I'm just so happy. I sat in this empty sanctuary last night, came here to pray for a little while, and I just overwhelmed once again with the goodness of God, the amazing goodness of God. I was flooded with memories way back from my association with the church goes back to 1994. and just flooded with memories of people that have been here, lives that have been transformed, missions that have been born. Just the goodness of God, the presence of the Lord that you felt tonight has been here for 37 years in this sanctuary. It's been an amazing, amazing journey. And I sat here last night and I just said, God, thank you for Pastor Tim and Cindy Delina. Thank you for this godly couple. Thank you for their family. Thank you, Lord, for you knew who needed to be here. Now, many of you have not seen this, but there is a picture that somebody took years ago on this platform, and David Wilkerson was sitting in the first chair. This is while he was senior pastor. I was in the second, and Pastor Tim Delaney was in the third. God foreknew. God knew who was going to be the successors in this church, and I just thank God for your leadership, Pastor Tim, and I mean that with all my heart. You have taken us, you've taken all of us into a whole new place, and given this church the testimony that we've always believed that God was going to give it. Tonight, I want to speak to you, a message called Becoming a Prisoner for the Prisoners. Now, at the end of this service, we're going to sing. At the end of this service, there's going to be an altar call, and many of you are going to come forward. Some of you are going to shout. Some of you are going to cry. Some of you are going to dance. Somebody may even hit the aisles and go up and down. You know, years ago, this is way back, just about 1995, there was a basketball player for the New Jersey Nats that used to attend this church. His name was Armand Gilliam. He was in his middle 30s at this time, and he was at the end of his, coming to the end of his career, just had signed another multi-million dollar contract for one more year. He and I went out to a restaurant after service one night, not far from here. And he was a strong believer in Christ, and so I said, what are you gonna do? He told me, I'm only gonna play for one more year in my middle 30s now, and my career's pretty near over. And I said, so what are you gonna do? He said, well, I was raised in St. Louis, and my father is a pastor. And he pastored a little church of about 150 people. And my brother and I just couldn't wait to get out of there. We were made to sit in the front row, and he said, I still remember we had to wear these starchy, not starchy, but picky pants that we had to wear, and it'd be hot, and we'd have to sit there. And not only did we not like being there, but it was embarrassing at times. There was this little old lady that would get up, and she would get all excited in the middle of the service or during worship, and she would go up and down the aisles going, woo, woo. Like walking up and down, like a choo-choo train. And he said, it was so embarrassing if I'd ever invite any of my friends there. And so he said, I finally got out of there, got to college, got to play ball, and was picked up in the NBA and played for several years, pro ball. And I said, so what are you gonna do when you retire? And he said, well, recently I went back to my father's church in St. Louis, and I went to visit it on a Sunday, and he said, the same 150 people are there, might be a few more, and the little old lady is just older, but she still does her thing up and down the aisle. And he said, I sat there, and he said, I said these words to myself, my dad was right all along. This is where life is. This is what life is all about. He said, when I retire from basketball, I'm going to go and I'm going to help my father in his church. I'm going to be the new youth director in my father's church. The point being, I think in some measure, we always think we're going to be happier being somewhere other than where we are. That's just human nature. It's amazing. We'll go on vacation if we have the opportunity to do so. We'll sit in a house, in a beautiful house, maybe a, you know, rentals and it might even be on the ocean, might have a beautiful mountain view. And the first thing that comes into our minds is what are we going to do now? Where are we going to go? It seems that our nature doesn't ever allow us to be happy where we are. We always think that the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. and only to find out that where life really is sometimes is where we are. That's what I want to talk to you about right now. The life that God wants to give you, the life that God wants to make known to others around you might be exactly where you are right now. It's not in getting another job, it's not in moving to another apartment, it's not in living in another city, it's right where you are. And may God give us the wisdom to find that out now and not have to travel the circuit and do all of this stuff just to come back full circle to find out, God, where I was is where I needed to be. Where I was is where victory was found. Where I was is where you put me there for a divine reason. I want you to know that tonight. You are where you are for a divine reason. If you're ever going to leave where you are, I want to challenge you. If you ever leave where you are, you leave with your hands up and you leave in victory. You leave praising God. You don't leave just scheming to get out of where you are and get to some new place. But if you're ever going