All In!

This Friday was a heavy day for our church family. I know some of you already know that our beloved brother, and he was actually one of our elders, our leadership, he was based at our Northwest campus, Scott Russ. He went to be with the Lord. Scott was young, early 60s. He had fought a good fight with cancer. And Pastor Carl, our campus director at the Northwest Campus, Scott Fowle, and I, we had the privilege of being with Scott in the hospital just before he passed. And as heartbreaking as that moment was, it was also unexpectedly beautiful. There was so much family around him, so much love, so much faith. Even in his final moments, we weren't just saying goodbye. We were celebrating a life well lived. We were reminded of this legacy Scott leaves behind and the impact he had on everyone in that room. Scott was truly an incredible man. He was all in with Jesus. I don't know how many of you here have had the pleasure of meeting Scott for us. He was actually here for our men's conference when I was here. And one of my favorite moments of Scott is, you know, every Sunday when I see him, he had this huge grin on his face and his arms were stretched wide for a bear hug. And, you know, I am almost 6'1". But Scott's 6'4". So when I hug him, I feel like I kind of get lost in his touch. I don't get that feeling much, right? But that's how I felt with him. He was always happy. And then when I shared, you know, hey, could you pray for me? Or if I had an issue or a request, he'd go, you know what? I want to pray for you right here. That was Scott. And he's like, I don't want to wait. I want to pray for you right here. And so he put his arms around me and started praying. And they were all in with God. Every time you talked to Scott, it was about God. It was about being dependent on the Holy Spirit. And it also showed up in the way he lived his life as well. You know, at the early days at 180 here at downtown campus, you know, even today, we got to be here at 7 a.m. to set up everything that you see. This is just a gym. And Scott and Jeannie, his wife, they lived in Lake Zurich, which is an hour on a good day without traffic. They would be here every Sunday at 7 a.m. along with their son Kyle to help set up this campus. That's how dedicated, that's how fired up they were for God. And there was one time there was this international student from Moody who was looking for a place to stay and And Scott was like, no, you can come and stay with me. And I thought, you know, I was so happy that Scott did that. I thought it was going to be like for a few days. The kid ended up staying with him for like two years in his house. I go, wow, I wish I had that. You know, I could have saved some dorm money right there. Right? That's just, that was Scott, you know. We're going to miss him deeply, but. Scott has gone on to his reward. He's with Jesus now. And moments like this have a way of stopping us in our tracks. You know, it was very emotional just seeing him, just seeing him right in front of our face. By the way, not a lot of people know this, but Scott Russ actually used to play college basketball. So he's played with Larry Bird. He's even scrimmaged with Michael Jordan in the 80s. So he was man with, you know, he was the man, right? Yeah. And it was hard to see him, but it also forces us to reckon with the nature of life itself. You know, I've been thinking about that, just the brevity of life. And as much as we like to think we're invisible, invincible, which, by the way, if you guys didn't know, my name, Ajit, literally means invincible. That's the meaning of my name. But unfortunately, we're not, right? We're not. And scripture is also honest about this. I want to read a couple of passages that I actually ironically read this week, just a few days before even Scott passed. One is Psalm 103. This is what it says, just differentiating between God and our life. It says, as a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him. For he knows our frame. He remembers that we are dust. As for man, his days are like grass. He flourishes like the flower of the field. For the wind passes over it and it's gone. And its place knows it no more. But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him and His righteousness to children's children. Then James 4.13 goes on. Come now you who say, today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit. Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, if the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that. As it is, you boast in your arrogance and all such boasting is evil. In Psalm 90, it's a song of Moses, says the years of our life are 70 years. Or if reason of strength, 80, it goes, God, so teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. Scripture here reminds us that wisdom, when we stop living as if time is unlimited and start living with eternity, is in view. That's wisdom. That's what this passage is saying. So when you really sit with that truth, it kind of forces us to answer this question. What does it look like to live well with the days that God has given us? What does it look like? And Jesus has a lot to say about that, so I really want to focus on one scripture passage today. This is nothing new. I've actually preached a few different times on this specific passage. But if I were to be honest with you, this is where I've been camped out personally over