What is Love - The Beauty of Boundaries

what is up everybody you guys doing good [Music] man it feels feels good to be back back in the saddle if if it's your first time or maybe you haven't been in a while i am officially a girl dad of two [Applause] and i'm here for it i'm here for the bows i'm here for the french braids i'm here for the nails like i'm i'm all about it i'm here for it so i've been a little m.i.a if you notice some bags under my eyes don't judge me i'm not sleeping as much as i used to but man fatherhood is like my favorite thing in the entire world and um i can honestly say this and it feels good when you can be honest with your family and your friends i've genuinely missed you guys i've i've missed being around i've missed having conversations and coffee and getting to see you guys and so it's good to be back it's good to be back in the saddle um my name is connor i should probably should have said that up front um my name is connor i'm one of the pastors here at uh young adults and is it anybody's first time here hanging out with us first time hey hey hey hey first time first time over here anybody hey what's up first time first time first time hey make em feel welcome give it up [Applause] [Music] i say this every week uh but it's because i mean it and if you've been coming you all know what i'm about to say uh you don't have to necessarily believe everything that we believe to belong here um coming to church maybe this is your first time ever stepping into an environment like this i want to commend you it takes bravery to step out of a situation into a situation that you might feel uncomfortable with and you don't know what to expect and so from the bottom of my heart i hope you feel welcome i hope you feel honored we're so glad that you're here and um my only request of you tonight is that you maybe put down your guard or your preconceived notions of church or the bible or who jesus is and just maybe consider for a moment what i'm going to talk to you about tonight because i honestly believe that jesus is the most amazing human to ever walk the face of the earth and i believe that he's even more than a human i believe that he's god and that his message was that he loves us and wants to connect with us and so my only hope is that you walk away knowing who jesus is and just this maybe that the news that he loves you is real and true and you can experience that tonight and so you guys can take a seat i'm not gonna keep you standing we are in uh the middle week three of our relationship series what is love and uh how many people in this room are single anybody single in this room hey you need to do yourself a favor if you were not here for the kickoff of our of our relationship series with ryan weckenman when he talked about singleness you might have missed one of the greatest messages i've ever heard preached on the subject ryan is one of our austin pastors he is an amazing dude and he just gave one of the greatest messages i've ever heard on the topic of singleness and so if you were not here for that do yourself a favor and go listen to that it's always weird hearing like a married guy or an older guy talking about being single but when you're like 28 29 good looking have a great career and you talk about being single the way that ryan is and and does it hits home a little bit and uh last week we got to hear from the bald reverend himself andrew matron um talking about relationship baggage and how it's you're doing yourself so much of a favor if you'll put in the work now to work out maybe some of your issues so you don't carry that into future relationships and potentially your marriage and if i'm just going to be honest with you the structure of a relationship series kind of works in a way to where this would be the week where we have a little bit of like the hard conversations right like we kind of defined the do's and the don'ts of dating what you need to do if you're dating to have a successful relationship or maybe some of the things that you shouldn't do if you're dating so that you don't like ruin a relationship or last year the last time we did a relationship series we kind of talked about how far is too far you know and that that is normally where this that subject matter kind of fits into a relationship series but tonight as i was thinking about all the different questions that we have when it comes to our sexuality our sexual identities our relationships singleness dating marriage whatever i i honestly felt like all of these questions that we carry in with relationships all of these questions are actually symptoms of something deeper that there's actually a deeper question or deeper questions that need to be asked that will give us the answer to almost all of our relationship questions i honestly believe and i've been thinking about this for a while i honestly believe that most if not all questions that you will have about sexuality relationships and dating can be boiled down and answered by answering these two major questions first question is this is god good and the second question is this can i trust him is god good and if he's good can i trust him and i honestly believe that when we boil down our questions and we get to the heart of those two centralized questions i honestly believe those are the questions that are at the heart of almost every single relationship and sexual question we will ever face in our life is god good and can i trust him and my hope is tonight not to feed you a bunch of lines not to not to try to persuade you or to convince you necessarily my hope is that by the end of this talk i could help guide you to a place where you can answer those questions for yourself is god good and can i trust him can i trust his plan can i trust his ways can i trust what he has to say on dating marriage sexuality and relationships and so tonight we're going to jump in um in the beginning we're going to start at the start so for those of you who have your bible really easy just flip open to the first couple pages we're going to go to genesis chapter 2 and then genesis chapter three how many people old school carried the leather bound old school leather bound