MAR 16 2025 | Genesis: Behind the Curtain S5E8 | The Story of Isaac: Soup & Blessings

Sea Change Church · MAR 16 2025 | Genesis S4E8 - The Story of Isaac: Soup & Blessings
Genesis 25:29-34
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So, Lord, bless this offering. Would you spark and encourage people here to be involved, God, in your kingdom work, Lord? As you encourage them and you bless them. In the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. The book of Genesis, chapter 25, verses 29 through 34. Once when Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field and he was exhausted.

And Esau said to Jacob, let me eat some of that red stew for I am exhausted. Therefore, his name was called Edom. Jacob said, sell me your birthright now. Esau said, I am about to die of what use is a birthright to me. Jacob said, swear to me now. So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank and rose and went his way.

Thus Esau despised his birthright. This is the word of the Lord. Let's get started. Right on. If you have your Bibles, open up to Genesis. We're in the last week of our Old Testament narrative. We try to go through every type of biblical genre throughout the year. We started with the wisdom literature and Proverbs and Ecclesiastes and moved into the Old Testament narratives.

And we're moving next week into the Gospels. I'll be teaching on the Upper Room Discourse. These are the final teachings of Jesus before he goes to the cross. And we're going to be moving into Easter with that. It's the Upper Room Discourse. If you want to kind of get ahead and do the pre-reading, go to John 13 through 18, 13 through 17 actually.

Four chapters there and you can read. It's just some amazing things that Jesus said. And it's just really awesome as we move to the cross. So if you don't have any reading, that's a good place to start. Today I want to talk about the word appetite. And talk about how our appetites define us. In the scripture here we see Esau. Esau is a bit notorious for he was a person who lived according to his stomach.

The things he wanted, he took them. He got what he wanted when he wanted it. He lived according to that. He was the brother of Jacob. He was actually meant originally to be the heir of Israel, one of the patriarchs. It should have been Abraham, Isaac, and Esau. Right? But it wasn't. He was disqualified. And some could say that was providence that God had chosen that in advance.

Some could say it was because of the decisions that he made. But he was a man who was defined completely by his stomach. By the things that he wanted in his appetites. I want to lay that before you today so that you can actually look at your own life and say, what are the appetites that are driving me? We all have appetites. Appetites for finance.

Maybe glory. Maybe relationships. Maybe it's an addiction. Maybe it's God himself. We all have appetites. And we can see that we are defined often by these appetites. You've heard you are what you eat. I would say you are what you seek. What we seek, what we go after, oftentimes defines us in the way that it defines the very, sometimes the way we dress.

It defines the way we act. It defines the look on our face. The thing that you seek is the thing that will often define you. We are what we seek. And so, let me ask. When it comes to your appetites, what are you seeking after? What are the primary things? You could list the top five things that you're going after. The top five things that you're hungering for.

What are those things? And oftentimes, that pursuit, that journey, that regular thinking will actually define us. You're going to see that this actually happens to Esau. Go to verse 30. Verse 30 says, And Esau said to Jacob, let me eat some of that red stew. Now, these are lentils, obviously, like the ones I get from Trader Joe's, the little plastic thing.

For I am exhausted. He was such a whiner. Oh, my goodness. Such a whiner, Esau. Therefore, his name was called Edom. Edom means red. It's interesting that his appetite for this thing, he was just a man of his stomach, wanted what he wanted. He was willing to sell the rights of being the firstborn to eat. And he was actually renamed. He was given a nickname.

He was called Edom because of this. So when I say that you can oftentimes be defined by your appetites, and you know those people, right? Some people, they have a hard time controlling the thing that they're seeking after. And it actually starts to define them, whether it be power or their looks or whatever this thing is. It begins to define them.

He was actually defined. His nickname was Edom. Now, if you know of the peoples that surrounded Israel, one of them eventually were called the Edomites. If you read in the book of Numbers, the Israel later on, much later on in history, is trying to pass through the land of the Edomites to get to where they're going. And they actually are threatened to be attacked.

They're trying to curse the Israelites. This decision that Esau made separated him from his family. He no longer became the firstborn and had the inheritance because he wanted this stew. This one decision, there was actually multiple decisions, He ends up marrying women of the land, which was something his father said not to do to Jacob. Remember Jacob?

