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Welcome to the official podcast of Evolve Church, a growing, urban church based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where our mission is simple: Love God, Love People, Love Ourselves.
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Hey, this is Kenneth Lock, the pastor of Evolve Church, and this is our podcast. I pray that this time in the word encourages you and blesses you as you listen to it. Enjoy. I wanna jump into this word today. We've been in this Lion King series.
Speaker 1:Has the series been a blessing to y'all? Amen. Amen. I trust that today will be nothing short of that. We're teaching from this title today, Hakuna Matata.
Speaker 1:Hakuna Matata isn't healing. Hakuna Matata sounds peaceful, but peace without purpose is deception. It sounds good, but whenever you get into this deception, you find yourself in a place of comfort, and comfort without calling will actually rob you of your identity. I've seen personally that you don't lose identity overnight. Nobody loses identity that way.
Speaker 1:You lose it slowly as you continue to trade purpose for comfort. Hakuna Matata lets you know you can just relax. You can just enjoy. Hakuna Matata. Hakuna Matata sounds peaceful.
Speaker 1:It sounds like healing. But actually, what if I were to tell you that it's the lie of comfortable disconnection? Hakuna Matata, just live how you want to live. No rules. No responsibilities.
Speaker 1:Just have fun. But the bible actually leans into this, and it says it in second Timothy four and three. It says, for the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They would turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
Speaker 1:So essentially, it means they wouldn't necessarily reject God. They would just replace God with something easier to live with. I still want God, but I want my version of God that approves me and never challenges me. That loves me the way I am and never asks me to put anything down. See, the Sukuna Matata scene shows us so much.
Speaker 1:It shows us six things, and I wanna try to get through all six of these. And I don't got a lot of time, but I got a lot of words. So please stick with me. I need you to be a smart class today. Number one, it teaches us false community.
Speaker 1:Remember Assemba was alone. He was lost. He was desperate. And so he decided to be friends with whoever was available. See, this teaches us that loneliness doesn't just hurt you, it rewrites you.
Speaker 1:Rewires you for something different. Loneliness will lower your standards. You know that by the people you dated when you were lonely. Amen. Loneliness.
Speaker 1:I don't even got to preach that. This is your lived experience. Desperation will make you call anything family. Even people that have shown you they don't surely have your back, you still keep them around because if I lose them, I have no one. And this is Simba.
Speaker 1:He's literally a lion living with what he was created to rule over. And the Pride Lands, Pumbaa would have been food. And the Pride Lands, Timon would have been the subject, but here he is taking his instructions from them. Which means he's being ruled by what he was supposed to rule over. And what if I were to tell you some of us are living the exact same way, that that some of you have learned to just manage the depression, but God has told you to have authority over it, that God told you to rule over it.
Speaker 1:Some of you just managing the anxiety, but God is saying, no, I gave you the authority to speak against the anxiety and the fear, For God has not given you the spirit of fear, but the power, love, and sound mind. Some of you have learned to just coexist with lust, but God didn't tell you to coexist with lust. He told you to take authority over it and to crucify it. We're not called to just tolerate the enemy. We're called to take our authority and to overcome the enemy, but some of us are living with what we're supposed to rule over.
Speaker 1:See, you challenge yourself, I'll ask you to look at your own community. Look at them and see if they're not calling you higher, then they're pulling you lower. I want you to think about your friend group. I want you to think about your faith five. I want you to think about who you talk to on a daily basis.
Speaker 1:If they're not calling you higher, then the possibility is maybe they're calling you lower. See Galatians one ten, Paul said it this way. He said, Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I was still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Speaker 1:He calls us out. He said, I gotta check my heart every day. Why am I doing this? Am I trying to please God or am I trying to please people? Because the moment I start trying to please people, I let what they feel manipulate my behavior.
Speaker 1:And now I'm doing stuff to make sure they like me, and God didn't tell me to be liked, He told me to be loved. See, when you need the approval of people, you will tolerate misalignment. You know they're not aligned, but you just tolerate it because you need the approval of people. That's why you keep holding your tongue even though you know you should be speaking out because you don't wanna ruffle anybody's feathers. Know?
