- Well, hey, everybody. Man, welcome to Highlands this weekend. Thank you so much for all your encouragement and kindness during the series of Kingdom Equations. Those of you that are joining us at one of our other locations today, we're very grateful for you guys in Bluefield, and Marin and Bristol. So thankful for what God's doing in your location, and then for you that join us every week on TV, hey, you guys in Grundy, Virginia, you are incredible. Thanks for your encouragement and your notes and that you watch us every weekend on TV. That's awesome. So, whether you're joining online or wherever you are, I believe God has a message for you today. As we wrap up a series that we've been in called Kingdom Equations, I wanna give you one last kingdom equation, it's a good one. And then I want to move. I did this intentionally that today this message sort of sets us up for our brand new series, that's our spiritual growth campaign that we're gonna do all through the month of October and the first three weeks of November. So for the next seven weeks, we're gonna move from just surviving. Okay? 'Cause that's the tag word today. Everybody says, "How you doing? Well, I'm surviving." We don't want you to survive. God doesn't want you to survive. He wants you to thrive. Okay? So, that's what our new series is. I'm pumped about it. I'm gonna be teaching all seven weeks through this series, gonna be awesome. And I want you to clear your calendar and your schedule and join us for the next seven weeks, next week as we move into Thrive. So today, here at the Kingdom Equation, all right. I told you it's a good one. Here it is. When we call evil good and good evil, it equals, in God's dynasty, doom. All right? It equals doom. Now, I know all of a sudden there's sort of a hush around room. I get that. But I wanna tell you today that in the culture in which we live, this is sort of what I feel. And maybe it resonates with you. Maybe it doesn't. But it seems like to me all the values that have created a healthy society have been turned upside down. I mean, do you agree with that? I mean, I know a lot of you do because you emailed me this very same thing. You just feel like you're in a place you've never been before. And your world has sort of been shaken, or you just feel like everything in your world, through the pandemic and all this other stuff we've gone through, it's just upside down. Well, here's the good news. Isaiah, thousands of years ago, he warned that any culture is headed for collapse when it actually reverses the values that made it healthy in the first place when it goes exactly opposite of that, then this kingdom equation unfolds. Notice what he says here in Isaiah 5. Look at verse 20. He says, "You are doomed if you call evil good "and call good evil." That's the equation, right? Destruction is certain when you call darkness light and light darkness. So, he wants to help us really understand this, when right is considered wrong and wrong is considered right. When you claim what is bitter is now sweet and what is sweet, you now call bitter. He says, hey, culture and society will always collapse when you get to that kind of terminology. Your society will not last. Now you might think, well, I don't know if I believe that or not. Well, let me just say here, this has happened before. And this has actually happened not to pagan societies. Okay? I mean, that's sort of a given, but this has actually happened to the nation of Israel. These were God's people. And I wanna share a story with you on how this happened. It happened 2,600 years ago, right? To God's nation, the nation of Israel, the Jewish people. And here's what happened. All the Jewish people in the nation of Israel, pretty much a hundred percent of them decided that they were gonna give themselves to rebellion against God. They embraced immorality and injustice and idolatry, any of those things sound familiar today? And you know what? The prophets had warned the nation of Israel over and over again that unless you repent and turn back to the God who created you, then your society will be in peril, you're gonna find yourself in doom. And they said, "No way, don't believe that. "We're gonna continue living our sinful rebellious life." And finally, the day of doom happened in 600 BC, the emperor of the powerful Babylonian empire, king Nebuchadnezzar. He actually zeroes in on Israel and he takes over Israel and he destroys the capital city of Jerusalem. And you know what Nebuchadnezzar does? He takes 25% of all the inhabitants of Israel back to Babylon with him and he held them in prison there for the next 70 years. They lost their freedom because they weren't paying attention to the God who was the God of the universe. He said, "Hey, if you don't change, "Israel will collapse and you will be taken captive." Now, when this happened, this culture sort of shocked... This takeover sort of shocked everybody. And even the Psalmist are writing about this. And then we see it in Proverbs. Notice what Solomon says. And then look back in Psalm 82:5, he says, "And all the foundations of society are shaken to the core." Does that sound familiar? I mean, it sounds like today's news, doesn't it? It seems like everything that we have held dear is being shaken to the core. Our freedoms are being shaken. We have people who are crying out for their