Steven Furtick - A New Way To Pray (10/29/2018)
In this powerful message from Joshua 10:7-15, the preacher shares why the miracle of the sun standing still means so much to him personally and to the church. Joshua's audacious prayer during battle leads to God stopping the sun, symbolizing how God fights for His people and accelerates victory. The sermon calls believers to pray bold "Sun Stand Still" prayers for impossible situations, combining audacious faith with action, and emphasizes community through E-groups to sustain such faith.
Introduction to the Sun Stand Still Miracle
Well, if you have a Bible with you today, would you turn to Joshua chapter 10, verses 7 through 15. Joshua chapter 10, verses 7 through 15. In my Bible, I keep a note every time I preach a sermon, and I highlight the passage that I preached from. The thought behind it is, one day I'll give this Bible to one of my sons, and it'll be kind of a road map of where we've been as a church together.
And I don't know if you've ever noticed, but I preach from a real big Bible. I feel like maybe it gives it a little bit more weight, and it's got some great study notes in it. And I kind of document the different things that God does on certain days. Like two weeks ago, when 581 people gave their lives to Jesus, I wrote that down in my Bible by the passage that I preached. I always want to remember that. I never want to forget. That 581 people giving their lives to Christ. It's really special.
Well, right above this passage where God makes the sun standstill that I'm going to read to you today, I have the date, 9-23-07. That's when we did our first sun standstill series at the church three years ago. It was a few months before that that I read this miracle for the first time. I guess it had always been in the Bible, I suppose. But it was the first time I ever really saw it for what it was.
And I fell in love with this concept immediately, and it meant so much to me. I knew I was going to preach a series about it. And I did not know that it would eventually become the organizing metaphor and the central subject of my first book. And I had no idea that it would become one of the most defining series that we've ever had in our church.
There were about 2,500 people coming to Elevation. And we've almost tripled in size since then. But I still remember the testimonies that started coming in after I preached this sun standstill message for the first time. Of couples who were on the edge of divorce and God restored their marriage. Children who are far from God and God brought them back home. People who needed a financial breakthrough and God showed up in a major way.
Couples who struggled with infertility and who had gotten bitter with God. God who became pregnant or decided to adopt. But one way or another, became parents for the first time. On and on and on and on, I could go. Our church has seen God make the sun standstill. And it is such an honor to be able to share this message with you.
Keeping the Message Fresh
However, it's a challenge because I've shared it now for the last three years all over this country. And really, I guess you could say even preaching it in Africa, all over the world. And I've written a book about it. And I won't say I'm tired of it, but it can become difficult to keep it fresh.
And I knew that I could come up for the next four weeks and talk to you about Sun Stand Still without ever studying or praying about it. Because I've done it so much. But I wanted to give it to you in a fresh way. I wanted to be able to speak from my heart. And I wanted to be able to give you something new.
Because you are my first priority. Before I care about selling books or speaking at conferences, I care about this church. And so I wanted to approach Sun Stand Still from a fresh angle. But still keep the same message and introduce you to it maybe for the first time.
And I think God has given me a way to do that. What I'm going to do is read the passage. And I'll fill in some of the details that you'll need to know. Just the basics about historically what happened in the context of this great miracle.
And then I just wrote down over the course of this last week. Seven or eight of the reasons that this miracle means so much to me. I've been asking the question, why does this particular miracle of all the miracles in the Bible mean so much to me? And I identified the reasons that it's so special to me.
And I hope to help you fall in love with this idea that God wants you to live a life of audacious faith. That he wants you to see the sun stand still over every area of your life.
Reading the Scripture – Joshua 10:7-15
And what I'd like to ask us to do today at all of our locations in honor of God's word is to stand to our feet. And I'll read this passage and then I'll share with you as many of my seven reasons as I have time to get to why this miracle means so much to me.
And I'm praying that today, wherever you are, God would cause the sun to stand still over your life and speak to you in a very powerful, powerful way. Joshua chapter 10, verse 7. At all of our locations, if you're ready to hear God's word preached, say amen. Amen.
So Joshua marched up from Gilgal with his entire army, including all the best fighting men. The Lord said to Joshua, Do not be afraid of them. I have given them into your hand. Not one of them will be able to withstand you.
