Steward Your Appetite: Giving God Your Eyes, Mind, and Unity

And this word has been ministering to me uh literally all week. So, I'm excited for you. I pray it blesses you like it's been blessing. But I want I want to say this uh with all seriousness and even a sense of sobriety. I believe that there is an anointing that's going to unlock some things for us this morning. I believe there's breakthrough. Come on, somebody say breakthrough. Breakthrough. I believe there's real breakthrough in the room. for us. And so, uh, again, my prayer is that we would be able to have, as the scripture says, an ear to hear what the spirit is saying. Amen. Come on. Why don't you stand with me as we read the word together? Have you guys been enjoying the blessed life series?

Pastor Keith May, he's the goat. He's such a I love he he's not only a great communicator, he communicates the heart of God, which is just as important. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Man, worship has been so good this morning. I got wrecked for service. Well, let's do this. Let's read the word together. We're in the sixth uh verse in Matthew 5. Here we go. Ready? Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. This word satisfied can be translated as completely satisfied. Okay, let's read it again. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be

satisfied. Amen. Amen. And then we're going to look at our subtext. It's coming. It's coming. Here we go. Let a man so consider us as servants of Christ and stewards. Somebody say stewards. Stewards. Stewards of the mysteries of God. Holy Spirit, we love you. We thank you, God, that we can't we can't even see you rightly, see Jesus rightly without you. So I'm asking right now that your ministry would be so present in the room. Give you the seat of honor and I'm praying Holy Spirit in Jesus name that you would open up eyes even as we just sang in Jesus name. I pray that

Ephesians 1 prayer God that the spirit of wisdom and the spirit of revelation would rest upon us in Jesus name. That you would open up the eyes of our understanding. God, I thank you for the breakthrough. I thank you that for the breakthrough that is in the room, for the crowning jewel of your creation, your beloved. So, we love you. We give you the seat of honor in Jesus name. Come on, if you're in agreement, say yes. Yes. You can be seated. Thank you, Pax. Can we Can we say thank you to Paxton? The word's just always more anointed when you got a keyboard. Come on, somebody. Uh, how many how many parents we have in the room this morning?

Lots of parents. How many of y'all know that the greatest privilege of our life is to watch our babies grow? That's real. I love watching my babies grow. I love watching Isaiah, Damon, Wesley, and Seda grow up. I think we have a picture somewhere, if it's not there yet, of my little my babies. My boys got a little frustrated. They're like, "Dad, why'd you have to put that picture up there to first service?" But I love watching my kids grow. But how many how many people also know when they were little, when your kids are little, they're so much more easy to satisfy. Like I'll never forget, we would go to our favorite Mexican restaurant and all we would have to order

would be the free salsa, uh the bean dip, and maybe a side of guacamole, and it would satisfy those little jokers. It ain't It ain't like that no more. You know, like those boys are starting to eat me out of house and home. They're harder to satisfy. How about Christmas? Christmas used to be like another one that was super easy. You guys remember what Christmas was like when your kids were little? We I'm I'm not being facitious when I say my boys especially, they would love the box that the gift came in as much as the gift itself. And they'd play with that box until that thing fell apart. They were easy to

uh and then movie nights. The other one, does anybody else have a movie night in your house? See, okay, some first service I felt like we were the only people that have movie night. I'm like, don't judge us. Like, we we watch movies up in our house. Friday night is a movie night in the Richardson household. And again, used to be super easy because dad would pick the movie. They'd sit their behinds down and they'd watch the movie and they'd love it. Okay, thank you. Curious George Puff and Rock. Anybody ever watch Puff and Rock? I love Puff Rock. The dopest theme song. Anyways, used to be easy. Now it it takes a literal act of Congress for us to agree on anything.

