This sermon emphasizes the importance of breaking through the barriers that hinder us from fulfilling God's calling in our lives. Drawing from Hebrews 12 and Psalms 18, the speaker encourages believers to run through their 'paper walls,' symbolizing overcoming doubts, fears, and opposition by trusting in God's strength and promises. The message underscores the need for believers to step into their divine purpose, be empowered by the Holy Spirit, and engage in the spiritual battle for the souls of men with confidence in God's victory.

I want to talk to you this morning about running through the paper wall, running through the paper wall. Hebrews chapter 12, please if you'll turn there with me and you might want to put a marker in your Bible in Psalm 18 as well. Hebrews chapter 12 and Psalm 18. Now Father, I thank you. God, I thank you so much for the joy that's in all of our hearts today. The reality of knowing you and walking with you and loving you and knowing your strength that lives inside of each of us and the divine purpose that you've called us to each of us in this generation in which we live. Father, I thank you Lord for the anointing of your Holy Spirit. For God, you are a supernatural God and Lord when you speak things are created. So would you help us to hear? Would you help me to speak today and would you help us to hear your word? God Almighty, I pray in this last hour in which we're living that there would be no sideline players in this race anymore. I ask you God Almighty for young men, young women, for middle-aged people and older people in this sanctuary today and those that are listening online that we would again stand up as the army of God stood up in the day of Ezekiel that we would stand upon our feet one last time a mighty army that we would be a people who bring honor and glory to your name. Father, we thank you for this with all of our hearts. We praise you and we glorify you. Oh God, bless the study of your word today and I thank you for it in Jesus' name. Amen. Hebrews chapter 12 beginning at verse 1. Therefore we also since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily ensnares us and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross despising the shame and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God for consider him who endured such hostility from sinners against himself lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. Now the scripture speaks of a great race that each of us are called to run. Every one of us, every person here, listen to me. When you came to Christ and he became your Lord and Savior the Bible says that God's Holy Spirit came to dwell inside your physical body and you became the temple of the living God and at the moment that your name was written down in his book of life a divine purpose that God had ordained for your life started to be enacted. You were born again by the Spirit of God. The old things in your life that governed you, the old things that hindered you, the old things that blinded you have all passed away and now by the Spirit of Almighty God you have become new. That means you have a new path, you have new strength, you have new thoughts, you have a new heart, you have a new mind. If you are in Christ and Christ is in you the old things are passed away. They've lost their hold, they've come to an end. The old defeats, the old boundaries, everything is gone and a new life of supernatural possibility has opened up. A life that through whom God says I'm going to glorify my name on the earth through you. That is your purpose on the earth. That is why you're here, that is why I am here, that is why the Church of Jesus Christ is still here. We are to be an irrefutable living testimony of the reality of God's heart that sent his son to a cross for all of humanity. We're to live in such a way that the breath of people technically is taken away when they hear us speak and they watch how we live and they see the strength that we have. Especially now in this darkened day in which we're living. In a day when morality is falling and failing, civility is quickly becoming a thing relegated to the past. In a day when family breakups are becoming common and teenagers are leaving for their vacations and living in debauchery. In a day when evil has become good and good has become evil. Unthinkable crimes are almost a daily occurrence now in the news to the point where they don't even make the front page anymore. It's imperative that you and I run this race now set before us. Each person has to run the race, every one of us. I have my race, yes we're running it together, it's like a marathon. But I have my part to play and you have your part and mine is not greater than yours and yours is not greater than mine. We're all called to glorify the name of Jesus Christ by letting him be who he is within us. Jesus made a way for us to run this race. Consider him, he won the victory, he triumphed over evil. The possibility became possible because of his victory and resurrection. The devil lost his power, weakness had to give way to strength, darkness to light, confusion to divine order. An aimless wandering path that you may have been on suddenly was broken and now there is a clear path that God knows and will reveal it to you and I if we really want to know it. Usually that path looks impossible in the natural and indeed in the natural it is, that means by our own natural strength it could never be accomplished. But God never called us to do it in our own strength. He called us to be simply the vessels through whom he will carry his own name to glory. All he requires of you and I is a willingness to believe him. That's all he's ever required of his people throughout the testimony of Scripture. The Scripture tells us in Hebrews 12 1 that there's a countless number of witnesses who have gone before us. And if you pictured yourself in a stadium