 Look with me in John chapter four, beginning in verse number one. It says, therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, though Jesus himself did not baptize, but as disciples, he left Judea and he departed again to Galilee, but he needed to go through Samaria. And so he came to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now, Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, therefore, being wearied from his journey, sat thus by the well, and it was about the sixth hour. And a woman of Samaria came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, give me a drink, and his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. And then the woman of Samaria said to him, how is it that you, being a Jew, ask a drink for me, a Samaritan woman? For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. And Jesus answered, and he said to her, if you knew the gift of God and who it is, who says to you, give me a drink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water. The woman said to him, sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do you get this living water? Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us this well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons, and his livestock? And Jesus answered, and he said to her, whoever drinks of the water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I give him will become in him a fountain of living water springing up into everlasting life. And the woman said to him, sir, give me then this water that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw. Jesus said to her, go call your husband and come here. The woman answered, said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, you have well said I have no husband, for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband, in that you spoke truly. And the woman said to him, sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers who worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship. And Jesus said to her, woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem worship the Father. You worship what you do not know, and we know what we worship for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour is coming, and now is when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. For the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth. And the woman said to him, I know that the Messiah is coming, who is called the Christ. And when He comes, He will tell us all things. Verse 26, Jesus said to her, I who speak to you am He. This is the word of God. This is what Jesus said to a woman that He encountered who was outside of His sphere of appropriate influence. Jesus makes it very clear as He's talking to this woman at the well that, and she even acknowledges it, that it is out of the ordinary. In fact, in most circles even may be viewed as inappropriate for Jesus who's a Jew to be talking to a Samaritan. And it's interesting though that if we look at the Gospel of John, knowing that today is Pentecost Sunday, and reminding our hearts that just before Pentecost Sunday, Jesus gave a pattern of ministry to the apostles before the Holy Spirit was poured out on them. Acts chapter one, verse eight, some of the last words that Jesus said to His disciples were this. He said, but remain in the city because you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. And then He said this, you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in Judea and to the uttermost parts, in Samaria and to the uttermost parts of the world. Jesus gave this ripple effect of starting in Jerusalem, then Judea, then Samaria and to the uttermost parts of the world. And Jesus actually follows this same pattern. What you see is very clearly in John chapter two, verse 23, it says, and when He was in Jerusalem. So there's Jerusalem. And then John 3.22 says, and after these things, Jesus and His disciples came into the land of Judea. So Jerusalem, Judea. And now we find in John chapter four, it's saying that Jesus needed to go into Samaria. And what you'll see in the next couple of chapters in John, it's very interesting how Jesus demonstrates this ripple effect of pattern of influence and going. What you'll see is He'll go from Samaria back to Galilee, but then He crosses over the Sea of Galilee into the Decapolis, which is the nations. It's where the Romans live. So Jesus goes, Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, to the uttermost parts of the world. And He does it. He begins His ministry in the first few chapters of John under the power and the influence of the Holy Spirit in the exact same way that Jesus said to the apostles in Acts chapter one, wait until the power comes. And then you'll be my witnesses, Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria to the uttermost parts of the world. Why is that important? Why it's important is we can read the Gospel of John or any of the parts of the Bible if we're not careful, and we see the surface story, but we don't understand how in the ministry of Jesus, Jesus did not just come to do