Speaker 1:I I I don't wanna be alone, and when you're afraid to be alone, you will tolerate toxicity. When you're afraid to be alone, you will know, man, this isn't good for me, but if I don't have them, then who else will I have? And this right here is one of the most dangerous effects of the orphan spirit. Last week, I talked about the orphan spirit and so many people came to me saying, pastor, I realized that's me that I've battled with the orphan spirit. Well, one of the severe effects of the orphan spirit is it makes you relationally desperate.
Speaker 1:Because you you need the feeling of belonging. And when you battle with the orphan spirit, you're usually gonna do one of two things. You're either going to hide in isolation, or you're gonna stay in environments that are killing you, but you need people. Come on, sir. See, Hakuna Matata was showing us something in this one song.
Speaker 1:They came to him and gave him a new diet. This was the identity erosion for Simba. They said, you know, you can't eat the way you used to eat if you're going to be with us. And I've learned that who you walk with shapes what you crave. Who you walk with shapes what you crave.
Speaker 1:Environment rewrites appetite. And so now that he's around them, he's not just around them, he's becoming like them. This is why I keep reminding you of the verse in one Corinthians fifteen and thirty three, it says, Bad company corrupts good character. That when you are around bad people, the things that you said you would never do, they start massaging into your life. And here you are talking ways you normally wouldn't talk, behaving in ways you normally wouldn't behave.
Speaker 1:Whenever you find yourself starting to slip, I need you to know that you don't just fall into that overnight. You adjust your appetite first. You start eating things you normally wouldn't consume. See Proverbs twenty seven and seven says it this way. It says, One who was full loathes honey from the comb.
Speaker 1:But to the hungry, even what is bitter tastes sweet. See, when you hungry, stuff that you would never accept if you were full, you start accepting. See, this is why you need to be full of God, filled with the Holy Spirit, filled with purpose, filled with joy. Because when the enemy knows you're empty, he would offer you things you normally wouldn't eat. See, they told him to eat bugs.
Speaker 1:When he ate bugs, he said, Slimy, yet satisfying. Right? Slimy, he swallows, yet satisfying. If you watch this movie before, this is your first time, you would notice, young folks would notice. But those of us that grew up watching this, you know that this these weren't even his words.
Speaker 1:Those were the words of the pig. The pig said it first. Why? Because pigs eat anything. See, you gotta be careful who's suggesting foods for your diet.
Speaker 1:You you gotta be careful who's telling you it's okay to do this or okay to be that because if you're a pig, you can go with anything. But for me, my stomach is sensitive. My spirit is sensitive. I can't let everything in here and be okay. I gotta be selective with what I allow on the inside.
Speaker 1:So be careful when your environment trains you long enough to where you start accepting things you used to be disgusted by. So when you first seen the bugs, at first he said, Ugh, like, Oh, that's disgusting. But the pig said, No, no, no, you got to give it a try. And now he's eating the very thing that used to turn his stomach. And maybe, just maybe, be do it.
Speaker 1:It. And And you'll to associate with hot tempered people. Come on. Or you will learn to be like them and endanger your soul. What does the word that tells?
Speaker 1:It says, you can hang around somebody so long that before you realize it, you're starting to look like them. And here's the problem, your soul is in danger because you've let somebody else influence your behavior. See, he called it slimy. You know, it's funny, our generation calls somebody a slime when they think that, you know what I'm saying? What up slime?
Speaker 1:It ain't good, right? Because you're slimy, right? You're a slime because you start satisfying these feelings when you didn't heal. So a person is usually a slime, and he got a cold heart, he's a slime. You know what they're actually saying?
Speaker 1:Your trauma changed who you are. What you went through changed your character. Your experiences changed the way you entertain the people. And when trauma isn't your life enough, trauma can make you numb. And so you start damaging people that you don't even know you're damaging.
Speaker 1:You'll say things like, I'm just trying to push through life. But while pushing through life, you don't know who you're pushing to the ground because it's not about them anymore. It's your trauma leading your behavior. And unhealed trauma will have you doing stuff that just don't represent you. Unhealed trauma will have you looking different.
Speaker 1:Unhealed trauma would have you being the worst version of you, and you won't even be able to see it. Why? Because trauma makes you numb. See, this is the song. They told him, Hakuna Matata.
Speaker 1:Right? What a wonderful phrase. But what if it's not a phrase? What if it's actually a theology? Come on.
