From Helplessness to Healing - 04.12.2026

Texts: Acts 3:1-10; Key verse 7-8 

1.     No person or problem is beyond the reach and impact of Christ’s Divine love, grace and mercy. 

2.     No promise of Christ is beyond His perfect faithfulness and abundant provision to fulfill. 

3.     No obstacle or enemy is beyond Christ’s overcoming power, protection, and peace. Be Grateful today! 

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Purpose that He's now laid on our hearts. And so the identity He's given us comes with the equipping that takes place through the Spirit indwelling us in the Spirit, the gifting of the Holy Spirit. But that also enables us to fulfill the kingdom purpose that God has for us and work out through the circumstances and situations of life, taking advantage of those encounters that God places in front of us, puts us in the middle of, this opportunity to touch somebody else's life with a word that just might transform them and change them and move them from struggling in their sinfulness or struggling in their weaknesses or struggling in their infirmities or struggling with their helplessness and hopelessness, and realizing that God has a purpose for each and every one of us. And realizing that we'll be fulfilled as a part of our eternal destiny. So my topic matter for the day is from helplessness to healing as we walk through this journey with this gentleman here. The audiences that jumped out at me, but first and foremost, this uh this this certain Ling man, it doesn't even give us his name. But it invites us to pull up a seat beside him and have a and get a sense or get a glimpse or a sense of what might be going on inside of his life journey there. He tells us that he's he's been crippled from his birth and he's nearly 40 years old now. So I have to begin to wonder in my thinking now, what what was that, what was that life like? We we think of all the modern things that we have today that enable us to do things more more more easily, you know, the equipping that is around us, uh but in in somewhat of a might be considered a little more of a primitive society back then, what what is it that he is dealing with from his birth? Never having felt any strength in the legs or the ankles, never knowing anything about what it's like to be able to walk and get around and be mobile in his life journey. How does he how does he view his day-to-day situation uh as he gets up in the morning and he and he wonders to himself, well, now what can I do? What am I able to do? I can't get any place without somebody's help. I can't accomplish anything. How do I fulfill the skill sets or the mind that I have inside of me that tells me that I ought to be able to do certain things, but physically I can't get myself in a place where I can accomplish the things that my mind might be telling me I ought to be able to do? And in that process of going through that from day to day, to day to day, to day to day, how am I dealing with that on an emotional level? You know there are moments when he wakes up in the morning and it's just like, well, why am I why am I even getting up this morning? What what what is there? What does life have for me to do? What is the purpose for my being? Why am I here? Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going? What's my destiny look like? And if you compound that over time and time, psychologists will tell you the certainly that it will have this, it will have this effect through our sin nature to move us into a state of feeling somewhat helpless. It just kind of weighs us down. And after we, after the enemy plays in that game of throwing dots at our emotionality and then moving us in a state of fear and anxiety and isolation, it moves from the helplessness to down to a sense of hopelessness. And it's like, well, you know, why? Why get up? I notice in the text that it tells me he not only lame from his mother's womb, but it said he was being carried, whom they laid daily by the gate of the temple. And I just have to notice when that sounds like one of God's little grace moments there. He is God is reminding him that you're not alone in this battle. Am I in there somewhere? Sometimes we don't notice the small things God does, God is doing in our lives. We just we get all our minds get all clouded by the environment we're in, the circumstances we're dealing with, the situations that overwhelm us. In anybody else other than me? I'll peace to the camera if I have to. Because somebody, somebody's had some instance in your journey when it's just felt like, man, these circumstances are just more than I can handle. I want to do what I feel like I can't do, and every time I step out, it feels like I get smacked back, and and every time I feel like I'm taking a couple steps forward, it feels like now something gets in my way and it pushes me back, and I'm taking a couple steps, two or three, four steps backward, and I never seem to be able to make a step forward, and I'm weighted down by my circumstances, and I feel overwhelmed by my fears that if even if I step out and make it still a little bit of a sign of success in my journey, if something's gonna come along and just smack me back into the reality that I can't do this, I don't belong here. What if somebody says something bad about me? And the this unnamed lame young man invites you to pull up a seat beside him and say, Well, now step into my world for a moment. And imagine what it would feel like if you were going through that from your birth. You don't know anything different, even though mom, maybe dad, have given you words of encouragement, that all sounds good, but I'm still looking at my reality while you're trying to pump me up emotionally. And I just can't see a future. Anything like my expectations. And I think about now, thank you, Lord, because that's just one of those, that's one of those grace moments when you when you're reminding me that I'm not alone, that this battle's not over, you're still breathing, you're still seeing you, you're still operating, you still have purpose in life. Your identity is not in your, not in your not in your uh thank you, thank you, thank you, Holy Spirit. Exactly. Your identity is not not in your circumstances, you're not defined by the things you can or cannot do. Your identity is wrapped up in the Lord. Put your trust in the creator of the universe, who absolutely you just managed to see, hang stretched out on the cross and give his life for your sins and for mine, and hide from the third day that you would have the hope and the shows of life everlasting. You see, you saw him walking on the earth. He's now ascended into heaven, sitting at the right hand of God, and he has anointed and equipped us, Peter and John must say, to come by with some good news for you. So why are you down there, struggling within your emotionality, struggling within your isolation, struggling within what you cannot do in life? There's a word for you from the Word of God that can be encouraging. And I just sent you a couple people by to remind you that there's still a reason for you to