ministry. Jesus came to establish a pattern of how to do ministry. Jesus never called His church or His followers, His disciples to do anything that He did not Himself do. And in fact, Jesus never called His church to do anything differently than He did or with less influence or power than He did it. Jesus, everything He did, including this encounter with a Samaritan woman and the rest of John 4, if we had a couple hours, we could break down the entire chapter where He heals a nobleman's son. The signs, the wonders, the words of knowledge, the information, all of this, how did Jesus do ministry? He did it under the power of the Holy Spirit. Acts 10, 38, looking back at Jesus' ministry, Luke writes this. He says, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power who went about doing good and healing those who were sick and oppressed by the devil, for the Lord was with Him. God was with Him. And in the same way Jesus told His apostles in Matthew, chapter 28, He says, Lo, I will be with you until the end of the age. Therefore you go into all the world and preach the gospel. So Jesus established a pattern and then gave it to the church and called us on Pentecost to retrace His steps. Now this Pentecost, I want us to get this, that ministry to the lost, to the broken, to the hurting, to the hopeless, to the spiritually blinded, to the prodigals is not something that was just for Jesus or just for the super spiritual. It's for every single disciple of Jesus. And lest we say we don't know how to do what Jesus did, what we need to look at is seeing the pattern of how Jesus did ministry. He's talking to a Samaritan woman. Jews don't have any dealings with Samaritans. In fact, they called them dogs. And on top of that, Jesus as a Jewish teacher, a man would have never been seen alone in normal circumstances with a female at a well. And the reason why this woman is at the well in the middle of the day is because she's going at the off time when nobody else goes to the well. The rest of the women go early in the morning when it's still cool. She comes at noon when nobody else is there to avoid controversy. And Jesus calls out that controversy. Jesus says, give me a drink of water. She says, you know, we heard the story and then he, he says, now go get your husband. And she says, well, I don't have a husband. And then, you know, the story Jesus calls her out. He's like, yeah, you don't have a husband. You've had five. And the guy you're shocked up with now is not your husband. Bonus information, just because you dwell in the same house doesn't mean that you're married. Jesus said that the man that you're living with now you're not married to. And then her response is probably the same response most of us would have. I perceive you are a prophet. In other words, you're reading my mail. How many of, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to read your mail back there, but that's always my reaction when God reads my mail to you. It's like, oh, God, this was her response. It's like, God, it's like, I perceive you are a prophet. How did Jesus know that she had been with five different men and now she's with the sixth? He didn't know it just because he had gotten information inside her trading information from the Samaritans. He knew it under the power of the Holy Spirit. He knew it. It's called a word of knowledge. How is it that Jesus healed the noble man's son with just a word? He did it under the power of the Holy Spirit, the same power of the Holy Spirit that Jesus commanded the disciples to weigh in Jerusalem to receive. You see, we all need the power of the Holy Spirit. I think oftentimes we attempt to do things in our own power, in our own strength, and then we wonder why they fail when there is power and there is anointing of the Holy Spirit that's available to every believer. It's the same Holy Spirit. It's the same power that Jesus functioned in ministry, but yet oftentimes we try to do things in our own strength and our own power first, and then if that fails, we ask God to move miraculously. What would happen if we shifted our priority list and said, God, before I even attempt to do anything in my own strength or my own power, I'm going to recognize my own dependency and need for you. There's one verse in this whole story that just jumps out to me, and this is where I want to focus in this morning. It's verse number four. Look, chapter four, verse four. And this morning I'm intentionally reading from the New King James because I cut my teeth, memorized all of the Bible that I, for the first 25 years of being a Christian, out of the New King James, and sometimes I just, I love going back to the New King James, says it in a really powerful way. But look at verse number four. It says, but he needed to go through Samaria. But he needed to go through Samaria. Why is that significant? Well, most of the time when Galilean Christian or Galilean Jews living in the north of Israel would travel to Jerusalem, they would overtly avoid going through Samaria. They don't want to have any contact with Samaritans. So they