What do you cover up in your life? Discover in this message from Holly Furtick that the things you are covering up could be giving you burdens you weren’t meant to carry — and keeping you from something God wants you to have.
thanks for tuning in today we have a
message from Holly verdict from our
annual reflect ladies night but this
message isn’t just for the ladies in
this teaching we’re talking about the
cost of covering up the things we try to
hide and how to live authentically we
hope that you enjoy today’s message
I love preaching to women probably the
best memory that I ever have preaching
cuz usually kind of stressful for me
it’s not really my thing and you know
whatever but last year it reflect was my
first time preaching to all women and it
was like such a great time because you
guys are loose you’re happy you have
this like I don’t have my kids I don’t
even care where they are right now so
we’re gonna have a great time tonight
okay so speaking of what you’re wearing
I don’t anybody want to be honest and
admit that you put a little bit too much
thought into what you were wearing
tonight
my hand is up okay you do not want to
know how much time I spent putting this
outfit together okay you’re not one to
note okay but isn’t it funny like the
great links that we go to to look good
you know beauty it takes effort you know
true true V said and still mag don’t
know yes there’s no such thing as
natural beauty
it’s true I shouldn’t tell you this sir
she said that’ll preach I shouldn’t tell
you this story okay but it’s just girls
here so I think it’s okay so I’m just
gonna go for it okay so last year I was
getting ready for reflect and I was
feeling really pale okay now who feels
pale in August’s me and there’s a
handful of us who do okay I did not get
my husband’s beautiful golden skin that
like the second he walks outside he’s
like three shades Tanner okay and so I’m
getting my hair done and you know how to
check goes into beauty salon and somehow
somebody started talking about spray
tans now when I hear spray tan I think
Ross from friends you know the time we
got this spray tan and he got sprayed
four times in the faces like on my baby
you know okay so um so but my friend
Nicky Seidel who actually is our
Columbia campus pastor’s wife she’s
amazing and she’s in here somewhere
tonight because even though the ladies
at Columbia are worshipping in Rock Hill
I wanted Nicky to do my hair so she’s
here with us tonight
so anyway Nicky says um she says Oh
spray tan I do that all the time the key
is you have to get someone who actually
sprays you don’t do the machine if so my
wheels start turning because we’re like
this literally like three days away and
this is like the perfect solution you
know I still we talked a little bit more
about you know where to go and well my
hair is processing I look up the place
and I call and I make an appointment for
later that day and so then you know
you’re sitting there you have all this
time to yourself
I started thinking wait a second so is
actually gonna spray me like what is
that gonna be like and I feel like like
it’s okay because we’re all girls except
for the guys running production so you
might want to like stick your fingers in
your ears but for me to say this but I I
I poke Nicki aside and I was like so so
someone’s gonna spray me um
do I totally get undressed and she says
well you know some people leave their
undergarments on but I just go for it
it looks better and I just tell myself
they’re professionals they do this every
day they look at women’s bodies every
day it’s like going to the doctor so I
was like okay it’s like going to the
doctor I can do this I can do this I
want to be pinned I could do this and so
like all day long you know prepping
myself and I’m okay it’s like going to
the doctor it’s professional it’s not a
big deal this is not a big deal
so three o’clock comes around walk into
the place in Philly it’s literally
across the street from this building
that I’m preaching from right now oh I
think you know where I’m going with this
I walk in and I look at the girl and I
say to her say hey I’m Holly I have a
three o’clock appointment to which she
replies oh I know who you are I go to
your church
so I immediately made the decision that
I was gonna wear my bra okay how many of
you know sometimes you just gotta keep
it covered
all right so pale skin like since I’m
just confessing everything to you guys
right now
pale skin is not the only thing that I
cover up because you know as women we
are professionals at cover-up and so as
I was thinking about this message and
preparing for it I went into my closet I
did not go to a store I went into my own
closet to show you a few examples of
some things that we cover up okay so
we’ll start with the the immediate thing
that you might think of is the bathing
suit cover-up okay so this is the
bathing suit cover-up that I wear you
see it’s like kind of open it’s like a
little kimono jacket thing this is the
one that I wear when I’ve been
exercising lately you know and I feel
kind of kind of good about myself and um
then there’s this one that I wear and
I’ve been hitting the French fries it’s
you guys it’s inside out i literally
just wore it recently this is this is my
favorite one
alright so you have bathing’s to cover
it up cover up um okay so this this is
what I wear when I have dirty hair and
um so if you ever see me in this hat
you’re like oh that’s such a cute hat
