 All right. Good morning. Thank you, Pastor Lee. Such an honor to be here. I've heard for years I've heard about this church and have heard for many years about Pastor Lee and your community and what you've stewarded. This is known to be a place that has stewarded both passion for prayer and zeal for the nations. And when I heard that years ago and I had a lot of friends that had come through here or have been on staff here or been, you know, part of the community, I thought, man, these are my people. I can't wait to meet this church in Kalamazoo and get to connect with your heart even more. So it is a mega honor to be here this morning. And I just love what God's doing in Western Michigan as we set off in this journey towards these next four Send locations. And the Lord spoke to us about this area of Western Michigan. This is pretty new for me. I'd not spent hardly any time here. But of course, over the last nine months, we've been here a number of times. And I just want to say, this is an amazing area. I truly believe that God is establishing this area as an Antioch on the earth. That this is a place in America that God is establishing a gentleness, worship and prayer, ministry to His presence and to the Lord. And that out of that is going to come massive mission sending. It's already happening. It has happened in history, but it's going to happen more than ever. And then God is establishing this as a place of training, of hospitality, of sending, multiculturalness. It's a place just like Antioch was in the early church where the prophets and the teachers would walk hand in hand, spirit and truth, married together. And the more that I find out about your church and your community, the more I go, man, this makes so much sense why God would be speaking about Western Michigan right now. There's truly something in the soil, an amazing and rich history, but I'm going to say not just a great history, a great future for Western Michigan and all that God's doing here and all that He's about to do. And so it's a real honor to be with you this morning to share just a bit with you. And I've been in prayer for you and I hope my goal this morning would be that you leave with a little more courage than you came in with. That as you walk out the doors this morning back to whatever God's called you to, to what you do on your Monday morning around here, which I understand the summer is a lot of vacationing as well, which I just wish that Western Michigan would disciple the rest of America in vacation taking. It's amazing. It is totally amazing. I was just told don't try and do anything here in the summer because people are on vacation. So you are truly the radicals that are in church this morning. You must be because the rest are apparently vacationing. This is what I've learned. I could use some discipleship and vacationing, so I'm hoping it rubs off on me while I'm here. But my hope is that as you leave this morning, you'd leave with a little more hope and a little bit more courage for the assignment, the calling of God on your life, on your community, on this area of America, and that you would leave with that hope and that courage. So as I jump in this morning, what I'd like to do is start with a little bit of the Sen story. Not because it's about the Sen, but because I believe it relates to what God's doing in our nation right now and the nations of the earth. And I believe it relates to what's happening in this area of America. It was in 2018 that we gathered together with a number of leaders following, chasing after a prophetic word. That prophetic word was that's kind of in conjunction with a movement called the call, which many of you be familiar with. And the Sen was really kind of birthed out of the call and the ministry of Lou Ingle. And that prophetic word we were chasing was that God was going to gather together the body of Christ, much like he had around the call. And that as we gathered together, that it would be about gospel proclamations, signs, wonders, and miracles would break out, and that the call had gone out, but now it was time to send. That many had responded to that call, but there was a massive sending movement coming to America. That we have a rich history of missions that today America still sends more missionaries than any nation on earth, but that we were just touching the tip of the iceberg. And then out of Gen Z, Generation Z was going to come another massive wave of missionaries that would cover the earth. And the last part of this word was that the passion and the responsibility that Billy Graham carried was going to fall on an entire generation, not just one age group, but a people alive at the same time, not just those with microphones or ministries or platforms or positions or titles, but every believer was going to rise into their evangelistic and missional calling. That we were truly on the doorstep of another Jesus movement in America. How many of you believe that this morning? That we've been in dark times before. We've had bad headlines before. It's looked bleak for America before. Certainly anyone who was alive in the 60s would have said that, my gosh, we don't know if there's a hope or a future for the Church of America, you know, as we look towards the future. But how do you know that Jesus had a plan that was bigger than headlines? Jesus had a plan that was bigger than the sexual revolution. Jesus had a plan that was bigger than everything the enemy could throw at America. And because of that, the Jesus revolution broke out. And how many