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Today's talk comes from Pastor Louis Gaglio.

The message today is entitled, may I have your attention.

You've ever been at one of those events where all the chatter was going on around the room and finally somebody got a glass and a knife and they started clinking on the glass and sort of let everybody know the conversation is finally all died down and someone said may I have your attention.

Well today is a moment like that.

And heaven today is clinking on the glass and heaven today is asking may I have your attention.

Now that's a challenge because the average human attention span isn't great.

Microsoft did a study in 2000 and in 2000 the average human's attention span, what do you think?

It was 12 seconds long. Now we're in a digital age so the same study was done in 2015 and the human attention span has dropped from 12 seconds to 8 seconds.

Imagine how encouraging that is to me right now standing up here giving a message to all of you.

I got to do something every 8 seconds to reboot the whole system.

But I want us to know today that when God sets his mind on something he doesn't suffer attention deficit but he has eternal focus.

And what we're talking about in this series is what God is eternally focused on. And we saw it in Acts 1-8. The text is going to come on the screen and you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you.

And you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in Judea, in Samaria and to the ends of the earth.

So this is God's plan. This is what he's focused on. This is what he's thinking about. And this is what we got the title of our series.

We didn't sit in a creative meeting and go, oh I know a cool title. How about to the ends of the earth. No, we just excised it right out of the text and right out of the plan and right out of what God is focused on.

You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you. And you will be my witnesses here in Jerusalem, in Judea, in Samaria and to the ends of the earth.

That didn't start in Acts 1-8. We see it all through the story. Psalm 46-10. One of the most well-known verses in church. You can say it with me if I start it.

Be still and know that, isn't that amazing? Except there's a semicolon there. I think the text is coming up. And this is one of those classic moments for me.

This is a classic thing that I would do. I would grab onto, be still and know that I'm God. I would think that was the whole verse because that's what I needed.

I'm in a storm. I got trouble. I'm perplexed. I need to be still right now and know that I am God. This is for me, right?

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