it’s like leather and pink it’s actually
not real leather you should know that
like chances are I haven’t washed my
hair in like three or four days and so
but if I’m going somewhere where a hat
is not appropriate then I have some dry
shampoo and this dry shampoo doubles
because it has with a hint of beautiful
brunette so you know covers up the grays
a little bit if you’re you know have
them into the salon in a while okay so
um so then we’ve got we’ve got makeup
okay now this is this is this is for
like a good day you know like just a
little bit under the eyes I guys I swear
all this came out of my closet um this
is like a medium day you know and I
promise you I’m tell I’m telling the
truth this one came in the mail today I
ordered it
check my mail so this one’s I would say
this is probably like a medium day and
then like you know on some days like
that time of the month you you got to
pull out the big gun so here’s here’s my
there’s my big guns
okay so then I’ve also got in here um
anybody ever have to cover up a chips
pedicure surprise that’s what we do we
we cover up smells um I’ve already told
you that I don’t like the color of my
skin so you know I’ve got this one I’ve
got this one I got this one this one you
got to be careful with you how to wash
your hands immediately all right and
just you know I’m going for it we also
have Spanx
and guys full disclosure I was not gonna
bring my actual Spanx out here because
they’re like misshapen there’s an
off-brand they’re not even this banks
brand so thank God we live in a world
where we don’t have to wear a corset
anymore we can wear these right okay
there’s nothing wrong with a little bit
of cover-up okay we all we all do it
actually I’m gonna just cover up my my
mess right here just hold on one second
cuz you know it’s not looks all pretty
again um it’s funny to think about all
the things that we cover up on the
outside but sometimes we also
dangerously cover up what’s going on on
the inside and that’s what I want to
talk about tonight okay
so the title of my message is called the
cost of cover-up when I was thinking and
praying about what I wanted to talk
about tonight and this idea of cover-up
my mind came to this kind of obscure
Bible story about a man whose life
depended on him uncovering something
very serious that was going on in his
life I really wanted to find a woman but
I I couldn’t I couldn’t make it work but
I do think that this man has a lot to
teach us ladies tonight so if you
brought your Bible will you turn with me
to second Kings chapter five and we’re
gonna start right off reading in verse 1
it says na naman was the commander of
the army of the king of Aaron okay so
you should know that Arum was a
neighboring country to Israel during the
time of the prophet Elijah okay so let’s
keep reading he was a great man in the
sight of his master and highly regarded
because through him the Lord had given
victory to Aaron he was a valiant
soldier all right so on the outside this
guy had it all okay he was a great man
highly-regarded valiant soldier to
everybody looking in at his life you
would want to have it everybody would
want to be him but naman had a but okay
so I want to show you the next part what
was named ins but it says he was a
valiant soldier but he had leprosy okay
now I did a little bit of studying on
leprosy this week which is actually kind
of a strange thing to study about but
let me tell you what leprosy is it was a
condition of the skin but it was a
deadly one and during this time in
history people were very afraid of
catching leprosy and so naimans first
symptom would have been a white rash
quickly followed by the loss of feeling
wherever that rash was and eventually
people with leprosy would begin to
develop sores which would lead to
infection which would often cause them
to lose limbs fingers noses and
sometimes they would even go blind so it
was a very cruel very painful very
disfiguring disease and when a person’s
leprosy began to be noticeable he or she
would most likely be forced to go and
live in a leper colony away from anybody
who’s healthy including your family and
your doctor okay so in this story we
find a great person a successful person
a person that everybody thinks that they
want to be but he had something that he
was covering up and if he didn’t do
something about it it was gonna cost him
his life because there was no cure for
leprosy and I wonder tonight as I’m
talking I just want to get you thinking
do you have something that you are
covering up sometimes it’s easier to see
what someone else is covering up you
know so you can look at somebody and say
oh you know what
he has an amazing job she has her dream
job with an amazing pay but I think I
don’t think she really has any friends
you know I’m looking at her from the
outside or maybe that girl’s got money
she’s got clothes she’s got a nice car
she’s got a nice house
I don’t think her marriage is doing so
good I think I think their I think their
marriage is kind of on the rocks you
know but the reality is we all have
something that we’re covering up
something that we don’t want others to
see and sometimes it can be something
that’s super obvious like maybe you have
an addiction or maybe you have an eating
disorder or maybe you have angry fits of
rage where you just go at the person
behind the counter or a road rage or
where your kids or whatever um you know
it can also be something more subtle
something that’s a lot easier to cover
