[Music] [Music] w n [Music] [Music] w [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] w [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] hey everyone welcome to Valley Creek We Are One Church that meets in multiple campuses and we carry hope to thousands of locations we are a movement of Hope for the city and beyond my name is Christa and I serve here on our digital team whether you're new here or with us every week we're so glad that you're here we believe that Jesus has so much in store for us as we kick off 60 days of summer no matter where you're joining us from whether it's Facebook or YouTube we would love to hear from you be sure to say hi in the chat to everyone who's online with us this morning and don't forget you can join us for Hangouts right after our live experience we meet on Zoom every Sunday with hope carriers from all over the world Hangouts are an easy next step to take into the valy creek family go to valy creek.org Hangouts on any device to join in so hope is here because Jesus is here let's worship him together [Music] we're singing from experience testimonies of his [Music] goodness from every Walk of Life we've been changed from the inside oh nothing is impossible he's the god of every [Music] Miracle the one we've heard about is in the room right now let's lift it up say sing sing sing of all the ways he's loved you say sing sing of all the ways he's come through oh is worthy worthy of the [Music] glory praise him every Tong and TR praise him like he Savor life oh come let your song Arise every voice liftting up and s s sing of all the ways he's Lov you sing sing sing of all the ways he's com you cuz he is worthy worthy of the glory oh Sing Sing Sing The Joy of our Salvation sing sing sing the EM of the heaven oh he is worthy worthy of the glory for leading us to [Music] freedom for calling us your children for pouring out your spirit we thank you we thank you we thank you for up your restoring for healing what was broken for making all things new we thank you we thank you we thank Sing Sing Sing of all the ways he's loves you sing sing sing of all the ways he's come through oh he is worthy worthy of the glory we stand and sing sing sing the joy of our Salvation sing sing sing the an of in heaven oh he is worthy worthy of the glory you're worthy of the glory you're worthy of of the glory you're worthy of the [Applause] glory Jesus you're worthy you alone you alone are worthy we come to worship we're here for [Music] you the awakes with your glory in my heart starts to Sing of Your Grace and your mercy and your goodness to me oh I will Proclaim your greatness oh I will Proclaim your greatness [Music] through the days and the [Music] seasons all creation will [Music] praise so I'll bow in your [Music] presence and don't worship your name come on so I will Proclaim your greatness [Music] oh I will Proclaim your great I was made to praise oh I will Proclaim your [Music] greatness oh I will Proclaim you [Music] with every breath I worship your name with all my heart and all of my strength I lift up I lift up I will lift up your name [Music] with every breath I worship your name with all my heart and all my strength I lift up I lift up oh I will lift up your [Music] name God King no more Worthy [Applause] praise all the glory soise to sunet I will lift up your name oh we worship you God God and King there's none more worthy of Praise all the glory the sun said oh I will lift up your name I will be your name I will LIF be your [Music] name with every breath I worship your name with all my heart all of my strength I lift up I lift up I will lift up your name I will lift up your name come on let's lift it up I will lift up your name and I will pour out my praise come on pour it out oh I will pour out my praise to you alone you're worthy oh you're worthy Lord oh we pour it out to you you're worthy cuz it's your bre in our lungs so we pour out our praise we pour out our praise it's your bre in our lungs so we pour out our praise to you come on sing it's your breath it's your breath in our lungs so we pour out our praise we pour out our praise into your breath in our lungs so we pour out our gra to you only it's your breath every voice in our lungs so we pour out our praise we pour out our praise it's your breath in our lungs so we pour out our praise to you [Music] only Jesus you alone are [Music] worthy come on through Jesus we have full access to God's presence and which means we can worship him with the same awe and wonder that exists in heaven and the Bible actually describes what kingdom worship looks like it says that God is high and lifted up on his throne and he's surrounded by Angels who declare holy holy holy is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come and it says that the sound of their voices shook the temple that they were in and man if we have access to God's presence like that and he's here with us this morning what if the sound of our worship shook this Temple like what if we worship with the same awe and wonder as the angels in heaven so I just want to invite you to close your eyes with me right now in this moment and by faith can you just become aware you are Before the Throne of God he's in our midst Seated on our praise he's deserving and wor worthy of our attention and our Focus so as we continue to worship let's join in