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Venezuelans don't have to be understood, they have to be loved. But the people in Chile, the Chileans have left our church and the ones we bring today come Venezuelans and leave. That has been frustrating for me because it doesn't look like the original dream. And I already argued with God and he told me that it's okay, that New Life, my church, is not bad. The Venezuelans are not wrong. It's our church and that's what God gave us and I'm happy about that. The problem, the good problem, is that now we put a coffee shop in the front and the people in the neighborhood go to the Chilean coffee shop. They ask, "What's there?" A church. "Do you want to go?" Yes. They go and they see Venezuelans and go. And I say, "okay God, you have a problem." I'm very calm. But lately our church has stagnated because it's very difficult to create a team with people who think they're on the move. Yeah. Because many Venezuelans still think. And I understand that they're going to go back to their country and they quickly disconnect from getting involved in the church and that has stagnated us in the last few weeks. So I said these last three weeks, it's not your problem, ours, that the Chileans don't come, but it is our problem to get involved in our church. We need to move without knowing what happened at this conference. We need to establish ourselves and anchor ourselves to Jesus. This conference has been a response. This has brought joy and frustration to our lives. The Lord has been good to us, but it has been very difficult. And moments of difficulty, fear, the Lord has raised us. Sometimes we feel very alone, but God has anchored us with you, with Jerry, Teresa. It is very important to be anchored with Jesus. It is very important to be well connected and anchored with people who are anchored with him. I want to thank everyone because this connects us. This year it was going to be very difficult for me to come, but thanks to God, I was able to be here and God is confirming what we've been doing. Brandi, thank you for the message yesterday. I remembered how important it is to stay connected, anchored. Yes. And to recover what anchored me since we started. It has been very difficult. The Lord has been faithful and we have tried to be faithful to him too. I just want to thank you and I wanted to know so that you can pray for our church. I know that God will bring divine strategies to work with the Chileans and continue serving and loving my Venezuelan people. Thank you. Stretch your hands toward Mauricio, guys, if you would. Father, we thank you for our brother. Lord, we thank you. Your word declares that you assign sheep to shepherds. We thank you for those that you brought into his care. I thank you for the team there. Solidify them in the name of Jesus. Lord, those that you desire to be there long term and not have one foot in and one foot out. Speak to their heart. Take the blinders off their eyes in the name of Jesus. Show them, Lord. I pray that there would be a stake in the ground. That they would plant a stake in the ground. That they would be planted in your house, Lord. In the name of Jesus. In this body of believers and let them flourish in your courts as your word declares. So I thank you for it. I thank you for strengthening him and his wife, Maddie, and their children in the name of Jesus. I thank you for divine strategy. I thank you for encouragement. I thank you for your divine timing. I thank you for your provision in every way in the name of Jesus. Your provision in every way in the name of Jesus. We thank you for it, Father. We thank you for it, Father. We thank you for it, Father. We thank you for it, Father. In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. Thank you, Lord. You are worthy, Lord, and we reach you, trusting that you will establish your work. Thank you, Lord. Use us for the reasons that we have, Lord, and I with them, Lord, and others that you are forming to have a part in this work. We bless you and glorify you. We declare upon you the kingdom of rest. Rest in the name of Jesus, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. Mauricio, I just want to say to you that you receive a great embrace from the Venezuelans. I love it. I love it. I love it. Hallelujah. How about our brothers from Canada here? Yeah, do we need an interpreter? Eh? We're just so honored to be here with you. And to sense the family. The family that's in this room and beyond this room is deeply touching. I'm from Northern Canada, British Columbia, West Coast. Yay! We're a little weird over there, aren't we, Randy? The West Coast is just weird. But I lead a small community called Restore. And a few years ago, actually 14 years ago, Holy Spirit spoke to us and said, we want you to run into territory that no one wants to go into. And so we said, okay, Lord, we'll run. Kind of like the David situation, right? I'm just going to run. And I remember being on a call with Randy and Terrell. This was a few years ago. And we were just talking about what we're doing. And I said, you know, I believe God's asked us to run into territory. And no one's coming with us, but we're still going to run into it. And we're going to teach people and walk with people to go into places that's hard. And it's hard work. And it's difficult. And nobody wants to position ourselves in that space. And this year, Holy Spirit spoke to me. He said, Mark, I want you to spend the entire