Vessels: It's Your Turn - Pastor Joseph Pringle

True repentance means turning your whole life toward God, not just stopping bad behavior. Like clay on a potter's wheel, we must stay under God's shaping hands even when the process feels uncomfortable, trusting that He reworks what's spoiled rather than discarding it. Scriptures: Jeremiah 18:1-8, 2 Timothy 2:20, Romans 12:1, Joel 2:12-13, Acts 26:20, James 1:2-4

Show Notes

Are you feeling stuck, spoiled, or too far gone? Pastor Joseph Pringle reveals the powerful truth that God never gives up on reshaping your life, even when you've fallen apart in His hands.

In this transformative message from the Vessels series, discover what it truly means to repent - not just stopping bad behavior, but completely reorienting your entire life toward God. Like clay spinning on a potter's wheel, we must stay under God's forming hands even when the process feels uncomfortable or messy.

Key themes covered:
• The difference between stopping sin and true repentance
• Why consistency matters more than charisma in spiritual formation
• How God reworks spoiled clay instead of discarding it
• The importance of staying on God's wheel of discipleship
• Finding strength through a repentant prayer life

Don't miss this encouraging reminder that you are not too spoiled to be reshaped. God is in the business of taking what seems unusable and forming it into something beautiful for His glory.

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Scriptures: Jeremiah 18:1-8, 2 Timothy 2:20, Romans 12:1, Joel 2:12-13, Acts 26:20, James 1:2-4

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Hi, thanks for tuning in to this Week's message at C3OC. We hope that it blesses you, equips you, and fills you with faith. Let's dive in. So last week we kicked off this new collection of messages centered around the theme of vessels. That we are vessels that are being formed, we're being cleaned, we're being shaped so that we would be filled with his glory, filled with his anointing, and that we would bring that into every space of our world. It's not just a reservation for us, but it's for the people around us. Vessels are important in life. Amen. Sucked to be in a house and there's no cups. You're always drinking with your hands. No. You need some vessels, right? You want to make sure those vessels are clean. That's what we talked about last week in the overarching and main scripture that we have for this collection of messages we spoke about Last Week in 2 Timothy 2:20. And I would encourage you, if you weren't here last week, go back and listen to that, because, man, I preached really good last week. That was great. Yeah, I don't generally yelp myself, but last week that was a good one. Okay. And this week we're gonna talk about another stage of formation that prepares us for every good work. And for you and I, there's no actual disqualification in our life. And I will say this. This week, last week's message centered on this. It's not the material that you were made of. It's your submission to God that really counts. It's your consecration to God that counts. And so we love to disqualify ourselves. We love to disqualify ourselves, whether it's because we have a low view of ourself, whether it's because we're slothful in our nature, we might be lazy in areas, so I don't really want to work on that side. We may not feel like we've disqualified ourselves by the decisions we've made in life. Well, I want to remind you that God is in the cleaning business. He says he washes every stain. It doesn't matter how deep the stain is, doesn't matter how long it's been set in in your life. It says, he will wash you white as snow, white as wool. And that's the chance that God gives us when we say, jesus, you are my Lord, you are my salvation, you are my strength, you are my Father, and we submit our lives to Him. This week we are going to center in around a scripture that I believe a lot of us, if you've been in church for a while, you would have heard this passage of scripture. And I'm going to walk through it. But I also want to point to the true purpose that this story has been written down, that God spoke through this way specifically to Jeremiah. And there's a reason that is often overlooked. And we focus in just on the illustration itself. So I want us to go a little bit deeper here today and we're going to be focusing in on that theme of repentance. And like I said, today's sermon, the title of it is it's your turn. Can you say that it's your turn? Well, actually don't say that because you're now indicting your neighbor. Say it's my turn. So if you turn with your Bibles and I encourage you, if you have a paper Bible, bring it to church. It does not go ding. It doesn't notify you of all the bad news in the world. It doesn't ring and ding and vibrate and all of that. It's just a non distracting way to read the word. Amen. Amen. So Jeremiah 18 and we're going to be focusing in on verses one through eight and then five through. Sorry, one through eight. Let's read from the top. The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord. Arise and go down to the potter's house and there I will let you hear my words. It's good to find yourself in a place where God will let you hear his voice. Amen. So what did Jeremiah do? So I went down to the potter's house and there he was working at his wheel. And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter's hand and he reworked it into another vessel as it seemed good for the potter to do. The cool