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Go Again - Temitope Taiwo
(Music) Welcome to the same podcast. Thanks for joining us. Our vision is to bring hope to the people of East London. And I'm praying that you would feel so encouraged by this week's talk. (Music) Today, as we sort of move into this order in term, the foundation of everything we do as a church is prayer and worship. Like the up, the encounter with God is the core of what we do. So, we know we worship each week, but we also pray as a church. And there's lots of ways we do that. But I've asked Temi to come and preach today, and Temi's going to bring a message encouraging us in the whole area of prayer. As we kick off the term, like how you can get involved in prayer, whether it's house of prayer, joint prayer gathering, praying on your own each day. But Temi heads up house of prayer with an amazing team here at St. And Temi, why don't you come on up. And before we welcome Temi, Temi's mum is actually watching this live stream. So, Temi, what's your, hang on, what's your mum's name? Lola Day, well, Lola. Okay, Lola, we just want to welcome you from the whole saint community. I don't know if we can go super wide, live stream team. We're going to go super, I want you to turn around, look at the little red dot over there, just our live stream. And Lola is watching right now on the count of three, I want you to say hi Lola, okay, ready? Everyone turn around, one, two, three, hi Lola! Amazing. Temi, have I just made you, are you in trouble now? No, she's going to love that, thank you guys. That's going to make her whole year. Okay, let's pray for Temi. Father, thank you for this amazing man and pray you bless him as he speaks. Pray that you open our ears and our hearts to hear your word in Jesus' name. Amen. Go Temi, let's welcome Temi. Amen. Amen. Amazing. Good morning guys, it's good to see you today and thanks for being that for my mum. She's going to love it. So, good morning, it's good to see you. And I was just so moved by worship in that moment. I just feel there's so much faith in the room this morning. Amen. Amen. And today I'm going to continue kind of what we're already started, which is looking at Jesus. And we'll be in Mark chapter five verses 21 to 34 today. So, if you've got a Bible or a phone or a digital thingy, why don't you turn there? The words will also come up on the walls behind me. It's Mark chapter five verses 21 to 34. And this is quite a famous passage. This is a passage that's nicknamed or labeled the woman or Jesus' healing of the woman with the issue of blood. Some of us will know it. It's quite familiar. But that's where we're going to be today. Forgive my voice as well. A bit raspy today, so bear with, but we are going to stay in that kind of bit today. And just if you are the kind of are we there yet type on car journeys, the goal of today's kind of message in our time together is that in the next 30 minutes or so, we would see that our prayer lives are an act of faith. And the reason we can pray in faith is because Jesus is first faithful to us. Amen. Amen. Amen. So let's read from Mark chapter five verses 21 to 34. It says this, "When Jesus had again crossed over by the boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake. Then one of the synagogue leaders named Jarris, important guy, came and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. He pleaded earnestly with him. My little daughter is dying. My little daughter is dying. I can't imagine that. I can't imagine that." And he says, "Please, come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live." So Jesus went with him and it says, "A large crowd followed and pressed around him, and a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for 12 years. She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors, and she had spent all that she had, yet instead of getting better, she grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him and in the crowd, and she touched his cloak because she thought, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed." Immediately, somebody said immediately, immediately, her bleeding stopped, and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering. I'm just going to stop there for a second. We'll continue to rest later on, and I'm going to pray just one more, and then we'll get into the text. So Father, thank you that you're here. Thank you, Jesus, that your presence is with us, and that, Lord, you weren't just a rabbi, an ancient healer that walked through crowds 2,000 years ago, but you're alive, and you were the Lord, and you were the King, and you're with us, walking in this room, touching hearts, touching minds. And so Lord, I pray that as we hear from your word, that you would touch us, Lord, that we would become people of faith, that we would pray prayers of faith. In Jesus' name, and everyone said, "Amen, amen." Hey, well, before we talk about faith and pray a little bit more, I just thought I'd share with you a little bit about my upbringing. But you asked, but I have a mic, so they really have a choice. So I grew up in a household where prayer was an optional, it was part of the curriculum, and Mum was in prayer meetings four times a week, she was watching streams like she is today. Four times a week, we were there all the time, there was no excuse, nothing came before it, and so I was there. But even in my house, in my home, I remember waking up