The God of the Breakthrough

I'm going to shout out everybody in St. Louis, our St. Louis church fam. You're all at home. You got 15 in of snow. And so, I want you to know that Pastor Megan sitting on the front row here at our Western Branch campus, she is so jealous right now. And I also just want to highlight that my 12-year-old and my 9-year-old built a snowman before church in Virginia. Got about a half an inch of snow, I think, out there. And those boys rolled up a snowman like nobody's business. So, I'm expecting St. Louis to see some great stuff out there. And and text me your best snowman or or send it to me on Instagram. I want to I want to see it. But I'm excited to be in church today. And you know, I look at a weekend like this. And I was thinking about how we've we've seen these signs of on all the highways around Hampton Roads that are like stay home. They started saying that on Wednesday. Stay home. And for those of us that have lived in Hampton Roads for any amount of time, we're like, for real? You know what I'm saying? Like and and I recognize though that it creates a fear in people. It creates a dread in people. And you know, I just want to honor those of you that that you did come out to church this morning because I'll just say this, you had an excuse to stay home. And you're like, you know what? I want to get to the house of God. If it's possible, I want to get to the house of God. And I believe God will meet you right in your place of ex- pectation and what he has for you. I'm so excited to to teach this text today and what I think Jesus has for us. Before I do though, I have some really really important news to share with everybody. Yesterday, the basketball team that I coach, my my sixth-grade my sixth-grade son Soren, fifth, sixth, and seventh graders, I'll let you know a couple weeks ago about this team. And yesterday, I just want to testify that we got our first win in Jesus' name. And so, you know, this is a developmental team and developmental league. Last year, they didn't win a single game. And so, we're one and three. But I as the coach felt like we won the Super Bowl. I think I was more excited than all the kids were. I'm not going to lie to you. I was so fired up. Now, somebody told me afterwards that the team we played against didn't have their two best players. And I just want to tell you, I don't care at all. Like I'm still just like, let's go. That's incredible. And it's not going to help your life to know that information today. I just want you to know I'm in a really great mood about that. And and what I learned about this text today actually helps me even more. Hey, by the way, if you have not been to the prayer room, no matter what location as your as your home church location, meaning if it's Western Branch, Downtown Suffolk, or St. Louis, this is the last week of our 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting. By the way, the prayer room continues after this. But get to the prayer room this week. I want to encourage you. Get to the prayer room. At Western Branch, it happens every day. At Downtown Suffolk and St. Louis, there's multiple opportunities. Make sure that you get there. Seek God for this moment. Revival comes. Transformation comes when the people of God cry out in prayer. We'll even see that a little bit more today in this text as Jesus teaches us. I do believe this text of Luke chapter 4 is all about Jesus introducing himself as the God of the breakthrough. And one of the things about being a Christian is that we're invited to a life where we don't just have to sit in a struggle for our entire lifetime on the earth. That we can seek God for breakthrough and that we can experience breakthrough. And so, we find here Jesus, he's you know, if you've been here, by the way, we we're I think this is week I actually have no idea. But we've been in this study of the Gospel of Luke called Authentic, going through this Gospel. Maybe we're in like week nine or 12 or something like that. But we've seen Jesus getting ready for this moment, getting ready for for us to learn about what was it like when he is going to teach and to work miracles. And I love where this starts. He goes to a synagogue. And it's a Sabbath day. So, context, this is Jewish culture. This is not the church hasn't been birthed yet. If you're if you're new to following Jesus and being a Christian, when we're reading the Gospels, what we know as the church, it hasn't happened yet. The church was birthed in Acts chapter 2 after Jesus ascended and and released the Holy Spirit. So, what Jesus is doing is he entered into a world into a Jewish a Jewish culture as as as a Jewish man, he came into the world. And so, he's he's getting involved in this culture. So, if you imagine it, it's not a one-to-one comparison, but I want to help us understand as best we can. The synagogue as again, not one-to-one, but just to help us understand, would be like us gathering in church today. So, he gathers he gathers in the synagogue. The Jews are longing for a Messiah. And last weekend, we learned about