You have a Bible? Anybody here today need a Bible? I have some gifts, Bibles to give out. Anybody need a Bible here? Don't be shy. I bought them. Anybody need one? No? Everybody's good? So everybody brought one? Good, good. Lamentations. The book of Lamentations. Chapter 5. The book of Lamentations, Chapter 5. And you know, all my life he has been faithful. He truly, truly has. He's never let me down. He's never let me down. I've let him down so many times I can't remember, but he's never let me down. You know what's really neat about God is he's never late. You want to know why, Joe? Because whenever he shows up, that's the time. He's made time and he's God. So whenever God shows up, that's the time he was supposed to show up. And the book of Lamentations is written by Jeremiah. They call him the weeping prophet because he did a lot of crying. And the reason he did a lot of crying, there's a lot of bad things going on in Jerusalem. and all of Judea was in a mess and Nebuchadnezzar was coming and he came and he took everything away. There's a lot of crying going on in Lamentations. It means a passionate expression of grief and sorrow. Lamentations means a passionate expression of grief and sorrow. What we just heard in the song was a passionate expression In chapter five, are y'all there? In verse three, I'm going to read one verse. It says this, we are orphans. We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are widowed. The title of the message, and just because I couldn't get away with it, we are orphans. I thought of that, and I know that Mother's Day message is supposed to be happy, and it is. It will be. But the truth of the matter is, is there's a lot of people that are here today that are sad because they've lost their mother. They've lost her. She's gone. She's not around to call. My wife, we used to call her mother every single night. When we were at dad's, she'd talk to her every night. So when that was missing, that was a big part of her was missing. You know, Anton, as a child, missing his mom. I just want to cry thinking about it. And when your mom's not around, I know others, Ed, he was raised by his mom, single mother, and you can't get any closer, I don't think, any closer than a son and his mom. There's just a special bond between a mother and a son. And I understand, Ed, and I talked to some people, there's some people that aren't here today, because they told me, they said Mother's Day is too emotional for them. And they couldn't even come to church because I'm emotional. And I want you to think about that as we're all orphans. All right, on one way or another, you will lose your parents. And one way or another, you will be an orphan, whether it's at a young age or an older age, and you're going to miss your mom. Can I get an amen to that? So because it is a very sad when we lose a parent, especially a mom, I mean, it's just, there's nothing like it. I, you know, I, myself is what I hurt because I'm too young to remember, but when I was born, when she was pregnant with me. And then they didn't know she was pregnant, and then she had a DNC, a scraping, and then all of a sudden I showed up. And they were like, oh no. And so I just know that God had a plan for me. And God has a plan for you. And each and every one of us can look back on our lives and see little things that happen in our life and say, wow, this, wow, that. It makes us who we are. And anyway, that said, I had a great mom and I thank God for that. I didn't have a dad raising me. I had my mom raising me. And she loved on me. I mean, she loved on me. The only one in the world that just loved on me. And that just made me happy. Amen. You cook for me. You cook. I come home every single day. There's meal. I had lunch, breakfast, dinner, you name it. I come home and don't, don't judge me. All right. But my bed was made. My clothes were put away. I didn't have to do anything. My mom did everything. I was spoiled when it came to that. But when you're young, you don't think about it. You know, you just take it for granted. And then you get older. And I was out of the house at 18 years old. And so I would just come back every once in a while. My mom would give me that look. And I'm like, what? Where have you been? You haven't been here in a week. You haven't been here in two weeks. You know what I mean? And your mom, my mom would be mad at me. And I was like, wow, she really cares about me. And as I got older, I learned, wow, my mom really loves me. And then I found out that she would be praying for me every night, Robin. And I was out with the guys doing, I can't even tell you, things in the house of God, the stuff I was doing. And it was bad. And she was praying for me. And I believe that God got me through all that because my mom at home, ready, with tears, crying for her child. When I didn't realize it in 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, doing all the bad stuff, my mom was praying for me. And I believe that that changed my life forever. So please pray for your children. I don't care if they're 5, or 2, or 10 months, or 100. I don't care how old they are. Pray for your children, amen? But because this lamentation This cry is because they lost their mothers. And mothers are very, very important to all of us. Can I get a name into that? And they are more than just givers of life. They're so much more than the ones that you came out of, so to speak. They're our teachers. When you're a child, it's your mom who teaches