This sermon is a heartfelt invitation for those feeling distant from Jesus to come forward and surrender to His lordship, acknowledging the need for a close relationship with Him. It emphasizes the power and comfort available through communion with Jesus, urging individuals to cast aside doubts, fears, and lies planted by the enemy. The message encourages repentance, trust in God's goodness, and the rejection of negative thoughts, while highlighting the story of David as a model of repentance and turning to the Lord in times of failure.

A simple invitation, very quickly, to those in the balcony here and even in the annex. You may be a visitor or maybe you've been coming a number of times or you may have been coming many times to this church. We don't ask people to join this church, we ask them to come and give themselves to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. And if you're here this morning, you walked in here and you have not really been walking tightly, closely with Jesus. And until you have that communion, until you have that, you don't know the power that's available to you. And it leaves you lonely, it leaves you sick, it leaves you depressed, and I'm inviting you to step out, up in the balcony, go to the stairs on either side, and in the annex, you can just turn around and go to the lobby the way you came in. There'll be some ushers there to show you how to get down the stairs here, and you can walk down the aisle and come here, and here in the auditorium, just come, I want to pray for you that the Lord will, now if I ask all those who had burdens to come, almost every, if you tell me you don't have any burdens, well forget it. I won't get into that. But I'm concerned just for those this morning who said, Pastor David, I really have drifted from the Lord, or I don't have the relationship with Jesus that I need and that I want. I can't fight this alone anymore. The Holy Spirit's here to help you, to be your comforter, and to, if you don't understand Jesus, the Holy Spirit will come and help you to understand what it's all about. But he wants you to confess your need. He said if you just come to me, I won't cast you out. While the orchestra choir is singing something, just step out of your seat, and in the annex, I invite you, just turn and go back, bring your purse and your belongings with you, and come, and you'll be ministered to in prayer. We're not asking you to do anything silly, we're not asking you to say anything, we're not asking you to join anything, we're asking you to come in your need to Jesus, who's your only strength and hope. Follow these that are coming. God bless you. Come. Now, you can come, even while I'm talking. Just a quick word. The devil is not a mind reader, he cannot read your mind, but he can infuse and instill thoughts into your mind. Principles and powers of demons can whisper to the mind and plant these terrible seeds of fear and thoughts of hopelessness and thoughts of despair and discouragement, and most of all, the lies that come, that everything bad in your life is all because you're just a bad person. For those who have a hungry heart, for those who really want Jesus, and they really want change, the Lord said, take captive of those thoughts. Will you do that right now? Capture those thoughts, say no, say no to them right now, and cast them out and say, no, I will not believe this, I will not believe these lies. Those that are sick and afflicted sometimes and are told they have a disease, the first thing the devil says, you're dying, it's all over, you lie to him about your future, your past, your present, you try to bring up everything in your past, all your failures. I guess the reason the church loves the story of David is because in his failures and foolishness, he had a repentant heart and always turned to the Lord. That relates to us. So will you take those fears and doubts right now and say, Jesus, I give you my fears, I give you all the lies, erase them, give me strength not to accept them or believe them, and when they come, to take authority and push them aside. Now pray this with me, Jesus, the Bible says you have good thoughts, healing thoughts, saving thoughts toward me, not evil thoughts, but thoughts for good, and I thank you for how you're thinking of me, forgive me, Jesus, of my doubts, my unbelief, I give my sins, my foolishness, everything that's unlike you, I give it to you, I repent of it, and I trust you now that your goodness and your love for me is something that I believe, that I can feel, and I can take home with me. Now let me pray. Heavenly Father, these prayers from the heart you've heard, just as I preached, even the silent prayer has heard the Holy Spirit come and heal so many that are hurting, Lord, even those who didn't step out. There's, you know, Jesus, I'm hurting so bad. Oh, Holy Spirit, you're the comforter. Will you calm down and just comfort? That's what this church is about. There is now therefore no condemnation to them that be in Christ Jesus. Come, Lord, and lift every load. Let everybody in the sound of my voice walk out of here with hope and say, yes, Jesus, yes, you were good. You're merciful, ready to forgive, wanting to heal. If we would just open up our heart and receive it. Would you just lift up one hand at least or two hands and say, Lord, I receive right now. I receive the goodness of God toward me. I receive forgiveness. I receive healing in Jesus' name. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus.