Hearing God, Week 2

Dr. Tim Rivers | September 8, 2024

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One more time. Give it up for the choir. My goodness, they were so good. Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is your first time. We want to say welcome to Embassy City Church. We're so delighted that you are here. For those that are watching online or that are in the overflow, thank you so much for being with us. We are going to celebrate all day today. As I've mentioned before, you want to be here tonight. Somebody say 6:00 PM 6:00 PM and you want to get here early to get a good seat because if you've never heard Michael Bethany, he's not just a singer, he's a worship leader. So this is not going to be a concert tonight. It's going to be a worship session, and we want everybody to be here and somebody say, amen. Today's also a special day because this week we are kicking off our groups.

So if you were here last week, come on, give it up for Pastor Desante. He brought a tremendous word. We started doing our group signups last week. As of today, I believe we have way more than 500 people already registered that are going to be meetings starting this week. So here's the deal. If you have not registered for a group yet, what are you even doing? You got to get in a group. You got to get in community. Why? Because your life will be richer when you're in community with other people. So this is how this works. There are groups happening all over DFW, all the way in Saginaw, Fort Worth, Colleyville, Arlington. We even have virtual groups. So you want to get signed up for a group because here's how this works. We're in a series called Hearing God. I'll be teaching on the topic on the weekend.

The kids' ministry is covering it as well, and then we're going to discuss it in group format during the week. This is a great place to get strengthening in the Lord to grow in your faith, but also to make good connections. Listen, we've got men's groups, we women's groups, co-ed groups. If you're single and ready to mingle, if for no other reason you really want to hear God get in a group, Lord, is it him? Is it her? Just get in a group. It's going to be a good time. So you can either hit this QR code or right after the service in the lobby, there are going to be tons of tables out there with group leaders. This is a good chance for you to meet a group leader for you to sign up, register. A lot of our groups are already full, so you want to get in while they're getting's good and somebody say, amen. How many want to hear from God? Lemme see your hand. How many want to hear from God? I'm worried if your hand ain't up. How many really want to hear from God? How many need to hear from God?

Have you been in a situation where you're like, I need God to speak? I've been in some situations where all my friends gave their opinion and now it's like, I need to call Jesus. He's the only one that can get me out of this. Or I would call somebody that I feel like is close to Jesus. Anybody got someone like that where you're like, if you need a word from God, you try to call somebody that you perceive as closer to God than you are. We all want to hear from God. We all should want to hear from God, and this is why we're doing this series because we believe that everyone can hear from God. The question is not whether or not God is speaking. The question is, do you recognize his voice when He is because God's speaking all the time. The question is, are you hearing?

Are you listening for his voice? This could be the single greatest most important series we've ever done because if you want to grow in your relationship with God and you want to mature in your faith and you want to be spiritually formed, you have to know how to hear God. How many know that the world is full of noise, full of noise, whatever you want to know, you can just type it into Google and you are going to get pages and pages of results because everybody's talking and so many times you can get caught up and listen to everybody else's opinion except for God's. And through this series we're going to talk about how can you hear God and through what type of mediums does God speak and everybody say Amen. Grab your bibles. We're going to First Samuel chapter three, the book of one Samuel chapter three, verse number one. This is what the Bible says. Now, the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli, and the word of the Lord was rare in those days, that's a problem.

There was no frequent vision. And at the time, Eli whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see was lying down in his own place. The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord where the Ark of God was. Then the Lord called Samuel and he said, here I am. And he ran to Eli and said, here I am for you called me. But he said, I did not call lie down again. So he went and laid down. I want you to notice when he heard his name called, he went right to Eli because he was used to hearing the voice of Eli and the Lord called again, Samuel and Samuel Rose went to Eli and said, here I am for you, call me. But he said, I did not call my son Lay down again.

Now, Samuel did not yet know the Lord and the word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him. And it wasn't that God wasn't speaking, it's that Samuel hadn't received the revelation yet that God was speaking. And the Lord called Samuel again the third time and he rose and went to Eli and said, here I am for you called me. Then Eli received that the Lord was calling the boy. Therefore Eli said to Samuel, go lie down and if he calls you, you shall say speak Lord for your servant hears. So Samuel went and laid down in his place. The Lord came and stood calling as other times. Now, I want you to notice these other passages said that God just spoke, but when Samuel postured himself, right, the Bible says that God came and stood closer and called Samuel Samuel and Samuel says, speak for your servant ears.

