The Pathway to Oneness with God

Faith struggles and spiritual disappointment are universal experiences that many believers face but rarely discuss openly. This message explores why faith journeys sometimes feel broken and how God uses these difficult seasons for divine transformation. Discover the true meaning behind Jesus' call to repent and why the kingdom of God is closer than you think. Learn about the five stages of spiritual transformation that mirror Christ's own journey from suffering to ascension, and understand how all suffering is designed to lead us into deeper oneness with God. Explore practical techniques for accessing God's presence through stillness, conscious breathing, and turning inward rather than seeking external solutions. Find hope in seasons of spiritual dryness and discover how to practice the presence of God through simple breathing exercises. This teaching reveals how the Hebrew name of God is connected to our breath, making every moment a sacred opportunity for prayer and divine connection. Perfect for anyone experiencing doubt, spiritual burnout, church hurt, or feeling disconnected from God. Learn why suffering isn't punishment but preparation for greater intimacy with the Father, and discover practical steps for finding peace through inner stillness rather than external circumstances.

This sermon was recorded at a Sunday morning gathering at Church of the Lookout in Longmont, Colorado.

Speaker: Walt Roberson
Series: Standalone
Scripture: John 17 
YouTube: https://youtu.be/k6PmuPiEvJw

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Welcome to the Lookout Weekly Podcast. Church of the Lookout is in Boulder, Colorado, and our vision is Jesus, abiding in his presence. Growing in his family and living on his mission to transform the world with awe-inspiring love. Visit us online at thelout. church. Hey uh it's a good day. It's it's a good day today. Uh I get to welcome Our one of our former senior pastors here at the church. Some of you guys know that this church has had several different names over the years And uh and and uh Pastor Walt Robertson was the pastor when I first came out here in 2002 and uh he was pastoring the church and I was able to grow up in the environment that he created and that helped me become who I am today. Many of you guys know Walt Um some of you guys don't and you're gonna you're about to find out but he's a he has an incredible word for us today. But I I do want you to join me in giving a really warm welcome to Walt as he brings the message today. Can you guys come on Thanks, sir. Good morning. It's really great to see you. It's a wonderful morning to be together. So I Uh Britt asked me if I was anxious about today. And I said, I am anxious about one thing, and that's being able to be done early, to be done on time. Thirty-five minutes is not even my introduction when I'm teaching in Africa. So I want to talk about what to do when we have those times and we say to ourselves, My faith journey isn't working. You've been there? You've had those times when it's like Is this real? Is this working? I it's not working right now. I don't feel like going to church. I don't feel like praying. I don't feel like reading my Bible. I'm so disappointed. I'm so discouraged. I'm disappointed in church I'm disappointed in church leaders. Have you ever been there? There's a lot of disappointment in church leaders right now. In the charismatic movements, even evangelical faiths. And I had a conversation with a lady this week. And she used to go to a w one of these big charismatic churches. I won't say where. You would know exactly where it is if I told you. But she's, I said, well, where do you go to church now? What do you think our answer was? That's right. I don't go. That happens to a lot of people, doesn't it? I don't go anymore. We get disappointed in church, we get disappointed leaders, and we don't go anymore. And I used to joke and say, I went through a church split years ago in Texas, so now I have my, I'm a card-carrying Christian. You know, you can't have a card that you're a Christian without going through a church split, right? You understand what I'm saying? It happens, doesn't it? So today I want to share with you an understanding. of how to get through this disappointment and these overwhelming feelings of I don't think this is working I'm ready to give up. I'm ready to check out. What do you do when you hit that point? And I hit that point. And I was a pastor. I feel like the pastor said, you know, I don't want to go to church. And his wife said, well, you have to. You have to preach. So there's a deeper understanding that God took me through and it was not just a moment in time. It was a series of unfolding revelations. And, you know, one of the dangers we have in some of the preaching is that Uh we can fix things in a miracle in a moment. And that isn't how it really worked. It can happen. I love miracles, and I've had them happen, and we've had we just had a testimony of it happening. But a lot of our faith is not microwaved. But crock pot. It just takes time. And what happens is when you get discouraged and you get in that place of giving up And you just want to check out, you just have to hang on. And let God, in his time, in his way, bring a revelation to you of what he's doing in your life. And as we sang this morning, he's faithful. He's good. He'll get you through, but don't give up. We give up too quickly sometimes, not realizing God takes time. He works with us to get us ready to receive. I think things can come to us quicker. If we would be more open to receive instead of just trying to hang on and resist. So I want to kind of