sometimes in the middle of the night, just randomly, 2 AM, just feeling my forehead and thinking, "Why am I sweating?" Like, it's not even hot last night, it was a thunderstorm. And I just can see, just in a distance, my mum with anointing, "Rah, blah, blah, blah, blah, sadhara," just praying. And what she had done, she had gone in the middle of the night and anointed my head with, "Oh, and she was just praying." And that's why I woke up. And even then, my mum, for a moment, she worked at my school for a number of years, and that was an interesting experience. And at playground, like, you know, in lunchtime, I would see my mum in a distance, and I would be more of my friends, and she would just be mouthing something. I was like, "What is she saying?" And I'd try and put my head down, my friends don't see me, and she's just mouthing something. And as I get closer and closer, I just hear her say, "Have you read Psalm 91? Have you prayed?" And I'm there with my friends, I'm like, "Okay, it's going to be one of them days." Like, Jesus exposed me. Prayer was alive. It was in the playground. It was in the home. It was everything. My mum taught me how to pray. It was fundamental in my family. But as, you know, I grew up and got more involved in church, I realized that prayer for me and how I grew up wasn't necessary prayer for you, or for you, or for you, for you. In other words, we all had a different experience of prayer. You see, if I was to ask what is prayer to the modern day Christian, you'd get multiple comments. And depending on your background and your experience, it might feel like prayer was like fire, or it was like silence. Even in a Sunday morning, like today, we have people all across the world praying in diverse ways. African Pentecostals, praying with fiery passion, like it's the last thing they'll ever do. American Baptists are bowing their heads and offering simple earnest prayers, Lutherans following liturgical traditions. And in smaller neighborhood churches, prayer sounds more like a conversation, like a mate, just coming over for tea, right? Here's the point. Prayer often means something to someone somewhere. It's complex. It's deep. It's often so personal. But when you boil it down, prayer, ultimately, for me, isn't about styles or cities or systems. It's about faith. Somebody say faith. It's about faith. It's actually believing that you can communicate with the creator. Faith. I love how one of the early architects of the Christian faith put it, "Clement, the third ever Bishop of Rome." He said this, "Prayer is keeping company with God." Prayer is keeping company with God. And that's the definition we're going to roll with today. So when you hear me say the word "Prayer," that's where we are. Just so we're all going to start in prayer. Is that the same start in place? Is that okay? Amazing. Amazing. So prayer is an act of faith. And that's why I kind of wanted to do something a little biblically unique in the sense and choose a story that's ultimately about faith to talk about the essence of prayer. In other words, today I wanted us to see that to pray well is simply to pray again or to go again. And that's the title of today's sermon if you're taking notes. Go again. Somebody say, "Go again." Go again. And I'm preaching across four services together today. So that word "go again" feels kind of personal to me this morning. So what do we see in this chapter? Well, Mark chapter 5, it says this, "When Jesus had crossed over it again by boat to the other side of the lake," this is verse 21, "a large crowd gathered around him while he was there." Verse 22, "Then one of the synagogue leaders named Jeras, a key figure, came and he saw Jesus and he fell at his feet and he pleaded earnestly with him, "My little daughter is dying." Don't miss that. This is a real situation. I can't imagine how that would feel. My little daughter is dying. Please, Jesus. Come and put your hand on her so that she may be healed and live. So Jesus went with him and a large crowd followed and pressed around him. Now, I want to take a quick reading break there just for a moment to look at the situation because to move on from this moment with Jeras isn't true to the context of the passage today. You see, I wanted to point out this. There are certain problems that you and I will face in life that quite simply make our status secondary. There are certain problems we face in life that will make our status secondary. You see, when certain problems arise, it doesn't matter how much you have in the savings, you need Jesus. When certain problems arise, it doesn't matter what position you hold in the company, you need Jesus. When there's no joy in your heart, there's no status in society that can make you feel good about your life. And so, though Jeras was a synagogue leader, the Greek term is Archi Senegos, it's where we get things like archbishops. So, though he was someone big and senior, he wasn't just someone who occasionally dipped into church, he was exceptionally significant in the church. He had a high position, status, but yet he finds himself in the low position. His daughter was dying, so he went to the only one that could heal her. This radical rabbi called Jesus. I don't want to get too deep, too quick, but I just wonder, maybe the reality here, this one, is that some of us has faced things, all our face in certain problems that we never thought would have to go through. And it's so deep