Like I'm I'm not even kidding. My my my boys are like, "Hey dad, are we old enough to watch Rambo yet?" I'm like, "First of all, no. Second of all, your sister's eight. Like, it's hard to come into any kind of agreement, but I've discovered a hack. And and this is going to bless somebody in here who does movie night. Okay? So, I tell them now, you guys have two minutes. And if you don't figure this thing out in two minutes, dad's just putting on the golf channel the rest of the night. We're watching Scotty Sheffller highlights and we're going to have a good time. And all of a sudden, the spirit of unity just goes and they figure it out really quick.

But watch this. The older that they've gotten, they realize more options are made available to them, the harder it is to satisfy them. the older they've gotten, the more options are made available to them, the harder it is for them to be completely satisfied. I would propose, I would submit to us today that we as the church in the West, if we're willing to be honest. Can we be honest this morning? The majority of us are not living lives that are completely satisfied in God. Partly because we've cultivated an appetite for so many okay things. We have no appetite for the best things.

And watch this. The realm of complete satisfaction. And by the way, it is a realm. It's an interior realm. The realm of complete satisfaction is only accessed by stewarding an appetite for God. So, the title of my message this morning is steward your appetite. Steward your appetite. Come on, look at your neighbor. Say, we're about to steward our appetite. Steward your appetite. Now, I just listen. I want to say from the jump this morning, I want you to hear my heart. Part of the reason I've been so nervous delivering this message is I I want to I want us to know this is not a tryh harder message.

How many people know religion has one message? Try harder. The message of the kingdom is behold the lamb. Behold the lamb. So this is not a try harder message. This is good news. Come on somebody say good news. Good news. Happy or blessed are those who hunger for righteousness, for they shall be completely satisfied. Now this word hunger can be translated as to crave or to desire or to have an insatiable appetite. But listen, it's paramount that in 2026 we read this verse through a finished work lens.

So now as the righteousness of God in Christ, I I I do not have an appetite to be made righteous. Are you are you tracking with me? You've been made righteous. Just look at your neighbor say you're righteous and it's not your fault. So So watch this. This is this is so important. Okay. The grace distinction for us now is I don't hunger for righteousness is something I lack. I hunger from the righteousness that I already possess. I don't hunger for righteousness is something I like. I hunger from the righteousness I already possess. So in other words, I have an appetite for the rightness of God in every area of my life.

I want my appetite to be congruent with my identity. Yes. Does this make sense? Ultimately, that looks like having an appetite for him. Come on. Jesus is saying, "Blessed are those who have an appetite for me and for the rightness of God in every area of your life, and you will experience a realm called complete satisfaction." Come on. It's good news. So, watch this. So, so for us today who have been made righteous by his be by his death, his burial and his resurrection, I want us to look at this verse through a lens of stewardship. Okay? Paul calls himself a steward of the mysteries of Christ. Say stewardship. Stewardship.

This this glorious gospel of grace, we're called to steward the presence of God we experience in the room this morning. We're called to steward intimacy with God. We're called to steward the grace gifts that God has sovereignly deposited on our lives. We're called to steward our time on the planet. We're called to steward. Come on. The hearts of other people. We're called to my here's my thing. How are we going to This is an honest question. How are we going to steward divine mysteries? And all those, believe it or not, they're divine mysteries. Okay? How are we going to be able to call ourselves like Paul, a steward of the mysteries of God if we can't steward our own appetite?

And again, this is not a try-hard message, okay? This is a simple reminder for us to behold the lamb of God who was slain before the foundation of the earth. And listen, you know what's really interesting? Paul never uses the word hunger in reference to a spiritual pursuit of God. He does say he say, "Listen, your boy suffered hunger. I've suffered shipwreck." But but he never uses that word in reference to a spiritual pursuit. You know what he tells us? He tells us to set our mind on things above, have a savage focus on the renewing of our mind, and to behold the lamb. Amen. And ultimately he says you and I, we reflect the one that we behold. This

this this whole gospel, friends, is not about us getting hungry. My God, we better get hungry or it's time to get desperate. No, it's it's about us simply giving our eyes Jesus giving our eyes to the God who brings us into this realm called complete satisfaction. This is good news. This is good news. So, I want to give us a blueprint this morning, so to speak, that we must tend to if we're going to steward an appetite for him. You guys okay? So, here we go. Number one, to steward our appetite is to steward our eyes. To steward our appetite is to steward our eyes. Does he have your eyes?