would actually go around it. They would go through Jericho and then up. They would avoid Samaria, even though the quickest way would have been going through the land. The Bible says as Jesus is going to Jerusalem, it says he needed to go to Jerusalem or he needed to go through Samaria. Why is it that Jesus needed to go through Samaria? I'm going to propose to you, he needed to go through Samaria because going through Samaria was the only path of obedience for him. God the Father was calling him to go to Samaria. God had scheduled a divine appointment for Jesus with this woman at this well, because this well would become the ripple effect of the gospel penetrating a community of people that had previously been viewed as off limits. Nobody had any contact with Samaritans. These are Samaritans, they're dogs, they're half breeds. The Samaritans are the descendants of the northern 10 tribes of Israel that had been intermarried by the Assyrians with pagan culture and they had some good theology. They had their own version of the Old Testament, but they had their own form of worship that they were just considered untouchable. So everybody else avoided them. Isn't it interesting that the very people that everybody else wanted to avoid are the very ones that God spoke to Jesus and said, no, you need to go here. And God absolutely knew that Jesus was going to intersect with this woman. That's why Jesus is waiting at the well. He's waiting at the well. The disciples had gone into town to Taco Bell. Jesus, we're going into town, we're going to get some food. You want anything? Jesus is like, no, I'm good. All right, we're going to go grab some gorditas and some nacho Belgrande because you can only get it in Samaria. You can't get that stuff in Israel and Jerusalem. And so we're going to go into town and get some food. And Jesus says, no, I'm going to sit right here. And he sits and he waits. And this woman who's been alone, who's been searching for a place of belonging, she's made a lot of mistakes, she's been immoral, she's broken, she's ostracized, comes to get water from the well. And when she shows up, she encounters Jesus. And it becomes not only transformative for her because Jesus becomes the one that speaks to her and says, the one that you're looking for, it's me. And what does she do? You read the rest of the story. She leaves her water pots there. She's just like, skip this. She runs into town to the very people she's trying to avoid. Now she's filled with boldness and she says, come and see a man who's told me everything I ever did. He's the Messiah, the son of the living God. And it says, everybody in the town left and they came into the proximity of where Jesus was and the gospel spread powerfully. It says many, many of the Samaritans believed in him. They begged him to stay. And what does it describe about Jesus in verse 42? It says we know that this is indeed the Christ, the savior of the world. The Samaritans say he's the savior of the world, not just Jews. He's the savior of the world, not just for the people that got it all together. He's the savior of the adulterous woman who's ostracized because of her immorality. She has encountered the living God. She's encountered, she's found salvation and hope. And so if she can, everybody can. And they are drawn to Jesus. And what we know is that the gospel penetrated deep into the Samaritan culture. And it had to do with this one verse, Jesus had. He needed to go through Samaria. You see, when we look at the pattern of Jesus' life, how he did ministry, I will tell you this, that Jesus is the prototype. He's the prototype for all of us. How to live our lives, how to be followers of Jesus and how to live lives of sacrificial, radical obedience to God and his purpose for us. One of the questions that almost everybody seeks out, whether you're a Christian or not, is what's my purpose? What's my purpose? It's no accident that the number one best-selling book of all time other than the Bible is Rick Warren's book, The Purpose Driven Life. Why do people get it, Christian and non-Christian? Why do they buy that book? Because everybody has a sense on the inside of them, there's a purpose for my life. And in the church, among Christ's followers, those who've been saved, those who like Caleb talked about have not just had a reformation, they've had a regeneration. They've been born again. I can tell you that throughout the many years of being a pastor, the number one question I get asked is, I'm trying to find God's will for my life. In fact, how many of you have ever spent a minute, a day, an hour, a season of your life thinking about, I really just want to know what God's purpose for my life is? How many, look at that. And even if you have a glimpse of, I think it's this, I don't know what tomorrow and I don't know what the steps are to get there, to actually live it out. Some of us even have a sense of what God's purpose for our life is. We just don't know how to get there. And so we get stuck in a frustration. It's like, I know I'm called to do this. I know I was created to