This sermon from Mark chapter 5 emphasizes the importance of saying 'yes' and worshiping God in the midst of our mess. It highlights the compassion of Jesus towards those who come to Him, even in their brokenness and desperation. The passage illustrates the power of Jesus to set people free with just a word, transforming lives and bringing hope and freedom. The message calls for a deep surrender to God, acknowledging our need for His intervention and declaring His victory over darkness and bondage.

Mark chapter 5 please. Just say yes and worship in your mess. Father I thank you Lord Jesus Christ with all my heart. God I bless you for your mercy, your humility, your willingness Lord to come to us again and again. Oftentimes when we least deserve it as a people, as a nation. God you come to us in mercy. Would you open our hearts today and help us to receive what you are speaking to us. Help every person who's here both those that are near the throne of God and those that are far away. Help us O Jesus Christ to hear your voice and to understand that your mercy endures forever. Bless the sharing of your word, strengthen my physical body. Father I trust in the anointing of your Spirit. For all efforts of flesh will fail and only that which is born of the Spirit will live. God Almighty bear witness to truth. We ask it in Jesus name. Amen. Mark chapter 5 beginning at verse 1. Just say yes and worship in your mess. Then came they to the other side of the sea the country of the Gadarenes and when he had come out of the boat there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit who had his dwelling among the tombs and no one could bind him not even with chains because he had often been bound with shackles and chains and the chains had been pulled apart by him and the shackles broken in pieces and neither could anyone tame him and always night and day he was in the mountains and in the tombs crying out and cutting himself with stones. When he saw Jesus from afar he ran and worshiped him and he cried out with a loud voice and said what have I to do with you Jesus son of the Most High God. I implore you by God that you do not torment me. For he said to him come out of the man unclean spirit. Then he asked him what is your name and he answered saying my name is Legion for we are many and he begged him earnestly that he would not send them out of the country. Now a large herd of swine was feeding there near the mountains so all the demons begged him saying send us to the swine and pigs in other words that we may enter there in and at once Jesus gave him permission then the unclean spirits went out and entered into the swine there were about 2,000 and the herd ran violently down the steep place into the sea and drowned in the sea. So that those who fed this swine fled and told it in the city and in the country and they went out to see what it was that had happened. Then they came to Jesus and saw the one who had been demon-possessed and had the Legion sitting and clothed and in his right mind and they were afraid and those who saw it told them how it happened to him who had been demon-possessed and about the swine. Then they began to plead with him to depart from the region and when he got into the boat he who had been demon-possessed begged him that he might be with him. However Jesus did not permit him but said to him go home to your friends and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you and how he has had compassion on you. And he departed and began to proclaim in Decapolis all that Jesus had done for him and all marveled. Now if ever there was a passage of scripture that clearly shows us the compassion of Jesus it would be this one. He's willing to be compassionate towards all those that will come towards him. Verses 6 to 8 tells us that he saw Jesus only far away but when he saw him he ran and he worshipped him. Now this poor man had heard the voice of God commending his freedom but inside of him now you have to understand in this passage of scripture you have a mixture of humanity that has fallen and the demonic. This man had opened his heart to something opened his life to something and the voices now that were inside of him were beginning to multiply. You'll notice in all of the violent crimes that have been committed in the country in the last several years that many of those who commit these crimes say that they're hearing voices inside telling them to do these things. There's a mixture of that human person and also the voices of what oppression they have opened their heart to and is beginning to manifest through them. And so you have this duplicity here. You have this man who sees Jesus and runs to worship him. Now he's not a saved man. Don't misunderstand what I'm saying. This man is outside of the kingdom of God. He's heard something. There's some kind of knowledge in him about who it is that is coming near to him that is approaching him. It causes him in an act of desperation to run and begin to worship but inside of him there's such demonic activity that there's a strange mixture of his plea for freedom may I call it that and the demonic plea not to be sent into an unclean place or a place which they described as outside of the country. So I want you to see this story in this duplicity. There's a mixture of somebody who's opened themselves up to demonic power. That person is still very much there but the things that they've opened their lives up to are also there intermingled intertwining as it is in their personality and beginning to speak through them. Many of you remember the days before you came to Christ when you opened your heart to things and you began to speak words you never thought you would speak. Do you recall that? You began to say things you never thought you'd find yourself saying. You lashed out to vehemently hurt people even those that were close to you and you would you would walk away and say why did I do that? Why did I say that? What is it that I've opened my heart to that's producing