Well, good evening, folks. Good to see you all this evening. Thank you so much for the invitation and the opportunity to come along here to share from God's Word this evening. A big thanks to William for asking me along. I don't know what he's let himself in for all the same, but we'll soon find out. But over the years, many happy memories spent with William and Colm and some of the rest of the guys, too. We're a time of coaching for Christ and keeping in contact, as Colm says, ever since. And it's great. It's so encouraging to hear what God's continuing to do here through the work with Clonaghan Youth. And it's really great to hear about young people who have maybe come up through it, especially that young man Aaron that we've heard about there this evening, and now come up through it and then sharing with others too. And that's what it's all about, it's continuing to share God's word and continue to pass that on to the next generation, the truth of the gospel, and it's also encouraging to hear of the work that's continuing on and for all the kids that are continuing to attend that. Now, As I say, I'm sure maybe I know some people here this evening, but not that many, to be honest. And again, hopefully maybe get a wee opportunity to chat to some of these later. But I just want to share a wee bit this evening, maybe just what God's done in my life, how he saved me, and how he's continued to be faithful throughout many years. So I just want to start with a wee word of testimony, and then we'll have a wee look at the word of God this evening, just after that. So I was born in 1982. I'm 42 years old now. I was born in a town called Ballyclare, which isn't too far from here. I lived with my dad, my mum and my brother. I was brought up in a Christian family, and my mom and dad knew the Lord, and from a young age, I was taught God's word, and the message of the gospel was shared with me. Many of the time, it was sent along to church. Sunday school, as many folk may be here this evening, had that privilege and opportunity to be sent along to church and Sunday school and hear the word of God, too, from a young age. My dad, he was a farmer. Whenever I was younger, we didn't live on the farm. We lived down in Ballyclare town. And I quite enjoyed going up and spending time on the farm and working with animals and things like that there. But I also loved playing football. And where we lived, I absolutely loved it, because there was a field out the back. And it normally was a place where people would have trained horses. And it backed on to basically three different estates. And everybody in the evenings would just all come out. And there's two sort of really big blue barrels that they used for horse jumps. And we got the bar, and we made a football pitch. And that's basically where we spent most of our time. just playing football. The only hazard with that there you had to be careful with if you're a goalkeeper and the ball hit the bar, it was quite often the ball could hit you in the head. But anyway, it was great, great, great times. But I went to Ballet Clare Primary School and enjoyed my time there. When I was around about five years old, I asked the Lord into my heart and asked him to save me from my sins. And, you know, at a young age, maybe some people here tonight have heard the gospel at a young age, they've asked the Lord to save them, and sometimes maybe as you get a wee bit older, you can maybe start to have doubts, you can start to struggle, and all those things, and I'll talk a little bit about that later on. But at a young age, in simple faith, I asked the Lord to save me, and put my faith and trust in him, realizing I was a sinner. Primary school was pretty straightforward, and there was a really good SU, I really enjoyed going along to that. It was a football team. As I say, I was able to get to Sunday school and many different things as well. And life was pretty straightforward. There was great encouragement from Christians as well, and helped me along in my walk with God. I then went to Ballyclare Secondary School, and loved Ballyclare Secondary School, another great school. But whenever I got there, life was maybe a little bit more challenging, and sometimes when you get to secondary school, it's a little bit more difficult to take your stand for God. And sometimes that can just be, it can be, it can be, it can be hard. And I can, there's always, there's one memory I can remember back at Ballester Clare Secondary School. One day in the corridor, there was a bit of a row broke out and I ended up getting involved in it, shouldn't have, and I'd ended up in a bit of a scuffle. And this girl turned round to me afterwards and said to me, she says, I thought you said you were a Christian. I knew the way something sometimes just hits you like a ton of bricks. And I said to her, aye, well I am sometimes. And then see after that, see the guilt I felt after that. Because I went home and I thought, how can you sometimes be a Christian? You're a Christian, you're not. And how am I ever going to explain to this girl? And that really, really stuck with me. But through secondary school, I did struggle in my faith at times, I have to be honest. But I really enjoyed being there, didn't really enjoy the work. But instead on in sixth year, because I wasn't really sure what else I wanted to do. And I stayed on to do an engineering course. And the engineering course was really, really good. It was for a year. And you got an opportunity to do metal work and do some plumbing, some electrical work, some woodwork. And it was really practical and really, really good. And I really enjoyed that, being there at that time. But when I was at school that year, something happened in my life, an event, which was a massive event in my life. And I can remember back to that time, that year at