This is an honest question. I just want us silently just to take inventory. Does he have your eyes? 2 Corinthians 3 says we reflect the one that we behold. My question is, what are we consistently beholding? What are we consistently beholding? Revelation 4 gives us this picture of these four living creatures who are in closest proximity to the presence of God. I want us to read this verse. Revelation 6 says, "Before the throne, there was a sea of glass like crystal, and in the midst of the throne and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes in front and in back. The first living creature was like a lion. The second living creature like a calf. The third living creature had a face like a man. And the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle.

The four living creatures, each having six wings, were full of eyes around and within, and they do not rest day or night, saying, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come." Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to him who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever, the 24 elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. And they cast their crowns crowns before the throne, saying, "You are worthy, oh Lord, to receive glory, honor, and power. For you created all things, and by your will they exist and they were created." Now listen, if you're if you're new to church, it's a crazy picture, okay? Maybe a little weird.

Kind of sounds like a scene from a Tim Burton movie, but listen. It is a current real throne room reality that's taking place right now as we speak. And my question to us this morning, church, is why do they have all of those eyes? Eyes around, eyes within, eyes in front, eyes in back. Why do they have all those eyes? I believe it's because God is saying, "Look at me. Just look at me. And listen, forever and ever and ever, those four living creatures never get bored because their eyes are consistently seeing things that they've never seen before. As they

behold the beauty of the unccreated, ineffable God whose ways are past finding out. And listen, as a secondary consequence, they can't help but begin to worship and say, "Holy, holy, holy." And watch this. Their worship, their holy, holy, holy, provokes these 24 elders to take their crowns, throw them at the at the throne of God, and do the very same thing. Watch this. When you and I for real, when we for real begin to behold the lamb of God and give him our eyes, pure worship comes flowing from from the inside of us and it it provokes others around us to do the same.

When we re I'm not talking about what we do in here. I'm talking about when we begin to live lives where he has our eyes, it produces worship and that worship provokes other people to do the same. The thing that grieves my heart right now for the church in the west is is is that we've we've taught a generation of teachers and preachers and worship leaders and song leaders how to move a room and we call it good leadership. But we fail in provoking and stirring the hearts of the people of God to real worship and real intimacy outside of this place because we ourselves are living lives that are divorced from giving him our eyes.

Instead of stewarding our eyes, stewarding our attention, we've just become stewards of distraction. And and anybody who has a smartphone in your pocket, you know what I'm talking about. I'll never forget eight years ago to the month, uh, I suffered what we would all call a stroke. I'll never forget it. Uh, I lost V. Anybody here ever had a stroke? You know, you know the fear that accompanies that experience. I'll never forget losing just vision in one of my eyes and then all of a sudden I couldn't talk. I couldn't talk for two two to three minutes. And I'll never forget just

being gripped by fear running to the hospital. They run all these tests, scans, everything. And I remember just sitting in the waiting room just beyond emotional. I'm like 33 years old. I'm like, how am I experiencing a stroke at 33? And by the way, this was well before 2020. And no, I did not get the jab, so you can just chill. Okay, 2018. But I'm super emotional and I'm like, God, how can this happen? And I'll never forget, you know what it's like when the doctor walks back in and you're just like sitting there at their,

you know, whatever they say. Like all of a sudden, my life is about to be defined by whatever you communicate in this moment. And he rolls up to me and he sets his, I mean, he comes super close and he slaps my leg and he says, "Young man, I got good news for you." He said, "You didn't have a stroke." And I remember breathing deeper going, "Okay, then what the heck was that?" And he said, "You just experienced what we would call a severe, the most severe ocular migraine that you can experience, which often times can mimic a stroke or even a mini a mini stroke." And to spare you the details, six days before this event, I had just gotten a new iPhone.

