Don't Settle for Less — Brian Long

So good to be back with you this evening. Thank you for coming back out this evening. I want you to turn, if you would, to 2 Kings chapter 2. But before we read that text, I want to also share another Scripture.

Rivers of Living Water Through the Spirit

John chapter 7, beginning in verse 37. 2 Kings chapter 2, if you just mark your place there, and then we're going to turn to John chapter 7, beginning in verse 37. In John 7, verse 37, these are the words of the Lord Jesus.

On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.

But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. Now, the context of those words is that Jesus is speaking to a group of very religious people.

They experienced all the feast days, they've gone through all these religious motions, and in essence what He's saying, at the end of all your doing, all your striving, and all these ceremonial laws, and all these things you're doing, if there's a thirst in you, still a thirst in you, if any one of you is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

None of that will give you life. Life is found in the person of Jesus Christ alone. And if there's anyone out here thirsty, let him come to Me and drink, and out of his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.

Now, our brother just challenged us earlier to be absolutely honest with ourselves before God. Would you be honest before the Lord, my brother, my sister? Not thinking of anyone else around you, draw a circle around yourself as I'm doing myself, and answer this question.

Are there now rivers of living water flowing from my heart? Am I experiencing the fullness of the life of God's Spirit flowing through me continually? And if not, it should create in us a thirst for more of Jesus.

A thirst for more of God's presence. A thirst for more of Him. And for those who have that thirst tonight, the message that God has simply put on my heart is, don't settle for less. Don't settle for less when God Himself has given you and I a promise tonight that He is willing to so fill us with His Spirit that out of our innermost being will flow rivers of living water.

I have to be honest with you and to tell you many times, and I've experienced this in the ministry, there have been times that if I was absolutely honest before God, I would have to say, Lord, I feel more like a dry, barren desert than I do rivers of living water coming through me.

But that's the first thing God requires of us, is honesty. First, we must get honest before God. We must see our desperate need for Him and more of Him. And when God finds an honest heart here tonight, when He finds someone here who's thirsty, someone who will not settle for less, He will pour out upon them His Spirit.

There's a promise right there in Scripture. Now, I want you to turn to 2 Kings with me in chapter 2 as we learn from the example of a man named Elisha, a man who would not settle for anything less than a double portion of the Spirit of God.

Pursuing More of God Through Elisha's Example

Would you admit with me tonight that there is more of God to know than what you know right now? Would you admit with me tonight there is so much more that the Lord wants to do in and through you than what you're experiencing right now?

How many of us have arrived at the Christian life? We're on a journey, brothers and sisters. And someone said, Christian life is like riding a bike. You're either moving forward or you've fallen down.

We're either drawing closer and closer to Jesus and getting to know Him more and more and walking more and more in the fullness of His Holy Spirit, or we're backslidden. There's no in-between. And the truth is God is constantly wanting to enlarge our hearts.

The Scripture talks about the cup of salvation in the Psalms. Jesus talked about in John 4 to the woman at the well, this wellspring of the water of life. Here in John 7, He talked about rivers of living water.

And we all know there's a great difference between the cup and rivers. And we all may have experienced that cup and God filling us with His Spirit, but our capacity was only that of a cup. God is constantly at work in His children, like the potter works with the clay on the potter's wheel, molding us and making us.

And one of the things the Lord wants to do is to enlarge our hearts more and more and more so that we are growing in Christ and there's a greater and greater capacity to be filled with all the fullness of the life and Spirit of God.

Let's learn from this man who would not settle for less. We'll begin reading in verse 1, chapter 2. And it came to pass when the Lord was about to take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

Then Elijah said to Elisha, Stay here, please, for the Lord has sent me on to Bethel. But Elisha said, As the Lord lives and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So they went down to Bethel. Now the sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha and said to him, Do you know that the Lord will take away your master from over you today?

And he said, Yes, I know. Keep silent. Then Elijah said to him, Elisha, stay here, please, for the Lord has sent me on to Jericho. But he said, As the Lord lives and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.

So they came to Jericho. Now the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came to Elisha and said to him, Do you know that the Lord will take away your master from over you today? So he answered, Yes, I know.

