The Seduction of a Different Gospel: Analyzing the Word of Faith Movement

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I started at 4.06 by the way.

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Watch your perfect in everything you do!
[00:10:02] Let all creation sing your praise And all your people shout your praise We lift our hands up to the sky

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Come on, sing it out!
[00:10:37] Every nation, generation, give a praise!

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We come together with one voice Lifted up to you our King This song to you we sing Gathered in sacred assembly Yes, we are ready to see you once again

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We bring our hearts to you alone In consecration with expectation Our God is merciful and gracious He will hear our prayer He will hear our prayer
[00:12:32] Turn to us once again
[00:13:04] Together with one voice, lifted up to you our King, this song do we sing.
[00:13:18] Gathered in sacred assembly, yes we are ready.
[00:13:50] He will hear our prayer He will hear our prayer Return to us once again
[00:15:02] Let us pray.
[00:15:56] We come together with one voice Lifted up to you our King This song to you we sing

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Come on, let's give God a praise today.
[00:16:37] Are you ready?

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I said, are you ready?

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In the song that we sing at this church, we lift it up and say this.

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We sing this.
[00:17:10] The mountains stand before us.
[00:17:11] The weapons fall against us.
[00:17:12] We're standing on your promise.
[00:17:13] We're standing on your promise.
[00:17:13] What are we believing for?
[00:17:14] We're believing you, Lord, for faith.

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We've seen that you're able!

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Oh God!
[00:17:29] We're believing it!

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Come on!
[00:17:45] Thank you for watching!

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God we know your word is true we're so glad your word is unstoppable so what we're saying is we're believing for this

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God Bless!

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How would you praise if you knew that by the time you die?

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How would you praise if you knew that God was in this room and He deserved all the glory?
[00:20:32] They still got to praise.
[00:20:32] They still got to praise.
[00:20:33] One, two.
[00:20:33] One, two.

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Jesus said, are y'all still shouting on that one right there?
[00:21:55] When you pray, pray like this.
[00:21:59] Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be your name.
[00:22:05] Your kingdom come, your will be done,
[00:22:08] On earth as it is in heaven, or more accurately as it already is in heaven.
[00:22:19] You want to know what happens when earth is not yet meets heaven's already done?
[00:22:26] We call that a suddenly.
[00:22:35] When heaven's perfection breaks out into the earth and we don't have a context for it, we call it a miracle.
[00:22:44] Jesus went around saying, this stuff doesn't look like heaven.
[00:22:49] This is what I'm going to do.
[00:22:51] I'm going to show you that the invisible kingdom is more real than the visible kingdom by demonstrating the power of the invisible kingdom over the visible kingdom.
[00:23:01] We don't have a context for that.
[00:23:02] We don't know what to call it.
[00:23:03] So we say it's a miracle.
[00:23:05] But what it is is heaven suddenly.
[00:23:07] It's heaven's already done.
[00:23:09] It's heaven saying, listen, I've got more power.

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I declare tonight there's about to be a suddenly.
[00:23:19] There's about to be a miracle in this room!
[00:23:27] Heaven's already done!
[00:23:28] It's about to intersect with Earth's not yet!
[00:23:29] And some of you are leaving this room with a miracle tonight!

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The grace that taught my heart to fear And grace my fears relieved How precious did
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Thank you.

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Thank you, Lord God, for this day.
[00:27:16] Thank you, Jesus, for being here with us, Lord.
[00:27:19] We don't need a PA. We don't need guitars.
[00:27:22] We don't need drums.
[00:27:23] We don't need nothing but you.
[00:27:25] That's all we need.
[00:27:26] We can turn the lights out in this place and we can worship you because we can do that and we're going to do that no matter what goes on here.
[00:27:34] Lord Jesus, we know that you're here.
[00:27:36] We know we celebrated your birth.
[00:27:39] Thank you for that, God.
[00:27:40] Thank you for all the presents.
[00:27:41] Thank you for this house that went on the street and gave away $5,000 worth of toys for Christmas this week, Lord.
[00:27:48] Thank you for Pastor Paula and Pastor Brad and their team for being out there and supplying some worship.
[00:27:54] Some worship.
[00:27:54] We need more worship.
[00:27:56] That's what we need.
[00:27:58] And we need to get old worship.
[00:28:00] Like me.
[00:28:01] I'm old.
[00:28:05] Don't be laughing.

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Just as I am without one plea But that Thy blood was shed for me And that Thou biddest come to Thee O Lamb of God, I come, I come
[00:28:40] Just as I am and waiting not To rid my soul of one dark blot To Thee whose blood can cleanse each spot O Lamb of God I come, I come
[00:29:10] Just as I am, though tossed about With many a conflict, many a doubt Fightings and fears within, without O Lamb of God, I come, O I come

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Just take a minute and think about that.
[00:29:43] That Jesus will take us just as we are.
[00:29:45] We don't have to be nobody special.
[00:29:48] We just have to believe.
[00:29:49] And that He comes into your heart and changes your world around.
[00:29:52] I'm living proof of that, I can tell you.
[00:29:55] And this song goes back to my childhood.
[00:29:58] And it always just tore me up in church as a kid.
[00:30:01] And I'm thinking, wow, something might be about this.
[00:30:03] And there is something about it.

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Just as I am Thou wilt receive Wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve Because Thy promise I believe O Lamb of God I come I come Let's sing that verse again
[00:30:35] I am, thou wilt receive, wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve Because thy promise I believe, O Lamb of God, I come, I come
[00:31:05] Just as I am though tossed about With many a conflict, many a doubt Fightings and fears within without O Lamb of God, I come, I come
[00:31:36] O Lamb of God I come I come O I have come

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1,000 stories of what they think you're like But I've heard the tender whisper of love in the dead of night And you tell me that you're pleased and that I'm
[00:32:31] You're a good, good Father That's who You are That's who You are That's who You are And I'm loved by You That's who I am That's who I am
[00:33:01] I've seen many searching for answers far and wide but I know we're all searching for answers only you provide cause you know just what we need before we say a word
[00:33:32] Who you are, who you are, who you are, and I'm loved by you Who I am, who I am, who I am, you're good, good Father Who you are, who you are, who you are, and I'm loved by you
[00:34:02] You are perfect in all of your ways You are perfect in all of your ways You are perfect in all of your ways
[00:34:28] Father God You are perfect in all of Your ways You are perfect in all of Your ways
[00:34:59] So good you've been.
[00:35:18] Oh Lord, so undeniable, I, I can hardly speak.
[00:35:23] Undeniable that I can hardly think as you call me Deeper still as you call me Deeper still as you call me Deeper still into love, love, love One more time as you
[00:36:03] In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

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Amen.

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It's who You are, it's who You are and I'm loved by You It's who I am, it's who I am, it's who I am
[00:37:39] The Word of the Lord.

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All of your ways.
[00:38:22] He's a good, good Father.
[00:38:24] If them being evil know how to give good gifts to their children, how much more can your Heavenly Father give to them that ask?
[00:38:33] God, you're perfect in all of your ways.
[00:38:36] God, in our ways where we fail,
[00:38:38] You don't fail but we thank you that your presence is here we thank you God for a fresh fragrance of the anointing that fills this room but as we open up our mouth oh come on church we have a reason to celebrate this morning as we open up our mouth
[00:38:57] Praises go up and heaven comes down.
[00:39:00] Praises go up and heaven comes down.
[00:39:03] So Lord we thank you that there's a divine exchange that's happening.
[00:39:08] Lord in your house on Sunday morning we take this time to give you all of our praise.
[00:39:16] Lord we thank you for your goodness.
[00:39:18] We thank you it's your mercy that woke us up this morning.
[00:39:22] Your mercies are new each morning.
[00:39:26] We believe by faith, Matthew 18, 19, if two or more agree, it shall be done.
[00:39:44] I don't know what you're facing this morning.
[00:39:46] I don't know what 2025 had in store for you, but I know God.
[00:39:51] and I know that God is greater than any obstacle I know that God is greater than any situation that you might be facing and I know that when we come into agreement that prayer moves mountains are you with me church?
[00:40:06] and you online prayer moves mountains so wherever you are you could be on the top of the mountain celebrating you could be in the lowest valley I want you online to drop your prayer requests we are a praying church
[00:40:20] We come back and we look at that and wherever you are in your room, in your vehicle, in the living room, we're agreeing with you that whatever need you have this morning as you've joined us on Storyline Alive, that God is reaching you right where you're at.
[00:40:34] Amen?
[00:40:35] So I'm going to request this song.
[00:40:37] Thank y'all.
[00:40:37] Praise to you, man.
[00:40:38] Can we thank God for this incredible team that just, you know what?
[00:40:42] The live went down, the sound went out.
[00:40:45] Let's pray.

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Put me on the spot, y'all.

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It's okay.
[00:41:25] Come on down.

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Jesus loves you, man.

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And I love you.

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And go to B-flat.
[00:42:09] Oopsies, I'm on the wrong key, y'all.
[00:42:14] We're gonna do that one more time here.
[00:42:19] All right, this is gonna sound a lot more comfortable.
[00:42:23] Here we go.