Yes, some of y'all know where I'm going with this. I had been using a flip phone for four years. I was the dude everybody made fun of. You know, they're like, "Hey, bro. You're messing up our group, our group chat here with your little green bubble." And so, I get this iPhone and I'm blazing out on this iPhone trying to figure it out. I'm downloading social media. I'm being sucked into the vortex of this smartphone. Day two, I started to experience like these tension headaches. Day three, long story short, what happened? My right eye got so dry. All the glands that produce moisture in your eye, they all got blocked. So, I went from having a tension headache to a severe ocular migraine.

To this day, I hate my phone. I hate these things, man. Supposed to be a tool. They've turned us, they've turned us into the tool. You know what I'm saying? But I share that. Listen, I share this story because I believe it's a prophetic picture as to where the church is at today. And that we as a whole, the church in the West, we've lost our prophetic vision because we're so distracted. We're no longer beholding him. And when we do open up our mouth, we have nothing to say that's provoking the culture around us to throw everything they have of value and begin to worship him. And listen, the only the only answer is not found in weeping and wailing and coming to the front and repent. The

answer is found in just giving our eyes to him again. That's right. just beginning to drown every distraction. It's why I pray over my own house and over this house. God, would you grip us with the Psalm 119 spirit where the psalmist said, "Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things and revive me in your way." Come on. You can ask 10 different people what they think their definition of revival is and you get 10 different answers. I love the psalmist says that you are revived. You experience a personal revival when you stop beholding all these empty things and you start beholding him. God, would you would you touch our eyes as a church? The crowning jewel of his creation. Listen, we have I say this all the time.

We have a billion dollar inheritance living in our belly and we're living on 10 cents a day. Men Men have become so neutered by their phones, we don't even know how to talk to each other anymore. I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. Things get uncomfortable. It's time for us to begin to drown every distraction. This is not a tryh harder message. It's time for us to behold the lamb of God. Listen, the answer, the answer to our culture and everything we need, it's an onfire church. Not a church, not the church. A church that is fully alive in God. Amen.

Jesus, would you touch our eyes? Number two, to steward our appetite is to steward the renewing of our mind. to steward our appetite is to steward the renewing of our mind. Romans 12:2, don't be conformed to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Colossians 3, since you've been raised in that that most translations say, if you've been raised, it should be translated as since. Since you've been raised with Christ, set your mind on things above. Listen, this is so important, you guys, because you can be in the presence of God all day long. But if you're stu, listen, if you're stewarding the voice of shame and anxiety and fear, it's going to be really, really hard to steward an

appetite for him and the rightness of God in every other area of your life. We we see this in the story of Mary and Martha. I I preached on this, I think last year. Martha welcome. Listen, Martha's around the presence of God. The manifest presence of God in the earth is in her crib and she's still anxious because she refuses to prioritize his word. What does it say about Mary? She sat at his feet and received his word. If you want to grow in God, listen, it's so important that we don't just read the word. We begin to meditate the word of God. Somebody say meditate. Meditate. Psalm one. Come on. Psalm one says, "Blessed is the man not who reads the word of God, who meditates the word of

God." That individual is like the tree that prospers. Come on. How many people legit want to prosper? Do you want to prosper in your soul, in your interior life? Begin to meditate the word of God. I tell people all the time, I I told a man this uh week, Galatians 2:20 is a perfect place to start. I live I tell people I live at a Galatians a fre a Galatians 2:20 frequency of thought. I'm meditating Galatians 2:20 three, four, maybe five times a day. I've been crucified with Christ. It's no longer I who live, but Christ who's living his life in me today. Which means, listen, because the king, because the spirit of the king is living his life in me, I have a divine privilege, I have a divine

responsibility to begin to think like a king. Come on. To have a savage focus like the like a king. To begin to talk like a king, to begin to walk like a king, to begin to serve and go low like a king. Listen. To begin to respond and not react like a king. to take authority over darkness like a king to lead my household well like a king I start getting happy there and I just slip on into 1 John 4:17 as he is so am I in this world as he's ruling and reigning over sin and depression and anxiety and timidity and lack of revelation and fear of man and fear of tomorrow financial insecurity so am I in this world.