Keep silent. Then Elijah said to him, Stay here, please, for the Lord has sent me on to the Jordan. But he said, As the Lord lives and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So the two of them went on.

And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went and stood facing them at a distance, while the two of them stood by the Jordan. Now Elijah took his mantle, rolled it up, and struck the water. And it was divided this way and that, so that the two of them crossed over on dry ground.

And so it was, when they had crossed over, that Elijah said to Elisha, Ask, what may I do for you before I am taken away from you? Elisha said, Please, let a double portion of your spirit be upon me. So he said, You have asked a hard thing.

Nevertheless, if you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so for you. But if not, it shall not be so. Then it happened, as they continued on and talked, that suddenly a chariot of fire appeared with horses of fire and separated the two of them.

And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. And Elisha saw it, and he cried out, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its horsemen. So he saw him no more. And he took hold of his own clothes and tore them into two pieces.

He also took up the mantle of Elijah that had fallen from him and went back and stood by the bank of the Jordan. Then he took the mantle of Elijah that had fallen from him and struck the water and said, Where is the Lord God of Elijah?

And when he also had struck the water, it was divided this way and that, and Elisha crossed over. Now when the sons of the prophets who were from Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.

Let's pray together, please. Dear Heavenly Father, I believe, Lord, You've given me a burden that comes from You. I believe with all of my heart You're calling us deeper. You have already said to us through Your Word, Lord Jesus, Come, follow me.

And You're calling us to follow You deeper. You're wanting us, Lord, to know You more. You're wanting to enlarge our hearts. And I pray, God, that You would create in each one of us tonight a thirst, a hunger and thirst that will settle for nothing less than more of You, more of Your Spirit.

God, here I am preaching about a need for more of Your Spirit, and I myself feel in need. I pray, God, that You would fill me with the fullness of Your Spirit and speak to each and every one of our hearts tonight.

Give us ears to hear what You are saying to us, O Lord, and glorify Your name. In Jesus' name, Amen. Now, Elijah and Elisha began their journey, according to verse 1, in Gilgal. This is where the journey begins.

From Gilgal to Bethel: Salvation and Fellowship

Now, why is that significant tonight? Well, it's significant when we understand what the word Gilgal means. The word Gilgal, if we turn back just a few pages to the left, to the book of Joshua, in chapter 5, we are told what Gilgal means.

Gilgal was the place where the children of Israel, if you remember when God led them out of Egypt, led them out of captivity, He was leading them to the promised land, but because of their disobedience, they ended up wandering in the wilderness for 40 years.

Forty long years. But now we come to the place where Moses is gone, God has raised up Joshua to lead His children across the Jordan into the promised land. And after entering into the promised land, Gilgal was the first place that they camped.

And when they crossed the Jordan into the promised land, God commanded Joshua to start sharpening knives. He said, I want you to circumcise all the men. There were many of those that were born in the wilderness that had not yet been circumcised, and under the old covenant, circumcision was a symbol that God had given of His covenant promise to His people.

Now where does this word Gilgal come from? If we look in Joshua, just follow me in chapter 5, verse 8, it says, So it was when they had finished circumcising all the people that they stayed in their places in the camp till they were healed.

Then the Lord said to Joshua, This day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you. Therefore the name of the place is called Gilgal to this day. Gilgal means rolled away. And so what God is saying is, I want you to call this place Gilgal because this is symbolic, and all the circumcision was symbolic of rolling away the reproach of Egypt from off of you.

The next thing He had them to do was to celebrate the Passover. Celebrate the Passover lamb. You see, brothers and sisters, this is an absolute type of our journey, when the Spirit of God awakened us, and suddenly we were convicted of our sin, and the Spirit of God drew us to the cross of Jesus Christ, and we met Jesus by faith and repentance.

He saved us, and the burden of our sin was rolled away. That's our Gilgal. Gilgal is when you were born again of the Spirit of God. It's where we met the Lord. What a glorious day. That's why we sing that great hymn, At the cross, at the cross, where I first saw the light, and the burden of my heart rolled away.

Do you remember that day? When you put your faith in the Lord Jesus, and He washed you in His precious blood, washed you whiter than snow, took out the stony heart, and gave you a new heart, and you were born again of His Spirit.

