The Wake-Up Call

Pastor Stan Mons - Lessons From OT Women PT.3

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Sermon Transcription:

Welcome to Safe House Church. Welcome to 2026. Amen. Amen. We're excited. Yes. Give the Lord a hand. Clap. We've been so grateful to, with many of you, start this year in prayer, giving it to Jesus on Old Year's Eve as we were preparing ourselves for the new year. It was a special time just focusing on giving away once again our lives to what Jesus wants to do that year.

So many people think of what they would like to do in the coming year, but not Christians. Amen. We always shift our hearts away from our desires and our plans because we've come to know someone that, somehow, someway, He always seems to have a better plan. We just have to learn to get with the plan. Amen. That's right. And so, to take a moment and to talk to God, to pray, and to say, "Lord, help me to look away from whatever plans I may be brewing up. Lord, help me to become available to Your plan this year, that I may walk in it." How many of you have been there? You can miss the plan. Amen. You can miss the plan. Just because you have given your life to Jesus doesn't mean you're following yet. That takes a step of laying down my plan, my life, and saying, "Jesus, You go ahead and You live through me." Amen. Amen. 2026, the year of glory. The year of glory. That's not the title of this sermon, but that is the theme for this year, the year of glory.

We have been talking over the last Sundays about women in the Word. Not something I realized until the Lord again this Sunday gave me a word where a woman was the focal point of the story. By that time, I was like, "Okay, Lord, You're giving me a series. Um, I don't plan those things. I don't know ahead of time. I just preach whatever the Lord gives me in prayer." But this is the third woman that we are going to look at in the Word. The first was a nameless woman who killed the commander and brought a king to his knees, took a millstone, the upper millstone, and pushed it off of a stone tower and crushed the head of the commander of an army that was coming after them. And we learned what to see, what to derive from these stories for our own lives today. The second woman we looked at was Jael, a relative of Moses, who killed the commander also of an enemy army with a wooden tent stake. A woman. Again, the Bible going out of its way to mention quickly, in between the story, that this woman was a relative of Moses. And that woman, with a piece of wood, a sharpened piece of wood, brings an end to a battle that a 10,000 people army could not bring an ending to.

Again, we learned that that woman represents the church, that piece of wood representing the cross. And when the church has possession of that cross, when our trust is placed in that cross, battles are won that no strength of the flesh, no 10,000 people army, could ever win. Same with the woman and the millstone, again representing the church, able to bring about a victory when she places her trust in that rock and placed that rock ahead of herself into the battle that she was facing, and all of a sudden a battle was won that could not be won. Today, we will look at the third woman in this series. The title of this message is The Wake-up Call. And I want to start off with reading to you from two places in Scripture, Romans and Ephesians, about a wakeup call, starting in verse 11 of Romans 13. “And do this knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent. The day is at hand. Therefore, let us cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armor of light.”

Here Paul’s saying, “Awake out of sleep, because you’re going to see the Lord one way or another. You’re going to see the Lord sooner now than when you first believed Him. So therefore, you should be more anticipating, more excited, and more awake now than when you first came to Jesus.” A word, really, to Christians who very often are more awake and more excited about God and the things of God, and laying down their life and following Jesus, and seeing Jesus come alive in every area of their own lives—often more excited in the beginning than later on, when they are nearer to the return of Jesus. He says, “It is high time to awake out of sleep because you are nearer now than when you first believed.” And then Ephesians 5:14. Therefore He says, “Awake, you who sleep. Arise from the dead, and Christ will give you life.

Awake, you who sleep; arise from the dead.”

Now, we know he’s not speaking to physically dead people that are going to hear and already resurrect right now. He is explaining a spiritual concept. He says, “Awake, you who sleep; arise from the dead.” In other words, until you wake up, there is a deadness that you are a part of, and that needs to go. You need to awake and you need to arise from that deadness, and then Christ will give you light. We’re going to talk about the wakeup call. And I remember so clearly when I first got that wakeup call. I’ve been in church 22 years, and I was asleep and dead. I believed in God with all of my heart, but I did not believe all of His gospel. And here I was, asleep and dead to so many things, mainly the voice of the Lord and so many more things. But when that wake-up call came into my life, it was literally like that. It was like waking up from being dead—waking up to loving people. I used to be able to love people, but only so far, and when they were difficult or negative or not deserving of any kind of love, I was able to put a boundary to how far I needed to go to give my love. And when people were beyond that boundary, or their behavior was off, or they were just difficult, then I found complete justification to allow myself to not have to love beyond that boundary.