you this stuff. I don't know about you and your life, but the man goes to work usually, and especially when you're older, the man goes to work, the mother's home with the child. And it's the mother that's teaching the ABCs, it's the mother that's teaching them this, it's the mother that's teaching them that. The mother is so important in the life of a child. They mold that child, they teach that child. The father comes home, he might just be the disciplinarian, or he can play with them, and they can wrestle with them, and the dad's all, this is great, dad's great, but it's mom who, every single moment of the day, is there. There for them, taking care of them, being strict with them. Being nice with them, giving them food, giving them comfort, giving them love. It's a big job. Can someone say amen? And mothers are so important that God talks about them a lot. And as a mother, the Bible says in Ezekiel 16, 44, it says this, as is the mother, so is the daughter. As the mother is, the daughter will be. Now think about that, moms. Because if you want your mom and your daughter to turn out like you, just keep being who you are. But if you want your daughter to turn out better than you, not making mistakes that you made, not doing things, then you need to do something. And what you need to do is you need to teach them the things that you weren't taught. Teach them about the Lord. Teach them about right and wrong. Teach them about holiness and wickedness and sin. Teach them about purity and goodness. I'm here to tell you right now, mothers, It would only be what you teach them that they'll keep for the rest of their life. And I don't mean to pick on you because I love you. And I'm just working with dad. He would always say, my mom used to tell me, my mom used to say, he remembers the things his mom taught him. And to me, that honors. I like that. He honors his mom. And the things that his mom said to him, he remembers. runs the home, it's the mother who teaches the children, it's the mother who shows the child love, respect. Respect is very big. The worst thing, and I believe this is where fathers step in, when a child doesn't respect the mother, the father ought to step in with a little bell or something. You can bell in any way you want, but the father should never let the children disrespect the mother. Because in all reality, what does the Ten Commandments say? a father and a mother. Honor your mother. And that's why we're here today on Mother's Day, to honor. But I think moms get ripped off. I do. Because they should have a month. It should be Mother's Month. You know, they got Black History Month, they have Gay Month, they have Widow Month, but they don't have Mother's Month. You know what I'm saying? They just get a day, one day. What's up with that? Listen, husbands, fathers, like for my wife and I, I'm not taking her anywhere today. She kept saying, where are we going? I said, I have no clue. She said, didn't you make plans? I said, no. I said, tomorrow is going to be her Mother's Day dinner, because no one else will be there. If you try to get a place to eat today, it's going to be crazy. But tomorrow, I'll take her out somewhere. I'll take her somewhere really fancy, like La McDonald's. There is a place called Chicky Filet-O. Dairy Queen. Dairy Queen. I mean, only the best places for her. But we need to, honestly, we need to really, really cherish our mom. We need to cherish them. And think about this, is that it's easy to love your mom. It is. Especially if you have a mom who's there. So many families don't have moms who's there. Whether they passed on, or their mom's just kind of abandoned them. And that's where I believe a real special kind of mom steps in. Someone who didn't give birth. Someone who didn't go through it all, but someone who's willing to be the mother for that child. to step in and be the mom for them. To me, I think they get even a higher praise. And you know what? Stepmoms and stepdads are always like, oh, they're just my step. And they're just, you know what I mean? They get put down, but they're the ones that chose to be your parents. They didn't have to be. They chose to love you. They chose to take care of you. They chose to clothe you. They chose to be there. And it's tough because they don't get any of the props. I think maybe we should have stepmother day. I don't know. Maybe stepmother week. Maybe stepfather week, because stepfathers always get a bad rap. You know, the stepfather's always the bad guy all the time. And the wicked stepmother. Even in Disney, you have the evil stepmother. You know, she's always the witch and stuff like that. What's up with that? I'm here to tell you that every mother that takes care of anybody who gives you a hug and a meal and a bed and takes care of you and tries to teach you right and wrong, we should honor them. We should honestly give them and cherish them Because I'll tell you right now, who's stepping in for you? Who's going to be there for you? Who's stepping in? Who's there for you? Think about it. If you lose your parents, who's there for you? And that's what I want to talk to you today about is God's there for you. He is. He even says it. He says, when father and mother forsake you, it is the Lord who will take you up. And I want you to think about that is that God gave us parents to take care of us. But when those parents fail to take care of us, it's always God will step right in. God will step in and help to take care of that person. I was