unpack that to you right now of how that revelation came to me. And it may challenge some of your thinking. Is that okay? That's what I love about this church. That you want to grow in Christ, you're open to be challenged to think so we can have a deeper relationship. with the Father in heaven. And so how this worked out, I was uh and some of you know this story, but I repeat it for those of you who don't know My first wife, Joyce, who was here with our family for many years and people loved her so much. And I just want to honor her and what she brought here. And it it was beautiful the the way she gave uh selfishly to the people here. But she was diagnosed with early onset dementia at age fifty-two And little did I know, I was going to be going into a 15-year journey with her decline. And in that journey, We downsized the house. We moved in with adult children and their families. And then eventually we moved her to another state where my daughter our daughter Sarah was on point because somebody has to be on point. And I won't go into all of that, but I would just tell you That journey lasted much longer than I thought it ever would. And it was far more painful than I thought it should be I had no idea it was going to be 15 years. And what happens is they have a baseline and they're going to decline. You don't know how far they're going to decline and you don't know how long they're going to be at a new plateau. All you know it's going down. And I'm already overwhelmed right here at this level. How in the world am I going to be able to deal with another decline? And s some of my families here, some of my children here, they'll tell you we all suffered. We suffered Through that experience. So it was in this journey of suffering that God began to unfold a new revelation to me. One day I was rocking and praying, and by the way, I recommend it highly. It's one of the best ways to pray I was rocking and praying. And I heard the Spirit say, and it was not I'm used to hearing the Spirit over these many years, but I entered into a season where I was not hearing. Like Job. Where are you? You're not talking to me. But I heard the Spirit say, you know about the death, burial, and resurrection. Yeah, I do. I know about the death, burial, and resurrection. And then I heard the Spirit say, there's something on each side of death, burial, and resurrection. And so I started talking. What's that? And the answer was, well, on this side is is Suffering. And on the other side is ascension And you know, if you've read your Bible much, you know that's true. Jesus suffered. Then he was crucified, dead, and buried. and rose and then went to be with the father. He said, I'm ascending to be with the father. That means he was saying, I'm going to be one with the Father. I am one with the Father. I'm going to return to him and be one with him again. And so And so this whole thing about the purpose of suffering began to unfold to me when I had this revelation that There's a purpose in it, in the suffering I'm going through. And I told you, I'm overwhelmed with this. I'm on meds. If I can't I can't get through the day without meds, I can't sleep without meds. I'm a wreck. I'm a It wasn't that I was empty during this time. Oh, I was filled, all right. I was filled with anxiety, depression. You know, I was just overwhelmed with it. I could barely get through one meeting to go into the next meeting. And, you know, everything was an effort. Everything was overwhelming to me for many years. Don't you feel sorry for me? That's not the purpose. The purpose is God was at work in me. Some people are much quicker to learn than I think I was during those 15 years. It took me a long time. But eventually God got through to me because he began to show me that this journey, this journey of suffering, has a purpose, which is to bring us into oneness with the Father. Now that was quite a revelation to me. I had not been taught about that. And when I go to Africa and teach the pastors there in Africa. about this, they get their joy back. They start praising the Lord and they get happy because oh there's a reason I'm going through what I'm going through. And you can imagine the suffering they would have there. It's not just emotional, but you know, it's you know, their economics. It's relationships, it's the culture, you know, it's it's difficult. But when you understand, oh, I'm in this place In this sequence. This is where I am, and this is what God's gonna do. When I went first went to Georgia, I went to a church and was in a Bible study. And they said, Walt, tell us your story. And I'm going, you don't have enough time to hear my story. This is going to take a long time. But the Holy Spirit condensed it. And I said to them, right now, I'm dying. I'm going through death. And I didn't tell them why. Or what was going on with me. But I said, right now I'm going through death. And the Holy Spirit came on me right then. And I said, but my next step is resurrection. Yeah. That was that was the Holy Spirit who said that. It wasn't me. I wasn't thinking about that. When you when you understand this process Then you can say, well, this is what's happening to me. And let me tell you, it's going to happen to you. All of us are going to taste of this. Jesus. Then I realized that what Jesus went through was not just redemptive, but illustrative. He was showing us we're gonna drink of this cup too. We're gonna suffer. It's a good thing. Because it it's shattering the illusions we have The illusions that don't serve us well when we hit a place in our life that the challenges are so great, our trite answers don't work anymore. These well just praise the Lord, you