thing is in this is, this is not a vision that Jeremiah is seeing. This is actually a direction that God gave Jeremiah to go down to the potter's house. So Jeremiah picked himself up from wherever he was at and he walked down to the potter's house to see this illustration at work. I'm saying that because God calls us to do strange things sometimes. And it's not about just ignoring that and waiting for the vision to come or the explanation to be laid out before us. Because we love a good explanation, right? Go and do this. Why? What am I going to do? How am I going to get there? We want it all laid out for us. But here Jeremiah just did the first step, which was obedience, and he went down to the potter's house. He goes on and he says, then the word of the Lord came to me. O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? Declares the Lord. Behold, you are like clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand. O house of Israel. If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it. And if that nation concerning which I have spoken, listen to this. This is really important. And if that nation, who I have, who I have said, I will pick you up and I will destroy you. If that nation turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it. That's good news right there. We serve a God who isn't just quiet on the occasions on the side. No, he lets us know with warnings in our life, hey, here's an opportunity for you to change. When life spoils itself and we feel crushed under the pressure that he says, I'm not going to take my hand away from you. I'm still giving you a chance to say, God, reform and reshape. I will turn from my old ways and I will orientate my life towards him. And so when I say, it's your turn, it's not like, you know, it's your turn. Here's the salt shaker. Now it's your turn to speak. It's your turn in life. It's the way that you begin to reorientate your life, to live one that is in pursuit of God and not in pursuit of self. It's a strange thing. When I was younger, I. Well, it's probably not strange, but when I was younger, what was attractive in life were the flashy things. Okay. And especially with, like, with people. I was attracted to people's charisma or to their talents. In the Christian world, we would say I was. It was attractive and nice to see people's gifts, and you wanted to be friends with those people. Right. When you're in high school and there's the popular person, you're kind of like, oh, I want to be friends with this person. Or maybe in life, I wanted to be in this sector of work because it was so flashy. And I could live like this and I could look like this. But as I have gotten older, one of the most attractive qualities to me that I would seek in myself and in the people around me is consistency. Consistency is something that I believe is just so undervalued in this world because it's Very thankless. When I first started washing the dishes at home, man, I can tell you, it was like confetti cannons in the sky, fireworks at the back. Christine was like, I'm so grateful. Thank you so much. Do you know what? You know what I get these days? No thanks whatsoever. I do not get any kind of thank you. But would that be what determines my commitment to consistency? And I think that this is the test. She still thanks me every so often. So it's a. She's having a little argument with me from the front row. Happy Valentine's Day. But I know that she values that consistency. And I know that I become a consistent person when the thanks stop coming because people begin to expect it. People have this expectation upon me of the responsibility that I carry so well in life, right? And so what this consistency does is it breathes a deep trust within our life. It's something that is dependable and reliable. And when you're young, oh, my gosh. If I was to say to the young me, do you know what are going to be the statutes of life is dependability, is reliability and consistency? And I'm like, I want chaos. I don't want to plan my day. I want to make a decision like this. I just want to change whatever I'm doing, whatever I want. But what consistency demands of ourselves is that we actually have a commitment in life. Is that despite the good times or the bad times, you're still going to wash the dishes, you're still going to show up. I didn't get enough sleep last night. I feel like I'm in a grumpy mood today or I've got so much on my plate that I can't clean the plates at home, so to say. But you know what? My consistency will depict what I'm going to do next. Let's be honest. Most people don't leave God in outright rebellion. It's not this outright rebellion side for most people, right? They leave in discouragement, they leave in offense. They leave in fatigue. They leave when the wheel of life, when the wheel of discipleship starts to become uncomfortable, and we're living in a moment where I would say resilience and consistency is very rare. And what God is looking for in people is the ones who would show up and stick their lives on the wheel of discipleship. Most people want their purpose without formation moments. They want a calling in their life without correction to get there. And that's a culture. That's a culture which we would see today pretty regularly, that quits too fast. That Resists correction that confuses comfort with calling or even calls conviction or correction, judgment, that it's really hard to use the word of God to be corrected. Because now it's become gaslighting and we've become so sensitive in a