Jordan King

We'll talk about our ministry a little bit. But first, I was like our family III has supported us since we start with World impact, and we are just so grateful for a church family and for you guys for all the prayers,

For all the thoughts for the financial support, it means so much. We can't do the work that we do without you guys on the works too hard is to difficult, it means so much to us. We have a family here, even over ten and a half hours away and we used to be 24 hours. So I guess I will just so grateful. So this is my family. This is all you'll see my wife, Catherine, she's sitting right there. She would like to do it. I know you'll see my oldest son, Mason, he's 11 and Samuel, he is 9 years old and then our youngest Rosalie, we were going to stop at two of my wife said, no, we need to have three because I want a girl and I said, don't you know there's a 50% chance or better than it's going to be another boy and she said I feel in my gut but it's going to be a girl. And that was she says I was right. Like she always is we have a beautiful family and love spending time with them. This is just a picture of our neighborhood a little bit. You'll see Sam off the side, does the neighborhood called Havel Indianapolis. It is about 50% black and about 45% in Spanish and the rest of the mixture of white Slavic and some International folks, as well. If you go about two miles down the road, there are a hundred plus ethnic groups right in those neighborhoods really, really unique neighborhood and we love you in there. It's been a really great fit for a family. We love nature. I don't know about you, but I love the outdoors, we're in Flatlands and Indianapolis, it is to make corn feel that nothing. And so every time we get a chance to get out into the mountains to come back to PA, it is always like a breath of fresh air for us. We love it. It's so good for a family. This is a picture of us on vacation. We were in North Georgia in the Blue Ridge, Mountains Bigfoot country. So her all, but we love to get out there. I grew up about half an hour from here and so we love to keep those ties close. I'm even though we've always lived in urban environments, is a family has been so good for a family, just to keep some Roots down, I'm to how I grew up. Listen to these two guys. On a hike, they were dragging fix my world impact the number to get into my message. We've been serving with World impact for over 12 years and I used to work at Harmony heart Camp, way back in the day. So I've been working for World impact partner with. Rolled it back in some kind of way for over 20 years. I met my wife, Catherine. World impact at the camp. We became friends over the summer. So it's been such a big part of our Lives as III has, been to you, discharged by such a pivotal role in our lives. And my life just grounding me, teaching me investing. It's me and it's It has propelled us a Ministry and gave me a base to work off of and I've always been grateful for that time. So World impact we talked a little bit about it, we've changed a lot over the years for our goal. At the end of the day is the reach under resource Urban Pastor leaders and Empower them with affordable accessible and effective training. We do this by partnering with local churches, Ministry, networks, and denominations to meet them where they are. So I'm not going out in the neighborhood and doing all the work all the time. We are partnering with church Planters, passers Ministry, leaders have a heart, and a mission. Their neighborhood. Sale of local church, they love the gospel and they love their neighborhood and they are the best equipped people to reach it. Not me. It's going to take me years to call Chiliad out to be something in those neighborhoods and places, but if I can form a relationship in a friendship, with a pastor who's looking to reach those neighborhoods and he needs, resources are training. That's what we come alongside them and we can double triple even extend our work. Then what anything I could ever do a neighborhood.

