Tangled

I'd like to welcome everyone to Bridge Gospel this morning.
I'm really glad that you're here with us.
If you're a first-time visitor, I especially like to welcome you.
I know it can be awkward and weird to visit a new church.
We don't want it to be that way.
We have some coffee for you guys in the lobby.
You're welcome to go and grab a cup now.
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That's cool.
But we'd just like to welcome you.
We'd also like to welcome everyone who's visiting with us online or if you're traveling.
I believe that God can bless you right where you are.
So I'm going to pray for the offering a moment.
We don't want to put anybody on the spot and pass a plate or a bucket or anything like that.
There's a box in the back where you can give online.
It's totally up to you.
But I do believe that God loves a cheerful giver.
So we will pray for that offering.
Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you that every good and every perfect gift comes from you.
We thank you for the ways that you provide for us.
We thank you for the way that you know our needs before we speak them, before we think about them.
You know them.
So our confidence is that you know our needs and that you will so graciously provide for us.
So we use this opportunity to give back, to sow a seed into the kingdom of God.
And we know that it may leave our hands, but it will never leave our lives.
In Jesus' mighty name.
Amen.
So we're going to be in 1 Kings chapter 3 if you kind of want to turn there with me as we kind of get this thing started here.
I was just going to tell a little story and then we'll get into this thing.
So when I was kind of getting started in life, I was an audio engineer and I ran sound for this really large music festival.
And this went on for a couple of days.
And, you know, we're at the end of it, you know, three, four days of hardly sleeping and living off Snickers bars.
You're tired.
And I think we were at Denny's or something and the sun's coming up.
And you were there, steak and shake.
And the sun is coming up and you're just like, oh.
And we're sitting there talking and we went back to the venue where we had done all this.
And I think it was Sunday morning or something at this point.
And it was a disaster area after everything that had happened.
And some people came up to us and they said, oh, we cleaned up all your cables.
We helped.
And like the look of panic on my face, I don't think they felt thanked.
But I panicked because you figure we brought about two miles of wire.
And you see, there's things in life that you start out doing and you think, wow, I really want to do this.
You know, I really want to be a sound engineer.
I want to plan weddings or something like that.
And there's this one part of it that you really love.
And then you realize that most of what you're doing is something else.
You ever felt that?
I realized that I really liked music.
I really liked working with musicians.
But I really found out that I was the keeper of the cables.
And that was my primary job 80% of the time.
So I looked at all of the cables that I owned.
And they were in a giant pile.
And we go home and we're untangling these cables.
I think it took us two days.
And we're wrapping them up one at a time.
And we're just untangling.
And it's like you know that they're all in there.
You know both ends are in there somewhere.
But they're so tangled up.
And you know, force is not going to fix it.
Pulling harder does not fix it.
Getting frustrated certainly doesn't fix it.
So you have to slow down.
You kind of have to look close and kind of tug a little bit.
Figure out how it's all put together.
So that's what we did.
And you know what?
A lot of times life can be like that.
This big pile of tangled up stuff.
And what do you do when the relationships in your life are tangled?
When the decisions that you're trying to make are tangled?
With so many influences and ideas and people and problems.
And what do you do when a conversation starts to get really tangled?
And the facts are present.
But the answer is still hidden.
You see, some seasons of our life are really simple.
But some of them are very, very tangled.
And we know that doing nothing often has a very high cost.
You see, you can get old by doing nothing, right?
But doing something also has a cost.
And what's going on over there?
Ah.
Okay, okay.
I'm glad you're blessed.
God bless you both.
Thanks for coming.
I'm glad you're here.
And when we face these tangled problems,
the question is not always,
well, do I know a Bible verse for that?
But the question is, you know,
what does it look like for me to be faithful today?
Because life is often too tangled for information alone.
Amen?
And that's hard for us to admit.
We live in a world that has so much information.
We have so much access to information.
We can search for anything.
We can ask ChatGPT anything.
We can read anything.
We can watch anything.
And the problem is we're not looking for information.
Information has not made us more wise.
Information has not helped us make better decisions.
We can know more and discern less.
We can hear more and understand less.
We have access to more knowledge than we ever have in human history.
And I don't feel like we're making better decisions.
And the danger is that we start thinking that information is the same as wisdom,
but it's not.
You see, information can tell you what happened.
But wisdom helps you discern what to do.