one of those people. I didn't have a dad and I used to pray and I'd see all my friends and I'm not getting the violins out. I'm just saying, I'd see all my friends hit their foot cause I played football and baseball and all their dads were there and I never had anyone there. And it did affect me. I try not to let it affect me. But I'm just so honored to think of nowadays. I mean talk about soccer moms. Oh my goodness They like take them here take them there take them. My mom didn't get out come back at dinner time You know I was like get out of the house. I'd be playing get out. I'm cleaning you know now. It's like don't leave the house Don't go anywhere Moms are awesome, and I'm just so grateful that I had a really good mom, but what happens what happens when? You lose your mom or your mom's not around And you don't have that person to take care of you. You don't have that person to love on you. And I just want you here to tell you that the Bible tells us in Mark chapter 10 verse 30, and if I can turn there, and I don't know if Brian has it up or not, but it tells us this. It says, but he shall receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses, The Lord's telling us that when we think we've lost something, when we think we've lost a mom, a parent, and sit around sad, God's saying, no, I'm right here. I'll be your mother for you. I'll be your father for you. I'll be your friend for you. I'll be the everything you need for you. I'll give you crazy family. Look around. You got crazy brothers and sisters all over the place. You'll never be bored with this family. I'm telling you right now. You'll never be bored if you sit around and talk about Uncle Louie all you want, but I got some real screwys in here, amen? I'm telling you, God's people are extraordinary. They're unique. They're different than everyone else. They've been through some things, amen? And I'm here to tell you, when you talk about and you talk to them, it's always about what the Lord has done for them. The song that she sang, the testimonies that you have, when you sit around the table and talk, it's always about what God got you through. It's never what my mom got me through. Yes, you think about her, and yes, but I'm here to tell you, you have someone now better than a mom. And that's the Lord, Jesus Christ. You have a family in God. The family of God is real. It's a real family. And we have God, right? He's our Father. We have the Holy Spirit, that's our Mother. We have Jesus Christ, that's our Husband. We have a whole family. And then we have the church, our crazy brothers and sisters. We got an entire family here, and God has made it so that when your father and mother forsake you, God will pick you up. And God will be there and comfort you with His wings around you and hold you close. And you know why He did that? Because He wants you to love Him and trust Him and honor Him even more than you did your physical mother. Because He is the one that gave birth to us all. Jesus Christ on that cross was being my mother. He was giving birth to me on that cross. When they pierced his side, out came blood and water. He suffered, suffered a great agony. Just like mothers do when they bring a child to birth, to life. It's suffering, it's pain. But the Bible says that after that pain's gone, there's something that a mother has that no one else can experience, that feeling that I brought forth this child and this child is mine. Amen. And that's why mothers are different than everyone else. I'm here to tell you that's what Jesus did for us. He brought forth a new. That's why the Bible tells us that we must be born again. But think about how many times, let me ask you a question, I'm gonna hurry. How many times have you hurt your mom? Made her grieve? Anybody? Help me out? Yeah, you know. And I did that. My whole life, I'm being honest, I was bad. I did wrong things all the time, and I knew my mom was crying it off. And I always wanted this. I just wanted to make my mom proud of me. I used to say that. I'll never forget, I told this story. Before my mom died, I remember her saying, And I remember it all hit me like, wow, all those years of praying that I could make my mom proud. And I did, and it was like a great moment. But how many times did I make her grieve? And I just wanted to read a couple of verses in Proverbs 10.1. It says, a wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. A person who is out there doing foolish things, the mother's home grieving. The mother's home with a heavy heart. It's the mom who's afraid of that three o'clock in the morning phone call. It's the mom who's afraid, listen, I had it. How many times, I cannot even tell you, ask my wife, how many times we had the phone ring for one of the boys at three o'clock in the morning. And I'm like, don't even answer. And she's like, no, I have to answer it, and then you gotta listen to all their problems. I'm like, first of all, who would call their mom and make them worry at three in the morning? You know what I mean? Like, I would never do that. She was the one always waiting at the phone for that phone call. She was so grieved and upset and worried about them all the time. Me, John, I was like, no, let them rot in jail. I'm serious. They got in a car accident, good, they probably could drink, and that'll teach them. You know, we're different. But the mom was grieved, and the Bible tells us in Proverbs 15, 20, it says, a wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son