Will God Really Show Up in Time? | Ken McIntyre

Have you ever wondered if God would really come through?  In this message, Pastor Ken McIntyre explores the name Jehovah Jireh, "God will provide", and reminds us that God’s timing, while often different from ours, is always perfect. Whether you’re facing a need or waiting on an answer, this message will give you hope that He sees, He knows, and He provides.

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- Hey, this is Phil Kal, lead pastor at Hope City Church. Thanks for tuning into our podcast. My prayer is that this helps and encourages you, gives you some practical ways to live out your faith, and ultimately fills you with hope. Enjoy the message.- I've loved going through this series as we go through the names of God, because they reveal the nature of God, right? Who God really is, not who we want him to be. Imagine him to be or project him to be, but who he is. This year, I took a course that covered a topic called phenomenology, uh, phenomenology studies, how we experience things. It doesn't really care about what things are, but what things appear to us to be. So, take for example, this coffee. Okay? Objectively, it's just a collection of atoms, a beautiful collection of atoms. It's, it's water, it's caffeine, and it's heat, right? Objectively, that's what it is. But that's not how I experience this. I'm not thinking about that. No. It's warmth, right? It's comfort, it's routine. Now, if you don't like coffee, we'll have prayer up here at the front. . If you, if you don't like coffee, well, your experience isn't warmth or comforted routine. Your experience is, well, it's bitter and it makes me gassy. It's like, okay, well, here's the point. Your experience of coffee doesn't change what coffee is. It is what it is. This week, online, I heard someone talking about phenomenological transcendence, which is a difficult word, but an interesting concept. The example was this. You can say that a tree doesn't exist. You can say that. But if you drive your car into a tree, you experience what's called phenomenological transcendence, meaning no one cares what you think about a tree. . A tree is a tree, and a tree is gonna do what a tree does, no matter your opinion. Here's why this matters. God doesn't change based on our opinion of God. Here's the truth. God loves you. He loves you, and you might not feel loved by God, but sooner or later you're gonna hit that tree. And I hope that you don't live one more day without realizing it, and that your experience of God and your feelings and your thoughts would sink up with the reality of who God is. Today, we are looking at a name for God that is used only once in the entire Bible, but that doesn't mean it's not important. In fact, I would say that it's central. It's throughout the entire narrative of scripture. And a climax is in the gospel. It's the name Jehovah Gyra, Jehovah Gyra. Uh, Jehovah is a transliteration of a word called Yahweh. Yahweh is the personal name of God. Uh, transliteration just means it's not translated, but it's taken in its original context. And we just use English kind of alphabet to, to make sense of the word. And so in the Middle Ages when there are translated from Latin, the, the, the Y of Yahweh had a J sound and, uh, the, the W of Yahweh took on a V. And so Jehovah just means Yahweh. Okay? Same thing. So Jehovah Gyra, which means the Lord will provide, the Lord will provide. Uh, last week, someone in the lobby stalked me, and they, they actually kinda approached me. They came up to me and I was a little scared because they're coming on a little strong. Okay? I have this little trick. I'm just gonna let you in. If someone's a close talker, I stand like this, okay? So if I'm standing like this to you, just maybe look down and maybe take a step back. But anyway, so someone was, was, uh, was coming up pretty quickly and they were just like gushing. They were this overflowing. They just had to tell me something. And, and he told me the story of this physical provision that happened in his life, and he was just gushing over with joy because he experienced Jehovah Gyra, right? That's what happens when you experience God providing for us in such a unique way like that. And one of the things that we do every single Tuesday as a staff is we celebrate the hand of God at work in their congregation, right? We experience and we celebrate Jehovah Gyra. And sometimes it is physical provision, right? A job opens up for somebody. Sometimes it's directional provision, right? A door opens that no other person could open. Oftentimes it's relational provision, right? Marriages are reconciled all the time. And mostly it's spiritual provision, right? People surrender their lives to Jesus and they find life and peace and freedom in him. And the Bible is packed with stories about God's provision. In fact, you can go anywhere, right? You, you could go to Song of Solomon, you can go to Leviticus, you can go to the deep cuts of the Bible, and you can't go very far left or right without seeing God's hand at work. He's always healing, always providing strengthening, sustaining, rescuing our God is Jehovah Gyra. One of the clearest pictures in the Bible of physical provision come from the gospel stories. That account for the feeding of the 5,000. The feeding of the 5,000 is one of the kind of marquee miracles of Jesus. It's