Hey friends, this is Jeremy.

And Ashley Shuck.

This week we talked about the transformative power of forgiving people.

And the journey afterwards, what it looks like to steward your heart after you've forgiven people

and how to practically walk your heart through pain and offense and everything else.

We pray that you're blessed and empowered by the Holy Spirit through this to walk in more mercy.

Yes, bless you.

Hi!

We are so happy to be here.

Yeah, we love family and we love being here with our big upper room family today.

We're also pretty jockey and silly and so just go with it, okay?

Don't you guys love how like the Holy Spirit can drop like weighty truth with a smile on his face?

And like it's like this power of repentance, but also you're like,

oh, wow, that feels good. It's like the sword of the spirit cuts so great. So welcome to

repentance Sunday. It's going to be fun. Aren't you guys thankful that it is his kindness

and not his anger that leads us to repentance? Aren't you guys thankful that it is his kindness and not his anger that leads us to repentance?

Aren't you guys thankful that it's his gentleness that makes us great?

And so the reason I'm saying it's repentance Sunday is because today is going to be a kindness encounter.

Okay?

In fact, I fully believe that repentance really begins when we realize we had a

thought about God that isn't as good as reality. And that's the thing that begins to transform us

and inspire us to lead a completely different life in him and manifest him in a much more

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