way. And hear me when I say I know that the word of God has been used use to tear people down. I know that there are ministers who have done that. But just because you've had one bad burger doesn't mean that every, every burger joint sucks, right? Just because you had one bad slice of pizza, it doesn't mean you're going to swear off pizza forever, right? You're just gonna find a good pizza place. And so it's the same within church that we have one moment and all of a sudden we swear off everything else to do with the church. But God is calling people to be in healthy churches and to find a consistency and a resiliency within their lives to stick on the wheel. And the reason is so important, which is if you ain't on his wheel, you're going to find yourself on another wheel. You cannot escape this life and not be on a wheel. It doesn't matter if it feels like it's the wheel of nothingness. Oh man, that is, I'm telling you, the worst wheel that you can possibly be in. Because regardless of where you're at in life, you do have expectations in this life. And if you're on the wheel of nothingness, I'm just forfeiting this formative and this graceful and this merciful hand that begins to shape me. I'm gonna fall on the wheel that does nothing with my life. More than that, it's the wheel that will also kick you off when you spoil and it will trample you. One of the great things in this passage that is more in cultural context is when he said, arise and go down to the potter's house. The potter's house was not in the city, wasn't in the bustling places. It wasn't out where everyone's living. No, the potter's houses were out bar by the rivers where the banks were. And they had access to the clay and a water source. And so it was out in places where it's not so public and it's not so busy. I'm telling you, formation has to happen in places where you are undistracted. And it's also going to be like, I'm telling you, maybe pottery these days is kind of cool, you know, and you see those artisan potters online and they're charging $1,200 for a vase or whatever. But back then, this is a lowly artisan job. They weren't uplifted in life. This was a lowly job. So here Jeremiah, a prophet called by God was called to go down to the potter's house. And I feel like sometimes the thing that holds us back from being formed by the hand of God is we're opposed to going low in this life, that we want to live up high. And so we don't go low in this life. I've heard stories of, and let me put it just in the context of pastors. I've heard stories of pastors who they have oversight in their life and their churches, the oversight's churches are smaller than the person they are leading. And the person that's under them says, I can't follow you because my church is bigger than yours. That's a terrible way to live. It's a terrible way to live. Even in our lives, wherever there is wisdom and authority that has been granted. Man, drink from the fountain that has been given to you. Ask the questions that you're afraid to ask. Take yourself to the potter's house and say, man, what do I have to do? What is the ceiling on my life that needs to break? What is the next stage? What is the next step in my life? We have to go low to get around the place where God works. Amen. Amen. I'm jumping ahead of myself because I'm so excited about this. So verse one, he says, arise and go down. Revelation requires humility in our world. It requires us to be humble. It requires us to go low in this world. God didn't take Jeremiah to the palace to go and show him an analogy. No, he took him to the potter's house, man, you ever seen a potter's hands? It's Valentine's Day. What about the movie Ghost? It's a little strange. It's a little out there, but it's messy work. You walk in and it's not a clean place. There's. There's clay chunks on the ground and there's this guy with clay under his nails. It's a place where it is work. There is work that is happening. Being formed is not clean business. When you are loved, right? It's a messy business. There's stuff that's flying. There's marks on the clothes. There is dirt under the fingernails where. When God gets to work, man, he's into it. He loves it. He takes him to a workshop on the outskirts of the City. Because if you want to understand how God builds something eternal, you must first understand how he shapes something fragile. You got to understand how he shapes something fragile. And Jeremiah obeys. And I love this. It's just so simple. But I am so stupid sometimes. God said, go down to the potter's house. And what did Jeremiah do? So I went down to the potter's house, man, how many times has God asked me to do something and I've said, nope, not doing it. That's not from God. That's, no, I'm not going to do that today. Here Jeremiah is just saying, here is the first step. Just obey what I say. So I went down. And that is right there. That is half the battle. Obedience before the explanation, before everything is laid out for us. I know that I said this before, but, man, how often do we want the explanation of everything? What's it? What? Before I make a decision to follow Christ, what's required of me? And here's what I feel like God gives us God. Explain it to me. And he hands you this piece of paper. And at the top of the paper it says, joseph Pringle. There's my name. And then right at the bottom it says, sign here. And I go, but there's nothing in the middle of this page. And he goes, exactly. Hand it all over and trust me. And so we want all. We want all the