 Tonight we have a I don't want to I'm not even going to call him a guest because he's a friend of this church He's family David Perkins has been a close friend and has Ministered here at Radiant Church in Kalamazoo for the last 17 years. We were doing the math He's been coming for 17 years and we love David. We love his family He has his incredibly handsome young tall son Dawson Perkins with him I remember when Dawson was born and It's incredible have him in the front row. He's great young man great young leader in the making and he David and his wife are not a are the pastors of Radiant Church, Kansas City Let me just tell you something about David is not just a pastor David is a unique voice that I believe wholeheartedly not just because he's my friend but I wholeheartedly believe and honor this that he's a Once in a generation voice that God has raised up to call the church to the place of prayer and a lifestyle of consecration, especially young people He has led multiple different youth conferences national conferences throughout the last few decades Most recently he's launched a new he's in the process three years of planning a church and he decided I'm gonna start another youth conference And it's just blowing up. It's called bold our young people go to it and We love having David Perkins here with us And so I want everybody if you would no matter where you're at would you stand up on your feet? Welcome to the platform David Perkins. I love you. Thank you. Thank you Oh, it's an honor and a joy to be with you. I love Radiant. I'm so grateful to be here Thank you for that warm response. Thanks for coming out tonight Such an honor. I so love you pastor Lee and Jane. Thank you so much for your friendship Thanks for being a big brother and mentoring me and helping me and speaking life into me You guys have probably the best pastors on the planet. So can you give your pastors a big hand? I love you That's pretty amazing. It's just a joy. I feel like I'm home There's so many of my friends that are here that are on your team and in your church And so to be here is like coming home and such a delight and such an honor I wanted to show you a quick picture of my family because We are loving Kansas City. We started Radiant Church, Kansas City, and we're still alive everybody not dead yet And so I just wanted to thank you I came here and you guys helped us significantly launch the church in 2016 and it's going well. And so I bring a good report my family loves God still think the Lord and Kids are good. And this is my son Dawson Dawson. You must stand up real quick. That's my boy Dawson Mm-hmm He is five foot eleven what on earth and so We went to my wife's side of the family Christmas and he was the tallest one there like taller than his uncle's taller than his grandpa Then we went to my side of the family. He was the tallest one there I'm five five everybody and everybody asked how did this happen? And I just said mm. I pray baby I pray it's my prayer life Lord Jesus to the next generation if you're gonna skip me just give it to him God So anyway, I thank God for him and he's he's actually a great preacher And so he's been preaching our youth ministry and so glad that you're here. I just want to say to Portage Hey, I love you Stefan and Candace so much I've known Stefan since he was 17 years old and you are an incredible leader love Candace And let's just give it up for Portage and Stefan in Candace Davis We love you What a great leader Stefan was a cut above when he was 17 and he's been a great leader Since he was a teenager and so anyway such an honor to be here. Anyway, there's so much love that I just can't stop But I love you very much got a word on my heart tonight Really excited about this season It's called seek and you didn't come tonight For a song and you didn't come for a sermon you came to seek God And I just want you if you will we just stretch out your hands like this. I want to read out of Revelation 5 and I'm just gonna read this verse. This is Just this vision here in as John sees and I just want this to get in us tonight I'm aiming out your heart more than anything. I'm hoping that we have an encounter with God Revelation 5 11. He says then I looked and heard the voice of many angels numbering thousands upon thousands and ten thousand times tens thousand They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders in a loud voice. They were saying Worthy is the lamb who was slain to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise Father are we tonight? God here in Richland and the Portage campus and everybody online Got in this season of seeking God God we come before you tonight, and we just say you are worthy of it all You're worthy of our affection. You're worthy of every dollar. You're worthy of every minutes And God tonight we ask that you would open up our eyes to behold Jesus We just confess we live in a culture where we behold so much our eyes stare at screens perpetually We've got so much in front of us just the buffet of options And God tonight in this season of prayer and fasting we just look to you tonight We just want to declare what's already being declared in the heavenly scene worthy is the lamb God we ask Lord Jesus that you would help Lord our affections can just catch up with our convictions that you're worthy God we pray that our lives would embody Beholding God God we ask Lord as we sing these songs so fervently We ask Lord Jesus that we would encounter God in such a way that we live these realities Holy Spirit would you come and would you help us open up our eyes