the only miracle outside of the resurrection that's in all four gospels, Matthew, mark, Luke, and John. Meaning there's something here we need to pay attention to. And so what happens is this huge crowd gathers to Jesus. The Bible says there's 5,000 men. So that's not including children. That's not including women. So it's likely 15,000 plus people. You know, this, this place here at our Millwood campus is about 1400 seats. And so times this by 11 is probably what we had going on. And no one brought any food. No one brought granola, right? No one has, no one brought anything except for one boy whose mom was thoughtful enough to pack him a lunch. Except for here's the lunch, five loaves of bread. Imagine sending your kid to school with a loaf of bread. Like I've had some pretty sketchy, you know, send off with my kids with their food. I'm like, oh, when they open this, they are not going to be happy with me. But imagine just like a loaf of bread. Now, the loaf of bread wasn't the way we imagined. A loaf of bread is actually more like just a small kind of barley crackers. Better way to think about it. So this boy has five sort of barley crackers and, and two pieces of pickled fish. You put it on and you got, and you got a snack, right? You got lunch. No one brought any food, but, but Jesus takes this small lunch and he multiplies it and feeds 15,000 plus, uh, mouths with 12 baskets left over. It's wild. It's incredible. And Jesus tells us, he says, listen, when you pray, pray for physical provision, right? Give us today our daily bread. But the point of this miracle, and the reason why it's in all the gospels is not about bread. The next morning the crowd finds Jesus again. And this time they want breakfast. And Jesus says, listen, don't work for food that spoils work for food that endures their eternal life. And the crowd's like, I want that food. Gimme that food. And Jesus is like, it's me guys. It's me. I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not hunger again. Whoever thirsts for me, whoever believes in me, will not thirst again. See, the feeding of the 5,000 was a sign, but it wasn't the point. Jesus saying, listen, I can offer you so much more than what you want. So much more. You know what the crowd did? They left. They wanted the provision of God, but they rejected the provider. I'm gonna take you to the one place in scripture where we see this name for God, Jehovah Jireh. It's in Genesis chapter 22. The story centers on Abraham and his son Isaac. And it is easily and recognized as one of the most powerful and complex stories in ancient literature. Uh, it's an absorbing story. It maybe is a puzzling story. It could be infuriating, but it's unforgettable. Nonetheless. It starts back in Genesis chapter 12, where he first meet a man named Abraham. And the first thing that we learned about Abraham is God asked him to leave everything, everything, his family, his culture, his home, his safety, everything to follow God into the unknown, to a new place. And it's like, well, why would God ask this of Abraham? The world was a mess. The world had turned us back on God and read the, the first 11 chapters of Genesis. It is like it's chaos. It's sin and exile and confusion and violence. The world had turned us back on God. It's almost as if the world was cursed. And the truth is, the world was cursed. When humanity turned their back on God and cursed God. They actually ended up cursing themselves. And in this context, God calls Abraham to leave everything and follow him. And if he did that God would launch through him a redemptive plan for the entire world, that through Abraham and his descendants, the world would be the Bible says blessed, which is the opposite of curse, saying that through Abraham, through his kids, God was going to repair the broken world. It's like, well, what's so special about Abraham? Like, why this guy? The answer is, there's nothing special about him. It's like, well, why did God choose him? It's like grace. Great. It's just a promise of grace to an undeserving person. And how do you have to res receive a promise from grace, from God, faith? You just receive it in faith. And that's exactly what Abraham did. Not knowing where this is gonna lead, not knowing the next step. He received this promise of grace from God and faith that through his descendants, the world would be blessed. But the problem was that Abraham was 75 years old and didn't have a kid. Yet he still trusted God in this impossible situation. And 25 years later, that is a long time to hold onto an impossible promise. But Abraham did it, a model of faith, a model of obedience. 