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[00:01:00] Speaker A: Good morning. What's up, Mosaic?
How are you guys feeling this morning?
Pretty good. Yes. Awesome. Hey, when you walked in, you probably saw one of these guys. If you did not, you might be sitting on it.
But we're gonna be talking about this, so just make sure you have this close to you. So, you know, recently someone asked me, how often do you travel? Now, those of you who've been a part of Mosaic, you know, for, like, you know, maybe this year, you're like, yeah, I mean, this guy's always gone. Or it seems like he's always gone. And I don't. I don't travel a whole lot. It's just a. I am traveling this tonight as well. But anyways.
But I gotta tell you, I get to do that, and I'm so grateful for it. But I just.
I love the fact that we are able to, even this week, go speak at a conference and talk about how we do church and how Mosaic is making a difference and just changing the way, reclaiming what church looks like in diversity and unity. So proud of you guys. It's because of you I get to go do things. So it's your fault. It's your fault. You're so good. You're so good. Now, in my travels, because I have traveled a lot, I've had moments that have marked me for life. Okay? In particular, several years ago, I was in. Let's see. In Springfield, Missouri. Okay. At an airport there. And I showed up to leave because I'd already done an event, and it was Saturday, Sunday afternoon, and it was no one there. Okay? This was years ago. No one there. And when. I mean no one there, I don't mean, like, there's not a lot of people there. There's no one there. As in just the person who's like, you know, security person, tsa. Yeah. Just one lady. I'm like, this is like, this is back in the day. I don't know when. How. How long it was. Anyways, so I'm there and I'm going through putting my stuff. And this is before I had, you know, TSA precheck any pre Check people in the house.
Okay. Wow, that was aggressive. Yeah, I know. It's a good thing, right? You're like, can you ever go back? No. Wow. Yeah, I know. So this is before that. This is before that. So I show up and I gotta do my thing. You know, you gotta take the shoes off and do. And walking through going through a thing. And when I come to her and there's no one around me, she looks at me straight up, and she goes, sir, you've been randomly selected now. It's so funny. Yes. Right.
When she started with that, I was like.
And she kept on going to be da, da. And I'm like, ha, ha. And I was out. And she said. She looked at me and she goes, sir, do you have any weapons in your.
Right now? At that point, I froze, as in, like. And it was awkward because I was like, I'm not freezing because I do have weapons. I'm freezing because I feel like I don't know stuff. This English is my third language, but I feel like when you have. You have to have more than one person to have a random selection.
There is no one here.
And so I was like, no, I do not have any weapons, and I'm not a terrorist, you know, whatever. And went through, got checked, the whole thing. I'm like, there's no one here. Anyways, needless to say, that marked me.
Marked me. Have you ever had moments in your life that have marked you?
Right. I mean, some of us have had funny moments. Some of us have been like, you know, just like, oh, my gosh. Overcoming moments. Maybe celebratory moments. We have moments like baby dedication, which is huge. And if you're wondering what's going on, we have a Jacuzzi here.
This is actually. We're gonna get baptized. Someone's gonna get baptized. Olivia's gonna get baptized. And we're so, so excited about that. We love baptisms, and it's marking moments. And so today, what I wanna talk about is this. I want you to mark moments. Mark moments when what, God moves or when God moves you, I want you to mark Those moments. Are you good at marking moments? I'm not that good at it, but I feel like God's saying, hey, when I do some things in your life, I want you to mark them. Because the truth is, friends, the truth is, is that sometimes we go through our lives and we have moments where we've overcome, or we go through crisis, we go through a divorce, and it's marked us negatively. It's marked us. We lose someone, we lose a family member, and it marks us.
But, see, what God wants us to do is he wants us to live a life where we're actually marking moments, where significant moments in our life, we're the ones in control of marking moments when God moves in our life. And so I want us to consider, is there something going on in your life? Are you going through a moment in history? Are you going through a season where you need to, in fact, mark this moment somehow?
And so today, I wanna talk about why it's so important for you to do that and how we can do that. I know as Mosaic, we are in a moment. We're in a moment where we are going to be able to purchase this space next door. And this is gonna change a lot of things. It's gonna be a great thing. And we've been doing a series called Legacy. Obviously, we're transforming lives together. We're believing God that we're gonna raise a million dollars. And it's amazing because 25% of people.
