- Well, welcome to Church. The Bible says that God inhabits
the praise of His people so let's set our attention on Him, let's give praise to the One who is worthy of it all, come on. ♪ Oh You died for us, Jesus ♪ ♪ We sing praise ♪ - We're singing in the
Name above every name. ♪ Your Name, oh ♪ ♪ Your Name ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ So will I ♪ No, no, no ♪ ♪ Whoa ♪ ♪ Oh, so will I ♪ ♪ Oh, so will I ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ Whoa ♪ ♪ Whoa ♪ - Father, we just thank You in Jesus' Name that we have to the chance
today together one more time. Lord, we gather around Your Name, that beautiful, beautiful Name. I thank You, Father, for all that You're doing
in the lives of people. Lord, we commit our way to You again. We believe this weekend these services are impacting people. Lord, that lives are still being changed. People are still going forward. Thank You for all the
miracles we're hearing about that are happening in people's lives during this difficult, difficult time. Father, I pray for every prayer request. And I thank You in Jesus' Name that You'll not only hear our prayer, but You answer our prayer. And I believe for those answers, we believe for a constant
stream of praise reports of supernatural miracles
of untold things that Lord, we can only give You the glory for, have Your way, we pray again In Jesus' Name, Amen, Amen, and a big welcome to church. So good to see you with us today. And I hope that you are
ready for all that's coming. I'm about to announce someone
speaking this morning, who I think his story will
be a great blessing to you, but hey, how are you going? You're still with us, 18
weeks now into online church, I'm believing for our whole
church to stay engaged, to keep community, for us
to love our neighbours, and keep on making sure that we're not just
getting so introspective that we're not even having the opportunity to love our neighbours. We've got so much ahead of
us and well, we miss you all, but it is what it is, isn't it? It is what it is. Anyway, thank God for
these prayer requests. My daughter, Laura is about to
give us some praise reports. - That's right, it says in the Bible to rejoice with those who are rejoicing. And we have Norma here who is praising God that her son got a job. We have Anya who is praising
God for His faithfulness. One son got engaged and another son is expecting
their first child in December. And then her daughter is applying to do Hillsong College in 2021, so that's amazing, Anya. George's praising God for
His provision and yeah, just plenty of amazing things that are happening in people's lives. - I also saw in there, someone's praising God for it last week, Pastor Bobbie's message, seems
like she's a favourite Pops. - I know, I know, I know. I know, I've been fired. I've been fired. Hey, everyone should tell her that because sometimes I have to work hard to get her to preach a message because she puts so much
into it in preparation, but no doubt about it, she blessed a lot of people
last week, which is good news. So my oldest granddaughter Willow, well, the oldest Toggs' granddaughter got her first phone this week.
- She did. - Put us in the prayer requests. If you're watching church,
we need your prayer. We need wisdom. - With some heavy boundaries
I must add as well. - Yes, yes, we call it the family phone just so you know, but
it's her phone, yeah. - She has a direct line to you now and I noticed the other
day that she told you that you have been born or no, she told you the exact amount
of days that you have lived. Over 26,000 or something like that. - Yeah, I was 26,000 and
something and I said, "How many days have you been alive?" She said, "4,000 and something." So anyway, it's great. It's great to see you guys. So plenty coming up,
always at Hillsong Church, big congratulations to everyone
in Darwin where our church, our campuses up there are
meeting in the building. And so you are leading the way, you're the ones first back to
actually physically gathering, you're going to have to
let us know how it goes, but we're excited for you all
and we're praying for you all and well, tonight is the last time that you can get 25% off your registration for Hillsong Conference for next year. And we're excited about next year, we've announced our speakers. It's gonna be an amazing conference. And so 25% off is significant. And so why don't you really
think about that, look at that, pray about that, but
it ends tonight, okay? So what a joy it is for Christians, for believers to be able to honour God and put Him first in our lives. I thank God for the
faithfulness of our people and I'm praying and believing that as we continue further
and further into this uncertain period and
season that we'll know and remember the power of honouring God, and that we'll be faithful when it comes to putting
Him first in our lives. I'm believing for our