25 years later, God gave him a son named Isaac. Now to understand what's happening in Genesis 22, we have to understand the relationship between Abraham and Isaac and what Isaac meant to his father. The first thing is, and maybe the obvious thing is Abraham's emotion. Children are the emotional center of our lives. If you have a child, you know that to be true. We, I mean, we, we love them. We pray for them, we protect them. We would do anything for them. Don't be a victim of chronological snobbery. They're thinking like parents are, are good now. But back in the olden day, they were just like brutes. No, no, no, like, like Isaac was the treasure of Abraham's heart. So this is going on in Abraham's life, right? We have to think about his emotion. We have to think about Abraham's security because a child back in Abraham's day was far more than just family. Like a child was your name, your legacy? Sure it was honor. Yes, but it was your inheritance. It was your retirement plan. There was no social safety net. There is no pension. A child meant survival. And so if children are important now, they were essential back then. Lastly would be Abraham's destiny. Because again, Isaac was more than just a son. He was the embodiment of everything that Abraham left to receive the promise of grace. Isaac represented it all. So with that in mind, I wanna read you, uh, Genesis 22 in full. I'm not gonna skip out on anything. You're getting the full treatment today. So buckle up.'cause this story's wild. Says this. Sometime later, God tested Abraham. He said to him, Abraham, here I am. He replied. Then God said, take your son, your only son whom you love, Isaac, and go to the region of Mariah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain. I will show you early the next morning, Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. Uh, when he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. On the third day, Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. He said to his servant, stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We'll worship and then we'll come back to you. Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son, Isaac. And he himself carried up the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, Isaac spoke up and said to his father, uh, Abraham father, yes, my son, Abraham replied, the fire in the wood are here. Isaac said, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering? Abraham answered, God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering. My son. And the two of them went on together. When they reached the place, God had told them about Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son. It's crazy. He bound his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven. Abraham, Abraham, here I am. He replied, do not lay a hand on the boy. He said, do not do anything to him. Now, I know that you fear God because you have not withheld from me. Your son, your only son. Abraham looked up and there in a thicket, he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. So Abraham called that place Jehovah Gyra. The Lord will provide. When we think about this name for God, Jehovah Gyra, we're not thinking of getting the optimal parking spot at West Edmonton Mall. That's not how we're thinking. We're not thinking, I got an extra nugget in my six piece meal, Jehovah Gyra. Now, praise God for extra chicken nuggets, right? Like, I mean, I would rather attribute every blessing of life, big or small to the hand of God rather than luck or chance or entitlement. We should do that. But that's not the context for this. This name that we see first here in Genesis 22, Jehovah Gyre has to do with God providing a precise and miraculous substitutionary provision in the midst of Abraham's radical obedience. And so I wanna talk about that today. But before I talk about that, I have to talk about the difficult and maybe obvious question that virtually everyone I imagine has thought of. And it's why, like why did God ask Abraham to sacrifice Isaac? Like why would, why would he ask that of anybody? That's attention, right? It's unthinkable. I mean, would you do that? The most developed person in here? Would you do that? It's like, I hope the answer's no. I hope the answer is no. And the reality is God would never ask you to do that right from verse one. We're told that God never intended for this to go through the cultures surrounding Abraham, particularly the Canaanites and the Ammonites. They practice child sacrifice. It was horrifyingly common. And that's why God would say later in Deuteronomy 12, he'd say, you must not worship the Lord your God in their way. The Canaanites, the Ammonites. Because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things, all sorts of different things. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their God. They even like, that's the bottom of depravity. That's at the very bottom of the barrel. No matter how bad you think you can get, that's at the bottom of it. That's what's, that's what God is saying here. Abraham lived among these people. The idea of sacrificing your child to a deity would not have been foreign to him. But by stopping the knife of Abraham, God is saying, I am not like those gods. So as we think about this story, that has to at least be our first lens, and we have to make this unmistakably clear, whether in the womb or outside of the womb, God sees children as sacred. They're not disposable, they're not burdens, and they're not to be sacrificed under any conditions. They are gifts. And throughout history, cultures have sacrificed children on different altars, right? Convenience or control or career. This is totally unacceptable to Yahweh. No one has a higher view of human life and human worth than the creator of that human life. So that's at the, at the foundational level, the way that we have to view this story. But I haven't answered the questions like, well, why, why would God ask Abraham to do this? And so we have to go to the text. I don't wanna just philosophize about it and, and just try to, I'm not gonna try to cover up this for God and try to make