know. Just shout, just pray more, just you know Yeah, all right. You get to the point when, listen, I've tried it all and it doesn't work. And I'm saying, don't be surprised when the fiery trials comes. Don't be surprised when it gets overwhelming. Because it's a doorway. It's actually a doorway to a deeper place in your relationship. with the father. And you know what? He cares about that above everything else. He cares about that more than your comfort More than your security. More than your success. Sometimes God doesn't add to, sometimes he takes away He reduces us to a concentrate to find out what we really are For us to find out what we really are. He knows, but for us to find out what we really are, and that means you're gonna be uncomfortable with things. You're not gonna like it. You're gonna resist it. You're gonna be angry. You're gonna say this doesn't work. I don't get any amens yet here. Yeah So he gave me new words for this. Death, burial. Well, first I want to say this. Suffering is loss. Any loss is suffering. Relationships, finances. Loved ones. Death is helplessness. There's nothing I can do about it. It's over, and I can't do anything about it. All that's left now is for somebody to bury me. Burial is hiddenness. It's like a seed in the ground. You got a seed in the ground, and it's buried, it's hidden. And when you get to a place where you think nobody sees you, nobody sees your pain, nobody understands your pain, nobody can help you. I'm buried. Nobody sees me But we're in this place in the ground like a seed. And we're helpless and we're hidden until the water Water of the Spirit comes and rests on us. And with the water of the Spirit, we start changing. And the sun comes out, S-O-N, comes out, and we start changing into this new place. And it happens slowly. I cannot tell you, I cannot tell you just how it happened But it does slowly. There's a transformation that begins to work in your soul to change you, to change how you think about God and how you think about yourself. and your relationship with him. And resurrection is newness. And now we've seen the butterfly Uh you know, the we've seen this a number of times and uh uh Lucas shown us this, so I won't camp on it. I just wanted to help you understand with a picture the transformation You know, how is it that that caterpillar over there on the left at the top becomes this butterfly down here at the bottom? How has that happened? I mean, that just looks very miraculous. And transformation is miraculous. It's not something you're doing to yourself. You can't do it. You already hit the helpless stage. You can't do it. But God's doing it. By his spirit, he's doing it. He's changing you. And then lastly, ascension is oneness Jesus said, I go to be with the Father. When I was sitting in my rocking chair, and this was all unfolding to me step by step by step. The lights came on, and I said, wait a minute, this is what Jesus went through. He went through suffering, death, burial, resurrection, and ascension. That's what Job went through. You know, so the purpose of suffering is to be transformed. And then he gave me new words for this process. And the new words are loss, helplessness. Hiddenness, newness, and oneness. You can put that slide up there. Do you see that side? You don't have it? Okay. So loss, helplessness, hiddenness, newness, oneness. This is the process of transformation that we're going to go through. Which I've already told you, it can take a long time. But the more we understand it, I think the more patient we can be with it, with the process. And we're going to end here in just a little bit. I'm going to share with you ways that we can actually cooperate with this and enter into the transformation that he wants us to have. have. I realized all suffering is intended to lead us to oneness. And I would just say this: your journey to oneness with God most likely will be precipitated by a suffering. that may last longer than you think it should and pain you much deeper than you thought it could. I just want to look at some scriptures on oneness here John 17, 21, that they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us. That the world may believe that thou hast sent me. John 10. 30. I and the Father are. Help me. One. First Corinthians six, seventeen. But he that is joined unto the Lord is One Spirit. One. I could give you so many other scriptures, you know, one that talks about in Christ, with Christ. All of there's it's once you see this, you'll see it everywhere. Oh, he's talking about oneness. He's talking about oneness. Luke 17, 21, for the kingdom of God is out there. Where is it? In here. So here's some reflections that I got on oneness and transformation This began to unfold in my thoughts as I was seeing this whole idea that we can be one with the Father. Romans 18, 17. We will know Christ in pain before we know him in glory. That's what Romans 8. 