Tomorrow Needs You - Pastor Naeem Fazal

[00:00:01] Hey, guys, this is Naim, and you've reached the Mosaic Church Podcast. So excited that you're part of our listening community and love for you to be even more connected. So check out our website. There's more content there and there's more opportunities for you get connected in our ministries and events as well. Also, love for you to share this content. If this is blessed to you. I know that God wants to use you to bless other people with it, so share this podcast you will. Lastly, would you consider supporting this ministry? This is made possible by other people's generosity, and I'd love for you to pay it forward. [00:00:39] Join us to reclaim the message and the movement of Jesus together. So would you consider giving to this ministry? I know that God is able to do immeasurably more through us when we come together. Thank you so much. God bless you. Enjoy. [00:00:56] Good morning. [00:00:58] Hello. Hello. Hello. [00:01:00] How are you? [00:01:02] Awesome. Good. Well, hey, happy Father's Day to all the dads out there. Did we give them give you guys a hand clap? Yes, yes, yes. I want to honor my dad, actually. My dad passed away a couple of years ago, and, yeah, I was just reminded of him today, and I thought I'd share a pic with you of him because, you know, he was. He was gangster, man. He was gangster. So I've got a pick for you. Let's see if you can put up. Yeah. See, the hat sells it all. He's gangster. What? He's gangster. Ish. He's ish. Okay. Yeah, the original gangster. He is. And then we got another pic of him as well. Look at that guy. Handsome dude. Handsome dude. Miss him. Miss him. But you know what? I'm so glad that we are actually having a conversation. This is week three of our series, Tomorrow needs you. And the book is actually dedicated to my dad because it was a conversation that we had, and he believed that no one needed him. And so it's just been a great journey. [00:01:57] The fact that we are ending the series today with Father's Day, so it's awesome. So here's the deal. Last couple of weeks, I've been giving you some phrases if you've been following us along, but I want to give you one today. Okay? But I want to give a. I want to, like, maybe get you set up for this because, you know, here's the deal. Several years ago. Several years ago, I was speaking at a church, and it was a singles event and all that. And, yeah. And so I was like, you know what? I was talking to them about relationships and things like that. And how, you know, my wife and I, we have a relationship and how it's hard and all that. My mentor pastor would use a phrase when he was talking about relationships. He would say. When he was arguing with his wife, he would say, oh, my wife and I were having, you know, the other day, we were having some intense fellowship. [00:02:47] Okay? Intense fellowship. You guys know what I'm talking about. You know what intense fellowship means? What were they doing? They were. What? They were arguing. They were arguing, right? So intense fellowship. So I was like, you know what? I'm gonna use that, too. So I just was up there and I was like, yeah, yeah. The other day, my wife and I. [00:03:01] Things between my wife got really heated and loud. Honestly, I just gotta be honest about this. And, yeah, it was just like, wow. And, yeah. So the other day, my wife and I, Ash and I were having some intimate fellowship friends. And I did not know that I said intimate instead of intense. Now, those of you who know, what do you think? [00:03:23] What could it mean? What could it possibly mean? [00:03:27] Say it. Say. You can say it in church. You say it. [00:03:30] Sex. [00:03:31] Sex. That's what it meant. Okay? And I did not know. So I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was getting heated, guys, and it was loud, and I was like. And people are laughing just like this. I have no idea. I have no idea. I'm just talking to. I'm like, I'm killing this crowd. It's awesome. And then the end of the service, my wife comes up to me. She's like, hey, Ash. [00:03:50] She goes, do you know what you said? I'm like, yeah, I was killing it. She was like, you said intimate fellowship. And I was like, oh, what is. Oh, yeah. So I'm gonna give you a phrase, and hopefully we all know what it means. Okay? The phrase is this, okay? But here's a clue. It's not sexual, okay? It's roll up your sleeves. Okay, what does that mean? What does that mean? What does that mean? Work. It's time to What? [00:04:16] It's time to work. [00:04:18] It's time to do some stuff. So the last couple of weeks, the first week, I talked about how you're gonna break up with your past. You gotta break up with your past. And then last week, I talked about taking back control of your life. Today I wanna talk about this idea of rolling up your sleeves. Because I think for so many of us, we live our lives in such a way that, you know what? When we start a project, when we start a relationship, when we start something, it's Always great in the. [00:04:41] It's always. [00:04:43] It's a little rough, it's a little hard. [00:04:45] But the beginning is always, like, really full of emotion and you're excited and things are popping. They