up like bitterness or or gossip or
depression or self-hatred and that even
was thinking about women who have a
judgmental spirit you know and you just
think that you’re better than than
everyone else and the truth is that we
can cover up for a long time but after a
while it always starts to spill over
somewhere you know maybe it can affect
your ability to have meaningful
relationships or the ability for you to
enjoy life and the blessings that you do
have or maybe it starts affecting your
ability to even do your job okay you
might have come here tonight with a
million other things on your mind but
when you finally stop and you realize
you’re exhausted because you’re covering
up something you’re tired of acting like
everything’s okay when it’s not covering
up takes work right and there’s a huge
cost to it it costs you time it costs
you money it costs you emotional energy
it can cost you relationships and if
that’s where you are tonight I want to
call you to change tonight I want to
call you to uncover whatever that thing
is you I want to call you to change not
the woman sitting next to you or the
friend that you wish could just hear
this message you know you tried to get
her here but but she wasn’t tonight’s
about you okay so as you’re listening I
don’t want you to be thinking about you
know oh I wish I wish my sister could
hear this I want you to be thinking what
is God trying to
say to you okay now the good news is we
all have something that we’re covering
up okay so we are something that we need
to change so you’re not alone
okay so just want to set your mind at
ease we all have something that we’re
covering up the bad news is cover up
always has a cost okay so tonight I want
to look closely at name and story and I
want to show you how outwardly he had
everything going for him but secretly he
was dying inside because of something
that he was covering up naman had to
make a decision to stop covering up and
seek out a change
so as we walked through this story
tonight I want to point out to you four
things that it’s going to take if you
really want to change okay it’s just
gonna be four words that if you really
want to change it’s gonna take these
four things so we’re gonna pick up in
verse two with naman now bands of
Raiders from arum had gone out and taken
captive a young girl from Israel
she served name ins wife she said to her
mistress
if only my master would see the Prophet
who is in Samaria he would cure him of
his leprosy naman went to his master and
told him what the girl from Israel said
by all means go the king of Arum replied
okay so one thing I forgot to tell you
about leprosy is that you can cover it
up for a long time like years in fact
you could have leprosy and go years
without anyone knowing about it so very
few people knew about naimans
condition but how many of you know that
you can hide a lot of things from a lot
of people but the hardest people to hide
from are the people who are closest to
you okay so here we find naman in our
story he’s home from battle and when
he’s home he has to take off his armor
and when he takes off his armor it’s
harder for him to hide his condition so
his wife knows about his condition and
her
servant knows about his condition the
first thing that I want to point out to
you is that change requires honesty an
honesty starts with myself okay it’s
hard to cover up at home maybe to most
people you seem like a happy funny girl
but your family knows that you have some
days where you can’t get out of bed for
me if you ever saw me in public with my
kids you would probably think oh she’s
such a calm patient mom but at home if
you were to ask my children to describe
my parenting style I don’t think that
the first two words that they would use
would be calm and patient and this
summer Elijah had a new friend over and
this friend’s parents are kind of
relatively new to our staff and my kids
kept fighting over this poor boy okay
they kept you know like you think it’s
the play day it’s gonna like keep the
kids out of your hair but you’re just
freaking referee you know and they were
fighting over like who he was gonna play
with and and and what they were gonna
play I know your kids don’t fight but
mine do and um and this day I just lost
it okay not in a funny way like I’m
serious I mean I let them have a piece
of my mind I may have said something
about how hell would freeze over before
I let them have a friend over again
it’s funny now but I really want you to
understand the the severity of the
situation my throat hurts after I was
done talking to them and then I
remembered the friend you know I’m like
I mean I’m not only this kid’s pastor’s
wife okay I’m his parents boss of a
Christian organization nonetheless and
let’s just say I was not acting like a
Christian mom or a pastor’s wife okay I
really I really want you guys to
understand I I just I blew it and what
why why did I act that way well one
reason is because I was at home and
sometimes it’s really hard to keep
hiding what’s going on in your heart
when you’re when you’re home and and and
so later I really I had to get honest
with myself I had to use that as a
moment to to really check myself I don’t
want to be that kind of mom I mean why
was it okay for me to talk to my kids
like that what am I even teaching my
kids when I stoop to their level with
this grown-up temper tantrum I mean it
was terrible and I’m I want you to know
but this I’m working on this cover-up in
