Good morning everybody in Tacoma, Dupont. Yeah, come on. You know I love you. Pastor Roger, treating you guys well. Loving you guys well.
Belleview and everyone online, we love you a ton. Everyone go ahead and take a seat. We’re about to get started today.
Like Pastor Kevin said, I am a part of the team and I love being a part of the team. Anyone love being a part of Champion Center?
If you didn’t say it, no one was looking. We’re not going to make sure and all that. But I’m grateful to be a part of the team. And I just want to reference what Pastor Kevin
said, which I thought was so great is what you don’t realize is, have you ever seen a movie? I’m a big movie guy.
That’s how I relax. You watch a great movie, whatever your genre is. If you’re an action guy, if you are a suspense person, if you’re a comedy person, at the end of the movie,
everyone dips. But you know, they have all the credits at the end. And all the credits is every single person who allowed that movie to be possible. And
what you don’t realize, you may see people on platform at all of our receiving locations. You may see our senior pastor, you may see location pastors, but there are people like those credits who make it possible.
So, I want to thank every single volunteer. Thank you for your sacrifice. Thank you for your time. This is what we’re able to do because of you
and we’re grateful and thankful for it. But I want to share a story with you since we are a family. I am the distant family two and a half hours away
in the greatest place ever, Yakama, Washington. Homegrown everybody. And uh I want to share a story since I’m a story guy and I want to tell you a great
story that resonates with me. It was probably about 2 years or 3 years ago. I don’t remember exactly, but we were getting ready for our Christmas Eve
candlelight service. And I love our Christmas Eve candle light service. And we were filming promos with Pastor Kevin, all the LPS and PK. And we filmed the first one over, me and Pastor Kevin.
We read the teleprompter. We’re done.
And I’m like, “We banged it out. We’re done. We’re ready to rock and roll.” And PK goes, “Hold on. Let’s do it again.” And what I want this time is, and Pastor
Kevin might not remember this story, is he goes, “I want it done again, but I want the script taken away from Jesse because I want him to be him.” And what
he doesn’t realize is for a long period of my life, most of my life, I was always trying to be someone else. But you’d allow me to have my voice. That I
was invited to the table because of me and who God created me to be. And so I thank you for that. I thank Pastor Sheila, the encourager out in Belby.
She’s probably waving her hands like this right now in Bellev. We’re grateful and thankful. And I can stand here today not someone uncomfortable in his skin, but someone very comfortable and who
God’s created him to be. Why? Because we consider everyone at Champion Center. We express life. We build up. And so I’m grateful and thankful for the house I’m
a part of. This is the house you’re a part of, everybody. And I hope you’re grateful for that. I want to be able to give a little quick promo before we dive
into the word here. If you have not noticed recently, we’ve been promoing this thing called Leadex. And I am the director of Leadex. So, I’m going to go
ahead and promo it right now. And if you don’t know what lead is, it’s to educate, equip, and empower the leader within you. And what is leadership?
Influence. So, everybody got some influence. So, everybody is a leader.
And so, who is it for? It’s for those who have just graduated from high school and going, I got I feel a call to ministry and I want to grow and develop and be the leader that God has called me
to be. Sign up for Lead X. And maybe for some of you, you might be already have a business. You might already be working a 9-5. You have a career and going there’s
more in me and I want to develop as a leader. God created be it is for you too. And so in two weekends, we have an open
house at the end of every sing at the end of every single service at every single location. We would love for you to attend where we will tell you the why. We will tell you the what. We’ll
tell you why you should be a part of Leadex. We’d love for you to join us for the Leadex open house. But now you also don’t got an excuse. You’re like, “Well, I’m not going to make it that weekend.
We have plans.” Well, August 9th online only, we have a Zoom call where we’re doing the same exact thing and interest me to tell you all things about Leadex. Why do we why do we do Leadex?
There’s leaders and we are in need of leaders more than ever before. So, I hope you consider it.