Speaker 1:Break it down. What they said was no worries, no responsibilities. Essentially, you can do whatever you wanna do. And so though this seems innocent, it's deadly because it's teaching you avoidance, not transformation. It's teaching you anything that's uncomfortable, just get away from it.
Speaker 1:You don't actually need to be transformed. So my question for some of you this morning is, did you actually heal or did you just run? I know I had to disconnect from my healing. Yeah, I hear that, but did you actually heal or did you just run? Because if that person walks in the same restaurant as you and now your spirit is disturbed, then maybe you're not as healed as you thought.
Speaker 1:If that person can come in your space and disrupt the joy you have, then hear me, you did not heal, you just fled the scene. That maybe you just learned how to ignore what still hurts. Maybe you just learned how to be comfortable while broken. See the challenge is for us to lean into this. When he tells him no worries, I know that sounds cool when it comes to the theme of a song, so it sounds like it's pushing you into a peaceful melancholy.
Speaker 1:But what it's actually teaching you to do is to let down all of your purpose and responsibility. Let me break it down for you. When they say no worries, that means no responsibility. And when you say no responsibility, that means no accountability. And when you say no accountability, that means no transformation.
Speaker 1:Because if I can't hold you accountable, you can never change. See, that's why some of us don't have good friendships. Because the moment somebody challenges us, we don't wanna be friends anymore. We want yes men, people that agree all the time, laugh at the same jokes, watch the same movie. But if you really wanna go walk with me, you gotta learn to let people in who don't like you so much that they gotta lie to you.
Speaker 1:You need people that love you so much that even when it's uncomfortable, they tell you the truth. That even when you don't like it, they keep it real with you. That even when they say, Ouch, you say, You know what? I know you love me, that's why you told me the hard thing. See, accountability is the only thing that pushes us towards transformation.
Speaker 1:And some of us think having everybody that agree means peace, no, it means you're not growing. If everybody around you agrees with you all the time, then who's challenging you? If everybody around you agrees all the time, then how can you possibly be growing? If everybody around you thinks the same way that you think, then it's proof you never stop to consider the other side. Never stop to consider what it is that they feel.
Speaker 1:See, this is what the world wants. The world teaches this avoidance versus transformation thing. That's the world system. They're like, just avoid, don't actually lean in. The world doesn't mind you being spiritual as long as you aren't surrendered.
Speaker 1:Don't actually surrender to God. Like you can be spiritual, but that's like just anything that's esoteric. As long as you believe that there's something out there, then we're on the same side. But the moment you start challenging me, we don't like that. Like you could have a savior, but don't have a standard.
Speaker 1:Right? I'm okay with you having a savior, we all need somebody to help us. But the moment you have a standard, the moment you say, Hey, there's a morality issue. The moment you say, This is wrong and God isn't pleased, people have an issue. Why?
Speaker 1:Because people don't like being held accountable. The world to do without will and go by how you feel and obey thine self and whatever you think, but the word of God says your feelings are not the supreme authority in your life. The word of God is the supreme authority in your life. And if you're looking for a God and just pats you on the back when you're wrong, then that's not a God. That's the enemy pushing you into condemnation, into darkness, into sin.
Speaker 1:God loves us enough to challenge us. He loves us enough to lean in and say, hey, this is wrong. I've created you for so much more. This is why Romans twelve and two says it this way, do not conform to the pattern of this world. The avoidance the do whatever you wanna do, the habit your way, this ain't Burger King.
Speaker 1:But be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is, his good, his pleasing and perfect will, which means I can't even know God's will for my life because I've been in avoidance and not in transformation. See Romans 14 to 12 says it this way, so then each of us will give an account for ourselves to God. Don't you realize that every single last one of us will have to give an account to God, while everybody's saying do what you want and live how you wanna live and just have fun. Hakuna Matata.
Speaker 1:God is saying the judgment day is gonna come in the end and that every single last one of us will have to stand before him and answer for whatever we did and for everything that we said. See, that's the reality that people don't know how to clap for because long as the message is motivating and it's a myth that makes you feels good, then we can shout and praise God. But when somebody tells you everything you do and everything you say, you gotta answer to God. It gets weird. It gets sticky, why?