do this. And we can get stuck in this rut of, number one, I want to know what my purpose is, or number two, I kind of have a general sense. I don't know how to get there. I'm going to help you out today. Can I tell you, I'm going to answer the question for every single one of us in this room today, what God's will for us and his purpose is for us, and how to get there. Here's what it is. One word. You ready? Write this down. It's obedience. Your purpose is to obey God. Well, that's not, that's not really, I mean, that's not tickling my fancy. I mean, that's not what, that's not, come on, I thought you were going to like say, you know, your purpose is to be the CEO of a major corporation. Your purpose is to find that dreamy, hunky guy and get married, and he's going to be my prince charming, or, you know, my purpose is to, you know, be rich or be famous. Listen, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you. Obedience will take you places that you never thought you would ever go. Obedience opens the doors to the miraculous and the supernatural and the favor of God. Doors that no man can open and doors that no man can close. It all boils down to obedience. How do we know this? Because that's the way Jesus lived his life. He woke up every single day and said, today is a day for me to see what the Father is doing and to obey him in every single decision of my life. When we look at Jesus as a prototype, here's the definition of a prototype, Miriam Webster's dictionary. It's an original model on which something is patterned. It's an archetype, an individual that exhibits the essential features of a later type. So when we say Jesus is the prototype, Jesus is the pattern. He's the archetype of somebody who fulfilled his purpose in God. If we want to walk in our total purpose, God will very rarely give you a snapshot in a blueprint of what your life will look like. But what he does promise us is if you'll obey him, you'll end up exactly in the center of his will for your life. That's what you can count on. But what we really want is we want God to roll it out and saying, here's your all-inclusive package. Here's where you're going to end up. Here's how old you'll be. This is how happy you'll be. And God doesn't do that. I've been waiting for that package to arrive. It's more like a Polaroid. How many of you know what a Polaroid is? Picture, okay. You used to have these pictures. And it's got chemicals in it. You take a picture and you got to shake it. And how many know when you're shaking, it's like, I think I see something in there. But the longer you shake it, the clearer the picture becomes. That's what your purpose is like. God says, obey me. And with every act of obedience, it's like shaking the picture and your purpose becomes more clear. When we look at the prototype of Jesus, this verse just rings out to me. It says, he needed to go through Samarit. Everything Jesus did was strategic. Everywhere Jesus went was intentional. Every encounter Jesus had was transformative. And every decision Jesus made had one goal, obedience. That's it. Obedience. In fact, he has this encounter. He goes to Samaria out of obedience. He says, I have to go to Samaria. This is what the Father is doing. It's interesting. If you, I'm going to give you a sneak preview of where we're going. Turn over in your Bibles, John 519. It's like one page over. If you have a holy Bible, it's page 1416. Okay. Thank you. It's too late. John 519. It says, then Jesus answered to them. Most assuredly I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. Jesus just gave us the formula for His ministry. Jesus, how did you, how did you have these divine encounters? I mean, how did you know to go, excuse me, to a well and that a woman was going to show up, a divine encounter that was going to open the doors for the gospel into a marginalized isolated group of people that would be impacted by the gospel. Jesus, how were you able to just speak a word when somebody came to you and their child was healed? Jesus, how was it when people were hungry? You knew to take the bread and to bless it and to break it and to multiply and to hand it out. Jesus, how did you know not to answer directly to the Pharisees when they were trying to trap you with a question? Jesus, how did you know to leave Jerusalem and go back to Galilee because the Pharisees were going to arrest you and your time wasn't yet? Jesus, how did you know to say to Peter and John and James, you don't know what spirit you're of? Jesus, how did you know that? It wasn't by accident. It wasn't just because He was God. It was, it says very clearly that Jesus was dependent on the Holy Spirit and He spent time with the Father. He knew His word and His life's goal was not to make something of Himself but it was to totally fulfill God's purpose through His life. And because He made that decision, every place He went, everything He did was transformative. Look at John 4, verse 32. When they come back and they see that Jesus has ministered in this woman's running by them on their way back with their bags of Taco Bell and this woman goes running by them and they see that she's just been talking with Jesus. They're just like, Jesus, what were you do talking to her? What's going on? And Jesus is like, yeah, don't worry about ministry moment. And they're just like, well, are you hungry? Verse 32, Jesus says, I have food to eat that you know not of. Jesus is like, I got, He's fired up. Sometimes I think we make Jesus too stoic. We got like Jesus in the middle of a ministry moment and we think, I have food to eat that you know not of. Now I think they came back and Jesus fired up. He's like, I got food to eat that you don't know of because nothing exhilarated Jesus more than doing the will of His Father. And then the disciples, because they're such knuckleheads, look at verse 32, there's like, the disciples said to one of them, has somebody brought Jesus food to eat? Do you like call Uber Eats or something? And he had food we didn't know about. Why did we just go into, it's like, what's Jesus eating? Verse 34 answers the question, my food is to do the will of Him who sent me into finish His work. That's my food. This is what nourishes me. This is what strengthens me. This is what I'm working for. This is my diet that's feeding me. You know, we hear all the time that we are what we eat. How many have ever heard that? Which in my case means I'm mostly ice cream and Doritos. If you are what you eat, if you are what you eat, it's like, if you are what you eat, eat healthy food, you're gonna be healthy. If that's true and Jesus said His food is to do the will of Him who sent Him, then what is Jesus? Jesus is a physical manifestation of the will of God. There was never a moment in Jesus's life where he didn't know he was in the center of God's will for Him, whether it was easy or difficult because there was never a moment in his life that he didn't ask the question, Father, what are you doing? And I want to challenge us today. What would our lives look like if we changed our diet? I'm not talking about our physical diet. I'm talking about what would our lives look like if we stopped feeding? What would our lives look if we stopped feeding on the fast food of instant gratification, on the junk food of self aggrandization? What would happen if we stopped feeding at the table of self-helpism and the path of least resistance? And what would our lives look like if we went from just feasting one day a week on God's will and God's word and we went to a regular diet of saying, Father, what is your will? What are you doing? Who are you highlighting? Who are you prompting in my life? What if every day you woke up and said, God, I know I'm going to work, but who's on your heart at my workplace today that you want to use me to speak life and encouragement into? That doesn't mean you've got to get them in a cubicle and go, hey, do you got five minutes? I've got a little sermon I want to preach at you. Or can I pull up a YouTube version? Here's Pastor Lee. Can you watch this and then we'll get back together? What if it's just you stepping into the cubicle and they've had a terrible day and God highlighted them and you just spoke a word of encouragement. You invited them to church. You invited them to coffee. You said, hey, I want to hear your story. How are you doing? What if you just became somebody that cared and you're just like, well, I don't know who to do that with. God does. What if you ask God, God today, who are you highlighting? God today, what's going on in my kids? I believe, Jane and I believe wholeheartedly in supernatural parenting. We need partnership with the Holy Spirit. We need sensitivity and dependency upon the Holy Spirit to raise our kids. God, what can I do today? Where am I going? Is there somebody that you're highlighting? This is the lifestyle that Jesus demonstrated. And listen, this is the supernatural lifestyle. God wants for every single one of us. Let me tell you two stories. One's a success. One's a failure. And my own life. So in, I think it was 2010, I had met a man from India by the name of R. Abraham, who this church loves. But I met him at a pastor's conference. Somebody recommended what he was doing. I talked with him. We had a great conversation. That was it. And you need to know when you're a pastor, you meet missionaries all the time. It's difficult to know who you should partner with and who you should just know. Or you can't do everything for everybody. So I met him and that was it. And one day it was a Tuesday. I was getting ready to go and do staff meeting, which we do every Tuesday. And I had a prompting from the Holy Spirit to not go in to teach staff meeting, but to drive to Grand Rapids and to go to a church that had been our ascending church who did staff meeting on Tuesdays. So I called, I think it was John, and I said, hey, I'm not coming into staff today. I feel like I've just got this prompting that I'm supposed to go to Grand Rapids. And in my mind, I thought, I'm gonna go to their staff meeting. I walked into that lobby that morning and there was Abraham. And he was walking across the lobby