get up. If you can't carry yourself momentarily, temporarily, then I've got some people here that can carry you. And they'll send you down to the temple. And there you can ask of arms. I'm gonna put you where people where people are flowing to worship, and put you in that community, even though it's imperfect at this point. And so we find him down there, doing what he's done on a daily basis, at the gate of the temple called Beautiful, asking, with his tin cup up, asking for somebody to drop a corn or two in there. On a daily basis, so that he might have food on his table, he might be able to perhaps provide for his living. He's doing what he feels like he can do, with the limited vision that he has of himself. And even though he has a glimpse of hope in here, there's still lying inside of him a sense of helplessness. Because he feels resigned to this daily activity and lifestyle. Am I in the text? And then, so that first audience needs to understand, that first audience being this laying young man and those who are carrying him, they need hope. They need to believe in our first bullet point to some degree that they're that there's give it to me again if you don't mind that. They need to grab hold of this spiritual reality, this kingdom reality that Jesus is now ushered in, that somehow you and your, regardless of how much you how much sin you committed, regardless of how bad the world thinks you are, you think you are, no matter how tough your circumstances look like, that you're never beyond the great, that well, let me put it this way that the same Jesus who stretched his arms out on the cross for the world included you. You're in there. You you're you're no one is too bad that he cannot be saved by the grace of Jesus Christ. Am I in there, church? He needs that moment. And the guys who are carrying him down there need to understand that moment. No choices, no problem is beyond the reach and impact of Christ's divine love, his grace, and his mercy. Now, if you really if you really believe that, come on. If you really believe that, not only are you gonna get happy for yourself, you're gonna get happy for the people that are around you. And it's gonna have a tendency to make you take a little bit of the glasses of judgment off as you look at them shown up sinners out there in the world today. You know. Did I start meddling? I'll move on quickly. And then the text says he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, and he asked them of arms. He did what he'd normally been doing day to day. Here's the second audience, Peter and John, and those disciples. This audience, he this here's his audience needs to know. Can can am I too far, am I too far away from God that he he doesn't care about me, he doesn't see me, he's not watching over me, he he can't do something for me, he can't deliver me, he can't heal me, can't save me. Am I that far from the Lord? Am I that hopeless in my situation that I cannot be delivered from my situation and sin? And Jesus has an answer for him. The second one has to do with Peter and John as they go into the temple. And Peter says, Peter fastens his eyes on him, fastening his eyes upon him, he says, he says, look at us. He says, Look at us. The Greek really talks about this, it really grabs hold of the idea of fasten your attention totally without distraction. Don't just gaze at me, don't just just catch me coming by like I'm somebody who's gonna toss something in your plate. But Peter says, John, they said, look intently, look, look expectantly. Don't just gaze, look, look, look with a purpose at us. Something is about to happen that's about to change your life. Something's about to happen that's gonna be unexpected to you, gonna move you from a state of helplessness to a state of hopefulness. And it and it's gonna be and it's powerful. It's gonna come in this moment. He tells him, look on us. And he gave heed unto him, expecting to receive something, it says. And that's when Peter says unto him, the silver and gold have I none. He says, that's not the purpose here. He he lays a foundational statement on him that is power-filled and for all of us kind of level sets us, puts us in the right place. He says, Silver and gold have I none, but such as I give thee in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, rise up and walk. The life lesson for Peter and John and this, well, first and foremost is that this same Jesus who had promised, fulfilled, demonstrated he was fulfilling his promises. They've seen him walk through that. He read the scriptures out of Isaiah, and he was healing blind and giving sight to the blind, giving strength to the legs who could not walk, giving, uh giving, you know, taking care of those who are. I mean, they've seen the miracles, casting out demons, coming to storms. They've seen all of that. And now Jesus says, You're gonna do, these things will be operating in and through you as my apostles. You'll be representatives of me. And now they have to go out there with an expectation and an understanding that that something, they they now have an anointing from Christ that is gonna give them the ability to point them, point others toward Christ through the miracles that are being worked. And so they step into this with an expectation. This is the same, this is the same Peter, you know. Peter, Peter's going through a whole lot, Peter's going through a whole lot of ups and downs with Jesus. I I I love, that's why I love the man so much. They don't hide him. They don't try to give you a sugar-coated version of Peter in the scriptures. They let you know that he's flawless. Yeah, I'll never deny you, Lord. You know, everybody else might drift away from you when you, but I'll never deny you. And Jesus has to say, Peter, son, you you know, you you're gonna be before that cock is crawling, you're gonna be over there running for your life, man. You're gonna you're gonna look for your own security in the process. And have to bring him back to the fold by saying, as he as the resurrected Jesus is in front of him, feed my sheep three times. If you love me, feed my sheep. Make this commitment to the work. This is a Peter now filled with the Holy Spirit, who stands in front of this lame, young, unnamed man, tells him, Focus your eyes on me, and because you can do that expectantly because something powerful is about to happen, and then turns around him and gives him a disappointing statement. I don't have anything for you, brother. What you're expecting is not what I have for you. If you think that you're founding your identity, purpose, and destiny in silver and gold, that's not your answer. Let me say that to the camera. Nobody else is listening in here. If you're thinking that the source of your wholeness and satisfaction and happiness and purpose, your identity and your legacy and your destiny are somehow gonna be fulfilled in silver and gold. No, no, no, no. Look, look, look up here. This is what Peter said. Look up here. If you think that somehow you that you have your identity is wrapped up in the job title. Don't let me meddle, Lord. Stop.