how Jesus stood up and was like, yo, I'm the I'm the Messiah. And we learned a lot about, you know, how Jesus was confident. And and it was like, I like this Jesus, you know? This weekend, we're learning about how he goes to a different synagogue and he's teaching. And everybody in the moment of teaching, they can tell there's something about him. And the word that they use the the the words that is used in Luke chapter 4 is that his words had such authority. Like when he spoke, it wasn't just that they felt like this was something that could help my life. It was when he spoke, it it it pierced. When he spoke, it was it was something that felt like we must come under this in this moment. Now, John, who wrote one of the Gospels, John tells us in John chapter 1 that Jesus is the word. So, when we think about this as Christians today, we we call it the word of God. Jesus is the word of God. It says in John chapter 1 that the word became flesh and dwelt among us. The authority and the power of the word of Jesus is fully expressed in Luke chapter 4 in the being of Jesus on the earth using his words. We experience that same reality of power today, not in Jesus walking on the earth today, but in the words of Jesus. The words of Jesus are what have authority. Now, if you don't believe the words of Jesus, they don't have authority. They're just words. We learn in the scriptures that it's your faith. It's our faith in Jesus and in what he said that draws heaven to earth, that draws the reality of what we can expect. So, everything that Jesus is going to do right here, it starts with himself. It starts with him simply teaching, demonstrating how his words his word has authority. Now, that can be great. And I wanted to share something with you today though just to get super practical. The word of God, the authority, can help every aspect of our life. We read it already. We're going to study it a bit more today. But I want you to know that the word of God will help your marriage. Like the word of Jesus will help your marriage. The Bible will help your marriage. If we actually follow what the scriptures tell us about how to function in marriage and we believe by faith this is how we should function in our marriage, it will help our life. It'll have power. The word of God will help you as a parent. It will help you be more successful. It will help you be more confident as a parent because the word of God is where there is authority as a parent. If we actually do what the Bible says. The word of God will help you in your finances. We live in a culture where people are frequently freaked out about the economy and about money. And yet, if we will manage our money the way the scriptures say, the way that Jesus calls us to, it is in that word that there's authority. And it works. It'll help you in all your relationships. The Bible talks about how to be in relationship with other people. Do you know what most of us don't know how to do? Be a friend. Most people don't know how to talk to people well. We we get all caught up in our feelings. And we're we get too selfish. And and we we don't understand maybe why certain things work and don't work. It's the word of God that has the authority to actually cause everything in our life to work if we will believe the word and submit under it believing it is the authority for our life. This is the promise of Jesus. And this is what we see happening very much supernaturally in in Luke chapter 4. But I want to be real real real. Sometimes it's a miracle to get along with your spouse. Sometimes it's a miracle to figure out what to do in your family. Sometimes it's a miracle to be able to get along with a friend or to solve a dispute in a relationship. Sometimes it's a miracle to figure out how we're going to make it with this much money. It's the word works. The word works when we come under it as the authority of our life. Jesus is in the synagogue. And they're amazed cuz his word has authority. And it says there's this man possessed by demon and impure spirit causing problems, no doubt, for this man, but also for anybody he was around. I view it in essence of a moment when this this guy maybe kind of snuck in. They're to disrupt things. They're to cause problems. They're to make a situation. It's interesting because what we see here is that Jesus doesn't first speak to this reality. According the way Luke describes what happened, he says there was a man there, I'm in verse 33. There was a man there possessed by a demon with an impure spirit, and he cried out. It doesn't tell us that Jesus just saw this situation, it first tells us that this impure spirit cries out through this man. Now, interesting, and this is just, you know, I hope you're studying and learning along with me uh through this study. In the ancient world, this moment 2,000 years ago, it was believed that you could gain control over another person by speaking their name over them, like to declare, "I know who you are, therefore you don't have power." So, what's happening in this moment, the demonic reality that's happened