The Ancient Paths | Week 3

Amen. Thank you, rds. Thank you to all of you for being here on this Orphan Sunday. In over 100 nations across the globe, churches are observing Orphan Sunday today. It's a tradition that began in Zambia, Africa, almost 20 years ago when a local pastor there in Zambia passionately charged his congregation to care for the orphan.

The congregation stepped up immediately in this community that was ravaged with AIDS and poverty, and they began giving out of their own need. They were offering their own food and many of them took off their shoes and placed them in the offering baskets for the orphans. And that began a tradition that's gone on for now, now 20 years, where churches all across the globe stand in solidarity for the orphan. And we do that today. We are standing in solidarity with churches all over the world, thousands of churches, calling people to the place of action, calling you to move towards the orphan, because it's the heart of God.

Today. We call you to action. We call you to the place of sacrifice. And just like it's Orphan Sunday today, it's also the third week in our series, Ancient Paths. The last two weeks, we have been looking at these ancient paths and returning to the foundations of our faith.

Pastor Jay kicked us off on week one. He was here just a bit ago. He had a slip out. He's preaching in Huntersville, but he talked on the doctrine of sin. Last week, Pastor Nathan preached on the doctrine of sanctification.

Both messages simple and extremely profound. Today we're going to talk about the doctrine of sacrifice as we explore the ancient paths. James 1:27 says, Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is to visit orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world. We've spent the last two weeks talking about that part of being unstained by the world. I love this series and I love that the foundational passage for this series is found in the book of Jeremiah.

Because Jeremiah was sent as a prophet to Israel at a time that the things that were being lived out in their culture are strikingly similar to what we're seeing lived out in our day and specifically in the church here in America. Jeremiah was called as a prophet to warn Israel that their breaking of the covenant through idolatry would lead to severe consequences. He told them that there would come the destruction of Jerusalem and then Babylonian captivity and then exile. He was addressing the leaders in particular. He had specific words of warning for them because they had become corrupt, abandoning the laws of the Torah.

And we're seeing this in our culture even Today, church leaders, leading voices in the body of Christ that are abandoning the need for absolute truth and instead have become champions of moral relativity. And Jeremiah brings a specific word for them. He was even addressing social injustice of the day. The widows and the orphans were being mistreated in violation to the laws of the Torah. And Jeremiah was giving a real warning.

And we've looked at a passage in the context of what I just shared with you in Jeremiah 6, the first two weeks. And we're going to look at it again. If you would stay, stand to honor the word of God. Jeremiah 6:16.

These are words spoken by Jeremiah to the people of God in the context of what I just shared with you. It says, this is what the Lord. Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths. Ask where the good way is and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.

But you said we will not walk in it. Come on, let's make these declarations we make every week. Ready? Go. I will hide this word in my heart that I might not sin against God.

This word is life to my body and health to my bones. I will be a doer of the word and not a hearer only. And I am confident of this, that he who has begun a good work in me will complete it. In Jesus name, Amen. You can be seated.

I just want to declare this out loud even over my own life. I felt it so strong during worship. Fear is going to lose its grip on us today because we belong to Jesus. Amen. So we're calling people to walk on these ancient paths.

And today we're calling people to walk on the ancient path of sacrifice. Let me give you a simple definition of sacrifice. Sacrifice is to give up something that is valuable to you in order to help another. But here's the reality, and this is super important for this entire series. Living a life of sacrifice, which means moving towards the vulnerable, moving towards the marginalized.

It all has to come from a place of relationship. That's how the Lord always intended it. God always wanted a family. He always wanted our commitment to the narrow path, like we've talked about the last two weeks, to be motivated by love. We see it from the beginning, even in the Garden of Eden.

And I'll talk about that in just a minute. There's no question that we're called to sacrifice. But even the word of God tells us in 1st Samuel 15:22 that obedience is better than sacrifice, because obedience is tied to relationship. It's not just a law, it's the person giving the law that we love and that we trust. And then we know from Jesus himself that our ability to obey is.