this situation though if I was covering
it up it would be well they were
fighting and yelling at them was the
only way that I could get across to them
you know but change gets real and change
says it’s not okay for me to act like
that ever okay and so Neiman had to get
honest he had to get honest with himself
and he had to get honest with his wife
and then he had to go to his boss and
and he went to the king and he told him
that hey my wife’s servant told me that
there is a prophet in Israel and and
that that could heal me and the King
gave him permission to go naman was
never going to find healing if he stayed
in Arum and kept trying to cover
everything up
in fact he was gonna die if he stayed
there he would die he had to come to
grips with the reality and the severity
of his situation he had to let a few
people see him without his armor anja
that go to the king and say I need to go
get help okay
honesty starts with myself but then I’ve
got to vocalize it to to others the
enemy wants you to think that your
problem is not that bad and that you can
fix it by yourself the enemy wants you
to think that you’re the only one who
has this problem because as long as he
can keep you in denial as long as you
continue to fake it you will say
miserable and your condition will worsen
it doesn’t get better on its own change
comes when I’m honest with myself and
then I’m honest with others and I think
naman had to come to a place where he
was more afraid of what would happen if
he wasn’t honest then what would happen
if he was and sometimes we just have to
get to that place where we realize this
is I just I can’t go on like that
anymore and many of us are right there
tonight you’re exhausted from from
covering up and you just you want a
change and again we all feel that way
don’t let the enemy tell you that you’re
the only one who feels that way so let’s
see what naman did look with me verse
four let’s see
4b so naman left
talking with him taking with him ten
talents of silver six thousand shekels
of gold and ten sets of clothing I knew
I loved this guy for a women’s event
over packers unite
no I’m just kidding who I at first I was
like oh my gosh he took pins that’s a
clothing that is perfect but then when I
read further the the ten sets of
clothing where he took all of that with
the gold and the silver as a gift
because he thought he was gonna need
some kind of payment for his healing but
it turns out that God was going to gift
him change from the inside out he wasn’t
gonna need the payments so I feel like I
need a pause right here and and say to
you that changing is not something that
we do for God okay change is something
that that God wants he wants for me
he accepts me he loves me just the way I
am if I never changed another thing if I
continue to live with whatever my secret
is with whatever my misery is God still
loves me the same if I never changed
anything okay change isn’t something
that God wants for us but God doesn’t
want you to live in this in this hiding
and shame and misery for you not for him
he has something better for you okay but
it’s gonna take something on your part
so skip down to verse 9 and let’s see
what naman does it says name and went
with his horses and chariots and stopped
at the door of Elijah’s house and Elijah
sent a messenger to him go and wash
yourself seven times in the Jordan River
and your flesh will be restored and you
will be cleansed all right
tears naman he arrives in style chariots
horses entourage in tow he knocks on the
prophet’s door and elijah doesn’t even
come to the door he he sends him a
message because I think Elijah a new
what naman needed and so he sends him a
message and he says go and wash in the
Jordan seven times and you will be
healed and naman gets angry look at
verse 11 but naman went away angry and
said I thought that he would surely
come out to me and stand and call in the
name of the Lord and wave his hand over
the spot and cure me of leprosy are not
abana
and far par the rivers of Damascus
better than all the waters of Israel
couldn’t I wash and then and be cleansed
so he turned and went off in a rage I
told you this man had a lot to teach us
and a lot teach me
naman was expecting drama and when he
didn’t get it he got mad real change
comes through simplicity not drama naman
was angry because his expectations
weren’t met you know he’s I thought this
is how it was gonna be I thought he
would come out to me I fight with stand
and call on the name of the Lord and
wave his hand over the spot and cure me
and you know one of the most impactful
concepts that I ever heard was when I
heard Linda Dillo talking about how
anger comforts us and she teaches that
if I remain angry then I have no room in
my mind to find fault in myself I talked
about this in becoming mrs. better-half
plug to all the ladies who are gonna do
mrs. better house okay but this goes way
beyond marriage I think that all women
are struggling with this because I
believe that we’re quickly becoming a
generation of women who are angry
because if I stay angry then I never
have to admit that I was any part to
blame you know if I stay in this fit of
anger with my kids and it’s their fault
that I’m mad if I stay angry with my
husband that I never have to think about
how I could have handled the situation
better because it’s all his fault
anger is comforting because it allows me
to shift the blame and make excuses but
if anything were comforting for the
people around us you know like when I