And somebody say, amen. My topic for today is the word works. The word works. Look at your neighbor and say, neighbor, neighbor, why does pastors always make us talk to each other? I was reading some of y'all's thoughts. I could see it in your eyes. Look at your neighbor and say, neighbor, neighbor, God is speaking. God is speaking. Are you listening? Are you listening? Look at your other neighbor and say, neighbor, neighbor, God is speaking. God is speaking. Are you listening? Are listening. Heavenly Father, we are so grateful to be in your house. Holy Spirit, your presence is already in the room. I pray that our hearts would be open, that our ears would be tuned, that our mind would receive understanding through your word. Do what only you can do, speak as only you would speak. I pray that in this series we would just have open hands, open hearts to grow in you.

We give you name, all the praise, the glory and the honor because you are worthy of it in Jesus' name. And everybody say amen. The word works. Now, most of us believe that God speaks, but many of us believe that only that God only speaks to certain people. It's interesting because we all, I think, desire to hear from God, but oftentimes we have either been in an environment or been taught that in order to hear from God, you have to be at this higher level of spirituality. Now, for me, I grew up in a Pentecostal church environment, which means that I was used to hearing people say, God said,

I'm accustomed to hearing people tell me that they heard from God. Now, sometimes they did hear from God. Many times they heard something, but it wasn't God. I think I shared this before that I had a lady one time write me an email and tell me that the Lord said that she was going to marry me. Well, we ain't married. The Lord didn't tell you that. In fact, I remember one time a preacher was telling his church that the Lord said that they were going to purchase this building and the preacher got up and said, you can go pray about it if you want to, but I'm just telling you, God told me the building is ours the next week while he's on his way to church, that building was on fire.

You can't play with God said, here's the thing, we should all desire to hear from God, but we should be very careful not to conjure up our own voice and then try to put the label of God on it because there's a lot of false prophets out there, a lot of false teachers that are going to tell you that God said, and I heard from the Lord and they ain't hearing nothing but their own voice. Let me tell you something, God is going to make his word come to pass, and if they've been saying that, God said it ain't happened.

Listen, you don't have to blow a safari and come dressed up in camel's clothes with a shepherd staff to hear from God. You can be irregular, regular, just a normal person and hear from God. Here's the thing, God is always speaking, but only those who listen will hear. And this story right here is a great example of hearing God as a normal person. Lemme give you some context here in First Samuel chapter three, Samuel is about 12 years old and he is in service to the Lord and he's essentially being raised by the prophet Eli. His mother, Hannah was barren and we can read about this story. Hannah goes into the house of God. She's distraught because she's barren. She's asking God for a child and she makes this promise to God. She says, if you give me a child, I will give the child back to you.

And God hears her prayer. He answers, she comes to be with child. The child is born. She names him Samuel, which actually means God has heard. And so she names Samuel, God has heard, and then she does what she says she's going to do after he's weaned. She gives him to Eli to be raised in the house of God and to be in the service of God. Now, at the point of the story, the scripture tells us that the word of God was rare. Now, it isn't that God didn't want to speak, it's that nobody was wanting to listen. It wasn't that God became mute because our very introduction to God, God is always speaking, he spoke the worlds into existence. God is always speaking, but he's looking for people who are willing to hear when he does speak because Eli was growing old and Sile, Eli's son, h Finn, his son h and finna, they were wildling out.

They were all kinds of debauchery and God was getting ready to destroy them. Israel weren't really trying to hear from God. They were trying to be like the heathens around them. So God says, if all you mature spiritual people can't hear me, I'm going to find a little 12-year-old boy who's in the right place at the right time, in the right posture, and I'm going to speak to him. So this is where we find the story. Now I find it fascinating. I want to start here because when you read this story, I believe there are three things that you can gather from the story, three ingredients that everyone needs in order to hear from God. So if you're taking notes, I'd like for you to write this down if you really want to hear from God. Here are three takeaways from this story from our passage in First Samuel chapter three, verse three.