They send the servant away. He's not supposed to marry people. Esau marries Canaanites. And they become this people called the Edomites who become Israel's enemies. This one decision separated him from his family, caused enmity, and actually it had thousands of years of repercussions. We oftentimes forget how our appetites will not only define us, but will define our legacy.

Do you know those people that have seen that? I look back in just some of my family history. I see people that we can identify back in my history, people that have long passed now, that their legacy was defined by their appetites. And so we're looking at him here today. There's a verse in Philippians 3.19 out of the English Standard Version. It says, Their end is destruction.

Their God is their belly. And they glory in shame with minds set on earthly things. They glory in their shame. As I look at the word appetites, what is appetite? What does it mean? The Bible talks a lot about appetites. Appetites. Talks a lot about our stomach and it talks about our flesh. Appetites is the desire or cravings of the flesh. Whether food, pleasure, wealth, or power, that can either be submitted to God for his glory or indulged in a way that leads to sin and spiritual decline.

Now you see both Jacob and Esau both had appetites. Jacob had an appetite for the right things, but he went about getting it in the wrong ways. Esau had an appetite for the wrong things, and he went about getting them in the wrong ways. God actually ended up blessing Jacob, and in the end he had a reckoning with Jacob, and Jacob subdued his appetites.

How do we subdue our appetites? In the biblical themes on appetite, we have a few things as you look at the Bible. I just want to give you a little breakdown on these appetites. The first you see is a physical appetite. This is just your hunger for food or your sustenance. You see that in the book of Genesis. The next is fleshly cravings, desire for worldly satisfaction.

That could be lust, covetousness, jealousy. These are all appetites. Anger can be an appetite. Self-control versus indulgence is managing desires and appetites rather than being ruled by them. Great question. What appetites are you ruled by? I was listening to G.K. Chesterton recently. He's an 18th century, early 19th theologian, one of the greatest of all time.

And he says, whatever you cannot say no to, you are a slave to. Whatever you cannot say no to, you are in bondage to, is actually the way that he said it. Do you have that thing that you just can't say no to, that you can't just submit to? And then the fourth we see is this hunger, when the Bible speaks about it, is a spiritual hunger. It's a hunger for God.

And it's an insatiable hunger that God wants to change. It's from the fleshly desires or the things he wants to a spiritual hunger. I don't know about you, but have you ever done one of those diets? I remember I did the Daniel fast a few years ago. I'm not doing it this Lent, but I did the Daniel fast. And I gave myself Sundays off, right? Sundays was my off day, but I was going to do it six days a week and give myself an off day.

And I was driving back from Los Angeles, and I was about week four into it, right? I've been doing it for a while. And I was starting to actually like good food. Like I was wanting to eat spinach. Have you ever done that? Like you change your nose. People are saying no, you never know. And I thought, I'm going to get an In-N-Out burger. I'm going to go buy, and I love In-N-Out burgers, the cheese, animal style with the chopped chilies.

Everyone's got their own way you do it, right? And I drive past this one up in L.A., and I see it, and I thought, I don't know. I'm not really feeling it. I'll be hungry later. And then I got to Long Beach, and I'm like, no, I'm not really feeling like an In-N-Out burger. Pretty soon, I was down in San Diego, and I was home, and I thought, the last thing I want to eat is an In-N-Out burger.

I went in. I got spinach, chard, kale. I can't believe I did this. It's like, no, I'm not even close to me anymore. I made this huge thing of veggies on brown rice. I was so happy because my appetites had completely changed. I was reading today with appetite, when you change your appetites, it says it takes one to three days for your sugar and your food cravings to leave.

By week one, after week one, your taste buds will adjust till you start liking things that you didn't used to like. By week two to four, your gut biome, everyone's into that right now, gut biome. I have no idea what that means. But your microbiome begins to change, favoring food that whole foods thrive on instead of sugar and the whole thing. And then weeks four to eight, your brain chemistry changes.

I have found the same thing with our appetites for God. That it takes a while sometimes to, you know, just to break through to eventually get to a place where you're like, I don't want to do that thing anymore because all I have an appetite is for God. And so we see that that happened to Jacob. It never happened to Esau. Esau's appetites caused him to despise his blessing and an inheritance of God for earthly and momentary satisfaction.