If you’ve been on the fringe about it, attend the open house, attend the interest meeting, and from there, you can make the decision if you want to be a part of Leadex. We’d love for you to
be a part of the program. Who’s ready for the word, everybody? Y’all ready?
Well, I’m excited. I want to dive right in, but I’m going to go ahead and pray if you want to join me and we’ll get this started. Heavenly Father God, we
pray in this moment that you would use my words, the words that I feel that you placed on my heart to make a difference,
that it would land on fertile soil. And Holy Spirit, we pray that you do what only you can do. You’re the one that
starts to do things. And so we receive you. We’re ready and we’re open. In Jesus mighty name we pray. And everybody
said, “Amen.” I want to read a passage of scripture.
We are in the summer of Psalms as pastor Kevin alluded to and I want to read a passage of scripture found in Psalm 14.
But before we get there, I want you to realize if you haven’t realized this before that this right here is a living,
breathing word of God. And I think at times when we read the Bible, we pick it up kind of like a fictional book. And
it’s not fiction. It’s real. I think sometimes we look at it for the fact being that well I David. said, “You think about all the great people that
you hear about in the Bible, go, man, these are some incredible, extraordinary people. That can’t be me.” No, it can be you. And God is still using and God is
still working. God is still doing miracles. So, when you read your Bible, please don’t look in the lens as fictional, but it’s true and it’s real.
And God is still working through his word and working through us as people.
And so I want to read this scripture here that I think really sets us for in this passage is a scripture written by King David himself where it’s very the
context of it. I want you to picture it is our society now today. I feel like it gives a really good glimpse of where we are as a society. And I’m going to read right here in verse number one. It says
only fools say in their hearts there is no God. Haven’t you realized right now that more than ever before our society
doesn’t know what to believe in? that we are deconstructing our faith, our identity is all over the place, that only the fool says in their heart,
“There is no God.” They continue to say, “They are corrupt and their actions are evil. Not one of them does good.” Let’s hit a little pause right there, though.
I want to make sure that even though you are a churchgoer, you may be serving, you may have grown up in the house, we have all fallen short
because I don’t want us to start puffing up our chest and go, “Well, that group of people, no, we’ve all fallen short, everybody. And now we are all on the
same playing field. We are saved by grace and we’re thankful for that.” But I really want to hone in on verse number two. And it says this, “The Lord looks
down from heaven on the entire human race.” He’s looking here in Tacoma. He’s looking in Belleview. He’s looking in Yakama. He’s looking in Dupont. And even
online, he looks to see if anyone is truly wise.
If anyone seeks God. What I love about that passage of scripture. Again, it really kind of puts a in that factor going, this is our society now today.
Not just for all that’s going on, but God is still searching and God is still seeking and desiring. Who wants to follow me? Who desires me? who has the
heart of David, who was a man after God’s own heart. What’s interesting is he’s not looking for another David.
There was only one David, but he’s looking for the same heart posture. One who is willing, one who is open, a man
after God’s own heart. What I love about this year in our church is that the fact that it’s the year of the leader. Don’t
you love all the things become builders and fighters? It’s the year of the leader. What you don’t realize, and I alluded to earlier, is that every single
one of you, no matter how you view yourself, you are a leader. Leadership in essence is that you have influence.
Some of you have larger amounts of influence. Some of you have smaller amounts of influence, but every single one of you has influence. But the
question isn’t if you are a leader. The question is, are you living like a leader?
Two very distinct things here. You can be a leader not operating as a leader or you can be a leader living like a leader
and making a difference using your gifts, your talents and abilities to impact our families, our
schools, community, and church. So again, the question isn’t are you a leader? The question is are you living like a leader? And for the remainder of
my time, what I want to do is I hope that we would take a posture like David, a man after God’s own heart. that we would seek, that we would search, but
that we would be people who are willing and available to be used by God, that we would not stop, that we would not pause,
that we’re saying, “God, whatever you desire, whatever you want, I’m available.” And my hope is that we would all live that way. Imagine if we live
that way, what God can do. But I’m going to go ahead and be very honest. Living life available to be used by God is
going to cost you. No one wants to hear that word right now. Cost me? what’s it going to cost me? In 2 Samuel 24,
there’s a story of David. And uh if you just know the whole story about Basheba, there was many mistakes that David made in his leadership, his time as a king.