After an all-night march from Gilgal, Joshua took them by surprise. The Lord threw them into confusion before Israel, who defeated them in a great victory at Gibeon. Israel pursued them along the road, going to Betharon, and cut them down all the way to Azekah and Makeda.
If I didn't say those words correctly, don't even act like you know the difference either. You have no idea. Verse 11. As they fled before Israel on the road down from Betharon to Azekah, the Lord hurled large hailstones down on them from the sky, and more of them died from the hailstones than were killed by the swords of the Israelites.
Isn't it funny that you can do all you can do, and God can do more than you can do, even in just a supernatural way? God did more than they did, but He didn't do what He did, divorced from what they did. That didn't make a lot of sense. I'll clarify that when I get to the sermon in a moment.
Now here's where I really want you to focus your attention. Because up until this point, maybe this seems just like another war story in the Bible to you, but here's where it gets special. On the day the Lord gave the Amorites over to Israel, Joshua said to the Lord in the presence of Israel.
And here's my verse, y'all. It's my life verse. It's what I want to see God accomplish in our city, all over this world, and in your life. Oh, sun, stand still over Gibeon. Oh, moon over the valley of Ejelon.
So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on its enemies, as it is written in the book of Jasher. Then, in the middle of this incredible, epic battle, God summarizes the whole deal one more time, as if to make sure we really believe that something like this could actually happen.
The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day. There has never been a day like it before or since, a day when the Lord listened to a man. Then, surely, the Lord was fighting for Israel.
You think so? When the sun stands still in the middle of the sky, surely, the Lord was fighting for Israel. Then Joshua returned with all Israel to the camp at Gilgal.
Let's pray. Father, make this message so fresh to me and to us that it's like the sun stands still for the first time ever. We don't want to just read about what you did one time. We want to experience what you're doing right now. Cause the sun to stand still in these moments and speak to our hearts in a powerful way. In Jesus' name. And everybody said at all of our locations. Amen? Amen.
You may be seated.
Why This Miracle Means So Much – Part 1
Why this miracle means so much to me. And I would also say why I think it should mean something to you too. Why this miracle means so much to me. Number one, it demonstrates the magnitude of a defining moment.
These points aren't going to come up on the screen because I just wanted it to feel more like I was sharing from my heart than I was giving you a classroom lecture. So you write down what you want to write down. Something stands out to you. You write it down.
But this is just an introduction to the process we're about to go through over the next couple of weeks as a church. See, not only am I preaching sermons to inspire your faith, but I'm going to challenge you to begin to identify the area in your life where you need the sun to stand still.
Now here's the deal for Joshua. He made this agreement with a group of people called the Gibeonites. And he shouldn't have made the agreement with them, but he did. He made a mistake. And because he made an agreement with these people, he swore to defend them.
And these five kings, these Amorite kings, came to challenge Joshua and the Gibeonites. So Joshua had to defend the Gibeonites, even though he never should have made the agreement with them in the first place.
Have you ever been in a situation where you got yourself into the mess, but you needed God to help you out anyway? Like, God, it's my fault I'm in this debt, but that doesn't mean I don't need your help to get out of it. God, it may be my fault partially that my kids are acting this way, but I need you more than anything else to look beyond my faults and see my need and help me out in this situation.
Has anybody ever made a mistake where you needed God to step in and overlook what you did wrong? Here's Joshua. He made a mistake to make an alliance, and now he's having to defend his armies in order to protect people that he never should have made an alliance with in the first place.
But here's what I've learned about God. He can turn your mistake into a miracle. He can take something that you never should have done to begin with and use it as an opportunity to show how he's a gracious and merciful and forgiving God.
I think we ought to clap our hands at all of our locations for a God who can turn our mistake into a miracle. And it's in this defining moment where the sun stands still that Joshua sees God's power revealed like never before.
Personal Defining Moments
In the book, I talk about when I was 16 years old and I had a page 23 vision. referring to the fact that I was reading a Christian book and I came across a sentence on page 23 that said, I despaired at the thought that my life might pass me by without God moving greatly on our behalf.
And God used that sentence in my heart as a junior in high school to plant a desire that one day I would start a church in a major metropolitan city somewhere to reach people far from God. And look at us today doing just that. It started in a moment.
Now, if God can make the sun stand still in a moment, I believe that in a worship experience like this, He can speak to your heart and define the rest of your life through the power of a moment. I love this miracle. In a moment, God changed history.