It's interesting and a hard word that when we go for something that we know is something that God would have us not want to consume, we actually are despising the blessing and the presence of God. Now you can say, no, come on. Don't be that pejorative. Don't, it's not that big of a deal. It's just this one. And that's what Satan wants us to think. But every time we move away, we say the blessing that God would give me if I went in a different direction is not worth the red stew that I can have today.

And we see him do it. The Greek word for that, for appetite, is koelia. And koelia, when speaking about your appetite, that Greek word when they use it, means your belly, your bowel. This one's a little weird. Your cavity, that's just what it means, right? When I saw that, I'm like, that's kind of gross. I don't really want to think about that. But this rises up in your belly.

Now, I want to speak about three characteristics from this passage that will allow you to switch over and to change your appetites. Now is a great time to do it as we head towards the cross to change our appetites, to be people that are hungering after God, that our spiritual wants, our emotions want the comfort of God. Our physical body wants the presence of the Holy Spirit more than the things that we can go to that might, at the moment, give us that comfort or that stew-type comfort.

Here's three that they are. First one's this. People of the flesh live for the temporary. Are you a person of the temporary? Or are you a person of the eternal? The second one is, people of the flesh value what is worthless and devalue what is precious. They value what is worthless and devalue what is precious. See, people do that all the time. And number three, people of the flesh are spiritually indifferent.

Different. Que sera sera. It is what it is. I have tomorrow. I can change tomorrow. They're spiritually indifferent. Let's look at the first one. People of the flesh live for the temporary. Go to verse 29. Once, when Jacob was cooking stew, he was a stew cooker, Esau came in from the field. He was exhausted. And Esau said to Jacob, let me eat some of that red stew, for I am exhausted.

I will say the first thing is, the flesh will magnify the moment. The flesh will magnify the moment. Esau's a whiner, right? He just, I'm so exhausted. I'm gonna die. This is the worst thing. I need some stew. He's been out hunting all day. I grant it. He's probably hungry, right? The flesh will magnify the moment. I'm so lonely. I just, I'm so lonely.

I'll just, I'll give up all my morals and whatever it is to go back to that relationship that I said I'd never go back to before because I'm just so lonely. There's that country song I heard, right? It's like I'm a little tipsy. I don't even know this song. I don't listen to a lot of country. But it's like I'm a little tipsy. It's real famous. Maybe you've heard of it.

It's like I'm a little tipsy and it's late at night so I'm gonna call this dude and he's gonna come over. It's like, and I'm listening to that and I'm like, man, country songs are just not the way to go, you know? I don't listen to a lot of country. But doesn't it do that? It doesn't, in that moment, doesn't the flesh will tell you how important that moment is that it's just, it's never gonna change.

It's the worst thing ever. Where Jesus will say something like, hey, man doesn't live on bread alone. He's got a view of the future. I will say one of the best things you can do to be a person of the spirit and not a person of the flesh is to minimize those exaggerated feelings. When you get that feeling, it's just sometimes, and I get them as well, you just get this huge feeling of like, it could be dread, loneliness, fear, whatever those things are, to find ways to minimize those.

And one of the best ways to minimize those is to take the scripture and to speak scripture to those things so you eventually can change your brain chemistry. If you become a person of God's word, if you consume God's word, you actually begin to have the mind of Christ. I find that when I am consuming the word of God, when I am spending regular time with God, those moments that seem to grip me so quickly, that overwhelm me, I have a little bit of margin in order to say no to those.

People of the flesh live for the temporary. I can fix that in the moment. I don't know about you, but I've had so many seasons in my life where I just knew I had these certain things that were plan B that were just there. And I didn't have much of a speed bump between a difficult thing happening in my life and giving myself permission to do what I wanted to do.

I will say, I was reading once again McDonald this week, and McDonald said, there's one thing that you should rebel against on a regular basis. He says, yourself, your own flesh, regularly rebelling against it, saying no to it, chastising it, not for your sake so you can have pride, but for the sake of Christ. You see, one of the things that we oftentimes do is we want to get better for our sake.

The reason we want to chasten ourselves is not for our sake so that you can be a better person and a better Christian. It is for God's sake. You see, the reason we make these decisions is for God, not for ourselves, and that is the ultimate level of spirituality. When you begin to make decisions, not for yourself, even if they're good for yourself, but for God's sake.