call it the honeymoon phase, right. Of things. And that's the same thing with your relationship with God. The same thing. It just. It starts off. And it's like. It starts off like, hey, this is gonna be great. And you know what's interesting is my life has been the same because, like, so I wrote two books, right? And the first one is called Ex Muslim. And this book was written 10 years ago. How many years ago? [00:05:13] 10 years ago. And this book is my story of me coming to faith supernaturally, but then also my siblings coming to faith supernaturally. I mean, there's a lot of stories, and that's why it's a lot thicker, you know? Yeah. And so. And it was great because this chronicles just supernatural things are happening in my life. And I don't know if you can relate of things like really just working. But then something happens, right? Something happens. Like there was a point in your life, if you thought about it right now, if you thought. If you thought about it. You know what? There was a point that I actually. I kind of feel like I actually believe God more than I do right now. Like, I feel like I used to, like, really was more positive. Like, maybe some of you were like, you know what? Honestly, I think I was more positive. I thought that things would be better off. But I don't know. These days, I look at my world, I look at the world, and I'm not quite sure. And when it comes to my relationship with God, I'm not quite sure if, you know, honestly, like, I don't know if I trust that things are gonna work out. And so what do we do? What do we do? Cause I know, I know for me, like, things were really great in this book. And then my mom gets deported right after 9, 11. And it was a big deal for us because God had done some amazing things to bring this whole family, this immigrant family from. I mean, we were Pakistanis. Mom and dad migrated to Kuwait. We were all born there. My mom. I mean, sorry, my brothers and sisters. And then we got to come to the States, and one by one, they all came and it was all working out. And when we were finally here, mom gets depressed and we don't know for how long. And it was for three years. And those three years, friends, I gotta tell you, I was losing my mind and losing my religion. You know what I'm saying, I'm like. And I was a pastor talking about how God is faithful and God's this and God's that and God's this. And in the middle of all of that, I'm going, yeah, but why are you not doing this? Like, why didn't you answer this prayer? Why was this happening? And I had to actually smuggle my way into Pakistan incognito because it's tough to go back to a Muslim country when you wrote a book called Ex Muslim. [00:07:15] And so I had to like go in and go get to the American embassy. And I'm like, in the middle of this. Ashley's stressed out. She's like, are you ever gonna get back if they find out all kinds of things? Because I had gotten asylum, religious status, amnesty from the US Government because Pakistan actually persecutes, if not persecutes sentences, if not sentences, kills ex Muslims. So I was like, oh, what is happening? [00:07:44] And then I tell you, there was 10 years difference between this book and the one I wrote. And in those 10 years, I just felt like it was. Things were just falling apart. I mean, I lost my dad and the anniversary of him, of his death, my brother in law passed away all of a sudden. And then some other things, other people, special people in my life passed away. And then there was a deep betrayal that I never thought would happen with me. And man, just things just started happening. And then Covid hit. Anybody remember Covid still small little pandemic global thing. [00:08:21] And we lost not just our minds, but we lost so much friendships, people. [00:08:28] We came out of it, everybody was a little weird. Come on, let's just be honest. We were a little weird, okay? And then it was. Everything was weird, everything was strange. And I remember in our church, we lost so much. We lost so much. We had two campuses and we lost so much. We lost so many people, so much support, so much everything. And I remember going, I just don't know if I want to do this again. I don't want to do this again. [00:08:51] So could you be in a place like that? Could you be in a place where you're like, we built, built, built, built, built. I built, built, built. I did this, this, this, this. I built. I had it, I had it. We had it. We had it. I had the relationship, I had the life, I had the. I had everything I wanted. I had the job, I had the stability, I had whatever. I had the health. I had all those things. And you had it, and then you lost it. And then what do you do in the middle of that, what do you. What happens when something traumatic happens? [00:09:19] I think we lose the ability to see that tomorrow does need us, and we need to roll up our sleeves and start rebuilding again. So this morning, it's really about. I want you to recreate the future. That's what I want you to do. So there's a period in the life of Jewish people that it was pretty traumatic. [00:09:40] They were occupied by a king, Nebuchadnezzar. And what he did, which was unique, was he went into Jerusalem and then he split up