with the songs of Heaven that are happening right now [Music] there's a sound in the heavens that goes through the led by the Angels song of endless PR to the king who is worthy of honor and Glory so so I fall down and worship and bless his name all I can say is Holy Holy all I can say is Holy oh we stand before you before your throne with all and wonder his voice is like and gentle as a whisper his eyes are like fire you're loving and kind so I'm found here in Wonder and I can't help but worship now his glory alone is my only desire and all I can say is Holy Holy all I can say is Hool [Music] holy holy all I can say is Holy Holy all I can say is Holy You Are Holy [Music] [Music] hey high and lifted up glorious glorious he is worthy of all the praise high and lift it up glorious glorious he is worthy of oh it up oh high and lift it up glorious glorious he is worthy of all the praise he lift it up glorious glor he is worthy of all the praise all the praise all theise all the praise all the the praise all I can say is [Music] holy all I can say is [Music] Holy Holy all I can say is Holy are you Lord all I can is Holy [Music] to high and lift it up glor glorious he is worthy of all the praise oh high and lift it up glorious glorious [Music] is worthy of all the praise oh let's lift up his praise oh [Music] God you're wory worthy Jesus we lift up your praise God Jesus you're so worthy and so deserving of our worship it's so good to be in your presence because you are holy so we Revere you we have a holy fear about you God because you are so good and you're so worthy so we lift you up for who you are and what you've done and it's in your name we pray amen amen all right hey so good worshiping with you today hey before you find your seat turn to some people around you and introduce yourself hey everybody I'm Justin and I'm Christa here's what's happening this month at Valley Creek if you're new here or you've been coming here for a while and ready to call Valley Creek your church you should check out join the movement it's where we talk about our story our Theology and what being a hope carrier is all about this is happening today at all campuses you can register online or come to a class at 12:30 I can't wait and summer is here and with that comes all kinds of fun for our next gen for kids every Sunday there will be games worship and dress up themes like camo mismatch and superhero and for students every Wednesday they'll have worship a message and other fun stuff like dodgeball water war and Silent disco you can find the details for all things nextg on our website also we're kicking off something brand new this summer called Life as a disciple in these classes we'll talk about how to arrange our lives around Jesus in areas like marriage finances parenting even how to read your Bible this is a great way to practice living as a disciple of Jesus this summer SP is limited and these classes will fill up so sign up for that online also in June we've got Tuesday night prayer on the 4th serve the city on the 15th and a young adult gathering on the 18 yep and since there's a whole lot going on here this summer one of the best ways to stay in the know is by sking the QR code in the seat back in front of you or by going to Valley creek.org connect it's constantly updated with all the dates times and details you need to know what's happening at Valley Creek this [Music] summer all right right hey everybody Welcome to Valley Creek and welcome to summer we are here it is fun it's going to be full of so much joy you got that card when you came in make sure you uh stay up to date with that uh follow on social media going on valleycreek.org uh for any information you can scan that QR code actually week by week for all the things that are happening so kids summer student summer uh Tuesday night of prayer uh uh serve the city all the great things that are in front of us it's going to be a great summer it's going to be full of so much life so many good things we're looking forward to everything that God has for us we we've been in an amazing series uh called a different way and we have been uh in that all year long so far uh we went through season one we finished up season two when we get back to school we'll get into season three and we have been learning what it looks like to live as a disciple to follow Jesus to be uh taught by the teacher led by the master to arrange and rearrange our Liv life and so even though we're going to take a breath a pause from that my encouragement to you is this don't take a pause on training in godliness don't take a pause on doing your practice plans don't take a pause on Growing With Jesus and and learning to follow him literally do your practice plans because some of us are just getting used to running like three miles so don't slow down don't go back to just walking to the mailbox uh on our journey with Jesus because uh from time to time we take a a breath and and and as we get into summer we're going to do that uh as we get into a brand new series today called 60 days of unfamiliar promises and so even though we've been in an amazing series all uh year long we really want to take a breath a pause and focus on some of the unfamiliar Promises of God you see uh every single year uh so you know for about the last three or four years in June and July would take 60 days to