the last few months. I've been cogitating, meditating on it, and trying to make this verse my life verse as well. And I want to encourage you guys to really lean into what Jesus is saying here as well. So let me read this verse for you. I want to set it up first before we read that verse. So this is the final week of Jesus' life. So you can imagine, He is very intentional with what He is doing. Final week of Jesus' life. He's going to die on the cross for the sins of mankind and resurrect on Sunday. So He goes up to Jerusalem. So He's in a very public venue. Very intense confrontation with the religious leaders of the day. He's deeply grieved with the state of religion, with the state of the temple, and how God is being distorted. So he goes on this intense confrontation. Well, the day before, this was Monday, he goes in, he sees all of them, you know, trading, selling stuff. So he just throws, you know, turns the tables, drives out the money changers from the temple. So you could see him a little worked up. And then the following day, Jesus gets into this intense confrontation with the religious leaders. So there's a set of seven questions, seven confrontations that happens here. But I want to just focus in on one where a lawyer comes to Jesus and says, which is the greatest commandment in the law? Tell me right now. I love this guy. I love this lawyer. He's not messing around. He's like, if there was one thing that you wanted me to do, what is it, Jesus? What is the greatest commandment? In verse 37, Jesus says, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great commandment. and first commandment. And a second is like it. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets. So Jesus is put on the spot. Tell us one thing. What's the greatest commandment? And this is what he says. If there's one thing that you could do, if there's one thing that I can do, love the Lord your God more. With all of your heart, soul, with your mind, and the gospel of Mark adds the word strength, might. Right? So the best thing that we can do, which is the title of my sermon today, hands down, is to go all in with Jesus. So I want to give you my big idea. If there's one thing that you're taking home with you, this is what it is. God calls us to go all in. with Him so that we become wholeheartedly devoted to Him. He becomes our greatest passion, our highest priority, and the center of our attention. God wants us to go all in with Him. A lot of times we're just so carried away by the worries of the world, the things that we got to do, That we miss out of the fact that we're only here on earth for a short period of time. There's a whole eternity to look forward to. So what are we doing in terms of investing in eternity? Jesus even talks about, he talks a lot about it. One of the places he goes, lay up your treasures in heaven where moth and rust can't destroy. Right? God is calling us to go all in. with him. So for the rest of this time here, I just want to kind of exegete this passage, but I'm not going to do Matthew 22. I'm going to go back to Deuteronomy, which is because Jesus is actually not making things up right there. He's going back. He's coding from Scripture. So it's in Deuteronomy chapter 6, and I want to read this passage with you and kind of exegete that with you. So if you can follow along, that would be awesome. So it goes Deuteronomy 6, 1 to 3. Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the rules that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over to possess it. That you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you all the days of your life, and that your days may be long." So here therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them that it may go well with you and that you may multiply greatly as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you in a land flowing with milk and honey. So just a little bit of context here. So the children of Israel, the Israelites were in slavery in Egypt. They were in slavery for 430, almost 430 years. That's like four of our, five of our lifetimes. That's how long Israel was in slavery in Egypt. So they cry out to God. God sends Moses to deliver them out. And he, with a mighty arm, the Red Sea is split open. They walk through it. And now they're at the verge of entering the promised land. And so Moses basically, Deuteronomy, which literally means second law, all he does is give a series of speeches or sermons, if you were to say, just reminding them of what God has done and what God is requiring. So this is the context of this passage. And then he goes on to the actual command, which in Judaism is one of the most, it's called the Shema, which is the Hebrew word for listen. So pious Jews actually memorize things this particular verse that we're going to read, and they recited at least twice every day, and this is what it goes. It says, Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. So the word one here could refer to two things. One is just the monotheistic nature of God, of how He is just one, one God. We don't worship three different gods, but it also could mean That God is unique. The adverb, one. So God is someone who is alone. Right? Just there's no one like this God. And therefore is worthy of our love and devotion. And then it goes on. It's this God that you shall love with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. I love how it just goes. Covers everything, right? Heart. Heart here is not merely just emotions. It's the control center of a person. What we desire, what we love, what we are committed to, what our intentions are. To love God with all of your heart means God is your supreme affection. God is my supreme affection. And then soul, which is your innermost being, the totality of who you are. So loving God with your soul is that God is not just an add-on. He's not just an accessory. He's not something that you just add on to what you're already building or you've already built. But He is the owner of your and my life. And Jesus adds mind in the Matthew verse that we read. So it's not just a blind devotion. But it engages this loving God, engages our intellectual capacity as well. So we're thinking rightly about God. We actively resist false ideas about Him and submit our mind, our reasoning to His revealed truth in His Word. Loving Him with our mind. And then I love the last one. Because it goes, not just heart, not just soul, not just mind. But with all of your might. Just makes it so physical. With everything that you possibly have. With all your might. Jesus says. Scriptures here says. You love God. All encompassing. God wants the totality of your lives. Of our lives. devotion and then it goes on there's some practical applications of this verse as well that moses gives to his folks verse six it says and these words that i command you today shall be on your heart And then it just doesn't stop there. He says, you should teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, when you rise. Look at how practical it is. It says, it almost gives you how we need to parent our kids, right? Whatever you're doing, when you're walking, when you're by the side of the road, if you're in the place with your kids, whatever you're doing, you should talk about loving God with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength. And then it goes on, you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and your gates. Jews have taken it literally, which is great. I mean, if this forces us to be that intentional about God, it's great. But this is what you see. If you go to the next slide, they literally have the law. in between their eyes, and then, you know, if you go to a Jewish home, you have the entire law, you know, it's called a mesuza, so it's like right by their doorpost. That's their devotion. That's their reminder of loving God with everything that they have, and this is what God is calling us to. The best thing that we can do as we kick off 2026, and even as we Really, I mean, I know if you haven't, if maybe you have come to terms with the fact that life is short, but it's a process, right? Especially for a lot of our young adults. Even for me, you know, in my teens, early 20s, even early 30s, I thought my body was invincible. I could do whatever I want. I'm not going to break down. You know, and I really love, one of the things that I feel I'm gifted with is my memory, right? Growing up in India where a lot of it was rote memorization, like we would have, don't ever, don't ever do schooling in India, please don't, don't, don't. I'll start with that. But we would have exams every day for five days of which you had to memorize three books per exam. So, like, I would have memorized 10 to 12 books, right? So you go, page 94, you know, second paragraph, what is it? I'll be able to recite. That's how it was. That's how crazy it was. So you can imagine, I have a good memory. I can't remember anything now. I can't. Man, that's hard. It's a hard reality to accept. We're so finite. We break down, right? But there's one thing God wants you to do, to invest in, is to love God, to go all in with God because there's an eternity to live for. So what does it mean? What does it mean to be All in. Before we get to that, I want to read this passage as well because it gives us a warning right here. Just Deuteronomy 6, you know, we read till verse 9. This is verse 10. And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and to give you... with great and good cities that you did not build and houses full of all good things that you did not fill and cisterns that you did not dig and vineyard and olive trees that you did not plant and when you eat and are full, then take care lest you forget the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. These children of Israel, they're slaves. They've been in slavery for 430 years. God is bringing them to their promised land. And he says, you know what? What I want you to do is to love me with all that you have. And then he goes, you know what? You're going to go into this promised land. And then you're going to build houses. You think that you're going to do it on your own strength, but it's not the case. I'm helping you. Right? Your houses are then filled with good things. There's vineyards and olive trees and you eat and you're satisfied. Be careful, because you'll forget that it was God all along. You would think you did it in your own strength. That's not the case, right? What a great warning. Because that's how life is, right? You know, when we're desperate, we want God to show up. We pray, we cry out, God does show up. And then now, when things are going great, we believe we can do it. It's about us. We don't need God anymore. So God is calling us to go all in with him so that we