details, we want all the explanations. But part of the formation is that we would have faith enough to step and trust enough to stand. And when he arrives, he sees a man who's working at the wheel. Not posturing, he's not announcing, but man, God works. I love this. God loves you so much that he is dedicated to the work of your life. He's dedicated to forming your life. And it's not distant, it's not Tesla machines making it all. No, his hands are in the middle of your life. His breath is close by even before you get on the potter's wheel. And this could be the trickiest thing, is that as he's pulling clay out of the riverbank, he's also picking up straw and rocks and all the dirt and grime that's been mixed in there. Do you know how a potter cleans that out? He slaps it on the ground, he picks it up and he throws it on the ground again. And then he treads on it and he starts treading and the rocks come to the surface, and the dirt comes to the surface and he begins to clean it out. And this is. This is these moments where most of us begin to kind of drift away because the unforgiveness, the stone in the middle of us feels so good to hold on to. It feels like I can justify my life through this anger or hurt that I do not want to let go of. But, man, here's the thing, is that if it's not worked out in your life later on when he throws you in the fire, because after the forming, after the slapping, after the forming, then guess what happens? The kiln. It puts you in the kiln. If there's air in those walls, do you know what happens? It explodes. How many times have you exploded when the heat's come around? How many times has there been those moments that's God working something out of you so that when it really matters, it's not going to steal away the use of being a vessel? So God is a shaper man. He is the worker. And many of us love his promises, but we don't. What we do is we resist the pressure of him coming into our lives and beginning to stretch it out. And as he was doing that, it says, the vessel was spoiled in his hands. Jeremiah 18:4. And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter's hands. There it is. That's the moment of marring. That's the moment where the posture that we hold just begins to crumble in a moment. And it's not because of the potter that the clay spoiled. It was because of the clay that it began to fall down and around. I can't tell you how many times I have had God's hand on my life. And he's shaping me and he's pulling far, far wide the edges, and it feels like I am in a spin and I spoil the moment, and I run away in a moment. Maybe it's a fence that just got caught in me and I cannot let go of it. Maybe it's a trauma from the past. You guys have heard my story from childhood. Well, if I was hanging on to that, and it would just spoil every time, and my character will begin to fail. But God cares so much that he will let you spoil in his hands so that you will not harden into a disfigured vessel. Oh, I love this. He is such a good God that even in the recognition that it's going to spoil or that it could spoil is that he will not leave you in a spoiled state. He will not let you harden in this life in a wrongful form. But it says he puts his hands back onto that clay man where everyone else Might give up on you in life. God will never relent. He will not give up on you. The hard thing in this story for me is that clay is inanimate. But you and I, we have a choice whether we stay on the wheel or not, right? In Romans 12:1, it would say that we have been called a living sacrifice. Oh, man, I hate being a living sacrifice because the tricky thing with it is that I'm trying to crawl on the altar, I'm trying to stay on this thing, but all of a sudden it's like, I just want to pull this off, and I want to take it off the altar. But he has called you and I to be a living sacrifice. You and I have a choice to keep our life on the wheel that keeps forming us. But in the spoiling, how much do we want to run away? How much is it that we want to hide at that particular time? Much as if we want to not disclose whatever it is that we're facing right now. But, man, God is saying, stick on the wheel of formation, Keep turning your life around, and let his hand do the business that it was created to do. The proof that you are in his hands is that he will not let you harden in the wrong shape. And in doing so, it says he reworked it into another vessel. He did not discard it. He did not throw it away. He did not add more clay to it. It just says he reworked the clay that's stuck on the wheel. You are not too spoiled to be reshaped. Your life is not too disfigured to be reformed. You are not too late to be redirected in this life. Let me tell you this. When I moved to America, what, somewhat 20 years ago, and I came from Australia, which explains the dingo accent that I have. I'm like every character from Bluey. When I moved here, I moved here, and I was a believer in Christ, but my faith was not strong. There was a rebellion that lived in me. And I came here with a selfish ambition that was cloaked with a holy mission. And when I got here, I experienced some hardships and some pain, and I ran from God as hard as I could. I was spoiled. The potter's hands. And I ran. I ran hard. You know, I tried it. There's no curiosity left in this cat. And I came back humbly. I took my clay off of that wheel, and that's why I can assuredly say, man, if you don't stay on his wheel, you're going to land on another one that does not care for you. The guy who