Elevation with Steven Furtick - I Know God Can, I Know God Will, But I Don’t Know How (Jabin Chavez)
Episode Date: June 14, 2026Are you praying for clarity on a decision in your life? Pastor Jabin Chavez preaches about the role of faith in how we see our lives and in the decisions that we make. Maybe the reason you can’t... tell what’s next is that God is inviting you into something you haven’t seen before. If you’ve just made a decision for Christ, please respond HERE: http://ele.vc/tIepfr Scriptures Referenced:Hebrews 11, verse 8 – Abraham obeyed God without knowing where he was going.2 Corinthians 5, verse 7 – We walk by faith, not by sight.Hebrews 11, verse 3 – The universe was formed by God's command.Colossians 1, verse 16 – All things were created by God, visible and invisible.1 Peter 1, verse 23 – We are born again through the living and enduring Word of God.Psalm 119, verse 105 – God's Word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path.Proverbs 4, verse 18 – The path of the righteous grows brighter and brighter.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast.
I wanted to thank you for joining us today.
Hope this inspires you.
Hope it builds your faith.
Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life.
Enjoy the message.
Quickly turning your Bibles while you're standing.
We're going to look at one passage of scripture, Hebrews chapter 11.
Hebrews chapter 11 in verse 8.
Greetings from Las Vegas, Nevada.
How many come at least once a year on your mission trip?
Amen.
Let me see you.
Amen.
Praise the Lord.
Praise God.
Thank you.
So grateful for so many of you that when you do come, you come into church and you come
say hi to us over at City Light.
We're so grateful for that.
While you're turning to Hebrews 11, I just want to honor our pastors.
I just want to say, man.
I don't have really.
words. I've been preaching here every year since 2019, besides 2020. There was a little hiccup that
year, but praise the Lord. But besides that, and every year I try to think of something, you know,
I'm just mindful of how grateful I am for Pastor Stephen and Pastor Holly. And I just,
aren't you grateful for your pastors? Just come on clap your hands. The words, the songs,
the books
I'd go back to 2020
and I'd go back to 2020 and I
chunks I think about the blessing
that song got me through
it just got me through
and I could and I could just start
naming song after song that just got me through
sermons that just got me through
you know what I was maybe so excited about this week we were in Miami
the pastor was preaching there
and the kids were there
and Graham did a living room in Miami.
I'll tell you what.
Let me just talk for a second.
Let me tell you what.
I was in tears the whole time.
Abby's leading worship.
What the heck?
I remember when Abby was a year,
I think I would have met her at a year or two years old.
Now leading worship.
Graham's up there preaching.
Elijah's doing an interview and teaching and preach.
And I'm just like,
look at the next generation rising up i was so stert i see this whole youth section over here on fire for
god come on clap your hands i just tell you and i wrote pastor steven and pastor holly
and i said thanks for being great parents you inspired me tonight as they were ministering and i was
watching pastor steven holly just smiling just watching and just watching and
And again, just impacted again by their life and by their ministry.
I just want to say, thank God for our pastors.
Thank God for this house.
And how many know the best is yet to come?
Come on, we're just getting started.
20 years in, we're just getting started and so are you.
Can you say amen, everybody?
I'm going to read a passage of scripture, Hebrews 118.
One little verse.
And then we're going to have church today.
Will you help me preach?
a little bit. All right. I'm going to yell. If you don't yell back, it's going to be awkward.
It was by faith that Abraham obeyed when God called him to leave home and go to another land that
God would give him as his inheritance. Now let me just stop real quick. These are all faith phrases.
It was by faith Abraham obeyed. That's faith. When God called him hearing God, that's faith.
To leave home, that's faith. To go to another land, that's faith. That God would
He receives an inheritance, that's faith.
That's all faith.
But now I'm going to give you my favorite faith phrase in the Bible.
He went without knowing where he was going.
Ooh, and I want to preach about that today for a little bit.