despises his mother. That means he doesn't care about her. I want you to think about that first. A foolish son despises his mom. That means he doesn't think about her feelings. He doesn't think about this, what I'm going to do is going to hurt her. How I'm acting is going to hurt her. I see it. I'm part of it. I watch the hurt on my wife. I watch the hurt on the mothers here. I see it from what their children are putting them through. And even adult children, what they put them through. And I just want you to think about how the mothers hurt, and how an eternal mother that we have, that we have, if you, I gotta stop, if you've been born of God. How many people know what that means, born of God? Jesus said, barely, barely, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, born again, born again. He cannot even see the kingdom. And he said, and then Nicodemus said, how? How can a man be born when he's old? Like, oh, back in my mother's womb? And he said, that which is born in the flesh, it's flesh. But that which is born in the spirit, it's spirit. So when were you born of the spirit of God? When did the spirit of the living God come inside of you because you called upon him and he gave you life eternal? Because at that moment that He gave you life eternal, you're going to live forever. And at that moment, He didn't just say, OK, now you're on your own. He said, I am now going to be your mother. The Holy Spirit of God is given to us to watch over us, to protect us, to teach us, to give us a nice gentle smack or a heavy foot and butt. Whatever we need, the Mother, the Holy Spirit of God, who will never leave us, never forsake us, just like my I'm here to tell you that we do have a family, and we do grieve. I've grieved my mother, and I know I grieve my Holy Spirit. You have a mom. How many people have been born again in this room? Well, that means you have a mother. It's the Holy Spirit. You have a father in heaven, and when the Holy Spirit's with you, and you have a husband, Jesus Christ's waiting for the marriage. So I'm just here to tell you how many times you grieve the Holy Spirit of God, because No one is going to be there for you and take care of you like your mother. No one is going to never leave you like your mother. And that's why we honor that. But I'm on the spiritual side and thinking about the Holy Spirit of God. Now in John 1, 13, and actually 12 and 13, it says this, it says, but as many as received him, Jesus, to them gave God power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. which were born, ready, not of blood, nor of the will of flesh, nor the will of man, but born of God. And so if you were born of God today, as I have been in 1991, I got born of God. He became my father. The Holy Spirit became my mother. The church and brothers became my family. And Jesus is my husband. And I want to please him. And I want to do things for them. But the most important thing I want to talk to you today is about grieving the Holy Spirit. Mothers, you get grieved if your children don't talk to you? Help me, mom. Help me. Come on, you got to say amen. You get grieved if your kids don't call you? You get grieved if they do bad things? You get grieved if you never see them? Yeah, of course you do. Well, think about that Holy Spirit. How does He feel when you don't talk to Him? When you don't show Him you love Him? When you don't tell Him? When the kids write a card to their moms, right, on Mother's Day or Christmas. You know, they're all like, it's just a card. I'm like, no, you have no idea. Write something in it that you mean. Write something, because they open it and it'll make them cry, because you say, Mom, I'm sorry. I don't say it often, but I want to tell you thank you. I love you. It'll start bawling. Because it means something. How come we can't do that to the Holy Spirit of God that's with us all the time? Tell me. I love you, Lord. I love you, Lord. For your mercy never fails me. Amen. I love you, Lord. You've never failed me. You never let me down. You're always there. That's the love of God I have in shed and brought in my heart. I'm a love of the mother of God himself inside of me. And I know when you don't care about me, he cares about me. I know when We need to have Mother's Day physically, but we need Mother's Day spiritually. And I'm asking every person in this room to think of the Holy Spirit as your mother. Talk to her. Talk to Him. Tell Him you love Him. Have a communication with the Holy Spirit. How often do you talk to the Lord inside of you? The Bible says, pray without ceasing. That means never stop. Just keep on talking to God. Keep on talking. He's inside of you, Steve, right? And you just talk to Him and build that relationship with Him. He, the Holy Spirit of God, is pleased and happy, and that's all I want to do is make God happy. John 14, verse 6 says this, and this is a great verse. In John 14, 16, I'm sorry. John 14, 16, Jesus is speaking, and He says this, He said, I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another comforter, that He may abide with you forever. Even the spirit of truth from the world cannot receive. I want you to think about that Jesus Christ here in the scripture says, I'm going to give you another comforter. Calls him the comforter. To me, that is my mom. My mom comforted me. My mom was always there when I'd go in the house and she would say, how's your day? How's it going? How's the kids? Blah, blah, blah. Here, have a sandwich. That comforted