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Hey, Bway Park. Welcome. I am so honored that you are joining us at church this morning. My name is Jeffrey. I am the lead pastor here, and we're going to continue on in our sermon series on Ephesians called the better life. But today is going to look a little different. We have a treat. Uh, Jake Mills, who was formerly on staff with us here at Beltway Park, and he helped lead our missions and outreach team, and he was an intern actually all the way back in college. [music] He is actually coming back today, and he is going to preach. He leads a church in the Columbus, Ohio area. Uh, the name of the church is New Life. The city is, it starts with a G, and it's got a bunch of other letters, and there's no way I'm going to try to pronounce it. I'll let Jake take care of that. Uh, but Jake is a special friend to Beltway Park. He grew up in our church. He is a gifted and anointed communicator, and he is a personal friend of mine since we were in high school. So, I am excited he is here. I'm excited we get to learn and sit under his teaching today. So, y'all do me a favor and welcome Jake Mills.
Good morning, Beltway Park. And I love Beltway Park. This is a special place. I want you to understand that. Um, I've been all over the country. Not really, but some places in the country. And I just know that we have something special here at Beltway Park. And, uh, you get to be a part of that. I just want you to hear that and know that and and feel the blessing that is Beltway. I love your leadership here at Beltway. I think Pastor Jeffy's doing an awesome job, and all the pastors talking about camp this last week, and just amazing what God is doing here at Beltway Park. So, Beltway has a special place in my heart, and I'm so privileged and honored to be able to uh preach today.
If you have your Bible, you can grab it. Head over to Ephesians chapter 1. I do pastor a church in the Columbus area. That's in a a little uh suburb like that you can't tell is a suburb. You just drive and it just seems like Columbus. It's basically Columbus, but it does have a name that Jeffrey can't remember. And that name is Gehenna. So, it sounds like Gehenna, the trash heap that Jesus talked about in in the Greek word. It's not that. It means three rivers. And so, I'm, I live in Gehenna, Ohio, but basically Columbus, Ohio.
When I got uh the assignment uh to preach today on Ephesians chapter 1 and the prayer there that we're going to get into, it it reminded me of something that happened a few years ago in our family. My wife Aaron and I uh have been doing foster care for a bunch of years, and uh we love taking in kids and and kids in crisis and all of that. Now uh we have six kids of our own, and we're full. You know, at some point you just got to say occupado, and so that's what we say. But so we we've got enough kids in our house right now. But at the time uh we had three bio kids and two uh foster kids, and my my son Joshua uh who was five at the time, almost six, was heading into kindergarten, and he needed an eye exam. And if you want to be a good parent, you need to make sure your kids can see, right? I see some parents not taking notes. You guys should be writing this down. You got to make sure your kids can see. If you want to be a good parent, make sure your kids can see. But if you want a parenting challenge, if you want to win at parenting, sometimes you got to manufacture an artificial parenting challenge just to see if you can do it. And so what we did is that we took all five kids to the eye doctor at the same time. Just rigged the thing to blow and see what happens, you know, see if we can handle it. It was a fun day. The office workers really loved us. They were glad we were there with all our kids at one time, he said sarcastically.