freedoms. Our marriages are being shaken. Education is being shaken. You talk to a teacher, a professor lately, our medical systems are overwhelmed. They're being shaken. Political systems, financial systems, our ethical values, our moral values, they are being shaken to the core. But I'm not a gloom and doomer. All right? I mean, I know this is true. I know God will always... This is a principle of God that when we reverse these things that He has created in His word and we rebel against that, doom will always be the result. But even in the midst of when we see that, and even if we're overtaken by immoral society or an immoral king, we can still thrive even in the midst of chaos as a child of God. He said, "Really? Is that actually possible?" It really is. And when this took over... I wanna look at a guy by the name of Daniel. There's a whole Old Testament book written about a matter of fact, several years ago, I taught through the book of Daniel. It's a great story. But I wanna tell you that this guy, Daniel, when Nebuchadnezzar takes over, he's taken his captive, and he's able to thrive in this immoral, chaotic, pagan culture, his entire life. A little bit about the book of Daniel. Some of you remember this, but in the Old Testament, when Daniel starts, it starts when he's 15 years old, the book of Daniel. And it goes till he's 85. It covers 70 years of Daniel's life, from 15 to 85. And he starts out as a prisoner of war. And you know what happens? 70 years later in this pagan, crazy culture. Nebuchadnezzar is the first pagan, takes over. But Daniel went through several different Kings that were all pagan Kings, and somehow, he kept his integrity and he kept his Christian witness. And for his entire 70 years till he reaches 85 years age, he is still being promoted in this Godless culture. This 15-year-old teenager named Daniel watches the destruction of his nation when Israel rebelled against God, he's taken as a prisoner of war. Think about this, guys. He never sees his parents again. He never sees his family again. He never sees his Homeland of Israel again for the rest of his life. He would spend the rest of his entire life in a foreign, hostile, pagan culture. And you know what? Daniel teaches us how to thrive and how not to be a gloom and doomer, but he teaches us how to thrive in whatever is thrown at us. So, look at the story just for a little bit, let's look at chapter one, Daniel 1. Let's look at a few verses here. In verse one it says, "In the third year of Judas king Jeroboam," so this is a Israel's king. He's not doing a very good job at being king. And in his reign, it says, "King Nebuchadnezzar, "the mightiest king on the planet. "And he's the king of Babylon actually goes in "and attacks Jerusalem with his armies." And notice this wording, God gave Nebuchadnezzar, this pagan king, the victory. That's not supposed to happen. Is it? I mean, we've read the stories in the Bible where God's people are always spared and they marched around the walls seven times and the walls come down. We've seen story after story there at the Red Sea, and God parts the Red Sea. And here's a story where a pagan king, God gives the pagan king the victory in this war against His own nation. Nebuchadnezzar, is he a Godly man? No, he's a pagan. He's not even a Christian. He is a total pagan. And the scripture says, "God gave Nebuchadnezzar the victory." Now, I don't have time to get into this, probably another series for another day, but here's the truth. Sometimes God will actually use pagan leaders to discipline His own children. Take it for what it's worth. Let's go on the story. When Nebuchadnezzar returned to Babylon, he took with him the best sacred objects from the temple. He took whatever was gold and value, and he takes them back and he puts them on display in his pagan temple, a Babylon, the sacred worshipful acts and these things of God in Israel. He now makes them and puts them in his pagan temple in Babylon. And then notice what else he does. He also ordered that the best young men of Judah be taken as captives and be brought to his palace. And this is who he selected. All right? See if you'd be in the group. Select only the best-looking, the strongest and the smartest young man, bring them with you. I'd have been left, but knew. I don't know how you feel. They wouldn't have picked me. So, one of these guys is Daniel. He had all the things that Nebuchadnezzar was looking for. By the way, a little time out here just for a second. Did you notice those same three values that Nebuchadnezzar was looking for are the same three values our culture idolizes today? And it is beauty, brains and brawn. Our society idolizes the academically proficient, those with athletic ability and those with great appearance. And the world says you don't have those things, you know what? You're nothing. I'm my whole life. That's the culture in which the world praises other people, it's all about sex and salary and status. All right. Back to the store. Nebuchadnezzar says, "Bring me the best guys." And they put these guys, these young teenage boys through a three-year indoctrination program, they retrain them. Notice, pick up the story here. It says, make sure that they're well-versed in every branch of Babylonian learning that they're gifted with knowledge and they have good sense and have poise needed