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Stop.

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In your accomplishments, in your temporary fortune and fame, and in the job titles, in the place you live, and the things you drive, and the clothing that you have, if you think that your plan for life is the ultimate plan for life and you can do that without Christ in the midst of that, somehow empowering you and do it. If you think that somehow you can make all these things come together in your own strength and intellectual will, if that's your game plan and somehow that you can accomplish all these things apart from Christ, preach it like you're on it. Come back and talk to me after you've lived a little bit. I'd like to hear that story, and then we get on back to the word of God where we belong. So the life lesson, right? So Peter gives him a life lesson that sounds disappointing on the surface when he lays it out in front of him in response to a need that seems to be overwhelming. I don't have anything. I can't do anything. I'm I'm fearful, I'm isolated, I'm I'm I'm confused about life. I don't know what to do. I don't have any desire to get up and do what I need to do. Just give me a coin and let me go back home and do what I've always done each and every day. And you have the audacity to tell me to focus my attention on you, like you're gonna somehow give me something bigger in the way of my coin, like you're gonna pull out that that phone and reminis them and hit that zip button, and somehow it's gonna materialize this big payment on my screen in here, and somehow I'm gonna be a happy capital because you have blessed me abundantly with silver and gold. And then when I look at you expecting silver and gold, you have the audacity to say, I don't have that for you, brother. That's not the answer. But what I do have, keep looking at me. What I do have is more important. Listen to it. In the name of Jesus of Nazareth, rise up and walk. And not only does not only not only does the uh the unnamed lame man get get the kingdom answer to his ultimate question, but Peter and John and the disciples get the kingdom confirmation to their ultimate calling. You sent us out here and you've anointed us. You told us we've got a mission. You said what the mission is. You said that you will empower us to do what you said we do even greater things and greater miracles than you've done on here, and now we're out here in the battlefield doing what you called us to do, not in on our own strength, but doing just following you because we trust you, Lord. You've given us the Holy Spirit, and we we saw Him come down and light up, and 3,000 give their lives to Christ and set this place on fire with tongues in languages that have not been spoken before. You've done marvelous things. We see the miraculous, we saw that. We heard you speak like no man has ever spoken before. But now we're on our own out here, Jesus, and you're not here. But you promise us. You promise. So the question that has that's being answered for them is that are you faithful to your promise? Can I can I not only trust at this moment in the promise, talk to me somebody, but can I trust throughout my whole life journey in the promise? Anyone asking the question? Don't ask it out loud. And he takes him by the right hand and says, and lifts him up, and immediately the text says, immediately his feet and ankle bones receive straight. I can't quite even. I just can't imagine what's going through his mind when he feels something that he's never felt before. A totally new physical experience. And he leaping up, stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple. He leaping up. I mean, that's made for movie stuff right there. Leaping up stood and walked. And entered with them into the temple, walking and leaping and praising God. Huh? Ooh, here's a message for the temple worshippers in here now. This is a whole other audience. Here's a message for the temple workers in here now. And all the people saw him walking and praising God, and they knew that it was the same guy that set out the arms at the gate beautiful of the temple. And they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him. Wow. That God, that Christ could use an unnamed lame man from his birth at 40 years old. As a kingdom example. Of his grace, his mercy, his love, and his kindness. And at the same time empower and build confidence. And give me my life lessons one more time, Dad. These disciples, that you can walk out into what God has called you to do, equipped you to do, positioned you to do, and How would you do it? Because it's not faithful. And that somehow Jesus is faithful to prove his truth. Not only prove his perfect faithfulness, but provide abundant blessings. He was blessing enough that he would get up. He feels strength in his ankles and his and his legs, and he would he would rise up, stand up, leap up, stand up, and then walk up, walk away. But that the audience, that he had the audacity, not only for the crowd to see it, but to walk in the temple. Come on, folks. Come on, folks. This is for you, too. The rest of the story, which I won't cover today, flows into my third one because there were two things that happened after this, and I'd like you to read it. Continue reading this third chapter into the board. When the Lord sends somebody, it might not be a cruel. When the Lord sends somebody across your path, and they just need they just need a word of encouragement. They're struggling. We all at some point need some words of encouragement. And the Lord has this powerful way of sending us. He sends a lame young man, some guys who would carry him down to the temple. That was that first sign of a first stage and first sign of some encouragement. You're not alone in this. I've got something happening here. Don't give up. Here's a sign that I'm moving in your life. It may not look like what you think it ought to be, or come in the timing that you think it ought to come, but but trust God in His timing in this thing. So it's not coincidental that