"Sing A Song to The Lord." -Johnny Asevedo

Pastor Johnny shares a word the importance of your fresh and daily song to the Lord. Enjoy!

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Welcome to the Destiny Church and Throne podcast. We pray this stirs you into a deeper relationship with Jesus and equips you to live a heaven-on-earth lifestyle daily. Enjoy. Those lights, brother. We got two Justins in the building. Double grace. I will say this. Um Karen's. And two Jessica's. Wow. Hmm. Something. Something's afoot. And Ben's middle name's Johnny. I'm just joking. Yeah. Like, dude, wow, something's really happening right now. Ottawa's middle name is Cherish. What? What's happening? Um, so uh Nicole. All right. Um, so really quick, I want to share, sorry, I want to share something. Um we were praying about the Orange Table, or not praying, discussing, about asking other people, like, you know, other organizations to sew and stuff like that. And uh, and something really cool. This lady just reached out to me like right now as we're here, and she's like, hey, I want to provide the meal. I don't even know who this lady is. Um, she's like, I want to provide the meal for y'all's orange table that's happening on Monday. And it's like shepherd's pie. She said a big pan of each. Wow. That's fantastic. That's so cool. Um that's amazing. Uh, that's just absolutely amazing. I just wanted to share that because we were just talking about that. Talking going to businesses, and I was like, and we were just talking about trusting God. Like, I'm sorry, y'all. I'm just like floored. Because I'm getting I got this text that's just like straight up about this lady, and I'm just like sitting here, I'm thinking, like, Lord, this is wild. It just threw me for a loop because I was like, this is just so wild. Because uh she's texting me again. That's awesome. It's it's oh, it's a casserole, not a shepherd's pie. Oh yeah, that's awesome. She's gonna end up with more stuff. My kitchen is a happy place, just to let you know. Wow. Praise God. Praise God. No cats on the countertop. Holy. Um, uh, yeah, we went to this. Uh are we recording? Stop it for a second. I'm gonna share this funny story. Are we gonna pick up right where we just delete it all? All right, all right. Bloopers editing. All right, this is a lot, this is a live version. Okay. Um yeah, so praise God. God is good, He provides. Oh my goodness, it it blows me away with with what the Lord is doing and how cool it is. Um, just keep saying yes to the Lord. Guys, there are people that I have met uh that I've talked to recently, and I want to say this is a testament to you guys how you sow, how you tithe, how you pray, how you how you volunteer, all that kind of stuff. There's people that I I've never even met before. Met two or three this week, never even met them before, who knew who our church was, and in some way our church had affected them or their family. Didn't even know who they were. Shook hands with them, met them, two were in Beaumont, and it was like people I'd never even met before. Um, and they were talking about how this ministry has blessed them. And I and that is a testament to this house, the vision of this house, the culture of this house, and our heart to serve. Amen? And so that's that's what it's all about. That's what it's all about. Um, it's hard, it would be very hard to be a lazy Christian. Seriously, I don't see how people can do it. I want to talk about singing a song to the Lord tonight. Uh, I want to make it brief, but I want to make it challenging at the very same time. Uh, I love to sing. Our house is full of songs all the time. Um, we we're we're just we're always singing. Uh one of the first things I asked day one at work is, can I sing to my patients? Can I sing to them? Can I sing with them? Is that okay? They said, absolutely. My favorite thing is singing songs to the Lord all day, every day, don't matter what. Like it, like just singing songs. We've taken secular songs and and and turned them into uh Holy Ghost songs. Um, Jessica's got some great ones. You know, just just praising his name, just loving on Jesus, right? And and and there's something about the song. First off, there's something about music, period. Have you ever been in that place where you've heard a song that reminded you of your childhood or your teenage years, and you can remember exactly where you were when that song was playing. It's a very music is so powerful. I'm not gonna get into the depth of Lucifer and him being the leader. That's not where I'm going with this. Where I'm going is we're gonna talk about singing a song to the Lord day in and day out, and having a reflection of that song as we worship him corporately on Sundays, as we worship him on Monday mornings, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, everything. We're gonna talk about singing a song to the Lord. So um uh again, one of my favorite things to do is sing to the Lord. Sunday morning was beautiful, guys. Beautiful. We had that one moment where we were singing, Worthy is your name, Jesus. You deserve the praise. Worthy is your name. Y'all remember that Sunday morning? I