take a breath to take a pause and to just focus on something that the Lord has asked us to talk about and so uh that's a good thing because we don't ever want Church to be this thing where we feel like we're rushing through it and having to hurry we want Church to be a place where you can meet with God and experience the rest of God and so this summer uh we're going to meet with God by talking about 60 days of unfamiliar promises now you might look at that and you be like well why unfamiliar what does that mean why is that well let me ask you this do you know that the Bible is is full of promises probably yes okay do you know that there's specific promises for you maybe do you know what some of those promises are possibly how about this one do you believe the promises of God that is do you act as if they were so you see some of the things that are in scripture and some of the promises uh that we know about some of the verses we're familiar with we might know but we don't necessarily know we might have a knowledge of them uh we might be familiar with them but in reality because we don't act as if they're so they're actually very unfamiliar to us and so um let me give you an example let's think of a verse like um like like for God so loved the world that he gave his only son who should ever believe in him will not perish but have everlasting life is that a verse that is only only uh sewed into a pellow or on my profile page or is it written on the walls of my heart and as I go throughout my life I think for God so loved the world for God so loved me his love is for me and and it begins to shape how we think and how we live how about this one I can do all things who through Christ who strengthens me you ever see that written on uh football helmets or you know on the on the ey BLS of like you know athletes when they play that's a good one we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us but how about this instead of just being written somewhere what if that guides my thoughts when I go into work on a difficult work week on a Monday morning this week God I can do all things through you you are strengthening me you are building me up you're with me and you are giving me your strength how about this I'll never uh the Lord will never leave you or forsake you you probably heard that one before is that one that's just like a like a button on a back pack or a sticker on a Stanley or is that one that when I get a a difficult health prognosis I think you know what God's never going to leave me or forsake me he's with me he's for me and so because he's with me because he won't leave me I don't have to be afraid you see to believe something is to act as if it were so so in reality if I actually believe those things were true I would never freak out I would never try to control my family I'd never stay up all night letting fear consume my thoughts I'd never try to uh do it on my own I'd never live in crippling fear or shame if I actually believe those things were true then I would never live as though they weren't and so many of the most known verses the most familiar are actually quite unfamiliar to us because we don't really believe them because we don't act as if they're so it's like the more that you're aware of something the more you have to be reminded of something so our hope this summer uh is that we would know these promises and not just know them that we would believe them and by believing them we would experience life in his name and not just believe them we would claim them over our lives and over our families and but claiming them would' be like that's mine I'm taking that that one's for me and not just claiming we would declare them out we'd speak them out we'd declare them over our lives as we go places and do things and interact we would have these verses just coming out of us these promises of God and not just that we would declare them that we would walk them out and in Walking them out we would experience them in our daily life they wouldn't just be words on a paper buttons on a backpack stickers on a Stanley they would be realities in my home in my life in my school our hope is is as we we present some of these unfamiliar familiar verses we're going to take hold of them for ourselves so where do we start then where are we going to start well we're going to start by looking at the very place where the promises of God are to be found we're going to go to scripture so every single week we're going to look at one really uh famous or familiar verse we're going to revisit that we're going to kind of relearn it and we're going to reclaim it for our lives and we're going to do that every single week so you're not going to miss any of them one special promise every week starting with this one this week did you know that there's even verses that are promises about the promises of God check this out for no matter how many promises God has made they are a yes in Christ and so through him the amen is spoken by us to the glory of God so good so as an Act of Faith I'm going to ask everybody at all of our campuses right now let's declare this one out together ready for no matter how many promises God has made they are a yes in Christ and so through him the amen is spoken by us that means he's framing it uh for you to work for your good and His glory they are a yes in Christ Jesus uh what's