happening, evil spirits are real. They don't have power over Jesus. They don't have power over the Holy Spirit with us today. They recognize Jesus. They freak out and get scared. They're trying to in their own power get Jesus to not have the power to do anything, and that's what's happening in Luke chapter 4. So, like, we know who you are. Have you come to like destroy us? And then Jesus, kind of like what we learned from him last week, just says, "Be quiet." I love how Jesus doesn't freak out. I love how Jesus knows his authority. Now, I want to offer this to you, by the way. Um it this the text tells us that the demon knew who Jesus was. Being a Christian doesn't mean you know who Jesus is. You can grow up in church your whole life, and you can know about Jesus, that doesn't make you a Christian. In the book of James, James, a New Testament writer, he tells us in verse 19 of James chapter 2, "Oh, you believe there's one God, good. Even the demons believe that." It's what do you do with that knowledge that he is God? What do you do with the knowledge that Jesus is the savior? Do you just go, "Okay, yeah, great, I believe." Belief can be the starting place, but the call is to then follow. It's why Christianity was in the very early years, Christianity was always referred to as the way. Because it's a way of living. It's not like, "Okay, I have this belief, and then now I just go about my life, and I just say I have this one belief, and I check a box." No, the way of Jesus is a way of life. And so Jesus in Luke chapter 4 is encountering this situation, and he says to this evil spirit, "Be quiet. Come out of him." It says the demon threw the man down before them all, and came out without injuring him. Now, I studying the the text and the word for word, I find it so fascinating that Luke incorporated this for us to see not only was this man possessed by an evil spirit that the Lord would set him free from, it says that it threw him down, which would have been physical damage to his body, and yet Jesus says he wasn't injured. So, when we talk about Jesus having all authority, he's demonstrating right now in his first moment that he literally has authority over all things. Jesus has authority over all things. The authentic Jesus that we're learning about, what we believe as followers of the way, we believe that Jesus has authority over all things. And whatever might come to our mind where we go, "But what about?" We believe Jesus has authority over all things, which is why anything that opposes Jesus is scared of Jesus. Do you know what? People that trash the church are afraid of Jesus. Anything that opposes Jesus is doing it from a place of fear. Might make me change my life. Might make life look like it wouldn't necessarily be how I want life to look. In fact, everything we see here is this statement. I'd love for you to write this down, and even I'll make it a little bit more practical. Darkness recognizes light, and it gets scared. Darkness recognizes light, and it gets scared. This is why in our lives, the scriptures tell us the New Testament, have nothing to do with the works of darkness. Have nothing to do with the works of darkness. Now, this moment of Luke chapter 4, when you and I think about like an evil spirit or or something that we would call demonic, we we maybe you I don't know how your imagination works. You might think about a devil with horns. You might think about the thing that's the most obvious, scary, gory-looking thing. I'm going to be real. That's not going to tempt most of us to follow that thing. The way it works for us is the same way it works for Adam and Eve. Did God really say? I mean, does God really care? God God doesn't really care about you doing certain things or not doing. God just cares about your heart. So, just do whatever you want. I love the way Eugene Peterson, who translated the Bible, we know it as the Message translation. I love the way he says Romans chapter 12, the way he puts this about how we're to live on the earth today. Says this, "Don't become so well adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, and develops well-formed maturity in you." The culture, the world, the demonic forces, they just bring our maturity down. They just make us all pretty much look the same, except there could be a group that goes, "No, I believe in Jesus." And what we're learning is that actually the way of Jesus is an invitation to a different way of life. What else is fascinating here? I sometimes feel like situations can be so dire or so difficult that there needs to be like such a long there's going to be such a long road to freedom and to help. And what Jesus shows us in Luke chapter 4, with just his word, he sets people free. With just his word, Jesus sets people free. He doesn't have to get a lot of other things going. He doesn't have to get a lot of tools. He doesn't have to get a lot of people. He doesn't have to have With just his word, Jesus sets people free. Which is really great for you and I today, no matter where you're watching from today. It's it's really