mean, oh my goodness, I was melting. What yes? I mean, it filled the room. It was it was it was so intimate, and it was us ministering to him with a very simple song that has been sung millions of times in a church setting. Worthy is your name, Jesus. But it was beautiful because everyone in the room lifted their voice. That's the first time I heard Justin sing. He was right there singing. I heard his mom singing, I heard his brother and their friends singing, I heard people singing that I had never even heard their singing voice before. And it was this collective effort of us lifting a song to the Lord. And that song has not left my heart since Sunday. And I just keep thinking about the sound, the echoes of the whisper or the louder audible voices in the room as we sing, Worthy is your name, Jesus. I just keep hearing it over and over and over. And and a lot of times, and I've said this before, and this is not just about worship settings in church. This is about a song to be sung every day of our life to the king. I don't know about you, but not a day goes by that I do not listen to music in some form or capacity. There are times where I'll just take the night and I'll just put my headphones on and I'll just listen to music or go try to find new music. That's a hobby of mine. I want to sit on the couch, put my earphones on, and just try to find new music, new bands, and just listen to stuff, listen to beats. I'll listen to a song, I'll listen to the way the drums sound and what's in the background of it, the vocals, the lyrics. It's huge to me. It's so important. And it's like I believe that it's not just something that is a personality trait, because I believe that we were always called to sing to the Lord. Which is why you don't necessarily ever have to teach a baby about music or what music does. You don't go to a baby. We've never gone to Maggie, Kyla, Israel, Julian, and said, when this stuff plays, you do this, you sing like this. No, babies just start doing it. They just know to dance, they just know to just start singing and just start trying to match the words that are on there. Right now, Maggie's singing uh uh daddy finger, daddy finger, where just loves it. She's just singing it all the time. And it's it's it's it's these songs. And when she sings that song, I hear it in my head when I'm at work. When when when when when my little girl sings these songs, she wants me to grasp, she gives me the guitar to play baby shark with her, and she sings the song. And we sing it, and we and we jam out. And and and when I'm at work, I I can hear her singing, Daddy Finger, Daddy Finger, where are you? Right? And she's dancing around here, and she knows all the fingers. It brings pleasure to the father when my daughter sings. When she releases these songs into the atmosphere, it marks my heart. How much more so our song ministering to the Lord? Amen. Like, think about this. And so many times in church settings, right, we don't lift our voice. Right? We we do we whether it's a feeling or I just I'm not with it right now, or my emotions aren't there, or I don't feel like singing, or or whatever it may be. You look at these babies and they could be crying one moment because they want a lollipop, and the very next moment it's daddy finger, daddy finger. They're not like, no, I don't feel like laughing singing because I just got done crying and going through something very difficult, right? I didn't get the right ice cream. They don't allow their situation or circumstance to dictate the song that's being released. And in the church, that happens far too often. I want you to ask yourself, when is the last time you woke up and the first thing out of your mouth after thank you, Jesus, praise you for another breath, or whatever you may do in your practice, that you began to just start singing to the Lord? When's the last time that a song in there was birthed in your secret place to him was stuck in your heart that you just kept singing to him throughout the day? Psalms 96, 2 and 3 says, Sing to the Lord and praise his name each day. Proclaim the good news that he saves. Each day. It tells us to sing to the Lord, praise his name, and each day proclaim the good news that he saves. This is in Psalm, this is in the Old Testament, sing a song to the Lord. Sing to him. Right? Sing to him. Do you sing enough? Right? Do you complain, gossip, uh, backbite? Woe is me, more than a song coming from your lips to minister to the heart of Jesus. Sing to the Lord and praise his name. And 1 Chronicles 16, it says, Give thanks to the Lord, proclaim his greatness. Let the whole world know what he has done. Sing to him. Yes, sing his praises. We have song services, and and and in some cases, there's a lot of songs that are more us-driven. Right? More about us and more about and and and and and I'm not here to bash any of that, but what I'm saying is we have to get back to the place where our songs are ministering to him and who he is. Right? There's nothing wrong with singing he has delivered me, because he is a deliverer. Lord, you've delivered me. You are my deliverer. That's who you are. You've delivered me. There's