Speaker 1:Because the world doesn't mind spirituality, it just hates standards. A standard that challenges us to actually look like Jesus. And anything that removes that standard, that removes that responsibility eventually removes your purpose. See, from my Bible readings in here, you'll realize that Simba, this storyline king, is just like the prodigal son, just with more music and less conviction. Because the music will sink you out into a trap.
Speaker 1:That's why you gotta be careful with the music you listen to. Because he he walking on a branch, Hakuna Matata. Right? But he don't realize he's the exact same as the story of the prodigal son in the Bible, who was disconnected from the father and sleeping with pigs and eating what the pigs were eating before he came to himself. And I wanna say this to you, what if you've been disconnected from the Father, and so now you're starting to not look like you, sound like you, smell like you, God is calling you home today?
Speaker 1:He's pulling you back. See, here's the nuance in this story. It's a nuance that I call somewhat of a danger, and that is Hakuna Matata actually helped Simba cope. It's just the nuances that even though it was a separate spiritual ideation, it still helped him cope even though he was disconnected from the father. And so what we see is that it helped him, but it also disconnected him more.
Speaker 1:See, it helped him get over the grief of losing his dad, but it also made him forget his dad. It made him forget his father. It made him forget where he came from. Essentially, Hakuna Matata was disconnection disguised as peace. Is the enemy using this song at this moment to pull you away and say, hey, you will feel better if you don't have to live up to the standard.
Speaker 1:And ain't that how the enemy gets you sometimes? I feel when I don't have to live to the standard, I just feel good. Yeah. Every kid feel good in the summertime when they don't gotta go to school and don't gotta do their work. It's easy.
Speaker 1:It's celebratory when you don't have to live up to the standard, but it was disconnecting him from the father. And this is what counterfeit faiths do. They give you a comfortable alternative to following God. You know, it gives you something that, like, you just I could just be myself. You know?
Speaker 1:Like, I I feel like I'm really me in this now. Yeah. Because the word of God says, I was crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live. And it's hard to hear that there are some things in life that have to die if I'm ever truly going to surrender to God.
Speaker 1:And that's the uncomfortable truth. Sometimes if I'm going to surrender to God for real, it won't be Hakuna Matata. Some things it would be this has to die so that I can actually allow my spirit man to live. See, for some of us, Hakuna Matata was not just the spirituality, it was indulging in other things to cope with the pain. See, coping with trauma, coping with grief, coping with loss, Sometimes we use other things to get over it.
Speaker 1:Sometimes we use alcohol, we say we're just kicking it, but it's really a way to numb how we feel. Sometimes we use promiscuity and we start using the bodies of individuals to cover up the hole inside our hearts. So I'm not saying you're loose. I'm saying you were losing and you were hurting and you was just using a different person. It's not just women, I'm talking about men.
Speaker 1:Men do it all the time, that to get over one deal damage another. See, instead of using people, pain, trauma to cope, what if you actually surrendered it to God? God, I give you this pain. I give you this trauma. I give you what I'm carrying so that I don't have to damage others and make them bleed so that I can deal with my wounds.
Speaker 1:Deal with what I'm hurrying in. We see this misunderstood identity shows up. It shows up because Simba is talking to them about the stars. They're all laying down in the grass and they look up and Timon and Pumbaa is talking about what the stars means to them. And then Simba says, my father taught me that this was the kings looking down on us, and they all crack up laughing.
Speaker 1:Timon and Pumbaa, I mean, they laugh to the gristle. You ever had somebody laugh so hard, you you stop laughing like, that ain't even funny. I mean, you you laughed all the way past me. I stopped laughing five minutes ago. You You text back, LOL, are you still laughing in the car?
Speaker 1:And he realized that he walks away, they're like, What did we do to him? They didn't know they did anything wrong. They just weren't on his level. See, revelation sounds crazy to people committed to comfort. When people aren't on your level, they will literally laugh at stuff because they don't understand the revelation of what God gave to you.
Speaker 1:Like, God would tell you to put something down. You're like, yeah, I don't do that no more. And they laugh like, oh, you too spiritual. You too no. I'm not too saved.
Speaker 1:God just told me don't play with certain things. God told me to put it I don't go to the same places I used to go because God told me to put it down. I'm not in that organization anymore because God told me to put it down. I don't play with these kinds of things anymore because God told me to stop it, and it seems too spiritual to you because you ain't on my level. I'm not trying to be disrespectful.