You see what happens there? Even even as I'm showing you how I meditate the word of God, all of a sudden I start to get happen. Why? Because believe it or not, the word listen the most power the word of God in your mouth is the most powerful weapon that you have. And it produces, listen, it produces an interior confidence. But listen, if you don't live here, if you don't live here, how are you how are you ever going to have an appetite or desire to sit in the presence of a God that you're not even sure you're okay with? About four years ago, I finally broke down and bought my wife a dog.

Stop it. Where I where I come from, so my dad's like the Marbor man. He's a rancher. So he he I grew up where he managed this massive cattle operation. Dogs were tools. I'm not saying it's right, but they were they were they were working animals. It wasn't like that with her. And so I finally said, "You know what? Okay, I'll get a dog. We got kids. Like I know it's good to have a dog for uh our kids, but I said I'm going to find a dog that's like a legit guard dog when I'm gone because I travel a little at this time. And so I'm like I'll get a good dog a guard dog. So So I went out and found the most vicious golden retriever that that money can buy.

And we named her Sophie. This this this dog this dog will yield to a rabbit. I mean, she she's scared of everything. But this is where we This is where I messed up with Sophie. Instead of taking the dog to like doggy school, you know what I'm saying? Where they teach you to be a good dog and uh do all the right things and and then you get them back home, you're like, "Oh my gosh, I got a perfect dog." I became the instructor in the disciplinarian which I don't know what I'm doing right which means I'm the alpha. Okay, watch this. Sophie reveres me want wants to please me but she would much rather be

hanging out with my wife or or my kids. And you can tell because every time you get around the dog like she'll give me a little tail wave, you know, in the back. She'll do that, but her ears always like stay the same. But when she sees them, all of a sudden it's like, you know, when when wind catches a kite with those ears whoosh and I'm like, "How come you can't just give me the little with your ears?" Like I I get insecure. I'm like, "I want to see your ears go up when you see me." Listen, she reveres me, wants to please me, would rather hang out with them. If you're not careful will treat the father the same exact way.

Oh God, I rever you. Oh my God, I want to please you, but I'm not that interested in hanging out in your presence. I don't have an appetite for the presence of God in my life. I'll show up on Sunday, a volunteer, be a superhero, Thursday night pursuit. I'm busy, bro. I got I got stuff cooking. Wake up in the morning, get in the word, sit there and soak in the presence of God. I broke you, you don't understand my schedule. I got a schedule. You know what I'm saying? I'm busy. But here here's what's so fun. When you grab hold of the revel, and this does not come by reading the Bible,

this comes by meditating the word of God and allowing the Holy Spirit to make it real. When you start to meditate the word of God and you start to meditate on your new creation status, who he is, who you are in him, everything changes. That's why like like most of us right here in this room, we all grew up hearing, "I'm just a sinner saved by grace." And so I like talking to people who are still entrenched in that, like really entrenched in that, and like want to fight and lock horns. And I'll say I'll say, "Okay, would you agree that you've been regenerated?" Biblical word. Yes, you've been regenerated. Yes, you've been regenerated. Yes, you've been regened.

You've been reimed. You are a new creation. You allto together lovely. altogether. Beautiful. Listen, God's righteousness does not just cover your ick from the father. I hate to break it to you, but you're kind of a big deal now in the eyes of God. Listen, but watch this. If you do not develop this, a a a appetite for the rightness of God in the way that you think, you will never enter into this realm called complete satisfaction. I love what St. Athanasius wrote. Okay, let's talk about Paul. Let's talk about some of the early Petristic fathers. I love the St. Athanasius quote where he

said, "God became man that man might be made divine." You're seated with him in heavenly places right now. Y'all are billocating. Okay? You're in Jesus and you're in bend organ. Figure that out. But listen, this is important because once you get this on your worst day, everybody say worst day. Worst day. On your worst day, you still have confidence and an appetite to go sit at his feet. to go say, "Oh, Jesus, I messed up today. I I spoke to my wife all kinds of wrong. I messed up with my kids." Fill in the blank. But guess what? You know where I'm running? To him, not from him.