believe if God's done it before, he can do it again. And we felt a promise in our hearts that was, we set off on this journey that it was really about these two things, spiritual awakening in the nation, another wave of renewal across America, where millions would be swept into the kingdom out of sexual brokenness and confusion, out of all of the craziness that we read in our daily headlines, that God was going to release a harvest across America, and that many of those that get saved, millions would come out of the young generation out of Gen Z. But out of a great spiritual awakening in America would also come a great renewal of the Great Commission in America. Today, and this is absolutely not true of this church, but statistically in America, only 17% of those who go to church on a Sunday morning know what the Great Commission is. That means 83% of those that go to church on a Sunday morning, they literally wrote in the survey, they've never heard of the Great Commission, or they've heard of it and they have no idea what it means. 83% of Americans. So you've got to ask yourself two questions with that. Number one, if we're not talking about the Great Commission in our pulpits, what are we talking about? If it's not a regular, which obviously it is here, we're praying for Kenya, this is, we're talking about the School of Ministry, this is a church that is going after both great zeal for the presence of God, a renewal and great awakening, but also the nations. But 83% of Americans don't know what the Great Commission is. So number one, what are we talking about from our pulpits if they don't know what the Great Commission is? Number two, what do 83% of Christians in America think that the mission for their lives is if they don't know what the Great Commission is, which speaks to much of our problem, which is a missionless church, or many missionless believers, and the second pillar that launched this sin was a passion to put the Great Commission back in the center of the conversation of global Christianity. And we've been talking about a lot of other things, we've been distracted, but God is longing that we would come back to mission center, that we would come back to the teachings of Jesus and the commands and the invitations of Jesus, that the whole earth, every tribe, tongue, and nation would have the great privilege of hearing the good news of Jesus, of having the scripture in their language, and that this defines the mission of the church. So we set off with these two pillars in our hearts to go after the word of the Lord, to chase after these prophecies. And I can tell you that you understand this in your own life, we were way in over our heads. We rented a stadium in faith in Orlando, Florida in 2019, had no idea if anyone would come, I'd never even let a conference in my life, I had no idea what I was doing. I'm from a tiny town in Alaska, if you think you're from a kind of small area of western Michigan, my graduating class was 13, there were no stoplights in my town, we were the end of the road. Before that I lived in the Aleutians out near Russia, and nothing of my life spoke to large-scale gatherings, and nothing in me even wanted to do large-scale gatherings. This was all obedience to something we felt God was saying. To our shock, 58,000 people showed up in that stadium, and we spent 12 hours praying, seeking the face of God, crying out for revival in America, and calling the entire stadium again and again to their great commission calling, whether that's reaching their high school, whether that reach reaching their university, whether that was the neighborhoods of our own nation, whether it was the vulnerable children of our nation living in the foster care system, or whether it was the 3.2 billion people around the world that make up the unreached to the world. And friends, we were astounded by what God did, more than we ever could have asked or imagined. A ripple of activation went out from that gathering. I'll tell a few stories as I kind of go along, but from Orlando we didn't know it was next, really that was all we had felt to do, but as we began to pray the Lord spoke to us that we were to go to Brazil next, that this was meant to move into the nations, it was truly global. And so about a year later we set our sights on Brazil, we rented a stadium in faith again, a huge one, it was way over our heads, and didn't know if anybody would come, all my Brazilian friends said, hey, we launched this registration, Brazilians are a last second culture, so don't panic if they don't register, they won't. They go about a month before, you might get a few people, they go, but two weeks before they really start registering, and a week before they're really going to, so they're like, don't panic, so I'm like, alright. Eight months before we launched this one Instagram post, all it said was that the Sen Brazil is open for registration, no bands, no speakers, we're not about that, we're about everyday believers finding their calling in God. And so we launched this Instagram post, and I was in Egypt at the time, a team called me about six hours later, and they said, Andy, we don't know what happened, but the stadium is sold out in six hours, I guess that's not possible, check the system, something broke, they go, we did, we called the stadium, we said what happened, that's not possible, the stadium said, yeah, we didn't think it was possible either, they go, we checked our system three times to make sure something hadn't broken, because this broke the record for the fastest