to behold more of God Help us here as we as we look at the scriptures and as we sing again at the end God We ask for an encounter with God I Asked Lord Jesus that as we sit and spend time in our recliners or in coffee shops Or as we open up the scriptures alone with you during seek that we would behold you God as we turn off ESPN radio And we put earbuds in and listen to the word of God or listen to worship songs Guys we open up the word of God Lord We ask Lord that the weightiness and the worthiness of Christ would just would just fill our lives God we pray Lord that you would work supernaturally God help us God we love you we honor you and everybody said amen a few years ago. I Was in Istanbul actually with Stefan Davis and it was January of 2016 and We took a bunch of young adults to Turkey and we're there doing missions work And and one of the leaders came up to me and said hey David There is a lady here in Istanbul and she's been here for over 20 years And she has a great work here in Istanbul and and she says she knows you and And I literally before they said a name. I just began to think I Have no friends in Istanbul. I can't even spell Istanbul. I have no idea where I am like I just know I don't think I do and and then the guys said well her name is Kase Haske and and she says that she knew you when you were a teenager And I go my goodness Yes Yes, I'd love to meet her. I'd love to connect with her and and when I was a teenager like when I was in high school I was I was a little zealot for God and leading prayer meetings and there was this this leader that She was from another church, but she was passionate about missions And she was in love with Jesus and I think she was in either her late 20s or early 30s when you're 18 You think anybody over 25 is just ancient and so she was just you know in a category over 25 to me, but She she was so intense for the Lord And I remember in those years when I was this teenager that that she would talk about how one day She was gonna go to Turkey and how she had this passion to go reach Unreached people and people who were in the darkest place and didn't hear the gospel and and I was just teenage kid Mollet braces Oklahoma near near near there I mean that's who I was and she kind of seemed educated and she was working on a lot of education in order to Impact Middle Eastern culture and and and and she just kind of seemed like an intense person And she would always ask me holiness questions And so I was you know like a little just a little afraid of her because she was so intense for God and And I hadn't seen her in over 20 years and And so I'll just never forget I left my team and and I met her at this Cafe and she brought one of the other pastors with her and so I knew it was gonna be three of us there and she's sitting at this cafe and Turkey and I walk in and she's larger than life personality and she hugs me and David how you doing of course she talked about Jesus really quickly and she said I'm so glad that you still love God I said I still love God. I'm still alive. I'm same height, but I love Jesus and I've got a wife and I told her about Renata She didn't know about Renata and I told her about our four kids and she wanted to make sure I had good doctrine And she wanted to make sure I really still loved God and I was like a promise You know and I'm telling her stories about what's happened over the last 20 something years And and she's telling me stories about what's happened in Turkey and and honestly I mean it was just it was so powerful as she as she began to just tell me the Intentionality of what work had taken place in Istanbul and and just what God had done and and and and I just began to ask her questions and Here she's no longer got the The black hair that she had now. She's got gray hair and she's got like, you know, just bless you Rebuke it's like I'm so sorry that guy got gray hair anyway, so Everybody okay, all right And And so she she began to just tell me all these stories and And I just remember sitting there just just amazed because here's this picture She had she had never gotten married and Never had kids and she didn't stay in suburbia, Oklahoma City like most of my other friends She had left everything and she spent her life in Istanbul and she was she was radiant She was alive. She was Infectious she was quoting Bible verses. She was telling me stories of miracles. She was she was I mean It was it was powerful and I began to think about the intensity that she had in her 30s as a youth leader and now here she is in her 50s and It's really it's really interesting to me when I think about each one of us Living our lives Wanting to follow Jesus with everything With with maybe this Cry in our hearts the songs that we sing that you are worthy you are worth everything You're worthy of my life. You're you're worthy of my affection You're worthy of my time you're worthy of it all and I saw in this lady just this moment of What it looked like to as this young lady lead teenagers and say Jesus is worthy in her young adult life and and in every season in her 40s She's reaching people and in her 50s and I don't know about you But I just for me entered my 40s and and and I'm looking at this next decade and for me Saying Jesus, I give you everything. You're worth my life. You're worth everything in my teens It looked a certain way and and I can go back and remember What what it meant to to give all and what I thought zeal looked like and what I thought Sacrifice looked like and and what what Jesus was calling me to and what my yes to God What might I'll