Spirit-Led: Praying in the Spirit

Morning. I'm Russ. I'm one of the ministers here. I'm one of two Russes. Don't confuse me with the other Russ.

He makes our coffee every Sunday morning. And so he is by far the best Russ I know. And so, so glad you're with us today. A couple of weeks ago, we started teaching through some passages in the Book of Acts. One thing about us as a church is we're people who, who just take Jesus seriously.

So we're Jesus people and that means we're Bible people. Because the Bible is really the way that God reveals himself to us. He is letting us know who he is. And as we get to know him through scripture, we can know better who we are, how the world ought to be, and how we can live and move in it. And so we get together and we study the Bible.

And so we've been in the Book of Acts and just got us started. It's called the Acts of the Apostles. I think of it as the practices of the very early church. Our earliest sisters and brothers in the faith. You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes.

This is Jesus. This is after he lived and taught and died and resurrected. He says, the Spirit's gonna come on you with power. And you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, the city, they're in Judea, the region, Samaria. Those people, right?

The folks that nobody likes. All the way to the ends of the earth. So this Jesus movement is marked by two things here. Power that comes from the Holy Spirit. Now, Josh taught, our good friend Josh Brown taught on the Holy Spirit.

Three jam packed sermons just back at the beginning of May. And so if you've missed any of those, they are worth sitting with. It's good to take a pen. Cause he is putting a ton into those things. And so as we learned about the Holy Spirit, now we're spending time with the Spirit through the Book of Acts marked by two things.

One, power from the Holy Spirit. Two, witness. That's you and me telling and showing the good news. So you read the Book of Acts and you realize the primary character here is the Holy Spirit. And the Spirit takes off.

And the rest us, the church, we're just kind of hustling to keep up power and witness. Spirit in us. The Holy Spirit empowers us to bear witness. And so last week we saw this dramatic moment when the Spirit showed up in power. The day called Pentecost.

And the Spirit showed up in power. Jesus was preached and 3,000 people joined in that day. So we went from 120 followers to now add 3,000. And now in this moment, what happens next is not dramatic. They just start circling up together, gathering up together.

Doing What? Here's Acts 2:42. They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching, in other words, what Jesus taught them, they are now passing on. They are teaching the apostles teaching and to fellowship, gathering together, supporting one another, to the breaking of bread, eating meals together and sharing the specific meal, and to prayer. They're just doing these everyday things as they circle up together.

And one of the things they were doing was what we call taking communion of the Lord's Supper. And so we still do this. Like from our earliest roots. Jesus, on the night before he was arrested and killed, he said, do this and remember me. And they began to do it immediately.

And we follow in that tradition. We are part of a historic global Jesus movement. So we're taking communion together right now. So if you pick this up on your way in, you've got it in your hands. You want to join us.

If you didn't, it's okay. We've got some wonderful folks who, if you just raise your hand, they'll make sure you have one of these in your hands.

Now things are a little different. When they were circling up back then, they didn't have little plastic cups and, you know, all the special stuff and always helpful to me. Remember, just kind of bend it forwards and backwards a little bit until everything loosens up. But they would. In the midst of their meals, they would pause and center themselves around their king.

Jesus is a. Is our crucified and resurrected king. And so they would pause together and in that, they would center themselves on him. That he, not only that through his blood and through his life, has shown us God's love and saved us from our sin and set up his kingdom, but that he is life and the way of life that they would live, they learned him, studied him and his ways so that they could practice his ways. And they would take the bread, we'll take this little piece.

And they would say, this is my. This is his body broken for us. Let's take it and eat it.

Joining in with them, we will take his blood poured out for us. Let's take it and drink.

Father, your design has always been to bring renewal and restoration and life to heal and to save. And King Jesus, it was through your life and your death and resurrection that made it all possible. And Holy Spirit, come, come. We trust you to be our teacher today. Help us to hear and to notice what you want us to notice and listen and to obey and to put into practice be our teacher and King Jesus.

It's in our allegiance to you, our loyalty to you as our king, and in the power of your name that we pray. Amen. So now this band of 3000 plus are gathering together in these smaller crews, and they're getting together for a little bit. Before things got really hard, they would gather together in the temple courts and a little bit larger, and they're on their way there. A couple of them, John and Peter, they're on their way there, and there's a man who's begging on their way in.

He's been there forever. He's 40 years old. He's never walked. He's not been able to walk. And so as they pass him, he asks for money.

John and Peter pause, and they kind of pull their pockets out and go, well, we got no money, but what we have, we'll give you. And they say, in the name of King Jesus, stand up and walk. And this man who hasn't walked in 40 years gets up and it says he was walking and leaping. And anybody know the rest of this? Praising God.

This row right here, always so walking and leaping and praising God. I mean, this guy had skipped leg day for 40 years, and suddenly he's unstoppable, right? He's everywhere. And. And it draws a scene because it would.

Everybody knows this guy can't walk, and now he's jumping around. And so it gets the attention of everybody. And Peter and John go, oh, what a beautiful opportunity to preach. And so they go, see that guy jumping over there? That happened in the name of Jesus.

And now it was 120, then it was 3,000. On this day, 5,000 people are getting in. They're seeing healing, they're seeing new things happen in the name of Jesus. And Jesus is being preached boldly. So now we're at 5,000 people.

But it gets the attention of the religious leaders. These are the same people who had Jesus killed, who oversaw it, who had that crucifixion execution take place. And they see this, and you can only imagine they thought they squashed this thing, right? What do you do to kill a movement, kill its leader? They did that, and now it's growing exponentially fast, fast, fast.

And so they go, well, who's next? They call in Peter and John, these guys who have done this thing, and they go, by whose authority did you do this? And they go, wow, another opportunity to preach right in the name of Jesus. This happened. And now you can see them scratching their head, going, well, we're Kind of stuck.

Cause this guy's jumping around. We can't. Like, it's pretty obvious this guy got healed. But we're going to threaten them because they need to stop saying the name Jesus. This is the thing.

Healing was fine. Doing the name of Jesus was not. And so they threatened them with the same fate that Jesus met in this moment. They recognize they're the people who have power over their lives, who could make a. You know, who could take their lives.

It threatens them and they go, well, who should we listen to? You are God, right? And so this boldness they have in them, these everyday guys, just a few years ago, these guys were fishermen. This stands out to these religious leaders. They're like, these are ordinary, everyday people, and yet they're speaking with such boldness.

So they threaten them some more and they send them off. And this is where we're gonna pick up acts 4. Acts 4, 2. What is the response? They.

Well, that is not the right place. In my notes on their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them. And when they heard this, they being the whole community, whoever they were gathered with, when they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. This is the first moment that Jesus followers are recognizing that they too could die. That following Jesus does not just mean following his way of life, but it could also.

And for many of them, it did. It meant following in the way of his death. They know they are vulnerable in this moment, but they also know that they're not alone. They have each other. They raise their voices together.

One mind, one passion, one accord. And they prayed. Notice this prayer is their first resort. They didn't start by strategizing, planning protests, or building up a legal defense. Their reflex response, this is not a desperate last option, is they pray.

And what do they pray? Sovereign Lord, they said, you made the heavens and the earth and the sea and everything in them. Now, there's a common word for the word Lord that's used all through the New Testament. This is not it. This phrase, sovereign Lord, is a very specific, rare term that simply meant an owner with absolute, uncontested authority over his domain.

Right? This is somebody with ultimate power. So they've been confronted by powerful people, and they go over their heads. It's kind of like, hey, can we speak to the management? Right?

Like, you may be powerful here, but we're gonna go to the Sovereign Lord. Because no matter how powerful those people or those systems they face are, even if they hold their death in their hands. They don't have anything that didn't originate from God. And so they pray. They pray.

Who's on the throne? It's not a trick question. Who's on the throne? This is the same God who created the universe. The same one who parted the Red Sea, the same one who made the sun stand still.

The same one who closed the mouths of lions. The same one in Jesus who calmed the sea and walked on water and who died and who was resurrected and defeated the power of sin, evil and death, Sovereign Lord.

And then they keep praying. You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our Father David, way back. This is King David, who happened to write some psalms. Why do the nations rage? They pray and the peoples plot in vain.

The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the Lord and against his anointed one. They didn't just make this part of the prayer up. They're praying scripture. They're praying Psalm 2. They're praying Psalm 2.