today, these are the people in the upper tiers, the upper balconies, the higher parts of the stadium. They see now what we fully don't. They understand things that we have to believe and trust by faith. But I can hear them calling out to us, the saints of all the ages, all saints, not only from before Christ but those who have come after, who have gone through battle, they've gone through flood, they've gone through fire, they've known the triumph of God and now they see the full picture of who God is and what he's able to do. And the Scripture says this great cloud of witnesses is around us. Now I don't know how that really works. I know that there's a testimony of how God brought them through to victory. But these people are still alive, don't forget. They're not dead. They're very, very much alive. And I don't know if they can see planet Earth and what we are doing. But if they could, they'd be up in that upper balcony and they would be encouraging us to run. Don't stop. Don't give up. You have a great call of God on your life. Don't give in to the lies of the enemy. Don't give in to the strategies of evil. Don't give in to the threatenings of darkness. Don't be silent in a time when God has put the power of speaking his words into your voice. Don't cower under the darkness of this world which is soon to pass away. Remember, everyone who threatens you, everyone who threatens the testimony of God in you, one day their knee will bow and their tongue will confess also that Jesus Christ is Lord. We know these things, but it's hard to run this race. It's hard for all of us. I have days that are tough, even though I know all this. I know all the Scripture. I know the history, but there's still hard days, still difficult days that all of us have. I want you to consider King David for a moment. This man is appointed by God to be a king and to be a ruler. Picture for a moment David being called into his father's house and the Prophet Samuel, a great and feared prophet in that generation, is standing in his father's house. And when he walks in, Samuel looks upon him with the eyes of God as only God can look upon a person and calls him over to his side and uncaps the flask of oil that he was carrying that David would have known represented that holy setting apart for the purposes of God. And Samuel poured that oil on his head. It would have run down his garments right to his feet and obviously spoke words to him about his future. That he was the man that God, at this point he's a boy, but he's the one that God had seen and had appointed to lead his people Israel. How incredible that must have been. And then just from that moment where that promise came into his heart to be to be sent out to look after his father's sheep again. And you and I come into the house of God and there are times that God begins to speak to our hearts. These are whispers of God. Sometimes they're the shoutings of God. And he begins to tell us he wants to do something through our lives, but in our present condition it looks so preposterous, it's so out of reach. How could this be? Well it can't be apart from him. There has to be a measure of rest in my heart and in your heart that says, God if this is going to be then you're going to have to do it. I can't do it. There's no way David could have been king. There would have to be a whole journey ahead of him and it would have to be a sovereign journey, a supernatural journey. And I can see David now leaving that place of anointing and going out and back to his father's sheep. And suddenly a lion comes into this little flock of sheep he's protecting and grabs a lamb in its mouth. And for the first time in his life he knows something he never knew before, the Holy Spirit comes on him. And he's given the power to do something that he could not do in his own strength. How stunning it must have been. That hidden victory, as it was. It was not a public, nobody would have known if he wouldn't have told anybody. But the ability God gave him to grab a lion by its mane, technically, and kill it with only a slingshot in his hand. And the same thing happened when a bear came against him. And then later on he was sent by his father into the camp when Israel was in a battle with the Philistines. And he heard a giant called Goliath step out and mock the armies of God and the testimony of God. And that same Holy Spirit came on him again. And with the courage that only could be given by God, and that divine enablement of God, he headed down into that valley armed with what looked to be stupidity in the sight of a natural world that lives by its natural strength and its natural wisdom. And he won a marvelous victory. It must have looked at that point that it was just going to be up and up all the way, only to find himself at a certain point in his life pursued. How many of you know that feeling? You started out and there were victories won and you know that God is with you, because you couldn't have won them without God. Certain things in your life that were broken, bondages were broken. Relationships God gave you the power to walk away from. He gave you the power to be honest when everyone else was not telling the truth about certain things. And he gave you the power to stand in the midst of all this. And it looked like, wow, this promise can't be that far away from my life. And you start to really believe that there is a supernatural call of God in my life. I am going to amount to something for his glory, only to find himself in a place where he's being pursued, like a partridge in the mountains, as he said, where he has no strength anymore. He doesn't know what to do. In Psalm 18, let In other words, my own inability to finish what I felt called to do was in every direction that I looked. I couldn't see a way out. I couldn't see a way forward. I didn't know how this thing in my life was ever going to be accomplished. And