Sorry, 25% of the pledges have already come through. It's been crazy. So we've already raised 25% in pledges. And what we're doing here is we're having a conversation about the fact that God wants us to go after this big goal that we've had for a long time. And I just feel like right now we're in a moment that we need to mark. Because some of us, and I know you personally, you contributed, and you're giving, and you're sacrificially committed to something. And it's a big number. It's a big number. And I want you to remember that God wants you to remember that moment where he moved you and you stepped out in faith and did something. And so what I wanna do is I want you to know this, that this thing that I told you to keep close to you, I want you to mark this moment. If you, especially those of you who are, like, you, feel like I'm so invested in the fact that we're buying the space and we've got plans to Expand our ministry and, you know, do all the things we've talked about. Those.
I want you to write down a feeling, a prayer that you have for us as a church, for you, for your family as a church. Because the beautiful thing. The beautiful thing about, like, being here, a part of Mosaic, those of us who've been here for a long time, because as a church, we've been going on for 20 years, we have moments where our kids have grown up and now have gotten, you know, dedicated and.
And baptized, and now they're leading things. I mean, we've seen some amazing things, and that's why we did the timeline. Do you guys see the timeline out there? And as you guys are marking some things, and it's beautiful. And so what I want you to do is I want you to mark, put down a prayer, a feeling, a thought that you have right now, a hope. And I want you to pin those on these spaces right here. You see this black little wooden post there? I want you to just tie a knot, write something down, and just hang those. And we wanna do that for the couple of weeks. And I want to save these. I want to save these for years to come. Because when we put these in the new space, I want us to remember, hey, this is. I remember this moment. I remember this moment where God called me up, when God moved me, or when God moved on our behalf, because it's so important to do that. You know, we kicked off the series, we talked about Joshua, and so we're going to be in the book of Joshua. The book of what? Joshua. It is in the Old Testament. New Testament.
Old Testament. Okay. So we're gonna jump right into it.
The verses are on your app as well. If you got a Bible, that's great as well. So let's jump in. Joshua one says this. It says, I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised. As I promised. Who?
Moses. Okay. As I was with Moses. So I will be with you. I will never leave you.
I will never forsake you. And then he says this. I won't leave you. But I. I want you to do this. I want you to be. What?
One more time. I want you to be. What? Strong. Strong and courageous. Okay. Say it like you got excited about tsa. Okay. Pre check. Okay. Okay. We say strong and courageous. Strong and courageous. Yes. I want you to be strong and courageous because you will lead these people. And it's gonna be hard if you lead these people. If you're led people. Hello. It's gonna be hard These people to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to give them.
You know, when the kids were my kids, they're all Grown Up Now, 1922. But as they were the kids when they were younger, bedtime for me, I used to pray one prayer over them. In fact, it got to a point where Nura was like, do you know any other verses?
She's like, why do you pray the same thing again and again? I prayed this for years over them. I would just go and pray, say the same thing. I'd be like, God, I just pray that they would be strong and courageous. Strong and courageous, God. And so Nura one time just asked me, she's like, why do you pray that? And I said, hey, I cannot pray that. You would never have struggles and you'll never fear.
But I can pray that when you are scared and when you are anxious and you're going through some rough times, that you would choose not to be afraid. You would choose to be strong and courageous. So that's my prayer over. So I've prayed this prayer over my kids for decades. Still. Do I believe this? Because when God calls you and me into a spiritual life, he calls us. It's not just like, hey, I believe in Jesus. Go to heaven. No, no, no, no, no. It's so much more. It's so much more. Since God's calling you to live fully and fully alive. And what that means is that you're gonna have be.
You're gonna have to choose your adventure. You're gonna have to choose.
Are you going to go and do the things that God's called you to do? Big things, lead people, do some things in your life that are going to flip you out. As in, you're going to lose your mind, being so scared to death. Or are you gonna play it safe? God's saying, I want you to live a life that you need. You need to be strong and courageous. You need this cause. That's the life I created you to live. And for so many of us, we're living a life that truly, we're living a life that's honestly just safe.
Safe. I remember being an early Christian. You know, people always talk about praying safe. And I remember the first college Christian trip I took, people were like, okay, we're praying for. What do you call it. Call this thing Protection. Yes. Traveling mercies. They called it traveling mercies. It's like, what's that? What's a traveling mercies? And they're like, oh, we're just going to pray that we're Going to. We won't. You know, we'll be safe.