I did not need to love beyond the boundaries that I set, or that I thought was reasonable. And I could explain to you exactly why people just had to go and deal with themselves. But when that wake-up call came into my heart, it was literally like waking up to what love actually is. It never fails. Love never ends. It is patient and kind and does not insist on its own will. I had never really loved a lot of people in my life until the Lord began to wake me up, because it was not hard for me to insist on my own will. And I had sneaky ways to do it. I would give you a little, to then expect to be able to take a little bit back, or I would talk my way through it and make you feel like you would really like to do that. But I talked you through it because I really wanted to do that. I had ways to help my life, being able to insist on my own will and get my own will into the picture of my life. I had ways to be able to explain that I could spend money on what I want in life. I was able to love others less so that I could love what I wanted in life and I could bring it to pass. And when I got the wake-up call, and I, for the first time in my life, actually woke up, I didn’t only just wake up to the reality of love. That love never ends. That you never give up on a person. That you always spend yourself completely, even though another person may not do it. That love always hopes all things, believes all things.

Some of you sitting here, your husband says it three times, you don’t believe him, and you say you love him. Love believes all things. It hopes all things. It does not hold a record of wrong.

When your wife does something wrong again, or your husband does something wrong again to you, it isn’t “again.” If it is “again,” you don’t love your husband. You don’t love your wife. Stop saying it and start doing it. It is an action that you can only do if you allow God’s wake-up call into your heart. You’re not waiting for the wake-up call. The Lord is so ready to let you have that wake-up call today. The question is, is your heart willing to receive the wake-up call of God that causes you to go from dead to life? And it’s a very special going from dead to life, because you are dead to God. You come alive to God. But you are right here alive to the world, and right here you have died to the world. The wake-up call, being willing to receive that wake-up call, means that you are willing to become completely dead to the world.

In other words, I’ve lived my life. It was what it was. And I died an early death. I no longer get to live. I declare myself dead to the rest of my lifetime, but I now live unto God. Whatever He says, I’m going to do. Whatever He wants to spend my life on, He gets to spend my life on. Whatever He wants me to do towards people, I’m going to do towards people. No longer I, but He who lives in me. When you go from death to life, it is that big of a difference. It’s not a gradual thing that happens one degree at a time at an altar. It’s not chapter by chapter, slowly coming to a certain place. The easiest way I get to explain it, time and again, is there is one day up until which you never personally knew the voice of God. There’s one day in your life where you, for the first time, hear Him speak to you. There’s a first. That’s not a gradual thing. There’s a first day that God has spoken to your heart. There’s a first day that Jesus treats you as forgiven.

When Jesus treats you as forgiven, which is the only opinion that matters in this universe, when Jesus treats you as forgiven, He begins to speak to you. That’s what He says: “My sheep will know My voice. After a stranger they will not follow, because they will know My voice.” And when you are still asleep unto God, you can know a lot about Him. You can believe in His existence. You can read the Scriptures. You can be in church 22 years, like I was, and yet never, ever being treated by God as the bride of Christ. He’s never kept His promises. He’s not made known His voice. He doesn’t answer your prayers. You are asleep. And when you come alive unto God, it is like you were in a dark room. The light came on. Now you can see everything. You could never smell anything—now you can smell. You could never hear anything—now you can hear. You’ve gone from spiritually dead to life. But there’s this wake-up call that comes to a sleeper. That’s the picture the Word uses. In other words, anybody is able to wake up from this wakeup call. Anybody. And when that happens, the dead come alive. I remember so clearly waking up to the severity of hell. I always imagined, as a kid growing up, hell and heaven, and I really couldn’t wrap my head around eternity. And these things I would dwell upon and couldn’t really piece it together. But I remember so clearly waking up to the severity of hell—this constant, lingering, tangible threat over the heads of those that are not believing Jesus and that are not walking the narrow road.