church vision to go forward, not to be hindered. And so let's just keep on remembering we're in this together. Peter, why don't you take a moment? Just talk to people about their giving and you can obviously get ready if you know already
what you're about to do. - Yeah, thanks Pops, I would love to. I'd love to just encourage
you while you prepare and again, thank you in advance for really putting God first in your life. I know that helps the Church
and the Kingdom of God to keep advancing. Let me encourage you with this
Scripture in Jeremiah 17:7. It says this, I don't know about you, but this is beautiful
imagery to who I believe that we as a people are called to be when it comes to being planted, planted, our trust is in God. And you know, when it
comes to this moment, when it comes to putting
God first in our tithes and in our finances, you know what we're doing in this moment, we're choosing that we are being planted. I pray we would continue to
be a people that are planted that have a conviction
about being planted. As for me in my house,
we will serve the Lord. You know, in this moment,
as we put God first, we're choosing to dig our roots deep, going under the surface and we are choosing to dig our roots deep and saying, you know what,
no matter what season comes, we will stand tall. Like the trees that are
outside your window right now, we will stand tall because
our trust is in the Lord. So as you give right now,
what we're gonna do is we're going to go to just a short clip, just to help you on the
ways that you can give and then we're gonna come back
and I'm gonna pray for you. - Giving online is
quick, easy, and secure. Here's how. Go to hilsong.com/give or
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into the lives of others. - All right, well, let me pray for you. Father, thank You so much, Lord, for being faithful God to
us and God in return Father, we choose to put You first, Lord, in our first fruits. Father, I pray right now,
You bless every person. Bless every household, every marriage represented
in Jesus' Name I pray, Amen. Amen, God bless you Church.
- Amen, amen. Well, we got a treat this
morning, Sam Collier. He may be new to most of you, but he is a tremendous guy and his wife, Toni live in Atlanta. They've been part of the church, that Andy Stanley Pastors for a long time, but they've been pushing in
closer to our Hillsong world and to our greater Hillsong family. And I asked if he would speak today. Actually he spoke last
weekend in California and today speaking to our church
over Australia and of course in Bali and everywhere else we're gathering. And so let's get ready to
be inspired by Sam Collier. - Well, I must say that I am honoured and elated to be with you
today Hillsong Church. I will say that this is my first time ever doing anything in the Hillsong world. Brian Houston, Bobbie, I mean just the whole Houston family, you guys have done so much for our world and so much to impact me
as it pertains to faith. We are living in a time
all around the world today, where many of us are wondering, you know, how do we make it out of this mess into maybe somewhat of a miracle? When my mother was 21, she had me and my twin sister. She had three kids already, so that's five kids, age 21 in poverty, welfare. As we look at some of
the papers, you know, we'll talk about adoption in a second, but when we look through them, we discovered that they traced
some of my mother's steps back to the prostitution house. So now we don't know
if she was prostituting or if she was living there, but we do know that
there was extreme poverty and there was extreme darkness. Our father had left the picture. He was addicted to many substances, crack and so on and so forth. Same mother, same father, five kids, mother alone in the hospital, age 21. And so as she's sitting in the hospital, rather laying in the hospital,
she is faced with a decision. Do I keep them and raise them in poverty? Or do I give them up in hopes
that things would work out? She chose the latter, she kinda
sent us up river like Moses, me and my twin sister, in hopes
that things will work out. You put us in the system. Now before you go and get too depressed, I will let you know that
things did work out. We did get adopted around two months. Now, I'm gonna put a pin in the story and come back and tell you about
the couple that adopted us. It was a Sunday afternoon
in Washington, DC, around 3:00pm when my mother, the one that adopted us,
went to have an alibi. Now you're going to
alibi, what do you mean? Well, she was in the middle of a divorce with a man who was pretty aggressive. He was in the Black Panther Party and I don't know if you know anything about the Black Panthers, but they're just a little bit aggressive. The night before on that Saturday, he had hit her in the head with a hammer. And so she got up Sunday, because she said enough is enough. I need to get out by any means necessary. And so if anyone wanted