Information can give you the facts of an argument.
But wisdom can let you know whether that argument is driven by fear or love or pride or envy or control or bitterness or truth.
And tangled decisions and conversations and emotions and emotions and histories and relationships,
the question is not, do I have information?
The question is, do I have wisdom in the tangled places?
And this is where Paul is speaking to us.
In 1 Corinthians 12, we've been talking about the spiritual gifts.
And Paul is writing to a church that has spiritual gifts.
They're exhibiting great examples of spiritual activity and spiritual language and spiritual experiences.
And people are being healed and miracles are happening.
But they're still immature.
And they're divided and they're proud and they're competing and comparing amongst themselves.
And somehow they're taking these things that God had given them for serving people
and turning it into a status system.
So Paul is writing to them and he's teaching them, this is how the Spirit works.
And in chapter 12, verse 7 and 8, he says,
To each person the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the benefit of all.
For one person is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom.
So it says the message of wisdom.
Your Bible might say the Spirit of wisdom.
And we're not talking about wisdom as a personality trade or a set of experiences or intelligence
or being wise, like being older or being opinionated or confident or any of that.
Paul is saying there is a manifestation of the Holy Spirit that is the word or the message
or the spirit of wisdom.
And he's talking about a Spirit-given word, a Spirit-given insight,
and a Spirit-given clarity for a real moment and a place in time.
So I call today's message Wisdom for Tangled Places.
Because life is too tangled for information alone.
So Paul says to one is given by the Spirit the message of wisdom.
And you notice this is not something that we achieve.
This is something that is received.
You see, you achieve a degree, but you receive wisdom from God.
You see, the gift of wisdom is not about making someone superior.
It's about the Holy Spirit giving someone what they need for the benefit, it says, of all.
You see, that means that any spiritual gift that's ultimately not serving all and serving love
has missed its purpose.
You know, they're not given so they can say, well, look how spiritual, look how smart I am,
or look at the problems I can solve.
They're given to the church so we say, wow, look how faithful God is.
Look how much God loves us.
And that means that the Spirit knows that there will be moments where we need not just power,
we need wisdom.
We have moments where we don't just need someone to rile us up and get us excited.
We don't need a motivational speaker.
We need discernment.
We need clarity.
We need a faithful next step.
So wisdom is very different than knowledge.
Knowledge can tell us what's true, but wisdom helps us to apply what is true.
And the central thing I want to talk about today is that the Spirit gives us wisdom
to help us recognize what faithfulness looks like here and now.
Not in theory, not in someday, not when things are perfect or when things turn around.
Now.
It's in the house you live in.
It's in the conflicts that you face.
It's in the decisions that are in front of you.
It's in the conversation that you're maybe avoiding.
Maybe it's in the pain that you're carrying.
Maybe it's in some responsibilities that you didn't even ask for.
But the Spirit gives us wisdom for these tangled places.
See, you can know the facts and still need wisdom.
You can know what is right and still need the Spirit to help you discern how to walk forward.
And it's not about the ability to win the argument.
It's the ability to recognize the Spirit driving it.
Now, I don't mean that we blame, you know, demons for every weird, difficult thing we get ourselves into.
It's wisdom to see what's underneath the words that people are saying.
You see, not every argument is driven by truth.
You ever notice most of them aren't?
Oftentimes, our arguments are driven by fear.
They're driven by pride.
They're driven by control.
And they're places where old wounds will well up, where often we see people's insecurities exposed,
the bitterness, the envy that people carry sometimes.
And sometimes they're just driven by grief that has just never been healed.
And if you only listen to the words that people say,
you will miss the Spirit that is behind the words that they're saying.
If you only respond to the surface, you'll miss what's happening in people's spirit.
And if all you do is try to win the argument,
you may destroy the very thing that God is calling you to come in and protect.
In 1 Kings 3, Solomon had just finished praying to God for wisdom.
There's this whole thing.
And God's basically saying, I will give you whatever you want.
And Solomon doesn't ask for a long life or riches or a larger kingdom or any of that,
the death of his enemies.
He asks for wisdom.
Starting at verse 16, we have this situation that comes before Solomon.
And immediately after, he asks for wisdom.
The Bible is just showing us this difficult situation,
maybe a case study for this topic.
Verse 16, it says,
Then two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.
One of the women said,
My master, this woman and I live in the same house.