this this kind of uncleanness that's coming out of my lips? And this man runs when he sees Jesus. He's far away just like the prodigal son was far away. He's made a mess of his life. He's opened his heart to things he he thought he could handle it and there's so many people in this generation now that are you know they're in the same situation this man was in in measure. Cutting is becoming a terrible problem among our young people today. The marking of people marking their flesh and piercing their bodies and all of these things that are going on now and the excessiveness of much of this. It just speaks of an inner loathing. A desire to mar this physical body which God created in his own image. That's really what's at the root of most of this stuff and today we're in a society largely captivated now. People who thought they could handle what they were toying with. A little bit of flirtation in the office. Extra drink perhaps on the way home. A little bit of pornography when nobody was around and looking to see what you're looking at and and you thought you could handle all of this stuff and suddenly you feel that you're being overpowered by it. It's beginning to control your life. It's controlling your thinking. It's ruining your life. That little bit of coke that somebody at the workplace just told you you should just partake of a bit of it. It'll give you a bit of relief of stress at the end of the day and you thought you could handle it and then suddenly it's opening your heart. It's opening your life. You're on a spiral of things that you never believed were possible. There are many many people like this man says when he saw Jesus far off he ran and he worshipped him. It's like somebody here today saying Jesus I'm so far away. I'm so dead and I'm so hopeless and if your words turn out to be unable to help me just has been the efforts of others. They had bound him. They'd counseled him. They had probably done intervention as they would call it in their day. They'd done everything they knew to do but this man could not be tamed. He had an inner passion. He had given himself to something of evil that was as Paul says in the book of Romans I know I know what to do. I know what is right. I even have a delight in the inner man to do what is right but how to find the strength to do that which I know is right I don't know and suddenly his life is spiraling down and down and down. It's like people have been counseled. They've tried everything to get free to change and they finally see Jesus in some measure even though he's far off and they approach him as this man did and they fall on their knees and they begin to worship and it's it's like a person says if if you turn out to be powerless or if you condemn me if I feel your displeasure there would be it'll be the last straw be the last nail in the coffin of my life. Please don't promise me freedom if it's not to be mine and that's a legitimate cry. You see that in the hearts of many people throughout history. Oh God oh God don't promise me freedom if it's not mine. I want to tell you the good news of the gospel is that freedom is yours. Jesus stood in that temple opened the book of Isaiah and said the Spirit of the Lord is upon me for this reason. The gospel might be preached to the poor in other words those who don't have strength they don't have means they can't get out of their bondage in their own abilities. Those that are imprisoned whether it's a physical prison or spiritual prison they're in a place of imprisonment. I came to open the doors and let them out. I came to heal those that have been wounded and bruised in their heart and don't see a way of freedom. I came to tell you that this is the acceptable year of the Lord now is the time to call out to God for this freedom and I'll tell you one thing I know in my heart Jesus Christ is not a man who can lie. When he speaks it is the truth and if he said he came to give us freedom he came to give us freedom. You don't have to settle for anything less than Jesus bought for you on that cross 2,000 years ago. In my heart I know that every drop of blood that hit that ground it may not have been heard by the human ear but it was like one of those big drums every being hit with a huge drumstick every time a drop of blood hit that ground all hell must have trembled. They knew what was happening. They knew their cords were being broken. They knew their power was going down. They knew that prison doors were going to open. Blinded eyes were going to see. Deafened ears were going to hear. The weak were going to be made strong. The gospel was going to be preached and an hour of incredible liberty had come to all of humanity who were willing to hear and willing to believe. This man found himself living in a society that seemed to be able to tolerate his condition as long as their commerce was intact and their livelihoods were secure. Remember when this man was set free they weren't overly concerned about his freedom but they were concerned about the loss of their pigs and I believe it was because of the pigs that drowned that they begged this man to leave their coasts. A society that's more concerned about its commerce than the freedom of its people is doomed for failure. It's much like New York City is today a city where one in four young people and this is a government statistic not a church one have either thought about or attempted suicide. That's right here in New York City where cutting is becoming an epidemic. It's abounding. Traffic is bumper-to-bumper for the commerce of Monday to Friday. It's thick for the entertainment of Saturday but roads are virtually empty when it comes to prayer and worship on Sunday. This is a society very much like the society of this man's day more concerned about commerce and entertainment than the freedom of people. More concerned about these things than our children in our streets who are contemplating or attempting suicide. God forgive us for this abominable ignorance that we have propagated