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We truly believe that God is on the move here in the Coachella Valley, and we're on a mission to make sure we share it with the world. This is Southwest Church [Music] online. Welcome, church online community. My name is CJ McFaten, your online pastor, and it's my privilege to represent Southwest in our digital spaces as we encourage people to go from digital engagement towards their next step in real-life transformation.
So, I'm sure you know that it takes hundreds of people and dozens of teams to provide both in-person and digital experiences just like this one each and every week. From planning and coordination, worship, music, video, sound, lighting, social media, communication and design, discipleship, kids programming, prayer, care, and guest services—the list of people and the ways they serve goes on and on. And we do it all because we are grateful to God for all that he's done in our lives. And we truly believe that the Holy Spirit is up to some big things here at Southwest Church. But the truth is, we can't do it without you. And we don't want to do it without you. As the valley and our church grows, it's going to take even bigger teams of people to get involved if we want to further God's kingdom and continue to make the name of Jesus famous in the Coachella Valley and beyond. So, if you're ready to join us, we'd love to invite you to head over to southwestchurch.com/volunteer and check out some of the teams and opportunities available that you can be a part of. Don't delay. Jump in and join us today.
Now, go ahead and open up your digital message notes as we get ready to worship through the word with a message from Megan Fate Marshman in just a moment. [Applause]
Verse that changed your life. John chapter 4 reads this in verse 13: Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. But whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst." How does that sound? But how does it work? How is it possible? Anyone thirsty for anything? See, some of you are holding some drinks. I want to go to prayer. And here's what I want to do. If you're open to it, I want to risk a little bit in prayer. If it's true that in Ephesians chapter 3, he talks about that God can do immeasurably more than all you ask or imagine. Great verse, right? I'm wondering, what are you asking for? What are you imagining? What are you longing for? What's your goal this year? What do you really want? Did you know that Jesus cares about all those things? So, here's the question: Have you asked for any of them? Maybe you've thought of them. What's the longing? And maybe what's the longing underneath the longing? You know what I mean? Let's go to him and have a real authentic conversation with him.
Here's why. Wherever you're at in life, that's the only place God's going to meet you. So you can be honest. My professor would say it this way: Prayer is not a place to be good; it's a place to be honest. If you want a boring prayer life, spend all of your time trying to be good in it. He already knows the truth. If you're in church and you're kind of bored, watch this—tell him. It won't shock him. If you don't even want to ask for what you really want because you're scared that you're going to live not content in the present, tell him that. If you don't know if your longings are pure, ask him to refine your longings. Are you kind of catching that you could be really honest? If you kind of want the wrong thing for the wrong reason, watch this—tell him. Tell him. Let's just have a real relationship. Let's not just talk about it. Yes. So, let's go to him in prayer.
Heavenly Father, here we are. And I wonder what it is that we long for, that what we thirst for in this season. And I pray right now that every single person who can hear the sound of my voice would talk to you. Share what's on your heart. Share what you're mad about. Share what you regret, that you feel like isn't getting in the way of you even asking for anything because you feel like you deserve nothing. You can tell him—he knows; he's with you. Father, I pray that during this service dedicated to your glory that we would taste and see that you really are good and you care. Fill us with your love in a surprising way. God, I have this picture of us walking out and someone who's walking in for the next service saying, "How was it?" and us declaring, "I'm really loved," and us not having to, like, I don't know, prove it, just experience it. So by your spirit, God, I pray that we would encounter you and your love this morning. By your Spirit, we pray all this in the name of your son Jesus who made a way for this relationship to be possible. And for that, we say thank you. And all God's children said, "Amen."