get mad my kids are like mmm you know
the moms wait you know and so in his
anger naman begins to make excuses he
says wash here I mean III could go whole
aren’t through my rivers at home cleaner
than the one
here I came all this way to wash in your
dirty river he wanted drama and some of
us were so addicted to drama
we’ll be honest about our problem some
of you are honest about your problems
but it’s because you want attention not
because you want healing
[Applause]
you know we want to stay in this place
where we’re like my husband my kids
can you believe what my boss said that
anger it comforts us and as long as it
is named and stayed angry he got to stay
in cover-up mode nobody had to know what
was really going on so some people come
and they try and talk sense into him
okay it’s it’s his servants I want to
show you what they say to him in verse
13 it says naman servants went to him
and said my father if the Prophet had
told you to do some great thing would
you not have done it how much more then
when he tells you wash and be cleansed
now I’d like to think that these were
not just servants but that they were
they were naimans friends I mean
obviously they were people who had
traveled a long way with me Amon and
they cared about him and they were like
look man we traveled all this way and
you’re gonna go home you’re not even
gonna try it you know I love what the
message version says I want to I want to
read you I want to read you exactly what
it says so the message version says if
the Prophet had asked you to do
something hard and heroic wouldn’t you
have done it why not this simple wash
and be clean as women are bent can be
towards the dramatic we want everyone on
Facebook to know we want to have three
coffees and two lunches and four phone
calls before we even consider praying
about whatever is going on let’s let’s
take some kind of action
Neiman James it had to come to a simple
act wash them be clean but you see wash
and be clean wasn’t that simple to naman
because he didn’t want to take his armor
off he didn’t want people to see how bad
his disease had really gotten because
he’d been covering it up for a long time
so here’s the third one real change also
requires vulnerability in his rage he
said I thought the Prophet would wave
his hand over me over the spot and I
would be healed see but it’s name is
disease I got to thinking about this as
I was reading it if naimans disease had
had progressed to the point where he was
willing to travel into enemy territory
to get a miracle it had to be more than
one spot you know and as long as you go
on pretending it’s just one spot then
you never can experience change the
requirement for naimans
healing it wasn’t that he it wasn’t like
the Prophet asked him to parade naked
through the whole town okay
and and I’m not suggesting when I talk
about vulnerability I’m not suggesting
that in order for you to find your
healing because you’re gonna have to air
your dirty laundry on Facebook and for
for everyone to see in fact let’s talk
about Facebook for a minute
ladies being vulnerable on social media
is counterfeit vulnerability laundry and
all our dishes in the sink or how we
were up all night working we’re most
likely not trying to be vulnerable we’re
seeking validation there’s a big
difference and I don’t I don’t want to
be so hard cuz I’ve you know I’d love
Instagram and I you know I’ve piles of
laundry tunes sometimes I I understand
that we’re trying to be real and we’re
trying to be funny at the same time but
the way that I know that it’s not true
vulnerability for myself is because
every time that I do this it leaves me
feeling empty in my life and nothing
changes vulnerability real vulnerability
it takes courage validation is seeking
likes vulnerability is being real with
someone real a realized person it’s
saying to a trusted friend who’s earned
the right to hear my honesty not just
anyone not just everyone a trusted
friend who’s earned the right to hear my
honesty for me to say I’m not doing ok
will you pray for me and will you check
on me and when you ask me how I’m doing
this is where change begins the enemy
wants you to think the vulnerability
will hurt your relationships but that’s
not true
vulnerability with a trusted friend
strengthens your relationship with them
my friend how can I know that you need
help if you keep everything covered up
your friends your family the people that
you love and trust they want to walk
with you through through your trial they
want to they want to come along beside
you they want to help you they want to
support you you can’t keep it covered up
because cover-up actually costs you
intimacy in your relationships it bet
that it costs you that it doesn’t
doesn’t save your relationships anything
but you can be vulnerable with the right
with the right person and so naman was
persuaded by his servants and he went
and he washed and we’ll just read the
last verse verse 14 says so he went down
and he dipped himself in the Jordan
seven times as the man of God told him
and his flesh was restored and he became
clean like a young boy Elijah told naman
to wash seven times in the Jordan River
now in actuality this wouldn’t take a
long time but I feel like this number is
symbolic of process change is a process
that takes consistency naimans
expectation was instant change he said I
thought the Prophet would come out and
wave his hand over the spot he wanted
bibbidi-bobbidi-boo you know I think