on this generation. We spend all kinds of time analyzing the distress of this hopeless situation and generation but we refuse to deal with the true source of the problem and it seems that the downward spiral is irreversible. In Psalm 88 listen to what the psalmist says, Oh Lord God of my salvation I've cried out day and night before you. Let my prayer come before you and incline your ear to my cry. My soul is full of trouble. My life draws near to the grave. I'm counted with those who go down to the pit. I'm like a man who has no strength. I'm adrift among the dead like the slain who lie in the grave whom you remember no more and are cut off from your hand. This is the cry of many many many in our generation. There's an inner cry of hopelessness and some of you know what that's all about for you may if you are not crying it today you cried it out at one point in the past. A hopeless feeling. My life is never going to change. The scripture tells us this man lived among the tombs. He felt more at home with the dead than being among the living. He lived in a place of dreams lost. Every one of those graves would have a memory in it. A story but as the story is gone hopes have vanished. He lived in a place where he felt like his future was hopeless and so many of our young people feel that way today. He lived in a place of pain and betrayal. Every tombstone would have a name and many of you know what that's all about. There are names in your past and you even hate the mention of that name and when that name is even comes to your mind you feel like cutting yourself just so that you can divert yourself from the thought of it and perhaps feel some other kind of pain than that deep inner anguish that came from the betrayal. His place would speak about abandonment, about innocence lost, dreams that once were, childlikeness that suddenly vanished in a moment of time because of something that happened, a place of self-loathing, a place of anger and frustration and an inability to escape to a better life and so many understand this. I'm speaking to people today who know what this is because you're living this right now. You're living in this place. You don't see a way out. You thought you could handle what came your way and now you're finding out what came your way is handling you. You can't escape the anger. You can't get out of the bitterness. You can't get away from the addiction. You can't walk away from the mental torment. You can't get out of the sense of hopelessness and you've lost your future. It seems like everything around you is lost. It's a place of unspeakable anguish yet in this place even though he had been no doubt not just an innocent victim but he had been a partaker of the things that had allowed these tormenting thoughts to gain access in his heart and in his mind but yet even in this condition when he saw Jesus far off he ran to him and he worshipped him. He did what you and I need to do. He did what every person, every born needs to do. We don't have to get our act together to come to God. We come to God just as we are and we worship him in the place that we're living. In effect he said yes and he began to worship the Lord and he was in a mess. There's nobody in that society would debate it. He probably was one of the worst people in the whole area. His mess was deep. It was dark. It was heavy. He couldn't get out of it in his own strength but when he said yes and he began to worship. I see it as a last-ditch effort for freedom. The place he should have come to in the beginning he ends up in at the end but better late than never. Then Jesus begins to speak to him and he says what is your name or what are you called? I see this man it's a type of a man who says where do I start? What am I called? There's so much is wrong inside of me. It seems like there's a thousand things in me that want to destroy me and have gotten ahold of me. If I were to ask you today there are some people here what is what is your problem? You would say as I once did. Have you got a couple of hours? I don't know where to start. I don't know how to tell you how much I hate what I've become. I thought I could handle this but I'm finding out I can't. It's starting to alter my view of my life. It's altering my view of my future. It's altering my interaction with other people. It's changing me into a person that I never thought I would ever become. I hate what I'm becoming. I feel like a dead man yet I'm living under the curse of still being alive and you begin to cut yourself. It's a sign of a deep deep inner loathing that's in the heart. I hate what I have become. I hate what I'm doing to my family. I hate how I'm destroying my marriage. I hate the kind of employee I've become in the workplace. I just absolutely loathe the selfishness that's at the center core of my heart. My own inability to even care. I've become numb to everything around me. I despise this. What life is about. Is this what life is supposed to be? Is this my future? Is this all it's going to be? Is it just going to be this point and downward from here on in? That's why so many people who get to this point just absolutely look forward to death. It's better to dwell in the graveyard than to dwell among the living. The scripture tells us and shows us now the incredible power. He said actually that which spoke through him said my name is Legion for we're many. Now Legion is a thousand. Now you know if that's the devil speaking he can't tell the truth. Because as I read this there were 2,000 pigs that ran squealing into the river. So there was at least twice what the devil said was in this man. But this it doesn't matter. Here's the point. The scripture shows us the incredible power of the Son of God. It took a lifetime to ruin your life. But just one word from Jesus is all it takes to be free. Just a word. Go. You have to understand the power that's in the voice of God. The power in God's speech. The power that created the universe. The power that spoke into dust and created