to leave, you leave in victory. If you're washing dishes and you don't like washing dishes, when you finally go out that kitchen door for the last time, you go with your hands raised praising God. Just, God, you gave me the victory where I was. I'm not living this illusion that one day I'm going to praise you when you get me out of here. No, I'm going to praise you here. I'm going to praise you now. I'm going to praise you with all of my heart, right in the place where I am. Father, I thank you tonight, God. Lord, you're going to speak to every heart. You're going to speak to my heart. You're going to help us, Lord, because the entrance of your word does bring light. It does give us understanding of things, God, which we're not naturally inclined to want to receive. But Lord, we're not living in a natural kingdom anymore. We're living in a kingdom where our prayer has to be not my will, but thine. And so, Father, God, help us, please, not only to understand it, but to embrace it. Each one of us, Lord. God, you have put us where we need to be. We're not where we are by accident. We're not on the job we have by accident. There's a reason. Help me to explain it tonight. Help us to understand it. In Jesus' name. Acts chapter 16. I'm gonna read two verses, verses 25 and 26. But at midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were loosed." We know this today to be one of the great miracles in the book of Acts. where two men in prison, two men accused, two men beaten with rods, two men thrust into the inner prison, two men in a really, really, really dark, dank, terrible situation, chose to praise God, even though in the natural it was probably one of the worst situations that either of them had ever been in. And it started out at the beginning of the chapter, just a little ways down in the chapter, where Paul is preaching the gospel and the church is at verse five, it says, we're being strengthened in the faith and we're increasing in numbers daily. So he's in ministry, the apostle Paul, and good is happening. People are coming to Christ. It's a type of maybe your life and mine, but he gets it in his heart. to change locations. And he said, when they'd gone through Phrygia in the region of Galatia, verse six, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia. In other words, Paul got it in his heart to, well, let's go to Asia. They need the message there. We've been here for a while and maybe things will be a little better or more productive or who knows what was in his mind why he actually wanted to go to Asia. We do know it wasn't the will of God. We do know it was a thought that came into Paul's mind. He was just an ordinary person like you and I. And I don't know the reasons why, but he thought maybe I should leave where I am and go somewhere else and preach the gospel there. But the Holy Spirit forbade him. He was spiritually sensitive. When he went to prayer, the Holy Spirit said, no, Paul, that's your will, it's not mine for your life. And after they had come to Mysia, they tried to go to Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them. So this is number two. Paul gets a second idea, and those that are with him, let's go into this other area called Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them. In other words, God often puts us not where we'd like to be, but where we need to be. Because it was just after this that a vision appears to Paul in the night, verse nine, and a man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him saying, come over to Macedonia and help us. You know, we're all like King David in Psalm 55, King David. Now he's destined to be a king. He's destined to rule and reign. He's on a journey just like you and I are. I shared on Sunday that we're going to rule and reign with Christ, folks, all of us here who have trusted in him for our salvation. That is your future. That is your heritage. You're going to live forever in a place where there's no more sorrow, no more tears, no more sighing, no more sickness. No more loud music. Well, maybe there'll be praising next door, but no more ungodly music playing in the apartment next door to you. No more lying neighbors, no more backstabbers. None of them are going to be there. You talk about, God, I'm going to talk myself into leaving tonight and going home tonight if I'm not careful. But we're quite often find ourselves, David found himself on this journey to ruling and reigning. as a king in a place that he didn't want to be. And quite often, that's the way our lives are going to turn out. We end up in places that we'd rather not be. In Psalm 55, at the end of verse five, he says, fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me. This is David on his journey. So I said, oh, that I had wings like a dove. I'd fly away and be at rest. Have you ever thought that? Have you ever prayed that? Oh, God. Yeah, get me out of here. I wish I had wings like a bird. I'd fly. And if I could get myself to another place, would I ever be at rest? Have you ever thought that? Oh, if I just had that job, if I just had that relationship, if I could live in this city, if I could be this kind of a person, I would fly away and be at rest. Indeed, David says, I would wander off and remain in the wilderness. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest. You see, the error of many people is that they believe that the presence of God means the absence of trouble. That is not true. And anybody who preaches that is preaching another gospel. They're not preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. Christ himself told us that in this world you shall have tribulation. You will encounter trouble. There will be difficult moments. As the apostle Paul said, we were pressed beyond measure in Asia. We despaired of life. We had the sense of death in ourselves. We were brought to the place where we had to trust in Christ who raises the dead because there was nothing left of ourselves that could have given us the strength to survive in this place. Oh, I'll tell you, my brother, my sister, yes, there's difficulty in the Christian life. Yes, you're going to face storms. Yes, you're going to face trials. Floods are going to come your way of ungodly things, but God has interwoven the honor of his very name in keeping you. Jesus said, you are sealed in the hand of my father and nobody can take you out of my father's hand. Paul said, I am persuaded, I am convinced that there's nothing of heaven, nothing of the earth, nothing of darkness, no principality, no power, no mountain, no valley, nothing in this world that is existing, nothing that is to come that can separate me from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, my Lord. Elsewhere, Paul said, I am persuaded that everything I've given to him, he's able to keep until that day that he deposits me literally at the throne of God. I am in the hand of God. I am in the will of God. I am going to glorify him when I understand it, and I'm going to glorify him when I don't. I'm going to glorify him when it gives me pleasure. I'm going to glorify him when it gives me pain. My song is not going to be dependent on my circumstance. and I'm not going to look for a quick escape. I'm going to look for God in the midst of my situation. I'm going to look for the victory he promises to give me and the song that he's given me to sing. You see, you and I are not called to live for ourselves. And I'll say it again, those who preach a gospel that the cross of Jesus Christ is all about something of self are preaching another Christ and another gospel. That is not the gospel of Jesus Christ. We are called to live our lives for the benefit of others. for the sake of other people around us. It's not just for us. Yes, God will bless us. Yes, God will help us. Yes, God will deliver us and God will set us free, but there's a divine purpose and a reason to all of this. I'm not called just to sequester myself away and let the rest of the world just go on its merry way into eternity without God. I'm called of God to be where God wants me to be for the sake of other people. I want to ask you a question right now. If you weren't as a testimony of God where you are today, who would be there to testify of Christ? If you weren't there, God put you in that kitchen. God put you with those other dishwashers that are washing dishes. God gave you that broom. God put you in that classroom. God put you in that industry. God put you there for a divine reason. There has to be a testimony of the goodness of God everywhere in this society. We are salt. We are light. We're not meant to be hidden in a bushel under a bed. We're not meant to be covered. We're supposed to be in a visible place where the life of Christ and the glory of God can be seen through you and through me to people who live in darkness. all around us. It's in this context that we find Paul and Silas. In the natural, this is a really bad day. They've obeyed God. They've gone to Macedonia. They've encountered a woman at the riverside called Lydia. She's opened her heart and her home. They've gone in and established a fellowship in her home. There's a young slave girl that's been set free from demonic power. Things are beginning to happen, but then they're brought before magistrates, they're beaten, they're accused, their clothes are ripped off, they're beaten with rods. The scripture says they laid many stripes, that means whip marks on their backs. They threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to keep them securely. Having received such a charge, he put them in the inner prison and fastened their feet in stocks. It just doesn't get any worse. I don't know if there's anybody here can say my life is worse than this. You're here, you're not in prison right now, that's for sure. Your back is not beaten raw, your feet are not in stalks, you're not, inner prison in those days, folks, there's no television there. There was no internet there. There was no cafeteria there. It was dark, it was dank, there's no light, it was wet, it was the most horrid place on the face of the earth. In the inner prison is where you put the worst of the worst criminals. So Paul and Silas, they had a choice that they had to make. Do we sing the blues? Do we lament? Do we lay down on the cold stone and goes, oh, nobody knows the troubles we've seen. Nobody knows our sorrow. Now that's the song everybody else was singing in the prison. David the psalmist said, I waited patiently for the Lord. He inclined to me and heard my cry. He brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay and set my feet on a rock and established my steps. Now it doesn't mean, because we already read the words of David, it doesn't mean his circumstance was ideal at times, but his feet were on a solid place and he knew his steps were established by knowing that I am in the will of God. I am placed in this world for a divine reason. It's Christ in me that will be seen. And God, I believe, as Paul could say, that all things work together for good to those who love God and are the called according to his purpose. Paul could honestly say, Silas, I don't necessarily understand the reason we're here. I saw a vision, and