I was like, man, what is the deal with Christians? Just wanna be safe. How about we become dangerous?
I mean, how come. How come we always wanna be safe? And guess what? It's not happening. That prayer has not been answered. So I would just stop. You know what I'm saying? Let's pray for something else. And God says, hey, I'm calling you to do something, and it's gonna require you to be strong and courageous. And then he says this. He says, I want you to do something because I'm gonna move on your behalf. But. But I want you to mark the moment where I move. And he did this for Joshua. So right before they go into the promised land, they have to cross this big river. It's the Jordan River. They gotta cross this thing. Okay? And this is a moment where God speaks to Joshua and says, hey, I'm just gonna let you know that you're going to lead these people through this. And what's gonna happen. What's gonna happen is that people are gonna be like, oh, my goodness. They're gonna remember this moment. People are gonna remember this moment. But I need you to remember this moment. This is the big moment. This is the one big thing that you have to do. And this is symbolic because you're crossing over the Jordan river. And Moses crossed over the Red Sea. Yeah, he did. So this is a big moment. I want you to mark it. So let's find out what he says in Joshua 4.
It says, Go over to. To the ark of the Lord your God in the middle of the Jordan River. Okay, each of you is to take up a stone on his. What, shoulder? According to the number of the tribes of Israel. How. How many tribes were there?
Okay, how many disciples were there? 12.
Twelveish.
Yes, the 12. 12. 12. There's nothing to do with the message. Okay, okay, so 12.
And he says to serve as a sign among you.
Then he says, and guess what? And in the future, when your children ask you, what do these stones mean?
Tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord. When it crossed the Jordan, the water of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever.
Forever.
Several years ago. I mean, a decade ago. So we were in Hawaii, and, you know, if you've ever been. It's kind of crazy. Again, got to speak there.
And my. My kids were younger, and Asher was like, I want to take a souvenir. And I was like, that's fine. That's fine. He's like, do you think I can take a lava rock? Lava rock? You know, original lava rock from Hawaii? And I'm like, yeah, I guess you can. I guess you can. And I was like, I didn't think anything of it. And then we show up to go through pre check and not pre check. We didn't have pre check. We go through. Go through the security thing. And I've got my own issues with security, you know what I'm saying? Okay. And then I notice his backpack, and he's got this small rock. Let me just show you. He has this.
This.
Yes.
I was like, asher, what? He's like, you told me that I could do it. I was like, yeah, but I was thinking, what?
Yeah, I wasn't thinking of Boulder.
And I'm like, bro, I don't know if it's going to be possible. I said, but your backpack is carrying it, not mine.
And he got it through.
I know he got it through. He got it through. So what's happening here? What's happening here is God says to these people, he says, we're gonna go through the river. But here's what I want you to do, okay? I want you to take the priests who are carrying the Ark of the Covenant. So these priests were carrying the ark, and they're going through the water. And I want you to hang tight there, okay? Stand in the middle of it. Now, the 12 elders, I want them to go down and pick up a stone or a rock, right? A stone. Now, what's interesting about that is that it was a stone, and they said, put it on your, what?
Shoulder? Which means it wasn't a situation. Like, if I was one of the tribes, I'm like, you didn't specify how big.
Cause how long am I carrying this thing? How long am I carrying this thing? They're like, no big enough to carry on your shoulders. Like, oh, we're doing this now? We're doing this now. And so what's happening? God is saying, I want you to do something special here. And then I want these. About a million people or so.
About a million people or so to cross the river.
Big river. How many people?
A million people or so. You know how long it takes?
How long are these guys carrying this thing? They're just carrying it and holding onto it. He says, I want you to hold onto it. Hold onto it, because here's what's gonna happen. Okay?
I want you to do this as a sign because I'm about to do something amazing. And what happened is, is when they did this, the water was cut off and the people crossed over it.
See, what God wants us to do is when we mark moments where God moves by symbolism, it allows us to really be grateful. You notice you can't rush gratitude.
You can't rush it because gratitude requires you to slow down and just consider and see what's really going on and how God has actually moved in my life. And God says, hey, when all the excitement's happening, when all the crisis is happening, whatever, in all the things, there are so many emotions. I want you to just slow down and just consider.