become wholeheartedly devoted to him and he becomes our greatest passion, our highest priority, and the center of our attention. So I want to quantify what all in means. And here's just a, it's not a short, but a definition of that. Being all in with God means our love for him shapes every part of life. Not just a few spiritual practices, not just coming to church on a Sunday or reading the Bible a few times a week or maybe once a week and be satisfied with that. But it has to shape how we think, what we desire, how we steward our time and energy, how we relate with others, be it our family, our spouse, our kids, our significant others, and how we pursue our work and ambitions. I think we're good. Maybe this is a result of the modern society that we're in. We're just so specialized, right? I would imagine 200 years ago, if you were a doctor, you did everything. But now there's so much specialization. You're a neurosurgeon or you're a cardiac surgeon. or whatever that, you know, I can't even remember all of that. We're so specialized. And a lot of times what we do as well, we kind of put things in boxes. So you have our work life. You've got our mental life. You've got our family life. We've got our church life. And so it's all separate. It's not as integrated as it's meant to be. But being all in with God means our mental, our emotional, our physical, our relational, our financial and vocational lives are all brought under God's direction. They're brought under God's leading. So it's God who directs our life through us. I love this verse in Galatians 2.20 because it actually gives us a tangible picture of what the Christian life is meant to be. Where Paul says, I've been crucified. With Christ. So if you are a Jesus follower, if you have professed your faith in the saving work of Jesus on the cross, this is what Paul is saying. He says, you and I, imagine yourself on a cross. We're crucified with Him. He goes, I've been crucified with Christ. It's no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. In the life that I live, I live by faith in the Son of God. That's the reality of the Christian life. That is the gospel, right? God does not want us to go, oh, you have a little bit of God, just make sure that, oh, maybe my eternity is secure. You know, I just need that in case it doesn't work out. That's not how it works. He just takes over. And that is the process of sanctification. We'll hear more about that in a couple of weeks. But that is discipleship, where we grow in having God take over our lives fully and wholly. So the fundamental, the foundational battle that we face is who or what do you love? with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. We all love something. The question is, is it God? For some of you, it might be. I know it is because I interact with a lot of you guys and even at 180 and you're consumed by your love for God just as much as Scott Russ and his wife Jeannie, they're consumed. They were consumed by God's love. And if that's you, that's great. But for some of us, That might not be it. We're so preoccupied with our careers. We want to be something. We want to make it big. This becomes a single-minded pursuit in our life. We want to get our careers, our life squared away before we get to God. And Solomon, who had everything, all of the riches, he goes, remember your creator in the days of your youth because everything else is vanity. That's what he says, right? So... Do you love your job, your career more than you love God? Or it could be our family. It could be our significant others. It could be our boyfriend, our girlfriend. Whatever it might be. God wants to be number one in your life. And you know when we love something, we kind of give it all, right? We're totally in it. One of my loves, if I were to say, or biggest battles, is sports. I love sports. And not just, I don't follow just one or two, I follow sports all around the world. This was when I was growing up in India, I would be following the English Premier League in London, the La Liga in Spain, Formula One racing, it's all over the world. Watch a little bit of golf, the US PGA Tour. That's just how, and you know, I'm the kind of guy that just, I just can't just watch the game. I have to do the pre-match analysis, I got to do the post-match analysis. And once that's done, I'll go online and read a few articles. And then the next day, I'll read more articles. That's just how I am. Right? And sometimes that can become an idol. It can take the place of God. You know, I remember, you know, such... The most frustrating thing about sports for me is why do all of these big events happen on Sundays when church is going on? I'm like, ah! I want to check. I want to know the score. You know, Formula One. Okay, I'll give you the order of the top three sports that I follow. Number one is cricket. Yes. Yes. And I got to tell you guys, you guys are missing out if you're not following cricket. I have to say that, you know, but that's for another day. Number one is cricket. By the way, Pastor Carl was a cricket cynic. He would make fun of me all the time. And I took him to a cricket game that happened in New York a year ago. And he goes... This is actually pretty good, right? So don't judge before you actually see and know what it is, okay? So that's number one. Number two is Formula One. Love it. Love it. Been to the Austin Rays, in