32.639 --> 00:44:34.079 And the vision will be. 00:44:34.880 --> 00:44:36.400 It will come to pass. 00:44:36.719 --> 00:44:38.239 It will come easily. 00:44:38.400 --> 00:44:39.920 It will come soon. 00:44:40.320 --> 00:44:41.599 How do I know? 00:44:42.159 --> 00:44:45.199 Because this is the longing of creation itself. 00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:49.679 The groaning of the Spirit, the very dream of God. 00:44:50.480 --> 00:44:53.280 My tomorrow is his today. 00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:56.719 My distant hope is his 3D. 00:44:56.880 --> 00:45:09.679 And my feeble whispered faithless prayer invokes a thunderous, resounding, bone-shaking, great amen, from countless angels, from heroes of the faith, from Christ Himself. 00:45:09.840 --> 00:45:14.559 And he is the original dreamer, the ultimate winner. 00:45:14.960 --> 00:45:16.079 Guaranteed. 00:45:18.880 --> 00:45:20.079 What is the vision? 00:45:20.719 --> 00:45:21.920 It is Jesus. 00:45:23.039 --> 00:45:24.000 What is the vision? 00:45:24.079 --> 00:45:26.400 It is holiness that hurts the eyes. 00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:36.079 And may we never begin to believe that this thing is about just crossing church off of our weekly to-do list. 00:45:39.119 --> 00:45:46.079 The blood of Jesus has purchased for us so much more than just playing church. 00:45:46.719 --> 00:45:50.079 So congratulations on seven years. 00:45:51.039 --> 00:45:53.599 And here's to the next 70. 00:45:53.840 --> 00:45:54.320 Thank you. 00:45:54.559 --> 00:45:55.599 God bless you. 00:45:55.920 --> 00:45:57.519 We love you guys. 00:45:59.199 --> 00:46:03.199 And uh we will see you right back here next week. 00:46:05.519 --> 00:46:08.880 Thank you for tuning in to this service from the Altar Fellowship. 00:46:09.039 --> 00:46:12.400 We pray that you were impacted powerfully by this message. 00:46:12.559 --> 00:46:25.920 If you have been personally affected by our ministry and you would like to partner with the altar as we work to establish the kingdom of heaven, please visit our website at www.thealtar.org.