you're down here asking for arms and not send Peter and John across your path on the way to the temple. It's not, it's not a not it's not coincidental that that that indeed, not circumstantial that you just you just happen to pass them and and and and and they looked up at you and told you to look at them, this, but it was divine appointment that God has. God has some divine appointments going on that we just need to pay attention to. I'm skinning a little bit, you might just have an opportunity to speak a word of encouragement into somebody's life and not even know just how much they're struggling with. You know, they're homes struggling in that minute by themselves, keeping it to themselves, struggling and fearful and anxious about the circumstances of life. And they just may humans may notice in their minds that there's a sadness, that there's an emptiness, that there's a there's a fear component, and you might just speak a short word of encouragement on your way to the grocery store, or walking down the aisle, or walking out the door here, and it just might touch them in a way that they needed to hear the word of God come to and in and through you in that encounter. And God is not only blessing them, but blessing you through his faithfulness. And so when the crowd tries to pump them up, this is this is for those of us who may be a little bit in front of the audience a little bit. For those of you when God tries to pump them up, Peter is smart enough to say to them, why are you looking at me as a crowd of audience? Hang on in there. We're quick to take credit. We're very slow to take it off. So you can imagine the crowds puffing up and running around and John just excited about what you just done. We know this guy's never walked before. Now he's jumping and leaving and praising God, running in and out of the temple. You know, he's not even not even following the protocol. He's just running in and out praising God. Hands flying all up in the hell, don't you know that this is a solemn place of worship? And he runs through that praising God, you know. All that good stuff going on like that. And the first enemy is that the enemy, the first enemy that attempts us to pull him away and said, now let me puff you up so that you can get full of yourself. And while I when we do that, then you won't give God the glory and the credit. You'll try to take it on to yourself. And and if I was preaching to the TV preachers, I'm sorry. All you boys, all you, all you, all you men and women who want to be social media giants out there, all famous and glorifying yourself in the process. Yeah, yeah, God's got a word for you. It's it's about my pig, man. I'm not gonna I I leave that in the Lord's hands. He knows what's real and what's not real in the process. But the second thing, and I'll go home with that. One audience will try to puff you up, the other audience will try to break you down. And so when the enemy and the obstacles came, and the decisive thoughts was will you complain this word or will you say so? And your life and your livelihood are on the table based on how you respond to this question. The question is, what will you do? And each of those encounters, the testing that took place with Peter and John. You hear Peter speaking up, first of all, I'm saying, it's not me, it's the Lord. This is all about Jesus. Then he goes into his sermon, he makes it probably clear, yeah, yeah, that same Jesus that you, you know, you are you are you were putting palms out on Palm Sunday for, but on on uh came when it came to Friday, you were yelling, crucifying. That that same Jesus, yeah, that he he goes into the storyline. Now let me remind you, Peter said, I'm not finished preaching yet. Let me finish my sermon. And then when they came and tried to shut to try to stop him from proclaiming the word, he says, Wait a minute, how can I not do what God has called me to do? Let the circumstances fall where they may. This is Pastor's paraphrase. Let the chicks fall where they may, but I'm gonna I'm gonna be who God has called me to be, do what God has called me to do, go where God has called me to go, speak to whoever God has called me to speak to, and it's gonna be the women of God in this and then my same my same Jesus who's been faithful from all of his promises, the same Jesus who delivered me among my sinfulness and number of my hopelessness and helplessness, the same Jesus will absolutely protect me in the midst of my Germany. No obstacle is too low, no enemy is too great, and I'm gonna give up standing for Jesus in the midst of my journey, but to come up with my number of Jesus and the number of Jesus and become for me from a plain career and basketball, then let it be. I think the young man's out there preaching on the streets coming in Chicago, now in the Rem Tim. Because he had to screw up his very career. I didn't mean to get into your business, young man. But since you laid that example out there that happened to be in the text that I was dealing with here, it gives us a nice model. As imperfect as we all are, that indeed there will be challenges. Give me those life lessons one more time. I'll read them and we'll close out our time together. That with every obstacle out there, when this when this when Jesus is placed in the center of it in our walk of faith, it becomes an opportunity to not only share the good news, model the impact of how it's changing and transforming our lives, and to give hope, the hope of the word of God and the encounter with the relationship with Him that can transform the lives of everyone that will accept Him as the Lord and Savior. No personal problem is beyond the reach and impact of Christ, divine love, grace, and mercy. No one stop. No promise of Christ is beyond his perfect faithfulness and abundant permission to fulfill the word of God's promises for the leader of his faith. And no obstacle or enemy is beyond Christ's overcoming power, protection, and peace. He gives you peace. It goes beyond your ability to understand. Be grateful today, Father God. Thank you for our time.