the question the answer is yes now can you imagine what it would be like as parents if that was true when your kids would come and ask you for something so our little girls uh when they would come to us and they knew that they were going to ask us for something they should be a little sheepish about like ah this is probably like a long shot they'd kind of come up and be like uh could we maybe do you think it'd be okay if just could I stay up all night on my iPad and then we would crush their souls once again but what would it be like if his parents when they came to you you always said yes candy for dinner yes double ice cream yes Hey Dad I was thinking about refining the house and taking the cash out for myself yes hey Dad I'm going into eighth grade do you think me and my friends could go to Vegas together yes okay now that'd be a little crazy that'd be a little lot of sorts here's what happens sometimes when we say everything is a yes in Christ Jesus we often think about everything and anything that we want the only problem is is that God's promises are not promises to harm us and so anything that I want that's going to harm me isn't actually a promise of God no matter how much I might want it and that's where we get confused one of the promises of God is I know the plans that I have for you plans not to harm you to give you a hope in a future so anything that hasn't come to pass anything that is going to harm us it may be uh that it's actually not a promise of God it's something that I want and therefore God is so good he won't do that to me he won't give me the things that are going to harm me but everything that is good and to his glory they are a yes in Christ and so through him the amen is spoken by us through him by us through him by us the amen the agreement amen is an amazing word in fact it's been said that amen is the most well-known word in all of human speech so it's the most known word ever anywhere in the history of the world why because it came from the Hebrew to the Greek to the Latin to the English it's basically known in all cultures everywhere I believe that's because the lord gave us that word so that we could say I agree I believe and so by faith we can take hold of the promises of God it is spoken by us to the glory of God it brings glory to God when his children claim his promises okay so then why don't we do it why is it a struggle for us why is it a struggle to claim the promises of God to believe in them and and to receive them for ourselves I think it's because of our baggage with the word promises okay so if I put this up on the screen and I had you answer what's the first word that comes to your mind when you think of the word promises I wonder what word you'd fill in could it be this one and could it be that we struggle to believe that God has good things for us good promises for us because of our history with the word promises so many broken promises that we've experienced in our life um that time that my husband left me and I you know and I didn't think he was going to that time uh that uh the person said the secret that I didn't think they were going to tell uh the time that my you know the business partner ran on of me and took took all the money the broken promises that I think shape a lot of what we think about the word promises uh could it be that the way that humans have damaged us with their broken promises has affected the way we think about God and his good promises to us can I just tell you uh humans will lie to you humans will break their promises God won't here's what it says not one of the Lord's good promises to Israel failed everyone was fulfilled not one not the smallest to the largest not the one way out in the future to the one happening tomorrow not Mana falling from Heaven to sustain you to you're going to defeat Giants and I'm going to give you every place you place your foot not one all fulfilled in Jesus and so all of God's promises to Israel and all of God's good promises to you will be fulfilled in jesus' name maybe the Lord wants to change the narrative in our mind from this to this from broken to fulfilled um from a history of hurt and despair and wondering if it's going to work out are they going to lie to me are they going to be is it going to be real is it going to happen all the way through to the Lord is good and he wants to fulfill his promises to you and I people lie God doesn't and there in maybe lies our problem could it be that we've treated God's promises like we treat most everyone's promises hoping for the best kind of expecting the worst not totally confident it's going to come to pass because we've been hurt so many times before this is important God's promises aren't based just on what he does they're based on who he is so God's promises aren't just based on what he does they're based on who he is most of our promises as humans come with a caveat the caveat is this we might not keep them but God always keeps it because he has no Integrity Gap okay who he is leads to what he says which leads to what he does many times who we are leads to what we try to say which also leads to what we don't do another way to put it is like this he is therefore what he says he does we aren't therefore what we say we don't you see the difference there there is no Integrity gap on a side note one of the reasons it's so important