school. I was walking up from school one day, we lived at this stage, we'd moved to where my dad had done the farming, and I was walking up from school one day, up the road, and my dad pulled in on the side of the road and says, here, do you want to lift up? It was about a mile up. But I said, no, it's okay, I'll just stand her on up, she'll see me when I get up there. And I was with my friend, we had a wee yarn for a while, by the time I got up home, it was, you know, after four o'clock, and that there night, I was just sitting in the living room, and I hadn't seen my dad, and I looked out, And I could see on the road at the end of our lane, there was like a lot of cars had stopped and then I seen sort of police coming and I thought, dear me, there's something not good here. And I walked out the end of the lane and basically was met by a policeman that had told me that my dad had got hit by a car and had passed away. And at that stage, He didn't say it just in those words, but I knew exactly what had happened. I went into the neighbour's house and found out the full story very quickly. But at that stage, as a young person, that was something that was very difficult. And I can remember that night, going back into my house and just sitting on the doorstep and just looking up into the sky and kind of going, you know, God, I don't understand this. I don't understand why this would happen. But even at that stage, I did totally trust God. And I said, God, I just have to leave this in your hands and in your care. Because I knew it was just something, from a human perspective, that it's very, very difficult to get your head around. And the only thing I can really, the only way I can feel how I felt during that time, and even for a few years probably after that, was just like a kind of numbness to a lot of things that were just happening in life and sort of just going through the routine of a lot of things. But I knew that God was there and I knew that God was with me. And my dad, I knew my dad was a Christian. I could see by his everyday life how he lived his life, how he read God's word, how he prayed, how he attended church, how he served God, and all these things. And I had no doubt that night that my dad was in heaven, that he went home to be with the Lord. But it did make me think, I should say, just maybe because the way I was living my life at that time, I had maybe some doubts even just where I stood before God. And sometimes that can be a scary place to be. I went on then, I left school at the end of that year and I started to serve my time as an electrician. Really, really enjoyed that. It was working with some really good people and learning lots of stuff and spending time out in sites during the day. I really, really enjoyed doing different things each day. We were never in the one place and learning lots of things and lots of challenges. And it was really, really good. But my mum at that time, she'd done a wee bit of bed and breakfast. She always had done a wee bit of bed and breakfast as well where we lived. But then after my dad had passed and things like that there, she decided just to sort of more or less have people that would come along. We would take a Bible school that ran in the church and she more had people that maybe would come along to speak at that and they stayed with us. And then maybe as well just people who were speaking at local churches and things like that there. And throughout that time, And there's many people who stayed with us, had really good opportunities to talk to. There's this one man in particular, he was actually from America, and before he left, he'd been there maybe for like a week or so, and before he left, he shared with me from God's Word, basically these two verses, in Proverbs chapter three, verses five and six, and he said, And I see that man, to this day, it's going back quite a few years now, I can't remember his name, but I can remember exactly what he told me and exactly what he shared with me from the word of God. See if tonight if you are a believer and you're here and you've opportunities maybe to speak to folk and to encourage folk, share scripture with them, share with them from God's word, because see once that word is in your heart, it won't depart from you, it won't leave you. And that was a challenge to me and a real encouragement as well, just to trust in the Lord with all your heart, need not in your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge him and he will direct your paths. You know, at that stage I had some really good friends who kept encouraging me and kept really encouraging me to get along to meetings and things like that there, which I did. I continued going to church week by week, whatever wee meetings I was invited into, I went along and really, really enjoyed that. But there was one night in particular that someone was speaking, and I want to share a wee bit about this this evening as well. Someone was speaking on the prodigal son. And that there night, it really, really spoke to me. And I didn't say to the rest of the ones I was with just how that had maybe challenged me. But see, the next week, whenever I came back, this was going back a wee while, you'd go up and see tapes and recordings were on a cassette tape thing somewhere. And I got one, and I took it home with me. And see, night after night, I sat and listened to that in my bedroom. And I knew that I was far from God. And I knew that my life wasn't right. And see, to be honest, the best way I could say I could put it was I felt it was kind of like sitting in the fence. I wasn't really committing. the one thing or another, I was kind of just going through the motions. And that night I just prayed to God and I said, God, please just do the work of my life. I know whenever I was young, I asked you to save me and I asked you to