the stadium has ever filled in its history. Now I'm highly competitive, anybody out there that's just competitive, it's just, it's part of the kingdom, I know there's Bible verses on it, we'll find them someday. But when I heard that, I thought to myself, man, well that, that's amazing, like God's on the move, but I'm kind of like, well what was the record, who did we beat? That was kind of my second question. So I said, well what was the record, they go six and a half hours. Now I go, who held the record? They said you two in cold play held the record. And I thought, my gosh, the great commission is filling stadiums faster than some of the biggest bands of our day. Could it be that we're in a new hour in the body of Christ across the earth, and God is raising up his bride in this hour to take up his mission, was so encouraged by what we saw and what we experienced there. We didn't know what to do because our stadium was filled and it was eight months to the event, so we rented another stadium, it filled up over the weekend, so we rented a third stadium. When it came to the San Brazil, we were in three stadiums on the same day, the 150,000 Brazilians believing that they have a role in leading the great commission across the earth. It was one of the most amazing things I'd ever had a chance to be a part of in my life. Several months later, we went into two years of delays, nobody wanted to talk about stadium gatherings in those two years, and nobody even wants to talk about those two years. So at the end of those two years, we ended up going to Kansas City and then to Norway, again amazed at what God is doing, not about a brand, not about an organization, not about a leader or a speaker or a band, but about God leading his great commission across the earth. This is his zeal, and we're all getting caught up in it. This is his passion for every tribe, tongue, and nation across the earth, for our own nation, for the next generation, and all of us are getting swept up into what God's doing across the earth. Now, as we look back at what God's done, I have so many stories, way more than I can possibly tell in a short amount of time, but one of the things that struck me as we looked back was the massive amount of activation. I just hear stories all the time, several weeks ago, I heard the story of six high schoolers that were at a Boston gathering that we did earlier this year. They were so moved to reach their high schools that they gathered together about two weeks later, we trained them a little bit on how to start a Christian club on their public high school, and the next week, they launched what they call the Jesus Club, their first Jesus Club on their public high school that had over 50 kids who had never set foot in a church before. They were there to hear the gospel because they were bold enough to launch a Christian club on their public high school. They carried that on through the rest of the year, the school year, ready to launch again in the fall, believing that God is calling them to reach their high school, and it's happening. It's actually starting to happen. Another lady came up to me, this was maybe a month ago. She said she came to the San Orlando, and as she was there, she did come from a background that believed in the power of God. She didn't really believe that miracles still occurred or anything like that. She doesn't even know how she came to the San because we clearly did believe all that. But a friend invited her, and she was kind of intimidated being there, but got swept up into her own hunger for God as she was there. She shared this story with me firsthand. She said, I was sitting there, and during the day, someone got up and started to pray for those that had a background of self-hatred, self-harm, that God would heal their hearts and restore them. And the person sitting next to me was clearly getting touched by God. And then they began to pray that God would heal them, even the physical effects of self-harm. She said, I looked over at the person next to me who had cutting scars down her arm from years of self-harm. She said, I looked over and I didn't believe any of this was even possible. And as that person began to pray, all of her scars disappeared on her arm. And she says, I now believe that the power of God is still moving today. I changed churches. I had to find one that actually believed the book of Acts was for today as well. Numerous stories. Same trip as several months ago. Another person came up to me after sharing a church that I was on my way to the sand. And I was two weeks before I almost died. I went into massive surgery and they saved me. They saved my life, but I was cut from hip to hip, major surgery. And I was told because of that surgery, I'll never be able to have children again. I had three children, but we weren't done. I thought, but now we were. She goes, it's only two weeks later, but I felt I was still to go to the sand. I was in so much pain from the incision, as you could imagine. And, but I wanted to be there. I didn't want to miss it. She says, I was there and I was jealous that everyone was able to worship their lifting their hands. And I really couldn't because of all the pain. She goes, but I just began to try. And as I did, the Lord healed me of all the pain of my incision. And I spent the day worshiping him free of pain. She goes, but then it was halfway through the day where I was thinking about all that I had just lost because of this surgery. When someone got up and began to talk about the foster care system in