I know God can and I know God will, but I don't know how.
I know God can and I know God will, but I don't know how.
And I believe today God's going to help us walk by faith.
Father, I thank you for the gift of faith that is on this house.
And I thank you today.
You're going to strengthen our faith and our response in advance is yes.
In Jesus' name.
And everybody said, amen?
One more time, every location.
Clap your hands and give God praise.
Come on.
Amen and amen. You can be seated. Look at your neighbor and tell them, I don't know how. Just tell them, I don't know. I don't know how. I don't know how. God invites his children into a life of faith. This is the possibility of every believer, 2 Corinthians chapter 5, verse 7, that we can walk by faith and not by sight.
Let me just say this. Before you are a Christian, you've never walked by faith. You only walk by sight.
You only walk by the five senses. But now that you are a believer, we have an opportunity to do something that we've never done before, and that is walk by faith.
That we don't just live by the five senses. We don't just live by circumstance. We don't just live by what we can see.
but we now get to live in an unseen realm called the life of faith.
God is inviting us into this.
And let me just say this.
Most Christians will never truly experience the joy, the adventure, the peace of walking by faith.
But God is inviting us into this walk.
See, eyesight shows me what is.
Regret shows me what could have been.
but faith shows me what could be.
And I just want you to know right now,
we are living in one of those three areas as I speak.
Eyesight, it just shows me the obvious.
It takes no faith to see.
It takes no faith to talk about what I'm already experiencing.
A lot of times we just walk by regret.
We just live in what could have been.
Oh, man, if I woulda, if I coulda, if I shoulda.
Man, if I'd have bought Bitcoin when it was 10 cents, come on somebody.
I should have done this. I should have done that.
I should have, whatever it could be.
And so many believers end up living their entire life, really not believing.
They just end up in eyesight and they end up in regret.
But there is a third place that we can live.
It's called faith.
It's called the unseen.
It is called a place of what could be and what should be.
And I've never been there before, but I feel like the Holy Spirit is.
calling me into something that I've actually never seen before or experienced before.
I have no reference for it.
See, when you're walking by eyesight, when you're walking by regret, you can always look back
and have a reference point for what you should expect for tomorrow.
So it's been bad, it's going to be bad.
It is bad.
It's going to be bad.
You always have a reference point, a worst case scenario of what has been that is
lying to you telling you what could always be. But faith shows me something and reveals something and tells me
something that I've never been in before. The only reference point I have for tomorrow is Jesus himself
because he is the God who was and is, but he is to come and he is inviting me into something that I've never
seen before. I've never lived in before, but something in my spirit says my best day,
are still in front of me and God still has a plan for me.
Come on, everybody say faith.
We walk by faith.
Walk by faith.
Oh, it's one thing to talk faith and it's another thing to believe,
but it's another thing when your faith gets in your feet.
That's where the real joy comes.
Do me a favor.
Everybody just kind of stomp a little bit.
Can I hear your feet?
Can I hear your feet?
That's when you know you're really in faith when it starts getting in your feet.
When your walk starts changing and when God starts calling you into a place that you've never been before.
But oh, this can be scary.
Faith feels risky.
It's not risky, but it can feel risky.
And a lot of times we end up not taking a step of faith because we're waiting on clarity.
Pastor, just pray for me.
I'm just really in a season right now where I'm praying for clarity.
I think a lot of us are praying for clarity and we need to be praying for courage.
Just really believing for clarity in this next six months?
I would stop praying that and I would just start doing something that God's calling you to do.
There have been a lot of seasons that I prayed for clarity and really what I needed to be praying for was the courage to obey the thing God's calling me to do.
That is terrifying to my flesh, but my spirit is saying God is calling me into something.
faith requires movement before manifestation confidence in God before clarity and believing before seeing
Abraham went and I believe that God is calling us into a life of faith so here's what I know about
faith number one faith knows faith knows the Bible said that God called Abraham Abraham had a word from God
and all Abraham needed was a word from God.