17 says. You'll know him in pain before you know him in glory. See, it's the pain will come, but that's to lead you into newness of life. Other observation, oneness doesn't come from having the right set of beliefs. Do you know that most Christians, I think, Today believe if you have the right set of beliefs, you're in. And you have to have the right set of beliefs to be in any one particular community. Do you understand what I just said there? There's a lot of different streams of Christian thought throughout history. But you that's what I love about Pastor Luke and his leadership here. You know, he's open. to what God wants to bring to us that we can grow. But most Christians, you cannot be in that denomination, in that church, unless you subscribe to the right set of beliefs And if you have any questions, if you question anything that they say, this is what we believe, you become the enemy. And you're not welcome. And then if you become the enemy, then I'll tell you what happens then. You're cast out. You're not accepted. And you are dehumanized and demonized. And now we have justification to hate you. So what do we do as Christians? We power up and we want to dominate the culture And we have justification to hate people that were created in the image of God because they don't have the right set of beliefs. We use the Bible as a weapon rather than a mirror. The Bible's not a weapon. We don't beat people over the head with the scripture and expect them to submit. We don't say we're going to take over the culture. The kingdom of God is where? He didn't say out there. And that's the problem that we've had over and over many wars in the name of Christ Because we think it's out there, but it's in here. Today, this is my opinion. I'm not speaking for Pastor Luke. I'm just saying this is my opinion. Today Today we have predominantly Christians who want the world to be transformed, but not themselves. Remember, I asked permission to challenge your beliefs, right? So just a couple more points. Of that revelation came to me as I'm going through this process. Our righteousness is worthless when it comes to experiencing oneness with the Father. Job tried to do that, offering sacrifices, make sure he had enough of them even for his children, and it doesn't work. Our righteousness is nothing. Transformation takes place for us when we come into oneness with the Father. We become aware. We wake up. We have a new awareness, a new spiritual awareness of his heart, his compassion, his nature, his acceptance, his forgiveness. His peace, his joy. We tap into something we were not experiencing before. So we awaken to our helplessness and we awaken to our oneness with Him. So I ran across this. I'm getting ready to land here pretty soon, okay? So I ran across this. uh this week and two things which I'm gonna show you next. I'm gonna read this one first and then I'm gonna play a video for you. And I ran across them by accident. You know what I mean by that? So I'm working on this and all at once I just, oh, I gotta share this. It's so good. I gotta share. So this came from Earth Mastery And it's called reinterpreting Jesus' first public words. The first thing Jesus ever said in public has been mistranslated for 2,000 years So here's Mark 1:15. The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe the gospel. Now, most people have heard this sentence their entire lives. The time has been fulfilled. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe the gospel. Every single word in that sentence is doing something the English translations cannot carry. And every time I read this I think about the the guy who said, if the King James Bible was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me. Well the original language wasn't English. Jesus didn't speak it English. He spoke in Aramaic. And then it was translated into Greek. And then it was translated into English. And so things get lost in translation. There's so many rabbit trails I like to trace, to chase right here. going to Africa, being with another language, you know, you just find out things get lost in translation. So here so here it is. Every single word. So here's what it's actually saying. And I cannot pronounce these words. If you are capable, please run right up here and pronounce these words. I'm not even gonna try. But you can see the word. Next one. Okay. This word is translated as time in English. But it's not chronos, it's not clock time, sequential time, or the kind of time that runs out. The Greek word is Here, Kairos. The appointed moment of ripeness. That's what it means. The precise window when conditions have aligned and what was previously impossible becomes available. So he was not announcing a calendar date that had been reached. He was announcing that a window had been opened. The next word in the scripture you can see in Greek and also it has the Aramaic word. This word translated as kingdom is Is Basilia in Greek, and not a political territory, not a future location, the condition of reality in which the creative intelligence of the divine God is fully operative and accessible, not a place you go, but rather a state of reality you participate in, already present, already available, already here. Next one. The word translated here, you can see, at hand, it means near in the sense of immediate proximity. Here. Not out there. In here. The nearness of something already within you rather than approaching from the outside He was not saying the kingdom is coming soon. He was saying it is already as close as the innermost part of you, closer than your thoughts. Next word, the word translated as repent. It does not mean to feel guilty. It does not mean to confess your sins. And throughout much of my life, the churches I was raised in, the whole idea of repent, repent from your sin. You've heard that, right? Thinking, I need to feel sorry, I need to feel guilty, I need to, you know, weep and wail. And there's a place for that of being sorry for what you did. There's a place for it. I'm not minimizing that. But what I'm saying is that this word, when he said the kingdom of God is a at hand. When he said repent, he didn't mean fall on your knees and say you're sorry. He meant turn You're going this way, now go this way. He means turn, take a turn. Stop moving outward, but turn inward. This is the revelation that was so powerful to me after being raised in a church, saved at 13, spirit filled