give you everything in in in these years looks like and and then when I think about My 20s it looked different. It was it was a different season. It was it was different. Yeses. It was it was greater understanding and there's a little more costly and Now I think about my 30s and kind of what the yes, you're worthy of it all You're worthy of my life in my 30s what it looks like and I was just thinking about now in my 40s in this next season of life Signing up again and saying God you're you're you're worthy of it all you're you're worthy in this next season You're worthy of my life I was thinking about for each one of us What it takes to get to where we we look at a new year We look at a new season of our lives and that yes that you had Maybe a year ago when you gave your life to Jesus a decade ago when you gave your life to Jesus Maybe three or four decades ago. Maybe when you were said yes when you were 15 or maybe when you said yes when you were 25 Or maybe when you were 40, whatever it looks like for you. There's often times that yes You can have it all Jesus. You're worthy of my life. I surrender all I have decided to follow Jesus I give you everything and Just the slow Temptation over time to take some of my wants back Say, I don't know if I can I don't know if you're worth all my money I'm not sure you're worth all my time. I mean After all I I've only got one life to live. I'm not sure you're worth all my treasure. I'm not sure you're worth everything Tonight, I just I just want us to come back and ask the Holy Spirit on a seek night where the radicals come out Fasting seeking God two-and-a-half-hour church And I want us just to come back and come to the Lord again tonight and for you to have a moment with God where you say What does it look like to give you all in this year? What's it look like to give you all in this season? And I'm not talking about just the memory Of yesteryear or last year's fast or or maybe in high school Or college when you said yes salvation I'm talking about I'm talking about in your journey in your relationship with Jesus when it's just you and him What it looks like right now to have a fresh revelation you're worthy of everything. I want to hold nothing back I don't do fractions. I give all I'm not gonna I'm not gonna give the Lord my God half my heart not gonna love him with a third of my heart I'm not gonna let love him with with nine-tenths You can have it all Lord and Only you and him only I mean that's it we can sing the songs all all all all all all day long and Everybody applauds This external thing that we do But only you and God know what's alive. What's going on on the inside? What's the condition? How much of your heart does he really have and I just want to just it's just you I want to do it for me I want to come before the Lord tonight and believing the Holy Spirit speaks come before him and just say take inventory of my life And what does it look like? Well, I'm in ministry. No, well, I'm I'm in a leadership role at the church. Well, I've been saved for 25 years. No, no, no I'm talking about right now in this new year what it looks like to come before him and say You're worthy Like to have an encounter with God because the people that have encounters with God When we read about it in scripture, they don't like have an encounter and then be like, oh, I guess I don't have to surrender so much No, Isaiah sees him and he goes Is me I'm a man of unclean. It's a John sees him in Revelation 1 and he falls down as though dead If you have an encounter with him, it's not gonna be your license to give less. It's gonna be your moment to go have it all You're big I'm small God and that's my dream. I love this environment because it gives us a moment to just Come before him and have an encounter My dream is that tonight he would come before him and get again and go Okay, I've been here before camp. I was here retreat. I was here a decade ago, but it's fresh Holy Spirit Open up my heart you're worthy of everything in this season and This time in this year in 2020 and this right now and you can have it all I Want to give you just a few portraits tonight of some people that said take it all Take it all just a few biblical portraits. I just I want it just to be fresh where we come and say he's worth it He's worth all. Let's just read this one famous one Matthew 26. I'm gonna read the whole story here Says this while Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the leper a woman came to him with an alabaster jar A very expensive perfume was she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table When the disciples saw this they were indignant why this waste they asked disciples why this waste This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor Aware of this Jesus said to them. Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing for me The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me When she poured this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial Truly, I tell you wherever this gospel is preached throughout the whole world What she has done will be told in memory of her Most Bible commentators say that Mary gave probably about a year's wages so Figure out what that would look like for you What that would look like in your current life? And then I just want you to put yourself in the story and Just begin to see what would it look like tonight? If I came before Jesus and said That's all yours Every minute all my dollars You're better than Every potential idol you're better than sports You're better than vacations You're better than houses and cars your first place Actually everything that I have I already gave it to you and your your you are worthy of More than my words You're worthy of everything that I have God I give it all to you again. I Just I throw it out there and I say you take it you can you can have it all I was just thinking about in 2020 this year in the season where we're praying and fasting. We're coming before the Lord and Saying I'll give it. I'll give you everything and and of course in this moment when the disciples and other gospels says Judas says This is a waste And people are saying that to you right now. You're going to church on a Wednesday night You're fasting you give to kingdom builders You what you give away your time? You yep, and and there's the There's the why why this waste? Why would you why would you waste what you have? What what that that goes on in your life right now? And so I just I want to invite you to more. I Want to invite you to just come before God and say Bring on the people that haven't seen what I've seen Mary was the one in the moment as Jesus was about to go to the cross That recognized who he was and in the recognition of Jesus is here. He is he's at that. This is my moment She just goes this I'll just pour it out Let's pour it all out, and we've got this little window of time and whatever season of life you're in Not to be strategic Not to kind of figure out how much of my life can I give to God and still get away with withholding some fractions? But I just give it all again God I've got 70 80 90 years my life is but a mere breath on planet earth, and you can have it all and Lord you speak into my life. What area of my life? What area of my life have I not given all? Lord, what does it look like for me in this year to be a worshipper that beholds if you'll be hold more of Who God is if you'll see more of who he is You'll be the person that says I'll pour it out If you behold more if you see more Then you go I'll gladly give I gladly I'll gladly pour out everything that I have and I think that for this is the beauty of Christianity This is why I love your pastor your pastor speaks in terms of Sacrifice and everything and one life and let's give it all and it's not hold back It's not it's it's everything and my dream is that we would just look at this year and say God I'm not I'm not giving to get I'm not giving you my time to get I'm not giving you my money to get I'm not I'm giving you everything because you're worth It's all yours use me whatever ministry whatever you call me to do You'll whatever it looks like wherever you call me to go To leave what's comfortable and my motive is not my own well-being my motive is you're worth it You're amazing, and I think we just need a little bit more of just just that. Oh, wow He is God Sometimes we want to bottle it down to just how we can use God to get what we want Just that fresh even as we're singing tonight these songs you are worthy My son Dawson he's sitting here on the front row and when he was eight. We were sitting on the front row of church offering bucket went by he had $20 to his name and He had it in cash in his pocket offering bucket goes by sitting in church eight-year-old boy big brown eyes brown hair looks just like his mom puts $20 in the bucket and After church we went to Walmart And there's football cards and He looked at me and he said Dad I want to get the football cards. I said well, where's your money? He said oh, I put it all all in the offering this morning And I said well, then you don't have any money for football cards and he goes Yeah, but I still want them I got down on one knee so I could look at my eight-year-old son Now he gets on one knee to talk to me said Doss and I didn't say hey Doss Tell you what I'm gonna teach you what God's like You put you put in 20. I'm gonna or 10 20. I'm gonna give you 10 times the blessing. Here's $200. I Didn't do that And I didn't look at him and say Doss Yeah, you know, I'm just so proud of you I'm just gonna I'm just gonna buy you the football cards because I'm so I'm so proud of the fact that you did that I didn't do that either. I just looked at him and I said I think Jesus is worth your $20 He said yeah, but then I don't have Football cards said you have other football cards. Yeah, I do now. He's 11 or now you're nice. How old are you? Nice 15 That ruin the moment he's 15 He could care less about football cards now. He's into fashion. He's cool, right? Football cards is my point. I think When you just there's just gonna be a moment We throw crowns down. It's gonna be a moment where you behold forever And all these little things that you're holding on to And not really giving him your dignity Hold on to some of the future things that you want. I think there's gonna be some moments you go What was I thinking? Why didn't I just why didn't I behold how awesome he is? And like Isaiah just go why not just fall down and Jesus you can have it all your your everything when I just give it all I Think that sometimes When I came to Christ in church world Sometimes there's so many times that we make promises to people where we say hey come to Jesus in your life will get better That I think some of us come to Jesus and we're using him as a means to get our own end to get the good life And I just want to encourage you that eternity is the good life And you come to Jesus for a relationship because of who he is and no matter where it takes you no matter if you get Good days or the hard days What you came in was for him and I just pictured Jesus When he's inviting disciples to follow him He