It says, the lamp of God had not yet gone out and Samuel was lying down where? In the temple of the Lord, where the Ark of God was. The first thing you need to do if you want to hear from God is you have to get in his presence, get in his presence. Now, I want you to notice this about the passage here. Samuel was in the temple of God with the Ark of God. Now the Ark of God is also called the Ark of the Covenant. And when the Ark of Covenant is introduced to us in Exodus, it's God given instructions to Moses and he says, Moses, I want you to build the Ark of the Covenant, which was a wooden box overlaid with gold. And God says, this is going to be a representation of my throne, and you keep the Ark of the Covenant or the Ark of God, wherever you want my presence.

And Moses says that God told him that if you want to hear from me, is going to be from the Ark of the Covenant. So when Samuel is in the temple, he's not just in the house of God, but he's also in the presence of God. Can I tell you that one of the reasons why people don't hear from God is because they're in the wrong presence. They're in the presence of Facebook, they're in the presence of YouTube. They're in the presence of Instagram. They're in the presence of TikTok trying to hear from God and God's like, wait a minute, you in the wrong presence. You hear you're hearing the wrong stuff. If you want to hear from God, you have to learn how to get in his presence. You have to learn how to get where he dwells. Second thing is you have to be still. Look at one Samuel three, nine. Therefore Eli said to Samuel, go lie down and if he calls you, you shall say, speak Lord for your servant hears. So Samuel went and lay down in his place. Now, I want you to notice this. Samuel was postured in stillness in order to hear from God.

This is probably one of the number one reasons in our culture today that people have a hard time hearing from God. They ain't sitting still always doing something, always on the hustle, always on the grind, and keep your grind and keep your hustle, but at some point you got to slow down if you want to hear from God. This is the unique thing about prayer. Most of us get frustrated in prayer because we run out of words, but that's the point you're supposed to run out of words. If not, it's just a monologue. How many grew up thinking that the way to hear from God is you got to get down at the altar and Terry, anybody remember Tarion? There was no time limit tot. You could be down at the altar for five days trying to get a word from God, and if you didn't get a word you didn't carry long enough, maybe if you went six days, God would've spoke to you. But here Eli says, Samuel, if you want to hear God, learn how to be still, we live in a culture that is so busy. If you want to hear God, you have to learn how to get in his presence and just be quiet. You have to be still. You have to posture yourself in a way that you can receive. It's very hard. Have you ever gone out to eat with somebody and all they're doing is talking and when you're trying to say something, they talk over you?

It is one of my pet peeves and this is what I do when someone keeps interrupting me, I just stop talking. I'm afraid that God does that to many of us. God's like, Hey, I want you, and we're like God and God's like I'm trying to give you the answer, but you keep interrupting me. So God's like, all right, says, you got it all figured out. We have to learn how to be still. Here's the third observation one Samuel chapter three, verse 10, and the Lord came and stood calling as other times, Samuel, Samuel and Samuel said, speak for your servant. Hears that word hears actually is the word listens. That means intently waiting to hear and ingest information.

God is not looking for the most spiritually skilled person to speak to. God is not looking at all of us and going, okay, who's the most spiritually mature? Who's the one that's got it all figured out? The Lord is just looking in the room. He's like, whose ears are tuned to listening? There are times when you can tell your child something and they're hearing but they ain't listening. There's times you can say, Hey, can you go pick that up? And they walk right past it and you say, Hey, did you hear me? And what do they say? Yeah, I heard you. Then you have to clarify, are you listening? Because if you're listening, you're ingesting the information. If you're hearing, it goes in one ear, it goes out the other. If you want to hear from God, you have to posture yourself so that you can listen and hear from God.

And when we talk about hearing from God, we have to be in His presence. We have to be still, and we have to be willing to listen. Now, when we talk about hearing from God, there are many ways that God speaks to us and we're going to talk about a lot of these, but one of the primary ways that God speaks to us and one of the most guaranteed ways to know that God is speaking is through the word of God. How many want to hear from God? Did you know that? All you have to do is read his word? Yes. Yes. How many want to hear from God every day?