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Blessings sure rest Jesus is mine He's been my fourth man in the fire Time after time Oh, I'm born of His Spirit And I'm washed in
[00:43:13] And what He did for me on Calvary is more than enough So I trust in God, my Savior
[00:43:43] Come on, trust in God, my Savior, the one who will never fail.
[00:44:00] He will never fail.
[00:44:12] I know the author of tomorrow has ordered my steps So this is my story and this is my song
[00:45:07] God, my Savior, the one who will never fail He will never fail I know He's faithful to the end

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Y'all know this part.

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Come on.
[00:45:45] I sought.
[00:45:46] I sought the Lord and He heard and He answered.
[00:45:51] I sought the Lord and He heard and He answered.
[00:45:56] I sought the Lord and He heard and He answered.
[00:46:01] That's why I trust Him.
[00:46:03] That's why I trust Him.
[00:46:05] I sought the Lord and He heard and He answered.
[00:46:11] I sought the Lord
[00:46:12] I sought the Lord and He heard and He answered I sought the Lord and He heard and He answered That's why I trust Him, that's why I trust Him I sought the Lord and He heard and He answered I sought the Lord and He heard and He answered
[00:46:34] I saw the Lord and He heard and He answered That's why I trust Him, that's why I trust Him I saw the Lord and He heard and He answered I saw the Lord and He heard and He answered I saw the Lord and He heard and He answered That's why I trust Him, that's why I trust in God
[00:47:05] I trust in God my Savior the one who will never fail He will never fail I trust in God my Savior the one who will never fail
[00:47:36] What's your testimony?
[00:47:51] I sought the Lord I sought the Lord and He heard and He answered I sought the Lord and He heard and He answered I sought the Lord and He heard and He answered That's why I trust Him, that's why I trust Him I sought the Lord and He heard and He answered
[00:48:06] I've sought the Lord and He heard and He answered I've sought the Lord and He heard and He answered That's why I trust Him, that's why I trust in John

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Hallelujah Father this morning we just want you to know how much we love you we are so thankful this morning once again to be gathered in the name that's above every name his name is Jesus
[00:49:01] His name is Wonderful.
[00:49:03] His name is Counselor.
[00:49:05] His name is Mighty God.
[00:49:08] His name is more than enough.
[00:49:11] So this morning we say thank you.
[00:49:13] Thank you for this privilege and honor this morning to say you are Lord, you are Master, you are Healer, you are Deliverer.
[00:49:24] And this morning we put you in remembrance of your word as we gather in your name.
[00:49:30] God, we thank you that you're the same God this morning that was in the fiery furnace, Lord God, with the three Hebrew boys.
[00:49:37] So this morning, every individual that might feel like they're in the fiery furnace this morning, I'm here to tell you that God is in the fire with you.
[00:49:47] Lord, this morning we thank you as we gather in your name.
[00:49:50] You're the same one that was with Daniel in the lion's den.
[00:49:54] So this morning we pray for individuals that might feel they're in a lion's den.
[00:49:58] But this morning we are so thankful that you are in the lion's den with them.
[00:50:03] This morning we said thank you.
[00:50:06] We pray for individuals that might be dealing with sickness for a long period of time.
[00:50:11] But this morning we put you in remembrance of your word that you're the same God.
[00:50:15] You're the same God that healed the leopard.
[00:50:18] You're the same God, Lord God, that healed the lady with the issue of blood.
[00:50:22] So regardless of how long it might be, this is Resurrection Sunday for you.
[00:50:29] Father, this morning we give you all the praise and all the glory that your ears are not dull,
[00:50:37] Your arms are not too short.
[00:50:39] So we thank you for the prayers that were prayed January the 1st, 2025.
[00:50:44] They are still active.
[00:50:47] That those prayers are still being activated.
[00:50:51] So we give you all the praise and glory as we gather in your name, we gather in victory.
[00:50:57] We gather, Father God, knowing that you can be trusted.
[00:51:02] And Lord, this morning, we just want you to know
[00:51:05] If it had not been for you on our side we would have been defeated but because you were on our side we became more than conquerors.
[00:51:15] We were able to do all things through you.
[00:51:19] This morning we just want you to know that we are a grateful people and we refuse to limit a limitless God.
[00:51:27] So if you just lift your hands to heaven, I sense in my spirit the glory.
[00:51:31] The glory is coming down from heaven to touch every situation in the house.
[00:51:37] Lord, I thank you this morning for the glory.
[00:51:41] The glory, Father God, that caused those things that seem impossible to become possible.
[00:51:47] So this morning we thank you what seemed to be impossible is possible.
[00:51:51] Not tomorrow, but right now.
[00:51:55] I thank you this morning Lord that we have the God kind of faith and that's why this morning we call those things to be not of those they are because you can be trusted Lord we said thank you this morning for representing you and this morning we said thank you for leaving heaven Jesus and Jesus as you gave your yes to come to earth this morning we give you our yes
[00:52:26] We give you our yes to become more like you.
[00:52:29] We give you our yes to crucify our flesh.
[00:52:32] We give you our yes to become your disciples.
[00:52:36] We give you our yes to make you glad and happy to have us as your sons and daughters.
[00:52:43] So if we go back to this song for a moment, if you'll just lift your hands to heaven, I sense his presence to wash away
[00:52:55] Everything in this world system that has attempted to attach itself to you.
[00:53:01] I sense the washing of the word as we sing this song just for a moment.
[00:53:06] The washing of the word is washing away everything that this world system has attempted to attach to you.
[00:53:13] And as you lift your hands to heaven, you're connecting with the washing of the word, washing those things that have attempted to steal your joy and peace.
[00:53:22] But as we begin to miss this song one more time.
[00:53:26] This is our act of trusting him as his presence.
[00:53:32] I sense the glory.
[00:53:35] I sense the glory in the house again this morning.

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The glory.
[00:53:46] Thank you.

[00:54:24] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]:
I sought the Lord, and He heard, and He answered I sought the Lord, and He heard, and He answered I sought the Lord, and He heard, and He answered That's why I trust Him, that's why I trust Him I sought the Lord, and He heard, and He answered
[00:54:51] I saw the Lord and He heard and He answered I saw the Lord and He heard and He answered
[00:55:21] I trust in God, my Savior, the one Who will never fail He will never fail I trust in God I love that song

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I sought the Lord and He heard and He answered.
[00:55:48] Amen.
[00:55:49] Oh, come on.
[00:55:50] I sought the Lord and He heard and He answered.
[00:55:54] That's your testimony this morning.
[00:55:56] You sought the Lord in 2025 and He heard and He answered you.
[00:56:01] Oh, come on.
[00:56:01] We're prophesying that.
[00:56:03] You sought the Lord and He heard and He answered.
[00:56:09] That's your testimony this morning and your physical body where you need a miracle.
[00:56:14] That's your testimony in a relational situation where you need a miracle.
[00:56:19] That's your testimony in every area of your life that you sought the Lord and He heard and He answered.
[00:56:27] Amen.
[00:56:27] Can I get an amen?
[00:56:29] Sorry life, I love y'all.
[00:56:31] I love you Praise Team.
[00:56:32] Thank you guys with all my heart.
[00:56:34] Aren't you grateful for worshipers that show up that are faithful for an audience of one?
[00:56:39] We're here to declare what Jesus has done and continues to do in our life.
[00:56:45] Amen.
[00:56:45] Thank you Praise Team.
[00:56:46] You may be seated.
[00:56:49] We sought the Lord, Eli.
[00:56:50] We sought the Lord over your situation and He heard and He answered.
[00:56:55] And actually that's why I have my friend up here today.
[00:56:58] He's going to take a minute and he's going to share what the Lord has done.
[00:57:04] Are y'all ready for this?
[00:57:05] And let this be an encouragement to you.
[00:57:08] That what God's done for Eli and Monica, God's getting ready to do for you.
[00:57:13] Are you hearing me?

[00:57:15] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]:
Praise the Lord.
[00:57:16] There we go.
[00:57:18] Can you guys hear me now?
[00:57:19] Yeah, like the commercial, right?
[00:57:23] You guys know that we've been going through a fertility journey, right?
[00:57:30] Which was...
[00:57:34] It was all over the place, right?
[00:57:38] We had a miscarriage about two years and a half ago, and that was devastating, right?
[00:57:46] But what Elder Harold talked about, that he's in the furnace with you, that was what was evident, right?
[00:58:00] He absolutely was in the furnace with us, and
[00:58:04] Not only him, but you guys, our pastors, you guys entered that furnace with us and prayed and held hands and held us up when we needed it.
[00:58:16] Amen.
[00:58:16] So, we've been about two years with this whole fertility journey.
[00:58:25] We started IVF, which it costs about an arm and a leg, more or less.

[00:58:32] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_08]:
Difficult process if you don't know, people don't know.