just invites them and it's because of who he doesn't look in Matthew 4 and say hey Hey John Come follow me and I'll give you a better life than you got going here in Galilee was ebony. I Got something better for you Hang out with me. You're gonna meet Moses and I in Elijah hang out with me I'm gonna multiply some bread and fish you're gonna eat well boy, but we do that but but the invitation to follow from Jesus is just Follow me because Jesus worth following because Jesus is Apart from our little challenges and things and he does care. He cares about every hair on your head He's every tear that you all that and I love that's one of my favorite things But I don't follow Jesus to get the good life. I followed Jesus to get Jesus Followed Jesus because because he's God and that relationship is worth following. I just imagine John on the island of Patmos Jesus appears to him revelation one and he falls so dead He's not he's not looking up going Was it worth it I could have been Still in Galilee and are you kidding? It's it's grosses amount to even have the the conversation He invited me to follow him. He's Jesus This is what last for and then I know in my own life. There's moments where I go Am I really gonna give God everything? How do I get to where I really say take it all? This God you're worth it It's this revelation of who he is and what he's done for me and this unending search To uncover who he is in the scripture to behold him when I sing the songs I lock you to first to lock in with our minds who he really is and when we read the scriptures that we connect with A person we fill our hearts with the worthiness of the lamb the worthiness of who he is and when as we gained that Then the overflow of our heart is of course. I give everything I'm not measuring if or not and we do that my youth pastors. I did that youth pastor Sometimes I did like you know the moment where it's like hey come to church and we'll have a party And you can eat cake pop balloons with your butt eat pizza eat spiders It's gonna be fun and all will sneak in the gospel and it never worked that way It just it never works Here's what works He's worthy of all and he asked for all and if you give all you'll never regret following the lamb He's worthy of it all He's he's worth. He's worth it And when we when we grow in it when we understand it then out of gratitude for who he is out of gratitude for what? He's done for us gratitude of the gospel. We're like, yes. I'll give you everything Yes, of course Jesus you can have it all you're worthy of my life. There is no Bank account. That's not yours. There is no day. That's not yours. I don't have a relationship That's not everything that I have it belongs to you because you gave me new life You are king. You are God and that grows inside of us. Yes. Yeah, you can have it She recognized who he is what he's done for you Transforms We just came out of Christmas and Christmas season at my house is a lot of shopping. I don't know what's like for you, but My boy Doss, I'm talking about him cuz he's with me tonight and it's I really have no hobbies in life So just parenting so anyway all my illustrations are children people like do you golf? I struggle Do I have no I anyway, so so but but I was but but Doss Had a significant problem in his life And one that was causing turmoil in our home because he lost his air pod case and And so he came to us and he said mom and dad I want to go buy a new air pod case and We said how much is it and he said $80 for what an air pod case just the case not the pod just the case Yeah, just the case so $80 well Doss you you have about $200 so this is about 40% of your net worth You want the air pod case I want the air pod case we will not buy you an air pod case Well, I will spend my own money for an air pod case We don't think that's good Stewart should have the air to spend that way I recognize that but this is my money and I want to buy it. We don't think you should do it I really would like to do it. We're not a said to him Dawson Just give it three days you just lost it if you'll just give it three days We'll probably find it Dawson said I don't want to give it three days. I need this air pod case so we went to the Apple store Dawson went in with Renata and bought the air pod case and We drove home as a family. It was family night and Adeline my little girl that All my kids she's the one that looks like me bless the Lord and She's got blonde hair blue eyes. She's short. She screams all the time and We had been home for about four minutes when Adeline walks into the kitchen and says I found an air pod case And I looked at Renata. I call her p31 for Proverbs 31. I said p31 knows best Doss and Doss smiled and so we went back as a family and Dawson returns the air pod case and he goes in and He gets a fair exchange, right? I mean he gives back the air pod case and he gets back $80 the $80 that it's worth And that's the way that we always think fair. We're Americans. We think fair exchange. I Want you to imagine what the gospel is what you imagine what you've received I want you to imagine that this is not a fair exchange that you've received That's been given to you. Imagine if Dawson walked in hipster dressed in black white tennis shoes skinny and he gives them Air pod case and imagine if in response not fair exchange But mind-blowing exchange. Hey young 15 year old boy. We'll take that case and we are going to give you The company called Apple it now belongs to you Every store every device every dollar all stock it belongs to you in that moment There is a 15 year old