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All right. Daniel chapter 3:25. When you got it, shout, "I got it."
"I got it."
If you don't, it's right there on the screen. All right. I'm about to see what church I'm in.
"Look, Nebuchadnezzar shouted. I see four men, unbound, walking around in the fire, unharmed."
Overflow, they tripping in the sanctuary. I'mma look. Nebuchadnezzar shouted. I see four men unbound walking around in the fire unharmed. And the fourth one, [Applause] this is why some people confused about you right now, 'cause they thought they left you hanging by yourself. But when they looked again, the fourth man, I'm sorry, walking around in the fire unh home. If you don't mind, before you sit down, I want you to high-five at least two enthusiastic people on your own and tell them today's topic. Y'all already high-five and slow down. Let me give you the topic. I want you to high-five them and tell them today's topic.
"I need my fire back."
"I need my back."
Why? I don't see enough fire in these high-fives. Go high-five somebody on the other side. That was the wrong person. Come on now. Shout it as loud as you can on the count of three. 1, 2, 3. [Applause]
All right. [Applause] Can I ask you a question?
"What do you do when the fire you once had is gone?"
"What? What do you do when you don't shout like you used to?"
"When you don't believe like you used to?"
"Or maybe you don't dream like you used to?"
"Or if you don't walk like you used to, or if you don't talk like you used to, or if you don't pray like you used to, or if you don't trust like you used to, or if you don't praise like you used to, or if you don't serve like you used to?" I'mma get to you in one minute. "Or if you don't love like you used to?"
See, if you live long enough, you'll realize that there are seasons when passion feels like it's on pause, when all the fight in you seems like you have no more fight left. Some of us sitting in this room, we love God and we are not faithless, but we are fireless.
"And here it is, everybody. When the fire goes out, signs show up." And I want to talk to you about signs that you may need to evaluate to see if you need your fire back.
I feel like preaching already because for some of you in the room, you didn't lose your purpose, but you may have lost your passion. And God sent you here today to go back and get it. God is giving you the fight, the strength, and the passion you need to do what He's calling you to do.
Four signs of needing your fire back. The first sign, here it is, is chronic fatigue. When your spirit is tired and you're running on empty. You're present but not powered. That your body is here but your heart is not.
Sign number two, mental fog. When indecisiveness clouds your clarity and you doubt decisions you used to make with confidence. It's getting quiet in here today. Because for some of you, you're not struggling with bad decisions. You may be struggling with indecision. Because what do you do when you're in a season where it's not black or white, but God has you in the gray? Because some stuff that you are choosing is not a sin, but it may not be wise. It may not be bad, just not best for you.
Are y'all hearing this today? Oh, maybe that one was your sign. What about sign number three? If you need to get your fire back, repeated failure. This is when you start losing battles that you should be winning. I'mma say that again. This is when you start losing battles that you should be winning. That they give you that "hey, big head" text. I'mma just keep reading my notes because fireless faith convinces you you're disqualified when God still calls you qualified.
Number four, here it is. The fourth sign: you become spiritually fickle. When you slowly fall off from the disciplines that once kept you strong, faith becomes optional, prayer becomes occasional, and passion becomes situational. Ain't it a trip when someone comes into their relationship with God and they're praying, crying, and shouting for God to do something and God finally does it and they begin to prioritize the blessing over the blesser? But I wonder, do I have anybody in the room today that's saying, "I'm not going to be spiritually fickle to a faithful God?" God has been faithful to me even in my fickle seasons. And I don't know about you, but I just want to give God praise that even in seasons where I may have gave up on Him, He didn't give up on me. Now, you perfect, you can sit down. But if you know you've been inconsistent in certain seasons and you wanted to throw in the towel, you should have been talking faith, but you were talking fear. I dare you to praise Him right now that He is a faithful God, not a fickle God. You still looking at me. Praise Him like He woke you up this morning. Faithful breath in your body. Faithful roof over your head. Faithful. You may not have the car you want, but your car works. Faithful. He is a faithful God. And I'm going to give you a minute to give a faithful God a faithful praise.
Now, somebody shout, "He's faithful."
Now, watch this because these are not just signs, struggles. These are signals. They don't mean you're finished. But they do mean you need your fire back. Why is this important? Somebody write this down. Hear me when I say this: because your purpose requires your passion.