year in the book of Colossians. Like, oh, okay. That's a lot of sermons out of a short book. But as I started to get into it, I'm like, whoa, this is a rich book. And I just, there's a scripture here that's kind of framing my life right now. Colossians chapter 2 says, let no one cheat you of your reward. Taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which you have not seen, vanity puffed up by the fleshly mind. This is a warning from Paul. And then he says this, and not holding fast to the head. From whom all the body nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments grows with the increase that is from God. I don't want my own increase. I want his increase. And being anchored sometimes means you got to hold fast. And for us, we're in a very unique space. I have poured blood, sweat, tears, time, talent, treasure, everything I've got, 30 years. And we're in a space right now where God's saying, I need you to hold fast to the anchor, but you're pulling that anchor up. I'm like, whoa, I was ready to die here, Lord. And he's like, you still have the anchor, but now you're pulling that anchor up. And we're in this spot where we're going, where do we go, Lord? What's the next place? We have been very place oriented. I feel, we feel called here. We're going to give our lives here. And we're in this shift in our lives right now where we're going, we're not necessarily going to be called to a place. We don't even know. We have no idea where we're going. We just know we got to pull the anchor up, hold fast. But we do know this. He's leading us into the unknown again. And we feel more than ever we're called to a people. I don't know if that makes sense. To us, it's very clear. It's a people. And they're all over the place. So we just need to make ourselves available to those people somehow in some way. But we've just actually spent the last three and a half weeks in Europe, meeting with some leaders, connecting. Taking some time on the beaches of south of France. You know, suffering for Jesus. But while, I can't remember where we were because we've been in a lot of places. And I don't remember where it was. But Holy Spirit spoke something to me about this time together. And he kind of said, Mark, have you ever taken time to look in the afters of Scripture? The afters. Well, after 40 days and 40 nights, Noah. After, this is the interesting one. Job was restored to all the things. After, he prayed for his friends. So what's the promise in your after? After three days, Jesus changed everything. What's the after? We get stuck in the middle. We're trying to figure out what's going on in the middle. What's the after? Kim has a life verse. She's like, if I ever ask her, Kim, what's God speaking to you? She will come to this verse. It's 1 Peter 5.10. And after, you have suffered a little while. The God of all grace will himself. This is a personal commitment from God himself. An appointment with God. After you've suffered a little while, the God of all grace will himself come, restore you, and make you strong, firm, and steadfast. So I'm trusting for that for this whole place. I'm thankful that it's a little while of suffering. But I'm even more thankful that we have a personal promise from God that our suffering will result in a personal appointment from him. I'll take it. I'll take every single bit of it to have that opportunity. So if I can ask for your prayers, I would say that we would see his hand lead us and guide us. We don't know. It seems like that's a lot for us. We don't know. But we trust him. We're just going to go. We have no place to go. We're praying we'll be homeless in the next two months, three months maybe. And then we'll just say, okay, Lord, we'll follow you to the people that you ask us to be with. So we love you. We love what you have. And if there's anyone that I would say, is a steadfast leader, it's Glenn and Amy. I'm so grateful for steadfast people. You know, I have a great hole in my heart because I'm his kin, dear to our hearts. And we're in this awkward space where we're lifting our anchor and we're grieving because we've been blessed where we are. We have incredible favor where we are. I have pressure right now from my community. We're going into an electrical cycle and people are shaking their hands at me. Say, you need to run for mayor because you will actually help change this community. And I'm like, that's not what God wants. That's not what God is asking me to do. First of all, because I have way more authority in the kingdom than I do in the Babylonian empire. If I step into that role, it might feel good on a pat on the back, but it's a nightmare to navigate. So I'm like, nope, that's not for me. Also, I'm leaving. So have fun with that. But the favor that God has given us, there's grief in my heart going, I don't understand, Lord. How does, does favor go with me or does it stay here? I don't know. Well, I do know. My spirit knows that favor goes with you wherever you go. It goes before you. So we're just in that space of, okay, we're, we're, we're holding onto our anchor. We're lifting that anchor and saying, God lead us, but we're in grief in the same moment, excited and grieving at the same time. So. Thanks, Mark. Stretch your hands toward it, would you? Lord, we just believe you for divine direction in the name of Jesus, divine alignment in the name of Jesus. Let them find their company, Lord. Your word says they return to their company. Let them find