But my son Joshua, when it was his turn, he was pumped to get up in the chair, be a big kid, all of that. Remember, he's 5 years old and he never have had any problem seeing or anything like that. Rambunctious, active, smart little kid. Uh, and he got up in the chair and the doctor looked in his right eye, no problem. Then he got that, you know, he's using that little um I think it's technically called a doohickey. I'm not sure. But, you know, looking in the eye and he looks in his left eye and he just kind of silent for a second. He goes, "Oh." And I was like, "Oh, what's that mean?" And he didn't answer. And he kept looking his left eye. He goes, "Huh?" And I was like, "This guy wants to fight me. That's what's he's chose chosen violence today, right?" So he says, "Hey, uh, there's a pretty serious aigmatism in Joshua's left eye that I think is going to show up in the eye exam." And I was like, I was like, "No, cuz I'm not a horrible dad." And I would know if my kid had problems with his eye, right? Uh, he can see. I mean, this is the kid that would run around from the time he was like able to walk and run. He never found anything, any chair, any table, any tree, any fence that he didn't want to climb and get up on top of and yell conquer. All right, that's my son. I taught him that because you teach your sons important things like that to freak out their moms. And so he would do that. He could read all of that. Never turned his head, anything like that. The doctor said, "Yeah, I think it's going to show up." And so he did the eye exam. When they're kids, little kids, you know, it's not letters. It's like pictures and they're projecting it on the wall in the office and it's like a bird or a house or whatever. And so right eye 2020 switches to the left eye. Joshua's 5 years old and he's just silent, and I say, "Go ahead, buddy. Tell us what you see." And he says, "In nothing." And I'm like, "No, you see something." He's like, "Daddy, I can't see anything." And so the doctor makes the picture bigger. It was a house. Makes the house bigger. And but can you see it now? Can you see it now? Can you see it now? To where the house is like taking up the whole room, you know, and I'm like, surely you can see it now. You know, but he couldn't see it. And the doctor, you know, released the little crazy man from the chair so he could didn't have to sit there any longer and turned to me and he said, "Yeah, uh, Joshua has what we call a lazy eye, which means that, you know, his eye, his left eye has never worked great from the time he was born. And so his brain decided that it would only see through the right eye. It's not actually physically blind. It's like his brain has decided that it's blind and it can only see through its right eye and it doesn't know any difference. Joshua doesn't know any difference." I'm like, "Yeah, cuz he's never had any problem. He can read and and he's like, "Yeah, he doesn't know any difference." And I said, "Okay, what do we do about it to get his left eye seeing?" And the doctor said, "Here's the thing. If we catch this before they're five or six, now he's he's going to turn six in a couple months at this at this uh appointment. Then we can probably do something. We can we can mess, you know, get his left eye seeing again. But because he's already basically six, I'm going to give you a prescription for glasses, but not so that he can see out of his left eye. I'm just going to give them to you so that you can protect the right eye because if he injures the right eye, he will be completely blind." And I was like, is this going to go on my parenting record? Am I going to mess up my flawless record in this one appointment? I mean, I felt like such a loser dad. How could I not know that my kid couldn't see out of one of his eyes? Seeing kind of a big deal, isn't it?
I wonder I wonder how many of us, if we're honest, are like Joshua and his lazy eye. But spiritually speaking, we've got areas, whole areas of our lives that we're not seeing clearly. We're blind in. And we've learned to adapt. We've learned to to function. I mean, we run full speed. We climb trees. We conquer playgrounds, but all the while we can't actually see the way that God has designed us to see. We're blind, and we [snorts] don't even know it. I mean, do you think it's possible for somebody who knows Jesus, trusts in Jesus, truly believes in Jesus, to be blind, to have significant blind spots? You think that's possible?
In Ephesians 1, the passage that we're studying today, the Apostle Paul is writing to Christians, not pagans, not atheists. I mean these are real believers, and he writes this famous prayer for them, and he talks about their love for the saints and their love for Jesus. And at the center of this prayer is this idea, this prayer. He says God open their eyes. Not God make their lives easier. Not God protect them from every hardship. He says God open their eyes. I want you to see what I'm talking about. It's in verse 18 of Ephesians 1. He says, 'Here's what I'm praying for you. That having the eyes of your hearts enlightened. I'm praying that God would open your eyes, not their physical eyes, but the eyes of their heart. Because you can be functioning and still not seeing clearly. And the problem is not that your reality, what you're facing, is changing. Hey, the problem is that your vision is distorted. Here's what I'm saying. I can know truth and still be blind. So, I need the eyes of my heart to be opened. There's a kind of seeing that goes deeper than just physical sight. There's a kind of knowing that is deeper than information. You can know something with your heart, with your eyes, with your head, with your mind, and not yet see it in your heart or with your heart. You can know that God loves you and still live like an orphan, right? You can know that God is sovereign and still be ruled by anxiety. You can know Jesus rose from the dead and still live like death gets the final word. You can know the Bible is true and still not feel the weight of it in your soul. That's because there is often distance between information and illumination. Those things are not the same.