Is actually only born out of the place of love. So obedience is just a confirmation of our love for Jesus. Jesus said in John 14:15, if you love me, you'll obey me. So I'm here to announce this morning that spiritual disciplines that aren't for love are just legalism. And the Lord's been dealing with me in this, in my own heart, in my own life.

He said, everything that can be shaken will be shaken, so that what cannot be shaken will remain. And when we're shaken, it's not fun, right? We know that great things are yielded through trial and suffering, but none of us get excited about that. I make the joke. When I couldn't get my nails done for a few months during COVID I thought I was part of the persecuted church.

Really. I thought I was gonna be in Fox's book of martyrs. Like, we don't love suffering and we aren't necessarily drawn to just sacrifice on our own. But our spiritual disciplines, when motivated by love, they're altogether different. There's no question God's desire is for us to move towards the vulnerable and the marginalized.

So Psalm 68 tells us who God is in his holy habitation. Who is God in his holy habitation? He's a defender of the fatherless. He's a defender of widows. He settles the lonely in families.

And that's why we have opportunities today for you to connect with the fatherless and with those that are in need.

And actually his desire is for us to do the same. That we would be fathers and mothers, that to the fatherless, that we would defend the. That we would defend the widows, that we would help set the lonely in families. Some of you will do that through fostering and adoption. Others of you will bring strength to those who do.

Some of you will just take out of your financial resources and give to these kids. During the holiday season. We're all called to do something. And on this orphan Sunday at as we call you to the ancient path of sacrifice. I believe the greater thing on God's heart is that he would deal with the orphan spirit in all of us.

He's going after it today and he's been going after it in me. Just like Pastors Jay and Nathan shared, there are external displays of our salvation, but he works from the inside out. Don't you guys love that topiary illustration that I gave Pastor Nathan? It was mind blowing. I wish.

So good. I'm gonna Preach it one day somewhere, and take full credit, I'm sure. But today we're inviting Jeremiah. Like Jeremiah, we're inviting you to what he was inviting Israel to do. To walk on ancient paths, confronting sin, embracing sanctification, living a life of sacrifice.

But this is only possible in a way that has lasting effect when it's done from the place of love. To walk on ancient paths, we need a revelation. In fact, our ability to love is only possible when we have a revelation of his love for us first. In First John 4:19, it says, we love because he first loved us. When Jesus was walking with his disciples, he made it very clear that he wanted them to connect with his identity so that they could connect with theirs.

He asked his disciples, who do people say that I am? And they gave answers that were appropriate to the question, who do people say that I am? Well, John the Baptist, Elijah, Jeremiah, one of the prophets. And then Jesus asked the more important question, who do you say that I am? And Peter answered.

Simon Peter answered in Matthew 16, I'm going to read this scripture to you. 16, 16, 19. He said, you are the Messiah, the son of the living God. Come on, lean in for a moment. Listen to how Jesus replies, blessed are you, Simon's son of Jonah.

For this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven. And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Without revelation, we cannot create relationship with the Father.

It is only striving. And without relationship, we're lacking in our own identity. And he even goes on to say that it becomes impossible for us to walk in the authority that he desires for us to have without revelation and without relationship. So today I'm going to talk about the orphan spirit in all of us, which I believe we all possess in varying levels. And I believe the Lord wants to bring freedom.

Today. I have shed many tears even in the preparation of this message, as the Lord's put His finger on things. Me. The orphan spirit is a mentality, really, that we operate in. It's not a demon that needs to be cast out.

It's a mentality. But with that said, friends, if we stay in the mentality, we open ourselves up to all kinds of spiritual bondage and even torment. It works much like the principle in Ephesians 4:26 that says, don't let the sin go down when you're angry. All of us, or most of us understand the value of that instruction in Ephesians 4 for relationships to thrive, like we ought not let the sun go down on our wrath. But we often forget to consider the next verse.

It says, don't let the sun go down while you're so angry, for it will give a foothold to the devil. So the orphan mentality operates much the same way. It affects the way we operate in our lives, but it also opens us up to the realm of spiritual bondage and torment. Now listen, I tried to figure out how to go into this Message slow. I'm 27 years in ministry.

I've tried. I can't. I try to make my voice sound sweeter. I try to go slow into these things. It's how the Lord deals with me.