nothing wrong with that. But I don't want to become the central focus when I should be singing and releasing my song to him and what he has done. So, so so what if the next time that you're in a financial situation, a health situation, a job situation, what if instead of like, oh come on, God, I need you to come through, please, Lord, break through. I need this, I need this, which is okay. He hears you, right? He delivers his people. But what if in that moment you begin to sing out a song that says, You're a deliverer, you've delivered me once, and you'll do it again. You deliver David from the lion and the bear, you'll deliver me from this. What if in that moment you begin to sing about who he is? Sing to the Lord. We don't sing enough. Are you singing enough? The Bible tells us, it tells us that we are surrounded by songs of deliverance. Your song can bring you freedom, beloved. Amen? Are you singing enough? This is not a this is not about talent. Okay? This is not a I could care less. I would love to have, like, I would much rather have, and and I love our worship team. I'm actually saying this more of just to say it, and I'm sure any pastor would agree. I would much rather have a team of people who have never played before, who are just learning, lead worship, that have pure hearts and clean hands, than those that think they're professionals who never meet with Jesus, who only know him in idea or thought. They don't personally know him. If you went to go get your oil changed, and they were like, Yeah, you're low on oil. And you're like, okay, fix your oil. And they're like, sure, I'm gonna fill it up with this can of oil, and you're like, sir, you're not holding anything. And they're like, exactly. Right? Who wants to be in a position where we have the idea of oil, but there's no oil there? And and in your song, in your worship to the king, where is the oil? And many times the oil can come from the crushing, the oil can come from from you being desperate for him. But a lot of times the oil in your song will come from you knowing who he is and what he's done in your life. If you go in the Old Testament and you see when when God delivered the children of Israel from Egypt, delivered them from being slaves, miraculously, they sing songs. In fact, if you look up history, history's chalked full of songs that were sung in different nations and different cultures and different civilizations that are that are tied to the history of those places. How does every Super Bowl and game start out in America? Oh, say, can you see, right? Right? We sing this song. I don't remember all the words. I've seen people who sing the Star Spangled Banner like on on like live TV that messed it up. I feel so bad for them. It's wild. But we start, we start games with a song about our nation. Right? But yet, but yet we get into this place when it's time to sing songs to the Lord as the body, and we forget. And we just sat there, we're like, well, I just really don't feel like singing. The worship team's doing a great job. God knows my heart. Right? Oh, me and God got a thing. Like, never say that in your life. Please. Never say that. Me and God got, no, no, no, no. You don't. You and God don't. Like, if you say me and God got, don't. You you you don't. That's not how it works. It does not work like that.

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Okay, I mean I don't know.

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Yeah, you know what I mean? Like, uh, me and me and the big man got an understanding. You don't. You you don't. Right? Like, come on. But when you get into the place, and we're gonna we're gonna hit on corporate and then we're gonna hit on secret place. When we come together corporately, if you look in the Old Testament, when people were freed, people, they sang songs together. If you look in the book of Revelation, the heavens are singing a song, right? There is a collective group of people who are releasing a song to the Lord. Collective. All of us together. So, what does a corporate setting look like? What would it look like when everybody's in a place and they are singing a song to the Lord? If you were new here when we first started, and one of the things that you may have noticed during our song service that is different from a lot of other people that are in churches during our praise and worship settings is you saw zero words up here. We've had people that have walked in, where are the words? During the beginning stages, we attempted, I think, one service. Somebody here was like, well, just try it, you know, one of our worship leaders at the time, just try to put words on the screen. People will get engaged. We tried it, we were like, that ain't it. Because what you find, and I remember when the Lord told me, the Lord said, the only reason I don't want you to put any words when we're singing the songs on the screen, I don't want any distractions in the room. You say, Well, I'm just I'm I want to sing along. Yeah, but many times we can get caught up in the work of just looking and reading it and thinking that it's coming from our heart because we're getting every every word right.