Let me just tell you, you don't need more information today. You got plenty of information. Are you kidding me? We live in a time where we have as much information as we could ever need from the Bible, about the Bible, about Jesus, podcasts galore. You can watch sermon after sermon after sermon. You can get commentaries. You can read books. You don't even have to read books. You can listen to books. You don't need more information. You need the truth you already claim to believe to begin bearing some true weight in your soul. You need God to turn the lights on. You can be around Jesus things and still not know Jesus. Ask Judas. And the Bible doesn't leave this vague in Ephesians 1. It doesn't just let us say, "Yeah, sure. We all have blind spots and maybe we should work out on them and then just kind of move on unchanged." It actually names, the Bible names some common places that believers in Jesus struggle with their spiritual sight. I want you to see what I'm talking about in this prayer.
Verse 18, he says, "Having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, I'm praying that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you." So he's praying, open your eyes to your hope. Now when we think about hope, we often think of it as wishful thinking, like something good might happen. Like worldly hope says maybe it'll work out. Christ centered hope is totally different. It says God has called me. Christ has risen. The spirit has sealed me. So my future is not up to chance. It's already been decided. That's Christ centered hope. That doesn't mean life is easy. It doesn't mean cancer is painless. Grief is small. It doesn't mean betrayal doesn't cut. Listen, depression doesn't disappear just because you put a verse on a coffee cup. That's not what this is saying. But beloved, please hear me for a second. What it is saying is better than all of that because it means pain is real but it's not final. It means the diagnosis IS REAL BUT IT'S NOT SOVEREIGN. >> It means that the grave IS REAL BUT IT DOESN'T GET THE LAST WORD. AMEN. >> Christian hope isn't optimism duct taped to a hard week. That's not what we're talking about. It's the future God chose before the foundation of the world, sealed by the Holy Spirit in the present and then revealed when Jesus returns in his glory. Already decided. Biblical hope doesn't deny what's painful. It sees what's painful in light of what's eternal. And there's a difference.
I don't know what you brought in today. I don't know what tragedy you're going through. I don't know what pain or grief or hurt you're carrying. What betrayal. Maybe it's financial issues. Maybe it's doubt. I don't know what you're bringing in with you today. But you need to open your eyes. Open your eyes to your hope. We are not seeing clearly. We've got some blind spots. What What you're going through right now, it's not the end. Because of Jesus, it's not the end. Because of Jesus, you don't have to stay there. Because of Jesus, you have a future and you have a hope.
But Paul doesn't stop with hope for your future. He prays that your eyes would be open to your hope. And then he says, "I'm praying that you would know what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints." Let me explain. There are other passages in the Bible that talk about our inheritance in Christ. What we get, what we receive when we give our lives to Jesus. And th those are good to dwell on and teach on, amazing truths to to study what our inheritance in Christ is. But that's not what this is talking about. Don't miss the word his in this verse. His inheritance in the saints. Whose inheritance? God's. Everybody say God's. >> Paul's praying that your eyes would be opened to the fact that God looks at his redeemed people and he says, "Mine." Think about that. He's saying, "Open your eyes to your worth in Christ." I mean, do you see yourself as someone that God has claimed, purchased, treasured in Christ? I don't think most of us see ourselves that way. I know I don't. I often see myself through the lens of my failures, through the lens of what I said I was going to stop doing, but still do. What I said I was going to do but still haven't done. The lens of my sin, the lens of my imperfection, the hidden stuff, the promises I've broken. And yet, out of all the things that God could have had the Apostle Paul include in this prayer for the Ephesian church and for you and me, he includes that we would have our eyes opened to our immense worth in Christ BECAUSE OF CHRIST. AND I don't think it's because we're first round draft picks, right? Like I don't think, I don't think it's because you have some kind of skill or I have some kind of skill or gift or aptitude that God needed in order to win the cosmic war against Satan and sin. Do you? I don't think God is good. Like when I got saved, I don't think God was like, "Finally, Jake's on the team. Now we can start winning, right?" I mean, when we talk about our worth in Christ, this isn't, this isn't God patting you on the head, telling you you're special and you can be whatever you want when you grow up. That's not what this is. The cross doesn't flatter us. It rescues us. But in rescuing us, God tells us something that we struggle to believe. His people are treasured, claimed, and kept. In other words, the cross is where God announced the worth of his people in Christ. So then confidence is in Christ becomes not arrogance but security. This is, this is so huge because when you don't see your worth in Christ, you will beg lesser things to name you, to validate you, to tell you your worth. You'll ask achievement to name you, approval to name you, your family, your spouse, your kids, your boyfriend, your girlfriend to name you, your body or body image to name you. You'll ask people you barely even know on social media to validate you. And beloved, these are terrible gods, tiny thrones. God names you. God claims you. God determines your worth. You are his inheritance. Open your eyes to your hope, he prays. Open your eyes to your worth.