him seem better. Now we have to look at the text. Verse one says this, sometime later, God tested Abraham. It's like some test. It's like, well, what was God testing for? Exactly. Obedience. I mean, yeah, may maybe, but I don't, I, that's not it. This is a test of love. This is a test of love.'cause remember who Isaac is to Abraham. Isaac was the gift. Isaac was the embodied promise. He was the center of Abraham's life. Now, scholars tell us that it was 40 years. When we read Genesis 22, there's about 40 years prior that God had asked Abraham to sacrifice everything in order to trust him. Now, 40 years later, God is asking Abraham to do that again. And I just wanted to pause for an aside, because this is a, is a word to those who've been following Jesus for some time. Maybe you're at 40 years, four decades. It's also a warning for those who are fresh to following Jesus. And it's just simply this. If you're not careful, you will lose your first love. If you're not careful, you'll, you'll, you'll lose your first love. See, Abraham walked in faith. He obeyed. He persevered. Maybe that's your story, right? You haven't been perfect. Abraham wasn't perfect, but you've persevered. You're here, but maybe you have lost something along the way. This is a theme in the Bible. See it in the first book here in Genesis. And we see it in the last book in Revelation. This is what Jesus says to the church, gathered in Ephesus says, I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people. They have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not. And you have found them false. You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name and have not grown weary. Maybe that's you. It's wonderful. But this is what Jesus says next. He goes, yet I hold this against you. You have forsaken the love you had at first. Consider how far you've fallen, repent, and do the things you did. At first, what was God testing Abraham for it. It wasn't firstly obedience. Abraham had proved that 40 years of radical obedience. It was a test of love. Did Abraham love God as much as he loved Isaac? And maybe that sounds like an unfair test, but every one of us has competing loves all of us do. And it's right to love things that are worthy of our love. But they always have to come second. They always have to bow to our first love. Abraham was surely holding onto the promises of God. But was he still holding onto God himself? He enjoyed the blessings of God, the gifts of God, but did he still enjoy God himself? This is a John six moment, a feeding of the 5,000 moment. It was a test of love. It's a brutal test, but it's a necessary test. And so I wanna ask everybody here today, this simple question, do you love God's provision more than the provider? Maybe it's with our kids. Again, if you have kids, can you pray for them? You love them, you protect them. You would do anything for them. You're a great parent. You would sacrifice anything for your kids. But that doesn't sound like your relationship with God. You're all in on your kids, but you've left things on the table when it comes to your faith. Maybe it's your career. God's opened doors, gave you skills, passions, drive, opportunities. Yes, you've worked hard, but don't fool yourself. We both know that your hard work doesn't account for all of it. You, you will wake up early and you'll answer those emails. You're burn, burn the mite oil, and that's great. Hey, listen, your work is marked by passion. But maybe your faith is marked by apathy. Maybe it's your lifestyle, the home, the travel, the rhythms of comfort that you've built. And listen that. Listen, okay, I I, I see that as a sign of God's blessing on your life. That's how I see it. But maybe you've become so resistant to anything that might cause you discomfort or disrupt your life and you'll obey God as long as it doesn't change the life that he's given you already. And listen, I'm not after guilt. I don't care about that at all. I'm just trying to show you that sometimes God will ask what you treasure most to be placed on the altar, not because he wants to take them, but he does want to test the condition of your heart. And my prayer for you is that you would love God, all your heart, . My prayer is that if your love has grown cold, that it would burn for Jesus again. That if you're starving, if you feel anemic, if you just feel like you're going through the motions, that you would get hungry for the presence of God. Again, the test of Abraham wasn't will you sacrifice your son? The test of Abraham is, do you love me first? And that leads us to the next sort of layer or level of Genesis 22. And as I walk through this, your mind is going to explode. It's so bonkers, it's so precise. Um, Abraham did not know in Genesis 22, what we know here today, we are at an advantage because this story, this moment, this test, this mountain, it was all pointing beyond Abraham. It was all pointing way past Isaac. And it was pointing 2000 years into the future to Jesus Christ. It's soaked in foreshadowing. Genesis 22, verse two says this, then God said, take your son, your only son whom you love, Isaac, and go to the region of Moria. This is deliberate language. Jesus'. Bath, baptism in Matthew three. Hear this thunderous voice from heaven. And the Father says this, this is my son whom I love, with whom I'm well pleased. Okay? You're not sold yet on the