They are rooting themselves in who God has revealed himself to be. Cause they know they're in a relationship with God. This is this interactive relationship. And that God has communicated to them in many ways, but through Scripture.

And they're just that prayer is responding. This beautiful little book on prayer by Eugene Peterson. He says prayer is answering God.

It's not. We start the conversation. He started it here. Here is Scripture. Here is his way of revealing himself to us and beginning a conversation that we can participate in.

And these two things are active in the life of every follower of Jesus. Back then and now. These two things, word and spirit. Word tells us what's real, what's true. Spirit brings it to life.

So as we follow Jesus, we are spirit led, but we're also scripture fed. And so they begin to pray. And they go, what are we gonna pray? Psalm 2. Let's start there.

And they pick an amazing psalm. Cause this psalm mocks the kings of the earth who think they're all that, right? Hey, we're big enough to overthrow God. Look at this, right? And it's a joke.

God laughs at them. So they begin to pray. And they go, hey, let's pray Psalm 2. Remember, right? This cosmic joke when powerful people think they're more powerful than the sovereign Lord.

And right now we're 2/3 of the way into their prayer and they've not asked for a thing, which already makes it different than almost all of my prayers, right? Which is God, thank you for today. And could you fix everything in my life by Thursday, please.

And I feel like I'm being generous. Cause Thursday's a long way away, right?

They start praying. What do they do? They remind themselves who God is, what he's done. And the more they look at him, the more they see how big he is and able and good and willing, and it reminds them. And they start to see their problem that looks so big.

And it just looks smaller and smaller and smaller, smaller.

And then they pray about their problem. Indeed. They say, Herod. Herod's a tribal warlord, puppet king, bad guy. They go, herod, this is an unholy alliance here.

You got Herod, you got Pontius Pilate, who is the local representative of the global military superpower Rome. And so Pilate, Herod, together with the Gentiles, people who are not God's people, and who's the fourth, people of Israel. So God's own people are participating and conspiring with the rest to conspire against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed. There's a disturbing truth here, and that is it's tempting sometimes for God's own people to compromise with the kingdoms of earth in order to preserve our own comfort and control. And we find ourselves at cross purposes with Jesus all over again.

And then notice who they say is being persecuted. It's not them. They've been threatened, but it's not them. Who is it? It's Jesus.

They identify so deeply with Jesus because Jesus identifies so deeply with them.

They'll come to say, hey, we're a body, but Jesus is our head, Right? What are we without Jesus? A useless body.

They're persecuting Jesus. Verse 28. They did what? Your power. They're praying to God.

God, your power and will had decided beforehand should happen. Even as they prayed, they're reminding themselves God is fully in control, even amid the evil and the persecution.

As you read this prayer, you realize they're holding two things together at the same time. God's ultimate rule and our responsibility to participate with him in what he's doing in the world. He's in charge, and what we do matters. And now we get to their request. Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants, that's us, to speak your word, with grace, boldness.

And what's most shocking is what they do not pray. They don't ask for protection or for God to smite their enemies, right?

Or even they don't ask God to change their circumstances. They ask God to change them, change their character so that they can face those circumstances.

And this speaks to a specific challenge for us living today in this time and place. Because we live in a world where systems and people benefit by making us afraid, by working up fear in our lives. And so we can so easily live with this heightened need, perceived need for self protection. And it's a trap. That word self should be a giveaway because if I have to protect myself, that means God can't or won't.

And that is not who God is.

And so we choose self reliance and control over surrender and trust. And it results in more isolation, more exhaustion, and more and more and more anxiety.

And these people, from our earliest brothers and sisters, they recognized God's absolute sovereignty and it freed them by trusting him, he will provide right by trusting them, it freed them from exhaustion, anxiousness, the temptation to manipulate and grasp for worldly control.

They pray for boldness and they ask God to move, stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant, Jesus. They pray for God to move and they pray that they will speak boldly when he does. Do you see what they want here? There's something in me that's like, man, those people threaten me. God, can you take care of those folks?

Some would. They pray. What do they pray for? Healing. What they know is that the good news of Jesus is about restoration.

It's about healing. It's about putting all things back together. It's about people who can't walk walking. It's about the blind getting to see. It's about people who are missing out on the wholeness of shalom, the rightness.