he’d been watching Cinderella with his
kids or something does he want a fairy
godmother to come out and waves her wand
over the spot as he just stood there and
you know funny as that sounds we live in
a world where everyone wants instant
results I mean it’s like funny okay we
want quick change without any work we
want to we want a quick fix we want a
pill to make us happy and skinny
right but we don’t want to do the work
that’s figuring out why we’re depress it
overweight we want to gain followers on
Instagram rather than developing real
face-to-face relationships with people
quick fixes are just another cover up
you can take antidepressants I don’t
have anything against antidepressants I
know lots of people need them but if you
you still have to dig down to the root
of your depression a pill is not gonna
fix there’s no magic Jesus one that I
can wave over you and fix all of your
problems change takes work on your part
what I want for you is I want you to be
sitting here one year from now and able
to look back and see how far you’ve come
in your marriage how far you’ve come in
your relationships how far you’ve come
in your struggle with addiction to
alcohol or to drama how far you’ve come
in your relationship with God but it’s
gonna take consistency on your part to
see an actual change and it’s gonna take
time
you can’t be vulnerable one time and
think it’s gonna fix itself the thing oh
well I shared that with her so it should
be better now Holly said no she didn’t
jain’s comes when you feel that urge to
cover up when you feel that urge to
withdraw inside when you feel that urge
to fake it but you decide no I’m gonna
be honest with someone I’m gonna take
some simple steps of obedience all those
things that you already know to do I’m
gonna talk to someone about my situation
and then I’m gonna do it again and I’m
gonna do it again
I’m gonna do it again does it happen
overnight you have to keep on doing it
my very favorite sermon the pastor
steven has ever preached is don’t stop
on six what if they met only tip six
times he had to dip seven times and when
he did his flesh was restored to better
than before God had to deal with naimans
heart he had to deal with naimans pride
before he could change his situation but
when he finally took that simple step
wash and be clean
he was restored to better than ever and
I want you to know tonight that change
God wants you to experience change from
the inside out what if you stopped
spending a fortune in time and money
trying to change the outside and you
actually put in some work of trying to
change from the inside out
and remember change isn’t something that
God wants for you it’s it’s not that he
wants you to change your behavior he
wants you to change your heart Jesus
died to set us free
he’s thinking he’s free from the guilt
free from the shame of our behavior and
I believe I’ve prayed and I truly
believe that he’s standing before us
tonight
offering us this gift of change from the
inside out wherever you are I don’t care
if you’re sitting in the back of Lake
Norman tonight or if you’re in Rock Hill
and you came in late he’s standing here
before you offering this gift of change
and as we move into a time of reflection
after all the event is called reflect I
would like to ask you two questions just
want you to start to think about this
and what is it that you need to change
and what step do you need to take toward
that change tonight do you need to start
by being honest with yourself and by
being honest with God about the reality
of your situation
I’m just admitting all right god it’s
gone too far
or maybe maybe you know the severity of
your situation but you just need to be
vulnerable with someone maybe do you
just need to keep at it in that
simplicity and consistency just keep
keep doing it I want to make you feel
bad if you’ve been trying to work
through whatever this thing is in your
life and you’re here tonight you’re like
I want to change I’m trying to change
great just keep keep doing it keep doing
what you’re doing
I just want to give you a minute tonight
to really process because I really
believe that women especially we’re so
busy and and and it’s such a busy world
and the minute that you leave out these
doors your attention is gonna be pulled
in a
in different directions but God’s got
you here tonight just for a few minutes
can you give God a few minutes of your
attention and just stop take a moment
and allow God to speak to you ask him to
show you but I have so many things I
need to change I don’t even know where
to start
ask him he’ll show you it’s not some
mysterious thing up in the sky that’s
trying to like hide from you ask him the
Bible says ask and you will receive so
right now right here you can bow your
head you can you can kneel down in your
seat if you want to you’ll have to I
just want you to take a couple of
minutes it might seem weird cuz I’m
gonna let the band play and I’m gonna
give you time to think and to process
and to let God speak to you maybe you
need to begin a relationship with God
right here right now that’s okay that’s
a great place to start all you have to
do is pray the Bible says if you confess
with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and
believe in your heart that God raised
him from the dead you will be saved
wherever you are tonight God wants to
meet with you right there right there in
your seat so just take a moment thank
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