there you go let's go i just got it for any vegans out there i'm sorry plug your ears i just got this like new niv calfskin leather bible but i also have like calfskin leather motorcycle jackets so i'm just about that life i don't care so you can unplug your ears vegans all right genesis chapter two here we go it says this it says now the lord god had planted a garden in the east there you go a garden for the vegans we're back on track here we go the lord planted a garden in the east in eden she's like conor shut up and read right and there he put a man that he had formed the lord god made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground trees that were pleasing to the eyes and good for food in the middle of the garden was the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil the lord god took the man and put him in the garden of eden to work it and care of it and the lord god commanded the man you are free to eat from any tree of the garden but you must not eat a tree of the knowledge of good and evil for when you eat from it you will certainly die genesis 3 starting in verse 1 just flip the page and you'll be there says this it says now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the lord god had made and he said to the woman did god really say you must not eat of any tree in the garden the woman said to the serpent we may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden but god did say you must not eat the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden and you must not touch it or you will die you will not die the serpent said to the woman for god knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be open and you will be like god knowing good and evil and when the woman saw the fruit of the tree that it was good for food and pleasing to the eye and also desirable for gaining wisdom she took some and she ate it the title of my message tonight is the beauty of boundaries the beauty of boundaries if you're taking notes write that down it's an old joke but i'm just gonna wear it out until i'm done being a preacher if you take notes you get a bigger house in heaven okay let's pray here we go jesus thank you so much for tonight god i'm well aware the topic of boundaries in the topic of your goodness and our ability to trust you especially when it comes to relationships and even deeper our sexuality in the way that we identify and see ourselves as sexual beings god that's a very deep and sensitive topic it's core to who we are but god our sexuality is not something that's dirty or perverted before we were sinful we were sexual and so god i pray that tonight as we cover the topics of boundaries and the beauty of the boundaries that you've put in place for our life god would you bring fresh vision for us on who you have called us to be as sexual beings that imitate you and that image you god i pray right now that for anybody in this room who is struggling in a relationship anybody that is struggling with a wound that has occurred to them from a relationship god that you would begin to bring healing in jesus name and lord it is our honor to open your word and to hear from you and everybody said amen and amen all right let's let's dive in what about it we as humans have this deep intrinsic desire within us to push boundaries am i right there's just something about us that loves to push boundaries let's just start at the most obvious level right daredevils um like i'm i'm a motorcycle guy i like motorcycles i'm getting into like potentially trying to get a little dirt bike to drive in the basement of lakewood don't tell josh the campus pastor um but but i love i love motorcycles but i'm not delusional enough to think that my motorcycle should ever leave the ground right but there are people who have a much higher tolerance of adrenaline or much lower iq i don't know who who use motorcycles to do crazy things like like literally people will take dirt bikes and jump try to jump the grand canyon now think about that grand meaning large canyon meaning wide gap between one side and the other it is literally like it people come from all across the globe to see it and they come because it's huge but there's something within some people's soul i guess that is like i need to jump that i'm not one of those people i i got the opportunity to fly in a helicopter over the grand canyon that was extreme enough for me i like get my feet on the ground thank you but pete like we have this innate desire in our soul as human beings to push boundaries like there's this new thing this cool thing um i don't know if it's cool i don't know how many people do it but you all know like those squirrel flying squirrel suits that people wear here if you don't let me just inform you and if you think i'm being cynical i'm honestly just stating the reality of what this is people will climb up very tall mountains very rocky rigid like inviting death type of mountains and they will strap on a winged suit that is that is like a flying squirrel suit now if i'm about to jump off the face of a cliff i want to be in a falcon suit or an eagle suit or something that flies right but we've we've created a suit after a squirrel a squirrel that doesn't fly that climbs at best and and literally people will get in these suits and they will jump off the face of a mountain and they are literally like feet above like the ground and somehow with the wind and the g-forces or whatever i don't know i'm not even going to pretend to know he said g-force is so scientific right um they like hover over and fly and you want to know what i've never seen with one of the squirrel suits somebody land how do you land in that you know what i mean like you always see people jump but you never see them land has anybody come back from wearing a squirrel suit and jump nobody knows because we've never seen them land we have this deep innate desire in us to push against boundaries right for for some of us maybe a lot of us i don't know we all kind of go through that emo punk pop phase like in middle school or high school where we dye our hair and for some reason it's always got to cover one of our eyes and we wear all black which i guess i'm doing