to know where she was at 3:00pm on a Sunday,
she was in the laundromat. But can I be honest with you? Just between me and you, she was getting ready to go kill him. As she's walking around the
laundromat looking crazy can we just be honest, right? She's got a gun in the probably... There's another man across the laundromat who would come to be my father, the one that adopted us. And he was in the middle
of his second divorce. And he's walking around the laundromat, getting ready to wash clothes. Now he normally wants to
laundromat on a Saturday, but for some reason, he went on the Sunday on this day and he looks across the
laundromat and he sees my mother, he walks up to her and he
said, "What's up girl?" She said, "I don't know
you, get away from me." Well, they continued to talk. They walked out of the
laundromat together. They both went through with their divorce. My mother didn't kill anyone. They start dating and they give their life to
Christ for the first time, I don't know how this happened, but I guess for both of them, they looked over the
trajectory of their lives and they said, you know, we've
done it our way long enough. Let's give Jesus a try. And so they do, and then they get married and they start doing
what married people do. Now, if you're married out there, I hope you're doing the do,
you know what I'm saying? I mean, as they do the do they realise my mother can't have kids. My mother's dream was to always have kids. And my mom looks at my dad and these are our adopted parents. Can we adopt, please? I've always wanted kids, can we? My dad says, "Yes, we can adopt, but if we adopt, I want to make sure we
get them from birth." So they fly down from Washington
DC to Augusta, Georgia. They walk into the adoption home two months after we have
been given up for adoption from the hospital room, they walk over to the crib, they point and they say, "We want them." Yeah, them. And the lady who's
running the adoption home, she runs over and she
says, "Hold on, hold on. I know that you say you want them. And I overheard you guys talking offline that this was your moment to get it right. That you had done it
without Jesus long enough. And now this is your moment. My dad at the time was
in his 50s, I must say, so this is kind of his last
moment to get it right. And she looks at him and she says, "If this is your moment to do it right, you don't want to start here because you see, where they come from, they're probably not going to be much." Yeah, crack cocaine,
prostitution, welfare. She said, In fact, they will probably be mentally challenged. So if this is your
opportunity to get it right. This is not, it's not
where you want to start." Well, my mother and my father, they backed up and they formed what they would call a prayer closet. And they pray right there
in the adoption room, God, what are you saying to us? What do you want us to do? Is this your will? And the Lord says to them,
"Those are your kids. They're gonna be all right." They look back at the adoption home lady and they say, "No, we want them. It's something special about them." Three months later they bring us home. This is what we looked
like when we came home. That kind of began our life. And we grew up down on Auburn Avenue, the birthplace of civil rights right across the street from where the Martin Luther King
Jr center is located where the above ground tombs of MLK and Coretta Scott King sit, you go a little bit more down
Auburn and you see the SCLC, Dr King's only organisation. You go a little bit further down, you'll see the mural of
Congressman John Lewis, who was a part of SNCC
in the Civil Rights Bill. He led the college
movement, living legend. Hank Aaron is on the corner. One of the most successful
black baseball players to ever do it in the States. I grew up seeing black excellence,
thinking much of myself, aware of the oppression
that we face in this country or that we have faced, but
not being limited by it. My dad would sometimes
bring homeless people out to the house 'cause if you've ever been down to Auburn, you would see homeless people everywhere. He would bring them out
at around age seven, he would make us take them water. And I would often say, "Dad,
why are you making us take, who are these people
and these are homeless." He said, "Shut up boy,
and take them some water." I didn't realise it until later that he was exposing us to poverty. In actuality, he was exposing us to where we would eventually
find out we came from, but he was teaching us compassion. My mother worked corporate FedEx, cared about us so much
that she quit her job in the corporate sector to
help guide our academic career and she looked over at
my sister and noticed that she had a proclivity for academics and she put her in magnet programmes. Can I just say, my sister got all As from
kindergarten up to 12th grade, dual scholarship to Spelman, which is a huge historically