boy that would have a mind-blowing response can't be true right Let me tell you this what we've received this thing called eternal life this relationship It's the mind-blowing exchange and can you imagine the absurdity when we come to God and say I ain't given at all I'm whole not Imagine if you could see what you've been given if you could see who he is the more that you have greater understanding That's how it greater revelation in prayer as you pray and fast in worship as you sing songs of who he is Supernaturally the Lord opens up your eyes that you could behold the glory of God that you could recognize who he is and what he's done for you Then the response of the heart is this mind-blowing this great exchange is Unbelievable it's too good to be true and I'll give you everything. I want to give all back to God It's the simplicity For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son Jesus that whosoever would believe in him would not perish But have eternal life for God did not send a son into the world to the condemn the world, but to save the world through him I'm telling you better than we can imagine. He's better than we imagine what we get It's what we come before him and we bring our ashes and it says in Isaiah 61. He gives us beauty We come before him and we just we come dead and he says Make you spiritually alive. You've got it all given to you by Jesus when you got Jesus you get new life You've got a savior. You've got a king forever Imagine imagine if we're just if we're just holding on another response is 2020 I Resign up again for all. You're worthy of it all I sign up again. Yes. It looks different man for me You all when I was in ninth grade That man mmm. I kiss dating goodbye that man I lead a prayer meeting and I Obey my parents look different at 25 Look different at 35 Sometimes the memory of yesteryear is what we're still living on and we've been living in compromise for quite a while I just want you to come before God tonight and just be like a child have that fresh moment that say every Every file in my mind belongs to you every affection in my heart belongs to you everything that I have every ounce of energy every dollar every minute time tell it you're worthy of it all You can have it John doesn't say mmm. I'll give you some I'll give you part. No he falls down dead Mary pours it out. It's Jesus What? This is not a waste He's worthy. I just had a funny thing happen my My parents my dad's one of my closest friends in the world and My dad made a commitment when he was when he had the shock of his life in 1976 where he expected to have one child just me but he had triplets and I like to say that. Well, I won't tell you that. I don't know if that might be I like to tell my sisters that I'm the only one that my parents planned Because that's true, but anyway and my parents had the shock of their lives when instead of one child in there There was triplets and so three and so if you don't know what a triplet is It's the equivalent of being born in a litter. It's yeah So my parents had David Dana and Debra They thought that there was two up until after the second one was born. I was born first God's choice and then Four minutes later came Dana and then the doctor looked at my mom after 81 hours of labor and said Debbie Will you buy me? I don't know why I said this but will you buy me a hot fudge Sunday if I give you another baby and my mom after 81 hours wanted to kill him and then Debra came out three pounds and David Dana Debra and my dad five years later. They had Dan and my mom's name is Debbie. My dad's name is Hal and Yeah, and my dad and made this commitment He's a pastor and made this commitment to disciples children My dad walked with me my whole my whole childhood all my teen years and spent a minimum of an hour a week sitting with me talking about How to follow Jesus and what look like and and so my dad has been my my dearest friend my whole life and We're still close. We were FaceTiming last night and and it had a weird thing happen and that is that When Renata and I went to go travel Last in November my parents came and watched our four children and so they're in their 70s mid 70s and my dad After what while I was gone my dad texts me and says David Can I wear this shirt? Which is just bizarre because my dad is not a fashion guy and He asked to wear a shirt and I just thought about what what of the what would the absurdity be if I said nah That's my shirt right Here's what took place in my heart dad You Bought a new 1977 Oldsmobile station wagon when I was born for me you bought three high chairs When we were born you discipled me my entire life You helped me get a card in 1988 Chevy celebrity You got help me get my first you you help me go to college you help me go to seminary you You can't have the shirt no The the text back to my dad was of course of course you can have the blood I got lots of shirts I Can't even I could never begin to pay back. I Couldn't I couldn't have what whatever you want. You can have whatever dad. Why? Because ain't nobody Given to me like he's given to me Hey, nobody ever loved me When I was in my darkest day When I was a 13 year old kid and I was slammed into lockers there was one dad that was locking eyes with me Discipline me speaking and it's not just financial It's relational Spiritual There's not much. There's nothing my dad could say hey Can I get I would I wouldn't give and I'm just telling you in our lives If we get a forget just a fraction of who he is and what he's given us Eternal life eternity with him the responses Take it You can