that our status is now secondary and we just need Jesus to show up. Has anyone been there before? Yeah, just me. I know we've all been there because life is life, right? We've all been there where we were sailing high, but then we've been brought low, where we were at a point where we were doing all the right things, but what we did no longer found power and promise, and we needed a person. You're in a low place, you're in a low place. Well, I just want to stuff and encourage everyone today. Like, if you are in that low place today, or you've been in that low place before, or because life is life and we'll probably be in that low place one day, then I want to tell someone this morning that is exactly the place where prayer begins. Amen? You see, sometimes we talk about prayer like it's a show of strength, so we innocently use words like a prayer warrior, right? Or we say something like, "Pray a big prayer today." But what we're accidentally doing by treating prayer this way is making it into an instrument to display our strength and our best state, when really, prayer starts at our lowest state. So, like Jairus coming to the feet of Jesus isn't a display of his religious activities as the arch leader, prayer begins in the moment of crisis. And sometimes we need a moment of crisis to remind us of the essence of prayer. Sometimes it's only in moments that we realise this, that we clock this, that prayer starts at the low point. Sometimes we need that. You see, someone else had a crisis in this story. Someone else had a situation in this story that they needed to help. She was known as the woman with the issue of blood. The woman with the issue of blood. You say, "Tell me what's her name?" And I would tell you if Mark told me, but the text just calls her the woman with the issue of blood. And I read Matthew, because Matthew talks about it, and I read Luke, because Luke talks about it. It's a story in three of the four gospels that's how significant it is, and no one names her. They just call her the woman with the issue of blood. She was identified by her issue. You know, I told you earlier that I grew up in church, and my mom took me to prayer meetings, and at playgrounds you'll tell me have I read Psalm 91, I'd wake up with anointing in my forehead. But I didn't tell you that, whilst all of that was happening, I was kind of living this kind of double life, if you like. It was a mixed thing. So whilst I was forced to be in prayer on Friday, on Saturday, I was in places that I shouldn't have been. Whilst I smoked myself to sleep on Saturday, because of the depression, on Sunday, I was hands raised, singing the worship song the next week, because I knew how to play the game. Here's the thing. Nobody knew. Nobody knew about this double life. Nobody knew that there was this kid that was struggling with depression, but was actually leading worship on Sunday. Nobody knew. Nobody knew. Nobody knew I was bleeding. People often don't see where you're bleeding, right? People don't often see it. And I feel like I needed to stop and ask someone today, where is it that you're bleeding, that people don't see? Where is it that, actually, when you said to someone, "Hey, could you just pray for me because I'm struggling? I just need a little blessing." Actually, what you needed was a big breakthrough. But you played it down because it's too hard to say the real thing. Where is it that you're bleeding that no one sees? Actually, when you come in and you smile, there's a crisis, there's a situation that you just need God to show up in. And if he doesn't, you don't know what you will do. Maybe it's not for you. Maybe it's for someone in your family who's dying or doesn't know the Lord, and you're just crying out. There's a crisis and there's bleeding happening. But no one sees it. And we don't tell anyone. And I get it because I was there. I was bleeding and I didn't tell anyone. And I realized, here's the thing. This is what I realized. I realized if I played a part and walked the part and looked the part, no one will know that Jesus has no part in me. If I just do the right things at the right time, no one will see I was part of the crowd. And like the crowd in this passage, I was doing all the right things. Can we pull up verse 24 if possible? It says this, "So Jesus went with Geras, and the large crowd followed and pressed around him." Let's keep that there for a second. The large crowd followed and pressed around him, around him. See, many of us, in my situation, I found myself around him, but I wasn't in him. And he wasn't in me. I heard prayers, but I never really prayed because I was hiding in the noise. I was in the crowd, pressed around him, saying the right things at the right time. Remember, it was the crowds who also cried out his Zana and later cried out crucify him. Saying the right things, I was hiding in the crowd, and I was shamed. And I wonder if we were to be honest for just a moment this Sunday morning, that the reason sometimes prayer is so hard. It isn't because we don't know, we should pray. But if we did really, really pray, it would mean, well, being honest. It's really silent. I hope it's not too deep. See, maybe to rekindle our prayer lives, we need to remember that we can be honest with God. Maybe before we become hungry enough to start imitating the woman, we need to start being honest enough to stop imitating the crowd. Maybe if we stopped doing the right thing, we