in that vision, there was a man. It was a man who appeared to me and said, come and help us. Now, so far, all we've been preaching to is women. Lydia at the shore, the slave girl set free. I don't know who this man was, but it was a man. There was somebody somewhere representing some people that said, come and help us. Now, they could have said, well, Silas could have turned and said, well, do you think we failed? Do you think we missed something? Did we really hear from God? Paul could have said, I don't know, but I do know that all things do work together. I do know that we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. I do know that God has set the path for our feet. and I choose to believe that we are exactly where we're supposed to be. Why don't we just praise him right now? Why don't we just lift our voices to God? I don't know what they were singing, but whatever they were singing, the prisoners had never heard a song like this before, not in this place. That's the point I'm trying to make tonight. When you choose to praise God and you're in the same neighborhood, you're in the same building, you're on the same job, you're living in the same city, on the same block, among the same kids that are on the same corners, but your song is different than everyone else around you. You choose to lift your voice. You choose to praise God. And as Paul and Silas began to sing and they began to praise God, As David said, he put a new song in my mouth, praise to our God, and many will see it and fear and trust in the Lord. And as Paul and Silas began to sing, something in the spiritual realm began to happen. The prisoners were listening. I'm telling you folks, the prisoners are listening to you. The prisoners of sin in your family are listening to you. The prisoners in your apartment building are listening to your song. They're listening to your conversation at the elevator. The prisoners on your job are listening to you. They're listening to what you say in the lunchroom. They're listening to how you sing when you're sorting the mail or whatever it is you're doing. They're watching everything you're doing because you have a song that they never heard before that's in your life. And as they began to sing, the powers of hell that were holding these men captive began to shake and be broken. The scripture says the doors all opened. Didn't Jesus say, the spirit of God is upon me to set the captives free. When we begin to glorify God in the midst of our own trials, something happens in the spirit. Doors begin to open. And the scripture says everyone's chains were loosed. The things that bound them, the things that put them in jail in the first place. The inabilities that they had to change the way they thought and the way they lived suddenly lost their hold because two men in the same situation they were in chose to praise God, chose to sing a song of victory. Oh, it matters what you say. It matters what you sing. It matters. Hallelujah. One day I was, I came into New York. I came in on the train, and it was a nasty day, like one of those nasty days in New York. It happens once a month, maybe, a nasty day in New York. Just everybody is cursing on their cell phone at somebody. People on the street are coming towards you, and you know they're not gonna move. If you don't step to the side, they're just gonna walk right into you, then accuse you of doing something to them. And so I was walking from the Penn Station to the church here, And I suddenly hit me, I said, God, I'm in this world, but I'm not of it. I'm not, thank you, Lord. God have mercy on these people, but thank you, Lord, that I'm not part of the spirit of this city. The spirit of the city is not in me. And I began to sing, and I began to sing out loud. And you can do that in New York. You can just sing out loud. Now, in a small Midwestern town, they'd probably lock you up. But in New York City, you can be totally nuts and you could get along just really fine. So I just started to sing. And I was singing out loud. By the time I got here, I had a whole song written. I remember I got one of our musicians here and I said, just let's record this quickly before I forget it. And it went something like this. ♪ I walk in the presence of God ♪ ♪ Where the saints all before me have trod ♪ ♪ Day to day by victory greeted ♪ ♪ Here I'll never be defeated ♪ ♪ As I walk in the presence of God ♪ Now it gets better. Here's the chorus. In the presence of God, in the presence of God, I walk in the presence of God, where I share the joys of heaven as I give my Jesus reverence. And I walk in the presence of God Where I share the joys of heaven As I give my Jesus reverence And I walk in the presence of God I don't know who heard my song, but somebody did. I was singing loud. I was singing loud going down the street in the presence of God. I could just imagine people walking by saying, well, that's different for New York City. That's unusual. Paul, the jailer, the scripture says, came in because everybody's doors had opened and he assumed that they had escaped because that would be his worldview. That's the world he lived in. If the prison doors opened, these guys in that inner prison were just living to get free. A lot of them would be sitting perhaps even under a sentence of death or hardship. And he took a sword and was gonna take his life because it would cost you your life as a prison keeper at that time to lose those that were put under your care. But Paul called with a loud voice saying, don't harm yourself for we are all here. You know, to this man, this was a miracle. Now, why would these criminals stay in their prison cells? It didn't even make sense to the natural mind. So he came, he called for a light, he fell down trembling before Paul and Silas, and he said, what must I do to be saved? You see, all this starts happening because they chose to sing. in their situation, they chose to praise God, they chose to trust God. So Paul said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved, you and your household. Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night and he washed their stripes, that means their backs, their wounds, and immediately all he and his family were baptized. He set food before them in his house and rejoiced, having believed in God with all his household. So you can just see, in order to be a jailer back in those days, you had to be mean. You had to be meaner than everybody else. And I'm sure there was not much compassion in this man's life and his family were used to that. You can't turn it off in a job like that and come home and suddenly be Mr. Nice Guy and Mr. Kind. He probably was very much the same with his family. And when his wife and his children saw the tenderness suddenly in this man and he's washing the backs of these prisoners and he's giving them food and he's rejoicing, it was easy for them to come to Christ. They saw a miracle happen in their father. And their father saw a miracle happen because the prisoners didn't leave their cells. And the prisoners' doors opened because two men chose to sing in the midst of their pain and in the midst of their difficulty. Now, the interesting thing is, the next day, Paul and Silas are back in the prison, and they went there voluntarily. They went there for the prison keeper's sake. You see, because if they were gone, it could have cost him his position or even his life. You see, we're not called to live for the benefit of ourselves. And Paul and Silas knew this, so they voluntarily go back into the prison, and they're there the next morning. Now, the scripture tells us that the prisoners didn't leave. I was always curious about that. Why didn't they leave? Well, some people just like being imprisoned, I guess. You know, I've encountered that before as a police officer and as a pastor, that there's certain people that they can't function in mainstream society, no matter how hard they try. They're more comfortable in prison than they are being free. That's always a possibility. In some cases, the arguments in their minds against their freedom were stronger than the opportunity to be free. You'll even find that in the church sometimes. People are bound, and we're telling them as pastors that you can be free, but they're so used to being bound, and the arguments against their freedom are so strong that they find it hard to come out of their place of imprisonment. But most likely, and this is what I believe in my heart, the presence of God became so precious to them that they were unwilling to forego it, even for their greatest desires. Here's what happened. They once thought that freedom would be when they got out of the prison cell, but through the praise of these two men, the freedom of God came into where they were, and they were not willing to forgo it. It's almost like my friend the basketball player said, God was right all along. My father was right all along. Freedom is where God is. Fulfillment is where God is. Life is where God is. You know, I don't think, Pastor Tim, any of these men had ever experienced the presence of God. And when the presence of God came into their cell, I can just see that presence being so thick and so rich, and the doors are open, but they're saying, I don't wanna leave here. I've never experienced anything like this before. And having studied this chapter of Scripture, I truly believe that the man who appeared in the vision was the jailer. And the us that he said, come to Macedonia and help us were the prisoners. Your attitude makes a difference. Your faith, your joy, and your victory in your circumstance will influence those around you and teach them that they too can find the victory of Christ right where they are. Most everybody who lives around you in your circumstance is thinking the same way that others think. If I could just get out of here, how happy I would be. If I could get out of this neighborhood, out of this family, out of this life, out of this job, that's most people, not all, but most. Live that way, think that way, feel that way. But when you choose to praise God, living in the same circumstance that they do, it brings something of God into their situation. And suddenly they begin to realize victory is right here where I am. I don't have to leave here. I don't have to be somewhere else. I don't need another job. I can have that song too that I heard. I heard a song that has changed my life. I heard a song that has opened my prison door. I heard a song that has taken the shackles off of my hands. I heard a song that can bring me hope right in the midst of my place where I live, my struggle, my trial, my family, whatever it is that I find myself in. Oh, hallelujah. God, help us to find that song in this generation. We need to start singing that song of victory. We need to learn to have victory right where we are. Bloom where we're planted. Glorify God in our pain if necessary. If you find yourself in a hospital bed one day, sing in that hospital bed. Give glory to God in that place. If you find yourself on the most miserable job you think the world could ever give to you, worship God and say, God, it's your plan. You put me here. I wanted to be in Asia. I wanted to go to