later on in my 20s and pastoring almost 22 years here. All these years. All these years. I knew about it, but you know, I had to go through a lot of suffering for God to push me into this place. of realizing, wait a minute, it's not about if everything would just get right out here, then I'll have peace. If if if my relationships were just right with everybody, I'll have peace. If I had enough money, I'll have joy. See, we're wanting to fix things out here. And Jesus was saying, no, it's here. Then the the word, the last one, translated as believe. It's not intellectual ascent to doctrine. That's what I was talking about earlier. Not intellectual assent to church teachings and doctrines. It's a relationship of trust. With Jesus. A relationship of trust. And the last word, gospel, it was a word used when a messenger arrived with news of a military victory. The battle has been won. The liberation has happened. You can stop fighting now. Put it all together. And here is what Jesus actually said with his very first public words. Are you ready? This is what he was really saying. Summing it up. The window is open. Think about that. It's open. It's not for some future time. It's here. The creative intelligence of the divine, as we sum it up and say God. Is already at the center of you. Stop searching outward. Turn inward. Trust this news completely The separation is over. The door was never locked. The kingdom is as close as your next breath. Last week Pastor Luke reminded us to take a deep breath and he did it again today. He said, you know, we're stuck in shallow breathing when we're filled with anxiety. Stressed out, angry, muscles lock up, we forget to breathe. But he is our breath. So I want to close with a video from Richard Rohr, a Franciscan priest and he talks about breath and stillness and this is how we access oneness. Be still and know that I am God. Psalm 46. You see, it's not just reading scripture. It's not just listening to messages even. It's meditation on the word. That's necessary to come into a silence and a deep, deep place of oneness Actually, we discover God has a language of silence and stillness I've discovered that to be quiet is something I don't like to do. Because when I do, I have one of two thoughts. This is true confession time. I need a curtain here and a priest on the other end. I will sit and obsess about the things that trouble me that I'm just so anxious about. finances, relationships, you know. So when I get still, my mind is my enemy. Because it's it's it demands a right to talk to me And I'll say, be quiet. No, no, I'm going to talk to you. Listen, I want to be still before God. Nope. Nope. This and this and this and this, you know. And you did this and you said this and you were wrong about this. And you know, you know what I'm saying, right? You have a break-in relationship with somebody and you want to work it out and you're having imaginary conversations about them, what you would say and what you'd like to say. You ever done that? And then the other thing I have trouble with is boy, you gotta pay that bill. And you also need to take care of this and this This and this and this, you know. Anybody got a list? My lists are about twelve items a day of things I gotta take care of this guy. And so that all happens. And let me give you this c this last pointer and then we're going to listen to Richard. What happens is I I just write down the things that are going through my mind and then I dismiss them and say, I'll deal with you later. That was worth the price of entry today. Just write 'em down and then I'll do with you later. And then you get still. Let's play the video. When you write Hebrew, you actually just write the consonants. And what it means to be an educated Jew is to have memorized the appropriate vowels. and to know how to fill in the appropriate vowels in the appropriate places. I knew that from my short Hebrew class. But the third part is what I most want to leave with you tonight. He said, did you know that the consonants used in the spelling of the sacred name, Yahweh, are in fact the only consonants that, if correctly pronounced, do not allow you to use your tongue or close your lips. In fact, we know that the pronouncing of the sacred name was an attempt to imitate and replicate breath. That it was inhalation and exhalation. And then he began to do it into the microphone. And in a few minutes, tears started being audible in the room, in a room of PhDs. I now give this to every crowd I can because it can change your life. It can change your life. If I would come back here a year from tonight, and if some of you hold on to this and begin to live it and to experience it and to practice it, Your prayer life will dramatically change. But notice it has nothing to do with thinking In fact, it moves the entire experience to the cellular body corporeal breath level. And it means, wonder of wonders, that the first word you ever spoke When you came out of your mother's womb was the name of God. And the last word you'll ever speak You don't have to try to remember. Do I want to say a prayer before I die? You're going to anyway. That last breath you take on your deathbed will be the name of God. And it's the one thing you've done constantly. You just did it now. And you did it again. You're breathing. And you know what? There's not a Catholic way of breathing and an Anglican way of breathing. There's not a Protestant way of breathing. There's not an American way of breathing. There's not an English way of breathing. There's not a Buddhist way of breathing. There's Not a Hindu way of breathing, there's not a Moslem way of breathing We're all doing this together. And