That's your Gilgal. The old life was rolled away. God has given us new life. We are born again of His Spirit. We are saved by His grace. Gilgal. That's a wonderful place, is it not? And if Elisha wanted to, he could just stay there.

And notice what Elijah tells Elisha in verse 2. Then Elijah said to Elisha, Stay here please, for the Lord has sent me on to Bethel. Gilgal is a wonderful place. And here's the test. You can stay here, Elisha.

You can stay here. But the Lord has called me on to Bethel. I'm going deeper. I'm going further. The Lord is leading me on. You see, some people, the only testimony they have, it seems, is what the Lord did back in 1962 or 1972.

I want to ask you, are you alive today? Do you have a vibrant, personal relationship with Jesus Christ today? Many have stayed back in Gilgal when the Lord says, No, I'm leading you on to Bethel. And here is a man who will not settle for less.

Elisha says, No, if you're going to Bethel, I'm going to Bethel. Elijah the prophet is a type of Christ. And Elisha is saying, If you're going, I'm going. I will not settle for less. Now, what does Bethel mean?

Bethel means the house of God. The Lord is wanting to take us as His people. Once He saves us and redeems us, and the sin is rolled away, and the reproach of Egypt is rolled away, and we're given a new heart, now the Lord says, I'm leading you to the house of God.

Under the new covenant, that is the church of Jesus Christ. Each one of us are living stones, and the Lord puts us together as a body. And the Lord wants to take each one of us, different as we are, different gifts, different callings, and bring us together into fellowship, so we become the family of God, the body of Christ, the house of God.

Today, it's not a physical temple, it's a spiritual house. And you, the church of Jesus Christ, are that house. But here's what many do. They say, no, I don't need to go to church to be a Christian. I don't need to be a part of a body.

I said that once also, my friend, and I became cold and backslidden. And you will too. I'll guarantee you, because God didn't make any of us to be lone rangers. It's just like a pile of coals. You set those coals on fire, and as long as they're together, loving one another, the people of God loving one another, fellowshipping together, those coals get hotter and hotter and hotter.

They burn brighter and brighter and brighter. But when one of the coals, one of the members of the body, gets offended, becomes unforgiving, or just proud, and doesn't see his need for the rest of the body, or her need for the rest of the body, and decides to go over here by themselves to serve the Lord, what happens?

While these are burning brightly, it doesn't take long for the flame to go out and die, and that one to become cold. God created us under the New Covenant to need one another. As iron sharpens iron, He's building a spiritual house.

He's building His church. He's calling us to go deeper, from Gilgal to Bethel, from having been born again of His Spirit to becoming now a part of the body of Christ. Hallelujah. But the journey continues.

From Bethel to Jericho: Faith Tested by Strongholds

He goes on in verse 4, Elijah says to Him, Elijah, stay here please, for the Lord has sent me on to Jericho. Now I'm saved. Now I've become a part of the body of Christ. I've been brought into the family of God, into the house of God.

But the Lord says, we're going deeper still. We're going further still. We're going to Jericho. And Jericho represents that place, if you remember, it was the first stronghold that the children of Israel experienced after they went into the Promised Land.

It seems like an impossibility. There's this huge walled city that's standing in the way. This mountain that's standing in the way. It's at Jericho that our faith is tested. We got our faith tested today, didn't we brother?

We saw Jericho. We saw an impossibility. We saw a precious, precious lady that the doctors can do nothing for. And apart from God touching her and doing something miraculous, raising her up off of her sickbed, that's the only answer.

But what happens is God is growing us. It requires faith to follow the Lord Jesus. And at Jericho, our faith is tested. Will we believe God? Will we trust God? Or will we say, no, I don't want to face this kind of thing.

I'll just go back to the house of God. Our faith isn't so much tested in here. Your faith is tested tomorrow morning when you go to work. Your faith is tested tomorrow morning when you go out into the world and you're confronted with Jericho's.

When mountains stand in your way. Perhaps someone here is here tonight that has a mountain standing in the way. A stronghold. A giant. Something that looks absolutely impossible. God's leading you into His promises, but there's something standing in the way.