Adam as a living soul. The power that stood on a hilltop and called Lazarus out of the grave. Jesus is not an ordinary man. His speech is not simply counsel to those that are lost. No his words have power. He can raise the dead. He can create things out of nothing. He can set people free. He can heal the wounded in heart. He can give sight to the spiritually blind. He can open up your heart to the incredible resources of what he bought for you and I when he defeated sin and death on the cross of Calvary 2,000 years ago. Victory is ours. Life is ours. Freedom is ours. We don't have to settle for the graveyard. We don't have to settle for being ground into the ground with memories of the past. We can leave behind those things that need to be left behind and we have the power to press forward to the call of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 4.8 says when he ascended up on high he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men. Not only does he set us free, he creates us anew. If any man be in Christ, he's a new creation. The old things within are dead and behold all things are made new. Jesus called it being born again, born by the Spirit of God, given a new heart, given a new mind, given a new life, given new freedom, given a new nature, new desires, new future, new heart, new eyes, new hands, new voice, a new path, new courage, new compassion, and a new song. Hallelujah on top of it all. Behold I make all things new. Glory to the name of Jesus. You and I don't have to die in our sin. You and I don't have to sing the blues. You and I don't have to live in the place of death. We have been promised life in Jesus Christ. David said in Psalm 40 he brought me up out of a horrible pit out of the miry clay and set my feet upon a rock and established my steps. He has put a new song in my mouth even praise to our God and many will see it and fear and trust in the Lord. This sense of awe, this reverential awe will get in people's hearts as they say only God could have done this for you. I've known you for years. I've known you. You've been bitter as long as I've known you. You've been a drunk as long as I've known your name. Everyone in the office knows you're addicted to cocaine. You've been a lustful man. You've been a lustful woman. You've been unfaithful as long as I've ever known you. As a matter of fact you've garnered a reputation among your friends but now we see you sitting there and in your right mind and there's been given to you a power of speech you didn't have before. All you could do is grunt and groan and now you're singing songs of praise unto God. Now you're sitting there, you're clothed, you have direction, you have a new heart, you have a new future. You're singing in the midst of all the chaos that's breaking out around the world. How is it possible you could be singing? Don't you see what's going on around you? Oh that's when you have a chance to say I'm aware of it but have you not seen yet what's going on in me? Something much greater than what's going on around me is going on inside of me. Oh thank God. Thank God for the life of Jesus Christ. I could thank Him for the rest of my days and as a matter of fact I will for all of eternity. Glory to God. Glory to God for what He has done. Hallelujah. I'm not speaking to you some religious pipe dream this morning. I've lived this. I've walked out of bondage. I know what this is all about. I know what the power of God can do. I know God gives gifts unto those that will go all the way with Him and I thank the Lord for that with all my heart. And when they saw it they were afraid. People should be afraid. There should be a reverential awe because the fear comes from the knowledge that wow there is really a God and if there is really a God that means I got to deal with Him someday. See that's what brings the fear of the Lord into the hearts of those who live outside the kingdom of God. The freedom that I'm speaking about today will come at a time when the commerce of the nation is thrown into the sea. I believe that with all my heart. I believe that the pigs are about to drown in America. I believe that our commerce is our economy is going to suffer quite a severe downturn. It's going to bring hardship into the nation but in the midst of all of this in a nation that's urging Christ to leave its borders in the midst of it all God in His mercy is coming to a people to call us a generation to Himself in spite of our condition or what has called it and we might be far away from God as a people as a nation but I'm telling you with all my heart I believe that I've heard from God that he is coming to this society and he's coming with a call and it's not for the it's not for the strong in themselves it's not for the most noble it's not for the most righteous it's not for it's not for those that have it all together are the movers and shakers of society it's for the nobody's it's for the nothing's it's for the drug addict it's for the prostitute it's for the those that are captivated it's those that are living in death and they can't get out I believe from this young generation or up in the streets cutting themselves we're going to see some powerful evangelists raised up in our time I believe that with all my heart Jesus is coming to call a nation in the midst of our calamity and turmoil in the midst of our downturn his power again is going to be made known to the least among us and I thank God for that with all my heart I can't escape this message it's the one that the Lord has given me it's what he's planted deep inside of my heart it's why he's called me this preach the gospel and and the specific message he's given me to speak at this time it's why he's allowing my voice to go across the nation on radio to call this nation to call this country back into the house of God back into the pyramid called all men all women all persuasions of life all places in society young all rich and poor the influential of the uninfluential every knee must bend and every tongue must confess that Jesus Christ is Lord the call in my heart is don't wait to get it all together just come just say yes and worship God in your mass just say yes wherever you are just run to Jesus just run to him no matter how deep or dark your struggle is no matter how captivating your iron bars seem to be if you can still hear his voice don't harden your heart if you can hear his voice you get up from where you are and you come to God you get up and you take him in his word that Lord you're not going to torment me you're not going to promise me freedom and leave me bound but tell one thing though I want to say to you when you get up determine in your heart you're going to walk with him determine in your heart you're going to follow him it says the demon-possessed man begged him that he might be with him Jesus did not permit him but said you go home and you tell your friends what great things the Lord has done for you and how he has had compassion on you and the scripture tells us he went and began to proclaim and Decapolis that all that Jesus had done for him and everybody marveled at what Jesus had done God is going to touch those who long for him in this generation he's not going to do it for our sakes for we don't deserve it for that reason but for his own holy namesake he's going to come and he's going to cleanse us wash us again in pure water give us his Holy Spirit make us into new creations and there will be a testimony there will be a testimony of God in this earth in spite of Isis in spite of all hell breaking out on the face of the earth in spite of wars disasters diseases all the rest of this is coming just as it was foretold it was going to come in spite of it all one more thing was foretold in the last day I will pour out my spirit on all flesh your sons and your daughters will prophesy in other words I'm going to give the young of this generation an ability to speak the word of God with power to be able to see into the future and make declarations of who God is and what God is willing to do your old men will dream dreams in other words by age there'll be no limitation anymore there still be a vision will not be looking to the past will be looking to the future thank God and on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out of my spirit says the Lord and Joel says that today when the Sun is going to be darkened the moon is going to refuse to shine the powers of heaven are going to be shaken but God will have a testimony in the earth God will have a people in the earth thank the Lord I believe prayer meetings are going to be full all over this nation we're going to see a turning to God a final turning to God I thank the Lord for that with all my heart all folks now is the time to worship now is the time to get out of darkness now is the time to run to Jesus don't wait so many people say oh God you set me free and I'll worship you no you worship him and you'll set you free there is a difference you come with that heart like Hannah had said God if you will birth something inside of my life I will bring it back to your temple for your glory you give me freedom Oh God and I will publish that freedom I will proclaim it everywhere I go I will tell others what you've done for me Oh God Almighty I will follow you Jesus all the days of my life for too long many people in the house of God have wanted freedom just for freedom's sake they've wanted to sin on Friday night and they've wanted to come into church on Sunday to put away the guilt of it and the stain of it and to get forgiven as they see it one more time so they can go back out and do it again but those days are over those days are finished there will be no victory there there never has been it's only been an illusion of victory no this is an hour where God saying come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I'll give you rest come learn of me I'm meek and lowly in heart and you shall find rest for your souls it's a day similar to the great feast in John 7 where he stood at the end of all of the religion of its hour and said if anyone's still thirsty let him come unto me and drink he that believes on me as the scriptures said out of his inward part shall flow rivers of living water if this casual religiousness has not satisfied your heart he said come to me and I will do something inside of you and you will not be able to contain it it will be a river of life flowing out of your mouth you'll not be ashamed to stand for God for goodness sakes there's nothing to be ashamed of to know God and to stand and declare there is a right in the wrong in life hallelujah so what do I do just say yes and worship Jesus in your mess don't wait till it's all together you come as you are that's always been the call of the gospel of Jesus Christ look through the scriptures while the religious are just standing there trying to figure him out theologically a leper is pressing through and getting healed the blind are crying out and getting their sight prostitute is washing his feet with their tears and drying them with their hair oh I love these pictures in the Word of God for it shows us who gets power thank God Oh folks hear me on this please hear me on this please please because the future of thousands of people depends on the decisions now that you and I make religion as usual in this nation can't carry on anymore it has proven itself to be essentially bankrupt we must go deeper in God we must be yielded to God we must be a free people we can't be half in jail and half free it doesn't work that way we've got to step out and make the choice Jesus you won't permit me you won't lie to me you won't leave me in this condition you will set me free and when you do I will go tell my friends I will open my mouth I will speak God you know once you break that barrier I promise you one thing you can't stop I know it from experience once you break through the barrier of fear and you start speaking his name I had a partner once police partner said to me