Why This Miracle Means So Much – Part 2
Number two, I love this miracle because it's the story of my life and it's the story of this church. The story of Elevation Church, the story of Stephen Furtick, is God doing something way bigger than we could ever take the credit for.
Look at me, look at you, and then look at what God is doing. It doesn't add up. Turn to the person next to you and say, look at yourself. It doesn't add up.
See, sometimes when I look at what God is doing in this church and I realize that we've seen over 9,000 people make first-time professions of faith in Christ inside of a less than five-year history, it feels like we're living in a warp speed dream world.
And that's really what this miracle represents. It's like God accelerates a victory that maybe could have happened naturally in a longer span of time.
Here's the deal. Joshua is fighting this battle that he shouldn't have been fighting, but God helps him out anyway because he's gracious like that. The sun starts to sink and the enemies start to get away.
Now, if they get away, then possibly they'll come back and hunt Joshua as he continues to take over the promised land which God promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, which Joshua was inheriting even though Moses in the previous generation couldn't make it happen.
But if these people get away under the cloak of night, maybe the victory will only be partial. And Joshua realizes God didn't call him to partial victory. He called him to complete victory.
I'll say the same thing to you today. If you're just barely getting by, stuck in spiritual survival mode, just going through the motions, hoping you'll go to heaven when you die, but living like hell while you're on the earth, struggling with depression, battling with addictions, God doesn't plan for you to kind of win.
He doesn't plan for you to pull it out in the last minute. He wants to win decisive victories in your life. He wants to be decisively victorious in your situation.
Anyway, Joshua throws his Hail Mary pass and decides that even though he's never seen it done before, if God created the sun, certainly he can call it into freeze frame.
This is the original DVR. Remember the first time you ever used DVR or TiVo? If you don't have DVR or TiVo, I don't mean to make you lust. But for me and my family, it's well worth the expense to be able to tell the show what time I'm going to watch it. I'm in control.
I remember the first time I started rewinding and fast forwarding shows. I felt like God. I did. I felt like I was in control of this universe that I had never been able to adequately control before.
Now, God hits pause on the cosmos. That's bad to the bone. You serve a big God. He takes his pinky finger and says, okay, stops the sun in its tracks. The sun, people. The sun stops in the sky.
Now, the skeptic in me has all kinds of questions. How did this actually happen? We all know that the earth revolves around the sun. So it encourages me to know that Joshua didn't even get his prayer right. The sun doesn't stand still.
However this works out, God just hears Joshua's heart and he responds to his faith. And we're reading in a historical account of a God who can do anything. And he causes Israel to be able to win a battle at an accelerated rate.
I love this miracle. This is the sun stand still church where we're seeing God do things inside of five years that a lot of churches don't get to see in 50. That's why I love this miracle.
Because you've got to understand, we started this church with 19 people. And to have over 11,000 show up to worship on Easter Sunday, less than five years after we started the church, I give God all the glory.
I have seen the sun stand still. You can say what you want to, but I've seen the sun stand still. I have. I have. I have.
Symbolic of Impossible Needs
Another reason why this miracle is so meaningful to me is because it's symbolic of all of the impossible things that we need God to do in our lives. This is a great metaphor for whatever the impossible thing that you're believing God for happens to be.
Is there a relationship that you need Him to restore? He can make the sun stand still. You may have lost a lot of time, but He can even redeem the time you've wasted and multiply it back to you through the power of grace.
Is there a career need or goal or aspiration that you have to glorify God and you need Him to do something that seems impossible to you? This is the realm where audacious faith kicks in and anything becomes possible.
Because here's another reason I love this miracle. It reminds me that what seems impossible to me isn't even remotely difficult for God.
See, with God, there's no such thing as impossibility. With God, there's no such thing as a sun He can't stop. He who creates the sun can tell it where to go. He who creates the ocean can tell it stop right here. He who creates the storm and the wind and the waves can still them on behalf of His children.
So what seems impossible to me is not even remotely difficult for God.
A New Way to Pray – Sun Stand Still Prayers
Another reason I love this miracle and it means so much to me. And this is where I want to spend a few minutes because my goal over the next few weeks is that you would size up an impossible situation in your life.
It could be regarding your kids. It could be regarding your business. It could be regarding your bank account. It could be regarding healing in your body. It could be regarding your calling that you need to receive from God. It could be regarding a prayer that's so personal that you've never told anybody about it.