to serve in my Royal palace. And Nebuchadnezzar is gonna make them servant of his. Okay? And then he says, "Teach these young man the language and the literature "of the Babylonian culture, "we're gonna indoctrinate these guys." You remember when I was teaching through the book of Daniel, one of the things that's sort of interesting, they give them new names. Daniel's name is now Belshazzar. You remember that? And the other three guys, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. Remember those guys? Hananiah is now Shadrach, his Jewish name was Mishael, now Meshach. the Jewish guy Azariah is now Abednego. So, they changed their names. What's going on? Well, basically what Nebuchadnezzar is doing is he is systematically reprogramming everything about these Jewish teams. He said, "You're not gonna be Jews anymore. "We don't want you to even have the ethnic background "that your family gave you. "We're gonna shake things up for you. "We're gonna destroy the foundation you know, "and we're gonna get rid of all those Godly values "of Israel and we're gonna replace them "with the pagan values of Babylon." And they separated them from their parents, their loved ones, their families. they've given a brand new names and new identities. Their old life is over. And now they have a new life in Babylon. Now, think about this, the three years Daniel goes through this, he's a teenager and now he's 18. And he's beginning to graduate from Babylonian University. And the Bible says that even though his life had been shaken to its core, this guy stays a man of God. And he becomes even a greater man of God. He becomes one of the greatest prophets in the Bible, and he was able to keep his integrity and his faith intact for all those 70 years in this hostile environment, this pagan culture. And he does it time after time, after time. Matter of fact, Daniel, one of my heroes, he outlasted Nebuchadnezzar and by the way, he leads Nebuchadnezzar to Jesus. Okay? I mean, he actually leads this pagan king to the Lord. He leads to pagan Kings to the Lord. He leads Cyrus the great to the Lord as well. And both these guys turned to God when they saw Daniel's life. They so respected him. He was an amazing young man. Well, the book of Daniel sorta closes at when Daniel's 85 years old, he's near the end of his life and he's still in the... They run into another problem in the empire. Nobody could solve problems like Daniel. So, the emperor at that time goes back says, "Daniel, retirement's over. You gotta come back. "We still need you." And Daniel does such an amazing job for the emperor at 85 years of age, the emperor puts Daniel second in command. Only the king is over Daniel. Can you think about that, guys? In a culture where we see it's been shaken to our foundation in so many ways with the pandemic and the division and the strive and the anger, and it looks like our society is moving away from the Godly values that we've been taught all of our life. I just wanna tell you, it's still possible because Daniel gives us the example to actually thrive when you keep God first in your life. Don't get down in the doom and the gloom and all the nastiness of our culture, you stay on top where God wants you to be. Man, I love the story of Daniel. I'm convinced if places like Disney, man, if they could get Daniel, it is so much better than the "Lord of the Rings." It would blow "Star Wars" out of the water. I mean, it's got everything that a great story needs. It's got adventure, it's got political intrigue, it's got all those things. It's an amazing story of how you survive and thrive and actually succeed when people around you don't agree with anything that you believe. Are you interested in that? I won't tell you I'll be, because I believe there's a day coming in our nation, matter of fact, I see glimmers of it right now, where we're gonna be actually asked to do things that we don't believe in at all. Okay? And yet you can still thrive in this kind of culture. So, what should you do when your world gets shaken to the core? I mean, what should you do as a child of God? Well, we're gonna start this journey. And we're gonna sort of move in for the next seven weeks of how you can thrive in it. But as I set it up today, I want you to understand some things, you as a child of God, when your world gets shaken or when difficult times come for you, here's the first thing you gotta understand. Don't be surprised by adversity. Don't be surprised by adversity. Now, I think we've missed the mark here. I mean, I don't know if we believe these television guys that are always saying, "If you send me a check and you're gonna be prosperous, "everything in your life's gonna be coming up roses." Hey, if Jesus had to go through the cross on our behalf as a sacrifice, if Paul had to be shipwrecked and snake-bitten and beaten over and over, and the disciples, most of them were martyred for their faith, why in the world would we be surprised when some light or minor adversity comes their way for serving God? And then it amazes me, but we often that, oh my goodness, God's not protecting me. Where's God? I don't understand. And we have a culture today that when the adversity comes, well, we just deny God all together. We used to, well, He must not be real. And this is happening in Christians that people follow on social media. And it