now but we wear like chains and stuff like that and we want to rebel against our parents norms you know mom it's not a phase it's a lifestyle there's a few of you out there you know the dear maria song like comes on in the background you're just like jamming out there's something in the human nature that wants to push against boundaries no matter how minimal it is we want to do it maybe for you maybe you never dyed your hair or jumped off like a squirrel but maybe for you just your parents gave you a curfew and you pushed the boundaries a little bit or hey you can't watch tv past 10 and you you watch till 11. like no matter how big or how small like there's just something in us that wants to push past the boundaries that we perceive in our life now as a dad i get the opportunity to witness this firsthand more than anything like the human development of boundary pushing my daughter ezra is 20 months old and she truly is like the most beautiful kind wildly intelligent girl that i've like ever met she's like one of my best friends in the world we just had number two her name is ari and right now because i'm a guy i'm not able to do too much with her i can't feed her or anything like that and so ezra and i are kind of just like hanging out like becoming buddies um and actually today it was kind of sad i'm normally left i've normally like left for young adults by the time she gets home from daycare but i was there today and when she came home i was like hugging her we were playing i was like alright daddy's got to go to work and she just like broke down in tears and was like dad no don't go i was like crying and i was like okay y is canceled that's a that's easy decision i will literally do anything for you um but no she is amazing she's like the kindest heart the most beautiful personality but even as this incredible little girl this 20 month old you can see in her like demeanor she's like starting to learn and to push on the boundaries that erin and i give her now because she's 20 months old she has a very obvious tell and i'm not making this up whenever she goes to do something that we don't want her to do we're like hey ezra don't do that or my wife's all about like love and logic and you like give them choices like ezra is that a good choice or a bad choice and you see her no lie she does this she'll like fro her brow she'll kind of stare at the ground and she'll like look in like different directions and you can see her little brain like processing like you know like the angel on one side and the demon on the other like do i be a good girl and listen to my parents and have them shower me with love and affection or do i rage against like authority and nine times out of ten she rages against authority because she's 20 months old and and she's pushing against the boundaries that erin and i have put in place in her life but little does she know the boundaries that we've put in place aren't to hold her back it's hey baby you probably don't want to put your hand in the toaster especially while it's down making totes or hey ezra i know mommy's curling iron looks really cool especially when it's plugged in but that's not something you want to grab and especially it's not something you want to like put against your face or your mouth or hey i know that max dog food looks appealing apparently but that's not something that you eat right literally we all you can just see it in this 20 month old we all have this deep desire within us to push up against the boundaries that we perceive to be in our life and honestly i believe more and more the older i get and the longer that i follow jesus it's because we as humanity we have this inherent misunderstanding of the role that boundaries are made to play in our life see in my daughter's mind the ultimate expression of love that i could give to her would be to allow her to do whatever she wants whenever she wants to do it regardless of the consequences that i know are on the other end of that as her father in a 20 months old mind the the greatest expression of love is to eat oreos and watch cocoa melon all day like literally the greatest expression of love in her little mind is for me just to allow her to do and be and feel however she wants to be in that moment regardless of the consequences but me as a father as a father i know that in this season of her life one of the ultimate ways that i can express my love and my compassion and my devotion to my daughter is by giving her guidelines and boundaries in her life that might sacrifice a momentary desire of hers but will ultimately form her and shape her and lead her to her best and greatest self and well-being i think as humans we have this really big misconception about boundaries and as i've been thinking about this and as i've been thinking about the way that i give my daughter boundaries it it made me realize that as a broken flawed sinful person saved by the grace of god pursuing jesus with my life is me as me as a broken father who is trying to do my best to give my daughter good boundaries for her well-being it just made me think how much more loving and kind and compassion and compassionate are the boundaries that a perfect loving god gives to his children how much better are the boundaries that god has given to me but how often do i misunderstand and misinterpret the boundaries that god has tried to set within my life i want to go back to our our story in genesis chapter 2 because i think there's something very interesting for us to see and learn there about the beauty of boundaries and we're going to go back to genesis 2 but i want to sort of paint the picture and set the context for you on where we're about to read we started in the beginning so there's not really too far back we could go but when we open our bible to genesis 1 nothing exists except for god himself and god in this moment decides to start to create and while god is creating everything he's creating the heavens and the stars he's creating planets and atmospheres he's creating animals and oceans and mountains and for people to jump off of and all this different stuff as god is creating all of this amazing thing all these amazing things there is