I'm preaching to the wrong section. So I'mma preach to this section. Your purpose requires your passion. I know they did. Your purpose. I knew the west side had me. Your purpose requires your passion. See, that's still a little bit about 50% balcony. I'mma preach to y'all since they've been bougie on the floor. Your purpose requires your passion. See, y'all missed that because for some of you, we have been celebrating our favorite sports team all weekend. We were screaming at TVs with people who couldn't even hear us. We were going off on coaches and quarterbacks and football teams who weren't doing nothing, who don't even care if we wake up tomorrow. But I refuse to have more passion for a football team than to the God that woke me up this morning. You'll go to a football game and high-five people you don't know. I dare you to give God a passionate praise. Don't give Him a halfhearted praise. Don't praise Him because I said it. Where is your passion? Because purpose requires passion. How can you expect other people to be more excited about what God wants to do in your life than you are? If you don't wake up on fire to fulfill the dream, the purpose, and plan that God has for you, how do you expect for God to trust you with who He wants to send to support you?
But I wonder, do I have some people that got some radical, contagious passion that when you walk in the room, you a fire starter? You start making people's fire come alive. They may have been dead before you got in the room, but you begin to resurrect dead dreams, dead faith.
Somebody shout, "Get your fire back."
"Get your fire."
Have you allowed disappointment to take your fire? Have you allowed rejection to take your fire? Have you allowed failure to take your fire? Have you allowed God's timing? [Applause] To take you. Do I need to sit there for a minute?
What do you do when you are Mary and Martha, and you have a close relationship with God, and someone you love, Lazarus, is sick and you send word, you pray and request God to show up and He doesn't even take the time to come when you want Him. And it says it's the ones you love. You showing up for people early who don't even like you, Mr. Jesus. Why are you coming late for Lazarus if you love us, Jesus? Because what if their issue had not gotten bad enough yet for Him to get the credit? And for some of you, you've been struggling with still believing what God wants to do in your life because He's not coming when you want Him to come. But the old songwriter said, "He may not come when you want Him, but He's an on-time God." Yes, He is. And I wonder, do I have anybody in the room today that can make up in their mind, "I'm no longer married to my timeline"? Because God's timing is God's kindness. If He wanted to do it now, He would have done it by now. But sometimes He does not do it because I may not be ready. Or if He does it too soon, other people can get the credit. If I would have healed Lazarus when he was sick, they could have, watch this, gave it to medicine. But because I did what other people call impossible, nobody can get the credit but me.
Watch this, everybody. Purpose without passion becomes a burden instead of a blessing. This is why you have to be careful when you have people in your life that lack passion. If they are high energy when it's time to party, but low energy when it's time to pray, they may not be your people. But why? Why is this important? Because we cannot fulfill God-sized calling with halfhearted energy.
See, y'all missed it because some of y'all, I see you. I see you. You sitting in here judging some of us praise. You sizing us up and down like it don't take all of that. And you don't even realize we praising God because we behind schedule. What am I talking about? Some of y'all don't even realize the Bible said, "Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and enter His courts with praise." So before I even get into the sanctuary, I should start thanking Him in the parking lot. And when I get to the lobby, my thank yous turn into a praise party. I don't need a praise team to help me praise God 'cause I brought my praise with me. Now, do I have any praisers in the room that don't need permission to give God a praise break? I dare you to praise God for everybody on your row. [Music] Hold my Bible. Watch me praise Him. Because when I praise, heavens, wait a minute. See, that's what passion sounds like. That's what passion sounds like. Because for some of us, we've been complaining enough about our problems, but God is like, "At what point are you going to tell your problems about your God?"
Now, now watch this, everybody. I want you to catch this. What if the fire you're in right now is the fire God is using to reignite the fire inside of you? So you may feel like your relationship is under fire, or your career is under fire, or your finances is under fire, and sometimes God has to put fire around you to reignite the fire within you. And this is the case in our text today. In Daniel chapter 3, we see, if you went to Sunday school 101, we see the three Hebrew boys. Come on now. You know, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. I struggle with his name. Abindigo. Is that it? All right. But the context is important because the context of Daniel chapter 3 is the reality of God's people. They have suffered significant loss. They are in Babylonian captivity and they don't even realize they're in physical captivity because of spiritual compromise. What if some of the struggles in your life are not a coincidence, but they are consequences because of how you chose to spiritually settle for less than God's best?