Friend, all you need is a word from God,
and it could change your entire life.
By the way, that's why we should always come to church with expectation.
That's why we should always come to church with a Bible.
That's why we should always come to church leaning in.
We're not just here to check a box,
but we're here to have an encounter with God
because we know that one word from God,
one little phrase from a song,
one little prayer that someone might pray for you,
something might happen in your life that changes your entire.
life, one word from God. Abraham got a word and it changed his life. And I believe you can get a word
that changes your life. There's an old preacher, F.F. Bosworth, he's in heaven now, but he said that
faith begins where the will of God is known. That once God can reveal it to me, now faith can begin to be
birthed in my heart. And that's why the word of God is so important to us, that man shall not live by
bread alone, Jesus said. But every word that comes from the mouth of God, that means that there is an
entire way of living that goes beyond bread alone, goes beyond the natural alone, goes beyond what you can
see alone. There is a place called faith that can sustain you and can cause you to go. See, that's what
sustained Jesus for 40 days. For 40 days he didn't eat, but he had the word. And see, anytime the
enemy can keep us ignorant in a place, he can keep us bound in that place. But if I can get the word
on it, I can get freedom in that area. And this is why the word matters. Can I just talk about this
in 2026? That's why you ought to read the Bible. Come on somebody. That's why whenever you read the
scripture, something supernatural happens in your life. Something begins to change on the inside.
Well, I read the Bible and I don't feel like I understood it. I promise it's working. Well, I read the
Bible this morning and I don't remember anything I read. I promise it's work. Just keep showing up to the book.
Just keep eating. I promise it is doing something in your life. By faith we understand, this is so
powerful, Hebrews 113, by faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at God's command.
Watch this. That what we see did not come from anything that can be seen. Let me just say that
that one more time, that what we see, you see it now, but it didn't come from the scene.
You see it now, but it didn't start there. It actually started in the invisible.
Oh, you see elevation now, but you didn't see it when it was a dream in the heart of our pastors.
You see all this, but it didn't start here. It didn't start in the scene. It started in the unseen.
you see that great marriage now but it didn't start there it started in the unseen you see that
family serving the lord now but it didn't start there it started in the unseen you see that
person in business now but it didn't start there it started in the unseen that you see that person
on fire for god now but it didn't start there everything that god does always begins in the unseen
it begins by faith it begins with a vision it begins with a picture and i just want to declare
God's going to give you a word. God's going to give you a vision. God's going to give you a picture that
right now it would make no sense. But if you don't give up on the word, eventually you will see
what you couldn't see. Everything we can see began in the unseen. Let me go a little bit further here.
Colossians chapter 1 verse 16, for by him all things were created. All things were created. Now he's going to
explain what things are. In heaven and on.
earth, watch is visible and invisible. What are things? Some things are visible. Some things are
invisible. And to God, they're both things. So we only appreciate the things we can see. But God is more
into the things that cannot be seen that are going to eventually do something in our life that
eventually we will see. If you can see it today, it began in the
unseen. I'm talking about faith knows. I'm talking about getting a word from God. I'm talking about
I am going after God. I am believing for a move of God in my life. I've gotten a word from God,
but I don't see it yet. That's okay. Because that thing that God spoke to you that you don't see
is as real to God as the things that you can see. And it has to get that real in your spirit
before you ever see it with your eyes.
And we only appreciate what can be seen,
but God appreciates the unseen.
In 1971,
Walt Disney World Open in Orlando, Florida.
While Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida,
Lillian Disney's best friend leaned over to her,
Walt's widow leaned over and said,
it's such a shame Walt never got to see.
this. And Lillian looked back at her and said, he did see it. That's why we're here.