Speaker 1:I'm just saying God's speaking to me in a way that I can't ignore, that you can't be fully known in environments that only accept the smaller version of you. If they only accept the the lukewarm version of you that you can't stay around her. And some people, they'll actually get mad when you stop being lukewarm. As long as you were lukewarm, they were cool. Y'all were besties.
Speaker 1:Y'all were hanging out. The moment you were set on fire for Jesus, your temperature change exposed their temperature. Now they get frustrated. They get angry. It's uncomfortable to be around a fire when you want to stay cold.
Speaker 1:See, this is how it is, that you can't expect agreement from people that benefit from your stagnation. If they benefit from you being stuck, then they'll never be excited about you actually growing. This was the whole story of Joseph. Joseph shared a dream, and his brothers tried to kill him. He was just sharing a dream, but you realize, I can't share my dream.
Speaker 1:I can't share my purpose with people who don't understand what God has called me to carry. Proverbs twenty three and nine says it this way, it says, Don't waste your breath on fools, for they will despise the wisest advice. Some of y'all Have you ever tried to call somebody and talk through something and it was worse by the time it was done? An hour later, that was a waste of energy. I literally I laid it out exactly plain, and you didn't understand anything.
Speaker 1:Why? Because you don't wanna understand it. You wanna argue. And so you gotta learn, I can't waste my breath with people that don't want what I have. I'm I'm setting somebody free today.
Speaker 1:Stop trying to convince your family. Stop trying to save the friendship. Stop trying to make them feel better. Hey. Let it go.
Speaker 1:It's frozen. We Elsa. I'm a just let it be what it is. I'm not wasting my breath. That you gotta just release it and let it go.
Speaker 1:See, here's the reality that Simone and Puma, though they laughed at him, and it was a season of Hakuna Matata drifting him from the father, it still wasn't completely bad. This is why I say you can't despise them either. Because God used them. They they weren't his destiny, but they were his preservation. That that that yet God had to come get him, but God used them to hold him until until Rafiki came and found him.
Speaker 1:And this is why I say, don't ever get mad about any season of your life. I'm a set somebody free right now. Even if it was painful. Well, they never loved me. They didn't appreciate me.
Speaker 1:That's fine. God just used them to hold you until he could bring your promise to you. I've learned to appreciate every season of my life, because even if it was bad, I'm still alive, which means if I'm still alive, it ain't over until God completes the assignment in my life. So I'm grateful. I'm grateful for the ones that dropped me, for the ones that cut me, for the ones that forgot about me, for the ones that left me behind.
Speaker 1:God, I thank you for them. I appreciate you. Why? It wasn't my destiny, it was a preserving season. The Lord was keeping me.
Speaker 1:The Lord was keeping me. This is the whole story. I can't read it right now, but it's the whole story of Moses in Exodus chapter two, verses five through 10. Why? Because Pharaoh sent out a decree to kill every boy under the age of two years old.
Speaker 1:And look at the miracle of this. When Moses got saved, he was raised in Pharaoh's house by Pharaoh's daughter. Ain't that crazy? That the man that tried to kill you end up being the one that raised you with all of the luxury that you needed. So sometimes God will use environments that were meant to kill you to actually keep you.
Speaker 1:What the devil meant for evil, God would turn it around for your good. That only God can hide you in systems meant to destroy you. That only God can keep you in those kinds of spaces. This is what we see here even in the movie. The movie is funny as a matter of fact because there's such a parallel to the story of Jesus.
Speaker 1:We see here during the Hakuna Matata song, he's walking on a branch, and he's singing the song. And Simba goes from 12 to 30. Who else that sounds like? It sounds like Jesus, that we seat Jesus in the temple at twelve, but we don't find him again till he's thirty. What does that mean?
Speaker 1:Because sometimes the middle don't even really matter. All that matters is how you start and how you finish. Sometimes y'all get stuck in the details in the middle, but the middle ain't really nothing. Six, seven. This is the middle.
Speaker 1:I need you to understand the beginning and the end. I'm trying to get you to the end of the story. Well, when I lost this and I went through that and I was hurting, yeah, I get it, but don't get stuck in the middle. Don't get stuck in a place that isn't the destiny God has called you to. Appreciate the beginning, but focus on the end.