So we've got a few more programs that we love doing a lot of the work that we do is purely relational. So, forget these four programs, I just spent a lot of time with pastors mentoring them coaching them walking alongside them in their families as they struggle through the difficulties, the ups and downs of ministry. It's the most important thing I do. We talked a lot about our programs. With the most important thing to do is encouraged these pastors and leaders who are doing amazing work in the city and just need help. The first Corps program is church-based Seminary, this is a leadership development pipeline for a local church that can't send their people to Druid Hill Cemetery which will cost them somewhere between a hundred thousand two hundred thousand depending on the Seminary, they can train their leaders right inside their own contact for $1,600 a month or $1,600 total. That's books, included everything. It's an affordable accessible way for them to train their leaders for their church because they're not going to hire people coming out of Seminary. They can't pay anybody most pastors. We work with our Bible K tional. They hold one to two jobs, at least. Play their spouse is working too just to make ends meet. So this is a really really need program that we offer. I'm trauma healing. This one is so so important. I love this program. I used to do family counseling in Scranton, believe it or not. And you know, I work a lot with broken families in hard places and there are there's so much broken from the city. There's so many broken families there, so many broken Dynamics, there's a lot of violence and drug use, and that just creates generational. Trauma, generational, pain, and most people can't afford to go to counseling, or they won't go because I'm not going to counseling, right? So, who did they go to? They go to the local church for the pastor and oftentimes, the pastor's overwhelmed or under equipped. And so, this program helps them in their Church developed a mechanism for how to help people heal in the church. How does God talk about suffering? How does God look at Payne? How can he step into our into our shoes and help us move forward? And so, it's a great program that we are. And that program has been growing and growing. My favorite though, is church planting my start out with the world impact in St. Louis, we were doing some church planting work, not as well as I would have liked to know what we're doing, but it was great, training ground and we do we work with church plans on working at a ton of different context because our cities are so diverse. I work with Ethiopian pastors Congolese. Pastors African-American pastors, Hispanic pastors, everything you could imagine because of cities are so multi-ethnic and we get to help them plan churches in those places since I'm, so we work with that, we help them form a team developed their Vision on what they want to do in the neighborhood, how they want to recheck and then we work with them. Coaching them for the next one to three years, we literally come up underneath them up, right? We don't lead them anywhere, we just stand and support them. And then prison ministry. You'll hear about this in the video a little bit, the prison ministry is really, really neat because what does it? It takes all those top, three programs of Church Bay Seminary, healing and and church planting and incorporates it in the prison setting. So, we literally are planting churches during Church Bay seminaries in prisons across. The us, there are over two thousand students. Coming out of prison are being released back into their cities that are been trained by our ministry. They plant churches in, and they plant churches out. They come out with love and a desire to serve their neighborhoods. And stuffed are there neighbor has down amazing.

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Sending a letter. I killed a man.

Like this world was better without me, and I was tired.

Senior. I'm thinking about committing suicide. I feel like I was early. No, good to no one. Realizing that I can't do it on my own anymore.

That little my box and right there on top was a Bible. I got nothing else to lose. I'm starving is where?

Busy. I would let out solitary and that's when I was introduced to the world and back into me. Brother, Ryan Carter and brother Darren that came to our first class. He's talking about going to the hardest, the darkest, the deepest place, their share Christ, love, I like men. You speak my language, but that's where I come from.

It really made me feel empowered by, you know, what I can do this.

I want to be a better. Father, better husband and better brother about a son. A better friend. Abigail Kalahari family fellowship with other brothers in prison, sharing something Center Anchorage with everything we've learned before you realize everything. When we begin to apply it on the yard revivals, imprison it wasn't him coming in and doing it. Like we going power, you got to do this good trainer. I receive really helped me to think outside the box.

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We planned surges feeding the homeless stealing Community Believers with all the churches. We are expanding God's kingdom together. I know that I can bring a sense of purpose to those who live the life I used to live.

Grateful for William paint for taking a chance on a man such as myself. I'm really grateful.

