Hey church family if you've got your bibles and i hope you do uh go to hebrews chapter 12

we're in a special uh series of devos and they will be for the rest of this week every morning

and it's in line with our hearts preparation and what we're doing for saturated this week. You see,

we do saturated every year so that we're saturated in the presence of God and the word of God and

the spirit of God. But this year has a little bit of a different focus. You know that this entire

year, we believe that every disciple is sent. And we are all wrestling with the question is what does it

look like in our own life to be sent? And so, listen, as a person called into full-time

vocational ministry, I remember when God called me into ministry, and I'm hoping and praying

that God will call a whole bunch of 1122ers this week into full-time

vocational ministry to take the gospel to the very ensie of the earth. But here's what I know.

I know he's going to call every single one of us to the Great Commission.

And so our missions team has put together some really good material to help us as a congregation

be ready to navigate what God's call is in our life. And so the first step is that in order

for us to hear the voice of God and what God wants us to do specifically. Now, God wants us to glorify Him by fulfilling the Great Commission generally,

and that is true for every single believer.

But for us to understand what God wants for us specifically,

it's really important for us to prepare our hearts to hear from the Lord.

And so Hebrews chapter 12 says this. It says, therefore.

Now we've got to stop and see what the therefore is therefore. And so Hebrews chapter 11 is what

the therefore is therefore. And all of Hebrews chapter 11 is talking about are faith.

Hebrews 11 starts with now faith is the assurance

of things hoped for and the conviction of things not seen. For by it, the people of old

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