And it looks like an impossibility. Your faith is being tested. I want you to hear the Lord calling you. Trust Me. Trust Me. And at Jericho, God called His people to trust Him, to believe Him, to not lean on their own understanding.

He's refining your faith. He's trying and molding and maturing you. And God says to His people, march around this wall for seven days. Six days they march around. Seven days, the seventh day He says, march around the wall seven times.

And let out a shout of victory. And what happened? God brought the walls down. It was a tremendous victory. And you and I are going to experience those kind of victories in our Christian life. We're going to see God do what only God can do.

And what can only be explained by God. But here's another tragedy. It's when we experience such victory and we think, ah, now I've really arrived. No need to go deeper. No need to go further. But what does the prophet say?

You can stay here, Elisha. In fact, he says, you go ahead and stay here, verse 6. Elijah said to him, stay here, please, for the Lord has sent me on to the Jordan. Now, Jericho and that victory is being up on the mountain.

From Jericho to Jordan: Surrendering Yesterday's Victories

Jordan, the name Jordan, the word means descender. We're going down. The Lord led me up on a mountain. He allowed me to experience a victory. Now He's leading me down, down into the valley. It's not easy to go down to Jordan.

Not easy to go down there, but that's where the Lord is calling. And the tragedy is many, many people want to live on yesterday's victories and they miss today. Many are trying to live on yesterday's manna, but yesterday's manna stinks in the light of today.

You cannot live on yesterday's manna. Jesus, He is the great I Am. He is our daily bread, and He wants us to have a personal relationship with Him whereby we are abiding in Him every day. I went, brothers and sisters, had the opportunity to go to the UK.

I had read and studied about the Welsh Revival, 1904 Welsh Revival. Evan Roberts was preaching. God moved mightily in that land. Church houses were full to overflowing. Hundreds upon thousands were saved.

I had the privilege of being able to visit the Moriah Chapel where it all broke out, revival broke out. I did not know. I thought I was just going there to attend a conference. I get there and the leader says, I'd like you to preach.

So I had the privilege of preaching in that Moriah Chapel. It's a wonderful experience. But that was during the week. And after the conference was over, for some reason, my plane was a day late. And all my brothers and sisters had gone back to the States.

And so I'm over there in Wales. And it was a Sunday. And I thought, well, I'll just take in a service at the Moriah Chapel. You read, I've read about this revival. I'm so excited to visit this place. You know what I discovered?

A dead, empty building. It was tragic. It was tragic. A place where once the Spirit of God was moving mightily. Now there was just a handful of people. And I only remember one of those being excited about the Word of God.

I walked in there just to take a part of the service. And the pastor comes back and says, Brother Brian, you will deliver the message today. I was not prepared to preach at all. But God gave me the privilege of preaching there.

What I will never forget is here was a place where God's Spirit once moved. But everybody was trying to live on yesterday's victory. And today there was no victory. Everybody's trying to live on yesterday's manna.

Where is the manna for today? Do you know that place today is just a museum of the past? It's tragic. And it's not just there. You're seeing churches all across this land that were full at one time, that were overflowing.

The baptismal waters were stirred constantly. People were coming to Christ, being saved, born again. Now those churches are having to shut the doors. It's tragic. This is not the will of God. The will of God is for the church to continue to grow and to glorify God and to be drawn closer and closer to God.

And God enlarging our hearts and Him taking us deeper and further. From Gilgal, to Bethel, to Jericho, to Jordan. And here's where ultimately He's leading. The whole time Elisha's being tested. But the whole time he's saying, I will not settle for anything less.

I've heard God call. I know He has already made me a promise. I know it is the Lord's will to give me a double portion of His Spirit. I want more of Jesus, more of Him. And so even when He's told, you stay here, I'm going further.

He says, nothing doing. If you're going, Elijah, I'm going. Now where are we going? To Jordan. Okay, finally, verse 9. Elijah said to Elisha, ask, what may I do for you before I'm taken from you? Now that I know you're thirsty.

Now that I know you're serious. Now that I know you value the presence of God. What do you want? And his request? Please let a double portion of your Spirit be upon me. This is a hard thing, you ask, he says.