I remember waking up to it. I had never felt like that when I looked at people—feeling that they are eternal beings, feeling that there’s a threat eternally over their life unless someone tells them about the cross, unless someone takes them by the hand and teaches them to follow the risen Lord Christ. I remember developing this incredible conviction, realizing that one day I will stand before the Father and I will answer for my life. And I remember what it began to feel like, that I could have made a difference in this generation with my life. I could have spoken up. I could have tried to get through to people. I could have disregarded the praise of men and just preach and speak, without compromise, the whole counsel of God. I could have forgiven my worst of enemies. I could have testified of all my sins, yet that Christ the Lord has power to save to the utmost. When I woke up, I couldn’t sleep to these things anymore. I couldn’t close my eyes, or my ears, or my senses to these things anymore, because my soul had woken up. It had come alive in God. But you—you have to receive the wake-up call.

Spoken on it many times in Revelation, where the Lord says, “I stand at the door and I knock.” And I’ve met many people in churches who testify that they can feel and hear the knocking, and there’s no fruit in their life to prove that they ever opened the door. But they have this false, fleshly peace in their life, that somehow, because they are a Christian—and they gladly call themselves it—they are a Christian, they go to church, they even give of their money, they believe they are saved. They don’t believe what God says, but they believe they are saved. And they have this false peace that the Word says will come upon many in the last days. But in order for you to see God treat you the way that He says He will treat His bride, there has to be a wake-up moment. There has to be a wake-up call that is received into the heart. You have to receive the wake-up call, as did Esther. Now, before we go into the account of Esther, the only book in the Bible that does not mention God, I want to remind you again of Romans 15:4. Let me read it to you again: “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.”

I want to remind you once again to read your Old Testament, because everything written there, every story, has been placed there intentionally, so that when you read it and when you allow the Holy Spirit to teach you Christ the Lord on every page, something miraculous of divine power is going to happen in you and in your generation. You are going to be filled with hope.

And if there’s one thing this generation needs, it is a people filled with hope. Amen. The wake-up call. Esther—we’re going to read in chapter 4. Right here, before chapter 4, we read that Esther has been made royalty in her generation. There’s a man, Haman. He comes on the scene, and he has this suspicion towards Jewish people. He has this suspicion towards the Jews. They have too much. They get too much. They have too much favor. They don't keep the laws the way we do. And he develops this suspicion, and suspicion generally turns into hatred. Hatred meaning placing others lower than yourself. And it develops into this evil heart against Jews that he now carries with him. And that hatred eventually makes him look down on the Jews to the point where he desires to annihilate them.

And that's where we pick up chapter 4 in the book of Esther. When Mordecai learned all that had happened, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes and went out into the midst of the city. He cried out with a loud and bitter cry. He went as far as the front of the king's gate, for no one might enter the king's gate clothed with sackcloth. And in every province where the king's command and decree arrived, there was a great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping, and wailing, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. So Esther's maids and unix came and told her, and the queen was deeply distressed. Then she sent garments to clothe Mordecai and take his sackcloth away from him, but he would not accept them. Then Esther called Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs, whom he had appointed to attend to her, and she gave him a command concerning Mordecai to learn what and why this was. So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the city square that was in the front of the king's gate. And Mordecai told him all that had happened to him and the sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king's treasuries to destroy the Jews.

He also gave him a copy of the written decree for their destruction which was given at Shushan, that he might show it to Esther and explain it to her, and that he might command her to go into the king to make supplication to him and plead before him for her people.

So Hathach returned and told Esther the words of Mordecai. Then Esther spoke to Hathach and gave him a command for Mordecai. All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that any man or woman who goes into the inner court to the king who has not been called, he has but one law: put all to death except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter, that they may live. Yet I myself have not been called to go into the king these 30 days. So they told Mordecai Esther's words. And Mordecai told them to answer Esther, “Do not think in your heart that you will escape in the king's palace any more than all the other Jews. For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai, “Go gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan and fast for me. Neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast likewise. And so I will go to the king, which is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.” So Mordecai went his way and did according to all that Esther commanded him. Right here we see this again incredible story, with a woman at the center of this story—a story that has so much significance for our lives today. And again, as Romans says, it is supposed to help us understand something so that we would be full of hope in this generation that we live in today. In many ways, Mordecai represents the voice of the Holy Spirit in the lives of God's people, which are represented by Esther—the church. You personally are represented by Esther. And we see in her life that a choice has to be made. She has become royalty when that was really not expected in her life, a very similar story to yours. You've been made royalty in the kingdom of God, even though you didn't have the credit, you didn't have much help that you contributed.