Now, when I was invited to teach on the verse that changed my life, I went to the book of John, and conveniently a lot of you have gone with me through the book of John. So, I couldn't do any of those passages because you've already heard them. So, I had to do a different one. And one that I have not taught: John chapter 4. John chapter 4 is—oh, the story of a person, watch this—who wasn't looking for Jesus at all, but Jesus was looking for them. How cool. And let's check out the story. It begins John chapter 4, verse one says this: Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had—sorry, Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John, although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized but his disciples. So he—that's Jesus—left Judea and went back once more to Galilee. Quick geography lesson that will help give context. Judea would be here. And if Judea is here, Galilee is here. And I learned as a little girl in math that the fastest way between two points is a straight line. But here's the cultural context that makes this passage interesting. And it's this: Jewish men of this time who are traveling from Judea to Galilee would never go the straight line. Why? Because there's a little place in the middle called Samaria. They didn't get along—conflict. Anyone else ever have conflict in their life? Did anyone else know that conflict is actually not a terrible thing? Did you guys know that? This is a total aside, but conflict—did you know that it's not the end of intimacy? It's the opportunity for the beginning and the intimate part of intimacy—conflict. But anyways, so every single Jewish man, watch this, would go around the conflict. Any guys in the room like, "I'd like to go around the…" or have people in your life here at church that you're like, "I just…" Me either. So that's neat. And so no, but pay attention to the next verse because this is where it gets interesting. Verse four: Now he—Jesus—had to go—what's the next word?—through. Uh oh. So he's not going around the conflict. What's he doing? Going through it. And some of you are going through it. And let's see how the perfect one goes through it, whatever your "it" happens to be. Now he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there. And Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?"
There are a lot of details if you are paying attention. For instance, who caught what time it was noon. You live here, so you understand and maybe can even relate to the blazing heat of the Middle East. So, if you are going to a well to get water for the day, what time would you go? 6 a.m.? Would you go at noon? Why in the world would you go at noon? Just so you know, as I'm asking questions, here's what I hear back. But think about it: Why would you go at noon? To avoid people. Yes. You catching it? So, he goes to a well at noon. He doesn't go around the problem; he goes right through it, and he meets with her. So, if you're paying attention, you get this: Jesus had to do something. And anytime you take note of Jesus having to do something, you got to ask yourself, why would Jesus, the guy who didn't have to, had to do anything, have to do that? She went to the well at noon because she was avoiding people. She was experiencing the fall, the result of being born into sin. And not just being born into it, but the choices that she has made. And here's the natural human response to bad choices, in case you're wondering: Number one, shame. By the way, shame is what always will keep you arm's distance from everybody. It's the fear of being really known as you are. Shame is that—that portion of you that hates aspects of you, that sense of uneasiness you feel at the core of your being about yourself. That's shame. By the way, when Jesus, Holy Spirit, God the Father, the triune nature created in the very beginning, Genesis 1 and 2, before there was any sin present—do you want to know how good it was? It was this good. It says this in chapter 2:25: They were naked and felt no shame. That's how good it was. Can you even imagine having no shame? Can you? She felt shame. Why? Because she had guilt. Those are distinct. Shame is hating aspects of who you are. Guilt is hating what you did. So for her, she was hiding. And it's—it's the exact same thing that happens in Genesis 3. They parallel—shame, blame, hiding, fear, anxiety—all the byproducts, the result. Because the greatest longing is to be naked and unashamed, especially when you're surrounded by a God who is defined as love. So really, in the very beginning, what we were created for is to be fully exposed. In other words, fully known for all that we are and perfectly loved—that was perfect. The byproducts of the fall have kept us from that. But the weird part is we still have that longing. You still have the longing to be known and loved. And maybe you've experienced like little portions of it. Maybe you've felt loved but not fully known. And then that little secret keeps rising. You know what I mean? No, you guys don't have those. You know what I mean? Like, because isn't it—if you're loved by who doesn't know you that well—that's nice. It's not deep though. But I think our greatest fear, in the words of Tim Keller, our deepest fear is to be known and not loved, right? So what do we actually want? We—we long to be known and loved. But the problem is we don't love parts of ourselves. So now what do we expect other people to do? So what do we do? We go to wells at noon. What do we do? We leave things early. What do you do? You give decent answers. What do you do in prayer? You pray what you think he would like that would make you lovable. You perform in prayer. You perform in relationships. And then when you do make mistakes, what do you naturally do? Find what's wrong in them so you don't feel so bad about it. Right? Shame, blame, hiding, fear, and anxiety. Sound familiar? Me and that guy. Me, too. But here's the question: What do you do with it? Do we just become okay with it? Did we just bring our mess to everybody and ruin relationships? Is that the goal? What do we do? And I love that. Right in the middle of this woman hiding, he interrupts.