So here they are, slaves to people that should be serving them. And watch this, everybody. Whenever Babylon conquered a country, they would strip the people of their culture. Let's do this deductively. They would take them into captivity. Read Daniel chapter 1 when you get home. They would strip them of their culture and heritage. Read chapter Daniel 1:4-5 when you get time. And watch this. Here's where I want to sit at. Verse six and seven. Then they would strip them of their name. So we know them as Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. But that's the name their slave master gave them.
What do you do when people are calling you by the wrong label? What do you do when you embrace the wrong label? This is showing us, everybody, here it is, that the enemy attempts to use losses to create labels. Because he's not after your stuff. He's after your identity. Because he knows you can only use people who don't know who they are. I feel like having church with somebody in the room because I don't know about you, but in 2025, I'm making up in my mind that I may lose stuff. I may lose people. I may lose opportunities, but I will not lose myself. And I wonder, do I have anybody in the room today that's done allowing yourself to lose you? Even when people leave you, [Applause] he's after your identity because he knows that your inheritance is tied to your identity. So if you embrace being the wrong person, you'll never receive God's promise for your life because your inheritance is not based on what you do. It's based on who you are.
And so watch this. Because the enemy knows he cannot rob the blessing from you, he'll attempt to rob you of enjoying the blessing that God gave you. I'll work it in here. So you'll get the marriage but be miserable at the same time. So you'll get the job but lose your joy. Why y'all not helping me preach? Are y'all hearing this?
And so here it is. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego is not even their real name. If I have time, we will unpack their real name and show you the difference in the meaning. Because the enemy knows that if I can remove your foundation, you'll never arrive to the right future. And the enemy does not want you to know where you come from so you can know where you're headed. But the devil is a liar. I know who I am. And because I know who I am, I know whose I am. I'm the king's kid. And I've never seen the righteous forsaken or his seed begging bread. I serve Jehovah Rapha, that He is a healer. [Applause]
So we get to verse 15, Daniel chapter 3. Let's exegetically unpack this. King Nebuchadnezzar is trying to flex. He looks at the Hebrew boys because they won't bow and worship this golden image idol that he's built up that everyone else is worshiping. And he says, "All right, so you're not going to worship my image?" Uh, verse 15, "I will give you one more chance to bow down." First of all, who you talking to? [Applause] See, I ain't got no fire in the room yet. Five, it's being stirred up, but you should be offended right now. But here it is. "I will give you one more time to bow down and worship the statue I have made when you hear the sound of the musical instruments. But if you refuse, you will be thrown immediately into the blazing furnace." And then see this where he went wrong. [Applause] 'Cause it's one thing when you talking spicy to me, but when you start talking crazy to my Daddy. See, I don't know, y'all don't have no crazy family members that like to protect you. See, it's one thing. Do I have any parents in the room? Like, it's one thing when you say something to me, but keep your hands and your mouth off my kids. And I wonder, do I have some people in the room that can give God praise because He don't play about somebody? Shout, "God don't play about me." Be careful how you treat me because God [Applause] don't play. God showing now. He don't play about me. I asked Him for a little, He gave me a lot. Just pay the bills. [Applause] That thing hit my spirit. I'm sorry.
Watch this. He says, period, conjunction, and so you feeling yourself, Mr. Nebuchadnezzar. And before I take it back, I add more to it. "Once I throw you in this blazing furnace, then what? God will be able to rescue you from my power." He must not realize that he's... I serve the God that creates fire. As a matter of fact, my Bible said He is a consuming. [Applause] So before you talk to try to talk crazy and throw me into fiery situations, you need to recognize because I'm the king's kid, I'm fireproof. What burns other people builds me up. I wonder, do I have some people in the room that can give God praise because it didn't kill you, it made you stronger? [Music]
But if you don't know who you are, you won't walk in this level of authority. See, the Lord's been dealing with me with something in my devotional time. I want to unpack it because it really needs a whole series or a message on it because I believe that most Christians are dealing with this level of frustration because we've been taught how to pray, study scripture, how to serve, how to give, but we haven't been taught properly how to command. And so, because we have not been taught how to command, because that's a level of faith that you should walk in. Because we don't walk in commanding our day, commanding the authority of God, we then fall into control. And whatever you try, are y'all okay? Whatever you fear the most, you will attempt to control the most. Because control is really not about control. Control is really about trust. Wherever you trust God the least, you'll try to control the most. Are y'all hearing this?