The ultimate reason to love yourself is not for yourself, but because God loves you. The reason you should love yourself is because God created you and loved you, and so you begin to love God for his sake. You begin to serve God for his sake. You begin to love yourself for his sake. Why are you lovable? Because God loves you. You're no longer living according to that moment into the flesh.

The spirit hungers for eternity. Philippians 3, 13 and 14. Here's a great verse. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. He's talking about this journey he's on. But one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead. I press on towards the goal of the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

The upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Nothing that you have done to this point in regard to sin matters anymore. It's behind you. What matters is what's in front of you. And so we don't want to sit continually looking back at our sins. We want to press on forward. Where is your eye? What are you living for? Are you living for the moment? Are you living for eternity?

The next thing we see is number two, people of the flesh value what is worthless and devalue what is precious. I've watched the Lord of the Rings trilogy this week. I had a couple days off and I'm not much of a movie watcher. I know, Joe, you're a movie watcher guy. I don't watch a lot of movies. And so I thought I'm gonna watch that trilogy. And I'm just so consumed with Gollum and his precious, right?

He's got this thing, and I'm not gonna do the accent, whatever, but he's got this thing that is the pearl of great price to him. It's this thing that he wants more than anything. And I began to ask myself, do I want the things of Christ that much? Or do I want just enough to make myself feel like I'm being a good Christian? I tend to do that. I do just enough good, just enough quiet time, just enough sacrifice where I can feel like, okay, there's a mark here.

I kind of feel like I've met it. I get a little self-worth from having done well, as opposed to going after God for his sake and plunging into eternity because I want to experience the depths of his love. Began to pray dangerous prayers recently. I've been afraid of praying dangerous prayers. Began to say, God, show me your, what does your glory look like?

What does your kindness look like? And sometimes I feel like if I ask God some of these things, he's gonna say, well, I'm gonna give you a bodily disease and then you're not gonna be able to show this. He's gonna do something bad to me. Anybody feel that way? If I pray these things, it's a lack of faith. I won't pray it because I think he's just waiting there.

I've been waiting for you to pray that one because I got a right hand for you. Good, now we can get to business messing with Adam's life. I want to value what is precious. Jesus is precious. Do you even know what is precious? Do we know the things that are precious? I just realized even with my family, the things that are really precious for my family, the things my kids in the end will really care about, there's things that they will have appreciated but not really care about.

Do I know what is precious? Do I seek after the precious? Or do I go after what is worthless? The things that are precious are eternal. Esau says in verse 32, go to verse 32. Esau said, I'm about to die. What use is this birthright to me? The birthright. The birthright. Back in the day, and it's still even true in a lot of societies today and somewhat here, it means you're the firstborn.

It had a spiritual blessing. Let me just say what the birthrights offered. One, it was a material inheritance. It assured you a double portion of the inheritance. So you got twice as much as any other sibling. So if you have, you know, whatever it is, you get a double portion is the first thing. The next is spiritual blessing. In this season, God was blessing the firstborn.

He was giving a spiritual blessing and he was also calling that person to carry the covenant of the family. It was God's covenant. They became the covenant bearer. They became the one that had the blessing of God upon them. And what does he say? I'm so hungry in this moment. I'm gonna die over-exaggerating. I'm gonna die. What good is this birthright to me?

What good is this birthright to you? You are giving away your entire future. You are giving away your entire legacy for a bowl of soup. He's actually remembered, as we'll see in a moment, in the New Testament for this. Esau was not forgotten. There's a lot of people in the Old Testament that don't make it to the New Testament. Esau makes it there, but for all the wrong reasons.

And so I would ask you, let me put before you, what's that bowl of soup right now for you? Is there a bowl? I bet Jacob made a mean bowl of lentil soup. I bet it was so good. It said he was a man of the tents. I know he was like watching the shows or whatever it was. Jamie Oliver, I don't know. What is that bowl? I know what those bowls are in my life.

And I begin to say, you know what? I want something that is eternal. I don't want that. You see, people of the Spirit, conversely, correctly access what is truly of value and what is worthless. Jacob didn't do it the right way, but Jacob understood what was important. He obviously was trying to take matters into his own hands. He was willing to do devious things to try to get the blessing of God.