All you got to do is read your Bible. Every day we try to oversize hearing from God and we oftentimes think that we have to have some kind of dream or a vision or be out here in the ether somewhere with your eyes closed, reach in the dark. All you got to do is pick up the Bible and read the Word because the word is the way that God speaks to us and is guaranteed to be His words. So here's three ways or three reasons why you should read your word. Number one, the word is the word of God. Lemme say it again. The word is the Word of God. God, the Bible doesn't just reveal the word of God. It is the word of God. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God, and the word was God. So when you read the Bible, it isn't just black letters on a white page or red letters on a white page, but it is really truly the words of God himself.

Y’all don't believe me. Second Timothy chapter three 16, all scripture is breathed out by who God and is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training and righteousness that the man of God may be complete equipped for every good work. We're going to talk about the apologetics of the scriptures next week, but before we get there, I just need you to realize that when you read this Bible, it's not just a historical account of things that happened in the past. It's not just some history book that people got together and wrote, but when you read the Bible, it is the very breadth of God that has inspired this word of God. The word breathe in Greek is the word, which means the breath of God produced by the spirit of God understood as the air that was physically expelled out of the lungs of God. Think about that. When you read the Bible, it is God's breath that was expelled through his lungs, the same breath that created the worlds, the same breath that told the storm to stop, the same breath that caused the Red Sea apart, the same breath that caused man to come down from heaven, the same breath that caused water to come out of a rock, the same breath that caused plagues to come into Egypt. That same breath has breath on these pages, so every time you read the word of God, it is hearing God.

Why would you not want to read the word hallelujah? You cannot grow spiritually without reading the word. You can't. It's impossible, and here's the thing. I know that everybody in here believes in the word of God. You wouldn't even be here if you didn't believe the word of God. It's not like you came in here and were like, I read the Quran, or maybe you do. You do read the Quran and we're glad that you're here because the Quran was written by a man, but the Bible was inspired by God himself. This is the living, breathing manifestation of the word of God. Here's why you have to know the word of God because God will not contradict his written word. Here's why. You have to know the Bible. God will not tell you something that does not align with his written word. Here's why you have to know the Bible when some weirdo walks up to you and says, I'm hearing from God thus and thus, first of all, when they say thus and thus, all you have to do when somebody is giving you a word from God is get your Bible and say, hold on a second.

What'd you say again and check the Bible. If it don't line up with this written word, it ain't from God because God will not contradict his word. If you want spot a false prophet or a false teacher, see how much they use the word of God if they use verbiage like I know what the Bible says, but let me tell you what I think.

When you know the Bible, you will know the word of God. Here's the second thing why you need to read the Bible. The word of God reveals God. Not only is the word of God, the word of God, but the word of God reveals who God is and his characteristics, and here's the thing about hearing God. If you want to hear God, you need to know God because when you know God, you'll recognize his voice when he's speaking. If you are wondering, I don't know if this is God or not, maybe it just as simple as getting to know him better because when you know God, you will know his words. My sheep know me. They know my voice and a stranger they will not follow. Did you know that there are many strangers that are trying to conjure you to follow their voices, but if you know the word of God, you know God and you know his voice, meaning that whenever somebody comes up to you and gives you a word, if it does not align with the scripture because you know God, you can reject it.

Here's what we know about the word of God. The Bible is God's revelation of himself and his purpose throughout history. In fact, Jesus himself said this in Luke chapter 24, verse number 27, and beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures, the things concerning himself. When you read the Bible, the Bible is not about what it's about who you'll find woven throughout scripture, the revelation of who God is. If you want to know God more, you have to read the Bible. You have to read the Bible to understand his characteristics, why he thinks the way he does, why he does the things that he does, why he's moving, why he's shaking, why He says, don't do this, why? He says, do this. If you want to know God and you want to know how to hear from God, you have to understand through the word of God who he is.

Here's the third reason why you got to read the word, because the word works. I got to say that again. The word works. I wish I had witness in here that could just testify that the word works. My words don't always work, but I know the word of God always works. In fact, the Bible says that whatever God says, it will not return unto void, but it will accomplish everything that he sent it forth to do. When God speaks, it does happen. Why? Because the word of God works. How do I know the word of God works? Because the devil knows that the word of God works.