We know him is Abe. I met him in Hudson, Correctional Facility. When I met him, he had no hope of getting out. He was convinced at that point, that he was going to spend the rest of his life in prison. He had spent a good ten years in solitary confinement, right? And you can imagine what that does to the human being. He was so angry and so bitter that Play Move This back. Hold on, just a second. He was so angry and so bitter that he he was just fighting all the time. And I couldn't stop couldn't, he was helpless when I met him. He was one of the most joy-filled, Spirit-filled people you would ever. See just you can just see Jesus ripping off of who he was. It was amazing how he came to Christ. He spent time in our Seminary program, Easton for years, going through that seminar, programme Ryan Bingham for is the amazing thing was they planted three churches in his yard. So there's different levels. The prison this maximum, there's no more moderate security and he planted churches in each one, they did their own discipleship, they did their own leadership. Usually at church will come in and run the service for them. These guys ran at themselves, right, because they want to make sure they had good doctoring, good teaching and because they know they care the most for their own people in the fridge. Is amazing. He was actually working to get transferred to another prison because he's convinced, he was a lifer and he was trying to get transferred. So he could do it somewhere else in another prison that amazing. This man was looking, no, hope for getting out and he was going to go plan. Church is wherever God called them even in prison. The amazing thing is he got released really unexpectedly and then planted a church on the outside and is doing this with his family. And with this community, the same TV that he hurt. He's pouring back into and that's what God does, doesn't he? He takes what we view as trash, and he turns it into treasure. He takes everything that we look at, and he flips it upside down. He looks at people, he looks at the world differently than we do. We look at people and Reese's skin-deep. Don't we not receive what they do, maybe a little with you, what they look like, how they act and assign value to them and we say, whether they can do this or they can do that, God looks at the most broken, the most messed up things and he likes to do something with it, right? And he will do something with it. If we let him. And we're not defined by who we were, or what we've done, where to find out. Who God says that we are A lot of times we look at ourselves and see what we can only go so far. We can only do so much. I've done this, so I can't do that. And God says, no. Since I can turn it upside down. God loves surprising us and I think he Delights in surprising us with who he uses and how he chooses to use them. And I think if you look at the biblical narrative, you'll be story. After story after Story, and we'll work through a few then we're God just surprised at the people themselves and I think he should surprise us as an audience. May were so used to the stories, we miss it but God really does take the most messed up situations, the most messed up people and then he chooses them. Not because he could have chosen. Somebody who's prettier looking, but because he wants his glory to be seen through the broken to the people. He transforms. Amen. And then you know his story. Well, if you been in church but Moses is a murderer. He lived in the court of pharaoh, saw his people on being persecuted, kill the man ran off as far away as he could to the Wilderness where nobody would could nobody could find and he's on the Run doesn't know, God. And he's hiding right? Really not much hope for anything. He's just living his life, just trying to stay under the radar, and then God shows up in the burning bush and says, Moses, I've got a job for you. I see my people suffering, I see my people hurting, I want you to go and Proclaim who I am to them, rescue them, because I care for them and what you think Moses does.

Moses is the most reluctant missionary you to act like they don't listen to me. They don't even know who you are anymore. Why would they ever listen to me? And he's got all these excuses Time After Time and got the small do this for you. You know, I'll give you a staff that can turn into a snake and these miraculous signs and Moses is still really, really doubtful. So we'll pick up here and Exit. 410 says, Moses sets of the Lord. Oh my Lord. I am not eloquent either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant but I am slow speeds and a tongue. Then the Lord said to him who has made man's mouth, who makes him you or death or seeing or blind? Is it? Not I the Lord now, therefore go and I will be with you with your mouth and teach you who you shall speak. But he said, oh my Lord, please send someone else right after all, that God has done showed up and he says, God, please hurry up. I can't really talk, right? I can't really do anything, right? I'm kind of invisible, failure with my life. Why in the world of all the people? Me and I think he's just misunderstood my God. Wanted to use him precisely because of those things because his glory would be shown in his weakness, right way. We look at a person like Moses. If they were living in our neighborhood, we would see just how I messed up human being would win a lot of potential, somebody just getting by with life, somebody who's broken right? He's a murderer. We Define them by that, but what does God say? God sees that deliver are a prophet. Somebody who's going to lead his people. And the great thing about Moses, even though he's like conflicted full of self-doubt, what does he do? Eventually, he's obedient. He actually does. What God say, even though he's got all these insecurities in these imperfections, it are just out there on the table for himself to see if for everybody else to see, but he's obedient and he allows God to use him. It wasn't that he was most gifted, but you allow God to use them and he was obedient. And we see him deliver God's people through the most difficult circumstances in the world.

I got another story really quick here. This isn't judges, I love these Old Testament stories. I grew up on them. And so, like, I just love reading through them. So, as I do this, just tag along with me. This is the story of Gideon Gideon. At this point, I'm Israel as an impression that they are under the midianite camera right there, grinding down on them. They have like no leaders. There's a abandoned. And Gideon is a lowly man, and you sitting there in a winepress. Hiding down there rushing to the drain because he's so scared that somebody might see him and steal it for this is jugi Inez, right? You kind of let you know like a normal person too scared to live in life and you know he's hiding and the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said, the Lord is with you. Oh, mighty man, of Valor. I can imagine give you space without movies. Like what the heck are you talking about? Are you serious? Me a mighty man of Valor. Is he a mighty man? Of Valor know he's not but God saw who he could be if you listened if he obeyed God saw different. And then getting said to him, please my Lord At The Lord Is With Us. Why then has all this happened? Are all the wonderful to eat that. Our fathers were counted to a sang. Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt. But now, the Lord has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian. Full of doubts and the Lord turned to him and said, go. And this might of yours going to Smite of yours and save Israel from the head of Midian. Did I not send you the money didn't come from himself to Mike came from God, sending him right? We just missed the boat on these things so often we look at ourselves, more defined by who we are. But God sees what he can do it for pedia to him. He can take broken things and turn things upside down. And, you know, the story of Gideon is such a cool story because questions, God, some more just like Moses. Did he still nervous? You still? Like, I don't want to do this, but the police out and God shows up again, and God shows up again, and he has a collecting, this big army how it looks like a mighty man of Valor doesn't, he gets like 15 20000 man? And God says, well, wait a second, too many. I'm getting off like what you talkin about to lay. There's 135,000 midianites over there and we've got twenty thousand. We don't have, we don't even have a handful and then God Paris down to what, how many men 300 men? Why did God do that? He wanted to show who he was because he wanted to use three hundred men to destroy an army of 135,000, the show that it wasn't by any persons power. But by his power that he could use get in one man, and 300 people who followed him to turn the world upside down. That's what God does over and over again.