black college here and then to Georgia Tech,
became an industrial engineer and the IRS here in the
states are her client. I mean, what a client, right? But she's just incredible. And then my mother looked
at me and she said, "Well, we know he talks a lot, right? I mean, maybe he's an artist." And she put me in
performing arts programme. And by 10th grade I was
playing six instruments and got my first record deal in 11th grade and started travelling around the world, working with record labels
like Motown and Universal, and then eventually got into
ministry, started a nonprofit. We reached about 80,000 kids
in the inner city in a year. And last but not least, I would end up here with you at Hillsong. I mean, I feel like I made it. God did a miracle. He started to rewrite our story. Now, something interesting
happened around age 24. I'm going to walk over here and get this because this is an
important part of the story. We have a little tradition in
our home called NFL Football. And the was this, every Sunday afternoon, we would all sit on the couch of us, Mom, Dad, Sara, myself, and we would watch TV,
specifically football. Now there was one rule in the house, you do not talk doing the game, all right? My Dad's like, if you
talk, you gotta leave. Okay and so here we are. We're sitting, watching the game, quiet and my dad breaks the rule and he starts to scream
at me and my sister. And he says, "You know
what you need to do?" And we said, "What?" He said, "Well, you need
to go find your parents." We said, "Well what do you, what?" He said, "Well, you can grow up one day and marry your cousin and
you wouldn't know it." We said, "What?" He said, "Do you want to
marry your cousin?" "No." He said, "Well. you need
to find your parents." "Okay, stop yelling." He said, "And another thing." "What?" "Steve Harvey is going to help you do it." I said, "Well, at this
point, I need to leave." He had lost his mind. I don't know if you know
who Steve Harvey is. He's a national bestseller,
TV, comedian, whatever, but he's a celebrity, he has a show. He took Oprah's place on NBC and my dad said that he needs to do this. And can I just, I never
told this part of the story, but in the barber shop where my dad kind of had us on Auburn, he had a barbershop and he
was a barber for many years. And in the barbershop, he would watch Steve Harvey every day. And as he would watch
Steve Harvey, he said, "The Lord told him that Steve was gonna help us find our parents." Well, I found out that two weeks later, he convinced my sister
to write into the show. A year goes by, my phone
rings and it's my sister. I said, "Hello?" She said, "The Steve
Harvey Show just call me, they're gonna call you, bye." And hung up the phone. I said, "What?" Next thing you know, my phone rings again. I answer it, I said, "Hello", "Hey, this is Dorothy from
the Steve Harvey Show." I said, "Oh, hey Dorothy." She said, "Well, we have
about a hundred pages on our desk and stories,
yours is the top one. We think we can help
you find your parents. Do you want to do it?" I said, "Dorothy, let me call you back." I hung up the phone. I called my sister, I said,
"Do you want to do this?" She says, "No, I don't want to do it. But I feel like God's doing something, I think we have to do it." And so they brought us on the
show and then this happened. - Well, everybody, my
next guests are twins with an absolutely incredible story. They were given up for adoption at birth and today they're asking everyone at home for help finding their biological mother, Please welcome Sara and
her twin brother, Sam. Welcome. So Sam, let me ask you, what do you know about your birth mother? - We don't know that much. What we do know from
the papers that we had, about 100 pages in this particular packet, we were born down in Augusta, Georgia. She was 21 when she had us and
her sole income was welfare. That's all she had. And I think at that moment, she had to make a decision
when we were born, do I raise them in poverty or
do I give them up for adoption and pray and hope that they
will be adopted into a family that could take care of them. And so that's what happened. What do you think? - Yeah, Steve, you know, we don't really know
much about the situation under which she gave us up for adoption, but we just like to think that she did it out of love in her heart. - Tell me a little bit
about your childhood. What was it like for you? - I gotta say it was unbelievable. You know, I call it the Moses story. My mother gave us up and we were raised by two amazing people. I mean, I think people are a
little bit shocked sometimes because we don't really
have that much resentment or so on and so forth because there were no holes in our heart. Our dad was at every basketball game, every cheerleading match,
they were everywhere. And you know, we believed that our mom was supposed to birth us, but our parents were supposed to raise us. - Wow.