God caused death to come about in your life through His Son. And yet, there the story is not finished. Now we see Mordecai begin to address Esther and say, you have a place and a position and a favor now in your life, and that gives you a certain responsibility. And if you do not step out and begin to use that, surely God has other ways of taking care of issues. But for you, it won't end very well. As far as your house and your father's house—in other words, as far as your legacy goes—it will come to an end. There will not be people going from death to life. There will not be people that will be born again on account of your life unless you wake up, Esther, right there in your palace. While we are fasting and worrying right here in our situation, a choice has to be made for Esther as much as for your life. A choice has to be made. Do I seek my peace? Do I seek my benefit? Do I seek my comfort? Or do I seek the peace, the benefit, and the comfort of other people?

Because if you're going to fight, and if you're going to put your royal position into play in this generation to see the peace and the deliverance and the freedom and the comfort of others taken care of, it will always cost you your own benefit and comfort. It will always cost you it.

And Esther could feel it. She answers Mordecai, and she basically tells him, it's kind of an unreasonable request that you're sending my way. You know as well as I do, Mordecai, that this is like I'm going to have to lay down my life to do these things. This may be the end of me. I may not have an opportunity to ever live again for myself. I may not have an opportunity ever again to be comfortable. Mordecai, I don't know if I can do this. You know what the law says. Leave me alone. You know how big of a cost this would be. And he returns it on her own head. He sends this wakeup call to her. I'll read it to you again in verse 14: “For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place. But you and your father's house will perish. Yet who knows if you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

He says, “Who knows if this is actually your purpose? Who knows if you were actually given the favor, if you were actually given the access, if you were actually given all that you have today, all that you are today, if it was all given to you because the kingdom needs it in this season, and you get to either choose to keep it for yourself or you get to lay down your life that others possibly, not guaranteed, possibly may live?” Church, you cannot live for yourself and at the same time see people delivered and saved from the grip of Satan, the grip of sin and death. You can't do it. Some of you have been trying. And if I would ask you, how long have you been saved, you'd give me a number of years. And I'll ask you, how many people are in your life today that have been saved because you spoke up? Some of you cannot think about a person.

That's not because the Word of God is not in your mouth. That's not because the Holy Spirit has not been made available to you. That's not because God is not willing. You cannot live for yourself and see people delivered and saved from the grip of the enemy, just like Esther was facing.

She was comfortable. She had it really good. If Esther wanted to explain it away, she could. And so do many Christians. She could have explained it away so easily. God really made a way for me. This is good. I'm comfortable here. My life works. He provides. He makes everything work together for my good. I can feel it. It's nice. It works. And the question is, are people being delivered through your life, or has life really become good for you? There has to be a wakeup call, and it has to be let in. It has to be let into your heart. And the Holy Spirit seeks to bring that work about. Mordecai, as I said earlier, represents it. Let me read to you the first verse of chapter 4. When Mordecai learned all that had happened, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes and went out into the midst of the city. He cried out with a loud and bitter cry. Here's what happens when the Holy Spirit seeks to get your attention. There is a brokenness. There is a weeping in the heart of God. And He will come and knock at your door, but He won't come all the way in, just like Mordecai did. He stayed far away from the actual gate.

Now Esther was able to notice him, but she couldn't quite figure out what it all was about until she began to inquire, until she began to reach out, and she began to desire to know. First, she tries to put it all to a stop. Calm down. Send him some clothes. Dress him up. He's embarrassing me. Whatever her thought may have been, she tries to make it stop, and Mordecai won't have it. And he then begins to send a clear message, and Esther won't have it. And then Mordecai sends that wakeup call, sends that call: “What if you came to the kingdom for such a time as this?” You're seeing all these problems. You're seeing all these things that you can lose. You're seeing all these things that it may cost you. You're seeing all these things that you like. You're seeing all these things that you are hoping for your own future. What if your life is not about your future? What if you came to the kingdom for this time exactly What if you came to the kingdom because you can make a difference when you start speaking up? What if you came to the kingdom because God knew that He would hide His words deep in your heart? And God knew that you would have the ability to understand when He is seeking to speak to someone? And God is seeking for you to wake up and to die to this world, come alive to God, so that people may be delivered in their generation and people may be set free from this lingering threat over their lives, waiting.