SPEAKER_02 31:45

Thank you for giving us a moment in your word, lessons that we can take on to our daily life as we walk with you in fellowship, as we serve you in obedience, to trust you with each encounter and each opportunity that we have. And lean on you for all the wisdom, your power, and your faithfulness to be and do what you've called us to be. So, Father God, as you bless our time, continue to provide and bless us as we walk out into this marketplace on ministry, this world setting, this season that you bless us, setting that you please, that your word may have an impact not only on us, but also since you cross our as Peter did, I want to our human ability to be faithful to give you the glory, the honor, and the praise. It is yours, and it is yours alone, and as he did, we want to stand for your and on your call. As a musicians are playing, the doors of the church are open for those who are watching live doors of the church. Let me say this again for those who give online uh website is trendy bccci.org.

SPEAKER_04 34:00

Well, if uh the usherists would come forward, we're this is our time of giving our our offerings uh to the Lord, first fruits of what God has blessed us with, we get back. And it's an opportunity to to worship the Lord and an act of faith. And it's it's more than just you know bricks and mortar, it's about the word of God going forward. We're we're committed to that. So if you would bow with me in prayer, dear Heavenly Father, how we thank you for uh the marvelous message that we've heard about how much confidence we can have in you alone, and uh we are safe, secure, and and highly blessed by you. And Lord, we just pray for this offering that you'd use it for your kingdom's sake and that you would be honored in our hearts that we desire to acknowledge you as the provider of all things. And the the Lord God Almighty, we are giving to you, and we pray that you'd magnify your blessings upon this this offering. In Jesus' name, amen.

SPEAKER_02 37:16

Thank you so much, Church Mamma. Before we, as we close out our time of worship today, I wanted to, again, you know this is a very special day.

SPEAKER_03 37:24

We've got one of our you extended family to I say me. So you we got one of our extended family members in town and prolific author and I mean serving for the Lord here. So let me invite, and she's gonna give she's gonna spend some time with us after in the North X with Mark. Okay. Are you coming? Do you want me to bring Amy up or are you gonna bring Amy up? Okay, well, there you go. That's even better.