[00:58:35] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]:
So the doctor saw my wife's charts of her hormones and he said, look, age is a huge factor.
[00:58:45] I know we look young and, can I say sexy?
[00:58:49] I don't know if I can say that.
[00:58:51] But I believe we look good.
[00:58:55] But the reality is age sometimes, especially for a woman, right?
[00:59:00] Biological clock.
[00:59:02] So he took a chart, tested her hormones.
[00:59:07] He was like, look, your hormones are not good.
[00:59:10] Your cells are aging, which means that your cells are damaged.
[00:59:14] And he explained, you know, that's why you get white hairs, your skin droops.
[00:59:19] and we started the IVF process we were like okay Lord he was well he said you guys should go for a donor egg and I looked at my wife I was like you know like what do you think she was like I don't think that's the Lord I was like okay we're gonna try for whatever the Lord says and he said well you guys have about a four percent chance if that and we went ahead and tried
[00:59:46] and she miraculously was able to produce nine eggs, right?
[00:59:52] Which was great.
[00:59:54] But wait, there's more.
[00:59:58] We said, and I had a dream with this baby girl and Prophet Gideon that week came up to me and he said, I see a girl.
[01:00:07] Right?
[01:00:08] And I was like, confirmation and then people had dreams and dreams and then obviously you guys heard Pastor Rachel and Pastor Rad prophesy that over us because they see it.
[01:00:19] Right?
[01:00:20] So these nine eggs, we were like, okay, this is it.
[01:00:23] This is a miracle.
[01:00:24] And when they went to inseminate the eggs, all nine eggs failed.
[01:00:30] And I was like, wait, wait, wait, wait.
[01:00:33] Lord, I saw this baby.
[01:00:36] Not only did I see it, but you showed your prophets and they confirmed the word.
[01:00:44] What is going on?
[01:00:46] I was like, you're not a mean dad that showed something that he's not going to give, right?
[01:00:52] Even though that's what it felt like, but I knew that that wasn't the truth, right?
[01:00:57] Because truth and feelings are two different things, amen?
[01:01:00] So, we were like, okay, it failed.
[01:01:04] By the way, if it fails, you still have to pay.
[01:01:07] So, it was about 16 grand, maybe?
[01:01:10] Lord have mercy.
[01:01:11] So, we're taking a special off.
[01:01:12] I'm just kidding.
[01:01:13] Lock the doors.
[01:01:17] Just kidding, just kidding.
[01:01:18] We started to pray, Lord, is this what you said?
[01:01:26] Because we believe that you continue doing the last thing that God said, right?
[01:01:32] Whatever he told you to do, continue doing it until he says something different, right?
[01:01:37] So we were like, okay, are we going to pay for this again?
[01:01:42] We didn't hear different.
[01:01:46] We didn't hear discard the medical field.
[01:01:48] So we were like, okay, I guess we'll take out a loan, whatever it takes type deal.
[01:01:55] and then we discovered that our insurance only covered one cycle so we had we were about to have to pay roughly about 25 grand just in medication plus the IVF so of course I was like the devil is a liar
[01:02:12] Right?
[01:02:13] So, about, I say, 12, 13 weeks ago, we were about to start the process of the, they put us on, I say us, right?
[01:02:28] It's really her.
[01:02:30] But they put us on birth control.
[01:02:33] They start to get her body ready to control her cycle.
[01:02:38] and we were about to pay the 25 grand and I we did a bold prayer the night before we were about to pray the 25 grand and I said Lord
[01:02:49] This baby, first, it's yours.
[01:02:53] You love it more than we will ever love it.
[01:02:57] And this is more about your will.
[01:03:00] You're willing this baby.
[01:03:02] And I just felt an unction of literally like a fire that was released.
[01:03:09] And I felt that it was a healing anointing.
[01:03:13] So I just like...
[01:03:14] Slap my wife in the stomach.
[01:03:16] Well, she was with high-heels closed and she jumped.
[01:03:18] Obviously, she's a little jumpy.
[01:03:22] So she jumped and I was like, Lord, this must be a release for healing because tomorrow we need to pay you 25 grand.
[01:03:34] right and after that she went upstairs did a pregnancy test and today we are 13 weeks pregnant on birth control more less than four percent chance the same doctor that said you need to go for a donor egg was the same doctor that said congratulations you have a healthy baby
[01:04:07] I sought the Lord and He answered.
[01:04:10] Amen.
[01:04:24] We were having this conversation with Monica's spiritual parents yesterday.
[01:04:30] You guys know about the story of when Prophet Elisha goes to a king, and this is the last time he prophesies before he passes, and he tells the king, pull back and shoot an arrow, and then he tells him to strike the ground, right?
[01:04:49] And he only struck the ground three times, right?
[01:04:52] And he said, you fool, if you would have struck the ground six or seven times, six, seven...
[01:04:58] Six or seven times you would have conquered the whole battle, right?
[01:05:09] So there were many times, if we're honest, that the enemy tried to pull us out of this house, right?
[01:05:18] There were people that we are very close and are family to us that because of mental cloudiness, they think they're doing something good.
[01:05:35] But it's rooted in their efforts, so it becomes a little muddy, right?
[01:05:43] So in that season, we heard certain things and rumors about Pastor Brad and Pastor Rachel where we were like, hmm, is this home?
[01:05:56] Is this where we're supposed to be?
[01:05:59] And I had to stand firm and say, I actually had the straight up conversation with the person and I said, I get where your heart is at.
[01:06:09] But I feel the Lord is telling me that this is home.
[01:06:15] Regardless of what I am feeling, what God says supersedes that feeling that I have, right?
[01:06:26] Not dismiss the feeling, but the truth always will supersede it.
[01:06:31] So yesterday we were having a conversation that our blessings are tied into our obedience, right?
[01:06:42] So when the prophet tells you, in this case prophet means proclaimer, right?
[01:06:48] When the prophet tells you, strike the ground, you better not stop striking that ground.
[01:06:56] because if not you will not get everything that God has ordained for you.
[01:07:03] That's true partnership.
[01:07:06] True partnership and that's one of the reasons that we're seeing fruit because we stay planted and rooted.
[01:07:15] You'll never see fruit if you're not planted.
[01:07:18] Amen.