The people who are living in a world where it's not meant to be. They're going, no, put it back together and let us proclaim who did it. Let us tell your name. And so whatever great boldness is, it is not attacking its blessing.

They're not praying. God, give us an aggressive response or God, you wipe them out and we'll go tell them that you did it right. They're not asking God to support them as stubborn and belligerent people. What they're asking for is for God to empower them to engage the world with an aggressive compassion.

And it shouldn't be surprising to us at all. Remember, this is a Jesus moment Jesus movement. These are people who are steeped in the way of Jesus. It's the same Jesus who taught love your enemies and turned the other cheek and put it on display over and over again, not the least of which as he was being killed, praying father, forgive them. The people who were killing him over and over again.

The church, when it faces resistance. And as you go through the Book of Acts, you see it on every page. When we face resistance, there's a lot of it. The church responds with a posture of sacrificial love, moral courage and radical redemptive influence.

God, move, bring healing and give us boldness. And after they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. This is like a divine amen. That as they prayed this prayer, God's like, you are aligning yourself with what I want. And God gives them affirmation as the building shakes.

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly. If you were here last week we looked at Pentecost. This is Acts 2. There was this big moment, big dramatic moment. Spirit shows up in power and they're all filled with the Spirit.

But now we recognize being filled with the Spirit is not a one time thing. It's a recurring reality in the life of people who follow Jesus. Us as disciples, most especially to give us power to be as witnesses. That's the mission in the map, the mission, be witnesses. All through Scripture we see the Spirit filling people.

And most often it happens like it happens here in Acts 4. It's not a big giant dramatic thing. The Spirit's given in the midst of faithful ordinary prayer. When people gather up to pray and most often in response to lament, to sadness and challenge and petition. Pentecost was spectacular.

That's the exception. The rule is simple. Gathered praying community and the Spirit fills. And the filling of the Spirit almost always pairs with public witness. The showing and telling of good news.

The Spirit fills us to empower us to overflow. Showing and telling the good news. Being filled with the Spirit moves out, not in. It's not primarily this private experience, a feel good time with Jesus that we can enjoy for ourselves and like. It's this ecstatic experience and I can't wait to get the next one right.

Like some spiritual drug waiting for the next hit.

It's outward and they get what they prayed for. They spoke boldly. That word boldness, both times it's used here is a word that is a theme in the Book of Acts. And it's specific. It's actually a right that Roman citizens have.

Not everybody was a Roman citizen, but if you were, you had more rights than other people. One of those rights was this word for boldness. And what I simply meant is that, that the Roman citizens had the right to speak unedited truth to political authorities without fear of execution. And you're like, well, you're talking about the Internet, right?

They lived in a time and a place, and there are the. Our world today is full of places where people cannot speak honestly and truthfully, especially to power, and not experience dramatic consequence, consequences. And what do they pray for? They say, give us boldness. Let us speak as if there won't be consequences even if there are.

Give us boldness.

And the spirit empowers them to do this. Ordinary, everyday people speaking with absolute clarity and fearlessness before crowds, before kings, and before councils. And what did they speak boldly? One thing. One name.

Jesus.

Once I was blind and now I see. Why Jesus? Once I was dead and now I'm alive. Why Jesus? I didn't walk for 40 years.

I asked for money, and these guys just said, in the name of Jesus, get up and walk.

So what it means to bear witness is just to say the name. Maybe. You have these stories. I have them.

Bullet list. I used to be weighed down for decades in shame, and now I'm freer than I've ever been. I was a profoundly insecure human, and now I'm more confident than I've ever been.

I was a man that was craving attention wherever I could get it. And I'm more relaxed than I've ever been. Imperfectly, imperfectly, imperfectly. Nowhere close to full, but so much good.

How? Why? Strangest thing you may ever hear. Honestly, I credit it all to Jesus. Right?

Jesus. And not only did they tell the good news, they showed it one last verse. All the believers were in one heart and one mind. They were together. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, and they shared everything they had.

I read this amazing story around the year 125, so not long after this. The emperor at the time, his name was Hadrian, he was concerned because this Jesus movement just kept growing and growing. And he was like, I gotta know more about this thing. So he sends a spy, a philosopher from Athens, Aristides, I think is how you pronounce his name. So he shows up to check them out, and he becomes one of them.