me a lot. Here, have a piece of cake. That comforted me even more. Amen? She'd give me a hug. She'd tell me she loved me. I mean, there's no better place. And I just want you to realize that God has given us a mother, has given us a comforter. And there's no better place to be than with that. In verse 26, it says this, but the comforter, listen to this, but the comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things and bring all things to remember you. I said, peace, I leave with you, my peace, I give up with you. I'm here to tell you right now that the greatest mom in the world, and I know you can put your mom in there, but the greatest mom you have is the mom that's never gonna leave you. The mom that loves you more than anything. The mom that gave her life for you. And that's the Lord Jesus Christ. That's the spirit of God himself inside of you. Each and every one of us have it. You don't have to be a woman or a child. And that's the one that loves you more than anything. You're never alone. You never will be alone. And that, to me, gives me more comfort. But you know the word comfort means? It means paraclete. In the Greek, it means the word paraclete. It means, I would say, a parent that cleaves to you. A paraclete. It's a parent that you have that cleaves to you. I'll never leave you. Never forsake you. Always tell you the truth. Always be there for you. And you know what? The great thing is, is tell me the truth. I need my mom, a Holy Spirit, or whatever, to tell me the truth. Michael, that was wrong. You shouldn't have said that to that person. I don't care, you're right. Moms will tell you that. You know, dads are like, yeah, he deserved it. But mom's like, no, no, that person's going through a hard time. You should be gentle to that person. Be nice to that person. Don't steal. In verse 30, it tells us that we grieve the Holy Spirit of God. In chapter 4, verse 30, in Ephesians, it says, grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed under the day of that redemption. You know what it says after that? It says, let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and evil speakings be put away from you. Just like a mother would say. Don't talk that. Don't use that language. Don't act that way. You know what I mean? I tell you, I love the Holy Spirit, because without the Holy Spirit, you know what I'd be? I'd be Samson, just killing people. Seriously, without the Holy Spirit, I'd be just yelling at people, and I'd have the power, the Spirit of God on me, and I'd get a jawbone of an ass, and I'd kill everybody. I don't mean physically, though. I mean, I'd be the father, the parent, that's it. Get the belt out. Kind, gentle, loving. You know, that's what our God is. Our God is all those things. And our God wants us, more than anything, to feel love and know love so that we can show love. Can I get an amen? When I was in the prison ministry, I had a prison ministry for 20 years, the largest prison ministry on the East Coast. I'm proud of it a little bit, only because of how God used me. But the men in there, I try to teach them about the love of God. They never had a mom and dad that loved them. They never knew love. They didn't know what love was, Tony. Me and you felt it. Through my mom, only my mother, I know what real love is. So that when I hear about God, I can relate to what real love is. Because I know I had it. But what about the people that have never known love? What about the people that have never had a mother's hand, a warm hug, a warm meal, someone to say I love you, and comfort you, twist your hair, and whatever. What if they never had that? How do they know what love is? That's why they must be born again. And God puts love inside of each and everybody's heart. So there's no excuses for someone to say, I don't know how to love. I don't know how to be nice. This is who I am. No, the Holy Spirit inside of you knows what you need. Amen. Knows how to do it. When it says grieve not the Holy Spirit, I'm going to hurry up and finish. This Mother's Day, if your mom's alive, give her a call. How are you loving? If she's alive, you are blessed. You might say, you don't know my mom. I don't care. God says, honor your mother. Because you wouldn't be here if it wasn't for her. And you don't know what she went through. You don't know how no one loved her. Or she never was taught how to be a mom. My point is this. It's simple. If you've got a mother and she's alive, When you get out of church, call her. If she's nearby, go see her. Bring her some of those flowers. Tell her you love her. It can change her life and yours. Now that said, you have a mother inside of you. It's the Holy Spirit. All my life, I'm better than you, sorry. All my life, you have been faithful. All my life, you have been so, so good. With every breath that I am able, I will sing of the goodness of my mother. Amen? I love your voice. I wanna hear the voice of God, and we only hear it through the Holy Spirit. I wanna hear the comforting that I love you. Only are the comforting from the Holy Spirit send you forgiven. Jesus loves you. God knows your need. Think about all the things the Holy Spirit does for us. Every single thing in this book and every single thing that God does for us is only done through the spirit of the living God. And all she's asking you to do is thank him, worship, pray, talk to him. Can we do that today? Can we do that on Mother's Day? Just equate what we would do if our moms were alive. If I could