parallels. I'm gonna keep going. Okay. So Isaac carries the wood up the mountain for his own sacrifice. Jesus carries the instrument of his sacrifice up the hill of Calvary. Isaac is laid on the altar in the region of Mariah. Jesus is laid on the cross in a place called Gha in the region of Mariah. That's where Jesus was crucified. Isaac is bound and silent, trusting his father. Jesus is bound and silent before his accusing accusers, trusting his father. A ram is provided as a substitute for Isaac and Jesus becomes your substitute and my substitute. But here's, here's where the parallel shift, because the knife is stopped and Isaac is spared, but the nails are driven and Jesus is not. And so Paul says in Romans eight, he says, he who did not spare his own son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also along with him, graciously give us all things Jehovah jireh. And so Abraham names that place the Lord will provide. And in that same place the Lord did provide. And so Genesis 22, it's a gospel preview. Remember the problem that I end up, I identified earlier this morning, we talked about humanity's real issue from gen, uh, Genesis onward, time after time. It's his constant rejecting of God and turning ourselves on him. We want the gifts of God, but we reject God himself. We crave love and meaning and justice and mercy, but we resist the one who gives them. We want life in all its fullness, but simultaneously cut ourselves off from the author of life. And when we cut ourselves off from the source of life, the inevitable result is death. And maybe that describes at least part of you right now. I mean, you're here, you have a pulse. It's not weakened at Bernie's three, right? Or whatever version we're on. You have a pulse. But emotionally, you're just, you're dying relationally. Just it's all falling apart. You're just numb. The joy that you once had in your life that marked your life, it's gone. The meaning or the purpose that drove you. It's, it's in the rear view mirror. It's faded. Jesus's brother James says this. He goes, each person is tempted when they're dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin and sin. Eventually when it's full grown, it gives birth to death. It's a slow march to the grave where Paul would just eventually say that the wages of sin, it, it is death. That's the result. It's like, well, and who should pay for that? Right? Who should pay? Who should pay for for you turning your back on God, for me, turning my back? Who should pay for that? I was like, well, you me. But just like Abraham, God's not operating in fairness. He wants to show you grace. Just like Abraham, God doesn't ask you to pay. Instead, he provides, but it wasn't with the ram, it was with the lamb. John the Baptist, he sees Jesus years before the cross. And he looks at him and he says, look, the lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world, uh, I wanna go back to Genesis 22.'cause as I read this, you're gonna see some things. Now, it says this in verse six. Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son, Isaac. And he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, Isaac spoke up and said to his father, Abraham father, yes, my son, Abraham replied, the fire in the wood are here. Isaac said, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering? And Abraham answered, God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering. My son. And the two of them went on together. God himself provided the lamb, Jesus Christ, because he wanted you two to go on together. That was it. So many years ago, Abraham prophetically declares in that place, God is Jehovah jireh. The Lord will provide right future tense. And in that place, the Lord has provided past tense in Christ and is providing present tense in the Lamb of God. Now, I don't, of course, I don't know where everyone's at today. There's some who are hearing this for the first time. And, and there's, there's maybe a little bit of confusion. You're like, you're not following everything, but you just know that it's for you. You just know that God loves you. You're hitting that tree as it were right now for the first time. Your heart is being moved towards God in a way you didn't expect. You can't necessarily explain. Understand. God is drawing you unto himself. He wants to be for you. Jehovah Jireh, your provider, your provider. And he wants to exchange your death for his life, his healing for, for your pain, his rest, for your struggle, his grace for your guilt. And like Abraham, the only way that you can experience this grace, this promise is through faith. That's it. You don't have to pay for it. There are interact machines out in the lobby. You can go online, you can, but you can't pay for it. You can't work for it. Abraham didn't. You can't. It's a promise of grace. You just have to choose to trust the Lord. Maybe, uh, you're here and you already know Jesus. That blessing that was promised through Abraham is already yours, right? You're saved, you're restored, you're redeemed. You're still trusting God. You're still showing up. But maybe your love has cooled. It doesn't burn like it used to. And maybe like Abraham, you're enjoying the gifts of God, right? Your, maybe your kids or your spouse or or your health or your job or your lifestyle, and those are all wonderful things. But maybe the Holy Spirit is showing you today