America, 400,000 kids will go to bed tonight without a permanent family, 330 or three, actually 380,000 churches in America and 400,000 kids without permanent homes. And she said, the Lord began to speak to us that we were to engage in this brokenness of our society and that we were to be a part of solution. She goes, we went, came home. We got our training. We engaged in the foster care system. And she pulled out her phone. This was several months ago, showed me a picture on her phone. She goes, these two boys land in our home. She goes, just last month, we adopted them and they now have a permanent family. The Lord told us that though I could not have children, our family was not done growing. And I get to hear these stories all the time. Amazing things that God is doing. When we finished Norway last year, we went into prayer over what was next, especially for America. The Lord spoke to us and said, don't do one gathering in one place and try and get the whole nation there. He said, I want you to go and honor, hunger in different regions of America. We wrote 15 names of different areas of America on the whiteboard that we all kind of knew about or had connections or had heard stories about, that God was moving. And then we began to pray. We spent several hours seeking the face of God. At the end of that prayer time, there were four places on the whiteboard that had been circled out of the 15 or 20 that are written up there. The first was central Pennsylvania, which is actually this coming Saturday is our send gathering there. And then the second place the Lord spoke to us about was Western Michigan circled on that board. And he said to us that there were hot spots in America. There was regional hunger and we were to come and serve and to throw more gas on that fire to help catalyze what he was already doing. That the water level was already rising and we were to come and serve the rising water level of what God was releasing in these regions. And I can't tell you how excited we are to come and serve what God's already doing in Western Michigan. I have so much expectation that what God does in a September 2nd in that arena is going to change the life of thousands of people who are going to find their calling in God, who are going to end up adopting children out of foster care system, high schoolers who are going to go, I'm not just there to play sports and get through school and suffer through math. I'm there to actually reach my friends in my high school. University students who are going to begin to gain faith at universities in a place where young people go to lose their faith. It's going to become a place where young people go to find their faith as evangelists and missionaries take their universities by storm. But it's also going to be a place where thousands would get calls to Central Asia and North Africa and the Middle East and the Himalayas. The people are going to be moved for the nations as we gather together. This is the faith that I'm carrying my heart for this region and Antioch in America that God is raising up. I want to land us this morning in the scriptures as I kind of look back on these last five years and the journey that we've been on with the sand. And if I were to summarize what I feel like I'm seeing in the scriptures, it would be out of Matthew chapter nine. Kind of the end of the chapter here is probably familiar passage to many of us, but it's an incredible just picture or slice from Jesus' daily life. And I want to end here, kind of land here. And again, my prayer is as we go into this, you would just gain courage for the calling on your own life, the thing that God has called you to. Matthew chapter nine, verse 35, just a picture of kind of the life of Jesus. It's a specific moment, but this really would have been very common day for him. It says Jesus went through all the towns and the villages teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were harassed and helpless like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord the harvest therefore to send out workers into his harvest field. And then in chapter 10, the first verse, Jesus called his 12 disciples to them, to him, and he gave them authority to drive out impure spirits and heal every disease and sickness, and he sends them. Now as we jump into this, the first several sentences kind of give us a picture of what Jesus did on a daily basis. He went through towns and villages. He's teaching in their synagogues and he's proclaiming the good news of the kingdom. Now to really understand the power of Jesus' life and even this specific story, you sort of have to be able to see what Jesus saw and feel what Jesus felt. And you would know this from context and from lots of teaching you've heard throughout your lifetime, but the Jerusalem and the Israel of Jesus' day is probably very different than we might imagine at times when we read these stories. It's important we connect to that context. Like we know that the average town that Jesus would have walked through in Jesus' day that over 70% of those that lived in those towns were living below the poverty line. So we're talking seven out of every 10 families is living in poverty and the effects of poverty, malnutrition, they don't have enough resources to thrive, their children don't have enough to thrive, their families, and then all the stress and the strain and the anxiety that comes with poverty. That's seven out of every 10 families that Jesus is observing as he walks through the villages of his day. We also know that racial