And this is one of them in 2 Samuel chapter 24 where we read in it that he takes a census. And the census was basically taking count of the amount of
people from Israel and Judah. And it was a big no no. And because of that no, God eliminated 70,000 people. Imagine that. That’s not a
little mistake. That’s a large mistake, y’all. And from that, at the end of it, the angel of the Lord was about to even continue to kill more people, but God
said, “Let’s halt and let’s pause here.” And we’re going to pick up on a scripture here. There’s a a gentleman named by Arunam the Jubasite. And God
said, “I want you to build an altar here for me.” We’re going to pick up on 2 Samuel um 24:22 and 24. And it reads
like this. Aruna said to David, “Let my lord the king take whatever he wishes and offer it up. Here are oxen for the
burnt offering, and here are threshing sledges and ox yolks for the wood. Your majesty, Aruna, gives all this to the
king.” Aruna also said to him, “May the Lord God accept you.” David just committed a big no no. And this
gentleman goes, “Since you are the king, I’m going to give you everything freely.
You can go ahead and have the oxen. You could have the altar.” And I love the response of David in this passage. In verse 24, it says, “But the king replied
to Aruna,” no, I insist on paying you for it.
I will not sacrifice the Lord my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.
Living life available will cost you. I know it’s not sexy. I know it’s not appealing. It’s the truth. And it
continues to say, “So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid 50 shekels of silver for them. He paid
tokens. He paid a price for following the living available.” I love this quote here and it was something that I read in a book years ago and I thought it was
very it was great to use in this context. He who has a religion that costs him nothing has a religion that is worth nothing. Ouch.
The question is, is your religion did it cost you? Did your faith did it cost you? Because if not, it’s not worth
nothing. There’s a price to be paid everybody. But I also want to continue not just to stop that it will cost you.
Living life available will be sometimes uncomfortable. Anyone like to stay comfortable? Don’t you take me out of my
box here. Don’t you take me out of rhythm. I am with you 100%. I got a rhythm every single day. Like when I
wake up, this is what I do. From here to here to here to here. And when you got two toddlers, they mess up everything.
It’s the uncomfortable. But that’s the reality. You’ve heard the phrase before that work smarter not harder. But I think in the context, some of us going,
I don’t want any resistance at all. I want it to be easygoing. I don’t want to be uncomfortable. I want to be comfortable. But understanding living
life available will sometimes be uncomfortable.
Unfortunately, that’s not the case for us as believers. We want to live uncomfortable. We want to live life available for God. The only thing will
be that you will be comfortable with is uncomfortable. You look at the life of David. David was living a life of uncomfortability. Going from being a
shepherd boy to being second in command to going into the palace and then after that being chased by King Saul for years and living in caves with other rebels.
Imagine he was living life uncomfortable.
Living life available will be uncomfortable. Here’s another one.
Living life available at times will be painful.
It’s going to be painful at times. And I love this here. This is one. I think this is my favorite quote that I’m going to use today everybody. So, I hope you’re ready for it. There are two pains
in life. The pain of discipline or the pain of regret. You choose.
You choose. Don’t you understand?
Sometimes I think our thought process is if I just stay back and not do anything that no pain is going to be caused. There’s the pain of regret.
But when I start to do things and I start to face adversity, there’s going to be pain no matter what. The best way to say is pain is inevitable. Do you
want pain of progress or do you want pain of complacency? I don’t know about you, but if I get a choice, I want some progress. I don’t want complacency.
So living life available will at sometimes be painful. Like when you go to the gym, people always want to
get their summer body during the summertime. It don’t happen in the summer. It happens at the beginning of the year, everybody.