forgive me. And I said, I just come and I just want to give my life to you, to take my, you know, give my all to you, make you Lord of my life in every single way. And from that, from that night on, you know, things in my life really changed because I felt, you know, I realized I had sinned and it's very open and honest with God, as you have to be. I said, you know, I've let you down so many times, but yet, and he was a God who loved me and a God who sent the Son to die for me. And I just said, look, I just want to give my life completely to you, not to be sort of doing this half-heartedly. And from that moment, things completely changed in my life, and he gave me this desire just to serve the Lord and to tell others what God had done in my life. And I started getting more involved in outreach and mission work and church, and the Bible school that was in the church, I started attending it and went along to it for three years. Didn't do too many of the assignments, but I just continued going, and it gave me a real good grounding in scripture, and it was such an encouragement and really a real help at that time. I got involved in different youth work too. I joined Coaching for Christ at the time as a volunteer. I really enjoyed my time there and opportunities to serve God and to share the message of the gospel. I got involved in some overseas stuff, as Colin was saying there this evening, which again was an absolutely brilliant opportunity to serve God in that way and even to share the message of the gospel in different countries. I then got married to my wife, Lorna, and then a while after that, I did feel God's leading to go into full-time work with Coaching for Christ, and I did do that with God's leading, and I was there for around about 10 years. God blessed us with four children. The men at their age, seven, 10, 13, and 15. I nearly forgot there. But again, such a blessing, and God has just blessed in so many ways. We're privileged just to serve God in church as well, too. And so what I would say tonight, I would just encourage you just to give your life completely to God, and not to be sort of, you know, half in, half out. It's just, it's never going to work. God wants all of us. He wants all our everyday thoughts. Yes, we'll still make mistakes, we'll still slip up, but He wants us to fully rely on Him for absolutely everything, and not to try to do anything in our own strength. And then in 2017, as Colm was saying, it did feel God's leading. Basically, the move on from Coat River Crest and the start of work in Ballyclare called Shining Lights. And it hurt us very much for work in the local community. And through that, we've had opportunities over the last few years. share the message of the gospel around local schools, maybe do some assemblies and some wee after-schools clubs, we still do some football around the schools. And then we've got a wee centre just in Ballet Clare town centre which we sort of open on a Thursday morning and we run a breakfast club for kids from the local high school and secondary school to come along. We run a wee monthly coffee morning as well and we try and encourage maybe some of the kids we're working with, some of the parents, grandparents to come along to that as well. For some of the older ones, the teenagers, we run like a monthly Bible study just down in the centre. And then for some of the ones that we had contact with before when they were younger, now over 16, that we don't have anything else really for at the minute, we try and run a wee football thing with them on a Friday night once a month in Ballyclare and again continue to share the gospel with them. We very much know what we said to those guys about starting that up. It's just even though they're 16 years old and above now, some of them are in their 20s, We haven't forgot about them, we still continue to want to pray for them, continue wanting to share with them from God's word and share the message of the gospel. And then during the summer we just do different wee camps, mainly around our local area, but over the last wee while we've done some camps in different places as well. So really that's just a wee brief word of testimony this evening, and just give God thanks just for his goodness, for his faithfulness over many years, and as I say, I just encourage anyone here this evening, if you haven't trusted the Savior, if you haven't given your life completely to Him, that even tonight would be the night that you do that. If you've got your Bible with you this evening, could I maybe just ask you to turn to Luke chapter 15, and I want to read just this, The story about the prodigal son, Luke chapter 15, if you've got your Bible with you this evening. And then we're going to look at Luke chapter 19 as well. So Luke chapter 15, we're going to read from verse 11 through to verse 24. It says in verse 11, it says, and he said, a certain man had two sons. The younger of them said to his father, father, give me the portion of goods that fall off to me. And he divided onto them his living. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. And when he had spent all the arousing mighty famine in the land, and he began to be in want, and he went and he joined himself to the citizen of that country and sent him into the fields to feed swine. And he would fill his belly with the husks that the swine did eat, and no man give unto him. And when he came to himself, he said, How many hard servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I perish with hunger? I will arise and go to my father, and say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. Make me one of thy hard servants. And he arose and he came to his father, And when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. But the father said unto his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him. and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet, and bring him her lephatic calf, and kill it, and let us eat, and be merry. For this my son was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found, and he began to be merry. If we could really just turn over, please, into Luke chapter 19. I just want to read the first 10 verses here. And this man called Zacchaeus, and it's gonna start at verse one, and it says, And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho, and behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich. And he sought to see Jesus, who he was, and could not for the press, because he was little in stature. And he ran before and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was to pass that way. And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and he said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down, for today I must abide at thy house.' And he met Heston, came down, and received him joyfully. And when they sought, they murmured, saying that he was going to be a guest with a man that is a sinner. And Zacchaeus stood and said unto the Lord, Behold, Lord, that half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold. And Jesus said unto him, This day salvation is come to this house, for so much as he also is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost. And we know that God led a blessing at the reading of his word this evening. Simply just in closing here tonight, I just want to sort of, I suppose, really challenge you about decision-making. And decision-making is something that is so, so part of our everyday lives. Now, whether it be in football, I know we've got a lot of footballers here this evening, and you're playing football, you maybe have a decision what club you play for, maybe what position you play, when to make a pass, when to shoot. It's just constantly about making decisions. And in life, you know, from day to day, we all make decisions as well. We maybe make decisions about what time we get up in the morning, what we're going to wear, what we're going to have for breakfast, the whole way throughout life. And each day we make decisions. As we get a wee bit older, maybe what job we'll do, all these sorts of things. But you know what the most important decision is and is essential? It's a decision about where we'll spend eternity. And we've got that decision. We've got to decide between following God or basically following the devil. We've got to make that decision about, you know, are we going to be saved or are we going to be lost? Are we going to spend eternity in heaven or are we going to spend eternity in hell? And in Joshua chapter 24 in verse 15, it says, And that's the decision that each person has to make here this evening. Maybe you're here tonight, maybe you've already made that decision, and that's absolutely brilliant. I'd encourage you just to keep following the Lord and to keep trusting him and keep asking for his leading and guiding in your life day by day. But see if you haven't, our prayer would just be this evening, that tonight might be that night that you trust the Savior. We're reading there about the prodigal son, that parable was told. And basically prodigal means It means to be recklessly or extravagantly wasteful. It could also be called the parable of a loving father, because the love of the father is mentioned more than the prodigal son. In the previous parables before that, if we were to read the parables before that, we can see that the shepherd went to seek the lost sheep. We can see that the woman who went to search for a lost coin. But in this parable, it was a memory of a loving father that brought the son to repentance, to forgiveness, and brought the son back home again. And it tells us in Romans chapter 2 and verse 4, it says, the goodness of God leads to repentance. And maybe you're here this evening, and maybe you do realize the goodness of God in your life. You know, each day we're greatly blessed, but even when we wake up in the morning, we've got our breath, we've got our energy, we've got our strength, we've got food to eat, we've got a home to live in. All these things are all great blessings from the Lord. We can also see then, as we read on, we can see sort of the rebellion. We can see it, because according to Jewish law, the eldest son had received twice as much as the other sons would have for the inheritance, which the son here had asked for. So what the younger son had asked for, it was legal. It was legally his right to do that. But it wasn't necessarily love. And it was like saying to the father, you know, basically, I wish you were dead. That's what it was like saying to the father. Now the sheep, in the previous parables, the sheep was lost because of foolishness. The coin was lost because of carelessness, but here the son was because of willfulness. It was because of his own will that he decided to leave home. He had put pleasure before duty. He had valued things more than he had valued people, and in the end, he broke his father's heart. When he went into that far-off country, you know, life was different to what he'd expected it to be. As soon as his money started to run out, famine came, his friends began to disappear, and he was left alone and with absolutely nothing. You know, so often our sin in our lives, you know, it promises, you know, but really in the end it brings us into slavery, and it can always have a terrible end. And when God is left out, then the joy in our life is no longer there. Then, first we see rebellion, secondly we see repentance. We see a change, a change of mind, a change of heart, and a change of direction. He admitted his sin. It says in the verse, one of the verses that we read that he came to himself, that basically he started to become more like himself again. And when the boy then, when