How much do you this is Alejandro Carolina. There a good example of this, I love working with this couple. There's some of the sweetest people you'll ever meet. He works in the hotel and she just raise their for kids. They went through a church Bay Seminary program, they literally had all their kids with them. Going through this church Bay Seminary program for 4 years. They didn't have a lot of money. They didn't have a lot of anything, but God has used them in powerful ways, they are literally bringing hundreds of churches together to do leadership training, new trauma, healing programs, and they're getting ready to plant their own church. Nobody will have looked at them as anything significant, but God saw something in them. God saw something useful. If you say was, yes, if you're available, I can use anyone. I don't care where they come from, I don't care what language they speak. What color their skin is? I can use anyone who's available.

This is Daryl, he's a good good friend of mine. He ministers in Louisville Kentucky. He killed a man got in a fight over drug money and kill them. He end up spending 25 years in prison and I really, really horrific time in prison and then came to the Lord while he was in prison. He ended up getting out after about 25 years and he started ministry called the prisoners. Hope I guess what if they work with families of people who are incarcerated, they work with people coming out. Transitioning them back into regular Society, getting jobs, getting support systems. This is one of the most gentle times. God-fearing people you will ever meet. The amazing thing is the son of the man that he killed ended up in prison 2. He told somebody to do kind of a pass down thing in the family and guess what? Who's mentoring? That son of the man he killed. He is God can turn things full circle. His son should have hated him and he did for a time. But he wrote Darryl and Darryl had started working with him and mentoring him and has been for years, they're like family now. That's what God does. God transform David deems that you are redeemable and God deeply sees Who We Are?

Can we look at one more bible store quick? The story of Esther. I love the store because we often talk about the story of Esther like a romantic story. Almost I've ever heard like a romantic kind of portrayal of the story of Esther. Is it a romantic story though? Now it's kind of a brutal story. Like, she's like a prisoner, like you captive and a foreign country. Most of her people were killed. She's an orphan that. And then on top of that, she's forced to go into the Harem of the king. She didn't choose it. She had no choice in the matter. She was essentially traffic. If she said, no, she be killed and that she's separated from her. People she's living with the non-jewish man but she eventually becomes Queen, right? He selects her picture and he or she is like I get here an unlikely story, an unlikely person and just this point I'm God's people are under severe persecution. They're getting ready to be wiped out and God chooses who After.

And Mordecai told them to reply to Astor. Do not think to yourself in the king's Palace, you will escape any more than all the other Jews. For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance arise from the juice from another place. But you and your father's house will perish. And who knows, whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this, you know, this? Well, don't we God called her to do something credible, even though she was a lowly orphan trafficked into the hand of the king and she is terrified because she knows if she goes the king, he can just say that. But what she obedient she was. Right? She was obedient and she followed What God had asked her to do. God saw her not for her circumstance, but for who she can become So, the second point we talked about is, we need to see people through God's eyes and have great expectations of them that we limit people so much, don't we? We Define people, we do find ourselves so much despite our best intentions and believe we see what's in front of us. But when you read the Bible and you look deeply the scriptures, God has different eyes and we should be thankful because guess what? God saw us, who are we? When God called us, What made up the serving of Salvation nothing but God called us. He saw us, and he has a job for us. He's got a kingdom role for us. Poor thing to remember is people don't transform themselves. Nobody transform the sense of God. Does the transformation through the power of the Holy Spirit. Our stories are redeem not because of who we are but because of who he is, There's a time when we were in Wichita we are serving and Catherine had cancer, she keep them. I tell this story because then everybody ask question so don't ask her any questions afterwards but we just gone through a hard. The ministry and we are really struggling and I was really struggling and I just felt weak and an adequate and that's and I felt like everything was falling apart and I remember this song is so I fell a missionary of mine, he came alongside me, they do this prayer meeting, you know, you're hurting the last thing you want. Sometimes it's for people to pray with the prime here. We're going through stuff and they start praying for me. He keeps on saying like a lioness. Should I kind of like a little more quiet little bit more introverted has like sitting as I can. I see saying that?