really, really disturbs me, that when you run into something you don't understand, well, we're just going to deny God. I guess He's not real after all. This is crazy. We can't be surprised when adversity comes our way. Although the collapse of the nation of Israel was a shock, it wasn't really unexpected. I mean, the prophets Jeremiah and Zephaniah, they'd been preaching this stuff for years and years. Israel, if you don't turn from your idolatry and rebellion, you're gonna collapse. It's gonna be doomed. Daniel heard that as a teenager, he went to the synagogue, hear all these prophets teach. He knew this. He had heard these warnings. Look in the New Testament, couple of verses. Notice what Peter says in 1 Peter 4:12. It says, "Friends, don't be shocked or surprised "when you suffer through painful tests and trials." This is something strange is happening to you. He's saying, "Hey, man, "adversity shake-ups is part of a broken world." This isn't heaven, right? I mean, this place is broken because of sin. We're gonna have to go through trials. Don't be surprised by it. Notice what Jesus says here in John 16, look at verse 33. He says, "In this world, you will, "you will experience difficulties." He says, "Hey, don't throw in the towel. Take hard. "I have conquered the world. "I've told you this so that if you trust in me, "you will be..." I love this word, "Unshakable and deeply at peace." That's what Jesus can give. He warned us at adversity is a part of life. Don't be surprised by it. Don't let it blow you away. Just cause it to make you to be unshakeable. Just stand stronger, man. He's gonna rescue us. Here's the second thing. The second thing is when difficulties come, look for ways that God might use it for good. When you encounter problems, look at what God's gonna do. Now, let me break this down for just a little bit here, because we know that God wants to use everything that comes our way, everything in our life for good, there are some things when problems come that can really help us. And if you wanna thrive rather than just survive when you find yourself in a hostile culture, then notice a few things about this. This is what I think. Sometimes God shakes things up in my life just to inspect me, okay? He's doing an inspection on my life. And what I mean by this is, God may allow problem in my life and it's a motivation because something in my life has gotten a rise. Something in my life is out of order. And so, a problem comes and it allows me to examine and check my life out. And God does this all the time. Look back in Jeremiah 17, look at verse 10. Says, "The Lord searches our hearts "and examines our deepest motives "so He can give to each person his right reward "according to how he's lived." So when this happens, then you have to ask yourself a question. Here's the question I ask when I find myself in a problem where I think God's inspecting me. I say, what does this problem reveal about me? Is my motivation still right? Is my integrity still where it needs to be? Is my character being questioned here? So, when God inspects us with difficulties, or problems, then just ask, "Hey, what does this reveal about me? "Holy spirit, show me." Here's the second thing when difficulty comes. Sometimes God shakes things up in my life to correct me. Now we don't like correction, right? I mean, the scripture even tells us this, look over in Hebrews 12, look at verse eight. Says, "God corrects all of His children." And if He doesn't correct you, catch this, then you really don't belong to Him. So, let me tell you something. If you can still live like the devil and you can still live in a pagan lifestyle, oh yeah, you're a Christian. You come to church. Yeah. I think I'm a Christian, whatever. And you're getting away with it, and you're in a situation where you can just sin with the best of them and there's no conviction in your life. Here's the question you ought to ask, are you really in God's family? Probably not. All right? Because when you're in God's family, all of a sudden conviction comes when you are in denial of what God wants you to do. He goes on and he says, "Well, God corrects us for our own good, "because He wants us to be holy." It's never fun to be corrected. There it is. Yeah. My kids don't like it. I don't like it. In fact, at the time, it's painful. But if we learn to obey by being corrected, we will do right and we will live at peace. Ultimately when God corrects us, it's for our good. And is for our peace. Did you benefit from correction growing up? No I didn't like it. But I did every spanking I got, it benefited me. It's how I sorta learned, not by spanking, but I got corrected to learn to read. And I got corrected, that's how I learned to write. I mean, we get corrected, is how we learned to talk. It's how we learn to walk, everything. Correction comes and it makes us better. And somebody does that, they correct us 'cause they love us. They care for us. And God will correct you because He loves you, if you're His child. So, here's the question you ought to ask when you're in a season of correction is, what is this problem teaching me? What's God trying to teach me here? Here's something else I think God will do. Sometimes God shakes things up in my life to direct me a certain direction. He wants to point me in a new direction. I've let myself get in this