division and oppression was off the charts in Jesus' day. The animosity between the Jews and the Gentiles, the Samaritans, the division between the Roman authorities ruling over Israel at the time and the Jewish people themselves, oppression at every level. Men are oppressing women, the Romans are oppressing everyone they're leading, the Jewish leaders are oppressing the followers of Judaism, adults sort of look down on children. There's oppression at every level that Jesus is seeing as he walks through the towns and the villages of his day. Then it says he's preaching in the synagogues and how do you know that Jesus didn't walk in the back of a synagogue and there was some epic worship team just like crushing it. Like Jesus did not walk into the synagogue and be like, man this youth group is on fire and this school ministry is touching the earth. No, Jesus is walking in the synagogue and rebuking the religious leaders. They're teaching people with a heavy yoke. They're putting religious bondage on people. It's dry bones in Israel in the synagogue of Jesus' day. There's very little real passion for the gospel or I shouldn't say the gospel with the kingdom of God and the growth and the knowledge of Yahweh. This is a difficult season for Judaism that Jesus is encountering in the synagogues or the churches of his day. And then it goes on to say that he's healing every disease and sickness, but you've got to realize to heal every disease and sickness, you've got to be among the diseases and the sicknesses. And that is overwhelming in Jesus' day. They're not living in nice hospitals, sterile environments with doctors and nurses. They are lining streets begging for their livelihood and it would have been absolutely overwhelming to feel the pain and the brokenness and the helplessness of the sicknesses of Jesus' day. And then it goes from there and it says that he looks up at the crowds and he had compassion on them. Why? Because they're harassed and they're helpless like sheep without a shepherd. They're leaderless. The people of Israel in Jesus' day, they are without leadership and they're harassed. They're helpless. We're talking depression, anxiety, all that goes on because of leaderlessness, because of being harassed and helpless. This is the site that Jesus sees. So how do you know that's a little bit different than just kind of reading the story and being like, man, it's amazing. He's healing the sick. He's raising the dead. When you're like, no, poverty, brokenness, discouragement, anxiety, sickness, oppression, racism, all of this is what Jesus sees, which is what makes Jesus says so profound. Because I don't know about you, but it's easy for me to read a few headlines today in America and just being like, what in the heck are we doing? I mean, it's insane where our nation is going. And it's easy to read those headlines and go, I don't really know where this goes right now. It seems like it's getting crazier and crazier. If you had thought even five years ago that we'd be having the national conversations that we're having today, I think everyone has said we're crazy. There's no way that that's going to become a national flashpoint conversation. It's totally crazy. And it's easy to read headlines and get discouraged. It's easy to read headlines and then kind of ourselves go, man, what in the world? We say things like, what's this generation going to do next? Every generation said that about the next generation. It's easy to get frustrated at sinners for sinning. How can they act like a man they've never met? But we can feel the frustration, the fear about the future of our own nation when we read our headlines, when we walk our streets, when we see the brokenness, the poverty, the anxiety, the confusion of our own nation. But what's profound is that Jesus sees all of that, smells all of that, sees it, hears it, feels it, and his declaration is the harvest is ripe. Come on. Come on, Kalamazoo. If Israel of Jesus' day was a ripe harvest field, what do you think God's saying over America today? Too hard, too dark? I don't think so. And you realize if Jerusalem and Israel, the very nation, the very city that's going to crucify the Messiah was a ripe harvest field, that it's never been a ripeness issue. It's always been a laborer issue. We tend to think that the issue in America is secular humanism. It is an issue. But the issue in America is not secular humanism. It's nominal Christianity. It's not a ripeness issue. It's a laborer issue. Are there laborers who believe the harvest is ripe? Are there laborers who have eyes like Jesus to look into the darkness, look into the confusion, look in the brokenness and declare ripe harvest field? The deeper and the bigger the vacuum gets, the more people are longing for a Messiah. Nobody likes being lost. Being lost is the worst. Everybody longs to be found. And we've got to change our perspective over America, that America's not just too hard, too dark, resistant, but most of America's just broken, confused, harassed and helpless waiting for laborers who can see a ripe harvest field in front of them. This is our hour to shine. Friends, the gospel thrived in the paganism and the humanism of Rome. The gospel was made for moments like this. This is our hour as a church to get the gospel on our lips, to get the optimism of heaven in our hearts, and to regain faith that in the midst of the darkness, we are experiencing Jesus longs to release a Jesus movement in our nation. Now is the time. It's never been more ripe. Now imagine Jesus, he's a