Church, hell waits. Hell is patient. Hell waits for people. And unless you come alive to God, you cannot see over people's lives that they are eternal, that they are either going to be with God for eternity or they are going to be separated from Him eternally. You can't feel the urgency of it unless you've come alive to God. You can't feel that you actually have been equipped to make a difference. You don't get convicted if you are not alive to God. You just live. Oh, I believe in God. I go to church. It's probably all fine. Other people can pray. If something's wrong, I'll call pastor. He'll come. He'll know what to do. We read in the Word of God this incredible accusation from God towards His people, towards the people that are called to believe Him. And we see it throughout the Word, across the generations, same accusation.

Matthew 15:8 recounts it in the New Testament: “These people draw near to Me with their mouth and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.” We see this accusation also sounding over the generation that Esther was a part of. Even we could argue this is really what Mordecai was getting at with Esther. You trust God. You believe God. You honor God.

But what if it is time for you, Esther, to put your hand to the plow, count the cost, and begin to fight for the deliverance of other people? What is your heart? Where's your heart, Esther?

Is your heart about yourself? Is your heart in love with life here on earth? Is your heart in love with life in the palace? Is your heart in love with comfort? Is your heart in love with selfishness? Is your heart in love with your future? What if you came to the kingdom for such a time as this?

And in Esther's case, when the wakeup call came, what if Esther—what if that “what if”—was allowed to penetrate her heart? And remember, Esther represents the church. She represents you. Do you allow it? Do you render your heart to God? Is that wakeup call allowed to turn your heart from your selfish ways to begin to live for the benefit of all people around you? It doesn't matter to you anything at all if it's good for you, and you delight in what is good for others.

Have you come alive to God, or are you still dead? What if you came to the kingdom for such a time as this? Would you dare to believe in your generation? Would you dare to stand up in your generation? Would you dare to put it all on the line? Or are you with spasms in your hands? Are you trying to hold on to the life that you think you have, even though God may call you home tonight and you will have nothing to show for all that you thought you had, and every day you still thought you were going to live? John tells us you can be saved, stand before Christ, and be a disgrace for eternity. He warns time and time and time again. I remember waking up to it. I had never felt like that when I looked at people—feeling that they are eternal beings, feeling that there’s a threat eternally over their life unless someone tells them about the cross, unless someone takes them by the hand and teaches them to follow the risen Lord Christ. I remember developing this incredible conviction, realizing that one day I will stand before the Father and I will answer for my life. And I remember what it began to feel like—that I could have made a difference in this generation with my life.

I could have spoken up. I could have tried to get through to people. I could have disregarded the praise of men and just preached and spoken without compromise the whole counsel of God. I could have forgiven my worst enemies. I could have testified of all my sins, yet that Christ the Lord has power to save to the uttermost. When I woke up, I couldn’t sleep to these things anymore. I couldn’t close my eyes or my ears or my senses to these things anymore, because my soul had woken up. It had come alive in God. But you—you have to receive the wake-up call. It’s spoken of many times in Revelation, where the Lord says, “I stand at the door and I knock.” And I’ve met many people in churches who testify that they can feel and hear the knocking, and there’s no fruit in their life to prove that they ever opened the door. But they have this false, fleshly peace in their life—that somehow, because they are a Christian and they gladly call themselves one, they are saved. They go to church. They even give of their money. They believe they are saved.

They don’t believe what God says, but they believe they are saved. And they have this false peace that the Word says will come upon many in the last days. But in order for you to see God treat you the way that He says He will treat His bride, there has to be a wake-up moment. There has to be a wake-up call that is received into the heart. You have to receive the wake-up call, as did Esther. Now before we go into the account of Esther—the only book in the Bible that does not mention God—I want to remind you again of Romans 15:4. Let me read it to you again: “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.” I want to remind you once again to read your Old Testament, because everything written there—every story—has been placed there intentionally, so that when you read it and when you allow the Holy Spirit to teach you Christ the Lord on every page, something miraculous of divine power is going to happen in you and in your generation.