direction over here and God says that's really not where I want you to go. So, He'll shake things up in my life, 'cause He's gonna point me down a different path, a new direction. Proverbs 16:9 says a person may plan his own journey, but the Lord directs his steps. We can all have plans, but the Lord, if you're a child of His, He wants to direct your steps. You've heard me say this before. We don't change when we see the light, it's never when we change, is it? We change when we feel the heat. Don't we? I mean, that's what changes us. And when it gets hot enough, then we change. Proverbs 20:30 says this, "Sometimes it takes a painful experience "to make us change our ways." And every one of you could give a testimony on that verse where you've had a painful experience. It was painful enough. I'm gonna change. So, the obvious question we ask here is, where is this problem leading me? God, what path do you want me to go? Sometimes God will allow difficulty in our life, things to shake me up, just to protect me. And God's gonna protect me. Sometimes pain protects you from something worse. Look at Job 36. Look at verse 16. God has led you away from danger, giving you freedom. There are people in your life, there are people in this world, especially in their culture, who intend to actually harm you. But I want you to understand something. God is bigger than your critics. Amen. Praise the Lord for that. God got a bunch of critics these days, all right? But God's bigger than my critics. He's bigger than your critics. And when people put you down, you just go back to God and you praise Him more. You just praise Him more. It's no fun to hurt somebody you love, but you know what God will do because He loves us? He'll be like a surgeon, and He'll have to cut us at times. He'll have to break us at times in order to heal us. So, the question I ask when I feel like God's trying to protect me is, how could this problem protect me? How could it protect me? And here's one of the last things I think is the fifth way that God sort of shakes us up in our life is, God will use things and he'll use problems to perfect us. And God's in this perfection business. Now we're never gonna arrive, right? But He never quits on us. To make you feel more like Jesus Christ and to make you more like Jesus Christ, what He'll do? Is He will bring things or allow things into your life to grow your character. And again, it's not always the funnest thing when God's growing your character, a man it's rich. It's what we need. Christian growth is always faster and deeper in your darkest days. Isn't it? When everything's going great. I mean, we don't depend on them as much. But when we find ourselves in the valley, man, and he's going through this perfection in my life, He's trying to perfect me as something. God loves us so much that He can even use the bad things in life to do all these things, whether He's inspecting us or whether He's directing us or whether He's correcting me or perfecting me or protecting me, that's the God that loves us and cares for us. I love what Paul says in Romans 5:3. Paul says this, and catch this 'cause we need to hear this. "We can rejoice when we run into problems and trials "and how can we rejoice? "For we know that they are good for us. "They help us learn to be patient, "and patient develop strength of character in us. "And it helps us to trust God more each time we use it." So I ask you a question, how can I grow from these problems in my life? Because problems are really not my problems, the problems I encounter, honestly, and catch this, it's really not my problems. Honestly, your real problems are how you choose to respond to the problems you encounter. That's so true, isn't it? And if you respond to them in a way where you trust God and praise God, and thank God, and you're able to maintain your integrity and your character grows. You'll be just like Daniel. You get promoted and promoted and promoted and it'll lead you to thriving even in a difficult season. Here's the last thing. Sometimes there's things happen in our life and we don't understand it. And during those times, we just have to trust God when I don't understand. Hey, there's gonna be some things happen on this side of eternity. God's ways are higher than our ways. We start our standard. We're never gonna understand it. We can't, God didn't design us that way. When there's a problem in my life, I run it through these things we just taught on. And if I say, you know what? This problem I've just encountered, I don't see how it's perfecting me. I've inspected my life. I don't see it. It's a problem for inspection. It's really not a problem for correction. It's not a problem for protection. I'm not encountering this difficulty for perfection or protection, either one. The problem that I'm encountering in this season of my life, it just makes no sense at all. I mean, I can't find anything in scripture. I've prayed the Holy Spirit. I hear nothing. I just don't understand why I'm going through this problem. It makes no sense. We're gonna encounter some problems in our life and some difficulties that make no sense whatsoever. And we're gonna have those days. They're gonna be tragedies that we can't explain, and they seem extremely unfair. And I wanna say, I think they are unfair. Our world is not fair. When we encounter a tragedy, or