(audience applauding) - Steve, our childhood was amazing. Our parents afforded us some opportunities that I don't think we would have had under different circumstances. They really valued education and they taught us to be faithful in God. And as a result, I was able
to go to Spelman College and Georgia Tech under a full scholarship. - Wow.
- Thank you. And so today I'm an industrial
and systems engineer And I think under different circumstances, I don't think I would be who I am today. - What do you do? - I went to ministry school. I'm a pastor and I have a nonprofit, we've helped over 80,000 kids in Georgia- - Your life worked out for you. A pastor, that's really good, man. Wow, these had to be
two really great people. - Oh yeah, they're unbelievable, you couldn't ask for better. - Well, they're here. The twins adoptive parents, Lamar and Belinda support their search and they're here today. Lamar and Belinda, welcome to the show. I guess Lamar said I'm gonna
stand up and clap for myself. Lamar and Belinda, you
encouraged them obviously. How was that for you? - It was an awesome situation. These guys here, they was made
for me and my wife to raise. At first, their adoption come about, I decided after they've gone
and got some age on them, they need to know their biological mom. So we sat down around the table and we talked about
everything and Sara said, "Well, I'll write a letter to Steve Harvey 'cause if anybody can help
us, it would be Steve Harvey." - That's right, that's right.
- Really? - That's why we're here today. - Wow.
- Thank you so much. - Yes, sir. - And I'm truly grateful
for what the mother did. And my purpose is to say to her, thank you, thank you for
having enough courage, enough love in your heart
to do the right thing for some children who were
more than deserving to have it. - Wow.
- We thank you. - Well, Sara and Sam
wants some help finding their mom and their siblings. Well coming up next, we've got some experts here
who are going to help you make a strong plea to find
your biological family. Now here's the thing, I know I said that we didn't
find your birth mother, but that's not the case. Elinor, come on out. Elinor, would you like to say something? - Yes, I've been looking for you guys. Ever since I gave you up for adoption I was young, I wasn't
able to take care of you and when I got older, I was able and I've been looking for you. And I'm currently as a STNA and I'm school for
healthcare administrator. I turned my life over to God. I've been praying. I'm grateful that you guys are doing good. And I wanted to thank the
parents for raising 'em. Thank you. Thank God, I've been praying 25 years to find you guys. - Sam, let me start with you. How you feeling? - My human side is
leaning in one direction, but my spirit is saying, hallelujah. I'm having this war, there's
this war happening in me that's wanting me to feel one way, but I feel God is saying, I
know you're feeling this way, but I need you to say thanks because I've been
carrying you from day one. So I got to say thanks. - Well thank you. - Steve, Steve, Steve! - Hey man, you gotta
have some moments in you where you resent and you
wonder, but man, oh man, oh man, to have just this moment of peace. This moment of resolution, that's worth the whole trip. And my God, them two
people over there, man. All right, I got something else too. Well, your siblings is here too. So Erica, Jorell, and LeSean come on out. Get everybody. - It's all right.
- Hi. - How you doing? - This the good one right
here, this your brother. - What's up?