You are going to be filled with hope. And if there’s one thing this generation needs, it is a people filled with hope. Amen. The wake-up call. Esther—we’re going to read in chapter 4. Right here before chapter 4, we read that Esther has been made royalty in her generation.

There’s a man, Haman. He comes on the scene, and he has this suspicion towards Jewish people. He has this suspicion towards the Jews. They have too much. They get too much. They have too much favor. “For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. There will be no legacy.” What he’s saying is this: God’s work will continue—with you or without you.

But what if you were called to be a part of what God is doing in this generation? What if you were called to have a legacy? What if you were called to lead your own children into the Kingdom—to see them become filled with the Spirit of the living God, completely transformed and changed?

I was so amazed and blessed to unexpectedly see our oldest daughter filled with the Spirit while we were on vacation this last summer. We weren’t praying and asking God to fill her with the Spirit. We were just praying to say goodnight to Jesus right before going to bed. And her whole face lit up, and she said, “Daddy, I just received my prayer language. I just received my prayer language. I don’t even know what I’m saying, but I can’t stop.” And the whole vacation, she would never pray in English. Anytime we would pray, she’d only pray in her prayer language. She was so excited. I’m telling you now, church, as the Word says, the Kingdom belongs to children. The Kingdom belongs to the weak, the broken, the hurting—and you are called to bring the Kingdom of God upon lives that do not deserve it. What if you came to the Kingdom for such a time as this? Church, in an hour of need like in our generation, judgment will fall on those who could have made a difference—who had the resources, who had the possibility to do something to make a difference in other people’s lives.

2 Corinthians 5:9–11: “Therefore, we make it our aim, our goal, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men…” Church, every single one of us will stand before the judgment seat of Christ. This is for those that have believed on the name of Jesus. This is not the great white throne judgment, where people will be separated—some to go with the Father, some to be sent off to hell. This is the judgment seat of Christ.

This is where Christ judges all those who have proclaimed to believe on Him and to give their hearts to Him. You’re at this judgment because you have believed in Jesus. And He says, “You will receive the things done in the body.” In other words, during your time on earth, according to what you have done—whether good or bad. And then this incredible verse: “Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord…” That’s that healthy fear of God—that reverence of God—that says, I am awake now to the reality that I can make a difference.

Having received the Spirit of the living God, having a Bible in my house, having a phone where I can look up any scripture that comes to mind quicker than any generation before me—I will answer for having access to those things if I have done nothing in my generation. Do you understand that you are called? Whoever much is given, from him much is required. Church, you have received so much truth—so much more access to truth than any generation before you—and you will answer for what you have done with all that was given to you. It’s no coincidence that it is easier to study today than ever before. It’s no coincidence that it’s easier to connect the Word. The Lord is preparing for His return. He’s equipping you. He’s making sure you have everything you need. It’s like living in a palace. There is so much provided. What if you came to the Kingdom for such a time as this? Would you stand with me for a moment?

Now, this may be your first time, or this may be your time again, but in every case, I want to invite every person that says, “God, I’m willing. God, I’m willing to go from death to life. God, I hear the wake-up call. I’m willing to let it in today. Lord, I’m willing to die to the world and to be alive unto You, Lord God. I’m willing to be spent on the deliverance of other people.” If that is you today—if you want to say, “God, I am willing”—I want to invite you to come forward. Our prayer team will gladly pray with you, and I also desire to pray over you before we worship. Hallelujah. If you say, “God, I’m willing,” come and join us. For those that are with us online, if you are saying in your heart, “God, I feel the cost, but what if I am called? I can’t stand before the Father having done nothing. I can’t stand before the Father always holding back and guarding my own comfort. I can hear the ‘what if’ in my heart, and it scares me a little bit. It feels like I need to do something about it.” If you are willing to say yes, the Holy Spirit will give you direction. The Holy Spirit will show you the first steps. But you have to take a small step, like Esther did. We have to take a small step and say, “Yes, I am willing.” If you’re with us online, would you send us a message through our website, that we may pray for you at a later time and support you in what God is calling you to do?

-Pastor Stan Mons