And I’m not just telling you this because I’m just trying to make stuff up. I have a degree in exercise science.
So I know it just a little bit, everybody. And so understanding that it takes a time and a process, but no one ever just goes to the gym and gets
results. You don’t walk in the door and you just shed all the fat. It don’t happen. You get on the treadmill, you start to get a little sweat like I have here, you start to get a little pump,
you start to move some weights, you start to get some soreness, but pain is the progression that you’ll get for being in the gym. If you’re not feeling
sore, you’re not doing it right. If you want progress, there will be pain that will come with it. And let’s just look
at the life of David. David was no stranger to pain. He had children that he lost. He had a son who tried to take
him out as king. He had a king that someone he should honor, someone that he should trust trying to kill him as well.
You don’t think there was pain involved in David’s life? There was a whole lot of pain that David had to face. So living life available will cost you.
Living life available will be uncomfortable. Living life available at times may be painful. Here’s another one. Living life available will alter your plans.
You think about the first time we ever hear about David and uh I think a lot of you may know this story because it’s a very common story. In 1st Samuel 16,
David arrives on the scene, but it’s not like he just shows up. You got the prophet who comes in Samuel who is called by God to anoint the next king.
And when no one realized the next king’s going to be David and so he goes to the house of Jesse and he says he sees the first son and goes that’s him because he
looks tall, he looks great. He looks like a king. And God says that’s not him. So they bring in all seven sons and after the seventh son, he goes, “Is that
all you got?” He goes, “Well, I got one more and he’s actually out tending the sheep.” So he brings in David and he’s the one anointed king. So imagine this.
I would think, it doesn’t say it scripturally, but being the youngest of the family, probably his wildest dreams is one day to continue to take over the
sheep for dad. I would think so. I don’t think he ever thought, man, I’m going to make it big. I’m going to be leading an army. I’m not going to be doing that.
But when you live life available, it will alter your plans.
He goes from taking care of sheep to playing some music to slaying a giant to commanding and leading to one day becoming king.
I’m going to tell you right now, I am 33 years old and me standing on this stad was never in my plans. Everybody, never,
never, never. But when you live life available, God will start to do things to your life.
Prior prior to being in ministry, I was working as a strength and conditioning
coach for years and my goal was one day to work for the Seahawks. Let’s go Hawks.
But it didn’t happen, everybody. And one of the things is when I gave my life to Jesus, God started altering my plans.
And the reason why I love strength and conditioning is because I got to help athletes become bigger, faster, stronger to compete at the highest level in their
sports. But understanding is when God called me, he altered not so much, yes, what I was doing in what realm it was, but it was still the same desire. He
just changed it from now helping people spiritually, coaching and discipling, but he just guided me in the right direction. So when you live life available, it will alter your plans.
Living life available will be uncomfortable, painful, and change your plans. But it will also do this. I don’t want it just to be all bad news, y’all.
I’m an encourager. But there’s also some truth to this. Living life available will change your legacy.
And I love our house.
I love our house that we are legacyminded.
We think three three generations deep. I love it that it’s not just about me.
It’s about my kids and their children, your children. what God’s going to do after all of us get called to heaven.
And I want to read a passage of scripture that really just shows this what God starts to speak over David’s life because he lived life available.
And you will find this on 1 Chronicles 14. And it says this, “Now then tell my servant David, this is what the Lord
Almighty says. I took you from the pasture, from tending the flock, and appointed you ruler over my people
Israel. I have been with you wherever you have gone. I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make
your name like the names of the greatest men on earth. That’s incredible, y’all.
This is God speaking to David. When you live life available, I got you covered. I’m going to do something in your life.
And it continues to say, “And I will provide a place for my people, Israel.” And it’s just not about you. When you live life available, God starts to alter
the things around you, the people that are connected to you. This is what we’re hearing here in the scripture. and will plant them so that they can have a home of their own and no longer be disturbed.