And then now look at verse 19. He prays that the eyes of our heart would be open and we would know what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might. That he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at the right hand in the heavenly places. Far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and above every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in the one to come in our age right now. And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which his body, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all. He prays open your eyes to God's power in you.
Now try to, try to get here with me. The same supernatural, God saturated power that raised the broken, battered, crucified body of Jesus Christ is now at work in you. >> Isn't that incredible? So now in the deepest part of our being, the, the Holy Spirit of God, the, the, the power of God is at work restoring and tearing down and rebuilding AND REPLACING BROKEN PARTS AND PUTTING TOGETHER fractured bodies. The same power that raised Christ from the dead, seated him at the right hand of the father and put him above every power, every spirit, every earthly authority is now at work in you. So you know what that means? It means nothing you face, no betrayal, no oppression, no sickness, no sin, no addiction, nothing you face falls outside of the rule and reign of the risen Christ. >> I'm going to say it again because three of you got it. Nothing you face, no oppression, NO ADDICTION, no sin, no sickness, no betrayal, nothing you face falls outside of the rule and reign of Jesus Christ. >> Isn't that good news? So it means that my weakness is real, but it's not stronger than the resurrection power of God in me. Some of us, some of us are living like our anxiety is stronger than Jesus. We're living like our addiction is stronger than Jesus. Like our doubt is stronger than Jesus. Like our family dysfunction is stronger than Jesus. Like your past is stronger than Jesus. Like death is stronger than Jesus. Beloved, you need to open your eyes. Open your eyes to the power of God in you. The same power that raised Christ from the dead is at work in you. Isn't that incredible? The same power. It's at work in you. Well, not all of you. Sorry for the bad news. Not all of us, right? Because it said it's his power toward us who believe. Everything we've been talking about is for those who believe, but most people don't run there. Most people don't go there. Most people don't have the eyes of their heart enlightened. Most people don't go to the eye doctor. They don't get glasses. They stay blind. And that's the thing with blind spots, isn't it? You, you can't see them. You don't know they're there. And so you just function. You just keep going. You just adapt. You just act like everything is okay.
I mean, how do I actually do this? How do I actually see? How do I open my own eyes? It's one thing for me to talk about how you need to open your eyes to your hope in Christ, but how do you do that when you're living a life that feels like you're just crushed by hopelessness? I mean, it's one thing for me to get up here and say you need to open your eyes to the WORTH THAT THAT GOD HAS SHOWN IN Christ in you. How worthy you are because he loves you because of what he sacrificed for you. But how do you open your eyes to that? How do you believe that when the soundtrack of your mind that's set on repeat is telling you over and over and over that you are worthless? You are worthless. You are worthless. It's one thing for me to get up and talk about the resurrection power of Jesus, but how do you believe that when everything looks so dead? I can tell you to open your eyes. The Bible can tell you to open your eyes. But blind people are going, "I can't make myself see no matter how hard I squint." Exactly. You cannot educate yourself into spiritual sight. You cannot hype yourself into spiritual sight. You cannot white knuckle your way into spiritual sight. You cannot church attend your way into spiritual sight. I stay blind. If God doesn't open my eyes, I stay blind. Even with a Bible on my lap and a worship song on my tongue, I need God to open up my eyes.
Which is why Paul doesn't just pray, "Go, God, give them hope. God, show them your worth in you. God, show them your power." Before he gets into any of that, I want to, I want you to see what he prays at the very beginning of this prayer in verse 16. He says this, "I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers." Listen to what he's praying. First thing, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation [snorts] in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your heart enlightened. And then he goes into hope and worth and power. He goes, "May God give you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him." In other words, my eyes are only opened through knowing Christ. That's the anchor of this whole prayer. It's not first know your hope. It's not first know your worth in Jesus. It's not first know the power of the spirit in you. Those are important things. God, God says, the Bible says, Paul says to pray over those things and for those things, but they are not first. First, we need the spirit of God to give us wisdom and revelation so that we can know Jesus. Like really know him.