Walt been dead for five years, but he saw it. He saw it before we saw it. He dreamed it before we
saw it. He was walking in it before we were walking in it. And may that be the testimony of your
family, and may that be the testimony to your children, that mama saw something, daddy
saw something, they got something from heaven. And because
they saw it and because they believed it, though it was invisible, now we are walking in something
that our parents believe for? He did see it. Don't give up on the word God spoke to you.
Don't give up on the dream God put in your spirit. Don't give up on the thing that God promised you,
though it is taking longer than you expected, and it always will. God's doing something in
your life. In 1 Peter chapter 1, verse 23, Peter talks about the scripture and he says this,
we've been born again, not of corruptible seed, but watch this. Incorruptible through the Word of God,
which lives and abides. Here's what Peter's saying. He's saying the Word is incorruptible seed.
That means every time the Word goes in you is doing something in your life. I don't see it today,
but it's working. I don't feel it.
today, but it's working. Haven't seen a breakthrough yet, but it's working. Even when I can't see it,
you're working. Isn't that so much easier to sing than to live? Come on somebody. Even when I don't feel
it, you're working. You never stop working. Man, that is so good to sing on a Sunday morning. It is
so hard to live on a Monday morning. Come on somebody. But God's word is working. I want to show you a place
by where I live in Vegas, it's called Death Valley. This is the hottest and the lowest point
in America. And it's the hottest place in the world. That's where I live. That's my backyard,
actually. That's a picture of my backyard. I don't know. If you ever want to see where I live,
that's where I live. And so, like right now, it's like a squillion degrees. And I don't know, it's hot.
It's brutal. So that's Death Valley. Every once in a while, it'll rain in Death Valley.
It's very rare, but when it does, Death Valley turns into this. I want to
I want you to see the next picture.
That's Death Valley.
That's Death Valley.
Because what you couldn't see in picture number one is that there was seed in the ground.
I'm about to start preaching.
Are y'all ready?
Can we, can we?
I say, y'all ready?
Can we turn up a little bit?
That seed's been working.
That incorruptible seed has been working.
I don't see it yet.
But when the reign of the Spirit of God touches my life,
all of a sudden something begins to work in my and I declare the rain is falling on your life
I declare you will see what you've been praying for you will see what you've been believing
don't give up yet God is working come on give God a big shot of praise if you believe that the word
works haven't seen it yet but I'm standing on a word
My life don't look like right now what God told me, but I'm standing on a word.
God puts something in my spirit and my circumstances do not agree, but I'm standing on a word.
And my life might look like Death Valley right now, but it's actually not dead.
It's just dormant.
But I believe the rain's going to fall in my life.
Y'all faith will make you look like a genius eventually.
But at first, it makes you look like a fool.
You get a word.
You're believing God and nothing agrees.
And then one day, you see it.
And then we call those people overnight successes.
But we didn't see the years and the years and the years of believing God.
I've just come today to tell somebody, do not quit yet.
The word is working.
Faith, no.
Number two, faith does.
doesn't know. I wish that wasn't true, but it's true. Oh, faith knows. Faith gets a word from God.
Faith stands on the authority of Scripture. Faith does not know the details. I know God can.
And I know God will, but I don't, I don't know how. He went without knowing where he was going.
Can you imagine that moment? Abraham comes into the tent. Hey, baby.
back up, we're on the move.
God spoke to me.
Sarah goes, wow, that's great.
Where are we going?
I don't know.
Is that the same God that told you we're going to have kids?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Him.
Come on, let's go.
Come on, somebody.
Felt like a fool.
Felt like where is God.
But faith goes without knowing.
I don't need to know.
God knows.
And anything God is not telling me right now,
I guess I don't need to know.
The Bible said it like this, that the secret things belong to God.
So anything God is keeping a secret from me is obviously to protect me.
He went without knowing.
And we want God to show us everything.
I just want to submit this to you.
If God showed you everything, you wouldn't do anything because it will freak you the freak out.