If you study the life of Jesus, pay attention. Some of the best moments were when he was—when he was on the way to something else and he gets interrupted. Do you want to know why? Because Jesus never considered anyone an interruption. Even the little kids—gotcha, young parents, you know how they totally interrupt absolutely everything all the—all the time. Anyone else have young kids? He doesn't cons—That's why he's always like, "Let the little children come," because no one's an interruption to me in what I'm up to. Your issues aren't an interruption. Your longing isn't an interruption. Your shame isn't an interruption. In fact, his most interruptible—he—it's almost as if all interruptions are divine appointments in the life of Jesus. And I love that. And I've had to learn that I am not like that. In fact, I was at a coffee shop once working on this message and I got to this moment and I was looking at what—how Jesus even initiates. He asks a question, and this is so like him. In the gospel narratives—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John—it's recorded that he—he is asked 184 questions; he asks 307. Oh, by the way, of the 184 that he's asked, he only answers three directly. How frustrating. But notice, what is he doing? He's not just giving answers. And he could. By the way, if you've ever been intimidated to share your faith because you don't know the answer to people's questions, the guy who had the answer to every single question that could ever be asked was less interested in giving the answers. And yet, we go on social media. We're like, "If we give him the answer, that'll convince him." Anyways, so he asks questions all the time. And so, I'm studying this. I'm looking at questions and I go, "Okay, so this time he goes, 'Will you give me a drink?'" I'm like, "That's interesting." And so I write this line in my notes right here: Divine encounters. Oh, by the way, I was at the coffee shop and I wanted to give all my non-verbals to all the people at the coffee shop to let them know how busy I was, and so I stuck these guys in there. Okay, I'm really working hard to come here to do some ministry. You're welcome. Divine—well, these are really—I lose—I can't hear anything when I—divine encounters oftentimes start with simple questions. I was like kind of wording it to sound good. I like that. Yeah, it's good. And a girl walks up to me. She goes, "Excuse me." And I'm like, "Oh, bless her heart. She doesn't understand, you know, social cues." Um, that's okay. So, I gave her another one, which was this: What am I communicating? Leave me alone. Yeah. So, I did this. What was that? She goes, "Oh, am I interrupting?" I'm like, "No, no. You know, what is it?" She goes, "Oh, do you know how to use a—a Macintosh computer?" And I'm like, "I don't know who calls it that." I didn't say that. That was in my head. And I went like this. I do. Look at this, Mac buddies. Okay. Um, divine encounters oftentimes start with simple questions. That's good. That's good. That's good. And then I just kept studying the passage. It took me like 15 minutes to realize what was happening. And when I did, I'm like, "But I'm on my way to—I'm on my way to do ministry here, Southwest Church." And I'm like, so I walk over. I'm like, "I'm so sorry. What's your name?" She's like, "Maya." I'm like, "Hi, Maya. I do know actually. Okay, I'm so sorry. I was really distracted. I do know how to use a Macintosh computer. So, um…" And she goes, "Oh, that's so good." 'Cause I'm like, "Here." I'm like, "Here, uh, I got my—my boyfriend gave me this computer and I'm writing this paper comparing and contrasting Islam and Christianity because I'm just trying to find the truth." "You're just—you're just trying to find the truth." She's like, "I'm just—yeah, I just can't quite figure it out." I'm like, and I take a seat and we have a conversation about the truth, about the living water, about the exact thing Jesus meets with her about. And I almost missed it. And I'll be honest with you, I can tell you the really successful moment when I got it right. I can't even imagine how many thousands of times I miss it. Can't even imagine. I'll tell you this: If you're so obsessed with your plans for the day and your to-do list that you really like checking off, you'll miss it. This is how Jesus walked. He just was available. And that's really hard to plan. My in-laws—one of the greatest qualities that I've only started to now realize in their life—they're really available. How many people think you're just too busy? Maybe because you are—he's avail—and he walks and he—and it's just a simple conversation. "Will you give me a drink?" And look at the conversation goes.