that those things have become the thing in your life. And so there's a test before you today like Abraham. It's a test of love. Do you trust God enough to place your greatest treasure on the altar? And if you're here today and you're like, I think so, I wanna be able to say I do, but I don't really know how to do that. Jesus says to the church in Ephesus who has lost their first love, he said, repent. Repent and do the things that you did in first, repent just means turning away from the things that were, that we, that we worship, that we orient our life around, and we turn back to the one who is worthy. It means to change your mind and in turn, change your direction. There's repentance there. There's a grief part of this. It's like, God, I'm sorry. There is that part of it. And Jesus says, go back to doing the things you did at first. Remember when the Bible was your lifeline and not a chore? Remember when you just read it and it wasn't just outta discipline? I guess that's a part of it. But it was like it was a delight to you. Remember that? Remember when you were young and you're reading Jesus' words for your first time, blowing your mind, man, go back to that. Remember, you would turn a song in your car or your house, or you're in church and you would just worship. You didn't really care about what other people thought of you. You were just so overwhelmed with the love of God, and all you could offer him was everything in that moment, your emotions, your, your demonstrative actions. You just, you couldn't help it. Now, you hear a worship song and it's just, oh, the drums are a little loud. Right? No, go back. Go back to the things that you did at first that passionate worship, that wonder of God return to the thing, to the things where you didn't calculate what obedience would cost you. You just said yes is maybe a little irresponsible, but I think maybe some of you can get a little bit more irresponsible for the Lord just to say yes again, as that radical obedience. What did your love look like when it was fresh? Fan that into a flame. Again, let it burn for Jesus. Lemme pray for you. God, I pray that you would become our number one. Would you be the king of our life and not just positionally Lord, but relationally, Lord, will we, will we come back to you? Repent from our ways, the things that we are putting above you, and will we come back to you and say, God, I want you more than anything. I thank you for your gifts. I thank you for your provision. I thank you for your blessing. Every good and perfect gift comes from above. From the God who does not change, like shifting shadows. I thank you for that. But God, I want you not just what you give me. Would my heart burn for you like Abraham? Would I be willing to put what I treasure most on the altar? Not so that you could take it away, Lord, but attest Lord, you test our hearts. God, I pray for conviction to fall in this place in the deepest, most beautiful way, not for guilt or but for relationship that you would draw us into you again. God, I pray like David, that we would become more undignified than we are. God, that we, our hearts would burn for you once again. That we be a church that is marked by just this hunger for the presence of God in our life. That our life and our families, and our businesses and our employment, everything would just be marked by this passion for God, that there would be absolutely nothing above you. Would you become first in our life? Once again, Lord, I pray for my, my brothers and sisters, my friends here today, who this is the first time that they're hearing a gospel message. This is the first time that maybe their heart is moving towards you. God, I pray right now just in the, the sweet way that your spirit does. Would you help everybody know that they're loved? Lord, I also ask that you would show them, Lord, just the depth of their sin and what it costs, not to bring guilt again, but Lord, just to see you in your glory, in your grace, in your love, and they'll just be driven into the arms of Jesus, and so we repent in a fresh way. Help us to return to the things that we did at first. Lord, ignite our hearts for your word. Ignite our hearts for worship. Ignite our hearts for generosity. Ignite our hearts for serving. Ignite our hearts for your church. Lord, we be faithful to you. Will we be radically obedient to you? Will we not live a consumer or, or a lukewarm Christianity? God, would you set that fire in our heart? Again, we ask for this Holy Spirit. We pray this in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. Amen. If you're here today and you wanted to respond to that, you, you, you say, no, I want to know Jesus. We want to help you do that. We're gonna have some people at the front who would love to pray with you, hear your name, hear your story. If that's uncomfortable for you or you don't have time for that, we have a QR code you can scan on the seat back or on the screen that can help you take a next step. Church, if I poked you today, I'm not sorry. That was the Holy Spirit. Pay attention to that. I'm sorry if I made you a little uncomfortable. Actually, no, I'm not sorry. I don't know why I said I'm sorry. I'm Canadian. I'm not sorry at all, but, but don't just leave it. Just don't go back wrestle with this. This is important. Bless you, church. Thank you being church today, and we'll see you next week.