[01:07:21] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_08]:
We're going to pray right now.
[01:07:22] I remember praying for you.
[01:07:23] Come here, Eli, real quick.
[01:07:25] In the summer, and the Lord specifically showed me, and it was this year that the enemy tried to pull them out of the house, earlier this year.
[01:07:31] Then in the middle of this year, the Lord showed me specifically.
[01:07:34] Then I told Monica, I see you pregnant by the end of this year, that my faith is with yours, that we're believing, that we're contending.
[01:07:42] And so timelines, we're going to declare timelines over your life, that every prophetic timeline that belongs to your destiny, to your family, to your life,
[01:07:51] that it comes forth and that God God made a way they didn't even have to pay the 25 grand I mean on birth control she got pregnant I mean that's not a testimony to IVF to doctors to medicine that's a testimony to who God is and what God says he will do he will do in your life
[01:08:08] so father let's stretch our hands towards Eli and Monica right now we thank you Lord that you are a faithful God that we sought the Lord you heard and you answered us Lord we thank you Lord our faith is with theirs that they made it to 13 weeks that this beautiful baby has been sent from heaven and that she will continue to have a wonderful pregnancy no complications no demonic attacks I thank you even all the way up to the labor and delivery
[01:08:36] it will be a beautiful labor and delivery and that that baby will enter this world perfectly healthy and whole as a testament of your goodness of your mercy so we declare the blood of jesus around this family we declare the blood of jesus around their children we thank you holy spirit that you go with them before them and you're making every crooked place straight lord we submit this family to you and we cover them now we
[01:09:01] we thank you God that this is a testimony not only for their family but for every family that's a part of story life that is a part of our ministry and destiny we thank you God for this beautiful miracle Lord that this baby is a world changer we prophesy that this baby has been sent to bring forth change has been sent to be a voice to a generation but we thank you that all contention over this baby's life is blocked
[01:09:29] Stop and dismantle and we thank you Lord for the hand of God that is on this child's life every moment every minute every step of the way and Lord the prayer that you gave me about my children Lord where you told me to pray against human error God I say that same prayer I come against human error over this child over this family and I thank you God
[01:09:53] Where caregivers fail.
[01:09:54] Where mommy and daddy fail.
[01:09:56] Where people fail.
[01:09:57] God the angels of the Lord do not fail.
[01:10:00] You do not fail and you will watch over this baby all the days of its life and it will live to fulfill the number of its days.
[01:10:08] So we thank you Lord that our faith is in unity and we thank you God that for your goodness and your mercy that this miracle is a testament of our faith being built.
[01:10:18] and we give you all the glory and all the praise and everybody said in the matchless name of Jesus amen amen
[01:10:33] So needless to say, y'all get ready.
[01:10:34] We're about to have a big baby shower.
[01:10:36] Y'all ready?
[01:10:36] Story love, we're gonna have a big baby shower.
[01:10:39] We're gonna throw the biggest baby shower ever.
[01:10:42] Y'all ready?
[01:10:42] We're gonna love on them.
[01:10:43] Amen.
[01:10:44] I love this.
[01:10:47] It gets me excited.
[01:10:48] What a moment in time that God comes through.
[01:10:54] that reminds me of when I got pregnant five years well actually it was four years 10 months and 14 days but who was counting Dr. John who was counting I mean we did everything and anything and it was so stressful and it made marriage stressful made all the things not fun I'm like man how do people drink water and get pregnant but you know everybody's path is different and God is developing your faith he's developing your backbone he's developing resilience in you
[01:11:21] so it's okay you got grit and you got grace because we're going somewhere y'all ready we're going somewhere we made it we didn't just make it we're ready to see all of God's promises fulfilled in your life amen and I know a lot of us in here I know your stories I know what you've been walking through in 2025 and guess what guess what else I know I know your testimony
[01:11:42] I know your testimony on the other side of the situation that your God is faithful and that you can trust in the one who holds it all amen let's get right into where the word i'm i'm excited to preach this morning for a few minutes open up your bible to mark chapter five if you got it on your phone get the bible app out if you got it what a great tool what a great resource
[01:12:06] Y'all, it may not always be there.
[01:12:08] They may not always have the Bible online.
[01:12:09] They might not always have the Bible on the app.
[01:12:12] So I want us to focus on hiding the Word in our heart and in our spirit and meditating line upon line, precept upon precept.
[01:12:20] Let's value it this year.
[01:12:22] as we get ready to go into a new year let's ask God for a hunger and thirst for righteousness amen because this is the finality this is the finality there's a lot of things in life that are not but this is this is and I don't care what it looks like in your life I don't care what people are saying what what thoughts are coming to your head open up your Bible and get fixated on this and do not be moved by your circumstance amen
[01:12:49] Amen.
[01:12:50] Mark chapter 5.
[01:12:50] We're going to start right here and I believe verse 25.
[01:12:55] And there was a woman who had the discharge of blood for 12 years.
[01:13:01] Okay now y'all and I'm not going to get graphic because I know we got young people in here but I'm a woman okay and I have to go through a cycle.
[01:13:09] All right, biology, basic biology, right?
[01:13:12] Women have cycles, and the only thing that disrupts the cycle is a seed.
[01:13:16] And that's how the Lord works in our life.
[01:13:18] Seed time and harvest.
[01:13:20] Hallelujah.
[01:13:21] But God sets things up like that, right?
[01:13:23] What you reap, you sow, okay?
[01:13:26] And I cannot imagine having that type of cycle.
[01:13:30] It says, this is exactly what it says in the Bible, for 12 years.
[01:13:34] I mean I know I don't know about any other ladies in the house I can get a little grumpy when that time comes around I cannot feel good and all the women I got some girls shaking their head I mean I used to get so sick and this is just you know how but listen this is just how God made it I don't know why me and Asher have had conversations about this as she's getting a little bit older and curious I mean we could not have that but this is how the Lord made some things so I used to get so sick and I would throw up when I was younger like
[01:14:00] like this stuff I cannot imagine walking with this issue for 12 years okay but verse 25 there was a woman for 12 years who suffered who suffered okay so I want I want you to be encouraged she suffered you may not have this exact issue but maybe there's an issue in your life that has been 12 years that's been 15 years that's been 25 years maybe there's an issue that because of it you have suffered
[01:14:28] And she right here spent much under physicians.
[01:14:33] What does that mean?
[01:14:34] Under physicians.
[01:14:35] That means she gave everything she got to the doctors.
[01:14:38] She probably went to every doctor, every hospital, every wholeness clinic that you can imagine.
[01:14:44] She did everything.
[01:14:45] She was desperate for healing.
[01:14:47] She was desperate.
[01:14:48] She was under many physicians and spent all that she had.
[01:14:52] She spent everything and when you're desperate guess what you will spend everything when you're desperate like Eli and Monica you will get ready to give that $25,000 that you don't even have when you are desperate you will be willing to do whatever it takes and it says right here she was under many physicians and she spent all that she had and guess what it didn't help
[01:15:15] And guess what?
[01:15:16] She was no better, but rather grew worse.
[01:15:19] Are y'all with me?
[01:15:21] Y'all ever been there in life?
[01:15:22] You're doing everything in the natural.
[01:15:25] You're taking all of Sister Betty's advice.
[01:15:28] But Sister Betty's advice, you're doing all the right things.
[01:15:31] You're going to all the right physicians.
[01:15:33] Maybe you're doing all the right things.
[01:15:35] You're going to all the right counselors.
[01:15:37] And nothing is working.
[01:15:39] Instead it's getting worse.
[01:15:41] That's alright.
[01:15:42] That's alright.
[01:15:43] Because we have an example right here in the Word.
[01:15:46] This is important because this is where miracles start to happen.
[01:15:50] Are y'all ready?
[01:15:50] This is where miracles start to happen.
[01:15:53] This is about a suffering for a long period of time.
[01:15:57] But what happens when she heard?
[01:16:00] This is verse 27.
[01:16:02] She heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in a crowd.
[01:16:07] I want to stop right there.
[01:16:08] The first part of her miracle that started to activate is she heard.
[01:16:12] is she heard she got out of what she was doing and she got out of the broken cycle of 12 years of every physician of every doctor of emptying her bank account and she said I've got to make a change and with that change she started listening for something different and faith comes through hearing
[01:16:32] Hearing by the Word of God and so we have to get our faith ears to the point where we can tune into heaven to what is heaven saying about your situation what is heaven declaring about your life now what the doctors are saying because obviously the doctors here and I'm grateful we got a neurosurgeon in the house did y'all know that Dr. John wave your hand
[01:16:52] Hey, y'all, if anybody falls down right here in the service, he'll be there at your side, okay?
[01:16:56] He's here.
[01:16:57] He's ready to go.
[01:16:58] He can cut your head open and fix your brain.
[01:17:00] Don't worry.
[01:17:00] We're good.
[01:17:01] It's remarkable what God has done through his life and his journey.
[01:17:05] Now he goes overseas and helps you.
[01:17:06] I mean, that's a big deal, y'all.
[01:17:07] Come on.
[01:17:08] He didn't just...
[01:17:09] Play patty cake and become a neurosurgeon.
[01:17:11] No, it was a price he paid, okay?
[01:17:13] And I'm grateful for all of the medical technology today.
[01:17:17] I'm grateful we got Tylenol for babies.
[01:17:19] And not everybody's dying of yellow fever.
[01:17:21] Oh, y'all, I mean, come on, where we at?
[01:17:23] Where we at?
[01:17:24] I'm grateful for when that cycle comes around, I can take a Midol and numb the pain.
[01:17:28] I mean, it is what it is, Pastor Tawana.
[01:17:30] We can do that.
[01:17:31] We are not where we used to be.
[01:17:33] Praise the Lord.
[01:17:34] Praise the Lord.
[01:17:35] And that matters.
[01:17:36] But there is moments
[01:17:39] In time that none of that will be the qualifying defactor for your destiny.
[01:17:46] The only thing that will shift and bring change to your life is when you literally grab a hold of Jesus and all your desperation for your situation.
[01:17:56] Amen?
[01:17:57] sometimes I talk to people I'm like you're just not desperate enough you're not desperate you're not willing to do whatever it takes for and there are people that are desperate enough and sometimes the outcome is not what we wanted but we that's where we trust in God that his ways are higher his thoughts are higher so it's not always you know tit for tat or one plus one equals two that's not this thing this this faith equation in our life looks different for everybody
[01:18:23] Just because 1 plus 1 equals 2 for Ashley, it may not be that for me.
[01:18:28] And that is your faith walk.
[01:18:30] Everybody individually trusting the Lord with your situation.
[01:18:33] Let's go back to the Word.
[01:18:34] So the first key that she had for her miracle, she heard.
[01:18:38] she heard the reports about Jesus she came up behind him in a crowd and then guess what she acted she heard and she acted it says she touched the hem of his garment for she said if I touch even his garment I know I will be made well and immediately y'all immediately the flow of blood dried up she left her left in her body and she was healed of her disease and guess what this is powerful
[01:19:06] Jesus, then all of a sudden, perceived.
[01:19:10] Jesus knew.
[01:19:10] He's like, uh-oh, who grabbed me?
[01:19:13] He perceived that power had gone out from him and immediately turned into the crowd and said, Who touched my garments?
[01:19:20] And the disciples said,
[01:19:22] You see the crowd pressing around you.
[01:19:23] He said, who touched me?
[01:19:25] And he looked around to see who had done it.
[01:19:27] But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and troubling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.
[01:19:34] She was scared, like, uh-oh, did I do something wrong?
[01:19:37] And this is what I love about our Father.
[01:19:39] You know what Jesus said?
[01:19:40] He didn't call her, you know, a leech.
[01:19:44] He didn't call her names.
[01:19:46] He didn't degrade her.
[01:19:47] You know what he did?
[01:19:48] He called her daughter.
[01:19:49] He looked down and he saw the woman in desperation that had just touched his garments and he looked at her and said, Daughter, your faith has made you well.
[01:19:58] Go in peace and be healed of your disease.
[01:20:03] Your faith has made you well.
[01:20:05] Her faith refused to stay silent.
[01:20:07] Are you hearing me this morning?
[01:20:09] Your faith has made you well.
[01:20:11] Eli and Monica, your faith has made you well.
[01:20:14] Your faith in your situation is making you well today.
[01:20:17] It was intentional faith.
[01:20:19] And I know that you and I are intentional believers or we wouldn't be in this building right now.
[01:20:24] Ashley, your intention of faith and obedience is about to produce the biggest miracles you've ever seen in your destiny.
[01:20:32] Guess what, church?
[01:20:33] We just can't give up.
[01:20:35] We just can't give up right before the breakthrough.
[01:20:39] She was at the end of all ends.
[01:20:41] The end of her wit.
[01:20:43] Gave all of her money.
[01:20:44] Went to every doctor.
[01:20:45] She was done.
[01:20:46] But yet, she heard and she acted.
[01:20:48] Are y'all with me?
[01:20:50] She was intentional.
[01:20:51] And this is what I love.
[01:20:52] She didn't ask permission.
[01:20:53] She didn't wait for an invitation.
[01:20:55] And she didn't worry about a crowd.
[01:20:57] are you with me she didn't ask for permission she didn't need an invitation and she didn't care about the crowd what are you willing to do in this season of your life to touch the hymn of jesus's garment to get out of your flesh to get out of your mind and so many things to get out of our mind why because we can get to focus on the wrong thing doubt and the negativity i mean i i literally
[01:21:24] Somebody recently asked me, hey, I noticed you're not online as much.
[01:21:27] I said, no, I'm not.
[01:21:28] I said, I'm not online as much.
[01:21:29] They're like, wow, you know, like you're kind of unplugging.
[01:21:32] I'm like, you know, I just don't have time to be online all the time.
[01:21:35] I mean, real life is happening and I don't have time to be online.
[01:21:38] Now, I like to post things and get things out because we are, even on social media, that's important.
[01:21:43] but then in this season of my life the negativity that there was a season where every story I'd be lying next to Brad in bed and I'd be like oh my gosh this and this happened and it was like the worst horror stories of life ever all negativity online I mean it's like the social media is the feed for the negativity the saddest things in life and Brad was like oh my gosh why are we sitting here reading this and thinking about it
[01:22:05] Like this is the worst ever.
[01:22:07] And so a long time ago I made a decision, no more of those news articles, right?
[01:22:13] No more of this just constant negativity.
[01:22:15] That's why you got to guard your mind.
[01:22:17] You got to guard your spirit.
[01:22:18] I'm teaching my kids that at a young age.
[01:22:21] You got to guard your spirit and your soul.
[01:22:24] And you got to watch what you watch and watch what you hear and watch what you feed on.
[01:22:28] because literally that is going to either make or break you because if you eat a bunch of junk food all the time guess what you're gonna get a tummy ache and you're gonna get sick and it's probably gonna make you throw up and there can even be worse conditions that come from constant sugar it's called diabetes if you do certain things it can make you sick just like that in the spirit if you constantly feed off a negativity
[01:22:49] and do not operate by the way of the spirit you're going to make yourself sick and you will not have the ability to act and respond in faith in a time of need amen and all of us will always you know one thing i've learned about life pastor greg is we're always going to have a need and i believe that there's a reason for that because god wants us to fully depend on him
[01:23:11] He wants us to fully depend on Him.
[01:23:13] Not in our ability, not in your grandma's ability, not in what your resume can do and what anything can do.
[01:23:21] No, but only solely on God.
[01:23:23] Because He wants you dependent on Him.
[01:23:25] And I love that because the touch changed everything.
[01:23:28] That touch changed everything.
[01:23:30] and this is what I love it took her from being I wrote this down it took her from being hidden she was hidden from when she was in fear and but yet her faith made her whole and it took her to a place of honor that's what faith does it took her from being hidden to honored and God looked at her and Jesus saw her and said oh no no no daughter daughter you're my daughter
[01:23:50] Be made whole.
[01:23:51] Be healed from this disease.
[01:23:53] Don't you worry.
[01:23:54] I call you my daughter.
[01:23:56] I see you.
[01:23:56] I know what you're going through.
[01:23:58] I declare wholeness.
[01:24:00] I declare restoration.
[01:24:01] I declare victory.
[01:24:02] You know what?
[01:24:03] That's your word this morning.
[01:24:05] God sees you right where you are and he's taking every situation.
[01:24:10] you may have walked through some silent storms in 2025 where only Jesus knew but get ready because he is about to take you from being hidden to being honored and in that place of honor it will be to glorify him and he's saying you are whole you are victorious you have victory over every situation that place where the enemy thought he had you and won't relent
[01:24:36] God is coming through in a way that only miracles can happen for your house amen miracles can happen for your house that is our God miracles are transpiring and God is making a way for you and I today I believe that and the longer that I walk with the Lord
[01:24:54] and the longer that I've been desperate for God the more that God continues to show up and he shows up because our God is faithful our God is faithful and I want you to get this in your spirit this morning as we get ready to cross over we're going to leave some things behind in 2025 we're going to leave all the discouragement all the doubt all the attacks
[01:25:15] sometimes you might find yourself in a place of demonic bombardment but guess what in the place of the spirit you can war and you can go into the place where you touch Jesus and the deepest spiritual part and you receive wholeness where that will not even affect you anymore and you you will not even look like what you've been through amen
[01:25:35] You will not even look like, you will not sound like, you are being made whole in this moment.
[01:25:41] And I know that this is a message to encourage you today because you have to be made whole.
[01:25:47] Why?
[01:25:47] Because He's counting on you to run your course because when you do what God has for you to do, it's a chain reaction, it's a ripple effect.
[01:25:56] Guess what?
[01:25:57] Then all of a sudden, you're going to help someone else get whole, right Sherman?
[01:26:00] You're going to help someone else.
[01:26:02] Go, hey, I've been there at the darkest night when it looked like I was about to lose everything, but Jesus came through.
[01:26:08] Then you can open up your mouth and you can agree in prayer with someone that says, I don't care what it looks like about your drug addicted son.
[01:26:15] He's coming off of drugs.
[01:26:16] I don't care what it looks like about what they're saying in your body that chemo can't do anymore.
[01:26:23] I know the Healer and He will drive out every cancer cell and He will cause you to live 20, 30 more years
[01:26:30] I don't care what it looks like in the most difficult marriage that God's restoring marriages.
[01:26:36] He's restoring families.
[01:26:38] Oh, come on, story life.
[01:26:39] He's touching our children.
[01:26:41] He's raising up a generation that has boldness, that declares the Word of God, that speaks life.
[01:26:48] God is raising you up, and I'm glad that I'm here with you today.
[01:26:52] to encourage you I'm gonna say it right now you're gonna touch the hymn of Jesus's garment in this moment and your faith is being activated you hear and you act amen you hear and you act and as you do that you will see the blessings of God and the victory of God in your life amen can I get these two people beautiful people right here and the the burnt orange right here can you come up I want to pray for you this morning I'm gonna pray for you this morning we're a praying church
[01:27:22] Come on, clap your hands for the Lord.
[01:27:23] Did y'all get anything out of the Word?
[01:27:27] Did you get anything out of the word this morning?
[01:27:28] We're going to pray for this couple right here.
[01:27:30] We're going to believe God to do what only He can do.
[01:27:35] Amen.
[01:27:37] Where's Harun?
[01:27:38] Harun, I want to pray for you today.
[01:27:39] Where's he at?
[01:27:41] Come to the front, please.
[01:27:43] Come to the front.
[01:27:45] God gave me a word for you and your family this morning.
[01:27:48] Come to the front.
[01:27:49] If y'all would come right up here.
[01:27:50] It's okay.
[01:27:51] We don't have...
[01:27:52] Anybody play the keys?
[01:27:54] Where's my friends that play the keys?
[01:27:55] Jump on up.
[01:27:56] Y'all want to play?
[01:27:57] I play, but it's kind of hard to do this and that at the same time.
[01:28:02] Praise the Lord.
[01:28:04] This morning, when I walked into the building, the Lord often speaks to me, and He'll highlight people.
[01:28:11] He highlights things.
[01:28:13] And immediately, I was pulled towards you.
[01:28:16] And I was like, I need to pray for them today, whether it was in front of everybody or just privately.
[01:28:20] Sometimes we flow like this here at Store Life, sometimes we don't.
[01:28:22] It's all just about being in agreement.
[01:28:25] And there were two things that I saw.
[01:28:27] One, I saw physically over your health.
[01:28:31] I saw physically over your health that you were going to pray a prayer of preservation over your life.
[01:28:37] That the attacks of the enemy, oh come on y'all, let's clap.
[01:28:39] Let's clap for God.
[01:28:41] That the attacks of the enemy over your physical body are not going to prosper.
[01:28:46] God has a need of you on this earth for many more years and there's an attack to try to shorten days but God says you will live to fulfill the number of your days amen and so i i saw a physical thing and i'm just going to declare and pastor greg come around and let's pray over him
[01:29:03] We're just going to declare right now in the name of Jesus that every attack over your physical body, that it is canceled, that you will live to fulfill a number of your days.
[01:29:13] We cancel heart stroke.
[01:29:16] We cancel every plan and plot of the enemy to take you out prematurely.
[01:29:21] we secure your life we secure your health we declare the preservation of God over you right now we thank you God that you handpicked them today that miracles belong to their house that financial breakthrough is theirs that every prayer at every part of their life and destiny is coming forth right now it's coming forth right now in Jesus name
[01:29:43] and you know that's interesting because I see you like in a form of ministry I see you helping so many people you have a mandate from heaven what what in that area do y'all do because I see a specific and even when I came to you specific assignments specific maybe maybe it's for the future because what I saw prophetically I saw the health for you and I saw mandate from heaven from you to help people
[01:30:11] A mandate from heaven so you know sometimes our destiny is linked to desire what what your place of pain can be it could be a place where God uses you the greatest right like our friend Teresa God call her out of the prison she's not here in service today because she's in the prisons ministering to hundreds of people right now but that that was the mandate from heaven that's on her life
[01:30:33] so like you know there's certain things that God wants you to do he wants you to take a step of faith I want you to do you ever do any evangelism any outreach you ever go pray for anybody because I want you to get bold this year I want you to get my challenge to you is to start praying for people in the grocery store pray for somebody on the airplane I'm gonna I'm gonna challenge you to step out of your comfort zone and go just pray for somebody can you do that can you do that because there is a mandate on your life to help people
[01:31:00] and in a very significant way and and i i think that sometimes we we kind of conflate things in church and religion to a building and i can't tell you how much like i like i pray for so many more people outside of a building like all week long i will pray for people my my kids will pray for people everywhere i go people i mean i i'm constantly talking to people praying for them
[01:31:24] and it's just the Lord keeps sending people always my way whether it's on an airplane whether he opens up the door to a prison ministry whether we hit the streets on obt are you guys local are you local well i want you to come on the streets with me can you do that we're going to go on the streets in the new year and we're going to hand out some gifts to the ladies and i want you to come help me pray for these ladies okay and i and i want to see y'all after church i i don't believe i know y'all very well so i'd like to get to know you but i just believe that there's new assignments for purpose and in that
[01:31:53] you know what the great thing about purpose is when you walk in that place of helping others according to what God called you to do guess what happens all of your life needs finances coach it all comes into place right coach knows coach knows coach get up here real quick get up here coach knows i want to share this so father let's pray over this them right now what's your name what's your name
[01:32:17] Julie, take my hand.
[01:32:19] God, I thank you for Julie.
[01:32:20] I thank you, God, that new assignments, new alignments, that new victories, God, that you're going to continue to birth in her for ministry, for purpose, that there's new things coming her way, that you're going to raise her up as a mighty warrior, as an intercessor.
[01:32:36] God, thank you for your hand on this couple.
[01:32:38] Thank you for doing new things.
[01:32:40] Behold, you do a new thing.
[01:32:41] It will spring forth.
[01:32:42] Lord, and I pray right now, every area of need,
[01:32:45] Over finances, over their family, over any area of the intermediate family, God, we just declare miracles, miracles, miracles over their life in Jesus' name.
[01:32:55] In Jesus' name.
[01:32:56] Stay right here.
[01:32:57] Stay right here.
[01:32:58] Julie, you're beautiful.
[01:33:00] What's your name?
[01:33:01] Jay.
[01:33:02] God bless you.
[01:33:02] Can y'all thank God for Jay and Julie this morning?
[01:33:06] You know, Coach has gone through a lot to sow into other people's life.
[01:33:11] And let this be the announcement.
[01:33:14] We have boxing right here in this building.
[01:33:17] And you know, we had been linked up with him for a couple years now trying to figure out how we could help, how story life could be a part.
[01:33:23] And then a light bulb went off and Pastor Brad said, here, take this building, take the second story, turn it in.
[01:33:32] You know, he has been doing this for how long?
[01:33:33] How long have you been helping young people?