Like my other son Xavier, he, he really likes a soccer player named Laminia Mo. And he knows all about Laminia Mole. Lamin plays for Spain, Barcelona, Spain in the World Cup. It doesn't matter. But I don't know anything about him. Xavier knows a lot about him, but he doesn't know Lamin Yamal. You know what I'm saying? I know this sounds basic, but when it comes to me and my wife, we've been married 122 years. And so, I don't just know about my wife. I actually know my wife. And it sounds so basic, but it's unbelievably important for us here in the Bible belt where we're surrounded by a lot of knowledge and information about God, about Jesus. It's unbelievably important for us. And if we don't get it, if we don't really get this, it's unbelievably damning for us. Maybe that's why in what's called his high priestly prayer, Jesus prayed this for his disciples and for us, all that would come after them, Jesus prayed, "This is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent." And maybe that's why the Apostle Paul wrote in Philippians 3, "Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord." He goes, "If I could just know him, nothing else would matter. Everything else would be lost. It would all be nothing in comparison to knowing Christ."
Beloved, you can sing about Jesus and not know Jesus. You can study about Jesus and not know Jesus. You can hang out with people who know Jesus and you yourself not know Jesus. You can talk about Jesus passionately and authoritatively and not know Jesus, just like you can talk about Dak Prescott passionately and authoritatively and not know Dak Prescott. I said it earlier. You can be around Jesus things your whole life and still not know Jesus. Again, ask Judas. Three years with Jesus, saw the miracles, heard the teaching, ate the meals, watched the compassion, saw the holiness. He was close to the things of Jesus but not surrendered to Jesus. And there's a difference. He was near the light, but he was still blind. That's why this prayer in Ephesians 1 isn't for more information. It's for illumination. It's for revelation that only God can give.
Back to my son Joshua real quick. When he was five, almost six, we decided to go ahead and try to get his left eye to start seeing, to heal. And so we decided to go, even though the doctor said it wasn't going to work, we decided to go ahead and put a lens in that left side of his glasses. It was like Coke bottle thick. I mean, the thing was like huge because he couldn't see anything. And the idea was that we were trying to like trick his brain into noticing like a new input, a new data point, a new piece of light, point of light on that left side, even if it was blurry, and start to just try to see out of that left eye and hopefully heal. That was the idea. And it worked. Joshua, every year from that year forward, his left eye got better and better and better until now he wears glasses and he can see 2020 out of both eyes. It's pretty sweet. But listen, Joshua's eye didn't heal because he concentrated hard enough. Joshua's eye healed because he had outside help forcing a part of his brain that he wasn't using to receive light again. He needed outside help. He needed outside, his eyes needed outside illumination. Maybe mine do too. The eyes of my heart. Maybe, maybe so do yours. But that's the mercy of God because Jesus doesn't just walk up to blind people and say, "Try harder." He gives sight. He gives light. He opens what we cannot open ourselves. And so maybe the most dangerous thing we can do today is pretend like we have 2020 vision in every area of our lives. Because the question is not if, it's where in my life, do the eyes of my heart need to be opened.
Let's take a moment and respond. If you would close your eyes and bow your head, ask God that question. But honestly, I think you already know the answer. Where in your life, where in your life do the eyes of your heart need to be opened? I want to challenge you to grab a pen or on your phone, write some areas down that come to mind, the Holy Spirit brings to mind.
But I want to talk to you. You in the room at North Campus, South Campus, online campus. I want to, I want to talk to you if maybe you find yourself knowing a lot about Jesus but not really knowing him, near light, and yet still blind. If that's you, I want to give [music] you just a moment with our eyes closed and our heads bowed just to, just to change that right now. Just to make a decision for Christ. The way that happens is not by some kind of willpower or gumption or anything like that. You just need to pray and ask God to do what you cannot do. Ask him to save you. Ask him to open your eyes. Ask him to let you know him. Have a relationship with him. Be his from this day forward. You don't need a pastor or an incantation, a certain prayer, [music] holy water. You don't need any of that. You just need a heart that desires to be changed by Jesus. And I believe if you have that heart and you know that Jesus [music] is the only way to the father, you ask him to change you, then he will do that. The Holy Spirit will do that. So if that's you right now, just pray in your own words. Just ask him to help you know him, to be changed by him.