I had a baby while she was with me in the house.
Then three days later, after I had my baby,
this woman also had a baby.
We were alone, and there was no one else in the house except the two of us.
This woman's child suffocated during the night when she rolled on top of him.
She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was sleeping.
She put him in her arms and put her dead son in my arms.
I got up in the morning to nurse my son, and there he was, dead.
But when I examined him carefully in the morning, I realized it was not my baby.
The other woman said,
No, my son is alive.
Your son is dead.
But the first woman replied,
No, your son is dead.
My son is alive.
Each presented her case before the king.
The king said,
One says,
My son is alive.
Your son is dead.
While the other says,
No, your son is dead.
My son is alive.
The king ordered,
Get me a sword.
So they placed a sword before the king.
The king then said,
Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other.
The real mother spoke up to the king, for her motherly instincts were awakened.
She said,
My master, give her the living child.
Whatever you do, don't kill him.
But the other woman said,
Neither one of us will have him.
Let him cut him in two.
The king responded,
Give the first woman the living child.
Don't kill him.
She is the mother.
When all Israel heard about the judicial decision which the king had rendered,
they respected the king,
for they realized that he possessed divine wisdom to make judicial decisions.
That is a tangled place.
And some of us know exactly what that feels like.
Everybody has a version of the story.
Everybody has their pain.
Everybody has their motivations that are happening behind the surface.
And you can't just ask,
Well, who's the loudest?
Who's the smartest?
You have to ask yourself,
What is holy?
You see, the loudest voice is rarely the holy voice.
And you ever notice how fools are so sure of themselves?
And yet, wise people, they're always having their doubts.
And the emotional pressure of these tangled places will press us to react instead of reflect.
You see, Solomon has the information.
He has these two testimonies.
But information is not enough.
And this is where a lot of times it's easy to get stuck.
We think, Well, if I just knew more, I would know what to do.
Sometimes that's true.
But sometimes you know enough facts to be confused.
You see, it's not the facts that are missing.
The wisdom was missing.
And sometimes more information just gives us more pieces to play around with.
But wisdom shows us how the pieces fit.
You see, some of us are trying to make big decisions in our lives with old wounds.
With fear.
With emotional reactions.
And God is saying, You don't need any more information.
You need wisdom.
You need the spirit to show you what it looks like to be faithful.
Not what fear wants.
Not what pride wants.
Not what pain wants.
Not what people pressure you to do.
But what faithfulness would look like for you today.
So wisdom sees beneath the argument.
You know, Solomon says something shocking.
He says, Well, bring me a sword.
And, you know, he doesn't launch some big investigation.
This is the first thing he decides to do.
And he says, Let's just cut this kid in two and you each take half and you both go home.
And it sounds ridiculous.
It sounds horrific.
But Solomon is not trying to divide the child.
He's trying to reveal who the mother is.
And the real mother would rather lose the child to the other person than to see them destroyed.
And you notice how the false mother would rather see the child destroyed than to see another person take him.
See, that's wisdom.
Wisdom sees beneath the argument.
On the surface, both women are saying the same thing.
The child is mine.
But underneath the words, there are two dramatically different spirits at work.
One is driven by love.
The other is driven by envy.
One wants to protect.
The other wants to destroy.
And one is saying, Well, let the child win even if I lose.
But the other one is saying, If I can't have him, nobody can.
The words that they said to the king were very, very similar.
But the spirit behind what they were saying was so incredibly different.
And this is where a lot of times we need help from God.
Because it's so easy to get caught up in words.
It's so easy to be manipulated.
And we can get caught up by the volume of the argument, the confidence that someone has, the tears that they cry, the accusations and explanations and what's popular and what's trending.
And we can get caught by people who know how to sound right.
But wisdom asks a deeper question.
It asks, What is this producing?
What is this protecting or destroying?
Is this love or control?
Is this truth or pride?
Is it mercy or is it manipulation?
Because not everything that sounds true is right and wise.
And everything that sounds strong is powerful and is not always filled by the Holy Spirit.
You see, the false mother's position had a twisted fairness to it.
You see, it's looking at the whole thing through a lens of loss.
It's saying, Well, half for you, half for me.
We both lose equally.
Equal pain, equal outcome.
But not every compromise is wisdom.
You see, some compromises will try to destroy the very thing that God wants to protect.