[01:33:35] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]:
And guess what?
[01:33:38] It's free for the kids.
[01:33:43] Actually, God told me to do that.
[01:33:46] So, if you got a kid that's willing to be disciplined, guess what?
[01:33:52] Bring it to us.
[01:33:53] So, it's free.
[01:33:55] See, I don't ask nobody for any money.
[01:34:00] So, this is God's blessing.
[01:34:01] This is God's mission.
[01:34:03] If you guys want to join us, please come to us.
[01:34:07] I promise you that, right?
[01:34:09] If your kid be messing up at school, guess what?
[01:34:13] I'm going to make sure they get good grades.
[01:34:20] See, I got a lot of kids, 14, 15, 16, 17 years old.
[01:34:25] So guess what?
[01:34:26] This is a mission, guys.
[01:34:27] So join the movement.
[01:34:29] This is God's blessing.
[01:34:30] This is not my mission.
[01:34:31] If it was for me, guess what?
[01:34:33] I wouldn't do it.
[01:34:35] I promise you guys that.
[01:34:36] I wouldn't do it.
[01:34:37] This is God's blessing.
[01:34:39] So I couldn't do it without God's mission and I couldn't do it without them, you know, plant the seed because this is the seed.
[01:34:47] Right?
[01:34:47] As long as you believe and you respect the mission of God, join the mission.
[01:34:52] Alright?
[01:34:52] This is the mission.