little bit between a rock and a hard place. It's amazing the faith he had. He looks at the people and goes harassed and helpless, and he goes ripe harvest field. Then he looks behind him. And the only people behind him are 12 totally dysfunctional disciples. Immature, dysfunctional, arguing over who's the greatest in the kingdom, getting their mothers involved, which is the lowest of all though, wanting to call down fire on anyone who doesn't agree with them. And Jesus looks at the harassed and helpless and goes ripe harvest field. Then he looks at the dysfunctional disciples and goes, and you're the answer. Unbelievable faith. We've got to stop disqualifying ourselves. Stop trying to talk God out of using you. We've got so many excuses and reasons to not rise up and take responsibility. It's time that we stop disqualifying ourselves because of our past, because of what gifts we feel like we have or don't have. He's declaring ripe harvest field over America, and then he's looking you in the eyes saying, and you are the solution. The gospel has never been the issue. It's always worked. He's just looking for laborers who believe it and will take it up. And it's time that rooms across America realize there's not some other room that's going to rise up. You are the room to rise up right now. There's not someone else we're waiting for. You are the one to rise up. But the thing that most gets me, and this is where I want to land us in this passage as we wrap up, is that Jesus sees the brokenness and he's moved with compassion. How many of you know it is hard to move in compassion when you are confronted with the world's brokenness? It's almost easier to move in frustration at times. But Jesus has deeply moved in his heart with compassion. And this friends, I believe is going to be the key to the spiritual revolution that's coming to America as a church that finds tears for the lost again. A church that has tears for North Africa. A church that has compassion for the confused and the sexually broken. A church that is moved with the love of God so deeply that we can't not act. We can't not share because we're so moved by compassion and love. And this is what was in the heart of Jesus. He was compelled and he was motivated by love. Love is what moved Jesus into action. Love is what moved the disciples into action. And I think it is a baptism of love that is going to move the church of America into the Jesus revolution that's right in front of us. Now when you said that thing about kids, how many of you have kids that are in high school? I have so many kids that my brain barely functions and I forgot I had kids at that age. That's where I'm at. I have seven kids. That's a lot if you didn't know. My oldest is 18. He's my twin. He looks just like me and he preaches just like me. If you're here, you wouldn't know who was preaching if he was standing with me. My youngest two are 10. They just turned 11 actually. One's adopted. One's biological. We've adopted two out of the foster care system. My second oldest was adopted at 12 out of foster care. She's now 17 and one of my 11 year olds is adopted. They're a month apart. They think they're twins. I mean they know they're not but they act like twins. My wife wanted twins. I never wanted twins. She prayed for twins. I prayed against twins. We all know who the Lord loves in my family I guess. My wife is like, she's like Mother Teresa. That's the only way to explain her. We got her to break her like nun vow and marry me somehow. She is my hero. She's taught me more about love and this compassion that Jesus talks about and that Jesus exudes in Matthew chapter 9 than anyone in my life. I always joke about that. I'm going to come home to more kids that I left a trip with. It's dangerous leaving. So dangerous I've considered cancelling her cell phone when I leave. The state of Hawaii knows when I leave and they're like, he's gone. Let's call her. She's susceptible. She's vulnerable and the inhibitor is gone. Let's call her. It seems to happen regularly. Just not long ago, nine months ago, I'm on a trip to Korea. My wife sends me a text message. This is where we're at just so you know. A text message. She goes, hey, I just got a call. I'm like, of course you got a call. I am canceling your cell phone. She goes, I got a call. She goes, a homeless woman didn't know she was pregnant, went into labor, got rushed to the hospital, meth at it, just gave birth to a newborn and she walked out of the hospital after she gave birth, never touched the child, never named the child. She goes, we got a call. Would we take the child in emergency placement? And I'm like, my response is like, are you going to call me or is this just a text message? Literally. And then she goes, we should pray, which is code language for, I've already heard the Lord, but we should pray that the Lord would soften your hard heart. That's the code language. Just bringing you into my marriage right now. We should pray that the Lord softens your heart. And then I'm like, okay, are you going to call? She goes, we should talk to the kids too. That's code language for the whole family has heard, but now we're all praying that God would soften your heart to hear as well. Because when we started praying with our kids over this, we were to bring in one of our, the daughters that we ended up adopting. We gathered the family and go, Hey, we got to pray. This is a real situation. You do need to pray. And I go, we got to pray about whether we should be part of the solution. And my, my kids, um, they, uh, they