I want you to pick up something. I want you to carry it. Some of you, I want you to carry it, because there are others are gonna be walking. See, there are some of you. You in your life, you are the one who's leading this thing.
You're the priest.
You might be the leader in your family, in your friends.
And some of you in this moment, maybe with your family, maybe with your friends, God's saying, hey, things are happening. I want you to pick up a rock and I want you to carry it for all the other people in your life, and I want you to carry this as long as they cross over. And it's gonna wait. It's gonna take a minute to cross over, but I want you to carry it. See, of you, this is so important because we don't understand that when God wants us to mark moments in our lives, it's for us. It's for us, but it's also for our friends, and it's also for the world. It's for our people, but it's also for the peoples of the world. He says, I want you to do this. I want you to do this. And for some of us, we have a hard time with this.
It goes on. It says, so Joshua commanded the priests come out of the Jordan, and the priests came up from out the river carrying the Ark of the Covenant. No sooner, it says, no sooner had they set their feet on dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to its place and ran as a flood stage as before.
See, when I think of this, I think of how God says, hey, I want you to take this temporary miracle. It's a miracle, but I want you to mark it. Because when you mark it, when you mark it, a temporary miracle becomes like a permanent memory in your life.
It becomes that. See, sometimes we go through life going, I don't know if God's with me. I don't know if God's doing anything. We go through seasons. Maybe you're in one. You're like, I don't even know if God's talking to me.
Truth is, he has been. You know? He has been. Well, you're like, I don't know. Because you haven't marked those moments. You haven't written down something, you haven't journaled. You haven't put it down somewhere to remind yourself. Because, friends, I will tell you again and again and again, sometimes faith is really about remembering.
Remembering all the things that God has done and said he would do. And you just have to remember that. That God moved. And he'll do it.
He'll do it again. He'll do it again.
And for some of us, I want you to be encouraged.
You're not on dry ground as of yet.
As of yet, but you're close.
You're close. For some of you, you're like, you know what? I'm crossing over. Or some of you are like, I'm carrying something and no one else is carrying it. I know. And you're carrying it. Let me just tell you, you're carrying something, okay? You're carrying this pain, you're carrying this moment. You're carrying your family. And yes, this is the boulder. This is the stone. But I want you to know you're carrying it. And it's not because it's easy for you.
And some people might live in your world and they might go, yeah, you can carry this. Naeem, you can carry this because you're more spiritual. You can carry this. No, no, no, no, no. It's heavy. It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter because it doesn't matter how heavy the stone is. If you're carrying it as long, I don't know, good part of a day for a million people to cross over. It's gonna get heavy for some of us. I just wanna encourage you.
You're carrying this, and I know it's not easy. It's not easy.
You feel like you've been carrying your family for a while. It's not easy.
It's not easy.
You're carrying it because you care.
You care, and that's awesome. That's great.
You might be called to do that.
You might be called to do that because the reality is, as we walk through our lives, they're friends of ours, they're going through things and they can't stop and pick up a stone and carry it. All they can do is just go through this river and you need to be the one holding it.
You need to be the one. But then he says, but when you. Whatever you're carrying, take it with you and take this burden. Take this moment. Take this. And I'm gonna make a memorial out of this.
So I don't know what you're carrying right now, but whatever you are carrying, I need you to create a memorial with it. I need you to mark this moment.
He goes on, Joshua, it says here, he said to the Israelites, he says, let me tell you why this is so important. He says, in the what in the future?
He said, in the future, your descendants.
Your descendants will ask their parents, what do these stones mean? Tell them, Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.
Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground. For the Lord your God dried up the Jordan.
Because before you, until you had crossed over, the Lord your God did do.
Did to the Jordan what he had done to the Red Sea. And when he dried it up before us, until we had crossed over, he did this.
Who is this God? God did this so that all the people of the what earth might know that the hand of the Lord is powerful and so that you might always fear the Lord your God, because, you know, he is awesome.
He's so big.
You see, the reason why we need to carry this, These stones, the reason why we need to mark this is not just for ourselves, not just for our people, but for the world. Why? Because when we mark things, moments in our life, when we do the things that God's called us to do, what we actually do is re. Reveal how God moves in power and how he can.