don't you ever talk about anything but Jesus and I said no I don't I don't he eventually gave his life to the Lord thank God for that say yes Oh God please say yes there are great evangelists here in this sanctuary there are teachers of the Bible there are people that will go into civic life and make a huge difference but before these things began you must be free and empowered by the Spirit of God and you will make a difference the days of cowering down to a society that's begging Jesus to leave its borders are open those days are open everyone it seems in the world have you noticed is standing up to fight for what they believe in I think it might be our time to as well father I pray God with all my heart Jesus set people free from voices of the past from loathing themselves a sense of hopelessness future from being victims and now starting to make victims out of other people set people free from addictions physical addictions mental addictions let this be a day of freedom I ask you Lord God that you open the doorway for understanding of the incredible treasure that is available to us of the life of God when we realize our own poverty take us in this generation to make an incredible difference make preachers out of all of us and let people begin to fear as they see the change that you are bringing into our lives God Almighty help us to say yes help us Lord God in Jesus name we're going to stand in just a moment we're going to worship for a few moments and as we do God spoken to your heart today you want to be free you just want to be free to serve God to love God to live for God to be the person that God is calling you to be the full journey not partial not a partial Christianity but you want the full journey what God has for your life you want a testimony that people can't laugh at us it will cause them to tremble you want it to be so real that you're compelled to speak it that's in your heart today as we stand I'm going to ask you to come in front of this auditorium please and then we're going to pray together we're going to believe God for freedom as a member it was just a word just one word and they were set free let's stand please if you will the balcony go to either exit the main sanctuary and slip out you go between the screens please in the annex and also North Jersey campus God bless you today lift your hands just begin to worship says he came to him and worshiped declare him to be your freedom declare him to be your God your deliverer just make that declaration with your mouth your healer the one who can dry your eyes and heal the wounds in your heart give you sight for tomorrow the one who took your captivity captive and gave gifts to you has gifts for you declare him to be so don't hold back don't hold back all over the sanctuary declare him to be God hallelujah hallelujah thank you Lord for freedom thank you God for a testimony thank you for a song thank you for a new life thank you Lord you are faithful you cannot lie the things you speak that's what you do the things you say that's who you are God Almighty thank you Lord thank you Jesus thank you for coming to us not in our strength but in our weakness not in our riches but in our poverty Lord you came to us God Almighty we bless you we praise you Lord today we believe that each at this altar we're all going to go home with a new song we're going to go home with a new heart we're going to go home with new vision we're going to go home with hope and strength God father we thank you for these things thank you for these things Lord we stand against every chain of the devil every weapon of darkness Satan we resist you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ we resist you and we declare the victory of the cross over all of your works all of your bondage your voices your affliction we declare the victory of the cross of Jesus Christ over you Lord we thank you for that victory we thank you God that we won't draw back we don't have to draw back we thank you Lord God you will speak to our hearts you'll give us a testimony not of ourselves but of you Lord none of our power but of yours not of our goodness but of your goodness Lord and it will be a testimony will touch many it will touch thousands and thousands of people Oh God father we thank you Lord you don't look for perfection you work through our imperfection Oh God you are our perfection Lord you are everything we need Oh God Lord we thank you for it Oh God Oh Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus send a mighty touch of the Holy Spirit on these men and women who want to live for God my God my God that is the promise of the scriptures that you would entwine us Lord and you would give us strength and you would give us power you would give us the everything we need to be a testimony of your life and your reality and your victory God we thank you for it God we thank you we praise you we bless you Lord we bless you we bless your holy name Oh God we bless you Lord we bless you God hallelujah to the lamb of God glory to the name of Jesus glory to the name of Jesus thank you Lord for freedom thank you for freedom thank you for freedom freedom we sing a song on Tuesday night called freedom I want you to sing it with all your heart and mean it today no more shackles no more change no more bondage I'm free I am free to run I'm free to praise him I'm free to serve him I'm free to sing to him I'm free to live for him sing it with all your heart today sing it with all your heart Oh God thank you for the hope that you're giving each of us Lord in this time we're living in thank you for your faithfulness to us Lord as your people God we give you praise and glory in Jesus mighty name bless this day with your presence in it Oh God make us aware that you walk with us everywhere we go God Almighty make us aware of the giftings that you placed within each of us the ability Lord you give us to glorify your name we thank you for it in Jesus mighty name one more time give him a shout of glory in this house