he was in despair, and he thought of his father, and even the ways that his father was so generous even to his servants, he decided to head home because he realized that service was better than that freedom that he was experiencing in that far off land. And true repentance, you know, it doesn't bring regret and remorse, but a willingness to change and to do something. We can see where it's said in those verses as well. It says, he says, I will arise, I will go, I will say. He had a plan of action. He was going to arise, he was going to go back to his father, because he knew the love that the father would have had for him and for all those around him as well. And then finally we see rejoicing when he came home to his father's house and the father had been watching for him. The father ran out to meet him. And he didn't even let him finish his confession, he forgave him basically instantly and ordered for a celebration to be planned. And that's a picture of God's love for each one of us, a love for sinners. It's possible because of the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross. Because Jesus died, because Jesus paid the price for our sins, we can come, we can be forgiven, we can trust in him, we can ask him into our lives, into our hearts, we can admit that we've sinned and follow the Savior, we can be saved. We can see as well that basically he was lost. And then whenever we think about that, Jesus was the one who says, I am the way. We can see that he'd become confused in that far off land. And Jesus says, I am the truth. We can see that he was dead, but now he was alive again, spiritually. And that's like for us as well. Jesus says, when we're reading John chapter 14 verse 6, Jesus says, I am the way, the truth and the life. No man comes to the father but by me. See, the prodigal made bad decisions. He left home, he left his family, he went to a far off land, he made friends with the wrong people, and he basically wasted, squandered all the money that he had taken with him. But he also made some good decisions. He realized the mistakes that he had made. He returned home, he found compassion, he found the love of a father, and his father had been watching for him and received him with open arms. The second man we read about there, this man, Zacchaeus. Zacchaeus also had made some really bad decisions. He says he was the chief tax collector, and the Bible says he was rich, and in and of himself, there's nothing wrong with being rich, but the thing is, he had taken his money off other people, and he had basically more or less made money his priority, made money as God, and in his community, the place where he lived, he wasn't really you know, he wasn't really liked and you could understand why people didn't really like him because of what he had been doing. And I'm sure how he felt at that time, he probably felt discouraged, he probably felt, you know, not very much valued by others, and even probably felt that people didn't like him, which they probably didn't. But Zacchaeus, he made some good decisions. because he sought Jesus. And when people seek Jesus, they'll find him. And when they find Jesus, they'll not be disappointed. When people meet Jesus, their priorities change, and their lives are changed forever. The question is this evening, have you met Jesus? Maybe like me, you were told about Jesus as a child. Maybe you even asked the Lord Jesus to save you, but now you're struggling with assurance, you're struggling with peace, and you're struggling with satisfaction in your life. And even though these men that we've looked at tonight, they had money, they had possessions, they had basically all that they could have desired in this world, they still knew that in their hearts that there was something that was missing. And you know, maybe you've came here tonight, maybe you've came out of routine, maybe you come here every week, But maybe you come out of routine every week, but you haven't really got that reality in your life. You've never been to the cross. You've never asked the Lord Jesus Christ to forgive you. You've never had that problem of sin dealt with in your life. You've never admitted you're a sinner and asked for forgiveness. Or maybe you've came here this evening out of respect for the church and maybe those who've invited you, and you've accepted that invitation. And you know what? Each person's so glad to see you here this evening, and we thank you so much for coming. Or maybe you're here tonight because you realize that you need rescued. You realize that maybe, you know, without Jesus, life's a mess. You look around this world, everything seems out of control. You've maybe lost faith in government, maybe in world leaders. And you're here tonight because you need something that satisfies. You need that joy in your soul that only the Lord Jesus Christ can bring. You need that meaning and that purpose in your life. But can I encourage you this evening, if that's why you've came, you've come to the right place. Because tonight, you know what? You can meet Jesus. You can meet the Lord Jesus Christ, and He can change your life. He can change your destiny. He can change your life in an instant. And that's because He went to the cross and He died there. He paid the price in full. The work that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished on the cross is a finished work. There's nothing to be added to it. Maybe so often in our lives, we think that there's maybe things we can do to outweigh the things we've done wrong. We try and live a life that's pretty decent, but we wonder why we still don't have that joy and satisfaction. It's because we need Jesus, we need to be forgiven no matter how many sins we've committed. Maybe you think it's not that many, maybe you think it's those. Jesus paid the price for all sin and we need to trust