In fact, some of us.
God's asking you to maybe give sacrificially, maybe do something, maybe change direction. Can we change careers? I don't know what the moment is for you, but he's asking you to do. To step into it, to be strong, courageous, and do that. He says, I want you to do this. I want you to experience this miracle. Because when you do this, when you mark it, when you mark this moment, when you maybe take one of these things and write down a prayer, because you're giving financially to it, and this is connected to a prayer, and you put it on there, the future generations will ask, hey, what was this all about?
It signifies this to the world. It signifies that you have reclaimed something. You see, when we act, when we move in obedience, we set the stage for other people to follow our steps.
See, friends, when you become a part of Mosaic, when you guys.
We have an amazing volunteer staff. When you volunteer, you make Mosaic the way it is. Like, if you're a part of Mosaic. You've just been visiting or you've just been attending online, and you're just new to this, and you love this. This is because of the people who have given so much, who've carried so many stones for a long time and built something, because they've carried this. And what they've done is they've created a place. Now, that's reclaiming. Check this out. That's reclaiming your faith in God.
Because some of us. And I've heard you, you're like, you know what? If Mosaic ceased to exist, I don't know where I'd go to church.
Some people told me, I don't even know if I would go to church.
I just don't know if I would go to church.
Because Mosaic is just. It's just different. It's just. I don't know what it is, but it's not because we're special. It's just that we're reclaiming people's faith in God. Why? Because we're carrying things, carrying heavy burdens. We're carrying sacrifice. And then God's saying, I want you to mark them because they will speak to the next generation.
That's why we've used the Psalm 145 as our main thing. It says here, one generation will declare your works to what the next and proclaim your mighty acts. See, what is God doing? He's inviting us to do something. He is inviting us to write stories. Check this out. He's inviting us to write stories that future generations will tell.
Parents, God is inviting you to write a story with your life and your obedience and your passion and your commitment to Jesus, your engagement in the work of God. He's calling you. He's inviting you to write a story that the future generations will tell.
It's so much bigger than us. And we don't realize when we mark things, it's not just for us, not just for our people. It's for the world that we have no idea. Because, you know, the world is big, but it's also so small. Right? You've heard the idea, the concept of six degrees of separation, right? The whole idea is that two people are. They're always connected by six degrees. I mean, like, basically, someone, you know, knows someone. Someone, like everybody. Everybody's connected. And I kind of see that sometimes when I go to places, I'm like, oh, I meet people that I'm like, oh, I didn't know. And you've been to Mosaic, and you've turned around during 60 seconds. And you're like, what, what are you doing here? You know, and you know, and you're, you know, and people are like, I'm here. What are you doing here? You know, it's crazy. Or they'll know each other. Why? Because we're interconnected. See, what you are doing right now matters. And it might not feel that way, but it does.
So several years ago, I think some of you guys know this. Like after, after 9 11, my mom, she got deported.
And I mean, you know, recently we've had all kinds of ICE issues here, but after 9 11, they were just deporting so many people and my mom got deported over just the technicality and they sent her back and we didn't know what to do. And so my family, so I've got two brothers, two sisters, we were all here. I was the only one that has citizenship, okay? We were all trying to work through it because I'm immigrant, we had to get a green card. Then you gotta wait forever and you gotta, you know, then they lose your stuff. Cause that has to happen. And then, then they finally give you that. And that was 10 years in the making. So I had it, I had it. Here's the issue. My mom was there. I had to go to the American Embassy in Pakistan. Okay? They're like, okay, Naeem, why don't you go? Well, here's the problem, friends, here's the problem. The problem was that I'm an ex Muslim. And if you guys know anything about that, the Sharia law forbids that in fact punishes death. So I had gotten religious asylum. That means refugee status. I was, I was a spiritual or religious refugee here in the States.
And the country that was going to persecute me or sentence me or execute me would be Pakistan. So my mom's stuck in Pakistan. We're trying to figure out if I should go back to Pakistan. Who thinks that's a great idea.
My wife was like, no way. Actually was like, no way. And I was like, hun, I think I gotta go, I gotta go. I think I gotta go. My cousins don't know I'm a pastor. My mom's like, hey, listen, no one knows you're a pastor. No one knows you're a Christian. I don't know if you can. I don't know. And I was like, mom, I gotta come, I gotta figure it out. So I smuggled myself into Pakistan.