A sin struggle that you can't seem to get out of and is spinning you round and round and round and ruining your life. It could revolve around something that you want to see God break in your bloodline that has plagued your family for generations.
It could involve somebody who's not even here at our church, but you want to see God bring them in. Anything you want to pray about, you can pray about to a God who can make the sun stand still.
And here's what I love about this miracle. It presents us with a paradigm of a whole new way to pray. Sun stand still prayers are a whole new way to pray.
And most of us need a new way to pray. Because I realized a few years ago that I pray some pretty dumb prayers. Now, I know that God loves to hear His children talk, and I guess we could say that God really doesn't need us to, you know, pray in any certain way because He knows our hearts.
But have you ever prayed a dumb prayer like this? Wake up in the morning, try to have a prayer time and pray, God, just be with me today.
Now, that's a nice thing. And if you want to pray that, you can pray that. It's a fine starting place. I'm not saying you should never pray that again, because probably what you mean is, God, let me be aware of your presence today.
But I wonder if God ever thinks when we pray, God, just be with me today. I wonder if He ever wonders aloud to Himself, interesting, I did not know that I needed your invitation in order to be with you today.
As far as I know, I've been with you every day of your life. I've been with you when you didn't want me to be with you. I've been with you when you didn't recognize I was with you. But thank you for letting me know that it's okay for me to be a part of your life today. I appreciate it so much.
I made the earth and everything that dwells in it. And I'm so glad you've extended an invitation for me today to be with you. How kind of you.
I mean, I know God isn't as sarcastic as I am. Good thing I'm not God. But I just wonder, maybe if we're missing the point as Christians, when we settle for prayers like, God, be with me today.
Or I hear a lot of people pray this, this is a real Baptist thing to do. And I've spent a lot of time in the Baptist church. And I love Baptist brothers and sisters. But you'll hear Baptists pray sometimes. And at the end of their prayer, they'll say, Lord, if it be Thy will.
Now, once again, I think the heart behind that is fantastic. What you're saying is, Lord, I don't want to get out of sync with what you want. So, Lord, I just want to acknowledge that sometimes my desires aren't necessarily your desires. So, if it be Thy will.
And I don't know why we put a little King James English in there. If it be Thy will. It makes it more official, I guess. Lord, if it be Thy will. You talk like that all the time, don't you? Honey, if it be Thy will. Would you mind getting me something to drink? Honey, if it be Thy will. Could we grill some chicken this afternoon? Honey, if it be Thy will.
We don't talk like that except when we talk to God. And here's what God is not sitting up in heaven thinking. Glad you gave me an opt-out clause, because I was really nervous about that. Because I was sitting here thinking, that's going to be really hard, and it's not my will, but since you prayed it, I got to do it. And oh, thank goodness you let me off the hook.
God doesn't think like that. So here's the thing about sun stand still prayers. Sun stand still prayers, the kind of way that I want us to learn to pray over the next four weeks about all of the impossible needs in our lives. They don't have to be buffered by this cop-out clause, Lord, if it be thy will.
Because guess what, honey? If it ain't his will, you ain't going to get him to do it no matter how much you pray. But if it is his will, no power in hell can stop him. Not even your mistakes can derail him.
It's a whole new way to pray. It's a whole new way to pray.
Asking and Acting Go Together
And here's another thing I love about it. It teaches us that asking and acting go hand in hand. Notice this. God stopped the sun in the middle of the sky, but Joshua had to fight the battle for himself.
God threw down hailstones, but he still commanded the Israelites to use their swords. Don't we sometimes divorce when we need a miracle from God? His part from our part?
We say things like this. Well, all we can do now is pray. That's dumb on multiple levels. And I've said it before too. Number one, prayer is not a last resort. It's a nuclear weapon. All we can do is pray. Like prayer is the last kid picked in dodgeball.
No, no, no, no, no, no. Joshua says 13 words and commands the sun to stand in the sky. Prayer isn't weak. Prayer isn't anemic. Our approach may be. But this is an audacious prayer life I'm calling you into.
And Joshua didn't pray for 13 days. He said everything he needed to say in one sentence. And then he got back to fighting.