So thy word is a.
lamp onto my feet. This little word lamp right there, I don't want to bore you, but it's a little
hand lamp that they would hold like this, like a little candle. They say it was like four to six
lumens. So your iPhone is like a hundred lumens, 200 lumens. We're talking about step by step.
God show me more. You can't handle it. I can't even show you five feet in front of you,
let alone five years in front of you. So I have to just, I have to give you enough to take a step.
go left okay all right go forward okay take a step back relax okay go right okay here we go and it feels slow
but god's actually protecting me it feels longer than i expected but god is actually covering me
the bible would say it like this in king james so it sounds really pretty though the vision tarries
come on king james people that's just a really cute poetic king james way of
this is going to take a while.
But I'm going step by step.
Step by step.
The walk of faith is a walk.
It's just a walk.
God just wants a walk.
Faith doesn't.
No, I want God to show me everything.
You can't handle it.
You don't have the faith for that yet.
God can't show you what life is going to be like in 10 years.
You don't have that faith yet.
You have today's faith.
Jesus said, don't worry about tomorrow.
Today's got enough issues.
You've got enough faith to get through the next 24 hours.
And then tomorrow morning, you will have the faith for those 24 hours.
You've got to settle this in your heart.
You know, in 2018, we planted our church in Las Vegas.
And I saw, God showed me, I saw the building.
I saw the worshippers coming.
I saw the impact we had make in the...
I saw it. I saw it. I saw it. God showed me that.
God gave me enough faith to believe that God could do something big in Vegas.
God showed me that in 2018. You know what?
God didn't show me in 2018. God didn't show me COVID.
God didn't show me that year.
God, I wasn't ready for that.
If God in 2018 would have showed me COVID, I would have never started our church.
I'd have been working here. I'll tell you right now.
I ought to call chunks and said, do you need a janitor? Do you need a facilities director? What could I do for you?
I'm here to serve. Amen. I'm just a humble servant. I wouldn't have done it.
So God had to, he didn't lie to me. But he had to give me just enough of a word to cause me to move without showing me too much.
because it would have overwhelmed me.
So God don't lie to us,
but God don't give us all the details either.
Like, I love the names of God,
Jehovah Jira, my provider.
And I love that.
I love that.
I love Jehovah Rafa, my healer.
I love these beautiful,
these beautiful names of God.
There's another name, though,
that they need to add to that song,
call the name, you know.
they Jehovah Nisi fight your battles.
There's another name.
You got to be deep in the Hebrew though.
It's only like in Leviticus.
It's Jehovah Sneaky.
Y'all ever met Jehovah Sneaky?
Jehovah Sneaky be getting you into battles.
Jehovah sneaky got me in a battle.
He didn't lie.
He just didn't give me all the information.
Because if he would have given me too much info, I would have never done anything.
God, I wasn't expecting this.
I know.
you weren't ready for this.
But now that you're in it, I'm going to give you the grace and the faith to overcome a battle
you would have never walked into unless I got you here.
Come on, somebody say amen.
Think about Joseph.
Yo, Joe, you want to lead a nation?
Yeah.
You want your hater brothers to bow down?
Yes, I've been waiting for this moment.
All right, cool.
Let's go.
Let's go.
God just didn't tell him about the pit.
just didn't tell him about Potiphar's wife, just didn't tell him about the prison.
God just left out the next 13 years of training for raining that was going to get Joseph ready
for his place and his promise. And I just want somebody to know you're in training right now,
but don't give up. You're in process right now, but don't give up. You might be in a pit right now,
but don't give up. God is working and God knows exactly where you're at, even when you don't know
where God is at. He is Jehovah sneaky. Hey, Ezekiel, can these bones live? I love what Ezekiel says back.
Again, just so, so spiritual. Lord, you know, which is Ezekiel's way of saying, I don't know.
And I like living there. I like being right there. Lord, you don't.
I don't know, but you know.
I'm surprised.
You're not surprised.