their company in the name of Jesus. God. And direct their steps. Thank you, Lord. That the voice behind them saying, this is the way walk in it. The voice of a stranger. They will not follow. So we thank you for it, Lord. Divine direction in the name of Jesus. My favorite song. I want to speak it over you and I want to speak it over you too, Cheryl. It's called, he will hold me fast. It says, when I fear my faith will fail, Christ will hold me fast. When the tempter would prevail, he will hold me fast. Those he saves are his delight. Christ will hold me fast, precious in his holy sight. He will hold me fast. He'll not let my soul be lost. His promises shall last bought by him at such a cost. He will hold me fast, raised with him to endless life. He will hold me fast till our faith is turned to sight. When he comes at last, he will hold me fast. He will hold me fast for my savior loves me. So he will hold me fast. He will hold me fast. Good. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Ron, how many years was it, Ken Nebeski? They had pastored in the same place. Was it 40 years? 40 years. And God moved him. It's an incredible story. I don't know if you guys know Ken. You know Ken Nebeski? Yeah. Great guy. Man of God. He's a wonderful guy. But God uprooted him after 40 years. It's a tremendous, tremendous story. Very good. John, why don't you come share? Why don't you have Cheryl share with us as well? Thank you so much. Two things. Physically, we need a building. As I shared a couple days or yesterday, just the growth, we recognize we need a building. And then when Glenn was with us back in January, he made the statement he had all our congregations stand up by age. And we discovered something that we really hadn't put together. And the majority of our congregation is between the ages of 30 and 50. So the younger ones, we don't have a lot. We don't have a lot coming up. And so the prayer is for us is that we would see generations begin to arise as you have here. Because most of our body is between the ages of 30 and 50. And then there was a word given to me back in the fall of 2025. And this is for me personally, I'd ask you to pray is that the word was, do not confuse the transition I'm doing in your life with the transformation I want to do in your life. So that's personally that God is doing a transition. And I desire that to happen. But before I go anywhere else, I need to do a little bit of redemption work here. Because yesterday, as I was able to share, I gave you my story really quick snaps. As I said, most of my adult life, I've been a pastor. Then I became a police officer. Then I spent four years in federal prison. And then God called me back in the ministry. And so many of you came up to me and said, oh, so great that God redeemed you and brought you back into ministry after being in prison. I'm like, no, no, no. I went there to work. I went there to work. I went there to serve. But I know how it was. And Glenn just kind of says, I know what you did, John. And I know it's how you've done it. Because when I'm sharing with someone who's not a Christian, I give them that context. And then they just step back. And it allows me to step in. And I say, well, what happened was I left the Mounties. I was a Canadian Mounted Police as a constable. And then God opened the door after I left that to go and work in the federal prisons in Canada as a member of a security team. Well, I meant I went into places where you didn't want to go without a weapon, but just my mind and my ability to help someone out. And so then God called us back into ministry. So, no, I am not a criminal. And it's okay. If I was, I couldn't be here. Oh, stop it, Mark. Stop. I know where you're coming. So, yeah, so two things. We need a building. And that will be a miracle. Because where we are in the Toronto region, I mean, a garage is like, $150,000. I wouldn't want to touch this building. Sorry, I was going to say, yeah, that's a garage. Yes. Yeah. So, so when Glenn comes, every now and then, every now and then when Glenn comes, we have to have an interpreter stand beside him. You know, like he'll say roof. We're all like, what? What did he just say? Did he say roof? And we're going like, what's a roof? He means roof. And, uh, but that's okay. So for us, it's a building. And then the younger generation, which right now we need, we need, which is why I really, I see you, Corey. Um, his wife still hasn't talked to me yet. And I've only been here a week, but we need someone. God would raise someone up to begin working with the youth, um, for us. And then personally, just the transformation and transition he's doing in my life. So that's, that's me. Yeah. I just want to say, I love you and I bless you. And I thank you for standing with us in faith and prayer and all the love we've received. But I just had one thing to share. I want to encourage everybody that's married here that you find time. Maybe you already all do it. And I hope that's true. But growing up in the church, being a pastor's wife for all these years, there is a danger of individual spirituality and not sharing with the love of your life. I want to encourage you. It's, it's a trick of the enemy and women. Yes, they're busy in the younger years. They're busy in the younger years with children, et cetera. My encouragement is if you're not already in this place, that pastors, husbands, leaders find time to pray with your spouse, to bring them along spiritually, to