Wicked people will not oppress them anymore as they did at the beginning and have done ever since the time I appointed leaders over my people Israel.
I will also subdue all your enemies. Thank you, Jesus. This is the verse that I really love.
It’s at the end of verse 10. And I declare to you that the Lord will build a house for you.
I understand being a father, my number one priority is my own household. But when I start to serve and I start to use my gifts and talents and build God
house, God’s going to build my house, too. Cuz I’m building on foundational truths that we serve the Lord.
And it continues to say, “When your days are over and you go to be with your ancestors, look, it just continues to get better and better.” Have you ever heard some good news? It just gets
better and better. I will raise up your offspring to succeed you. One of your own sons and I will establish his
kingdom. He [snorts] is the one who will build a house for me and I will establish his throne forever. I will be
his father and he will be my son. I will never take my love away from him as I took it away from your predecessor. In
verse number 14 ends here, I will set him over my house and my kingdom forever. His throne will be established forever.
Living life available will change your legacy. And I don’t need to ask for a raise of hands. If I were to ask, I guarantee you hands will be raised here
in Tacoma online, Yakama, DuPont, Belleview. I want my life to be not just mine, but my legacy to change. When you
live life available, that’s what you get. And I don’t just say that because I don’t know it. I know it because it’s in my own household, in my own line. So my father, I’m a second generation pastor.
My he that’s what I call my dad. He’s the boss man. And I call him my he is pastors pastors his own church in Wapat
about 15 minutes away from the church um the location in Yakimon. He’s been pastoring now for a couple of years. His name is Cleopas Antelmo Rodriguez and he has a church called Fuente de Aua Viva.
I’m just showing you my Spanish y’all.
I’ve been practicing. I’m just trying to show you some skill sets here.
And what the church is called is Fountain of Living Water. And anyone who knows my father, he is a kind man. He’s a loving man and he’s passionate about Jesus.
And I’m telling you, but what you don’t realiz is that wasn’t always his story. My dad gave his life to Jesus in 1995.
It would have made me 6 years old. And at one point in time, my mom was going to divorce my father. I am the youngest of three because my dad was physically
and verbally abusive to my mother. And he was also someone who was very unfaithful from the beginning of when they were together. But then there was a
a night and a day in 1995 that he got invited to a church and he said yes to Jesus. And who would have known.
I’m grateful for it.
And he would have never thought in his wildest dreams that day when he said yes to Jesus, my mom said it was like a 180.
It’s like the light just turned on. He no longer acted the same way. He never talked the same way. He completely changed. And what’s so incredible about
him changing and saying yes, it changed the legacy of our family. I am the youngest in the family. I don’t remember an abusive, verbally, and physically
abusive father. I don’t remember a father that was unfaithful. What I remember as a father is every single morning. I’m telling you, we just went
on vacation with my family and he still has the same rhythm. Every single morning, every day after work, and every time before bed.
just reading the word. And he’s one of those old school Christians. Everything when he prays is on his knees in the
morning time, after work, and before he goes to bed. He has his his room in our my parents household. We have our washer
and dryer, like our room in there. He goes in there to pray, and sometimes he just falls asleep, and you got to wake him up.
when we were on vacation, uh, I woke up like at 3:00 a.m. We were um on the second floor and I came down to get some water and he was right there
just sitting in the living room. What are you doing? Just praying. And what people don’t realize is that’s the way that I live my life. But imagine if I
would have saw abusive, imagine if I saw verbally. Imagine saw unfaithfulness. But I saw just that and
it transformed and changed my legacy forever. And I’m grateful for that. And you can do the same thing.
What I want to do right now is I want to encourage you.
If you think you are too far gone, it’s not too late. You’ve made decisions that you regret. If you make a decision today to live life available, you will alter
your life, you will alter your family, that it is not too late. I’m a benefactor from it. I believe that being
a part of an incredible church and great senior pastor that allow me to be on team. But I believe that the favor on my life, like the scripture I read, a lot has to do with my father and I’m
grateful for it. And I want to do the same thing that he did for me, I want to pass it on to my children. So dad’s going to love Jesus and mama’s going to
love Jesus. And as for us, we’re going to serve and we’re going to love the house. But the question is is hopefully I’ve gotten you into a place going, man, I want to start living life available.