But here it is. If you don't know who you are, you won't be able to deal with the Nebuchadnezzar in your life because Nebuchadnezzar represents the culture you are living in trying to intimidate you into conforming and compromising into the standards of the culture. Are y'all catching this? But here it is. When you don't fully embrace your God-given identity, you will automatically worship idols. Because the Bible says we were created to worship. Am I in the book? We were created to what? Worship. So even if we don't worship God, we will still always worship something because it is wired in our DNA to be worshippers.
But watch this. Whoever controls the language controls the culture. So the culture will change the language and not call it worship but call it addiction. This is why you cannot play with private addiction because private addiction is nothing but another form of idol worship. It's something that's attempting to take the seat of God in your life. [Applause]
Can I ask you a question? Do you worship your phone? Oh, it gets quiet. Because for some of us, we're going to have to be honest and say, "Do I prioritize my phone more than I do His presence?" Maybe it's not your phone. Is social media your God? Is that relationship your God? Is that private struggle that you tell nobody about? Has that become an idol in your life? Let's define it. What's an idol? Throw it on the screen. An idol is any person, place, thing, or thought that becomes your source. How do I know it's an idol? Here it is. When I have a deficit, it's what or who I run to first. So, you get stressed out. Do you run to the bottle or to the Bible? [Applause] Are y'all hearing this?
And the enemy wants you to be stuck with idols while also trying to worship God. So, he doesn't want you to stop worshiping God. He wants you to compromise with trying to worship both. Nebuchadnezzar is like, "Okay, I understand you worship your God, but worship me, too." If I had time, are y'all hearing this?
What are they showing us? They're showing us that compromise is a cancer. Why is this important? Please throw this on the screen, everybody. Here it is. Because cancer starts small but spreads fast. So, you'll end up compromising in one area. A small decision to lower your standards, then it'll begin to spread to all your standards. And before you know it, you're living with no standards. And the standard is not a standard if you're not willing to suffer for it. I'm working in here.
But what I love about the Hebrew boys, in spite of the intimidation of King Nebuchadnezzar and culture, they refused to bow. And I wonder, do I have some people in the room today that are like the Hebrew boys that in spite of the pressure that you may be feeling in your life right now, you refuse to compromise to who they want you to be and what they want you to do? Are y'all hearing this? Because you end up, when you compromise, you end up alive in public while dying in private. Are y'all hearing this?
And so here it is. Write this down. What everyone accepts does not have to be what you adopt. Just because everyone is accepting it does not mean that you have to adopt it. Because just like them, you may be in this world, but you're not of this world. So, my standards are different. Are y'all hearing this?
And so, here it is. What I love about the text is I feel like having church right here. After he's done talking spicy about them, talking crazy about God. Y'all pray for me 'cause it gets a little crazy right here. Uh, they look back at him and say, "All right, you done?" All right, we got the floor. Verse 17. "If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God whom we serve..." Somebody better come get me these next two words. These next two words, I feel it in my big toe. "The God whom we serve is able." I don't know who I'm preaching to in the room today. I don't know what you're dealing with. I just wanted to tell you here. Here it is. God is able. I know what the doctor said, but God is able. I know the bill collectors are calling, but God is able. I know people are walking out, but God is able. I dare you to give God an "He's able" praise if you know you serve an able God. No, that's the wrong praise. Praise Him if you believe that He's able. He's able to do exceedingly and abundantly above all you can ever ask, think, dream, or imagine. I know the doctor said cancer, but my God is able to heal. See, y'all, y'all not having church with me. I know you may not have no money in your pocket, but I've never seen the righteous forsaken. So don't you give up on God. He's able. He's able. Able. See, it's one thing to say it in church, but I wonder, do I have some people that have some fire that's in your life when you go home or when you go to work? In the face of the fire, I dare you to get some faith and say, "He's able. He's able." In other words, I'm not blind to my reality. I just trust His ability. He's, He's, He's able.