he goes on and says in the floods of ungodliness made me afraid. In other words, there was so much opposition that I was afraid that I could not overcome it. And that's something people are starting to feel in this generation. How in the world are we ever going to be a testimony? The opposition is building and increasing so powerfully, so strongly. It seems to be on every side. It's been emboldened like we've never seen in our lifetime. How will this call of God in my life, this promise, ever be fulfilled? In Psalm 18 verse 5, he says, the sorrows of Sheol surrounded me. In other words, the hopelessness of what I perceived my situation to be began to overwhelm me. It felt hopeless. Have you ever been there where it just feels hopeless? It's hopeless. And then you start to entertain the lies of unbelief. He says in the second half of verse 5, the snares of death confronted me. I was brought, in other words, to a standstill. I felt trapped. What was I to do? I didn't know how to go forward from here. Now, you and I know that at some point historically, David, when he was faced with this situation, he abandoned the testimony of that which he already knew. He abandoned it. He walked away. He started in the supernatural. But he turned to his natural reasoning. He tried to craft a plan to save himself. He forgot about the lion, the bear, Samuel, and Goliath. And he ran in another direction. In 1 Samuel 27 verses 1 and 2, here's what David said. And David said in his heart, now I shall perish someday by the hand of Saul. False reasoning. That wasn't true. The promise, remember the promise of God is that he was going to be the next ruler of Israel. There's nothing better for me than I should speedily escape to the land of the Philistines. You see, David started out by running a race that he was convinced in his heart would bring honor to the name of God. I know for sure that's true because when he faced Goliath, he was inwardly enraged that the name of God was being held in such poor reputation by allowing this man to speak the things that he was speaking. And so at that point in his life, he ran down into the valley with weaponry that looked to be foolish to face a giant because in his heart, he was saying the name of God has to be honored. And there had to be something inside of him that knew this calling that was on his life. Not fully understanding it, none of us really do, but knowing that there is a calling. There's something God has given me to do to glorify his name. It's hard to fathom that this young man at a certain point in his life is now running in another direction. And that's what many, many people in our generation, every generation have done. Start out running with God. Start out running for God. Start out with this inner desire to bring glory to his name, to find ourselves facing opposition that we can't understand. We don't know what it is that's coming against us. I think the grievous error that we make in every generation is the inability to realize that there is an opposing side in a war. We somehow get the idea we're going to go through this life unopposed, and that's not true. You're going to be opposed. You're going to be opposed with everything the devil's got to stop you from doing what God has called you to do. And many have failed in this sense. They've crafted an alternate race, in an alternate plan, and they've gone into another place than the place that God's called them to go. And you know that David ended up in the wrong army, on the wrong side of the battle. How ironic it must have seemed to him. I have to believe that, that at one time he was on the side of Israel facing Goliath, and now he finds himself on the side of Goliath facing Israel. And that's what happens when people start walking according to their natural reasoning in the midst of that which is a spiritual kingdom, and can only be really understood by faith in God. Two thousand years of Christian history has come down to you and me. We've got all the teaching, we've got all the tapes, and we have all the witnesses of history behind us. We have all the stories, we've got the biographies. We have it all. We have things that the early church didn't have. When the early church came out of the upper room, they did not have the New Testament. They were the New Testament. We're now called to run behind all of those who have gone before, and we're called to prepare to fulfill this great calling of God on each of our lives. We are the Church of Jesus Christ. There is no other testimony that's, we are the testimony of God in the earth. I know that God has a cosmos, he has stars, he has the sun, he has planets, he has nature. There's so many things that speak about him to humankind. But the only things that can speak audibly and in understood languages are you and I, the Church of Jesus Christ. We are left on this earth as a testimony of God to our generation. Here's where I use the illustration in Missouri. It's like a football team. This is our dressing room. I guess you could say I'm your coach for this day, or I'm an assistant coach, whatever you want to call me. And I'm giving you the pep talk. We're going to go out onto the field, and we're going to fight, and we're going to be opposed. But we have a superior team. We have a superior strategy. We've been well-trained, and the weapons of our warfare are not like theirs. Our weapons are not carnal, but they're mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. We have been given power over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt us. We are not only going on the field, but we're going to go through. We're going to be victorious, and there's going to be a shout of glory at the end of this match. We are being trained. We are being built up. All of our study, all of our training, all of our prayer, everything we've done has prepared us for this moment in