But he saw something, didn't he write it wasn't my circumstance. It wasn't where I was. But he saw what God could do. And he called that out and we need to do that with each other. We need to do that with ourselves, need to call those things out of each other. That's when we have broken people coming from really broken circumstances or even just a normal circumstance, we need to remember something key.

Sometimes we want we want people to drop who they are, come to Jesus and then be then you don't follow Christ, right? But the truth is, if you look at the Bible and how people came to Jesus, what did he do? He invited them to experience who he was. Are you brought them in the Katy first? And then they were transformed? When they touched who Jesus was. So we need to Brie and proximity to the people who are hurting for a broken because if they can't touch and feel Jesus Through us. How are they going to know? There's transformational power. I think he'd be here are stories. They need to see how God has moved us. How he has transformed Our Lives. He's taken us from broken places and redeemed our stories. If you see the ministry of Jesus, he hung out and really, really unlikely places, didn't he at? He was not popular in the Jewish circles up here. Today in the religious Circles of his day. He found time for tax collectors. Cultural Traders. He found time for prostitutes. He found time for Romans. He thought the times for all these people that would like, they were like, nothing's in society, but he was approximately then, why? So, he can invite them in his kingdom and we have to be approximate to broken people on broken situations. If we want people to experience with Jesus is week, Can't do it from afar. We've got to come close. We've got to let them experience who Jesus is threw us, right? They're not going to experience would use this unless somebody tells them unless someone goes unless someone cares.

God transforms, the really neat thing about the Bible to night. So God uses broken people broken situations, all these things who does God not use All right, cool guide. Not you. The price of The Proud people were arrogant, people don't think they need them. People who think they already have it together. God will not use them not because they can't be used but because they think they don't need him in the first place. And God loves for his glory to be shown through broken circumstances and people listened in Ministry. I have seen more families and more people broken by Pride than almost anything else Pride breaks people and it breaks Ministry biblical posture is God. Save me. God Redeem Me. God took my story and he redeemed and transformed it for his glory price as I did that or I deserve that or I look the right way or I talked to White right way. So here, I'm in this position because of that and pride will just tear you down. So, so quickly might take a little bit of time, but probably will get to God hate Pride with a passion.

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Yeah, it's not. It's kind of loading. Was that if you do a 1st Corinthians, that would be great.

Alerio, perfect. Thank you. It says, where is the one who is wise? Who is a scribe? Where is the Scribe? Where is the debate of this age? Has not God made foolish. The wisdom of this world.