SPEAKER_01 37:57

Trinity is an honor to uh present to you my friend Amy Jew. Amy and I have been friends since uh 2014, uh, when I decided to uh run the Chicago Marathon for Team World Vision. And at the time um I was praying through my dissertation that she was apprehended to write her writing her first book. And so many years, many years later, um and multiple books she has written and multiple awards awards she has won uh for writing, publishing and the experiences that she has gone through, and she will share that with you when we're out in the North Exhaust. But it's just been a pleasure to be on this journey with her and to just talk about uh the tough things in life and how do you get through grief, how do you get through uh this journey that we're on, how do you journal and all of those things that she has uh written in her book, and then um she's uh a personal mentor to me as I'm going through the writing journey journey. And I just want you to um just take a few minutes and learn about her journey and uh and her ministry as well. Uh so she's written three books, Model Behavior, Making Your Career Path, Your Calling, Unstuck Step into the new 40-day journal, it's a prayer journal and the latest one, Arise from Grief and Flourish again. And so as we're going through different stages of life, I just want you to just um hear Amy's story and just to be encouraged by uh her journey and all the things that she's accomplished and man, does she have her foot on the ground and with ministry and encouraging people and developing uh uh prayer prayer groups as well? I mean, she is a praying woman, so I'd like to introduce Amy. Would you please stand?

SPEAKER_00 39:53

So thankful to be here. Thank you, Dr. Karen Love and um the Rev. Dr. Michael Love. So when we lived here, we were in Huntley for 20 years, and um the loves were our mentors. So, like Karen said, we met through Team World Vision, and we were just so blessed to get together with them on a regular basis, whether it was breakfast, lunch, or dinner, and just have them speak into our lives, encourage us, pray with us, walk with us through difficult things. We're so thankful for the love family, um, for their children and um their spouses who have given us godly advice and and for all the prayers and actually still have another, you know, not only Karen to pray with, but I still pray with Ella and Clara over at Texts, and they're from this church as well. And so Trinity Baptist Church has had a special place in our hearts, and it still does. And I'm so blessed to be here today. And I would love to share with you uh the story of the grief storm that we went through as a family and how God brought us through. And I have some strategies to share with you. It's um in the version of Leaps, and also just uh a couple of passages like the life of Hagar, you know, the God who is called Al Roai, the God who sees us in our midst when we're deep in grief, we're in that place of loss and we feel all alone, he sees us. And also out of John, you know, the woman at the well, the Samaritan woman who encounters Jesus, and he said, I will give you living water so that you'll thirst no more. And so in the midst of that deep place of grief, he'll meet us there, right? And that, and as we dig deep in prayer and as we meet with Jesus, he'll pour out that living water upon us. And I just feel led to to say today, if there's anyone who doesn't know Jesus here, you know, today is a day of salvation. He said, if you call upon the name of the Lord, you will be saved. And Ephesians 2, 8 and 9, it says, if you believe in your heart and you confess with your mouth, Jesus Christ is Lord, you shall be saved. It's that easy. It doesn't matter how far you've been, how much grief you're in, what you've done, you know, no matter what mistakes you've made, Jesus is there. He's welcoming you with open arms. And today is your day of salvation. I would be honored if you would come after. I'm gonna do a short talk, and then I've got some books because of the generosity of the loves that we'll be donating afterwards. I would love to meet you and pray with you. And one final thing, we do have something in my ministry called prayer force ministries. And so we're praying for colleges and universities, and we're praying for students and professors, um, like Dr. Karen Love. And so if you have a child, you have someone related to you in college that you would like to pray for, a professor, a teacher, please let me know. We'd be honored to add them to our list and pray over them as well. So thank you so much. Uh, I look forward to talking with you afterwards. God bless you.

SPEAKER_03 42:50

Thank you so much. Looking forward to it. So as we prepare to close out our time here and transition to the North X, if you will stand with me uh for our closing benediction.

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With our heads bowed and with our eyes closed and our hearts humbled before the living God, as we assume an attitude of prayer, and we lift our hands to him in praise. Now unto him who is able to keep you and me from falling, and present us faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy. The only wise God our Savior in glory, majesty, dominion, and power now henceforth and forevermore. Let all God's people say amen. If our voice doesn't sing holy.