fact, with Preston here. He's a Formula One fan as well. Number three is basketball. Basketball. And I've got some bad news for our Bulls fans. I used to be a huge Lakers fan. Sorry about that. But the only reason was, you know, I grew up in India. This was the early 2000s. The only basketball games that were shown on TV was the Lakers. So I watched Kobe Bryant and Shaq win all those championships. And it was funny because the time change, all of these happened at 4 a.m. in the morning. So I'm an 11-year-old boy. And my grandfather, he used to wake up at 325 every day. He used to wake up at 325 and then he used to make coffee. And tea in a flask for the entire family. So when we wake up at 7, 8, or 9, there's still like hot coffee, tea for us. And so there'd be days where like I just walk out at 4 a.m. He goes, what are you doing? You're like four hours early. You know, it's like, oh, I've got a playoff game to watch. Can you give me a cup of coffee? He's like, sure. You know, the funny thing about it is, I couldn't wake up that early for an exam to study for an exam. I could never wake up to read the Bible that early, ever. But I could to watch Kobe Bryant. Right? That shows where my actual love is. Is right? Loving God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength. When we love something, we do whatever it takes. We make it happen. It doesn't matter. That's the kind of devotion that God is calling each and every one of us to. To love Him with everything that we have. God is calling us to go all in with him. So we become wholeheartedly devoted to him and he becomes our greatest passion, our highest priority and the center of our attention. A lot of us, we have that. You know, there are a lot of people who love God with everything that you have. A lot of you, even if you're not there, you want to be there. Or else you wouldn't be here on a Sunday morning. Unless you've been forced to be here by, you know, by a family. You're here of your own free will. And so you want to love God. And some of you, you're making an attempt. You're growing. You're growing. We really want that, but we're at a point where, God, I don't know if I can give you all of my life. I don't know if I can give these areas yet. I want control because we're taught to control our own destiny. We believe that we know what is best for us, right? But that's just an illusion. One of my favorite quotes from Seuss Lewis goes like this. It says, Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward... And the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. He goes, we are half-hearted creatures fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered to us. Like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased. That's a lot of us. We settle. We settle for far less than what God wants for us. I love that verse in Ephesians 3.20. It says, for him who's able to do abundantly more than you can ask. It doesn't even stop there. Or imagine. Imagine. And that's been in some ways the story of my life and a lot of our lives. I remember 12 years, 13 years ago now, stepping foot for the first time in Chicago as a student at Moody Bible Institute. I didn't know anyone. I didn't know what I was getting into. You know, I just had a few. We had just liquidated all my savings and that was it. I remember my grandmother was like, when is the next time I'm going to see you? And she goes, well, this is the four-year degree, but I think I'll be back in like four months because that's all the money that I have. And she goes, no, Ajit, that's not going to happen. God's taking you there. He'll take care of you. And it's been 13 years, right? And if you look back, I mean, if you had told me this is the life that I've been living now with you guys, the church, my family, my wife, my kids, and all of what God's blessed, it's far more than what I imagined, right? That is what God has for each and every one of us. We are far too easily pleased. We settle for far less. And one of the things that I want for each and every one of us here at 180 is let's commit to going all in with Jesus this year. And I'm not promising you material success. I'm not promising you just if you do this, God's actually going to bless you. You're going to have a great house. You're going to have a great car. You're going to have a great career. That's not the gospel. The gospel is eternity focused, not just for the here and now. You might have to go through suffering. I might have to go through suffering. Scott Russ was young, early 60s, right? But there's an eternity. If you look at his life from eternity's perspective, it makes sense. God is calling you to go all in with him. So what do we do? Turning point. I want to give us just three things that I want you to focus on. Just even steps that might help you to identify where, what is stopping you from going all in with God and make that jump this year. Number one, examine yourself for any competing loves. What things capture your attention or vie for your affections more than God? This can be good things. It could be family, sports, work. Those are all not bad things. Sports is a great thing, you know. The filter that I use even for myself with sports is, you know, 1 Corinthians 6.23 says, All things are lawful, but that doesn't mean that all things are helpful, right? So I still watch my sports. I still, if I have time, I do