and I'm like, Abraham, it's interesting because a couple of weeks earlier, I had prayed and I had said, God, do you want us to partner at all missions wise with what they're doing in India? And I felt like the Lord said, yes, but I'm gonna let you know what to do. And the Lord gave me this phrase. He said, when you talk to Abraham, just ask him what you can do to help. So I just checked the box of thought. I'll probably see him next year. This particular day I walked in the lobby. There's Abraham. I'm like, what are you doing here? He's like, I hadn't planned on being here. We came for a, I was supposed to be someplace else today. I'm in the States, but it got canceled. So I'm here today. And I said, well, let's go grab a cup of coffee. We sat down and I actually videotaped it. I have it on my phone sat down in the olive tree coffee shop. And I said, Abraham, the Lord told me next time I talked with you to ask you what we can do to help you, what you need. And he said, we need orphanages. We're taking these kids out of the trash heaps. We have no place to put them. We want to put them in homes where they have home parents who are also their teachers and also their pastors. Would you build an orphanage? And I clicked play. I said, Abraham, talk to radiant church and tell us what you need. Recorded it. And that was the year that we built our first orphanage. It's become a strategic partnership. Everywhere you go in India right now, you don't know it as radiant church, but you can't go anywhere in the nation of India where there are not granite plaques that say schools, orphanages, churches, institutions, whatever it is built by the people of radiant church in a continent with 1.4 billion people, 95% of them don't know Jesus. And it was because of one response to a prompting on a Tuesday morning. And I can go, yeah, that was successful. Let me tell you about my failure. High school. And I have a lot more recent failures, but I'll let them age before I share them with you. In high school, I had one of my closest friends. His name was Ed Burdick. We grew up together, played basketball together. When I encountered the Lord, when God encountered me, coming back into my freshman year, man, I was so zealous. I witnessed to everybody and I shared. I told Ed what the Lord had done in my life. And Ed was larger than life. Ed was the cool popular kid at school. He was a break dancer, great basketball player, drove a Camaro with teatops, had the blonde feathered hair in the 80s. I mean, he was a stud. Everybody loved Ed. And Ed, I had been friends since like fourth grade. And so I came back and I shared my faith with Ed. Ed's just like, he looked at me one day and right outside of the gymnasium, we had a hall called the Hall of Fame. They had all the athletes in frames from all the years past our high school. I remember right where we were standing when he looked at me and he said, Lee, you and I are friends. But if you ever share, if you ever talk about this to me again, I'm gonna kick your any expletive. And so we grew apart over the next couple of years. And there were multiple occasions where I felt I was supposed to talk again to Ed or invite him to church or our youth group. And I didn't because of what he had said. Our senior year, he was a year younger than me actually, or he was a year older than me. So my senior year graduated the week of graduation. I went to a park that we all played basketball at, kind of street ball. And I showed up, Ed was there. I saw his car and Ed was playing and we were playing, having a good time. We were on the same team high five and just having a great time afterwards, walking back to our car together. He's like, hey, what are your plans? Now after graduation, I said, I'm gonna go to Bible college. He's like, oh yeah. And there was a window of opportunity where I felt like the Holy Spirit was breathing on me to say something. And I didn't. I said, I'll do it another time. That weekend, Ed was at a party. His girlfriend broke up with him. He got smashed drunk, handed the keys to his friend to drive. His friend was drunk. And they crossed over railroad tracks on 68th Street and Division and got blindsided by a train. And Ed died. I went to Ed's funeral. And the whole time that I was there looking at his mom, who I knew well, I thought to myself, I should have said something. That Thanksgiving, we all stopped over at Ed's house. His mom had a place at the table for Ed. And I thought to myself, I should have said something. I made a decision that day. There's never gonna be a moment where I feel the leadership of the Holy Spirit telling me to do something that I'm not going to respond no matter what it costs me. I made that decision. I made a decision that I was changing my diet. That obedience was no longer gonna be an option, a nice thing to do. Or a trophy winning moment. It's like, okay, I'm a spirit. I want to live my life so sensitive to the leadership of the Lord, the Father. And I don't want to have to have the Father interrupt my world to get my attention. I want to be so sensitive