a word and a phrase that the author of genesis rhythmically and intentionally uses to describe the results of god's creation does anybody know what that word is it's good as god is creating the author continually describes everything that god makes and creates as good and the author repeatedly over and over again uses this phrase god saw what he made and he saw that it was good and the phrasing that this author uses to describe god creating everything out of nothing is very much on purpose the author is not saying here that god saw the mountains he created and gave himself a pat on the back he's not saying oh those look pretty dope i think i did a good job right oh the stars that's pretty cool saturn with the rings i think i did a good job on that the ocean and the dolphins like dolphins are pretty dope like that's good like i did a good job that's not what he said he's not saying god was proud of himself the author is saying that when god creates something he creates it with intentionality and with purpose for the flourishing of both humanity creation itself and them coming together in the kingdom of god that he has made when god calls something good he is saying it is made with intentionality it is made with purpose it is made in perfection and the author of genesis 1 and 2 is trying to paint this picture in the readers minds that when when we enter into our scene of genesis 2 with adam and god placing him in a garden he is placing him in a good intentional and perfectly created space and that is where we find our story in genesis 2 taking place and it says this it says now the lord god planted a garden in the east in eden and there he put the man he had formed the lord god made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground trees that were pleasing to the eye good for food in the middle of the garden there's the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil and the lord god took the man and put him in the garden of eden to work it and to care for it and the lord god commanded the man he said this he said you are free to eat of any tree in the garden but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil for when you eat from it you will certainly die and i want you to notice something that you pick up on something that is found in the middle of this perfect creation i'm going to read it again it says god commanded the man you are free to eat of any tree in the garden but you must not eat the tree of the knowledge of good and evil think about this for a minute in god's perfect creation in his good and pleasing and intentional and purposeful and at this point perfect creation unbroken by sin unfractured no harm no death no will no ill will with everything that was good and intentional and perfect god gave humanity a boundary boundaries are not a result of brokenness god in eden before sin even entered into the picture gave humanity a boundary and the first time that i read that and i realized that it floored me because what it showed me is that even in a perfect paradise even in a perfect paradise with zero corruption god knew that what was best for the flourishing of the human soul was to give some type of guidance and some type of restraint even to a sinless created human being because god knew that even in perfection a boundary was needed to guide humanity into god's ultimate and intentional good for their life think about that i don't know if you've ever thought about that but when i think about perfection when i think about paradise i think of no boundaries right i think of i think of being able to do whatever you want like carbs don't count right like like when i think of paradise and i think of perfection i think of like no boundaries but in god's perfect created order before sin before anything evil entered the world he gave humanity a boundary and man when i realized that when i realized that i i realized how long have i misunderstood the love and the grace behind the boundaries that god has put on my life how long have i misunderstood the purpose and the intention behind the beauty of the boundaries that god has placed on my life because we live in a culture where any type of boundary any type of restraint any type of guidance offered to you is seen not only as an indictment against your personal choice but we live in a culture where is actually seen as a form of oppression against you as a person we see we see boundaries in any form as a form of oppression we we are a culture that doesn't even see boundaries is like annoying we see boundaries as oppressive to the people that we are and the people that we're trying to be we are a culture that is obsessed with freeing ourselves from any type of restraint any type of guidance any type of authority that suggests that there might be a better way to live than the way we're living now because we've bought into this narrative we've bought into this lie that complete personal autonomy think about this the mindset of a 20 month old that that the ability to do whatever think whatever act however we want whenever we want and dismissing any type of boundary that could form or shape us is going to be what leads us to our ultimate joy and our ultimate satisfaction the narrative that our culture is pushing is that freeing ourselves from any type of parameter around sexuality sexual identity sexual relationships any type of dating or marriage relationship or any form of personal identity that freeing ourselves from any type of parameter around that that that liberation is what will actually lead you to your ultimate joy and your ultimate satisfaction and can i tell you as a pastor and as a friend and somebody that loves you not only is that not a christian thought it's a lie it is an ultimate bold face lie listen study after study and i'm not talking about christian studies i'm not talking about you know christian studies that are trying to prove a point to like make a christian point i'm talking about non-bias scientific study after study continues to come out and affirm that as a culture we have never been more angry we have never been more anxious and we have never been more depressed in the history of humanity a new study from the