I didn't expect this,
but you're working and you're moving.
Faith knows.
Faith doesn't know.
Number three,
faith goes.
Faith goes.
Faith goes.
Faith moves.
And the Bible said that,
Abraham, he went. I just want to ask a simple question, and I'd love for you to wrestle with this if you're taking notes today. If you haven't taken one note, this would be a good one. What is God asking you to do? Do it. And stop being scared to obey God. The devil will convince you that obedience is a risk, but obedience is never a risk. It feels like a risk, but it's not a risk.
what is what is god asking you do i love what mary said to the servants look what she said about
jesus whatever he says to you do it whatever is it time to start serving in this house do it is it is it time to
start giving financially this house do it is it time to forgive that person do it is it is it time to
make it right in that relationship do it is it time to make the call do it is it time to get married do it
some of y'all been living together for 18 years you've been praying about getting married do it
you know we're just still making shirt dog it's been a minute there's a conviction at valentine right now
we need to move on is it time to start having kids do it we don't know if we're ready you're not
you're not ready to have children do it is it time to get water baptized do it what what is God
you to do. Every act of obedience, it always leads to God's blessing. It leads to answers. It leads to wisdom.
It leads to better. Eventually it leads to better. Proverbs 418, that the path of the righteous is like
the dawn. Watch is, it's getting brighter and brighter. Here's what I've learned. That if I walk with God,
I'll have the team club. If I walk with God, eventually, it's getting brighter and bright.
not worse and worse not darker and darker brighter and brighter but it can feel so scary to obey god
what's god asking of you give it to him um i have a nine-year-old daughter she's turning 10 in a couple
of months goldy and every every once in a while we we realize she's outgrown her toys any parents in the
house she starts out growing things so we
start packaging these toys and we start getting them in bags and boxes because we're going to bless
a family with younger children and JJ I'll pull a toy out of her closet that has not seen the light
of day in five years and I'll pull it out because we're going to give it away and the moment she
sees that she goes looking for that that's my favorite toy dad homie who haven't seen that toy in five years
I love that toy.
I have to keep that toy.
We'll find clothes and shoes.
I love those shoes.
They are that big.
I love those shoes.
Babe, babe,
you've outgrown that.
That fits you in a season.
But it's time to go.
That was good for you in one season.
Come on, somebody.
But it's time to go.
That served you in one season.
but it'll hurt you in a new season.
It's time to go.
But see, we pray God do a new thing
until he starts doing a new thing.
And they're just like Jesus.
We like the old wine better.
Jesus goes, nobody likes new wine and new wine skin.
We pray for change until God starts changing.
Because change don't feel like change.
Change feels like pain.
But, Dad, I just really think
to keep this. I just really think, just in case. Does anybody have any just in cases in your soul?
So I'm going to show you a picture. It's so cheesy, but I don't care. I'm 42, and I'm embracing
the cheese season of my ministry. Is that okay? Because I want you to see this, because I've,
I've been there. Have you ever been there? I can't look at that picture without crying. And God's going, but I'm
doing a new thing. I'm taking you into a land that you don't know. See, you know your past. You know
where you've been. Even if it's unhealthy, at least it's familiar. And now God's taking me into an
uncomfortable place. But I have to believe that in the exchange, there's brighter and brighter.
But I've never been here before God. But this is bigger than me. But I love this. But I've outgrown this.
and Abraham says, let's go.
Never been where we're going, but let's go.
And if I'm willing to go without knowing,
that's where the blessing is.
And maybe you're holding on to something today going,
God, I love it.
A comfort zone, a place that maybe it's bitterness,
maybe it's unforgiveness, maybe it's a relationship,
maybe it's a season of your life that you just,
you've so identified with it that it's become a familiar place.
And yet Jesus is saying, I'll trade you.
You want to have an exchange?
Because I promise my way is better.
And by the way, whatever active surrender you have to give God today,
I promise you it won't be your last.