history. May I be kind enough to say that we are potentially the last days church? I feel that in my heart. I may or may not be right. I don't know, but I feel it in my heart, and if we are, we're going into the Super Bowl now of soul winning of all time. We are going. I'm going to call us the New York Saints, the third team in New York City. We are not the Jets because Jets can only go so high before they run out of oxygen. We're not the Giants because they don't do well. When you read the scripture, the Giants don't seem to do very well. We are the New York Saints. Praise God. That's who we are. We're going to go out into a stadium, and when we go into that stadium, there's going to be a cloud of witnesses in the upper balcony, and they're going to shout because they know we're more than conquerors. They know we're already victorious. They know the victory has already been won. They know we will be opposed. They know we will have to fight. They know that there will be difficult times, but they also know something that we need to know, that the victory is ours before we even begin the battle. The victory is ours, and as we go on to the field, the witnesses know that our training and strength will fare them well. They know this, and so here they are in the upper balcony, and they're clapping and cheering, all these Saints of all time. As you and I, the last perhaps church age, I don't know that for a fact, and I don't want anybody quoting me on that, but I have a, that's the feeling of my heart. Christ is coming very, very soon, and for those who have seen a football game, I've seen a few. They come out of the dressing room, and they've been trained, and they've been taught, and they've practiced, and they have their armor on, and they're coming up with confidence, and they come down a long corridor, and there's cement walls on either side, and at the end of the corridor, there's a paper wall, and at the beginning of an NFL game and college games, they have to break through that paper wall, and they can't see the field until they get through the paper wall, and you, can you just imagine how incredulous it would be if an NFL team came out of their dressing room, it's, they're coming into the end of the season as it is, and they're running with confidence down this corridor as we do, when, when you run out of this church today, and you go out into the lobby, and you head out into the streets, and you run, they run down the corridor, and they stop at the paper wall, and they just, they just don't believe somehow that, that it can be breached. How foolish that would look, and we would be crying from the balcony, it's only paper, but they, they stop like keystone cops, all banging into each other, and look at the paper wall, and they somehow get it in their minds, I can't get through this. Can you, can you hear the crowd? Imagine if you were in the crowd, if you got tickets to the Super Bowl, and one of the New York teams happened to be there, could you imagine if you're in the crowd, and you watched your home team coming out of the dressing room, and they all stopped at the paper wall in unbelief. Can you imagine how you'd be shouting, go forward, go forward, just like in Hebrews 12 1, we have a great cloud of witnesses that, that know that the victory is ours, that know that whatever the devil sets before us is only paper, it can't stop us. So you and I have the witness of Scripture now, and the witness of history, and we read Numbers 13 for example, where the, the people of God having come out of Egypt, having seen the miracles of the parting of the Red Sea, God sovereignly leading them to the, the shores of the sea, and they suddenly stop at the, at the very border of the promised land. Before them is a paper wall. We know the history, we're, we're here later than they were, and even if we could shout to them, down through history, we'd say go, it's yours, the defenses have departed from them, they will oppose you, but they will not overcome you. But you can see the people of God standing at their own paper wall at the very shores of the promised land, saying we are not able, they are stronger, we are puny, they are giants, and they didn't go in. They forfeited the race, and they lived in the wilderness instead for the rest of their lives. And when people don't go in, I want you to hear me on this, when you don't go in to the plan of God for your life, you will live in the wilderness all of your days. Heaven may be your home at the end of your journey, but you will not know the miracle power of God. You will never know the satisfaction of walking with him through places that only he could carry. You'll go from church to church throughout New York City or whatever state you happen to be from, you will blame the preachers, you'll blame the choirs, you'll blame the people, but the reality is you wouldn't go through your own paper wall. You wouldn't walk in that place of the miraculous that God had set before you. And so the question that God put on my heart for you this morning is, what has the devil written on your paper wall? What has he written? Because you come running out of this church, and in your heart you know it's true. In your heart you know you're more than a conqueror. In your heart you know that the victory is yours. You know it. There's no doubt about it in your heart whatsoever. And so you come running down that corridor of faith, getting ready to go into that stadium where this great battle for the souls of men and for the glory of God is waged in every generation. And the devil stands at the end of your corridor with a magic marker and he starts writing on your paper wall. And what does he write on your paper wall? You're not strong enough. You're not smart enough. You're a loser. You've always been a loser. You'll never be anything other than what your father was, your mother was. In some people's walls