But the reality is this, not everyone does it. So the big question is why don’t people live life available here in
Tacoma online, all of our receiving locations. I think there’s many reasons, but I’m going to narrow it down to one.
I believe there’s a lot of my monsters that we all face. And God, he wants to use me.
I’m not gifted enough. I’m not talented enough. I’m not smart enough. I don’t even know Old Testament from New
Testament. You can tell me what the first book is. I go, it’s just a book.
And what you have done is you have disqualified yourself.
And I’m telling you, I know it so much to be true. What you are looking at is your non-abilities that you view on everyone else. You look at the people on
worship. You look at me on stage or whoever’s on stage going, I could never do that because I don’t talk that way. I don’t act that way. I don’t sing that way. But you’re looking at ability. But
I want to encourage you with my last point as we get ready to close here is that availability is the best ability.
So what you are looking at is where you lack. I don’t do this. I don’t do that.
I don’t have that talent. That’s your ability. But what you don’t realize is if you show up, you’re bringing your availability.
And I’m telling you right now, everybody at every receiving location, even here in Tacoma online, I face those daily.
Pastor Nicole here in Tacoma is a phenomenal teacher. Incredible. Tacoma, you are blessed
for the gift of who she is. She cares so deeply. Dupont, Pastor John and Pastor
Haley, incredible couple. You are blessed to have them. Pastor John will be fun for the rest of his life. He
might be in youth ministry until he’s 80 because that’s what he can do. And don’t get me started with Pastor Haley. She can sing.
She loves on the kiddos. She got the whole package. Chris Sevil, Pastor Chris was up here a couple weeks ago. If I
could sing like him, I wouldn’t be talking. I’d be singing my message.
That’s what I would be doing. I’d be just slaying it.
And then Pastor Sheila, the prayer warrior, Belleview, very fortunate.
prayer warrior, encourager. These are all things that are true. And there are things that are true about me.
But you know what I see? Sweaty forehead.
No one else sweats. And God, why are you looking at that? Cuz I’ve gifted you.
I’ve called you. You need to stop looking at what you don’t have. The greatest thing that every single one of us possesses is our availability.
And God will give you the gifts and God will give you the talent and God would God will develop those things. But he has to know this.
Are you available? Because if you’re not available, then the abilities that I want to give you, I can’t give you.
And there are things that have been pressed down that people have spoken over you that are not true. I stand here today cuz some people have
spoken over my life that I didn’t know and I didn’t believe but I had to be available.
And I want to share with you guys a song that I love so much. And uh I’m going to share some of the lyrics. But I before I
actually go there, I actually want to share right now is there’s three groups of people right now listening to me. The first group is this. Those already living life available. Keep it up.
Continue to do what you’re doing. We are in a house like this because people have been available for years and years saying, “I’ll do whatever it takes. I
will serve. I will give. I will use my talents. Please don’t stop. Continue to live life available.” The second group
is this, those wanting to live life available. Colossians 3:23 says, “Whatever you do, work with all your
heart as working for the Lord and not for human masters.” But where we all get tripped up is we want the big moments.
We want the sling and the giant. And God goes, “Can you just honor?
Can you just show up on time? The other things will come, but we’re always looking for the grandos thing. It has to be this big.” God goes, “Today,
can you go into your work environment and can you have a great attitude?” That’s how I want you to be available.
Students, I want to talk to students right now.
You’re want to live life better. You want to be the next called into ministry. want to be used by God mightily. And he’s saying, “Can you take your faith to school? Can you not be two
different people? Can you be available?” And I’m telling, when you start to do the little and you start to rack up some
things, God starts to open up other doors for availability. But it starts in the small. So, please don’t get tripped up on waiting for the big
thing. Do the small thing. Here’s a couple things that I try to do when I get it wrong in my house. Hey, Aaron, can you come here? Dad was wrong.