great for us that have friends or family who were like, "Man, they just I they just need help, and I know it." Listen, just a word of Jesus can send the help. Can set them free. Can work the miracle. Can change everything. It's what we It's what we believe. So, the people are amazed. They see this moment. They can't deny what's happening, what Jesus does. And so the news about him begins to spread to the area. Now, it's not living life like you and I live our lives today, at least in the United States of America, and and most of you didn't walk to church today. If you came to church, most of you drove, and some of you may have may have driven 10 plus miles or 20 plus miles. Like, we we are a culture that very much, you know, lives multi-city. This was like, here's this community, and you don't necessarily leave that community too often. And then here's this community, and you don't leave that community too often. And the car hadn't been invented yet, I think you know that. But in case you don't, the car was not invented 2,000 years ago. And so, what they're telling us what Luke's telling us is the gospel, what Jesus did is spreading like it's spreading to the surrounding areas. Somehow, this reality, it's so incredible that it's getting out really fast. And so then Jesus goes from this we're in the synagogue to the home. It says that he left the synagogue and he went to the home of Simon. I love this example again because it's showing us just in the text. It's not the big point of the text, but it's showing us how things worked even then and then how the church also is to be like this today. There's the corporate gathering, then it was the synagogue. To us it's what we're doing today, those of you at Western Branch and downtown Suffolk gather together. And then there's also the gathering together in homes. We call those alive groups where you get together and you build relationships. You'll share meals together. You'll pray for each other. You'll call each other out on your sin. You'll tell each other where you could get better. You'll tell each other where you're doing great. You'll You'll build relationships and then we gather together corporately. We do both. Jesus goes to Simon's house in the scripture tells us that his mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever and they asked Jesus to help her. Now, I want to be honest. I've heard people teach this text and there's always a mother-in-law joke that comes in here. And I didn't want to do that. But I do want to tell you this story cuz it's really funny to me. So, Megan and I were at this marriage little marriage retreat uh last fall and because we try to work on our marriage not because our marriage is falling apart because we don't want it to fall apart. Right? Proactive working on your relationship is way better than just reactive working on your relationship. And so, we're at this this marriage retreat. I think there was Was there 50 couples? Maybe 60 couples? Something like that. And uh we're in this we're in this this little conference room ballroom in in a hotel. And everybody's going to stand up one at a time as couples and you're going to say, "What is your What is your pain word? And what is your hope word?" And you're not to talk to each other as husband and wife first. Just going to stand up and see what happens. And so it's pretty fascinating to watch this happen. And there was this one couple sitting I remember we're at we're at this table right here and they were sitting back here to my left and they stand up husband and wife and the husband says, "My pain word is mother-in-law." And the look on his wife's face wife's face was definitely not approving of that moment. I just want to say I have a great mother-in-law. I have a great mom and I'm really thankful for that. Anyways, I thought that story was funny. If you didn't think it was funny, maybe you had to be there. So, Peter the people in the house they're like "Hey Jesus, would you help her?" I literally just realized this a bit ago. I've read this passage of scripture and this is not exaggerations exaggeration dozens and dozens of times prepping for today. And I'm like, "Yeah, okay. So, Jesus goes to their house and his his mother-in-law has uh has a fever and so Jesus rebukes the fever and heals her. Okay, because Jesus cares about even the small things." But I It took me maybe till the 24th time to see they asked Jesus. Like he was right there. It's in the house. He's Jesus. He has authority over everything. He can see that she has a fever. Why did they have to ask him? Everything we see in the gospels and then what we will see so much through the New Testament teachings of the way of Jesus is that Jesus' desire is for people to come to him. I'm not saying that Jesus won't at times just heal without being asked, won't work a miracle without being asked because he's God and he can do whatever he wants. I'm just saying when I read the scriptures, it seems to me that more times than not Jesus is waiting for us to simply ask. So, they're like, "Jesus, would you help