What I want to help you realize over the next couple of weeks, and I'm going to unfold this, I'm going to talk about things at a specific level. If you'll come back over the next few weeks, not only are you going to be the first to get the book, but I'm going to walk you through some specific ways that you can see God bring sun stand still prayers to pass in your life.
I'm going to show you how even when the sun goes down, God can turn you into a miracle even when you don't see the miracle that you're praying for come to fruition. But you got to start with this.
If you're going to pray and ask God to make the sun stand still, you'd better be ready to march all night. The Bible says that Joshua took his best fighting men, and he marched all night. And he devised and schemed and strategized.
I think a lot of us think that God's going to drop our miracles down out of the sky. And so we pray sun stand still prayers that God would help us with our health, but we don't want to adjust our eating. Uh-oh.
Everybody got quiet. Let me talk about smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol, because church people like illustrations about that a whole lot more than we like illustrations about eating, tempers, and attitudes and bitterness.
Now, if you're going to pray that God would restore a relationship, you might have to be nice. Praying that God would bring your husband to Christ, and you talk to him like he's a dog, and you put him down every time he does something wrong. No, no, no.
You got to ask God, and then you got to act. You got to have the audacity to ask and the persistence to pursue.
I am preaching this thing better than I ever have. This is my favorite sun stand still message I've ever preached. Tired of students praying that God will make the sun stand still when the teacher hands out the test.
He can make the sun stand still when you do your homework every night, when you had three weeks to prepare for that test. And I can get some clapping from some parents right now who want to back the preacher up. Oh, blessed be the name of the Lord.
Identifying Your Impossible Need
Finally, I'll share one more thing with you. And this is just an introduction. Folks, you don't want to miss a week of this series. I'm just trying to help you see that we serve a God who is a God of the impossible.
He's big, and he's bad, and he can do anything you need him to do in your life. And this week, I just want to get you thinking about what is the impossible thing that you need to see God do in your life?
What's that intimate need that you need God to fulfill? What's that impossible mountain that you can't seem to climb, that you need him to move out of the way? Where is it? Where's that point of pain where you've almost given up because it seems like it's never going to happen?
Who's the person you care about so much, who's so distant from God, and it's going to be only through God's grace that they're brought back? Where's that place of struggle in your life where you feel like over and over again, you keep falling down?
Some of you feel like you're running out of time, and the sun is sinking low. And you've almost adjusted your expectations to believe that God is no bigger than the accomplishments of your human effort.
But I've come to raise the stakes on your faith. I want to remind you that faith was never meant to be a drug to sedate us through a life that we hate.
So many Christians live in a state of chronic and perpetual discouragement. And we walk around with what I call the ache of the ordinary, and we don't expect anything miraculous from God.
And so we hold on to our faith like a snuggie, or we swallow it down like an Ambien, just to help us get some sleep. Sun stand still faith isn't like that.
Sun stand still faith looks in the middle of a situation that looks hopeless. And I don't care what you're dealing with today. It's not more difficult than this. There's nothing you can tell me about that you need God to do in your life that would be more difficult than Him stopping the sun.
But that's just child's play for Him. And I need you to know that in all of this, not only are we going to individually discover how to pray sun stand still prayers and believe God for the impossible, this thing has the potential to launch a movement of believers all over the planet.
And that's what we're praying for. I'm praying that as this book gets out, that it will be read and implemented by millions. I'm praying that churches all over the world would begin to see the kind of outpouring of God's Spirit that we've seen here at our church as the norm, not the exception.
And it only begins as we place ourselves in the middle of a move of God.
The Power of Community – Joining E-Groups
Today, when you leave, you'll have the opportunity to join an E group. I want you to notice that Joshua didn't fight this battle by himself. In verse 7, the Bible says that he went out with all of his fighting men. In verse 15, it says that when he returned, he returned with all of Israel.
Sun stand still prayers may start with the faith of one, but they are sustained by the prayers of many. You've got to follow Jesus for yourself, but you can't follow Him by yourself.
And so, this seemed like the perfect time for us as a church to launch what we're calling our E groups. And E groups are simply the way that we as a church break you down into smaller groups of people where you can hold each other accountable and care for each other and invest in each other and pray for each other.
Because let's be honest, if all you're going to do is sneak in and out of here each week and hope that I can give you enough of a faith lift to get you through another Monday, you're never going to see the sun stand still.
You can't fight this battle by yourself. Joshua couldn't and you can't either. Even Jesus picked 12.