And a lot of decisions that end in compromise do not resolve the conflict.
They just make sure that kind of everybody bleeds equally.
And Solomon's wisdom is here exposing that.
You see, the real issue was not just who has the better argument.
The real issue was who's protecting life.
And when you're in a tangled place, you have to ask more, well, more than just who's right.
You can ask, well, what is here to be protected?
What is the holy choice?
What is here to be protected in this marriage, in this family, in this child, in my decision, in this season of my life?
Because wisdom is so much more than just being clever.
It protects what is vulnerable.
And some of us are asking God for wisdom because there's something vulnerable and it's in our hands.
It could be our children, our marriage, a calling that God has trusted us with,
a friendship that has maybe gone sideways, a ministry, a decision, a future.
And the enemy would love to get you to mishandle it in your emotions.
He would love to get you to just cut something in half just to make the pressure of the decision and the situation stop.
But wisdom always protects the future work of God.
The spirit will say, look down, look beneath the surface, beyond the words,
and discern the spirit of what is happening so you can protect the thing that I value.
When the real mother hears what Solomon commanded, there's this thing that rises up in her.
The Bible says that she yearned with compassion for her son.
She says, give her the child, just don't kill him.
And this is the moment that the truth comes out.
Her love reveals her identity.
And she would rather surrender her claim than destroy.
And this is the revelation of wisdom.
Sometimes our love requires restraint, surrender, and courage.
But wisdom helps us discern how we can bless love in that moment.
And then the king says, give the first woman, the living child.
Don't kill him.
She is the mother.
So you see, the wisdom of God did not just solve a dispute.
It revealed the heart.
It protected the child.
It restored truth.
And in some people, there's a world of difference between who they are and who they pretend to be.
How many of you know that?
And the Bible says that all of Israel heard the judgment and they feared the king because they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice.
Not just intelligence, not just intelligence, the wisdom of God.
And that is the wisdom that we need.
The wisdom of God in our conversations, in our jobs, in our homes, in our parenting, in our decisions.
The wisdom of God.
You see, some of us are in a tangled place right now.
We didn't ask for it.
We didn't plan for it.
We didn't see it coming.
But here you are.
Here you are.
Entangled places don't have this way of always announcing themselves very clearly.
Sometimes they just, they feel like stress.
They feel like drama.
They feel like a decision that we keep postponing.
They can feel like a conversation we keep replaying.
They can just feel like pressure and exhaustion and confusion and doubt and unbelief.
And it can feel like, I don't know what to do.
But I'm afraid of anything that I might do might go wrong.
And this is a place where we can come to God and we can ask for wisdom.
You see, we don't have to pretend to know.
But we don't want to make a permanent decision out of a temporary panic.
So we can ask God for wisdom.
Wisdom for our families.
Wisdom to know what is going on in people's hearts.
Wisdom to know the difference between rebellion and pain or defiance or fear.
Wisdom to know if this is a moment to confront or correct or to speak or to wait.
Because you may know how to win the argument, but you may not be sure how to protect the relationship.
You know what you could say, right?
You all know what you could say.
You know the sentence that would definitely end the conversation.
You know the sentence that would end the relationship.
You know the comeback.
You know the things that they left out and forgot that you could pick apart.
You know how to prove your point.
But wisdom is not just the ability to win an argument.
It's the ability to recognize the spirit that's behind it.
And sometimes the spirit driving the argument is the Holy Spirit.
Sometimes it's not.
Sometimes it's pride.
Sometimes it's fear.
Sometimes it's rejection and control.
We saw how this one woman loved her child and was right.
And the other one was so envious and so bitter about what she lost that that was driving her decisions.
So some of us need wisdom for decision making.
And we may have some options right now that are before us, but we lack clarity.
And we have to ask, you know, not what option is easiest, what one makes the most sense,
but what option is faithful, what protects what God values, what lines up with love and God's truth,
what brings peace without compromising obedience.
Some of you need wisdom just within yourselves because there's tangled places in each and every one of us.
You know, our motives can be very tangled.
Our desires can be very tangled.
Our wounds and our memories get tangled.
And our fear often gets mixed up with discernment.
And our control gets mixed up with the responsibilities that we have.
And we just need the power of the Holy Spirit to show up in our lives and untangle us.
And Lord, show me what is really driving me.
Not just what I'm saying, not just what I'm thinking.