[01:34:54] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_08]:
Amen.
[01:34:54] Thank you, Coach.
[01:34:55] And I want to say something about him.
[01:34:57] He went through so much that we won't even disclose.
[01:35:01] It's not really necessary.
[01:35:03] But he went through hell, y'all, to continue on the path for God to use him and to just be a blessing.
[01:35:08] And then we were able to link arms.
[01:35:10] And guess what?
[01:35:11] Story Life is able to, you know what we're able to do?
[01:35:13] Not charge a dime.
[01:35:15] You come use the building.
[01:35:16] You come do this.
[01:35:17] You come be a blessing.
[01:35:18] and then get the word out to other young people because this is what God's called us to do, right?
[01:35:24] If you get lost, if you get stuck in your way, go help somebody.
[01:35:27] I was in a season of life and I was really struggling as a young person.
[01:35:31] I was like, God, you called me to do this, you called me to do that.
[01:35:34] Nothing's opening.
[01:35:35] I'm struggling.
[01:35:36] I worked every single day since I was 15 years old.
[01:35:39] Those of you who don't know my testimony, my dad died when I was 14 years old.
[01:35:44] I've had a job ever since.
[01:35:45] And there was a season when I was in Bible college and I was like really struggling and all the college kids were doing X, Y, and Z and I had to work every single day.
[01:35:54] And I was just like frustrated and I had opportunities to do some ministry but then the Lord spoke to me.
[01:35:59] He said, Rachel, go help someone.
[01:36:00] and he sent me to a nursing home every Wednesday in a little town called Columbus, Texas and guess what the sad thing is out of years of this Bible school there was only me and one other person that ever went to that nursing home and that other person had come years before I did and I went every Wednesday and I sat at the little piano and they gathered everybody in the nursing home that had been forgotten
[01:36:24] and I sang for over a year sang and played and prayed and worshiped and then there were some people that were really inhibited and I did their nails and I did their makeup and I got out of myself and I loved other people and it wasn't always about a prophetic word sometimes they would be there sometimes they wanted so it's just what loving others being in agreement praying and helping others and it was in that moment that something shifted in me
[01:36:51] and I didn't focus on what I didn't have anymore in my life I didn't focus on where I was stuck where all this stuff was happening I focused on other people and helping them and God shifted my whole life literally shifted everything in that moment provision came they were gonna release me from Bible college I had a negative eight hundred dollars they were gonna release me I had no way to pay it while working every single day as a waitress
[01:37:15] and I was going to be released but yet God came through and in walks a guy named Mr. Adams and said God told me to write you out a check and guess what he wrote out the check for the exact amount that I needed to pay off my tuition and then oh come on don't be a hater then from that point God spoke to Mr. Adams and said I'm supposed to help you Rachel until you get married so then from that point on
[01:37:41] God sent somebody who sowed into my life weekly y'all weekly I even opened up a little mail thing so that I could get what he wanted to send me because back then Venmo and Cash App and all that wasn't happening man it would have been a lot easier too because even at all this Uber I was taking yellow cab desperate to go get prayer and being stuck with no money I mean the obstacles that came now now kids get an Uber
[01:38:06] right you got uber you got this you got that praise god for the more convenient places but i'm talking about desperation this morning and then being able to get outside of yourself and going to help other people because that's why we're here we're here to make a difference in someone else's life and all that differences do one thing is to point to jesus and to say hey this life is but a vapor we're not promised tomorrow i think we get stuck oh we're promised 2026 no we're not
[01:38:32] I wish I could tell you we were.
[01:38:34] I believe God.
[01:38:36] I believe in God.
[01:38:37] We are all living to fulfill the number of our days.
[01:38:40] But there is no absolute in that.
[01:38:43] The absolute is Jesus.
[01:38:46] The absolute is on the other side of death.
[01:38:48] It's a door that you walk through.
[01:38:50] And you can either have the right key.
[01:38:52] I tell people all the time.
[01:38:53] I was ministering to people on hospice.
[01:38:54] I said, you've either got the right key or you got the wrong one.
[01:38:56] And Jesus is the key.
[01:38:58] and you step through that door in death and guess what it's just an extension of life life after death we go from glory to glory to glory and as a believer i believe that you and i when we do go to take our last breath guess what we wake up
[01:39:13] and we're right there with the loving savior amen the hope of the world jesus amen so so we're going to be praying for y'all and after church i want you to come see me right here i'm going to take you in the back and introduce you to our team and i'm excited i wanted to share one more thing privately to y'all that i was praying for you about and i'll tell you that in a little bit okay god bless you god bless you thank you coach i saw victories i saw
[01:39:39] Two miracles, one that we've been praying for, for your son.
[01:39:41] I saw an angel sent, and then I saw a different type.
[01:39:47] I see God expanding your ministry like never before.
[01:39:51] I don't know if y'all know Harun is an evangelist he's an evangelist and I want y'all to come in agreement this year for his ministry for his destiny that all God has for him I see God opening doors globally globally there's going to be some things settled that is going to be settled do you hear me that miracle is going to be the things and I'm not going to it publicly but it's settled in Jesus name there's a couple of things that have to be settled
[01:40:17] and it's going to be settled and the intensity warfare over the situation is cancelled right now let me see your hand father in the name of Jesus we declare right now that these matters are settled in heaven and they're produced on this earth and we declare it right now
[01:40:32] we thank you for this miracle for their family we thank you for this miracle for the son for the beautiful new daughter-in-law we thank you for this miracle we thank you for his prophetic ministry that you have raised up for such a time as this we declare that you've anointed them you have appointed them that you will open up the right doors that he will go all over and preach the gospel we thank you father for a new season a new season a new season we declare the struggle is over
[01:41:01] that word with the issue of blood all the years of struggle and pain today is your miracle Harun today is your miracle for your family we prophesy it we enforce it and we thank you God right now for doing what only you can do and hear me there your your life was spared your life was spared for a very specific reason you guys he was almost killed
[01:41:28] Y'all don't know people's testimony.
[01:41:30] You might want to get to know some people in the house.
[01:41:32] They were about to kill him.
[01:41:34] They had a gun to his head.
[01:41:36] Is this not true?
[01:41:37] His life was moments from being taken.
[01:41:41] But God.
[01:41:43] But God.
[01:41:44] God stepped in and spared his life.
[01:41:48] The daughters were babies.
[01:41:50] You gotta hear the testimony.
[01:41:53] And as I'm sitting here praying about their ministry and destiny, I see so many great miracles coming forth from His ministry.
[01:42:00] There's some matters that have to be settled.
[01:42:03] And guess what?
[01:42:04] There's some matters in my life, and I'm sure there's some matters in your life that have to be settled.
[01:42:09] And once they're settled, y'all get ready.
[01:42:11] Because God is accelerating destiny.
[01:42:13] He's accelerating ministries.
[01:42:15] He's accelerating people.
[01:42:17] And He's getting ready to accelerate you in such a great dimension.
[01:42:21] and I'm glad that you're here with us as a base because you're going to need a strong base because when you have a global impact and a global anointing to affect people for the gospel you need a great house to be a part of and I can't think of any better house than this to help cover you and we cover you now in the name of Jesus and we declare that God is with you, God is for you
[01:42:43] and everything that fought you in 2025 is broken and that you are released into great victories for 2026 in every area and you know what the great thing about this too i'm telling you financial victory in all areas financial victory in all areas for your destiny give me a hug i love you i love you i love you
[01:43:06] in Jesus name in Jesus name I want to pray for one more person I want to pray and then Pastor Greg I'm going to have you come up here sir would you lift your hands you could just stand up right here right here right here yes yes coach would you get him to stand up it's okay you don't have to be concerned or we just want to pray over you
[01:43:26] We just want to pray for you.
[01:43:28] You have a call on your life.
[01:43:30] Pastor Greg, will you come over here and help me pray for him?
[01:43:33] We're almost done.
[01:43:34] Is this okay?
[01:43:35] Is this okay that we take a few moments to pray for people?
[01:43:38] Come on.
[01:43:39] Come on.
[01:43:40] I saw a major call on your life.
[01:43:44] Hi, what's your name?
[01:43:46] Charles, God bless you.
[01:43:48] Yes, yes, hi, it's okay.
[01:43:50] We're going to pray over you, okay?
[01:43:52] Pastor Greg?
[01:43:54] You're a living miracle that you're alive.
[01:43:58] You're a living miracle.
[01:44:00] And God's gonna use you in an unusual way.
[01:44:03] A very unusual way he's gonna use your life, your testimony.
[01:44:07] He's gonna use you to help other people.
[01:44:09] And I wanna talk to you offline.
[01:44:11] Can y'all come see me after church?
[01:44:13] Because I wanna tell you something very specific I see about your son.
[01:44:17] How old are you?
[01:44:18] How old is he?
[01:44:21] 18.
[01:44:22] Would y'all stretch your hands?
[01:44:23] What's his name?
[01:44:25] Holden?
[01:44:26] Holden.
[01:44:26] What a great name.
[01:44:26] Would y'all stretch your hands to Holden?
[01:44:28] Y'all, he's gonna, he's a world changer.
[01:44:30] Amen?
[01:44:31] He's gonna help people.
[01:44:33] Amen?
[01:44:34] Can y'all stretch your hands?
[01:44:35] You never know what people go through.
[01:44:37] You never know what Holden's been through to be here in this moment.
[01:44:40] He's literally a miracle, and I see that.
[01:44:42] He's a miracle.
[01:44:43] Amen?
[01:44:44] And we're gonna talk to the family in just a minute.
[01:44:46] Pastor Greg, I'm gonna have you pray over every God-given assignment in his life.