see my mom one more time, what would I do? I'd give her the biggest hug and kiss and say to her, thank you. You are the best mom ever. Why can't we do that for the Holy Spirit of God that has done so much more for us in our physical lives? And won't be forever and ever. So as we, I'm gonna say this last thing and I just wanna realize that the Bible tells us that we are to honor our mothers, amen? Thank you for being here, mothers. I hope I've got a little bit of honor for you today with some flowers and claps and just let you know that you're appreciated. But if your mom's alive, go honor her. If your mom's gone, even if your mom's alive and you've been born again and you've been saved by the amazing grace of God, it says, grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed into the day of redemption. It is the Holy Spirit of God that's going to hold on to you forever. It's the Holy Spirit of God that makes you not lose your salvation. It's the Holy Spirit of God that makes you...nobody can take you out of my hand. Thank you, Jesus. Amen. Thank you, Jesus, for the comforter that has come. Thank you, Jesus, for the paraclete that I have, the parent that's going to cleave to me, never leave me, never forsake me. Thank you, Jesus, for caring about me, for loving me. What's that? I will pray to the Father and he shall give you another comforter. I would like you to please just bow your heads at this moment. I'm going to ask you to come on up. I'm just going to ask for it now before we leave. Could we honor the Holy Spirit of God? Can we honor Him by talking and thanking Him? The Bible says that we are to be grateful and thankful and have thanksgiving always. Who do you thank? You thank the Lord. The Lord gave you a good mom? Thank Him for it. The Lord gave you a good dad, a good home? Thank Him for it. The Lord gave you food, clothing, a house. Thank Him for it. Amen? Whenever God has given you, as the music starts to play, this altar is open. Whether you're sitting there or you feel moved to come and bow before the Lord, you're God. And I want you to honor the Holy Spirit inside of you, who knows you, sees what you think, knows what you feel, and yet still loves you. The only one that when you sin was be there for you to love you. The only one when you're far away from God is always going to draw you back. You never had a friend like Jesus. The Holy Spirit of God is here. Talk to him. Talk to him right now. Say, Lord, thank you. Holy Spirit of God, thank you for saving my soul. For washing me in the blood. For giving me life. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for the life of God that is in me now because of you. Thank you for the light of God that's in me because of you. Thank you for the wisdom of God that's in me because of you. Thank you for teaching me right and wrong. Thank you for loving and caring for me and protecting me from all the times I should have died, but yet you kept me safe. Thank you for the times you've healed me. and your arms were around me. Thank you for the times you took my tears and put them in your bottle. Thank you for the times you spoke to me and said it's going to be okay. Thank you, Holy Spirit of God. I pray, Holy Spirit, that you fall upon us now, fresh and anew. I pray that each person in this room can thank you. Say thank you, Holy Spirit of God. person of the Godly, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for being my mother, bringing me forth to life, feeding me, caring for me, loving on me like no one else, leading, guiding, protecting, correcting me. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank you for my mom that I had in this world, my physical mother. She never, one time, wasn't there for me. Lord, she showed me what real love was. You are real love. You are true and honest and goodness love. I pray, Lord, for anyone that's out here today that does not know you, truly knows you. I pray, Lord Jesus, the only way that they can get the comfort, the only way they can get the Spirit of the living God is to receive Jesus Christ, as many as receive him. And then gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. Father, I pray for those that are out there and not sure if they're saved, not sure if they're born again. I pray, Holy Spirit of God, draw them to Jesus right now. Let them realize that Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation, the only way of forgiveness of sin, the only way to the Father, and the only way to have the Holy Spirit. Lord, I pray, put it in their hearts to call upon the name of the Lord, Jesus Christ, and say, Lord Jesus, save me, a sinner. I need to be saved. You're the Savior. I'm putting my trust in you and my faith in you. I call upon the name of the Lord, Jesus Christ, save me. Lord Jesus, give us of the Holy Spirit. Circumcise our hearts. Wash us and cleanse us. Sanctify us. Wrap us in the swaddling clothes. Hold us tight. Keep us safe. Be with us always. Lord, I'll never forget you. I'll never forget what you've done for me in the past. I'll never forget what you're doing for me right now. And I'll never forget what you're going to do. We love you, Jesus. Can we all say that now? We love you, Jesus. Thank you for the Holy Spirit. Please be with us as we go. Help us, I pray, to love our parents, our moms, those that take care of us, those that have chosen to be moms. I pray, help us to love them even more and give them more honor. And I just pray, Lord Jesus, that you would help us to be