families and he exiled some people from Jerusalem to Babylon. Now, I don't know about you, but in the Middle Eastern culture, family is what. It's everything, man. It's everything. It's all. It's all about family. It's all about family. He broke them up, and he did that. Now, what's ironic to me, though, and sort of surreal, when I first read this story years ago, I realized that Saddam Hussein, Saddam Hussein was the dictator of Iraq, and he invaded Kuwait, and he did the exact same thing. He came in and he started, like. He started exiling people to Iraq. He took the resources to Iraq. And so I'm like, this is so strange. I can see that. And people were being separated. [00:10:30] So I don't know if you can relate, but I think we all can. In some way. You can relate to the fact that there are times in our life that we lose something we built so hard, so much to create, so hard to create, and then we lose it. What do you do? What do you find? What happens when you find yourself kind of, in one sense, exiled in a season or exiled in a place you don't want to be. So in the middle of that, Jeremiah the prophet speaks God's message. And here's how he starts off. Okay. Just imagine this is what he starts off saying. Okay? I don't know if I would have said that, but this is what he says. He says. He says, this is what the Lord's heaven's army, the God of who? The God of what Israel says. Here's what he says. To whom? Who's he saying to this to? To the captives. To the captives. Who? He has. He has. Like. It seems like God's. Like, I'm owning this. I allowed this to happen. He has exiled from Babylon to Jerusalem. Okay, so what does he want to say? Okay, this is it. This is it. Let's lean in. What are you going to say? What are you going to say? The first thing he says is, what is it? [00:11:29] Build homes like, basically, roll up your sleeves. I'm sorry. Build homes. What do you mean, build homes? We just got exiled. We had a home in Jerusalem. We are now, where in Babylon? What do you mean? He says, build homes. And then he says something that you never want to say to anybody because it's not comforting. What does he say? And what plan? To what, Pack a lunch? You're gonna be here for a minute. I'm sorry, what? Then he goes on, he just gets even more crazy. He says, do what? He says, what? Plant what? [00:12:03] Plant. Garden. Who wants to plant a garden? Who? [00:12:07] Okay. Who likes planting a garden? Anybody in this crowd? Are. Okay, okay. Who's like, I will never plant a garden. Never, ever, ever. Yeah. You know what planting a garden takes, Sheldon? What does it take? It takes what? Dirt. [00:12:18] Thank you. It takes dirt. [00:12:21] Dirty. Okay, it rhymes with. [00:12:25] Yeah, Starts with a T. Sounds like time. [00:12:30] Time. [00:12:32] I mean, you can have all the dirt, all the water, but the one thing you have to do is what? Wait for it to stinking grow? [00:12:42] Wait. And so here Jeremiah says, I want you to plant gardens. And then I want you to. Like, they plant enough or plant where they actually produce fruit like you eat what they produce. And then I want you to do something else too. Besides build homes again. Besides plant gardens again. Besides staying, settle and nesting. Then again, I want you to also. What? [00:13:05] Marry. I want you to marry and have what? [00:13:09] Yeah, I want you to have kids. And then I want you to find spouses for them so they may have grandchildren. And then he says, what? I want you to multiply. Want you to multiply. And then he says this. Do not. Do not. What's the word? [00:13:24] Do not dwindle away. He says, basically, if you don't do those things, you're going to dwindle away. And then he says, I want you to work. Work for the peace and prosperity of the city where I have sent you. Like work in the season that you're in. Work in this. Oh, my gosh, we lost everything. Work. And then he says, pray to the Lord for it. For its welfare determines your welfare. Now, I see. See, here's the problem. I don't wanna hear this. What I wanna hear. Here's what I wanna hear. When something bad happens, I wanna hear. Hey, just hold on. Just hold on. It's just a season. [00:13:54] This too shall. [00:13:55] This too shall pass. Man, it's gonna happen. God's gonna show up. It's gonna happen. One of these days. One of these days it's gonna happen. Just don't plan to stay Here. No, no, no, no. God doesn't want this. God wants you somewhere else. No, no, no. This is gonna work out. It's gone. It's all. It's gonna be. It's gonna. It's just gonna turn around. It's gonna turn around. [00:14:12] In the middle of that, Jeremiah goes, hey, I want you to do this. That's what. Go plain, stay. And then he says this. He says, also, I want you to know this, okay? He says, this is also what God says. He says this. He says, do not let your prophets and your what, fortune tellers who are in the land of Babylon trick you. [00:14:37] Okay? What, are they tricking you? He said, don't listen to them. Don't listen to them. [00:14:42] Don't listen to your dreams. [00:14:44] Don't listen to all they were saying because they're telling you what lies in my name. What were they telling them? [00:14:51] What were these people telling them? [00:14:54] You know what they're telling them. [00:14:55] Hey, anytime now, God's gonna rescue you. [00:15:00] Don't plan to stay. [00:15:03] It's gonna be. It's just gonna be a second. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. They were basically telling them, hey, just hold on. You're gonna be rescued. [00:15:14] In the middle of that, God says, actually plan to stay. [00:15:21] I have not sent them. He says, I have not sent them. [00:15:26] And then he says something that no one wants to hear. Okay? He says, you're going to be in Babylon for how many years? [00:15:36] What is. [00:15:37] I'm sorry, what? [00:15:39] How many years? [00:15:40] How many. How many? [00:15:42] Seven. [00:15:44] 07. 07. 70 years. You're going to be in Babylon for seven years. First of all, let's play this out, okay? You hear this from Jeremiah, okay? Okay. You're 20 years old. You're like, all right, what's happening? What's happening? Hey, plan to stay. Okay. When are we leaving this place? [00:16:01] 70 years. [00:16:02] 70 years. See, I don't know about you, but if. When I go through things like this, here's what I need you to do. In Jesus name, I want you to go out and flat out lie to me. You know what I'm saying? I want you to just flat out lie. I'm like, hey, it's going to come around. It's going to. It's. It's just going to happen. It's going to happen. Don't worry about it. It's just going to change really quick. I don't want you to tell me, hey, actually, you're going to be really old when things turn around, you might not even make it. If you are 40 years old, how old will you be? [00:16:34] You'll be dead. That's how old you be, okay? Do you care anymore? [00:16:38] You don't even care. You're like, I'm sorry. I'm gonna go back 70 years from now. First of all, if I'm that old, I can't even see Babylon, Jerusalem. I don't know. [00:16:48] I mean. And then I want you to start. I. I can't do that. And then he says this. But. But after those 70 years, here's what's gonna happen. But then I will come and do for you all the good things that I have promised. And I will bring you what? [00:17:03] Whoop de doo. [00:17:05] I'm so old. [00:17:07] I just wanna stay there. If you've been there for 70 years, you don't even care what it is. I'm not moving. [00:17:13] First of all, everything hurts. Number two, I don't wanna move. I don't wanna do this. I don't. I don't wanna do all that. What does he say here? He's basically saying, here's what I need you to do. I need you. I need you to understand that you have to reconcile. You have to reconcile your past. [00:17:32] You have to. You have to. You have to. [00:17:35] You can't rehearse it. It was awesome. It was good. It was what it was. But you have to reconcile it. You just have to. You lost it, and it's not coming back again. See, some of us, we're not rolling up our sleeves and doing the work, and we're not engaging and recreating and rebuilding. We're not doing that because we haven't reconciled the past. Here's what we say. We say it's never going to be the same again. And, my friend, I will tell you, it is never going to be the same again. After the pandemic, the world was never the same again. It cracked in ways we don't even know how. [00:18:08] You were never the same again. It's never gonna be the same. And it. Yes, take the weekend, take the month, whatever. And you gotta mourn, and you gotta grieve and you gotta process and you gotta heal, but you gotta reconcile the past. Yes, it's not gonna be the same again. [00:18:24] I get it. [00:18:25] And then you gotta do this. You have to engage. [00:18:28] You gotta engage. The president, he says, hey, hey, hey, don't listen to these fortune tellers who are telling you, like, hey, it's gonna be just a long, a short time period of time. It's not gonna Be a short period of time. It's gonna take a lot of work. I need you to build. I need you to plant. I need you to marry. I need you to take a risk. I need you to get out there. I need you to do the things I know you had. The marriage you had, the relationship you had, the house you had. You had the job. I know, I know. But because of all the things you've lost, you're disengaged from the present. And you're not doing the things. You're just kind of. You're not even praying about anything. You stop praying about things. You remember that prayer you used to pray and didn't happen, and no, it didn't happen, and you just stopped doing it. And then he says, here's what I want you to do. I want you to partner with me and I want you to what? Recreate the. What? [00:19:18] The future. [00:19:20] The future. And this future. This future is not just for you. It's for your grandkids. [00:19:27] See here he says, hey, the promise I'm giving you is not just for you. The work you have to do is not just to turn your situation around. It's actually to create a generation or create an environment, create a family, create a world that exists for other people to step into. [00:19:47] See, the deep work that God's calling us to do is like, I need you to get to work right now because you are going to reclaim the future for the next generations of people. So when he says. He says, I need you to do all this. I need you to do this. And then after he