he just draws bricks and makes it look like a brick wall, but it's still only paper. That's all it is. There is nothing the devil can put before you that can stop you from being what God's called you to be. Nothing. Hallelujah. But he will write these things on your wall and he will do everything in his power to get you to agree with it. Even though there's this shout coming from the upper tiers of the stadium, you can't see the you can't see the people there yet, but you can somehow hear it in the distance. There's one crowd on the lower tiers, the hometown crowd, may I call it that, of the unregenerate. They seem to have the best seats and they seem to have all of the power. And they're telling you to stay behind your paper wall. Don't come out. Don't challenge us. You don't have the strength. You don't have the power. But above them there's another crowd. Above them are those who have faced the same taunts throughout history, but they have found them to be false and powerless. And they're telling you and I, go through that paper wall. Go through whatever you have to go through. Don't stop at this place of unbelief. And no matter what the devil writes on your wall, he's a liar. He's the father of lies. All he knows how to do is lie. All he can write is lies. And his only power over you is to get you to walk in agreement with him. I believe that's why Jesus said, agree with your adversary when you're in the way, lest he cast you into prison. Agree with him. And just so agree with him, he writes on your wall, yes I am weak. Yes my father was a drunk, if that's the case. Yes I do come from a dysfunctional family. Yes I don't have any connections anywhere. I have no money, no resources, I have no power. But I'm going to tell you what I do have. I have the living God living inside of this vessel. I have a promise of new life. The Bible tells me that I can condemn your tongue Satan, and you have no power over me any longer. You can't stop me. Whatever God has called me to be, that's what I'm going to be. Whatever he's asked me to do, that's what I'm going to do. Listen to the words of the Apostle Paul in 1st Corinthians chapter 1 verse 26 to the end. For you see your calling brethren, you see your calling. Not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise. And God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty. And the base things of the world and things which are despised, God has chosen. And the things which are nothing or not to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in his presence. But of him are you in Christ Jesus who became for us wisdom from God and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. As it is written, he who glories let him glory in the Lord. You see your calling brethren. Let the devil write on your paper wall anything he wants. But he's not keeping us out of this end time game. There is no way. Not only are we going in, we're going in to fight, we're going in to win. We're going in believing God, every word he's told us, everything he's trained and taught us to do, we will do. Remember we started with David when he said the pangs of death surrounded me, the floods of ungodliness made me afraid, the sorrows of Sheol surrounded me, and the snares of death confronted me. Now David could have stayed there. And yes he did take a detour. And it did bring distress into his heart. But he says in verse 6 of Psalm 18, in my distress I called upon the Lord and cried out to my God. And he heard my voice from his temple, and my cry came before him even into his ears. In my distress I cried out to God. God is not offended by an honest prayer. David himself is the one who wrote, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me and from the words of my roaring? He wrote it. God was not offended by it. It was an honest prayer. In my distress I called out to God and he heard me. Now here's the response of God. He drew me from above. He took me. He drew me out of many waters. He delivered me from my strong enemy and from those who hated me, for they were too strong for me. They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but the Lord was my support. He brought me out into a broad place. He delivered me because he delighted in me. Verse 29 of Psalm 18, for by you I can run against a troop. By my God I can leap over a wall. As for God, his way is perfect. The word of the Lord is proven. He is a shield to all who trust in him. For who is God except the Lord, and who is a rock except our God? It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect. He makes my feet like the feet of a deer and sets me on my high places. He teaches my hands to make war so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. You've also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand has held me up. Your gentleness has made me great. You enlarged my path under me so that my feet did not slip. I have pursued my enemies and overtaken them, and neither did I turn back again till they were destroyed. I have wounded them so they could not rise. They're fallen under my feet. For you have armed me with strength for the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. You have also given me the necks of my enemies so that I destroyed those who hated me. They cried out, but there was none to save, even to the Lord, but he did not answer them. Then I beat them as dust before the wind, and I cast them out like dirt in the streets." Hallelujah. We are more than conquerors through Christ who loves us. We are more than conquerors. The writer of Hebrews says, therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him, the crown, the victory. He endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such hostility from sinners against himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. We are the last, potentially the last generation. Madmen are about to get ahold of nuclear