The Samaritan woman, she questions why he's even talking to her. The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I'm a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink? For Jews do not associate with Samaritans." Jesus answered her, "Oh, if you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." "Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with, and this well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock?" Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. But whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life." Here's the conversation. Jesus goes, "Will you give me a drink?" She's like, "Why are you talking to me?" He's like, "If you knew who was talking to you, you would have actually asked me and I would have given you living water." She goes, "Really? Where's your cup?" And he's like, "You want to talk about cups? Because there's a cup that you can hold that basically you can tilt toward other people and try to get satisfaction from them. There's a cup that can try to constantly be filled, and then when you are filled it just makes you a slave to that thing. We can talk about cups, but the truth is there's one way to point that cup that will allow you to be satisfied. Period." And where she gets in this moment—I love her response. She basically is like this: Sure. Sounds good. I'll take—I mean, if I don't have to keep coming here to draw water, I'm in.
Now, if you've known me for a while, you know my life illustration, which is where this passage is—where this came from. My life illustration was going to church as a little girl, then through middle school, then through high school, and being told, "Love everybody." And I said, "Sure." And I took my little cup of love, and I would—I'd run around and splash love on everybody. And I oddly enjoyed it. It's kind of fun, you know, when you're at that free moment. We just love everybody. And so, I'd love coaches. I'd love friends. I'd love teammates, my church friends, even strangers. And I was like kind of hustling all around. And at times I'd feel empty. And then I'd run back to my little source of love and I'd get filled up again just to keep running. And then I got married. And then I had kids, and um—I feel like I'm just making them look so bad. I love them so much. They just can—they just reveal everything going on in my heart is the truth. And so it was when I had kids that I went back and I'm like, "This cup thing isn't really working. I'm exhausted," and I really started to think about the cup and I come to this and I go, "Jesus is talking about this." He goes, "Oh, you—um—there's two different types of—there's two different types of being filled. There's the type where you run and then—" And here was the problem with the way that I was loving is I would love people—that's well and good; I highly recommend it—but then I would hold out my now empty cup in the direction of other people to be filled up by their opinions of me. Uh oh. And the weirdest part is how many people had their cup in my direction. So it just wasn't really working. And I was—and I was pretty decent at loving people, but I was also pretty dependent upon them. I was pretty dependent upon my job to satisfy me. I was pretty dependent upon being appreciated. I was pretty dependent upon my kids saying thank you when I told them to say thank you. And then when I tell them—then they say it, I feel like it's not authentic. But that's really what I wanted in the first place—was them just to say it without me asking. But I'm waiting as if their behavior is a reflection of me and it fills me up somehow. Oh man. And I—I can even remember in the first month of marriage sitting in my car in the church parking lot and I couldn't stop…
Crying, and my husband Randy was like, "What is going on?" And I just, I, I was in the first month of marriage, just waiting to be like fully satisfied from him that he would say it enough or compliment me enough. I know that sounds crazy to you guys, but girls, you get me?
And so when I hear Jesus make this invitation, what he's saying, listen to these words. Verse 13. Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. Why? Because a cup makes no sense on its side. But then he says, "But whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
So, I got an opportunity to speak to my kids' Christian elementary school recently. Here's the weird part. I speak all around the country to large audiences. The speaking in front of like 300 elementary school kids. I was up late at night and I couldn't sleep. So scared. I'm like, what do I want to tell them? If I could tell a bunch of little kids anything, by the way, what would you tell a little kid if somehow you had their attention? I'm like, I want to teach them the cup because they've already been wounded. I remember the thing that someone said to me when I was in like fifth grade and I still think about it. They're, they're not only the ones getting those words, they're the ones saying those mean things. I want them to know that they're loved so that they overflow love. I wanted them to hear Jesus's words. So, and I knew that they needed a visual and I was going to do the cup thing like I did just to you and I'm like, I just, they have to see the water. So, I did this. I was like, "Okay, this is you." And I explained the whole thing and then I took the little thing and then I was like this. But here's the love of God and here's how the illustration works. If you tilt your cup toward people, places, opportunities, your job, or anything, you will always keep wanting. You will remain thirsty or dependent upon other people who are likely just depending on you. But indeed, the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.