go, we're not praying. They go, we're baking cookies. And I go, we are praying. And we're going to decide whether this is real God. They go, we're a family. That kid needs a family. So we're not praying. We're baking cookies. What kind of cookies does she like? This is my kids, right? So when, when my wife says we should ask the kids, now it's the family against me at this point. That's really what this means, right? So we pray, of course the Lord says yes, and pick up this beautiful little baby. And she has no name. She's nameless. She's not been named by her family. She's, her mom has walked out on her. She's technically parented by the state. No one should ever be parented by the state. The government is not a family. So this little girl lands in our home and, um, I'm not even home yet. I get home like three days later. My daughters are like, we got to name her. We can't legally name her, but we're certainly going to name her. And, uh, and so I go, let's pray, you know, and I'm praying. I'm in Korea and they're praying and they call me. And my, my, um, my daughter says to me, she goes, we got to name, man, it still makes me emotional. She says the Lord said Jaira over her because it means the Lord provides and maybe the world has abandoned her, what the Lord is going to provide for her. And so this little girl Jaira, she's now nine months old. She has absolutely messed us up. Looks like probably going to land in another adoption, seventh child, but this compassion that Jesus moved in is a compassion so deep that it's willing to not just take responsibility for its own actions, but to take responsibility for the actions of those around us. It's an adoptive love at its core. Cause I remember even praying for this situation going, I'm not the reason that this little girl was abandoned at the hospital. This is the brokenness of our world. And the Lord said what he said to us so many times as a family go, you may not be the reason that this brokenness exists, but you can become the reason that this brokenness gets healed. What would happen at the church of America began to move in adoptive love, not just for kids in the foster care system talking about for the most broken neighborhoods in our community. What if high schoolers went to high school in adoptive love? What if our universities were not just places of education, they're really places of brokenness, a lot of orphans that need a father. And what if the nations weren't just a place on a map, people waiting for the gospel? Who will go? Who will take it? Who will share with them? Who will lay their lives down? The compassion that moved Jesus into some of the greatest brokenness the world had ever seen. This is the compassion that's going to come on the church. This is the compassion that's going to move us into a real Jesus revolution, where we find that adoptive love in our hearts. And for me, some will get the privilege of seeing this. All of us will get the privilege of living it, but to watch my adopted daughters move in adoptive love has been the gospel in ways that I never could have imagined. I want you to stand with me so we wrap up. Just feel like this morning God's probably moving in a lot of hearts. And again, not just for kids in the foster care system that's been part of our journey, but God's asked us to, would we adopt the 3.2 billion, the unreached around the world to send us really an adoption movement that we would adopt the brokenness of our nations. We would adopt our high schools and our universities and we would move in radical faith, but also gutty compassion. And I just want to pray for you this morning. If you know God is wanting to release that on your heart, if you're knowing He's wanting to move in your heart with deep compassion, I just want you to raise your hand right where you are. Would you just raise your hand? Just raise it high. Believing that out of Western Michigan, God's going to release a spiritual awakening that would lead to a renewal of the Great Commission that would lead to an activated church that would be the solution to the crisis of America in this hour. So Lord, I just ask, keep your hands raised. I just ask every raised hand in this room. I'm asking, Holy Spirit, would you move with power right now? Would you move with power? I'm asking God, would you cut us to the heart, not just with tears, but also with faith? Father, I'm praying too that you'd baptize us in fresh courage today. Just courage would move in our hearts. Lord, where hesitation and fear have tried to hold us back, Lord. It's tried to hold me back my whole life, Father. I'd pray that it would be broken this morning. Something of hesitation would be shattered, God. Something that the fear in our lives would be broken, God. And I'm asking that you would move us in radical compassion this morning, but you would move us in radical courage and radical faith, God, to believe for great things out of our simple lives, God. None of us wake up feeling like superheroes. Every one of us feels a little immature, a little insecure, a little dysfunctional, but God, it's us surrendered to you that you want to use to bring so many orphans home to their father. So God, I pray that you would move with power this morning and let this mission-sending church send more missionaries than ever before in its history, to the highways and the byways, to the cities and the small towns, to the high schools and the universities, to the nations of the earth, God. I bless this church. I bless every person in it, God. Jesus' name.