And then they take it to another level because they look at him. Please throw verse 17 up. They said, uh, "If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God whom we serve is able to save us. He will rescue us from your power, Your Majesty." 2025 way of saying it respectfully. Uh, 2025 petty level way of saying it: "Per my last email." That's for my corporate thugs right there. So, so look at this, everybody. Here it is. It says He's able to do it. But then they keep walking by faith. Because we get to verse 18 and they say something. And if you still sitting down by the time we read this, I got to question your passion because they say in verse 18, "But even if He don't." [Applause] "If He don't pay the bill, if He don't heal my body, even if He don't..." I know He can because my praise is not based on what He does. It's based on who He is. [Music] "Even if He don't." "Even if He don't." That's a mature level of faith. "Even if He don't get us out the fire, I know He can." My grandmama used to say, "You can't make me doubt Him. I know..." "Even if He don't..." "I know He can." Watch what they say. "Even if He don't," comma, "we want to be clear with you." [Applause] "Your Majesty. We will never serve your God or worship the gold statue."
See, y'all not having church because you don't know the power of worship. Because according to the law first mentioned, the first time worship was mentioned in the Bible in Genesis, it had nothing to do with singing. It had everything to do with sacrifice. See, a lot of us know how to praise. But most of us don't know how to worship. You haven't truly worshiped God until you've allowed something in you to die so something in Him can live inside of you. Now, I wonder, do I have some people in the room today that can worship God and allow your ego to die? Allow your pride to die? [Music] Where are my worshippers in Rock City that don't mind worshiping God in spirit? [Applause] I'm a worshipper.
And so, watch this. Because I'm a worshipper, I know how to allow myself to die so that the Christ in me can live. See, if you only worship God on Sunday, the question has to become, is that worship or manipulation? Because worship should be a lifestyle, not just lyrics. And so what the altar was in the Old Testament, the cross is in the New Testament. And Jesus says, in the Old Testament, they built idols with materials, with gold, with all of these things, but in the New Testament, you build idols in your heart. And so this is why He says, "Whoever wants to be my disciple must first deny themselves, pick up your cross and follow me." And the question is, did you just confess with your mouth and believe in your heart, or did you also deny yourself? Because when the Father looks at you, the question becomes, does He see a lot of you or Jesus' blood on you? [Applause] "I am crucified with Christ." Are y'all hearing this today? Please start playing so I can stop preaching.
I'm about to close right here because for some of you, you need to get your fire back. But we have to be careful with messages like this because be careful what you ask for because sometimes in order for God to reignite the fire in you, He has to put fire around you. So they throw them into the fiery furnace because of their defiance. Watch this, everybody. He says, "Turn it up. Turn it as high as it could go." They turned it up so much that the people that were carrying and putting them in the fiery furnace, they died from the flames. See, you know you have God's favor on your life when people can't survive what you walk in. [Applause] Stop hating on my breakthrough when you don't know my been through. You don't know what I've been through to get what I have right now. And so, stop asking God to give you what I'm walking in when you don't know the fire.
So they're tied up. They're tied up. This represents bondage in fire, which represents adversity. But God uses the fire that the enemy wanted to use to burn them, to build them. Because King Nebuchadnezzar looks back in the furnace and says, "Wait a minute. Then we chained them up. How are the chains off of them and they're walking around free?" Because where everybody else burned out, I blew up. And I declare that where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Because what if what God did in the three Hebrew boys' life, He wants to do in your life? That they may have had physical freedom, but what if God sent you here to give you mental freedom, emotional freedom, financial freedom, spiritual freedom? What is the freedom that you need God to break free in your life so you're no longer restricted?
And then He says something that blows my mind. He asks a question. [Music] Hold on. Wait a minute. [Music] Didn't we throw three in there? [Applause] But I see four in there now. And he looks like the Son of God. And I don't know about you. Do I have anybody in the room that can praise God that if He's not getting you out of the fire, He loves you enough to jump in the fire with you? I dare you to praise God that you're not in this by yourself. Somebody shout, "The fourth man is with me." Woo! I'm not in this by myself. I may look alone, but I'm not alone. There's a fourth man in the fire with me. Could it be what you're asking God to deliver you from? He's saying, "I'm not delivering you out of it." Because if you look around, you'll see that I'm right here in it with you. And I wonder, do I have anybody like me that some of the hardest seasons of my life, I got to know God the most? [Applause] [Music] [Music]
You can stand to your feet. I'm closing right here because for some of you, I want you to hear me right here. The Hebrew boys show us that fire does not just come by accident. It comes back through alignment. If you want your fire back, there are three things that they modeled that we must master.