pre-match, post-match. You know, I do read a lot of articles. But that never, well, I shouldn't say never because it's a battle, right? We join God and we can only do this in His strength. But bringing it to God and making sure that that doesn't become an idol which takes the place of God. John Piper, actually, in his book, What Should I Do When I Don't Desire God? It's a great book, by the way. It's a hard read, but if you're struggling for joy in your life, if you're in a dry season, if you're in the wilderness and you want to know what to do, that's a good book to read. It's a little dense, very exegetical, very technical, but I would encourage that. When I don't desire God, this is what he says, preferring anything above Christ is the very essence of sin. It must be fought. And he goes, Believing means trusting Jesus not only as our all-sovereign Lord and all-sufficient Savior, but also as our all-surpassing treasure. Trusting in Christ as our treasure means seeing and savoring Him as a treasure. Christ is not our treasure if we do not treasure Him. And treasuring something means we're so glad to have it. And he goes, maintaining joy in God takes work. That is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the way to seeing and savoring Christ. Things are always not going to be rosy. There's always a battle. We're in a war. There's going to be things vying for our attention, for our priority. But God wants us with His strength to fight through it so that we make Him. We go all in with Him and go, God, I want to love you with all that I have. Examine yourself for any competing loves. And secondly, identify any areas of half-hearted trust. Any area where you're holding back from trusting God. It just means so much to you that it's just so hard. You've been betrayed or you've been hurt. And you just feel you need to be in control of that. You can't give it to God. But we need to remember that God has already given us his absolute best. And his promises, and he promises that he won't withhold anything for our good. In Romans 8.22 it goes, He who did not spare his own son. But gave him up for us all. How will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Because God the Father gave his most treasured possession. If you were to put it that way. Jesus to us. He gave his son for you. For me. He has our best interests in mind. So identify any areas of half-hearted trust. Then take the next step to be all in with God. What is the next tangible, doable step that you can do to increase your proximity with God? A lot of times what trips us up is because we just aim for too high. I've gone through many years going, I'm going to read 50 books this year. And after like book three, I'm done. Right? So now I go, you know what? I'm not going to set those targets. I'll take it one day at a time. And let's see how much I read at the end of the year. Don't ask me. Don't ask me how many I read last year, by the way. Sometimes we just aim for too much. And then we just... We don't hit our targets and we feel frustrated. We give up. That's not what God is asking. What is the next step to go all in with God? What is God asking you to do? It might just be a small thing. It might be... You know, spending a few more minutes. Maybe the first thing you got to do is when you wake up, just commit your day to God. Maybe you're not doing that and God wants you to pray. Maybe spend a few minutes. Start with five minutes in His Word and then slowly increase it. Don't stop there. Don't be content with those baby steps. But just take the next step to be all in with God. God is calling you to be all in. That's what matters. Our life is short. We don't know how much time we have. God has a great life for us, not just here, but for eternity. So here's what we're going to do as we transition to a time of communion. I want to take a few minutes to reflect. I'd love for us, even as the pads are playing, I want us to just bow our heads and if you're able to just close your eyes, just reflect on these two questions. What is God showing you today about being all in with Him? What is the first step you need to take this week? God wants you. Everything that you have. Wants you to love him with all of your heart, soul, mind, strength. What does that look like? I want us to really, if we can listen to the Holy Spirit, just meditate for a couple of minutes before we transition to the Lord's table. Amen. God, I just pray for each and every person here. I know they want you, God, or else they wouldn't even be here. God, I pray even as we meditate on your word, on your scriptures, even as Jesus says, this is it. This is the greatest commandment, the first commandment. God, I pray that you would help us. Help us to go all in with you this year. Help us to go all in with you today. Help us to love you with everything that we have. A heart soul, mind, and our strength, Father. Please, we can only do that with your strength. And God, even as folks here take their next step with you, God, whatever that baby step that you're prompting them right now, I pray would you help them to see the fruit of that so that it would snowball into many baby steps. Be able to run towards you, Father. No, no, it's the best thing that we can do to go all in with you. And we pray that this would be a step in the right direction towards that, God. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.