discuss what your thoughts are and that you agree together and discuss together. It's not an individual road, but the danger is that it can become that in the busyness of life. Be blessed. And from this day forward, make time to pray together, share, pray, agree. What the enemy hates is that we stay separate. He wants us to do that. Agree in prayer because the incredible power of agreement of a husband and wife touches the kingdom of darkness in no other way. So make this a spiritual practice. That's my encouragement. Bless you. Thank you. Wonderful to have you. Thanks for having me. Thanks for being with us this week, Cheryl. It's been great. I don't think that I forgot anybody. All right. Chris and Jules. Yeah, come on. Jules, is Chris back there? Oh, he's in prison too. We know that one. We know that one. Yes, we go into the prisons without weapons. That's called contraband. Don't bring those in. But I wish Chris were here, but he is actually in prison right now, serving. We co-direct Don't Look Back Prison Ministries. and um the men's side the prayer request would be here today um it's about three hours away he goes twice a week twice a month on wednesdays glenn's been there with us and he knows the people there there's guys there serving life sentences without parole uh convicted of murder run and stuff i trust them with my life i'm not kidding uh wonderful men of god but there's a new ish chaplain and the chaplain on the yard as you know makes a big difference and it's been difficult and he doesn't respond to emails very well and sometimes doesn't call you back and just kind of he came from the federal system and this isn't a federal work the same and it's been kind of frustrating and last month got a new warden and that makes a big difference yeah and he's shutting a lot of things down and then last month he says don't come both weeks to chris and we're like the warden's restructuring we're like okay and i mean it was not okay you know are we all right you know this month got to go in but he goes to there's two yards i know it's kind of weird but this is the yard hardcore and then a minimum connected to it but it is kind of a separate yard and he goes over there and does 101 and it's been great so he got the schedule and they just kind of take a picture of the printed schedule and the second yard the minimum yard where he's doing 101 don't look back was scratched out and we're like okay so chris went doing his service and he's just going to go over to the minimum yard and see how it goes and i let him in he's going to do 101 if they don't we'll figure it out so that's a prayer request um so it's been kind of that's weird and um on the converse on the women's prison we have the greatest chapain this has been the third chaplin and when i heard they hired a man to be a chaplan in the women's prison i was like okay yeah and he's the greatest so kind so caring i have actually emailed him before i even got off my phone he's responded come on and then made room for us to do 201 and now i'm in my first class of 301 i know and then they're like so i've talked about 401 and they're like we want 401 i said that's above my pay grade i know about that y'all let's finish 301 and we'll talk about that and they're great these women are women and men in prison come on it's really true but the we go into the county jail also on fridays and kind of do 101 as much as we can it's a lot of turnover and county jail is totally different animal and lots of turnover and you don't have the same students every week and all that stuff but they want prayer and encouragement and that's the main thing but we were at no limits church in owasso they they're supportive of a big support of us the pastor used to be in our youth group at our former church and we were at no limits church in owasso and they were at no limits church years ago and we were there just sharing giving updates and got a prophecy and the main emphasis of this prophecy was learn how to manage people learn how to manage resources learn how to manage people learn how to manage resources like that i was like okay i'm not great at those things and immediately i was having some volunteer some volunteers that i'm like i don't know new you know like ah what do i do and i that's a prayer need um for the women's side i gotta learn how because they're like you're gonna get more and more volunteers you better learn how to manage you might even have some on payroll that's like payroll i mean freaked me out a little bit so i'm trying to learn how to manage people and we have a transition house and we have to learn how to manage that and the lord gave us a guy from that church to come and kind of be the casework and manage the guys for because chris just carries it so heavy and so he's brought us this brother thank you lord um so we got that's the prayer request learn how to manage people and resources and this weirdness at it's called crab tree prison and that that'll all get worked out whatever it's supposed to be the lords will be done for that for chris love it great great great derrick come my brother give us your elevator pitch for excellence academy let us agree with you and because of the time i'm just gonna read it because y'all know that i can talk hallelujah um north tulsa faces a two-part educational crisis only two out of ten students are reading on grade level only three out of ten are proficient in mathematics and approximately four out of ten are