tried to play the right things and actually came as we were. We would meet him as he is. Maybe we could come to the next joint prayer gathering, or house prayer on Mondays, more if we realized that actually God doesn't mind you walking in and saying, "Lord, it's been a long day. Work was crazy. Family life is crazy. I haven't got anything, but I've got a little prayer ten minutes. Lord, would you come in my family? Would you come in my neighborhood? I know that you desire this. I don't really right now, but I want to believe. Help my unbelief. What would happen? You see, God has never been impressed with who we pretend to be, but he's always loved us from where we are. If we look at the Old Testament, we see this. I want to give you three examples. Hey, God, Jacob, Elijah, right? Remember some of those Old Testament stories? So, Hey, God, where was she? She was found hiding in rejection in a wilderness. And what does God say? He says, "Hey, God, where have you come from and where are you going? You wanted to know what was real." Jacob, he was found hiding in his identity. He took the blessing from his older brother. I mean, he meets God in the rest of what does God say to him? Jacob, what is your name? And Elijah, the great prophet of old who did all the right things and all the right ways when he was at his lowest in depression in the mountains, what happened? God came to him and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?" How are you really? You see, in all these stories, I realized that God asked questions to call forth the real from their words. Where have you come from? Where are you going? What is your name? How are you really? What are you doing here, Elijah? Elijah? But also, I want you to notice this, that in all these situations, he was close also. So he didn't ask from the far off, like a judge, "What are you doing here, Elijah? Why are you so depressed? Why are you so angry? Why are you so annoyed?" He should know this. Your prophet, he came close in a whisper. Same with Jacob. He didn't stand far off, but he wrestled with him in the middle of the night. But his God came close in a whisper because of this. Why? He doesn't just want us to say or pray words for words' sake. He asks us to pray words to him, the one who is near, the one who is imminent. Does that make sense? He doesn't just want us to pray words for the sake of it. He wants us to pray to a person, to him who's close. And I just wanted this morning, maybe when we talk about things like joint prayer gatherings and house of prayer, it's washes over, but maybe, just maybe, we need to just get into an atmosphere where Jesus is close, where he's near, where he's tangible, so that when he speaks, we can finally speak back and say, "Yeah, God, I am a bit tired, actually, but I see you in the mood, so I know you can move in my heart, too." Maybe you can't come to a joint prayer gathering and pray for five hours, but surely, maybe, maybe, you could come for five minutes. With a simple, honest, "God, I'm not sure what to do here, but I kind of want to know you more." And then, like he does, God takes that sacrifice from five minutes and he multiplies, like the five layers of bread, and then one, next thing you know, your five minutes goes to 15, and you're 15 to 50, and you're 50 to forgetfulness, because prayer is no longer about counting the clock, it's about abiding. You come close, you come near to him. And that's what we see happen with this woman if we go back to the text. You see, maybe she couldn't pray long prayers. Maybe her apathy was through the roof. I mean, 12 years is a long time to deal with any issue, right? She had an issue of blood for 12 years, isolated, ostracized. She was the person who always had a problem. In Jewish law, she was ceremony unclean. And not just unclean for a period. There were certain illnesses and ailments that if you were unclean, you weren't just rendered unclean for a moment, you was rendered unclean for a lifetime. So she was rendered unclean for a lifetime, ostracized. And if anyone touched her, they too would be rendered unclean. Just like thinking, maybe we could come for five minutes. She thought, maybe if I just touched the hem of his garment, I'll be made well. Maybe I know the physicians and the doctors have taken all my money and I have nothing left, but I've heard about a physician, a doctor who seems more grace-filled and more faithful and more kind and more loving. And it's been 12 years, but maybe just one prayer will do it this time. Maybe just five minutes will do it this time. That's 27. When she heard, when she what? When she, when she what? When she heard about Jesus, she came. Somebody say came. She came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak. Because she thought, if I just touch his clothes, I shall be healed. Immediately, the Bible says in verse 29, her bleeding stop, and she fell in her body that she was freed from her suffering. The healing came immediately. And verse 30 says, at once, Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. Power had gone out from him. I mean, he says, "Who touched my clothes?" The disciples, the text doesn't say it's Peter, but it probably was. He says, "You see the people crowding against you, and yet you ask who touched me. Did you forget that Jericho's daughter's dying? What are you doing here? No one in touch you. Let's keep going. There's a crisis to answer." But it says in verse 32, Jesus kept looking around to see if you'd done it. Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet, trembling with fear. Well, I was she afraid because she would have to tell the truth. Remember, she would have to be honest. And she would have to say that she's been ceremony unclean and she's just touched a whole bunch of people, making them ceremony unclean to get to Jesus. But she still came. She still came. She still came. She still came and she came into the prayer gathering. She came into where the crowds were gathered and she was honest. And it says that she told him the whole truth, the whole truth. I love this. I love this. And his response was to her, "I can't believe he touched me. Get away." Do you not know that I'm a rabbi? You've just made me ceremony unclean. I can no longer do any of my ministry. I've come to go to the cross and even that's going to be invalid. He doesn't do that. Instead, he comes close, like Hagar, like Jacob, like Elijah. And he says, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering." Amen? You see, this woman, she had an issue that she couldn't hide anymore. She was so desperate that she didn't play by the rules. She broke them because she heard about Jesus. And as I was preparing this, I thought, you know, the past year and a half has been an amazing time in our church, as Isaac was eluding to, and he shared, you know, God is on the roof here. We've heard about what happened in the Aspiri, and then God started doing things here and people have been healed. Like not just like healed from like a cold. God bless you if you have been healed by a cold, but like healed healed. Like you heard some stories, right? Wilkes is no longer being in use. That's like acts type stuff, right? Even if I'm being honest, sometimes I don't believe that stuff still happens, but I've been seeing it in the past year and a half here. And so God helps my unbelief and says, "I still do these things." And so some of us have been hearing about Aspiri, and hearing about thousands of young people gather the joint prayer gathering, praying through the night. We've heard, we've heard, we've heard. And like this woman, we've heard of what Jesus has done, but I want to humbly ask you this morning, would you also come? You're invited. We're not just invited to hear about Jesus, we're also invited to come close to Jesus. You see, Paul tells us in Romans that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. But if we stop there, we only get half of the story. He says faith comes by hearing like this woman heard about Jesus, but then James tells us in his book that faith without works is dead, right? So in other words, to hear is good, but to come is very good, to still turn from God. To hear is good, but to come and act on what you hear is very good. Faith is both hearing and knowing and being intellectually ascended to what Jesus is, but it's also coming to him. So she doesn't just hear, but she moves. And what happens is that as she comes, she's healed. She touches his garment and it says immediately, that's 29, immediately she's healed. Immediately she's healed. Immediately she's healed. If we can get that up. Immediately she's healed. Come up in just a moment. Immediately she's healed. Now, it's very easy to think here that, and I've probably preached it before. I think I've preached in this passage and I was like, you've canceled something. And I've probably preached it like it was her touch. She just needed to touch the garment of Jesus. You just need to touch. Where's your faith? This is really kind of pompous kid. He doesn't know any theology. It's all about you. You're the hero of the story. Where's your faith? Just touch the hem of Jesus' garment. Come on, come on, guys. Let's get faith and I've preached it that way for such a long time. But here's the thing that I realized when I read it this time. The only reason this hem of a garment to touch is because there's a man wearing it. The only reason there is something to put your faith in is because there's someone there who's faithful. The only reason that she can reach out isn't because she's just doing it in superstition and her own strength is because Jesus is there. You see, the Bible tells us that only Jesus can offer faith. Hebrews 12, 2, let us set our eyes in Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith. So Jesus is the one who offers your faith. So when we talk about coming to a prayer gathering or a joint or house, a prayer thing, it's not about, "Hey, if you just have enough faith, your prayer life's going to get better." No, no, no. It's if you have enough faith in the one who is faithful. If you have enough faith, it's not about having a big faith. If you can have a little faith, the Bible says, "Faith is small as a mustard seed." If you have a little faith, but put it in a big God, it's enough. Amen? And what happens when she takes her little faith and she says, "If I just only just touch the hem of his garment, maybe I will be healed." She gets healed because it's not about her strong faith but her big God. She meets the one who is faithful. And I'm just going to end here and come into land and in just a moment. I was struck when I read this. Jesus repeats a lot of stuff in Scripture, right? "Very rarely, truly, truly, surely, surely." I'm like, "Okay, we get it." He repeats a lot of stuff and we know from Hebrew literature and Greek literature, like repetitions are really