I'm running to him. I'm running to him because I know who I am. Because I know who I am. Jesus, would you make the revelation of our sunship real to us? The rightness of God in the way that we think that we could move and access this realm of complete satisfaction. And lastly, my last point is to steward our appetite is to steward a spirit of unity. To steward our appetite is to steward a spirit of unity. Years ago, 2014, I had the most profound dream I've ever had in my life. How many people know God speaks to his church in dreams? And in this dream, I'll never forget it. I was standing next to the Lord and I'm weeping in the stream just in the presence of God. He was so beautiful.

And I'll never forget looking up and all of a sudden as I looked up I see this billboard like a billboard that you would see on the side of a road. And on the billboard were these words. Where the spirit of hunger is there the Lord lives. Where the spirit of hunger is there the Lord lives. When I woke up in my room in Tacoma, Washington, the presence of God was so tangible and ringing in my spirit was Psalm 107:35-36. Psalm 107:35-36. He turns a wilderness into pools of water, dry ground into water springs. There he causes the [snorts] hungry to live that they might establish a dwelling place.

There he causes the hungry to live that they might establish a dwelling place. Listen, God's into taking hungry people, placing them in geographical regions, and their hunger creates a dwelling place. We'll call it a move of God or moves, outpourings of the Holy Spirit. We've seen this all throughout church history. You and I never hear of a Welsh revival without a young, hungry man named Evan Roberts who had a group of hungry people united with him and beholding the lamb. You you'd never hear of a of an Isuza street, some street called Isuza without some blind dude named William Seymour who was so gripped with hunger and a vision to behold Jesus. And he was united with a company of people saying,

"I'm here to behold the lamb." Todd, I I I got to serve the late Steve Hill, who was the evangelist in Brownsville, Pensacola. He can tell you stories of the intercession that was taking place at that church before he showed up and God showed up in Father's Day 1995. Time and time again, this is how it's like it's the play. Hungry people establish dwelling places. But listen, it's impossible. Say impossible. It's impossible to steward a move of God if you can't steward the hearts of your brothers and sisters. Acts two, when the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all together in one accord.

One accord. This whole, "Oh, God, would you would you send revival? Do whatever it takes, Jesus." And then and then throughout the course of the week, we're picking apart and we're badmouthing our brothers and sisters that we're worshiping with in the same room. It's ridiculous. We just going to be spinning our wheels. Pastor Connor says this all the time. The enemy has one play. Distract and divide. Distract and divide. All we have to do is press into the heart of God and press into the hearts of each other. And when we do that, we step into the Psalm 133 commanded blessing zone where God just can't help himself. He's

like, I that church in Bend, Oregon, Journey Church, they're united. I guess I guess we got to send it. Here comes the rain. Here comes the presence. Here comes the blessing. Here comes the abundance. God, would you get us in that zone? Listen, if you're h if I'm having a hard time giving grace to somebody, it's an announcement that I'm no longer beholding grace himself. It always comes back to me. Always comes back to me. How I lead myself will determine how my life goes. I have one job. Look at him.

The danger of being even for us just blowing through my straw just talking about me for a moment. The danger for us is it's easy to become a puppet to know how to get up here and say the right things, communicate the right things, sing the right things, say the right thing in between a song. And yet my life is divorced from the life of God. And there's no fruit anywhere else. You can miss me with all of that. I want him. I want him. I'd rather find myself in the middle of nowhere in Wyoming where my wife is from digging a ditch but being so present with the Holy Spirit like brother Lawrence to where I'm just enjoying my life because I've experienced a place called complete satisfaction.