What is motivating me?
Why am I making the decisions that I make?
Is it out of love?
Is it out of fear?
Is it out of pride?
Is it out of my own insecurity?
Is it out of bitterness?
Is it the power of the Holy Spirit?
Because the Holy Spirit does not only give wisdom so I can discern everybody else.
He gives wisdom so I can understand and discern myself.
You see, some of us want a word of wisdom for everything around us.
But the first word of wisdom I think that God wants to give us is what is happening in us.
You know, I can think of times in my life where I was frustrated, depressed, out of vision,
completely out of vision for my life.
And just tired.
But looking back, I don't think that the decisions that tired, worn out, visionless me made,
I would have made again.
And that isn't about just behavior.
So many people are focused on changing behavior,
telling, you know, don't do this, don't do that.
See, I don't care about the behavior.
I care about the belief that's behind the behavior.
You change the belief and the behavior changes.
You see, tangled people tangle things.
Wounded people tangle relationships.
Afraid people tangle decisions.
Proud people tangle correction.
Tired people tangle the vision that they have for their life.
And here's the Spirit, not to shame us, but to give us wisdom for tangled places.
You see, better behavior is not enough to save us.
Better wisdom, better intelligence is not enough to save us.
You know, behind our anger and fear and shame is ultimately a view of God.
Who isn't enough.
Who we're afraid maybe won't come through.
Maybe we're afraid that the work that he's done on us was insufficient.
And that he might let us down.
And the power of God has to come into that place in us and make himself known to us.
So today, the invitation is simple.
It's to bring God into the tangled place.
Not the polished place.
Not the place where you already know what to do.
Not the place where you have a spiritual sounding answer, but the tangled place.
The family place.
The marriage place.
The parenting place.
The place of conflict.
The place of decision.
The grief place.
The fear place.
The place where you lose your temper.
The place where you have information, but you don't have peace.
And pray, Lord, give me wisdom for this tangled place.
You see, the gospel is not that Jesus just gives advice.
The gospel is that Jesus is the wisdom of God.
Literally is the wisdom of God.
Paul says in 1 Corinthians 1 that Christ is the power of God.
And Christ is the wisdom of God.
You see, that means that wisdom is not just an idea.
It's not a principle.
It's not a strategy.
Wisdom is not a philosophy.
Wisdom, I like to think, is a theophany.
It's God manifesting.
It's God showing up.
And the Bible says that wisdom has a name, and his name is Jesus.
And when Jesus came into the world, he stepped into the most tangled place that humanity has ever known.
We were tangled in sin and shame and accusation, empty religion.
And humanity was tangled in such a mess that we could not untangle ourselves.
And Jesus didn't stand far off.
He didn't shout instructions from heaven.
He entered into the tangle.
He took on flesh.
He walked among the broken.
He touched unclean people.
He ate with us.
He welcomed sinners into his presence.
He confronted proud and religious people.
He healed the wounded.
He spoke truth and mercy.
And after he entered the tangle, after he entered the brokenness, after he welcomed sinners into his presence and spoke all this truth and all this mercy, he went to the cross.
And the cross looked like foolishness to the whole world.
It looked like defeat.
It looked like weakness.
It looked like the wrong man dying the wrong death at the wrong time.
But Paul says the foolishness of God is wiser than men.
Because at the cross, God was untangling everything that our sin had tangled up.
Mercy and justice and truth and grace met humanity.
And on the cross, God did not ignore our sin.
He forgave it and dealt with it.
He didn't abandon us as sinners.
He saved us.
That is the wisdom of God.
And the world will say, hide your sin.
Hide your problems.
Hide your weakness.
And Jesus says the opposite.
He says, bring it to me.
Bring it to me and see what I can do with it.
The world will say, well, fix yourself first.
Don't let people see you messing up.
But Jesus says, come to me and I will make you new.
The world will say, you're too far gone.
You're too tangled up.
You've blown it.
You've made too much of a mess.
This is not fixable.
And Jesus said, I came for your tangled up mess and I will help.
And our world will say, our entire past disqualifies you from whatever it is we've set out to do.
But Jesus says, my blood is enough.
Amen.
So the deepest tangled place is not just our decisions.
It's not the conflict that we face.
It's not our enemies.
It's not our circumstances.
The deepest tangled place that we have to face is our hearts before God.