Number one, they show us if we're going to recover or get our fire back, get our passion back, number one, we need restraint. Somebody shout. They refused to adopt what everyone else accepted. It wasn't just not bowing down to the idol. It was also them earlier in scripture refusing to eat what everyone else was eating. That's why we call it the Daniel fast. They refused to eat what everyone else was eating. Why? Because when you have a different assignment, you need a different appetite. See, some of y'all have not been eating according to your assignment. You just been eating according to your ailments. And what food is to the body, the word is to your soul. And some of us are going to have to be honest and say, "Lord, forgive me because I lost my fire. I lost my devotional time with You and I've been coming to church on Sunday but not seeing You on Monday." And if I can be honest, I have spiritual religious routine but I'm also spiritually anorexic 'cause I only get a word when the preacher preaches. See, we are not trying to build codependent Christians that uses Sunday as spiritual anesthesia to numb the pain throughout the week. When you come here, you should be coming here to be equipped, not to escape. And because they had a different diet, watch this, everybody, they had the strength to restrain from the temptation of eating what everyone else ate and bowing to what everyone else bowed to. See, for some of you, you need to make sure you fix your diet now because you don't know what temptation is headed your way. And social media quotes ain't going to give you the strength to overcome it. You're going to need a word. [Applause] [Music]
Number two, they showed us we need relationship because they said, "Even if God don't, we'll never serve your God." Their loyalty was rooted in relationship, not results. They would say, "Even if we don't get the results we want, we still love You, God, because our relationship and my loyalty is not built on what You do. It's based on who You are." Fire comes from knowing God, not just needing God. Do you need God more than you know Him? It's what Dallas Willard calls vampire Christianity, to where you just want His blood but nothing else. Just give me Your blood. I don't want Your principles. Save me but don't change me. Love me but don't lead me. Said no. We need relationship, not just religion. Religion is important. I'm not saying throw religion out because religion gives you structure. It gives you accountability. But more than religion, you need relationship because your foundation needs to be strong for the fights that you're about to have in your life.
And number three, here it is, everybody. You need resolve. "Be not weary in well-doing, for in due season you will reap if you don't give up." I got a word for you. Don't give up. Don't give up. Because they stood firm even when threatened with the furnace. Resolve is the unshakable decision that no matter the cost, you will not compromise your faith. Hear me right here. It's the last thing I'm gonna say and I'mma pray. Are y'all ready for this? Are you sure? Hear me right here. Fire returns when conviction is greater than your convenience. Fire returns when your conviction is greater than your convenience. For some of you, when you first got saved, you would slip and cuss and you just feel like you was going to hell. Like, God forgive me. Oh my Lord, I can't believe. Then you got comfortable with it and you feel like you just got a hall pass for everything. But God knows my heart. The problem is, He really does. And so if you want fire, hear me right here, you must be willing to surrender and submit to the conviction of the Holy Spirit. For some of you, your issue is not mediocre, small, elementary stuff. You love God. You serve Him. But there are issues and people who you're struggling with forgiving. And this is why I teach, before you forgive, you first need the fear of the Lord. Because without the fear of the Lord, you'll only forgive people when you feel like it.
And I'm praying a special prayer for you. If you want to receive it, you can lift your hands in the room and overflow online. I'm praying that God's holy fire burns away everything that's not like You. God, I ask that You awaken passion. I ask that You give them a personal revival right now. God, I come against settling. I declare settling season is over. God, we have passion for You. We have passion for Your will, passion for Your word, passion for Your way. God, I say thank You. We will not be lukewarm Christians. We'll be hot on fire for You. We will worship You and seek You as the deer thirsts for water. Our soul will thirst and long for more of You. God, forgive us for the times that we just went through the motions with no meaning. We're coming back to the heart of worship where it's all about You. Now, God, if You find anything in us that's not like You, expose it. We're not just asking that You take it away, God. We're putting it on the altar today. [Applause] We repent for holding on to idols in our heart. We've allowed compromise to kill our intimacy with You. But God, I say thank You that passion and fire is being reignited in our personal prayer lives and in our hunger for the word of God, in our relationships with those in the kingdom that You have aligned to help bring the best out of us. God, I say thank You that even as You ignite and bring the fire back in us, we'll also have humility. That we will not burn with arrogance, but we will burn with humble hearts.
Now, if you're in this room today and you want to give your life to Christ, I want you to repeat after me. Lord, forgive me for I am a sinner in need of a Savior. I believe. I confess with my mouth and I believe in my heart that You sent Your Son Jesus to die on the cross to save me from my sins. Right now, in this moment, I am saved. Come on, give Jesus praise right there, somebody.