her?" And yes, he does. And not only that, here's the thing about Jesus healing in this moment is Jesus heals and his healing brings restoration. Jesus heals and his healing brings restoration. He doesn't just cause the fever to leave. It says in that she got up and began to serve them. It wasn't just, "Okay, now you're good. Just lay there and chill." Why? Because again, there was purpose for her in that moment. God has purpose for you and I in every single moment. And I'm not saying that that we get to dictate cuz we don't why we would experience a healing, why we wouldn't experience a healing. But I what what I want you to know is that God isn't just like, "Okay, let me give you that healing just for fun." The Lord is working because he has a purpose. His purpose is working through us. And so when he's working a miracle, it's so that we can get on about our purpose that we get from God. And sometimes we might think, "Man, what is my purpose? Is my purpose to go do this huge thing?" Your purpose might be to make a chicken pot pie for somebody who's sick and take it to them. And so you need your car to get fixed and you're begging God to cause your car to start because you need to take soup to a sick person. And your car starts and you take it. This is what we learn about how Jesus cares about the small things. About how the smallest of purpose in our in the world's eyes is the ultimate purpose in the way Jesus works. So, the fever leaves her. She does that and then verse 40 tells us that sunset. Hey, for those of you that came to church today, I just want to see how many of you just just cuz I like to learn things about you. How many of you We're going to just do a comparison. Okay? So, don't raise your hand yet. The comparison's going to be this. Sunrise people or sunset people? Meaning like which do you prefer to just like watch and it just you're like, "That's amazing." So, sunrise people, let me see your hand. Sunrise people. Let's go. It's amazing. You can put your hands down. I I wasn't going to ask how many of you have never seen a sunrise, but we'll save that for later cuz you know, it's It's still okay. Okay, now sunset people. Let me see the sunset people. Okay, I feel like we're about 50/50. I'm not real sure what that ranking is uh there. I'm a sunrise person all day long. I love it. Um Pastor Megan loves the sunrise. Uh she just loves the sky though also. She loves the sunset. It's It's great. It says at sunset. Why does it say at sunset? Well, this was the Sabbath day. And on the Sabbath it was against Jewish law to carry a sick person. So, people had heard about this man Jesus working miracles. But they were very strict Jewish people and they weren't going to break their religion and carry a sick person to Jesus when it was against the Sabbath law. So, they waited until sunset. And then once sunset hits, all of a sudden everybody's coming to Jesus bringing the sick people, bringing the demon-possessed people, bringing everybody who would need a touch from Jesus. And the scripture says that all all people came with all these different kinds of issues. Jesus rebuked those that had demons and he healed those who were sick. Specifically, this part of the text in verse 40, it says laying his hands on each one. Again, what do we learn about Jesus? Jesus could have said, "Everybody's healed." But he was intentional to go "I want you to know you got a touch from Jesus. I want you to know you got a touch from Jesus. I want you to know you got a touch from Jesus. I want you to know today that that you may come into church or you may come into a different gathering at different times and you may feel the presence of God or you may experience something. I want you to know it's a demonstration of Jesus showing you he sees you like you as an individual. He cares about you as an individual. Corporately, we are called the body of Christ. Corporately, we're a community of believers. We're following him together. But if not always us together, Jesus wants us to know he sees us. Our uniqueness. Come on. Our silly issues. The things about us that make us us and the things about us that need to change. He sees all of that. And he enters into the reality of who each of us truly are. And we learn that with one touch people were healed. With one touch people were set free because one touch from Jesus is all it takes to experience freedom. One touch from Jesus is all it takes to experience freedom. One touch from Jesus is all it takes to experience freedom. So, I'm like we're going to learn this through the text or through this book, but Jesus is like he's on the scene. He's working miracles. He's shown it's the individual. He's shown he has power and authority over everything. If he's running for office, it is time to get the banners out. It is time to get the commercials going. He's got the proof to show he is who he is. And the very next thing Jesus does after this moment is he goes away by himself and prays. Let's I I want you to be in this moment with me. Let's be really honest. It's Jesus. He's working miracles. He