I shouldn’t have acted that way. I shouldn’t have taught you that way.
My wife Norah, who’s here with me, hey babe, you know the other day when I said what I said, I acted out of line. Or when I go into a grocery store
and the Holy Spirit starts to prompt me, invite them, invite them, invite them.
God, I want to be available. I’m calling you to be available. So, I go over and even though I’m worried, hey, have you heard of Champion Center? Would love for you to come to the church. That’s
availability. It’s the small subtle things daily.
The last group of people are this. Those who have not yet decided to live life available. I want to speak to that last
group right now. Not yet decided. I love our church. Our church is incredible.
Call me bias all you want. I’m okay with it. But I’m going to talk about in the confines not about Champion. I’m talking about the church.
I’m talking about the kingdom because we want to make the kingdom better. That’s why we have team church, everybody.
And I think about this, this is one thing that’s been really on my mind, and I think a lot of it has to do when Pastor Kevin taught about the kingdom.
But a question I always throw at people when maybe have not yet got into being in church or maybe I’ve fallen off of church. I always ask this question,
is the kingdom better because of you? And if it’s not, can we make a change?
Can you live life available today? If you have not made that decision, I just want to run a couple things by and this is not a big list.
There’s probably a lot of different things, but if you have not yet made a decision to live your life available today, I hope you make that decision. And this is what I want you to
think about. Available to raise your children in the house of God. It’s a non-negotiable. As for me, in my house, we will serve the Lord.
available to live out your faith in school. I want to take what I got from camp. I want to take what I get from Sunday. I want to take what I get from
Thursday to make a difference on my campus at my school. Available to step out in faith and start that business. I’m talking to business people
right now. There are some of you that God has already put um breathe dreams and ideas inside of you. It’s time to be available because God wants to do
something with that business. Available to positively change your work environment. Can you be the person who shares Jesus? And it’s not always with
words, it’s with a smile. How you doing today? When they’re going through a bad day, can you do that? Available to use your gifts and talents in church. Again,
this is not a long exhausting list. I guarantee there’s many other things. My question is this. Will you be available?
We’re about to end here on a song that I just love tremendously. And it’s fitting that the song is called Available by
Elevation Worship. And I want to read a couple of the lyrics here. And it says this. You’ll see them on the screen. For the one who gave me life, nothing is a sacrifice.
I love that. Living life available will cost you. I said that. But nothing is sacrifice.
Oh, use me how you want to, God. Have your throne within my heart. Then I love this. It says, I hear, I hear you call.
I believe right now at every single location that God is nudging, prompting, speaking. Will you answer the call? I am available. I say
yes, Lord. I am available. Tell this song is legit, everybody. It’s my joy to
say yes to you. It’s my honor to say yes to you. Whatever it looks like,
my response is yes. And it ends here by saying this. God, it’s my prayer. Listen, this gets me
every single time. That my life will be an offering. So if you can use anything, God, you can use me.
I didn’t share these lyrics with you because they fit the message. I share these lyrics with you because they hit my heart. I’ve been listening to this
song on repeat. knowing that we were going to do summer in the Psalms and I felt like this is the message I needed to share weeks ago. So I put this song on on repeat four, five, six
days a week or a day actually and I just start to weep because even though I’ve said yes to Jesus 10 years ago, there
are days where I don’t want to be available. I go, I want these words to be true every day. I want to live life available.
I want them to mark me. Won’t people see me go, “No, he didn’t talk well and he just a great location pastor.” No, no, he was available.
And here’s my question, just a a question to throw out there. Imagine if we all lived this way.
Households and children would never be the same. Work environments being impacted, communities
drastically change, and churches that change the world.