journal of live science came out around december of 2020 stating that as of now 63 percent of all young adults between the ages of 18 to 24 have reported symptoms of anxiety and or depression which is a meteoric rise from decades and generations past guys it's not working there's a narrative that is running through denver and through our cities and our nation and our instagram feeds and our tick tocks or whatever that for you to be your truest self and for you to find joy and for you to find fulfillment you need to eliminate any and all boundaries that could possibly be placed on your sexuality on your relationships on your friendships on your dreams or your desires whatever and when you can eliminate those you will find peace and you will find joy and freedom and your purpose and study after study is showing that that is failing and not that it is failing it has failed when 63 of a population is facing severe anger anxiety or depression the method that got them there i can i can bet my life on it has failed and can i just say and i'm not this isn't prophetic maybe it is when something fails it gets one last breath to try to make one final fight so don't be shocked that if in the next couple years this narrative continues to get pressed harder and harder and harder because something fights at the deepest level when it knows it's running out of time and i think christian or non-christian alike i think we're recognizing and we're realizing that this lie this this narrative that culture is trying to sell us isn't just failing but it has failed us and maybe maybe in the perfection of the garden of eden before any sin or any brokenness any pain entered the world where god's perfect presence dwelt with humanity went men and women alike made in his image maybe god was trying to show us that even within perfection the human soul flourishes most under the loving care and guidance and parameters and boundaries of the god who created the human soul himself maybe god was trying to scream to us from the beginning that boundaries are not your enemy but they're actually a way to form yourself to experience life and life to the full for being honest with ourselves the narrative that our culture is propagated that limitless self-autonomy and any lack of boundary or restraint especially in your sexuality or relationship will lead you to ultimate fulfillment and joy is a lie and it's being exposed in the lives and the mental health of our communities and our populations and our friends it's a lie that is being exposed and it's the same exact lie that was offered at the very beginning i want to go back and look at genesis chapter 3. and to set the picture remember up to this point humanity is living in perfection there's no brokenness there's no pain there's no hurt there's no sin and there's boundaries and humanity and creation is thriving within the boundaries that god has placed for them until an unfamiliar voice appears in the scene that's where we pick up in genesis 3 it says this it says now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the lord god had made and if you have a problem with the talking snake i promise you if you dive in deep there's actually some some real theological gold and researching that the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the lord god had made and he said to the woman did god really say you must not eat of any tree in the garden the woman said to the serpent we can eat the fruit of anything in the garden but god did say you must not eat the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden and you must not touch it or you will die you're not going to die the serpent said to the woman for god knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be open and you will be like god knowing good and evil and when the woman saw the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye and desirable for gaining wisdom she took some of it and she ate we see from the very beginning of humanity's existence the enemy has been attacking the reality of the goodness of boundaries in our life from the very beginning of time the enemy has been attacking the reality of the goodness of boundaries in our life and this is how he attacks the boundaries that god has given us to flourish and how he attacked the boundaries of both adam and eve back in the garden he did it in two ways it's a two-part lie the first is this did god really say and the second is this because god knows did god really say and that's because god knows listen the first thing the enemy will always attack when god sets a life-giving boundary in your life is the actual boundary itself did god really say did god really say that to you does god really say that in his word that you should steward your sexuality that way does god really say does god really say that you shouldn't sleep around before you're married does god really say that sex should only be done in the covenant of marriage man did god did god really say you should only be with one person the rest of your life one person one sexual partner your entire life did god really say that it's 20 20. it's 2021. like man we're living in a new time like we've evolved as a culture we've evolved as humans we've evolved in our sexuality we've evolved like the god really say the first attack is always on the boundary itself but coupled with that first attack is always a second and it's this the first is on the boundary but the second is on the character and the intention of the one who gives the boundary did god really say oh he said that because god knows that if you cross that boundary and if you if you do that then then you're going to see through his facade did god really say you shouldn't do that oh he he said that to you because he knows that if you do it you'll realize that he's just trying to hold you back that he's just trying to limit your fun and limit the amount of life you get to experience did god really say that oh he did i think he just said that because he knows that if you cross that boundary you'll know what it feels like to feel the freedom of defining good and evil for yourself you'll know what it feels like to feel the freedom of making choices apart from god did god really say that okay he said that because he knows see he always attacks the boundary itself but even deeper and even more subtle he always attacks the character and the intention of the one who gave the boundary he attacks the goodness of the boundary giver why why would he attack the goodness of a boundary giver because he knows that a boundary is only as good as the one who gives it a boundary in your life is only as good as only as helpful as the one who gives it and the enemy knows that if he can get you to question the heart and the character of the boundary giver oh then having you cross the boundary is a walk in the park if he can have you question the heart and the intention and the love towards the boundary that was put in place towards the person that gave the boundary in the first place then having you cross boundary after boundary after boundary after boundary will be nothing because the power of a boundary is only found in the goodness of the one who gives it and if he can get you to question that there's no telling what he can try to lead you to and your sexuality and your relationships and your singleness and your dating and in your marriage his goal isn't just to get you to question or cross a boundary the goal and the lie of the enemy is to get you to question the heart and the goodness of the one who gave it that's why at the beginning of this message i told you that at the heart of almost every single question we could ever ask when it comes to sexuality and relationships and dating and marriage is a deeper question at the heart of almost every question we could ever ask about our sexuality and relationships our two deeper questions and it's this is god good and can i trust him is god good and can i trust him because if god is good then the boundaries that he might place in my life are good as well and if god is good and if i can trust him then even in moments where i might not understand the boundary or even in moments where i feel like the boundary is too restrictive or even in moments where i feel like my entire created being is just an opposition of this boundary i can trust the one who gave it because i know that he's good is god good and can i trust him you guys stand with me young adult i can't answer that question for you that is something that you are going to have to answer in your own life and it's going to be something that you're going to have to answer over and over and over again because i wish i could say that you're going to get one big temptation to come your way and if you deal with it you're good but man you're going to be facing this reality the rest of your life i do as a pastor i i mean everybody does and at the heart of every temptation that you're going to face at the heart of every boundary the enemy tries to lead you to press against look deeper and beyond what's actually going on and ask yourself this question is god good and can i trust him that's something that you're going to have to arrive to on your own but can i tell you this i believe that he is i believe that god is good and i believe that we can trust him with everything that we have i believe that jesus is the fullest revelation of god's heart towards humanity and jesus was good he was kind he was loving he was healing he was gentle i believe that jesus as the fullest revelation of god to humanity that that he's come to offer us life i believe him when he says in john 10 10 that he has come to give life and it's actually the enemy that comes to still kill kill and destroy from you i honestly believe that it's in jesus that we find the life that our souls are looking for and because i know jesus and i know the goodness of jesus i can trust the boundaries that god has set for my life even in moments where i don't understand them see when you believe that god is good you don't have to understand the boundary to trust that the one who gave it is good i just believe we're living in a culture and we're living in a society that doesn't understand the beauty that is found within boundaries but can i tell you a young adult if you want to flourish if you want to thrive in your relationships and your sexuality and your friendships man just in life god has placed beautiful boundaries for you psalm 16 says that the lines the boundaries of my life have fallen in pleasant places god's boundaries for you are for your good because he is good they're for you they're not against you they deceive you prosper and not to harm you they're for you to experience the fullness of life that god has to offer i believe that god is good and that i can trust who he is and what he has to say in my life let's pray together father god what an honor it is to hear your word god i believe that moments like this our souls beg the question god are you really good can i really trust you because it feels in moments that when you're beckoning us and calling us deeper that our trust in your goodness and that our trust in your character means that we have to maybe let go of some things in our life that maybe even are harmful for us but at least we're comfortable with them but god i pray that your holy spirit will begin to reassure every person in this room that you are a good god that you are faithful that you are so loving and kind that you would choose not to ask us of our life but you would lay down your life on our behalf so that we may know life in you god everything you do is good everything you say is good who you are is good your name is good your promises are good and your boundaries in our life are good so god i pray that as you're speaking to every individual in this room about the boundaries you've placed in their life would you assure them god that you're not there to rob or to steal but for them to flourish jesus we love you jesus we need you would you come and revive our souls and our spirits back to you fix our eyes on you let us see the life that you've come to offer and let us say yes and follow you with our life jesus we love you and it's in your name that we pray and everybody said amen amen love you guys let's worship

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Published: Sun Sep 19 2021