So, what we want to do is break you down into groups and we've got this thing set up where there is basically not one of you in the room who can't find a group that you want to be a part of.
I started announcing this a few months ago. We asked for leaders who would lead different types of groups and what all of these groups will have in common is that the leaders of these groups are going to pray and invest and care for the members of their groups.
And for some of you who have been whining since you came to church here about how nobody cares about you at this church and I don't know how to get connected at that church and I don't know how to be involved in that church. I don't know how to be a member.
Well, this is the closest thing we have to membership. You can serve, you can give, and you can be in a group.
And today, we have set it up to make it as easy as possible. Now, don't think that I'm just doing a commercial at the end of my sermon, like, I did the Sun Stand Still thing, now this is the sales pitch. No, no, no, no, no.
This is integral to you seeing God do the impossible in your life. If you don't have anybody there to hold you up, if you don't have anybody there to help you out, if you don't have anybody there to encourage you, guess what? The first time the sun starts to sink down and it starts to get a little dark, you'll want to give up.
But if you've got some people to fight with you, you've got some people to stand with you, you can make it. And this is the beginning of the fall. Many of you are just checking back into real life for the first time in several months.
Many of you are just attending this church for the first, second, or third time. And this is how we want to connect you to people who can help you walk with Jesus.
And you know what? They told me there are over 300 different e-groups. If you, if you take all the e-groups at our campuses, there are over 300 different options for you to get involved.
And in just a moment, one of our campus directors at each of our campuses is going to come out and share with you what you need to do. But I just wanted to take a moment and say, if you can't find a group that you want to be a part of out of 300 different options, the problem might not be the groups. The problem might be you.
And so you need to find somewhere where you can plug in. You might do it based on age. You might do it based on interest. We broke them down into categories. We got Bible studies, support groups, sports and recreation, business and career, marriage, parenting, pastoral affirmation, where you'll get around and send gifts to your pastor. I don't think that's a group yet, but it should be. Somebody write that down.
And then within the categories, there's a fitness group for moms. There's a support group for women struggling with infertility. There's a college football group. Some of y'all are thinking, what does that have to do with Jesus? Um, a lot. Jesus likes college football.
And besides, what we're trying to do is create multiple entry points. If you've been a Christian 34 years and you want to study the book of Revelation, we got a group for you.
If you're just getting started in your walk with God and you can't stomach the thought of studying the Bible yet, but you could get together and pray with people, we think it's better that you get with some people who are on fire for God.
Even if you just watch college football to get started, there ain't nothing wrong with that. We got something for everybody. They got a mountain biking group. They got community outreach groups where you can just serve. You don't want to sit around and study. You want to serve. That's your gift. That's your passion. You can serve teen moms. You can serve homeless people and everything else in between.
If you don't know where else to start, they told me there are over 180 sun stand still small groups. They're going to be reading through the book, studying this material, discussing my sermons. That's a great place for you to start.
But start somewhere because you cannot follow Jesus by yourself. And the kinds of prayers that God is going to call you to pray over the next several weeks, you're going to need some people supporting you. And we as a church want to provide that opportunity.
Closing Prayer and Invitation
Would you bow your head and close your eyes? I want to pray for you. And I want to pray that God would use these next couple of weeks, not only to inspire your faith, but maybe there's somebody that's in your life and you could invite them to church with you next week.
Next week is a very big week. Releasing the book, the very first copies of the book will be in your hands. And we're excited about that. But chances are, you know somebody who needs this message just as much as you do.
Right now, I want to ask God where you are to give you the beginnings of your sun stand still prayer. That he would target that impossible need in your life. What is it? You know what it is. You may have multiple needs. It may be something very surface level oriented. There's nothing too small to pray a sun stand still prayer about.
Or it may be something that's been plaguing you all of your life. There's nothing too big to ask him for.
So Father, in Jesus name, over these next several weeks, through that same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead, the same power that stopped the sun in the sky for Joshua. May that power reach into our lives, stir up our spirits, make us able to believe you again.
God, I pray for all of those today who are not yet a part of an e-group at this church, that they would find their place so that their faith can be encouraged and strengthened by the prayers of many.
It's in Jesus name I pray. And all God's people said, amen.
Can we clap our hands for God's word at all of our locations? What he's going to do through our lives in this sun stand still series.