So you might as well just get comfortable saying yes
because he just keeps pushing me and leading me.
and guiding me with out.
But that's where the joy is.
If you want to keep your life, Jesus said,
you're going to lose it anyway.
But if you'd lose it.
In other words, if you'd live like this, it's all yours.
You actually end up keeping it.
It doesn't make sense.
It's God math.
Because there really isn't control.
So the moment I yield,
whatever lie of control I've believed,
So Lord, today we choose to go without knowing.
Because whatever you're leading us into is better.
If you just need to give something to God,
why don't you just lift up your hands and give it to them right now?
Let you just stand and give it to the Lord.
Come on.
Oh, come to the altar.
Oh, come to the altar.
The altar, the Father's arms are open.
Just reach out to heaven right now, come on.
Was born with the precious.
Come to the altar.
Let's have an exchange right here.
Let's have an exchange right here with heaven.
So today, Father, whatever we're carrying,
whatever semblance of control we're trying to keep,
whatever whatever but God I love it whatever that is we just we just open our hands and we want to stay right here surrendered
I've been following Jesus for 27 years but I never want to lose I never want to lose this I just never want to
lose God it's all yours I never want to lose that and we what to do Lord because there's a joy and obedience
that I can't find anywhere else.
Just stay with me right here.
There's people that today you need to give Jesus your life.
You need to surrender your life to the Lord.
You need to become a Christian.
Jesus called it being born again,
not just being a better version of who you are,
but having a brand new creation.
and Jamin, I don't know if I'm ready.
You probably aren't.
When I was 15 years old, I gave Jesus my yes and my life,
and I had no idea really what I was saying yes to.
I just knew who I was saying yes to.
I didn't know.
I'd be a preacher.
I didn't know.
I'd be in Vegas.
I didn't know.
I'd be here today.
I didn't know any of that.
I didn't know the valleys that I'd walk through.
I didn't know, but I knew who.
And I've never regretted that yes, 27 years later.
Did you say yes to Jesus?
Just at every location, in a place of prayer.
Just bow your head, close your eyes for a moment.
To our eFAM, just settle your heart for a moment.
If that's you and you would say, I need to give my life to Jesus.
Jaben, pray with me, I want to give my life to Christ.
Or at one time I did and at one time I was walking with God,
but I've kind of lost my way.
Today I need to come home.
If that's who, pray with me.
Say yes to Jesus all over this place.
We're going to all pray together from your heart.
Say this.
And God will meet you right where you're at.
I'm going to ask everybody at every location to pray with our friends who are saying yes to Jesus right now.
Everyone say, Jesus, I believe in you.
I believe you died for me.
I believe you rose again.
And today I give you my life and I receive your life.
I give you my sin.
and I receive your righteousness.
Jesus, be Lord and Savior of my life.
Now just please keep your eyes closed one more moment.
If that was your prayer all over this room and at every room,
from the pop-up that's happening right now to every location,
to everyone online to right here in Valentine.
If you're saying yes to Jesus,
I'm going to count to three.
On three, I'm going to ask you to raise your hand.
Jaben, do I have to raise my hand?
I think it's important.
I think it's important to make that public declaration that says,
hey, that was for me, preacher.
I want to become a follower of Jesus.
Today's my day.
That was my prayer.
You stop the entire service just for me.
I'm giving my life to Christ for the very first time.
Or you're coming back.
You're coming back to Jesus.
On three, I'm going to ask you to raise your hand.
And I believe God's going to meet you.
It's going to feel like a.
A million pounds is lifted off your shoulders.
And you're just going to know that you know that you're a child of God.
Say yes to Jesus today.
You'll never regret it.
You may not be ready.
But if you're willing, God will meet you in this moment.
Yes to Jesus.
Coming back to Jesus.
Returning to Jesus, whoever you are.
Come on, on the count of three.
One, two, and three.
That was my prayer.
Lift up your hand.
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