So congratulations, I'm who you have this morning. But the Lord wants to deal with it in us. Cafo, the Christian alliance for Orphans. They're an organization that resource people for orphan care. And a big part of their ministry is to resource churches for orphan care.

And they kind of have this banner philosophy that they. That they share with families that are fostering and adopting and growing their family with adoption, which is the heart of God. But this is how they instruct families that are getting into orphan care. They say orphan care ought not be imagined like a romantic ballad expressing the restoration of family. It ought to be imagined in the context of a battle cry, because orphan care is warfare.

And this is true in the natural. And it's true when the Lord is putting his finger on the orphan spirit in us, it will lead to the romantic ballad of restoration. But we need to release a battle cry because orphan care, the orphan crisis in US, is warfare. In Malachi 4 7, it says, I will send Elijah before the great and coming day of the Lord and turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers. One of the most profound plagues on the earth during the end times is the breakdown of the family.

And I believe this. I believe that this will be reversed when we allow the healer to set us free. I'm going to talk about this again at the end of the message and how it expressed in my own life, specifically hearts of children being turned to fathers. But before I do, I want to talk about three things tied to this orphan spirit, three things about the orphan spirit. Number one, the orphan spirit lacks a healthy perspective of the Father.

In First John 14, verses 8 and 9, Philip says to Jesus, lord, show us the Father and it's enough for us. And Jesus said in response, if you've seen me, you've seen the Father. One of Jesus primary missions when he came to Earth was to reveal the Father. And one of his primary missions today, right now, as he's interceding at the right hand of the throne of God, is to reveal the Father. Father.

Later in John 14, Jesus is talking to his disciples about going away. And he says, I will ask the Father, starting in verse 16, and he will give you another helper to be with you forever. Even the Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees nor knows Him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as old orphans.

I will come to you. Oh, may we hear the voice of the Father even now. I will not leave you as orphans. I will come to you. It's not the heart of God for us to be abandoned, even if that's been your experience in natural circumstances, that's not the God of.

That's not the heart of God. But when we don't really know him as Father, or when our view of him is tainted by the lens of our own natural circumstances, when we believe we've been abandoned, there's an increase of the orphan mentality in our lives. And that's the opposite of God's dream for us as his kids. In creation, God spoke things into existence. He said, let there be right, let there be light and sky and land and seas and plants and sun and moon and stars and creatures in the sea and creatures in the sky, animals on the land.

But on the sixth day when it came to mankind, Adam, humankind, he did not stand speaking at a distance. He didn't at a distance speak man into existence. He took the dust of the earth, and with his own hands he formed and fashioned him. He put his handprint on us. He breathed life into Adam.

And when Adam's eyes first opened, the first face he saw was the Father. The first breath he felt on his cheek was the Father. The first smile he saw was the Father. So Adam, Adam and Eve, they were placed in the garden. This was their home.

And their assignment was to guard their home. Their assignment was to cultivate their home from the place of the revelation of the Father. Then Adam and Eve were tempted by the devil. And we'll talk about the devil's separation from the Father a little bit later. But they were tempted by the devil to question the goodness of God.

Adam and Eve decided we can't trust God's definition of good. And this is what's happening in our culture even now. We want our own definition of good. So when Eve saw what God said was not good as good, then she put partook because she stopped seeing the goodness of God. Adam and Eve stopped seeing that God was for them and they were separated from him and it was never God's heart.

Romans 8:31 said, if God is for us, who can be against us? And here's the reality. If we don't see that God's for us, I'm talking about really see that he's for us. Despite our circumstances, despite the difficulties of our lives, despite the refiner's fire and pain in our seasons. And I'm speaking to you from experience this morning.

If we don't understand that God is for us, we adopt the belief that everyone's against us.

And if we begin to adopt that belief and we think that God, God is against us and others are against us, we develop even more advanced forms of the orphan spirit. The orphan spirit or orphan mentality lacks a healthy perspective of the Father number two. It produces self sufficiency.

It's a mentality that says I've got to do life on my own. If it's gonna be, it's up to me. I can't tell you how many times I have said that in the last couple of years. I come to you from the place of conviction. It's that declaration.