[01:44:52] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]:
Your name's Holden, right?
[01:44:54] Heavenly Father, we just thank you right now for this man.
[01:44:56] We thank you for his purpose and his destiny.
[01:44:59] Father, we know that you're perfect in all your ways.
[01:45:01] We know that you have a plan for each of us, oh God.
[01:45:04] Lord, whatever, Father God, you have, Father God, for this young man and his life and his purpose,
[01:45:09] and it's destiny to do let it be accomplished right now in the name of Jesus Christ even as he's been singled out for prayer even as Pastor Rachel sees destiny and purpose over his life let it be fulfilled oh God you can use anything you can use anytime any way you desire because you are Father God the master you are the mighty one oh God you are Father God power Father God
[01:45:33] You are love, O God.
[01:45:35] You are strength.
[01:45:35] You are peace, O God.
[01:45:37] You are all-perfect and all-knowing.
[01:45:39] So we pray life, Father God.
[01:45:41] We pray purpose.
[01:45:42] We pray destiny that it be manifested, O God, right now over this young man's life, over his father, everything concerning him right now in the name of Jesus, O God.
[01:45:52] Lord, your word tells us that man looks on the outside, but you see us on the inside, O God.
[01:45:57] You see, Father God, the spirit, oh God.
[01:46:00] You see the very soul that you've placed in this man.
[01:46:03] And so we pray, oh God, that every, Father God, person that he's supposed to touch, let it be done right now in the name of Jesus Christ.
[01:46:11] Nothing is too hard for you, oh God.
[01:46:14] And so we pray that it be done.
[01:46:15] We pray, oh God, that his story, Father God, be told, that it be accomplished right now in the name of Jesus.
[01:46:22] We seal it with agreement.
[01:46:23] We seal it with prayer.
[01:46:25] We seal it, Father God, with the power of the Holy Spirit right now in Jesus' name we pray.
[01:46:31] Amen.
[01:46:32] Amen.
[01:46:32] Amen.