And one of the things he wrote back, he said. He said, if among them there's a man who's poor and needy, they fast two or three days that they may supply the needy with the necessary food. Did you catch that? This is decades later, and we're still. Our forefathers, foremothers and the faith are still showing and telling the good news.

And how did they show it? They go, oh, you don't have enough food. I'll skip meals so that you can eat. Extraordinary. We spoke with boldness, but we lived wildly generous lives.

The Spirit filled them and they bore witness in what they said, but also what they did. And what? Set the table for all of this. What? Set the table for all of this.

What did they do in response? It's prayer. It's as simple as prayer. What? Set the table for the Holy Spirit to fill them.

Prayer.

You want more out of your life with Jesus? What sets the table? It is prayer. Maybe you don't think set the table. Maybe think sailboats, right?

Like prayer positions your sails for the wind and God is in the wind. It's prayer. Prayer cultivates our relationship with God. And it's out of that relationship that the power comes. See, prayer is that communication.

We're answering him in prayer.

It's a relationship. It's knowing God and being known by Him. And the more we get to know him and the more that we're with him, the more we're willing to trust him and relinquish our need for self sufficiency, our need to be enough. Let's talk about a joke. Like I'm enough.

Yeah, I cling to it so hard. But the more we're with him, the more we can trust that he's enough, that he actually is all we need, that he will provide, that he is our shepherd. We lack nothing. Nothing.

And it's out of that relationship. This is what being filled with the Spirit really is. It just means more of him and less of me. I think of it often as I pray through Psalm 23. There's this overflowing cup.

And I think of my life where I pray over us. And I think of all of us as one big cup. And I go, holy Spirit, pour power of your love into us, that it may pour out onto the lives of others, showing and telling the good news. But if there's anything in the cup taking up space, that's me, that's us. Get it out, get it out.

Being filled with the Spirit is more of him and less of us. I listened to this phenomenal teacher author, passed away several years ago now, Dallas Willard, this week. And he said this astounding thing. He said God's ultimate goal is to trust us with his power, that he wants us out of our time with him in prayer, to grow up in him and become more like Jesus, so that his character sinks so deeply into our minds and our bodies that doing the right thing just becomes natural, our automatic default response. Listen to this.

God wants to trust you to do what you want.

He said this and he was like, you think you misheard me? Because you think that God wants to trust you to do what he wants. He wants to be with you and for you to become so close to him that what you want is what he wants, and then he can trust you with his power to do what you will.

You want more in your life? Pray you want more of the spirit. Pray you want more meaning, belonging, purpose, inner wholeness and freedom. More shalom in your life. Pray you want more of that for the people around you, the people in your life, the people you love.

Pray you look around and see all the ways the world's gone wrong. And you're like, I want it set right. Pray you want God's kingdom to come and his will to be done. What did Jesus say? His disciples went to him and said, teach us how to pray.

And he said, pray this, our Father. Father, you are in heaven where everything is right. Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done. You want to see it?

Come pray for it.

A few years ago, several of us on staff were.

Watching a talk by this guy. His name is Shidonke Johnson. What a name, right? So, Russ Howard. So boring.

Shidonke Johnson. Shidonke is part of a disciple making movement that started in Sierra Leone. Now it's kind of all over West Africa. And what they do is so simple. They pray.

We'll talk about prayer in a minute. And they read the Bible together, really simple ways. And so they train people, they read the Bible with them, and then they go, who could you do it with? I could do it with my aunt. And they go over here, and they do it with their aunt.

And now suddenly they're reading scripture together and praying together. And they go, who can you do this with? I could do it with so and so. And just picture generation after generation after generation through many of which are primarily Muslim countries, right? Just one person after the next, after the next, simply word, spirit, prayer, simple.

The numbers I found this week, current numbers, is that those little circles wind up becoming what we would think of as very simple little home churches. 196,000 of them throughout West Africa. 3.2 million people following Jesus today. Disciples. They're making more and better disciples.

And we're watching him talk, and we've got our pens out, we're taking notes, and he's talking about how much they have, what they do to pray. And we're like, all right, here's a list. Let's make our List.