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Like, okay, yeah, worthy is your name, Jesus. And then if you don't know the song, then you're like, We're worthy is your name, right? And we're just like, we don't know the song, so we don't even know where the words go, right? And so, corporate, in a corporate setting, when we're together, when you're with your family, there is a song to be sung and should be being sung corporately as a body. The Bible talks about even in the early days with the early church, they sang songs, they sang hymns. That's what they did. When they came together, they sang songs. So that would be like if right now I was like, Chris, come release your song to the Lord. You may be like, it's not gonna, it might not sound good, but here we go. And that's okay to say. I say it all the time. I'm not the best singer, but I will sing all day 24-7. Like I'm just gonna do it. I mean, because he's not looking for your talent, he's looking for your heart posture. So it should never be, it may be kind of weird, like, okay, but you should be willing to say, I will sing to him. When we gather here on Sunday mornings, there's these moments of instrumental, there's these moments where our worship team just begins to prophetically sing. Guys, I'm gonna be the first to tell you this. Usually on Sundays we have a plan. That plan never goes according to plan. Ben, Justin? We have an idea of what we want to do, and the Lord's like, let's do this instead. And our team just begins to flow in that direction. So by the time we get into the end of worthy is your name, nobody even talked about that song all year. It just happened Sunday the way it happened, being led by the Spirit and singing and worshiping Him. That wasn't a planned moment. It was huge. The feeling in the room when that took place. In a corporate setting, when we are singing to the Lord and we are praising his name, when we are proclaiming his goodness, when we are releasing these fresh songs to the Lord, what does your song sound like, or is your song absent? Right? Are we complaining, murmuring, or are we doing everything else more than singing a song? Are we worrying more than we are singing a song? Are we fearful more than we are singing a song? What does your song sound like? David, a lot of the psalms came from him running from a king who wanted to kill him. A lot of David's songs weren't coming from, I'm king, I rule, I can do whatever I want to do in this place. This is my kingdom, glory. No. He was in the cave being chased and wanting to be killed. That's where his songs came from. And yet he still was publishing the good deeds of the Lord within his song and how good he was. Where's your song? Where's where's your heart? I believe that that as you sing and as you worship him, you'll start to truly see where your treasure is. And and and even just corporately, let me say this too. Even just corporately, it takes a lot to say, you know what? I don't care who hears me, I'm gonna sing his praises. And it's and it's and it's not about a work of it, it's that God is calling me to. Because think about when when your kids were babies and they sang those songs, how much it warmed your heart. You know what I'm talking about? When your babies, and and for those that don't have babies yet, you just wait. When your babies start singing songs, the way that it just feels in you to hear them sing in their little voices. And it sticks with you as a parent. It's like I just I just think about the Lord, I think about Jesus, I think about the Father, and I think that as we sing these songs, this sweet smelling aroma, how pleasing it is as we release these songs of intimate worship to our God. Sing to Him. Right? Don't allow the enemy or yourself or your feelings or your emotions cause you to be silent. The Bible is telling us right here, and I'm going to read it again. It tells us, I'm going to read the one from 1 Chronicles. Give thanks and proclaim, proclaim his greatness. Let the whole world know what he has done. Sing to him. Yes, sing his praises. There's emphasis on that. In Scripture, when something's spoken twice or three times, there's an emphasis of the writer wanting you to know, listen to what I'm saying. Again, telling your kid, don't touch the hot stove. Don't touch the hot stove. What are you telling them? Don't touch the hot stove. You're giving them some very, very important details, some very important instructions. And so this is what the word is telling us. The word is saying, sing to him. I say again, sing to him. So let's talk about the secret place now. The secret place song. The secret place song is so in your secret place as you're with him. And everybody's secret place looks different. Everybody's prayer time looks different in some way, but it's also going to look the same in a lot of other ways. I want to encourage you, as you pray, as you read your word, when you're in your secret place, to sing to him. Sing about who he is and who he's been in your life. So, for example, Justin, pick on you for a moment. God just did a beautiful thing in your life, right? Immediate answer of prayer with a job and everything like that. Didn't leave you without, so you weren't not going to have, and you have enough, and he blessed you even more today with a financial blessing. So when the enemy comes in and he says, God's not going to provide for you, what are you doing? You're able to say, He's my provider. Jesus, you provide. You begin to lift up this song of deliverance because where there was once an area where you felt bound, is there going to be breakthrough? Is there going to be financial breakthrough? Am I going to get this job on time? Whatever it may be, he comes, there's