For, since the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom. It pleased God to the Folly of what we preach to save those who believed to the Folly of what we preach for Jews. Demand, signs and Greeks wisdom. But we preach Christ crucified a stumbling block to Jews and a Folly to gentiles. But to those who are called, but Jews and Greeks, got Jesus Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God, is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men for consider calling Brothers. Not many of you were wise according to worldly standards. Not many were powerful. Not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame? The wise God chose what is weak in the world to shame? Strong God chose, what is low in the spies in the world? Even the things that are not to bring to nothing the things that are so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. Amen. That is what God does, the lowly God intentionally choose of the people who are going to be obedient, no matter where they come from. God can use you, right? Not just me not to save. God can use you, do? We allow God to actually use us the way we can be used it requires obedience? Okay, he can take your story and transform it. He can take your shame and make it a celebration of his grace. He can use you despite yourself, and he will use. Whoever says, yes, I want the big things. I found the ministry was, there's so many things out. I was an anxious person, be a little bit. I was an anxious person. I would almost always want to be like God. No, I'm not doing that. And I learn really quickly to say, yes to God, not because I thought adequate, but because I knew if I stepped in that, he would give me whatever I needed every step along the way and guess what he has. But if we don't take those steps of obedience, is he going to equip us for the work? He's not right? You can but we have to be obedient for him to do that. So let's do this is talk about how we connect this to our lives a little bit. God gives us everything we need, right? Everything that you need to do the work of ministry. God will give you right? He'll give you the right people. He'll give you the right words. He'll give you the right Mentor, but you have to start doing the work. God doesn't provide if we just sit there and wait for him to open the door for us. See, right. We need to step through those doors that he calls us to step through and be active. In this tree need to be humble, right? I don't do anything because I'm the best preacher guy. I'm not the best beach in the world. I'm not the best missionary in the world. I'm not, I'm not the best father in the world, right? But God has given me work to do. I try to do the best of my ability. We have to stay home with nothing that we do, it's because of what we've done, right? God has brought up. He's equipped us. He's the one who stuck it was doing the work through us. Me to serve allow God, to show you your gifts, each one of you has a gift and you don't get to find out what it is until you actually start serving. What a beautiful things about. What I do is I get to walk alongside people and they have no idea what God has called them to do a mystery. None, that's all I know is they want to serve and then they start serving the church. They start in the neighborhood, and then you get to see the gifted in that. Look at that, look, what they can do over there and oh, no, they should never do that again, because Ashley does happen. But when you find that spot, when God equips you in that way, you start seeing those things, you can start calling those things out of each other. So just start serving doesn't matter where I just find a place to serve and God might surprise you where he takes you and I might even scare you a little bit. Lead, with a heart of compassion and right. Leave with compassion. Because people need to experience Jesus Christ through and in you and if you're not compassionate, guess what they're never going to come, right? And people are coming from all kinds of different circumstance, all kinds of Brokenness and if they immediately run into wall with you right now, you represent Christ, or they going to do, they're going to turn and they're going to run away, right? Jesus. Never never, never accept this and he didn't. But what did he do? With the heart of compassion? He met people exactly where they are, and he invited them in and that's what we have to do. We don't ever accept the send, but we have to leave with a heart of compassion.

And we have to give people Room to Grow. People are going to fail, we're going to fail. It's not going to look pretty a lot of time and I'll see I passed her. Get up a painful sometimes has met, right? It could be a really, really experienced in time, but that time to do the work and so we have to give people time to grow. We have to give people time to mature, just like we needed that time to make sure we didn't come to where we are overnight. God was gracious to us every single step along the way. And he brought us to where we are now, we have to let the Holy Spirit transform like a, we can't even transform ourselves. We try as hard as we can to change that bad habit, or to walk outside of the situation that we're in and what do we find ourselves? But, but, but, but over and over again. So if we can't even transform ourselves, how can we transform other people? We can't, we have to allow God, do that work. And we have to be patient with that work. Is God works in our heart and the last thing I want to leave you with is live with a sense of wonder. Live with a sense of wonder. And what I mean by that is, Sometimes we take the gospel for granted, we take what God has done for us for, for granted. We forget it. We got the Bible. Talk about like the love of Believers growing cold every time, it's not intentional thing, it's just something that happens over time. We forget how gracious. Is, we forget how good he is. We forget what he's done in our lives, and when the gospel is preached in the Bible, when you read it in the Bible, you often times. You think that's for the unbeliever. That's what the people who needs to hear the hope of the gospel, and guess what? The gospel is for its, for the unbeliever buys for us every single day. We need to be reminded of what God has done for us to live with a sense of wonder, because it will transform you, and it will drive you from your seats and into God's mission in his it into his kingdom. When your love broke pulled. What we do, we sit back into comfort and we protect ourselves. God is asking us to be about his kingdom work. God Can Transform? He can transform us, and he can do amazing things through you. If, if we're willing to go bad, if we're going to be obedient, and then let me pray for us. What is thank you for the time that we have together just to fellowship and see, hear what you have to say. That's Lord, I pray that you would lead us that you would guide us as we serve you Lord, that you would go before us. Every step of the way that when we feel anxious, when we feel afraid that way, we don't know the way that you would die to sword and every situation in this room and every life that you're transforming that you're working and got Lord, I pray that you would just that you would walk for us. God guide us, help us to follow Lord help us to be obedient.