But if you see me when I'm taken away, it shall be done for you. And it was done for him. And the testimony of Elisha, verse 15, was the Spirit of Elijah rest on Elisha. He received the promise, because he wouldn't settle for anything less.

The River of the Spirit in Ezekiel's Vision

Now keep following me. We're going on a journey. Ezekiel chapter 47. Ezekiel chapter 47. And we'll begin reading in verse 1. Then He brought me back to the door of the temple. This is a vision that God gave the prophet Ezekiel.

He brought me back to the door of the temple. And there was water flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east. For the front of the temple faced east. The water was flowing from under the right side of the temple south of the altar.

He brought me out by way of the north gate and led me around on the outside to the outer gateway that faces east. And there was water running out on the right side. And when the man went out to the east with the line in his hand, he measured 1 ,000 cubits.

And he brought me through the waters. The waters came up to my ankles. Again he measured 1 ,000 and brought me through the waters. And the waters came up to my knees. Again he measured 1 ,000 and brought me through.

The waters came up to my waist. Again he measured 1 ,000 and it was a river that I could not cross. For the water was too deep. Water in which one must swim. A river that could not be crossed. He said to me, Son of man, have you seen this?

Then he brought me and returned me to the bank of the river. When I returned there along the bank of the river, there were very many trees on one side and the other. Then he said to me, This water flows toward the eastern region, goes down into the valley, and enters the sea.

When it reaches the sea, its waters are healed. And it shall be that every living thing that moves wherever the rivers go will live. There will be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters go there, for they will be healed.

And everything will live wherever the river goes. It shall be that fishermen will stand by it from in Gedi to in Inglam. They will be places for spreading their nets. Their fish will be of the same kinds of the fish of the great sea, exceedingly many.

Now what is this vision? We see throughout the New Testament, even much of the Old, that the Holy Spirit, a symbol that God uses often in His Word for the Holy Spirit, is a river. This is a vision, brothers and sisters, of this river flowing from the house of God.

It's flowing east. And He says, I saw this and I was led into the river. And He said, the water went up to my ankles. But the Lord's calling us deeper. And as He follows the Lord deeper, the water comes up to His knees.

Still not satisfied, the Lord calls deeper, the water comes up to His waist. Still there's more, and God calls Him deeper, and He says, it was now too deep for Me to keep My feet on the bottom. It became rivers to swim in.

This is an absolute picture of what the Lord is saying to us tonight. For those who will not settle for anything less, God is calling us deeper. It's one thing to be in the river, but only be there ankle deep.

It's another thing to be knee deep. It's another thing to be waist deep. But what about these rivers to swim in? This is where the Spirit of God is leading us. This is where He's calling us to go deeper.

And you see, it's going to require something of us. It requires surrender. As long as the water is only ankle deep, then I'm pretty much still in control. I can go where I want to go. I can do what I want to do.

Yeah, I'm in the river, my feet are wet. But is that where you want to stay? Is that the will of God for you to stay in waters ankle deep? No. The Lord Jesus is continually saying, follow Me. And notice this, the rivers flowing east.

The closer you get to the sun, the deeper the water gets. The closer we get to Jesus, the Son of God, the light of the world, the deeper and deeper the water gets. Again, the Lord is calling us deeper for those who will settle for nothing less, but it requires surrender.

Wholehearted Surrender and the Filled Christian Life

Who does the Lord grant a double portion of His Spirit? To whom will He fill to overflowing rivers of living water? It is those, first of all, who are willing to surrender to Him their whole hearts. Their whole hearts.

I challenge you tonight, have you trusted the Lord this way? Did you know you can trust perfect love? God has called you to trust Him with all of your heart. Some of you, I think some of you may be holding back, trusting the Lord with all of your heart because you've been hurt and wounded in the past and you're at a place you don't think you can really trust anybody.

I want to tell you, God Almighty is trustworthy and you have to trust the Lord for Him to lead you deeper. It's one thing even to be waist deep. That requires some faith, but you still got your feet on the bottom.

The Lord wants to take you where He wants you to go and He will heal your heart, but you must trust Him. You must trust Him with all of your heart and trust means surrender. Trust is surrender. That's where you no longer are holding anything back from the Lord.