There's no one to cover me, no protection, no provision, no emotional support. There's no one to cheer me on. There's no one to see my significance. And we become more and more self sufficient because we don't want to need others.

We don't feel safe to be vulnerable. Hear me church. We spend more time in the dark, alone with our thoughts than bringing things to the light. And According to James 5, 16, that is the very thing that prevents our healing.

Self sufficiency seems noble. The reality is it lacks humility. Oh, people that know me know how much I'm preaching to my own soul right now.

Self sufficiency is not only self dependent, right, self made men, self made women, but it always leads to self pity. It always leads to comparison. It always leads to jealousy. It always leads leads to a critique and a criticism towards others. It always leads to envy, and then it always leads to self promotion.

And it's all tied to the orphan spirit. C.S. lewis said, look to yourself and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look to Christ and you will find him. And with him everything else you need thrown in.

So the enemy of our souls, the devil, is an angel that fell. And that is the extent, that is the extent of my doctrine of demons. You'll have to come hear Janet Roberts if you want to know more about that. But the devil became disconnected from the Father. He decided, I will ascend.

It's that self sufficiency, self promotion. I will arise, I will advance myself. And when the devil saw God forming a family, having a dom that he would fellowship with in the cool of the day. Little pause button commercial for you. Fathers are supposed to visit with their children in the cool of the day.

The cool of the day is the morning and the evening. Not to be distracted on phones or the stress of the day, but to sit with their kids and be with them. And that is what our Heavenly Father modeled. And the Devil hated it. He knew that his disconnect from the Father is what he wanted to bring to you and I.

He wants, even now, for us to be disconnected from the Father So he will resurrect things that we've known in our childhood. He'll resurrect or push on things that we're going through now so that we can say, you know what? I can't even depend on God. I want to be separated from him. He formed a plan for Adam and Eve and for you and I to receive the devil's orphan nature.

He loves that message. He wants us to separated from the Father. As I was praying even early this morning for all of you, I just said, lord, what, what is on your heart? Like, what are you wanting to correct today? And this is what I heard him say.

He said, many in my church have never bonded with their Father. He wants to change it today, friends, because the orphan spirit, the orphan mentality, first of all, lacks a healthy perspective of the father. Secondly, it pushes us into self sufficiency. And number three, it leads to guilt and shame.

So in Genesis 3, continuing in the story of Adam and Eve in the fall after they partook of the fruit, we read Genesis 3, 7, 13. It says, then the eyes of both were opened and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin cloths. And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, where Are you? And he said, I heard the sound of you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself. He said, who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat? The man said, the woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit and I ate.

Then the Lord God said to the woman, what is this you have done? The woman said, the serpent deceived me and I ate. And there was immediate separation. It was never how God wanted it. And the consequences of this separation from manifested with guilt, there was an innocence lost.

That question, who told you you were naked? That question, where are you? And he's asking that even today. And it's been my prayer all morning that we would hear the tone in his voice. It's not a fee fi fo fum, where are you?

It's this gentle invite, like, where are you? I'm your father and you're mine. And you're carrying a weight in your conscience that you were never designed to carry, just like Adam and Eve, the weight of guilt and a need for recompense for wrongdoing. And if guilt is not dealt with, it always leads to shame 100% of the time. And shame is like a dirty garment that wraps itself around us.

Listen, guilt is tied to our behavior, but shame is tied to our identity. It's when our head hangs down because of what we've allowed to become a part of us, rather than casting our guilt on the father. And then we begin to operate out of fear. And this is all tied to the orphan spirit. There's a fear of being exposed.

Some of you, that's where you are right now. You are so afraid of being exposed, and in that exposure being rejected, and in that rejection, being punished. But friends, it's the father's role to call out our identity. When we're separated from the father on any level, our identity is affected. And then we have tendencies when we're separated from the father.

And I'm going to hit on these quickly. We see it in the lives of Adam and Eve, and we do the same thing. First, we conceal.