Speaker 1:I've to hurry up. Sometimes God will hide you in the middle until he's ready to reveal you. Some of y'all are in the hiding season right now. Nobody sees what I bring to the table. That's okay.
Speaker 1:God said, I got you hiding. You in between your 12 30. I'm hiding you in the middle so that when I reveal you, I'm revealing you as the finished product. We get to the power of the name. If you notice right after this moment, it it changes.
Speaker 1:And when it changes, it changes to scar and hyenas. And hyenas are up there laughing because even though Mufasa's dead, they still saying his name. And so you watch the movie, the hyenas are saying, Mufasa. Right? And he's like, say it again.
Speaker 1:And he's like, Mufasa. Mufasa. Mufasa. And he was like, man, that name gives us chills, and and Scar gets mad. Why?
Speaker 1:Because even though Mufasa ain't in the room, he can't stand the name. That's what the enemy is afraid of when you understand that there's power in the name of Jesus. Some of y'all are going get it by the time you go, that there's power when you release the name. Come on, Jesus. Philippians two and ten, it says, so at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow in heaven and earth, and every tongue shall confess that Jesus is Lord.
Speaker 1:There's power in that name. This is why I said you gotta have the name. Some of you take the name too lightly. Play with the name. Joke about the name, but there's power in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1:We see here that even when Simba forgot who Mufasa was, hell didn't forget who Mufasa was. Maybe you forgot who you are, but hell hasn't forgotten who you are because God placed a purpose on your life. The fight didn't stop when you walked away because the enemy still saw the marking of God all over you. My last point, I'll be done. We get to the point what I call prophetic intercession, and prophetic intercession is powerful because this is where we get back to Rafiki.
Speaker 1:Rafiki is in the tree. Right? He's in the tree praying. He throws dust in the air, and he sees a picture of Simba. And he says, he's alive.
Speaker 1:And he starts getting excited and starts praising because even though Simba forgot who he was, Rafiki was still holding on to what God said. Rafiki stayed connected, and Rafiki saw in Simba what Simba couldn't see in himself. Rafiki stayed connected to divine that even though Simba didn't know who he was, Simba forgot his identity, Rafiki said, I'm still staying connected. I'm staying connected. Why?
Speaker 1:Because I know what God calls you to do. I know the assignment on your life, and this is why you need people in your life that will continue to seek God on you even when you forget to seek God on yourself. I'm a pull you higher. I'm about to do it right now. Because sometimes you go into certain seasons that you get to tripping.
Speaker 1:Right? And you kind of forget the call on your life, and you forget the purpose, and you forget what God is raising you to do. In those seasons, you need people who aren't afraid to call you higher and to say, Hey, I know right now you're going through, bro, but you are shrinking back from what God called you to do. I'm calling you back to purpose. I'm calling you back to assignment.
Speaker 1:I'm calling you back to fire. I'm calling you back to prayer. I'm calling you back to surrender. I'm calling you back to obedience. I'm calling you back to Jesus that though you may not realize it, I still see who you are.
Speaker 1:You still have an anointing over your life. Let's pray. I'm out of time. Please stand with me. Father, this is my prayer.
Speaker 1:My prayer is this, Lord, that you would help us to see that many of us have been similar in our own stories, letting the environment change our appetite. I pray I pray for the one who started eating bugs because they had been sleeping with pigs. I pray for the one who's been hurting. I pray for the one who thought Hakuna Matata was going to be the end, but it was just the lost middle. I pray for your anointing to show up today in this moment.
Speaker 1:I pray for those who have been saying, God, I need you, and I'm trying to find you, but I don't know how. I pray that they will find you in this moment. I pray for prodigal sons and prodigal daughters to come back home today. I pray for peace to show up in their lives. I pray they will remember the power of the name, Jesus.
Speaker 1:I release your name, your voice, and your word over them, and I pray, God, that right now, those that came in far from you will realize this is my moment to reconnect to God, Abba, I'm coming home where I belong. Thanks for taking the time to worship with us today. I pray that today's message encouraged your heart and enriched your faith. You wanna stay connected with this, you can find us at www.evolvenation.org or on YouTube at Evolve Church. Once again, God bless you and love you.