So we’re going to do here is I had said about a group of people those who have not yet decided would today you decide to be available
stop looking at your gifts that you don’t have availability is your best ability and normally kind of the flow that we would normally have at the end of a service is if that
message resonated with you can you raise your hands and I want to pray over you we ain’t doing that today because he doesn’t want to hear my voice he wants to yours. So, what we’re going
to do is our worship team is going to take us into the lyrics of the song. And if this is hitting you, I want everyone at every location right now in Tacoma, can you stand to your feet? Yakaba,
Dupon, online, if you’re driving, don’t stand up.
Belleview, can you stand up? And this is not a moment. There’s someone to your left and there’s someone to your right.
I understand that. But this is you and him. I am married. Me and my wife will raise our kids. We will do life together. But when it comes to my relationship with Jesus, it’s me and
him. And so I have to say today I live life available. So team, can you start to lead us in this song? This is your moment to lift your voice.
I am available. [music and singing] I say
yes Lord I am available.
I hear you call. I am available.
I say yes Lord
I am of Come on let’s sing it again. I hear I hear
you call. I am unfailable.
I say yes Lord I am
unavailable. [music and singing] I hear you call.
I am a failable. I say yes [music and singing] Lord.
I am unavailable.
[music and singing]
You can have it all. God, you can have it all. God,
here I am. Here I am.
You can have it all. You can have it all. Here I am.
Here I am.
You can have it all. You can have me. Here I am.
Here I am.
I give it all to you, Jesus. You can have my life, all my talents, and ability. I give it to you, Jesus.
Here I am.
You can have it all. You can have it all. Here I am. Here I am.
You can have it all. You can have it all. Here I am.
Here I am.
You can have it.
Heavenly Father, we thank you for what you did in this moment. And God, I pray that we would transfer what happened on Sunday to Monday to Tuesday.
That we put on, it doesn’t have to be a worship song. The voice doesn’t have to be eloquent, but we all say, “I am
available.” And God, when we become a church like that, we start to do things, God, that you desire and that you want. And I pray that that would be the heart and the posture of who we are.
So I mark right now what you did in this moment here in Tacoma online, Yakama, Dupont, Belleview.
God, I pray that you would blow the minds of those who live life available.
They will look back at life going, “When I said yes here and I said yes there, God, I never imagined what you would do.” But it’s not to get,
it’s to honor you. It’s to praise you because you are worthy of it. So we thank you and we love you in
Jesus’ name. And every eye closed still and every head bowed. There is a lot of you that today the message resonated
with you and you want to live life available. and we applaud that and we can’t wait to see what God’s going to do. But there are some of you today, the
first thing you have to do is you have to be available and give your life to Jesus. There are some here watching online at all of our receiving
locations in Tacoma that have not yet said yes to Jesus. And I want to really resonate on one thing. I said the fact that people don’t live available because of what they lack. A lot
of you never come to Jesus. Zo, if he knew my story, he can’t forgive.
No. When he died on the cross, he died for us all. The punishment was enough. And today, for some of your
availability is going, I’m going to surrender my life to Jesus.
Maybe it’s the first time for some of you might be rededicating your life. But if that is you, what I want you to do, every eye closed, every head bowed, is I just want you to raise your hand right
now. And you’re going to say, “I’m going to give my life.” You want to surrender your life to Jesus and you’re saying, “I want to be available.” Lift your hand here in Tacoma. Lift your
hands at our receiving locations online. Put it in the chat. You’re saying, “Today, I’m going to be available. I’m surrendering and I’m submitting my life over to Jesus. I see
those hands.” We thank you, God, for what you’re doing in this moment. For those of you who raised your hand, but can you repeat this prayer after me, but everyone as well too here
as a church family, can we say, “Lord Jesus, welcome to my world. Forgive me of all my sins
and come into my life. I boldly declare today I am available.
You are my leader my Lord and I won’t be the same again in Jesus name.
Church family at every single location. Can you do me a favor? Can we celebrate those today who made their decision to give their lives?
Come on, we can do better. That lives are being transformed and changed today.
We celebrate every single one of you in this moment.