chronically absent at the same time fewer than two percent of north tulsa's nineteen thousand eight hundred school-aged children have access to a high quality private school education oklahoma is expanding school choice opportunities for families but north tulsa children remain unable to participate because there are simply not enough excellent private school seats available within reach while we must continue to support and strengthen the public school system north tulsa families also need an additional solution a high quality community-rooted school that is intentionally designed to meet the academic spiritual developmental and relational needs of the whole child excellence academy is that solution we are building a christ-centered pre-k through 12 school grounded in intentional discipleship rigorous academics robust student support meaningful family partnership extended day engagement and a year-round instructional calendar through our whole child 3d formation model of discover discern and dominate students will discover their god-given gifts passions and callings discern the direction of their own Karma and their family and the power of the discipleship and the discipline required to develop those and then dominate by walking in character, stewardship, service, and excellence. Our vision is not merely to open another school. We are building a scalable model of transformation with the long-term vision of growing Excellence Academy into a 6A powerhouse in North Tulsa, graduating hundreds of Excellence alumni each year who are prepared to lead, build, serve, and transform the world and their community with the gifts that God has entrusted to them. About 35, 33, 35 years ago, as a high school student, the Lord, I felt, put something in my heart to have a school. And you know, as you go through life, well, we're going to do that. And oh yeah, one day, well, about two years ago, as a high school student, and two ATIs ago, I'm just in prayer and we're praying for other people. And I'm at the altar and all of a sudden, I just fall to my knees. I don't know what's going on. And I fall to my knees and I start praying. And I'll never forget, Lisa Gilslider comes over to me and she's like, I got something to tell you, what's going on in Europe, what's going on. This is for something that's coming soon. God's going to do something soon. And he's giving you a burden. He's giving, and I'm like, this burden for North Tulsa. I said, Lord, I already work in North Tulsa. I serve. I've taught there, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, I've already worked in North Tulsa. I'm connected with North Tulsa. And over the course of these last two years, it has become increasingly and increasingly heavy for me seeing what's going on. And it wasn't until Randy talked yesterday that I realized I was unable to articulate what it was. I want to remove the reproach from the name of Jesus in North Tulsa. I woke up this morning, I told my wife, I said, baby, you know, dude, the priest last night, this is what he said in the morning session. You weren't, you were at work, but this, he's, this is, this is what it is. And she's like, calm down, bro. It's like 645. And I'm like, no, you don't understand. This is what, this is the, this is articulating what it is because North Tulsa has been systemically intentionally oppressed by the devil. The, the, that part of the city has a cloud over it. And I think that it goes all the way back to before 1921, the race massacre. I don't know what it is. There's a church on every corner, but there's no spirit of the living God. There's no liberty. There's no freedom. And so, uh, you know, a couple of the past couple of ATIs, I remember last year at ATI, I went to Glenn and I was like, man, you know, he, he puts up with me. Thank God for Glenn. He puts it. Cause I'm just a brother boohoo. That's what they call me in one church. Um, and I'm just weeping on him and he's holding me and he's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you know, it's, it's crazy. And, um, and I remember him saying, you know, one of the brothers, um, another African-American brother asked him, will you ever plan a work in North Tulsa? And he said, just out of his mouth, he said, no, but one of my sons probably will. And, uh, and I, I, I held onto that last year and I was like, oh, well, Lord, you must want me to put a church up there. We're going to, we're going to put another DLC in North Tulsa. And I'm starting to think like this. And over the course of this last year, the Lord spoke to me. I was in the kitchen cooking. I was sharing this with Tara yesterday and the Lord spoke to me and he said, in the African-American community, black church has lost its authority due to misuse, scandal, lack of stewardship, spiritual abuse, um, lording over the people. And the Lord said to me, you thought that, that my desire for you was to plan a church and put a school in it. He said, I want you to flip that son. I want you to plan a school and I'm going to build a church in it. And I said, I don't know how to do that. I've been, my dad's a pastor. I know church, but I don't understand this. And so this, over these last several months, I went to my father's to, to Glenn and Jonathan and, and Jeff Ray. And I said, I think this is what's in my heart to do. And I have no idea what I'm doing. Uh, I work in a school. I've been in education a long time and that's about it. So y'all let's, let's get to it. And over