this wonderful God has made the God self that available, that democratic, that accessible. The gift is given. The only problem is the gift is not being received. We've made religion into a series of moral achievement contests. We've made religion into a bunch of hoops that you gotta jump and about a bunch of forms that you've got to bow down before. instead of leading people to know something to be true for themselves. And you can see why Jesus was so happy with his cousin John the Baptist who was who was filling in the valleys and bringing the mountaintops down and creating a highway to God But we've created endless, endless obstacles on this highway. This highway of the givenness of God, the availability of God, the humility of God, the compassion of God. But I don't want you to leave here tonight agreeing with me or disagreeing with me, liking me or disliking me, who cares? It doesn't matter. It really doesn't. I want you to know something for yourself. So for 10 minutes We're going to sit in silence together. The most innocent thing in the world, and yet for many people the most difficult thing in the world. It's so easy that it's hard to teach. Now contemplation second stage is telling you what to do with your mind. And all I can say, because we don't have that much time tonight, is you just have to practice letting go. Letting go, not identifying with it, not feeding it. Inside of every person, there's a great lover and there's a great wolf. And the one that grows is the one that you feed. If you keep feeding the wolf with negative, blaming, accusing, paranoid, accusational thoughts, your wolf will grow. If you keep feeding the lover by letting go of the wolf largely, because the lover is already there, it's called the indwelling Holy Spirit that has been given equally to all of you And the only difference is the degree you have learned to draw from it. That's all. And that's what we're doing. So we're going to practice for about 10 minutes just letting go of obsessive thoughts, compulsive emotions, and each time one comes and wants to grab you, just say Don't need that. Don't need that. Knew who I was before that came along. I can know who I am after. It's gonna be scary, because a lot of us think we are our thoughts So let me lead you into it with a psalm verse, and I'm going to ask you to repeat after me. And then we'll sit for 10 minutes, knowing that someone else is going to teach us and guide us during that time. So repeat after me, be still and know that I am God. Be still and know that I am. Try this. Just close your eyes around the room. Take a deep breath. Repeat after me, be still and know that I am God. Be still and know that I am Be still and know. Be still Be. Let's just take a moment. It's not going to be 10 minutes, but let's just take a moment. Pay attention to the kingdom of God within you. The Holy Spirit within you. And Jesus, this morning we thank you for oneness. We thank you that you're at work in every movement of our life to bring us back into relationship with you and with the Father and with the Holy Spirit And Father, I bless every person in this room here today who's very aware of present suffering that they're walking through. For all of us, Lord God, who are experiencing turmoil or upheaval in our life, I thank you that you're not apart from us, that you're not distant. But you're closer than our very next breath. So this morning, God, we receive whatever gift it is you want to bring to us. Not the gift that we ask for, but the gift that you actually have to give. Not what we think we need, but what you know we need. I thank you for arresting over your people this morning. In Jesus' name. Amen. So for some of us, that was the most silence that you've experienced in the last week. And it's good to even take time as a gathered people to just to be quiet and be still. We have so much noise and activity. That to remember the life of God is so much closer than all of those things, right? So I encourage you, take moments like that Tomorrow when you wake up throughout the day, take midday at lunch, take a moment, sit down, breathe, become aware that God is with you in Christ. Christ, right? And that's how we practice oneness. And so I hope that's a gift to you. Can you guys thank Pastor Walt for uh bringing that word this morning? And listen, some some things may have come up for you as as he was sharing and and you realize, man, I I r would really love to pray with somebody. I would really have to talk talk to somebody about what God is doing in my life. the season I'm in. And listen, we have a ministry team that's going to be available on the sides of the room right when we close here in just a second. You're going to see a blue tag around their their uh uh like a lanyard And you can pray with them. You can go with them with anything that you want to talk about. They would love to just pray with you, get to know you, to meet you. There's no shame. Anything you have, they'd love to talk to you about. And so that's going to be available to all of us here today. And it's a good thing to receive prayer. So let's all stand together as uh as we Leave this place. One thing I'm gonna mention again is uh if you're a guest, we'd love to get to know you at the end of the service. We'd love to meet you in the back of the Connect with this sign. Alright, one last blessing over you. Let me just pray this over you. May the Lord bless you and keep you. May you make his face to shine upon you. May he be gracious to you and lift up his countenance upon you and give you rest. All right. Go in the peace of the kingdom of God. Love you guys. See you tomorrow night at Clark Centennial Park.