I went into Pakistan, okay? I did it, didn't tell anybody, went in.
And I was like, no one knows, no one knows. And so we went to the American Embassy and trying to figure things out, and I thought everything was good. And right before, a couple of days before I left, my cousin, he's an older man, he looked at me, you know, we're just talking. And he was like, hey, by the way, I know who you are.
And I was like, ah, yeah, of course you do, Naim.
And he was like, no, I know.
And I was like, okay.
So we're in this room, a lot of people there, and he just says this to me. And I was like, okay. He said, tomorrow morning we're gonna go somewhere.
And I was like, okay, don't tell your mom friends. I was like. I was like, oh, gosh, I think I'm gonna get executed.
He didn't tell me anything else. I was like, I didn't call Ashley.
I didn't tell my mom. I was like, okay. And I was like, jesus, what's happening?
What's happening? The next day, he's like, hey, get in the car.
I was like, so I don't know if you guys can imagine this. I didn't know. But I'm driving, and we're going to a place, and he's not talking to me.
And I'm like, oh, it's happening.
Okay, okay, I'm good. I'm good. So we go. Go to this house.
Everything turns around. It's like, we go to this house, and I walk in, and there's this lady there with a. Like, a Catholic priest.
And I was like, what is happening? So I walk in, sit down, and this woman, she introduces herself, and she goes, hey, I.
I found out that you're actually now a pastor. You're a Christian pastor?
And I said, yeah.
She goes, I was.
I was your mom's best friend growing up.
I was her Christian neighbor, and I prayed prayers for you.
And I was like, huh?
She's like, and I prayed that Jesus would show himself to you.
And now I can't believe it.
And I was like, okay, I'm not getting executed. I'm good.
And I was like, what?
She was like, yeah, I felt God was telling me to pray over Belkis. That's my mom's name. Over her family and her kids.
When I was just her neighbor all those years in Pakistan and she was Muslim. And I couldn't tell her I was praying for her because they're Christians in Pakistan, but they just stick to their own kind. That was her neighbor. And I said, my mom never told me about you.
She's like, yeah.
And I'm like, oh, My gosh.
I said, hey, also, I just want you to know all my siblings are followers of Jesus too.
She was like, no.
I was like, yeah.
She was like, all this time I prayed, I never thought it would really happen.
Whew. Right?
So I just wonder, could God be calling you to do a work, to carry a burden?
It's a prayer that you're just like God. I don't see this happening ever.
But I'm just gonna pray. I'm just gonna believe, just gonna believe. And you never know.
You never know how God is gonna use it.
So, man, is God speaking to you?
Is God telling you to do something, to believe something?
God's doing something in your life. Do you need to mark it?
If you're still wondering if you should, you need to mark it.
You need to mark it.
Mark that moment because it will be a memorial to the power and the grace and the goodness of God in your life.
So let's do that together.
Let's ask God, what do you want me to mark?
It doesn't matter for who. Maybe it's for myself, maybe it's for my people. Maybe it's for the world. I don't know. But what do I need to mark?
And let's move towards what God's calling us to do.
So during response time, I want you to think about this. Maybe take this home. Maybe you know.
You know exactly what you want to put on this. Well, yeah, write something, tie a knot to it and hang it on there.
Or if others of you, you want to just take it home, and you're like, I think this is connected to what I want to give. And, okay, then just let's. Let's. On the 29th, in a couple of weeks, we're all going to come together, and I'm going to pray over those things. So maybe you want to wait for that. But whatever you have to do, let's mark what God's doing in our lives together.
Because you never know.
Can I pray for you, Lord? God, thank you. Thank you for our lives. Thank you for moments like this. Thank you for environments like this where we gather together, God, that we can have baby dedication. We can dedicate the future God, but we can also dedicate the present God, I thank you for what you're doing here in the midst of us.
God, your goodness follows us. Your purpose, God, pursues us.
So, God, I pray that as old as we might feel, or young as we are, God, your purpose is pursuing us.
So, God, I pray that we would step into it, mark it by obedience, by sacrifice, by risk, by faith, would mark it by carrying the burden that we're called to because we are the priest, we are leading the way for our friends.
We God, speak to us in Jesus name.
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