says all that, like, all the work you gotta do, then he makes this promise that we just love to hear, but we just love to say it or recited, and we don't know the context. He says all this stuff, all this stuff. And then he says the most popular. One of the most popular passages is Jeremiah 29:11. And it says this, what he says. Then he says, listen. And then as he says, I know the plans I have. What for? You see, the people there were like, I don't like that plan. [00:20:36] I don't like that plan at all. With 70 years, we're stuck here for 70 years. I don't like that plan. He says, I know the plans I have for you. He's basically saying, God's saying, I see your future. Not just you, but your grandkids. [00:20:48] Not just your house, but the house you create. I see what you're going to leave, the legacy. [00:20:54] I know the plans I have for you. [00:20:56] Not for today, not for Tomorrow, but for someone else's tomorrow. So if you don't hear anything, someone else's tomorrow needs you to create something today. [00:21:08] You have to create and get to work today. [00:21:12] He says, I know the plans. I see these plans. And they are plans for what other good, not for disaster. [00:21:20] To give you what a future and a hope. And when he says give you, he's talking to a collective group. He's like, giving you. Because this, this message is to a. Not to an individual. It's to a collective. He says, I'm giving you guys, I'm giving your family a future and a hope. But you gotta put in the work to do this. Friends. I know, like, sometimes the world goes a different direction. And we're like, ah, I'm not, I'm not quite sure. I'm not quite sure. I find. I get that. I mean, I get it even. [00:21:50] I get it even, like when I look around the world. I mean, this past week, there were. There were all these protests that took place all over the US People protesting about how the direction that this country is going in. And you know what's interesting about that is I love it. I think it's. I think regardless of your politics and mine, I just think that there are people that if they don't press in and help and shape, create, then we're just going to allow other people or allow just whatever to create our world. But we have to reclaim it. We have to do it, we have to protest against it. You know what's interesting about that is like, I think of just in Church World, Church World, you have Catholics and then you have this other group, large group, it's Catholics. And help me out, what is it? Protestants. The word Protestant means to protest. [00:22:44] Martin Luther, the OG Martin Luther, he came against the Catholic Church and he protested. He was like, this is not the way. [00:22:52] This is not what God was saying. This is not how church is done. This is not it. Because the Catholic Church began to go a direction that they began to pay. They basically begin to ask people for money to forgive them of their sins. [00:23:07] They started doing that and he was like, it's not happening. This is not how we're supposed to do. And so I'm like, yes, let's get out there and make a difference. Let's make protest. That's basically saying, we're taking back, we're recreating. We're not gonna sit back and allow things to happen. And for some of us guys, you don't have to protest on the streets. You have to protest Your own soul. [00:23:32] Because your soul right now is just going, ah. [00:23:38] It's being shaped by the lack, the sorrow, the depression in your life. And you got to put an end to it. You got to go, I will not do this. And I'm going to take it back and then recreate what God has for me. [00:23:52] See, for so many of us, we've let all the things happen, like in our spirituality. [00:24:02] Even the pandemic, man, it created Christianity. When it came out of that, that was so strange. [00:24:11] It was so weird, because people left churches by the droves. They just didn't come back. They didn't go back. I talk to people right now who left Mosaic. I love them, they love me. It's all good. But they never walked into church. They won't walk into church. [00:24:27] They just don't want to do that. [00:24:29] And I'm like. And people have, like, deconstructed their way out of faith. And at some point you gotta go, okay, I know what has happened, but I gotta start recreating, reconstructing my faith. Does that make sense? You guys start reconstructing your faith. [00:24:44] You have to roll up your sleeves spiritually, and guess what? [00:24:48] Get to work and put the work in to have the spirituality, to have the relationship that you want. That's why when God says all this, he ends with this statement. He ends with the statement. He says this. He says, in those days, when you pray, like when you're doing the work, when you're doing this, when you pray, I will. What? [00:25:11] I'll listen. That means you'll feel me listen. [00:25:17] But here's the thing. But if you look for me. What? [00:25:23] Wholeheartedly, not part, whole heart. [00:25:27] Whole heart, like all of your heart, like everything. When you give up, you go, I'm going all in for God. I'm going all into my spirituality. I'm going all in to recreate. I'm going all in. I know. It's so scary for so many of