key part of stuff in the Bible. You see, he repeats in verse 34, if we can get that quickly up. In verse 34, he repeats what she already knows. In verse 29, it says that immediately she felt she was healed. But in verse 34, he says to a daughter, "Your faith has healed you." "Dor to your faith has healed you." "Dor to your faith has healed you." And I was thinking, "Jesus, why are you telling her what she already knows?" She already knows she's healed. Tell us something new, like how to like, you know, ten steps to success or something, right? But what does he do? He says, "Dor to your faith is already healed." And as I was reflecting on this, I thought, remember what she said she would be healed if she touched. She said, "If I just touch the hem of his garment, I'll be healed." What's the hem on a piece of clothing? It's the dirty part, right? If you ever have gone to Israel or you've watched the old videos, you know that the hems of the priests would touch the dirty parts of the floor where the pig swine was and poop was. And that's why Jesus talks about washing his disciples' feet because they would touch dirty things. And so she thought, "Do you know what? I'm only worth touching the dirty part of Jesus." And that would be all right for me. It's kind of like that woman who says, "Jesus, if you just give me the crumbs that fall from the table, that would be enough for me." But Jesus says, "Hey, I don't just want you to think that you can only have part of me and just like the physicians. I just want your money. I want you to know that a daughter your faith has made you healed." And this is what I realize. It's not what he told her. It's what he called her. He called her daughter. Remember, we started and we said, "We don't know her name, woman of the issue of blood." And everyone talks about it as the woman of the issue of blood. And sometimes think about getting to heaven. Like, "Where's the woman with the issue of blood?" But Jesus doesn't keep her there. He calls her daughter. She goes from someone being unknown and unnamed and a nuisance and annoying to be someone who's loved and cared for and part of the family of God. He calls her daughter. And we're going to pray in just a moment and come into landing. But I just wanted to make room for some prayer ministry. Maybe you've been struggling in your prayer life and it's been a bit of a generous moment. It's a crisis and you just need God to move but you don't really have the word or maybe like this woman in the story. You just know that you need to break through some stuff to get to the man Jesus. When we open up for prayer, what our team do at the front is kind of what Jesus does in this passage. They simply point you to the reason for your faith. And so, I'm going to invite the prayer ministry, guys, if you're a leader here, part of the crew who normally pray, just start to come right now, just come forward. And we're going to make some space to pray. This morning. And it can be anything that you want prayer for. But I just want to reiterate that the purpose of today's message is not to say, "Hey, it's all on you to get big faith." The purpose of this message is to remind you of a big God who wants to meet with you. And he's the one that's going to rekindle your prayer life. He's the one that's going to cause us to be faithful to him. He was first faithful to us. He's the one that's going to make us full of hope and aspiration for when we go to those meetings and we come to have some prayer on Monday. He's the one that's going to heal you. He's the one that's going to change you. He's the one that's going to move you into action. It's Jesus, it's Jesus, it's Jesus. Why don't we all stand together? We're going to pray and then whilst we worship, I would love to invite you forward. These guys are amazing. Some of our trusted friends and family and they'll love to pray for you. But as we worship in just a moment, I would love you just to come forward, find someone to pray for. Just kind of like check out, just go to whichever person. And maybe you just need like this woman, a touch from Jesus. And they're just going to partner with you and pray with you because we're friends and we're family here. So let me pray and then I'll get off this stage. Let's pray. Our Father, we thank you for this message, this reminder of the faithfulness of your son, that the reason we can even pray and have bold faith is because he's the one that was first faithful to us. And so Lord, I just pray that we would be inspired again, that we wouldn't believe that it was all on us and to muster up something that we can't, but we would trust you to rekindle our prayer lives in this season, amen? That we would trust you to put a fire back in our hearts if it's gone cold, amen? That we would trust you, Jesus, to do what only you can do, amen? Come on, somebody say amen. That we would trust you, Jesus, to go before us and offer and perfect our faith, amen? So Jesus, we pray this morning that you will come in power and as we pray and as we worship, that your name will be glorified, that we will be reminded of the one who first loved us, that we are loved because he first loved us. So we praise you and we bless you in Jesus' name and everyone says amen, amen. Let's worship. Thanks for listening to this week's talk. If you'd like to find out more, give or connect with us, visit our website, saint.chat. Have a great week and we'll see you soon. [MUSIC] You