to be shaped into the image and likeness of Jesus to have your character shaped is because if you are not shaped in character you will not be a person that keeps your promises you will have an integration Integrity Gap and because of the lack of integration you will experience disintegration and your entire life will will come apart at the seams but God is fully integrated he is then he says and so he does there is no distance between what he says is going to do and what he does he is the god of promise and the promise is not based on his doing it's based on his being and because of his being he is always doing because of his being he's always keeping his promises because as he says it it is happening so we might think that God is like all the other people that have broken the promises before he's just not he's something altogether different and by the way we're people in process and so um it's okay to be like man A lot of times the people in my life they're probably going to let me down that's true but uh we're people in process and we're growing in jesus' name and God will never let you down he is not like that husband that left you he's not like the business partner that cheated you he's not like the friend that spilled your secret he's just not that he's just not that could it be that we've piled God's promises into this giant minivan with all the other things that haven't come to pass in our life and because of that we've kind of regarded them as common maybe it's like a defense mechanism we're like oh it's it's fine you know the things the Bible says and like the things that are you know truce and it's fine they're fine and I think I I wonder sometimes if we um if we think about the the promises of God a little bit like the difference between going to a garage sale or going engagement ring shopping ready garage sale uh yep have one of those no diamond dozen I've seen that before that's oh that's that's kind of cute that's fine okay and put that to the side engagement ring shopping every kiss begins with k like it's like you know exactly what you're doing you know exactly what you're looking for you're trying it on one at a time that's beautiful oh wow oo look at that I want that one what do you think about this she's already knows the three CS like like cut Clarity cuteness cuteness she's looking for the what she well I don't even know what she's she she's got it all strategized right she knows exactly what she's looking for because um it's Unique it's beautiful it's special it's not a garage sale it's not like a like an old auctioneering house it doesn't have a bunch of junk all over the place and I wonder sometimes if that's the way we've treated God's promises like they're common like they're usual like they're hanging on the wall of my house or or you know there there there's some kind of uh there's some kind of thing on my pillow or on you know somewhere in artwork they're just they're beyond that though they're not common God's promises are extraordinary they're powerful they're beautiful there's a uh there's a fascinating story in 2 Kings uh 22 it's a story about a king named uh Josiah and they were doing a remodel of the temple in the story and in the story they're trying to remodel the temple Temple and one of the priests is like oh hey King Josiah I found this book while we were modeling the temple and King decides like what is it uh we're not totally sure uh we just wanted to bring it to you he's like well well we need to start reading it so they read it out loud uh and it said the king started weeping and he started tearing his clothes and he declared a time of mourning why because it turns out the book that they had found in the junk drawer at the back of the temple was actually the law of God full of his promises and they placed it in a drawer and they forgot about it and then when they started to remodel they found it and then they realized that they treated the promises of God as common as not special it's not beautiful it's not unique it's not full of power and promise and so that's a problem because what God has made clean do not call common what God has created what he's given what he's declared over our life it's not common it's beautiful it's profound it's amazing they are truths that we can hold on to they're promises for us they're extraordinary they're not knickknacks they're not wall art they're not stickers they're not buttons on my backpack so can I ask you have any of God's promises become common to you in your life when you hear a verse like surely uh your goodness and your love will follow me always and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever is that like oh yeah yeah I like that one that's that's good one or is it like what surely the goodness and the love of God will follow me through every part of my life he's always with me and I'm going to dwell in the house of the Lord forever in jesus' name wow that's extraordinary what a promise what a gift how beautiful is that can I just ask you has what's familiar bred contempt for what's beautiful has the accessible in our lives confused us about what's truly profound and what's sacred the promises of God are profound and they are sacred think about um think about maybe a verse you have up in your house somewhere got at a Hobby Lobby it's in the hallway we all have probably have something