It's a word of public thanks to Tyler and the team for inviting me and to you for hanging in there to the bitter end.

I know there's no place in your brain for anymore. It's been so packed and I'm honored that you would stay and listen one more time.

So let's ask God to give me his guidance and help and you some openness of mind and

heart and wakefulness so that we can connect.

Let's pray.

Father, we need your help now.

You are a great and glorious God.

You have sent your son, Jesus Christ, into the world to die for our sins and to rise again,

to defeat the devil and to bar hell and open heaven, not only for us, but for millions scattered

through all the peoples of the world,

which you mean for us to reach with the gospel.

And we want, with all of our hearts, to be a part of this great cause.

And so I pray that you would come.

I know that you are committed to this.

I know that you love your glory and you love your people.

So Grant, I pray that we would be enlarged in our capacities to see your greatness and the greatness

of your purpose, that we would be fit to pray as we ought day and night crying out for the vindication of your people and your cause

and that we would be ready to suffer because this work will not be finished without sacrifice and martyrs.

So I pray that there would come now an unusual sense of seriousness upon this assembly

and that I would be given the freedom from self-consciousness

and a preoccupation with you and with your truth that would be spiritual and produce effects that would run for thousands of miles and for

hundreds of years. I ask this in Jesus' name. Amen. The last time we defined the task of missions as joining Paul in doing the kind of missions that he did when he said that from Jerusalem all the way up to Albania, he had no more room for work.

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