have it all. That's what Paul says Paul's life forever gets changed acts nine beholds Jesus life changes When he comes to the end, he's writing young Timothy most scholars believe second Timothy is the last book that he wrote and he says Poured on my life like a drink offering. It's all his I finished raised a thought the fight a moment You see him acts nine a moment. You behold him You go Gladly give you everything. How how David how do I how do I grow on that? Here's it's one prayer Starts with just this Paul prays it any fusions one Just says I pray that the eyes of your heart would be opened That's a weird phrase and most of us when we hear that we only think of open the eyes of my heart Open the eyes and we have no idea what we're singing. We're just Slow down. It's actually it's before it was Hillsong. It was in the Bible. It's it's this idea Paul saying oh Give me a spirit of wisdom and revelation that I might know you better open up the eyes of my heart that I might see It's the things of God at work. It's revelatory It's God doing things inside. It's when you come before God and you pray and fast for 21 days You come before God and you're seeking him. You're after God It's these moments. It's these encounters that mean everything to us Because they open up our eyes to see more when you see more when you get whether it's the scripture Sometimes it's in the scriptures and you behold more sometimes you're singing worship songs You're declaring who God is in the Holy Spirit Romans 5 5 says the Holy Spirit pours out the love of God into our heart The Holy Spirit is at work and you don't even know exactly what's going on But God is moving inside of you and you start to behold him more the response is You're worthy and I want to take a moment tonight and Just ask the Lord for an encounter with Jesus that the worthiness of the Lamb right now at least said it a moment ago Right now the heavenly scene declaring worthy is the Lamb and when we come before him And we just say let me see more. There's a reason why angels around the throne declare holy There's a reason why seraphim cry holy Where they fall down before him holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty who hasn't as to come Eternity backwards Eternity forwards and in the present. They're crying holy You and I were redeemed. We've been saved We've got the opportunity to say you are worthy and you have saved me And the overflow is not I'm gonna hold on to my shirt. I'm gonna hold on to a little bit The only response is I gave you an airpod case and you gave me everything you can have it all God And sometimes if you hear that with only your head The affection of your heart won't give all But if you'll have moments where God reveals God to you Then it's supernatural activity where you go. I'm yours I've beheld him and you will live in a culture that will say why this waste Why spend in a Wednesday night at church? Why serving all the time why you saving your dollars to go to another part of the world to go take the gospel To those who have never heard Why are you why are you taking care of the poor in other countries? What's why you go to that prayer me you your church is how many prayer meetings a week you multiple prayer meetings a day You guys are weird Waste of your lunch hour worth it Waste of your money worth it Waste of your early morning you could be running worth it. You can have it all Lord I want to go old-school church for a moment, and I'd like to invite you if you're willing to take a moment and Just kneel at your chair or come on up here with me come right up here And I'd like you to just have a moment where like Mary you just say I'm pouring it out You're worth it. I give you my life again. I give you 2020 whatever you ask of me I'll give your worth All and I mean it like don't let this just be a moment where you just do it because other people are doing it And I would ask you even if you think you're too cool like I'm not doing it No, if you're following if you could say today, I give you Jesus I give you everything in 2020 I give you all take all of me And you know that you can comb through the affections of your heart And you know there's places where the Holy Spirit will highlight and say I'm coming after that I want all and some of you resist moments like this because you know that there'll be a moment of conviction where the Lord will lead you I want to invite you don't do that open up your heart get a posture that just comes for God and say you're worthy So if you would just go ahead and either join me now or kneel at your seat Father's Radiant Church in 21 days of prayer and fasting We're called seek We seek first whatever you give us The blessings We'll take But we're not in it for that we're in it for you to first again. He loved us first You're the creator your father You gave us new life your hope and your reward. You're our joy You're our crown you're our friend You're our shield you're worthy you can have my job have my marriage I give you my early mornings. I give you my late nights Holy Spirit we're desperate for God. Would you just ask right now? Holy Spirit Just even as Paul prayed for the church in Ephesus Open the eyes of my heart. I want to see more Encounter God more I want to be closer every dollar. It's not about me the first God We just give the Lord this rest of the fast Season of seek me in a supernatural way show me What you're doing show me what all looks like show me the hidden places Holding on to fraction That I just won't give you gave all I give all we'd rather be with you than anywhere else