- This the good one. - Every time I watch that story, it is just emotional. It's always difficult for me to watch. You know, going from two families to four families is a doozy. I had an opportunity to
chronicle some of the journey in this book that is my
first kind of national thing, whatever, it's called "A Greater Story" and within the book, I wrote about a moment that I had with my biological brother. I had a moment with him backstage and he pulled me to the side and I'll never forget this moment. He said to me, I know that you may think that
you missed out on something, but I want to let you know that you didn't miss out on anything. No, God saved you. I said, "What do you mean?" He said, "Well, I mean,
there were moments. We were so poor that we went without eating for three and four days at a time. We were so hungry, we were shaking. So I know you may think that
you missed out on something, but you didn't, God rescued you. I'll never forget that
moment after the show, my adopted parents went on back early. My sister flew back to DC
where she was stationed, told you about the IRS. And I'm having this
wrestling match with God as I'm walking through the
airport and I get on the plane. As I get on the plane, I say to God, why? I mean, there's so many other things I could have said to God, right? But the question I couldn't get
out of my mind was why, God, why did you take me and my sister out, but you left my other ones there? And it was really a smaller question related to a bigger question of God, why do you do what you do? Why do bad things happen to good people? Maybe a question you're
asking yourself now. During COVID-19 and civil
unrest as we've lost lives. We've lost people. God, why could this happen? And the Lord said to me on the plane, maybe He's saying this to you now, I took you and your sister
out because I had a plan. He then began to unpack
to me this idea that with COVID-19 and even today with racism, filling the streets like
never before with oppression, with cancer, with AIDS, with poverty, with all this type of stuff in the world, if you take it all and you put it in a pot and then you grab freewill
and put it in there and you mix it all together
and you hold it up, you have what we call this life. And it's messy. And it doesn't make sense, but that in the midst of the chaos, whew, God has a plan to set you free. God has a plan to make the wrongs right. He may not do them when
we want Him to do it. He may not do them the
time we want Him to do it, but He does do it and He will do it. He said, maybe the plan Sam for you was that I would trade
two for 80,000 later on. Maybe the plan was to take you out so that you could be an
interruption in your bloodline and through you and your
sister and your family you can start to right some
of the wrongs of history. Maybe the plan would be that one day, you make it to Hillsong, to let people know all around this country and this globe that no
matter how dark, whew, your situation is God has a plan. And it may not make sense to us, but it does make sense. And that if we can get
out of the way long enough for Him to step in, He will direct us. He will make things happen. The question that I think we
have to wrestle with today, where we find ourselves, and I know many of us are even depressed. I mean, I lost my uncle, I lost my auntie. I lost my biological father from COVID-19. I lost him two months ago,
I understand where you are. I'm wrestling with you, but I think the question
that we have to ask ourselves in the midst of the confusion
and in the midst of the chaos, is this, how do we access the plan? I think, you know, when my mother was stuck in that hospital, wondering what to do, I feel like she felt like there
was the voice of God saying, no, you need to send them up the river. She didn't want to let us go, but she did. She put her will down and she picked up God's will, His desire. I think when my parents came
to adopt us and the lady said, "No, you don't want to adopt them. They're not gonna be much", they took a moment, took a step back and they said, God, what do you want us to do? Do you see the pattern? God, what do you want us to do? We have something else
that people are telling us, even maybe what our flesh
is telling us, but God, what are you saying? And God is saying, he said to them, "No, these are your kids." And they went against their own desires and picked up God's. Around age 16, I had to give my life to
Christ for the first time. I had made some decisions that were contrary to the ones that my parents had taught me. We can talk about it later, but I had to give Him my life. Last but not least, my sister, not wanting to go on
"The Steve Harvey Show" and even to this day,
if you ask her today, do you regret it? She might say a little, but nevertheless, God was
prompting her to say, yes. Here's the deal. We determine what our life looks like every day by our decisions. Your decision to say yes to God, every single day in the
midst of your chaos, when you don't want to, when your flesh is pulling you one way, your yes to God, your surrender to God allows for your story
to connect to His story. And when your story connects to His story, it leads to a greater story. And so if there was one statement I would leave you with today and we'll put it up on the
screen for you to get it, write it down, put it in your phones, write it on your heart is this one, that Whew! There is a greater story that