the course of the last several months, the Lord has really begun putting things together, putting pieces together, uh, bringing people back to my remembrance. People that I talked about this school with 10 and 20 years ago, um, are calling me out of the blue. I'm not even reaching out to them. I'm not even reaching out to them. I'm not Hey, um, what's going on with that school? You remember we talked like, yeah, we talked about that, man. That's when we, the urban league was the, are you serious? Yeah, man. You know, we got to do something in North. So we got to do something. And so the Lord is beginning to coalesce. Um, he's putting a team together. There's about six or seven people that have said to me, Hey, you just say the word and we're going, we pull the trigger and let's go. So, um, the Lord, I really feel like the Lord wants to build this school in North Tulsa to remove the reproach from his name there and to, to, to build the next generation in real time, in real time. Um, because if I get the five-year-old, he's talking about, if I get the five-year-old, I don't just get the five-year-old. I get his grandchildren. I get his grandchildren. We can redeem an entire community in 25 years. We can redeem an entire community. The Lord can take, cause God's got a people in North Tulsa for his namesake. And, um, so if you pray for us right now, um, matter of fact, I was putting together yesterday, we're finishing up, um, uh, the, the launch campaign. We need $180,000 to put the first five leaders, um, into place. Um, and, uh, the Lord has given us a building. The Lord is, is putting things in place. He's, he's, he's doing it. Um, I've got, I've received two prophecies at the conference, Glenn. No, no, you're, you're good. Just relax. God's going to pay for what he orders. I'm like, well, yeah, I sure appreciate that. Um, and, and I do rest and believe, and I believe that God's going to do what he wants to do in his time. But the last thing I'll say is that the second prayer request is Glenn mentioned something to me yesterday. Um, and I hope you don't mind me saying it. It was to me. So I hope you don't mind me saying this. One of my spiritual fathers says to me, he said, son, it takes a whole lot longer to become something than it does to do something. And I walked away from there and that sank in a deep place in my heart. And I said, Lord, I got to get with Glenn later. I find out what do I need to become? So I ask you guys pray for, pray for us as leading the team that we will be the change that we want to see in that community before the community ever sees us. I mean, with a name like excellence Academy, we can't go, we can't meet, we can't mess it up. We can't, you can't do too. They don't, people don't give you too much room for messing up, especially when your name is excellence Academy. So pray for us. Uh, we need provision to launch, um, the seed to launch and, pray, pray that I'll be the son and the leader that God needs for that area for that time that, you know, whatever's got to happen, Lord, I'm yours. Just let it happen. Thanks, Derek. As y'all can tell, Derek needs a little more passion. That's what he needs. He has been, uh, really, we created a role at Clever Christian school and, uh, Derek came into that role a couple of years ago and he's, uh, really done a good job of breaking down that door, honestly, breaking down that door. To create some things there. And, uh, we embrace the whole church. We want to see the destiny of God come into people's lives. And even in him making a shift here, uh, out of CCS to be able to focus in excellence Academy over this next year in prep time, uh, you know, they got to raise money. They got to raise finances to have that. So we definitely want to continue to agree with them. Let's close like this. Why don't I get you guys that share, would you just come and just spread out here across the front and who, whoever you're connected with, you're there, whoever you're connected with, you come and surround them and they're going to put up on the screen there, the knees that they grabbed. And then Glenn, would you lead us? So go ahead and make your way guys, just kind of spread out in congregations, church, or wherever you're connected, come. And then if you want to pray over some of those, as you see them on the screen, do that. Glenn's going to lead us. We'll do it for the sake of time, kind of a corporate, uh, prayer there, uh, of everything. Okay. Mauricio Venica, give you time just to move over. We're going to close with this kind of time of prayer, just, uh, crying out for one another, standing with one another. Uh, more is probably done in these moments than you realize. And, uh, if you've got a heart, if someone needs someone to pray over, even though you may not be particular from that group or congregation, feel free, uh, to be quickened by the Holy spirit, to go pray with them as well, uh, as the Lord would lead you to do so. And we're going to pray. Okay. We're going to lift our hearts and we're going to pray for one another. Lord, in the name of Jesus, as we lay hands upon this team of laborers in the kingdom, as you have brought us together relationally, and we have labored together these few days now, Lord, I ask you to place within us, not just this moment of prayer, but in the days and the weeks to come, we're calling out for intercession to be birthed. We're calling out for anointing to come forth. We're calling out father in our