an answer prayer. God fulfills these things, and now he has delivered, he set you free in that area. And so you can sing about him being a deliverer. When you're in your secret place, remember who he is and what he has done. Sing songs over your family. Sing over them who he is. If you're battling something with your children, they're running or whatever it may be. Sing about who he is as a rescuer. If there's something in your life that's been heavy, sing about who he is. When you're in the secret place, sing an intimate song to him. Just sing it to him. Sing that song of intimacy to the Lord. Lift your voice and worship him. One of the greatest things that I love about worship is it is me releasing a song about who he is and singing it from a heart that says, I know you. If you remember when Saul, who was bound by demons, David came, and David in Saul's bedroom, he began to sing. And in Saul's bedroom, chambers, and these places, Saul would feel freedom from these demons. The demons would flee. Now when David left, they would come back. But it goes to show you the power of the song in your bedroom. Is it many years ago? The Lord had given. I love it. The Lord gave Pastor Karen a song over North Korea. Didn't know why. Didn't know why. It was on when we're living in 28th Street, years ago, here in Orange. And she would just sit in front of the keyboard and she would just sing songs over North Korea. Don't know why, didn't know why. Had no ties, had there was nothing that came on the news about it, nothing like that. Just started singing songs, songs of deliverance over that nation in her secret place. And later, there was amazing news about breakthrough that had taken place there, spiritual breakthrough, you know, whatever it may have been in that moment over there in North Korea. And there's been been other things, songs and neighborhoods that have been on hearts that you just has just been sung and just been released. Before we launched this church, there was a song that we used to sing in the house that was, you may know it because we sang it here today, but it was that song Face to Face. Face to face, I want to be with you. You know what I'm talking about? That song was birthed in like 2017, 2018, two years before this church launched. And we knew that that was going to be a song released in the house. And it's a staple of this house. Face to face, I want to be with you. It's mounted on our wall right there. It's a staple of this house that came from a song in the secret place. There are songs that you have of deliverance to be sung over your life, over your family's life. And I challenge you to incorporate your song in your prayer life, in your Bible reading life. I encourage you to pick a psalm while you're reading the word and sing it. That's what they would do. They would go in the Psalms in different celebrations, and they would sing these psalms. There's different areas. Yesterday, my buddy he was teaching at his church. He talked about David and Saul. And there's a part that Saul in his pride, he got angry at David. You know why Saul got angry at David? You want me to tell you what happened? So, King Saul, David, who was anointed to be king in the Old Testament. Saul got upset at David because they came back from war. And check this out. When they came back from war, Saul wanted to kill David. Read about it. It's an amazing story. Amazing story. They need to make a real movie about David. I actually have the intro. The intro needs to have this like it's like a black screen. Just hear me out for a second. I'm pitching a movie here. Nicole pitching a movie. Just a shh, it's black. And you hear like just ruggedness and stones and sand moving and winds howling, and you just hear and and and and the picture opens up and you just see David covered in blood sawing through Goliath's head. And he just lifts up Goliath's head and it's like, David. Because that's what he did. I was just thinking, wouldn't that be amazing? Like epic music. And you just hear this, and you're like, what's going on? And it's it's David sawing through the head of Goliath because that's what happened. The Bible's amazing, guys. It's it's you don't even need movies when you read the Bible. Hallelujah. But the reason Saul wanted to kill David, because they got back from a war. And the people started singing. Saul has killed thousands, but David has killed tens of thousands. Saul has killed thousands, but David has killed tens of thousands. And Saul says, I'm the king. And they're saying that I've only killed thousands, but David has killed tens of thousands. Who were they? What more will he have but my kingdom? And from that day forward, Saul wanted to kill David. Where would it come from? A song. A song was released. When you read later in Scripture, King David, married to Saul's daughter, comes in worshiping, praising, singing. Open up you ancient gates and you ancient doors. That's a song. It would be in procession. What they say is that David would say, Open up you ancient gates, and the people in the city would say, Open up you ancient doors. And it was the song that was being sung in that moment. And he comes into the city worshiping, praising, and singing a song, and it was Saul's daughter who was disgusted by it, who told him, Man, you're like, look what you're why are you doing this in front of everybody? It's so disgusting. He said, I'm doing this in the eyes of the Lord. And it says that she was barren for the rest of her days. No more birthing for the rest of her days. When David says, I was doing it before the Lord, it honestly actually means that it was just him and God. In his mind, in his heart, when he was dancing, going through the city, worshiping, singing