Adam and Eve covered and concealed who they were. Listen, I mentioned in the beginning that we can find ourselves on this orphan spirit mentality spectrum in different levels. But Adam and Eve specifically covered their loins, the parts that revealed who they were in their gender as a man and a woman. And the devil who operates in this separation, in this orphan spirit is parading his evidence in our culture today. And now there is on the very extreme end of the culture, there's even a lack of identity in our genders.

But wherever we are on the spectrum, we. We're covering up who we really are, making a presentation in varying degrees, like I just gave an extreme example. But we make a presentation in varying degrees of what we hope will be accepted. And then that's how we approach God. And it catches us up in the performance trap.

And when we're in the performance trap, all we want is position and power and friends. This is what. What we're handing to the next generation. And it's not God's heart. It's never what he wanted.

He always wanted a family that he could talk with in the cool of the day. He always wanted a family where the kids would be connected with the father, where the father would celebrate successes, but also lift us up in our failures so we don't have to run away and hide and cover the orphan spirit. There's a lack of security, and the Lord wants to change that today. So we conceal, then we hide from intimacy. Adam and Eve hid among the trees.

When we conceal who we are, there cannot be intimacy. Maybe you see other people worshiping, weeping at the altar, and you just can't connect with God like that. Well, you have to stop hiding. We're really good at presenting the parts we like to others. And then we begin to present the parts we like to God.

Then we begin emulating who we think people want us to be. And then we rehearse every conversation we had, spend so much real estate in our mind, rehearsing things, rehearsing what people think about us, what they may be saying about us. And that's all. Hiding from intimacy. When the Lord says, I want you to be safe, safe in my arms.

I want you to bond with your father even through unthinkable circumstances. We conceal, we hide. We blame. Adam and Eve, blamed one another. They refused to take responsibility.

This is majorly tied to the orphan spirit because there's not a safety to take responsibility. You know how attractive it is when you blow it and just own it. It's attractive to God and it's attractive to people, but we tend to blame one another. But it's only because of a separation from the father. He makes it safe for his kids to carry responsibility for their failures.

And he also makes it safe for kids to carry responsibility for their successes. So that when people affirm us and encourage us in things we've done right, we know who our source is. We say, oh, I just look like my father.

So we hide from intimacy, we blame.

Then we have a need for control.

And I'm telling you, this is big on God's heart because I believe that this need for control is the thing, one of the main things that is bringing a boundary between us and the move of God. I believe it's a real hindrance for revival. When we're not free in our identity, we have a need to control because we feel like we have to ensure we're not going to be exposed. So then we begin to pick and choose what parts of the corporate expression of God we like or what parts of even our secret place is encounters we like. And it's a control issue.

And we even resist the move of God in our lives. And in turn, we're resisting the sacrifice to impact others. Here's the thing. The Lord doesn't want us living a life of sacrifice for others while we're still bound, because then all we're going to do is reproduce our bondages. I'm not talking about being perfect.

I'm talking about. About being fathers and mothers, even spiritual fathers and mothers, where the generation behind us says, nope, she is like the furthest thing from perfect. But she runs to her father. She has taught me what restoration looks like. He has taught me what restoration looks like.

And that's relinquishing control.

I'm telling you, I didn't even know that the need to control things would. Was so present in my life. There's so much freedom in it. He wants to break the orphan spirit off of us, and he's going to do it for those that are willing. He's going to begin the journey today.

I'm going to close with a final thought or a final idea. And then the team's going to come and release a beautiful song over us called the Adoption Song. But in Luke 15, we read the parable of the prodigal son. It's really the parable of two sons. I'm going to try to hit this quickly.

I know most of you are probably familiar with the parable, but I want to summarize it for us all. The younger of the two sons of the two brothers asks his father for his inheritance. Then he squanders it recklessly on indulgences. He has nothing left. So he's forced to work as a hired hand for a pig farmer.

And this prodigal is so destitute that he begins to long for the food that the pigs are eating. And then he remembers the father. This is powerful, friends. He says, wait A minute. Not only was my father kind to me, but I'm remembering how my father treated his servants.

He returns home and he's welcomed by the father with loving arms. The father has a banquet he in his honor. But the prodigal had an older brother that he really didn't have the same joy as his father. He said to his father, look, all these years I've been slaving for you, and I never disobeyed your orders. Friends, this is where some of you are today.