in Him. Just a few verses in closing from God's Word. Romans chapter 3 and verse 23, it reminds us, it says, we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. And that just reminds us, each one of us, whether it be sin in action, in deeds, or in thought, no matter what we've done each day, we sin if we're honest, many many times but the good news is 1 Timothy 1 verse 15 it tells us Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners and I absolutely love that verse Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners because I know then he came into the world to save me because I realize I've sinned continually day by day but Jesus paid the price for sin and we can be forgiven we're all sinners we've all fallen short of the glory of God and in the final verse this evening John chapter 10 And verse 13, it says, for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. And if you're here this evening, you can call upon the name of the Lord this evening. You can come to the foot of the cross and you can say, Jesus, I realize I've sinned. Admit your sin to him. But I realize that you paid the price on the cross of Calvary. I can be forgiven this evening. My life can be changed. It can be made new. And it tells us in God's word, when God then looks in us, our sins have been removed as far as the east is from the west, never to be remembered no more. I just want to tell you just a wee story I heard the other day, and with this we'll close. I heard this wee story the other day about this pastor or minister, he was like at Bible college, and in his back garden he had this, it was like an orange tree. And one day people from the church came around and they brought him food and they brought him fruit and different things and they said, look, we've got more than what we need and can you just keep that and maybe even share it out with the other students and do whatever you need with it. And he looked out into his back garden the next day and he seen these two wee boys climbing over his fence and they were stealing oranges off the tree and the oranges weren't even ripe. And he said, if only they had have known, if they had have came to his front door and knocked, and basically said, you know, we need some food, we're hungry, he would have had more than enough to give them. And sometimes that's like us with God, we try to do things our own way, we think we can sort things out by ourself, but yet God, no, he wants us to come to him, and he wants us to ask, he wants us to ask to be forgiven. And even if you are a believer here tonight, you know, it tells us in the Bible, we have not sometimes because we ask not. and to have that relationship with God day by day where we can come and read God's word and we can come and pray to him. God will lead and guide and direct us through his word but we can continue to pray to God and have that communion with God day by day and he'll help us, he'll lead us, he'll guide us, he'll be absolutely everything we need and we can pray for others too, for situations in our life that maybe to us seem impossible, we'll amend it in God's word, there is nothing impossible with him, We can cast our cares, we can cast our burdens on Him, knowing that He cares for us. So please, this evening, don't leave here tonight without making the best decision that you'll ever make and trusting the Lord Jesus Christ. If there's anyone here this evening that I'll be knocking about afterwards, if you want to chat to myself or chat to anybody else here this evening, I'd be more than happy to chat with you and show you from God's Word how you can be forgiven, how you can come to know the Savior. Maybe just have a wee word of prayer, Colin, is that all right? Just pray? Why don't we just pray before I hand back over to Colin? Heavenly Father, we come before you tonight, and we thank you so much for your goodness to us. We thank you for the great God that you are, Heavenly Father. And we thank you that you sent your Son into this world to save sinners, Heavenly Father. And we just thank you, Heavenly Father, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. And we pray for each person here tonight. We thank you so much for each person that's came along. I would just thank you, Heavenly Father, for an opportunity and for your word to be shared. And we just pray that even this evening that you would speak into lives, speak into hearts, that you would challenge Heavenly Father, and you would just meet each person here tonight at the point of their need. We know that you are a God who knows all things, who is in control of all things, a God who knows every heart. Maybe even those, the weeks people have came from, Heavenly Father, maybe the challenges, the struggles that they've had, or even the God who knows even what lies ahead as well, Heavenly Father. And we just pray for any here this evening that has yet don't know the Savior, yet, Heavenly Father, haven't trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ, haven't been saved, that tonight you would just speak, that you would challenge, you would convict, Heavenly Father, and you would save in a mighty way, Heavenly Father. We just pray for those tonight who do know you too. We just pray that you just continue to help them to grow in their faith. We just thank you for those who are serving you, Heavenly Father, in this place, or even through the football ministry as well. And we pray you continue to help them with this, Heavenly Father, and continue to be all to the need in the days ahead. And even as they share this good news of the gospel with others, Heavenly Father, in this community, that you would save souls, and you would work and move in a mighty way, build your people up, and bring those who don't know you to Christ. We just pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Thanks, folks.