But he understood what was of value. If you were to go to next door, and I had, gold is above $3,000 right now, right? An ounce. And if you were to have a gold coin, and I were to go next door to the kids' ministry, and I would also have some Cove Kid Bucks, right? And those Cove Kid Bucks, you know that you can get that. Legos, you know that you can get the backpack, the Miss Kitty backpack, or whatever, Hello Kitty backpack.

And I go up to any of those kids, and I say, hey, I've got this gold coin, right? Now, I know Devin's kid would take the coin, right? Because he taught him well. And I say, I got this one ounce gold coin, or look, I got some splash cash, bro. What do you want? About 90% of those kids are going to take that splash cash. Man, how often do we value the things that are temporal?

Because the things that are eternal, you oftentimes won't see them in the moment. You have to journey to them. You won't know how good of a father you are until your kids are 20, 25, 30. Great, somebody can say, whoa, you went to the kids' dance that one time. You're an amazing dad. You showed up to the soccer game, whatever it is. You won't know how good of a husband.

You won't know how good of a boss. You won't, whatever it is, how good of a discipler. These things don't microwave out. The things of eternal, God has time. Why? Because they're eternal. They take time. The soup is hot, and it's good right now. It will give you what you want. You'll feel it. There will be warmth in your belly. All of a sudden, your low blood sugar will go away.

It's amazing. But it's not eternal. And so what do you want? Jacob understood. Go to verse 31. Jacob said, verse 31, sell me your birthright now. That now was important. He was going to grasp the moment when he could. He was not going to let a moment pass. Now, it wasn't the right thing to do. It was ungodly in which he did it. God had already said to him, as we read in the New Testament last week, it had already been told to his mother, Rebecca, that he was going to be the first son.

And he'd already been prophesied to when the angel spoke to his mother, but it wasn't enough. But with that said, he still knew what was important. And he grasped it, and he said, I want it now. Today is a day where you can say, I want God now. I want to let go of the things that are non-eternal. I want to grab onto the word of God. I want to grab onto worship.

I want to grab onto glory. I want to grab onto his beauty. This week I prayed, God, show me your beauty. I want to see your beauty. What does your beauty look like? I just went to the ocean with my daughter and sat there. It's just a taste. One of the reasons we changed the name of the church to See Change Church is because creative revelation is the first way God speaks to people.

And the name is not for Christians. We named this church for non-Christians. So that they can see something, because the environment is really important right now, and it's something that would speak across the aisle to them. But I've said to God that beauty is something I want. What do you want from God? The final thing is this. People of the flesh are spiritually indifferent.

Verse 34. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew. And he ate and drank and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright. How often do we give away something? You see this sexually in the world a lot, especially when I was in my teens and in the party scene and everything. You see how people just give their bodies and souls, and it's so precious, and they just give it away.

They just give it away after a couple drinks. It's just unbelievable. It's just unbelievable how we've lost the understanding of how precious our sexuality is. It's so precious to God. And it's just traded on the open market like it's a bowl of soup. It's unbelievable. And I was part of that system in high school and through until God purified my life, and so I get that.

I'm not speaking a word of condemnation to you. But it's something that as believers, we've got to reclaim that. This is something that I think the church has lost, that it needs to reclaim the sanctity of our souls and our sexuality. This is just one area. Actually, when we get to Hebrews 12 in just a second as I close, it actually mentions Esau in regard to sexual immorality, like the next sentence.

I'll show you that in just a second. But look at how quickly it says, and go to verse 34 again, he ate and drank and rose and just went his way. I mean, I saw that happen so many times. You know, people just get together, just, you know, basically eat, you drink basically as a metaphor, and they just go their own way. They're indifferent to the things that are precious.

They're indifferent to those things. And he just did that. People of the Spirit prioritize the things of the Spirit. But Jacob, once again, said, in verse 31, swear to me now, so he swore to him and sold his birthright. He prioritized, once again, I don't think he should have made that deal. I don't think it was kind. But he prioritized those things.

And he was not willing to take any less. He wasn't willing to bargain. See, Jacob was always trying to make the best bargain possible, and he would, for right or wrong, he would never take less than he wanted, if that makes sense. He would never make a deal where he got sold out, where he sold himself out. He didn't make godly deals all the time when it came to the other people, but he never sold himself out.