Bithynia, but you sent me to Macedonia. And in Macedonia, you sent me into a prison because somebody there was saying, God, help us. Help us. Help us. Help us. God heard the cry and God allowed Paul to hear it too. All over New York City, all over New Jersey and Connecticut and all around this area, there are people every night going to bed saying, God, help us. Help us, help my family, God, help my children. Help me, God, help me. And you are the person God put next door. Your song matters. Your testimony matters. Your faith matters. Your victory matters. Your joy matters. Find that song. Find that song. Find that song. Find that song. Find it now. Hallelujah. I will praise you, God. I will give you glory, Lord, for you have redeemed me. You have cleansed me. You have called me. You have promised me. You have saved me. I have a future. I have hope. I have heaven for eternity. Oh God, oh God, give me a song. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Find that song. Find that song now. Sing it on the way home. Don't just sing it in church. Sing it when you get home. Sing it when you go to bed. Sing it when you get up in the morning. Sing it in the hallway. Sing it when you're waiting for the elevator. Sing it when you're walking down the street. Sing it in the workplace. and you watch prison doors open, shackles start falling, and suddenly people find that through your song, God has come to where they are. Oh, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Don't ask for the worship team if you'd come. And we're gonna sing that song again about all the chains breaking. Whatever that song was, it was a nice one. I knew the Lord was confirming this word when that song was sung. And you have felt the special presence of God in the worship tonight. I know you felt it too. The Lord's wooing us, he's drawing us. And I want to give an altar call tonight. And here's my altar call, it's real simple. God, give me that song. Give me that song. Give me the song of victory right where I am. I'm not looking to get out. I'm not looking to get out of that relationship, or unless you shouldn't be in it, but I'm not looking to get out of that marriage. I'm not looking to get out of that job. I'm not looking to get out of this city. I'm not looking to get out of my apartment. I'm looking for victory right now where I am. Because I am there. I am placed there by God because somebody, somebody is saying, God help us. God, help us. It was the inner prison. Nobody could hear that cry but God, do you understand? Nobody but God could, somebody, maybe more than one, maybe a dozen, I don't know, they're in the darkest, dankest place that you could even imagine being in this world and they're saying, oh God, help us. God, help us. We don't have a future without you. We have no hope without you. We're losing our families without you. God help us. And God finally found two men he could send there because he knew they would sing. He knew they would worship. He knew they wouldn't lose their song because of their circumstance. And it would allow him to do the supernatural. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So my elder call is real, real simple. God, give me that song. God, give me that song right where I am. I'm not looking to change my location. I'm not looking to change my situation. If you choose to do that, he eventually got out, moved on. But God, till that day, I want to sing a song of victory. I want a song of victory right now. I'm willing to be a prisoner for the sake of the prisoners. I'm willing to be where I am for the sake of others who are where I am as well. But I have you, they don't. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. God, help us to understand. God, help us. Please, Jesus, help us to understand. There are so many people crying out in this city right now. Help us, Lord, even on the street, just to start singing, just to ourselves even, to worship you, God. Let's all stand together. And if you want to find the victory right where you are, would you come? Would you just come? Just come, and we're going to sing that song. And maybe there's a grandmother or two that wants to hit the aisles tonight and do the train thing. I don't know. I don't think Pastor Tim would be against that. But thank you, Lord. Thank you, God, thank you, God. Just keep coming, just come, slip out of your seat. God, give me a song of victory. Give me a song of praise. Give me a song of confidence. Give me a song of deliverance. Doesn't it say in the scriptures, the Lord says, I will surround you with songs of deliverance? Well, we are the speakers of those songs. We are the ones who vocalize those songs. I'll surround you with songs of deliverance. The Lord's moving on your heart, just come. And let's sing this thing with all of our hearts tonight. Praise God. Father, I would just want to thank you for bringing men and women to this altar tonight, for leading us as a church body to be a living witness for you, Jesus Christ, everywhere we are, in an age of perpetual discontent, to be those people who We'll say, I don't know why I'm here, but I choose to trust in God. I choose to believe that all things do work together for good because I love God and I am called according to his purpose. I choose to trust that God will give me a song that's not based on my circumstance, but it's based on his presence in my life. And God, would you set people free as I choose to worship you? Would you open prison doors and would you set the captives free? In Jesus' name, amen. Let's sing that song together. Sing it with all your heart tonight.