And Jesus came to save us there first.
He came to forgive our sin and to break our shame.
He came to reconcile us with our Father in heaven.
He came to give us a new heart.
He came to fill us with his spirit.
You see, what I think is so fascinating about this story with King Solomon is that, you know, Solomon could have been out doing king things.
Kings, riding around in chariots, eating.
Kings love to eat.
Going to battle.
Talking with other kings.
Doing king stuff.
Right?
But here he is, meeting with two sinful, arguing prostitutes.
Here he is, meeting them at their place of need.
Meeting them, giving them the wisdom of God.
You see, some of us need wisdom for a situation.
But some of us first need Christ.
Because you can't walk in the wisdom of the spirit.
We're refusing the Savior who gives you the spirit.
And you don't need to clean everything up before you come to Jesus.
You can come to Jesus because you can't untangle it yourself.
And the invitation of the gospel is this.
It's simple.
Come to Jesus with a tangled up mess with your sin, your shame, your confusion, your weariness, your tangled heart, your mixed emotions.
Come with the things and the places and the problems you can't fix, the things you can't explain, the things you don't understand, the things you can't redeem on your own.
Come to the one who is the wisdom of God.
And for those who already belong to Jesus, the invitation is to ask him for wisdom.
Not wisdom to just be right, but wisdom to be faithful.
Not to win, but to protect all the things that God values.
Wisdom to recognize when to speak, how to speak, how to love.
Lord, give us wisdom for the tangled places.
And if you're here today and you need to surrender your life to Jesus, this is the moment.
This is it.
Not to become a religious person, not to become someone who has it all together.
But someone who is finding the end of yourselves in a tangled, difficult place.
And this is the moment to bring it before God.
And God can give you the next faithful step.
You may not understand all the pieces,
but God can give you wisdom for where you are today, for what's in front of you.
And Jesus can start to untangle the fear, the pain, the pride, the confusion.
You see, we get into this mentality.
I call it a poverty mentality.
And it says that I can't.
It says that I can't get out of this.
I can't fix this.
I can't escape.
I can't get healed.
But Jesus said that I came so that you may have life,
that you may have life abundantly.
Amen?
And abundance says, how can I do this with God's help?
How can I do this with God's help?
And when you start saying, how can I do this with God's help?
All of a sudden, your faith starts to work.
It starts to imagine, how could God breathe on this situation?
How many of you have a situation right now where if God just breathed on it,
everything would change?
That should be everybody in this room.
I have plenty of things I would love to see God just breathe on today.
So before you walk away, before you give up,
before you do something unspeakable,
ask God for wisdom.
Before you respond in anger, ask for wisdom.
Before you just get up and walk away and slam the door,
you can ask God for wisdom.
Wisdom is not just the ability to win.
It's the ability to recognize what spirit is behind what's happening.
So Lord, give us wisdom.
Wisdom for our homes,
our marriages, our families,
our children,
our parents.
Lord, give us wisdom for the decisions that are set before us
that we can be faithful.
Lord, give us wisdom for the tangled places that we find ourselves.
And above all,
give us Jesus.
Jesus, the wisdom of God,
the power of God,
the savior of tangled hearts,
the one who meets us
in the tangled place.
Lord, we thank you for the way that you provide for us so much,
that you speak to us.
Lord, help us to hear your voice
in the things that we face.
Help us to give you praise and thanksgiving
for the things that you have done
while we were blind and wallowing in our pain
and our frustration.
Lord, thank you.
Thank you.
Lord, we thank you that it is well.
It may not look great today,
but it is well.
We thank you that we can say that
and stand before you this morning.
So Lord, I pray over each and every person here
and each and every household represented here.
Lord, I pray that you can bless everyone's hands as they work.
That they can receive wisdom from you
for the things that face them.
Lord, I pray that you open doors of opportunity and favor.
Lord, I pray that we hear testimonies this week
of breakthrough,
of relationships being restored,
of physical healing,
of mental healing.
Lord, you're the only one who can.
Lord, so I thank you for your power and might
that is on display through your people.
And all God's people said,
Amen.
So we'd love to pray with you after service
if you'd like prayer for absolutely anything.
I believe that God is still healing people today.
So you're more than welcome to come up for that
or anything that you would like prayer for.
If not, enjoy some coffee
and God bless you guys.
Thank you.
Amen.