Which means this, if you tilt your cup underneath God, and I did this for the kids, and this is their favorite part when it started to get messy and they're like, and so is the stage crew, crew on this church too. So, but here was the key for me, and it actually, I had an aha moment while giving the illustration. I've given this illustration for years, but here is the beautiful part. The overflowing, right, is the life of love. It's when you subtly become so free and so confident that you are loved that it just naturally spills over to other people. But watch this in the overflow. Notice, it doesn't get empty. Is anyone a little exhausted? Notice it doesn't get empty. And this is less about trying to love. How do you do it? It's not about trying to love. So my goal is not to stand in front of here and go like, "Go love a bunch of people." No. Here's the, here's the actual way that Jesus does it. Open your hearts during church to receive more love and then watch what happens.
And the truth is many of us won't. And I'm going to challenge you. Many of you won't. And it's our pride that says, "Because I already know that he does love me." And so what we do is we have our heart, which God wants to make his home. And we keep some of those closets closed. I was praying for a guy backstage, this lovely man who's on the prayer team, and you could tell he knows the Lord. And you know the, the Lord gave me as I was praying for him was maybe it's time to get into the garage. It's a little detached from the house. It's that place where you fix everything. What about if his love were to enter into that place for all the things that you feel like you have to fix in the secret? No. His love wants to get there. It wants to get into the closet that you haven't opened. Wants to get into the junk drawer. Watch out. It wants to get into every, it wants to get into your living room. The love of God. So the focus for you Christian is not go try to love. The, the focus for you is to humble yourself to receive it more.
Which is why the Bible verse, I'm not going to stop at verse 14. Although I want to because if I stopped at 14, which I could, it would be this. You came to church. Truth is Jesus initiated a loving relationship with you. Show up to church. He tells you who he is. I could give you living water. And you go, "Sure, sounds good. Fill me up." But it keeps going. Why? Because Jesus won't be part of your life. He wants to be the whole thing. Because right now, the statistic is 74% of Americans claim Christianity. 4% revolve their life around it. The first time I gave that stat, I accidentally said four people instead of 4%. And I was like, and I'm for sure one of them. So, where's my three? Who else is with me? Natalie, probably. Definitely that worship leader right here. Like, you know, yeah, that guy. You guys are all screwed. But when's the last time you opened up your heart to receive love? When's the last time? Or did you think that the whole point of Christianity was to tell everybody else, and I'll tell you this, the way it works is to be filled Aresh, which is why he addresses her secret. So he says this, verse 16, he told her, "Go call your husband and come back." Uhoh. You know the story. She says, "I have no husband." she replied. Anyone ever told the truth, but it's like not the real. Anyways, Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is you've had five husbands and the man you now live with is not your husband. What you have said is quite true. By the way, if you're a person that really likes to dive into passages of scripture and to understand things that are really interesting in it. Like if you're the person that loves numbers, you know that five means grace. Anytime you read five, it's grace. Six and something else. And then you get to seven and it's perfection. Jesus is the seventh man in her life. And so what he does, he says, "Go call your husband." She goes, "I don't have one." He goes, "You're right." Turns out there's been six. Luckily, he's number seven. The woman, verse 19, "Sir," the woman said, "I can see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain." In other words, she goes into some debate between Jews and Samaritans. It's like distracted. I want to know your answer. I want to know your answer to this theological dilemma. And Jesus is like, "No, no, no. I'm more interested in relationship." She goes and he goes, "Woman, believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the father neither on this mountain." He begins to solve the issue that has kept her because he knows the answer to every issue that has kept us at an armed distance. And for her it was debate. For her it was the cultural conflict. For her it was feeling not enough. Jesus cuts right through it and then says this when the woman says verse 25, the woman said, "I know the Messiah called Christ is coming." In other words, when he comes, he will explain all of this to us. He'll settle it. And in verse 26, he declares who he is with the ultimate mic drop verse with this one. Then Jesus declared, "I the one who's speaking to you. I am he." So what does he do? He opens up her heart so that when he declares who he is, she doesn't just know it in her head. She knows it where she needs to know it the most. He opens up your life so the truth can set you free where you need to be free and it works. How do we know? Verse 28 says this. Then leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town. Which town? Samaria. Went back to the town and said to the people, "Come see a man who told me everything I ever did, fully known and fully loved. Come see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?" You can tell transformation has begun in this woman. Do you want to know why? Because she is running into town talking to the people she was hiding from and she's beginning the conversation with the very thing she was hiding because your past will either be Satan's greatest weapon against you or God's most powerful tool for his kingdom unashamed.