when we encounter a difficulty or a problem and it just makes no sense whatsoever, don't quit. Don't deny God, trust God for the things that you don't understand. Notice this verse in Proverbs 20, look at verse 24, "Since the Lord is directing our steps." All right, watch and try to understand everything that happens along the way. We can't. We just can't. You trying to understand everything that happens to you in life, all the tragedies that we see that don't make sense, all the diseases that we just think, why, why? It'd be like an ant trying to understand all the complications of the internet. I mean, it just can't. We just can't. God is God and you're not. So what do you do when you don't understand? You just simply trust. As your pastor, I feel like my role is sort of to be your spiritual coach. It's really my goal or I think it's my job in many ways I'll answer to God for. It's my goal to help you succeed in every area in life, because God wants you to be a success. He wants you to thrive. Man, God doesn't want you just to survive. Don't survive when times are tough, but I want you to thrive. I actually want you to get promoted. I want you to encounter difficulty, and I want you to grow your character and your integrity. Man, I want you to be like Daniels, modern day Daniels. That's what our world needs. So again, I wanna encourage you, next week, we start this new series for seven weeks. We're calling it Thrive. All right? I'm excited. I'm pumped about it. All right. And it's a small group study. So, I'm gonna be teaching about all the things that will help you thrive on Sunday mornings. And then I wanna encourage you to get one of our small groups. You can do that online. You can call that number on the screen. We'll get you connected, or you can go to the hub and you can get connected that way as well. But hey, don't miss out on this. 'Cause I want prompts. You need this. I need this. With where our culture and our world is today, we've been shaken to our core. How do you survive? Not only survive, but thrive being God's child. We're gonna help you do that. I want you to do that. I want you to be thriving children of God. And so, over these next seven weeks, man, sign up, get involved, get engaged. We're gonna have small groups at all of our locations in person. And I think it's just gonna be life-changing for so, so many people, all right? I wanna encourage you to do that. Hey, if you're here today or you're watching online and you've never trusted in Jesus, it would be clergy malpractice if I didn't give you an opportunity to trust in Jesus today. Hey, last weekend online, we had people who gave their life to Jesus. And I don't know where you are. I don't know if you've ever given your life to Jesus, but if you feel like your world's been shaken, you're gonna need Jesus to help you. He's your creator. He's got a better plan for your life than the world has. And I wanna encourage you to trust him. So, would you pray with me no matter where you are. Let's just have a word of prayer and let's ask God to do business with our souls. God, you're an awesome God, thank you for a guy like Daniel, that in the midst of a pagan culture, he was still able not just to survive, but thrive. And Lord today. I pray that every one of us who know you as our personal Lord and savior, we've asked you to come into our life and forgive us and save us. And we know without a doubt that we are children in the family of God. Lord, get us out of the doom and gloom mentality. Help us not to answer when somebody is asking us, how you doing? Oh, I'm surviving. I'm surviving. God help us to be people who thrive. You're the same God that helped Daniel in the midst of a pagan culture thrive. He kept his integrity. He never caved in on his Christian witness. And God, you promoted him over and over and over. And you even used him to help the Kings know you. So God, I think there is a day that you're calling your church to stand and to be people of character and integrity and love. And when we honor you, God, you're gonna honor us. Maybe there's one here today who's never trusted in Jesus. I just say, why are you waiting on, man? You look around, your marriage is struggling. Your finances are in turmoil. You have all this unrest. This pandemic has caused you a lot of mental capacities. You've just sort of feel like I am overloaded. I don't know how you're surviving actually, but if you wanna thrive and get out of your doom and gloom, then pray this prayer with me. Just say, dear Jesus, I recognize today you're my creator. God forgive me for being God. I'm a terrible God. And I ask you to forgive me and cleanse me. And God, help me to have the mindset that in you, I can actually thrive. And Lord today, I invite you into my life. I ask you to save me. I'm a sinner. God have mercy on me. And right now, if you prayed that prayer, if you're watching online, I just want you to hit that little button, raise hand right now, just hit that little button. We're gonna be praying for you. And if you're at one of our locations, you're watching on YouTube or some other way, just, hey, let us know some way so we can encourage you and pray for you. All heaven rejoices in this decision that you've just made. God have your will and way, set our church on fire and help us to thrive in the coming days. Your name, we pray. Amen.