these songs, in those moments, in his heart, in his place, in his posture, it was just him and God. Nobody else. This is the power of the secret place song, and something that can bring you into a depth of intimacy to which likes that you've never encountered before as you sing about who he is. There's something so powerful about the song. One of the most complicated things about a wedding is the music. The perfect songs, the perfect song for the father and daughter dance, the perfect song for the aisle, the perfect song for. There's something so prophetic about the intimate song that you can sing to the Lord. And so um I want to challenge you. I want to challenge you. I want you to go on a morning fast. For seven days. Accept the challenge if you want to. But the fast is that every morning, right when you wake up, you begin to sing about his goodness. The moment your eyes open, oh, worthy are you, Jesus. That's the challenge. That's the fast over the next seven days. When your eyes open, this is this is as the shepherd of this house, as your pastor that you've entrusted. I'm calling this house to a seven-day morning fast. That's the best way I can say it, of you right when you wake up singing a song to the Lord. I'm not asking you to sing for hours. I'm not asking you to sing for 30 minutes, 15 minutes. I'm saying, in for the next seven days, when your eyes pop open, begin to sing a song to the Lord. If you've got to take a moment and say, Lord, I want to think of something. Take a moment, think about it, and just begin to release the song of the Lord. And all throughout your day, sing a song to the Lord. Audibly, sing a song to the Lord. When you're at your desk, sing a song to the Lord. When you're at your workplace, sing a song to the Lord. But but this is the challenge, this is the fast for Destiny Church. It's when you wake up over the next seven days. When you wake up in the morning, begin to sing a song. And not just like this. I mean, holy are you, King. Oh, thank you. Jesus doesn't care about morning breath. Holy are you, Jesus. You are everything. Just begin to love on him and who he is. Start your day by singing a new song to the Lord. Let's pray. Father, I thank you for sending your son Jesus to die on the cross, to be resurrected and alive today, so that we can live with you, in you, through you, and for you. Thank you for the access that we have into the secret place, Lord. I pray that songs of thankfulness would be upon your people's lips. God, I pray that any areas where we've been fearful, worry, um, um, um, dealing with any stress, Lord, complaints, murmurings, God, that it would be replaced with a song. And just as your word says, Lord, I believe that we are surrounded by songs of deliverance. And I believe that these songs of deliverance, before they are sung by us, they are first sung by you because we don't do anything unless we see you do it. And we don't say anything unless we hear you say it. So, Lord, I'm asking over this house that over these next moments, these next days, even coming in on Sunday morning, that we would come in with a new perspective during worship. That we would make an attempt to lift our voice and sing. To lift our voice and be audible. There's something about the sound being audible. Peter said on the water, Jesus, if that's you, bid me to come. And he said, Come. It was audible. It wasn't in his heart, it wasn't in his mind. It was audible. Lord, if that's you, tell me to come. So, Lord, I pray that we understand that there is something of a significant weight that is found in the audible song. So I just thank you for this house. I thank you that we will be a people that sing your praises, that proclaim your greatness and your goodness every day of our lives. And we thank you for it in Jesus' name. Amen. I love you guys. Sing your song to the Lord. I'm telling you, it is so important. I want to share this very last thing. Last night, I listened, I went to go listen to my uh my buddy preach a message at a church up the street, and they had a uh a moment after he got done teaching, kind of like what we did at the beginning here, where it was just like, hey, just love on him, just praise him. And I just sat there, nothing crazy. I wasn't like overly like, whoa, like I just, I was just I was just singing to him like I sing to him. And this this lady, this little lady that was across the way in the middle section, not even next to me, in the middle section, she comes over to me and she says, I love your worship. Don't stop worshiping Jesus. I was like, man, it's beautiful. Because it was just a it was just a song. It was not, I wasn't like over the top. It was just me singing and loving on Jesus the way I know how to do it. So the other side of this, guys, is that your song, we haven't barely even touched it, but your song can bring freedom and breakthroughs to others. It's huge, guys. So let's have a different mindset and a perspective when we come in on Sunday mornings. It's not about talent, it's about your heart posture. But over the next seven days, over the next seven days, sing a song to the Lord right when you wake up. Amen. I love you guys. And here's the other thing. Let us know how it's going. Right? Let, hey, this was all my, I sang this this morning. Oh my goodness. I told Chris, I remember one of the first times I met Chris within the first year. I said, over the next like two weeks, every morning, start giving thanks to God and praying peace over your life or something. And he did it. And he came to me and he said, How amazing and how much it changed his life in those moments. Start your day off. Let's over the next seven days. That's our fast. Sing right when your eyes open. Love you.