Huge thank you to my wife for stepping into doing announcements and bringing time.

It's special to get to be up here after she prays.

And even as we were worshipping and looking out at a crowd gathered at 8.30 a.m. on a Sunday morning,

I am so overwhelmed by the presence of God today.

And it's not that I have some kind of special message cooked up, ready to go.

I hope it's fire, but the only fire I possess is the Holy Spirit, and so do you.

So God's doing something so special in the church right now, the like big

sea church around the world. And we have the special honor of getting to be a part of that here

in Auburn, Alabama. And something just feels a little bit different as we've been praying every

day and as we step

into moments like these very few of you were here almost seven years ago at the beginning of

ACC and there were these moments especially in that first year where you could see the kingdom bubbling up

through what god was doing here and you knew like something's about to happen and I just like can't wait to see it

this month feels like that times 10 and so I just sense a move of God coming and us getting to be a part of that

but I sense it not just in like an Auburn scale, but on like a grand

scale. You know, God is doing something in the world right now, and he's doing something new.

And he loves to bring massive revival in awakening to the church at the least expected time.

So you might hear me say that and go, oh, great, let's get hyped up

about what God's doing in the world, even though people are dying of starvation every day,

even though our nation has been so divided, especially the past year, even though there's a virus

and a pandemic running wild and there's people dying, even though all of that, you want to get up

and talk about God's doing this great work through the church. But yet, when I look through the course of history,

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