Here's what he started doing. He said, well, our leaders get together every morning at 3:30am and we pray until 6:30am he said, then we go home. Because all of our families, we pray together in the morning before we got off to work. And then every Wednesday, we fast for Wednesday. And then we gather up for two hours praying in the evening.

And then everybody. Everybody takes three days of collective fasting and prayer at the beginning of a month to celebrate what he did last month. Didn't anticipate what's coming. And he's talking about midnight vigils. If you're working every day at noon, they take 20.

Everybody pauses 20 minutes to pray. Like, at some point I took my pen and I set it down. Because I was like, all they do is pray. And I look around. All of us did.

Cause we realized they're just always praying. Cause they get it. We want to see God move. If we want to see the kingdom Come. It begins and ends right here with prayer.

So if you get anything out of this today, get this one thing. Go pray.

Pray. You say you're not good at prayer. Join the club. Say it's awkward. Yeah, it is for most of us.

Do you remember when you learned to walk? It was awkward. And you don't remember it right. But most of you walked in here today and didn't think about was awkward till it wasn't. Don't know what to pray.

Pray the psalms like they did. Pray whatever you've got. Make a list of good things and go, thank you. And make a list of hard things in your life and go help. Pray.

You can't do it wrong. It's not like God's grading. It's. And he's like, well, you started strong, but you know, there wasn't enough gratitude in there. And so.

And then you missed the amen. So that's like a C minus. You could do better. Like, he's not grading you right? You just show up, you can think your prayers, you can speak your prayers, you write your prayers, you can sing your prayers.

You can pick up, man, the thing that that's happening in Africa and in other places around the world like Iran is astounding. All they're doing is simply praying prayers like these that we've been practicing. Notice, listen and respond in obedience.

So simple. Pray this. Turn it around. Pray together with us, this prayer on the back. Pick up a kingdom workers thing.

Because this list of names right here are our students that are headed to CIY this week. Come on.

And you can have A profound influence in that by simply picking this up and praying over there. Names, pray. Pray on your own. Pick out a place, a spot where you can like, arrange it the way you want, light a candle if you're into that, put a Bible there, whatever it takes. Or turn your car, your commute into your own personal revival and gather up, gather up.

They prayed together. Circle up with others. I've confessed before, man, I'm the last person who should talk about prayer. I've spent most of my life, 50 plus years avoiding, avoiding prayer as much as possible. And I'm not exaggerating.

Minutes in a day, somewhere five, six years ago, I started circling up with a handful of friends for 30 minutes, praying in the morning. And then when I started to come out here about four years ago, I wound up having about 50 minutes in my car when I drive out and back, all together together. And I turned off the music, turned off whatever, and I, most of the time I'm in silence or I'm talking to God or I'm singing it's time with him. And then our staff started to gather up together on Tuesdays and we pray together and then started praying with some others on Tuesdays. And it's just one little dial, one little dial up, one little dial up, one little dial up.

I'm still astounded how fast 30 minutes of praying with people can go when it used to feel like it took forever.

Pray, dial it up, whatever dialing up looks like, and pray together. Here's the thing. I couldn't talk about this and not go well. We just need to do the thing they did. What did they do?

They gathered together to pray. So I'm gonna be here in this building at 6am this Tuesday. You can come in door three, I'll be out in the landing. And we're just gonna take that time from 6 until 7 and we're gonna pray and we're going to pray like they did. We're going to pray for boldness.

We're going to walk through some prayers that we can be praying, the same kind of prayers that the folks in West Africa are praying. So I'll be here at 6am My friend Ryan says they pray early because then for most of us, the competition is our pillow, right? Those of you working at 6am thank you for your service. If you're not, I'm here. And if there are three of us, we'll find a place to pray for three.

If there are 30, we'll find a place to Pray for 30. If there are 300. We're in here. Come and pray. Gather and pray.

Be a brain. People. Dial up your prayer. Stand with me. Stand with me.

Father, if we become anything as a people, help us become a people who pray. Draw us into life with you. That we can enjoy you as you enjoy us. Your children. Make us a people who live on our knees.

Let us wear out knee pads. Desperate. Desperate for you to do the thing that you do and not try to do it ourselves. Just to trust you and to speak boldly. The name of Jesus.

When you move, when we want you to move, and we want you to come.