weapons, and don't think for five minutes they won't use them. But it's not like it's slipping out of anybody's control. Everything that's happening has been foreordained of God. There's an inner witness in even the unsaved that things are about to radically change, but they can't understand it. But the Bible says, you and I are not children of darkness, that that day should overtake us as a thief. I say we've been in the dressing room long enough. It's time for all of us, all of us, to put on the armor of God and head down that corridor and breach that paper wall. Because until you go through the paper wall, you can't even see the arena. You don't even know what the game's about. You don't even know what it looks like, because you're still behind a paper wall. It's time to breach that paper wall. And whatever the devil wrote on it, whatever it is that stops you from becoming everything that God has called you to be, it's time to get up. As David said, by God, I can run through a troop. By God, I can leap over a wall. I don't care if you run through it or jump over it. It makes no difference. But you and I have to get in the game now. We've had enough seminars talking about it, enough singing about it, enough reading about it. We have to get in the game. So who's with me? I'm going to give an altar call this morning, and it's very symbolic. I want you to get up. I want you to run through your paper wall. Whatever it is, whatever it is that the devil's telling you is stronger than God is in you. Whatever he's written on that wall that has kept you from getting involved full-heartedly in this battle for the souls of men, I want you to run through that paper wall. And this is what this altar call will be. It's just a symbolic moving forward. And you have to picture in your mind your paper wall is maybe at the end of the aisle or halfway down the aisle, and I'm just getting up, and I'm going through this thing, and it's not going to hinder me any longer. I'm going to choose to believe God. I don't care. Even if my own heart condemns me, the Bible says God is greater than my heart. I'm just getting up, and I don't know how, but I know that God's going to give me the strength. I'm going to become part of this end-time battle for the souls of men. I'm going in knowing I'm going to win before I even start the battle. I'm going to believe the promises of God. I'm not going to let all of my training end up being in vain. I'm not going to stand at the shore of the promise of God as the people of God did in the Old Testament and just stare at it and let the devil write on the wall that we can't go in. I'm not doing that. I'm going with God. It doesn't matter who you are. It doesn't matter if you're male or female, bond or free, Jew or Gentile, rich or poor, educated or otherwise. It really doesn't matter. It's the hungry heart that gets the victory. I hope you understand that. We need evangelists again in this generation. The office of evangelist is almost lost to the church of Jesus Christ. I know there are evangelists here. You are called of God. You just have to get through the paper wall that's telling you, no, not you, somebody else. Or the reminder of all your failures, all the things you've done wrong over the years. I say breach that wall. I am a new creation in Christ Jesus. Yes, I've made mistakes, but I want to remind you, devil, I'm covered. I'm covered before I go into this battle. I'm covered. We have a coach that knows every move of the enemy, knows every play he's going to make. Hallelujah. It gives us a counter, a counter play and a counter punch. We're going into the end zone of our enemies. Oh, folks, I tell you, I have something stirring in my heart. So deep, so profound, so powerful. We're going to know victory again in our generation. Let's stand together. And if God's calling you, if God's calling you slip out of your seat, the balcony go to either exit, the annex, you can step between the screens in North Jersey as well. Today, those that are at home, just get up and move towards your, your laptop, whatever it is you're watching this on today. Go through your paper wall. Just go through it. Go through it. Let's believe God together. We'll worship for 10 minutes. We'll come back. We'll pray together. The only word I have for you at this altar is don't back away. Don't back up now. You've made the choice. Find the full will of God for your life. There is a full will find it and don't look to your own strength to perform it because you won't find it within yourself apart from Christ in you. But it will be a glorious journey. We're fighting for the glory of God and for the souls of people. That's our mission. We're more than conquerors. Father, I thank you, Lord, for these men and women who have come forward to run through their own paper walls, whatever it is that keeps them from finding that full position that you've given to them in your kingdom. I pray God that from this altar today that mighty, mighty, mighty men and women of God be raised up. Mighty, mighty in their homes, mighty in our communities, mighty, mighty in our towns, mighty Lord God in whatever we're called to do. Men and women of might and character given vision and wisdom, giftings of God that can only come from the Holy Spirit. Lord, raise your people up, oh God. We thank you, Lord. I pray that at the end of this journey before us there be a shout of glory that will be, Lord, it would be just unexplainable in human terms, an inner shout of glory. Father, I thank you for this, Lord, with all my heart. Praise you and bless you, God. Help us as a church to reach the full potential of what we were called to be. And you know it, Lord, so guide us, lead us now. Guide us into that, Lord God. Father, I thank you for it with all my heart today. Praise you and I bless you. Before we go into this battle, I want you to shout like we've just won.