If you want to win with God, do everything that's the opposite of the devil. Think about this. Satan knows that the word works because the very first strategy that he used against humanity was to try to get them to question the word of God. God gave Adam and evil very specific instructions, be fruitful, multiplier, replen your earth and do it and have dominion. You can eat If every tree that is in the garden just don't eat of the tree that's in the center of the garden, and when Satan comes to the form of a serpent to eve, what does he say to her? What's the very first thing he says to her? Look at this Genesis chapter three verse one. Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made and he said to the woman, did God actually say, did God actually say the number one strategy that Satan uses against the believer is try to get you to question what the word of God actually says?

Isn't that our culture right now? Well, I know that's what the Bible says, but is that actually what God said? I know that this is what the scripture says, but what is that? The actual meaning of it? Satan's strategy from the beginning has been to question the validity of the word of God. This is why it's so important for you to have a grasp and an understanding of the word of God. Why? Because Jesus, when he was in the wilderness, get tempted by Satan. Satan trying to use the exact same scheme against Jesus as he did with Eve the Garden, but instead of explaining everything Jesus simply said, it is written.

When you know the word of God, you don't have to conjure up some philosophical argument. You don't have to come up with some kind of answer. You don't have to call your buddies. You don't have to go to the internet. You don't have to get on YouTube. All you got to do is say, Satan, it is written and can I tell you that Satan has no defense against the word of God? Why? Because the word of God works. You tried everything. You tried everything to overcome that temptation. Have you tried the word of God? Okay, y'all don't believe me. Let me tell you how good the word of God is and how it works when I don't know how I'll make it. I go to Ephesians chapter three, verse 20, which says, now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think according to the power at work within us.

When I stumble and I want to throw in the towel, I'll go to Jude verse number 24, which says Now to him, who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy. When I'm sick in my body, I go to James five 14 is any sick among you. Let them call for the elders of the church and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord and the prayer of the faith will save the one who is sick and the Lord will raise them up and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. When I feel anxious, I go to one Peter chapter five, verse seven, casting all your anxieties on him because he cares for you. When I want to quit, I go to one Corinthians 15, verse 58.

Therefore, my beloved brothers be steadfast and movable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. When I fall down, I go to Proverbs 24 16 for the righteous fall seven times and rises again when I'm in trouble, I go to Psalm 46, 1, God is our refuge and strength of very present help and trouble. The word works. Y'all still don't believe me when I'm stumbling in the dark. I go to Psalm 1 19, 1 0 5, your word is a lamper to my feet and a light to my past. When I feel defeated, I go to Romans chapter eight, verse 35, who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword, knowing all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, no angels, no rulers, no things present nor things to come.

No powers nor height nor death nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord. When I question my identity, I go to first Peter, chapter nine, verse two, but you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation of peculiar people that you may proclaim the excellency of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous life. The word of God works. You ain't got to try to come up with strategies and try to come up with some kind of answers. Whatever you're facing in life, you just put the word on it and let the word do its work.

Some of y'all are getting stressed out trying to hear from God. Just get the word when you're dealing with financial trouble. The Bible says that God is going to make me the lender and not the borrower. When I feel like the whole world is against me. The earth is the Lord's in the fullness thereof and all that dwells there in when I feel like I'm falling behind, God has made me the head and not the tail. You got to get into Word. Why? Because the word works. Stop stressing out about hearing from God. You just heard from God.

If you know how many believe this is the word of God, how many believe that this is truly the word of God? If you got your Bible, just hold it up. Your phone can count. It's 2024, but I do encourage you, if you don't have a paper Bible, get you a paper Bible, there's something about the weight of it. You just feel like you can, well, there's some times a phone just ain't going to cut it. I need to pound the enemy with a good old paper Bible. I need to highlight that thing. I need to look at that page. I need to, sometimes I'll read a scripture and I just got to, this sword is sharp, but the word works. How many believe that? How many will hear from God? All you got to do is get in this word hall. I can give you all the apologetics of scripture and I will next week we'll nerd out a little bit, but before you nerd out, you just got to understand that everything you need, everything in life, in business, in relationships is in the word. If you're single, get in the word. If you're married, the get in the word. Amen. Amen. Pastor, thank you Lord. Somebody, if you have your Bible, just clutch it right quick

So y'all got that little phone.