like Jesus. If I can ever become like Jesus, I want to become so sensitive. It's like, Lord, what do you think about these people? What do you think about this person? Lord, today as I wake up, I know I have my plans. I know I've got my agenda. But God, what's on your agenda today? What do you want to say to me? Where do you want to send me? Who do you need me to be your heart and your hands and your mouthpiece to? That's the way Jesus lived his life. He needed to go to Samaria because Samaria is where the food that he feeded upon was waiting. The food of obedience to the Father. And this is the lifestyle that he's calling all of us to live. Would you stand with me wherever you're at today? He's calling us to radical obedience to him. Not my will, but yours be done. And let me tell you something. Saying yes to Jesus, living your life in ultimate ultra sensitivity to God, saying, God, I'm not going to ask you any longer, God, what's your will for my life? I'm going to say today, how can I be obedient to you? And I'm going to trust that every day that I choose obedience is going to lead me step by step in the pathway of your will for my life. I can trust you with getting me with where you want me to go. If you can trust me with doing what you've called me to do day by day and moment by moment. I'll tell you what, the apostles had no idea where their obedience was taking them. But every day that Jesus said, follow me, let's go, they said yes. What would happen if every single day you woke up and said two things? Number one, today I say yes to you, Jesus, you are Lord of my life. And number two, wherever you lead me, I will follow no matter the cost. I promise you, it's going to take you into some wild places. It's going to lead you into some incredible conversations and some very difficult circumstances. But at the end of the day, if we live every single day like this, we're going to become what we eat. We will become the Word and the will of God in human flesh. Because we've said yes to Jesus. Would you bow your heads with me? Father, today we say we want to do your will. Lord, would you help us? In the same way you sent the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. Father, would you send the fire of Pentecost once again into the hearts of your people, your church? Lord, today we say we're sorry. I say I'm sorry for the times I've quenched you, for the times I've said, I don't want to do it your way. I want to do it my way. For the times I've felt your impressions and your nudges or I've read your word and it's clear what your will is, but I've chosen another path. Today, Lord, I say I'm sorry. Holy Spirit, I'm sorry. Reignite the fire inside of me again. Lord, I want to be like the woman at the well who when confronted with my own failings is willing to drop the water jar. And run because you filled me with the joy knowing that I'm seen and I'm loved and that you will use me despite whatever failings have led up to this moment. God, and I pray that for all of us today, I pray, Lord, that you would help us all to see ourselves as the one who says, come and see a man who knows everything I've ever done, but yet has loved me. I want to invite our prayer team to make their way to the front, if they would, all across the front. And here's how we're going to dismiss this morning. I want you to ask yourself a question. What is the Holy Spirit saying to you today? Is the Holy Spirit right now bringing to the surface an area of your life where there's been disobedience? Is the Holy Spirit highlighting a conversation or a relationship that you need to have? Is he highlighting somebody that maybe you need to reach out to and speak, share your faith, encourage them, invite them to church, become a friend to? Is there a relationship that needs to be reconciled? Right now, let's allow our hearts to become tuned in and synced with the leading of the Holy Spirit. And whatever it is that the Holy Spirit showing you today, let's say, yes, I will obey you. I have to go through Samaria. I have to make that phone call. I have to invite this person. I have to share my faith. I have to break off that relationship. I have to repent of this area of my life. Whatever it is today that the Holy Spirit is showing you, let's be quick to obey it. And this morning, if you are here and there's just something that God is deeply convicting you and working in your heart, you just need to solidify that in prayer. Or you need God to step into your situation and move miraculously and powerfully. We believe the same power of Pentecost is here. God heals, saves, and delivers. And if you're any of those three, you need to be delivered, you need to be saved, or you need to be healed. We believe the Holy Spirit still does that. And our team is here to pray and administer to you. And as we dismiss here in second, we're just going to invite you to come and receive prayer. But Lord, today send us from this place as obedient sons and daughters of the living God. Help us to be radiant and to shine brightly to a lost and dark world in Jesus' name. Amen.