us. We're tired. [00:25:44] He says, if you go, you'll find me. But if you. But I need your full heart. Not half. I need your full heart on this. [00:25:54] And then he says, I will be. What? [00:25:56] I'll be found by you. Like, you'll feel me. [00:26:00] So I want to ask you guys, challenge you guys, man, have you stopped creating? Are you like, I just don't. I just. This is it. This is it. Have you settled? [00:26:09] Do you need to protest your own soul? Do you need to stop and go, what am I doing? Do you need to have a wake up call that says hey, I'm gonna be here for a minute. Do you need to actually realize that it's not. [00:26:21] Man, it's so hard to say. [00:26:23] It's not about you. [00:26:25] It's about the generations to come. [00:26:27] I mean, a mosaic. Sometimes I find myself going, oh, my gosh, is this worth it? Week after week after week, after the pandemic, oh, my gosh, things are hard and things this and all the changes and all the things. And I'm like, is it worth it? Well, if it was worth creating before, is it not worth recreating again? [00:26:49] You got to know, if you go, if you think, why bother? Why were you doing it? And for me, I know. I know that we have to reclaim the message and the movement of Jesus. And it's not because in my lifetime, it will be reclaimed. [00:27:04] No, it's because from generations to come, for my kids and their kids, we're going to leave a better version of Christianity. [00:27:14] They'll step into a future that I'm dreaming and working towards. I mean, you think of even Martin Luther King Jr. He dreamed of a day, and we are now walking in his future. [00:27:29] We're doing that. Why? Because he did the work. [00:27:33] And he didn't really see it happen, but he did the work. [00:27:38] So what do we need to do today? [00:27:41] Roll up. What? [00:27:43] Roll up our sleeves again. [00:27:44] And we gotta get back to work. We gotta recreate. Redream. [00:27:49] Replan. Replant. [00:27:52] Re. Engage. [00:27:54] Re. Love. [00:27:56] Repray. The prayer that we stop praying. [00:28:00] We gotta re. [00:28:01] We gotta redo this whole thing. We gotta do it. [00:28:05] So I want to pray this over you because it's. It's a tough one. It's a tough one. But I just want you to know that tomorrow does need you. Not just your tomorrow. [00:28:14] The people around you, your kids, they need you. They need you to do the things they need you to plant today so they can. They can live in the garden that you created for them. [00:28:27] So can I pray for you? All right, let's pray. Lord God. [00:28:31] God, we thank you. [00:28:33] God, we thank you for who you are and what you are doing in our lives. We thank you, Lord God, that as we wrestle through the things in our life, as we wrestle through the despair and maybe just the sheer disappointment of things, God, we wrestle through those things and we go. We're not quite sure why. Why. Why in the world did this happen? [00:28:58] God, I pray that we would have the courage to rebuild again. [00:29:03] God, for some of us, we are so tired. [00:29:06] We're so tired. God. [00:29:08] Can I think of the men in this room? [00:29:12] Who just find themselves just working and working and working and trying to figure it out and feeling the weight of the responsibility to do all the things. [00:29:23] And even that, God, it's not the burden that we should carry. [00:29:28] God, we just feel the weight of so much weight of things. [00:29:32] And God, on a weekend like this, on Father's Day, there's so many dads out there who just don't. Who've. [00:29:39] Who. Who are just disappointed in life. [00:29:44] They're disappointed that they're not as far and further in their careers that they were. Like, some of them are not just disappointed in who they've become, but God. You're the God of redos. You're the God that reengages. You're the God who says, hey, let's do this again. [00:30:07] Your grace does not quit on us. [00:30:11] You have drawn us with unfailing kindness. [00:30:15] So, God, I pray you remind us of your uncontrollable love. Love for us. [00:30:25] That you're calling us to the future, God. And today I pray that we reengage with you. Re engage with the dreams that we have, knowing God, that you will be with us. [00:30:37] For, God, your plans are good plans for hope and a beautiful future. [00:30:50] So, God, we're committed to do that this morning. [00:30:54] God, I pray that as we respond as we go to the cross, as we go light candles, we would repray. [00:31:01] As we light a candle to pray, we would repay the prayer that we stopped praying as we receive communion, that we would go and remind ourselves, God, for what you did. [00:31:13] For what you did. And we are living out the result of your sacrifice. [00:31:22] Your sacrifice paved the way for us to have the presence of the Holy Spirit. [00:31:30] Jesus, thank you for doing that. [00:31:34] For not just you and your generations, but generations to come. [00:31:39] God, thank you. [00:31:42] God, lead us as we respond. In Jesus name, let's stand together. [00:31:47] Thanks for listening to this message from Mosaic church in Charlotte, North Carolina. For more audio and video content, visit us at MosaicChurch TV.