goes away by himself to pray. If your pace of life keeps you from praying, your pace of life is wrong. Prayer is a priority. Prayer is a priority. And if prayer was a priority for Jesus when he was on the earth, prayer must be a priority for me while I'm on the earth. Jesus was talking to the Father. He says in further places in the Gospels, I only do what the Father tells me to do. He would go get why? Because it was in prayer he would be strengthened. It was in prayer he would be reminded of his purpose. Constantly pouring out in your life, if if you're if you're a leader in any capacity, if you're an encourager in any capacity, if you're a parent, if there is anybody in your life in in any way, shape, or form that you are trying to help, that means you are pouring out. The place of prayer is where we get filled up. The place of prayer is where we reestablish our life. And so we pray by ourselves, definitely. That's why we have the prayer room so often. We we can come into a space and remove distractions. We pray together, but you also do pray by yourself in the prayer room. It's it's creating different spaces both at home and at church and in community to seek God. One of the things I'm really leaning into, by the way, in this season of my life is what's called contemplative prayer, where you just you sit quietly with the scripture open and you don't have an agenda. It's so important to come into prayer with no agenda. Just to say, "God, I'm just here." Let him speak through his word. Let him encourage you. So this happens, and then the people are like, "Where is he?" And they go get him. And and we'll see this in different places through the through the Gospel. They're like, "Come on, Jesus, you need to come back and do what we want you to do." But Jesus doesn't go with them because Jesus doesn't get distracted from his ultimate purpose. Jesus doesn't get distracted from his ultimate ultimate purpose. If you've been in our church, you know this. I I um I don't like those bracelets that say, "What Would Jesus Do?" WWJD. I mean, I know they go through fads where they're in, just like where it's a style thing. I just mean the language of it. "What Would Jesus Do?" I don't like that. I I prefer, "What Did Jesus Do?" Because I want to see what he did, and then I want to apply that to my life. So what Jesus did is he didn't let people determine his purpose. It was the Father in heaven that determined his purpose. I I don't want to let the culture, remember what we just read in Romans chapter 12. I don't want to let the culture determine my purpose. I want Jesus to determine my purpose. And he says in verse 43, "This is my purpose. I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God." The kingdom of God. The kingdom of God. We pray those words. I pray your kingdom would come. The kingdom of God. What is the kingdom of God? Do you know the kingdom of God that that language is used 31 times in the book of Luke? And it is not defined. What is the kingdom of God? We we conceptualize kingdom in our natural way. There's like nations and you could call it a kingdom. There's like borders and there's a government, maybe there's a king or a queen and there's there's real and he says, "The kingdom of God." I mean, we have this, Luke chapter 10 tells us Jesus talking, he said, "Heal the sick and tell them the kingdom of God has come near." So when someone gets healed, it's a result of the kingdom of God coming near to their life. But there's no clear definition still. What we know is the kingdom of God is God's reign breaking in to our world through Jesus Christ. It is him working miracles. It is him preaching. It is him delegating his authority. It is the kingdom of God coming and bringing breakthrough to people. And so I read this and I see this and and the scriptures tell us that Jesus has given us the same authority. If I take you on a really fast, really, really fast journey. Acts chapter 1, you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. Romans chapter 8, verse 11, the spirit who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you. John chapter 14, verse 12, Jesus is talking to his disciples and he says, "It's to your advantage that I leave because if I leave, I'm going to go to the Father and you're going to do even greater things than I've done while I'm on the earth." Because Jesus in heaven brings the release of the Holy Spirit to believers and it's better to have the Holy Spirit in us than it is to have Jesus next to us. And so we live in this moment today where the full authority of Jesus has been delegated to humanity for the followers of Jesus. And so I read this and I'm like, "Yes, that's awesome. Let's go." And then I live in this tension that sometimes I pray for people and they don't get healed. That I want to read this text and it just be a name it and claim it. Come on, let's go. But the tension for the follower of the way is that the kingdom of God is here per Jesus. And the kingdom of God is still coming per Jesus. The kingdom of God entered humanity as we know it when Jesus