works on you, he works to destroy you. This guy works to build you up in life. And so I came back to Christ and I'll tell you, this man, he is such a graceful God that he would take the lump of clay that exited off his wheel and I rolled in the dirt. I rolled in everything that was possible. And he so worked it out and began to shape my life again. The clay that gets reworked is the clay that stays under his hand. Stay under his hand. Resilience is not ever being marred. Resilience is refusing to leave the wheel. The clay is inanimate. It had no choice but to stay. We got to stay on the wheel as a living sacrifice. It's easy if you're inanimate in life. But man, God breathed into dust and animated it to life. And that's you and me here today. Let me tell you this. I've already said that. Look at this. I've just preached the whole message. You don't want to fall on a wheel that appeals to your own comfort. You don't want to fall on the wheel that appeals to your own preferences. You don't want to fall on a wheel that is just your dutiful wheel that you're ticking off as you go through life. You want to fall on the wheel where God is at work, on where he is forming and he is shaping. And sometimes it's uncomfortable to have his thumb come down in the middle of your life. But here's what I would say is the key to this. And I want to get into, in this last 10 minutes, I want to talk about repentance. The word reworked comes from the word shuv, which is the same word for the word turn. Shuv. And that is the most common word that is used for repentance in the Old Testament and in through the New Testament as it changes language. Pride is not arrogance necessarily teamed up in our life. Pride is not wanting to make a turn in our life and orientate it back to God. The power of the potter's wheel is that there's a spin, is that it's spinning around. If you can picture clay where, you know, when I was in primary school, we did the clay. Did anyone do clay activities? Yeah. Okay. Nothing was spinning because that would have been chaos in my class. But, but it was kind of hard to shape and they all come out and they're kind of like weird looking clay figurines, weird looking cup. But when it's spinning and the potter has, has the, the water and he's got the fingers of his craft and he puts it in it to stretch out into the bowl. We've all seen this, right? Right. And so if we are not spinning, what ends up happening is there's just a big thumb that comes down and goes, just kind of crushes right into the middle of our life. Here's what I want to put to you guys today. Repentance in the way of turning is what it means, sets the spin in your life that God's hand can begin forming it properly. And so this word turn is one that pops up a few times where he says, with all of this destruction that I have put against the house of Israel, if they are to turn from their ways, then I will relent from this disaster. This is really awesome. Repentance needs to be a part of our life. And I think that we sometimes shun it because we think that it's this kind of penance that we have to pay. Repentance is not saying, I apologize, God, I apologize. And then that's it. The word shuv means to turn, which indicates that we have been walking in a particular direction. And I believe that sometimes we think that, that it's enough just to stop. I'm just going to stop doing what I was doing before. I'm just going to stop walking in this direction. I'm just going to stop sleeping around. I'm just going to stop drinking so much. I'm just going to stop doing all these things without reorientating our lives towards God. Because all of these surface level decisions that we make are but from the root of our heart. And God is saying, man, I don't just want your surface level. I don't want you to just stop on the wrong path. I want you to turn and I want you to orientate your life towards me. I want you to hand your heart over in my hands. And so we get along these paths and this. I'm sorry to throw my daughter under the bus, but she's six years old, okay? So show her some grace with this story. But my daughter will come to me and she's done something and she goes, I'm so sorry, dad. And then tomorrow she does it again, right? She's a six year old. And so, and she comes so dramatically towards me at some points. I'm so sorry. And it's like spilt water or something. It'll never happen again. I won't drink on the couch. I'm so sorry, I'll never do it again. And I always stop her in that moment. And I Said, you can't promise that to me. You can't promise that you'll never do it again. But you can say to me, I'm going to do my best to not act like this again. And this is where God wants our heart to be is that I used to desire walking this way, but now I am going to orientate my heart this way. I want to be walking in the direction of the path that Christ has laid for me. Let me explain this a little bit. In Joel 2, 12, 13 it says, yet even now declares the Lord, return which shuv to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning, and rend your hearts and not your garments. Return to the Lord, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. And he relents over disaster. I love that he says, and rend your hearts and not your garments. What that means is, is they used to, when, when they were mourning or they're weeping, they would dramatically rip their garments. Do you guys understand this? They would rip their garments and say, I'm so sorrowful and I'm so mourning. And it was this big