00:29I'm just curious because at least then you can kind of track how much of a vacation you
00:34still have, right?
00:35I know Kenzie is going back in mid-August, so that's about, I don't know, two months,
00:39not even two months from now, but that's how it is.
00:41All right.
00:42Well, we have a verse.
00:43Speak up our love if you can put it on the screen.
00:46Let's read it together.
00:48Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith.
00:57Hebrews.
00:58Hebrews.
00:59Hebrews.
01:0012.
01:015.
01:022.
01:03There we go.
01:04That is from what is called the Berean Standard Bible.
01:05I like the way it translates.
01:06It's let us fix our eyes instead of just the term looking.
01:11The idea of fixing your eyes means that you're focused.
01:15Now, I wish I had a better illustration for this, but have any of you ever played those
01:20games?
01:21You have an app or it might be one of those TikTok games that you young people like to
01:25play nowadays, right?
01:26But it's where you basically get to focus your eyes and whatever it is you're playing
01:30can move.
01:31Do you know what I'm talking about?
01:33Or am I just the only one?
01:34Did I dream this the other day?
01:35Weren't you the one that showed me that?
01:36Isn't there a game where you're looking at it and you're controlling it?
01:39What?
01:40I've seen this somewhere.
01:41Someone help me.
01:42Please.
01:43Okay.
01:44You've seen them.
01:45I do know this for a fact though.
01:47They have, I see Sister Shay, you're doing that.
01:50You can control the camera, right?
01:52Like you can control the camera.
01:53You can control the camera.
01:54Whatever it is.
01:55Whatever it is.
01:56Do you know what I'm talking about?
01:57Or am I just the only one that I dreamed this the other day?
01:59Weren't you anyone that showed me that?
02:02Wasn't there a game where you're like you're looking at it and you're controlling it?
02:04What?
02:05I've seen this somewhere.
02:06Someone help me, please.
02:07Shay, you're doing that, right?
02:08Like you can control what it is.
02:09Like you're looking at something and okay.
02:12I will tell you this.
02:13There are people with, for example, disabilities.
02:16Okay.
02:17And I've seen this.
02:18This time I'm not remembering.
02:19People with disabilities, for example, they can't use a mouse on the keyboard, right?
02:23But what they've been able to do is there's this technology now where they can move certain
02:28things like in a game.
02:30If they can move their heads or their eyes even, they just do this and they're able to move,
02:34let's say it's a Mario game, they're able to move Mario.
02:37You know, jump Mario.
02:38Jump Luigi.
02:39That kind of thing.
02:40Now, what is the key to success in that kind of a game?
02:45They have to fix their eyes on the screen.
02:48And they fix their eyes, they focus on whatever it is they're doing in that moment.
02:54It's not the same thing as Jesus, of course.
02:57We're not saying that they're the same.
02:59They're one and the same.
03:00But the idea stands.
03:02That the idea of fixing our eyes on Jesus.
03:05What does it say about Jesus here?
03:07He is the, what's that first word?
03:09He is the founder and perfecter of our faith.
03:12Yes, the founder and perfecter of our faith.
03:16If you may, Jesus is the start and he's also the finish.
03:22He's the one who began the faith and he was the one who will complete the faith.
03:27That's why it's the word founder.
03:29He founded it from the beginning and he will perfect it and complete it until the very end.
03:34So, kids, and once kids, you were once kids here that I'm talking to, but all of us who are children of the Lord by our faith in Jesus, our focus and our eyes should always be fixed on Jesus.
03:49No matter what, your faith might sometimes be strong some days, sometimes be weaker other days, but fix your eyes on Jesus nevertheless.
03:58You might feel a certain way today, feel better today, you may not feel as good tomorrow, but no matter how you feel, fix your eyes on Jesus.
04:07Because he is the founder and the perfecter.
04:10He is the, the alpha and the omega, if you may, the beginning and the end of our faith.
04:16Now let's pray.
04:17Hold your hands, bow your heads, close your eyes, say heavenly father.