One of my heroes and I'm almost done. One of my my hero my hero is my dad. My hero is my dad. My dad is he's a he's a man's man. His story is incredible. Like he didn't he didn't graduate past the eighth grade. He was working full-time by him. He was alone working full-time in a ZX bunk house at 13 years of age. And now he's got this thriving business right here. He's a man of God. He's just he's he's he's incredible. But to know Lance is to know one of the greatest encouraers you'll ever know or meet in your entire life. And what I love about it is he didn't step into the church and discover, oh, if I'm a leader, I should probably encourage. He was like this before we

were church people. He just lived to encourage. He lived to edify. He lived to bless. Okay? So part of who I am today was me growing up in his house. He didn't teach this. He was caught, not taught. I grew up in his house and watched how he rolled. And and you know what I know about my dad is I never hear him bad mouthing people. You know why? Because it's impossible to have a burning heart to encourage and edify and be picking them apart and tearing them down at the same time. Can't do it. It's inongruent. If we want to steward an appetite for God, we have to steward the rightness of God in the way that we treat people, the way that we see people. Amen.

This is significant. Your life here in Bend, Oregon is extremely significant. You're not just anybody. You're one of one. And how you lead yourself can literally determine the history of what God does in a region. That's crazy. That's crazy. your worship. Do you know your worship moves him? It moves him. Stand with me this morning. God, I just thank you for grace, grace, grace, grace for us to give you our eyes. I believe there's there's some when I talk about righteousness, you're like, "Oh my gosh, I want to experience that confidence. I want to experience that confidence of what it's like to know that I'm the righteousness of God in Christ.

Perfectly loved. If you want to know today that you're as righteous as Jesus's righteous, it's not about what you achieve. It's about what you receive with every head bowed and every eye closed. Come on. Right now, if you want to be made the righteousness of God in Christ and experience new life, new life and confidence right now. Just lift your hand. Just lift your hand. Amen. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. I see you in the back. Pray this everybody. Pray this prayer with me right now. Jesus, Jesus, I repent of my sin. I repent of my sin. I repent of my old way of thinking. And right now, I receive your righteousness. I receive your And I receive the newness of life. Come live your life in me.

Come live your life in me. I am yours and you are mine. I am yours. From this day forward. In Jesus name. In Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Now watch this. Watch this. Watch this. Watch this. [music] For the rest of us and all of us, even those of you that just prayed that prayer. One, that's the greatest prayer you'll ever pray in your life. But two, right now, I want us to pray. I'm going to bless you guys. Okay? This is a benediction, but I I want us to be asking the Lord, God, what what is getting in the way tangibly, what distraction do I need to lay down? Like I'll I'll tell you this word has convicted me. I just a week and a half ago, two weeks ago, I just I just deleted social media again. I'm like, I don't need it from a business standpoint. And even if I do, I'll let my wife run it. I'll let somebody I'll

let somebody else run it. Listen, what are the small foxes that are spoiling the vine that's keeping you from having a heart that's burning for the things of God? Because sometimes it's not about calling a fast and trying to get deliverance. Sometimes it's like Paul says, even when it comes to lust, just run. Just run. So sometimes we have to partner with God in moving in the realm of of seeing our prayers answered. Amen. So Father, in Jesus name, I pray for your church. I bless your church, God. I bless their comingings, their goings this week. I bless their finances. I bless their relationships. God, I thank you that you will perfect that which concerns them in Jesus name. God, I pray in Jesus name that this would be the

sweetest, sweetest week for your church, for your eklesia as it pertains to looking at you, renewing their mind in the word of God. I thank you, God, that you're unlocking things, that there's breakthrough for each and every person under the sound of my voice [music] in the room. I bless them. I bless them as they leave. God, would they know how deeply loved they are? and would you bring them into this realm called complete satisfaction which is you Christ in Jesus name. In Jesus name we say amen and amen. Hey listen if you need prayer our prayer team is up here. Come forward for prayer. We love you church. We'll see you Thursday night at Pursuit.