dramatic show. But he's saying, you rip your garments and you appear to be sorry and you appear to be repeated repentant, but nothing changes in your heart. That there is this still kind of way around in my heart that I'm just saying sorry for this moment, but I'm not going to change the way that I live. In Acts 26:20, it says, repent and turn to God performing deeds in keeping with repentance. So true repentance for you and I. That which keeps you in a turn is coming back to. I repent every day. It's the opening of my prayers towards God. It's the emptying out of what I do not want to keep within me. Because the more that I can excavate out of my life, the more that God can pour into my life. So I come to God. It's not about, oh, I'm, I'm going to beat myself up. I'm just gonna beat myself up in front of God. No, this is, this is the space where we go, God, you are so holy, you are so awesome. I need less of me and more of you in my life, man. I tried living by my own strength, I tried forgiving by my own strength and I cannot do it. God, empty me of all of this. If I tell an off colored joke the next day, I don't. You know, when you're in the excitement of different moments. And you might say something or you might go along with something. Maybe someone pulls you into a gossiping kind of conversation. I bring that before the Lord. The following day I say, God, I repent for gossiping. Please rend my heart towards you. I want to mourn over those moments and not get stuck in beating myself up. But man, the joyful inclusion of God in those moments. And here's what I have found. When I'm able to come before God, God in a repentant way, I feel there is motion in my life for him to keep expanding the vessel that he begins to pour into. And this is the good news for you and I. The good news is that God does the work. We just have to remain. It's not on you, it's on you to stay. It's on you to nail your free will to the wheel of formation. But I'll tell you this. God does the work. And when he works, he'll take a disfigured piece of clay and make a marvelous vessel out of it. You are not unusable. You are not too far gone. If you are in the throes of addiction like I was, you feel like I have no self esteem. I cannot escape this. If you're in the middle of a marriage that feels disfigured. If you're in the middle of depression that feels like it is marring your whole life, you are not too far gone. It's by the work of his hands that he would form and redeem anything that is disfigured. I can stand his testament and I could speak many names out in this room that stand as a testament to God taking what could be useful for nothing and formed into something that God will use into eternity. Let's stand here today. This matters for us today because a lot of us might think that repentance is weakness. It's me showing my weakness. It's actually our strength as believers. If you want true resilience in life and perseverance, then learn to have a repentant prayer life to God. Learn to have a repentant attitude in your life. That you would say, it's not just my words that I'm trying to speak, it's my heart that is going to change. And God will begin to work through your life. The kingdom is not advanced by people who escape pressure. It is advanced by people who endure formation in James 1, 2, 4. This is my favorite. Count it all joy. My brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds and my sisters, for you Know that the testing of your faith produces what? Perseverance? Steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect. That you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing men. Let it have its full effect in your life. Don't jump off the wheel before the full effect happens. In Romans it would say this. It would say not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings. Man. This is what hope in God does, that we rejoice in our sufferings. Knowing this, that suffering produces endurance. And endurance produces character. And character produces what? It produces hope. Not the answers to all of our prayers, but meant character. That comes from perseverance, that comes from suffering, produces hope in our world. Let's lift every hand here today. I thank you, Jesus. I thank you, Father, that you would fill us with your spirit. To stand when it comes feels like there is so much pressure. I pray that we would not try and find the escape route. But God, we would find the place to surrender, to arise and go down to the potter's house. I thank you, Jesus, that there would be a new revelation of formation in our world that comes from repentance. I pray that we would come before you so joyfully, laying down that which we cannot let go of. I pray for a supernatural power here today. A breath of your spirit to fill our lungs. The breath of your spirit to come across our minds and breathe life into every situation. I thank you, Father, that we would be formed and shaped into vessels that would be used for your glory, prepared for every good work. Father. And I just pray that we would look upon our lives as your eyes upon our own lives. For those who are looking at it from the perspective that there is nothing left, I pray that you would open their eyes to who you have called them to be. In the mighty name of Jesus, we all said amen. Amen. Hey, thanks for tuning in. There's a bunch of different ways that we connect throughout the week, including Sunday mornings and. And we would love to see you there. 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