like that okay when you walk by that here's what I want you to do as you pass by that I want you to think to yourself that's God's goodness passing me by as I walk past it he's trying to get my attention surely my goodness and my love follow you always you're going to dwell in my house forever as I pass by that that verse that promise that word from the Lord may he get my attention in the form of his promise in my life okay so that's kind of where we're at that's what we've seen as God's promises as part of the reason that the verses that are are familiar are actually very unfamiliar to us but what do we do about it how how do we move forward well every single week uh in this series we're going to activate our faith by simply doing this we're going to claim it we're going to declare it and we're going to walk in it because that's what I do when I have a promise I claim it I declare it and I Walk It Out starting with claim it I love this you know what our biggest problems is we don't actually claim it for ourselves listen listen to these stats for a second the federal government has 28 billion in unclaimed funds from class action lawsuits that's some of y'all's money for somebody that's the first time you heard me say anything today I looked on a website one time and I tried to uh find out if there might have been any of my money out there some like if I got included in one of the lawsuits and then I totally found my name and I had like 28 cents so I didn't claim it okay how about this one there's almost 2 million bags per year that are left at the airport that's some of y'all's bags here's one for you one half of you who are listening to this right now have uh gift cards in your wallet or in your purse worth approximately $187 you're going to want to claim those see those are yours but it's not very helpful if you don't claim them and the same is true for the promises of God you must claim them and what's crazy is you hear those stats you're like whoa wow I know how much more for the promises of God how much more for the things he's given to us how much more for his word in our life you may ask me for anything in my name and I will do it wow anything anything but catch what it says in my name not in my name in Jesus name and by the way that's another thing that we can get confused about we we'll think we set something motion be like oh yeah that's from God I I'm not sure about that because it depends on whose name it's in it depends if it's in the name of Jesus bringing uh glory to God or if it's in mine it's what I want to do so I must claim the things that are in uh God's name the promises that are already set in motion uh for me so how do you do that when you come in every week this summer make basically make a decision ahead of time to be like I'm claiming that for me that's mine I want you to be like like like preschoolers in preschool mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine every single time you come in claim it like you uh and take hold of it to claim something is to take hold of it like I already own it because I already do to claim something is to take hold of it like I already own it because I I already do confidently boldly choose ahead of time that's mine I claim it and then once you claim it we want to ask you to declare it out listen to this one I give you thanks oh Lord with all my heart I will sing your Praises before the gods I bow before your Holy Temple as I worship I praise your name for your unfailing love and your faithfulness for your promises are backed by the honor of your name there it is his name leads into his promises who he is leads to what he does so what do we do we declare it out we give thanks we sing the Praises we praise His name we speak out the promises out loud uh we say it so our mouth speaks it our ears hear it so our heart begins to believe it I speak it so my ears hear it so my heart begins to believe it more and more and more over and over and over that's the cycle that happens when I declare out the promises of God over my life so here's a question for you do you declare more of God's promises or more of Satan's lies if we could take a trip in your thoughts and your words throughout the course of a day would it be that more of what you say out loud declare is more the promises of God or the lies of Satan and whether those lies were spoken over you or whether those lies are spoken by you they're kind of all the same thing the promises of God must be declared out by our lips for our ears for our heart and when we do we're not just declaring them over us we're declaring them over our family we're declaring them over future Generations we're declaring them over our future we're declaring them over all of those who are far off and maybe possibly most important of all we're declaring them out to the spiritual realm and we're saying into the atmosphere if anyone's in Christ they're a new creation the old is gone the new is come and so kingdom of darkness I'm a new creation you don't get to have me you don't get to have my family you don't get to have my future it has no place or part I'm declaring out the promises of God over my life or we're saying stuff like this his divine power has given me everything I need for life and godliness to the measure of him who's called me to it I have walk in power I have the divine power of God