God has for you even today in the middle of COVID-19, in
the middle of civil unrest, in the middle of Black
Lives Matter, right? In the middle of confusion,
in the midst of loss, God has a greater story and He has a plan. Solomon, wisest man to ever
live as the text tells us. He's writing, well, what
we now have come to know as Proverbs, he's the
main writer of Proverbs. And he has a moment
where he writes a verse actually to his son. And he's trying to help his son understand really how to access the greater story, but how to win in life. And
he says this to him, he says, whew, that's the word, submit. Surrender to Him, "And He
will make your path straight." He will show you the way. Another translation says, "That He will direct your path." How do you get there? You got to trust in Him
with everything in you. Do not lean to your own
understanding in this moment. No, trust that His ways
are better than your way. And when you trust, here's the trick. When you trust, you have to be patient with Him to let Him guide you the right way. You have to continuously surrender. And if you'll surrender and
make those steps every day, He will pull some things in. And you'll start to notice that over time, your life starts to look different and the plan that you look back on, even now, you look back
and you go, oh wow, I see what God was doing,
I'm glad I trusted Him. Friends, God has a plan for you. He has a greater story for you. And if you'll surrender
to Him, you'll see it. God, thank You so much
just for this opportunity, just for this opportunity
to communicate to lives, to Your children all around the world. In the midst of the most confusing season, for many of us in the last decade. For many of us in our lives, period. God, I pray that in the
confusion, that in the mess, You will give us the
ability to surrender to You. To say yes to You every day, especially when it doesn't make sense. God let us not determine what
is good by our own thoughts, but let us trust that You are good whether we know what it looks like or not. Let us trust You every day. God and I pray for those that
feel a sense of hopelessness. Listen, if you want to
just lift your hands wherever you are in your home, with a group, on any continent,
in any country, come on, just lift your hands to him right now. God is moving in your life right now He is helping you right now. For many of you, He is even healing you with His presence in this moment. God, I pray for those
with their hands lifted and those that are, that are listening, that if they are hopeless, that You would give them hope now. That You would give
them even divine insight on how to navigate this season, but most importantly, that You give them the
power and the strength to surrender to You so that their story can connect to Yours. And so that it can lead
to something greater. In Jesus' Name, Amen. - Wow, that was so powerful. What a morning with Pastor
Sam, thank you Pastor Sam for an incredible message today. You know what we'd love to do just towards the
conclusion of this service is really just pray for people to make a decision to follow Jesus. I think after a message like that, I pray that we would respond. And when you hear the good news, when you hear the Gospel
that our hearts would respond and maybe you've never
prayed this prayer before of asking Jesus into your heart. Friend, I'd love to
lead you in this prayer. Maybe at one time you made this decision, but you know in your
heart, you've walked away. Well, God never walked away from you. And maybe today's the day where you need a brand new beginning and asking Him into your
life again and saying, God, I surrender everything to You. I'd love to lead you in a prayer, friend. God loves you so much. And if that's you, say this
prayer after me, say this, - Amen.
- Amen. Look, a huge congratulations to all those who made that decision today, it's the best choice
that you will ever make in your entire lifetime. And we just want to let
you know that as a church, we want to do this
journey forward with you. So you can respond by visiting
the website on the screen and just indicate that you
made that decision today. Well, tonight we have
Scott 'Sanga' Samways, bringing the Word, a favourite. Always full of faith
and strong in the Word and always brings the humour as well, so make sure you tune in tonight, but let me pray for you as we go out. - Also, straight after the service, there is a college gathering happening. So if you're interested in college. you want to be a part of college, straight after to this, hang around something special for you and having a conversation
with some of our people. - Yeah, there's plenty of online courses, more courses than ever
before provided online. - That's right and Heart and Soul as well is just in a week and a half,
so you don't want to miss it. - And Youth this Friday night. And Sisterhood on Thursday
and all the things. - Don't miss it, it's all happening. - All the things, all right, let's pray. Lord Jesus, I thank You
so much for Your people, may You bless them indeed Lord as they go. We thank You God that
we could gather today, online and worship You and hear Your Word, have Your way in us. In Jesus' Name, everybody said, Amen. - Amen, Amen.
- Amen. ♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ You take me ♪ ♪ You take it all ♪ ♪ Jesus ♪ ♪ Oh Jesus ♪ ♪ Just as I am ♪ ♪ Nothing more, nothing less ♪ ♪ Oh, yeah ♪