And then if you're a Christ follower and you'd [music] say, "I've got some areas in my life that that I'm blind. I've got blind spots. I've got areas that I'm not following [music] Christ and his commands. I've got areas where I'm not seeing clearly. And maybe it's hope or worth or power. Maybe it's something else." I want to encourage you to pray this prayer out of Ephesians 1. Just admire God's or [music] Paul's prayer. Actually pray it. Pray it daily. Pray that the Holy Spirit would actually open your eyes, help you know Jesus, see your hope, your worth, the power you have in the Holy Spirit. Pray this prayer that's modeled for us in Ephesians 1. And then take steps of faith to begin to see. Don't just accept that this is [music] the way life is and I'm going to function blind. No. Refuse to accept blindness and step out [music] in faith so that you can see.
If any of that is you, if you want to surrender your life to Christ, know him fully like you never have [music] before, or you're a Christ follower who's wanting the Holy Spirit to open the eyes of your heart in one area or another. If any of that is you with our eyes closed and our heads bowed, I'd love to pray for you. So, would you just slip your hand up so I can see you and I can pray for you? Yep, I see those hands. Anyone else?
God, I ask that you would [music] see the hearts, the hands today. God, the steps of faith, the small steps of faith to say, you know what? I'm not too pride. I'm not too proud to raise a hand and say, "I've got some blind spots [music] and I need help." God, would you see those and would you bless any person, any mind, [music] any heart in this room at North watching online that would be humble enough to say that they are blind in [music] some area or another? And would you, if there's anyone listening who has yet to give their life to you and wants to today, Holy Spirit, would you woo them across the finish line of faith? [music] Would you do in them what they cannot do in themselves? Would the seed of your truth and your gospel find in their hearts good soil, take root, and bear fruit? And would they never ever be the same, fully transformed from this day forward? We confess, we admit we cannot do these things. We need your help, Jesus. It's in Jesus' name that we pray these things. Everybody said, >> "Amen."
Well, thank you so much for being here today. Why don't you stand with us? We've got our prayer team coming up. We want to pray for you. If you have any prayer needs at all, we want to pray for you. And hey, if you're new here to Beltway Park and never done this before, we've got start here happening right now right after service in the north for you. You'll see a sign over there. If you get lost, ask somebody with a lanyard and they'll get you there. But we'd love for you to go to Start here if you want to take your next step here at Beltway Park.
But before the service this morning, we had some pastors get together and pray and just ask God, what is it that he would have us pray into for you? And so we asked him to give us some prayer words. And here are the prayer words that we got from the Lord this morning in our prayer time. Uh, someone who has had the phrase bold prayers on your heart this week. If you're thinking about that, you've had that on your heart, God wants you to come up and get prayer. We'd love to pray for you. Someone who built something and it re recently broke. That's me when I build anything ever. And so, uh, maybe you're like me and when you build stuff, it breaks. I don't know. Maybe you never, it never breaks, but it did this time. Either way, come and get some prayer. Someone considering counseling, but you're nervous about the next step. We want to pray for you. Someone said the phrase recently, "I'm going to give this one last shot." If you said that phrase or thought it, we want you to come up and get prayer. Someone is making a housing decision, needs prayer. We had a picture of gold fillings. I'm guessing that's fillings in your teeth. So maybe you're a high roller and you get gold fillings. I don't know. Maybe you found some gold fillings. That would be weird. But anyways, if you were thinking about gold fillings, we want to pray for you. We got a picture uh of someone wearing stubbornness like a badge, like a badge of honor. I'm stubborn and I'm proud of it. If that speaks to you, get prayer. A parent struggling to connect with one of their kids. A fractured family relationship. And then we just got uh left hip. And so if your left hip is hurting or something else to do with your left hip, you just got a sweet tattoo on your left hip. I don't know what it could be, but something to do with your left hip, we would want to pray for you. But get prayer for anything and everything before you leave.
If you would allow me to say a prayer over you, put your hands like this and I'll pray over you. May the Lord bless you and keep you. May he make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. May he turn his countenance towards you and give you his peace. It's the name of Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the prince of peace, that we pray these things. Everybody said, >> "Amen." >> Amen. Thanks for being here today. Have a good week.