This should be the posture of your heart right here towards the word of God. Love it. Read it, memorize it, study it. Everything that you need can be found in the word of God. Well, I don't know where to start in Proverbs. Start in Proverbs. Well, I don't know the history. Start in Matthew. I don't understand genealogies. Go to Exodus,

But let this be the posture of your heart. I love my word. There are people all over the world who don't have access to this. There are underground churches all throughout China, Asian countries, predominantly Muslim countries that they got sneak bibles into. If you see the videos of them opening that box and grabbing the Bible, they're clutching the Bible. They're crying, they're screaming. They're so thankful just to have access to the word of God and so many in the Western world. We let our Bible sit on the shelf and collect dust while we're complaining about not hearing from God. Everything you need is in this book.

In fact, I'm going to talk about this next week.

God gives the scroll to the prophet. You know what he tells Ezekiel, eat this book. We have to have, we a mentality. We have to have a mentality where we want to eat this thing. Why? Because what you consume is what you become. Check your time on Instagram. That ain't beating your soul. You ain't hearing from God. Well, maybe you can't hear a clip or something that's from God, but this is guaranteed, guaranteed

Thy word. Oh, Lord, have I hid in my heart that I may not sin against you. Every sin problem is a word problem. Every sin problem is a word problem. Can I tell you, you wouldn't do half of the sins if you had the Bible open while you did it and just trying to keep it real. Next time you go to reach for that, open the scripture and see if you'll still do it. Every time you go to watch that, open that Bible, this is why culture has moved away from the family Bible being right there on the dinner table. Our children injustice word, we get a kid's Bible. You're going to learn this book because what does the Bible say? Train up a child in the ways you go, and when he as old, he shall not depart from it. Lemme tell you something. If you train a child in the ways of the Lord with the book, whatever they go off doing, they still going to be thinking about,

Thank you Lord for your Word. Oh, thank you God for this word. Through it, we hear you through it. You speak through it.

You reveal yourself. It is your revealed word. Help us to fall in love with your word. God,

If you would stand across this place, if you have your Bible, clutch it. Yeah, yeah. Grab your Bible in whatever form you have. As you know here, what we've been doing at the end of every message is we want to have a sah moment, a time just to pause and reflect on the word the word. If it is not ingested, it's just falling by the wayside.

Oh God, I'm so thankful for your word, God. Just the whole reason why we're here in antiquity. People would gather around by the hundreds just to hear a rabbi read from the scroll, desperate just to

Hear from God hungry, just to hear from God.

Oh God, I'm hungry to hear from you. I'm thirsty to hear from you. You've

Given me your word. God, let me cultivate a love for your word. God, just grab your Bible for the next couple of minutes. We're going to sing word of God, speak

To in the midst of you, beyond the music, beyond the noise. All that I need is to be with you and in the quiet, hear your voice, word of God speak, which you pour down like Ray, washing my eyes to see your majesty, to be still and know that you're in this place. Please lemme rest in your holyness. Word of God speak. Put. You pour down like Greg, washing my eyes to see your majesty, to be still and your you're in this place. Please, lemme stay in, rest in your holiness. Word of God, speak.

Thank you, God for your word. Thank you for speaking to us. Help us to take your word and just it and help us to bear fruit of it. We give you name, all the praise, the glory and the honor because you're worthy of it. In Jesus' name, in Jesus' name, and everybody say, amen. How many are going to take this week and read every day? Every day? I'm not saying you got to read for an hour, but every day you're going to read at least a verse. Come on, anybody going to do it with me? And I promise you, you will hear from God. So here's what's going to happen. Our prayer team is coming down. If you need prayer for anything, you know how we do, come down and get that prayer. If not, then you have an opportunity before you leave to sign up for a group and get in community so you can continue to talk about hearing. God, we would love for everyone. There's hundreds of people that are going to be gathered this week in homes and virtually all across DFW getting into the topic of hearing from God. Here's another thing to ask from you. Don't miss a Sunday during this series because when we've been talking about some stuff that I really believe is going to change your life and everybody say amen. Amen. We love you.