He always wanted the highest thing. He always wanted the best thing. Once again, he did it in a wrong way, but God dealt with him for that. Jacob, Esau, his brother on the other hand, it says he just despised his birthright. He despised the precious things that are of God. And that's a strong word. It's such a strong word that we see. Here's a practical takeaway.

Sometimes there are chapters and verses in the New Testament that are the corollary or the parallel to what you see happening here. Hebrews 12 basically is the passage in the New Testament that you can put up against this passage. Esau is actually mentioned there. And as you read, if you want to change your appetites, I want you to binge on Hebrews 12.

Listen to it. Find an audio Bible. Get your Bible. Read Hebrews 12 every day this week. Binge Hebrews 12. It will change. It will begin to give you the fodder to change your appetites if you want to change your appetites. Let me just read a little bit of it before we close. Therefore, lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees. Make straight paths for your feet so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather healed.

Strive for peace with everyone and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God, that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble, and that many might be defiled, that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like who? Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. For you know that afterwards, when he desired to inherit the spiritual blessing, he was rejected and found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.

You can see this story all over it. It talks about not having a hip or something out of joint. Who had that happen? That happened with Jacob later on when he wrestled with God, right? This story is woven into Hebrews chapter 12 here. And here's a word that it says to you if you are like Esau. Because so many people have lost any autonomy of self to make decisions.

They just have this victim mentality. And I like an occasional scripture. God is graceful, right? Come to me, you're wounded. I'll be in my refuge. But every so often, there's just a few verses like this. Therefore, lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees. Make straight paths for your feet. So what is lame may not put out a joint but rather be healed.

It's saying stand up. Sometimes we just need to stand up. You need to make a phone call and say, hey, this relationship's done. You need to come out to somebody and say, hey, I've got this addiction or I've got this problem. I need some help with it. I need some prayer with it. You need to go to counseling. You need to, whatever the thing is, you need to stand up as opposed to, oh, I'm so exhausted.

I'm so weak. I'm going to die. No. Christ is there. Stand up. Strengthen your knees. Lift up your drooping hands. Sometimes we need to hear that word, right? We need someone who will believe in us, someone who will stand by us. And so I want to encourage you to do that today. One of the ways you can do that is to gather with other believers. If you are not part of a small group, I would encourage you to be part of a small group.

Maybe you don't find the right one right away. You'll find the right one. I'm in a small group, and it is the lifeblood of my life in so many ways. This group of people is amazing, as I see some of them here today. We pray for each other constantly. We pray for each other's children. Prayer is constantly going on. My phone gets blown up like a middle schooler.

It's unbelievable. But you can stand up and you can change today. You can change your appetites today. Today is the day of restoration. Today is the day of repentance. Amen? Let's stand if you would. We have our prayer team come forward. Chris and Danny are going to come forward and lead us in a word as you begin to think about what you would confess to the Lord.

The prayer team will come forward, and then I'll close after this song. I exalt thee. I exalt thee. I exalt thee. I exalt thee. Oh Lord. I exalt thee. I exalt thee. I exalt thee. I exalt thee. I exalt thee. I exalt thee. I exalt thee. I exalt thee. I exalt thee. I exalt thee. Oh Lord. If you need prayer today, I want to encourage you to come forward for prayer.

This team up here will pray for you, anoint you with oil. We've been praying for healing a lot. If you need healing, emotional healing, come forward. They're going to pray for you. Before I bless you, I want to remind you as well, if you could just bless your church today by signing our petition, being a part of that. We really want to have a safe space for kids for the future of this church.

Extend your hands. I want to bless you. Lord, I bless your people, God. We want to be a people that are hungry for you. I pray for a spiritual hunger that you change our taste. It's hard at first, Lord God, but eventually we don't want those things anymore. And I pray for new hunger. God, a desire for you, a desire for your beauty, for your glory, for your grace.

Bless this church, Lord God. Bless the Seed Changed Church. Bless these people, Lord God. Bless their families, God. Bring healing and blessing. And I bless you as you go out now to change the world. In the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Love you guys. Have a great day. And the name of the Lord, Heed. Aend. Aend. Aend. Aend. Aend. Aend.

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