I've served you God. I've been more faithful than most. And the Lord was addressing the father, was addressing the emotional orphanhood in the older brother as well. He was the religious one. He didn't have the father's heart.

So we have the younger brother that squandered his inheritance on harlots and all manners of rebellion. Yet he had a moment of bonding with the father where he was able to remember, no, my father is actually very generous and kind. The older brother had never had that revelation. He was an emotional orphan. An emotional orphan combined with a religious spirit is not good.

It can only lead to judgment and criticism and bitterness and comparison and entitlement. Some of you have had horrible examples in your natural mother and father. You've known them to to be angry and controlling and abusive and absent and passive and irresponsible. Some of you have had great parents and you still have laid hold of this orphan spirit. It's a deep wound to the heart.

And Jesus said in Isaiah 61, the spirit of the sovereign Lord is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of prison doors to those who are bound. What happens to the church where there's no healing of broken hearts, no deliverance from bondage? We're left to our own vices, just like the two sons in that parable. We're either pursuing the broad path that leads to destruction, like the prodigal, or we're pursuing the religious broken heart like the older brother, keeping record of every way we've served, feeling owed and entitled and resentful of the blessings that come for others, struggling for position, desperate for a sense of significance.

And he wants to touch that in us today. Very quickly. How do we overcome the orphan spirit? Number one, we have to recognize it. And some of you feel the conviction of God even now.

Wow, something weird happened to my computer. We have to recognize it. Secondly, we have to Repent. We have to repent of holding bitterness and unforgiveness and judgments. We say, God, I tried to protect myself from the pain instead of turning to you.

I trust you, no one. And I relied on myself. So we recognize we repent. Thirdly, today you're going to have an opportunity to come and have an encounter with the father's love. And fourth, you're going to go and make restoration.

You're going to let go of your vows and your bitterness. As Corey begins, prepares to sing. I want to tell you something briefly. For a lot of my life, my biological father was in and out of my life, especially in the younger years. And then when I reached about fifth grade, he was more out of my life than in it.

And when I was in college, I actually ran into him somewhere. He didn't recognize me. And it was something that had definitely been this weight in my heart that when, when I would evaluate, I would say, I don't think I'm harboring anything against him. It's just awkward. I don't know him and he doesn't know me.

Fast forward to about seven years ago. The Lord gave me a message for the women on the Spirit of Elijah. And that day of awakened, I was praying all morning and the Lord told me, I'm going to heal some daughters that have broken relationships with their fathers. I prayed all day. Never thought of myself.

Not proud of that. I guess that's what concealing and hiding does. I never thought of myself. I was in my office right before, about 40 minutes before the service was to begin. And the Lord said, you're not going to preach on this until you embrace what I'm doing in your own life.

Very quickly I wrote him a letter. I shared it with the ladies that night. They prayed over the letter. It led to a couple of visits down to South Florida where I presented the gospel to my father and his wife. My father's wife, much younger than him, died at four years ago.

And it and my father's health began to decline. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and he began to not be able to live the way he had before. He wasn't very lucid. So my siblings and I were taking turns calling, reminding him to take take his medicine. I called him most nights and I realized that I had to let go of that vow and turn my heart to my father and friends.

I'm so glad I did. In February of this year, he slipped from this life into eternity. We presented the gospel many times. We don't know what choice he he finally made. But when the police found him in his house, in his bed, he had one of Dr. Brown's books opened on his bed that my sister had sent him.

Like our heart needs to be moved. My heart needed to be moved towards my own father. But I had to open up to the healing of our, of my heavenly Father. He wants to address the orphan spirit, spirit in us today. So I'm just going to ask you.

As Trent plays, Pastor Trent plays and Corey leads, I just want you to respond to however God is moving in your heart today, you can stand, you can lift your hands to the Lord, you can find a place at this altar. But I'm telling you, the invitation's here. The Lord wants to begin an encounter with the love of the Father and he wants to show you how to bond with him in Jesus name. Hey, thanks so much for joining us for this message. If God spoke to your heart in a special way, we would love to hear from you.

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