so spiritual realm you can't mess with me I'm protected I'm powerful through what Jesus has done I declare that promise over my life how about this one my God will meet all my needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus so I declare out in the spiritual realm you can't make me worry you can't make me be afraid you can't take it from me I already have it he's giv me everything I need in Jesus name we declare it out not just to our family to ourselves and to the spiritual realm and as we do things change so we must claim it we must declare it and finally we got to choose to actually walk in it I will listen to what God the Lord says he promises peace to his people to his Faithful Servants but let them not turn let them actually walk in it let them actually walk it out let them actually move forward by faith you see our beliefs Drive our behaviors and so as we walk it out we're showing what we actually believe I don't do parkour which is like ninjas jumping off of buildings because I believe in Gravity the reason I don't drink gasoline is because I believe it's expensive and because I would die so to believe something is to act as if it were so so if I walk it out if I believe that promise my God will meet all my needs then I'll walk it out when and here's how I walk it out uh when I'm con considering my finances I'm not going to scramble around woring like a chicken with my head cut off and running to whatever the next job is that I need to have even though it might completely blow up my family because I'm going to walk out the confidence that God is going to meet my needs I'm not going to carry worry into every budgeting conversation I'm not going to make drastic decisions during really difficult moments because I can't turn back to Folly I have to walk forward by faith because I'm walking forward confidently knowing that I don't walk alone I walk with Jesus I walk with the people of God and I have the promises of God in my pocket I'm taking them with me so we're going to claim it we're going to declare it and we're going to walk it out starting with the verse that we're starting off with for no matter how many promises God has made they are a yes in Christ and so through him the amen is spoken by us to the glory of God can I just ask you would you take a moment read that verse and would you take it for yourself would you choose to just claim it thank you Jesus for your promises through you spoken by us so now I just want to ask you again by faith to declare them out as we all declare it together all of our campuses let's do it again speak it out into the spiritual atmosphere for no matter how many promises God has made they are a yes in Christ and so through him the amen is spoken by us to the glory of God let's go and now may we walk in It All Summer Long may we believe that God's unfamiliar promises are not only becoming familiar they're becoming known they're becoming believed and that we can claim claim them declare them and walk them out in Jesus name one more for you this week's reading plan Abraham believed the promises of God and he was strengthened in the faith and gave glory to God he was strengthened in the faith and gave glory to God so may the same be true for us during these 60 days of learning about some of these unfamiliar promises would you go and pray with me so thank you Jesus that uh it is a yes and amen and thank you Jesus that we're setting ourselves up by faith to receive all of these promises and that they will come to pass and that they are already yes because you are uh who you say that you are and you do what you say you will do I declare just a beautiful fun joyful summer over us as these scriptures come to life as they awaken us as a church as they begin to fill up our minds and our conversations and our homes and our commutes and our routines as your promises take over every part of our life I declare that we would receive them by faith and we would believe them by faith and we would begin to act as if they were so because in Jesus they are so thank you Lord that we can count on you thank you uh that anything we ask for in your name will come to pass thank you that it is a yes thank you that your hand is tipped towards us and it's tipped in our favor and so may we live our lives like people that believe that may we live like people that believe uh that the greatest promisor in the universe has already given us everything we need for our life he's spoken it out and uh we're going to receive it by faith so thank you Lord for your word thank you Lord for your promises they are beautiful they're extraordinary and we value them like they are that we love you Jesus in your name amen am amen all of God's promises are yes and amen for you this is going to be a great series and a great summer remember Valley Creek online is here to help you experience the presence of God in our services and in our community of Hope carers from all over the world Hangouts are a great Next Step you can take into the valy creek family go to valleycreek.org Hangouts on any device to join in We Believe giving is done as a response to God's goodness in our lives if you would like to give you can do that online online but as you go can you say these four truths with me God is good Jesus has forgiven me I am loved and everything is possible have a great week [Music] [Music]