came to the earth 2,000 years ago. But the completion of the kingdom of God coming and the rule and reign of Jesus does not happen until Jesus returns one day and sets up a new heaven and a new earth. So right now you and I live in this massive tension. Some people talk about the messy middle, like we're just in the middle. So what do we do? Well, the kingdom of God is here means we get healed. There's a lot of you today, you've experienced a miracle from God. The kingdom of God means we get healed. The kingdom of God is coming means we wait for healing with the return of Jesus. We live in between these two things. One does not negate the possibility of the other. I refuse, and I want to ask you to refuse to I don't want to ask you to refuse giving up the kingdom of God today and just saying, "Well, I know one day the kingdom of God will come in its fullness." Because we're invited, per Jesus, pray, "Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven." We're invited to say, "Kingdom of God, I'm asking you right now in my midst for breakthrough." But when I don't get breakthrough right in this moment, I'm going to keep asking for it. I'm going to keep seeking it. But I never become hopeless because I live with faith and expectancy for the kingdom of God today. Faith and expectancy. But I also live with hope that I know the kingdom of God will come in fullness on the day Jesus returns. So this is how, as a follower of the way of Jesus, this is how, as a Christian, Jesus sets it up. The kingdom of God is in our midst. He is King Jesus. He is reigning. We're invited to seek him. He's God, not me. He's God, not you. I don't know why some people get the miracle. I don't know why some people seem to always stay in the struggle and never get set free. I don't know why some people do get the miracle. Why some people don't have to stay in the struggle. I'm going to keep seeking for it, but I'm never going to lose hope because I know the kingdom's coming. And because of that, no matter what swirl goes on around the world, and no matter what swirl goes on in our home, we can live with a little peace. We can know God's gotten this all under control. Would you stand with me at all locations? I I don't want to just I don't want to just leave you there. I want to pray for breakthrough. Cuz the Bible talks about when two or more gathered in my name, Jesus says that I'm with them. The Bible says you don't have because you don't ask. Maybe you're sitting at home today in your living room because of the snow. Those of you at downtown Suffolk and Western Branch. Come on, let's you not our faith in these minutes and maybe you're in the room today and you're like, I I need whatever it would be you say this is what I I know I need this this experience of of the power of God in my life. It could be physical, it could be mental, it could be emotional, it could be something for a friend, it could be something for a family member. You're like, I just I desire this. I desire breakthrough. I want to believe by faith right now that God would move. So, let's pray together. God, we ask you right now. Lord, the confession of our mouths is that we believe you are our savior, Jesus Christ. That you died on the cross for our sins. That 3 days later you rose from the grave. That because we put our faith in you and then follow you, we are saved. And because we are considered your sons and daughters, Father, we are invited to seek you as a good dad who releases things to his sons and daughters. And I'm asking you right now, Lord, as a family, would you release breakthrough to those in need right now? I pray for marriages to be healed in Jesus' name. I pray for relationships with parents and their kids to be healed right now in Jesus' name. Lord, I pray for physical healings to just be released through these auditoriums. I pray for physical healing right now to be released in living rooms right now. Lord, for people who are working out right now on a treadmill, I pray healing in their body right now. Lord, I'm asking you that we would experience the kingdom of God in our bodies and in our midst right now. That breakthrough would be the experience for our life right now. Anxiety would break. Depression would break right now. Lies that are believed and embraced would break right now in Jesus' name. Lord, do what you can do. God, would you show yourself as the supernatural God? I pray for the person right now, Lord. Right now, even as we stand here that's wondering, could this really happen? Yeah, yeah. Lord, here's what I sense. So, Holy Spirit, I'm asking you to help. I sense there's Lord, there's just people who have the enemy whispering in their ear, yeah, this isn't going to work. Yeah, you believe this. You've thought this before. Holy Spirit, would you move in that man or woman right now? Would you reveal yourself right now so powerfully? Would you heal their mind right now? Would you show them how you have all authority? How you have them right now? Breakthrough, I pray. In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. Amen.