[01:46:33] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_08]:
Amen Holden can y'all come see me after church I want to just tell you one thing it's a good thing it's a come on everybody let's thank Jesus let's thank Jesus for his goodness and his grace that he cares enough about Holden he cares enough about you he cares enough about me to say he knows you he sees where you're at and every need he is providing amen speaking of need the Bible says Philippians 4 19
[01:46:59] that God supplies all of your needs according to what his riches not your riches I know some of our bank accounts might be looking a little sketch after Christmas okay and maybe looking a little funky but we gave all we could and let me tell you something according to his needs and his riches that's where I'm at I'm like you know what my I have a very wealthy father and he is he owns the cattle on a thousand hills and every need that I have
[01:47:26] He will provide and it goes way beyond money y'all it goes way beyond money we get stuck in the money issue you know in Africa let me just bust our bubble here in America you know in Africa they value prayer so much they pay people to pray there's intercession going around 24 7 at most churches and they pay them that's their job that's how that I can't that's that will make someone get mad in America you don't pay for prayer no they value it so much
[01:47:52] In different cultures and different things and and I wish that I my prayer is that everybody goes to Africa because we literally like our lives have been changed because of the visiting that beautiful nation amen and we have just so many prophet Gideon papa so many amazing people in our life that are intricately tied into Africa and what God's doing over in that nation it's awesome
[01:48:13] it's awesome and I lived over there I don't know if y'all know this about me but Brad and I lived over there for one year I loved it I like to drive crazy anyway so I just fit right in I mean no stoplights no no I think they got more now but I just man that was my flow over there and then I like spicy food so that just was another thing I was like maybe I'm Ghanaian and I don't even know it okay but uh but it might be southern
[01:48:40] We want to get unstuck.
[01:48:56] We want to understand the principle of sowing and reaping.
[01:49:00] And I shared different things within my message.
[01:49:02] I specifically told you about how God provided for me for finances.
[01:49:06] But guess what?
[01:49:06] God's not only provided for finances.
[01:49:08] He gave me children.
[01:49:10] That He's done things in my life that only God can do, that money can't buy.
[01:49:14] Okay?
[01:49:14] There's certain things in your life, money, it means nothing with money.
[01:49:18] But when you go to the Father, He knows every need and He's going to make a way for you.
[01:49:23] So it's time to give to the Lord.
[01:49:24] Are y'all ready to give this morning?
[01:49:26] Are y'all ready to give?
[01:49:27] I'm going to get, can you grab me an offering envelope?
[01:49:31] I didn't get to fill mine out this morning.
[01:49:34] you online it's time to give we are so grateful for our online viewership and and those who continue to give this Christmas Eve if you weren't able to make it we were out in the community y'all and we were giving out hundreds of toys it was amazing thank you Jonah thank you every volunteer every staff thank you everyone who came out
[01:49:54] we did candlelight service in the middle of the community we literally gave out gifts the lines of kids and then we had extra gifts left over and guess what your pastor did guess what pastor Brad did he took those gifts and he gave them to the harbor house and he came and he gave them and he sewed to the mamas to babies who are in hiding in this holiday season who needed hope and help
[01:50:19] Oh, come on, we can do better than that.
[01:50:20] That's the local church we're a part of.
[01:50:22] We didn't stay stuck in a building.
[01:50:24] And I love candlelight services in the building and all that has its place.
[01:50:28] But we went out into the community.
[01:50:30] Pastor Paula was there.
[01:50:31] Pastor John.
[01:50:33] We had worship.
[01:50:34] We did acapella.
[01:50:35] It was an awesome time.
[01:50:36] And there were some young people there.
[01:50:37] They were crying because they were so touched.
[01:50:41] And they were realizing that was their Christmas.
[01:50:43] Those people in that line, I had a couple different families say, thank you.
[01:50:47] This is all we got this Christmas.
[01:50:48] Thank you for giving these toys to my babies.
[01:50:50] That's right here, five minutes down the road in America, okay?
[01:50:55] Not Africa, in America.
[01:50:57] The great need even for finances, the great need even for toys, and we went out into the community.
[01:51:03] That's the church that you're a part of.
[01:51:04] That's the church, that's the ground that you're sowing into, amen?
[01:51:08] And then your pastor's heart just, he was even, he was just out continuing, he was staying out so late.
[01:51:14] He's like, I gotta go do this, I gotta go do this.
[01:51:16] even over what he needed to do at that moment he was not gonna give he was make sure every toy was given out isn't that beautiful i love it i love it that matters to the heart of the father so online you're going to see a couple ways to give cash app you can give cash app paypal you can go to storylifechurch.com in-house are y'all ready i hope y'all got to write something down we like to bring it up to the altar we like to give because this is showing that we're in covenant
[01:51:46] Covenant is different than contract.
[01:51:48] Contract is you do this, I'll do that.
[01:51:51] No, no.
[01:51:51] Covenant is we can fail and God still keeps his part because he's a covenant keeping God.
[01:51:57] Amen.
[01:51:58] Let's stand to our feet.
[01:51:59] Let's bring our giving right down to the altar.
[01:52:01] Amen.
[01:53:13] Lord, we love you.
[01:53:14] We thank you that we're in covenant with you, that you are the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that you are our God, that you always come through, that late in the midnight hour, God, you come through.
[01:53:29] You are who you say you are, but we get to trust you.
[01:53:33] We get to walk through life every moment with you because you are who you say you are.
[01:53:39] You are a faithful God.
[01:53:40] Lord, our faith is together.
[01:53:42] Lord, my faith is with my brother and sister here in the house.
[01:53:45] Father, for every need they have, relationally, spiritually, mentally, emotionally, financially,
[01:53:50] God every need that they have Lord as we give to the altar we don't take it lightly Lord we get to give we get to sow and when we get to put our faith on what your word says and when we partner with you God we see the provision and the promises of God because all of your promises are yes and amen and so we enforce that over story life we enforce that over our destiny we enforce that oh come on church open up your mouth we enforce that over your relationships begin to call out your spouse's name
[01:54:17] begin to call out your children's name begin to call out every assignment that God's given you but we enforce that God as we give this morning we do this knowing that we are operating out of principle and because of that we will see the promises of God we thank you for your goodness and your mercy in this area in Jesus name and everybody say it amen amen before we close I want to give you just a moment you online you in the house
[01:54:45] If you need to rededicate your life to Jesus, you know, when I said no one's promised tomorrow, you don't know what tomorrow may hold, but I want to give you an opportunity.
[01:54:55] Maybe you haven't walked with the Lord, maybe you just need to recommit your life, and whatever the case may be, you online or in the house, I want to take one moment and we're going to pray this prayer.
[01:55:05] Y'all ready?
[01:55:05] And if that's you, you can just...
[01:55:08] right where you are you can just open up your mouth and declare this as prayer and you online I want to say this with you and then I want you guys to just be committed to the house of God be committed to the word of God be committed to being here every Sunday because we're getting ready for 2026 and there's incredible things coming and and there's also situations where you're going to need to know how to hear God's voice clearly for yourself and you're going to need God's word
[01:55:35] And this is a place that equips you.
[01:55:38] Everything else in this life is not equipping you.
[01:55:40] It's working against you.
[01:55:42] It's working against your faith.
[01:55:44] It's working against your mind.
[01:55:45] It's working against who God wants you to be.
[01:55:47] But this is the place that's working for you in every area for you to be who God wants you to be.
[01:55:53] Amen?
[01:55:54] so look at your neighbor and keep someone accountable say i got you i got you friend you're not going to be alone in 2026 i got you i got you so i want you if that's you you can just everybody bow their head if you just want to say this prayer right there and rededicate your life if you want to come down to the altar pastor greg pastor tawana are here to help pray if you want to talk to someone you know you got to just declare that it says believe in your heart admit that you're a sinner believe in your heart that jesus is lord and you shall be saved
[01:56:23] Jesus paid the ultimate price so father right now we thank you we thank you God that you had a plan a plan of redemption a plan of redemption for our life and his name is Jesus that you sent his son your son John 3 16 that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life and Lord in this house to online but we open up our mouth you already let's say this say Jesus
[01:56:50] right now i believe that you died and that you rose again that you've written my name and the book of life thank you jesus i turn from my ways and i say yes to you thank you for salvation i receive this free gift in jesus name amen if you believe that
[01:57:15] Amen.
[01:57:17] Amen.
[01:57:17] It is done for your life.
[01:57:18] Rededication you online.
[01:57:21] Stay connected with us throughout the week.
[01:57:23] We're going to update you about New Year's Eve, so be on social media with us to find out what we're doing.
[01:57:28] We will update you soon.
[01:57:30] Within the next 24 hours, we're going to get it out.
[01:57:32] So we want to stay connected throughout the week.
[01:57:35] We are praying for you.
[01:57:36] We have intercessory prayer every other Tuesday in the house.
[01:57:39] When's our next feeding?
[01:57:40] We have our feedings every other Monday.
[01:57:43] Is it tomorrow?
[01:57:45] The fifth.
[01:57:46] Thank you, Elder Harold.
[01:57:47] The fifth.
[01:57:48] Mark your calendars.
[01:57:49] January 5th, we will have our first feeding, and it's going to be incredible.
[01:57:54] We have the lines wrapped around the buildings.
[01:57:56] Hundreds of families are fed and blessed.
[01:57:58] So we just, we're grateful for you.
[01:58:00] We're excited about going into 2026.
[01:58:02] Y'all ready to say goodbye to 2025?
[01:58:04] Y'all ready to say goodbye?
[01:58:05] There are some battles that I fought that are being settled, and we're going into 2026 thriving.
[01:58:12] Amen.
[01:58:12] Let's stand to our feet.
[01:58:13] Let's say this right now.
[01:58:14] Ready?
[01:58:15] for I know the story I have for you a life of a hope and a future in Jesus mighty name I love you Story Life family we'll see you very soon oh and if this was your first time I know I talked to a couple families come see me over here or your first time back to Story Life in a while please come see me over here I want to talk to you for just a moment God bless you

[01:58:47] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]:
In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

[01:58:57] [SPEAKER UNKNOWN]:
Amen.
[02:01:42] Thank you.