spirit to bring forth intercession as you would stir us, that we would labor with one another. Lord, make us like there was in the Colossians chapter four, where Epaphras labored and struggled in prayer for Laodicea, for Colossae, Lord, and those cities that you placed within his heart, did not just be one city, but Lord, Areopolis would pray over Laodicea and Colossae. Lord, may we carry other cities in our heart, not just the one city, but the one city that we're laboring in, but for one another. Lord, connect us in the spirit that we would pray. Connect us, oh God, that you would teach us how, that prayers are eternal, that when we go into prayer, praying in the spirit and the Holy Spirit praying through us, sometimes when we know not what we should pray for as we ought, but the spirit himself making intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And Lord, you search the heart in every city, in every state, in every nation, as we would pray. And you know, and pray through us with the spirit, Lord. You're bringing it forth. And I ask you, Lord, show us how to pray over every one of these areas. Oh, Lord, speak to me in the times of prayer, those moments. Yes, Lord, speak through us and to us as we intercede on behalf. Lord, teach us to war in the spirit. Teach us to intercede in the spirit. Teach us to labor in the spirit, to wrestle in the spirit. Scripture says, and to do that which you've called us in prayer. Even as Paul said, I pray every time I have you, remember you, I pray. Every time I pray, I bring you to my remembrance in prayer. Lord, let that be repeated over and over and over and over. Not only do we pray for our leaders, not only do we stand with one another, but we pray over other cities, pray over other leaders and other pastors and elders, Lord, that we would intercede for. Lord, we just lift up each one of these areas. Lord, we just lift up each one of these areas. Lord, we just lift up each one of these. Each one of these, Father. Pray for Duncan, though Jerry's gone on. Lord, we pray that God's will. Pray for Lightview Baptist Church. Lift up that work there in Salina. We bless them, Father. We honor what you're doing in every one of these capacities. Your will be done. Your purposes be accomplished. Lord, we pray over Chile. Pray over the work there, Mauricio. Lord, we pray over Crossroads. Lord, we pray over the church. Lord, we pray over the church. Lord, we pray over kingdom life. Lord, in the name of Jesus, over thrive, Lord. Lord, on Canada, the work, Lord, even in the process now of the DeHugues shift. Lord, that your will be done. Lord, send John home with renewed strength. Settle every heart. Bless Cheryl in this whole process, Father. We thank you for the prisons that's opened for ministry. We pray over those, Father. Lord, we thank you for the door of hope. Lord, we thank you for move. We thank you for those who are called, Lord, to labor in every means and every way. Lord, we just ask you for that. In the name of Jesus, in the name of, Lord, we lift up the work there in North Tulsa. Your will be done. Your kingdom come. Your purposes be accomplished, Father. Yes, Father, we pray. Pray for buildings where they're needed. Pray for buildings where they're needed. Pray for buildings where they're needed. Pray for the laborers where they're needed. The burden, Lord, every area, we ask you, Father. We ask you, Father. Lord, I ask you for the campus ministry that you've laid upon Zorn's heart, those who labor together with him. Lord, what are you forming? What are you forming, Father? What are you forming? Your kingdom. Your kingdom. Your kingdom, Father. Bless my brother, Father. Add back the Terrell and Randy, Lord. Add back to them, I pray. Increase every area, Lord. Bless my brother, Father. Add back the Terrell and Randy, Lord. Add back to them, I pray. Yeah. Answer every prayer, Lord. I know you do. When we pray according to your will, those prayers go before your throne in golden bowls. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Father. In the name of Jesus. In this atmosphere, I think it would be good for us to have these prayer needs, even though there may just be, for the time being, what if we really began to pray over one another? What if we put it out? We're starting to put out a monthly newsletter. What if we included those prayer needs in there? Wouldn't that be powerful that we could intercede and pray for one another? Ron, I think that newsletter was your idea. What if we included this? Wouldn't that be powerful to pray over those areas that we intercede one for another? Man, man, we need each other, don't we? We need the prayer time. It's encouraging to hear your request and your call out. Amen. We're going to shift over for lunch, and our meeting picks up tonight at 7 p.m., and we're going to mention it this evening, but I'm so grateful for our media team that's been staying with us all days long, and our worship team that's been giving ourself, and those of you that have come and shared your heart. What a blessing. What a blessing. So, Father, we thank you for this morning. We receive the food as prepared and blessed, and we give you all the glory in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Yes, yes, I'm reminded of the sheep droppings. That's any plastic bottle, any napkin, or cup. I see mine right here. Pick up any of those sheep droppings, and there should be containers out there to drop it in. That helps us for tonight.
