Well, welcome to church, everybody. We're so glad you are here. And let me give a special welcome to those that are at church for the first time here at Highlands. We're so glad that you came along for the ride and we invite you into the full journey of all that we do together as a church family. We're in a brand new series today, part one of a series that I'm calling I I have decided, and I'll tell you more about that

in just a second, but I always like to take just a minute, look straight into the camera

and make sure all the other locations know how much I love them.

We are one church that makes in 26 locations, 24 in Alabama, two, in Georgia.

And, of course, we are bringing this into a more than 22 of Alabama's Department

of Corrections, Facilities, Jails, Work Release Programs. It's one of the honors of our life

to be able to do that. And, of course, there are people watching online or on demand somewhere

around the world. We're so glad you're here with us as well. Grant Smith, do me a favor.

Put your hands together. Say the biggest hello to them.

Would you do it, please? Thank you for that. And as you already heard from your campus pastors, this is day number one of 21 days of prayer. This is our 24th annual 21 days of prayer. This is

something that we have been doing as a church since before the church

began. If you're new to the church, we launched the church on February 4th, 2001. And I was so

unsure of how good we were, and I still am, by the way, that we needed to call on heaven, really,

to let God help us. And so we took the entire month of January, of January,

to pray and fast before we stepped into the first service here at Church of the Highlands. And I guess

you could say the rest is history. And I always like to remind people, we're not this good. This is

what it looks like when God shows up. Can I hear a good amen, everybody? And I still am as dependent

and desperate for the presence of God in my life in this church as I have ever been. And so I

wouldn't dare ever miss one of these. This is very, very important to me personally and to our

church. And so I call it kind of a tithe of our year before we get into our year.

We're going to say, God, we're putting you first together in every area. And I want to invite

you into that. There's two parts of this. You see it here, prayer and fasting. We do that because

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