It's trusting the Lord with every key to your heart. As I said this morning, our hearts, if you will, are made up of many, many rooms. There are many, many different parts of our lives and Jesus Christ is calling you to surrender every part to Him.

I've shared this with many. I don't know if I shared it here the last time I was here, but I'm going to share it with you again. It was something that happened to a man by the name of F .B. Meyer that really, really ministered to me when I read it.

I read it in a little bitty book called The Christ Life for the Self Life and the Lord brought that book across my path when I needed Him so much. I thought that I was a castaway. I looked at ministry and I had been ministering for a long time.

I was seeing little fruit. I was dry as gunpowder. I'd seen so many failures in my own life and in my mind the only thing to do was just to walk away from it all and go back to fishing, if you will, just like Peter.

But the Lord in His mercy drew me unto Himself and during that time, God spoke to me through this little book, The Christ Life for the Self Life and He spoke to me through F .B. Meyer's testimony. F .B. Meyer was, if I remember the details right, he was at a convention and it was at night and he was sitting around the fire with some other brothers.

I think one of those brothers was C .T. Studd and maybe Hudson Taylor. I can't remember all the details, but he was looking at these brothers and he said to them, you brothers have something I don't have.

And one of them said to him very simply, in essence, you can have all of Jesus you want to have, but you must surrender all of your heart. You must surrender all. F .B. Meyer, if I remember the details right, went out into the darkness.

At first he was very aggravated and frustrated, but the Lord gave him a picture. It was a dream, a vision, I don't remember exactly, but he had an encounter with the Lord and the Lord Jesus came up to F .B. Meyer and held out His hand and He said to him, all the keys to your heart.

And F .B. Meyer said he took out a set of keys and he placed them in the Lord's hand. And the Lord said to him, are all the keys there? He said, Lord, all but one. And the Lord Jesus took those keys, placed them back into F .B. Meyer's hand and turned to walk away.

F .B. Meyer said, no, Lord, wait, don't go away. The Lord turned around and said, you either trust Me with all or you do not trust Me at all. You see, brothers and sisters, He's either Lord of all or He's not Lord at all.

And F .B. Meyer said to him, Lord, there's one place in my heart that I can't even seem to go. There's one place in my heart I can't even seem to surrender this key to you, but if you will reach in and take it, you can have it.

And the Lord reached in and took that final key to his heart. He had come to an absolute surrender and he said, I was never the same again. The Lord filled him with His Holy Spirit. For some of us, the thing that is holding us back from going deeper into the Lord is that we have not surrendered all.

You're still holding something back from the Lord. Something back that you have yet to trust Him with. God is calling you very clearly tonight to surrender all. Surrender all. Every key to your heart.

That means when you surrender all, the river can take you wherever He wants you to go. And make you what you could never become. And do you know where He always leads us? This river, as it became waters to swim in, goes down and it goes down to a place called the Dead Sea.

Just as the Jordan flows down from the Sea of Galilee into the Dead Sea. Here, He talks about this river in verse 8. When it reaches the sea, its waters are healed. And it shall be that every living thing that moves wherever the rivers go will live.

There will be a very great multitude of fish because these waters go there, for they will be healed. And everything will live wherever the river goes. This river is a river of life. And this river, the Holy Spirit is calling us to surrender to Him, to follow Him, and where He always leads us is to become fishers of men.

He will lead us to the Dead Sea. He will lead us to that place where the Lord found us. Dead in our trespasses and sins. In the filth and darkness of the world. That's where the Lord Jesus rescued us.

That's where He saved us. And there are others out there tonight, brothers and sisters, who need to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Who need a demonstration of the power of God standing before them. Who need someone to bring them words of life.

They are dying. They are in the Dead Sea. This river of life, the Spirit of God, Christ in you, the hope of glory, is the hope for Engram. And I was reading this a while ago, and it came to verse 10. It shall be that fishermen will stand by it from Engedi to Enenglium.

I said Enenglium sounds like Engram to me. Here we are. Where is your mission field? Your mission field is wherever the river takes you. Your mission field is when you walk out those doors tonight. Wherever you go tomorrow.