This is my story. When I was walking up the church to the step, I was with Scott and we were walking up and I was like, "Can I tell you a few things about this church? You really are multi-generational. You really are diverse and you have a very vibrant ministry called Celebrate Recovery." And I love that about you because that is a ministry. You are a church that declares the power of your life, the truth of the gospel, and then you show it with the freedom by which you share those things. I've seen that and I've witnessed that at Southwest Church. But I wonder if some of us have been like, "Well, that's for some people." No, no, no, no, no, no. This morning he's meeting with you. In fact, why I love that he chooses the most unlikely people who showed up to church thinking that the message was for someone else. If you thought that it's for you and listen to the effects, verse 39, many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony. He told me everything I ever did. In other words, fully known. And what she found was that she was fully loved there.
By way of response, I want to invite you to the exact same thing I invited kindergarteners through fifth graders to do. I'm going to invite you to come forward and be reminded of God's love. Everyone, you don't have to. It was interesting. I talked about the cup for these kids. Talked about who God is, who Jesus is, and how he wants to love them. And then I, what I did at the elementary school is I had called up a bunch of my mom and dad friends and had them line the aisles. I had some teachers. I had their administrators. I had their principal line the whole auditorium in the same way that I'm going to invite the prayer team to come forward. Not just up front. Also, let's get in the aisles. We have prayer team. We got pastors all over this room. And here's what happened with the little kids. I got to challenge you on this one. When I said you get to come forward and receive God's love, are you ready for how they responded? The kindergarteners sprinted. They didn't even wait for me to say go. They were like, "More of God's love." And they ran. First graders ran. Second and third graders jogged. Fourth graders were kind of too cool. I'll be honest, they were just kind of too cool until one of the fifth graders got up and was like, "I want to know God's love." And then he went and then everyone's like, "We can go." And then the rest of the class went. It was wild watching. There was something in a child that was like, "I want that." And somehow they haven't gone through life enough to get that pride piece that, that makes you feel like you shouldn't need anything and it's all up to you. It's not. And so I'm going to invite any of you that would like to respond and I'll let you know what you're in for. It's going to be you walking up to someone. Look at, if you haven't noticed, look how expected this church is. And they're going to simply lay a hand on your shoulder and they're going to look you in the eyes and they're going to tell you that you're loved. Simple. And then they're going to pray a simple prayer, one maybe two sentences that you just receive it. And then you can walk right back to your seat. But here's what I wonder. Whatever's rising in you right now, tell them. If you're like, "I, I long for that." Tell them. You know what's amazing? I got a story afterwards from a kindergarten girl. Her mom texted me later that later on in the night she was blessing her little brother. She goes, "You have no idea how loved you are." God help him know this verse changed my life and I invite it to change yours. So let me pray for us and during the worship song you are welcome to respond however you want. If you want to receive his love by the words of his body, I believe this is one way Jesus can look at you and say you're loved. And if you'd be open to it, open your heart to receive it aresh. If you feel like you just want to stand and worship, do it. If you want to sit and surrender, do it. There's no pressure, but there's a whole lot of love. Let me pray for us. So, Father, I pray that by the power of your spirit, we would not feel the need to please anybody. But I also, Lord, pray that people would know your love. However you want to, however you want to tell them, maybe it's just right there in their seat. They don't have to move a muscle. No fear. So God, show them how loved they are. How you know all and you love them. Knowing all of them, we humble. We open ourselves to your love and then I pray, Lord, that we would overflow it to a thirsty world. We pray and all God's children said, "Amen."
What an amazing message from Megan Fate Marshman. It's our prayer for each of you that this week you may know how deeply God loves you. He knows you fully and he loves you fully. Thanks again for joining us here. We hope you guys have a great week and God bless.